Pre-sale of "Where to Use" opens on the 24th and 25th, the national production special will expose the real behind-the-scenes details for the first time

Supervised by Ning Hao, directed by the Olympic bid, written by Xu Luyang, and starred by Xiao Yang, Qi Xi, Ren Dahua, and Zheng Kai, the film "Where to Use It" is officially announced for pre-sale and will be released nationwide at 18:00-22:00 on December 24 and 25, 2025. The film released its production special and ultimate poster today, revealing the details of behind-the-scenes shooting for the first time. In order to restore the extremely real path of hostage self-rescue and escape, the crew not only mined materials from a large number of documentaries, memoirs and other materials, extracted many real details and integrated them into the creation, but also went to Africa in the early stage to conduct filming and collect trends, and traveled to many places at home and abroad. Live shooting. The shocking pictures of live ammunition blasting, the dangerous atmosphere of the restricted desert zone, and the true presentation of foreign humanities together lead the audience to experience a thrilling extreme survival journey from the perspective of ordinary people on the screen. The film is based on the real self-rescue experience of surviving hostages abroad. The entire film is specially filmed in IMAX and will be released nationwide on December 31, New Year's Eve.

Real details shape real texture on-site inspection of humanistic ecology to create a battlefield "bullet market"

"Reality" is the consistent creative origin of the director's Olympic bid. Behind this reality is inseparable from careful observation of the real world and the creative transformation of true stories. When the crew went to Africa to take pictures and collect trends, they took nearly 10,000 photos, and selected about a hundred of them as creative reference. During the preparatory stage, inspiration was drawn from many textual and video materials such as real hostage self-rescue incidents, memoirs of surviving hostages, related documentaries, and even real images taken by extremist organizations themselves, and real details were extracted from real stories. The content described in the documentary that the extremist organization kidnaps hostages, mining and gold in exchange for weapons has been restored to the movie. The small details of the hostages running while sweeping away the footprints behind them have become the finishing touch to increase the authenticity of the film.

The impressive "bullet market" in the film is transformed and built based on the real local market. In war-torn zones, buying and selling guns and weapons is as easy as buying vegetables in the market, forming unique characteristics. Locals also love playing football very much and even make their own football from cloth, because it is one of the few cheap and convenient ways of entertainment. These humanistic ecology is truthfully reflected in the film, allowing the audience to intuitively feel the vastness of the world, but also making the film's true texture higher. The director of the Olympic bid lamented: "The extremists in the real situation are more brutal and their methods are more extreme than what our films show." Even so, I still hope to use the most sincere creation to approach the most authentic restoration. Behind this pursuit of reality, there is also hidden the director's creative motivation-war has deeply affected every ordinary person on this scorched earth. This influence is far deeper and longer than imagined.

Real blasting, mobilization, real response, transnational team tacit collaboration, desert forbidden area, hard core real shot

War is far away in the lives of the vast majority of us, and we cannot immediately have a real perception of this scorched earth. How to give the most accurate emotions and reactions, so that the audience can believe or even truly plug in everything the characters experience in the film, is the top priority for the actors 'performance. On the premise of ensuring the absolute safety of the cast and crew, the crew chose to use blank shells with their warheads removed to shoot at close range during shooting, allowing the actors to gradually adapt to the war environment of bullets, and using realistic gunshots and blasting to drive the instinctive reactions of the bodies, providing the actors with an extremely immersive performance space and an immersive feeling of watching the movie.

The gold mine bombing drama is one of the highlights of the film, and the explosion points all over the mountains and fields are full of shock. Such large-scale blasting scenes often only have one opportunity to shoot and require repeated drills to ensure that the shooting is safe, accurate and foolproof. This requires efficient running-in and tacit cooperation from the whole crew. The harsh shooting conditions also set considerable challenges for the crew. Located in the Sahara Desert in North Africa, the surface temperature in summer reaches more than 50 degrees. Even the machines need to be protected from sun and cooled down. The crew's cameras even showed unprecedented high temperature warning signals. Based on the real high temperature environment, the actor's style has also been adjusted accordingly. Chapped lips, sunburn face, and peeling neck make people feel the fear of extreme dehydration even through the screen. The film's official pre-sales screening opens today. Audiences will be able to find out in advance on December 24 and 25, and experience the ultimate story of this ordinary overseas people surviving in the midst of raging war and extremist organizations on the big screen.

The film "Where to Use" is produced by Bad Monkey (Shanghai) Cultural Communication Co., Ltd., Shanghai Chinese Film Co., Ltd., Wanda Film and Television Media Co., Ltd., China Film Industry Group Co., Ltd., Yuye (Shanghai) Culture Media Co., Ltd., Xinjiang Bonarze Culture Media Co., Ltd., Beijing Shangshi Culture Group Co., Ltd., Sichuan Shangshi Film Co., Ltd., Beijing Jingxi Cultural Tourism Co., Ltd., Horgos Sorry Film and Television Culture Co., Ltd., Produced by Beijing Shengshi Chinese Film Co., Ltd., Beijing Bad Monkey Cultural Industry Development Co., Ltd., Diplomatic Film and Television Media Co., Ltd., Haining Darling Film and Television Culture Media Co., Ltd., Banshan (Shanghai) Culture Media Co., Ltd., Horgos Somerouyun Film and Television Culture Communication Co., Ltd., Beijing Jincheng Culture Media Co., Ltd., Beijing Shangfeng Film and Television Media Co., Ltd., Beijing Weimeng Chuangke Network Technology Co., Ltd., supervised by Ning Hao, directed the Olympic bid, Xu Luyang serves as the screenwriter, with Xiao Yang, Qi Xi, Ren Dahua and Zheng Kai leading the lead roles. The national screening will be held on December 24 and 25, 2025 from 18:00 to 22:00, and will be released on December 31 for the New Year.