China Entertainment 1997

The box office performance of the first part of "Three Kingdoms, Red Cliff" was extremely impressive.

With a box office of 389 million in the Mainland, "If You Are the One" surpassed Feng Pants and won the 2008 box office championship.

At the same time, it ranks third in the mainland box office list so far, second only to "Painted Skin" which exceeded 500 million and "Transformers 2" which just won 423 million in the summer.

The Japanese box office was 8.4 billion yen, equivalent to RMB 565 million. It was the runner-up in Japan's 2008 annual box office, second only to Hayao Miyazaki's "Ponyo on the Cliff".

This data has already entered the Top 30 of Japan's movie box office list since the 21st century, ranking 26th.

The box office in other regions of Asia is also very impressive. The cumulative box office is almost 200 million yuan. Several countries have achieved good rankings, and there are even some champions.

With the hot box office and good reputation, the release of the second part of "Three Kingdoms·Red Cliff" has made the outside world extremely optimistic.

But even so, the "Notice of Voting" is not bad. Everyone feels that even if they can't win, they can at least have the ability to fight.

Especially in the mainland box office, although the first part of "Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff" is close to 400 million, it exceeded 100 million in the first week of "The Legend". The momentum is strong. According to the trend, it is not difficult to hit 300 million.

Therefore, in the eyes of the outside world, the two movies should be on the same level, with "The Name of the People" slightly inferior, but it still has enough threats to start a summer war.

But no one expected that the outcome of this war would be so devastating.

The hugely popular "Report of Nomination" met with "Three Kingdoms·Red Cliff". There was almost no room for fighting back, and he was beaten violently.

34.69 million on the first day.

Breaking 100 million in three days.

A total of 182 million box office was made in the first week.

It broke the first-week box office record just set by "Transformers 2."

The popularity of the second part of "Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff" has undoubtedly snatched a lot of exposure and market share from "Tou Ming Zhuan".

Originally, according to the trend of 135 million box office in the first week of "The Famous Movie", 300 million can be said to be easy, and it is not even hopeless to hit 400 million.

But now it has hit "Three Kingdoms·Red Cliff" head-on, and it has been severely affected. The box office in the second week was only more than 90 million.

If this continues, this movie will probably earn over 300 million at most.

Although calculated in terms of cost performance and other aspects, "Certificate of Investment" can still be said to be a success.

But it could have been more successful, but now it's not good or bad. Boss Qin really feels bad.

However, Cao Xuan feels that this cannot be completely blamed on "Three Kingdoms·Red Cliff".

The tragic ending and depressive style of "The Name of the Name" itself actually affected the film's box office ceiling to a certain extent. Of course, this statement is not absolute, but judging from the reputation of all parties, there are indeed factors in this regard.

In fact, according to Time.com's rating, "The Legend" is slightly higher than "Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff" by 0.2 points, but it is no match at the box office.

Cao Xuan's popularity and the Three Kingdoms IP bonus are one thing, and the smooth and exciting plot, as well as the magnificent scenes regardless of cost, are also key.

For the outside world, although the box office of the second part of "Three Kingdoms·Red Cliff" was popular enough, it was still within the scope of everyone's understanding.

The upper part is not bad in the first place, but the lower part has more famous scenes and climax scenes, and also has a popularity bonus. The outside world has previously estimated that as long as the quality does not deteriorate too much, 400 million is very confident.

But now it seems that the previous estimate is still a bit conservative. Han Sanye of China Film and Television has even stated in an interview that he will catch up with "Painted Skin".

China Film Group Corporation was one of the major investors in "Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff", and later involved "Three Kingdoms: Guandu" under its control. Mr. Han was particularly active.

The box office trend of "The Legend" is declining. In fact, this is also because China Film arranged for its theaters to make arrangements for "Three Kingdoms·Red Cliff".

If Fanxing is the number one private cinema chain, then China Film Group is the giant of mainland cinema chains.

[China Film Star America], which is expected to compete for the top three, is controlled by it. [New Film Alliance], which is among the top five, is one of the important shareholders. [China Film Southern Shinkansen], which ranks second in the south, is also under the China Film Group. In addition, there are many Cinema lines and China Film Group have cooperation and shares.

