They are all too deep into the drama!

Chapter 630 Netizens help count income
Huo Mingjie, who played a cameo role, was supposed to set off for Little Britain to film "Time Traveler" according to the original plan.

But an unexpected incident stopped Huo Mingjie again.

Huo Mingjie won this year's Hundred Flowers Awards for Popular Films!
The movie "The Beauty Inside" won great awards at the Hundred Flowers Awards this time.

A "Best Actor" award, and Yan Xinchen also won a "Best Actress" award.

In addition, Huo Mingjie was also nominated for "Best Director" and "Outstanding Feature Film".

It is quite rare for a film to receive four important nominations and finally win two very important awards. Most film awards will avoid such a situation for various reasons.

In addition, Huo Mingjie did not have many scenes in this movie, so he should not have won the "Best Actor" award.

There is actually a reason why this situation occurs!

The Golden Rooster Awards and Hundred Flowers Awards used to be held together as the “Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Awards”, but since the two parties separated, they have been held every other year.

Then an embarrassing situation occurred!
Because the award's selection scope is limited to domestic films produced in the last two years, the Hundred Flowers Award's nomination list is somewhat "outdated."

The films participating in the Hundred Flowers Awards this year are basically “old acquaintances”!
"The Message", "Painted Skin", "If You Are the One", "Iron Man"... These movies have won many awards at major film festivals.

The appearance of the movie "The Beauty Inside" on the list is eye-catching.

In addition, there is another more important reason!

The selection mechanism of the "Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award" adopts online voting and jury voting.

In the 10 years before the arrival of the fresh-faced traffic era, Huo Mingjie could be called the "pioneer of traffic".

Establish an online voting and selection mechanism?
Asshole, don't underestimate the bond between their fans and their idols!
As for the judges' voting?

Just ask the two Wang brothers who have treated the Hundred Flowers Awards as Huayi’s own annual party, and ask them if they dare not give this award to Huo Mingjie!

In short, relying on the voting mechanism, the movie "The Beauty Inside" directly won the two awards of "Best Actor" and "Best Actress".

Relying on the leading actor who appeared in less than one-third of the film, Huo Mingjie overwhelmed Chen Kun's "Painted Skin"...

But no one can say that Huo Mingjie's victory was unfair or that it was watered down, because the Hundred Flowers Awards have the word "popular" in front of them, and they rely on this selection mechanism.

It is so popular and loved by the public, no one can complain about winning this award!
Before this, Huo Mingjie only had the title of "Huabiao Award Winner". But this time, he also had the title of "Baihua Award Winner"...

Huo Mingjie, who originally had no intention of winning the award due to his role issue, now received a notice from the organizer in advance.

Now that he has won the award, Huo Mingjie can't help but go to the scene to receive the award. After all, it is also organized by the government...

So the trip to go abroad to film was postponed for another two days!

The award ceremony hadn't even ended yet, but the internet was already flooded with reports about Huo Mingjie being "crowned the Hundred Flowers Award winner."

To be honest, because of Huayi's mess in previous years, the credibility and value of the Hundred Flowers Awards are no longer very strong, otherwise they would not have come up with an online voting mechanism this year in order to restore its reputation.

But fans always highly recognize the achievements of their idols.

Just based on Huo Mingjie's appeal to fans, even if he won some random fake award like the "Iron Monkey Award", there would still be fans who would brag about it to the sky!
Not to mention that the Hundred Flowers Awards still have their reputation, so they don’t have to brag about it with their eyes open…

There is a lot of praise on the Internet, and discussions about Huo Mingjie can be seen everywhere.

Seeing that the game was so popular, the game company also wanted to take advantage of the popularity and speed up the work. They directly announced the news that Huo Mingjie would become the game spokesperson and released promotional posters and videos.

As we all know, due to the different dimensions, sometimes even celebrities with outstanding looks may not be able to handle cosplay of certain game characters.

But fortunately, Huo Mingjie doesn't have such worries!

In the poster, Huo Mingjie, wearing a gorgeous golden and white costume, sits with a sword in his arms and looks up at the flowers. The plum blossom on his forehead makes his face look even more handsome, which makes people feel extremely amazed.

