You don't understand the happiness of the director

Chapter 715 What is coming finally comes (the end of the book)
One year later~
The whole of 2022 will be a very busy and fulfilling year for the king.

She has to make movies, take care of her kids, exercise, help Long Taitou plan new films, and remotely direct Wang Dao's filming plans. She even has to provide opinions on projects for Qiankun, Mi Shi, Bing Cheng, and Hesong.

During this period, he basically lived in the United States, but he often had to fly between the two places. When filming, he flew all over the world. As a result, rumors spread online that Wang Quan had changed his nationality, forcing two official Tik Tok media accounts with hundreds of millions of views to refute the rumors.

It was not until the end of 2022, when the filming of the Wang Quan movie was completed and the post-production was on track, that I had some free time.

I spent New Year's Eve last night with my family, including three wives, four children, and a couple.

It is indeed busy enough.

The next day, before he had time to rest, Taylor Swift asked him out, saying that she had prepared a "180 surprise" for him and found a few girls with long legs like her to play with him, and she guaranteed that they were all beautiful.

Although Wang Quan felt sympathetic towards Taylor Swift's plaid, he was still a little curious when he heard that there were several such plaids.

He also wants to challenge the limits of Asian men!

So he asked Sydney Sweeney to accompany him on the trip. She was Wang Quan's new assistant in the United States, and Wang Quan was used to calling her Sydney Girl.

Last year in the United States, because Ma Fanshu had his own job as a host, and Sun Yining was almost semi-illiterate and had no command of English at all, he had to find a new American assistant.

The reason why Wang Quan chose Sydney was not because of her outstanding abilities, but purely because of her domineering figure, which reminded him of the young Black Widow.

At that time, Sydney girls really had no movies to shoot.

Because she starred in a horror film produced by Summit Entertainment under Long Tail, she missed the HBO pornographic American drama "Euphoria" which could have made her famous.

At this time, political correctness began to prevail in Hollywood, and the criteria for selecting actresses were usually that they could not be too beautiful, their figures could not be too outstanding, and ordinary women should feel a sense of empathy with the actors.

As a result, ordinary girls and even ugly girls like Zendaya began to be favored by film companies, and Sydney girls had less and less work and could only take on some minor roles.

Because she had worked with Long Taizhi before, when Wang Quan announced that he was looking for an assistant, she also received the message and immediately sent in her resume without hesitation.

After all, Ana de Armas' success is right in front of us. A Cuban immigrant can become a top star with the help of King David's assistant. So what difference can a native American like me make?

So in the competition with a group of beauties, Sydney girl finally won.

However, Wang Quan also observed her for two months, using both interest binding and favors to completely conquer her.

You can't be careless. Now American actresses have regarded Metoo as their magic weapon to protect themselves. How many film and television company executives and big stars have been killed in this way.

Before we did it, you said we both got what we wanted, but after we were done you said I was sexually harassing you in the workplace?
The atmosphere in the United States is very weird right now, so you have to be careful.

Let’s just say that Wang Quan has to take safety measures every time he is in the United States, for fear that he might accidentally have another child.

On the way, Wang Quan took some time to take a look at the domestic Maoyan.

The performance in 22 years was good, better than in 21 years.

21年总票房是803亿，比20年又有所降低，但22涨到了832亿，仅次于无敌的19年。

Moreover, since 19, the mainland has surpassed North America for four consecutive years to become the world's largest market.

As a result, Hollywood giants that had suffered losses at the hands of Huayi and other companies in the past have returned to the mainland again with pure capital and have cooperated with local film and television companies, bringing benefits to many film and television companies.

But Huayi was excluded by all Hollywood giants. Columbia’s lesson was too painful.

Coupled with the disastrous failure of If You Are the One 3, Huayi's days became increasingly difficult, so Mi Shi took the opportunity to discuss with the two Wangs of Huayi, wanting to replace them and become one of the six major members of YYDS.

The price was to give Huayi some production tasks, allowing this once glorious and powerful label to survive, but only as a contract manufacturer for Mi Shi and Qian Kun.

Er Wang's financial business also collapsed at this time. He urgently needed money to fill the holes and maintain his current extravagant life. He had no choice but to sign the humiliating treaty and completely withdrew from the ranks of Chinese film and television giants.

However, in 22, Mi Shi's performance in the film industry was average, and no of her works entered the top ten of the year.

Mi Shi’s best performance was the first part of “Dumb House” directed by Li Weiran during the Spring Festival.

Thanks to the influence of the original novel and the reunion of Zhu Yilong and Bai Yu's "Daobi", the film grossed 20.65 billion yuan, but because the overall performance in 22 was too strong, it could only rank 11th of the year.

Even during the Spring Festival, "Dumb House" only ranked third.

The second place is "The Professional", which doesn't have a very good reputation but simply makes the audience happy. It is a collaboration between a subsidiary of China Literature Group and Xihong City Film.

The film made a comeback and earned 26.27 billion yuan at the box office, ranking seventh in the year. Moreover, this time it did not ride on the popularity of Shen Teng. The male lead is Wei Xiang and the female lead is Ma Li.

As for Shen Teng himself, this year was also fruitful. The movie "Man Jiang Hong" won the Spring Festival championship and ranked second in the year with a high box office of 48.61 billion.

This is also Shen Teng's personal best result. Although Zhang Yimou's skill and ingenuity in shooting the entire film in one shot may be more important, without Shen Teng, I'm afraid the audience would not choose this movie.

In addition, Huang Xuan's popularity accumulated through the Zhu Xian trilogy also helped to a certain extent. He played Shen Teng's third uncle.

An old-timer and a heroic young general form a cute contrast.

Huang Xuan finally realized his dream of working with Zhang Yimou, and he can now let go of the incident involving "Curse of the Golden Flower".

Of course, Wang Quan felt that the new ending he came up with for Zhang Yimou was also helpful, thus avoiding a lot of haters.

In addition to "Man Jiang Hong", which is almost Shen Teng's personal show, "The Lone Moon", which has 33.69% Tencent's popularity, also earned billion yuan in box office, ranking fifth in the year.

During its release, it was copied by another Hong Kong science fiction film "The Tomorrow War" which was said to be of epoch-making significance. It stole box office revenue, was suppressed, and was also accused of bullying Hong Kong compatriots. Shen Tong and Ma Li were almost accused of being a black force in the entertainment industry.

It was a big show, and in the end, the box office revenue was 6 million.

Sure enough, movies do need hype and publicity, but the prerequisite is that the quality must at least be up to standard, at the very least be qualified.

Another film that has also become famous in the film industry for 22 years due to hype is Wu Ershan's "The First Part of the God of Conqueror". It is much better than "The Tomorrow War" and has earned 28 billion yuan at the box office, ranking sixth in the year.

Originally, the production of this series had come to a standstill because of problems with the investors, and there was no money left for special effects.

Fortunately, Hollywood entered the game in a big way, and Wuershan, who received investment from Disney, had the money to complete the post-production and get the film released during the summer vacation. Disney was also responsible for the overseas distribution of the film, and he made another fortune.

This practice of Hollywood companies investing in mainland films to gain profits and overseas distribution rights also provides Chinese-language films with a new way to go overseas, which is much more efficient than doing it alone.

Although this will create competition with Hollywood itself, the attraction of the world's largest market is too great. In addition, Hollywood's creativity has begun to decline in recent years, and its performance has been lackluster, so it needs new profit growth points.

Although domestic blockbusters such as "Fengshen" and "Dragon Race" have been released around the world on this trend, the most dazzling Chinese-language film in the global market in 22 years is still the second part of the "Three-Body" series.

