Huayu Zhihao

Chapter 264 New Record and Oscar

"Xiaohao, it's time to eat!" Mother Chen shouted.

"Here we come!" Chen Hao hurriedly sent the written Batman plan to Greg Silverman of Warner Bros., and then ran out.

"So many delicious foods." Chen Hao smiled as he looked at the dishes on the table.

"It's all your favorite food, eat it quickly!" Mother Chen laughed seeing Chen Hao's appearance.

When Chen Hao heard the words, he started directly.

"The Spring Festival Gala is here, turn on the TV!" Father Chen said.

"Understood!" Mother Chen replied while going to turn on the TV.

"Dad, Mom, Happy Chinese New Year!" Chen Hao raised his glass.

"Okay, okay, happy Chinese New Year!" Father Chen said with a smile.

All three of them drank in one gulp.

"Xiao Hao, your mother and I have thought about it and decided to contract your canteen. What do you think?" Father Chen hesitated and said.

"Of course that's fine. I love your dishes the most." Chen Hao said with a smile, "It's delicious and hygienic, don't worry!"

"I think so too, your father's craftsmanship is pretty good." Mother Chen said.

"Then our family of three can go to work together!" Chen Hao laughed.

"That's true." Father Chen also laughed when he heard the words.

The family finished the New Year's Eve dinner with laughter and laughter, and then watched the Spring Festival Gala together.

Chen Hao mainly watched it with his parents, and then looked at the stars who are currently on the Spring Festival Gala.

In 04, there were no top-notch peanuts in the future. They were all talented singers, Han Lei, Yang Kun, Tian Zhen, Sha Baoliang, Adu, Jay Chou, and Zhao Yanzi!

However, Chen Hao is not very interested. He only pays attention to cross talks and sketches. Tonight's Zhao Benshan is performing the sketch "Water Delivery Worker"!
When Chen Hao was watching happily, he felt his phone vibrate, opened it and saw that it was Xiaohu's message, and then slipped out quietly.

Chen's father watched his son tiptoeing and smiled, while Chen's mother rolled her eyes helplessly.

"Why did you come out? I'm almost freezing to death!" Xiaohu asked timidly.

"Who made you so anxious!" Chen Hao laughed, "You won't come out until I reply to the message!"

"You're in a hurry!" Xiaohu reached out to hit Chen Hao upon hearing this.

But Chen Hao grabbed his small hand, held it in the palm of both hands, and breathed out while rubbing.

Seeing this, Xiaohu pursed her red lips happily.

After a while, Chen Hao unbuttoned his coat directly, and hugged Xiaohu into his arms, "Is it still cold?"

Xiaohu smiled and lay on Chen Hao's chest, listening to Chen Hao's strong heartbeat, said, "It's not cold anymore!"

Chen Hao kissed Xiaohu's hair and said, "Why do I feel like I go out for a tryst every year, like an underground party."

"That's what it is!" Xiaohu snorted, "Do you dare to let your parents, my parents see us kissing?"

"It's not impossible, anyway, I'm not at a disadvantage." Chen Hao laughed.

"Shameless!" The little fox said coquettishly.

"Shameless? I'll show you what shamelessness is!" Chen Hao lowered his head and put his mouth on Xiaohu's red lips.

After the little fox hummed twice, he responded enthusiastically.

Young men and women are always very enthusiastic about physical contact and exploration, and they never tire of it!
……

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Chen Hao went to Langfang with his parents again.

Chen's mother also went to meet her good girlfriend, and Chen Hao met Zhao Xiaoying and his younger brother again.

However, when Zhao Jianfei called his brother-in-law, the scene was once very embarrassing.

Zhao's mother was smiling, while Chen's mother had a strange expression!
As for Zhao Xiaoying, she has already gone after her naughty brother!
During the chat, Zhao's mother learned that Chen Hao had opened a company by herself, so she said she wanted Zhao Xiaoying to work in Chen Hao's company in the future.

Mother Chen agreed with a smile. Of course, doing odd jobs is impossible.

However, Zhao Xiaoying will have to wait until 2005 to graduate!
After returning, Chen Hao didn't go out again, but hid at home to write the script of his new play, of course he had to be with Xiaohu.

This girl always gets angry, the key is that she doesn't put out the fire, which makes Chen Hao endure the Spring Festival for a few days.

On January 1, the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, a new week is coming.

