The Crown Prince of Huayu!

half a month later.

The new first and second tier lists were announced again along with the Hall of Fame members.

There is still not much change in the first and second-tier lists this time.

The most noticeable change is that Huang Xiaoming and Liu Yifei disappeared from the first-line list and were selected into the new Hall of Fame together.

In addition to the two, Chow Yun-hua was also selected this time.

As soon as the results came out, it instantly sparked public opinion.

Compared with the unanimous praise for the previous session, the candidates this time are not so satisfactory to netizens.

After all, both Liu Yifei and Huang Xiaoming have been questioned a lot about their acting skills.

Liu Yifei was once despised by Chen Kun for not being able to act, and was also criticized for using only one expression throughout an entire play.

Huang Xiaoming's domineering president is also very eye-catching and was criticized as greasy. In the eyes of most netizens, his acting skills are not even as good as Hu Ge's. In the acting competition voting on some platforms, he was defeated by Hu Ge with a crushing advantage.

The two of them are the youngest among all the Hall of Fame members except Han Jiadong. In addition, when you are famous, you are prone to gossip. The two of them are very popular now, so it is natural that they are bound to be questioned.

The fans of both of them are equally powerful, especially Liu Yifei's fans. Faced with overwhelming doubts, they did not show any weakness in their rebuttals, and even had the energy to step on others and continue to expand the war.

"Why? Lin Qingxia, Zhang Guorong, and Wang Zuxian have not yet entered the Hall of Fame. What qualifications do these two have to enter?"

"It lowers the value of the Hall of Fame."

"Does the Oscar for Best Actress lower its value? No matter how many other awards you have won, they are not even a hair's breadth away from the Oscar!"

"Why don't you first check out what awards those people you mentioned have won? Don't think you can be selected just because you are famous. The selection rules are clearly written, and the first thing they look at is the award!"

"Even if we don't compete for awards, we are not afraid of box office!"

"Haha! The first Hall of Fame member born in the 1980s. Who else?"

"You don't treat me, Brother Han, as a human being, right?"

"If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have noticed that Han Jiadong was also born in the 1980s. His name is often associated with Spielberg and Cameron. I thought he was the same age as them!"

"Don't classify our Xixi as one of the '85 beauties' or the 'Four Beauties of the Fairy Sword' anymore. I don't know them well enough."

"The gap is too big. The other 85 girls are still working hard to be in the first line, but our Xixi has already entered the Hall of Fame."

……

Because Liu Yifei was inducted into the Hall of Fame, other female stars who were also called “85 Flowers” ​​have become the targets of criticism.

The result was that the anger that Yang Mi, Liu Sisi and others felt was transferred to Han Jiadong.

They all asked Han Jiadong to help them enter the Hall of Fame.

Han Jiadong was also helpless. He didn't care how good their acting skills were. As long as they could reach Huang Xiaoming's level, he could guarantee that they would win many awards.

It’s not like now, where if you want to enter the Hall of Fame you have to take a roundabout way.

If you want to win an award in China, you can only pray that your competitors are not strong.

Along with the list of Hall of Fame members and the first and second-tier lists, the salary cap order that has been rumored for more than half a year was also announced.

Compared with the Hall of Fame and the first- and second-tier grading, which are merely honorary measures, for many people it doesn't matter at all as long as they don't care and they can completely ignore it. However, the "salary cap order" can be said to have hit the soft spot of some people.

A third-tier actor can only get a maximum of one million yuan for a movie?

Only five million for the second tier?

The first-tier cities only have 20 million?

This standard is so severe that the word "cut in half" is not enough to describe it.

Taking Lu Han and Wu Yifan as examples, under the new standards, their pay is less than one percent of their previous highest!

Even second-tier actors like Liu Sisi, Tang Yan, Zhao Liying and others receive less than one-tenth of their previous pay!

Even first-line stars like Yang Mi and Hu Ge only receive a fraction of their previous pay.

Even Han Jiadong, who proposed the salary cap order, felt that this was a bit too harsh.

What my dad said was that the people who initially participated in the discussion of the salary cap had not intended to cut it so harshly. Later, when they knew that the extra money would go to the newly established agency, they showed no mercy.

Moreover, since they don’t directly take away the actors’ extra pay, but just “keep” it temporarily for the actors, they are not afraid of the actors’ complaints.

Things turned out exactly as they expected. After the salary cap policy came out, even though countless people cursed their ancestors in their hearts, no one in the entire entertainment industry dared to stand up and express their dissatisfaction publicly.

Netizens naturally fully support the salary cap order, and some even think that the pay is still too high and should be cut further.

Although the bosses of various entertainment companies did not gain as much benefits as they had imagined, it was not a bad thing for them.

It can even help them gain a lot of benefits.

