The Best Director

The filming work is over, and the crew of "High School Musical" also announced its disbandment, and Wang Yang and others returned to Los Angeles. (The fastest update is to read the novel) Of course, people like the film's leading actors, original musician David Lawrence, photographer Walley Pfister, etc. will follow up the film's post-production work; , gaffers, stylists, etc., they have all performed their duties and contracts well, and there will be no more work for them.

The official website of "High School Musical" immediately released the news of the film's finalization, and also released a batch of new stills, including a few handsome photos of Wang Yang on the set, looking at the camera viewfinder, instructing Tom Welling on how to act Yes, and those who read the script contemplatively and so on. There are a few stills of him being handsome that were specially shot. The makeup artist fiddled with him for a long time beforehand, and then the lighting engineer adjusted the light, and Walley Pfister shot it from a beautiful angle.

This is also a helpless move in the promotion of the film. Compared with Tom Welling, Jessica and other leading actors, Wang Yang is more popular. Fans who have been paying attention to this film are not concerned about any big stars, but the second film and the first film film of "Magic Yang". Miracle?

The overseas release of "Spiritual-Ghost Records" is basically over. Just like the madness in North America, this DV horror film has swept movie theaters all over the world, and its overseas box office has reached 150 million US dollars at the box office! Coupled with the 160 million US dollars previously received in North America, the global box office of "Ghost Story" has reached 310 million US dollars! How much does it cost to make? The whole world knows, only $10,000.

Wang Yang and Lions Gate have become a veritable "money-grabbing couple". Some media even joked that "Spiritual Ghost Records" will sweep all over the world like last year's "Titanic" at the 71st Academy Awards. Big awards, it will beat "Saving Private Ryan", "Beautiful Taobao Women's Tmall Taobao Mall Taobao Women's Winter Coat M Life" and other films to win the best picture, and Fantastic Yang will beat Steven Spielberg, Peter De Weir (the director of "The Truman Show") and others won the best director. What? Ghost Story without an Oscar nomination? !

Although these are jokes, when summarizing the 1998 movie, major media and magazines will definitely mention "Spiritual-Ghost Story" and Wang Yang.

The "Los Angeles Times" said: "In 1998, James Cameron conquered the world with a boat and became the 'king of the world'. The whole world cried because of the love between Jack and Ruth. And profits have skyrocketed. This year, there are also excellent movies such as "Saving Private Ryan", "Elizabeth", "Shakespeare in Love"... Finally, I have to mention that there is an 18-year-old young man who used a A dv player frightened the whole world, yes, the magical boy Wang Yang, and his debut novel "Spiritual-Ghost Records."

"The first one, everyone rushed to the cinema and watched "Titanic" over and over again; the second one, all the young people rushed to the cinema and watched "Spirit-Ghost" over and over again "Film Record"."

The total box office of 310 million US dollars,

The year-end summaries of major media magazines have brought Wang Yang's popularity to an unprecedented peak. Everyone likes the kind of person who is "not controlled by gravity", everyone worships heroes, the United States pays attention to teamwork, and even more advocates comic book superheroes. There is an 18-year-old guy who single-handedly spent 10,000 US dollars. A 310 million box office miracle, isn't he a superhero? If Wang Yang were white, his popularity would only be higher, at least he hasn't been on the cover of "Time Magazine", has he?

Therefore, the fan expectations of "High School Musical" are also at a high point. The news of its finale has made many movie fans and Wang Yang's female fans very excited. They can't wait to watch this campus musical.

But the question now is, when will High School Musical be released? Its release date has not yet been set.

The meeting room of the Flame Films Company is currently holding a meeting. Mark Slanter, the distribution manager Simon Willis, the production manager Sandy Pax and other department managers are all present; Wang Yang is sitting In the middle of the top of the conference table, looking at the documents in his hand, the financial statements so far after the filming of "High School Musical" ended.

A very detailed list, including all expenses, actors' remuneration, crew salaries, photographic equipment rental fees, film purchase fees, song copyright purchase fees, hotel fees... etc., Wang Yang took one item at a time. Scanning one by one, Jessica Alba’s 500,000 yuan, Tom Welling’s 300,000 yuan... Although these are all his money, Wang Yang is still very bored. On the other hand, the total cost now is about to reach 7 million. It is expected that the final cost will be more than 8 million after the later work is completed. Fortunately, this movie does not need any special effects, and there are only fireworks.

The estimated cost of 8 million has seriously exceeded the initial budget, except that too much film was burned and the shooting cycle was extended by half a month; the main reason was the salary of the crew, just like the job of choreographer. The budget was only 100,000 to 200,000 yuan, but Anne Fletcher was invited. She declined the invitation to the Flame Movie at first, but Wang Yang called her many times. Letcher eventually took the job. Her $500,000 salary is also the same as Jessica, the film's highest paid actor.

