You don't understand the happiness of the director

Chapter 688 ① "Inception 2" ② Green Snake and White Snake ③ Life and Death ④ Building Shock ⑤ Golden Broom
Cameron focused on visiting the post-production of "Easy Journey 3". Wang Quan also hoped that this special effects expert could give him some suggestions. Feng Tianming, Zhou Mingquan and others were also there, holding their notebooks and waiting to listen to the master's lecture.

The "Xiao Yao You" series is closely related to the sea, but the first and second parts are both set above the sea.

In the third part, there are a lot of sections in the underwater world beneath the sea, and the technical difficulty has been comprehensively upgraded, so the cost of "Xiaoyaoyou 3" is also the highest in the series.

This is not the 80s. The era of using a fish tank to block the camera to film the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea is over. The audience needs a more realistic and immersive viewing experience, especially since this is a 3D movie.

Now that 3D has quietly cooled down, only the 3D movies from the two 3D pioneers, Wang Quan and Cameron, can attract global attention.

After watching a clip of Jiang Wen and Chen Duling in the underwater world, Cameron quickly asked, "When will your movie be released?"

Wang Quan: "This November."

After hearing this, Lao Ka was stunned for a while. Damn, he got there first again! I feel like I have always lived in his shadow!
The second part of "Avatar" is called "The Way of Water", and its main feature is the gorgeous special effects of the underwater world. He didn't expect that it has been done so well in "Happy Journey 3". Although he just watched it on the computer, he could imagine how shocking it would be to present it in 3D on the big screen.

By then, audiences probably won’t find “The Way of Water” so strange anymore when they watch it again.

The only thing he can be thankful for is that "Happy Journey 3" is the end of this series, and "Avatar" has three more parts after "Wood", "Water", "Fire", "Earth" and "Gold".

Of course, if The Way of Water performs too poorly and fails to make back its investment, then the third part will be the finale.

Looking back ten years ago, "Inception" and "Avatar" were released one after another, jointly promoting the rapid development of 3D movies.

During these ten years, he was trapped in the world of "Avatar" and couldn't get out, while Wang Quan made so many movies in the meantime. He not only created an oriental fantasy world for himself, but also helped revive the "Star Wars" series.

All three Star Wars sequels are in the top ten of the global box office history list. What a great achievement.

However, when it comes to Wang Quan's works, Cameron appreciates "Inception" more. Although "Avatar" is a science fiction film, the imagination of "Inception" impressed him and made him feel inferior.

So after the visit, Cameron asked Wang Quan, "Is it true that there is no plan to make a sequel to Inception? While Leo can still watch it now."

Wang Quan asked back: "Can you still watch it?"

Cameron thought about it for a while, and then the two of them laughed. However, Wang Quan had indeed thought about the sequel to "Inception". He had thought of some script outlines and tried to expand them, but he was not very satisfied.

He cherishes the honor that "Inception" has brought him. His journey to become a world-class director began with this movie, so he will not make a sequel just for the sake of a sequel.

Afterwards, "Alita" held a premiere event in Beijing. Wang Quan also attended the event and had a face-to-face conversation with Cameron. Also sitting on the stage was the co-producer of "Alita", Cheng Wu, president of China Literature Group.

He has been working hard to promote the film and television adaptation of Yuewen's IP. "Ever Night" and "Joy of Life" were both operated by him. He also hopes that Cameron can make a movie, or as a second choice, produce a movie version of a Qidian work.

Just like "Alita" originated from the Japanese anime "Dream Gun", he felt that Yuewen's novels also had the potential to become a world-class IP. Investing in "Alita" was to connect with Cameron and Hollywood capital.

As for Wang Quan's Wangdao system, it has actually been doing this work. It has a lot of script adaptation plans, but basically none of them have passed the green light system, because they basically require huge investments and huge risks.

Wang Dao prefers to adapt the anime first, then expand its influence little by little, and then launch a film project.

In addition to movie fans, there were also many young mainland directors sitting in the audience, such as Guo Fan, who likes Cameron very much, and Lu Chuan, who regards Cameron as a god.

When "Avatar" was released in mainland China, Lu Chuan was the one who shouted the loudest. Cameron also knew that he had such a fan, so he called him over.

Previously, Lu was involved in the "Desert Wolf" series directed by Huayi. He is one of the few directors of Huayi who can make blockbusters without losing money.