Although it ranked third in the mainland that year, it is the highest-grossing Chinese-language film in the world in 22 years.

Director Wu Shixian took over the "Three-Body" series from Zhang Yimou. This time he invited Huang Xiaoming to play Luo Ji. The film earned 41.55 billion yuan in box office in mainland China, becoming the champion of the National Day holiday.

This result is not as good as "Man Jiang Hong", it seems that Zhang Yimou's choice was right.

But this does not mean that science fiction films are not good, because the annual box office champion is a science fiction film.

It is the official sequel to "The Wandering Earth". It follows the story of the Jupiter crisis and tells the story of the new crisis faced by the Earth after Liu Qi becomes a qualified doomsday warrior - "The Wandering Earth 2"!
The film became the annual box office champion with a score of 51.52 billion.

Although this is the worst annual championship since "Wolf Warrior 17" in 2, it cannot be blamed on Guo Fan. He has done well enough within his ability.

This year's summer season is really too strong.

Not to mention that "The First Part of the Gods" and "The Lone Moon" together have a box office of 60 billion, there is also a movie that emerged as a super dark horse and got a box office of nearly 40 billion, ranking fourth in the year.

This is "All in One", directed by Shen Ao and starring Nazha, Zhang Yixing, Yongmei, Wang Chuanjun, Zhou Ye and others. It is nicknamed "anti-fraud propaganda film" by netizens and was originally named "Fishing Operation".

Although Nazha is known as the leader of the new four little beauties, she is a very Buddhist person and the subject matter is realistic, so almost no one is optimistic that it can break 1 billion.

As a result, as the clips of "sexy dealer, Nazha dealing cards online" and "Wang Chuanjun worshiping Buddha and burning incense" before the release went viral on short video platforms such as Douyin and Kuaishou, it triggered a nationwide discussion about telecommunications fraud.

The popularity level of this movie has been rising again and again. After its release, it directly cut short the good momentum of "Fengshen" and even affected the subsequent performance of "The Wandering Earth 2".

Although the stars and the sea are beautiful, ordinary people are more concerned about things around them, especially since online fraud has been so rampant recently. Almost everyone has such relatives and friends around them, so they can empathize with them.

The success of this movie, coupled with the country's attention to online fraud, also gave Wu Jing, who is currently filming "Wolf Warrior 3", great confidence.

In addition to the seven films mentioned above, there is also Qiankun’s "River God 2" ranked ninth of the year.

After Xu Ke finished the "Changjin Lake" series, he took over this work by Tian Xia Ba Chang as a trial run, started a new series, and earned 23 billion at the box office, which also allowed Li Xian to successfully gain a foothold in the film industry.

In addition to these eight, there are one and a half Hollywood movies in the top ten of the year.

First, in June, "Jurassic Park 6" earned a lukewarm box office of 3 billion yuan.

In December, the co-produced blockbuster "Pacific Rim 12" in which Yang Mi played the leading role set off the Lunar New Year box office. The box office has now reached 3 billion yuan, and it should eventually surpass "River God 22".

(The final full-year box office is shown in the figure↓)

As for Liu Yifei's movie "Crime" (formerly known as "Zhang Chunru"), which was released at the end of November, it also had a box office of 11 billion yuan, causing quite a stir at home and abroad, and was boycotted by Japan.

As early as February at the Berlin International Film Festival, Liu Yifei won the Best Actress Award at the Berlin Film Festival for this film.

She also became the first Chinese actress, and even the first Asian actress, to win the triple crown of Best Actress at Cannes, Berlin and Venice!

Previously, the most impressive one was Zhang Manyu's Cannes + Berlin Best Actress award.

Since then, Liu Yifei has become the acting spokesperson in the Chinese world.

Even in the world film industry, there have only been two people who have won the Grand Slam of the three major European Film Actress awards.

One is another French national treasure, Juliette Binoche, and the other is Julianne Moore from the United States.

Now Liu Yifei is the third one. I feel her English name should be changed to Zhu Lifei or something like that.

Although Wang Quan feels that Sissi’s current acting skills are not worthy of so many awards, she is his sweetheart after all.

Wang Quan always manages to capture Sissi's most touching temperament at the right age and tailor the most suitable roles for her.

So there was the natural and casual Li Ziqi in the beginning of "Human Fireworks", like a country elf.

And Billie in "The Farewell" who is fat and has no image, but is full of love and passion.

And then there is Ji Silei in "Lily" who has a fatal attraction to women.

And now there is Ms. Zhang Chunru, who is compassionate and compassionate in "Crime".

After filming this movie, Sissi almost became autistic. She did not even go to Berlin. She received psychological counseling for three months before she completely came out of the role and began to embrace her family and friends.

Do you think Wang Quan is going to sleep with a woman this time?
Wrong, he is using his body to help Sissi with public relations!
The film was released in China and the United States in November. It won many pioneering and trendsetting awards along the way and now only lacks an Oscar.

Wang Quan hopes that Sissi can complete the Grand Slam of Oscar + Golden Globe + three European golds!

This is also the highest honor that European and American actors can receive. Previously, only Julianne Moore has achieved this achievement.

After arriving at the place, Wang Quan put down his phone with one hand and pulled it out of Sydney girl's shirt with the other hand.

Sydney girl already knew the theme of the night. She felt that coming here was just asking for trouble for herself as she was only 1.6 meters tall.

Facing Taylor Swift who is 1.80 meters tall, she felt too much pressure.

And there was more than just Taylor Swift tonight. She also saw supermodel Kendall Jenner, who is also 1.80 meters tall and is an old lover of King David.

Wang Quan hugged Kendall, and then Anya Taylor-Joy also came over.

"This one is not even 1.8 meters tall."

Taylor Swift hugged Anya's shoulders: "But Anya's fighting ability is obvious to everyone, right?"

Anya smiled mischievously, and then Maya Hawke, who was about the same height as Anya, walked over slowly.

She is an actress, model, and second-generation star. Her father is Ethan Hawke, who starred in "The Purge" series. Her mother is Uma Thurman, who starred in the famous "Kill Bill" and "Pulp Fiction". She has a close relationship with Harvey.

Maya looks a bit like her mother when she was young, but her mother was even more beautiful when she was young. Uma was simply a beauty at that time, but it was a pity that her beauty lasted too short.

If she could be as resistant to aging as Theron, Wang Quan would probably get to know her mother first.

Wang Quan and Maya Hawke met because of the casting of "Inception 2". Although she was not used in the end, as her idol, Wang Quan didn't even have to take the initiative to sleep with her, she just gave it to him for free.

Maya felt that she was much luckier than her mother. Compared with that fat pig Harvey, King David was like a god from heaven!
Walking out behind Maya was Marina Kostina, a Cranian girl born in 03 and a supermodel.

She has an angelic face like a child, an impressive height of 177cm and a devilish figure.

She originally came to apply for the position of Wang Quan's assistant, but her English was average, so she lost to the Sydney girl, but she also won in life.

The young and ignorant girl soon became Wang Quan's woman, and with the help of Wang Quan's relationship with Kendall Jenner, she became a rising star in the supermodel world. From now on, she would no longer have to go back to Kiev to suffer.

Although Marina is nearly 1.80 meters tall, she is less than 1.80 meters after all.

"Taylor, your 180 surprise is not quite up to par."

"Don't be impatient, there are still people here!" Taylor Swift gritted her teeth. If she hadn't wanted to gain creative inspiration from hatred and jealousy, she would not have organized such an event, and she would have to find new people for this guy!
Wang Quan joked: "It can't be Nicole, she probably can't play with you at her age."

