During my years at China Entertainment

Chapter 509: Vanity Fair brings Jing Tian back with a lot of gains
December to February every year is the Hollywood awards season. During this period, countless film producers will hold cocktail parties and conduct public relations for major awards.

Among these, the public relations of the Oscars is the most complicated.

In the early stage, a special public relations plan needs to be formulated based on the type of film and the number of awards the film is nominated for.

Then, the thousands of judges from the colleges will be specifically screened.

The judges are classified according to their gender, preferences, standards and other dimensions, and different levels of public relations are then carried out based on the classification.

The public relations stage is divided into two parts. The first step is the public relations for the shortlist of nominees, and the second step is the public relations for the award-winning list.

This year's Oscar nomination list had already been released before the 4th. This part of the public relations work was handled by Summit Entertainment through a professional public relations company, so Wei Jin did not have to worry too much about it.

He will only participate in the second phase of the public relations reception after the nomination list is finalized.

Therefore, Wei Jin, who had just arrived in North America, was not as busy as he had imagined. After resting for a morning in Beverly Hills, he went to visit the crew of "Reincarnation".

The filming of this drama started in mid-October and has now reached the final stage. It is expected to be wrapped up in the next two days. If Wei Jin doesn't visit the set, he will be breaking his promise.

As one of the six oldest Hollywood studios, Warner has nearly thirty independent studios around the world.

The studio where the "Killing Cycle" crew is located is in Burbank, only 20 kilometers away from Los Angeles.

Burbank is a residential satellite town and industrial center of Los Angeles, with a city population of just over 100 million.

But this is the headquarters of Disney. Many world-renowned media and entertainment companies, including Warner Bros., NBC, Viacom, and PBS, have branches in Burbank.

Therefore, Burbank is also known as the "Media Capital of the World."

When he arrived at the crew, he found that the filming was in progress. Wei Jin did not disturb them and started chatting with several engineers from China.

These people have participated in the filming of "Pacific Rim". In their opinion, this time's cooperation, both the director Doug Liman and the overall level of the Warner crew are better than before.

Wei Jin was not surprised by this. Major Hollywood companies all have a complete background check system at the beginning of the project.

The $1.7 million project was handed over to Doug Liman, so naturally his abilities were carefully investigated and ultimately approved.

In addition, with the profits brought by the previous two collaborations, Warner will naturally devote more effort to this project.

After chatting for a while, a scene ended. Jing Tian accidentally glanced over here and saw Wei Jin.

Instantly, a smile appeared on the girl's delicate face, and her clear eyes also shone with light, and she threw herself into Wei Jin's arms like a swallow returning to its nest.
On the crew side, Doug Liman and Tom Cruise took advantage of their break to come and meet Wei Jin.

"Wei, your film "Gravity" is so great, full of wild imagination, it's really unbelievable"

Doug Liman is also a science fiction enthusiast. He discussed many of the filming techniques of "Gravity" with Wei Jin from a technical perspective, and praised the film a lot in his words.

"By the way, I wish you good luck with the Golden Globe Award."

"Thank you."

Wei Jin then started chatting with Tom Cruise, one of the most commercially valuable male actors on the planet.

Tom Cruise, now 50 years old, is in good shape, with a muscular body and a tall and handsome figure.

Speaking of which, this person's experience is also very legendary.

He made his debut at the age of 19 with his debut film "Endless Love", and just three years after entering the industry, he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for "Crazy".

His starring role in "Top Gun" in 86 made him famous all over the world, and he was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame at the age of 24.

In 90, he won the Best Actor in a Drama Series at the 47th Golden Globe Awards for his role in Born on the Fourth of July.

Of course, Tom Cruise’s most influential work in the world must be the Mission: Impossible series.

It was also from this series that Tom Cruise became the most commercially valuable male star in the world. His salary including the bonus for Mission: Impossible 4 reached 7500 million US dollars.

For this movie "Live", Tom Cruise received a basic salary of 2500 million US dollars, plus 5% of the priority box office share.

However, it can be seen that although Tom Cruise is already at the top of commercial value, he still has some pursuit of awards. He talked with Wei Jin for a long time about the script of "The Hunt" and expressed a lot of praise in his words.

