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Chapter 828 Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance ([-] updates every day, please subscribe~)

When entering March, it is the busiest festival in Los Angeles.

First of all, the NCAA March Madness began, and UCLA, a prestigious school in Los Angeles, is a frequent visitor to the NCAA March Madness.

In North America, the craziness of the NCAA even exceeds that of the NBA. When it comes to the NCAA finals, the NBA does not have any games scheduled for the day.

For Hollywood, the month of March means that the selection of the Academy Awards has begun, and various film production companies have also started throwing money to win votes for their films!

The selection of Oscars is somewhat different from that of other film festivals.

At this time, the Oscars selected award-winning works in two rounds. First, the film production companies sent their own films to the Oscars for selection.

In the first round, the nomination method is adopted, and the various departments under the academy are responsible for the nominations. The nominated films will be screened in the academy headquarters in turn in the second round, and all members of the academy will vote in the second round after viewing. The film's award is determined by the number of votes received.

The Oscar judging body is not complicated in general terms. It is divided into two levels of pyramid form. The highest level is the academy chairman jury, and the academy branch jury is set up under it.

The members of the chairman jury learn from 14 branches: Actors Association, Directors Association, Art Direction Association, Photography Association, Artists Association, Screenwriters Association, Film Executives Association, Film Editing Association, Film Production Association, Music Association, Recording Association , Public Relations Society, Short and Feature Animation Society, Visual Effects and Authors Society were selected among them.

Except for the chairman of the bureau from the Film Editing Association, the other members are composed of three representatives from each of the remaining associations.

Officers of the bureau include the chairman, the first vice-chairman, two vice-chairmen, the treasurer and the secretary-general.

The administrative activities of the college are mainly carried out under the supervision of an executive officer appointed by the president of the college.

The term of office of the members of the presidium is one year, and no more than three consecutive terms in the same position.

The main conditions for the appointment of the Bureau members are your contribution and reputation in this industry, and the recommendation of at least two serving members.

In addition to the professional judges, the jury of branch societies under the presidium also includes a large team of voluntary members. Each branch has 6000 to [-] voluntary members. This is actually the real source of Oscar’s influence.

In other words, some actors and directors are actually qualified for selection, and this involves whether everyone's circle of friends works or not.

Wu Jianye also came to Los Angeles at this time.

Originally, the main creator of the movie "The World of Chu Xing" also came here with Wu Jianye, but because they each have their own jobs now, they can't come to Los Angeles until the day of the Oscars ceremony.

After Wu Jianye came to Los Angeles, he went directly to the estate in Beverly Hills.

Li Xiuming and Wu Luoxin were already waiting here.

Because the separation time was not long before, Wu Luoxin wasn't too surprised to see Wu Jianye this time.

Instead, he asked his two 'little brothers', Wu Nianyi and Wu Qichen, why they didn't come with Wu Jianye.

After spending a day with their mother and son at home, Wu Jianye came to the Phantom Media Building!
The Phantom Media Building is located in Phantom Studios, and construction sites can be seen everywhere, showing how busy the place is. At this time, for Phantom Studios, the most important project is actually the theme park of Jurassic Park. I have to complain here. America's construction speed.

If it was changed to another country, such a project would have been completed long ago, but if it was changed to the United States, it took more than two years to build it, but it was not completed.

But it's almost there now, and it will be officially launched together with "Jurassic Park 2"!
The entire Phantom Studios is divided into many parts, and the Phantom Media Building belongs to one of them.

After Wu Jianye came here, he saw a lot of staff coming and going.

Many people also saw Wu Jianye.

Everyone also knows that Wu Jianye's coming to Hollywood this time must be for the movie "The World of Chu Xing" to participate in the Oscars.

Wu Jianye's identity in Phantom has always been a mystery. Everyone knows that Wu Jianye has a decisive influence in Phantom, but there are not many people who really know Wu Jianye's identity in Phantom.

The entire Phantom Media knows about this matter with no more than one hand!
No matter what company you are in, there are levels, even Phantom Media, and the differences between these levels are often reflected in small details.

For example, in Phantom Media, even the elevators have their own levels. Only the top floors of the group and the elevators that the heads of various branches can take are independent.

