Faced with Angelina's increasing favor, Zhou Shaoming was in a dilemma. If Milla Jovovich's performance in the original time and space had not been so profound, he might have chosen this popular female star. Love Can

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But now that the words have been spoken, he has to wait for Mira to express her position before making a decision. Zhou Shaoming can only make a very sorry phone call to Angelina and tell her that the movie is still in the preparation period and the heroine will be chosen.

I have several in mind, including her of course, but I will have to wait a few days to think about the specific matters before I make a decision.

Favor turns to favor, waiting turns to waiting, and negotiation turns to negotiation. Angelina still takes her own worth very seriously, and tactfully stated that if she acted, her remuneration would not be less than US$10,000.

After all, this "Resident Evil" is a purely commercial film, and it won't be as easy to impress Meryl as "Spring in the Cowherd", which made the most popular actress drop the price to star in it.

Filming costs are no longer a problem. For Lionsgate Pictures, as long as Zhou Shaoming wants to make a movie, they have to keep up with it. This phenomenal director who is extremely popular in the United States and attracts thousands of people's attention is no longer able to shoot his first movie.

Just like the movie, I am running on the road of asking others to invest with great difficulty.

What's more, the market prospect of this movie is huge, and everyone knows that there are countless companies and brands out there with checkbooks, willing to spend millions of dollars just to have their own movies appear in Zhou Shaoming's movie.

For products, Zhou Shaoming is not short of money at all.

Zhou Shaoming is still waiting. He is waiting for Mira to give him an answer. If she is determined not to accept those conditions, it will not be too late to find Angelina.

Hey, I didn’t expect that this Hollywood actress, who is so popular all over the world, would actually become his backup. This feeling is really...

However, Mira did not contact Zhou Shaoming for one or two days.

While waiting, Zhou Shaoming continued to think deeply about what should be paid attention to in the new version of "Resident Evil".

Different from the previous time when he thought about the theme and content of the film, this time Zhou Shaoming focused on the specific shooting aspects.

A's great success made him comfortable with thrillers and horror films. Although "Bionic" is a science fiction movie, this is not a problem for Zhou Shaoming, who is known as the "father of electronic movies".

Zhou Shaoming fell into deep thought after writing down several important components of the movie including makeup, special effects, visual effects, actors, and publicity methods in the notebook.

At present, the most important role of an actor is to find the heroine. She is the soul that makes this movie unique. The other actors are just supporting roles. Just let Jon from Lionsgate arrange other roles in the movie. Zhou Shaoming

As I was thinking about it, I wrote down the information about the actors in the original version of "Bionics" in my mind on paper one by one.

The less-famous supporting actors in the original version performed quite well. It would be enough to recruit them and give them special physical training. If some of them are filming other scenes, just find a few people with decent acting skills to replace them.

The supporting characters in "Resident Evil" are not like other movies. The success of their portrayal only adds to the overall level of the movie, rather than providing help in times of need.

Zhou Shaoming thought for a while, and then wrote the words "not urgent, important" in the column for actors.

If Mira refuses to agree to enter the dreamland, then we can only find other actors, or directly use new actors. Even if she is unknown, Zhou Shaoming is confident to make her a real "sexy baby among the zombies"

Zhou Shaoming reviewed the next item again: makeup.

This is the most important part. Isn’t the success of the “Resident Evil” movie series brought about by those terrifying zombies with extremely strong lens impact on the screen?

That unspeakable sense of horror is the elixir that makes the box office explode!

I had to make the bloody, flesh-riddled, howling zombies on the screen come alive in front of the camera. They were the cornerstone and extremely critical to the success of the entire movie.

Just think about it, if a zombie movie is made up to make people not frightened, thirsty, and dumbfounded, the box office results that want to soar into the sky will only be nothing more than duckweed in the sky. Zhou Shaoming points out.

He took a deep breath from the cigar, and then wrote the words "urgent" and "important" in the makeup column of his notebook.

Let’s look at the shooting special effects (pciaffc). The shooting special effects must be completed during the shooting stage, unlike visual special effects which can be completed on the computer after leaving the studio.

For example, the "Diaowei Ya" in our Chinese martial arts films, which involves hanging people on wires to create flying or floating effects, is a special effect.

If action movies and war movies require a large number of special effects, a special effects coordinator (pciaffdiao) is required to be on standby. If common explosion scenes are part of the special effects, a pyrotechnician (pyo) must perform this task.

