my movie years

Chapter 144 Breaking the box office record of domestic literary films

The previous box office record holder for a domestic literary film was Chen Gezi's "Mei Lanfang", with a box office of 1.52 million.

But now it seems that this record will not be kept, and the box office record of domestic literary films will change hands.

Of course, the powerful media would know about this matter, so they began to report this matter overwhelmingly, reporting Zhang Hao's surpassing of his predecessors.

Chen Gezi was preparing for "Search", but was caught by the media to interview this matter.

"Director Chen, director Zhang Hao's new film "The Undertaker" has already surpassed 6000 million at the box office, and will soon surpass your "Mei Lanfang" to become the latest box office record holder for a domestic literary film. What do you think of this?"

Chen Gezi's face darkened, what could he think?See it with your eyes!
After hesitating for a while, Chen Gezi replied: "First of all, I would like to congratulate director Zhang Hao. He has made a well-known film and continues to maintain his current level. Sooner or later, he will achieve achievements in the field of film art."

"Do you mean that he will surpass you in film art?" The reporter continued to ask.

Chen Gezi's face darkened even more. Why is this reporter so ignorant?
Although the reporter and Zhang Hao were already tied up in his heart, Chen Gezi still replied on the face: "Of course, film art is a process of constantly surpassing oneself.

However, I think that the current level of director Zhang Hao is still a bit far away, and more precipitation is needed. "

The reporter persisted and continued to ask: "In the nominations for the Golden Horse Awards that were announced a few days ago, Director Zhang Hao won the nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for "The Prestige". Do you think he can win the award?"

Chen Gezi's face had already turned black into the color of a non-chief, so she quickly shied away and said, "Sorry, I have to go to work."

"Director Chen, Director Chen," the reporter asked from behind, "Have you watched the movie "The Undertaker" and what do you think of it?"

Chen Gezi's face was blackened into coal, his pace quickened, and he fled at a flying speed under the cover of the bodyguards.

Seeing this, the reporter sighed: "Director Chen is old, but he is in good health and can walk like flying!"

Back home, Chen Gezi became more and more angry, and even broke his beloved teacup.

Mrs. Chen Gezi came over after hearing the news, and quickly asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's not that Zhang Hao. His movies are big hits. Why do the media keep chasing me?" Chen Gezi exclaimed angrily.

Seeing Chen Gezi's appearance, Mrs. Chen Gezi was not angry anymore, and said with a smile: "I took my son to see that movie, it was really good."

Chen Gezi glared at Mrs. Chen: "Why didn't you call me when you went to see?"

"I called you, but you were busy and didn't want to go, so I took Feiyu with me." Mrs. Chen recalled the touching plot in the movie, and added: "If we hadn't formed a deadly feud now, what would have happened between us? Relationship should be fine.

His son Feiyu will enter the entertainment industry in the future, and he will be able to take on his projects. "

"What's the use of saying this now? According to the news I got, Zhang Hao was nominated for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay at the Golden Horse Awards, and both Deng Chao and Huang Xiaoming were nominated for Best Actor.

With so many means of suppression, the more they get involved, the better..." Chen Gezi didn't finish, but heaved a long sigh.

The couple were speechless for a while, and the room fell into silence.

"Director Chen Gezi is full of praise for "The Undertaker", congratulations to director Zhang Hao for his outstanding achievements, and congratulations to Zhang Hao for surpassing himself as soon as possible.

It is worth mentioning that although Director Chen Gezi is old, he still walks like flying..." At the dining table, Zhang Yu read the morning newspaper and read it to Zhang Hao.

As he read it, Zhang Yu himself was amused: "This Chen Gezi must not die of anger after seeing this report!"

Zhang Hao took a bite of fried dough sticks with salted tofu nao, poured some chili oil, sprinkled some chopped green onion, and ate breakfast deliciously.After hearing this report, I feel even better.

"Son, sweet tofu nao is delicious." Zhang Yu put down the newspaper, looked at Zhang Hao's tofu nao, and stopped him quickly.

"No, how delicious." Zhang Hao drank the tofu nao in one go, and then wiped his mouth.

Zhang Yu curled his lips and said, "How can anyone eat salted tofu?"