Of course, except for China Film and Television, which is fully in control, other theater chains only have certain participation in decision-making rights, unlike Fanxing and Wanda.

But this influence is also huge. Cao Xuan likes to cooperate with China Film Group because of its official background and huge theatrical distribution capabilities.

However, in this case, Xingmei's original theater advantage would no longer exist. After all, Boss Tan's right to speak is far inferior to that of Mr. Han.

Boss Qin, who has not yet recovered from the heavy damage of "Jinling, Jinling", is now even more depressed. He even gets into trouble when he hears the word "Cao" recently.

Li Lianjie and others also stopped. If you can't beat him, you can't beat him. Cao Xuan is undefeated in many battles, so he won't be ashamed if he loses. What's more, his results in "The Certificate of Entrepreneurship" are also very good.

Of course, not everyone is happy, such as director Chen Kexin.

"Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff" Lao Mouzi is a nominal director, and Huang Jianxin is slightly less famous personally. Therefore, the one with the greatest fame gain among the three directors is Chen Kexin.

Now there is another film called "The Proposal", and Chen Kexin's reputation is growing day by day. I dare not say that he has surpassed Xu Laoguai, and he has become one of the most popular directors in Hong Kong today.

When Lu Tailang failed again, Boss Qin valued Chen Kexin more and more. He could accept a straw hat worth tens of thousands, not to mention a straw hat worth a few thousand.

Even not only Boss Tan, but also several other companies are eyeing Chen Kexin. After all, good directors have always been a scarce talent. Singmei and Media Asia were frightened during this period, fearing that Chen Kexin would be poached.

Therefore, the benefits provided to Chen Kexin in "Martial Arts" have been further improved. Putting aside the investment dividends, the salary alone is enough to make top famous directors jealous.

Thousands of gold is spent on horse bones. If Fanxing hadn’t been treated well, some people would have quit.

Some film and television companies even came out to criticize StarMei for doing this to undermine the industry's atmosphere and spend money on directors and actors. A movie can easily cost tens of millions. How can the company make money? How can bosses like them buy villas...

Cao Xuan also deeply agreed, but it was not entirely because he was reluctant to spend money.

The key market is limited, and the budget for a play is only so large. The cast and crew take most of it, and the budget for other aspects has to be reduced.

Later generations of [salary limit orders] have proved that blindly raising the salaries of actors and directors is of no benefit. It will not only cause industry involution, but also affect the quality of film and television.

It's understandable that actors want to get high prices, but you have to have real skills.

Cheng Long and Cao Xuan, who have their own box office appeal, can't do it without paying high prices, but the popularity and influence of many artists are inflated.

For example, Zhen Zhuan, he does have a certain appeal, but in the final analysis, so far, he is only the best in the "Ip Man" series.

Other movies do not have strong appeal, and can even be said to be poor.

That's it, he now dares to ask for a salary of 30 million, and some people agree, not treating the money as money at all.

Cao Xuan sometimes really loves and hates these rich people. He loves that their investment has indeed prospered the entertainment market, but hates that they have also destroyed the market and forced everyone to open books.

In the past two years alone, the average salary of celebrity artists has increased several times, and there is still a lot of room for increase in the future.

As an actor, Cao Xuan definitely hopes that the pay will be as high as possible, but as a company boss, although he will not let everyone work in vain, he also hopes that the stars' pay can be healthier.

However, he could not stop the general trend of the market. Fortunately, Fanxing had the final confidence and would not be swayed by this trend.

If Boss Cao spends tens of millions or hundreds of millions to smash the little fresh meat, then all these years of his life have been in vain...

………

The box office of the second part of "Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff" is rising steadily, and the performance of the Japanese box office is also very impressive. Cao Xuan plans to go to Japan to add to his strength.

But before leaving, he has to participate in this year's Huabiao Award.

The Huabiao Awards, jointly established by many top publicity agencies, is a government award for mainland films. It was founded in 1994 and changed to a biennial event after 2005.

It is not particularly valuable in terms of gold content, but it is definitely higher than those second-rate awards. Together with Baihua and Golden Rooster, it is the three major film awards in the mainland.

This year is the 13th Huabiao Award, which coincides with the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. As a government award, its meaning is completely different from previous years.

