China Entertainment 1997.

Chapter 560 The plastic sisters and Huabiao actor

The box office performance of the upper part of "Three Kingdoms, Red Cliff" is extremely impressive.

The domestic box office was 3.89 million, surpassing Feng Pants' "If You Are the One" to win the 2008 box office champion.

At the same time, it is also No.3 in the mainland box office list so far, second only to "Painted Skin", which broke 5 million, and "Transformers 4.23", which just won 2 million in the summer.

The box office in Japan was 84 billion yen, equivalent to RMB 5.65 million. Japan's 2008 annual box office runner-up, second only to Hayao Miyazaki's "Ponyo on the Cliff".

This data has entered the Top 21 of Japan's total movie box office list since the 30st century, ranking No. 20 six.

The box office in other parts of Asia is also very impressive. After a cumulative conversion, there are almost 2 million yuan in the box office. Several countries have won good rankings, and there are even champions.

The hot box office and good word-of-mouth made the release of the second part of "Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff" extremely optimistic to the outside world.

But even so, "Certificate of Voting Names" is not bad. Everyone feels that even if they can't win, they can at least have the strength to fight.

Especially in the mainland box office, although the upper part of "Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff" approached 4 million, it broke through 3 million in the first week of "Voice of Names", showing a strong momentum. According to the trend, it is not difficult to hit [-] million.

So from the outside world's point of view, the two films should be of the same level, and "Certificate of Fame" is slightly inferior, which is enough threat, enough for a summer war.

But no one expected that the result of this war would be so devastating.

The massive "Voting Certificate" met "Three Kingdoms: Chibi", and there was almost no room to fight back, and was beaten violently.

3469 million on the first day.

Breaking through [-] million in three days.

In the first week, it hit a total of 1.82 million box office.

Refresh the first week box office record just set by "Transformers 2".

The popularity of the lower part of "Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff" has undoubtedly robbed "Certificate of Fame" a lot of exposure and market share.

Originally, according to the trend of 1.35 million box office in the first week of "Voting Certificate", 3 million can be said to be easy, and it is not even hopeless to hit 4 million.

But now it has hit "Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff" head-on, and it has been seriously affected. In the second week, it only had a box office of more than 9000 million.

If things go on like this, this movie will be in the early 3 million at most.

Although it is calculated in terms of cost and performance, "Certificate of Voting" can still be said to be a success.

But it could have been more successful, but now it's a mess, Boss Tan really feels bad.

However, Cao Xuan feels that this cannot be completely blamed on "Three Kingdoms: Chibi".

The tragic ending and depressing style of "Certificate of Fame" itself actually affected the movie's box office ceiling to a certain extent. Of course, this statement is not absolute, but judging from the reputation of all parties, there are indeed factors in this regard.

In fact, Mtime.com's score is slightly higher than that of "Three Kingdoms: Chibi" by 0.2 points, but the box office is no match at all.

Cao Xuan's popularity and the IP bonus of the Three Kingdoms are one side, and the smooth and refreshing plot, as well as the magnificent scenes regardless of cost are also the key.

For the outside world, although the box office of the lower part of "Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff" is hot enough, it is still within everyone's understanding.

The first part is not bad at all, but the second part has more famous scenes and climax scenes, and it also has a popularity bonus. The outside world has previously estimated that as long as the quality collapse is not too bad, 4 million is very sure.

But now it seems that the previous estimate is still a bit conservative. Han Sanye of China Film Group even expressed in an interview that he will catch up with "Painted Skin".

"Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff" China Film is one of the main investors, and the subsequent "Three Kingdoms: Guandu" controlled by it will be involved. Han Sanye is particularly active.

The box office trend of "Voice of Fame" is declining. In fact, there is also the reason why China Film Group arranged for its theaters to give way to "Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff".

If Fanxing is the number one private theater chain, then China Film Group is the giant of mainland theater chains.

[China Film Star Beauty], which is expected to compete for the top three, is controlled by it. The top five [New Film Federation] is one of the important shareholders. [China Film Southern Shinkansen], which ranks second in the South, is also affiliated to China Film. The theater chain and China Film have cooperation and shares.

