You don't understand the happiness of the director

There is only more than a month left before the release of "Escape Room" in North America. Except for the earliest scheduled trailer with no substantial content, the movie has not released a plot trailer. Dorothy has been waiting for the escape room game to become a prairie fire. potential.

Now she has waited!

It was very difficult for Long Toutou’s distribution team to advance at the beginning. Even though September is the traditional cold season, none of the several movies in the same period can sell well in terms of sales. They are not as good as "Escape Room" at all, but theaters will still give priority. More theater resources will be reserved for movies released by the six major movie theaters.

And Dorothy is not willing to follow the path of small-scale screenings of literary and artistic films and then expand the theater. I am a serious commercial film, and the only thing I eat is the box office in the first two weeks, and it is impossible to take the word-of-mouth route. Of course, I have to do it once. Attack with firepower from the beginning.

So when she first contacted the major theater chains, Dorothy only received an opening scale of 800 theaters from the theater chains, and most of the theater chains still wanted to wait and see.

Dorothy was naturally dissatisfied. You must know that "10 Cloverfield Lane" opened in nearly 3,000 theaters.

Later, the YouTube accounts of Gadot and others became popular. As the new protagonists, she and Wang Keying had a group of fans even before the movie was released. In addition, the movie's test screenings were well-received, and it was of above-average standards. The previous King of Power movies were also guaranteed. , Dorothy then raised the opening scale to 1,200 pavilions.

But even so, it still failed to meet her requirements. Even one of the top ten theater chains in North America didn't want to talk to her at all, and their attitude was quite perfunctory.

"What about now, what does that theater chain say?" Wang Quan asked.

"They said they were sorry. The person working with us was a temporary worker and had been fired." Dorothy smiled wildly.

Why is this rhetoric so familiar?

Dorothy continued, "Believe me, I am sure to get the opening scale of 3,000 pavilions!"

"Oh? Are you better than Paramount?"

Dorothy, "Please, can the September and June schedules be compared? Who was the opponent of "Cloverfield Lane" at that time? Let's look at who the opponent of "Escape Room" was. It can be said that one can fight. nothing."

The reason why Dorothy chose September, the coldest time of the year, was to reduce the resistance brought by her peers. During the same period, there were no movies that could make money for the theaters. You should release my film, right? The cinema is empty anyway.

It turns out that she really thought too much. The confidence that Liu Da can bring to theaters is not comparable to that of a little Karami like her. Even if she chooses the wrong film from Liu Da, they will continue to provide more and better films in the future. If you choose a movie, you may go bankrupt after just one movie.

Dorothy told Wang Quan, "Now that I have obtained the opening scale of 2,000 pavilions, I will release the first plot trailer on YouTube today. With this quasi-blockbuster quality, I will definitely beat the contestants of the same period in seconds. The next one will be more In March, our press conference will hit our audience overwhelmingly, and I will put up a sign saying "Dragon Heads Up" even if this movie doesn't make money!"

You still have to make money, and I’m still waiting to get the profit share.

Dorothy added, "By the way, I have already negotiated with the Toronto Film Festival. The premiere of "Escape Room" will be held at their place, about a week before it is released."

The Toronto International Film Festival is one of the most important film festivals in North America. It is held in Toronto in early September every year. It mainly screens new films and is an important film trading market in the world.

In addition to wanting to see if there are any foreign films worth buying, Dorothy also wants to contact foreign film producers to prepare for future global expansion.

Wang Quan asked, "Is the global distribution of "Escape Room" confirmed? Sharing or buying out."

Dorothy, "I still want to buy out and get the money in advance so that I can transfuse blood for the next "Twilight". It should be finalized in August."

Wang Quan thought for a while, "I'll write another script later. It's a small-budget horror film with a budget of about one million. I definitely don't have time to film it. Find someone to film it to fill the gap before the release of "Twilight" The schedule is vacant, and the box office of literary and artistic films is very mysterious. It is safer to ensure that horror films are profitable despite droughts and floods."

"Director Wang, thank you for your hard work. Let's work hard together!"

Time has entered August, and Gadot has also concluded her trip to China.

After she left the capital, Zong Fuli took her to Chang'an to see the Terracotta Warriors and Horses, to ride horses on the prairie, to Chengdu to see giant pandas, to Huangshan to see the sea of ​​clouds, and to Guilin to see the landscape.

I can't finish it, I can't finish it at all. Sister Zong is willing to sacrifice her life to accompany the gentleman. After playing for a month, she lost several pounds.

Fortunately, Gadot still planned to go back to Israel to see her parents, so she stopped her trip to China.

