Chapter 348 Selection of Four Little Flowers

After deciding to use a 70mm film IMAX camera for the shoot, the two also discussed whether to use 3D or 2D.

After unanimous discussion, Liu Zhou decided to give up 3D shooting.

Although 3D technology is relatively mature now, there are many dark shots at the beginning of "Interstellar". If 3D is used, the picture will be even darker.

More importantly, "Interstellar" is 3 minutes long and is in D. If some viewers watch it for too long, they might get dizzy, which would not be worth it.

Even if Liu Zhou could compress some of the plot, Christopher Nolan's films have always been relatively compact in style, with more echoes between the beginning and the end.

So even if Liu Zhou compresses the film, ten minutes is the limit, otherwise it will definitely affect the quality of the entire film.

This situation may be less common in China. After all, the director is in charge of the film, and editing is generally done according to the director's wishes.

But in Hollywood, the producer-centered system is adopted, the director's power is greatly compressed, and the right to edit the film does not fall into the hands of the director at all.

There are only a handful of people in Hollywood who can get the final editing rights of a film from the production company.

Therefore, there have been many examples in Hollywood where movies failed because the producers forced the directors to shorten the length of the movies.

The most famous one is the costume historical blockbuster "Kingdom of Heaven" produced by 20th Century Fox and directed by the great director Ridley Scott.

This movie suffered the ruthless hand of Fox, which cut the original 192 minutes of the movie into only 144 minutes.

Nearly fifty minutes were missing, which resulted in a serious fragmentation of the plot, making it impossible to watch, and the movie was a complete flop.

Of course, this cannot be blamed on Fox. No other studio would allow a movie to be 192 minutes long.

This is nearly twice the length of a normal movie. Not to mention whether the audience can stay seated, this will result in the number of screenings being half that of others, and the box office losses may be even greater.

However, Fox later released the director's complete 192-minute version on Hulu Video, which is indeed a completely different movie from the one that was released.

This also helped Ridley Scott restore a lot of reputation.

When the Fox edited version was released, Ridley Scott was criticized by critics and audiences, even though he kept saying that it was not his edit.

In fact, it is just that Ridley Scott is more pure and only wants to make movies, so he only holds the position of director.

Shortly after "The Celestial Empire", a 190-minute long movie "King Kong" was released.

Because the director of "King Kong", Peter Jackson, is not only a director, but also a producer. In addition to him, his wife is also a producer.

At the same time, there is a producer who is the screenwriter of the film and also the screenwriter of "The Lord of the Rings" series. This obviously also means that he is on the side of Peter Jackson.

So the producers of the film are all in the same group, which is why Peter Jackson can be so willful and Universal can't do anything about him.

The same goes for Nolan, his wife is a professional producer, otherwise, could "Inception" and "The Dark Knight" have been shot with 70imax?

70mm film IMAX is expensive to shoot and the projection equipment is also expensive. A 120-minute copy alone weighs 800 kilograms and it costs 30 RMB to make one copy. Generally, projectionists need to undergo a month of professional training before they can start projection.

So far, there is no real IMAX movie in the world.

So far, only The Dark Knight has been released to be shot using 70mm film IMAX.

The only three films currently being filmed or waiting to be released are "Inception", "Transformers 2" and "Mission: Impossible 4".

Until Nolan's "Interstellar" was released five years later, only these four films were shot using 70mm film IMAX.

However, the length of IMAX films is not long. Except for Nolan’s two films which are thirty minutes long, the other two are fifteen minutes each.

As for "Avatar", it is digital IMAX, shot with a digital camera and then converted to film IMAX.

"Interstellar" has nearly an hour of IMAX footage. If it is filmed, it will be the best movie with IMAX effects in China, or even in the world, without a doubt.

Unfortunately, there are currently only two IMAX film screens in China, one in the China Science and Technology Museum in Beijing, and the other in the Guangzhou Science Center.

In the following years, an IMAX film screen was built in the China Film Museum in Beijing, the Science and Technology Museum in Shancheng, and the Wanda International Cinema in Dongguan.

These five screens are at least 20 or 10 meters high, which is much better than those digital IMAX screens that are just over meters or even more than meters high. The audience's viewing experience is also much better.

Unfortunately, the three IMAX film screens at the back were later replaced with digital IMAX screens, leaving only the original two.

Liu Zhou wondered if he could ask Golden Harvest Cinemas to build an IMAX film screen in one of the screening rooms in the Luxury International Cinema in Shanghai.

However, thinking that there would be very few IMAX movies released in the future, and even if it was built, it would just be left there gathering dust, and the cost of construction and maintenance would be high, I finally gave up the idea.

Liu Zhou and Wang Xuan discussed the filming of "Interstellar" for a whole day.