As they were talking, a slim girl with curly hair who looked as tall as Taylor Swift and Kendall walked in.

Wang Quan was stunned when he saw her, "Dai Wa!"

……

On January 1, after Sissi was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar, Wang Quan prepared to return to China. The Spring Festival of 18 came early, so he wanted to go back to celebrate the New Year.

This year's Oscars were really eye-opening, as two Chinese actresses were nominated at once, one was Liu Yifei for "Crime" and the other was Yang Ziqiong for "Blink".

Moreover, the two films almost led the entire awards ceremony. At the Golden Globe Awards, Sissi won the Best Actress in a Drama, and Yang Ziqiong won the Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.

On the plane, Xixi and Mimi had fallen asleep, while Xiaoxianmi and Bayi were playing together.

The two and a half year old chubby little boy is really likable but also annoying, and he is very naughty. Fortunately, Xiao Xianmi is patient and sometimes really gets aggressive, so the little brother is very obedient in front of his sister.

The reason why the whole family took the same plane this time was mainly because the Wang family had more children.

The last time he returned to China, after several days of hard work, Da Meiyuan and Sister Zilin both got pregnant. Now that their bellies haven't gotten bigger, Wang Quan has to give an explanation to their families when he returns to China this time.

I just don’t know how angry Nazha would be if she knew: It was obviously me who came here first!
While the children were playing, Wang Quan opened his mobile phone and started reading a novel.

Recently, a type of online literature has quietly emerged and quickly became a hit on multiple websites such as Qidian. Even Wang Quan was fascinated by it.

This category is called "Siheyuanwen".

In short, it is a fan fiction of Qiankun's once mediocre period drama "The Story of Four Seasons".

Because the plot of this drama made the audience feel very depressed and angry after being explained in the short video, the creator seized on this point and magnified it, thereby effectively channeling the readers' emotions and creating a refreshing feeling of relieving their anger.

Of course, there are many beauties in this drama, and allowing the male protagonist to have girls is also a major attraction.

Compared with the original version, Qian Kun is more generous with the pay, and the actors used are more interesting.

Except for the leading female role Hao Lei (Qin Huairu) who remains unchanged, the remaining second female role becomes Dong Xuan (Lou Xiao'e).

There are also well-known actresses joining the cast, such as Huo Siyan (Qin Jingru), Ran Qiuye (Zeng Li), Yu Li (Zhang Tong), Yu Haitang (Wang Ou), and He Yushui (Yuan Shanshan).

It can be said that the male time travelers take in everyone, and there are many who take them all.

Taking into account the popularity of several female protagonists, the Qin Huairu faction, Lou Xiaoe faction, and Ran Qiuye faction are the most powerful.

The role of Banggeng teacher Ran Qiuye is actually not that big, but the female lead Zeng Li has been very popular in the past two years and has filmed many influential dramas. Of course, this is thanks to Wang Quan.

Now in middle age, Zeng Li has come to terms with it. After being a vegetarian for so many years, she also wants to eat meat. That’s great!
The Lou Xiao'e faction was jokingly called the "poker" by readers.

Wang Quan didn’t envy the hero in the book for getting into trouble at all, because he had done so in real life.

It’s all Yaya’s fault. She insisted on playing the twins game. Gosh, from some angles they do look a bit alike, especially when they’re stacked up.

~
After the plane landed, Wang Quan first settled his family, and then went to his senior sister's house with gifts. She now lives with her parents.

Naturally, he did not get a good reputation as a result, but things had already happened, and Wang Quan had made up his mind not to get married, but was willing to take on all responsibilities as a father.

They had no other choice. If the matter got out, their daughter would be considered the third party. A family like theirs cares a lot about face.

After all, everyone knows about the relationship between Wang Quan and Liu Yifei, all they need is a proof.

Zhang Zilin thought: A third party? I'm afraid it won't be my turn until I'm thirty!
However, she is very much looking forward to having a baby. With her physique, the baby she gives birth to should be bigger than Bayi.

Next is Da Meiyuan’s family, which is a family of scholars, and the one in charge now is Da Meiyuan’s brother.

Da Meiyuan is also very worried about getting married. Although she still can't get married, at least she has a child and she won't end up living alone in the future.

So he was quite polite to Wang Quan.

When only Wang Quan and Da Meiyuan were left, he listened to the movement of Da Meiyuan's belly and laughed, "I just don't know which one is bigger, this one or Zilin's."

Da Meiyuan suddenly thought of a question, "They are from the same batch, so are they considered twins?"

"Uh, this..."

Wang Quan was just thinking about this question when his sister-in-law knocked on the door and called them to eat. She really treated him as her brother-in-law.

Wang Quan was also very sincere and gave 1% of the shares of several domestic companies, including ByteDance, Maoyan, Butian Films, Inception Animation, and Shiba Culture, to the two as a betrothal gift.

This ensures that even if one company has problems, it will not affect their lives and those of their children. After the child is born, a trust fund will be arranged for multiple insurance.

Of course, the most valuable of these shares is ByteDance.

Now this company is flourishing both in China and abroad. Under the protection of February 1, Tik Tok has become a big hit overseas. ByteDance alone is worth more than all the others combined. % will surely exceed billion.

Moreover, Douyin has not yet gone public. Of course, it may not go public in the future. After all, its cash flow is too abundant and it has no shortage of money to develop new businesses.

1% is not a small amount, as the founder Zhang Yiming only owns 21% of the shares.

Even if Wang Quan gives away a few more 1%, he will still have absolute control over ByteDance. However, except for someone with whom he has deep feelings, like Nazha, Wang Quan probably won't be willing to give up the shares again in the future. After all, he is only worth trillions.

After returning to China, the nominations for the 5th Golden Bamboo Awards were also announced. Although Wang Quan had no works released last year, he won the Golden Bamboo Award for Best Picture for the second time with "Small Town Test-taker".

However, the Best Director award was given to Zhang Jingchu for "Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin". It is probably difficult for anyone to surpass her achievement of winning both the Best Director and Best Actress awards.

In addition, Ren Suxi also won the Best Actress award for her role in "Small Town Test Taker", beating Chen Duling's "Liang Yulin", Wan Qian's "Rabbit Violence", Zhang Xiaofei's "Hello, Li Huanying" and Zhang Zifeng's "My Sister".

After all, Wang Quan was unable to achieve the achievement of winning several Golden Bamboo Film Awards together. Dudu and Wan Qian said that they were incompetent and were willing to accept the caning.

Last year, the Best Actor category was a weak one, with even Wu Jing nominated for "Watergate Bridge". Others included Chen Jianbin, who directed and starred in "The Eleventh Chapter", newcomer Zhang Xincheng for "Small Town Test-taker", Zhu Yilong for "Liang Yulin" and Deng Chao for "Take Her Eyes".

The five people had similar chances of winning, and none of them stood out. In the end, Deng Chao became the first of the four young actors to win the Golden Bamboo Award for Best Actor.

Zhang Xincheng won the Best Newcomer Award, which was also the last Newcomer Award.

The most notable feature of this year's fifth Golden Bamboo Awards is that the Best Newcomer Award and Best New Director Award, which always failed to gather five winners, were removed, and the Best Foreign Language Film and Lifetime Achievement Awards were added.

As the world's largest market, a market that even Hollywood has to kowtow to, everyone thinks it is normal for the Golden Bamboo Awards to have a Best Foreign Language Film.