Many celebrities came to support the show, totaling more than 400, including superstars and A-list celebrities.

Cao Xuan has been nominated for Huabiao Shidi twice before, but has not won the individual award. This time, he has a good chance of being nominated again for "Saving Mr. Me".

But no matter how big or small it is, Cao Xuan cannot deny the honor of the Huabiao Award. Although this award is the least influential and valuable of several authoritative Chinese film awards, the energy behind it is definitely the strongest.

The red carpet of the China Watch Awards was really star-studded. It can be said to be the most luxurious red carpet lineup in recent years.

Apart from other things, the appearance of the three international superstars Cao Xuan, Cheng Long and Jet Li killed countless films instantly.

Even Mr. Xing, who rarely shows up, rarely came to support this time.

Lao Mouzi, Director Chen Dao, and Feng Pengtong, three major mainland directors, Xu Laoguai, Chen Kexin, and Wong Kar-Wai, the three most prominent directors in Hong Kong gathered on the red carpet.

There is even more competition for women. Gong Li, Chen Hong, Maggie Cheung, Kwan Chi-Lin, Liu Jialing from the older generation, it is difficult to get all the four Danes from the Mesozoic generation, and Liu Tianxian and other four little flowers from the new generation are also appearing for the first time.

Coupled with other popular big and small flowers, the reporter's hand couldn't stop the shutter, and his hand almost cramped.

After walking through the red carpet and entering the living room, avoiding the cameras of reporters, it would be a lively event.

"That dress on you looks really nice, it makes you look slimmer."

Da Mimi looked at Liu Tianxian with a smile, full of praise, Liu Tianxian rolled her eyes unceremoniously, implying that Da Mimi was short.

"You like it as a gift from me, but it might be a bit long for you to wear."

Da Mimi was not discouraged at all, and deliberately puffed out her chest: "It's okay if it's longer, but the key is that it's too small. It really doesn't fit the size?"

"you……"

These words gave Liu Tianxian a critical blow. If it wasn't in full view of everyone, he might as well let Damimi see the results of his training.

The big secret is true at all, her eyes are provocative, and she is even a little eager to try. What happened to the training? She was raised in an alley, and she can be bullied easily with this kind of showmanship.

The two were fighting here, and Huang Shengyi and Wang Luodan beside them also began to secretly fight.

The two of them are slightly less famous, they are said to be the Four Little Girls, but they are not at the same level as Liu and Yang, and they don't want to stand with them to avoid being upstaged.

Behind Wang is the well-known manager Chang Jihong, and behind Huang is Young Master Yang. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses, so it can be said that they are evenly matched.

Every move of the four young ladies was seen by the four young soldiers next to them. Compared to the new generation who were still somewhat shy, these girls had already seen a lot of real people, so they were not so polite in private.

Li Bingbing just looked at the four little actresses and said with emotion: "It's great to be young."

Fan Xiaopang next to him couldn't help but sneer: "You are still two years away from turning 40, why are you feeling young?"

In Huayi, Mr. Zhou, who was having a heated argument with Li Bingbing over the fight for the first sister, silently said, "Bingbing, Li...the teacher is old and is prone to sentimentality."

International Zhang, who has been hooking up with Huayi recently, Wen Yan also got involved: "I remember Mr. Li was born in 1973, six years older than me."

"Is it 1973? I remember the Baidu information is not from 1975... I'm sorry, I'm talking too much."

Fan Xiaopang covered his mouth, looking annoyed at the blunder. His exaggerated acting skills were barely concealed, which made Li Bingbing's teeth itch.

"Okay, okay, let's talk about something else, Ziyi, how does it feel to be a producer for the first time."

In the end, Hu Jing couldn't stand it anymore, so she came out to help Li Bingbing out, and changed the topic to the movie "Perfect" that had just been released by International Chapter.

This movie was produced by International Zhang himself. He originally planned to invite Fan Xiaopang, but Fan Xiaopang, who had no shortage of resources, didn't want to flatter her, so he later approached Shu Dazui.

The final box office was pretty good. It exceeded 30 million in the first week of release. If it goes well, it can exceed 100 million. Considering that it is a small film with an investment of less than 50 million, the miscellaneous income should be able to make a small profit.