Zong Fuli said that you should let your director Wang accompany you next time.

But at this time, Director Wang was accompanying another woman.

Wang Quan discovered that an escape room game store had also opened in Vancouver, but it had nothing to do with the boss Hussein Hou and was opened in imitation of his model.

He took Lily and Amanda to play once on the weekend. It was owned by a Chinese. Wang Quan chatted with the boss. He said that young people in the United States loved playing this game, so he followed their model and opened it. Sure enough, Very profitable.

Then the boss stared at Lily and raised his eyebrows at Wang Quan, "Brother, it's okay, your belly will grow big at such a young age."

Wang Quan was very helpless and asked her not to wear the prosthetic belly, but she refused, saying that she was afraid that her condition would be lost, and she now looked at least seven or eight months old.

Wang Quan gave a wry smile and looked at the two girls, "The eldest will give birth next month, and the second one will also be born next year."

boss:"……"

The boss was shocked. Mad, I feel like I’m embarrassing my ancestors by keeping a black mistress. Brother, you can control two white girls at the same time. You are a role model for us!

"Don't say anything, today's order is mine, it's free!"

“The boss is awesome!”

While playing, Lily had been observing Wang Quan and Amanda, trying to discover adultery from their performances.

Everyone on the crew has basically noticed it, but Lily only started to feel it recently. We can't say that she is slow, I can only say that she has been focused on it during this time on the crew.

But no matter how distracted she was, Lily finally realized something was wrong based on the frequency of these two people at night.

At this time, Lily was standing behind the two of them and discovered that Amanda's hand was touching Wang Quan's thigh!

Humph, you don’t avoid me anymore, right?

From the beginning, Lily was just a hard worker, enjoying observing the small movements of the man and woman in front of her and interpreting their expressions. She did not work hard, until she suddenly covered her stomach with a painful expression.

King Quan was the first to notice, "What's wrong with you, Juno?"

Amanda, "Juno, are you okay?"

Lily was sweating, "I, am I going to give birth?"

Wang Quan was startled, this child must be too involved in the drama, he patted the girl's face, "Don't be stupid, you are not really pregnant."

Lily woke up from a dream, "Oh, I seem to have a stomachache. The ice cream in the morning is too cold. Hurry up and unlock the secret room! I need to go to the bathroom!"

Wang Quan, "Who told you not to help in the first place?"

Lily said anxiously, "If you can't solve any problem, tell me quickly!"

Lily is indeed a good student who will be admitted to the University of Southern California in the future, and high school students are at the time when they have the most comprehensive and broad knowledge. With her help, the three of them successfully passed the customs, and Lily hurriedly ran out to find the bathroom.

However, just as she was squatting on the toilet and enjoying herself, she suddenly heard a strange voice in the cubicle next door. The voice sounded like Amanda and Wang Quan!

Then she felt that the adjacent grid baffle began to vibrate, too much shit, too much shit!

It was mid-August, and with a cry, a baby boy appeared in the hands of the obstetrician. Juno was finally born!

Wang Quan filmed this scene for a whole day, and it tortured Lily to death.

In the previous scenes, Wang Quan retained the relaxed atmosphere of comedy in the original version to a large extent, and even surpassed it in the arrangement of jokes. However, Wang Quan did not intend to be soft in the childbirth scene. Giving birth to a baby at the age of 16 does not mean giving him some hardships and lessons. Too much.

Julie in Los Angeles won't give birth until next month, so Lily couldn't get this experience from her best friends. Fortunately, she found several families in the hospital who were willing to let Lily observe the birth of their children for money.

Two of them had a very difficult life, which was probably the effect Wang Quan wanted.

After summing up these experiences, Lily was still photographed by Wang Quan for a whole day. Later, she suddenly realized that the pregnant woman she had observed had given birth for a day, and she had also been photographed for a day. Director Wang just wanted to see herself exhausted. It’s so exhausting!

It was a tiring day, but fortunately the final effect was very good.

The last scene shot was of Juno going to college, finally parting ways with her child's father, Brick, and going on the road.

"Okay, it's done!"

When King Quan designed the character of Brick, they made him timid, but not indifferent, and responsible, but not that much. He is just a child who has not grown up and lacks personality charm. So for Juno's final choice, Although the crew members were sorry, they all accepted it.

It was Andrew Garfield who was a little dissatisfied and told Wang Quan that if he encountered such a thing, he would definitely accompany Juno like a man.

Wang Quan patted the young man on the shoulder, "Okay, if we have the chance to work together again, I will definitely give you a responsible role."

