Rhapsody of Entertainment Rebirth

The post-editing of "Gravity" went smoothly, amidst Ron Bender's chattering praise.

As the former Academy Award winner for Best Editing said, editing "Gravity" really wasn't that difficult.

The shooting materials are not complicated and there are many long shots. Shanhe, the leader, has extremely clear ideas. Ron Bender and the entire editing team have become tool men.

In just four days, a rough cut of 110 minutes appeared in front of Shanhe.

Shanhe plans to control the length of "Gravity" within ninety-five to one hundred minutes.

Including the pre-titles and the end credits, the rough cut version still has fifteen to twenty minutes of room for adjustments and fine editing.

Shan He did not finish editing the film in one go. This was a film with a high proportion of special effects, and he needed to leave some room for adjustments to the unfinished special effects production.

The soundtrack master is now available!

A good soundtrack composer can bring a huge bonus to the movie. The perfect combination of music and picture plot can make the audience addicted and bring indescribable charm to the movie.

Hans Zimmer is such an iconic figure in music scores, and his reputation has been heard for a long time.

In his previous life, Shanhe's favorite music included many works by Hans Zimmer.

The soundtracks of the three films "The Island of the Dead", "Gladiator" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" are the pinnacle of film soundtracks in Shanhe's eyes.

And they are all composed by Hans Zimmer, a soundtrack master who is already famous in Hollywood and is truly the head of Hollywood soundtracks.

Hans Zimmer is also well-known for mountains and rivers.

Hans Zimmer and Bruckheimer are old acquaintances. They have been collaborating continuously since the early 1990s and can be considered old friends.

He also has a lot of experience cooperating with Disney, and "The Lion King" is one of the classic representatives.

Therefore, the project "Gravity" was already on his desk as early as the project was established.

Without any hesitation, he immediately accepted the music scoring job.

Hans Zimmer was born in Frankfurt, Germany. Like Shanhe, he also entered Hollywood alone.

With his talent and hard work, he quickly rose to become a leader in the Hollywood film scoring industry.

He and Shanhe had the same journey in Hollywood, so he has always been curious and fond of this oriental boy who conquered Hollywood with his talent.

Strictly speaking, "Gravity" is not the first collaboration between the two.

The scorer for all three "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies is Hans Zimmer. Although the two have never spoken, they are no strangers to each other.

Mutual recognition and goodwill made the meeting between Shanhe and Hans Zimmer very harmonious.

As soon as Shanhe met Hans Zimmer and his soundtrack team, he showed a warm welcome.

Hans Zimmer has a typical Germanic face, with a high bridge of nose and iconic blush on both cheeks.

But his whole person doesn't look hard, on the contrary, he feels very soft.

"Qiu, it's a pleasure to work with you. I'm looking forward to this job!"

Shanhe firmly grasped Hans Zimmer's outstretched right hand and responded with a smile,

"Hans, you know, when I watched "The Island" when I was a teenager, I was fascinated by the soundtrack. I am a fan of your music!"

"Oh! It seems that we are in harmony. "Brave to the Island of Death" is also the soundtrack I am most proud of!"

"I hope that in a few months, "Gravity" will become another pride for you!"

"Haha...I'm looking forward to it too!"

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Shanhe attaches great importance to the soundtrack of "Gravity".

The reason for this is intuitive. The soundtrack is extremely important to the film.

The plot of the movie is simple, there are very few characters, and the lines are thin. There is a lot of silent time throughout the movie, and a soundtrack is needed to guide the audience into the hearts of the characters.

At the same time, the scene of the space disaster is sudden and violent, and the heroine’s survival process is ups and downs and difficult.

This is so insignificant in the vastness and magnificence of space,

But for humans, this kind of survival is another kind of vastness and magnificence.

These all require film scores to set off and express.

It can be said that the quality of the soundtrack largely determines the expressiveness and appeal of "Gravity".

The soundtrack in the original film was outstanding, and Yamagata hoped that Hans Zimmer's work would surpass the original.

In conjunction with the rough cut of the movie, Shanhe pulled out scene after scene for Hans Zimmer to introduce,

I introduced and explained the film's creative intentions and characters and scenes to him in detail.

And he stated his requirements and expectations without missing a beat.

"Hans, in my opinion, the score in "Gravity" must at least achieve the following points,

First, it shows the magnificence of space and highlights the vastness and silence of the universe;

Second, drive the development of the plot and make the disaster have a huge impact on the audience;

Third, the characters should be shaped according to the movie scenes. Matt Kowalski and Ouyang have different personalities and character backgrounds. The music needs to distinguish the two, especially Ouyang. She is Chinese, and the soundtrack related to her needs to be Some Chinese elements.

