Chapter 546 Renewal

Chapter 546 Renewal

Chapter 546 Renewal
As an overseas branch of the [Galaxy Cinematic Universe] series, "Rampage" is the sequel to "Distortion". Although the story is average, as a Hollywood commercial special effects blockbuster, there is nothing wrong with it!

At least the film presents amazing visual effects, especially the portrayal of the three mutant behemoths, which can be said to be lifelike.

From the huge body and lively eyes of the gorilla George, to the sharp claws of the giant wolf and the muscle lines when running, to the hard scales and huge size of the giant crocodile, every detail is handled extremely delicately.

They rampaged through the city, destroying high-rise buildings, vehicles and other scenes, bringing a strong visual impact to the audience, who felt as if they were there and felt the ferocity and power of the beasts.

For movies of this type, the audience just wants to enjoy the movie and feel that the experience in the cinema is worth the price of the ticket.

Moreover, as a work in the "Galaxy Cinematic Universe" series, it also has the blessing of IP.

There are many easter eggs hidden in the movie "Rampage".

For example, the villain Sapiens company had appeared in "Detective Chinatown 2: Shadow of New York". In the movie, when the behemoth was wreaking havoc in Chicago, Dr. Chen's subordinates who were far away in the Antarctic base also obtained this information.

There is also an Easter egg at the end of the movie. One is that the gorilla George, accompanied by Davis, should have returned to his familiar habitat and continued to live a relatively peaceful life. However, he encountered anesthetics during transportation, and both the man and the gorilla fell into a coma. It is unknown who captured them.

The second one was a shot of a potion jar at the bottom of a river. The jar seemed to be damaged, and green potion leaked out, which was very obvious in the river.

Then, the camera zooms out and reveals more similar empty cans on the riverbed not far away.

Obviously, as these chemicals leak into the river and then flow into the sea, humans on Earth will have to face more giant beasts in the ocean in the future.

This also paved the way for Galaxy Group's script "Pacific Rim", which had already been filed in Hollywood.

At the same time, on the day when "Rampage" was released in China, despite being sandwiched between two Hong Kong films, "The Brink" and "Line Walker", the film still achieved a box office of 100 million yuan, surpassing the two films to become the single-day box office champion.

Moreover, the cumulative box office of "Rampage" in the first three days was nearly 3 million, surpassing all the movies of the same period.

Perhaps the only thing that can make these domestic film and television colleagues feel fortunate is that there will be no movies released by Galaxy Pictures in September, which makes them all breathe a sigh of relief.

Just when "Rampage" was released in China, a major event also happened in the domestic entertainment industry, which directly caused a sensation across the country and occupied most of the entertainment industry's pages, almost more than the publicity for "Rampage".

The matter is very simple. Wang Baoqiang issued a statement online, talking about the matter between his wife and his personal agent.

It can only be said that eating melons and reading gossip are things that people all over the world like. Even though most netizens feel sorry for Baoqiang's experience, this does not prevent them from discussing it online and letting the news spread from online to offline.

Wang Hao, who was busy filming "The Three-Body Problem 1", of course also heard the news. In his spare time, he could only sigh that everything is fate.

You should know that when Wang Baoqiang joined Galaxy Group and signed with Xingdou Culture a few years ago, Wang Hao specifically asked the agency to see if Wang Baoqiang wanted to change his agent. As a result, he didn't want to change because of the old friendship.

Later, the agency asked Wang Baoqiang if he wanted the company to arrange a special financial actuary to help him manage his assets. He refused again, saying that he wanted to leave it to his wife.

Ok……

All I can say is that what Brother Cheng Long said during the interview is still gaining more and more value.

What happened to Wang Baoqiang is not an isolated case in this circle. It has happened in the past, it is happening now, and it will happen again in the future.

Even a handsome man like Erlang Shen had to be kicked out of the house.

Fortunately, Wang Hao doesn't need to worry about this, but he also specifically instructed the agency to pay more attention to Wang Baoqiang and help him in any way they can.

After all, Galaxy Group’s "Detective Chinatown 3" will be released during the Chinese New Year, and Wang Baoqiang is also in it.

For Wang Baoqiang, the only thing that made him feel relieved was that he no longer had to borrow money from others to pay taxes this time.

