Chapter 234 Audition Acquaintance
Chapter 234 Audition Acquaintance
The night after leaving Keita Miyamoto's house, Wang Hao felt like he was floating in the clouds, soaking in the hot spring, and enjoying the feeling of an emperor several times.
I have to say that the young Daddario had a really great figure.
Especially the two headlights, which were incredibly bright and hard to put down. Even the next day, Wang Hao couldn't help but reminisce about them when he had free time.
But as a man who is determined to develop Chinese films, he will not indulge in the gentleness of a woman.
This time in Hollywood, in addition to busying himself with the early preparations for "Taken", he still had a lot of things to do.
For example, the North American premiere of "Source Code" requires him, the director, to appear.
After the movie was released in North America, although the premiere screens were only more than 700 around Los Angeles, it still achieved good results.
In just the first three days of its release, Source Code grossed over 3 million in North America.
However, as the number of screens increased in the second week, the box office growth began to stabilize, and even declined slightly.
Obviously, "Source Code", which stars all Asian actors, is still somewhat lacking in the North American market. Even with the support of the [Galaxy Cinematic Universe], if Galaxy Pictures wants to extend its reach to North America, it will probably need to cultivate local audiences.
So starting from the third week, Wang Hao immediately changed his strategy and took the initiative to give up profits in order to increase the share of the distributor Columbia and the theaters in exchange for more screenings of "Source Code" in North America.
In addition, he also used the power of Columbia to bribe some navy and media reporters, and focused the publicity of "Source Code" on the bronze sacred tree at the end of the story, linking it to the Sanxingdui bronze sacred tree in China's Shu capital.
Perhaps it is because the country was founded too recently, or perhaps it is because the creations of the ancient Chinese civilization are indeed full of mysterious magic.
Anyway, this method is really effective. There are video clips about the Chinese sacred tree and clips from "Source Code" on the Internet, which have set off a wave of enthusiasm about ancient alien civilizations.
As a result, "The Three-Body Problem: Past Events on Earth", which is currently being sold overseas, is also a big hit and has topped the list of best-selling novels in North America.
With this combination of punches, the overseas box office of "Source Code" finally recovered in its third week.
However, after the fifth week, the publicity momentum wore off and the box office performance of "Source Code" began to decline uncontrollably, and theaters had to start reducing the number of screens.
In the end, this science fiction film from China ended its North American journey with a box office of 6300 million US dollars.
This result is not very good, but it is not too bad either.
After all, the entire production cost of "Source Code", even if all the costs are calculated, is only more than 5 million US dollars.
With this amount of investment, achieving this box office result in North America is already very impressive.
While "Source Code" was not very popular in North America, in China, thousands of miles away, this movie was killing it all and conquering cities along the way.
As the first Chinese film to break the 3 million box office, the emergence of "Source Code" is epoch-making.
In particular, this movie is different from the previous costume blockbusters shot by Zhang Guoshi, Feng Dapao, and Chen Shishi.
In the movie "Source Code", the big city scenery of Shanghai, the grandeur of the Hongqiao transportation hub, and the convenience and modernity of the high-speed rail all allow the audience to truly feel the development and progress of the motherland.
Because of this, the Ministry of Railways even specially edited the long opening shot of "Source Code" and made it into a promotional advertisement, which was played repeatedly on every train.
Not only that, it is said that after watching this movie, a certain senior leader privately told people that science fiction films like this that can reflect the achievements of China's social opening-up and economic development should not only be made more, but also be made well.
Combined with the box office success of the movie "Source Code", many film and television companies have already set their sights on Wang Hao's "Galaxy Cinematic Universe" plan at the Shanghai International Film Festival.
But when Mr. Han Sanye from Huaying started calling Wang Hao, his reply was just "I will return to China next week".
As for whether Wang Hao can "return to China next week", who knows. After all, he has said this to countless people. Anyway, whenever someone asks, he always says "return to China next week, we'll talk about it then".
So what is Wang Hao busy with at this moment?
It was nothing, really. It was just an audition for Taken.
After all, as the director of this film, he has to be in charge of the actors.
Regarding the main cast of Taken, not too much can be said, but not too little either.
In addition to Liam Neeson as the male protagonist, there are also his daughter, ex-wife, relevant government officials and the villains in the story.
There are quite a few actors to choose from in Hollywood for these supporting roles, and they are inexpensive and very useful.
The only problem is that they are not very famous, but this is normal, after all, Wang Hao did not offer much for the actors.
But there was an exception. Wang Hao saw an acquaintance among those auditioning for supporting roles.
"Hello, director, hello, producer. My name is Liu Yifei, and I'm an actress from China. This time I'm auditioning for the role of daughter Louise."
Wang Hao was very surprised when he saw Liu Yifei standing in front of him and introducing herself in fluent English. After all, he didn't expect to see this girl here.
But after thinking about it, Wang Hao realized that there was nothing strange about it.
After all, his version of "Taken" is a spin-off of "Warriors", and Brian, played by Liam Neeson, is a retired special forces member of the Hong Kong Police Department.
Therefore, it is not surprising that Liam Neeson, who lives in Hong Kong, has a stepdaughter of Chinese descent.
In North American Hollywood, young Chinese actresses are rare, and there were not many actors who auditioned for this role.
In addition, Wang Hao remembered that last year or the year before last, Liu Yifei signed a contract with Sony Music Entertainment, and even went to Japan to study music for a long time when she was at the peak of her fame as a singing and dancing singer.
Regarding this incident, many of her fans in later generations said that she made a bad move and wasted her time and fame.
Wang Hao didn't have any opinion on this, but she thought that it was because of the relationship with Sony, and the fact that they were both Chinese, that she was specially recommended to audition for this role.
As for Liu Yifei, she was also surprised when she saw Wang Hao sitting in the judges' seat in front.
For this audition, she only received news from Sony and learned about a film project called "Taken", and had a general understanding of the role she was going to audition for. She actually had no idea about the actual situation of the film or who the director was.
Now that she saw Wang Hao and then saw the identity card in front of him, she realized that this senior who she had met several times in school was actually the director of this Hollywood movie!
And judging from the attitudes of the other people towards Wang Hao, his status might even be quite high.
However, the audition would not be paused because of Liu Yifei's surprise. She could only suppress her surprise and astonishment and start performing the audition as required.
Wang Hao also saw Liu Yifei's performance. As for this girl's acting skills, Wang Hao could only say that it was just okay. The only problem might be that her line delivery was a little bit poor.
It is obvious that this girl really didn't learn anything when she was studying at the Beijing Film Academy.
However, the daughter does not have many scenes in "Taken", but considering that Liu Yifei was recommended by Sony Pictures, she is more than qualified to play this role.
So soon, they sent Liu Yifei away and put a check mark on her acting resume.
If there is no more suitable actor in the future, then the role will belong to her.
(End of this chapter)