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Chapter 802 Internet celebrity face (4200+ chapters, please subscribe~)

When a few people walked into the conference room of Phantom Films, Johnson was already waiting here, but Linda was not there.

Linda is now the CEO of Phantom Media. She has already jumped out of the simple film circle and has become one of the few business giants in North America. Naturally, there are many things to do every day. After the docking with Gong Xi, Then flew to New York to handle business.

Now that "Chu Xing's World" is premiering, there is no time to fly back to participate, which shows how busy he is at work.

"Wu, I watched the movie, it's great!" At this time, Johnson became a lot more stable.

In fact, both Linda and Johnson have their own growth, which is also related to the businesses they are in charge of. Both of them are considered top leaders in their own industries, so naturally it is impossible for them to jump like they used to up.

Wu Jianye chuckled and said, "Now that the theater chains in North America have almost been acquired, you can calm down and manage them. The development of Oceanwide Theater Chain is too fast, which will inevitably cause internal instability. Your work will be more difficult than before. It's even more difficult!"

The collapse of the building is more damage from the inside!
Johnson smiled confidently and said, "Don't worry!"

There are also some differences from another time and space, that is, people like Zhang Guoli will learn some spoken English from time to time after joining Tangting Culture, so now Zhang Guoli and others, although they can’t speak English yet, are as good as foreigners The same, but some simple dialogues, and some less complicated content, can be understood.

Although the two didn't have a deep talk, the content of the conversation still surprised Zhou Xingchi and others, because when Wu Jianye spoke to Johnson, it was completely an attitude of a superior to a subordinate, and Johnson readily accepted this attitude.

After the three of Zhang Guoli were surprised, they didn't think too much, thinking that just like what Zhou Xingchi said before, Wu Jianye could create extremely high value, so these people all wanted to support Wu Jianye.

But Zhou Xingchi is different. Others are in Xiangjiang, and they have come into contact with more news, such as Yaoguang, Yiwang, and Fengge Media's three major groups. What is impossible?

Thinking of this, the shock on Zhou Xingchi's face became even more obvious.

Fengge Media is now the largest media group in Asia, and Phantom Media's strength is spread all over North America, Europe and other places. Doesn't that mean that Wu Jianye is now the world's largest media tycoon?
Zhou Xingchi didn't continue to think about the following things, and he didn't dare to think too much. First of all, he thought that this kind of thing was unrealistic, maybe he was sensitive.

It should be sensitive
But even reminding himself like this, he is still carefully observing the conversation between Wu Jianye and Johnson.

But after that, the two didn't communicate at work, and they talked more about movies.

This disappointed Zhou Xingchi who wanted to get some useful news from it.

"Unfortunately, your movie is a Chinese movie. If it is a Hollywood movie, this movie will definitely be able to dominate the Oscars!" Johnson said regretfully: "Now we can only add the best foreign language film to the Oscars." Already!"

Wu Jianye nodded indifferently, and said, "You know, I'm not very interested in participating in the Oscars!"

No matter how high the Oscars are held by outsiders, Wu Jianye really does not place too much importance on the Oscars. In his opinion, the Oscars are a movie award in Hollywood, and it is because Hollywood is the center of the world's movies that the Oscars are awarded. It is so important that if one day Huaxia's films surpass North America in the global market, then the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Awards will also be one of the most famous film awards in the world.

"Haha, to be honest, I still think it's a pity that you didn't win the best director, although there is an award for best screenwriter!" Johnson laughed.

Wu Jianye won the Oscar for Best Screenplay for "The Love of Ghosts", but because he did not do public relations, he lost the competition for the two awards of Best Director and Best Picture.

"Don't worry about it!" Wu Jianye said indifferently, seeing Wu Jianye commenting on the Oscars here calmly, the four of Zhou Xingchi seemed a little speechless.
As Johnson said, probably only Wu Jianye is qualified to say that.

"By the way, will the movie "The World of Chu Xing" participate in the Oscar's selection for the best foreign language film?" Johnson asked curiously.

Wu Jianye smiled slightly and said, "I really can't decide this matter!"

Johnson looked at Wu Jianye in surprise, and asked, "Why?"