However, the effect is still very significant. At least it solved Liu Zhou's troubles. He can also start to further refine the script and make a storyboard script.

By the end of March, after spending more than ten days, Liu Zhou finally completed the script of "Interstellar".

Looking at the thick stack of manuscripts in front of him, Liu Zhou breathed a sigh of relief. Finishing the script was like putting his mind at ease.

Once Han Shanping finishes filming "The Founding of a Republic" and returns, we can officially start preparing for this movie.

The next day, Liu Zhou came to Jiahe headquarters.

In the past three or four months, Liu Zhou has been staying at Jiahe. He didn't come here until recently because he was busy writing scripts.

However, most of Jiahe’s work has already been arranged, and someone is watching over each piece.

So even though he hasn't been here these few days, there aren't many things that Liu Zhou needs to deal with.

After processing some documents, Liu Zhou also prepared to take a look at the latest newspapers.

In his previous life, Liu Zhou did not read newspapers, but in this life, Liu Zhou is not only a director, but also owns several companies.

So Liu Zhou gradually developed the habit of watching TV news and reading newspapers.

After all, as a boss, no matter what, you need to understand the changes in the domestic and international situation and the relevant policy trends.

However, nothing major has happened since the beginning of this year. Everything that was supposed to happen happened last year, including the Olympics, Paralympics, Asian Games, and the Shenzhou VII launch.

If it weren't for two natural disasters that occur rarely in decades, last year would have been a very prosperous year for China.

However, there was one thing that caused some waves in the country. The Statistics Bureau revised the GDP in 07, officially surpassing Germany to become the world's third largest economy.

But what will be even more sensational this time next year is that China's GDP will officially exceed that of the United States, becoming the second largest economy.

I don’t know how many public intellectuals have been slapped in the face by this.

Apart from domestic events, there were no major events abroad. The only thing worth mentioning was that the Polar Bear Emperor ended his eight-year term and became the second-in-command.

His resignation is seen by the outside world as the beginning of a new era for polar bears.

However, more than ten years later, people discovered that it was still the same man sitting there.
After reading social news, Liu Zhou also reads entertainment news.

The popularity of Golden Harvest's film list has dropped a lot at present. After all, the entertainment industry is the one that has no shortage of news, and it is impossible for everyone to keep paying attention to one thing all the time.

However, Liu Zhou couldn't help but frown when he saw the news about a charity dinner.

Since the second half of last year, charity dinners have been popping up one after another in the entertainment industry, all of them under the guise of disaster relief.

It's really just for hype, they don't care about their reputation at all.

Liu Zhou also specifically told his artists that unless it was a formal charity dinner organized by the government, they would not participate in any event organized by other individuals or organizations.

When disasters occurred before, Liu Zhou, including several of his companies and artists, donated money and supplies at the first opportunity, and their donations were real and no matter how the outside world found fault with them, they could not be blamed.

On the contrary, some people who attend charity dinners every day may not donate a penny.

In addition to this, there is another highly anticipated event in the entertainment industry, that is, Penguin will join forces with hundreds of media to re-select the "Four Little Flowers".

The scale of this event was much more grand than when Southern Weekend selected the four major actresses. Even CCTV participated this time.

But it's of no use, because the influence of the four little beauties from the first and subsequent sessions cannot be compared with that of the four big beauties.

But other people don’t know this, so the companies behind the young actresses who are a little famous are working hard on publicity and public relations.

Regardless of whether you can be selected or not, it’s good to get some popularity.

However, while several other companies adopted various methods, Golden Harvest remained unmoved.

After all, Liu Yifei is undoubtedly the most famous. Looking at the female stars of all ages across the country, there are few who are more famous than her. Among those of the same age group, her popularity is far ahead.

Therefore, there is no need for Golden Harvest to take any action, she will definitely be on the list, otherwise the selection of the four young beauties without Liu Yifei will definitely be questioned.

Apart from Liu Yifei, the most popular one is Huang Shengyi. "Kung Fu" made her famous, and she has appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage for two consecutive years, and even got a role in "Founding of a Republic".

Next is Wang Luoxuan, who starred in the popular TV series "Struggle" and "Who's in Charge of My Youth".

Yang Mi, who starred in "Dream of Red Mansions", "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" and "The Martian".

Popular female stars born in the 80s, such as Li Xiaolu and Sun Li, have also been included in the candidates.

Yang Mi may be slightly inferior to these people, but after "Chinese Paladin 3" was broadcast on satellite TV in the middle of the year, she overtook others and was successfully elected.

As April begins, Liu Zhou, who had a few days of leisure, becomes busy again.

Liu Zhou first flew to Hollywood, as "Twilight", which had been postponed for nearly half a year, was finally going to be released.

(End of this chapter)