Chapter 288 We also want to make a 3D movie

Chapter 288 We also want to make a 3D movie

Chapter 288 We also want to make a 3D movie
The expansion of the company and the business sphere means that Wang Hao, the founder of Galaxy Group, has endless work and documents to sign every day.

Even the acquisition of Zhouyi Film and Television, and contact with LeTV to test the Internet video market, is just a small thing in Wang Hao's busy daily affairs.

The design institute has already drawn up the blueprints for the Galaxy Group’s new office building, and Wang Hao still has to hold meetings with the heads of other departments of the group to discuss how to meet everyone’s various needs for the new home.

In addition, Wanda has also purchased the land next to the company's new headquarters. Regarding the construction of a new employee community, Wang Hao has to discuss it with Wanda on the one hand, and on the other hand, he has to treat it as a benefit and discuss a suitable distribution procedure.

It is impossible for the company to directly allocate houses to all employees, which is unrealistic. The most it can do is negotiate with Wanda to lower the housing prices, and then sign contracts with the employees to provide them with housing purchase quotas and low-interest loans.

As for others, just recently, the iQiyi video website, which received an initial investment of US$5000 million from Baidu, was officially launched.

This is also the first time that a major Internet company has entered the video website sector, which also makes Wang Hao somewhat excited.

He has not promised LeTV that it must cooperate with the other party. The formal contract has not yet been signed. Now that there is a new option, it may not be a bad idea for people to contact them and wait and see.

Anyway, in addition to the "Galaxy Cinematic Universe", he has a lot of other movie and TV series copyrights in stock, so he doesn't have to worry about selling them.

Moreover, given his relationship with Moying, Huayi and Huaying, if they really were to join forces, they would almost occupy half of the domestic film and television industry, and would be able to negotiate with any video website.

However, the big Internet companies have not yet entered the market, and these video websites will have a long period of burning money in the future. They do not have sufficient funds, so it is a bit premature to use big moves at this time.

Just when Wang Hao was busy with company affairs and the post-production of "Wolf Warrior", "Avatar", which was rampaging in the Chinese film market, continued to make great strides, breaking one mainland Chinese film box office record after another.

The box office for the midnight show on January 1 alone was approximately 4 million yuan, and the box office on the first day reached 400 million yuan, both of which set records in domestic film history.

Then, the box office in the first week reached 2.7 million yuan, breaking the mainland single-week and first-week box office records of "Transformers 2" of 1.6 million yuan, and it was also the best first-week performance of the film in all overseas markets.

Just 12 days after its release, it broke the mainland box office record of 2012 million yuan set by "4.6".

Then, 20 days after the film was released, the mainland box office maintained a slight decline for three consecutive weeks, directly exceeding 7 million Chinese yuan.

At the same time, "Avatar"'s box office in North America increased to US$5.517 million, and its overseas box office was US$12.92 billion.

At this point, it only took 6 weeks for James Cameron to prove himself as the "King of the World" again.

He set the box office record with "Titanic" 12 years ago, and now he has surpassed himself again with "Avatar", topping the global film history record with a score of 18.437 billion US dollars, becoming the new box office king.

Such outstanding results have made the entire Chinese film and television industry speechless.

Some of them saw the gap between China and the United States in the film and television industry, were hit hard by the strength of the other side, and started to give up completely.

Some people have also developed a fighting spirit and made bold statements, saying that they want to compete with "Avatar".

For example, Hu Mei, the director of the historical blockbuster "Confucius" which was just released, made a bold statement in an interview that she wanted to compete with Cameron's "Avatar" at the box office.

A certain department also gave strong support to this, asking the theaters to take care of it in scheduling the films. With the participation of stars such as Chow Yun-fat, it does look like the real deal.

But after this movie is released, it will ultimately depend on the performance.

After "Confucius" was released on January 1, the box office was only 22 million yuan in the first weekend. It was not until the second week that it "bucked the trend" and the box office exceeded 2800 million yuan. It was not until the third week that the movie's box office officially exceeded 7000 million yuan.

