How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 719 The most untimely film of the 88th Oscars

"Mermaid" was a hit at the box office during the Spring Festival, but Zhang Nan didn't even pay much attention to it.

Because after the Chinese New Year, Zhang Nan directly joined the crew of "Jurassic World 3", which was filmed in a closed filming location at Longbow Studios.

The crews of the first two films [Jurassic World 3] basically shot scenes all over the world, but this time they shot entirely at Longbow Studios.

Without it.

Watching Disney Pictures build a magical Disneyland park in mainland China and occupying a large area of ​​land, it is a huge profit in any case.

This made Universal Pictures covetous and wanted to imitate the land in mainland China and build a Universal theme park.

Of course.

Universal Pictures also knows that its idea will be difficult to implement in the mainland.

After all, unlike Disney, which has been designing parks for decades, they have not had much experience with the park business.

"Actually, it's not that I'm unwilling to agree, but I feel that if Universal Pictures does this, the prospects are not good." Zhang Nan said truthfully to Spielberg.

it's fine.

"Zhang, what are you thinking? If it were me, I would have agreed to this condition a long time ago." Spielberg looked at Zhang Nan with envy and asked during a break in filming.

Because of the Universal Theme Park project, Zhang Nan vaguely heard about it in his previous life, but there was no news after that. It can be seen that this project will probably end up with nothing but chicken feathers.

"So my idea is to first drag Universal Pictures, and then talk to 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Sony Columbia, Warner, and MGM to see if we can all come together to come up with some IP and make a A theme park with great prospects will come out," Zhang Nan continued following Spielberg's words.

Spielberg shook his head: "I'm just curious."

After hearing what Zhang Nan said, Spielberg nodded in agreement and said: "That's true. In terms of the number of IPs, there are really not many that can be easily turned into theme parks by Universal Pictures, compared to Disney." It’s much worse in the film industry.”

Spielberg: "..."

The second is Zhang Nan's Longgong Film and Television City. Although it has the name of a film and television city, it is actually similar to those theme parks.

Spielberg was stunned when he heard this. He said speechlessly for a while: "Zhang, it has to be you! The idea is so unique."

The capitalist's mind was very lively, and he immediately took aim at Zhang Nan.

What the hell can I say?
……

When Zhang Nan heard this, he shrugged and said, "What? Universal sent you as a lobbyist?"

Zhang Nan waved his hand sheepishly, then changed the subject and said: "So, I have to go to Hollywood at the end of the month to chat with other Hollywood giants. Let's hurry up and shoot in the past few days. Then you can give me a leave. "

"It's not for nothing, isn't this year's Oscars scheduled to be held at the end of February? DiCaprio has urged me several times to come over and help him support the scene." Zhang Nan planned Spielberg's words. , giving appropriate reasons.

Firstly, Zhang Nan's influence in the mainland is needless to say.

And in terms of asking price, Universal Pictures is also quite generous and is willing to negotiate with Zhang Nan for shares in the theme park.

Spielberg paused and said: "Zhang, this is not good, for no reason..."

"Where."

But Zhang Nan didn't express his position for a long time.

2 month 21 day.

The Spring Festival release of the Mainland movie market has been completely destroyed by "Mermaid".

Because in the fourteen days since its release on February 2, the single-day box office of "Mermaid" has not been less than 9 million yuan. After two weeks, the cumulative box office of "Mermaid" has reached 27.36 billion yuan, directly surpassing "Macau Storm 3" and "Journey to the West: The Monkey King: The Three Bone Demons" released in the same period by more than one figure, because these two The film's box office revenue was barely even a fraction of that of "Mermaid".

At this time, no one has any doubts about whether the box office of "Mermaid" can exceed 3 billion yuan.

Because according to the current momentum of "Mermaid", let alone the box office of 3 billion yuan, it is estimated that the box office of 3.2 billion yuan will not be able to beat it.

But Zhang Nan also came to Hollywood at this time.

Without it.

"The Revenant" is still being released in North America. The current cumulative box office in North America is almost 100 million US dollars. It has not yet been released on a large scale in other parts of the world.

If Leonardo DiCaprio can win an Oscar with "The Revenant", then just the popularity of Leonardo DiCaprio, who will realize his dream of winning an Oscar, will make "The Revenant" directly reach more than 500 million people around the world like it did in the original time and space. dollar level.

The global box office of more than 500 million US dollars, if converted into RMB, the amount must be about 3 billion RMB, no less than "Mermaid", and it is all foreign exchange.

……

2 month 2 day.

Dolby Cinema.

The 88th Oscars were held.

Zhang Nan walked quickly through the red carpet as usual. Sitting in his seat, he heard Xiao Lizi next to him say a little nervously: "Zhang, do you think I am confident this time?"

"Don't worry, it's steady. If you fail, the worst I can do is win the Best Supporting Actor award and fight with you again." Zhang Nan said calmly and with a bit of joking.

After hearing the first five words and a comma from Zhang Nan, Xiao Lizi breathed a sigh of relief, but after listening to the entire paragraph of Zhang Nan's words, Xiao Lizi felt bad all over and stared at Zhang Nan with eyes full of resentment. South.

Upon seeing this, Zhang Nan could only analyze it to Xiao Lizi: "It's definitely you. I can tell from this nomination for Best Actor."

Zhang Nan's words are really not nonsense.

There are five nominations for Best Actor at the 88th Academy Awards, namely:

Bryan Cranston "Trumbo", Matt Damon "The Martian", Leonardo DiCaprio "The Revenant", Michael Fassbender "Jobs", Eddie -Redmayne, "The Danish Girl."

First, exclude Eddie Redmayne from [The Danish Girl].

After all, this is a legendary story about a male protagonist who turns into a girl with the encouragement of his wife.

Yes.

You heard it right, the wife has personally changed her husband's strengths into weaknesses.

And this is a true adaptation of a true story.

It can only be said that the crazy Rainbow Sect in North America in the future has actually already manifested itself now.

Unfortunately, this film feels a bit ill-timed.

Zhang Nan can be sure that if this film were released five years later, he would definitely be the one to win the Oscar for Best Actor.

Maybe it could even create a wave of miracles like the Oscars.

The Best Actor category also won the Best Actress category, truly realizing a wave of what it means to be an adult - having both hands, and having both hands hard, I want the attitude.

But the current North American environment is not as intense as it was later, so it is already the limit for this film to be nominated.

(End of this chapter)