There is no reason, if you want to apply for an Oscar, it is not up to Wu Jianye alone, because according to domestic regulations, if the movie "The World of Chu Xing" wants to apply for an Oscar, it needs to be recommended by China Film, not only Tangting Culture can only do this!

After explaining to Johnson, Wu Jianye smiled and said, "However, this film still has a great chance of participating in the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film!"

Wu Jianye did not say this, but Zhang Guoli and others know that according to Wu Jianye's current domestic influence, as long as he wants the movie "The World of Chu Xing" to represent China and participate in next year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language film selection, then this film will definitely be able to participate.

Although Wu Jianye is not very fond of Oscars, but ordinary people value it. Now that Wu Jianye wants to develop Chinese films, he must first increase the influence of Chinese films in the world. As for the three major film festivals in Europe next year , or leave it to Chen Kaige's "Farewell My Concubine"!

According to Wu Jianye's reputation, this year's "Chu Xing's World" will definitely be actively invited by the three major European film festivals this year, but since Wu Jianye now wants to increase the influence of Chinese movies , then according to the maximization of benefits, he will not participate in the three major European film festivals with the movie "Farewell My Concubine".

The sensation caused by this is still somewhat more beneficial than the scattered ones!
Because whether it is the three major film festivals in Europe or the Academy Awards in the United States.

It is possible that two Chinese-language films will be selected for their awards, but they will definitely not be awarded all the awards. No matter how fair they claim to be, balancing art is their most important point.

Time moved forward slowly, and when the box office statistics were about to come out, Zhou Xingchi and the others became more and more nervous. This was the first movie for the four of them to be released in the United States, and they all knew what it meant.

Especially Zhou Xingchi, with Cheng Longzhuyu in front, Zhou Xingchi naturally hopes to go out of Asia and become a global movie star.

Now the movie "The World of Chu Xing" is his opportunity.

When the time came to two o'clock in the morning, Wu Jianye saw that they were looking at their watches more and more frequently, and said with a smile, "Don't be nervous, as soon as the box office statistics come out, they will be sent here!"

Chen Hong asked curiously from the side: "Director Wu, you watched our movie today. Er, what should be the box office yesterday?"

Wu Jianye thought for a while and said, "If it can exceed 1000 million US dollars, it will be considered a success!"

Johnson said from the side: "Wu, are you a little too cautious? The first-day box office of "Ghosts" was 1736 million U.S. dollars, and the first-day box office of "Jurassic Park" reached 2689 million U.S. dollars. , Now this "Chu Xing's World" you only expect to exceed 1000 million US dollars?"

Wu Jianye chuckled and said, "It's a shame that you still work in theaters, don't you even understand this?"

Johnson naturally understood that the movie "The World of Chu Xing" was completely different from the two movies he just mentioned. Those two movies were completely Hollywood movies. That's why the first-day box office of these two films can reach such a high level.

Now this "Chu Xing's World" is just the opposite. It is a 100% Chinese movie. It is not considered a mainstream movie in North America. If Wu Jianye is not the director of this movie, let alone 1000 million. Even if it can exceed 100 million, it is considered a success!

But Johnson still doesn't want to believe it. After all, the director of this movie is Wu Jianye, the director of the top two movies in the world. How can his box office appeal only reach 1000 million?

"I still feel that 1000 million is a little less!" Johnson said.

Matthew Murphy next to him also nodded.

Wu Jianye smiled and said, "It's quite a lot. You see it from different angles. Naturally, you think 1000 million is too little, but in my opinion, 1000 million is really not bad!"

There were some words that Wu Jianye didn't tell them clearly.

That is, in the eyes of some North Americans, although Wu Jianye and Wu Jianye have achieved dazzling results, the two films have firmly occupied the top two positions in the global box office until now.

But that was Wu Jianye's achievement relying on the powerful platform of Hollywood. Now Wu Jianye has abandoned this platform and returned to China. In their view, this is a kind of betrayal. Some so-called Wu Jianye's Fans, even boycott this movie because of this sentiment.

