my movie years

Chapter 149 Science Advisors and Pre-Oscar Trivia
This year's Chinese New Year is still very early, although Zhang Hao was nominated for an Oscar, then was hacked, then reversed, and then Chen Gezi and his wife were exposed, a series of events followed.

But so many things happened in just ten days.

In a blink of an eye, it was New Year's Eve on January 23.Zhang Hao went home with Zhang Yu to celebrate the New Year with New Year's goods, and also brought Da Mi Mi with him.

During the Chinese New Year last year, Zhang Hao got drunk with her father at Da Mi Mi's house, and then called them brothers.

This year, Yang's father and Yang's mother still invited Zhang Hao to celebrate the New Year, but Zhang Hao first brought Da Mimi to his home for New Year's Eve.

"Mimi, don't be polite, treat yourself like your own family and eat fruit." Grandma saw that Da Mimi was very happy, and greeted Da Mimi with a smile, ignoring Zhang Hao, the grandson.

It happened that my aunt brought my uncle and cousin Zhang Hao back to celebrate the New Year together, and Zhang Hao and his grandfather and uncle put up couplets everywhere.

Zhang Hao's cousin, Liu Rui, is a quirky girl who doesn't know who to whisper to with her mobile phone in her hand.

Da Mi Mi was very embarrassed to be taken care of, so she hurried to help in the kitchen to see what she could do, but was kicked out by her grandmother and mother Zhang Yu.

After a reunion dinner, this New Year's Eve is over, and Da Mimi also received a red envelope from his grandpa, feeling very happy.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Zhang Hao went to Da Mi Mi's house for dinner.

Father Yang received Zhang Hao very warmly: "This wine was given by a friend last time. I usually don't want to open it, so I'll wait for you to come."

"Dad, drink less, so as not to drink too much like last year and start calling you brothers." Da Mimi ruthlessly complained.

Dad Yang stared at him: "This is what I said, can I get drunk after drinking with Xiaohao? Do you look down on your dad's drinking capacity?"

Da Mi Mi rolled his eyes and didn't speak.But the meaning is obvious, that is, he doesn't trust Dad Yang's drinking capacity.

Sure enough, after a bottle of Dream Blue was dried, Zhang Hao and Yang's father called each other brothers again, leaving Yang's mother and Da Mimi very speechless.

Then Zhang Hao stayed at Da Mi Mi's house for another night.

After a year, the relationship between Zhang Hao and Da Mimi has remained the same, even sweeter, and Yang's father and Yang's mother have also recognized Zhang Hao as the son-in-law.

Zhang Hao also met Da Mi Mi's uncle, a professor who teaches at the university.

The uncle talks and behaves well, and he is actually a fan of Zhang Hao's movie.

"Xiaohao, our family loves to watch your movies. We bought DVDs of all your works, and all the movies that were released have gone to the cinema to support you." The uncle said.

"Thank you, Uncle, for your support," Zhang Hao asked, remembering the incident, "Does Uncle know any experts in aerospace, or astrophysicists?"

"I know so many, why? Do you want to change careers and become a scientist?" The uncle joked.

Zhang Hao waved his hand and said, "I don't have that ability. It's just that I have a few good stories in my heart, but they need theoretical support, and I don't have anyone in this area to contact."

"Is it the projects you told me about last time?" Da Mimi asked.

Zhang Hao nodded and said, "Yes, after this year's "Butterfly Effect", I plan to start a big project to test the waters."

Da Mi Mi knows Zhang Hao's dream of science fiction movies, and Zhang Hao has described to her the bright future of future Chinese science fiction movies more than once.

It's just that the prospect is good, but the reality is difficult.

If you want to make sci-fi films like "Transformers" and "Star Wars", talents, technology, and the market are all indispensable.

At that time, Zhang Hao asked Da Mi Mi, what if he lost money making a sci-fi film?Da Mi Mi said with arrogance: "It's okay, I lost money, I will support you by filming, and we will start all over again."

With the unswerving support of Da Mi Mi, Zhang Hao, who often doubts whether he can do these classic film projects in his previous life, will continue to walk on this road with firm confidence.

Out of support for Zhang Hao, Da Mi Mi looked at his uncle with pleading eyes: "Uncle, please help our family Zhang Hao."

The uncle smiled and said: "Mimi, you are out of touch now, if you can help, I will definitely help."

"Yes, we are all one family, so we don't need to talk about each other." Father Yang echoed.

Make an appointment with the uncle of Da Mi Mi, find a time in the next year, meet and contact some scientists, and maintain a good relationship.

