Chapter 288: Alliance and Finale

In early March, after more than half a month of filming, the crew of "The Martian" successfully completed the scenes on the surface of Mars.

The entire crew has returned to Beijing. After a day of rest, everyone will go to a large studio in the Beijing Film Studio to shoot the space rescue scene.

This scene is also one of the last two scenes in the movie.

At this time, "Assembly" and "The Warlords", which both received the extension keys, have been taken off the screen.

"Assembly" finally won a box office of 2.8 million yuan, becoming the champion of last year's Lunar New Year box office. It was also the runner-up in the box office of domestic films last year, second only to "Curse of the Golden Flower".

"The Warlords" was released with a box office of 2.38 million yuan. Although it unfortunately lost to "Assembly", it at least earned more than million yuan more than the original time and space.

However, "The Warlords" was not the third place in the ranking of domestic films last year, but only ranked fourth. The third place was "The Blades of the Swordsman 2.6" which was released during the Spring Festival last year and earned 2 million yuan at the box office.

The top three domestic films in 2007 were all related to Golden Harvest. The top one, Curse of the Golden Flower, was half invested by Golden Harvest, and the second and third ones were independently produced by Golden Harvest.

Coupled with the fifth-place "Crazy Stone", the other companies were directly overwhelmed.

According to the rumors Zhang Zhao got, it seems that several companies including Huayi, Bona and Star Media are showing a tendency to unite.

They united not to form an alliance or target anyone, but the pressure from Jiahe was too great.

Golden Harvest directly took away the biggest piece of cake in the film market, which left them with less to eat.

However, Golden Harvest won the cake by producing high-quality works, so even if they were unwilling, they had to hold back.

As for using some other means, they still have some concerns.

Liu Zhou is not someone you can mess with. When the people from Taishan Society dealt with him before, they showed no mercy and fought him head-on.

Although the "Edge of Tomorrow" incident made Liu Zhou more restrained, who knows if he is holding back on any big moves?
So since we can't use any tricks, we can only face Golden Harvest head-on and let our works speak for themselves.

If you want to get a bigger share of the pie, small-scale efforts won't help much. Only big productions can make big money.

However, big productions also carry great risks. They are not as wealthy as Golden Harvest, and they do not have complete channels overseas to fully unleash the profit potential of the films. Even if there are losses, the losses are limited.

That's why they want to join forces, two or more companies work together and share the risks.

Liu Zhou doesn't care much about these situations. As long as everyone competes normally, he welcomes them.

Liu Zhou is even happy to see such a situation. After they see that science fiction films can make money, he hopes that they can work together to produce one or several science fiction films.

The film industry cannot be developed by Liu Zhou alone. Only when major companies and capital in the industry work together can the Chinese film industry be initially established.

There may be some twists and turns along the way, but as long as you don’t give up, you will succeed one day.

Therefore, this first science fiction production is crucial. As long as they can see the profits, they will invest.

So after the crew came back from Dunhuang, while everyone else was resting, Liu Zhou came to the studio to check on the preparations for the filming.

Han Shanping saw Liu Zhou and others coming back. He didn't have time to go to Dunhuang, but it was right next to the capital, so he could still come and take a look.

He was also a little curious about how "The Martian" was filmed, so he went to the studio with Liu Zhou.

When in Dunhuang, Liu Zhou instructed the producer and the assistant director of the crew to prepare some equipment and sets.

He also came over to check it out today, will try it twice tomorrow, and will officially start shooting the day after tomorrow.

Looking at the various equipment, rail cars, and pressure, Han Shanping said in surprise:
"That's quite a lot of equipment. Isn't it just one scene?"

"Although it was just one scene, the special effects team had been preparing for this scene for a long time."

"How to say?"

"In this scene, Zhang Ziyi uses a traction rope to pull Qin Hao back from outer space.

It seems simple, but the actual operation is very cumbersome. In order to achieve a realistic effect, the special effects team combined the data provided by the space agency and simulated the entire process dozens of times.

The characters’ movements at all angles, as well as the angles and distances that may cause them to deviate in space, are all made to be realistic.”

It’s just like those Hollywood blockbusters that calculate the splash that a monster makes when it emerges from the water.

Those splashes of water are not created casually. They also have to go through various simulations to ensure that any drop of water splash is similar to the splash formed by an object of the same shape and mass that is released from the water at the same speed.

"So rigorous? Fortunately, this movie was shot by you, otherwise who in China would understand this?"

"In fact, our mainland directors can learn these things by going to Hollywood."

"I hope so. However, whether they will have the motivation to study in the future depends on whether your movie is a success."

At this time, Han Shanping saw a piece of equipment and asked:

"What is this truss that can rotate 360 ​​degrees used for?"

"Well, during the filming, Qin Hao was tied to this truss, and then there was a track car underneath to control the forward movement."

“Hasn’t this happened in China before?”