Fourth, to highlight the theme of the film, Hans, human beings get rid of gravity to explore the unknown, but in the end they must return to the embrace of gravity. It is like the mother body, making human beings feel grounded. The soundtrack must contain the etherealness of space and the beauty of the earth. It’s peaceful and beautiful, and the audience can actually feel it! "

Shanhe's words made Hans Zimmer and the soundtrack team fall into deep thought.

After a long time, Hans Zimmer looked up at the mountains and rivers and replied,

"Qiu, this is an amazing movie. There is a broad space for composers to play. We will do our best to meet your creativity and requirements.

I am very happy, because "Gravity" allows me to see the figure of the Little Golden Man again, and it is waving to me! "

Hans Zimmer's confidence and ambition gave Shanhe a reassurance.

This is a movie that suits Hans Zimmer's musical style very well. Based on his past standards, Shanhe's expectations are extremely high.

"Haha...I'm looking forward to it!"

"Qiu, I actually had a chant in my mind just now, a high-pitched female voice! It's both soulful and ethereal, yet lonely and sad!

Within ten days, my team and I will compose the theme song. I am very confident! "

"Wow, that's really good news!"

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For the next week, Shanhe stopped harassing Hans Zimmer. He understood that music, like writing, requires loneliness to face inspiration.

These days, he splits his time between the Disney set, Pixar Animation and Disney Marketing.

He has a comprehensive understanding of Disney's overall considerations, special effects production progress, and distribution strategy for "Gravity."

Disney's expectations for "Gravity" are no lower than those in China.

Shanhe's past performance has been too brilliant, and its global box office appeal is not low. Coupled with the groundbreaking effect of the first live-action 3D movie, the global box office expectations given by Disney's marketing department are almost the same as those of Shanhe: at least one billion US dollars!

As the special effects production is nearing completion, the 3DIMAX clips of the movie have given Disney immense confidence.

Wearing 3D glasses, the reality of traveling in space is shocking and makes people lose themselves. This is a milestone in the development of film technology!

No one can escape this attraction!

The promotional budget of the Disney Pictures Distribution Department was immediately increased to 80 million US dollars, and it was announced that the investment in "Gravity" exceeded 250 million US dollars.

One hundred and twenty million U.S. dollars is too shabby. Why can’t such visual effects be spent on two to three hundred million U.S. dollars?

It can't be much worse than "Avatar"!

Shanhe complained about this. He couldn't believe Hollywood's data. This was too childish!

The initial production budget of "Gravity" was only 100 million US dollars, which also included 25 million US dollars from Shanhe and 10% of the global box office remuneration for the director and screenwriter.

In the later period, due to the loss of filming of Shanhe, Disney and Chuhe Film and Television invested an additional US$15 million in production proportionally.

The total production cost of "Gravity" is no more than 120 million US dollars, plus Disney's 80 million promotional budget.

The total investment for the entire movie was no more than 200 million U.S. dollars, and Disney added at least 50 million U.S. dollars in one go. It seems that the 500 million U.S. dollars investment in "Avatar" is also quite substantial.

These Hollywood movie giants are all full of lies. If you don’t have any confidence, you will really be manipulated by them and play around.

No wonder later generations rumored that Hollywood had amateur investors at its fingertips. The movie was a box office hit all over the world, but in the final reckoning, it still lost money!

Where is the logic in this?

In mid-August, Shanhe heard the performance of Hans Zimmer's team in Disney's luxurious recording studio.

The main theme of "Gravity" was composed, and it was called "Gravity".

The song "Gravity" adheres to Hans Zimmer's style as always, combining classical music and modern electronic music.

It started with the cello playing slowly, followed by the organ and symphony, and electronic sounds gradually joined in, but they were all restrained, and the female voice's singing was also low and gentle.

The melody is beautiful but can make people feel lonely and helpless.

After a few minutes, the entire music began to change, the female voice began to sing louder and louder, and all the instruments sounded excitedly.

The music became majestic and majestic, and the ethereal and pathos in the female voice touched people's hearts!

The entire symphony, which lasts for nearly ten minutes, has many such emotional transitions, sometimes low and gentle, sometimes high and moving.

The end of the whole piece is still singing in the music, but it becomes warm, peaceful, and even full of color and hope.

When the song ended, Shan He and Bruckheimer outside the recording booth couldn't help but applaud and celebrate Hans Zimmer's outstanding work.

Hans Zimmer truly deserves his reputation. Even a layman like Shanhe could easily find the corresponding movie scene in this piece and be moved by it.

Shan He later learned that the soprano singer in the recording studio was not simple either.

Because there are a lot of female vocals in the soundtrack, Hans Zimmer asked Bruckheimer to invite the most famous Broadway soprano in Hollywood.

Russian singer Anna Netrebko is known as the greatest soprano of the new century.