But Johnson and Matthew Murphy are different. They know the details of Wu Jianye, that is to say, Wu Jianye relied on his personal strength to make Johnson and Matthew Murphy think that Wu Jianye is invincible, so they Only then will I think that the box office of 1000 million is a bit small.

However, when Zhou Xingchi and others heard Wu Jianye say $1000 million, their mood was completely opposite to that of Johnson and Matthew Murphy. They were simply too satisfied with the box office.

If the box office on the first day can reach 1000 million, then the potential of this movie is very good, and it can even achieve nearly [-] million box office in North America. If this is the case, the few of them can be considered famous in Hollywood.

Just when everyone was thinking about it, a clerk ran in with a stack of documents.

"General manager, the first-day box office of the movie "The World of Chu Xing" is out!"

rub!
Zhou Xingchi, Zhang Guoli, He Qing, and Chen Hong stood up straight away, looking at the document in the clerk's hand with fiery eyes, and Matthew Murphy took it.

After Matthew Murphy saw the box office results, he looked at Wu Jianye with a complicated expression, and said, "The box office on the first day was 1089 million US dollars!"

call!
The four of Zhou Xingchi let out a sigh of relief, the box office is already very good.

Wu Jianye smiled, and said with a smile: "This box office is already very good, the rest depends on the follow-up ability of this movie!"

Wu Jianye is still somewhat confident about this movie. Although it is impossible to become a blockbuster movie because of its status as a Chinese-language movie, this movie is a very good-looking movie, and it is worth watching twice and three times by many movie audiences. The biggest difference between such a movie and ordinary popcorn movies is here.

For example, two beauties, one with an Internet celebrity face, although they look very beautiful at first glance, have no characteristics. Everyone feels beautiful at first glance, and then they have no other ideas.

But the movie "Chu Xing's World" is the classic 90s and [-]s beautiful stars, they can stand the passage of time, and they are beauties that people want to watch after watching.

"If calculated according to this box office, the box office of this movie is likely to return to 8000 million US dollars in the end!" Matthew Murphy said with some disappointment.

And Johnson's face has an expression similar to that of Matthew Murphy.

Zhang Guoli couldn't help but said: "8000 million box office is already a lot!"

Matthew Murphy smiled wryly, looked at Zhang Guoli, and said, "Zhang, do you know the box office of Director Wu's other two films in Hollywood?"

Zhang Guoli and others looked at Matthew Murphy with some doubts. They only knew that the box office of Wu Jianye's two films had exceeded one billion in the world, but they didn't know the exact box office in North America.

Looking at the puzzled expressions of several people, Matthew Murphy said proudly: "Director Wu's first "Ghost Love" made a super high box office of 3.6 million US dollars in North America, and "Jurassic Park" is even more impressive. An exaggeration, $4.39 million!"

When saying these two figures, Matthew Murphy looked at them and said with a complicated expression: "This time, you know why I said that the box office of 8000 million is a bit low!"

Zhang Guoli and others looked at Wu Jianye in surprise, and only then did they know what kind of existence Wu Jianye was in North America.

A movie grossing over $[-] million?
The box office of the other one was even more exaggerated and directly broke through [-] million US dollars!
Thinking about it now, when they thought that the box office of 8000 million US dollars was already good, they inevitably felt a little bit disappointed. It seemed that they really delayed Wu Jianye.

What if this movie was a Hollywood production?
A few people dare not imagine.

Wu Jianye naturally saw their expressions, chuckled, and said, "You don't have to think too much, I think the box office of this movie should not exceed 8000 million, it should exceed [-] million."

Matthew Murphy and Johnson looked at Wu Jianye in confusion, Wu Jianye smiled and said, "You guys have watched this movie too, so you must know that it's not a simple popcorn movie."

Wu Jianye told them his own analysis, and everyone fell into deep thought, wondering if Wu Jianye's analysis was right or not!

"Okay, don't think too much, don't you know tomorrow's box office!" After speaking, Wu Jianye stood up and said: "Okay, it's getting late now, everyone go back early!"

Everyone got up with complicated thoughts and went back.

In fact, on the second day, before the box office statistics came out, the comments about the movie "The World of Chu Xing" had already come out!
(End of this chapter)