When Zhang Hao starts a large-scale sci-fi movie project, he doesn't have to rush to find someone temporarily.

Sufficient preparation is one of the key elements for the success of a film.

Returning to work after the year, Zhang Hao officially submitted his new project: "Butterfly Effect".

Bona and Huayi still want to join, and so does Wanda Pictures.The big boss of Wanda said that as long as it is Zhang Hao's project, no matter how much the investment is, just invest the money and finish the job, and don't care about anything else.

It is worth mentioning that Young Cong may have been stimulated by Zhang Hao, and took [-] million from his father, instead of building a live broadcast platform and investing in the banana project like in his previous life.

Instead, with [-] million yuan, he set up Pusi Film and Television Investment and Production Company, and is looking for projects in the market.

His father advised him that it would definitely be a good idea to invest in Zhang Hao's project.But Zhang Hao's projects are no longer what they used to be. Now Zhang Hao's projects are very popular.

A little bit of investment share was revealed, and it was immediately divided up by other established film and television companies, so that Cong Shao didn't even have a mouthful of soup.

However, it is a blessing in disguise, and Cong Shao quickly hooked up with Guangguang Films, and then met Xu Dabald under the introduction of Wang Changtian.

Xu Dabald is preparing for "Lost in Thailand", and plans to trick Huang Bo into investing in order to make up for his lack of production funds.

It just so happens that Cong Shao has money and he has a project. The two hit it off and reached an investment agreement.

Zhang Hao was taken aback when he heard about it. After being busy for so long, he had forgotten that there was such a project.In my impression, this movie is the first Chinese-language movie to exceed [-] million yuan, which made Xu Dabald a lot of money.

If he could think of it earlier, it would be great for him to invest first.

It's just that now that Xu Dabald has found Cong Shao to invest, it doesn't make much sense for him to join in, and people won't want his investment.

Sure enough, it is impossible for me to monopolize all the good things in the world, and there are always opportunities to slip away from my hands.

However, it is a pleasure to invest in this project, and it will not be a pity if there is no opportunity to invest in Zhang Hao.

On the contrary, the matter of Xu's bald head made Zhang Hao think of another person: Chen Sicheng.

Chen Sicheng's first directorial work "Love Story in Beijing" has already been aired on Blue Channel, starring Da Mi Mi, and has achieved good ratings and popularity so far.

Logically speaking, Chen Sicheng should continue to cultivate the field of TV dramas. Who knew that after he practiced his skills, he launched a "Chinatown Detective Series" backhandedly, earning a lot of money.

Zhang Hao knew how difficult it would be for a new director to get investment. At that time, as long as he hooked his finger, the project would fall into the hands of Haotian Studio after it was reorganized into a company.

There are also other popular film projects, such as Wu Jing's "Wolf Warrior" series, which can be invested in the future.

Although Zhang Hao does not want to snatch the opportunities and glory that belong to these Chinese filmmakers, it does not mean that he cannot invest.

It's one thing to direct yourself, it's another thing to invest in a film, the two don't conflict.

I am afraid that no one in the circle has his precise vision and can know which movie project can sell well. This is the advantage of foresight.

In case his sci-fi movie dream fails, he can live a good life by investing in these movie projects without using big power to support him.

After the opening of the Zhang Hao project, not only Cong Shao wanted to invest, but Ma Yun, who had always admired Zhang Hao and praised Zhang Hao many times in public, urged his subsidiary Alibaba Pictures to invest as soon as possible.

Unexpectedly, it was still a step too late.

The other boss, Ma Huateng, is not as high-profile as Ma Yun, but quietly established Penguin Pictures at the end of last year, and then contacted Haotian Studio.

However, Penguin Films was also one step late.

In the Internet capital world, these two are considered rich and powerful, but they don't seem to be very effective in the film industry.The headache for the two bosses now is, what to do if they have money and nowhere to spend it?
Compared with the stupid coal boss, the Internet boss is obviously much smarter.After entering the film industry, investment is very cautious.

Even Ma Huateng discussed with his executives that they should use the thinking of Internet operations to operate entertainment companies.What the result was, everyone saw later.

Anyway, there is no chance to invest in Zhang Hao's film project now, so we can only wait for the opportunity to talk about it in the future.

On Bona's side, Yu Dong saw the script of "The Butterfly Effect" that Zhang Hao claimed was highly confidential, and felt a little bit guilty.

To be honest, the script is very delicate and rigorous, and Yu Dong can't see any loopholes in logic.

But this subject matter involves space-time travel, quantum physics, and various scientific settings that Yu Dong has never heard of.

