Chapter 92： Juno restart (1/2)
Chapter 92—Junuo Restart
Flame Film Company announced on the official website the plan for the release of two films in the second half of the year. The first is ”The Fragment of Memory”. This independent film, which won the first screenwriter award at the Sundance Film Festival this year, will be held on Halloween. A small-scale release is scheduled. (Reading novels) This is something that was expected. I bought ”The Fragment of Memory” from the record-breaking 8 million in the Flame movie. The media and film companies knew that it would be released. Wang Yang showed that to people. The dizzy suspense is considered a baby.
For ordinary audience fans, there are some expectations, not because the director is Christopher Nolan, and his popularity is close to none; but because it is so valued by the flame film and Wang Yang, and received the festival. The best screenwriter may be a very good movie. However, the flame film did not disclose any information about the story of ”Memory Fragment”. The newly launched ”Memory Fragment” official website has only one jigsaw game that can be played online. The complete picture is the movie ’s stills, which also allows This movie adds a lot of mystery.
But what really made the media pay attention, excited the fans of the fans, and made the major film companies vigilant is the second plan announced by Flame Movies. Wang Yang will start to produce the long-prepared ”Junuo”. The three roles of film, director, and screenwriter, ”Junuo” will be released this Christmas and the heroine ”Junuo” is selected. The flame movie has not been announced yet; but Wang Yang revealed some of the contents of ”Junuo”: ”This is a drama about a high school girl's pregnancy. Juno is a 16-year-old high school student. She is pregnant and the story begins.”
”Energetic Magical Yang” This is the report of ”The Los Angeles Times”: ”The third week of” When Happiness Comes to Knock ”has just begun, and the magical kid is about to shoot the next movie. A plan announced by ”When Happiness Comes to Knock”, ”Junuo.” His production speed is surprising, but maybe this is the magical Yang. When I read ”When Happiness Comes to Knock,” it is about whether his mind is hot. The topic is no longer needed. ”
”It is worth noting that the” Junuo ”plan was announced by him last July. At that time, he auditioned thousands of girls for Juno's selection. Eventually the official explanation was that” the shooting plan will be postponed due to the selection of the heroine. ” ; And now he obviously has found the girl, although we do n’t know who. ”
Relative to the curiosity of Juno's candidates, whether it is the media or the fans, the focus at this time is more on Wang Yang's ”content”, a high school girl pregnancy drama? Is n’t it a romantic campus love story? Isn't it a comic comedy like ”American School”? Everyone who is actually about teenage pregnancy knows that this is a default taboo topic. This is a thankless thing. It can be said that there are no successful examples. How do you prepare for the 20-year-old Magic Yang? What is he going to say?
The editor ’s comment in the “Los Angeles Times” report said: “This seems surprising, but seriously, I had expected this for a long time. The performance of Miracle Yang in“ When Happiness Comes to Knock on the Door ”proves that he is super His age-based directorial ability also explains his pursuit of feature films. He is no longer a director of ”teenage movies”, since he gave up directing ”High School Musical 2”, announced ”Junuo”, ”When happiness comes to knock on the door” ”Plan, it can be seen that he has the idea,” I will not shoot ordinary campus stories. If I want to shoot, I will shoot some difficult ones ”, an ambitious young man.”
But can Wang Yang shoot it? Will ”Juno” be a high-level movie? This time the media did not make predictions, only expressed some expectations, and at the same time hinted that ”this subject is difficult.” Fans on the Internet can talk freely. They are very excited and looking forward to ”Junuo”. The higher the difficulty, the better. Only in this way can it be ridiculous and meet the style of Magic Yang, right?
”Guess what kind of movie” Junuo ”will be? Girl pregnancy is a serious topic, so will it be a serious preaching movie? Tell us to do * use condoms? Or should high school students not do *? ”This popular post has quite a lot of replies:” I do n’t think so, he had a girlfriend in high school, maybe ”Junuo” is the story of his high school, but we ca n’t see him having an illegitimate child, so this is for abortion. Story. ”,” Man, that's absolutely impossible, unless Miracle Yang is crazy, I firmly oppose abortion. If Miracle Yang agrees, I won't like him anymore. ”
This is where the theme of teenage pregnancy is difficult. Seeing ”teen pregnancy” reminds people of abortion. Is abortion okay? Is it legal? Once you express your point of view, you will offend half of the people, so that's why it's hard to please, why there is no similar movie of success.
In April of this year, 20th Century Fox launched a rare film ”Sweetheart Yiren”, which is teenage pregnancy. At a cost of 15 million, in the first week of 2437 theaters, it only received 18 million box office from the box office. In terms of performance, it failed. However, the evaluation it received was not bad, because it did not talk about pregnancy too much, and it did not involve the point of view of abortion. Its story focuses on the heroine Novara being strong and kind, knowing to find beauty, pregnancy is just a Just the beginning.
