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"Lionsgate \u0026 Fire Promotions produces "The Ghost Story 3" and the Wonder Boy returns to the horror apartment after 6 years." In 1998, Wang Yang, who was only 2 years old, spent US$10,000 to produce "The Ghost Story". Through a new Internet virus Marketing, by Lionsgate, it grossed 3.23 million at the global box office. The Wonder Boy shocked the world: during the Halloween schedule the following year, the 10,000-yuan production fee for "The Ghost Story 2" was abandoned, and it finally received 35.26 million at the North American box office and 57.73 million at the global box office. , in fact, Lionsgate was a minor offender, but the poor critical response and sharply declining box office trend made it dare not act rashly. In the same year, Wang Yang launched "High School Musical", creating another end-of-the-world madness.

In recent years, there have been rumors in the market that Lions Gate is going to produce "The Ghost Chronicles". After delays and delays, as Miracle Yang's fame and achievements have grown, this piece of shit is only three pounds. The nailed-on sign is getting more and more valuable, and finally, according to reports from Yahoo Entertainment, "The Ghost Story" is back! The horror king Yang is back!

This news was unanimously confirmed by Lionsgate Films, Flame Films and Wang Yang’s management team. Lionsgate President Jon... Phil Timmel said with great excitement: "No words can express my current mood. He gave me This gives us a chance to make up for our mistakes and we couldn’t be happier! Young will be writing the script for The Walking Dead 3 as well as executive producing it, so Lionsgate has given us reason to celebrate.”

Lionsgate Production Manager Michael Parsonek, who is reported to have been invited by Magic Young to serve as the executive producer of "The Ghost Story 3." He also told the "Los Angeles Times" with great joy: "It's like getting Pie in the sky e-on-he-shy! The return of Miracle Yang will definitely make "The Ghost Story" shine again. I know he had a great complete idea very early on. Originally this story should be in a few years. I met you all years ago. Our decision-making back then was so rash that it almost ruined the series. Fortunately, it can be undone now.

"Yes, Yang will participate in the production of "The Ghost Story 3"." Wang Yang's press spokesperson for many years, Ms. Beale, revealed to the media: "He is still very grateful to Lions Gate for their appreciation back then, and these He has been hearing the voices of fans saying "come back to horror movies" for years. He doesn't want to see "The Ghost Story" messed up again. It has extraordinary meaning to him, so he decided to clean up the house himself. .”

When asked by the media whether it would be too hasty to release it in April next year, whether Lionsgate or Bassett... Bill said: "The time is not tight. "The Ghost Story 3" can be said to have been brewing for many years. We are very excited about it." These are all very talented and confident.”

Although he is not a director, but a screenwriter and producer, the fact that Wang Yang returned to direct "The Ghost Story 3" immediately shocked many horror movie fans, participants and victims of the "Ghost Mania" in recent years, and other fans, and made their memories The sea rippled.

"Welcome Miraculous Young to return to the ranks of horror films! Looking forward to another horror feast!" Netizen eenmp is looking forward to this, and nphba said: "This news is so amazing! I was only 13 years old in 1998, and I was scared to death. Now 19 years old! Welcome back Magic Yang!" Evelin said in shock: "Yang wants to control a natural phenomenon again? Oh oh oh oh,

This is the worst news I've heard! I don’t want to be scared into the hospital again! "There are also netizens who are quite skeptical: "Not so good. Is it necessary to film "Ghost Story"? "...

Some fans are extremely excited and question the negative outlook. The media agree with the latter's opinion. It is not a wise move to pick up "Ghost 3" after so many years. The question is "why"? It’s no surprise that Lionsgate’s production is for business and to make money; then why did Wang Yang join this industrialized studio? Is it just because of nostalgia and extraordinary significance? The media, however, tended to think that he wanted to make money and started to make a lot of money, which seemed to prove once again that he had lost all his aura.

The New York Observer questioned this: "There is nothing profound and moving about the "Ghost Chronicles" series. From the perspective of commercial horror films, it has great flaws. It makes people wonder, what is Wang Yang thinking?"