Moreover, this award requires the film company to apply for registration, and it does not need to be released in China. In addition to several works of Dragon Raising its Head, Hollywood companies have also responded positively, and Japan, Korea, Europe, Latin America, and Africa have also taken the initiative to submit their works for review.

If it wins the award, it will mean high box office and high copyright if it is released in mainland China in the future. It is a shortcut to enter the world's largest market!

The final five films shortlisted are "Crime" from the United States, "The Banshee of Inishherein" from Ireland, "The Tragic Triangle" from Sweden, "Donkey's Bray" from Poland, and "Decision to Part" from Korea.

Now that China-South Korea relations have eased, the ban on South Korea is not as strict as before. Yoona and IU have both come here to hold several concerts.

It was called a concert, but in fact it was a meeting with her lover. By the way, a newcomer named Zhang Yuanying was introduced to Wang Quan. Wang Quan liked to see Yingzi turning around and shaking her hips, and he liked her Qingdao dialect with a Korean accent even more.

And even if it didn't loosen up, the leading actress of "Decision to Break Up" is Chinese actress Tang Wei. If she wins the award, she can go on stage to receive the award.

"Blink" by Hollywood newcomer A24 was also registered, but perhaps its style was not well accepted in China and ultimately failed to be nominated.

In fact, there is another point that has been repeatedly discussed this year, that is, whether Chinese people like Liu Yifei, Tang Wei, and Yang Ziqiong, who have outstanding performances in foreign films, can be nominated for acting awards.

Or, if a foreigner has performed extremely well in a Chinese film, can he or she be nominated?

In other words, should we achieve the same level of openness as the Oscars?

The final result of the discussion was that the time is not yet ripe. The time will come when Chinese-language films have a greater international influence and the Golden Bamboo Awards also need to spread their influence abroad.

Wang Quan actually didn’t pay much attention to this year’s Golden Bamboo Awards, not because none of his works were shortlisted.

The main reason is that there is no lover of mine among the heroines, not even one!
I provide them with such good resources. Throughout the past 22 years, Zhao Jinmai starred in "The Wandering Earth 2", Nazha starred in "All or Nothing", Yaya starred in "The Three-Body Problem 2", Meng Ziyi starred in "River God 2", Chen Yao starred in "The Dumb House", Wen Yongshan and Huang Bo starred in "Muye Weird Things", and Zeng Li starred in "The Journey Home".

All the best resources of the year were given to them, but in the end not a single one was nominated.

These people, who don't make progress, should all be whipped!

Just when Wang Quan was hesitating whether to ask Yaya to call her twin sister Xuanzi out, or to ask Zeng Li to call Xuanzi to cosplay Love in Courtyard, WeChat on his cell phone rang.

It was Cheng Chen’s. She told Wang Quan: You bad guy, my sister and I are already home, and my sister is asleep.

Cheng Chen is now a freshman at Beijing Film Academy. Wang Quan couldn't help but recall the time when Chenchen came to Beijing Film Academy to take the art exam last year.

Compared to the fake sisters Yaya and Dong Xuan, they are obviously more attractive.

Many of Wang Quan’s girls have now returned to their hometowns. In the past, they might have needed to try their best to earn some money by participating in the local Spring Festival Gala at the end of the year, but now there is no need for that at all, and they don’t care about that little bit of money.

Of course, CCTV Spring Festival Gala is an exception. Even though it has declined, the Spring Festival Gala still has some influence.

However, among Wang Quan's people this year, only Ma Fanshu appeared on the Spring Festival Gala as a host. Yaya had done it for two years and found it boring and stressful, so she stopped going and focused on being an actor.

But some people are unwilling to go back to their hometowns because they don’t want to face those boring relatives during the Chinese New Year, so they would rather go home during the off-peak hours and stay in Beijing during the Chinese New Year.

When there are a lot of people, they gather together to live together, which can be considered a way of keeping each other warm.

Because they knew that at this time their gods would definitely be with Xianmi and their children.

However, Wang Quan did not ignore them. He gave each of them a big red envelope and made an appointment to watch a movie together the next day.

The closer it gets to 2025, the more interested Wang Quan becomes in movies, because cinemas often show movies that he has never seen or even heard of, which gives him a lot of freshness.

Let’s take this year’s Spring Festival as an example.

"Nezha: The Devil Boy Conquers the Dragon King", "The Lost Records", "The Mute House 2", and "Monster Hunt 3" are all not available in the film and television library.

Even the named films "Unknown", "Swapping Lives" and "Mr. Red Carpet" are quite different from what Wang Quan had imagined after comparing their trailers and casts.

For example, Da Peng did not participate in Bona's "Unknown" because this Spring Festival he and Shen Teng co-directed a movie of the same name adapted from the classic book "The Lost Records".

The film takes the legend of Qin Shihuang's encounter with aliens and gives it a new interpretation. It is a subversive comedy.

This was originally a creative idea that Wang Quan had when he was creating "Xiao Yao You". He was planning to film it into a serious drama and give it to his father for free.

As a director, Dapeng's name comes before Shen Teng, but as an actor, Shen Teng is the number one, playing an alien who can foresee the future and spoiled the Qin Dynasty's demise at the hands of Hu Hai to Qin Shihuang in advance, which is a bit like the spoiler-filled online article that Wang Quan read recently.

The second role was Wang Qiankun, who played Qin Shi Huang. Coming from a peasant family, Old Wang finally got to play a big shot.

Dapeng himself played the role of Hu Hai, the second emperor of Qin, and he finally had the opportunity to openly call Lao Wang "Dad".

This movie is also the one Wang Quan is most looking forward to. The scale of comedy is indeed difficult to grasp, and the comedy styles of Da Peng and Shen Teng are also different. I don’t know if they can be compatible.

However, the two have known each other for many years. Shen Teng had starred in this wonderful drama as early as the "Diaosi Man" era.

Inside the courtyard, Wang Quan's family was having their New Year's Eve dinner. The TV was on, playing the Spring Festival Gala. But even Old Wang and Mei Yanqiu, who had watched the show for more than 30 years, did not look towards the TV, just to see some movement.

In their eyes, there is a beautiful granddaughter who looks like a fairy and a fat grandson who is loved by everyone.

The main topic of conversation during the dinner was movies. Lao Wang had joined the Spring Festival movie schedule as an actor and would start his roadshow tomorrow. Mei Yanqiu complained to him why he was bothering himself with this at such an old age.

Lao Wang said: "My fans all miss me, and I have to run Qiankun well and produce more hits. Since my son doesn't want to take over, I will let my grandson take over in the future."

After saying this, Lao Wang suddenly realized that Mimi was also there, and quickly added: "Any grandson or granddaughter who wants to take over can do it."

Yang Mi, the CEO of Mishi, a competitor of Qiankun, said: "The granddaughter will belong to someone else in the future. It's like spilled water. Let the grandson take over, right, Bayi baby."

Bayi rubbed his fat head against Yang Mi's arm and said, "Mommy, I want to eat chicken legs."

Da Mimi: "Okay, Mommy will pick it for you."

Because when Wang Shiguang was over one year old and was still remembering things and people, Liu Yifei didn't spend more than half a year with him. On the contrary, Yang Mi went home every day when filming "Pacific Rim 3" and stayed in Los Angeles to take care of the child after the filming was finished, so this fat boy is closer to his mother Mi.

Liu Yifei felt that she was taking revenge on herself for taking away her daughter's love.

But it doesn’t matter, Xiao Xianmi still loves herself the most. She quickly wiped the corners of Xiao Xianmi’s mouth. Both mother and daughter were wearing parent-child outfits.

