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Chapter 427 Dinner
"Best Picture is, The Artist."

Harvey jumped up from his seat and unconsciously glanced at the "Hunting" crew, his eyes full of provocation: "The best picture is still me."

But he didn't get the response he wanted from Cheng Yu'an's eyes, even if it was an unwilling retaliation.

Cheng Yu'an's eyes were full of calm, which made Harvey feel like he had punched the cotton.

If you change as much as you want, the other party will ignore you at all.

There is nothing more irritating than being ignored.

Almost all entertainment and general news headlines in China today belong to Cheng Yu'an.

The fastest traditional media report was CCTV's "News 30 Minutes" at noon - the time was just right when the best director was awarded.

"News 30 Minutes" urgently extended 10 minutes to report Cheng Yu'an's award.

The Sixth Princess immediately followed up and adjusted the film list for the day, and "Hunting" will be broadcast at 8 pm in prime time.

It has been two months since Long-distance Film and Television went public. In the early stage, the market value reached 750 billion at the highest due to the enthusiasm. Later, the market stabilized and the market value fell back to about 720 billion.

But today, because Cheng Yu'an won the Oscar, since the opening of the market in the afternoon, Long-distance Movies and Television has directly hit the daily limit, and the market value has broken a new high, standing on the 780 billion mark, and the sword is pointing at 800 billion.

Even Golden Harvest Entertainment, which is far away in Hong Kong, also surged by 7%.

Long-distance Technology added fire to the fire and officially announced: "After two years of negotiations and negotiations, Long-distance Technology acquired 2% of the shares of Tudou.com at a price of 5.77 million US dollars and became the largest shareholder of Tudou.com. The founder of Tudou.com Mr. Wang Wei He will continue to serve as CEO and preside over the daily work of the company. At the same time, we will suspend Tudou’s plan to go public on NASDAQ and start the Hong Kong stock listing process.”

"The Hunt" expanded to 3500 theaters in North America.

The global box office reached 1.3 million U.S. dollars-I believe it will not be a problem to reach 3 million box office in the future.

Netflix even spent $4600 million to buy out the North American network copyright and DVD sales of "Hunting".

Cheng Yu'an's fortune brought by an Oscar statuette has increased by more than 80 billion.

After the awards ceremony, there will be a press conference for the crew. After the press conference, there will be an Oscar dinner held by "Vanity Fair", and then there will be a celebration banquet for each company and crew.

After the Oscars, the party night begins.

"Hurry up and eat, I won't have time later." Cheng Yu'an said while serving food for the young lady.

For tonight's award ceremony, Liu Yifei didn't eat anything all day, and only secretly ate the chocolate bar brought by Cheng Yu'an in the theater.

After this battle, Cheng Yu'an has completely established his reputation in Hollywood.

There was an endless stream of visitors at the dinner.

"Cheng, I look forward to working with you." Leonardo raised his glass.It's not that he regrets not accepting "Hunting", but seeing Cheng Yu'an's ability, he thinks that he might be able to get an Oscar statuette for himself.

Of course he doesn't like "The Artist" either, and he also thinks "The Artist" is a movie that flatters the old white male judges.

"Leon, you will definitely win the Oscar, I promise you."

"Thank you."

Leon walked away after saying a few words.

Cheng Lingfeng brought someone to introduce Cheng Yuan.

"This is Jeff Hill from Comcast."

Cheng Yu'an knew him, the former president of NBC Universal International, responsible for the promotion and distribution of overseas movies, and now the head of Comcast Cable Network.

"Cheng, you are our best global partner."

Of course, it is of high quality. Five out of ten films of a major film company worth more than 5000 million are distributed by Universal, and the development of film peripherals is also operated by Universal.

It can be said that the film market has been sluggish in recent years, and a large part of Universal's profits comes from a major film company.

Moreover, if Cheng Yu'an remembers correctly, Universal Pictures will fight among its senior management next year. The current president, Adam Ferguson, will resign in a flash and will be replaced by Jeff Hill.

Cheng Yu'an is not interested in the infighting in Universal, he just wants to know why Jeff came to find him.

"Cheng, I would like to ask you to direct Universal's biggest project next year." Jeff didn't hesitate.

He really didn't know that Cheng Yu'an didn't accept foreign plays.

Cheng Yu'an refused to accept it, but he still chose to listen to Jeff's speech: "Fast and Furious 2300 is in preparation, if you are willing to join, Universal is willing to pay you [-] million US dollars in director's salary."

"Cheng, please agree to my request. Universal is your most loyal partner. We believe that "Fast and Furious" will reach its peak again in your hands."

The "Fast and Furious" series is a project of Vin Diesel, and the director must pass his nod.

"Vin Diesel won't turn down an Oscar for Best Director," Jeff said.

Cheng Yu'an shook her head: "But I'm not interested in "Fast and Furious". There is an old saying in China that one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers. "Fast and Furious" already has Vin Diesel, so I don't want to argue with him because of the filming. "

Vin Diesel is the boss of "Fast and Furious", Cheng Yu'an can't condescend to cater to him.

"Come on, Cheng, Universal needs your friendship." Jeff wanted to win over Cheng Yu'an, the Oscar's best director, for himself to take over Universal's role.

Cheng Yu'an said with a smile: "Universal can try to restart the previous movies to test the market reaction."

Jeff asked: "Cheng, as long as you agree to be the director, you can choose from Universal's film library."

"Jeff, don't embarrass me. I'm just making a suggestion. I don't want to make a movie yet."

"OK, tell me which movie Universal restarted?"

"Jurassic Park is a very good choice."

"Cheng, it's not a wise choice for Universal to temporarily seal Jurassic Park."

The main reason is that the first three films in the "Jurassic" series hit the market better than the other. The box office of the first film was 3.5 million, the second film directly dropped to 2.5 million, and the third film was only 1.6 million. Fortunately, Universal did not mention it. I would like to mention "Jurassic".

In the past two years, Hollywood blockbusters have had a "four-character curse", "Pirates of the Caribbean 4", "Shrek 4", "The Hobbit" after the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, and "Spiderman" in After the old three were restarted, "Transformers" also came to the fourth.

The box office of these films starting with "4" is not as good as the previous ones.

This made the outside world, including Universal itself, lose confidence in the restart of "Jurassic Park".

Otherwise, the original Space-Time Universal would not accept the investment from Legendary Films and Amblin Films.

But Cheng Yu'an knew how terrifying the fourth part of "Jurassic Park", that is, "Jurassic World", had a box office of 16 billion, the third in film history, and the audience still couldn't resist the charm of the big dinosaur.

Cheng Yu'an said: "If Universal doesn't want to do it, you can authorize it to me."

"Are you shooting?"

"No, Jeff, I can invest."

"I need to go back and discuss it."

"Ok."

After Jeff Hill left, Cheng Yu'an said to Cheng Lingfeng: "Tell me about "Jurassic Park", I think this movie will explode. We can cover it within 2 million US dollars."

"So confident?" It's not that he doesn't believe Cheng Yu'an's vision, but that 2 million US dollars is a large amount, and a major film company has never made a film with such a large cost.

"The past two years have been working on small and medium budgets, and it's time to make a blockbuster movie." A major film company has never touched a movie with more than 1 million US dollars since "Inception".

This is also the difficulty for independent production companies, as they have sufficient funds and dare not mess around.

(End of this chapter)