International chapters are also a bit complacent. Artists are just tools. Female stars will grow old one day. Even though they are popular, they still have to find a way out for themselves.

She gained a certain amount of confidence by trying to succeed behind the scenes.

Seeing this, several other female stars were also a little thoughtful, but soon they couldn't help but started talking. Just now they were attacking Li Bingbing, but now they are targeting the international ********* , I read online that you broke up with that foreigner boyfriend, is it true..."

The two soldiers of Sidan may sound like a combination, but in fact they have a very ordinary relationship with each other.

Among them, except for Hu Jing who is barely aloof, there are all kinds of competition among the others. If you pick two at random, you can bring up a lot of old grudges.

The Empress of the East Palace is protected by her husband, and she is Fan Xiaopang’s boss. She has a good relationship with Mr. Zhou and Li Bingbing. She is also a classmate of International Zhang. She has a high status and good popularity. Basically, fire cannot burn her.

But it's different for other people. They start fighting each other when they meet, and in the end they get angry and angry.

Especially those in Huayi had serious internal divisions and fierce fighting.

Fan Xiaopang and Li Bingbing had old grudges in Huayi and had a bad relationship with the International Chapter. In their hearts, they were slightly envious of the young master Zhou's talent and liked to fan the flames.

Zhao didn't get involved very much, but he was not aloof like Hu Jing, but was vaguely ostracized by everyone.

In the original time and space, Fan Xiaopang should have been excluded, but now she is backed by many stars and is the actress with the highest commercial value in the entertainment industry. It is not her turn to be a marginalized person no matter what.

And because Zhao was not in the Huayi and Fanxing circles, and his own film resources were poor in the past two years, he was gradually ignored by everyone.

Zhao didn't care about the other people. As she was focused on doing business, the only people she wanted to lick were Cao Xuan and Hu Jing, but the couple didn't want to pay attention to her.

The new generation fights secretly, the Mesozoic fights semi-openly, and the older generation like Gong Li has it easier.

There are basically two modes: chatting and reminiscing about old times if you are on good terms, and staying away from each other if you are not on good terms. There is no need to talk in a pretentious manner, and you can’t even give a look.

The male star's side is a little better in comparison. There may be some yin and yang aura, but Cao Xuan can't feel it.

As soon as he showed up, he was invited to chat with many big bosses. Occasionally, he met a few artists, but it was a quiet time, which greatly deprived him of the fun of eating in real time on the spot.

"Come on, Mo'er."

While chatting with Cheng Long, Zhang Guoli and Jiang Wen led a young man over, and the former greeted him directly.

"Call me uncle."

"No, no, no."

Cao Xuan looked at the troubled Liu Zi and waved his hand quickly. This boy was born in 1982 and is seven years younger than him. Calling him uncle is too much.

"Your dad and I are old friends. You can call me brother or teacher."

Liu Zi glanced at his father and did not dare to commit suicide. He called out "Teacher Cao" obediently, and Jiang Wen put his arms around Cao Xuan's shoulders.

"Brother, what do you think of him playing Liu Zi?"

Cao Xuan was not surprised by this suggestion, but he was very curious as to why Jiang Wen asked this person to act. Was he purely impressed by his acting skills, or was he trying to save Zhang Guoli's face?

"Brother, take a closer look, how similar they are."

After hearing Cao Xuan's doubts, Jiang Wen gestured at Liu Zi's face with excitement. Cao Xuan looked at it intently for a few more times, and then broke into a cold sweat.

"Okay, just leave it like that, don't say anything else, otherwise it will be easy to get a 404."

Let the six sons play by themselves while they continued chatting. Cao Xuan couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked elder brother Cheng Long and Zhang Guoli what they thought about the fact that their two sons looked like their brothers.

The two also found it fun and discussed each other's educational concepts. Cao Xuan took serious notes beside him.

This is all valuable experience from the failed education of the second generation of stars. It will be useful for my own children when they grow up...

………

After being amused for a long time, the Huabiao Awards Ceremony officially began. Cheng Long and Zhang Guoli were both hosts and took the stage to host.

Cao Xuan and Jiang Wen were chatting so much that they changed seats and continued to talk nonsense together. If it weren't for the award ceremony, they would have started to chew melon seeds.

