Chapter 331: Genius Candidate

Because it is a movie about cheating among high school students, the main actors of "Bad Genius" naturally have to be chosen from young people.

Among them, Qin Feng has already confirmed that it is still Bai Jingting.

As for the leading female role, Su Xiaolin, this character has quite a few scenes in the movie, and has certain requirements on acting skills, but not appearance.

So after the audition, the young Li Qin got the opportunity to play this role.

This person is relatively consistent with the requirements of Su Xiaolin in the script. She became well-known to the audience in 2008 for her role as the young "Xue Baochai" in the "New Version of A Dream of Red Mansions". Last year, she also starred in the tribute film "The Founding of a Party" for the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China.

The movie was released not long ago, and it was the successor to "Detective Chinatown". It performed very well. Li Qin became well-known because of this and is considered one of the emerging post-90s actresses.

Of course, even if she is already a little famous, it is not worth mentioning for "Bad Genius".

After all, this is the prequel to "Detective Chinatown", which just grossed 5 million yuan, and is part of the second phase of the "Galaxy Cinematic Universe", and it is still created by the original team including Li Kui.

With these conditions as a foundation, the box office performance of this movie will definitely not be low, and it will be extremely popular in the circle.

Therefore, in that movie audition, the role of the leading actress Su Xiaolin became the focus of competition among many young female artists.

For example, Ma Sichun from the Northwest circle who also has a strong background, Yang Ying, a newcomer from the Hong Kong circle, Zheng Jiang, a young TV star from the Beijing Film Academy, and Zhou Dongyu who is being promoted by Zhang Guoshi, all participated in the audition, and the competition was extremely fierce. Some of them even had connections with Wang Hao.

But in the end, Li Qin was still "one step ahead". The director Li Shaohong behind her officially became the president of the China Directors Association last year, and Wang Hao also joined the Directors Association last year, so he gave Director Li a favor and gave the role of the female lead Su Xiaolin to Li Qin, laying the foundation for the director of "Galaxy" to enter the Directors Association in advance.

Compared to the female lead, the second female lead and the second male lead are not as eye-catching, so these two roles were given to two new actors Guli Nizha and Li Xian who were just signed by Xingdou Culture this year.

When Wang Hao returned to Beijing, the casting for "Go Go Squid!" had already been completed.

As the director of this film, Li Kuicai had just finished the previous stage of work and continued to devote himself to the busy task.

In other words, he has a kind and steady personality. Otherwise, if it were someone else, they would have complained to Wang Hao.

After attending the opening ceremony of "Bad Genius", Wang Hao continued to pay attention to the remaining post-production work of "Inception", and then focused part of his energy on the early preparations for his next new project.

Yes, if Li Kui can be regarded as a workhorse in the entertainment industry as he shoots and produces one movie after another, then Wang Hao's behavior of preparing for the next movie before the previous one is released can be regarded as a destined worker in the Chinese entertainment industry.

This is also why many people are optimistic about Wang Hao and his Galaxy Group.

Because he is really young, young enough to have plenty of energy. He creates films at the rate of one per year, almost without stopping, and supports half of the [Galaxy Cinematic Universe].

Of course, these ideas from the outside world are actually exaggerated to a certain extent.

Wang Hao's strong creative ability is actually due to the "film industrialization system" and the well-functioning production team behind him, which includes all the employees of Galaxy Group's [Film and Television Production Business Group].

From this point of view, the Galaxy Group is truly unique in the whole of China.

Apart from other things, in 2011, Galaxy Entertainment Group started working on four big productions at the same time, namely, Inception, Taken 2, Limitless and Bad Genius.

Among these, although only Inception and Bad Genius are fully controlled by Galaxy Group's [Film and Television Production Business Group], and the other two also involve the participation of Hollywood production teams, the fact that these four blockbusters can be started and produced simultaneously is enough to prove the strength of Galaxy Group's production capabilities.

It is precisely because of the hard work of these employees in the [Film and Television Production Business Group] and their conscientious completion of the assigned tasks that Wang Hao can complete each film quickly and with high quality by just focusing on the key points.

For example, the script of his next movie, "Gravity", has been completed in its final version with the joint efforts of more than ten people in the screenwriter department, as well as the help of relevant aerospace experts and professors. It has also been successfully recognized by the Space Administration and passed the review of the Radio, Film and Television Administration.

It is even said that the script has been jointly submitted by the Space Administration and the Cultural Propaganda Department. If everything goes well, it may become a national key cultural project next year and enjoy a series of special care.

After the script is completed, the related dynamic storyboards, production plans, project plans, film cost budgets and contacts with relevant units, companies and location governments are all handled by specialized companies and departments in the [Film and Television Production Business Group].

It's just like a construction project. The [Film and Television Production Business Group] of Galaxy Group breaks down a large project into countless sub-projects, then subcontracts them out and then coordinates them together.

This greatly saves Wang Hao's energy. For many things, he only needs to review them or make the final decision.

This is the case with the project "Gravity". Wang Hao watched the entire preliminary work of the project being pushed forward in an orderly manner according to his own requirements, and he was very satisfied.

It is in this satisfaction that domestic films are facing a huge challenge.

On July 2011, 07, Transformers 21, a Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster adapted from a famous animation IP, finally hit major theaters in China.

As a standard popcorn movie, "Transformers 3" is still the same as the previous two series. Although there are many flaws in the story plot, it still fully demonstrates the powerful film industrialization strength of Hollywood.

At least when the audience sits in the cinema, wearing 3D glasses and watching the huge robots bombarding the city, the movie ticket is worth it.

It is also because of this that, although the word of mouth was not as good as expected, it still could not stop the box office explosion of "Transformers 3" in China.