Compared with the cost, this result is definitely a huge loss.

So after three weeks, the relevant parties no longer invested any more energy in this film.

As for "Avatar", after defeating "Confucius", although it still encountered some resistance in China, the box office continued to rise rapidly. In the end, it still earned 14.28 billion yuan in the mainland box office, becoming the number one in the history of Chinese mainland films.

At the same time, it also raked in 27.54 billion US dollars in box office worldwide, becoming the new number one in global film history.

After this result and the domestic box office results came out, Wang Hao received an invitation from Han Sanye and went to Huaying.

Then in the other party's office, Mr. Han San asked several questions in a row as soon as they met.

"How is the post-production of Wolf Warrior going? Can it be released this year?"

“Do you have confidence in Wolf Warrior?”

"Does Galaxy Pictures and Wang Hao have any plans to make a 3D science fiction special effects blockbuster?"

Obviously, these questions were asked not only by Mr. Han Sanye, but also by the bigwigs above him.

The sudden emergence of "Avatar" caused a huge shock to those bigwigs.

It turns out that movies can still be made like this!

It turns out that the gap between them and the United States is so big!
In response to these inquiries, Wang Hao also gave clear answers.

"According to the current work progress, the post-production of Wolf Warrior is expected to be completed around June.

If all parties can cooperate and facilitate the film in the subsequent review and publicity, I think it should not be a problem for the film to be released during the National Day holiday in October.

As for the quality of "Wolf Warrior", Wang Hao is very confident and believes that it will achieve good box office results. This movie may even become a new benchmark for Chinese science fiction films and film industrialization.

But to say it surpasses Avatar is impossible.”

Wang Hao's affirmative words made Han Sanping couldn't help but sigh.

Not to mention the global box office of 27.54 billion US dollars, it is unknown how long it will take for domestic films to break the mainland box office of 14.28 billion.

However, Wang Hao's next words shocked him.

"All of us at Galaxy Pictures have decided that the next big production of the Galaxy Cinematic Universe will be in 3D, and we will also have our own 3D science fiction special effects blockbuster!"

Wang Hao's voice was very crisp, and Han Sanping was very excited.

Sure enough, the future of Chinese films still depends on young directors like Wang Hao. But even though he was excited, he still asked with some concern: "Are you sure?"

Now he and some of the higher-ups have regarded Wang Hao and Galaxy Pictures as the hope for the industrialization of Chinese films and the development of special effects blockbusters. They understand the principle of forcing growth. It would be bad if they blindly embarked on big projects because of pressure and dampened the momentum and aspirations of the young people.

Fortunately, Wang Hao is usually very reliable. Since he has made a decision, it must have been well thought out.

“There is no problem in that regard.”

Wang Hao sat at his desk and explained seriously to Han Sanping.

“First of all, in terms of the [Galaxy Cinematic Universe], Wolf Warrior is the final story of the first phase, and then there are one or two transitional films in between, and then we enter the second phase of the cinematic universe.

As for the first film of this second phase, we need a truly big-budget movie in Hollywood to make a name for the entire movie universe.

At this time, the impact of "Avatar" has not yet subsided. As long as the movie is outstanding, 3D science fiction special effects blockbusters will definitely be able to reap the benefits brought by "Avatar".

If we wait any longer until 3D special effects blockbusters produced by other companies are released, the uneven market will easily cause audiences to be bored.”

"Ah, why?"

Han Sanping was a little confused when he heard this. In his opinion, the effects of "Avatar" were very outstanding, and other 3D movies would probably be very good as well. He didn't expect Wang Hao to say that everyone would be bored with 3D movies.

"Because today's 3D technology still has many problems."

Wang Hao smiled slightly, and then explained:
“Many directors and film and television companies that don’t engage in special effects technology are actually not clear about this aspect.

Based on my personal experience on the spot, and consulting with the team at Sony that specializes in developing 3D photography equipment, 3D technology is actually not that mature nowadays, and it is only a 'pseudo' 3D effect. Without depth of field, it is not a true 3D feeling.