Take Wu Yifan as an example. Although the amount of the contract is still not restricted, will Wu Yifan, who is not even a second-tier player now, still pursue a contract worth hundreds of millions?

If he had a little self-awareness, he would know that even if he signed such a high contract, he would never be able to get it in his lifetime.

As for donations...

How could these entertainment company bosses not know who Wu Yifan is?

Donating his own money would probably make him feel worse than killing him.

In this case, as long as Wu Yifan is given some benefits in other areas, why worry that he cannot be signed at a price far lower than Wu Yifan's?

After visiting various major film festivals, Han Jiadong returned to the crew to continue filming "Decision to Break Up".

Liu Sisi was obviously stimulated by the news that Liu Yifei entered the Hall of Fame, and she worked harder and more seriously while filming.

Putting aside her acting skills, her image in this movie will be helpful in winning awards.

She looks like a pure little white flower, who would have thought that she was a murderer who killed two husbands?
The greater the contrast, the more shocking the effect will be when the answer is revealed, leaving a deep impression on the judges.

The key is how to perform this contrast well.

If the performance is not good, it will not shock people, but ruin the show.

Fortunately, although Liu Sisi has not studied acting seriously, she still has good acting talent.

Under Han Jiadong's guidance, out of dozens of shots, he was always able to polish one or two that satisfied Han Jiadong.

As long as you can avoid being out of character, make good use of the contrast, and have enough outstanding scenes, you will have a chance to win an award.

After all, when it comes to award criteria, the proportion of roles is often greater than acting skills.

This is why actors choose their scripts.

Because no matter how good your acting is, it’s useless if you encounter a bad script.

There are almost no films that win awards at important film festivals by making bad movies.

There are many examples of actors with average acting skills winning awards by starring in excellent movies.

This is one of the reasons why Yang Mi was able to win the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress.

In terms of acting skills alone, she is definitely not as good as Zhou Dongyu in the original film.

But she has one advantage, she is prettier than Zhou Dongyu. People are sensory animals, and seeing a beautiful girl being bullied is completely different from seeing an average-looking girl being bullied.

With Zhou Dongyu's looks, he has to rely on his outstanding acting skills to win the audience's heart and love.

But Yang Mi only needs to show a pitiful expression when being bullied to achieve this.

In addition, the plot of "Better Days" is very touching. The scene where his hair was cut off after being bullied, the hunched back when he was told that Xiaobei was going to be sentenced to death, and the outburst after being suppressed, and the meeting with Xiaobei again in the police station, are all tear-jerking scenes.

Although Yang Mi's performance was not as good as Zhou Dongyu's in the original film, she did not fall behind. In addition to her image advantage, the final effect was not inferior to the original at all.

When she won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress, there was a rare lack of doubt on the Internet about her.

After finishing the filming of "Decision to Break Up", Han Jiadong seamlessly joined the crew of "The World of Cultivation" and started filming the last season of the series.

The final season of another series, Game of Thrones, has already aired.

Compared with previous seasons, word of mouth has plummeted.

The ratings of mainstream domestic and foreign websites are only over 8 points.

There are two main points of dissatisfaction among drama fans.

One is that the heroine, Dragon Mother, died.

According to the original author's request and the prophecy given earlier: the heroine will be betrayed three times by the person she loves.

The heroine, Dragon Mother, was eventually stabbed to death by the hero, Jon Snow.

Although compared to the original film where the knife came out of nowhere, this version has enough foreshadowing for Daenerys's breakdown and madness and Jon Snow's stab.

But fans still find it hard to accept this result.

Another reason is that many drama fans are reluctant to see the drama that has accompanied them for eight years end, so any slight dissatisfaction will be infinitely magnified in their eyes.

But there is no doubt that this reputation has far surpassed the original version that did not even pass the ratings abroad.

With the experience of Quanyou as a precedent, Han Jiadong was more attentive when filming "The World of Cultivation".

But Han Jiadong can already imagine that when the final season is broadcast, there will definitely be negative reviews.

Especially the plot where the eldest brother Wei Sheng was killed.

Compared to the version provided by Fang Xiang at the beginning, the protagonists' strength increased too quickly under Fang Xiang's cheating, resulting in the male protagonist's senior brother being able to easily defeat the final villain, and having a bunch of masters under his command who were almost as powerful as the final villain or only one level lower than him, so that the final decisive battle was dull.

In the version that was sent back for rewriting by Han Jiadong, the divine power was reset to a special power that is difficult for ordinary people to reach.

Similar to nuclear weapons.

The eldest senior brother Wei Sheng did not cultivate supernatural powers.

But relying on his outstanding talent and focus on the sword, Wei Sheng still reached the level of the number one person under the divine power, and was even able to kill some strong people who had learned the divine power.

It's just that when facing the protagonist and the final villain Lin Qian, he is slightly inferior.

