You don't understand the happiness of the director

Chapter 686 ① Reading an article ② Being as quiet as a chrysanthemum ③ Brave new world ④ China, Japan and South Korea fighting ⑤ One-day trip to Beijing
"A Bow"

"Bow Again"

"Family members return the greeting..."

Wang Quan and Yang Mi stood at the family members' seats and greeted the guests.

One month after Grandpa Yang Mi celebrated his 90th birthday, he passed away. Fortunately, he was not tortured by illness. His death was sudden but also free and easy.

And at such an old age, it can be considered a happy funeral.

My grandfather used to be a middle school teacher. Many of his colleagues back then are no longer around, but quite a few of his students came today. They were all puzzled to see Wang Quan standing next to Yang Mi.

Aren't you already divorced?

Did they really get divorced just to buy a house in a school district? !

Although it was a happy funeral, Mimi could not hide her sadness on her face. She has always paid attention to her image and she was almost without makeup today.

Thinking back, my grandfather once visited me on the set a few years ago, and our family celebrated my birthday together a month ago. As his only granddaughter, I have been busy with my career and family over the years, and I have indeed cared less about him. Every time, it was my grandfather who took the initiative to call me.

"Honey, I may not be able to participate in the promotion of "Zhu Xian" next time." Yang Mi said on the way home.

After all, her closest relative had just passed away, and now she had to happily participate in movie promotions. It was too disjointed. Recently, she just wanted to fade out of the public eye.

Wang Quan fully understood, and after returning home, Sissi hugged her and said it was okay, "I'm here, and you didn't have many roles in this movie anyway, you're just a standout."

Yang Mi looked up at Liu Yifei's innocent expression. Is she really trying to comfort me?

In the third part, Bi Yao's role is basically all "sex scenes" and she doesn't have many scenes, so Yang Mi simply gave up her position as the third one and appeared in the cast list of this film as a special guest.

Anyway, she doesn't need this little bit of achievement, and she believes that Jing Ge's "The Climber" will not be bad either.

"By the way, will the Golden Bamboo Award shortlist be announced today?" Yang Mi asked tiredly.

"There's still half an hour left, but you can take a look now," Wang Quan said as he took the computer and opened an encrypted file: "See if there are any hidden gems."

Liu Yifei also came over and asked, "How many awards are there in total?"

Wang Quan: “Including short films, there are 21 in total. There is no Lifetime Achievement Award this year.”

The first one is the Best Picture, with a total of 9.

Movies like "Escape Plan 2", "Operation Red Sea" and "Dying to Survive" which are at the top of the box office charts are all on the list.

"Wushuang", "A Man's Zoo" and "Nobody" with box office of around 10 billion are also among them.

There are also "Killing a Sheep" and "Ash Is Purest White" with box office less than 100 million.

What surprised Yang Mi the most was "The Last Night on Earth", which grossed 2.6 million yuan on the first day and 2.8 million yuan in the end.

“This movie was also nominated!?”

Liu Yifei retorted: "This movie is pretty good, but it's too niche, it's better to savor it slowly."

Wang Quan smiled and said, "It seems that Xixi voted for "Earth". Many photographers also like this movie. There are many people in the Photography Association, so it is not surprising that this movie can be shortlisted."

Except for the Best Picture, which has 5 to 10 nominations, the rest of the nominations have a maximum of five. Some of the nominations that cannot reach five will have four or even three, such as Best New Actor and Best New Director.

So there are only five best directors, namely Zhang Yimou, Wang Quan, Jia Zhangke, Wen Muye and Lin Chaoxian.

~
At twelve noon, after the nominations were announced, Jia Zhangke saw the list first and focused on the Best Director award.

He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw his name on the list. That means this award does have some value and is more reliable than the Golden Rooster Award.

Not only was he nominated for Best Director, the film was also nominated for Best Picture. Liao Fan and his wife Zhao Tao were also nominated for Best Actor and Best Actress. In addition, there were several nominations for Best Screenwriter, Best Art Design, etc., making him one of the big nominees.

Jia Zhangke couldn't help but feel proud. It has to be me. The rules of the Golden Bamboo Awards are obviously modeled after the Oscars. Under these rules, films like mine with humanistic care are more popular. Maybe I will win the Best Picture and Best Director awards at the first Golden Bamboo Awards!

"What about me? Do you think I will win the Best Actress award?" Taotao asked Keke.

Jia Zhangke coughed twice. When they first met, he had promised Zhao Tao that he would help her win the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival.

As a result, after so many years, he has received many nominations, but has not won any significant awards. It is understandable that Taotao feels emotional.

From Zhao Tao's eyes, Jia Zhangke could clearly see her desire for this award.

Although it is just a newly established award, if the Golden Bamboo Award continues to rise in popularity in the future, then the weight of the first Golden Bamboo Award for Best Actress will naturally be particularly important and will go down in film history!
And there is no one particularly strong among the Best Actress nominees this year, so this is a good opportunity!

Zhou Xun in "Hello, Zhihua" is old and has lost some of his spirituality. Zhang Jingchu in "Wushuang" did perform well, but her role was too small.

There is also Ma Yili in "Find You". I feel that Yao Chen's performance is better, so we can write an article about this aspect. Uh, article...