In fact, this is not the first time that Miriam Yang has served as a screenwriter, producer or producer in the form of a non-directed film. Previously, "High School Musical 2", "High School Musical 3", "Honey", "Ice Age", " "Rush" all have different appearances of him: next year there will be "Husband Panda", "Brokeback Mountain", "Assassin's League", and now there is another "Ghost Chronicles". Different responsibilities receive different treatment from film producers, media, and fans. For example, the success or failure of "Brokeback Mountain" was due to his investment vision and had little to do with his creation; however, "Sweetheart" and "Rush" had to pay directly. .

Steven... Spielberg was equally crazy when he was young. At 198, he was the screenwriter of "Beauty", "Three Steps", "Back to the Future", "The Goonies", and directed and executive produced "The Color Purple". He created the first season of the TV series "Amazing Stories" and wrote, produced and directed two episodes. When it premieres in May next year, it has been confirmed that he will supervise the mini-series "The West" produced by DreamWorks, and executive produce the currently filming "The West". "Memoirs of a Geisha", executive produced "The Legend of Zorro", directed "War of the Worlds", directed and executive produced "Munich Massacre".

Back then, it would not have been his fault if "Three Steps" and "The Master" were not messed up: however, whatever fruit "Juraj Park" produced after one year of supervision will definitely go into Spielberg's pocket.

"The Ghost Story" touched the nerves of the media public. Unlike "High School Musical" and "The Hangover", this was the first time that Miracle Young became famous! Now that he's taking over "Ghost Story", he has to do something different, right? Otherwise why come back? However, Wang Yang's idea is very simple. It is Bedais... what Bill said, the goal is to make "Phantom 3" a horror film loved by the audience.

If he had to participate in the awards season this year to attend press conferences, awards ceremonies, do various publicity work, etc., Wang Yang would not have that much time. However, if he did not participate this year, he also understood the special nature of "Ghost Chronicles", so he did not have the talent. Forget it, just like "Brokeback Mountain", and asked for more supervisory authority and took over more production affairs. Of course, Lionsgate welcomed it with warm applause. Jon... Philtimer and others could only dream of it. I hope he takes away the director's microphone.

"Phantom 3" does not need to do post-production soundtracks. The scene is just a big room. There are no props and scenery to be customized. You don't even need to be a costume designer, because it is more realistic to dress according to ordinary people's daily life. So as long as the script is in place, one month is enough to prepare all the work easily: one month can be easily completed; two months is enough for post-production editing and production, and there will be no problem in setting the release date for April next year. You must know that Lionsgate The average production cycle for the first six episodes of "Saw" was 1 week.

Wang Yang did have a lot of scary ideas when he watched countless horror movies about the past and the future in "The Ghost Story" for his son, but he didn't use them all due to the influence of the film length, character stories, etc.; recently, he has been crazy A lot of new ideas for scaring and teasing people also came from this. The script of "Ghost 3" was not difficult to produce. After all, the pseudo-self-shooting mode does not require complicated stories and lines. The key is to create a psychological atmosphere by pretending to be mysterious and pretending to be a ghost. The details of the hand, the sense of substitution, the sense of empathy... let them frighten themselves by teasing the horror nerves of the audience, and then throw out a punch at the right time.

Since it is naturally connected to the series, the biggest failure of "The Ghost Story 2" is not to move the scene to the office, but to create new story characters that have no connection with the previous ones, causing most fans to be uninterested. "Ghost Chronicles" only has two characters. The male protagonist died in the end, and the female protagonist was haunted by evil spirits and disappeared. It seems difficult to move forward, so why not go back along the timeline? This is a consistent business idea If you can't make a sequel, make a prequel.

Why does the heroine get possessed by ghosts? Why is she so interested in these natural phenomena? Did you tell any stories before? Are there ever dead people? This time it is the experience of the heroine as a child, a family with a father, mother and children.

Regarding the choice of the protagonist "Childhood Rachel... McAdams...", Wang Yang has already prepared to invite Chloë... Moretz to star, so she can give full play to her frightened talent; several other leading actors and all actors have been found The high visibility of unknown people will affect the real effect of the pseudo-documentary. Horror films are Lionsgate's and Fire's specialty, so you don't have to worry about assembling a crew. Executive producer Michael Parsonek will do the work: you just need to find the director carefully.