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This year, "Monster Hunt 3" did not advertise on the Spring Festival Gala, but the publicity and promotion budget was no less than that of the second part, and it became even more popular.

In order to compete with "Monster Hunt 3", the publicity and promotion costs of works such as "Ne Zha", "The Lost Tomb", and "Mute House 2" have also increased a lot.

Mr. Jiang from Enlight Films said that it’s fun to spend American money!

The main reason why the "Monster Hunt 3" project can continue is that Enlight has received investment from Universal Studios. It is not an investment company. This country has regulations, but it can invest in individual projects.

Then Jiang Zhiqiang personally took the script to beg Ni Ni, guaranteeing Ni Ni's leading position, without Liang Chaowei stealing the show, and also gave her an unprecedented pay of 5000 million+ with a share of the global box office dividends.

Because of Shuangzi's sky-high salary and issues such as tax evasion, people in the industry generally don't dare to pay such high salaries now.

In "Ghost Blows Out the Light 4", Liu Ye and Li Bingbing both received a salary of 5 million yuan, but in the 6th and th seasons, the salary was reduced, and they used box office share as compensation. This is basically the way the industry treats big names now.

At that time, Ni Ni had just signed the contract to play the leading role in "Ready Player One 2" and the whole world was informed.

Jiang Zhiqiang was optimistic about her potential to go global, so he was very nice and basically responded to all of Ni Ni's requests.

Ni Ni then reluctantly agreed, and brought Hesong's Yang Yutong to play an important supporting role.

It’s not because she got a lot of Hesong’s shares, but mainly because this was the instruction of Master Wang Quan. Sister Yutong is a new sister in the palace.

Even though Master Quan is in the United States, he is very busy when he returns to China occasionally. There are several new people in the palace.

Now Hesong is preparing to remake The Legend of Sword and Fairy, and I heard that they plan to let Yang Yutong play Zhao Linger.

As a good friend of Liu Yifei, Ni Ni thinks that Yutong is pretty, but she doesn’t have the fairy-like aura of Qianqian.

Ever since Xixi starred in "Crime", Ni Ni felt that she had become a god in her heart.

The roadshow will start tomorrow, so Yang Yutong will stay at Ni Ni's house today and they will set off together tomorrow morning.

Yang Yutong was still a little reserved. Ni Ni was not only a senior, but also the boss of the company. Even though they had served Director Quan together, there was still a sense of class gap.

So she still gets along better with younger friends, and she lies on the bed and chats happily with the sisters in the mistress group.

She also joined this organization, and almost all of the 11 beautiful girls in that year joined.

She, Wang Churan, Zhang Jingyi and Yang Chaoyue were the most active tonight.

Because she is the supporting actress in "Monster Hunt 3", Zhang Jingyi is the supporting actress in "Nameless", while Wang Churan is the heroine of "Dumb House 2", and Yang Chaoyue is the heroine of "The Lost Tomb".

Yang Chaoyue: I don’t actually have many parts, it’s mainly Brother Teng, Brother Peng and the old man.

The old father-in-law is naturally Wang Qiankun. Once, Wang Quan was kissing Chao Yue passionately in the office and was seen by Old Wang. Old Wang was very angry. Why didn’t he catch up with the good times? Now Gong Xing, Zhu Lin and He Qing are all old!
But besides being angry, I also feel a little relieved. With my son protecting me, these girls must be much happier than other girls in the entertainment industry.

So he also gave Chaoyue a lot of resources, which increased her happiness index a little bit.

From then on, Lao Wang often ran into Wang Quan being intimate with different young actresses on the street, which made Lao Wang very worried, because where could he have so many resources!

Under such circumstances, Wang Quan picked out some ideas from his creative notes and helped Qiankun plan "Shi Yi Ji" about Qin Shihuang's battle against aliens.

The four of them were chatting when Hu Lianxin suddenly said, "Did everyone watch "The World" today? I'm about to make an appearance!"

This CCTV drama that opened the year was a huge hit and is a classic that can be watched repeatedly. Hu Lianxin played Zeng Li's daughter, Zeng Li played Lei Jiayin's sister, and Yaya played Lei Jiayin's wife.

Zeng Li is old now, and she basically plays such mother-in-law roles. Yang Chaoyue has just filmed a new work "Warm" in Dapeng, in which Zeng Li plays her future mother-in-law.

Even though Yang Yutong, Yang Chaoyue and others were having so much fun in the group, the number one seed during the Spring Festival was not their movie, but undoubtedly "Nezha: The Devil Child Conquers the Dragon King".

The next morning, before the cinemas opened, the film had already received 400 million in pre-sales. The touching and joy that "Nezha: The Devil Child Comes into the World" brought to the audiences still remain in their hearts. Moreover, many children have grown up and miss the Devil Child even more.

Even though "Ne Zha" has now dropped to eighth place in film history, its number of moviegoers ranks fourth, only behind "Escape Plan 2, 3" and "Wolf Warrior 2", and its influence has not diminished over the years.

After the first day of the Lunar New Year, "Ne Zha" won the single-day box office championship with 8.11 million yuan, and "The Lost Tomb" followed closely with 5.25 million yuan. The combination of Da Peng and Shen Teng did not let them down, and Qin Shi Huang and the aliens seemed to be a good match.

The other films, "Monster Hunt 3" and "Mute House 2", also had a single-day performance of over million.

The box office during the Spring Festival has fluctuated, but this year it finally set a new record, exceeding 20 billion in a single day!
It is roughly equivalent to 300 million US dollars. The highest single-day box office in the North American market is only 150 million, which is equivalent to half of the New Year's Day.

The saying "there is strength in numbers" was embodied at this moment, and many American entertainment media reported the news.

Wang Quan had a very fulfilling first day of the Chinese New Year. He watched "Ne Zha" and "The Lost Tomb", and was very satisfied with both.

There would be too much to watch if there were more. After all, today we are not just here to watch movies. The most important thing today is companionship, to give some 37-degree warmth to those girls who stay in Beijing for the New Year.

Because the Spring Festival is earlier this year, the Dragon Raising its Head on February 2 is also earlier.

When his birthday came, Wang Quan was already in Los Angeles. After all, the post-production of "Inception 2" could not be done without him as the director.

However, he did not bring his family this time. Xianmi was in Beijing. After celebrating their birthdays with Taozi, the Golden Bamboo Awards were approaching.

Wang Quan hesitated for a moment and finally went back. Although he wanted the Golden Bamboo Award to get rid of Wang Quan's mark, the Golden Bamboo Award still needed Wang Quan's influence at this stage.

Moreover, the Best Foreign Language Film and Lifetime Achievement Awards were added for the first time this year, so it is reasonable for him to go back and present the award to his teacher.

The Lifetime Achievement Award has been confirmed to be given to Teacher Xie Fei. This was not selected by more than 2,000 members, so Wang Quan knew about it in advance.

But he doesn't know yet who will win the Best Foreign Language Film award. But if this award is not given to "Crime", I'm afraid the people of the country will not agree.

Some people say that this award was set up this year to reward "Crime".

In the end, the Golden Bamboo Award did not disappoint the people of the country, and "Crime" won the award!
Brit Marling and Liu Yifei took to the stage to accept the new award.

Ma Ling spoke a long paragraph in Mandarin and thanked many people, but Liu Yifei only said one sentence: Thank you Zhang Chunru for your contribution to exposing the crimes of the Japanese invaders!