The Huabiao Awards do not have many awards, only about twenty, but they cover two years of awards and are divided into various categories. Therefore, there are still many films nominated for awards, and awarding awards is like dividing pork.

Well, just share the pork...

The "Three Kingdoms·Red Cliff" series won the [Outstanding Film Technology Award] and the [Outstanding Overseas Chinese Director Award].

The former is okay, it's basically stunts or special effects, and the latter award is newly established this year.

The director is Chen Kexin, the actor is Zhen Tan, and the actress is Shu Dazui.

Later I realized that I was timid.

Commercial blockbusters like "Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff" are not popular and only have two awards. The "Hurricane Rescue" series won the "Outstanding Co-production Award" by virtue of the advantages of Sino-US co-production.

Apart from this, Fan Xingxing's films did not win any relevant awards. However, Directors Feng Pants and Chen Da won the best director at the same time for "Mei Lanfang" and "Assembly".

International Chapter also won the Best Actress Award with another actress for "Mei Lanfang".

This is also the international chapter following 2005's House of Flying Daggers. After winning the Huabiao Film Award for the second time, I achieved a grand slam of the three major film awards in the Mainland: Golden Rooster, Hundred Flowers, and Huabiao Mainland.

This is also the only Mainland Grand Slam among actresses. In terms of awards luck, the International Chapter is definitely the first one!

But today, Cao Xuan did not allow her to be the most beautiful. The subsequent Huabiao Best Actor, Cao Xuan successfully won the Best Actor Award with "Save Mr. My". Together with him, Zhang Hanyu from the assembly number was crowned the emperor.

Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Actress are all double yolk eggs. However, considering that the Huabiao Award is awarded every two years, it is not considered a double yolk egg. It is more like awarding two years of awards together. .

Cao Xuan, who won the Huabiao, also became a Grand Slam winner of the three major film awards in the Mainland. However, unlike the first one in the International Chapter, he had two seniors before him.

One is Gao Ming, who directly achieved a Mainland Grand Slam with "Kong Fansen", and the other is Cao Xuan's master Li Xuejian.

When Cao Xuan took a photo with the Huabiao Award, he was thinking about pulling his master back so that the master and apprentice could join forces to show off the trophies.

The gold content of Huabiao Best Actor can only be regarded as acceptable. For Cao Xuan, it is more of a sense of accomplishment from a successful stamp collection, not to mention a surprise.

But it’s more lively outside.

Compared with the two seniors Gao and Li, Jiu Xuan and Cao Xuan, who are still in their prime, undoubtedly have the confidence to compete for higher honors.

In fact, the two not only won the Mainland Grand Slam, but also won the Golden Horse Best Actor/Queen. Now there is only one Golden Horse trophy between them.

If they can win the Golden Horse, they can achieve an unprecedented grand slam of China's five authoritative film awards: Golden Horse, Golden Statue, Golden Rooster, Hundred Flowers, and Huabiao.

It's hard to say for the International Chapter this year, we can only rely on "Mei Lanfang" to make a breakthrough, and Cao Xuan's "Saving Mr. My Life" is a real hit, and it is very hopeful to win the Golden Horse by the end of the year.

Mr. Zhou, who is also competing for three gold medals this year, will be one breath away from a Grand Slam even if he achieves his goal of three gold medals, because he has never won a Huabiao before.

In fact, before this, this Grand Slam was not popular. Even the so-called three-gold best actor/actress gradually became popular because of the frequent exchanges between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the three places in the past two years, and Cao Xuan and others won awards. Related concept.

But records are all man-made. There was no such thing before. Now that someone can realize it, the media immediately went crazy and started to build momentum, and movie fans also started to take advantage of it.

Just as Cao Xuan's achievements such as "When the Stars Ring, Come on Stage to Accept the Award", "Three consecutive Golden Melody", and "Tiantan Concert" have become the best honors in the Chinese music industry, now the five-award Grand Slam is one of the highest honors in the Chinese film industry. .

Perhaps one day Cao Xuan will win another Golden Goblet Award for Best Actor at the Shanghai Film Festival, and the number of Grand Slam trophies will probably be increased by one more...