Wu Jianye took out his work ID, directly opened the elevator that symbolizes rights in Phantom Media, and went directly to the floor of Phantom Films.

"Director Wu, you are finally here!"

Matthew Murphy was already waiting for Wu Jianye in the office.

After Wu Jianye went to the sofa and sat down, he asked with a smile, "What's going on now?"

Matthew Murphy quickly said: "The company has already done all the public relations that should be done, and at the same time, a special public relations team has been set up for "The World of Chu Xing", and the influence of this movie in North America has always been higher than that of the other three movies. , the possibility of winning is very high!"

With this answer, Wu Jianye was already satisfied.

As for the public relations fees for the movie "The World of Chu Xing", Wu Jianye didn't feel anything wrong at all.

This is the unspoken rule in this industry!
Wu Jianye is also not interested in confronting Hollywood's unspoken rules, this place is just a transit point for him after all!

Then Matthew Murphy reported to Wu Jianye about the recent situation of Phantom Pictures.

In fact, when Wu Jianye came to North America to promote "The World of Chu Xing" last year, he had already reported it, but Matthew Murphy still picked a few recent major events and reported them to Wu Jianye.

The most important event for Phantom Films this year is of course the release of the new film "True Lies" by James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

James Cameron, like Wu Jianye and Jiang Yun, are directors with a particularly long shooting cycle. When Wu Jianye was filming "The World of Chu Xing", James Cameron was working on the script of "True Lies" .

Still working on the script.

Wu Jianye doesn't want to judge how a director shoots movies. He not only agrees with Wang Jing's quick shooter, but also appreciates James Cameron's rigorous work attitude.

Both sides can't say who is good and who is bad, as long as you are satisfied!

What's more, they are all worthy of their investors, and Wang Jing in the early stage is also worthy of his audience.

After chatting for a while, Wu Jianye got up and left. He came here this time to familiarize himself with the operation of "Chu Xing's World".

By the way, show your face in front of the higher-ups.

Wu Jianye didn't go to Linda's office. At this time, Linda was not in Los Angeles but flew to England. Although the subsidiaries of Phantom Media are enough to form their own closed loop.

But after all, it has only been established for a few years, and there is still a lot of internal work to be done. Linda is busy with these things now.

In the next few days, Wu Jianye's life suddenly became leisurely.

However, this leisure did not last long.

The 65th Academy Awards will be held on the 29th of this month. When the time came to the 28th, Wang Xiaoshuai, Zhou Xingchi, He Qing, Chen Hong, Zhang Guoli and others also came to Los Angeles one after another.

Only Zhao Fei, who was busy selecting locations for his new movie, did not come.

That night, Wu Jianye hosted a banquet in the manor for them.

Zhou Xingchi looked at Chen Hong for a long time, and suddenly said: "Chen Hong, my new movie is about to start shooting, do you want to star in it?"

Regarding Zhou Xingchi's invitation, Chen Hong was slightly taken aback for a moment, but then smiled happily and asked, "Can I?"

Zhou Xingchi did not answer Chen Hong, but looked at Wu Jianye. According to Zhou Xingchi's current influence in Xiangjiang, even Fengge Films would give him full respect.

In fact, Fengge Films respects every actor, director, screenwriter, and other behind-the-scenes personnel under its umbrella.

When Jiang Zhiqiang took over Fengge Films, Wu Jianye told Jiang Zhiqiang that these creators should be given full autonomy.

Film is an industry based on creative output. Only when they are given full autonomy can they inspire greater creative passion.

This is also the reason why Fengge Films can still occupy the top spot in Xiangjiang without the support of Wu Jianye's script.

Zhou Xingchi is now the top star of Fengge Films, even more so. Now Fengge Films no longer cares much about the film projects led by Zhou Xingchi.

This is trust!
In the past, other film companies in Xiangjiang often manipulated the box office in other cities. Although they said that they had increased the influence of movie stars in other cities, they could not get a more suitable box office share at all.

Of course, not every movie star can get a share of the box office, but the box office in other places directly determines a movie star's salary.

When Fengge Films did not appear, Hong Jinbao was the top boss in the industry, but he still didn't have much say in front of Golden Harvest. At that time, Hong Jinbao was extremely famous in Southeast Asia.