According to information obtained by Galaxy Group, after breaking the midnight, first-day and single-day box office records with a box office of 21 million yuan on the day of its release on the 9600st, the box office of "Transformers 3" in its first four days has reached nearly 4 million yuan.

One hundred million a day, this figure far exceeds the highest record of 2.8 million in the first seven days of "Avatar".

"Transformers 3" was sold out every time, and its box office momentum was unstoppable afterwards. The number of screenings in major cinemas across the country also increased significantly. According to incomplete statistics, the number of screenings in Beijing alone exceeded 1500 in five days, and the number of screenings in 15 major cities across the country also occupied about 70% of the theaters for five consecutive days.

This also led to a wailing of the films released in the same period, for example, "Wu Xia" had only five or six screenings a day, "Far Cry" and "The Piano in a Factory" had only four or five screenings a day, and other films were even harder to find.

Under such circumstances, Transformers 3 also took the lead and finally won a high box office of 10.93 billion in China, becoming the champion of the Chinese movie box office rankings in 2011, and opened a huge gap with several other Chinese movies. Such results fully demonstrated that the Chinese film market is booming and the terminal market is extremely eager for super blockbusters, and also dealt a heavy blow to many filmmakers in the Chinese film industry.

You should know that last year the Hollywood movie "Avatar" was the champion of the domestic movie box office rankings, and now the Hollywood movie "Transformers 3" has won the championship in the Chinese market.

Being defeated by foreigners in their own turf, how embarrassing it must have been for the filmmakers and the relevant leaders above.

The only thing that can give them some comfort is that compared to the epoch-making "Avatar", at least "Transformers 3" still has many flaws and is not so unattainable.

Moreover, the year is only halfway through, and there are still several big productions by big directors waiting to be released in the second half of the year.

For example, Xu Ke's "Flying Daggers of Dragon Gate", which is also the world's first 3D martial arts movie, started shooting a few months earlier than Wang Hao's "Inception". It is also the sequel to "Dragon Gate Inn". The cast includes big names such as Li Lianjie, Zhou Xun, and Chen Kun.

There is also Zhang Guoshi's "The Flowers of War". It is said that the war scenes cost a lot of money, and it stars Hollywood superstar Christian Bale. The cast is as luxurious as "Dragon Inn" and "Inception".

But even though these two movies are directed by big directors, produced by big casts, the industry still lacks confidence as to whether they can surpass "Transformers 3".

After all, that's a box office of 10 billion. In the domestic film market, there are only three movies that have truly broken the 10 billion box office. In addition to this one, there are last year's "Avatar" and "Wolf Warrior".

Therefore, compared to Xu Ke and Zhang Guoshi, the leaders of the Film Bureau placed more hopes on Wang Hao.

After all, he has proven his ability through one movie after another, and "Inception" has the potential to be a big hit both in terms of the actors' plastic surgery and the type of film.

So in early August, Han Sanye from Huaying officially informed him of the good news, that is, the film "Gravity" for which he had applied for approval had been officially identified as a key cultural, scientific and educational project.

Although this is just a title and the related financial help is not much, but with this tomorrow, it means that when filming "Gravity" in the future, many special locations can be used by the crew to shoot on site.

Even with this title, many official figures who were originally not allowed to appear in the movie can also show up in it.

In addition to "Gravity" being identified as a key project, his "Inception" also broke through the shackles of co-productions and entered this year's key works copyright protection warning list.

Don't underestimate this list. It is an activity organized by the Propaganda Department of the Film Bureau in conjunction with other departments. It is usually carried out during popular schedules to crack down on illegal and criminal activities such as the piracy and distribution of cinema films.

For those works that are included in the protection list, relevant departments will include them in key monitoring and will strictly require various Internet service providers such as those providing content, storage, search links, e-commerce websites, and application stores to take effective measures to prevent and deal with them in a timely manner in advance.

It can be said that by joining this list, there is no need to worry about large-scale leaks for at least a month and a half after the movie is released.

This also shows how much importance the propaganda department attaches to the title of champion of the Chinese film rankings this year.

Wang Hao also knew this, so he paid attention to the post-production and promotion of "Inception".

Soon, based on the newly added film materials, the second version of the trailer for "Inception" was also released on major platforms in August and appeared in front of the audience.

Compared to the previous one, this trailer features several more scenes of car crashes, violent explosions, and snow mountain avalanches, further demonstrating the grand production value of the film.

Unfortunately, the second trailer of "Inception" was overshadowed by another incident.

Nicholas Tse and Cecilia Cheung, known as the "golden boy and girl" of Hong Kong, finally announced that they have officially signed their divorce.

This news was not unexpected. After all, after the "photo gate" incident, everyone knew that their marriage would not last.

However, due to concerns about the impact, both of them were still doing their business diligently. Now, several years have passed, the impact has been reduced to the lowest, and they have finally parted ways completely.

Of course, even though they thought the impact was low, when the news was leaked online, it still caused quite a stir, even overshadowing the second trailer for "Inception".

Even Jing Tian, who was training in the space base, heard the news. When chatting with Wang Hao in the evening, he specifically mentioned this gossip.

Women, even though they behave like girls on weekdays, are very bold when talking about such dirty jokes in private.

【Jing: You can’t take photos, but that kind of clothing is okay (shy).】

【Wang: Squinting and smiling.】

【Jing: Bah! 】

【Wang: I miss you! 】

[Jing: You are lying. I saw on the news a few days ago that you were having dinner with that Liu Yifei in Hollywood.]

[Wang: Bao, you have to believe me, it's all work. When Chinese people are out there, of course they stick together. It's normal for them to have a meal together.]

【Jing: Really?】

【Wang: Of course, you don’t believe me? 】

[Jing: Of course I believe you...]

【Wang: That’s it, I love you. 】

【Jing: I love you too, kiss! 】

(End of this chapter)

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