No wonder "The Butterfly Effect" marked the first one as sci-fi, it is too sci-fi.

You know, "Fatal Magic" first marks the plot suspense crime, and then it is science fiction.Moreover, the sci-fi flavor of the film is not strong, at best it is a bit mysterious.

As for Chinese science fiction movies, the audience's first impression is that it is a bad movie.

Can such a movie really sell well in the market?Yu Dong was very skeptical and retreated a bit.

Reason told him that he should withdraw from this movie project.

But there is always a voice deep in his heart telling him to believe in Zhang Hao, Zhang Hao can turn the impossible into the possible and create miracles.

After some hesitation, Bona still firmly supported Zhang Hao.

Zhang Hao is still young, and even if this project is overwhelmed, he will still be the top director in the Chinese film circle when he is back on track.

Zhang Hao also offered a production fee of 500 million RMB for the film "Butterfly Effect", reaching the highest investment amount of Zhang Hao's film career.

Among them, Haotian Studio independently invested 3000 million, and the rest was divided by Bona Films, Wanda Films Huayi, and more than a dozen small investment companies.

After the approval of the project, the early production funds were immediately transferred to the account of the newly established crew.

Some of Zhang Hao's team ended their vacations, and some ended their part-time jobs in other crews, and began to devote themselves to the preparatory work of the film.

The setting team and the production team began to survey the scene according to the plan, formulate the project cycle schedule, and at the same time start the initial screening of actors.

Tiangong Yicai Studio under Zhang Hao received the job. Although the film is only in the preparatory stage, they have already started to invest in the production of visual effects.

"Are you interested in acting in this movie?" Zhang Hao asked Da Mi Mi.

Da Mi Mi pointed to herself and said, "Can I?"

Zhang Hao laughed and said: "What's wrong, let me see how much your acting skills have improved, and then I will teach you."

Da Mi Mi blushed, apparently thinking of that aspect, spat: "Bad guy..."

The boyfriend thought of himself at the first time, Da Mimi was still very happy.After filming "Painted Skin 2", she took on "Great Wudang: The Code of Heaven and Earth". She is currently free and has no projects on hand.

Therefore, Da Mi Mi agreed to play the heroine of "Butterfly Effect".

The focus of this movie is on the hero Gao Qi, so the choice of the hero is very important.

However, in the early stage of film preparation, Zhang Hao had to temporarily put down the work at hand, and went to North America with Da Mimi to attend this year's Oscars ceremony.

Andy Hua and Zhou Xun went with Zhang Hao.

Producer Liu Hao, who worked closely with Zhang Hao, was in charge of the preparations for "The Butterfly Effect", so he didn't follow.

In addition, Joe Hisaishi and his daughter set off from their childhood and met Zhang Hao and his party in Los Angeles.

It was the first time to participate in the award ceremony of the highest hall of the film industry, Da Mi Mi was very excited.I changed the dresses several times, and finally chose a blue and white dress at Zhang Hao's suggestion.

The clothing brand endorsed by Da Mi Mi also attaches great importance to it, and sent a professional styling team to do modeling for Da Mi Mi in Los Angeles.

Who would have thought that just by signing a first-line actress in China, she would actually rely on her boyfriend to walk on the red carpet of the Oscars and earn a fortune.

More than that, other endorsement brands of Da Mi Mi acted quickly, and arranged many commercial activities before and after Da Mi Mi attended the Oscar Awards Ceremony.

Shoe brands, jewelry, makeup brands and more are all set to feature at the Oscars.

In the words of its stylist: "We want to present the classical beauty of oriental women."

As an actress, Zhou Xun also received the same treatment. The brand she endorsed was doing marketing activities like a madman.

And Zhou Xun is even more aboveboard than Da Mi Mi, because she is the female number one in "The Undertaker", so she can participate in the Oscar awards ceremony justifiably.

In contrast, Da Mi Mi can only go to the Oscar red carpet by rubbing her boyfriend.

But whoever has the ability to find a boyfriend who will attend the Oscars, other actresses can only envy and hate.

In fact, it is very popular for domestic actresses to go to the Venice Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, or Berlin Film Festival to rub the red carpet.

Take a few photographers with you, take some photos on the red carpet, and then return to China to publish a press release that overwhelms the foreigners.

This is the so-called export to domestic sales. In fact, except for a few foreigners, other foreigners don't even know who the domestic actress is on the red carpet.

This method worked well at the beginning, but it is not surprising that many people followed suit later.Later, it was even exposed that the news that the red carpet security guards drove away the Chinese actress made a big joke.