After looking at it again, Wang Yang closed the financial statement and put it on the conference table, and said with a smile, "Okay, let's discuss the next item!"

The next item of the meeting is to determine the release date of "High School Musical". Only when the release date of a film is confirmed can its promotional work be carried out and coordinated; as for the post-production process of the film, everything can proceed in an orderly manner only when the release date is determined. Of course, independent films are not included in this list. They have completed post-editing and then look for distribution.

"How is the establishment of our campus screening system?" Wang Yang asked, looking at Simon Willis, the distribution manager.

Simon Willis looked at the secretary in charge of the meeting, Foona Hasson, and motioned for her to give the documents to Wang Yang. He said: "We have established relationships with major campus movie theater companies. If we want to release a movie If we do this, we can capture most of the movie theaters in primary and secondary schools and universities in the United States, and the movie theaters in many remaining schools are independently operated, and it is difficult to contact them one by one; some have no movie theaters at all.”

After receiving the documents handed over by the secretary, Wang Yang took a look. There were thousands of schools scattered all over the United States. He couldn't help nodding and smiling and said, "Very good! Enough, these schools are enough."

Simon Willis said again: "However, they usually show old movies, or movies that are about to be released, and the tickets there are almost half price." He shrugged and said: "Very few movies will choose It is very low profit to arrange the first week of screenings in campus cinemas."

Wang Yang shrugged his shoulders and said disapprovingly: "What we want is popularity and influence. The profit from the premiere screening is nothing. The important thing is the subsequent large-scale screenings. That is the big head." "Ghost Story" No. There are less than 2,000 in the second week and the third week in one week; the focus is on influence and arousing the interest of the market, otherwise more than 1,000 and more than 2,000 movie theaters will be released in the first week, and half of the second week will be reduced. Fail even worse.

"My boss, you are quite right." Mark Slanter smiled, and then said: "My idea is that we choose some campus movie theaters with high box office revenue, about 500, as the first The object of the weekly trial screening; it will be offline after a week and will be transferred to 500 schools in the same city. In this way, we will not lose too much market profit. If we can accept the corresponding good results, those theater companies will automatically contact us .”

"Well, this plan is very good." Wang Yang nodded. After two weeks of trial screening, he got a good report card, formed an influence, and then released it on a large scale.

In fact, there are two main reasons for choosing this method. First, the focus of film promotion is on the campus; second, theater companies in urban cinemas are not interested in "High School Musical", perhaps because the sluggish musical film market cannot give them confidence. , maybe this movie has all the "bad movie elements", anyway, they are only willing to provide some prime time slots in dilapidated and remote movie theaters, or poor time slots in good movie theaters.

Neither Wang Yang nor Mark Slanter liked these two choices. The former is easy for a movie to appear in a thousand theaters, but it can only receive less than a few million at the box office, and it is justifiable to secure the throne of "bad movie"; ? This is not a horror movie, and it cannot stimulate the nerves of the audience. They are likely to fall asleep halfway through watching it, and they can successfully get the title of "bad movie".

Then, just use the results to convince them that theater companies and movie theaters are useless. When they know which movies to show can make money, they will scramble to show them. If the time is a step slower, the box office will be gone.

"Yang, you know, the next good schedule is the summer vacation." Mark Slant looked at Wang Yang and said. Wang Yang nodded and said with a smile: "The summer vacation is just right."

The summer vacation will start in June, and there are still more than 5 months from now. Both Wang Yang and Mark Slanter understand that the release date of "High School Musical" cannot be delayed too late. Because the world is changing so fast and new things appear every day, Wang Yang's popularity and name will disappear quickly with time, if he can't seize the opportunity, he will only be forgotten in the end. So taking advantage of the peak period of his popularity, the best results can be obtained; if his popularity and attention are gone before the movie is released, the chance of failure will be greatly increased.

Mark Slanter said again: "Our screening plan has decided on the first two weeks, and the school has not yet closed, so we have to advance the summer vacation at least two weeks." He spread his hands helplessly and said: "But "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace" will be released on May 19, and we can't collide with it head-on, so we have to move forward two weeks."

"Well, that's one month earlier." Wang Yang thought for a while, and suddenly thought of a date, and couldn't help but blurt out: "April 28!" He looked at Simon Willis and asked, "If on that day Release, okay?" Simon Willis nodded and said: "No problem." Wang Yang smiled happily, glanced at Mark Srant, and said with a smile: "That's it, April 28 premiere that day."

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