Chinese Entertainment's Shining Star

Nie Wei won the Best Director Award for the second time. The movie he directed, Interstellar, won the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film. The key point is that he won a total of nine trophies at this Saturn Award. The news spread back to China and caused a great response.

Nie Wei and others have not returned to China yet, but the country is already full of news about them.

The media naturally praised him. Nie Wei killed all his opponents at the American Saturn Awards with his own movie Interstellar. This is to win glory for the country. Naturally, everyone will not pour cold water on him at this time. Even those who don’t like Nie Wei on weekdays will suppress their anger and say good things about him at this time.

After all, this is the general trend.

Nine Saturn Award trophies, this not only created a record for Chinese science fiction movies to win awards at the Saturn Awards, but also broke the Saturn Award’s own record for the highest number of awards for a single film.

This year's Saturn Awards, "Interstellar" completely swept the awards, not only taking all the big awards, but also the more important awards such as Best Young Actor, Best Screenwriter, and Best Visual Effects. There was no opponent at all during the entire award ceremony.

For this matter, some American media even lamented that American science fiction movies are heading for decline. American science fiction movies that once notified the world are actually swept by works from other countries one day.

Of course, these guys mostly use this to attract attention, completely ignoring the fact that "Interstellar" is actually closer to the style of American science fiction movies, and this movie is considered a Sino-US joint venture, although Huayi and Max Films are both Nie Wei's companies.

They are shouting these words now, hoping to put Nie Wei on the opposite side of Hollywood movies and cause dissatisfaction among some extreme people. If a quarrel breaks out, they can continue to fan the flames behind and make a fortune in silence.

Unfortunately, such a plan is doomed to fail. Nie Wei is not a rookie who has just come out of the oven, nor is he a director without background. As the actual helmsman of Max Films, which is said to be on par with the six major film companies, and the owner of the world's largest cinema chain, Nie Wei has great power in Hollywood and is definitely one of the few people standing at the top of the pyramid.

Moreover, Nie Wei has been shooting good works one after another in recent years, and his fan base is also very strong. As soon as the malicious remarks of those media were released, they were sprayed by fans who like Nie Wei's movies.

And the extreme people they expect are not fools. Nie Wei did not blacken the United States in the movie, and they would not jump out to offend big figures like Nie Wei.

You have to choose your target when quarreling. Those stars with obvious black spots are their favorites. People like Nie Wei who are clean, basically have no black spots and have a huge background are the ones they are most reluctant to touch.

And this is only a very small part of the voice. "Interstellar" won a big victory in the Saturn Award, and most of the media in the United States praised it.

After all, the quality of the film is here, and most people think that Nie Wei and others deserve the award.

This is not like a certain Chinese actress. I don’t know whether the judges of the award ceremony were stupid or the company’s public relations really put in a lot of effort. She was arranged to be the best actress on the night of the award ceremony. As a result, she went from being praised by the whole network to being blackened by the whole network, and gained countless black fans overnight.

And this actress just lacks the four words "well-deserved".

But Nie Wei is different. After "The Man from Nowhere" began to attract the attention of movie fans, "Assassins" came to the fore, followed by the science fiction trilogy "The Martian", "Inception" and "Interstellar". Whether in terms of reputation or box office, in recent years, it is definitely the top existence.

So when Nie Wei won the award, many people said that it was well-deserved. This is what countless fans look forward to and it is what everyone expects.

And after Nie Wei won the Saturn Award for Best Director, the Chinese Film Magazine also published a list called the Chinese Top 100 Film Directors Ranking.

Nie Wei ranked second, surpassing Li An, Wu Yusen, Wang Jiawei, Cheng Kaige, Feng Xiaogang and other big-name directors in the circle, and only below Zhang Yimou.

However, such a high ranking still caused dissatisfaction among many people. These people are not only Nie Wei's fans, but also many passers-by who think the list is unfair.

Because Zhang Yimou, who ranked above Nie Wei, was given by China Film Magazine as directing the Kyoto Olympics in 2008, he was highly respected internationally.

Zhang Yimou's directing of the Olympics is indeed a great achievement, but in the eyes of many people, since this is a selection of film directors, then only movies should be discussed, and in this regard, Nie Wei has surpassed this senior director in all aspects.