The last one is Wan Qian in "The Unknown", a disabled character. The character itself is good and her acting is not bad either, but Jia Zhangke heard that Ren Suxi was originally cast for this role, and it was Wan Qian who grabbed the role by relying on her relationship with Wang Quan.

There is also room for great discussion in this area.

So Jia Zhangke hugged his baby Taotao tightly and said, "Don't worry, I will try my best to help you win this time! It doesn't matter if I win the award or not, but you must win it!"

Although Jia Zhangke mainly moves in European circles, he was recently hired as a judge by the Oscars, and he knows a thing or two about the Oscar public relations awards.

In addition to bragging about himself, he also creates trouble for his opponents.

For example, they found press releases to praise Yao Chen, another female lead in "Finding You", and created a public opinion atmosphere that Ma Yili did not live up to her reputation.

There is also Wan Qian who snatched Ren Suxi's role and bullied others by taking advantage of her power. Although her acting skills are good, her character is not good.

Zhang Jingchu has too few roles and should be nominated for Best Supporting Actress, etc.

~
Ma Yili just received a call from her daughter Li Gengxi, who starred in "Little Joy", congratulating her on her nomination for Best Actress.

Then she saw the online article that used Yao Chen to criticize her, and she pouted, "You are so good, Yao Dazui, you use such dirty tricks when you can't beat me!"

Both of them submitted their nominations for the Golden Bamboo Awards as Best Actress. As for why I was shortlisted and she was not, it can only be said that her votes were lower than mine. People in the industry have sharp eyes!
After thinking about it, Ma Yili called Wen Zhang again and asked, "Can you ask your godfather to think of a way to build momentum for me?"

"I'm building momentum for you. Who do you think you are? My godfather has been nominated for Best Actor. It would be great if he had the resources to build momentum for himself." Wen Zhang sneered.

Wang Qiankun was indeed shortlisted, this time for his role in the rural-themed film "Sherlock on the Plains," which tells the story of his hometown.

Ma Yili added: "Then let's build momentum together. Think about it. Your godfather and I will be the best actor and best actress respectively, and we can take a family photo with you. How great it will be."

"Bah, you shameless bastard~" Imagining the scene, Wen Zhang spat, and suddenly heard a man's voice on the phone, who was quite young.

He snorted, "Are you with a man?"

Ma Yili covered the mouth of the young man next to him and said, "We're divorced, why do you care about me? Don't you have any women around you?"

"It's already fucking afternoon and I got up early!" Wen Zhang cursed and hung up the phone. He took one last look at his new script and decided to see what his father thought.

As luck would have it, he met another son, Dapeng.

As soon as Wen Zhang came in, Lao Wang smiled and said, "Xiao Wen'er, you also know that I was nominated for the Golden Bamboo Award for Best Actor!"

Wen Zhang said with a grin, "Dad is awesome. I have a vote. I support Dad to be the best actor!"

Dapeng: "It's like no one supports it."

The article: "Not only do I support it myself, I also ask my ex-wife to support it together."

Lao Wang interrupted his witty remarks, "Let's get down to business. I've read the script of Dapeng and I'm very satisfied with it. What about yours, Xiaowen?"

Wen Zhang craned his neck to glance at the script on the table. "Mulan Returns Home, are you trying to ride on the popularity of Disney's Mulan?"

Dapeng: "I am the middle-aged female general Hua Mulan, not the same as those Disney princesses. What kind of script did you write?"

Wen Zhang took out his copybook with great confidence. Dapeng and Lao Wang took a closer look and saw the five big words "Brave New World" written on the cover.

~
Wan Qian was of course happy to see that she was nominated for Best Actress, but she couldn't help feeling aggrieved when she saw the large number of negative articles suddenly appearing online.

In fact, this role really shouldn't be played by her. She has worked with director Rao Xiaozhi on several dramas, and she decided not to cooperate with him on this one because she was afraid that Quan Zi would misunderstand her.

Rao Xiaozhi originally wanted to ask Ren Suxi to play the role of Ma Jiaqi.

As luck would have it, Ren Suxi had just cheated on her husband, who was also married. YYDS's risk assessment failed, so Rao Xiaozhi had to ask his old friend Wan Qian to help out.

However, Rao Xiaozhi still admires Ren Suxi very much. The film's interlude uses her song "Hu Guangsheng", which was nominated for the Best Original Song Award.

Wan Qian complained to Wang Quan over the phone about this matter, "I was clearly doing this out of righteousness and to help others, but the press releases said such nonsense. How can I continue to be a calm and honest person in the future?"

She spoke very quickly, and Wang Quan only heard the word "dan" and "ju" and nodded in approval.

"You, please stop browsing Zhihu. There is no point in having a character who is as calm as a chrysanthemum. Strength is more important than anything else to attract fans. Look at how many film offers you have received since "Nobody"."

"Yes, there are more," Wan Qian said self-deprecatingly, "Now there are more variety shows looking for me, and they are talent shows. At my age, they actually asked me to sing and dance!"

This seems to be a new project of Mi Shi, looking for a group of sisters over 30 years old to sing and dance. Wang Quan smiled but said nothing.

