Heads Up Hollywood

Chapter 646 The Remnant Soldiers and the Defeated Generals Survive Each Other

The third season of the popular American drama "Six Feet Under" has been aired on Starz TV.

Sunday, August 24th.

Another new American drama will land on Starz TV station.

The first TV series of Marvel Pictures, another derivative of the dark Marvel series - "The Punisher"!

The United States at this time is a special atmosphere.

The shadow of the 9.11 incident is still hanging over, and the situation of the Iraq war is very tragic. Justice and law seem to have little effect in the international situation.

At this time, the anti-hero "Punisher" who only sticks to the justice in his heart and regards the law as dung appears.

In addition, in the past three months, "Daredevil: Beginning of War" paved the way for the word-of-mouth of the "Dark Marvel" series, and "The Punisher" immediately became the most watched TV show in the United States!

Of course, the main reason is that the summer vacation has passed.

Audiences can shift more energy from the film market to the TV market.

Tang En received the latest news that the number of subscribers of STA TV network has exceeded 16 million!

Since signing operating contracts with many TV operators and renewing the contract with Comcast, the number of users of STA TV network has grown rapidly. In the past 4 months, the number of subscribers has increased by 2.3 million!

The rally is gratifying, and it's still going on!

As the summer season is coming to an end, the box office rankings of the major movies in the summer season are also released (unreleased, growing)——

First place, Pixar's cartoon "Finding Nemo", with a North American box office of 330 million US dollars, an overseas box office of 560 million US dollars, and a global box office of 890 million US dollars;

The second place is Warner Bros.' science fiction film "The Matrix 2", with a North American box office of 280 million US dollars, an overseas box office of 440 million US dollars, and a global box office of 720 million US dollars;

The third place is Universal Pictures' comedy "Fake God", with a North American box office of 230 million US dollars, an overseas box office of 220 million US dollars, and a global box office of 450 million US dollars;

The fourth place is Warner's "Terminator 3", with a box office of 420 million US dollars; the fifth place is 20th Century Fox's "X-Men 2", with a box office of 400 million US dollars; the sixth place is Warner's movie ——The restarted "Batman" has a box office of 380 million US dollars.

Marvel Studios' "Daredevil" grossed $360 million, Down Pictures' "National Treasure" grossed $350 million, Sillywood Animation's "The Adventures of Bone Treasure" grossed $260 million, Universal Pictures' "Speed and Passion" grossed $240 million.

These four films are ranked seven to ten.

From this, it can be seen that Tang En has a monopoly on the summer vacation.

Among the top ten box office lists, there are six movies under New Universal!

This is not counting "Gone Girl," which was released in April and has already grossed more than $500 million worldwide.

Compared with these hugely successful films, many high-profile films have suffered serious failures, such as the two films that were once called the rise of women's rights by feminists——"Charlie's Angels 2" and Tomb Raider 2.

Of course, there is an even worse movie-"Bad Boys 2" produced by Sony, with a production cost of 130 million U.S. dollars and a publicity cost of 70 million U.S. dollars!

The film was released on the same day as Warner Bros.' "Batman," and it turned out to be a hit at the box office.

In the 6 weeks since its release, the box office of "Batman" has reached 380 million U.S. dollars, and "Jedi Men 2" barely reached 1.4 U.S. dollars!

Among them, the overseas market contributed 87 million US dollars, and the domestic market only contributed more than 50 million US dollars at the box office.

What a shame!

There is no doubt that after this incident, Sony Pictures will face a big change.

John Carley, the chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures, who had been having a feud with Tang En, was not far from stepping down.

Before him, it was Jerry Bruckheimer who got out earlier.

After being abandoned by Disney, Sony Pictures also ended its cooperation with Jerry Bruckheimer Film Production Company.

Jerry Bruckheimer was not discouraged either, he turned around and signed with Paramount.

Under the strong pressure of New Universal and Disney, Paramount can only search for some remnants of defeated soldiers to replenish their strength.

After all, the TV show "Crime Scene Investigation" produced by Jerry Bruckheimer is the trump card of CBS. Breakthrough", "Bachelor" and other programs.

After this battle, Tang En's three enemies, Jerry Bruckheimer, Michael Bay, and Bruce Willis, all fell into the cliff, looking for new backers one after another in an attempt to save their lives.

Jerry Bruckheimer found Paramount, he was already too busy to take care of Michael Bay's little brother.

Michael Bay also had some tricks and directly joined DreamWorks!

The life of DreamWorks is worse than that of Paramount!

In order to operate, he has repeatedly placed big bets.

Even John Wu, who failed miserably in "Wind Talker" and was abandoned by the entire Hollywood, DreamWorks dared to take over the past and continued to entrust him with the important task of shooting an action film "Memory Rift".

What's more, Michael Bay, an American?