Huo Mingjie's new look was obviously very popular with the public, and the poster immediately went viral on the Internet. I don't know how many people changed their profile pictures, space backgrounds, and Weibo visitor interfaces to this poster.

In addition, the number of clicks on the promotional video exceeded 30 million in a short period of time and was heading towards 100 million.

Speaking of which, after seeing the game poster endorsed by Huo Mingjie, many people had guessed that Huo Mingjie in the game promotional video would show off his superb swordsmanship again.

The "Sword God Xu Xian" meme that was created under Huo Mingjie's intentional guidance has become a bit boring to the public and no longer feels fresh!
When many people clicked on the promotional video, they just wanted to continue to admire Huo Mingjie's handsome face, nothing else.

However, netizens were amazed when they saw Huo Mingjie performing sword skills in the promotional video, which was either light and nimble or steady and heavy, and his movements were smooth and easy.

However, if that were the case, this short two-minute game trailer would not be as popular as it is now.

In the promotional video, Huo Mingjie spins and the sword in his hand escapes.

Then the scene where the long sword flew around his body and fell into Huo Mingjie's hands again immediately caused exclamations and debates among netizens.

Just like Zhao Zhuowen kicking the sword, some people think it is real, while others believe it is impossible!
"Oh my god, is this true?"

“It’s just a special effect!”

“I analyzed it frame by frame, and it didn’t feel like a special effect.”

"That's hanging by a wire!"

"I have a friend who was on the set and saw it with his own eyes. I guarantee there were no special effects, and no auxiliary shooting methods such as hanging wires were used. It was completely done by Huo Mingjie himself!"

"Oh, yes, yes, I am that friend..."

"How is that possible? Is this reasonable?"

"How is it impossible? You just need to throw the sword out while spinning, let the sword spin around your body with inertia, and then reach out and grab it..."

"Well, it sounds like it might be possible... Bullshit! I've tried it, it's impossible!"

"If you are not good at it, practice more!"...

Netizens are always willing to argue with each other to the death over such unimportant little things, and they must convince each other.

But soon, the netizens' debate died down as their attention was drawn to another matter!

While releasing promotional videos and posters, the game company also bought a lot of hot searches to hype the news that Huo Mingjie became the game spokesperson.

The news released even revealed that Huo Mingjie was endorsing the game this time, and the endorsement fee was as high as 20 million!
To be honest, in the past 10 years, endorsement fees have rarely been so exaggerated.

Last year, Li Qiaoqiao, who ranked 15th on the Forbes celebrity income list, earned exactly 23 million.

In other words, Huo Mingjie's game endorsement is enough to keep a star of Li Qiaoqiao's level busy for a whole year!

Of course, this ranking is actually not accurate, because it can only count the obvious income, such as film pay and endorsements.

It was calculated that Huo Mingjie's income last year was 16 million. Because he did not have many endorsements, he was only ranked 19th ahead of Huang Xiaoming.

But if Huo Mingjie's "sideline" investment is included, the income is obviously much more than that...

The general public of netizens were not very clear about the twists and turns here, so they shifted their attention and began to discuss Huo Mingjie's wealth in a serious manner.

Netizens are naturally not clear about Huo Mingjie's "side business" investments.

But even if we only count the apparent film pay and endorsements, Huo Mingjie's income this year is still exaggerated!
Everyone knows that Huo Mingjie exchanged his salary for a 15% profit share in the movie "Little Big Soldier" that he collaborated with Cheng Long at the beginning of the year.

Originally, because it was not a typical Jackie Chan style movie, even Jackie Chan himself did not have high expectations for this movie, and it could only be regarded as an attempt at transformation.

But Huo Mingjie and his team had strong box office appeal, and the distributor was also very supportive. In the end, despite the pressure of "Avatar", the movie still grossed over 200 million yuan at the box office.

Then there is overseas, the copyright has been sold to eight countries, which roughly translates to more than 20 million.

As the film's investor, Cheng Long will receive more than 90 million in profits.

Excluding the 20 million yuan in film costs and tax debts, Huo Mingjie finally received about 10 million yuan in film remuneration and dividends.

