The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 499

"Hey, Mr. Jiang is a rare visitor. I wasn't prepared for this, but I made the leader laugh."

Chen Jingxing hurriedly came to the reception room, shook hands with Jiang Ruoping, the general manager of Guoying, and invited him to his office.

Jiang Ruoping didn't look like a national cadre, but an image of a gentle intellectual wearing glasses.

This is also related to his background. He is also a filmmaker himself, and he graduated from Central Opera.

After Qin Zhonghe retired, Guoying ushered in a new chairman and general manager, and he was the new general manager.

However, although he has been in office for more than a year, he really hasn't had much interaction with Chen Jingxing.

It is undeniable that after Qin Zhonghe stepped back, although the relationship between Guoying and DreamWorks was still considered good, the somewhat intimate personal relationship obviously did not exist.

Jiang Ruoping looked at Chen Jingxing's spacious office, especially the huge floor-to-ceiling windows and the sunshine and green outside the window, and shook his head: "This is not a joke, it must be because I have learned a lot, I have been to so many film companies, even I have also inspected those big Hollywood factories, and the headquarters building of your DreamWorks is the most magnificent."

Chen Jingxing continued to be modest: "The main reason is that I am willing to spend money. In terms of background, there is still a gap between DreamWorks and several other large domestic companies."

Jiang Ruoping seemed to want to get in touch with Chen Jingxing, and was not in a hurry to get to the point: "What is the foundation? Is it just a long history? I think the rows of golden trophies in your showcase downstairs are the foundation.

You can win a few Oscar statuettes for our Huaguo movies every year. Isn't this the foundation? "

At the recent Oscar Awards Ceremony, although DreamWorks had three films shortlisted, they still had no big gains and only won three technical awards.

"The Ninth District", which has received much attention and nominated for several heavyweight awards, accompanied it almost all the way, and only won the best original screenplay and best artistic direction.

"Inception" won best sound editing.

Of course, the best original script was won by Chen Jingxing and the head of the scriptwriting team of "The Ninth District". It can be considered that Chen Jingxing won the second best original script.

The last one was two years ago with The Matrix.

In a sense, Chen Jingxing has won more domestic and foreign awards for screenwriting, and he has confirmed his reputation as the number one screenwriter in China.

Naturally, Tian Xinye and Zhang Yi were inevitably disappointed.

Even if they have already won the Cannes Palme d'Or and Best Actor trophy, the Palme d'Or is not inferior to Oscar's recognition in terms of popularity and authority, but people are always dissatisfied.

And this is almost the best chance that DreamWorks can get a hand in the Oscar for best picture or acting award.

After all, DreamWorks is not a company aiming to produce art films.

It's not that the Oscars have such a high gold content. This thing is like collecting stamps. Who wouldn't want to earn more achievement points?

However, Chen Jingxing and Universal Pictures later found that this was normal.

The main reason is that "District [-]" was released too early.

The century-old Oscar has long had a set of effective rules of the game.

Most of the films aiming for the Olympic Games usually choose to be released in the fourth quarter of the previous year, or at least the third quarter.

The closer to the end of the year a film is released, the higher the chances of being nominated and winning.

Because the list of nominations was announced in January, the judges still had fresh memories of the film that had just been screened at this time, and from the announcement of the nominations to the eve of the awards, the producers still had time to win a vote from the Oscar judges.

For a "union" award where thousands of judges vote, this is actually quite an important factor.

"The Ninth District" was released in May last year, and it has been quite a long time since the Oscars began to vote. Even though Universal Pictures has tried its best to stir it up, it still can't compare with the volume of several Olympic films released at the end of the year.

As for other conservative and xenophobic ideas that cannot be put on the table, they must also have an impact.

This thing is just like political correctness and anti-political correctness, it will rebound.

Through the successful lobbying and marketing of DreamWorks and Universal in 16, the female judges, Asian judges and other more international and diversified judges recruited after the college changed its blood and expanded its army, radically pushed "Gravity" and Chen Jingxing to the throne.

Then naturally there will be a rebound.

There are still quite a lot of old white men in the academy, and there are not a few people who are unhappy with Universal Pictures leading the wolf into the house, turning their elbows out, and supporting DreamWorks, a foreign film company.

On the contrary, both "Inception" and "The Ninth District" were shortlisted for the best original screenplay, and it seemed unreasonable not to award it to Chen Jingxing.

After the two chatted about the Oscars, Jiang Ruoping talked about the box office of "Wall-E".

"...Congratulations to "WALL-E" for surpassing 30 billion at the box office. Animated movies have finally appeared in the top ten of our country's box office rankings. This was unthinkable before."

The box office of "Robot Wall-E" finally crossed the 30 billion mark, and it is temporarily ranked ninth in the box office list of Huaguo movies. Although it is 32 million less than the [-] billion "Tang Detective III", the gap between the [-] million is very fast will be able to overtake.

The box office forecast for "Wall-E" on the ticketing platform is 34.5 billion.

what is this concept?

It is enough to rank second on the box office list, surpassing the 34.3 billion of "Matrix II" and the 34.1 billion of "Gravity".

It is second only to the box office record of 43.7 billion created by "Spike II".

An animated film that has reached this level has caused as much repercussions as "Spike II" in China.

As the general manager of Guoying, Jiang Ruoping is also under performance pressure, and he is also very greedy for such box office results.

As the leader of domestic studios, although Guoying has a large plate and a large business scale, all blockbuster films that have entered the 30 billion club so far have also been jointly produced with DreamWorks.

The three films "Gravity", "The Martian" and "Operation Red Sea" were all co-produced with DreamWorks.

Although "Tang Detective III" also has investment from China Film, but the share is not high, not as good as DreamWorks.

The blockbuster films invested by China Film Group, including "Flying Eagle Attack" and "The Founding of the Army" did not perform very well, and their reputation also suffered from Waterloo.

Seeing that the young man in front of him can achieve such an achievement by producing an animated film, one can't help but feel that "the gap between people is too big".

And 30 billion is the domestic box office. He has also paid attention to the overseas results of "Wall-E". The overseas box office has reached 3.2 million US dollars.

Adding the domestic 30 billion, or 4.4 million U.S. dollars, the global box office has reached 7.7 million U.S. dollars.

"Kung Fu Panda" grossed just $8.3 million worldwide.

Seeing that the global box office of "Wall-E" is hitting 9 million or even higher.

There are also peripheral development and copyright benefits. Even as the big housekeeper of China Film, Jiang Ruoping feels a little dizzy.

No wonder former chairman Qin Zhonghe admired this young man so much.

Perhaps the domestic revenue of China Movies is not inferior to DreamWorks, but with overseas revenue, the only ones that can compete with DreamWorks are the major Hollywood studios.

Now the two companies are not at the same level at all.

In the past, DreamWorks took the ship of Guoying, but now Guoying takes the ship of DreamWorks.

Fortunately, Guoying still has enough capital to attract DreamWorks in theaters, distribution and other political advantages.

This trip was not only to visit Chen Jingxing, but also to bring the relationship between the two families back to the honeymoon period when Qin Zhonghe was in power. Jiang Ruoping talked with Chen Jingxing for a long time, and finally revealed the purpose of this visit.

"Film plan?" Chen Jingxing was a little surprised: "The film of the tribute to the war should start from the next year, right? There is quite enough time, should we prepare it now?"

It turned out that Jiang Ruoping came to "collect debts".

For the tribute films for the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, DreamWorks has "The Wandering Earth" and "Spike III".

However, the tribute film for the 70th anniversary of the Korean War has not yet been approved.

(End of this chapter)