More than ten minutes after the opening, Novali gave birth to a child; after another ten minutes, the child raised by Novali was more than three years old, and then took the child Novari to pursue her love and happiness ... This is The story of ”Sweetheart Iraqi”. Is this the same for ”Juneau”? If this is the case, why should ”Junuo” continue to be magical? Fans of Wang Yang were also very worried while looking forward to it.
Wang Yang did not disclose more information about ”Junuo”, but he will not remain mysterious in the end. That kind of publicity is not suitable for campus dramas. The content of ”Junuo” will be gradually revealed in stages to let fans. Maintain attention to it. And now it is not lacking in attention. If the news of Natalie Portman ’s starring in Juno is announced, probably the gossip tabloids will boil. He has been busy enough recently and does not want to be disturbed by gossip. After finding it, we will announce it together.
”Rachel, are you okay?” Wang Yang lay on the sofa, looking at a golden popcorn trophy on the coffee table, and asked the phone: ”Is the cold better?” Rachel over there gently Um, I said, ”Thank you, I'm fine, I'm almost done.”
Last night was the awarding time of the 9th MTV Film Awards. The MTV Film Awards is an international film award held by the MTV Global Music Television Network. Unlike the Golden Globe Awards and Oscars, its award is not determined by the judges, but completely. Produced by the vote of ordinary audience. Therefore, ”High School Musical” has been nominated for 5 awards including Best Film, Actor Progress Award (Tom Willing), Actress Progress Award (Jessica Alba), Best Music, Best Scene, etc. It is the most popular in this MTV Movie Awards.
Wang Yang, Jessica, Tom Willing, Zachary and others were invited to participate in the recording of the award ceremony, but Rachel, who was also invited, did not attend because she had a bad cold. The MTV Film Awards finally ended in a joyous clamor, and the best film was won by ”The Matrix”; ”High School Musical” only took the gold popcorn trophy for the best music.
”That's good.” Wang Yang smiled slightly and listened to her voice in good spirits, and asked: ”Yes, Rachel, I'm going to Toronto to shoot” Junuo ”. What's so beautiful? Would you like to introduce a country-style town where you can wear a net? The feeling of painting ... ”
The reason why I chose to shoot in Toronto is because the weather and season there are suitable for the needs of the film; more importantly, saving money. In the account of Flame Film Company, the cash is almost zero, which is the company's financial status.
The soundtrack CD of ”High School Musical” has sold nearly 7 million sets worldwide and DVDs have sold close to 12 million sets. After several discounts and price reductions, it can no longer be sold. The huge profit it brought is 100 million for the acquisition of blue sky work. Room, 30 million production costs, ”High School Musical 2” with 20 million publicity costs, ”Don't Happiness Comes to Knock” with a total cost of 60 million, 8 million purchased ”Memory Fragment”, and also pay salary bonuses for company employees, Planned purchases of copyrights for some old movies to expand the film library, as well as expand business in North America and overseas, increase the size of the company, etc., these work, the result is that the money is spent.
Cash is almost zero? This is definitely not a healthy financial situation. If any investment ends in failure, the loss will be severe or the debt will be serious. This is not Mark-Slante ’s idea. He has persuaded Wang Yang many times to accept joint ventures with other companies, such as the Lion Gate Company that has been seeking cooperation, so as to reduce risks; but Wang Yang ’s mouth is ””, there is no This is necessary.
But the film rent for ”When Happiness Comes to Knock” will take some time to receive; not to mention ”High School Musical 2”, which was released in August and I don't know whether it will be successful, so the production cost of ”Junuo” is only 15 million. In addition to Natalie Portman and Michael Pitt ’s combined 7.3 million compensation, the remaining 7.7 million, on the one hand, has to pay the salary of members of the film crew such as Vale-Fest and other actors, these places are all It is difficult to save money, even if Wang Yang only paid himself a dollar. On the other hand, he also had to pay for equipment, film, crew and other shooting expenses, and this aspect can save money.
It's not that Canadian film is particularly cheap, but its wages for field work and group performances are much lower, and there are preferential policies for shooting, which can save a lot of taxes on movies. Compared with shooting in the United States, the entire cost is probably Save 15% -20%. As for the current situation of the flame film, ”Junuo” will either postpone the filming and wait for the cinema company to pay the film rent before filming; or it will save money for filming. Filming in Canada will not affect the quality of the film, so he chose the latter.
”Oh, there will be a small but equally beautiful Taobao women's Tmall Taobao Mall Taobao women's winter coat m high school.” Wang Yang turned over excitedly and continued: ”No need to be as dreamy as Eastern High School, nothing School buses, students ride bicycles to school ... ”
”No ... I don't know.” Rachel interrupted him suddenly, and said, ”I don't know, Yang. I can't understand your description. I feel dizzy and I have to go to bed.”