The main reason is that Galaxy Group has been implementing a "back-end income" policy. Although a lot of Wang Baoqiang's property has been transferred away, as long as he has filmed a movie at Galaxy Pictures, he can enjoy subsequent secondary income such as discs and online copyrights. This copyright income cannot be transferred.

Moreover, the money is not paid off all at once, but is received every year, so even if he does not have the money to pay the tax, it does not matter, he can just advance part of the back-end income.

With the help of Xingdou Culture, the unfortunate Wang Baoqiang finally got some psychological comfort.

After paying some attention to this matter, Wang Hao put most of his energy back into the filming and production of "The Three-Body Problem 1".

The film started shooting in June and has been going on for two months now. According to the production plan, two-thirds of the special effects scenes in the studio at [Oriental Galaxy Cinema] have been completed. After finishing shooting here, they will need to go to the [Galaxy Cinema] branch in Hangzhou Bay to shoot some sea scenes, and then go abroad.

After all, "The Three-Body Problem 1" is the big drama of the [Galaxy Cinematic Universe] and the finale of the second phase. The whole movie has three story lines interweaving with each other, involving many characters, and the shooting time and location will naturally be much longer.

In addition to "The Three-Body Problem 1", the [Eastern Galaxy Movie City] is also producing the post-production special effects shots of "Swords of Shu Mountain" and some shots of "The Richest Tomato".

“Oh, you’re eating it now.”

At noon, a middle-aged actor with a sense of humor walked into the small cafeteria where the crew of "The Three-Body Problem 1" was having lunch. It was Shen Teng, who was filming "The Richest Tomato" next door.

"Teacher Shen Teng! I'm here now. Have you eaten?"

Wang Jingchun, who was eating, saw him and immediately greeted him with a smile. Wu Jing also quickly asked him to sit down.

"Come on, come on, let's eat together."

"I won't."

When Shen Teng smiled, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes were revealed.

“I just ate there. I had a guest appearance in the afternoon, so I came here first.

By the way, I'd like to invite you to drink milk tea."

He waved his hand, and naturally an assistant put the milk tea and drinks he bought on the table for people to take.

"Oh, a big star is treating us, so we won't be polite!"

Several actors who were also eating together laughed and joked, then took their portions. Only then did Shen Teng sit next to Wu Jing and began to inquire about their afternoon filming tasks and Wang Hao's habits and taboos during filming.

"Director Wang is a very honest person. He is not the type of director who likes to yell at people."

Wu Jing said as she picked at the stir-fried meat:
"Besides, your acting skills are not bad, and it's just a guest appearance, so don't worry too much."

"No, I'm mainly worried that I'll perform too well. What should I do if Director Wang asks me to sign a long-term contract?" Shen Teng said pretending to be a little embarrassed.

Wu Jing stopped eating and asked, "Do you have more scenes to play in your guest role?"

"Who knows? When Director Wang asked me to sign the contract, I got contracts for three movies at once."

"You are showing off today, you guy."

Wu Jing reached out and nodded at him, Shen Teng smiled, and the cafeteria was immediately filled with a happy atmosphere. At the same time, everyone looked at Shen Teng with a little envy. Everyone knows that [Galaxy Cinematic Universe] is the top IP in China and even in the world. Being able to join it and get an important role in the future is enough to guarantee a long-term star luck.

After they finished their meal, another group of staff and actors from "The Three-Body Problem 1" who were off work also entered the cafeteria.

Yes, because there were so many people in the crew, the crew members of "The Three-Body Problem 1" were even divided into three groups: A, B, and C, and they had to eat at staggered times.

"Teacher Wu, sit here. Here is your meal."

A staff member placed a specially prepared lunch box in front of Wu Mengda.

Born in 1952, he is now in his sixties. Although he is not considered old in the acting industry, the heart attack caused by a viral infection two years ago was indeed a blow to his health.

Therefore, since filming "Wolf Warrior 2", Wu Mengda has been in a semi-retired state and rarely participates in the production of film projects.

However, he still chose to come to shoot "The Three-Body Problem 1" this time, just to participate in this epic production that will go down in the history of Chinese cinema.

And considering Wu Mengda's poor physical condition, it is very likely that he will find it difficult to shoot movies in the future, but he has a lot of roles as a supporting role in the "Galaxy Cinematic Universe".

So in addition to filming "The Three-Body Problem 1", Galaxy Group also signed an authorization contract with Ng Man-tat and bought his digital portrait rights.

