"You look a lot darker."

In the reception room, Ronan looked at Ang Lee's face, which was dark and dark, and said, "Li, you haven't seen each other for a few months, you have changed a lot."

Ang Lee smiled and said, "In order to feel some of the scenes depicted in my experience, I have been going out to sea recently, and this is sunburned by the sun."

Ronan knew that Ang Lee was the kind of director who practiced it, and said, "It seems that you are ready for it."

"Yes." Ang Lee focused his head with a serious look: "I have been preparing for it for a year."

This is not the crew preparation, it is just Ang Lee's own preparation. If such a director does not move, he will mobilize every cell in his body.

"The more you prepare, the less difficulties you may encounter in late preparation, shooting and production," Ronan said.

Ang Lee opened the briefcase he carried with him, took out the copy of the script that was obviously printed, and handed it to Ronan, saying, "I have completed the first draft of the script, and have some preliminary plans for the adaptation of the film."

After taking the script, Ronan slowly looked through it and said, "Li, tell me about your plan."

Ang Lee sorted out his thoughts and said first: "I am going to shoot and produce "Pi's Fantasy Drift" in 3D."

This did not surprise Ronan. He looked up at Ang Lee and asked, "Do you want to use 3d?"

"At the beginning of this year, I went to Wita Studio in Wellington, New Zealand to visit James Cameron and his crew of "Avatar". Ang Lee clearly had his own thoughts: "I watched the partially completed clip of "Avatar", and the effect was really amazing."

Ronan nodded slightly: "Avatar uses the best special effects production and 3D technology in the world at present."

Ang Lee continued: "I want to shoot this story in 3D. Using 3D technology, expand the pattern of this movie so that the audience can immerse themselves in the arduous journey of Pi, and a heart is completely affected by the emotions of the story."

He thought for a while and said, "I hope that when this film is completed, the experience will be as unique as that of Young Martel, so I have to create this movie in another dimension. 3d is a new film language. In the project "Pi Fantasy Drift", it not only makes the audience intoxicated with a huge scale and adventure, but also immersed in the emotional world of the characters in the play."

After listening to Ang Lee's words and combining the scripts he saw, Ronan's years of experience gave him a preliminary judgment: "The production budget will not be less than 100 million US dollars."

Ang Lee instantly thought of the failure of the Hulk's investment project, and he was unavoidable, but he still said with a tough bullet: "Yes, according to my plan, it will cost at least $100 million."

He firmly determined and said, "This is a very private story of a teenager. He lost his family and had to face unimaginable challenges in the magnificent nature. To shoot this part and maintain the core of emotions is extremely complex. It must be done with technology, determination and creativity."

Ronan put down the script and said, "Li, I believe you, and I believe you can bring a successful 3D movie."

Ang Lee breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I will do my best."

Ronan returned the script to Ang Lee and said, "After you go back, submit relevant plans to Shahai Entertainment immediately. I will let someone promote this project as soon as possible."

"Okay." Ang Lee immediately said: "I'll do it right away, and then gather people to try to make the crew set up as soon as possible."

Ronan asked, “How long does it take to complete?”

"Before the Cannes Film Festival next year," Ang Lee replied: "I want to bring this film to the Cannes or Venice Film Festival next year."

Ronan understood what he meant: "I will ask the Embassy Films to prepare for "Pi's Fantasy Drift."

If you want to maximize your profits in this type of film, just like "The Slumdog Millionaire", the Oscar halo is essential.

The two then chatted for a while, especially about 3D technology.

Every film worker, especially the director, has a different view on 3D.

In Ang Lee's eyes, 3d is just a movie technique and cannot surpass the movie. Specifically in "Pi's Fantasy Drift", that is, 3d technology must serve the plot in a solid manner, rather than show off skills.

In the words of this Chinese director, technology should always play the role of auxiliary tools in movies. No matter how outstanding this technology is, it can only add icing on the cake and not provide timely help. The real touching part can always be the heart of the people.

It is really difficult to produce "Pi's Fantasy Drift", even for Relativity Entertainment. The biggest difficulty is to grasp the balance of film investment.

Just like a project with a million-dollar production budget, Ronan can let Uvey Ball shoot casually.

Ang Lee can shoot and produce movies costing less than 50 million US dollars in the relativity entertainment system according to his ideas, because in the global film market, they have the appeal to recover their investment.