Of course, in addition to China Film Xingmei’s complete control, other theater chains only have a certain right to participate in decision-making, unlike Fanxing and Wanda.

But this influence is also very big. Cao Xuan likes to cooperate with China Film Group because of its official background and huge theater distribution ability.

But in this way, Xingmei's original advantage in theaters no longer exists. After all, Boss Tan's right to speak is far inferior to Han Sanye.

Boss Qin, who has not yet recovered from the trauma of "Jinling, Jinling", is even more depressed now, and even seriously reacts when he hears the word "Cao" recently.

Li Lianjie and the others also stopped. If you can't beat it, you can't beat it. Cao Xuan has been undefeated in many battles, and it is not shameful to lose, not to mention that the results of "Certificate of Voting" are also very good.

Of course, it's not that no one is happy, such as director Chen Kexin.

"Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff" Lao Mouzi belongs to the name, Huang Jianxin's personal reputation is slightly less, so the three directors who benefit the most from their reputation are Chen Kexin.

Now there is another "Certificate of Fame", Chen Kexin's popularity is growing day by day, and he dare not say that he has surpassed Mr. Xu, and he has become one of the most popular directors in Xiangjiang.

Catch up with Lu Tailang again, Boss Qin valued Chen Kexin more and more, not to mention a few thousand straw hats, he could accept tens of thousands of straw hats with a gritted teeth.

Not only Boss Tan, but also several other companies have their eyes on Chen Kexin. After all, good directors are always a scarce talent. Singmei and Media Asia are trembling during this time, fearing that Chen Kexin will be poached.

Therefore, the benefits given to Chen Kexin by "Martial Arts" have been further improved. Regardless of investment dividends, the simple remuneration is enough to make top famous directors jealous.

A thousand pieces of gold buys a horse bone, if it weren't for Fanxing's good treatment, some people probably would have quit.

Some film and television companies even came out to criticize Xingmei for destroying the atmosphere of the industry by doing so, throwing money at directors and actors, and earning tens of millions for a movie. How does the company make money? How do their bosses buy villas...

Cao Xuan also deeply agrees, but it's not entirely because he doesn't want to spend money.

The key market is limited, and the budget of a play is only so much. The cast and crew get most of it, and the budget for other aspects has to be cut.

The "Salary Limit Order" of later generations has proved that it is not beneficial to blindly increase the salaries of actors and directors. It will not only cause industry involution, but also affect the quality of film and television.

There is nothing wrong with actors wanting to get high prices, but you have to have real skills.

Cheng Long and Cao Xuan, who have their own box office appeal, can't do without paying high prices, but the popularity and influence of many artists are inflated.

For example, Zhen Bullet, he does have a certain appeal, but in the final analysis, so far, he is only the "Ip Man" series.

Other movies don't have a strong appeal, and it can even be said that the performance is poor.

For this, he dared to ask for a salary of 3000 million yuan, and some people agreed that he would not take money as money at all.

Sometimes Cao Xuan really loves and hates these big money. He loves it because their investment has indeed prospered the entertainment market, and hates it because they also destroy the market, leading everyone to be forced to open the book.

In the past two years alone, the average salary of celebrity artists has increased several times, and there is still a lot of room for future increases.

As an actor, Cao Xuan definitely hopes that the higher the salary, the better, but as a company owner, although he will not allow everyone to work for free, he also hopes that the stars' salary can be healthy.

However, he couldn't stop the general trend of the market. Fortunately, Fan Xing had the last confidence to avoid being coerced by this trend.

If Boss Cao spends tens of millions or hundreds of millions on small fresh meat, then he will be a fool all these years...

.........

The box office of the second part of "Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff" has been rising steadily, and the box office performance in Japan is also quite impressive. Cao Xuan plans to go to Japan to add strength.

But before leaving, he has to participate in this year's Huabiao Awards.

The Huabiao Award, jointly founded by many top agencies in the promotional area, is a government award for mainland films. It was established in 1994 and changed to a biennial session after 2005.

In terms of gold content, it is not particularly strong, but it is definitely higher than those second-rate awards. Together with Hundred Flowers and Golden Rooster, it is called the three major film awards in the Mainland.

This year is the No.13 Huabiao Award, just in time for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. As a government award, its meaning is completely different from previous years.