Wang Yang agreed. The script was handed over to the crew in the middle of the month. During the introduction, it was confirmed that the director's "The Ghost Story 3" would be prepared for another month to start filming in mid-January next year. It would be completed by early April and sent for review and copying for release as scheduled.

The biggest change brought about by taking over "Phantom 3" is that Wang Yang currently does not have so much free time to "acquire videos" for this confidential task. He declined the invitation to film "Phantom 3" and other films to wait for the birth of the baby. Jessica continued her execution and more people became victims. This is not the reason why there is news in the OT industry market that Wang Yang intends to reorganize the video blog network Unae. This is the news released by the new company itself that the new video blog sharing network Utube is about to be launched.

It is reported that Wang Yang teamed up with three former Paypae employees, Steve...Chen, Chad...Hurley, and Joy Dedorim to form this new network and did not adopt the strategy of upgrading the Unae network. Utube continued to share videos The concept of the Internet has made it easier and faster for users to upload images, and will also launch the latest system settings such as the new "zero audit filtering". The server is guaranteed to be smooth, which will surely allow every user to happily build a new home on the Internet. A new home for video sharing.

This move caught Yahoo, Google and other giants off guard. However, the response caused by this industry news was not as good as that of "The Miracle Returns 3", and it did not attract anyone's attention at all. Video blog It’s not the first time that Rongsha.com has been launched. Can we just change unae into utube? It's too naive. Magic Young is the Magic Young of Hollywood, not the Magic Young of Silicon Valley.

Mark Cuban, one of the originators of video on the Internet and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, unceremoniously criticized it. Cuban has always had a serious disdain for video sharing. He mocked anyone who felt that "video sharing network" "People with great talent are idiots. This time he said on his personal blog: "Wang Yang must be crazy. There is no doubt that he should know best that this is a loss-making business. Video There are only two types of videos on the sharing website, one is user-generated videos, are you really willing to spend your advertising budget on a video of an old aunt watching her little nephew dance?"

"Someone created something really great, and what was the result, 60,000 viewers?" Mark Cuban laughed a lot and concluded that networks like unae have limited audience reach, especially users. He also reminded advertisers: "Don't spend too much money on so-called viral marketing on unae or on Utube or other video sharing websites. In fact, all the budget for viral marketing is a waste. It is both It’s hard to plan, and it’s hard to attract attention. If it’s so difficult, what’s the point of viral marketing? Don’t be fooled by one or two special successes.”

Mark Cuban strongly recommends advertising on high-definition TV programs and believes that a TV advertisement can beat any viral marketing. He also said: "The second type of video is an infringing video. Utube's review and filtering mechanism means that they will In order to attract users, unauthorized videos are allowed to circulate, but they will soon be in trouble, and Utube will disappear amid countless copyright lawsuits. What is this if not an idiot?" The official website of Utube is about to be launched. It is explained that the zero-audit filtering is for the purpose of detecting users. This is just to pass the review first, just like before the court convicts a person, they will not think that person is guilty.

In contrast, Wang Yang’s remote reply on ggen’s personal blog was much simpler and stronger: “Mark Cuban, I don’t want to say much else. If someone makes something really great, suck the bow. To 10,000 viewers, what about 10,000 viewers? As of Thanksgiving in 2015, if you helped Utube to get 10 million views of the video in one month, please take a photo of the video and upload it to Utube; no, I Dear donkey, take a video and upload it to YouTube to create this history. How about it? If you don’t dare agree to this competition, just shut up! If you think 40,000 is too little, we can discuss reducing the time or adding more clicks. quantity.

"When someone from the Mavericks decided not to try their best to keep Steve... Nash, I knew things were going to go to waste." Finally talking about the NBA, Wang Yang gave Mark... Cuban a friendly reminder: "Then I recently I heard that man was going to kick Don Nelson away, and I knew that man was hopelessly idiotic. Originally, Steve Nash, Dirk Nowitzki, Michael...Finley Pond...Nelson, would be able to do it in a few years. After winning the championship, are you now ready to shake things up? He ruined the Mavericks and ruined everyone's years of hard work. Cuban, do you know who it is? You should fire him."

