China Entertainment 1997.

chapter 487
In early December 2006, the 12rd Golden Horse Awards were held in Taiwan Province

"New World" won [Best Film], and [Best Director] was won by Chen Kexin with "If Love".

After Sun Honglei lost the Golden Statue, he finally proved himself at the Golden Horse Awards. He won [Best Supporting Actor] for his role as Ding Qing in "New World", and Xie Xinying won [Best Supporting Female].

It is worth mentioning that "Crazy Stone" was shortlisted for [Best Director], [Best Original Screenplay] and [Best Film], but only one [Best Original Screenplay] was awarded in the end.

As for "Painted Skin", although the final box office reached over 5 million yuan, except for one young master Zhou who was shortlisted for "Best Actress", it did not receive other important nominations, mainly behind-the-scenes awards such as special effects, photography, and costumes.

Also treated in the same way is "The Banquet", which basically didn't get any important nominations.

It is normal for this kind of non-deep plot-oriented commercial production to be unpopular in terms of awards. Everyone knows that even if they are nominated, it is difficult to compete with those literary or plot-oriented films.

The same is true this time, the contest for the actress ended with "Painted Skin" losing to "If Love".

But what is gratifying is that the nominations of the two films are all Zhou Gongzi, who beats his left hand with his right hand, but after all, the fat water does not flow to outsiders.

Zhou Gongzi also won the Golden Statue and Golden Horse this year with "If Love", becoming one of the few double golden actresses in the Chinese film industry.

If it is said that last year's female artists had the strongest momentum, it was the international chapter.

Winning the Golden Statue, holding the Golden Statue + Mainland Grand Slam Best Actress (Golden Rooster, Hundred Flowers, Huabiao), starring in "Memoirs of a Geisha" with a global box office of over [-] million US dollars, nominated for the Golden Globe Award Best Actress, and entering Hollywood.

This year's Mr. Zhou, after winning the Golden Horse and the Golden Statue, starred in two major commercial productions that exceeded 5 million yuan, especially "Painted Skin" broke the box office of [-] million yuan, setting a new record in film history, and even overshadowed last year's international chapter.

After all, no matter how good "Memoirs of a Geisha" is, most domestic audiences can't experience it, and "Painted Skin" broke the film history record of 5 million box office, but it is really in front of us.

And considering that the word-of-mouth of the two films is very different, the popularity of the actors is also quite different.

So even if the international chapter entered Hollywood, many people still support Mr. Zhou as the number one actress in China, and the two formed a double-flower rivalry.

Frankly speaking, the current international chapter has a higher level of achievement and status.

Both of them are double golden actresses in the awards, and they are barely evenly matched. The box office performance of Mr. Zhou is obviously inferior. The only ones that can win are "Painted Skin" and "Night Banquet".

And the international chapter has also acted in "The Banquet", Lao Mouzi's "House of Flying Daggers", the heroine, the second female lead in "Hero", and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Rush Hour 2", "Memoirs of a Geisha" " and other Hollywood movies, the cumulative total box office is very high.

After entering Hollywood, her status in the industry and international influence have also increased.

Zhou Gongzi may not be far behind the international chapter in the Chinese film industry, but it is not enough to spread overseas.

But the international chapter has a fatal flaw, that is, poor popularity among passers-by, and Mr. Zhou's popularity with passers-by is the strongest among the four female roles, and even Hu Jing is a little bit worse.

After all, her acting skills are here, the biggest flaw is that she has too many love stories, but she is also aboveboard, has a pleasing personality, and doesn't like to be a monster, so she is still very popular with the audience.

In fact, Hu Jing is not controversial. She is not a monster, has good acting skills, has a cheerful and generous personality, and her works are of a certain standard. She is usually very low-key, and there is almost no negative news.

However, most of her various achievements are difficult to get rid of Cao Xuan's figure, so in the eyes of many people, Hu Jing relies on Cao Xuan's superiority, luck and background are more important than strength.

It may not matter compared to other people, but compared to Mr. Zhou, a talented player who kills purely by strength, it is still worse.

A certain Zhao was supposed to be the best in nationality, but because of all kinds of death, he made himself a controversial figure.