北美周末票房排行榜（2004年1月23日-2004年1月25日）：

No. 1, "Butterfly Effect", released for 3 days, New Line, with a weekend box office of 1710 million US dollars, a cumulative box office of 1710 million US dollars, and 2850 theaters;
No. 2, "Meet Polly", released for 10 days, Universal Production, with a weekend box office of 1635 million US dollars, a cumulative box office of 5326 million US dollars, and 3000 theaters;
No. 3, "Dating an Idol", released for 3 days, DreamWorks, with a weekend box office of 760 million US dollars, a cumulative box office of 760 million US dollars, and 2600 theaters;
No. 4, "The Ninth District", released for 31 days, Tianchi Films, with a weekend box office of 733 million US dollars, a cumulative box office of 12493 million US dollars, and 2800 theaters;
No. 5, "Big Fish", released for 38 days, Sony Columbia, with a weekend box office of 730 million US dollars, a cumulative box office of 5050 million US dollars, and 2405 theaters;
……

Last week, the new generation of popular actor Ashton Kutcher changed the way of funny dramas and made his first attempt to star in the sci-fi thriller "The Butterfly Effect", which opened well at the box office. It premiered last weekend with a score of 1710 million US dollars and won the North American box office championship.

And as soon as it was released, it got a score of 8.9 from IMDB, directly among the TOP100, and the reputation is very good!
"Meet Polly," starring Jennifer Aniston and Ben Stiller, was squeezed to second place with $1635 million.

Another new film, DreamWorks' rom-com "Date an Idol," came in third with $760 million.

"The Ninth District" directed by Chen Hao, after a huge drop last week, the box office trend last week was stable, with a drop of only 23.24%, which made its ranking rise by one.

With a box office of 733 million US dollars, it ranks fourth on the list. Its cumulative North American box office has also reached 4 million US dollars, officially exceeding the 1.24 million of "Taken" and setting a new record for Chen Hao's North American box office!

No. 5 on the list is "Big Fish", which ranked No. 2 last week, with a three-day box office of 730 million over the weekend, ranking behind "The Ninth District" with a difference of $3.

It is worth mentioning that "Lord of the Rings 3" ranked 6th on the list, with a box office of 680 million US dollars last weekend, and the total box office has reached 3.38 million US dollars.

That's just $3.39 million shy of "Finding Nemo"'s $100 million.

Judging from the current box office trend of "Lord of the Rings 3", surpassing "Finding Nemo" and becoming the North American box office champion in 2003 is already a certainty!
"The box office of "The Ninth District" in the three days of the weekend was 3 million U.S. dollars, and the ranking rose by one place compared with last week, ranking No. 733 on the weekend box office list in North America!" --- Reported by Sohu Entertainment
""The Ninth District" grossed another US$1005 million in a single week, and the total box office in North America reached US$1.24 million!" --- Netease Entertainment
"The cumulative box office of "The Ninth District" surpassed that of "Taken", setting a new box office record for Chen Hao in North America!"--New Wolf Entertainment
……

After last week's North American weekend box office rankings were sent back to China, the media instantly became lively.

In the Spring Festival film market at the beginning of the century, the Spring Festival stalls had not yet been formed. In addition, the reform of the theater chain system was not long ago, and the film market was not very popular at all, and there were no popular films released.

Still "Mobile" and "Infernal Affairs 3" are slowly accumulating box office.

However, after "Mobile" surpassed the box office of "Harry Potter 2" and became the annual box office champion in the mainland in 2003, the weekly box office has been very weak, and obviously there is not much potential to tap.

The same is true for "Infernal Affairs 3", the final box office is estimated to stop at 3600 million RMB!

The film market has no ups and downs, and the media are worried about it. Fortunately, the weekend box office of "The Ninth District" has been sent back to China, and the media finally have something to write about.

Of course, what I wrote was nothing more than praising "The Ninth District" and Chen Hao!

The media racked their brains and wrote in different ways, and finally felt that it was more interesting to compare with a well-known director, and this director was Li Press.

After all, the films of the three major domestic directors are simply not enough to watch at the North American box office, so they can only look for Li Press and Wu Baige.

But Wu Baige's North American box office is a bit too high, Chen Hao is still far behind, but Li Yin is very close.

Li Press's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has a North American box office of 1.28 million US dollars, "Hulk" 1.32 million US dollars, and "District Ninth" is only 400 million US dollars and 800 million US dollars.