However, the negative public opinion was quickly dealt with. Ren Suxi personally stood up and said that she turned down "The Unknown" because she was busy with other things at the time. She also thanked director Rao Xiaozhi again for having her work nominated for the Golden Bamboo Award for Best Original Song.

There is also the affirmation of teacher Wan Qian's performance, which can be regarded as public canvassing for her. There are many such open canvassing for votes, but we are afraid that they will secretly collude to form interest groups and do small things.

Also nominated for the Best Original Song award was Rocket Girls 101, whose hit song "Alien Princess Abe" for the animated film "Trembling, Abe!" was successfully nominated.

As the year draws to a close, Yang Chaoyue is preparing to celebrate the New Year in her hometown. This is also the first time she has lived in the country mansion that she funded to build for her father.

Although they have not yet bought a big house in Beijing, the appearance of their small home has been completely changed.

If I can find a wife for my father later, everything will be perfect.

She plans to return to Beijing on the second day of the Chinese New Year. She has already adapted to city life and has a lot of work to do after the beginning of the year.

In addition to inviting her to play the big boss Haotian in the second part of "Ever Night", Mi Shi has prepared a compilation movie about pets called "Love", and she has also been confirmed to play the heroine of a unit.

It just so happened that this month's love fund arrived at the account, and the deposit exceeded 6000 million.

At the same time, she also saw the newly released Golden Bamboo Award shortlist. Seeing that Wang Quan's works and name were on the list, she couldn't help but be happy for him.

Later, when she saw that Rocket Girls were also there, she was even more delighted. She immediately sent the good news to Cheng Xiao, and then forwarded it to the Rocket Girls group.

This way, they can attend the award ceremony openly as nominees!
~
The 17-year-old Zhao Jinmai envied Zhang Zifeng for being able to attend the Golden Bamboo Awards ceremony as a nominee.

The 18-year-old Zhang Zifeng was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in "Hello, Zhihua".

They are currently filming Mi Shi's new movie "Take My Brother Away 2" and will not take a break until New Year's Eve.

Last year, the first film made a small fortune with a box office of 4 million yuan, making it a dark horse.

So Mi Shi quickly brought in the original crew to start filming the second part. Since they had the original comic as the basis, it would be easy to adapt.

The film was also nominated for the Golden Bamboo Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Zhao Jinmai and Zhang Zifeng have collaborated several times, and each time Zhang Zifeng was the female lead and Zhao Jinmai played the supporting role.

Zhang Zifeng put his arm around Zhao Jinmai's shoulders like a general, "Oh, it's just a nomination for Best Supporting Actress. I envy you. I heard that the sci-fi movie you starred in cost 5 million yuan, it's a big production!"

It is true. Zhao Jinmai starred in a science fiction film called "The Wandering Earth". She was the leading female role and Han Dongjun was the leading male role. They played a pair of siblings.

Maybe the director was afraid that these two young people couldn't carry the box office, so he brought in Teacher Wu Jing to take on another side storyline.

Speaking of this, Zhao Jinmai held his forehead and said, "Originally, we planned to release this film during the Spring Festival, but Director Wang Quan wouldn't let us do it and insisted that we release it in June."

"Does Director Quan think this movie is not good?"

Zhao Jinmai: "That should be it. Director Guo Fan also said that this is a revolutionary film. The most important thing is to make it well. The box office is not a consideration. I always feel that our film will lose money. Science fiction film? Apart from Wu Lei's "Pili Beibei", I don't know of any science fiction films in China."

"So what do you think of the quality of this film?" Zhang Zifeng asked.

“You can’t tell. Most of the time we perform without props against a green screen, just like filming the Avengers.” Zhao Jinmai shrugged.

Zhang Zifeng laughed: "Avengers 3 has a box office of over billion. If it can get this much box office, it will be good enough."

Afterwards, Zhang Zifeng received a call from her agent Sheng Xue, who helped her get a role in a play.

"It's from Mi Shi, a pet-themed film compilation. You're the leading actress, so your role is considered top three."

Zhao Jinmai who was standing next to him also heard it. He had nothing to say except envy. There were so many scenes looking for Zifeng.

~
Behind the scenes of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, the four leading female actors of the annual hit "Story of Yanxi Palace" Zhou Ye, Qin Lan, She Shiman and Tan Zhuo were invited to sing songs. They have passed all the tests and have been confirmed to stay.

Although Zhou Ye’s singing was average, she didn’t mind since it was lip-syncing anyway.

She just felt happy because this job she couldn't refuse meant she didn't have to go home for the New Year and could go find Wang Quan after the Spring Festival Gala.

She was just enjoying herself when she saw that Sister Tan Zhuo next to her looked very disappointed.

Just as she was about to ask what was wrong, Qin Lan waved her hand and whispered to her that the Golden Bamboo Award nomination list was out.

As the leading actress of "Dying to Survive", the most popular film for the first Golden Bamboo Awards, Tan Chao was not nominated for Best Actress.

In fact, everyone recognized her performance very much, but her role had relatively few scenes, and it seemed a bit dim under the halo of Xu Zheng, the male lead.

Another reason is that she has no school or affiliation, is not from one of the three major universities, and her agency is not strong enough, so she was unfortunately eliminated with seventh place in the vote. Sixth place was Yao Dazui from "Finding You".