"Sweet bean curd is the heresy, the salty one is delicious." Zhang Hao put on his coat, and before Zhang Yu could react, he ran away: "I'm going to the company..."

"Hey, son, I have time to visit the advertising agency."

"Know it……"

The box office of domestic films this year does not seem to be doing very well. Last year, the top five occupied four places, but this year, as of the end of October, only one "Party Founding" was among the top five.

Zhang Hao's "The Prestige" finally settled at 3.85 million at the box office, ranking sixth after "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" at 4.02 million.

However, there are still a few Lunar New Year films after that, and it is estimated that the ranking of "Fatal Magic" will drop again.

As time entered November, "The Undertaker" maintained a good box office performance and continued to overwhelm "Rise of the Planet of the Apes".

The film took in a box office of 7961.3 million in a single week, making the cumulative box office of the film successfully break through 1.45 million, reaching [-] million, successfully breaking the box office record of literary films held by "Mei Lanfang".

This is still achieved in two weeks, and the film still has dozens of days to go before its release. Media forecasts have rewritten the box office of "The Undertaker" to reach more than 2.3 million.

This achievement, even if it is placed on a commercial film, is still an outstanding achievement.

What's more, this is a literary film.

Although Zhang Hao rejected the idea of ​​Bona and Wanda Pictures to participate in the investment when he was preparing the film, the two companies still regretted seeing the box office data.

Haotian Studio solely invested 200 million. Even with the publicity and distribution fees included, such a high box office result is still tantamount to making a fortune.

People in the industry have to re-examine Zhang Hao. Zhang Hao is not capable but has superpowers to make a literary film a box office hit.

It is said that many film and television companies have already started a topic: to study the movie magic performed by Zhang Hao, and to study why Zhang Hao's movies are so popular.

However, the good days of "The Undertaker" are over here. After all, it is a literary film with insufficient box office stamina, and there are too many films to be released during the Lunar New Year.

No, on November 33th, the small-budget romantic comedy "[-] Days of Broken Relationship" was released, ending the two-week dominance of "The Undertaker".

This film, with an investment of only 890 million, starred Wen Zhang and Bai Baihe, who were not yet a big hit at the time, and showed itself as a dark horse as soon as it was released.

Now, the limelight was all attracted by "33 Days of Broken Relationship", and "The Undertaker" was ignored.

The success of the film "33 Days of Broken Love" seems to be accidental, but it actually has its own internal reasons.The film has the support of fans of the original book and spontaneous promotion before the film was released.

The film also tells about something that most young people will experience: falling out of love.

However, different from the general perspective of lovelorn sadness, the film uses Wang Xiaojian's sharp language to make the process of grief joyful, making the audience enjoy themselves.

It fits the reality, and the lines are sharp and straight to the heart. These are the labels given to "33 Days of Broken Relationship" by the media.

In short, after "The Undertaker", the successor "33 Days of Broken Relationship" performed unexpectedly well, and once again pressed "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" and couldn't lift its head.

But I don't care about "Rise of the Planet of the Apes". They have a vast global market, and your two films can only be limited to the mainland and East Asian markets.

However, how could "The Undertaker", which is aiming for Oscars, be limited to Asia?Under the arrangement of Harvey Weinstein, "The Undertaker" was directly released in North American theaters in an unconventional procedure for general movies.

It is said to be released, but the number of cinemas actually maintained is only about [-], and some art theaters are showing "The Undertaker".

The box office situation is more general, around $[-] a day at the box office, sometimes even less than $[-].

However, the purpose of the film's release in North America is not for the box office, but for the Oscars.

Under Harvey's public relations operation, many Oscar judges have directly or indirectly watched the film "The Undertaker", and many judges gave good reviews after watching it.

The days at the end of this year were originally a time of fierce competition for prizes, and people from all walks of life showed their talents.

The goal of "The Undertaker" is the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and it will compete with dozens of films from more than a dozen countries.

You must know that many Oscar judges don't care about what films from other countries and regions look like, so they vote more often after hearing the films they are familiar with.

Harvey's strategy is to let more Oscar judges hear about the film "The Undertaker".

In this way, if you are not familiar with other films, the probability of voting is biased towards "The Undertaker".