Her singing is indeed amazing, all emotions are vividly expressed in her wordless singing that is sometimes low and sometimes high.

Hans Zimmer's perfect song made Shanhe completely let go of his worries. "Gravity" will never be worse than the original version.

Of course, this is just the beginning of the soundtrack. Hans Zimmer plans to incorporate music into every shot of the film.

There are too few movies that can maximize the impact of the soundtrack. Hans Zimmer was so delighted that he couldn't put it down. He devoted all his energy and talent to it, hoping that next year's Oscar would win him another statuette.

Shanhe has been in Los Angeles for nearly a month in the blink of an eye, and the domestic release of "Manslaughter" has entered its fifth week.

In the first four weeks, "Manslaughter" exceeded 400 million yuan. The quality of the film and the audience's reputation have made the film's box office curve very stable.

In its third week, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" was eliminated in its first week of release.

The fourth week was still unstoppable, knocking out "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" which was released in its first week, once again.

"Manslaughter" swept two Hollywood movies worth hundreds of millions of dollars, making domestic filmmakers and the general public feel proud.

The media even wrote about it and gave the movie free publicity.

However, the effect is not good. The box office explosive period of "Manslaughter" has passed, and pirated discs can be found everywhere. It is estimated that the total box office will be more than 500 million yuan.

Investigating the reason, in addition to the rampant pirated discs, the biggest factor is that the domestic audience for suspense drama films is too narrow.

Ning Hao's ability to use such an unpopular subject to win such box office has created quite a miracle.

With this momentum of creating miracles, the North American broadcast rights and adaptation rights of "Manslaughter" also sold for a high price.

Both Disney and Paramount were interested in the adaptation rights of this film, and the bidding competition went to the end. In the end, Disney dared to take action.

The broadcast and adaptation of "Manslaughter" and subsequent video and disc rights were packaged for US$6 million.

Neon's Toho Video also acquired the above copyrights for US$2 million.

In Neon, suspense dramas are a popular genre, and Toho has already made plans to localize and adapt this story.

With the copyright income and the box office explosion, "Manslaughter" can be said to be a huge profit. Ning Hao made at least 40 million yuan from this one film alone, and Chuhe Film and Television made even greater gains.

Putting aside the monetary gain, Chuhe Film and Television, which is currently negotiating with Disney, has benefited a lot from the intangible gains in word-of-mouth and prestige.

The box office explosion of "Manslaughter" has caused Chuhe Film and Television's valuation to rise by at least five points from its original value.

During this period, the hot spot in the domestic film and television industry, besides "Manslaughter", is the business negotiation between Chuhe Film and Television and Disney.

The equity negotiations between Disney and Chuhe Film and Television have begun for more than two months. This news could not be hidden from reporters in M ​​country, and it was exposed in Hollywood last month.

Soon it spread from Hollywood to China.

This news triggered a lot of discussion in the domestic film and television circles and the public. The two major Chinese and American film and television groups exchanged equity and formed a strategic alliance. This is big news.

Although the media and the public are discussing and paying attention, there are not too many surprises or surprises.

The cooperation between Sunward and Disney has always been stable. Their relationship is well known to the world. Everyone understands that the small-scale share exchange only further confirms this cooperation and forms a substantial alliance of interests.

Both parties need a real exchange of interests to solidify this strategic alliance.

The domestic film and television circle and the public did not focus on the negotiations, but paid great attention to the valuation of Chuhe Film and Television Group.

The rapid rise of Chuhe Film and Television Group has always been one of the topics often mentioned by domestic media.

When Chuhe Film and Television was founded, it was always considered a toy of Shanhe. However, the reality in the following years made the film and television industry and the public lose their minds.

Shanhe and Ning Hao, two film novices, supported Chuhe Film and Television.

As soon as Zhong Lifeng, a strong woman, joined Chuhe Film and Television, the development of the entire company seemed to have wings and fly forward.

In just six years, Chuhe Film and Television has grown from a small workshop to a leading star company in the Chinese film and television industry.

Chuhe Film and Television Group now integrates film production, distribution, cinema lines, artist management, post-production special effects production, film shooting bases and other related industries.

It can be said that a large-scale film and television ecological operation has been formed. Apart from the China Film Group, there is no other company in China that can match it!

How much is Chuhe Film and Television Group worth?

This topic has been reported by online and offline entertainment and financial media, and has become a hot topic.

Although there has never been a definite answer, this topic has still been speculated and discussed by people who eat melons for a long time.

"If you ask me, it should be at least a billion dollars. Disney's valuation is tens of billions of dollars. Chuhe Film and Television can exchange shares with it, which shows that it is worth a lot of money!"

"How much? It's only a billion, definitely more than that. Shanhe Guang's "Dallas Buyers Club" made at least 100 million US dollars. Guang Shanhe is worth more than a billion dollars!"