To the extent that Lu Chuan felt that he was even more awesome than Feng Xiaogang, so he decided not to shoot "The Wolf of the Desert 3" and was going to make a movie called "Bureau 749" instead. Huayi also strongly supported him.

After what happened last year, Huayi took a while to recover. Later, the two Wangs brought in some investment and finally filled the gap in the post-production of Guan Hu's "Eight Hundred".

After that, several projects were launched, including "749 Bureau" and "A Little Wish". Although there were some risks in terms of the capital chain, the funding problem would be solved once "Eight Hundred" was released this summer.

Lu Chuan looked at Wang Quan who was talking with Cameron on the stage, and thought that sooner or later he would sit in his position.

Just wait, "Game 40", his culmination work after turning 749, will surely be a success!
In addition to talking about "Alita", Cameron and Wang Quan also talked about "Avatar" and "Inception".

Old Car brought up the issue of the sequel to "Inception" again, and the audience was enthusiastic. Wang Quan ambiguously stated that he had never given up on the development of "Inception 2".

"But now there is another good news that I would like to share with all the movie fans. Next month, Inception will be re-released around the world with some additions, deletions and revisions."

The audience immediately became excited, and even Cameron shouted, "OMG!"

Today's premiere event was full of topics. Wang Quan and Cameron took advantage of each other's popularity, which was a mutual benefit. It was good for both of us.

Subsequently, "Alita: Battle Angel" ended the daily championship of "Zhu Xian 1.3" with a score of 3 million on the first day.

However, Cameron wrote the screenplay and produced the film, but he did not direct it himself. The rhythm of "Alita: Battle Angel" and the special effects of the heroine with some uncanny valley effect have been criticized, otherwise it should not be difficult to break 9 billion. Maoyan's prediction is million.

Shortly after "Alita" was released, the Oscars ceremony began in Los Angeles.

In a house of Wang Quan.

He made an appointment with Chaoyue and Chengxiao today, and planned to have them accompany him to watch the Oscar Awards ceremony.

When the two walked in, Wang Quan was happy, "Are you Xiao Bai and Xiao Qing?"

At this moment, Chaoyue was wearing a white ancient costume, with an elegant temperament, while Cheng Xiao was wearing a capable tight green ancient costume, which especially highlighted her figure.

Cheng Xiao chuckled and said, "I've said before that Chaoyue's face is very similar to Xiaobai in White Snake: Origin. I suggested that she make a COS costume a long time ago, but she insisted on dragging me along, and I don't look like Xiaoqing."

Wang Quan touched Chaoyue's modeling face with one hand and climbed Xiaoxiao's Mount Everest with the other.

"You bold monsters, I can tell at a glance that you are not human, Great and Mighty Heavenly Dragon!"

Chaoyue, who had always maintained her ladylike image, finally couldn't hold back her laughter: "I thought you would pretend to be Xu Xuan, but it turned out to be Fahai!"

Wang Quan hugged the two women and sat on the sofa: "This is exciting, right, White Lady."

Chaoyue: "Master, you are a monk, you cannot break the precepts of adultery."

"You're not even wearing any underwear. It's hard for me not to break the rules."

Chaoyue said shyly: "It's all Xiaoxiao's fault. She said it's inappropriate to wear a bra under ancient costumes, so she didn't let me wear one."

Wang Quan looked at Cheng Xiao. She was so tall even without a bra. How amazing!
The live award ceremony has begun. The movie channel is not broadcasting it this year, so naturally there are no Chinese subtitles or commentary. Cheng Xiao still understands some English, but Chao Yue basically can't understand it at all.

Although she has been working hard to catch up on her academic subjects, especially Chinese and English, in the past two years, she has not even graduated from junior high school and it is very difficult for her to catch up. Now she is barely at the level of the first or second year of high school.

Therefore, Wang Quan was also responsible for acting as a translator, introducing the relationships between the characters in the audience, as well as some of the works, so that they would know which films were about the Dragon Raising its Head.

"Among the eight best picture nominees, Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody are the best, and Roma is from Netflix, so it can be considered one of ours."

There was a huge debate in the United States about whether "Roma", which was invested by Netflix, could be nominated for an Oscar.

Because this is a so-called online movie, although Netflix released the movie in a small range in Los Angeles and San Francisco for seven days in order to get an Oscar ticket, it is still not a theater movie in essence and did not make any money for the theaters.

But as Netflix became one of the seven major MPAAs at the beginning of the year, the Oscars still gave it the go-ahead.