It is well known in NBA circles that Magic Young is a die-hard fan of the Golden State Warriors. He most admires the "mad scientist" Don Nelson, the old coach of the Warriors from 1988 to 1994; Don Nelson began to build his own championship after he came to coach the Mavericks. The team looked at potential newcomers such as Chinese player Wang Zhiqiu, and later used Steve...Nash Dirknowitz, Michael...Finley as the "troika...core lineup."

However, Mark Cuban quickly ran out of patience after purchasing the Mavericks. First, he "let go" Steve Nash this summer, who disappointedly returned to the Suns, where he first entered the NBA; Cuban then broke up with Tang, who was dissatisfied with this ... Nelson's conflict broke out, and now it is rumored that Nelson will resign at any time. Wang Yang pointed out that the person the Mavericks need to fire most is naturally Mark Cuban himself.

The war of words suddenly escalated, and the media and public who were watching the excitement knew that this was fun. The kiss was uploaded to Utube, although the busybodies and a large number of fans of the magical movie went to Mawu Kuban blog and other places to ridicule and challenge, "coward" and "promise!" , "Make conditions", but Cuban has not responded to this for the time being.

Time has also entered the second half of the month, and Thanksgiving is gradually approaching. The sales of turkey and other gourmet ingredients have increased significantly, and the newly released animal blockbuster "National Treasure" won the box office from November 19 to 21 with a box office of 350,000. Weekend champion. TV series such as "Prison Break" and "The Big Bang Theory" will soon enter the TV winter break. The promotion of "Mr. Hughes 2" and "Crash" to be released by Flame Films is in full swing: "You are better than a fifth-grade elementary school student" Smarter?" has come to the production stage of selecting hosts, setting up photography stages, etc.: Wang Yang's main job every day is to edit "Fireflies" and spend time in the evening tinkering with the script of "Ghost Story 3".

Life is happy and busy every day, but when the calendar turns to November 25th, all work is put aside. Thanksgiving has arrived, which is also the 6th anniversary of Wang Yang and Jessica’s relationship, from 1998 to 4 years.

"I'm a little nervous." After hearing Wang Yang's words, there was a burst of warm laughter from everyone in the dining room, and then Jessica said crisply: "Come on!"

Luoxianfan is already a bright and prosperous night, and the spacious and bright dining room is full of the atmosphere of a Thanksgiving dinner. The long wooden dining table is filled with delicious food and red wine. Father Wang, Mother Wang, Jessica, and Joshua Both the Alba and his wife were sitting at the table, and Danny was standing next to Wang Yang. Starting from this year, he was officially promoted to the "head of the family." Not only did he sit above the head of the family, but he also cut the fire. Chicken.

"Wow." The big, shiny turkey was placed on the left side above the dining table, exuding bursts of meaty aroma. Wang Yang held a slicing knife in his right hand and a fork in his left hand, preparing to start cutting into the belly of the turkey. His parents, father-in-law, his wife's brother, and his wife sitting next to him all looked at him with a smile and encouraged him quietly. Wang Yang felt an unprecedented happiness and couldn't help but smile. He cut it off with his hand and began to tell his family The task of sending turkey meat: "This turkey is really big, it must be enough to eat." He winked at Jessica, and she smiled and stepped on him gently.

Seeing him completing this glorious moment, everyone started laughing. Mother Wang said, "If you can't finish it, just eat a few more pieces." Father Wang shouted, "Son, no, no, no! Don't give me the chicken part." "Wang Yang said: "Who told you to give it to you? The chicken belongs to Danny." Joshua said: "Yang, give me that chicken leg? If it is complete, I will definitely be able to finish it." Wang Yang said: "I want the chicken." No? Danny said I can give it to you." Cathy said, "A few pieces of belly meat is enough for me. The Chinese food tonight is so delicious." Mother Wang expressed her gratitude, and Wang Yang said, "Okay, where's Mark?" "I can still eat a lot more," Mark Alba said. …

There was already a lot of turkey meat piled on the dinner plate. Jessica picked up a piece and started chewing it. She looked at them talking with a smile. It was so good! It would be better if there is a baby.

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