But Golden Harvest dared to say that the box office of the movie starring Hong Jinbao in Southeast Asia was only one Hong Kong dollar!

Can you believe this?

This led to why Hong Jinbao frequently set up his own film company, just to get involved.

And Zhou Xingchi has seen through these problems. After Zhou Xingchi became famous, I only need a high salary. As for the box office share, there is no need.

This is why many people say that Zhou Xingchi's movie pay is high!
From Wu Jianye's point of view, this is completely an act of fishing out the water.
Fengge Films gave these movie stars full respect, and disclosed the movie's box office in Southeast Asia in an extremely transparent manner, so that these top movie stars who are qualified to participate in the movie share have a full sense of participation.

Mutual benefit is the long-term development of the industry!

Wu Jianye smiled: "I believe in your vision, if you think Chen Hong is suitable, and Chen Hong also wants to participate in your movie, I have no objection here!"

The smile on Chen Hong's face became brighter and brighter.

Zhou Xingchi thought for a while and explained: "You also participated in the filming of a Xiangjiang movie before, and you should know that the shooting environment of Xiangjiang is different from the domestic shooting environment, and the same is true for my movie, so there are some things that you have to understand. One psychological preparation, that is my film shooting, I will have a lot of fun, actors themselves should not pay too much attention to their own image!"

For Zhou Xingchi, the previous "Chu Xing's World" allowed him to see the dividends of the domestic film market, so he naturally wanted to find domestic actors to star in his own movie.

The cooperation with Chen Hong was quite pleasant before, but when he saw Chen Hong today, he immediately remembered it!

Chen Hong smiled and said, "It's okay, I've seen your movie and know what style it is, so I can adapt to it!"

Zhou Xingchi nodded and said, "Director Wu, there is one more thing to trouble you!"

Wu Jianye looked at Zhou Xingchi with a smile, and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Before, the company's idea was to let Gong Li be the lead actress in this movie, but I talked with Gong Li, she was a little worried about her image, now"

Wu Jianye understood what Zhou Xingchi meant, and said with a smile, "Okay, I'll tell the company about this!"

Chen Hong was a little curious and asked Zhou Xingchi's new movie what kind of theme it was.

Sure enough, as Wu Jianye expected, the new movie Zhou Xingchi was talking about was one of his masterpieces, "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance"!
In another time and space, the heroine of this movie is Gong Li, although the whole movie still looks so funny, it even became one of Zhou Xingchi's classic works.

But careful audiences can find that Gong Li's performance actually doesn't match the style of the whole movie.

Even Gong Li herself admitted that when she participated in this movie, she was really worried about her image, and she didn't let go, and regretted that she didn't let go.

In fact, this is not the first time that Zhou Xingchi and Gong Li have cooperated. Previously, "The Saint of Gamblers 2 Shanghai Bund" directed by Wang Jing and starring Zhou Xingchi was starred by Zhou Xingchi and Gong Li.

If Wu Jianye hadn't appeared, Gong Li would have been the most popular actress in Xiangjiang throughout the 90s.

However, after all, Gong Li seemed out of tune with the atmosphere of Xiangjiang's commercial films.

Although everyone didn't see the script of this movie, they also knew the outline of the story from Zhou Xingchi's description.

Except for Wu Jianye who was more interesting to listen to, after all, during Zhou Xingchi's sermon, Wu Jianye was able to make up the scene at that time, while others could not.

During the period, Zhou Xingchi also gave Zhou Xingchi some opinions based on his own experience, which made Zhou Xingchi very admired.

As for the others, they are not so interested. The culture they accept still doesn't understand Zhou Xingchi's movies.

"Don't worry, Xingzai's movie sounds interesting to me, and it will be a success!" Wu Jianye said conclusively!
Hearing that Wu Jianye is so optimistic about this movie, Chen Hong no longer has any worries.

Compared to Zhou Xingchi, Chen Hong was more willing to believe in Wu Jianye's vision. Since Wu Jianye said it was interesting, there was no problem!
"Then when will we sign the contract?" Chen Hong immediately asked without any worries.

Zhou Xingchi smiled and said, "After the trip here is over!"

Chen Hong nodded.

On the second day, the much-anticipated Oscar Awards ceremony began!

(End of this chapter)