"It passed the trial. It wasn't easy."
Lu Ban was originally worried that this kind of movie with intense scenes might be blocked again. After all, the world he originally lived in was very strict about these things.
I didn’t expect that it could be released in theaters without any cuts.
Is there something fishy going on here?
After getting the approval result, Lu Ban felt much more relieved. He first made the third trailer, and before releasing it, he found Mei Juan, the contact person in charge of the theater chain.
This is a capable middle-aged woman. She was also the one who was responsible for contacting Lu Ban at the previous premiere of "The Cry".
"Sister Mei, I have a new movie that I want to release. Can you arrange a schedule for it?"
Although Lu Ban said so, there are actually many procedures for the release of a movie, including submitting sample films, application documents, certification of approval, etc. Then both parties have to negotiate and discuss the release date, profit sharing, scheduling, etc., which is bound to be a lot of trouble.
But since Mei Juan works for Jiangcheng Industrial's cinema chain, and Jiangcheng Industrial is the backer behind Lu Ban, the two are actually one company, so some twists and turns can be avoided in the middle. Lu Ban just asked in advance, which is similar to a notification.
"A new movie. Let me take a look. The nearest release date is probably May Day..."
As Mei Juan was talking, she suddenly came to her senses.
"Wait, Xiao Lu, when you say new film, do you mean In the Mouth of a Madman???"
"Yes, I have passed the review here, and I am just waiting for your arrangement."
Lu Ban replied.
“Are you done???”
Mei Juan found it unbelievable.
Although Lu Kan released albums very quickly before, considering the inventory, it is actually not that outrageous.
But this time, it is obvious that "In the Mouth of a Madman" was only started to be prepared after "The Wailing" was completed, and there was also a short film "The Nameless City" in between. If this is true, it means that Lu Ban finished filming a new movie in less than three months and was qualified to screen it in theaters.
Even the donkeys in the production team can't reach this speed.
As we all know, the more talented a director is, the more he likes to polish his work. Some directors spend more than ten years preparing to make their dream movie, while some directors can shoot a scene for several days, striving for perfection.
Therefore, good works are not common, and even for well-known directors, their productivity is not that high.
This is not a factor of funding or manpower, it is simply impossible to do.
But Lu Ban’s efficiency is too high, and the quality is also quite hard.
Mei Juan has been working in the film industry for so long, but she has never seen a director like this.
"Well, it's done. May Day is also OK. It's a good day off."
Lu Ban was not entangled.
He is confident that he can complete the task within a month.
In fact, from Lu Ban's point of view, it would be best if the film could be released on Qingming Festival, which is in line with the occasion.
But the reality is not that simple. These complicated processes cannot be completed in just a few days.
After a few days of hard work and finalizing the release date of May 1st, Lu Ban released the third trailer.
Zheng Li, a forensic medicine student at Yannan Medical College, has been following Lu Ban since "The Cry", and naturally also paid attention to the Silence Project.
Because he didn't believe that "The Wailing" was that scary, he made a bet with someone online to watch the movie offline together.
After watching the movie, "The Wailing" gave him a group of good friends online.
We have all peed our pants together, our friendship is strong enough.
After the two trailers of "In the Mouth of a Madman" were released, there were many different opinions on the Internet, and various remarks against Lu Ban emerged.
But Zheng Li thought that this was all nonsense.
If they had watched "The Wailing", they would not have made such remarks.
I guess they would open their mouths and eyes wide, unable to move, and be scared to death by any imaginary thing.
Just like Zheng Li at that time.
Moreover, his netizens have discussed it with him.
A big part of the reason why Lu Ban has so many haters now is because he took someone else's cake.
Zheng Li was very puzzled at first. Lu Ban had high box office and the movie was good, so wasn't that a good thing for the film industry?
But after netizens explained it to him, Zheng Li suddenly understood.
In the past film circles, many films were poorly made, with traffic stars flooding the market. Even if the production was better, with young actors paired with veteran actors, the quality could only be described as average.
The audience's aesthetic taste has been distorted so much that they almost don't know what a good movie is.
After all, if every year's movies are rubbish, then everything you watch is pretty much the same.
Those film and television companies can make money without doing anything, so why should they stand up and make good films?
But Lu Ban's movies are well-made, and the audiences exclaim that they are good. After watching Lu Ban's movies, watching other shoddy movies is simply an eyesore.
In the past, many people, including those in the media and film and television circles, said that it was difficult for us to make movies. We were restricted in various aspects and many of them were done out of necessity. It was almost impossible to make a good movie.
But Lu Ban's movie slapped these people in the face and told the audience that we can make good movies.
With such a comparison, those mass-produced junk movies naturally have no place to stay and cannot make any box office revenue. The film and television companies that invested in these junk movies, as well as the capital behind them that cannot make money easily, naturally regard Lu Ban as a thorn in their eyes and want to make Lu Ban fail.
Under such circumstances, various water armies became active.
And the ways of being black are different.
Some people criticize the film directly, saying that Lu Ban's filming was bad and rubbish. Most people will not be fooled by such critics. After all, the movie is there and anyone with a discerning eye can see the difference.
Others are cross-dressing, madly praising Lu Ban, making him the god of the new world, and using him to drag down other movies, trying to provoke war. This requires a certain level of identification, and some people who do not know the truth will be led into the ditch.
Some are even more clever, and evaluate in a way that seems objective and fair, but in fact they switch concepts and hide their own agenda, openly praising and secretly criticizing. In the Internet age, many viewers who fast-forward through the content will be confused.
However, these debates disappeared after the third trailer of In the Mouth of Madness came out.
Zheng Li clicked on the video as soon as the trailer was released.
This trailer is different from the previous two. It focuses more on narrative. Basically, people can grasp that the main axis of the movie is to find a missing novelist, and the content of the novel seems to have become true.
The special effects of the monsters are so realistic that it seems as if there really are such monsters. It can be said that this movie should be able to pay for itself just by looking at the pictures.
"However, now that the main plot has come out, it feels like it could be easily copied."
Zheng Li had previously seen that some video websites had already produced knockoff web dramas such as "The Mouth of a Madman", "The Mouth of a Madman", and "The Mouth of a Madman in the Tomb Robbery".
Now that this setting of reality and fantasy influencing each other has come out, won’t there be more high-quality imitations?
With so many high-quality imitations, there will always be one or two that match the plot. Wouldn’t that be embarrassing?
But before his doubts were confirmed, Zheng Li saw the end of the trailer.
At the end, a few large letters told him the release date of the film.
May 1st.
Not next year, not the year after, but May 1st of this year.
That is less than half a month later.
Zheng Li thought the movie would be released soon, but he never thought it would be so soon!
"Is this Lu Ban's speed?"
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