Then there was the previous China-Brazil co-production movie "The Thieves", in which Huo Mingjie's salary was an exaggerated 40 million RMB.

Adding in the game endorsement fees and miscellaneous film remuneration, Huo Mingjie's apparent income this year is already 80 million!
Besides these, the public also knows that Huo Mingjie is the big boss of Green Shade Media and holds a considerable portion of Weibo shares...

Perhaps because this is still an era of rapid development and opportunities abound, there is not much resentment among the public on the Internet. On the contrary, people are particularly admiring of rich people who can make money.

Nowadays, some celebrities even try to falsify their income in order to attract attention, and then show their faces on some celebrity income ranking list...

Therefore, after calculating Huo Mingjie's income this year, it did not arouse much hatred towards the rich.

On the contrary, on the Internet, some early Internet celebrity clowns, led by "Feng Jie", regarded it as their mate selection criteria.

“If I can’t marry someone like Huo Mingjie, then my appearance, figure, social etiquette, beautiful morals, beautiful character, and even my soul will be destroyed!”

Similar remarks were rampant among all kinds of unidentified groups, making people's eyelids twitch and forcing Huo Mingjie's fanatical fans to go berserk...

However, there are voices of opposition.

It’s just that this angle of opposition is a bit unconventional, but it is very consistent with today’s mainstream public opinion!
Those who oppose him do not attack Huo Mingjie himself, but instead start from this game endorsement and begin to attack the harm of games to teenagers.

Nowadays, when talking about games, the mainstream public opinion controlled by the older generation is all criticizing them for harming the country's youth.

"Games themselves are not good things. They are useless to the country and the people, and should be banned completely! Some individual celebrities use their influence to become spokespersons in order to make money. This is very harmful to society..."

Looking at the "education expert" on the screen who was speaking with great righteousness and eloquence, Huo Mingjie raised his eyebrows.

Huo Mingjie remembered clearly that this expert had once been sarcastic to him, saying that he had murdered the flowers of the motherland by making young people addicted to chasing stars...

Xiang Zixin, who was standing by, saw this and immediately said with a smile:
"Boss, this so-called education expert is just trying to get attention. Let's ignore him!"

Huo Mingjie raised his eyebrows, then looked up at Xiang Zixin in front of him and asked:
"I asked you to buy a gaming company before. Is there a suitable one?"

Xiang Zixin corrected the news:

"In fact, according to your request, what we need is a game engine development company, not just a game company!"

"Yes, it's a game engine company. Are there any suitable acquisition targets?"

"Boss, I've looked into the relevant domestic industries. Domestic game engines are still in their infancy. I think based on our existing technology, instead of acquiring one, we might as well just create a new company!" Xiang Zixin continued.

Nowadays, in the relevant industries in China, those who can engage in game engine research and development are basically large game companies.

As Xiang Zixin said, instead of acquiring it, it is better to directly establish a new company!

Moreover, Huo Mingjie now has a top-notch game engine from 2030 in the script plane, so he doesn't even need to recruit the most important developers for the time being...

After hearing what Xiang Zixin said, Huo Mingjie nodded immediately and said:

"Then do it this way!"

"You need to work hard for a while and keep an eye on this new company. Then organize a game production competition with great fanfare. All participating teams must use our game engine to develop games."

A top-notch game engine that is at least a dozen years ahead of current technology. As long as there is a stage to fully showcase itself, there will be no shortage of people using it!
Having said this, Huo Mingjie suddenly paused, and then continued:
"We'll set up a prize of 10 million, and the winner will take it directly. And we'll directly invest in any game company or team that shows considerable potential!"

In fact, it is not a loss, because the more people use the game engine and the more games are produced, the more commission it will extract from the game revenue!
In the following years, the game market developed rapidly. With such an advanced game engine in hand, Huo Mingjie was bound to get a piece of the pie!
Didn’t they say that those games are useless and should be banned altogether?

This real 10 million prize money is right here, anyone with the ability can just take it away!

The game market will be so big in the future, will there be a total ban?

cut!
(End of this chapter)