King of Special Effects

Chapter 490 , Foreign Actors! (15)

Gong Ying has the intention to open up the island market.

What she said also aroused Yi Yang's interest in entering the island country, and immediately began to convene a meeting to discuss the plan.

There is still some time before the launch of "Three-Body Problem".

The film and television distribution department of Liangyi Media was also formally established, with Gong Ying as the supervisor and Ning Xiao as the marketing director. The number of people in this department also surpassed that of Lin Yun's brokerage department.

Including the dozen or so new recruits, there are a total of 223 people, and they are divided into several groups according to the project releases in different regions.

For example, there are mainland China, Hong Kong, North America, Australia, European countries, Tianzhu, etc.

These people are the distributors and backbones of Liangyi Media. In addition to distributing Yi Yang's films, they will also undertake film distribution projects from other companies.

It is just established now, and there is only a rough framework, and it will take time to implement it.

After five days of rest, Gong Ying took Ning Xiao and the others to Tokyo.

Although Ning Xiao has been engaged in the entertainment industry with Jin Yonghua for many years, she really doesn't have any specific experience in film and television marketing and distribution. Since she is the marketing director, she must master the proficiency of the business.

Gong Ying is nearly ten years older than her, and now he can be regarded as taking her out of the mountain in the way of an apprentice.

Two theaters in Germany have postponed the release of "Progress" from the original one week to twenty days.

Each movie has two shows per day, which are continuously shown.

But even so, a total of 40 movie tickets in 20 days have been sold out, and the remaining dozen tickets have been sold at a high price of three to four hundred euros.

It may be due to certain local broadcasting policies. Although the film has great market potential there, increasing the original 14 screenings to 40 is already the highest that the two theaters have done. adjusted.

After the distribution team of Zoji Entertainment's "Progress" moved to Italy, it also successfully won cooperation with twelve theaters in three cities.

It will be screened in Rome and other cities on New Year's Day.

Similarly, as soon as the pre-sale of this movie started, the tickets for the two-day premiere were sold out.

There are also many Chinese in Italy. According to the data, the Chinese group buys the most tickets.

In Tianzhu, "Progress" won a box office of 3.32 billion rupees eight days after its release, which is about 320 million yuan when converted into RMB.

320 million in eight days, and it was also a double hit at the box office.

In major cities in Russia, "Progress" also became one of the highest-grossing films of the same period.

Because the Domestic Film Bureau strongly recommends this film as one of the top ten imported films of the year, it will be listed in major theaters with an absolute advantage.

Perhaps it is also due to the fact that there are a lot of Russian elements in this movie, and they also used exaggerated rhetorical techniques to highlight their aerospace technology strength. It has only been five days since it was released on December 15, and the box office has reached 3.45 billion rubles. It is about 360 million yuan at the box office.

Like several other areas, it also opened higher.

So far, the global box office of "Progress" has far exceeded the US$2 billion mark, and it has officially squeezed into the fourth place in the global box office ranking.

This kind of box office development is very blunt, and the records set by Chinese-language films in various places have been broken one by one by "Progress".

And another super IP "Transformers 6" in the same period was squeezed out without any sense of existence.

There is no way, the limelight of "Progress" is hot now, even after more than two months, it has not diminished in the slightest.

Everyone has seen how powerful Yi Yang's movie is.

Today is December 20th.

The weather in Shunning has been cloudy or light rain for more than half a month, and the weather is very cold.

Leading actors such as Zhang Yi, Wu Jin, Zhang Jingchu, and Su Youpeng have all gathered in Shunning. Today, they will have a makeup test to determine the actor's appearance for the plot.

If all goes well, the work could last a week or so.

But now, Yi Yang has another problem to solve: foreign actors!

He needs foreign lead actors and ensemble actors, and ensemble actors are easy to come by. If he needs to, he can find many people in Shun Ning.

But the actor who plays the character of "Thomas Vader" has to think carefully.

The book "The Three-Body Problem" has three parts in total, and Yi Yang's current script is to integrate these three parts into a complete story.

The three parts of this book add up to about 900,000 words, which is half of "Under Deep Space", but the content of the story presented is more than twice that of "Under Deep Space". The time span of hundreds of years, It covers a wide range of fields.

Dozens of people, including big bosses Liu and Yi Yang, spent several months to complete the first draft of the script, and the bound script was as thick as two and a half Xinhua dictionaries.

Yi Yang's estimated duration of this movie is four hours.

Yi Yang doesn't like to split the story. The trilogy of "Warrior" is because the length is too long.

Therefore, this "Three-Body Problem", Yi Yang intends to show it in one movie.

Yi Yang needs foreign leading actors, and other actors can use group performances, but Thomas Vader and Ivans are the key players.

So when trying on makeup today, what Yi Yang had to discuss with everyone was who to play these two characters.

Yuan Zhengzhong proposed a name: "Brother Statham?"

Yi Yang was taken aback, and said directly: "Please excuse me!"

Although he didn't know much about it, Yi Yang also checked Statham's information, and it was reported that his film salary for one movie was 20 million US dollars.

Of course, his global fame is there, and he has attracted countless fans with his image of a tough guy. Strictly speaking, the worth of 20 million yuan for such a character is lower than that of some domestic traffic big names, which can easily be several hundred million yuan.

However, it seems like a good fit for him to play the role of Vader.

Now that "The Three-Body Problem" is about to be launched, Vader's role can be postponed, but the filming of Ivans' role has to start first.

So who will Ivans cast?

This is also a problem.

Yi Yang thought about it, and after a while, he said, "Can you ask Evans to play the role of Vader?"

Amin was taken aback: "Who is Evans?"

Su Yanxin smiled and said, "Captain America!"

Yuan Zhengzhong drank water: "Can you please move? Isn't he from Manwei?"

"Reports say that their contract has expired. After "Reunion 4", they seem to have stopped cooperating."

"How much does he get paid?"

"It should be five or six million dollars!"

If he can be found, Yi Yang really doesn't care about spending five or six million dollars.

None of them have any objections, so try to contact Evans first. Of course, it would be best if the conversation can be reached, and then find someone else if the conversation fails.

"In this case, it's better to find Tom Ston for the role of Ivans." Yi Yang directly wrote the names of the two people on the paper: "Two characters in the Manwei world!"

"There is still half a month before the start-up time. It is definitely too late to find it now, but we can wait for them. We will shoot other scenes first."

"Let's find a way to find them now."