In terms of box office, Zhang Yimou's movies have not been popular in recent years. "Three Guns" had a box office of 260 million, "Coming Home" had a box office of 296 million, and "Under the Hawthorn Tree" only had a box office of 160 million. Only "The Flowers of War" got a box office of 600 million.

The box office of these movies combined is not as high as the box office of Nie Wei's "Interstellar" in the mainland.

You should know that Nie Wei is the only film director in China whose cumulative box office in the mainland has exceeded 10 billion, and the only director whose single film has exceeded 5 billion in the mainland box office. It can be said that Nie Wei has set countless records over the years, and all of his records were broken by himself. For other colleagues, these records that are constantly broken by Nie Wei are their existence to look up to.

In terms of reputation, Zhang Yimou's early films have a good reputation, but his recent films have a mixed feeling of praise and criticism.

There are high-quality movies like "The Thirteen Hairpins" with a rating of around 8.0, but there are also "low-quality" movies like "The Three Guns" with a rating of less than 5.

On the other hand, especially in the past three years, the ratings of Nie Wei's films are basically above 8.5, especially the science fiction trilogy. The lowest "The Martian" has an 8.6 on IMDB, while "Inception" and "Interstellar" It scored as high as 9.1 and 9.0, ranking at the forefront of the world's top 250 movies. It is recognized by movie fans around the world as a top-notch masterpiece.

Not to mention the final honor.

Nie Wei is the youngest Grand Slam winner of the three major gold awards in Taiwan, the Golden Horse, the Golden Rooster, and the Golden Statue. He has won three Saturn Awards for Best Director. He is also the youngest Best Director Oscar winner. It can be said that in this world Nie Wei has basically won top individual director honors.

Of course Zhang Yimou is not bad either. He has won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival. He has also won all major domestic awards. Once again, but compared with Nie Wei, his personal awards are undoubtedly weaker.

Nie Wei surpassed Zhang Yimou in three aspects: box office, word-of-mouth, and honor. Therefore, many people were dissatisfied with ranking Zhang Yimou above Nie Wei.

When Nie Wei returned to China, a reporter asked Nie Wei this question.

"Director Zhang has always been a senior I respect. As early as when I was in school, in the film appreciation class, I heard the teacher talk about Director Zhang's works more than once, such as "No One Less", "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit", "Big Red" "The Lantern" and so on, Director Zhang has many excellent works worth learning from, and Director Zhang's movie "Hero" kicked off the blockbuster era of Chinese-language movies, which I have experienced. "

"Including Director Feng, Director Li Yu, Director Wu Yusen, Director Wang Jiawei, etc., I think they are all seniors worthy of learning from me. In my opinion, this list does not divide nouns according to achievements. It just tells us that Chinese There are so many outstanding workers in the film industry, and we are all making hard but insignificant contributions to the progress of the Chinese film industry.”

The reporters around him were convinced. Nie Wei's answers were impeccable and his humility made people think he was a student.

But when this interview was released later, no one on the Internet looked down upon Nie Wei because of his answer. Instead, they were all compliments. Even many directors mentioned by Nie Wei in the interview retweeted and commented, either agreeing with Nie Wei's statement or Praised Nie Wei for his achievements.

After all, everyone carried the sedan chair, and Nie Wei lifted everyone up. Naturally, everyone had to turn around and lift Nie Wei. This is called courtesy.

The ranking issue finally came to an end because of Nie Wei's positive response. Nie Wei later had a homely meal with Zhang Yimou, which was photographed by the arranged media, and the turmoil in this matter finally came to an end.

Nie Wei was not idle during the following period, and interviews from various media came one after another.

As the newly nominated Best Director at the Oscars and the Saturn Award for Best Director, Nie Wei said to the media, "I want it all," and it really came true.

The video of that exclusive interview had over 100 million views, and a lot of people were worshiping Nie Wei, praying for good luck, and treating Nie Wei like a koi.

Naturally, the media will not let go of this hot topic. Almost every media interviewing Nie Wei will ask about the original interview, "I want it all." Nie Wei answered it over and over in different ways, which made him tired to death. , but the media is still happy to ask, who gets the heat by asking, everyone just loves to see Nie Wei pretending to be sexy, because he is really awesome.