Except for a few Chinese actresses walking the red carpet and being given face by others, the other actresses are purely flirtatious.

Da Mi Mi is also rubbish, but she is justified and aboveboard.

Actors like Zhang Hao and Hua Tsai were better. Before going to Los Angeles, Armani finally remembered that there was a Chinese director who always wore their brand of suits.

Ever since, the person in charge of Greater China quickly contacted Zhang Hao and signed an endorsement contract with Zhang Hao.

This is Armani's first spokesperson for an Asian director. Compared with other spokespersons with crooked looks, Zhang Hao's image is too outstanding.

In Los Angeles, a group of six from "The Undertaker" who came to attend the Oscars completed their meeting.

Hua Tsai sighed and said to Zhang Hao: "It feels like a dream. I never thought that one day I would be able to attend the Oscars."

"I didn't expect that either, Director Xiaozhang, thank you for giving me this opportunity." Zhou Xun also expressed gratitude.

Da Mimi held Zhang Hao's arm, looked at Zhang Hao's profile, and didn't speak, but couldn't hide the proud expression on his face.

She is proud of her boyfriend, now who would say that an actress is looking for death in a relationship?She talks and talks and talks about an Oscar nominee, maybe even an award.

Joe Hisaishi took his daughter and thanked Zhang Hao with the little Chinese he learned: "Zhang Sang, thank you for giving me this opportunity to be nominated for an Oscar."

"You're welcome, Mr. Hisaishi, I hope we will have opportunities to cooperate in the future."

"Definitely, as long as you invite, you don't need to find Jiang Sang, just come to me directly." Joe Hisaishi promised.

Because Joe Hisaishi was nominated for the Oscar for Best Original Soundtrack, the attention of the movie "The Undertaker", which was just released on a small day, has greatly increased.

Fans of Little Days love this kind of film with a light, sad and beautiful atmosphere. "The Undertaker" has achieved better results than expected in Little Days. So far, it has scored a box office equivalent to 1300 million US dollars in theaters.

Before the mainland market surpassed the Small Days market, the Small Days movie market has always been the second largest box office in the world except North America.The style of this film is popular with the small days again, and it is not surprising that it has achieved such a good result.

It's a pity that, as the producer of the film, Haotian Studio only got the money to buy out the copyright and could not participate in the share.

In other Asian film markets, "The Undertaker" is also very popular and has a strong reputation, but the box office is not as good as domestic and small days.

Because of its impact on the Oscars, "The Undertaker" has been shown in a few theaters in North America, and the current cumulative box office is more than 20 US dollars, which is terrible.

But the box office is no longer what Zhang Hao cares about, the key is to hit the awards.

Before walking on the red carpet, as the film's public relations expert, Harvey Weinstein specifically told the crew members of "The Undertaker" the precautions in the Oscar red carpet ceremony and the awards ceremony hall.

"Zhang, I helped you win the Oscars and attracted the attention of Warner Pictures. When the Oscars are over, Warner Pictures wants to invite you and your crew members to visit Warner Pictures." Harvey said.

"Did they say what it was?" Zhang Hao asked.

"I don't know, maybe because of Marvel's big moves next door, Warner Pictures' DC Films is in a slump, so they have to go to the doctor in a hurry." Harvey said with a smile.

The final medical emergency was said in Chinese. Although the speech was lame, Zhang Hao heard it clearly, and couldn't help but look sideways: "Mr. Harvey, your Chinese is not bad."

Harvey smiled and said, "I recently practiced a few words with my teacher, Zhang, are you interested in coming to Hollywood? I can be your introducer."

Do you want to learn from Wu Baige?Zhang Hao shook his head and said, "Forget about Harvey, I still prefer to take root in our homeland."

"Oh, that's a pity." Harvey expressed disappointment, but there was no disappointment on his face.

After giving instructions, Harvey left. Before leaving, he reminded Zhang Hao not to forget to visit Warner Pictures.

Zhang Hao also wondered why Warner Pictures was interested in him, a Chinese director.

Is it true that, as Harvey said, Warner Pictures wants to ask him to save DC superheroes?
Zhang Hao really guessed right, or guessed half right.

The intention of Warner Pictures to invite Zhang Hao to visit is to find a way out for its DC in the Chinese film market.

Marvel Studios has been making big hits one after another. This year's super-British blockbuster "The Avengers" is scheduled to be released in the Mainland on May [-]th.

Watching people get rich, Warner Pictures is of course envious.

While envious, we must also think of ways.It is also a matter of desperation to consult Zhang Hao, a cutting-edge director, to see what suggestions and ideas he has.

(End of this chapter)