This is what Garfield wanted. Ms. Jodie Foster greatly praised Director Wang and said that he has a bright future. If he can become the muse of such a great director, he might also be able to win an Oscar in the future. Woolen cloth.

At this time, Judy, Amanda, and Simmons had already left the crew, and Wang Quan, Lily, Garfield, and Ma Ling were the last batch of crew members.

Last night, Wang Quan finally couldn't hold it back and called Ma Ling to his crew to discuss the shooting situation of the last scene.

Ma Ling sneered, "Isn't it just that Amanda is gone and there is nowhere to vent your energy? It was agreed in advance that I will only help temporarily, and it will be the same after I return."

After finally landing and returning to the familiar yet unfamiliar Los Angeles, Wang Quan started the post-production work of the film with almost no rest.

And when he had just finished the first cut of the movie, without adding a soundtrack or color correction, someone came from Tokyo.

Wang Quan expressed his desire to bring his new work to the East Film Festival through his connections with Nortel, and the East Film Festival naturally welcomed this.

Although King Quan is not famous for his literary films, "10 Cloverfield Lane" has caused quite a stir in North America. Even the Neon Filmmakers have heard of the talent of King Quan, a newly born college student director. of.

What's more, the cast of this movie is quite luxurious. Jodie Foster, Naomi Watts, Christian Bale, and J.K. Simmons are basically familiar faces that Neon audiences are familiar with.

It is impossible for the East Film Festival to turn a blind eye to a film like this. As long as it is not too ugly, it will basically be added to the list of the main competition section.

However, the procedure still needs to be completed. It happened that Yoshihiko Yatabe, the chairman of the film selection committee of the East Film Festival, was in Los Angeles. He heard on the news that "Juno" was finished, so he contacted Wang Quan and came to watch the film.

This time Yoshihiko Yatabe came to the United States for two main purposes, "Juno" and "Little Miss Sunshine."

"Little Miss Sunshine" was a low-budget film bought by Fox Searchlight at last year's Sundance Film Festival for $10.5 million. It was later sold out by "10 Cloverfield Lane" for $20 million, which stole a lot of discussion. Spend.

"Little Miss Sunshine" was released in North America last month. It has been in theaters for one month and has grossed $10 million in box office.

Don’t think that it was a failure at the box office. In fact, it was quite successful. Searchlight Pictures followed the conventional distribution ideas of literary films. It was only released in seven theaters at the beginning. It had a good reputation and a high attendance rate, and then expanded to 58, and expanded to 153 in the third week. Until this week's large-scale expansion to 691 cinemas, it can still get a box office of 3,000 yuan per cinema. The scale of screenings will definitely expand in the future.

Yoshihiko Yatabe has already seen the movie and persuaded the film studio to take the film to the East Film Festival to participate in the main competition unit.

Although the East Film Festival is also an A-category film festival, A is not the ABCD classification. It just means that it is a competitive, non-specialized film festival. In terms of influence, it is far behind the three major European film festivals. It does not have any control over the participating films. There are strict requirements for premiering at the East Film Festival.

In fact, only Cannes has extremely high requirements for world premieres. If you want to be selected for the main competition, you must give me the respect of the first brother of the film festival.

So Dorothy thought that if there was time, "Juno" could be shown in Venice at the end of the month. The influence of the three major European films was much greater than that of Dongfang Film.

Wang Quan put on his formal clothes at home and was about to go watch a movie with the guests from Tokyo when Yang Mi rushed out of the bedroom.

"Brother Quan, something big happened!"

"What's wrong?"

"Pluto has been expelled from the nine planets!"

Wang Quan, "Are you on business?"

"Okay, let me tell you seriously, the company is urging me to go back."

Wang Quan, "What's wrong? I want to film a movie with you?"

"It's not filming. Do you know "Dream of Red Mansions"? Well, you should know that now Red Mansions is going to be re-filmed. I heard that Beijing and Taiwan are going to hold a talent show for "Dream of Red Mansions". Mr. Li wants me to go back and compete for the role." What is Xue Baochai?"

Wang Quan asked, "Are you going back?"

"Of course I won't come back."

"Hey, Xue Baochai doesn't even act?"

"The director chose Hu Mei, and it's not the director Li Shaohong. I can play whoever I want~"

Wang Quan thought to himself, even if Director Li is appointed, the most you can do is play the role of a maid~

(You always say that I only released one movie in chapter 100. So if I release two movies in chapter 120 and three movies in chapter 130, how should you respond~ Director Wang shoots very fast, so it’s normal that the release speed can’t keep up. , now they are all squeezed together, two screenings in September and October! Please vote for me! There will be another update!)