In fact, her agent advised her that since she had few roles, she might as well go for the award as a supporting actress. With the influence of "Dying to Survive", she would not only be sure to be nominated, but her chances of winning the award would also be higher than other supporting actresses.

For example, Yan Bingyan in "A Man's Zoo" is actually the heroine, but she has few roles, so she downgraded herself to supporting actress and was shortlisted as expected.

But it's no use regretting now. Tan Chao just wants to complete his performance in the Spring Festival Gala well.

They were rehearsing when Lin Zhiling passed by and waved to Zhou Ye.

The two were not very familiar with each other before, but later Wang Quan learned that they, as well as Reba, would participate in this year's Spring Festival Gala, so he gathered them together to get to know each other.

Reba also has a singing program this year, and participating in this year's Spring Festival Gala can be regarded as a promotional strategy for her as the heroine of "The Mermaid 2".

In addition to her, many of the leading actors in this year's Spring Festival also participated in the Spring Festival Gala.

For example, Alan in "The Mermaid 2", Shen Teng, the male lead in "Crazy Alien" and "Speeding Life".

Zhu Yawen from "Evil Does Not Suppress Justice" also formed a singing program with several tough guys including Liu Ye.

Cheng Long from "Detective Pu Songling" will also appear.

Big Brother Long is still very generous. Although "Pu Songling" looked like a flop, he was still very serious in rehearsing.

When Lin Zhiling called her, Zhou Ye thought that Director Quan would have some fun activities tonight, but it turned out that Reba just bought some lamb skewers from "Guliguli" and asked her if she wanted to eat some.

Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, and Wang Quan can't take care of them today.

Not to mention that there are some issues going on at home, and he also has to receive two foreign guests today.

Yui Aragaki and Masami Nagasawa came all the way from Japan to work in Beijing.

Chen Sicheng knows how to increase box office. Not only did he invite Andy Lau to make a surprise cameo appearance in "Detective Chinatown 3", he also invited two of the most popular actresses in Japan.

Among them, Masami Nagasawa is the heroine, and Yui Aragaki plays the mother in her memory, which is the role played by Wen Yongshan in the original version.

A poor mother who grew up in Northeast China because of the war and then returned to her homeland, Neon, but is almost Chinese from head to toe and cannot integrate into Neon.

During the script stage, Wang Quan repeatedly denied Chen Sicheng and forced him to make changes again and again until his hair fell out in clumps.

Although it didn't turn into a great script in the end, it was much more rounded, so that people wouldn't guess that Masami Nagasawa was the murderer as soon as she appeared on the scene.

Chen Sicheng thinks that the attraction of the Chinatown Detective series to the audience lies in comedy rather than reasoning. In fact, the collapse of the original "Chinatown Detective 3" started with the confusing reasoning.

In order to compensate Chen Gou, Wang Quan personally invited these two top Neon actresses he had always dreamed of, but unfortunately he could only look but not touch them.

Chen Gou: If I had eaten this early, I might as well have invited San Shang and Feng Ge! I invited them to be the heroines, and they invited me to be the hero.

At the hotel, Wang Quan hugged Yui, Yamei and the other two and fell on the bed, then told them, "The movie you starred in is now the number one in pre-sale during the Spring Festival, with about 200 million yuan."

The two of them immediately converted it into Japanese yen and then screamed, it was already 30 billion yen before the movie was officially released.

"Incredible China, incredible Spring Festival season!"

Although the screening of "Detective Chinatown 3" is not as good as "Zhu Xian 3", the pre-sale of "Detective Chinatown" is higher. One important reason is that "Detective Chinatown" is a suspense and mystery movie, which is a genre that is most afraid of spoilers.

So even if the audience wants to watch both films, if they can only watch one on the day, most of them would like to watch "Detective Chinatown 3" first to avoid being spoiled.

Yui and Yamei will be in China for at least half a month, but they will travel around the country during this half month, so they cherish every minute and every second with Wang Quan.

As a result, Wang Quan received a phone call and the China-Japan communication turned into China-Japan-South Korea communication.

Poor little Shirley was preparing to celebrate the holiday in China, but she was all alone and didn't know who to turn to, so she called Wang Quan.

Then Wang Quan asked her to come to this room.

Now that he had both Japanese and Korean beauties, Wang Quan glanced at his circle of friends to see who was in Beijing and was relatively obedient.

In the end, he chose Zhang Ruonan. Perhaps to avoid her original family, she stayed in Beijing this year for work.

So after Wang Quan made a phone call, Zhang Ruonan and Shirley arrived at the hotel room one after another, and the war between China, Japan and South Korea was about to break out.

Finally, Wang Quan entrusted Shirley to Zhang Ruonan, so that they could celebrate the New Year together in the capital.

Zhang Ruonan was very happy, otherwise she would be very lonely.

Early the next morning, Wang Quan returned to his home to prepare for the New Year.

I'm afraid Xixi will be very busy this year promoting her movie, but Wang Quan and Yang Mi can relax a little and have a comfortable year.

"Why did you bring so many medical equipment into your house again?" Yang Mi saw several large boxes when she was cleaning the house, and there was a separate box for masks alone.