According to the word-of-mouth and box office trends of "The Ninth District", it can be said that it is a sure thing to surpass "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Hulk" in the end!
In this way, Chen Hao can surpass Li Yan and become the second highest-grossing Chinese director in North America!
Although they are both Chinese, but the mainland surpasses Baodao, I believe the filmmakers and movie fans in the mainland still feel a little cool!

While the media was busy reporting on Chen Hao and "The Ninth District", Chen Hao was busy replying congratulatory text messages.

Colleagues and friends from the company, celebrities and entertainers who have worked with them, the six daughters, and Sidan Shuangbing all sent congratulatory text messages again.

After all, the one that can achieve great success in North America is currently the only one in the mainland.

For stars who want to go international and hit the Oscars, making friends with Chen Hao has undoubtedly become a shortcut.

Chen Hao is now a ladder to the top of the country's top movie stars. With Chen Hao, it doesn't matter whether he is successful or not, but at least he has the opportunity to act as the main actor in a Hollywood movie.

Being able to star in a Hollywood movie, no matter what the result is, you can add the word "international" before your name when you come back!

Xiaohu is the best example. Although he was a child star before, he didn't have any impressive masterpieces.

That is, a high school student, but because he was Chen Hao's neighbor, he was signed, and then he filmed "Taken", and became an international Yang!

Of course, this international Yang is still a bit misnamed, but with these two words, his style and status will be greatly improved.

The fame and fortune brought by him are by no means comparable to before, so Chen Hao has become a Tang monk!
Now Chen Hao's mailbox is full of photos and recommendations of many well-known and unknown actresses. After reading it, Chen Hao said that he couldn't keep up with his nutrition!

However, the praise of the media and the rush of actresses reached their peak after January 1!

Because, on this day, the 76th Academy Awards announced the list of nominees for this year!

"The Lord of the Rings 3" has undoubtedly become the biggest winner of this year's Oscars, leading all competitors with 11 nominations.

Of course, this number of nominations is not the most for Oscars. The film with the most nominations is "Ben-Hur" in 1959, which received a total of 15 nominations.

Followed by "Comet Beauty" and "Titanic", both received 14 nominations.

"Lord of the Rings 3" not only relies on nominations to dominate the Oscars, this year's Oscars are regarded as a special event for "Lord of the Rings 3", and there are few movies that can be compared with it.

"Lord of the Rings 3" itself is good enough, and the previous two films failed to win the favor of Oscars, so this year's Oscars are likely to compensate "Lord of the Rings 3".

This makes "Lord of the Rings 3" even more popular.

All the film critics in the media are overwhelmingly optimistic about "Lord of the Rings 3". Many media already believe that this year's Oscars will be the most dull one, because everyone already knows the result and there will be no dark horses!
Of course, this is not the reason that makes Huaxia boil. The real reason is that "The Ninth District" directed by Chen Hao won a total of 76 nominations for the 4th Academy Awards.

The 4 nominations are Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing and Best Visual Effects!
"The 76th Academy Awards announced the nomination list, and "District 4" was successfully shortlisted for [-] awards!" --- Sohu Entertainment Report
"'District Nine' has been nominated for 4 Oscars this year!"--Netease Entertainment
"Great news! "The Ninth District" directed by Chen Hao has been nominated for 4 Oscars this year!"--New Wolf Entertainment
……

All the media in mainland China immediately changed the headlines on the front page. All the content was surprisingly consistent. It was the news that "District [-]" was nominated for an Oscar!

When this news was reported by the media, the whole China was boiling!
It can be said that Huaxia's directors won awards in the West, but basically they won the top three awards in Europe, but Hollywood's Oscars seem to be insulated from Huaxia directors!
Films from mainland China have won the top three in Europe, but they have never won an Oscar!

Take Chen Kaige's "Farewell My Concubine" as an example. It won the Palme d'Or in Cannes in Europe and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in the United States.

But although it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, it did not bring back a trophy!
It has to be said that Hollywood not only sweeps the global box office, but even the awards are somewhat out of reach.

Only Li Yin's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, but how should I put it, Li Yin is from Taiwan. Although he is Chinese, there is still a gap between mainland movie fans and the film industry.

And it's not only sad, but also a little aggrieved. In such a big mainland, no director has ever won an Oscar. It makes me sad to think about it.

Therefore, when Chen Hao is now nominated for 4 Academy Awards with "The Ninth District", the media and the film industry will be so excited.

It can be said that after waiting for so many years, I finally see the hope of winning an Oscar!
(End of this chapter)