So far in the international chapter, there are no major black spots, but there are still minor problems, and there are few fans of other Huadan TV dramas, resulting in the fewest fans and extremely low popularity.
Many people may recognize her acting skills and achievements, but they just don't have much positive affection for her.

Not to mention the inside of the four major female roles, even if all the four female roles are added up, she is still at the bottom...

However, in this kind of competition for status in the industry, apart from personal resume, popularity is the most important thing.

Without enough loyal fans and a wide range of favors and recognition from passers-by, it is not so difficult to fight for the boss.

Therefore, even if the achievements of the international chapter are higher, in the eyes of the domestic Internet and even some media, Mr. Zhou is the one that everyone expects.

Even if Hu Jing can win one of the three gold actresses, the international chapter will have to add another strong enemy.

Zhou Gongzi, who has two nominations, won the best actress, but Cao Xuan, who was regarded as the most popular actor of this year's Golden Horse Best Actor, was unexpectedly defeated by "Father and Son" Guo king of heaven.

And Cao Xuan didn't attend the awards ceremony just because he had to deal with his grandma's funeral, which added another topic to this matter.

Sure enough, after the Golden Horse Awards Ceremony, the Best Actor's surprise caused an uproar and became the first headline of this year's Golden Horse Awards.

Many people complained about Cao Xuan.

After all, "New World" and "Infernal Affairs" are equally famous, and even surpassed the box office by a large margin. It is regarded as one of the pinnacle works of post-Hong Kong films in the new century.

In "Infernal Affairs" Liang Chaowei won the Golden Horse and Golden Statue in succession, and this year's Cao Xuan should also be regarded as the most popular actor for the two awards.

Especially at the Golden Statue Awards in April this year, Cao Xuan made an unprecedented breakthrough in history. After becoming the first non-Hong Kong Golden Statue actor, everyone firmly believed that Cao Xuan would win the Golden Horse again and become the first in the history of the Chinese film industry. Three gold movie kings.

As a result, the Golden Horse Awards came with a big upset.

In an instant, various conspiracy theories emerged one after another. Some people revealed that it was because Cao Xuan did not come to accept the award, so he was canceled as the best actor. Some even suspected that the Golden Horse Awards did not want mainland actors to be a grand slam, so they deliberately suppressed Yun Yun.

The Golden Horse Awards Organizing Committee was forced to issue an explanation and clarification, but it still did not quell the outside discussion.

This year's Golden Horse Award is destined to become a huge award controversy in its history...

As for the results of the Golden Horse Awards, Cao Xuan never responded.

The selection of awards is inherently subjective, and it is really hard to tell. After all, he played well in "New World", but Guo Tianwang's performance in "Father and Son" is definitely not bad.

Big favorites get upset every year, Cao Xuan has blown others up, and made people blow up too.

The most important thing is that Cao Xuan learned from various sources that the Golden Horse Awards did not deliberately suppress him. It can only be said that this year's judges prefer literary films.

Several important awards are basically literary films, and almost all commercial films have failed. New World is already alone if it can win one [Best Picture] and [Best Actor].

Cao Xuan is definitely not willing to be raped by a shady, but he is not someone who can't afford to lose normally.

Moreover, compared to the death of his grandmother at this time, it is really difficult for Cao Xuan to devote much energy to the loss of the Golden Horse. Even if he won the three gold Grand Slams, he would not be happy.

From the beginning to the end, Cao Xuan didn't pay attention to the problem of the golden horse. Apart from accompanying his parents and taking care of Nishinomiya, other tasks were temporarily put aside.

If it weren't for seeing Sun Lan and his wife watching Zeng Li's bulging stomach, they were in a good mood and dispelled the sadness of the death of their grandmother, Cao Xuan might have declined even the invitation of the director team of this year's Spring Festival Gala.

At the same time, Cao Xuan also missed this year's American Music Awards and Billboard Awards again because of this matter.

Two awards, however, did not ignore him.

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The album "Legend" almost dominated the Billboard in the first half of 2006.

Accumulated top 24 singles list for 19 weeks, top 6 albums for 50 weeks, [-] songs in the list for more than [-] weeks.

Among them, "Rolling in the Deep" won the championship for 10 weeks, second only to "Sugar" for 11 weeks.