Wang Quan: "It's winter now. I heard the flu is pretty bad these days. It's better to be prepared. I'm even going to get two ventilators."

Yang Mi said, "It feels like you are playing some doomsday game." Wang Quan: "I hope the doomsday won't come, Xianmi, go hang lanterns with daddy."

Afterwards, my parents came over and started preparing the New Year’s Eve dinner. Everything was ready except Liu Yifei.

In addition to Mei Yanqiu, three other filmmakers, Wang Quan, Yang Mi and Wang Qiankun, were sitting on the sofa watching Maoyan.

Tomorrow will be the most tragic Spring Festival period in history!
Before the war, there is often silence.
In recent years, New Year's Eve has almost always been the day with the lowest box office in the year. Many cinemas have to work on the first day of the new year, or even simply close down and give their employees a day off.

This year, thanks to the release of "White Snake: Origin" and "Deadpool 2", the box office on the 3000th was still nearly million, which is a very good performance.

However, the box office performance of "Deadpool 2" is not as good as "White Snake". It seems that the cuts still have some impact, but the two films combined have also cut billion box office, which is almost the same as "Bumblebee" at the beginning of the month.

However, this "Bumblebee", which is also known as "Transformers 5", only has a budget of billion, and netizens directly said that Hollywood is no longer effective.

In fact, 10 billion is already pretty good. It is the first movie in mainland China to break 2019 billion in 10, and its sales in North America are not as good as those in mainland China.

Today is also the last day of the release of "Xiao Yao You 2" in mainland China. It's less than three months away, and the box office revenue on the last day was 8 yuan.

In fact, there was no box office revenue by the third month, but everyone wanted to see how high the ceiling of the mainland film market was, so the film was kept there, with only a few tenths of the screening time, so it didn't bother others.

In the end, the mainland box office closed at 57.92 billion, unfortunately it was ranked ninth, which was more than 2 million higher than "Wolf Warrior ".

But because the ticket price is also two yuan higher, the number of moviegoers for "Happy Journey 2" is 1.56 million, which is more than three million less than "Wolf Warrior 2".

Wang Quan believes that Wolf Warriors 2 is still the ceiling for mainland moviegoers, and Happy Journey 2 has not explored enough of the elderly audience.

However, "Easy Journey 2" further expanded its overseas market. Although the North American box office decreased by 500 million US dollars due to a few tough opponents, it was generally higher. In the end, the global box office was 15.23 billion US dollars!

Although the first "Easy Journey" has been squeezed out of the top ten in the global box office history, "Easy Journey 2" has rushed up again and suppressed "Avengers".

In the top ten global film history, Wang Quan once again has four films on the list, and his personal cumulative total box office has reached an astonishing 159 billion US dollars.

Even if Spielberg has a small hit like "Ready Player One", it is still less than 10 billion yuan, which is far from catching up.

Cameron, who is in third place, still has a gap of nearly 2 billion to King Power. If Avatar 3, 4, 5, and all perform well, he may be able to overtake it.

Wang Quan also told Mimi a good news, "Inception will be re-screened."

"Huh?" Yang Mi was stunned and asked in surprise, "It's been ten years already?"

“Yes.” Wang Quan had told her before that Inception would be re-released worldwide ten years after its release. Inception fans all over the world have been waiting for this day. This is the treatment that belongs to a classic movie.

For example, the global box office of "Titanic" in its first run was 18.4 billion US dollars, and after continuous re-screenings over the years, it has reached 22 billion US dollars.

There are also films such as "Star Wars", "Jaws", "The Sound of Music", "Gone with the Wind", "Spirited Away" and so on, which are also shown in theaters every few years and have good box office results.

"Then there must be some differences between the re-released version and the old version, right?" asked Lao Wang.

Wang Quan: “We deleted one minute of footage that affected the rhythm, but added three minutes of footage that has never been released. In addition, we redid several special effects using the new technology of recent years, and the effect is better, but there is no major innovation.”

Lao Wang shook his head: "Then I'm afraid you can't beat the box office of the re-release of Titanic."

The big ship re-screening is from 2D to 3D, which is naturally more attractive.

Yang Mi disagrees: "Inception had only 4000 million viewers back then, but now the ceiling is 1.6 million! There are still more than million viewers who have not seen Inception on the big screen, and this movie was born for the big screen. There is a huge difference between watching it on TV and on computers. I think it has great potential."

Lao Wang thought for a moment and asked again, "When will the show be re-released? Will it still be in July?"

July will be the tenth anniversary.

Wang Quan shook his head: "July's schedule is too crowded, so we booked it for March to warm up the venue during the cold period."

Lao Wang patted his thigh and said, "That's no problem. By then, we will use the IMAX and giant screens of Dawang Cinema to show Inception, and try to break the box office record of Dachuan's re-screening!"

As they were talking, Liu Yifei came back from an interview, and Mei Yanqiu called out, "Let's eat!"

After one day, the news of the Golden Bamboo Award shortlist had spread thoroughly on the Internet.

It was also announced that Beijing had won the qualification to host the Golden Bamboo Awards, and the venue would be the Dome Theater in the Dragon Head-raising Theme Park.

The Golden Bamboo Award Committee has invested a lot of media resources in this shortlist, striving to make netizens aware of and discuss it.