It’s no wonder that although Tom Cruise has won the Golden Globe Awards several times and been nominated for an Oscar three times, he has not won a single one, and he is completely isolated from the three major European awards.

Now that we have caught a top award-winning director like Wei Jin, we have to have a good communication with him.

Tom Cruise even said on the spot that if there is an art film script suitable for him after Wei Jin, the remuneration and everything else can be discussed.

Wei Jin was also very happy and immediately exchanged phone numbers with Tom Cruise. After all, he was a top celebrity and he might come in handy in the future.

When the shooting was about to end in the afternoon, Paul from Warner also came to the scene. He gave Wei Jin a hug as soon as he came up and was extremely enthusiastic.

There was no way. Paul was originally just a department head at Warner Bros. Pictures, but he collaborated with Wei Jin twice in a row. Both "Inception" and "Pacific Rim" were huge successes, which gradually increased his voice within Warner.

As the Chinese market grows bigger and bigger, it is only natural to establish good relations with Wei Jin, the "Eastern Emperor".

Unlike domestic film crews, the culture of visiting the sets in Hollywood is very unique. It does not require treating guests to a meal, and Wei Jin also respects customs.

However, Paul said that the film will be completed tomorrow and there will be a grand cocktail party at that time, so he asked him to stay one more day to attend the event.

Wei Jin had no objection to this. After all, after this time, it might take three or four months for him to meet Jing Tian again. Wouldn't it be necessary to make up for the gap?

After the filming was finished at around five o'clock in the afternoon and he said hello to everyone in the crew, he took Jing Tian straight to the hotel.

As soon as they arrived, they couldn't wait to hug and kiss each other, releasing their longing for each other.

Early the next morning, Jing Tian, ​​who had released herself completely, looked full of energy and rosy in complexion. She hummed a little tune happily as she headed to the crew to continue filming her final scenes.

Wei Jin stayed in the hotel and browsed the emails and related movie information sent from home.

Back home, the smoke of the Lunar New Year box office is still lingering, but as the Spring Festival draws closer, the overall market is shrinking.

"Lost in Thailand" dominated the second half of the Lunar New Year holiday with an unrivalled momentum, with the single-day box office firmly maintained at a high level of 50 million.

The film has been released for 12 days and has grossed 6.56 million yuan. According to Chen Zhiming, Xu Guangtou is very ambitious and continues to lead the crew on the road show, calling on everyone to go to the cinema and laugh.

Although "Chinese Zodiac" failed to be postponed, its momentum is still pretty good, maintaining over 2000 million per day.

It has been released for 19 days and the box office is approaching 7 million yuan.

Cheng Long was in the crew of "New Police Story 2013" and did not forget to cheer for his own movie.

However, this move was ridiculed by netizens, who questioned why he did not mention "Gravity".

The performance of "The Grandmaster", which King of Sunglasses spent four years to polish and finally achieved success, was acceptable.

It grossed 3100 million on the first day, and after three days of release, the box office had exceeded the million yuan mark, which was a stunning success and created the peak box office for The King of Sunglasses.

The entire Chinese-language film industry began to collectively praise the film, especially the Hong Kong industry, which even gave the title of "Grandmaster of the Generation" to the King of Sunglasses.

However, just as Wei Jin expected, the online reputation was polarized. Although the Impression Network score was 7.8, which was not low, there were also many negative reviews, and many netizens felt that the movie was too boring.

However, Zhang Ziyi is very good at seizing opportunities. Even though she is in Hollywood, she still promotes movies at the rate of two or three Weibo updates every hour.

As one of the judges of the Academy Awards, she would mention "The Grandmaster" intentionally or unintentionally when being interviewed by the media.

As for "Gravity", its current total domestic box office has reached 16.92 billion.

However, after the postponement, the single-day box office fell sharply, barely maintaining around 10 million.

There is no way around it. The domestic ceiling is right here. Many people can only go this far even if they watch it twice or three times.

The performance of overseas markets is still good. Although it has entered the regular disposal process, the box office has approached 9.9 million US dollars, and the distance to breaking 10 billion is not far.

The movies that are going to be released in February have already started the promotion and pre-launch.