In fact, after the rules of the Golden Bamboo Awards came out, there were also controversies in this regard. Some Hong Kong and Taiwan films were unable to be released in mainland theaters due to homosexuality or political, ghost and other elements, but their artistic content was not bad. The rules of the Golden Bamboo Awards require that they must be released in mainland theaters, which is tantamount to excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan art films that are not tolerated by the mainland's censorship system, and will reduce the influence of the Golden Bamboo Awards.

Wang Quan expressed deep regret about this, but this is all he could do for now.

Bringing in some Hong Kong and Taiwan films that have violated the censorship system to be evaluated together for the award is definitely not a good thing for the new Golden Bamboo Awards, so it is very important that the films have been screened in mainland China.

Of course, the short film unit is not subject to this restriction. As long as the short film is uploaded to a regular video website in the mainland and is not removed, it is compliant and can participate in the election.

The originally scheduled Oscar host Kevin Hart was boycotted due to his homophobic remarks, so there will be no host for this year's Oscars, with the various award presenters just making a cameo appearance.

Soon "Black Panther" won its first award, the Best Costume Design Award. This was also the first time a Marvel movie won an Oscar, the first time in history.

Next, "Black Panther" won Best Art Design and Film Music, a total of three awards.

It has nothing to do with "Black Panther" anymore. Giving it a few technical awards is already a sign of Disney spending a lot of money. It is impossible for it to receive awards with high gold content.

Later, the musical biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody" won three awards: Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Effects and Best Editing.

During this period, Ms. Shi Zhiyu, a Chinese animator at Lighting, won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film for "Bao", which was the first time Lighting won this award.

Wang Quan immediately made a note of it and invited Shi Zhiyu to be the award presenter for the Best Animated Short Film at the Golden Bamboo Awards.

Next was the animated feature film. This time, no work from Illumination Entertainment was shortlisted. The final winner was Sony's "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse". Sony once again found a new profit point from Spider-Man.

At this time, Chaoyue and Cheng Xiao were already in dishevel. Looking at Xiaobai and Xiaoqing being so charming, Wang Quan couldn't help but think of another character in "White Snake: Origin".

"It's a pity that no one cosplays that little fox."

Chaoyue patted Wang Quan and said, "Greedy, the two of us are not enough."

Wang Quan: "But the little fox in the animation is so charming, it's exciting."

Cheng Xiao raised his head and wiped the corner of his mouth: "Actually, I also bought that suit. If you can find someone to play this role, just go ahead and find someone."

Wang Quan thought about it and felt that this role was a bit difficult to act out. She had the appearance of a loli, but was as charming as Daji. He really didn't have such a talent around him, so he gave up.

Then the major awards came one after another, and "Roma" won Best Cinematography, Best Foreign Language Film, and Best Director (Alfonso Cuarón).

Rami Malek from "Bohemian Rhapsody" won the Best Actor award, while Olivia Colman from "The Favourite" defeated Lady Gaga and others to win the Best Actress award.

"Green Book" won three awards: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Original Screenplay.

The Dragon Rises is still the biggest winner on the Oscar stage.

After "Green Book" successfully won the Oscar, promotion in mainland China also began. The film will be released in mainland China on March 3st.

The reason for delaying the film for so long was just for the Oscar. With the blessing of this award, and the fact that the story is not a dull art film, it will definitely help the box office in mainland China.

At this time, there is still half a month before the first Golden Bamboo Award is presented.

Many domestic filmmakers are paying special attention to this year's Oscars. They also hope that the Golden Bamboo Award can become an award like the Oscars, with absolute authority and influence in their own country, and even have an impact on the world.

The Golden Rooster, Golden Statue and Golden Horse Awards had all failed to achieve this in the past, but the Golden Bamboo Awards initiated by Wang Quan gave them hope. It was heard that there would be big Hollywood names attending the Golden Bamboo Awards night, all thanks to Director Quan’s reputation.

There are still three days left until the voting deadline for the Golden Bamboo Award, but the number of voters has already exceeded 1000. It seems that everyone's enthusiasm for participating in the final election is much higher than that in the primary election.

On March 1, in addition to the release of "Green Book", "All Is Well" starring Zhang Jingchu, Ni Dahong and others was also launched on Xigua Video and became an instant hit on the first day.

Zhang Jingchu, who has not acted in a TV series for a long time, has gained a large number of fans and popularity with the role of Su Mingyu. Of course, the most eye-catching character is still the old comrade Su Daqiang.

