Chapter 29 "Little Forest" and the regrettable "The Matrix"Chen An will have to attend various seminars in the next half month. A young man named Chen An was squatting among a group of middle-aged people, sitting there like a fool. Bring a notebook and a pen, just take notes and don't talk. If you ask him to speak, he will just talk nonsense. While busy, Han Sanping also informed me that "Run Lola Run" will be released soon. We found a hotel and planned to hold a premiere, but premieres were not popular in that era. Thanks to Chen An’s youth, countless people are paying attention to this movie, so Han Sanping wanted to learn from foreign countries and hold a premiere. Let’s increase the momentum! We booked a first floor of the hotel and invited reporters from major media outlets. All major media outlets are also willing and are planning to interview Chen An, who is currently in the limelight. An actor who wins the Best Actor award at the age of 20 is considered young and promising, but a 20-year-old who wins the Best Director award is definitely a genius! It's good enough that he can manage a crew well and complete the filming of a movie from all aspects, and he also won a big award. Even Spielberg made his first movie at the age of 29, and it didn't have much impact.
Chen An left the interview for after the screening. He was a little tired from all the recent meetings, so he took a break during the screening and then prepared for the interview. Major media outlets did not refuse and were the first to watch the work of the best director. As "Run Lola Run" appeared on the screen and the subtitles of "(Director: Chen An)" were kicked away, the film officially began. The film critics and journalists all sat in silence and watched the film attentively. Chen An also took the opportunity to take a short nap. The movie is not long, only eighty minutes, which is shorter than most movies. After the film was finished, there was another round of loud applause. Chen An was not woken up by the noise. It looked like the show was over. The reporters and film critics present all had some experience in watching movies, and were able to clearly understand how Run Lola Run was filmed. They also finally understood why it won the Best Director award at Cannes. Of course, even if you don't consider these, this movie is still very watchable and you can watch it just for the story. After rubbing his face to make himself sober, Chen An walked onto the stage to be interviewed. "Hello, Director Chen. We are reporters from Southern City News. You explained that the work Run Lola Run was inspired by the game. Now it will be officially released in China. Do you have any box office expectations?" "As for the box office, it's up to the audience. After all, it's not up to me. If I can get 40 million, I'll be very satisfied." Chen An didn't have any expectations for the box office, like the hundreds of millions in his previous life. However, 40 million is also the second place in the Mandarin-language film of the year. The top box office movie would be Fang Long's Police Story 4, but the latter was not released in mainland China. There is no problem in making it into the top ten, as the other movies are all Hollywood productions. Last year's box office champion was also a Hollywood film, "True Lies", which grossed over 100 million yuan in the mainland. Jiang Wen's "Sunny Days" only had half of that at 50 million box office. At this time, Hollywood had no rivals. Domestic audiences also like to watch Hollywood blockbusters, and some people even refuse to go to the cinema unless there is a Hollywood blockbuster.
