Director’s Legend

The final version of "Painted Skin" requires 120 minutes, which is undoubtedly a difficult task for Shao Shuaijun. If possible, he does not want to cut for a minute. A truly good movie cannot be limited by time. But he doesn't cut it. Several investors will definitely have to replace it.

Fortunately, the post-production special effects shots of "Painted Skin" have not yet been completed. Shao Shuaijun has enough time to think about how to cut the shots.

Time is spent in revising the "Painted Skin" lens bit by bit and revising the "Twilight Saga: Twilight" script bit by bit. "Painted Skin" has already received a response from Miramax Films, and will be released simultaneously in Asia and North America, rather than being released for a while.

Shao Shuaijun didn't know exactly how to arrange it. Now he felt that his whole person was suddenly relaxed again.

The application procedures for opening a film company in the United States were too complicated. For a while, the US Immigration Service came to ask Shao Shuaijun every day if he had an immigration tendency. I have to say that Americans consider themselves too high. Anyone who comes to work or study in the United States suspects that you are coming with the intention of immigrating to the United States.

Once it is confirmed that you have a tendency to emigrate, immediately turn your face and refuse to give you the opportunity to work in the United States.

At the end of the trouble, Shao Shuaijun and Li Xiuxiu had already put out the idea of ​​starting a company in the United States, and planned to acquire a small film company to operate in the name of Dream Entertainment. With Rob's help, they took a fancy to Pinnacle Entertainment, a film company also opened in Santa Monica.

This film company, Shao Shuaijun, is very familiar with it. Before he was reborn, he happened to rush to promote "Now You See Me" in China. And "Now You See Me" was shot by this company. What's interesting is that if there is no interference from Shao Shuaijun, Summit Entertainment is the company that runs the "Twilight" series of movies.

Unfortunately, now with Shao Shuaijun, everything will change.

The current peak entertainment company is shabby enough. The office is not far from Lionsgate, but the area is ten times smaller. Although it was established in 1998, it has only released four movies in the past eight years. The output is amazingly low. But if you think. If this company is silent, it would be wrong.

Its reputation is not bad. Three of the four films are world-renowned, "Two Smokers", "Vanilla Sky" and "Operation Smith". "Two Smoking Guns" need not be repeated. This is Guy Ritchie's famous work. It is also the ancestor of the movie style "Crazy Stone".

"Operation Smith" is also familiar to many people. In recent years, Brad Pitt, the hottest niche in Hollywood, and Angelina Jolie, who was voted No. 1 in the Top 100 Sexy Women in 2005 by "Men Gang" magazine, worked hard to create. Hot worldwide.

The most iconic one is "Vanilla Sky". Once it was released in 2001, it became the king of Hollywood talks that year. It is one of Tom's masterpieces and has won numerous awards.

So, Peak Entertainment still has a reputation. But this will not cause too much difficulty for the acquisition. As an independent film company, the development of Summit Entertainment is not smooth. The quality of the movies is important, but what really affects the development of the company is the number of movies.

Peak Entertainment's production capacity is too weak. Even if the response to four movies in eight years is good, it cannot change the tightness of the company's capital chain. In another trajectory, it can also use the cash cow of "Twilight" to grow, but this trajectory, Shao Shuaijun is coming, it is destined to be swallowed.

Mitchell Bruce, the owner of Summit Entertainment, does not reject the acquisition, but the price of the acquisition and whether the new company has his position in the future requires a long time to care about these aspects.

As a result, Shao Shuaijun was temporarily unable to make new movies.

I had to compete with "Painted Skin".

Time slipped quietly, and a little half passed in the blink of an eye in April. On this day, the digital field finally produced the last set of special effects shots for "Painted Skin". Shao Shuaijun got the most anticipated part and can finally finish the editing quietly. This is a meticulous work for the director.

Just when he was immersed in the film, about to finish editing.

A video began to circulate on domestic websites, and it surpassed one million views in just one day...

Bang bang bang!

The door of Lionsgate’s editing room was knocked, and Wang Zhonglei’s voice hurriedly came: "Soldier, open the door! Something went wrong!"

"what's up?"

Shao Shuaijun's face was stubble and his hair was messy. In order to find inspiration when editing, he even gave up his time to manage himself.

"The Painted Skin was stolen!"

"what!"

Without saying anything, Wang Zhonglei took Shao Shuaijun to the computer and entered the domestic website. A video website appeared with the shiny title "Painted Skin Lite". After buffering, the video began to play. The more you look at Shao Shuaijun's face, the more ugly. This so-called condensed version is not a movie.

It is a hodgepodge of the various sets of shots in "Painted Skin", with only 35 minutes of footage, after the arrangement, it seems that the plot of the whole movie can be seen. These lenses are film shots, there is no special effects part, but there are rough shots with special effects.

For example, in the scene of the monster war, because of the special effects synthesis, the actors do not have any makeup, and the scene looks messy and noisy.

And there are some behind-the-scenes part. Due to the shooting angle, many piercing shots have been added. I don’t know if there is a problem with the pixels of the website video or what is the reason. The whole video looks shoddy and it doesn’t matter at all. The so-called high-definition picture quality and majestic atmosphere of "Painted Skin".

"Is it spread?" Shao Shuaijun asked with a frown.

"Just now, there have been 1.5 million hits. Don't look at it. Go to the meeting."

Entering the conference room, it was filled with smoke, and representatives of various companies lit their cigarettes and arguing wildly.

"Okay, stop arguing, Lao Yang, tell us about the news from China."

Yang Hongtao said with a green face: "The situation has been determined, and it must have been done by insiders. The 35-minute shots were mostly rough cut shots, which should have been stolen before coming to the United States. There is no mark on the screen. So it’s not a post-production problem. In other words, what happened half a year ago is now to be investigated. It is difficult to find out who did it."

Shao Shuaijun asked with a sullen face, "So, how do you deal with it now? The outflow of this kind of film will definitely have a huge impact on Painted Skin. It is too bad for the sense of expectation of Painted Skin. Moreover, I just watched these 35 minutes of footage. Halfway through, I found that the scene almost penetrated all the plots of "Painted Skin". Without the gimmick, and there is no sense of expectation, what did "Painted Skin" grab the box office!"

The smoke was full, and everyone looked solemn. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!