Unfortunately, the voting for the Golden Bamboo Awards has ended and the results are being counted, otherwise there would be some bonus for Zhang Jingchu.

Wang Quan watched "Fragrant Osmanthus" directed and acted by Zhang Jingchu in the internal theater of Wangdao Building, and fully affirmed her performance and directing.

“Even if I don’t win the award this year, it shouldn’t be a problem next year.”

Zhang Jingchu felt a chill in her heart. The result was out? Was there really no hope for this year?
Wang Quan quickly increased the speed to make her warm up again.

Yu Feihong on the side calmly recalled the movie and nodded with satisfaction. It was a perfect movie with a female lead and very suitable for winning awards.

Afterwards, Yu Feihong arranged the release date of the film. It had a low budget and no high expectations for the box office, so it was scheduled for May.

Wang Quan added: "Send it to Cannes first, and it will be shortlisted in any category it can be shortlisted in."

Zhang Jingchu leaned in Wang Quan's arms and whispered, "Well, I'll do whatever you say."

At this time, Ma Fanshu walked in and tapped the watch on his wrist at Wang Quan.

Wang Quan: "Oh, I have to catch a plane. I have to go to Hangzhou today."

Then Wang Quan went downstairs and called Yang Mi, and the two of them acted together.

~
Xixi and Ni Ni have been practicing basic skills in the Xiaobaihua Troupe for half a month, and Wang Quan is going to go see them.

In addition to the two young people, there was also a lady who had a high status in the Yue Opera circle who was also training hard and was practicing with the two girls.

He Saifei is 56 years old this year. She originally sang the role of a female in Xiao Baihua, but Wang Quan invited her to play the role of Ni Ni's teacher, a male role, so she also had to practice and learn from her good friend Mao Weitao. It felt like she had returned to the glorious years of the s, which was very emotional.

In comparison, another actress who plays the role of teacher Liu Yifei, Tao Huimin, has it much easier. She still plays a female role, and there are not many scenes that require her to perform on stage in person, so she can now stay at home and relax.

Li Yunxiao was the first to discover Wang Quan. Just as he was about to throw himself into his arms, he saw a familiar woman standing next to Wang Quan, Yang Mi, his complicated ex-wife!

So Li Yunxiao stopped and touched Chen Lijun.

Chen Lijun was watching Fairy Sister Liu Yifei practicing martial arts, and turned around, "Hey, Director Quan is back!"

When Liu Yifei, who was spinning and jumping on the stage, heard that Wang Quan was coming, she fell to the ground in excitement. Ni Ni, who was standing beside her, quickly stepped forward to hug her.

They failed to hold each other tightly, and both of them fell on the stage, screaming and groaning.

Wang Quan quickly jumped onto the stage and helped the two women up with Chen Lijun. After a careful check, they were relieved to find that nothing was seriously wrong.

"It's okay. I always warm up before every training session." Liu Yifei patted her knees, not caring at all.

Afterwards, Wang Quan greeted teachers He Saifei and Mao Weitao. In addition to checking on the progress of the training, he also came to bring Xixi and Ni Ni back to Beijing to attend the Golden Bamboo Award ceremony. Although they were not shortlisted, they had to attend for the momentum of the Golden Bamboo Award.

Wang Quan alone mobilized more than 40 female stars from all over the world to join in the event with his own body. He was truly devoted and exhausted.

Yang Mi asked about Liu Yifei and the others' training guest appearance list. Before coming, she felt a little regretful that she should have fought for this role and should not have let Ni Ni and Xixi form a couple. Xixi will always be hers!
After coming here: Fortunately, I didn’t take this role, I am so smart!
Wang Quan and Yang Mi treated everyone to dinner in the evening. Not many people came, basically the core staff of "Lily", including the prototype characters Chen Lijun and Li Yunxiao.

They have been on good terms with Liu Yifei and Ni Ni during this period. Although they still don't know what the script is about, they feel something is not good just from the name.

The script is called "Lily", the character played by Liu Yifei is called Ji Silei, and the character played by Ni Ni is called Zhou Lala.

Just based on the name, they doubt whether the movie can be released in mainland China.

As for the fact that Liu Yifei sometimes inexplicably ships them, they just think that Liu Yifei has some kind of fujoshi attribute.

Wang Quan and Yang Mi did not stay in the hotel that night. Yang Mi said, "I heard that Lao Quan stayed in the dormitory with two beauties. I want to stay in the dormitory tonight too!"