There are two ways to become an Oscar judge, one is to be invited by the Academy, and the other is to be nominated for an Oscar, which automatically obtains the qualification of an Oscar judge.

Today, there are thousands of Oscar judges.

Public relations work with so many people is very difficult, so in addition to the above means, Harvey also brought gifts from China and visited the rotating presidium of the college one by one.

Oscar has always been inseparable from skin color and politics.

Fortunately for Zhang Hao, this year's rotating chairman of the Oscar jury is Frank Pearson, who is a moderate in his political stance.

Guoshi's "Hero" was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and Frank Pearson was the rotating chairman that year.

Although the white old man is one year older this year, he heard that there is another Chinese-language film bidding for the Olympic Games, and he became interested in it instantly.

After "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" successfully won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, Chinese films set off a wave of shocking Oscars.

But apart from the national teacher getting a nomination, he got nothing.

As a result, in recent years, the enthusiasm for Chinese-language films to hit the Oscars has gradually cooled down.

How could Frank Pearson, who was determined to make the Oscar the most authoritative award in the world, let go of such a good opportunity? Whether he wins an award or not is another matter, but a nomination still has to be given.

Many Hollywood analysts have analyzed before that the Chinese film market is about to usher in a big explosion.

From last year's "Avatar" with a box office of 13.14 billion to this year's "Transformers 3" with a box office of 10.26 billion, it can be seen that the prediction is about to become a reality.

Oscar is closely related to Hollywood. If Hollywood blockbusters can continue to open up the Chinese market, the influence of Oscar will continue to expand.

That's a market with a population of 13 billion, which makes people hungry just thinking about it.

And in order to open up this market, it is necessary to give them a little sweetness.If you want a dog to watch the door for you, you have to throw two bones!

And because of the financial crisis, everyone is currently in the honeymoon period, and nomination will not cause political disturbances.

Ever since, Frank Pearson began to connect with the rotating judges of the academy to give "The Undertaker" a nomination.

Many judges of the academy opposed nominating "The Undertaker".

But at the insistence of Harvey's publicist and Frank Pearson, "The Undertaker" got a nomination.

All this, Zhang Hao still doesn't know. At this time, he and the main creators of "Fatal Magic" participated in the 2011 Golden Horse Awards.

"The Prestige" received seven nominations including Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Original Music, Best Visual Effects, Best Art Design, and Best Editing.

Among them, the best actor was nominated for Double Yolk Eggs, and both Deng Chao and Huang Xiaoming were selected.

Although there are many nominations, "The Prestige" is not the most popular award. This year's most popular award is "Sister Tao" directed by Xu Anhua, and Hua Tsai's best actor is also very popular.

It is true that Hua Tsai's performance in "Sister Tao" is worthy of a trophy of actor.

The most frightening thing is that after watching "The Undertaker", some media speculated that Hua Tsai will continue to be nominated next year.That is to say, Andy Lau may even be the actor Zhuang.

However, it is Yao Lianzhuang, and it still needs to get the award from the CIA this year.

On November 26, the award ceremony of the Golden Horse Awards was held in the Performing Arts Hall of the Hsinchu City Cultural Bureau. Zeng Zhiwei and Zeng Baoyi became the hosts of the award ceremony, and the mainland's Sina.com broadcast the awards simultaneously.

"Fatal Magic" was released in Taiwan and achieved certain success. The film won more than NT$800 million at the box office.

Although it is far behind "Genius Gunner", it is already good for mainland movies to achieve this result in Taiwan.

Everyone knows that although the Golden Horse Awards can be regarded as the first award for Chinese-language films, the film market in Taiwan is very sluggish.

If it weren't for the release of "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years" this year, I don't know how bad the box office will be.

When walking the red carpet, Zhang Hao actually heard Taiwan fans calling his name and holding his support sign.

Although Zhang Hao has never hyped his appearance and focused on movies, his good appearance still attracted the attention of movie fans.

As for directors, many directors are basically crooked, and Feng Dapao's appearance is exactly the same as that of apes who have not evolved.

But Zhang Hao suddenly appeared. Not to mention his amazing filmmaking, he was also handsome and sunny, and he attracted many fans in an instant.

For someone who is handsome, he could scold him for not being useful in the past, but not for Zhang Hao.

