Middle age: leisurely life in the entertainment industry

"It was so well shot! The scene was so shocking!"

After coming out of the cinema, Xia Yunxing kept sighing on the way.

Tonight, he didn't attend his evening self-study and went out to watch a movie. Yu Tongtong was there with him.

The two of them each rode a shared bicycle towards the school. After hearing what he said, the girl couldn't help but curl her lips: "The photo is good, but it's not like you're going to praise it all the way, right? You're worshiping foreigners!"

"What does this have to do with worshiping foreigners?" Xia Yunxing turned his head and looked at the girl: "This is seeking truth from facts! Tell me, which domestic director can make such a good-looking science fiction film!"

"My dad can do it!" The girl looked proud.

"Although the martial arts movies made by Uncle Yu are quite good, they are science fiction movies." Halfway through, Xia Yunxing didn't say the rest.

Yu Tongtong was not happy when he heard this.

"Okay, how dare you doubt my father's ability! I want a beating!" The girl rode her bike with one hand and punched Xia Yunxing.

The person was not hit, but the car swerved and the body of the car swayed. Yu Tongtong quickly used her feet to support herself, but she said "Ouch\

,""What's wrong? Is your foot crooked?" Xia Yunxing quickly stopped the car with a concerned look on his face.

"Um"

"Don't move, let me take a look." Xia Yunxing quickly bent down to check.

Unexpectedly, Yu Tongtong punched him on the shoulder and smiled: "Finally, I did it. I lied to you, Xia Yunxing, how can a smart person like you be fooled so easily."

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Xia Yunxing didn't know what to say.

"Okay. I won't play with you anymore. Anyway, I think dad can take pictures well! Come on, I have to go back to school quickly."

After saying that, Yu Tongtong suddenly kicked her feet, and the car sped forward quickly.

"Let's go."

"Slow down, pay attention to safety!" Xia Yunxing hurriedly chased after him.

"Silver Star 5" swept across the country like a tsunami. In just three days of release, the box office reached 1 billion, setting a record for mainland movie box office.

Some people estimate that the box office revenue of "Empire 5" in the mainland alone will exceed 6 billion.

With the popularity of "Silver Empire 5", movie fans, while admiring it, also turned their attention to the newly announced "The Wandering Earth".

Can our domestic science fiction films be as shocking as those in the "Silver Star Empire" series?

Some people are looking forward to it, but more people are skeptical.

"I'll be satisfied if I can shoot half the level of "Silver Star 5"!"

"Don't fool the movie fans and audiences with 50 cents on special effects!"

Some even left messages @on Yu Dongqing’s studio and his own Weibo.

But Yu Dongqing remained silent as always.

Today, Li Wan came to Yu Dongqing's house early to discuss matters related to the movie.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw Yu Dongqing leisurely feeding the goldfish in the fish tank in the small courtyard.

"Oh, you look good. It seems that you haven't been affected in any way?" Li Wan asked.

"Influence? What impact? I have a stronger appetite now, and it tastes so good when I eat it!" Li Wan laughed after hearing this.

"That's good, let's talk about this today."

"Okay, you go to my study first, and I'll come back after I've finished feeding the fish."

"I remember, didn't you raise a magpie flower fish? Why did it become an ordinary goldfish?" Li Wan took a look.

"It's all in its belly." Yu Dongqing glanced at a lazy fat cat nesting on the eaves of the corridor - the grown-up Little Dou Bao, now renamed Fat Dou Bao.

Li Wan burst into laughter.

After the two came to the study and made tea, Li Wan got straight to the point.

"Dongqing, I read the script and estimate that the cost will be at least 400 million, right? Of course it also depends on the salary of the actors you find." Li Wan called.

But Yu Dongqing's words shocked Li Wan.

"Four hundred million? Double the budget again, eight hundred million!"

"Fuck! Eight hundred million?!" Li Wan was shocked when he heard this.

"Which big stars are you inviting? Do you think you don't like the domestic ones, but are you inviting Hollywood superstars?"