It was precisely because of this slight gap between spiritual power and divine power that he was defeated by Lin Qian's sword.

At the same time, the protagonist's power has changed from the original version where he monopolized the two worlds of demons and half of the human world, and had an overwhelming advantage against Kunlun's half of the human world, to the protagonist Mo Yunhai's power only possessing half of the human world and the entire demon world.

However, the arrangements made in the demon world were hampered because the protagonist Zuo Mo had visited the demon world countless times. After Ming Yue Ye, a legendary figure of the new generation of the demon clan, ascended to the throne of the great elder, his power in the demon clan was uprooted.

Including her confidante Qing Huaxue, junior sister Xiao Guo, senior sister Li Yingfeng, and Princess Xin who was supported to compete with Ming Yue Ye, were all brutally murdered.

In the end, Ming Yue Ye and Lin Qian joined forces to fight a decisive battle with Zuo Mo.

In addition to the competition between the two sides' top combat units, the most exciting part of the final battle was when Zuo Mo and A Gui joined forces to fight against Lin Qian and Ming Yue Ye.

In the end, because the male and female protagonists can trust each other unconditionally, Lin Qian and Ming Yue Ye, the leaders of the two sides, find it difficult to do so. This difference determines the final outcome.

New Year's Day.

With the support of the dual IPs of the Lost in Journey and Detective Chinatown series, "Lost in Journey: Detective Chinatown 2" raked in more than million yuan at the box office on the first day of its release!

Successfully refreshed the first-day and single-day box office records.

"Monster Hunt", which was released on the same day, was not far behind. With overwhelming publicity, it took in over 400 million yuan at the box office on the first day.

Compared with them, "Operation Red Sea", with less than 10% of the screenings and less than million yuan in box office, can be said to be a minion.

But in the end, relying on strong enough reputation, this main theme movie, which is considered to be better than "Wolf Warrior 2", has risen against all odds and carved out a path out of the siege of the two blockbusters.

It eventually became the second movie to gross 2 billion yuan after Wolf Warrior , and won the Spring Festival box office championship with a box office of just over billion yuan.

Because the quality of Detective Chinatown 2 has seriously declined compared to the first part, and the director is not Han Jiadong, the reputation has hit rock bottom, with a score of 6.3, a new low in the series.

But thanks to its head start and the huge market during the Spring Festival, it eventually raked in more than 3.2 billion yuan at the box office, setting a new record for the series.

This attracted even more criticism, and the ratings continued to fall, eventually falling below the passing line.

Lu Yang and Wen Muye also unfortunately became scapegoats.

However, with a box office of more than 3 billion, they would not be unable to get work even without Han Jiadong's support.

Another series film released during the same period, "Monster Hunt 2", was even worse. After earning more than million yuan on the first day, it ultimately only earned a little over billion yuan.

Not as good as the first one.

With the publicity and promotion costs reaching over 200 million, the film’s profits are not so optimistic.

During the same period, there was another classic IP, "Journey to the West: The Women Kingdom", starring Zhao Liying and costing 5.5 million yuan. Even with a one-day head start, it could not save its fate of box office failure.

In the end, the film only earned less than 700 million yuan at the box office, and the investors lost all their money.

Mid April.

Yang Mi went to attend the Academy Awards with the crew of "Better Days".

Unlike Han Jiadong, who has won so many awards that he no longer cares about the Hong Kong Film Awards, her goal from the beginning has been the increasingly less competitive Hong Kong Film Awards.

Last year's Golden Rooster Best Actress was considered a pleasant surprise.

In order to qualify for the Academy Awards, she also specially asked the movie king of Hong Kong to participate in the investment of "Better Days".

In the end, she got what she wanted. Not only did the movie win the Best Picture Award, she also successfully won the Best Actress Award at the Academy Awards that she had longed for.

Apart from "Better Days", there are really no outstanding movies at this year's Academy Awards.

Even the Best Picture candidates "Shock Wave", "When Will the Moon Rise", "Love and Family", and "Chasing the Dragon" are of average quality.

There are even fewer characters that can move people.

In addition, due to Han Jiadong's attitude towards Hong Kong, the mainland's good resources are basically not allowed to be interfered with by Hong Kong capital. Now it's hard to find someone willing to cooperate with them and accept their investment...

Not to mention that the quality of the movie and Yang Mi's performance are indeed good. Even if the quality of the movie is not good, they will definitely give some awards to "Better Days" even if they have to force it.

Xu Qin, who had countless resources at her disposal, won the Best Director award without any suspense.

Even Han Jiadong, who was not present at the event, was given the Best Screenwriter Award.

That night, Yang Mi, the newly-crowned Academy Award winner, happily made a video call to Han Jiadong.

"Do I now meet the criteria for entering the Hall of Fame?" (End of this chapter)