independent filmmaker

转眼到了5月5号,《一见钟情》增势不减,而《葡萄美酒夜光杯》疲态尽显,继续下滑。这天下来，《一见钟情》的总票房顺利突破8000万的大关，单日增长2000万,《葡萄美酒夜光杯》则堪堪达到6708万，单日增长875万。

Regarding the accusation of "framing", The Paper vetoed it severely, and said that it would send the company's lawyer's letter to the netizens who spread rumors, saying that this may be the hype written and directed by the actress, or it may be other companies. It has been planned for a long time, but it has nothing to do with them.

Lan Sheng and Xin Ye didn't want to be too desperate. After all, The Paper was one of the giants in the film industry at this time, and after 2000, it produced many good films.However, Lan Sheng took the initiative to write a letter of proposal for "an assistant director who refuses to use unspoken rules", saying that the director must choose good actors, and the assistant director must do their job well, so that they can be worthy of the film. Most of the people he knows Big-name directors have signed on.

Li Xian remained silent on the ex-wife rumors and never stated his position, which also made the majority of netizens believe the so-called revelations, including those who did not believe it at the beginning.Some people reprimanded Li Xian for rubbish, while others believed that since the truth is unknown, there is no rush to stand in line, and the ex-wife may also have problems, such as a mental illness.

The box office of the two films on May 5 and May 6 both fell slightly.By the end of May Day, the box office of "Love at First Sight" was 5 million, and "Grape and Wine Luminous Cup" was 7 million. The box office of "Love at First Sight" plus product placement and overseas sales has reached 500 million.If this continues, it will not be a problem for this movie to bring Deep Blue an income of 8335 million.

Statistics show that "Love at First Sight" is the second "non-blockbuster" and "non-comedy" with a box office of more than 2000 million yuan, which provides a new idea for the film industry. The first one was released in [-]. Motivators, party members are viewed by the organization. The success of "Love at First Sight" made people finally know a very simple truth: it is enough to tell a good story.

If the anti-corruption masterpiece is not counted, Xie Lansheng is the third local director with a box office of over [-] million. The previous one is Li Xian, with two films with a box office of over [-] million, and the other is a comedy director, who has been following Deep Blue Films.

Of course, "Love at First Sight" quickly exceeded 2003 million because of the astonishing rise in the total box office of Chinese movies.Since the film reform in 2010, the total box office of Chinese films has increased by one-third every year, and even increased by one-half around [-]. Xie Lansheng's record of over [-] million has been continuously broken.This is something.

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As soon as the May Day holiday ended, pirated CDs of "Grape and Wine Luminous Cup" began to spread. However, because Deep Blue Pictures strictly guarded against the gun version of VCD/DVD, "Love at First Sight" did not flow out.Deep Blue does not leave copies of the movie in the hands of the major theaters, but takes the trouble and spends a lot of manpower and material resources to send copies to each theater with a lockbox every morning, and then use the lockbox to retrieve the copies from each theater at night, and ask people to be responsible for spot checks to ensure that All cooperative theaters screened "Love at First Sight" as scheduled.At this time, there were 1188 movie theaters across the country, and this project was relatively large. However, Deep Blue believed that it was very important that film reels were not copied.You must know that if nothing is done, thousands of copies will be scattered everywhere, and movie piracy will inevitably flood.The process is not flawless, but the difficulty of piracy has greatly increased. On May 5th, there is still only the "screen version" on the market, and there is no "disc version" that has been flopped from the big screen.

Due to the continuous fermentation of word of mouth and the late release of pirated copies, when it was released, the total box office of "Love at First Sight" was an astonishing [-] million, while "Grape and Wine Luminous Cup" was less than [-] million. Crazy month of May.

Forum netizens lamented again:

【When Director Xie refused to accept Director Li, I was still laughing...I reviewed it. 】

[Hey, a film leader actually said something like that. “The purpose of commercial films is to entertain the audience and the public.”]

[Upstairs, he said it was for the film industry.Defeat Europe and the United States and revitalize the nation. 】

[Go back upstairs, NONONO, the film company loves "copying", copying everything, making a bunch of bad movies. 】

[Going back upstairs, I personally think that Director Li and the others are also reasonable... They created a box office myth, and capital poured into this market. 】

【Go back upstairs, uh...】

In short, no matter how ups and downs the process is, with the box office of 9000 million and 3000 million yuan in hand, Xie Lansheng's first goal of filming "Love at First Sight" is to achieve - Xinye because the art theater has all the cash on hand, Xie Lansheng wants to help his husband increase the annual profit .Now, the total income of "Love at First Sight" has exceeded 1500 million, including 7500 million box office share, [-] million overseas copyright and [-] million product placement.Excluding production costs, publicity costs, taxes, etc., the net profit of this movie is [-] million yuan, which is enough for Deep Blue to last for a while.