Hollywood has a very high degree of specialization in the film industry. Every small branch has people who spend their entire lives understanding and studying it. It is often even possible to encounter fathers and sons working in the same type of work.

In this part, Zhou Shaoming wrote a five-word comment that was not urgent but important. He didn't have to worry about this. Professionals would be responsible for it and achieve the results he wanted.

Visual effect?

Ha, this is the most important thing!

Most film special effects are produced using computers, often called visual effects (uia

&), intended to be distinguished from the special effects on set. Sometimes the visual effects supervisor (ui upuio) supervises the visual effects artist (uiuaff) to jointly create all the computerized visual effects needed for the film.

In recent years, new methods have been emerging to create more exciting special effects. For example, in the past few years, special effects that can capture real-life actions and input them into the computer to create computer-animated characters have been invented. This is called motion capture (

moioi) and other new occupations.

Faced with the four words "visual effects", Zhou Shaoming wrote an urgent and important four-word comment without even thinking about it. As a high-end person who traveled through time more than ten years later, he naturally knows the box office of a film in the future world.

Blockbuster movies, all of which have stunning visual effects, thousands of computer special effects, and countless amounts of money and computer effects, have swept the world, knocking "Titanic" off the world's top box office spot for more than ten years in one fell swoop.

"Avatar", which grossed US$100 million at the global box office, is such an excellent movie with dazzling visual effects that ushered in the 3D era in terms of visual effects.

Although the first part of "Resident Evil" can be better than "Avatar" in terms of the depth of the script and the performances of the actors, facing the industry's production gap of more than ten years, it cannot be done by just waving a checkbook.

Therefore, although Zhou Shaoming wants to compete with Cameron, he still knows that his current self and current computer technology do not have this strength, so he should slowly accumulate experience and wait for the accumulation of experience!

However, "Resident Evil" must be the most visually stunning and sensational blockbuster for adults!

Zhou Shaoming thought hard for a long time and applied several heavy strokes on the visual effects, reminding himself that he must remember it.

Putting this most important thing aside, Zhou Shaoming saw the column of publicity methods.

No matter what type of movie, publicity is the most important part after the movie is completed. The famous saying "The fragrance of wine is not afraid of the depth of the alley" has long been out of fashion in this world. I want to let the audience who have long been confused and disgusted by advertisements understand.

When it comes to promoting your new movie, you must take a unique approach and not follow the usual path.

The cost of publicity is not something that can be done with a few million dollars. Sometimes it is not much different from the money spent on shooting the movie itself. Just like the above-mentioned "Avatar", the shooting cost was .3

100 million U.S. dollars, the publicity cost is as high as 100 million U.S. dollars!

Although Zhou Shaoming is now considered a billionaire, as long as he can achieve the publicity effect, the less money he spends, the better.

Whether it is "Electric Shock" or "Springtime for Cowherds", both are epoch-making publicity methods in the history of film promotion. But this time, we are once again facing the problem of being exposed from the Internet, TV, buses, newspapers, and even toilets all day long.

There are endless advertisements in the Internet and some disgusted audiences. How can we make them a household name, spend as little money as possible, and not arouse their disgust?

Zhou Shaoming took a few more puffs of the cigar. At this time, the stimulation of the tobacco made him rack his brains and his eyes quickly lit up. The four words "urgent" and "important" were marked on the promotional method.

Who said that publicity has to wait until the movie is finished? This time Zhou Shaoming decided to start super-intensive and large-scale publicity before the movie was even written. However, this still requires a lot of help from Lionsgate Pictures.

OK.

After sorting it out, Zhou Shaoming arranged all the minor items from one to three. The first is the publicity method that is easy to complete, the second is the visual effects, then the makeup and special effects, and the last is the actors.

OK, you're done, just follow this plan and complete it step by step! Zhou Shaoming, who was so excited, quickly pinched off his cigar, took the plan and ran out in a hurry.

At Lionsgate Film Company, Jon's new secretary Vivian was holding a makeup mirror and constantly tracing her slender eyebrows. Then she put down her eyebrow pencil and took out a red lip gloss to paint her delicate lips with a bright color.

I put on some more foundation, looked around, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Vivian, you are so beautifully dressed, are you still waiting for that great director?" A black-haired girl holding a coffee cup appeared, looking at the radiant Vivian with heavy makeup, and said jokingly.
Chapter completed!