In addition to Nie Wei, after receiving the Saturn Award, Zhang Ziyi was also very busy flying around the world.

Endorsement contracts for various top brands flew in front of Zhang Ziyi like snowflakes, dazzling her. In just one month, the contract amount signed by this woman exceeded nine figures, and the speed of attracting money made everyone in the industry dazzled. All the female stars were jealous.

Once upon a time, everyone was fighting for a second-tier international brand, but now in front of Zhang Ziyi, she has a bunch of first-tier international brands for her to choose from. You say you are angry or not, you say it makes people jealous or not.

But no matter how jealous she is, there is nothing she can do. Zhang Ziyi is the only actress in China to win the Saturn Award for Best Actress twice in a row.

In addition to the endorsement contract, Zhang Ziyi also received a mountain of scripts.

All of them are directed by top-tier directors in the industry, and none of them invest less than 100 million yuan. After all, the investment is so small that you can't even afford Zhang Ziyi's salary.

When filming "Interstellar", Nie Wei gave Zhang Ziyi a salary of 3 million, the currency is US dollars, which in China is 20 million, but this was a friendship price, and she won the second Saturn Award for Best Actress. After that, Zhang Ziyi's net worth at this moment in Hollywood is at least five million US dollars, which is definitely the highest salary for a Chinese actress.

It is even more expensive in China. Some production companies even offered a salary of 100 million, and also stated that the price was negotiable, but it was still useless.

Zhang Ziyi is now the kind of person who is marketable and priceless. She doesn't like people waving checks. After all, she is not short of money. The endorsements she received this month alone amount to hundreds of millions of yuan.

Moreover, Film Queen Zhang is now very ambitious. She doesn’t want to film any works by domestic first-tier directors, so she is just waiting for Nie Wei’s new movie.

Of course, she also wanted to take a break and spend more time with her family. She has been filming movies abroad in the past two years and rarely returned to China. Even her family has become estranged, not to mention that she still has love. Nie Wei was also surprised that Zhang Ziyi and Lao Wang, who were on the decline in the original time and space, got together.

But in this time and space, Zhang Ziyi is so popular that she is so popular that Lao Wang is so popular that he is still far behind Zhang Ziyi. However, the love between the two has not changed. After a few years, not only has there been no sign of fading, but Zhang Ziyi even hinted that they have reached the stage of discussing marriage.

For this, Nie Wei just wanted to give Lao Wang a thumbs up.

Except for a lot of media interviews, Nie Wei's life has not changed much. He does not accept endorsements or scripts. In addition to accepting media interviews during this period, he is more concerned about foreign countries. He wants to buy a house in the UK and live there for a few months.

After all, although the story of the book "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" takes place in New York, most of the characters in it are from the UK, which has a lot to do with Ms. Rowling being British. Nie Wei wants to go there to experience life.

Shu Chang is also looking forward to it. As Nie Wei's producer, she has enough reasons to go to the UK with Nie Wei.

So she is more active than Nie Wei in buying a house in the UK. She shows Nie Wei a bunch of pictures of houses every day and introduces the surrounding environment of these houses to Nie Wei.

Nie Wei doesn't care. He doesn't have many requirements. The house is strong enough, the surrounding environment is quiet, and it is not too far from the city.

Shu Chang certainly can't find it according to the requirements put forward by Nie Wei. Nie Wei simply handed it over to Shu Chang.

Nie Wei, who seems to be very busy, but is actually bored at home, received a call from Zhou Duoduo.

This girl completely fell into the calculation of the program team. Although the program team did not specify who Zhou Duoduo invited, the first person Zhou Duoduo thought of when she heard about inviting guests to the warm-house banquet was her brother Nie Wei.

The agent smiled bitterly on the side. Shouldn't this call be made to teammates to increase their exposure?

If it were other team members, the agent would have stood up and called a halt, and then taught them a lesson, letting them know that opportunities were not used in this way. But if it were Zhou Duoduo, he really didn't dare to do so. The key point was that the director of the program team was also watching him covetously, fearing that he would come out to make trouble.

Of course, the program team is not so "unkind". The house is big enough, and everyone can invite two or three good friends to attend the warm-house banquet.

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