Netizens have a very high degree of recognition for the Golden Bamboo Award shortlist, with the exception of "The Last Night on Earth".

firezy06: Look at the nominations for the Golden Bamboo Awards, they look so professional. Medicine God, The Greatest Show, and The Unknown are all the best movies this year, and... damn, why is there such garbage as The Last Night on Earth?
Lucifer's Heart: I understand that there are a thousand judges with different tastes, but no matter how weird your taste is, it is not a reason for you to like "The Last Night on Earth"!
The King of Heaven: I feel that "Earth Night" is just to make up the numbers. If it wins the Golden Bamboo Award, there will be no need to hold the second edition.

Fengbo Wuhen: Except for a bad apple in the Best Picture nomination list, everything else is perfect! Much more reliable than the Golden Rooster and Golden Horse Awards.

In addition to "The Last Night on Earth", there are other films that have made netizens dissatisfied.

liyr: I can tolerate the nomination of "Happy Journey 2", after all, it has a profound understanding of oriental aesthetics. But it's a bit ridiculous that a gun battle movie like "Operation Red Sea" with all the bangs all the way can be nominated for Best Picture, right?

Time and Space Planning Bureau: Although I also enjoyed watching "Operation Red Sea", it is enough for this film to be nominated for a few technical awards. The best film award should still encourage those films that are thoughtful.

Shiliting: You think "Operation Red Sea" is not worthy of the Golden Bamboo Awards, but you might as well take a look at the Oscars next door. "Black Panther" was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, so how is our "Operation Red Sea" lacking?
Two days before the Golden Bamboo Awards, the Oscar nominations list was announced, and "Black Panther" became the first superhero movie to be nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture.

This move caused an uproar in the American film industry, and people felt that the Oscars were bowing to political correctness.

You have to know that Nolan’s Batman trilogy and Zack Snyder’s "Watchmen" have never been nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture, so how could the little Black Panther deserve it!

Wang Quan thought, what’s the point of bowing your head now, there will be plenty of times to kneel and kowtow in the future.

Amidst the voices of support and controversy, the Golden Bamboo Award has become famous all over the world and has captured the hearts of many people before it was awarded. People from all walks of life have also begun to gear up for the upcoming final voting.

The Spring Festival Gala is as ugly as ever. Wang Quan’s greatest pleasure is to watch his woman wearing festive red clothes on the Spring Festival Gala.

At the same time, he was also thinking about how to get Assistant Ma on the Spring Festival Gala stage next year.

But now he is giving out red envelopes while watching the Spring Festival Gala.

Someone sent him a New Year's greeting message, but he was too lazy to reply, so he just sent a red envelope directly.

Chaoyue, Dudu, Chengxiao, Sun Yining and others all have it.

Even Chen Lijun and Li Yunxiao, who were celebrating the New Year in their hometown in Zhejiang Province, received a big red envelope from Wang Quan, as well as his concern.

Wang Quan asked them how they were doing in their hometown, what delicious food they had eaten, and when they would return to the troupe.

"Will you come back then?" Chen Lijun asked while lying in her bed.

Wang Quan: "I still have to work on the post-production of "Escape 3", so I won't be going back for the time being, but the leading actors of the film will go over to train with you."

"Who is the leading actor?" Li Yunxiao asked.

Wang Quan: "It's shameful to spoil the plot. We'll know when the time comes."

Wang Quan then called Liu Yifei to his office and handed her the completed new script.

"Lily?" Liu Yifei blushed. "Is the name of the script so straightforward?"

Isn’t yuri just lesbian, lesbian, and lesbian?
Wang Quan tapped Concubine Liu on the head with the female folding fan given by Li Yunxiao. "What are you thinking about? The name is Lily because the troupe the protagonists belong to is called Lily Troupe. And this is just a temporary name. We may have to change it in the future."

"Oh, so, then do Ni Ni and I have any scenes of being a lesbian?"

"Of course there are, but I will definitely bypass the red line of the review department. Just wait and see. After the holiday, you and Ni Ni will go to the Xiao Baihua Troupe to study and practice for at least half a year."

Liu Yifei was eager to try: "No problem, I'll read the script tonight, you and Mimi can play."

Wang Quan snatched the script away and said, "That won't do. On New Year's Eve, our family of three must be together. You can read the script on the way tomorrow."

On the night of New Year’s Eve, many filmmakers couldn’t sleep.

After meticulous calculations by all cinemas, a total of 55 screenings were scheduled across the country on the first day of the Lunar New Year, a full 18 more than in !

Many cinemas compress the time between two shows to just five minutes, not even enough time for commercials and end credits.

After all, every additional show will bring in a few thousand yuan in revenue, which is equivalent to an employee’s monthly salary.

Among them, "Zhu Xian 3" still ranks first with a screening share of 18.5%, followed by "Detective Chinatown 3" with 17.8%.

"Crazy Alien" was considered the third seed and received 13.3% of the screenings.

After that, "The Mermaid 2" took 11.7%, "Hidden Man" took 11.2%, and "Speeding Life" took 10.6%. These films are the backbone of the industry and many fans like them. But they are not satisfied because there are too few screenings and they are not enough.

"Detective Pu Songling" ranked 6.1%. Netizens felt that it was too much and a waste.