Chen Lijun and Li Yunxiao were both a little embarrassed. They and Wang Quan didn't do anything good in the dormitory, and there were endless ambiguous little actions.

Now Xixi and Ni Ni live in the dormitory where Chen Lijun and Li Yunxiao used to live. There is only one room with two single beds.

Of course, in order to avoid being surrounded, I only stayed there occasionally or took a break at noon. Most of the time I stayed in the hotel, of course, in one room.

They decided to live in the dormitory today, and Yang Mi took a walk around their dormitory and then ran to Wang Quan's dormitory.

Seeing the photos of Li Yunxiao and Chen Lijun in Wang Quan’s dormitory, she smiled but said nothing. The two girls were embarrassed and didn’t know what to say. They should have removed those photos earlier.

Then Yang Mi asked with a smile: "I will sleep in this room with Lao Quan tonight, is that okay?"

"No, no."

"No problem at all."

The two women waved their hands, completely losing their initial elegance when facing this ex-wife.

While lying on the bed, the two were still muttering about Yang Mi.

"Even though they're divorced, she still feels like his wife." Chen Lijun said.

Li Yunxiao: "Maybe this is the way people get along with each other. Okay, go to sleep quickly. There are performances tomorrow."

Chen Lijun scratched her ears and said, "How can you sleep with such a loud noise?"

She felt that the entire dormitory building began to shake.

On the other side, Ni Ni had been expecting Wang Quan to break in so that the three of them could have fun together, but he didn't show up until the second half of the night. He must have been drained dry by Yang Mi.

The next day, Wang Quan took Yang Mi and Qianqian Ni Ni to watch Li Yunxiao and their performance.

Today's performance is the classic "Five Daughters Paying Homage to Their Parents". Li Yunxiao plays Cuiyun and Chen Lijun plays her husband Zou Shilong. Although they are only supporting roles, Liu Yifei once again expressed that she was really touched, really touched!

Wang Quan and Yang Mi stayed in Hangzhou for two days, and then returned to Beijing with Xixi and Ni Ni.

It is now the 6th, and there are still three days until the Golden Bamboo Awards ceremony.

Today also marks one month since the Spring Festival movies were released.

At present, the box office of "Zhu Xian 3" has reached 41 billion, but "Detective Chinatown 3" is even more, reaching 43.8 billion.

Both films entered the top ten in mainland film history.

This year's Spring Festival box office is a winner-takes-all affair, except there are only two winners.

The reputation of "Crazy Alien" is not worse than that of "Detective Chinatown 3". The two films have similar scores on Douban and Maoyan, but in terms of marketing, "Detective Chinatown 3" is much more mature and more systematic.

So "Detective Chinatown 3" made more than 40 billion, while "Alien", which ranked third during the Spring Festival, didn't even reach 20 billion.

Le Kaihua, which released "Alien" with a guaranteed minimum of 28 billion, is expected to lose a lot of money, and Bao Qiang will have a hard time in the future.

However, Bao Qiang was not the only one who had to pay the losses. Although he is the boss of Le Kaihua, the bottom line guarantee was completed by the joint efforts of multiple funds. Although he lost money, not all the losses were borne by him alone. Considering his income as a first-line male star, it would not be a serious loss.

However, Lianrui Pictures, which also released "The Mermaid 28" with a guaranteed minimum of 2 billion, suffered a huge loss. The box office of this film just exceeded 10 billion, which is a far cry from 28 billion. Zhou Xingchi made a lot of money, but the party that guaranteed the minimum suffered a huge loss.

Another film that was released with a guaranteed minimum was "Hidden Man", with a minimum guarantee of 12 billion yuan. The box office is now just over 12 billion yuan, but after adding in the publicity and promotion costs, Qian Kun and Mi Shi have essentially worked for nothing.

Lao Jiang accepted the offer and decided to let Qiankun and Mi Shi directly invest in his next movie.

Lao Wang: Well, I'd better think about this matter again.

Yang Mi: No, no, no, I’m scared!

After the bitter lesson of this Spring Festival period, it is estimated that the guaranteed release method will be abandoned in the mainland in the future. Even if it still exists, it will not be so exaggerated. It is estimated that it will just guarantee a minimum return on investment.

Wang Quan was hugging Xixi and talking dirty, and Yang Mi suddenly said excitedly: "Hey, the Golden Broom Awards are being presented today, let me see if you are included~"

(End of this chapter)