Chapter 139: Lectures Are Fine, but Bringing Students? I Won’t Do that Even if I Die!

Li Zhiming put down his chopsticks and picked up his upside-down phone. He opened the screen and saw that Secretary He had sent the box office data.

"Oh, it's out."

"Tell me quickly, I suddenly feel the excitement of watching a football game."

Li Zhiming's smile froze, "Don't curse your own movie, okay?"

"I said it wrong, I said it wrong, hahaha, the excitement of watching a table tennis match, okay?"

Li Zhiming opened the file and his eyes lit up.

"It's really exceeded! 2.31 billion on the first day in China, 190 million more than Titan."

"So high? Then after a month, it can be conservatively estimated to be 80, right?"

"80, it's probably close to National Day." Li Zhiming continued, "Foreign countries, the North American market took in 50 million US dollars on the first day, plus Europe, Japan, South Korea and other places, a total of 180 million US dollars."

Hearing this number, Zhou Tao frowned slightly, "Is the foreign market a bit low? Especially North America, why is it so low?"

He checked the data specifically, and the highest record of North America's first-day box office this year was more than 60 million US dollars. With the quality of Interstellar, it should be easily surpassed.

Li Zhiming smiled and said, "Are you confused by your happiness? It's the time difference. Our movie is released at 18:00 on Friday night. North America is 12 to 15 hours behind us. This first-day data is equivalent to the data from Friday morning to Saturday morning, which is definitely lower. The foreign box office must be based on the first weekend data."

"Yes, yes." Zhou Tao nodded.

He remembered that the data of more than 60 million US dollars seemed to be released on Saturday.

Interstellar was released on Friday and it was catching up with the first-day data on Saturday. It seems to be really fierce.

"By the way, foreign movies didn't boycott us?"

Li Zhiming took a sip of tea and smiled lightly: "In order to fight against monopoly, generally speaking, production, theaters, and distribution are separated and not in the same company. Production companies certainly want to boycott. But how can distribution and theaters listen to them? Who can't get along with money? Quality crushes. Unless the government intervenes, it can't be stopped."

At this point, the smile on his face slowly faded.

"Farewell My Concubine" and "Interstellar" are currently going well.

But Kung Fu might not be so lucky.

After Farewell My Concubine, Kung Fu was released. The cultural output is too fast. Foreign governments might intervene.

However, under the premise of overwhelming quality, people's desire to see good works is hard to stop.

When the time comes, we will just deal with it.

...

At the same time when they got the box office news.

The film and television industry, academia, and crew also got the news.

Chen Xiao took a look at the box office, exited the box office data file, and began to set up the housekeeper robot delivered by Chengfeng Express.

The first day box office is just a data. Just look at it to satisfy curiosity.

The total box office of the first month is the real gold coins.

Just halfway through the setting, I heard the robot say: "Handsome, rich, and never fat master, there is an email for you."

Chen Xiao was stunned.

Eh? How does it know my characteristics.

Oh, I remember.

He just clicked on the random name. It's random. He thought it was so smart.

The built-in name is pretty stupid.

He opened his mailbox and saw that it was an email from his father's school.

Inviting him to give lectures again, to serve as an honorary professor, and preferably to teach students.

Teaching students?

Kill him?

He didn't want to teach people like himself and his former roommate.

Remember when his roommate sent a paper to his tutor, the tutor replied: "Reading your paper is more annoying than the divorce lawsuit between me and my wife. Can you delete my name from the acknowledgments?"

According to his roommate, he and his tutor were fighting wildly at the defense.

Chen Xiao thought he was bragging, but later he found out that it was true.

The roommate was responsible for fighting wildly.

The tutor was responsible for fighting with scholars and killing wildly.

Hiss——

If this kind of scene happened to him, he would be an internationally renowned director, shining in the film and television industry, and the education industry would lose face.

No! He wanted to live a few more years.

Cultivating talents is important.

Lectures are okay, but being a tutor is definitely not!

Chen Xiao quickly typed and replied to the email.

Basically, I can give an online lecture on "Audio-visual Language" for three hours, talking about composition, camera movement, lighting, and color.

I asked to record the screen and upload it to the Internet later so that everyone can watch and learn.

I just replied to the school's email.

I received some invitations for cooperation and co-production. I replied briefly and then went to bed.

...

The National Day holiday passed quickly.

In the past few days, domestic and foreign media people watched the movie with a magnifying glass, combined with the interview with Princess Guan Liu, and did a lot of analysis.

There are film majors in foreign universities, which directly use interview videos and Chen Xiao's previous movies to teach students, and analyze the shooting techniques.

There are huge waves in the professional field.

The response in the entertainment field is of course more intense.

Fans organized their own support activities, and robot figures were also popular.

Even corn was hot for a few days.

Some people bought corn grown by the crew.

Others... in the words of fans, chewing corn makes them echo the ethereal music in their minds and dream back to the vast universe.

The noisy holiday passed quickly.

On the afternoon of the 8th, Chen Xiao had finished sorting out the detailed script and the storyboard script, and was planning the casting and scenes.

The phone next to him rang, and he picked it up and saw that it was Secretary He.

"Hello, Director Chen, the core team has been found and the list has been sent to you. They are all members of the previous two crews. I have asked about their schedules and they are all free recently. You can have a meeting anytime you want."

Chen Xiao was slightly stunned.

The list was finalized on the first day of work. Doesn't Secretary He have a break?

I have heard that the system is quite flexible now, but I didn't expect it to be so flexible. It's not easy in all walks of life.

He thought for a moment, "Then let's go to No. 10."

"Okay, then the same place?"

"Okay."

The two chatted for a few more sentences and hung up the phone.

Chen Xiao leaned against the back of the chair and breathed a sigh of relief.

There are still 4 months from now to the Spring Festival.

"Kung Fu" is not difficult to shoot. It does not need to run around to take pictures, nor does it need to wait for plants to grow.

Its focus is on scene construction and characters.

As for the scene, the police station, the casino, and the long street outside the police station can be shot in the film and television city of Magic City.

The Pig Cage Village needs to be built and set separately.

The construction is not difficult. Compared with the previous shipbuilding and street building, this is a small project.

The difficulty lies in the setting. We need to carefully arrange the living environment of the neighborhood in combination with the living habits of the lower class people nearly a hundred years ago.

Thinking of this, Chen Xiao picked up his mobile phone and opened the file.

Who is the art director?

Oh, Wang Rui.

Yes, it must be him.

Because the first two times were Fang Rong and Wang Rui.

He proposed to select people from the first two times, and invited Fang Rong to be the director of photography, so the art director must be Wang Rui.

Wang Rui is no problem.

You were tired last time, right? This time he doesn't need to spend physical energy, just mental energy. Go check the living scenes of nearly a hundred years ago and restore them.

I will do this work with him.

In addition to restoring the scenes, the second key task is casting.

Casting can be said to be the most important task in the early stage.

In the movie "Kung Fu", the character portrayal is unique.

That requires the actors to have a high level of role understanding and acting skills. Even martial arts skills.

With these three conditions added together, casting is a difficult task that requires hard work.

The casting director who cooperated with him was...

Chen Xiao picked up his phone and saw that the casting director was Sun Li.

Secretary He has a good eye.

Sun Li and Huang Peng are both good. If you have to choose between the two, Sun Li is indeed more suitable, with rich experience and the ability to hold his own.

But he also has shortcomings, his car is bad and often breaks down.

If he hasn't changed his car yet, the crew can lend him a car.

Thinking of this, Chen Xiao put down his phone and continued to refine the preparations.