These two songs are also Cao Xuan's only two songs that have won the Billboard Singles Chart for more than 10 weeks.

At the same time, Cao Xuan also became the first male singer in the history of the billboard to have two songs at the top of the singles chart for ten weeks. Before that, only female singers or groups such as Niu Jie and Black Eyed Peas had such achievements.

"What are words" won the championship for 6 weeks, the two songs "Roar" and "Skin" won the championship for 3 weeks respectively, and "Monsters" broke out for the last time and won the championship for 2 weeks in total.

And the previous album "Release" won the singles chart for 13 weeks and the album chart for 6 weeks.

24 + = 13 37
19 + = 6 25
Purely counting sales, the album charts with a slightly lower gold content are placed in the average. Cao Xuan's number of weeks at the top of the Billboard singles chart is exactly 37 weeks, which is exactly the same as Michael Jackson's record.

Although this is not the first time that Cao Xuan equaled or surpassed Michael Jackson's achievement or record, but every time a similar situation occurs, there is still a lot of media hype.

Especially in Asia, it is difficult to compare several hall-level bands, and Michael Jackson is the most well-known and most influential.

Comparing Cao Xuan with Michael Jackson can make many readers and melon eaters feel Cao Xuan's achievements most intuitively.

The album "Legend" has been on the list since January, and the first song won the championship in February. At the peak, all the songs in the album were on the list, and won the first place in the double list. Eight songs were in the top ten at the same time. The top five on the Billboard singles chart, monopolizing the top spot on the Billboard singles chart for more than two months, breaking records one after another...

Throughout the first half of 2006, the European and American music circles were basically under the shadow of "Legend".

It wasn't until after August that the popularity of the album subsided, no song won the championship again, and the rankings gradually declined. Only then did the American music scene, which had been suppressed for more than half a year, barely return to normal.

In the words of the editor-in-chief of Billboard Magazine——

"Cao's talent is unbelievable, and the achievements of "Legend" need not be repeated too much. There is no doubt that it is the greatest album since the 21st century, and even one of the greatest albums in the history of pop music, just like the name of the album. , it is a legend."

Not to mention, the sales performance of "Legend" is terrifying. It only took about half a year to break through 2000 million sales, becoming the recognized global annual sales champion in 2006.

And as of the end of 2006, "Legend" has almost 2700 million +, surpassing the masterpieces of Linkin Park and Jones Nora.

For the album after the new century, only the Beatles' new century best album and Eminem's peak work are ranked ahead of it with 3000 million+.

Judging from the current trend, it is hard to say whether it can surpass these two albums, but there is a high chance that the total sales volume of the album will exceed 3000 million.

"Legend" is destined to become a hallowed album in the history of world pop music.

Under such circumstances, it doesn't matter whether Cao Xuan is Chinese or not. If any music award dares to ignore "Legend", it will throw its credibility on the ground and step on it.

So no matter whether Cao Xuan came to accept the award or not, he was very effective in the two awards.

Among them, in the Billboard Awards, Cao Xuan defeated American diva Blige, who is also a big hit, and won [Artist of the Year], [Male Singer of the Year], [Album of the Year], [Single of the Year], [Best Song of the Year] Pop single] 5 important awards.

The most pitiful thing is the newcomer singer Chris Brown, who is Rihanna's ex-boyfriend who claims to be 25 centimeters.

This singer performed well this year, and won three important awards in the original time and space, but now with Cao Xuan, he was crushed in a mess, and only won one [Best Newcomer].

It is worth mentioning that Rihanna won the "Female Singer of the Year" at this year's Billboard Awards, and I don't know if the two got married at this time.

It is worth mentioning that due to various reasons, the Billboard Awards intends to stop running next year, and the original time and space will not resume until 2011.

Cao Xuan has caught up with the early episodes, if the album is released a year later, it will take 5 years to win this award.

Cao Xuan became the big winner at the Billboard Awards, and the American Music Awards were also full.

Since the American Music Awards are largely based on sales volume, that is to say, whoever sells the most can easily win the award, which happened to hit Cao Xuan's strengths.

【Most Popular Pop/Rock Male Singer】, 【Most Popular Pop/Rock Album】, 【Most Breakthrough Artist Award】.