Worst of all was Bruce Willis.

He should stop making mainstream movies, go to the B-grade film market and try the waters.

The remnant soldiers and defeated generals each seek to survive.

...

Tang En's filming of "The Departed Walker" has come to an end.

According to the current shooting progress, by September, Twain's role can be finished and he can return to Los Angeles.

The next scene is very important.

It is the ultimate confrontation between "Colin Sullivan" and "Frank Castro", the gangster, and Dunn and Al Pacino.

This series of scenes is an important turning point in the whole film. With this part of the content, Tang En has many ideas of "correcting evil and returning to righteousness".

Before filming started, Al Pacino rested in the car as usual.

He is an experienced actor, it is difficult to enter the play, and it is even more difficult to appear in the play, and it often takes a long time to prepare.

Not only experiential, methodological and expressive actors, but also need to be fully prepared for entering the play.

Russell Crowe, for example, needs to be quiet;

For example, Tom Hanks not only needs to be quiet, but also needs an independent closed small space;

Actresses are usually better. Nicole and Nat usually only need to take a few deep breaths and concentrate.

"Lighting OK!"

"Photography OK!"

"Sound OK!"

"Okay, Action!"

This scene was shot by hand, and through the slightly trembling camera sense, the nervousness of the characters in the play is shown at this time, and the death of a generation of Irish black bosses is recorded from the perspective of a documentary.

Create a feeling of desolation.

Generally speaking, such crucial shots are shot by the director himself with the camera in hand.

But Martin Scorsese is too old to carry a camera.

This scene was in charge of the photographer Michael Bauhaus, who stood two meters away with the camera on his shoulders.

In the center of the picture, the black boss Al Pacino, who was stabbed in the abdomen, faltered and pale, was frozen.

As for Tang En's shots... I won't shoot them for now.

After Al Pacino's shot is finished, the focus of the camera will be on Twain.

Then take these several strips of film, find the best picture shot, and edit them in post-production.

Although, for this shoot, Tang En will not be in the shot.

However, he had to put his heart and soul into it.

A good performance does not come from the show, but from it.

Only when Twain's condition is better can Al Pacino, who plays the role, be inspired to perform at his best.

It is this seemingly useless extra work that has given birth to so many great performances in history.

For example, when Sean Penn was filming the movie "I Am Sam", there was a scene where he had to play against 6-year-old Dakota Fanning outside the swimming pool.

In that group of scenes, Sean Penn will not appear on the screen, and his shots have already been filmed. The main thing is to keep shooting the little girl Dakota Fanning until a satisfactory performance is achieved.

However, in order to let her enter the state, create a real feeling, and take satisfactory shots, Sean Penn, as a top actor, jumped into the icy pool over and over again in that winter, and then climbed out over and over again, Play with her over and over again.

until the director is satisfied.

This kind of professionalism gave birth to great actors.

Twain's status is very high, but performance is performance, he will not push himself, he will go all out.

In an abandoned factory, Tang En walked over from the forklift with his mobile phone held high.

Al Pacino couldn't stand still. Looking at him, he asked staggeringly, "What's going on?"

Tang En looked angry, and asked in a cold voice: "You are an FBI informant, are you fucking kidding me?"

Al Pacino spat out a mouthful of blood, narrowed his eyes, "Be more mature!"

Tang En's attitude weakened, and he asked urgently: "Do they know my identity?"

Al Pacino said with a self-mockery: "I've never betrayed anyone, unless that person is about to be caught. You...no one knows!"

Tang En was still very worried, walked over with a concerned face, supported him, and said softly: "Frank, Frank, do they know about me?"

Al Pacino covered the gunshot wound in his abdomen and said with a painful face: "Only I know about you, Colin, you know that I will never betray you, you are like..."

"Like your son?"

This time, Tang En had a solid foundation in his mind.

As long as the FBI doesn't know his identity, he can launder the black and white!

His heart rose immediately, and his expression was excited. Facing Al Pacino, he no longer had the respect and respect he had in the past, and his words were sarcasm, rather indifferent, "That's all you need to do, hehe, murder, After messing around for a lifetime, I don't even have a son."

Al Pacino was furious and raised his hand to shoot.

However, as an outstanding graduate of the police academy and an elite detective of the police station, how could Tang En give him a chance?

Hastily raised his waist, raised his hand and launched a counterattack.

"Bang bang!"

Shoot twice!

All hit Al Pacino in the chest.

But he didn't expect that the black boss would not give up when he was about to die. After he fell down, he raised his gun again and fired a shot.

Fortunately, it missed.

Tang En cursed frantically a few times, and fired three more shots!

"Bang bang bang!"

Al Pacino's chest was almost corked, bloody.

The black boss who had been in Boston for more than ten years finally fell under Tang En's gun.