Secondly, the 3D glasses in theaters all use polarized shading, which results in dim light and poor effects. The ideal brightness is less than half of that of 2D, and the actual brightness is estimated to be only one-fifth.

If some directors are not aware of this and lack the ability to control light and rashly implement 3D, many dark scenes will probably look pitch black.

In addition, many directors probably had no plans or preparations in advance, and after seeing the popularity of "Avatar", they hurriedly launched 3D projects, or converted 3D projects that were not suitable for 2D into 3D projects.

It is estimated that there will be a large number of poor quality copycat productions, which will greatly reduce the audience's viewing experience of 3D movies."

Han Sanping really didn't know that there were so many tricks behind a 3D movie.

"Then your new 3D blockbuster..."

"Don't worry about this, Uncle Han."

Looking at Han Sanping who was barely a little worried, Wang Hao said confidently:

“I am different from them. In fact, I have paid attention to the movie Avatar for a long time. James Cameron is a pioneer in film technology. Many of his choices may cause a revolution in film production technology.

So I know a lot about 3D movies, at least more than all the domestic directors, and even more than most Hollywood directors. "

He is not bragging. Compared with others, Wang Hao has one biggest advantage, which is his close relationship with Sony Pictures.

Sony, the company behind Sony Pictures, also made great efforts in the filming and production of "Avatar" and provided a lot of technical support.

Especially in terms of 3D photography, although "Avatar" is said to have been shot with a 3D camera developed by Cameron and his partner Pace, namely the "Pace Fusion 3D digital camera".

But the body of this camera is still composed of two small high-definition digital cameras provided by Sony.

Sony also has first-hand technical information on 3D cameras. Wang Hao also successfully obtained technical support from Sony Pictures by agreeing to allow the company to invest in his new film.

Sony even agreed to continue in-depth research with him on visual effects and 3D shooting. You should know that Sony also used 3D technology when shooting "The Amazing Spider-Man" in the past.

Moreover, the technology they subsequently developed is even further than the 3D technology used by James Cameron in "Avatar". Not only can it shoot 5D movies with 3K resolution, but it can also use 3ality Digital 3D cameras and TS-5 wireless and handheld beam splitter devices. The big-screen 3D effect will be better than "Avatar".

As for the R&D costs of new technologies, Wang Hao and his team only spent a small part of it.

After all, these technologies will be used in Sony's "Spider-Man Cinematic Universe" in the future. As the project chief planner of this movie universe, it is very reasonable for Wang Hao to try out the new technologies in advance and provide usage data feedback to Sony Pictures.

Moreover, Sony Group, the parent company of Sony Pictures, is also mainly engaged in this business. They are good at scientific research on imaging technology.

After Wang Hao's explanation, Han Sanping had a basic understanding of the situation.

At least from what he said, it is enough to show that Wang Hao had thought carefully and prepared in advance for the 3D movie.

This is exactly what Han Sanping admires about Wang Hao. Unlike those older directors, Wang Hao is a man who really gets things done. He plans everything in advance and prepares in advance, instead of just reciting a poem when the time comes.

After learning that Wang Hao was planning to shoot a 3D science fiction special effects blockbuster, Han Sanping felt relieved.

After the release of "Avatar", the leaders above have paid more attention to the domestic film industry.

After all, in China, the film and television industry is sometimes not just a problem for an industry, otherwise why would there be such a thing as "Domestic Film Protection Month"?

However, faced with the conquest of Hollywood films in China, even with the protection month, domestic film directors are still powerless to fight back, which makes the relevant leaders somewhat dissatisfied.

Especially the emergence of "Avatar" has exposed those problems that were previously covered up.

Fortunately, they still have Wang Hao. Han Sanping now regards him and his [Galaxy Cinematic Universe] as the hope of China's film and television industry.

You have to know that he is already 57 years old this year, and he will retire from the position of Chairman of Huaying in three or four years at most.

Being able to personally escort China's first 3D science fiction special effects production before retirement will be the most important event at the end of his career.

(End of this chapter)