A lot.

And the second goal of "Love at First Sight" was also achieved, or in other words, I tried my best.During interviews and events, Xie Lansheng chattered like Mrs. Xianglin about "Literary Cinema", so many young people who liked "Love at First Sight" really went there.

Although the attendance rate of the Deep Blue Art Theater is still very low, very low, but at least there are people, and it won't be empty all day.At the end of each movie screening, Xie Lansheng invited several young directors to hold a commentary meeting, talking about where and why these classic literary movies are good, and cultivating and educating movie audiences.Young directors are very happy, on the one hand, to participate in activities, and on the other hand, to promote themselves, and Xie Lansheng often goes to talk about it when he is free.

Xie Lansheng once again felt that Xin Ye was really powerful. In 2005, housing prices in Beijing soared, and the shopping mall where Wenyi Theater was located rented out all the shops.The lower four floors together support the "Dark Blue Cinema" above, which is more than enough. Only 25% of the entire shopping mall is rented out to achieve a balance of payments.Xinye said that the whole building can be regarded as Lansheng's art theater, but Deep Blue Pictures rented out part of the theater to open a store, and used that part to support the other part. He had already realized that Beijing's housing prices would soar in the past two years .

In addition, the controversy about Xie Lansheng has not stopped. However, half of the people liked him and half hated him before. Now that they know about the "factory logo", about three-quarters of the people like him and one-quarter hate him. he.

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In the summer, the blockbuster film made by Deep Blue Pictures with a lot of money was officially released. It's called "Green Blood and Heart", and it's an ancient costume.The performance of the film was very good, and it finally made a box office of 12 million. Deep Blue Pictures took the first place in the movie box office list in the first seven months, and then took the fifth place.The second is a Hollywood movie, the third is "Glowing Wine Glass", the fourth is another Hollywood movie, and another comedy of Deep Blue will release a trailer in December.

It was still summer, and Universal Pictures, which previously bought the American copyright of "Love at First Sight", told Xie Lansheng that the film length of 2 hours and 20 minutes was too long for this subject matter, and hoped that Lansheng could delete 20 minutes and make it to two hours.Xie Lansheng is definitely not someone who refuses to listen to other people's advice, but he knows that the current version of "Love at First Sight" is the best version.Not because he's terribly arrogant, but because he knows the material.

In the end, Xie Lansheng watched the whole movie frame by frame instead of playing it directly. After watching it three times, he was almost blind in both eyes, and finally cut six frames, totaling 0.25 seconds.

Xie Lansheng told Universal Pictures: "Todd, I watched "Love at First Sight" frame by frame this week, or three times. I tried my best and deleted 6 frames."

Todd immediately yelled: "Director Xie, are you kidding me?! There are 24 frames per second!!!"

Xie Lansheng said: "Really not. I edited for 12 days and edited 6 frames."

In the end Todd was going to faint, and said: "Our editor here cuts it. We cut it and show it to you. If you think our edited version can be released, then take it to the screen."

Xie Lansheng only shrugged his shoulders: "Okay."

As a result, the clip from Universal Pictures never came up again.

Until about two months later, "Love at First Sight" was released in the United States.Xie Lansheng went to the website and flipped through the movie introduction, and saw that the "length" column read: [140 minutes. 】

He couldn't help laughing: Universal Pictures asked him to cut 20 minutes no matter what, but he didn't move in the end!

Xie Lansheng asked about this in the next phone call, Todd said with a wry smile: "The editors of Universal Pictures also found it very difficult to delete the film. It took them a month to finally cut three versions, and we held a preview meeting , and asked big directors such as xxxxxx, xxxxxxxx, xxxxxxxxxx to give some opinions, and as a result, all the directors said that the original version is the best."

"So it was released without editing?"

"Yes, we admit that you are right. It really can't be cut." Todd said, "We don't just want to be in the most profitable movie, but also want to be in the best movie. Since the directors unanimously stated that "Love at First Sight" If it gets worse, then forget it.”

Xie Lansheng was still a little moved.

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And just like that, four months of ups and downs like a roller coaster came to an end.

Both Xie Lansheng and Xinye wanted to take a good rest.

"Where are you going...?" Xie Lansheng asked, "Belle, where do you want to go for vacation? To Europe?"

Xin Ye stared at him deeply, and suddenly said, "Lan Sheng, let me meet my parents."