People are good-looking and useful, which is very annoying.

On the red carpet, the two leading actors, Deng Chao and Huang Xiaoming, were very modest, saying that they were very happy to be nominated, and let’s talk about the award.

And Zhang Hao said confidently that if he can't get the best director, he should be able to get one for the best original screenplay.

This is the second year in a row that he has been nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and the Golden Horse Awards should award him the award anyway.

In addition to Zhang Hao, Deng Chao, and Huang Xiaoming, photography director Lu Jianqiu, soundtrack artist A Kun, the extraordinary Gong Jun, and art director Su Tong all came.

Each of them has been nominated, and Ah Kun has been nominated for the best original music twice in a row, so he is very hopeful of winning.

Sitting at the awards ceremony, Gong Jun and Zhang Hao communicated about the recent development of Tiangong Yicai.

"Boss, we have taken on a lot of jobs recently, and the scale of the studio has expanded a lot. The number of technical personnel has reached more than 80. It is already a large-scale special effects studio in China." Gong Jun introduced the relevant situation.

"Is our "Four Famous Detectives" also made by your studio?" Deng Chao interjected.

Gong Jun nodded and said: "That's right, we and [-] Studio jointly took over the job. This is the first time that a domestic special effects studio is fully responsible for the special effects production of a film."

Zhang Hao was very satisfied, and promised: "Do well, and you won't lose any bonuses if you do well."

Gong Jun smiled embarrassingly: "The price of our studio's orders has never been raised. It is all supported by blood transfusions from the boss. How dare you ask for a bonus."

"One yard is one yard, and the price cannot be raised because of market competition. Our competitiveness is not as good as that of Japanese and Korean special effects companies. But if the work is done well and the technology has improved, I will reward it." Zhang Hao said.

"Then I will replace all the employees, thank you boss, we will work hard." Gong Jun said gratefully.

In fact, it is very easy to be satisfied with a technical background. Tiangong Yicai Studio often has resources to work overtime.

A cup of Coke and a hamburger are worth the overtime pay.

Zhang Hao didn't know these things, and Gong Jun didn't tell Zhang Hao that the employees voluntarily worked overtime but didn't ask for overtime pay.

In fact, in the eyes of the employees, Zhang Hao is a typical example of a fool with a lot of money.In China, where would a director invest tens of millions every year to support a special effects studio?

Isn't this stupid what is it?It is simply a serious illness.

But while feeling that Zhang Hao is stupid, everyone also has an urge to die for their confidant because of Zhang Hao's persistence.

Although the current technology of Tiangong Yicai Studio is not world-class, everyone believes that one day, they will be able to produce special effects that satisfy Zhang Hao enough.

After listening to Gong Jun's report, Zhang Hao was very happy: "Very good, if we continue to develop in this way, it will always bear fruit.

I will also tell you a little about the future. Do you know why I support your technology research and development? "

"I don't know, boss, do you have so much money that you have no place to spend it?" Gong Jun said.

"What's this saying? Do I look like Ma Yun's size?" Zhang Hao pointed to himself.

Gong Jun shook his head and said, "It's not like that, but everyone says so."

"You still don't understand my purpose. The ultimate purpose of my acquisition of you is to serve myself." Zhang Hao said.

"Oh~" Gong Jun remembered: "Boss, you mentioned your sci-fi project earlier in the morning. Is it "Three-Body Problem"? Or "Ball Lightning"?"

"Neither, it is simply unrealistic to start the "Three-Body Problem" project now, what I mean is to start with the production of low-budget sci-fi films and cultivate ideas and talents bit by bit.

When technical talents have accumulated to a certain level, large-scale projects will be launched.Of course, it also needs the market to continue to improve, and it needs to support our science fiction films. "Zhang Hao explained seriously.

Although what Zhang Hao described was a vision for the future, Gong Jun instinctively believed that what Zhang Hao did would definitely be successful.

Deng Chao, who was eavesdropping carefully, interjected, "Director Zhang, look for me, remember to look for me!"

"What are you? The awards ceremony has begun, be serious..."

As Zhang Hao's voice fell, No.40's [-]th Golden Horse Awards officially kicked off.

(End of this chapter)