Many celebrities came to join in the big bowl, with a total of over 400, including superstars and first-line big names everywhere.

Cao Xuan had nominated Huabiao Shidi twice before, but he had not won an individual award. This time he was nominated again with "Save Mr. Me", and the chances are still great.

But no matter how big or small, Cao Xuan has to give the Huabiao Award face. Although this award is the weakest in influence and gold content among several authoritative Chinese film awards, the energy behind it is definitely the strongest.

The red carpet of the Huabiao Awards that day was really star-studded, and it can be said that it was the most luxurious red carpet lineup in recent years.

Not to mention, the appearance of the three international superstars Cao Xuan, Cheng Long, and Li Lianjie instantly killed countless films.

Even Master Xing, who never showed up much, rarely came to join him this time.

Lao Mouzi, Chen Dadao, Feng Kuoyu, the three major mainland directors came together, Xu Laoguai, Chen Kexin, Wang Jiawei, the three most outstanding directors of Xiangjiang at present gathered on the red carpet.

The women are even more glamorous. Gong Li, Chen Hong, Maggie Cheung, Guan Zhilin, and Liu Jialing from the older generation, and the Mesozoic four-dan duo are rare, and the new generation Liu Tianxian and other four little flowers are also making their appearances for the first time.

Coupled with other popular big and small flowers, the shutter in the reporter's hand never stopped, and his hand was almost cramp.

After walking through the red carpet, coming to the living room, and avoiding the cameras of the reporters, it will be called a lively event.

"Your dress is so pretty, it looks thin."

Da Mi Mi smiled and looked at Liu Tianxian, full of admiration, Liu Tianxian unceremoniously gave her a blank look, implying that Da Mi Mi is short.

"You like what I gave you as a gift, but it may be a bit long and you can't wear it."

Da Mimi was not discouraged at all, and puffed out her chest on purpose: "It's okay to be longer, but the key is that it's too small, and it really doesn't fit the size?"

"you……"

This gave Liu Tianxian a critical blow. If it wasn't for the public watching, he might have let Da Mimi see his training results.

The big secret is true, her eyes are provocative, even a little eager to try, what's the matter with the training, she was born in the alley since she was a child, and she is bullied casually with this kind of airs.

The two were fighting here, and Huang Shengyi and Wang Luodan beside them also began to confront each other secretly.

The two of them are less well-known, and they are said to be four young actresses, but they are not at the same level as Liu and Yang, and they don't want to stand with them, so as not to be robbed of the limelight.

Behind Wang is the well-known agent Chang Jihong, and behind Huang is Yang Dashao. Each has its strengths and weaknesses, and they are evenly matched.

Every move of the four little Huadans was seen by the Sidan soldiers next to them. Compared with the new generation who still had a little bit of a face, they had seen a lot of real chapters, and they were not so polite in private.

Li Bingbing just looked at the four little Huadan and said with emotion: "It's nice to be young."

Fan Xiaopang next to him couldn't help but sneer: "You are still two years away from 40, why do you feel youthful?"

In Huayi, Mr. Zhou, who was fighting for the first sister and Li Bingbing, made up the knife silently: "Bingbing, Li... the teacher is getting old and easy to be sentimental."

Wen Yan also participated in the international chapter with Huayi recently: "I remember Mr. Li was in 73, six years older than me."

"73 years? I remember Baidu's information is not 75 years... Sorry, I am talking too much."

Fan Xiaopang covered his mouth, looking annoyed that he made a slip of the tongue, his flamboyant acting skills were barely concealed, Li Bingbing's teeth were itchy.

"Okay, let's talk about something else, Ziyi, how does it feel to be a producer for the first time."

In the end, Hu Jing couldn't stand it anymore, so she came out to help Li Bingbing out of the siege, and changed the topic to the movie "Perfect" just released by the International Chapter.

This film was produced by International Zhang himself. Originally, he planned to invite Fan Xiaopang, but Fan Xiaopang, who had no shortage of resources, didn't want to flatter her, so he found Shu Dazui.

The final box office was not bad. It exceeded 3000 million in the first week of release. If it goes well, it can exceed 5000 million. Considering that it is a small investment of less than [-] million, the miscellaneous income should be able to make a small profit.