"..." Xie Lansheng pursed his lips.

Xinye said again: "I'm frankly saying that I'm gay."

This was a sudden attack, and Xie Lansheng's nerves tensed up.His heart pounded into his chest, he pretended to be calm, and asked softly, "And then...?" He didn't dare to breathe out.

"Then?" Xin Ye was annoyed by his mother, "My mother said that she found out that I was gay when I was in my third year of high school. She asked, 'You still chose to come out of the closet, isn't it hard all these years?'"

Xie Lansheng: "...???"

He was confused and asked, "Are you?"

"Of course not." After eating the breakfast in front of him, Xin Ye looked up at Lan Sheng, wiped his hands with a napkin, and said, "When I was in junior high school, there were many love letters from girls in the mailbox at home. There were Chinese, black, white, and Indians. Man, my mother showed me the letter, I was too lazy to read it, so I threw it away. Lan Sheng, before I met you... I was really not interested.” In his world at that time, under the skin of beauty or ugliness, They are all vulgar and boring.

Lan Sheng asked again: "And then?"

Xin Ye continued: "However, my good friend at that time was Danish, very beautiful, he often came to live in our house, played games, bored all day, my mother thought we were gay.

Xie Lansheng asked, "Is it very beautiful?"

Xin Ye chuckled and raised his eyes, "Not as pretty as you."

Xie Lansheng: "..."

"In short, my mother didn't know where the two of us were going at the time, and she didn't dare to speak openly. She was worried that we would realize that we were gay once she said it. I feel pretty close. She said that it took her a while to accept this fact. The original words were 'havedifficultyadjustingaftermykidcameout'. However, as time went by, it got better. After a year, she finally accepted it. She said, 'negativereactionsendedtoeaseovertime' , 'I accepted the fact after the first year'."

"Your mother..." Xie Lansheng didn't know how to comment.

This oolong.

He felt sorry for Xinye's mother, and was glad that the biggest obstacle was gone.

"She was thinking about it." Xin Ye said, "At that time, the United States had already begun to discuss gay rights. The Stonewall riots occurred in 1969, the San Francisco Pride parade began in 1978, and New York allowed gays to inherit property and other things. Gays began to enjoy Entitlement. She's in America... easier."

After a pause, Xinye said again: "I said I was not in high school, and I had nothing to do with Fred at that time. She still doesn't believe it, absolutely not."

Xie Lansheng: "..."

"Lan Sheng, are you going home?"

"Yeah." Xie Lansheng also raised his eyes, very sincere and firm, "Okay. Xin Ye, I actually think about it too. I'll take you to see my parents when I come back from vacation this August."

Lan Sheng's parents knew nothing about Xin Ye from beginning to end.Li Jingrou and Lansheng's father will urge marriage from time to time, but Xie Lansheng is 35 and 33 years old. He was only [-] before he started working on "Love at First Sight". As a top director, he is still in his golden age. He is not old and wants to find a good wife. It is by no means a difficult task, and even said that because of social inequality, most successful men are not in a hurry at this time, so Li Jingrou didn't press too hard.

However, Xie Lansheng wanted to show his cards.

He has a lover, his name is Xin Ye.

"Okay." Xinye's tone was very gentle, "Then make a reservation in Los Angeles. I'll ask my assistant to book a plane ticket."

"Ah."

Xinye actually did not expect her coming out of the closet to be so smooth.He wasn't worried, after all, his parents couldn't control what he wanted to do since he was four years old.He originally planned to let his parents think about it at home - Massachusetts just declared same-sex marriage legal last May, so it shouldn't be too difficult to think about it.I didn't expect...

However, even though he had settled on Los Angeles, Xin Ye found that Lan Sheng was still a little anxious during the following conversation, so he asked, "What's wrong? What are you worried about?"

Xie Lansheng was thinking, and said honestly: "I'm worried that your parents don't like me, and I'm not pleasing to the eye."

"Why?" Xin Ye laughed, "Because he is a man? They have already accepted it."

"No." Originally, Xie Lansheng was really worried, but when he said it, he was inexplicably uncomfortable, and said with a snort, "I am not as beautiful as others, and I am not as good at English as others."

Xin Ye: "..."

The author has something to say: Lan Sheng: Is this milk mixed with vinegar?

When "Titanic" was released in 1998, anti-piracy was used in this way (take away the copy with a lockbox), but there were few movie theaters at that time, and it must have been much more difficult in 2005.

I actually think that in 2005, it would be very difficult for director Xie's films to surpass the big-budget films of great directors...you can only rely on the gold finger given by your mother.