With the proof of last year's "2 Again" and the blessing of Valentine's Day, this year's Spring Festival schedule is very lively. Seven or eight movies including "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", "Beijing Meets Seattle", and "Perfect Season " will be released.

But looking at all the films, Wei Jin has nothing to worry about.

Zhang Ziyi’s popularity among the public is too low, and even her popularity among the public is a bit poor. "Perfect Match 2" has basically no competitiveness.

Just seeing the promotional information for Zhen Zidan’s movie “Together”, Wei Jin couldn’t help but laugh.

This fucking kung fu actor, who is 170cm tall, is acting in a romance movie with Yang Ying. Is this a joke?
If nothing unexpected happens, this Spring Festival period will be dominated by "Journey to the West" and "Seattle".

Wei Jin originally thought it was the wrap party for "Live of Death", but he didn't expect that Warner's side would make such a big fuss.

Not only were there many local artists, but even senior executives from Disney came.

But think about it, Disney's headquarters is here. Although it is in a competitive relationship with Warner, the Big Six are already interdependent, so it is very normal for them to attend the banquet.

The person representing Disney at the reception was a white man in his fifties named Bob. At the moment, he was chatting with Wei Jin with a smile on his face.

Compared with other competitors such as Warner and Paramount, Disney's market share in China is not high.

Seeing that China has become the world's second largest film market and the upper limit for a single film is approaching 300 million US dollars, it is impossible for Disney not to be jealous.

However, Disney's projects are mostly series and animation projects, and co-production is a little difficult, so they are in urgent need of a teammate.

Looking at the entire Chinese history, there is no period more suitable than the Wei and Jin dynasties.

Because Wei Jin is not just a director, he has shares in Summit Entertainment and owns a huge entertainment group in China.

Wei Jin's influence in China is even more terrifying than the Big Six in North America. It is definitely the best partner.

The Wei and Jin dynasties were also showing goodwill. After all, it is unscientific to put all your eggs in one basket.

Although the cooperation with Warner has always been pleasant, who knows what will happen in the future?

It's always good to plan ahead.

Wei Jin and Bob had the same idea, so when they met for the first time, they had a very pleasant conversation.

However, this scene made Paul, who organized the party, a little unhappy. He always felt like the vegetables in his own field were stolen by his neighbors.

Therefore, Paul would hang around Wei Jin from time to time, looking like the latter's follower.

Many other Hollywood celebrities and artists also came to Wei Jin from time to time to say hello.

Looking at Wei Jin, who is like a star in the Hollywood world of fame and fortune, Jing Tian's face breaks into a bright smile. This is the man she chose.

With the advent of the Internet age, news spreads very quickly. Before the banquet in North America is over, related reports have already been transmitted back to the country.

"The US-China co-production of the sci-fi epic "The Killing Cycle", which cost 1.7 million US dollars, was completed on the afternoon of the 8th, local time in North America. Director Wei Jin attended the wrap-up dinner."

"Tang said that Jing Tian, ​​as a Chinese actress, performed very well in the drama"

"Warner estimates that the film's post-production time will not exceed 4 months, and it is very likely to be released in the second half of the year or at the end of the year!"

"At the wrap party, Wei Jin and Jing Tian chatted and laughed with senior executives from Hollywood giants such as Warner and Disney."

After more than three months, "Reincarnation of the Killing" once again captured the attention of the circle.

Watching the news online, many female celebrities recalled the time when they were fooled by Han Sanping, and couldn't help but gnashed their teeth in hatred.

Looking at Jing Tian, ​​who is surrounded by many celebrities and Hollywood executives together with Wei Jin, the female stars are even more heartbroken.

If thoughts could kill, Han Sanping and Wei Jin would have died hundreds of times.

However, Wei Jin had no time to care about the bitterness of these female stars. After attending the cocktail party hosted by Warner, he took Jing Tian back to the hotel and stayed with her until death.

Because the girl is about to return to China, after all, it is the end of the year, and as a top-tier actress, Jing Tian has too many press releases, especially since she has postponed too many schedules in the past few months.

Therefore, Wei Jin worked very hard in tonight's card game, allowing Jing Tian to return with a full load.
(End of this chapter)