At this time, Saito Asuka, who was an international guest in the audience, felt that many eyes around her were staring at her, making her feel uneasy, as if she was sitting on pins and needles, and as if there was something stuck in her throat.

Don't mess with me, my mother is Burmese and I am only half Japanese!

Nazha, who starred in "All or Nothing", stared at her. The Burmese are also unforgivable. Internet fraud kills people!
Saito Asuka looked helplessly at Wang Quan who was like a god in the front row. She was conquered by Wang Quan when Neon attended Kon Satoshi's funeral, and only then did she have the opportunity to represent the Neon sisterhood to attend the Golden Bamboo Awards.

Last year, director Satoshi Kon finally failed to defeat pancreatic cancer and passed away. As his best friend and confidant, Wang Quan put down his filming work and went to Tokyo.

Umekawa Hideo knew that Wang Quan needed to vent when he was sad, so he chose this petite girl named Asuka so that the squad leader could pick her up and rush in while standing.

Afterwards, various awards were presented one after another. "The Wandering Earth 2" and "Safe Escape from the 21st Century" won multiple technical awards. Wang Quan also personally presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Mr. Xie Fei.

Teacher Xie’s mother passed away two years ago at the age of 108. It seemed that Teacher Xie had aged a lot since then. As long as his parents were alive, he would always be a child. Now that his parents have passed away, he began to think about his own death.

Then it was the turn of several major awards. First, Xu Zheng won the Best Actor award for "Love Myth" which he produced, defeating Wu Renlin, Zhu Yilong, Huang Bo, and Huang Xuan.

This also made up for his regret of losing to You Benchang in the first session.

Yang Enyou was nominated for Best Actress for her performance in "Life Events". She was only eight years old when filming the movie and is only 10 years old this year.

She is the youngest nominee for the Golden Bamboo Awards, while Wu Yanshu, 85, became the oldest nominee for her role in Mom!

There are three other nominees: Hai Qing, Zhou Xun and Xi Meijuan.

The final winner was old lady Wu Yanshu. It's a pity that there is no Best New Actor award now, otherwise little boy Yang Enyou would have probably won the award.

The five nominees for Best Director this time are Zhang Yimou for "Man Jiang Hong", Li Ruijun for "Hidden in the Dust", Li Yang for "Safe Evacuation from the 21st Century", Shao Yihui for "Love Mythology" and Liu Jiangjiang for "Life Events".

I didn’t expect that just after the Best New Director Award was withdrawn, there was an explosion of new directors this year. Among the five nominees, Li Yang, Shao Yihui and Liu Jiangjiang are all new directors.

Although Li Ruijun is not a new director, he is very young and this is his first time to be out of the circle.

Seeing Zhang Yimou, Wang Quan felt quite ashamed. Old Zhang can basically produce one film every year and is also highly involved in supervising a film for his daughter, but he has changed it to one film every two years.

But then I thought again, they both have four children, but Zhang Yimou only has one young wife, while I have many, many young wives, so it would be enough to make one movie every two years.

The final winner was Zhang Yimou, who is also the only director to have won the Golden Bamboo Award for Best Director twice.

"Red River" not only had high box office, but Zhang Yimou also creatively used the one-shot shooting technique in the film, which was the first time in a Chinese-language film to do so.

Although the film has 130 hidden editing points in 18 minutes, the shooting difficulty was still incredibly high. He wanted to give up several times. Fortunately, Wang Quan gave him enough support.

The key is to shoot the entire film in one shot while still taking into account the fluidity and interest of the story, which is particularly rare and is also the key to box office success.

Zhang Yimou held the trophy with a bright smile like an old farmer holding a watermelon. He sincerely thanked all the crew members and then solemnly thanked Wang Quan alone.

"He provided the ending for the film, and the audience loved it."

The original script had Sun Jun sparing Qin Hui's life on the grounds that he wanted to be despised by the world and make his life more miserable than death, and then he ran away.

The audience naturally couldn't understand why Qin Hui, with his thick skin, was afraid of that.

But Qin Hui really cannot die, otherwise it would be a historical nihilism and the Film Bureau would not be able to accept it.

Many viewers are too smart and can let the fake Qin Hui survive instead of the real Qin Hui. Qin Hui must die anyway!

Film Bureau: You are the only one who is clever, right? Send it back for a reshoot!

Wang Quan replaced Qin Hui as the peace envoy. If he died, the Jin army might rashly move south to massacre. For the sake of peace, Sun Jun chose to give up killing Qin Hui.

But before leaving, he led all the hundreds of soldiers upstairs and let them see the ugly appearance of Qin Hui peeing his pants and the existence of a substitute. He also made them realize that the person who just recited "Man Jiang Hong" was not the real Qin Hui, but a substitute puppet controlled by Qin Hui.

Even the puppets were inspired by General Yue's spirit, let alone the soldiers. The contempt and hatred for Prime Minister Qin in their eyes could no longer be concealed.

After this incident, Qin Hui will inevitably die socially, and "Man Jiang Hong" will surely spread throughout the world.

Although there are still some dissatisfactions, movies are not online novels after all, and cannot be done as one pleases. This is the best effort that can be made without changing the course of history.

Although "Red River" helped Zhang Yimou win the Best Director award for the second time, the Best Picture award was given to "Into the Dust", which had a box office of just over 100 million yuan, which surprised many netizens.

Among the seven nominated films this year, compared with "Red River", "Safe Evacuation from the 21st Century", "Life Events", "Love Mythology", "The Wandering Earth 2" and "The Angry Sea", "Hidden in the Dust" has the lowest box office, but it has caused no less discussion and verbal battles online.

It is rare for a niche art film to achieve this, and even though so many people criticized it, the film's ratings have remained high on major movie platforms.

Although it was almost banned later, fortunately Wang Quan spoke out to protect this film that had nothing to do with the Wang Dao series, and the film was successfully included in the Golden Bamboo Award evaluation process.

To be honest, Wang Quan is very happy. The Golden Bamboo Awards have been held for five sessions. The best films of the previous four sessions were "Dying to Survive", "The Happy Journey 3", "Su Dongpo" and "Small Town Test-taker". This time, a film other than Wang Quan finally won the highest honor.

Chinese-language films should not and cannot be monopolized by Wang Dao alone!
Even though "Hidden in the Dust" is not perfect and may smear some viewers who think that the country is powerful, perfect, awesome and rich, these films that focus on the grassroots people should be allowed to exist.

After the Golden Bamboo Awards, Wang Quan stayed for two days and then returned to Los Angeles with Liu Yifei. A few days later, the 95th Academy Awards ceremony officially opened.

Long Taizhi made a lot of efforts to win awards for "Crime", and more importantly, it also made the Western world aware of the inhuman crimes committed by the Japanese invaders in China.

As for the outcome, we will do our best and leave the rest to fate.

The Best Actress awards were presented by Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron.

When he heard the names "Crystal Liu" and "Liu Yifei" from their mouths respectively, Wang Quan hugged his wife tightly and kissed her passionately.

Taozi also took advantage of their camera and kissed Xiao K.

Yang Mi, Ni Ni and others who were watching the live broadcast in China were all moved to tears.

Xiao Xianmi handed her mother a tissue and said, "You also think my mother is excellent, right?"

Yang Mi snorted: "These are tears of jealousy."

In addition to the Best Actress, "Crime" also won the Best Picture, and also won some other awards such as Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing, for a total of seven awards, making it the well-deserved biggest winner of the night.

The first Chinese actress to win an Oscar, the first Asian actress to win an Oscar, the second actress in the world to win an Oscar, a Golden Globe, and three European awards, and the first actress to win all the major Western awards and the Golden Horse and Hong Kong Film Awards.