It's a pity that the United States prefers to classify and present awards according to genres such as pop, rock, soul, rap, dance, country, etc. Otherwise, Cao Xuan would have won all the important awards in one go.

Prior to this, Cao Xuan had been nominated many times for the American Music Awards, but he never won an award. Until this year, he won 3 awards and finally collected all three major American pop awards.

Among them, 6 Grammys, 3 American Music Awards, 5 Billboard awards this year, and 2 awards last time for "Release", a total of 7 awards, plus 2 Brit Awards.

When Cao Xuan's awards are put out, he can envy a large number of European and American singers.

The most important thing is that this year's Grammy and Brit Awards have not started yet.

The extraordinary performance of "Legend" made everyone think that Cao Xuan is a big hit at the Grammys this year, and he is expected to win several Brit Awards.

To use the "Los Angeles Times" jokingly, Cao Xuan's music trophy this year can be packed in a sack, and the real award will be soft...

Originally, Cao Xuan's fans were aggrieved by the loss of the Golden Horse Awards, and many good friends also wanted to call Cao Xuan to comfort him.

As a result, seeing the continuous news of awards from overseas, I swallowed all my words.

I haven't even left the country, maybe who will comfort whom!
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On December 12, "Curse of the Golden Armor" will be released

It still continued the fate of Chen and Feng, and Lao Mouzi was sprayed head-on and face-to-face.

I feel that apart from the acting skills of Fa Ge and Gong Li, the only thing worthy of praise in the film is the dense... waves on the screen, so the film is also nicknamed "The City is Full of Big XX".

But there is one thing to say, compared with "The Promise" and "The Banquet", this movie is not that bad. Although it is not a classic, it still has a lot of merits.

However, Lao Mouzi's film reputation in the past two years has been extremely controversial, with some approving it and some disdain it, resulting in a huge difference in the evaluation of "Curse of the Golden Flower".

However, even so, because "The Promise" is too much of a drag, although Lao Mouzi's new work is not well-known, it is really a turnaround.

And the same as the ending of many big productions, although the word-of-mouth of "Curse of the Golden Armor" is not consistent, the box office performance is excellent, and it is not generally good.

The box office exceeded [-] million in the first week, becoming the second film after "Painted Skin" to exceed [-] million in the first week.

Although the subsequent performance was not as long-lasting as "Painted Skin", it was not like "The Promise", which collapsed immediately after the first week, and the stamina was still sufficient.

The second week was almost 7000 million. Although the third week was only 4000 million, it was approved for an extension, but it was slightly less than "Painted Skin", and it was only postponed for 20 days.

But even so, with this momentum going on, "Curse of the Golden Flower" has a high probability of breaking 3 million at the box office.

This is not surprising. The original Time and Space movie had a box office of 2.9 million. Now that there are star-studded theaters, the market has expanded.

Although Cao Xuan didn't like Boss Zhang in the new screen, he had a good relationship with Lao Mouzi. The director of "Three Kingdoms·Chibi" alone had to give him face.

Besides, Fanxing didn't have any movies released in December, and the movie schedule must be given priority to those who can make money.

Cao Xuan didn't make any special instructions, Fanxing Cinemas arranged normally, and definitely wouldn't target this movie, and would even increase resources to make more money at the box office.

After all, according to the cooperation of the movie "Golden Armor in the City", according to the cooperation, the total box office in the mainland of 3 million + can be divided into about 52%.

Fanxing Cinemas currently ranks second in the mainland, slightly ahead of the New Film Federation. Its theaters and screens account for between 10% and 15% of the total mainland cinema market, and all of them are high-quality cinemas.

As I said before, theaters cannot be calculated simply by the number of theaters/screens.

Especially in 2006, the market has not yet sunk, and the box office that third- and fourth-tier cities and towns below can provide is extremely limited.

In many cases, the annual box office of a large theater in Beijing or Shanghai can even exceed the total box office of theaters in one or more prefecture-level cities.

There are dozens of theaters in Fanxing Cinemas, most of which are located in second-tier cities or above. Perhaps there are not many theaters in several large theaters, but the box office data has always been at the forefront.

The movie "Golden Flowers in the City" is expected to win 3 million+ box office, many of which are in northern + second-tier cities, which is exactly the focus of the layout of the official star theater chain.