"Boonie Bears: Wild" fared the worst, with only 3.9% of the screenings, just a little more than "Peppa Pig Celebrates Chinese New Year" and "Integrity", but its pre-sales left them far behind.

Although the film has not officially opened yet, the total pre-sale amount on the first day of the Lunar New Year has reached a staggering 8.5 million!
Many viewers choose to buy tickets in advance to avoid missing out on good seats.

All ten movies were released as scheduled, and none of them were withdrawn, but it is too late to withdraw them now.

~
On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, before dawn, Liu Yifei rubbed her sore waist and prepared to get up to participate in the busy publicity work.

The pre-sale of "Detective Chinatown 3" is ahead of "Zhu Xian 3". Xu Ke is very anxious and can only count on the strong box office appeal of "Zhu Xian ".

As a result, Yang Mi's family had lost their elderly parents, and he was in deep mourning and unable to promote the campaign. This meant that the appeal of the Xian Mi combination was cut in half, so of course he was anxious.

After two Spring Festival periods, "Zhu Xian" suppressed two popular works, "The Mermaid" and "Operation Red Sea", and both were the champions of the Spring Festival period that year. Xu Ke hopes that this fine tradition can be maintained.

~
Little Xianmi got up a little later than her mother, and then she disappeared.

However, Mother Xian left a red envelope for herself, and asked Sister Mi to deposit the money into her personal account.

After calculating the time in Los Angeles, it was daytime, so she called her sister Alice and wished a happy new year to Gadot's mother.

Gadot's mother immediately transferred a red envelope to her account in US dollars, so she could have foreign exchange reserves in the future.

Then there are Sister Xiao K and Sister Taozi.

At this time, Dad and Sister Mi also woke up, and little Xianmi jumped directly onto their bed and started kowtow.

Wang Quan and Yang Mi, who were preparing for morning exercises, were immediately scared away and had to send the girl away with the red envelopes they had prepared in advance.

Then Yang Mi asked: "Are you still doing it?"

"It's already eight o'clock, what are you still doing?" Wang Quan lifted the quilt and got up to prepare breakfast.

Because they had just attended a funeral, Yang Mi didn't need to visit her parents to wish them a happy new year. They just went to visit Lao Wang and had nothing else to do today, so they even left their daughter at their place.

The couple looked at each other for a long time at home, and then Wang Quan's cell phone rang. Someone wanted to make an appointment.

Wang Quan looked at Mimi, and Mimi snorted, "Go ahead."

Zhou Ye, Zhiling and others had just finished working on the Spring Festival Gala last night, and Reba had already started promoting it, but the two of them had nothing to do, so they invited Wang Quan to be their guest.

Zhou Ye said: Our boss is here too~
Wang Quan said to Mimi helplessly: "We are short of one person, and I can't refuse your kindness."

It was inconvenient for Yang Mi to go out, so she had to watch movies at home. She could watch any new movie she wanted during the Spring Festival.

But I found it so boring, so I opened WeChat and started calling my friends.

~
At Sister Zhiling's house, Pang Bing and Zhou Ye had been waiting for a long time. The mahjong table was already set up, and they were just waiting for Wang Quan.

Wang Quan deliberately wore a few more clothes when he went out. After all, in strip mahjong, having more clothes is an advantage.

But I didn’t expect Pang Bing to be so dishonest, wearing layer after layer of stockings.

Since she cheated, Wang Quan deliberately punished her by giving the money to Zhiling and Yezi, but not to her.

She's so greedy!
After saving some energy with Pang Bing, Wang Quan started his tour.

Shishi resisted the temptation of Yang Mi's invitation and finally waited for Wang Quan's appointment.

Sister Zilin also withdrew from the family gathering and took some time off from Wang Quan.

Of course, Nazha was also present. Wang Quan had dinner at her place and also watched a movie with her before going home.

Nazha had already bought seats for couples in advance. The hall was very small and could accommodate about 10 couples and a group of three. The average ticket price was over 100 yuan.

The small theater was packed with people. There was even a pair of gay brothers sitting together. I didn’t know if they couldn’t buy other tickets or if they were really a couple.

The movie Nazha chose was "The Mermaid 2" because she just wanted to watch a light comedy.

Wang Quan took some time to take a look at the box office for the day, which had exceeded 17 billion. The average box office of "Zhu Xian 3" and "Detective Chinatown 3" had exceeded per show, and there was still room for growth.

但《诛仙3》目前票房还没破4亿，《唐探3》也就刚破4亿，表现不如去年头部的《捉妖记2》和《诛仙2》。

There are still too few films~
"The Mermaid 2" is a very new movie for Wang Quan. It is his first time watching it and he has not seen other versions. In the original time and space, this movie was not released until 2025.

It is said that because the filming was too poor and the commercial prospects were not optimistic, in order to minimize the losses, no post-production was done.

Warner Bros. in Hollywood also did a similar thing with "Batgirl", which was destroyed right after filming to save some losses.

For this reason, Wang Quan was very cautious about "The Mermaid 2" and lowered his expectations very low, but he was still disappointed.

“This is too ugly!”

Reba still plays the mermaid in the first film, and Allen plays her son. Due to the special physique of the mermaid, Reba ages slowly, so the son looks older than his mother, and many jokes are based on this point.