Any film, investing hundreds of millions of yuan is a matter of caution. It is never easy to overcome obstacles to art and market, especially a film that focuses on humanities and art.

Fortunately, Ronan has some memories of "Pi's Fantasy Drift" and has enough confidence in Ang Lee.

To be honest, Ang Lee's movies are quite down-to-earth. Although the pace is slow, they are never related to obscureness.

In fact, Ang Lee has never made a pretentious movie that is not good at getting along with the audience.

Although he has messed up the only commercial blockbuster in his life, it is not difficult to find out that his movies can basically be easily understood.

After Ang Lee officially submitted a production plan to Shahai Entertainment, "Pi's Fantasy Drift" also determined the budget, with the initial budget of US$100 million. It depends on the situation and see if there is any need for additional investment.

Ang Lee summoned the shooting team as fast as possible and needed to rush to India to select the right male lead. He hoped to find a simple Indian boy to play the male lead.

Relativity Entertainment's Indian branch in Mumbai will fully assist Ang Lee.

In addition to "Pi's Fantasy Drift", Relativity Entertainment has several projects officially launched this month. Matthew Vaughn, who has completed "The Sea Blank King", has officially entered the preparation and filming of the new "Ace Agent".

The movie about pets by Shahai Entertainment Animation Studio was also officially launched under the promotion of Ronan, and the project was named "The Pet Confidential".

In terms of live-action fairy tale movies, "Cinderella" began to create scripts.

Unlike the dark-wind fairy tale movie that is now evolving in Hollywood, this brand new "Cinderella" will follow the fairy tale as much as possible.

Of course, what we follow is not the earliest Cinderella story, but the children's version that is widely circulated around the world.

If it really needs to be filmed according to the earliest folk stories, this film may become a rating of nc-17.

Many fairy tales originated from the folk, and compared to the versions that spread later, they were originally legends full of violence, blood and even astringent elements.

For example, things like ovulation are nothing in those versions, and they are simply ordinary.

As for the plot of Xianderira running out of the palace and stopping to throw shoes, it is impossible to appear in the real-life fairy tale movie shot by Relativity Entertainment.

In addition, Shahai Entertainment is also having preliminary contact with Angelina Jolie, intending to invite her to play the role of a witch in another live fairy tale movie.

But Angelina Jolie is full of doubts about playing a witch, because since she got along with Brad Pitt, her image has been worrying despite the significant increase in commercial value. From a long-term perspective, playing a vicious witch is not an ideal choice.

Shahai Entertainment is not in a hurry, and plans to use the script plot and character settings to dispel Angelina Jolie's doubts, after all, this witch is not vicious.

Just like the subversive prince and Snow White in "Frozen", the witch may not be a bad person, and the sleeping beauty does not need a prince to wake up.

In March, Relativity Entertainment still had films released, and there were no first-line commercial movies in this relatively cold schedule.

In the early months, the "God of Death is Coming" series appeared in North American theaters for the fifth time. Death may be late, but will never be absent.

This time, a group of Americans who escaped the collapse of the bridge will face the death-seeking journey of the god of death, and it will be useless whether they escape to the ends of the world.

It is still a patterned routine, bloody and cruel death, but compared to the previous works, this movie still successfully creates a thrilling atmosphere of the entire chronic death process, allowing the audience to experience the suffocation pleasure of sitting in a pin and needle and unable to breathe.

The invisible god of death is more terrifying than the visible killer. This is a major selling point in the "Death is Coming" series.

No matter how you escape, you will inevitably die.

With the first four movies, "The God of Death is Coming 5" does not lack audiences, and North America earned $28.95 million in box office on the weekend of painting.

The response overseas was even surpassed that of North America, with nearly $35 million entering the box office account on the first weekend.

Embassy Pictures has a relatively conservative estimate that the global box office of "The Death is Coming 5" is expected to reach $180 million.

Not to mention predictions, the opening score can already make the God of Death's torture game continue.

After this film, Embassy Pictures released another work, "Lincoln vs. Zombies". Since the production cost was only $150,000, the shooting was quite rough and there was no special hype and promotion. The film was directly launched into the DVD market and Netflix streaming media.

For such a B-level film, it is not a big problem to make a profit. The only suspense is how long it will take.

With the help of Bao Ge's Netflix sharing account and the official website of "Vampire Hunter Lincoln", "Lincoln vs. Zombies" sold 50,000 DVDs in a week after its launch, not only recovering its capital, but also making a profit of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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