The international chapter is also somewhat self-satisfied. Artists are just tool people, and actresses will grow old one day. Although they are popular right now, they still have to find a way out for themselves.

The success of trying to play behind the scenes allowed her to accumulate a certain amount of confidence.

Seeing this, several other female stars were also a little thoughtful, but soon, they couldn't help arguing. They were besieging Li Bingbing just now, and now they are pointing their guns at the international******** , I read online that you broke up with that foreigner boyfriend, is it true..."

The Four Dans and Two Soldiers sound like a combination, but in fact their relationship with each other is very ordinary.

Among the few of them, except for Hu Jing who is barely aloof, the others are all competing with each other. If you pick two at random, you can pull out a lot of old scores.

Donggong Niangniang is protected by her husband, and is Fan Xiaopang's boss. She has a good relationship with Mr. Zhou and Li Bingbing, and she is a classmate with International Zhang. She has a high status and good popularity.

But other people are different, they tear up when they meet, and the last time is a wave of yin and yang.

Especially Huayi, the internal divisions are serious, and the fights are fierce.

Fan Xiaopang and Li Bingbing had old grievances in Huayi back then, and had a bad relationship with the International Chapter. They also envied the talent of Young Master Zhou's talent, and liked to fan the flames.

A certain Zhao didn't get involved very much, but it wasn't that Hu Jing was so detached, but was faintly excluded by everyone.

It should be Fan Xiaopang who was excluded in the original time and space, but now she is backed by Fanxing, and she is the actress with the highest commercial value in the entertainment industry, so it is impossible for her to be a marginal person.

And because a certain Zhao was not in the two circles of Huayi and Fanxing, and his film resources were poor in the past two years, he was gradually treated coldly by everyone.

A certain Zhao didn't care about the others. The only ones she wanted to lick were Cao Xuan and Hu Jing, who were devoted to business, but they didn't want to talk to her.

The new generation fights secretly, the Mesozoic generation fights semi-openly, and the older generation like Gong Li is relatively simple.

Basically, there are two modes, good relationship chatting and reminiscing about the old days, and bad relationship never interacting with each other. There is no need to pretend to speak at all, and even give a look.

The actor's side is better in comparison, maybe there is a yin and yang, but Cao Xuan can't feel it.

As soon as he appeared, he was pulled over by many bosses to chat. Occasionally, he ran into a few artists, and they were all quiet and peaceful, which greatly deprived him of the fun of eating melons in real time on the spot.

"Come on, Mo'er."

While chatting with Cheng Long, Zhang Guoli and Jiang Wen led a young man over, and the former greeted him directly.

"Call uncle."

"Don't don't."

Cao Xuan looked at the troubled six sons, and hurriedly waved his hands. This kid was born in 1982, seven years younger than himself, calling him uncle too much.

"Your dad and I are old friends, you can call me brother or teacher."

The six sons took a look at his father, did not dare to die, obediently called "Teacher Cao", and Jiang Wen grabbed Cao Xuan's shoulders.

"Brother, what do you think of him playing the Six Sons?"

Cao Xuan was not surprised by this proposal, but what he was very curious about was, why did Jiang Wen let this performer? Was it purely moved by his acting skills, or was he trying to save Zhang Guoli's face?
"Brother, take a closer look, how similar it is."

Hearing Cao Xuan's doubts, Jiang Wen gestured excitedly to the faces of the six sons. Cao Xuan took a few more glances, and then broke out in a cold sweat.

"Okay, let's do it like this, don't talk about other things, or it will be easy to 404."

Let the six sons play by themselves, they continued to chat, Cao Xuan couldn't hold back the curiosity in his heart, and asked Brother Cheng Long and Zhang Guoli what they thought about the fact that their two sons looked like their brothers.

The two also thought it was fun, and discussed the educational philosophy with each other, while Cao Xuan seriously took notes beside him.

This is the precious experience of the failure of the education of the second generation of stars, and it will be useful to my own children when they grow up...

.........

After being bored for a long time, the Huabiao Awards Ceremony officially started. Both Cheng Long and Zhang Guoli were the hosts, and they took the stage to host.