Fanxing Cinemas' income from this movie is too much to say, but it is estimated to be 2000-3000 million.

With the gradual rise of the Fanxing theater chain, Cao Xuan is no longer limited to the movies of Fanxing Entertainment. Under the premise of competition in different periods, he hopes that more and more high-grossing movies will appear.

After all, the higher the box office, the more money he makes.

The total box office in 2006 exceeded RMB 32 billion, an increase of nearly RMB 10 billion compared with last year.

Although almost half of them are brought by "Painted Skin", it can also be seen that the domestic market is constantly soaring.

According to the 50% to 55% share of the theaters, the 32 billion theaters can be divided into at least 17 billion.

With the second-ranked theater scale + high-quality theaters as the main force at the box office, Fanxing Cinemas is expected to divide 17% to 15% of the 20 billion. After conversion, it is about 3 million.

Except for very special circumstances, the theaters under Fanxing Cinemas are basically self-built and self-operated, that is to say, the theaters and land are all their own.

This is also the reason for the high investment of Fanxing Cinemas. Other theaters only pay for decoration, equipment and labor costs. Fanxing Cinemas buy land to build themselves or buy a building to convert into a theater. The cost is naturally not the same level.

Although the cost is high, the benefits are many.

One is that it can save rent. If the theaters are all leased, dozens of theaters in cities above the first and second tiers can easily cost tens of millions of rent a year, and the price is still skyrocketing.

Tens of millions this year, and in a few years, it may reach hundreds of millions...

After all, many Star Cinemas are located in the business district or central area of ​​the city. The rent is so high and the changes are so fast that Boss Cao grinds his teeth.

They still make money ruthlessly! ! !

Now most of the cinemas of Fanxing Cinemas are self-operated and self-built, and the major expenses of the cinemas can be saved, and the annual profits will be more considerable.

Moreover, the land of the house is a major asset, and Fanxing Theaters has a very high evaluation. It can also borrow from the bank based on this, which is something that many theaters cannot do.

Not to mention the future appreciation space of these land houses, the core areas of first- and second-tier cities, no matter how high the current investment is, there will be no loss if the money is invested.

When Fanxing first started to develop, some people laughed at Cao Xuan as stupid. After all, he came from the countryside, with low vision and no courage. Now it is 2007, and domestic housing prices have begun to rise.

Seeing that the overall market value of Fanxing Cinemas has been soaring due to self-built and self-operated, many people have already started to shut up, and it is estimated that in a few years, they should slap themselves with regret.

If this group of people knew that Cao Xuan had already stockpiled a batch of buildings or land suitable for building cinemas in many cities at a low price, he would probably die of sourness alive...

With the development of the mainland film market, this year's Fanxing Cinemas' revenue of 3 million is just the beginning.
Not to mention other things, as long as we continue to increase the weight and keep killing the current market share of more than 10%, in the future, Fanxing Theater will become a large enterprise with an annual income of tens of figures and a market value of tens of billions.

It's a pity that he can't copy Wanda's business model, and he doesn't want to copy it, otherwise Wanda will be cut off and Fanxing Cinemas will be the industry leader.

However, Cao Xuan's goal is the cultural industry, not commercial real estate. Starry theaters are enough, and he doesn't want to become a king.

However, pretending to be coercive can still be discussed.

Cao Xuan from an ordinary family is very close, and even a good friend. He often visits Cengfan. Brother Xiaoma got married two years ago, and he was the best man.

I have also met Jack Ma a few times, and his words are quite mysterious, but I have never heard that he regrets founding Ali. Brother Dong is not familiar with him. He only met him once, and he didn’t realize that he was face blind. The attitude is very friendly.

JD.com is short of money at this stage, and Cao Xuan is one of the best investors on the Internet, and he has money and a good reputation.

Cao Xuan, who is a big force, knows how to live, but Lao Wang has never had the chance to meet him. He really wants to meet each other. Let's see if 5 million is a mean thing for Lao Wang today.

There is also Young Master Wang, in terms of age, seniority, and property strength, although Boss Cao is only ten years older than him, it is not too much to call him a nephew.

Not to mention, Cao Xuan was quite looking forward to seeing his elder nephew...

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