As for the character played by Deng Chao, he has passed away due to illness. Before his death, genetic technology was used to give him and Reba the child of their love, and Deng Chao also kindly played the role of this dead ghost.

The character of Allen can be said to be very similar to his father. His every move and gesture imitates the pretentious style of Deng Chao in the previous film, while also integrating the foolish attributes of his own characteristics.

He is good at playing supporting roles, but he is not good enough to take on the leading role. The film "The Shameful Iron Fist" also failed because of Ma Li's support.

But Reba's comedy skills are not on the same level as Ma Li's, so the two young people are a little lacking in Zhou's nonsensical comedy.

Shen Teng did not fit in well into Zhou's comedy atmosphere. His comedy style is unique, and forced integration would only result in disconnection and embarrassment.

In addition, the story rhythm is not good and the production seems to be rushed, which makes people feel uneasy in the end.

Even if Wang Quan is more tolerant of comedy, he would only give it six points.

To be honest, this movie is much better than "The New King of Comedy", and the mother-son plot of the old man and stepmother also created several laughs.

But there is still some distance from the first "The Mermaid", not to mention the peak works such as "Kung Fu".

With the release of this film, the so-called Stephen Chow may be demystified. If he cannot make any changes in his next film, he can only wait to be abandoned by the market.

It can also be seen from the real-time square on Weibo that, apart from the supporting roles that account for less than 10% of the screenings, the film with the most negative reviews is "The Mermaid 2".

In the crowded Spring Festival period, once your reputation fails, your competitors will attack you in droves. They will not give you a chance to breathe, but will only take the opportunity to divide your market share.

At this time, Lianrui Pictures, which had a guaranteed minimum of 28 billion to distribute "The Mermaid 2", was trembling.

According to the minimum guarantee contract, they have to give nearly 2 million to the producer of "The Mermaid 9".

But judging from the word of mouth, it is still a question whether the final box office can reach 9 million.

I'm afraid this wave will result in a loss of several hundred million!

Also trembling with fear is Wang Baoqiang, the boss of Lekaihua Pictures.

In addition to "The Mermaid 2" which received a lot of negative reviews, other films with relatively high negative reviews include "Crazy Alien" and "Detective Chinatown 3".

Le Kaihua also invested in "Detective Chinatown 3", but it is only a small shareholder, and the word of mouth did not affect the box office. It still led the Spring Festival period, and the pre-sale on the second day of the New Year was also the first. The number of screenings also increased, so this investment should not be a loss.

But Crazy Alien is different.

At the time, seeing the golden lineup of Ning Hao + Shen Teng + Huang Bo + Xu Zheng, Bao Qiang felt that this movie could break 30 billion with his eyes closed, so he guaranteed 28 billion to obtain the distribution rights of the film, and then cooperated with Light Media to distribute it.

As a result, it lost to "Zhu Xian 3" and "Detective Chinatown 3" when competing for screening schedules. Now that it has been released, its reputation is not as good as "Zhu Xian 3" and "Flying Life". It seems that there is no hope of making a comeback relying on word of mouth.

Although it is not as bad as "The Mermaid 2", it is probably difficult to reach the target of 28 billion.

It turns out that people cannot earn money beyond their cognition. The capital game is so terrible!

Now Baoqiang is eager to stop promoting "Detective Chinatown 3" and go to promote "Crazy Alien".

Not only Chen Gou Haoran, but even the two Sakura girls could see his anxiety.

The two thought that their movie had a bad reputation.

Later I asked Wang Quan’s former assistant, Zhang Tianai, who is a Japanese influencer, and she said: It’s not that great, but it’s not particularly bad either. It’s just normal that the second part is not as good as the first, and the third part is not as good as the second.

After all, it is a script certified by the royal power, so it can't be that bad.

"Oh, and netizens thought Yui-chan's performance was outstanding, especially those few Chinese sentences. Everyone praised you for speaking them very authentically," Zhang Tianai added.

Nagasawa Masami asked hurriedly: "What about me, what about me?"

Zhang Tianai: "You speak Japanese very well, awesome!"

Nagasawa Masami: “…”

~
It was already past nine o'clock when Wang Quan and Nazha came out of the cinema. She glanced at the ratings on Maoyan.

"Oh, I should have watched "Zhu Xian 3" earlier." This movie ranked first on Maoyan's ratings. As for "The Mermaid 2", it is not at the bottom either. There are also "Detective Pu Songling", "Peppa Pig Celebrates the New Year" and "Integrity" behind it.

These three movies have nothing to offer. Even though money was spent to secure screenings, the screenings and pre-sales on the second day of the Lunar New Year kept decreasing.

Wang Quan said: "It doesn't matter what you watch, who you watch it with is the most important. Okay, go home and go to bed early."

The two had already had sex before going out, but Nazha was still reluctant to leave, so she drove Wang Quan back to Yang Mi, and had sex with him again in the underground garage of Yang Mi's house, and then drove away in her sports car.

This move is quite provocative, but Nazha is actually mainly seeking excitement.

After Nazha's car left, Wang Quan walked to a car that was not his own and knocked on the window.

"Did you enjoy what you just saw..."

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