After a comprehensive digital scan of Wu Mengda, a "Wu Mengda" that only exists in the computer was born.

This is also the concept of "digital human" or "virtual human" which is very popular in the film and television culture industry today.

The concept of this technology was actually born quite early, and there are many examples of "them" in film and television cultural works.

In 1982, the world's first virtual singer was born based on the character Lin Mingmei in "Macross", and her album successfully entered the well-known music charts at the time.

After entering the new century, two-dimensional virtual singers such as Hatsune Miku and Luo Tianyi have gradually come into people's vision and set off a new cultural trend among young people.

Now, with the innovation of information technology, the exploration of digital humans is no longer limited to two-dimensional images, but is being used more in movies.

In the famous "Avatar", the blue alien can actually be regarded as an alternative "digital human".

In this regard, Galaxy Group, which has the strongest special effects team and the best special effects technology in the country, naturally cannot miss this technology.

Because it can be applied not only in the field of film and television works, but also in the fields of animation and games.

At the same time, if you want to make digital humans more realistic, artificial intelligence is also indispensable. The two are complementary to each other.

Coupled with the "metaverse" concept that will become popular in the future, it is not surprising that Galaxy Group has made early arrangements in this area.

They have now scanned Wu Mengda's human body information and made it into a data person for storage and backup. If he has any health problems in the future, this digital person can take over.

As for Ng Mang-tat, signing this digital human authorization is not without benefits.

You should know that Galaxy Pictures not only paid millions in signing fees, but in the future, as long as "Digital Wu Mengda" participates in any film or television work, he or his descendants will also be able to obtain corresponding back-end income.

As long as the work is good enough, future generations won’t have to worry about it for several lifetimes.

Of course, Wu Mengda was invited to star in "The Three-Body Problem 1", but in addition to this movie and digital humans, there are other things.

“Grandpa Wu!”

A cute voice sounded behind Wu Mengda, and he immediately smiled happily.

"Jin Mai is here, come on, have you eaten yet?"

"I've eaten." Zhao Jinmai replied.

She was filming "Swords of Shu Mountain" in the studio next door, and was then called over to collaborate with Ng Mang-tat in the filming. Like Shen Teng, she was a guest star.

"Is Grandpa Wu feeling better? Or is your appetite still poor?"

Zhao Jinmai, who was sitting next to Wu Mengda, saw that there was still a lot of food left on his plate, so she asked with concern.

Wu Mengda shook his head, covered the lunch box and pushed it aside.

"The doctor said my blood sugar is too high and I can't eat too much at one time."

Then he changed the subject and asked, "By the way, how is your filming next door? Is it going well?"

Zhao Jinmai pouted and shook her head.

"It's not going smoothly. We are now shooting special effects content. Not only do people have to do digital collection, but they also have to perform to the air. It's really difficult."

The little girl complained a little, but still added:

"Fortunately, Director Xu was pretty good to us. At least he didn't criticize us much and was very patient in his guidance."

"He loves to give guidance to young newcomers, especially those who are good at filming female roles."

Wu Mengda said with a smile.

"I still remember the first time I worked with him was in "Working Emperor". At that time, Joey Wong was still a newcomer. It was because of this movie that she was noticed by Director Xu. Later, she filmed "A Chinese Ghost Story" and became a hit in Southeast Asia.

You are very talented. If you study hard and concentrate on filming, you will definitely achieve good results in the future."

The old man and the young were sitting at the dining table chatting. They looked like a grandfather and granddaughter, and were very harmonious.

After lunch, they sat down and rested for a while, then Zhao Jinmai helped Wu Mengda back to the studio to prepare to participate in the afternoon shooting.

At this moment, the communication and exchanges between the new and the old, the inheritance of film, television, culture and art, and the industrial handover between Hong Kong and the Mainland seem to have become more concrete.

They happened in the studio of [Oriental Galaxy Film City], but they didn't just happen in this studio.

Wu Mengda, Tsui Hark, Shen Teng, Wu Jing, Wang Hao, Lu Yang, Guo Fan, Zhao Jinmai, Hu Xianxu...

Although Hong Kong film and television has completely gone downhill, it has at least been integrated into the Chinese film and television culture.

Talented people emerge in every generation, and each of them leads the trend for hundreds of years. The next hundred years of Chinese films will depend on the young people.

(End of this chapter)