Cao Xuan and Jiang Wen had a good chat, they immediately changed seats, they got together and continued to talk nonsense, if it wasn't for the awards ceremony, they would have started eating melon seeds.

The Huabiao Awards are not particularly numerous, only about [-], but they are awards covering two years, and there are various categories, so there are still many films nominated for awards, and the awards are very similar to sharing pork.

Well, it's pork...

The "Three Kingdoms: Chibi" series won the "Excellent Film Technology Award" and "Excellent Overseas Chinese Director Award".

Fortunately, the former is basically special effects or special effects, and the latter award is newly established this year.

The director is Chen Kexin, the actor is Zhen Dan, and the actress is Shu Dazui.

It was only later that I realized that I was shy.

Commercial blockbusters like "Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff" are not likable, and there are only two awards. The "Taken" series took advantage of the Sino-US co-production and won the "Excellent Co-production Award".

In addition, the films of the Galaxy system did not win any relevant awards, but Feng Pants and Director Chen won the best director at the same time for "Mei Lanfang" and "Assembly".

The international chapter also won the title of Huabiao Movie Queen together with another actress for "Mei Lanfang".

This is also the international chapter after "House of Flying Daggers" in 2005.After winning Huabiao Film for the second time, I achieved the Golden Rooster, Hundred Flowers, and Huabiao mainland film awards.

This is also the only mainland grand slam among actresses. In terms of awards, the international chapter is definitely the first one!
But today, Cao Xuan did not let her focus on the beauty before, and Cao Xuan succeeded in winning the subsequent Huabiao actor with "Save Mr. My", and Zhang Hanyu of the assembly number was also crowned emperor with him.

The best director, best screenwriter, actor and actress are all double-yolk eggs, but considering that the Huabiao Awards are awarded every two years, they can’t be regarded as double-yolk eggs. It’s more like awarding two years of awards together. .

And Cao Xuan, who won Huabiao, also became the grand slam of the three major film awards in the mainland, but unlike the first one of the international chapter, he had two seniors before him.

One is Gao Ming, who directly achieved the Mainland Grand Slam with "Kong Fansen", and the other is Cao Xuan's master Li Xuejian.

When Cao Xuan was taking pictures with the Huabiao Award, he thought about turning his head and pulling the master, and the master and apprentice would join hands to show off a wave of trophies.

The gold content of Huabiao actor can only be regarded as acceptable. For Cao Xuan, it is more of a sense of accomplishment from successful philately collecting, rather than a surprise.

But it's more lively outside.

Compared with the two seniors Gao and Li, International Zhang and Cao Xuan, who are still at their peak, undoubtedly have the confidence to hit higher honors.

In fact, the two not only won the Grand Slam in the Mainland, but also won the Golden Actor/Actor. The two are now only separated by a Golden Horse trophy.

If they can win the Golden Horse, they can achieve the unprecedented grand slam of the five authoritative film awards of Golden Horse, Golden Statue, Golden Rooster, Hundred Flowers, and Huabiao.

The international chapter is hard to say this year, and we can only rely on "Mei Lanfang" to make a breakthrough, while Cao Xuan's "Save Mr. Me" is a real hit, and it is very hopeful that it will win the Golden Horse at the end of the year.

And Mr. Zhou, who is also the winner of the three gold medals this year, even if he achieves the three gold medals, because he has never won a Huabiao before, he is still short of the Grand Slam.

In fact, before this, this grand slam was not popular at all, and even the so-called three-gold actor/actress, because of the frequent exchanges between the two sides of the strait and the three places in the past two years, and the award of Cao Xuan and others, it slowly became popular. concept.

But the records are all man-made. There was no such saying before, but now that someone can achieve it, the media immediately frantically builds up momentum, and movie fans also eat melons in various ways.

Just as Cao Xuan's achievements such as "Stars Cry, Come to the Stage to Receive Awards", "Three Golden Melody Successes", and "Tiantan Concert" became the best honors in the Chinese music industry, now the five-award Grand Slam is one of the highest honors in the Chinese film industry. .

Perhaps one day Cao Xuan will win another Golden Goblet Award at the Shanghai Film Festival, and the number of Grand Slam trophies will probably increase by one more...

(End of this chapter)