"Why hire Hollywood stars to make Chinese science fiction? And it's more than 800 million?"

Yu Dongqing asked rhetorically, "The investment in the recently released "Silver Star Empire 5" is said to be as high as 300 million U.S. dollars, which is equivalent to 2.1 billion yuan! Even if the two national conditions are different, our investment of 800 million yuan is not too much, right?"

"Do you really want to make a blockbuster movie like "Silver Star 5"?"

"Look at the comments on the Internet. If I don't shoot well, will the spit star drown me in the future?" Yu Dongqing said with a smile.

"Li Wan, you also watched the movie "Silver Star 5", what do you think?"

Li Wan pondered for a moment and said: "To be honest, the plot of "Movie Star 5" is average, but the special effects are great! Especially the last scene where the two parties are in the starship battle, it was a blast.

"Yes! He wins in special effects, so for commercial science fiction blockbusters like Silver Star 5, special effects are very important, but they are also very expensive."

"According to what I heard, how much did the special effects of "Silver Star 5" cost? US$180 million! That's more than half of the entire cost!"

After listening to Yu Dongqing's words, Li Wan sighed and said: Hey, I have been a producer for so many years, but I have never made such a budget. To be honest, I don't know much about investment in special effects. "

Li Wan said and pondered for a moment: "In this case, I am going to go to Shanghai in person, find Rays Company, talk to Wei Wenming, and take a look at my son. After returning to China, this kid went directly to Shanghai without even going home. Return."

"That's fine. I'll handle both official and private matters together, and you need to know more about the official matters. I guess RAYs can't complete the special effects part alone. Their strength is limited after all."

"Okay, I know I'm leaving." Li Wan stood up after saying that.

"Why are you so anxious? Come and have some tea. I'll make you a cup of cold brewed tea." Yu Dongqing smiled to persuade her to stay.

"Come on, your cold brew tea can't be drunk for half an hour. I'm not so leisurely." Li Wan said, but kept walking.

"By the way, there are also actors, please think about it quickly, I will prepare a plan and budget."

"Don't worry, it won't be a mistake. I'll see you off." Yu Dongqing also stood up.

"no, I'm fine."

But despite this, Yu Dongqing still sent him outside the gate of the small courtyard before returning to the house.

"Okay. I can finally relax for a few days." Yu Dongqing sat on the wicker chair and crossed her legs.

In the RAYS company on the sixth floor of Building 5, Yangtze River Delta Film and Television Industrial Park, Songjiang, Shanghai, a group of technicians are busy.

As soon as Li Li returned to China, he was "captured" by Wei Wenming and joined the company's modeling team to engage in 3D modeling of the special effects part of "The Wandering Earth", and he was responsible for the planetary engine.

The original book describes it this way: "The height of this engine is 11,000 meters, which is more than 1,000 meters higher than Mount Everest."

"Imagine a huge palace, as big as the temple on the Acropolis in Athens. There are countless huge pillars in the palace, each pillar emitting a strong blue-white light like a huge fluorescent tube."

Just a few strokes.

But it’s not a simple matter to turn it into a movie that can be seen by the audience and that is consistent with the description of the original work.

Shangguan Feifei's conceptual design team spent hundreds of conceptual design drawings on just one planetary engine, and the final version was finalized after director Yu Dongqing approved it.

Now his task is to turn two-dimensional plane things into three-dimensional images. Of course, this is not an easy task.

It was meal time now. Li Li went downstairs and bought a quick meal from a nearby fast food restaurant. Then Li Li returned to his office.

Others usually order takeout lunch boxes. After staying in the United States for 6 years, he is used to Western fast food, so he ordered a hamburger and hot dog, a takeaway cup of Coke, and stared at the screen while drinking.

"Li Li, your dad is looking for you!" a colleague suddenly shouted.

"My Father?"

Li Li raised his head and saw a fat middle-aged man standing at the door of the office.

It was indeed dad.

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