Apart from the unattainable Golden Rooster Award, Liu Yifei only needs a Golden Bamboo Award to be perfect.

She plans to return to Chinese-language films next, but before that she has to shoot "Lucy the Witch 2". Taozi has begged her for a long time and is almost on her knees to lick her.

Black Widow: I want Boss Tao to beg me like this too!

After completing all the post-production of "Inception 2", Wang Quan is also preparing to return to Chinese-language films, but by then more than half of 2023 has passed and the summer season is over.

There is not much time left before the release of "Inception 2", so he plans to take some time off and make a new film next year after "Inception 2" is released. Anyway, it will be released in 25 years.

This year's summer season is not as strong as last year. Last year, four summer movies entered the top ten of the year, but this year there are only two. The main reason is that "Wolf Warrior 3" is too strong, leaving no room for other movies.

I thought that "Nezha: The Devil Child Conquers the Dragon King", which grossed 58.29 billion yuan and ranked second in film history, was already strong enough, but I didn't expect "Wolf Warrior 3" to be even better. Moreover, the release of the film coincided with the country's crackdown on fraud gangs in northern Myanmar, making it known to everyone.

So the box office exploded all of a sudden, and it was unstoppable!
Of course, this is not a coincidence. It is all designed. The country is also willing to let "Wolf Warrior 3" take advantage of this popularity, so as to declare China's strong and iron-blooded weapon to neighboring countries and forces through the entertaining form of movie.

In addition to the popularity, the cast of "Wolf Warrior 3" is also remarkable. Yu Nan returns to play the leading female role. The film also collaborates with last year's dark horse "All or Nothing", letting Nazha and Zhang Yixing make guest appearances in the film.

The supporting actors are also well-known actors with good reputation and acting skills.

In addition, the villain of the film, Wu Jing, asked Wang Quan to take action and asked the world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao, who had just retired and was running for the presidency of the Philippines.

This time, Leng Feng was almost beaten to death by the villain before he turned defeat into victory.

Wang Quan heard that he had fought with Pacquiao. As for the result, he told Wang Quan: The young and the strong are the better.

Wu Jing is four years older than Pacquiao.

When the movie was released, Pacquiao had become the President of the Philippines with the help of the February February Foundation. In addition, Pacquiao's influence in Southeast Asia also allowed the film to achieve overseas box office results far exceeding the second part.

The box office of 66.82 billion in the mainland is 10 billion more than the first film, and the overseas box office has also exceeded 2.3 million US dollars, making "Wolf Warrior 3" the Chinese-language film with the second highest global box office after the "Happy Journey" trilogy.

In addition to "Wolf Warrior 3", the second place in the summer season "Fengshen 2" only earned half of "Wolf Warrior 3". In addition, "The Octagon Cage" and "20 Miles from Chang'an", which made a comeback with their reputation, also earned box office of about billion yuan.

Baoqiang finally stood up this time, and Zhuiguang no longer has to worry about funding issues and can challenge Daomeng.

When Wang Quan returned to China, September was already halfway through and the National Day holiday was approaching.

I heard that director Kai Ge was very envious of the good performance of "Changjin Lake" that year, so he cooperated with China Film Group Corporation and prepared to independently direct a series of films that would show the panoramic view of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea.

After two years of preparation and shooting, the film was renamed several times and was finally named "Volunteer Army: Heroes Attack", the first part of the trilogy.

The two main competitors of "Volunteer Army" in the National Day file are both related to Wang Quan.

One is "Hot" directed by Da Peng, and Zeng Li and Yang Chaoyue both participated in it.

This guy is really energetic. At the beginning of the year, he released "The Lost Tomb" which had a box office of 41 billion yuan. Not long ago, he won the Best Actor Award at the Shanghai International Film Festival (for "The Eighth Suspect"). Now he has another directorial work being released. At the end of the year, he will also be the starring actor in Dong Runnian's new work "The Annual Meeting Can't Stop". He is almost as energetic as he was back then.

For Zeng Li and Chao Yue, Wang Quan also has to support the premiere.

The other is Jiang Wen’s new film “As Solid as a Rock” which is highly anticipated by movie fans.

When he was first approached for this script, he felt that it was not feasible and turned it down.

Later, Cao Baoping filmed "Condemned Prisoners" and Shen Ao filmed "Huugjilt" which was rejected. However, after "All or Nothing" last year, the release date was rescheduled for November 23. It seems that the Film Bureau is relaxing its bottom line.

So Jiang Wen, who couldn't find a good subject, took it over again and prepared to shoot the story in his own way.

Because Liu Shishi starred in this movie, and given the friendship between Wang Quan and Lao Jiang over the three "Xiao Yao You" films, Wang Quan would definitely attend the event.

However, the popularity of the National Day period has been declining in the past two years. Wang Quan thinks that this is mainly due to the adjustment of holidays and the short holiday time. Workers have become increasingly dissatisfied.

Spending, what the hell, it’s better to stay at home and watch TV series or play games.

This year's National Day box office failed to create much of a stir. The best performing film, "As Solid as a Rock," only earned 15 billion yuan. Although this was the best result for director Jiang Wen, the gap between his box office and that of the top directors has been getting bigger and bigger.

"Release" came in second with 13 billion, but it still did not reach the glory of "The Lost Stories".

Dapeng and Shen Teng decided to continue working on the sequel to "Shi Yi Ji". Many ancient stories in this ancient book are very suitable for being adapted into comedies.

The worst was the film with the largest investment, "The Volunteer Army", which only had a box office of 10 billion yuan. According to China Film Publicity and Distribution, the box office lost at least several hundred million yuan.

As for "Sniper" produced by Zhang Yimou and directed by Zhang Mo, although it only had a box office of more than 600 million yuan and was not very eye-catching during the National Day holiday, its cost was low and it eventually made a profit.

Some people also say that the National Day holiday period was so cold mainly because the audience saved their ticket money to watch "Inception 2".

As usual, Wang Quan still did not choose a popular schedule this time, and still released it in November, but in order to cooperate with the global promotion, it was released at the end of November.

After two months of extravagant and decadent days, the long-awaited "Inception 2" by movie fans around the world is finally coming out.

In the past two months, Nazha turned down all work and was always ready for Wang Quan. Because Da Meiyu and Zhang Zilin had already given birth, she felt a sense of urgency.

These two people have different levels of public fame. Zhang Zilin gave birth quietly, but although Da Meiyu was also very careful when giving birth, the news was still everywhere on the Internet, but there were no actual photos.

In fact, she was once accidentally photographed with a big belly, but Wang Quan arranged a lot of bodyguards around her and spent money to buy the photos.

So there have only been rumors, no solid evidence, and no one knows who the child's father is. Netizens want to be irreconcilable with that person, but they can't find anyone to vent their anger at having their wife stolen from them.

In the last period before the movie was released, Da Meiyu and Zhang Zilin were both discharged from the confinement center, and Wang Quan basically ran back and forth between them, accompanying one and that.

With two more daughters, Wang Quan was very happy. He donated hundreds of millions to charity and asked his assistant to take many photos of him hugging his two daughters.

Gao Yuanyuan's daughter Xinxin was born three days earlier than Zhang Zilin's daughter Pangmei, but she is smaller than her.

As expected of Miss World, she is as tall as Bayi.

On November 11, Wang Quan first held a premiere of "Inception 20" in Beijing, and then immediately flew to Los Angeles to attend the global premiere of "Inception 2".