There were many interviews from newspapers afterwards, and Chen An answered them one by one, which also allowed them to promote the work. After finishing the interview, Chen An went straight back to school. During this period, in addition to attending meetings, Chen An was also writing scripts. Whether it is what is going to be filmed next or what needs to be written in advance. I also contacted Jerry from Warner and asked him to help me register with the Hollywood Guild. I also picked out a lot of scripts and asked someone to help me register them and translate them, which cost me a little more money. And my plan to learn English should also be put on track. I felt it was useless to learn before, but now Chen An has to learn for the sake of US dollars. There are English training classes nowadays with a lot of students, so it is easy to find one. Lin Dajiang's money was also transferred into the account, and Chen An officially became a multi-millionaire. Rented an office and registered the company. I signed up for an English class. The next script I’m going to shoot is the movie “Little Forest” about my previous life, which tells the story of a heroine who lived in a big city and returned to the countryside. Chen An planned to take some good photos, wanting to make every frame good enough to be used as wallpaper, so as to hone his skills. Because it needs to be translated into Chinese, Chen An takes his time. The scripts shot abroad are much better and basically do not require too many changes. The Matrix is a very good script. It has the box office and the quality, and it was also produced by Warner in its previous life. Unfortunately, the script was copied by the original directors, the Wachowski brothers' and later sisters, who wrote a preliminary trilogy in 1994. Unfortunately, at that time Chen An had just arrived in Beijing and was collecting scraps on the crew. "Little Miss Sunshine" was Chen An's choice. This low-budget production grossed over 100 million yuan worldwide in its previous life and was also nominated for an Oscar. The work was nominated for four major awards including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress, so Chen An naturally couldn't let it go. This is also the first work Chen An plans to shoot in Hollywood. The main reason is that it requires little investment and he can get the greatest management power. When you first come to a work with a lot of investment, even if you are the screenwriter, you will not be given much power in Hollywood. Even James Cameron, who made "Titanic", did not have the right to edit when he was shooting another movie before. He could only sneak in, but was eventually discovered and the security guard called the police to drive him away. If our own people are like this, what about Chen An, an outsider? Although the script for this movie was produced in advance in the previous life, it is only 96 years now and has not yet started. As for low-budget scripts like "Saw", Chen An also wrote them and asked someone to help register them, but he had no plans to shoot them himself. Instead, they invest in other people's films and just sit back and make money. Shooting such movies does not help them in any way. Of course, Chen An did not write all the scripts and submit them for registration. He only wrote a few for advance registration. There was no need to rush for the others.
Chen An has not written the "Batman" trilogy yet, and plans to publish it after he achieves success. Even if you don't have full editing rights, you should have the right to make suggestions, otherwise you will just be a tool. After writing the script, Chen An paid someone to help him register it in Hollywood and didn't worry about it anymore since he wouldn't be filming it in the short term anyway. Now Chen An is concentrating on the Chinese translation of "Little Forest". I am just making a movie, not a rural documentary, and I plan to give a lesson to the current audience. Let’s do something a little different from the countryside impressions that previous directors have described during their filming, and give them a different kind of countryside shock. Our China is vast and rich in resources. The scenery in the countryside is beyond the imagination of those people in the city. Although the script had not been completed yet, location scouts from the Beijing Film Studio had already been sent out to look for locations. the next day. Chen An, who stayed up late to write the script yesterday, received a call from Han Sanping. "Run Lola Run" was a huge hit on the first day, with a box office of million! After the media's huge hit, the box office soared and it was also praised by the media! 'The groundbreaking "Run Lola Run" earned million on its first day!' 'Run Lola Run, which returned with honors from Cannes, was also well received by domestic audiences, earning million at the box office on the first day!' 'The director of Run Lola Run, which grossed NT$ million on its first day, announced yesterday that he is preparing a new film!' 'The first shot of the Mandarin film in 1996, Run Lola Run, grossed million on its first day!' There were no roadshows in this era, so even if Chen An was there, he wouldn’t dare to go. Chen An continued to hide in school to work on the script, and Chen Wei helped bring him dinner. He also did not accept interviews and just listened to Han Sanping calling him every day to inform him of the box office results. "Run Lola Run" raked in 14 million at the box office in five days of the week and received praise from major media. All major cinema chains immediately increased their filming and were delighted. After all, "Run Lola Run" was only 80 minutes long, which was enough to make a full movie. You can schedule one more round of films. After that, the box office began to plummet to just over two million, and even increasing the number of screenings could not stop the decline. Soon it dropped from two million to just over one million. Because pirated copies had already appeared, in fact they appeared on the third day, but the images were very blurry, so they were still able to be stopped. A clear version is now available and you can take it home and watch it slowly for only ten dollars. The box office decline is irreversible, but it is still successful. Two weeks later, the box office had exceeded 26 million, and news came that Europe was preparing to release the film.
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