"I don't know how much it's worth, but Chuhe Film and Television is absolutely unrivaled in the country. Not to mention the bug of Shanhe, Ning Hao, Xu Ke, and Wu Ershan alone can sweep the domestic film and television industry!"

"It's incredible that such a monster group can appear in China!"

"Isn't Huayi preparing to go public? It will be much more intuitive to use it as a reference when the time comes. Chuhe Film and Television is worth seven or eight Huayi!"

"Hey! That's an interesting statement!"

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The public's attention is always the focus of the media. Zhong Lifeng and Yang Liu, the two most famous managers of Chuhe Film and Television, have become the focus of interviews by entertainment and financial media.

During this period, they received more interview invitations than female celebrities.

The two strong women couldn't laugh or cry about this, and they sat in the office and chatted with each other.

"These media are really interesting. They all invite us for interviews. It's surprising that they also want us to tell us Chuhe's valuation. Sister Zhong, how is the negotiation with Disney going?"

"Negotiations still have to be postponed. After "Gravity" is released, our valuation will skyrocket. Shanhe is our biggest asset of Chuhe Film and Television!"

Zhong Lifeng answered while pouring a cup of coffee for Yang Liu.

Yang Liu took the coffee from Zhong Lifeng's hand and said,

"The production of "Gravity" is almost completed. I went to Colorful Light to take a look two days ago. The effect is amazing. Tian Xiaopeng said that the 3DIMAX version is several times better than this. Shanhe is going to create a global sensation this time. Come!"

Zhong Lifeng nodded,

"Shanhe will never fail, but we can't take it lightly. There is still "Avatar" hanging on the back. This time we at Chuhe Film and Television are competing with it. Not only is there "Gravity" in the front, but there is also "Detective Dee: Detective Dee" in the back. "The Dragon King of the Divine Capital", looking at the mountains and rivers means to snipe "Avatar" with all your strength!"

"I heard Shan He mention this. He said that this is a battle of dignity, and we cannot give up the momentum and destiny of Chinese films. After watching the clips of "Gravity", I was also a little worried. "Detective Dee" may not necessarily Can withstand the box office of "Avatar" in the next month!"

"Shan He is right. We can't lose our momentum and luck. Let's spend money! We have the confidence to make "Detective Dee" popular and promote it to the outside world with the Chinese-language movie "The Battle of Dignity!"

"This is a good slogan, a battle of dignity! It's courageous and sentimental!"

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The box office explosion of "Manslaughter" and the valuation of Chuhe Film and Television have put Chuhe Film and Television at the forefront of the domestic market.

Shanhe also received domestic news in Hollywood, but he didn't pay too much attention to it. The value of Chuhe Film and Television was just a number and had no special significance to Shanhe.

It's definitely not possible without money, but as a reborn person, the price dropped for the purpose of making money.

Ever since Shanhe wrote his first book, making money has not been Shanhe's first goal.

Chuhe Film and Television is a battleship that carries the dreams of myself and many Chinese filmmakers. Its value cannot be measured by money.

Shanhe laughed off the topic. He was very happy for his sister now.

Qiu Chuxi did not brag, and she really impressed the whole family. She received the admission notice from the School of Business Administration of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.

This happy event made Shanhe's family very excited. As soon as they received the admission notice, they called Shanhe immediately.

On the phone, the whole family laughed again and again, and Qiu Chuxi was even more proud. Even her mother, who had always suppressed her, gave her daughter a thumbs up in person!

In terms of future prospects, Shanhe is naturally the pride of his family, but when it comes to being favored, Shanhe is really not enough!

Shanhe has been on a smooth journey over the years, and his fame has become bigger and bigger, and his career has also become farther and farther away from his family.

How could Qiu Chuxi, who was at Cheng Huan’s knees, be so real?

It is estimated that even if "Gravity" is a global hit, it will not bring as much joy to Qiu Chuxi's family as she was admitted to a good university.

Not even half of it!

Shanhe thought about it for a while, and found that "Gravity" had Hans Zimmer as the soundtrack and Bruckheimer as the special effects producer, so there wouldn't be any big problems.

Put your movies and career aside for now, your family comes first.

There was nothing like family, and celebrating his sister with them was the most important thing on his mind.

The next day, under the surprised eyes of Disney employees and Bruckheimer, he boarded a flight back to Shanghai.

People in country M don’t understand the Chinese College Entrance Examination. There is no unified college entrance examination in country M. The admission certificate for universities is a standardized test, which is divided into two or three types, and there are many opportunities a year.

So they call entering college graduating from high school.

In their consciousness, Shanhe's actions are incomprehensible.

Qiu Zhen is a weirdo who leaves behind a multi-billion dollar production to return to China to celebrate his sister’s high school graduation?