The only main actor attending the domestic premiere was Cheng Long, while at the global premiere, all three original cast members, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Captain America Chris, and Iron Man Robert Downey Jr., returned.

The king brought the leading lady Julia Butters into the stage.

This little girl was born in 09 and is only 14 years old this year. Wang Quan deliberately changed the age of the heroine for her.

Her father is an animator at Illumination Entertainment and has worked on the "Frozen" and "Zootopia" series.

She had previously worked with Leo in "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" and was selected by Spielberg to star in his "House of Dreams".

The reason why she was chosen by so many big directors is definitely not because of her relationship with Illumination Entertainment. What’s more important is her beauty, temperament and natural acting skills.

Wang Quan is very optimistic about her becoming the number one actress of the next Hollywood era.

The little girl had obviously experienced a lot in the world. She followed Wang Quan calmly and was inseparable from him.

However, the eldest brother Long seemed particularly excited. He had waited for so many years and never expected that he would finally return to the top of the film industry before he turned 70.

He made guest appearances in the first "Inception" and the first "Ghost Blows Out the Light", but this time he is the real leading actor, ranking only after Leonardo DiCaprio and Captain America, and ranked third as a special starring role.

It was worth it that he had humbled himself and made friends with Wang Quan, who was not yet successful. It turned out that men are still reliable friends when they are outside!
Moreover, "Inception 2" is a top-level blockbuster in film history with a production cost of 3.2 million US dollars. It is a national sentimental work that will undoubtedly exceed 20 billion US dollars at the box office.

Also attending the premiere was Cameron, whose "Avatar 3: Fire and Ash" will be released worldwide in four weeks.

Currently, the global annual box office champion in 23 years is "Barbie" starring Gadot, the runner-up is "Super Mario Bros." produced by Illumination, and the third place is "Wolf Warrior 3".

There is no doubt that after the release of "Inception 2" and "Avatar 3", the rankings of these three films will be moved back.

The only suspense is whether the annual box office champion will be "Inception" or "Avatar".

The first time Cameron watched "Inception 2", he was completely focused.

The first scene of the film amazed him greatly. It turned out that King David first filmed Cheng Long, who appeared as an NPC in the dream in the first film.

At that time, Cheng Long's cameo was quite amazing. In addition, Governor Schwarzenegger also made a cameo appearance in a role similar to the Terminator.

Cheng Long plays a Kung Fu master in Chinatown, but recently he has been having dreams in which Leo and Chris, who were on a mission and involved him, appear.

Many shots in "Wang Quan" were reshot according to the first film, but although the scenes were reproduced one-to-one, the perspective was changed to Cheng Long's.

Wang Quan once again explained Zhuangzi's philosophy here. If I dreamed that I turned into a butterfly, could it be that the butterfly actually dreamed of turning into me, Zhuang Zhou?

Although foreigners don't understand those things, they think the idea is great. It creates a huge suspense from the beginning, making people want to keep watching while enjoying the wonderful special effects.

Cameron couldn't help but sigh that Wang Quan was much better than himself in script writing.

But he doesn't think he will definitely lose. Being simple and brainless has its advantages. After all, there are more people with mediocre qualifications in the world.

Although the outcome of the two films at the global box office is uncertain, there is clearly no suspense at the mainland box office.

"Inception 2" broke the mainland's first-day/single-day box office record set by "Happy Journey 10.5" in 3 with a box office of 19 billion on the first day.

In North America, it also exceeded 1.1 million US dollars on the first day, only lower than "Avengers 4", "Spider-Man 3: No Homecoming" and "The Force Awakens", ranking fourth in film history.

North American media expects Inception 2 to have a North American box office of up to $7 million.

The first "Inception" grossed $6.5 million in North America that year.

After a brief stop in North America, Wang Quan went to the mainland with several actors, and then went to Japan and South Korea, Europe, and deep into Latin America.

In just three days, "Inception 2" raked in 10 billion US dollars worldwide!

Whether in North America or in mainland China, box office forecasts for "Inception 2" are being adjusted upward.

Wang Quan had a busy and fulfilling month, and then "Avatar 3" was released.

At this time, the box office of "Inception 2" in mainland China has reached 63 billion. Maoyan predicts that it is sometimes higher than "Wolf Warrior 3" and sometimes lower than "Wolf Warrior 3", but the position of "Happy Journey 3" is stable.

As for North America, it has already exceeded 8.5 million, and is expected to exceed 9 million. As long as "Avatar 3" does not become a bomb, Reign will occupy the first and second place in North American film history!
In 2024, after Wang Quan's eccentric efforts, Nazha is finally going to have a child.

At that time, no one knew that after Nazha was examined by the doctor in the hospital, it was confirmed that there was a new life in her belly. Then she took the examination results to find Wang Quan.

"Hubby, I'm here to tell you the good news!"

Wang Quan gently picked up Nazha and said, "Oh, you also know that Inception 2 surpassed Avatar!"

"what?"

Wang Quan laughed: "Actually, I was also surprised. It was mainly because the mainland market was strong, providing nearly 10 billion dollars. North America also broke 9 million dollars. Add to that the hot support from other overseas markets, and it has reached 29.6 billion dollars. But I think if you want to celebrate, you should wait until it breaks 30 billion."

Nazha was getting impatient: "Who wants to listen to you saying this? I want to say, I, I'm going to be a mother!"

Wang Quan: “What!”

In the end, "Inception 2" defeated "Wolf Warrior 3" with a slight advantage and won the 2023 Mainland Annual Championship.

It defeated "Avatar 3" with a large advantage and won the global annual championship for 23 years.

The biggest surprise is the title of Global Film History Champion. Wang Quan finally got it for the first time. He has become the world's number one director and has no shortcomings from now on!

No more controversy!
In the past 24 years, in addition to accompanying Nazha during her pregnancy and childbirth, Wang Quan was busy filming a new film "Camel Xiangzi", which was adapted from Lao She's original novel of the same name. The male lead was confirmed to be the chosen villain Huang Xuan.

By the time the Dragon Rising Day in 25 years was approaching, Nazha was still breastfeeding her baby, so she hesitated when faced with Jiang Shuying's proposal.

As Wang Quan's most caring assistant, Jiang Shuying wanted to organize a birthday celebration for Director Quan on his 40th birthday for all members to wish him a long life.

The location is Peach Blossom Island. During those days, the entire Peach Blossom Island will not accept outsiders. Everyone who can come will come. It is estimated that there will be about a hundred people.

Finally, Nazha gritted her teeth and said, "Okay, I'll go then!" At worst, she could ask her parents-in-law to help take care of the child.

After the Lantern Festival in the 25th year, Wang Quan brought his two wives, Xianmi, to the island.

A few days later, before the birthday, almost all the people had arrived. The expected number of people was 92, and the actual number of people was 108. For many people, it was the first time to know each other’s existence. People of different languages ​​and skin colors lived in harmony here.

However, before Wang Quan started his large-scale fun, Wendy, who was in Los Angeles, called Dorothy in a very hurried tone.

"You are on Peach Blossom Island, right? Do you have enough supplies? That's good, that's good. If not, I'll send them to you. Don't come back for now. Maryland has suddenly had an epidemic, and many people have died..."

Wang Quan listened to Wendy describing the patient's symptoms and thought, no way, no way, what is coming cannot be avoided after all!!!

(That’s it! The sequel will probably be about Wang Quan and more than 100 beautiful global stars living happily on an isolated island. I’ll take a break and finish writing this review later!

In addition, everyone is welcome to join the full order group! There are surprises~)

(End of this chapter)