"That's right. In China, pressure is usually used to solve the problem. However, pressure is fine for shooting martial arts movies, but Qin Hao is in space, so pressure is difficult to control."

"I see. It seems like I haven't made a movie in a long time. I'm a little behind the times."

Liu Zhou did not respond to Han Shanping's words.

Making movies now requires not only film technology, but also the use of more techniques and technologies, so that the movies can become more and more watchable.

After walking around the studio for more than two hours and making sure that everything was OK, Liu Zhou and Han Shanping left.

On the second day, we adjusted all the equipment and the angles of each camera, and tried shooting several times. On the third day, we officially started shooting, and it took three days to shoot the various tumbling and rescue scenes in space.

The only shot left is the one that pulls Qin Hao back.

Qin Hao was tied to the truss and looked as if he was weightless. Yang Mi in the spacecraft was at the other end of the towing rope, and Zhu Yawen was on the truss.

Zhang Ziyi looked anxiously at Qin Hao who was rolling towards her without any rules.

Getting closer!

The two sides have met!
But we still passed each other!

After several times of passing each other due to various reasons, finally, the two met again, holding hands.

"Welcome back to the team!"

At this time, Qin Hao had thousands of words to say, but they could only be summarized into five words:

"I am back!"

Looking at the close-up of the two people's faces on the monitor, Liu Zhou said with satisfaction:

"Okay, passed!"

The space rescue scene was successfully filmed, and the only scene left was the press conference with the space agency leader.

In order to shoot the last scene, Liu Zhou specially applied for the Media Center.

This place is known as the birthplace of news and is often used as the venue for official press conferences.

The famous diplomatic group on TikTok in later generations often held press conferences here.

Media events related to the upcoming Beijing Olympics will also be held here.

What many people don’t know is that the words above were written by Xu Cainü, yes, the Xu Cainü from the entertainment industry.

She is a marketing talent. In addition to writing on her blog and being a director, she is also praised for her calligraphy.

Media Center is the birthplace of news, and being able to write inscriptions on it further demonstrates Xu Cainü's attainments in calligraphy.

However, the truth is that her father made neon billboards, and the Media Center advertisement was also made by her father's company.

There is nothing wrong with making the billboard by yourself and writing the words for your daughter. There are countless billboards in Beijing that were made by their family.

But many people outside didn’t know this, so it was spread as if it was written by Xu Cainü.

Historically, Founder Group also asked Xu Cainv to make a set of Founder Xu Cainv fonts, which were posted online and required a fee to download, ten yuan per download.

However, in this life, Ms. Xu's influence was not that great, so this incident did not happen.

In order to make the performance of the extras in this scene more realistic, Liu Zhou and Han Shanping used their connections to invite real media reporters.

Moreover, most of them are official media, and they are more experienced in creating atmosphere.

Most media outlets readily accepted the invitation from the crew of "The Martian".

It's for the sake of both of their faces, and at the same time, one can get first-hand information about "The Martian", so why not do it?

After all the reporters arrived, Liu Zhou first thanked them, and then asked the assistant directors of the crew to arrange the positions of the reporters on the scene. He also repeatedly reminded the reporters with cameras of some precautions.

Originally Liu Zhou wanted to add some drama and have some Western reporters stir up some trouble at the press conference, but after thinking about it he decided not to do it, as this would clearly exploit patriotic sentiments.

Patriotic and main-theme films can be made and money can be made from them. This happens all over the world, but other people’s mainstream values ​​may not necessarily be patriotism.

But don't be too deliberate.

In his previous life, what Liu Zhou hated most were those online self-media outlets that incited netizens’ hatred towards foreign countries every day.

So in the end Liu Zhou only kept some footage of foreign media TV stations and newspapers reporting gloatingly after the accident.

There were two press conferences in the movie, one of which was to announce the death of the male lead.

The other is to discover that the person is still alive, announce the good news to the public, and announce to the whole country and the world that every effort will be made to rescue the person.

The protagonist of this play is Li Youbing, whose loud voice is naturally very contagious.

Coupled with his excellent acting skills and the professional extras and atmosphere crew, the filming went more smoothly than expected.

The last camera captured a panoramic view and several close-ups, and some reporters began to tremble slightly with excitement.

Then Li Youbing said loudly with passion and fighting spirit, yet calmly:

"On Mars, hundreds of millions of kilometers away from Earth, our astronauts are waiting alone!

It has been several months since the accident. He has not given up hope in these months. He is waiting for the motherland to take him home. The country will not give up anyone. Here I represent... to bring our space hero back safely! "

Li Youbing's lines are impeccable. They were not shouted out, but they went straight into everyone's hearts.

The performance of the reporters in the audience was also quite perfect, they are all veteran actors.

Liu Zhou checked the footage he had just taken again and found nothing wrong. He stood up and said loudly:

"Okay, it's passed. I declare that The Martian has officially wrapped!"

(End of this chapter)