It's reasonable for me, a stuntman, to live a crazy life, right?

Chapter 1122: One Thought to Hell, 10 nominations!
In order to increase traffic and popularity, Alibaba Pictures invested a large amount of money to promote and build momentum for the project on the day the project of "My Motherland and Me" was launched.

In just a few hours, the headlines of major online entertainment news websites were flooded with news about this project.

“My Motherland and I aims to show, through the unique charm of film art, the unremitting efforts made by the Communist Party of China to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, as well as the mission spirit of all Chinese people to strive for the realization of the “Chinese Dream”.”

"In order to make this film well, Alibaba Pictures invited seven famous domestic directors to participate in the creation. They will each select major events or key nodes in the history of New China, and use different narrative styles and unique perspectives to create seven independent but interrelated story units."

"At present, a professional team has been formed for the film, with top domestic director Chen Kaige in charge of coordinating the work. They will conduct in-depth research on historical materials and interview relevant figures, striving to create a script that is authentic, touching, and full of the flavor of the times while respecting historical facts.

At the same time, the film's casting is also in full swing. The production team will uphold the attitude of excellence and select the most suitable actors for the roles to ensure the artistic quality of the film..."

In his busy schedule, Chen Fei also took time to learn about this new project of Alibaba Pictures.

He was not surprised that Fan Luyuan chose the "main melody" route.

You know, last year's "Wolf Warrior 2" earned nearly 60 billion yuan at the box office.

Let me ask you, which film and television company in the industry would not be jealous after seeing this achievement?
As an Internet + film and television company, Alibaba Pictures will naturally pursue themes with high traffic, which is also common sense.

In Chen Fei's memory, the box office of this movie seemed to be quite high.

That’s right, he vaguely remembered that many people said that this movie was very “tiring” after watching it!
Several stories appear together, which means that the narrative rhythm will definitely be very mixed, and then there is also a lot of information consisting of rich historical details and character clues that comes all at once...

"It would be strange if I wasn't tired!"

Fade Chen shook his head and muttered to himself.

Anyway, he has no interest in doing this kind of compilation project, which sounds very troublesome.

At the same time, in addition to the news about the project "My Motherland and Me", Chen Fei also saw a lot of film and television and entertainment information ranked second and third on the hot search list.

For example, the filming of "The Richest Man in Xihong City" officially started, "A Good Show" was announced to be released on August 8, "Black Panther" was scheduled to be released in China on March 10, and Xiao Shenyang's self-directed and self-acted work "The Fierce Insect Crossing the River" was completed...

"what?"

Suddenly, Fade Chen raised his eyebrows and fixed his eyes on a hot search news item at the bottom.

Zhang Ziyi and Fan Bingbing, the "mortal enemies", are at odds again!
After the variety show "The Birth of the Actors" ended, Zhang Ziyi, as a judge, has been controversial, and netizens have always been skeptical about the "fairness" she mentioned.

Now the movie "Never Gone" starring her and Huang Xiaoming is released. She showed a very good acting level as "Wang Minjia" in the film, which undoubtedly made her who was originally "low blood" recover a lot.

It’s a pity that the competition in the entertainment industry is very cruel!

Seeing that Zhang Ziyi was showing signs of emerging in the film industry again, Fan Bingbing couldn't sit still anymore. After all, the two of them were "competitors."

Therefore, the latter acted decisively, bought a lot of press releases, and started to "torture" the former.

Naturally, Zhang Ziyi would not sit there and wait to be beaten. Seeing that her "mortal enemy" had come to attack her, she immediately launched a counterattack.

The two of them fought back and forth, which directly led to the TV series "Win the World" starring Fan Bayi suffering an unexpected disaster!

Zhang Ziyi didn't know where she found two Qin Dynasty history enthusiasts, and they directly reported "Win the World", accusing the show of distorting history and making up stories, including using Japanese kimonos instead of pre-Qin Chinese costumes, putting a photo of a Japanese castle tower in the background of the poster instead of the Qin architectural complex, and giving the crown symbolizing power to the heroine in the poster, among other issues.

When the 7000-word report letter was released, it directly destroyed the game "Win the World".

Even though the production company took immediate action and changed the title of the drama to "The Legend of Ba Qing" with the female lead as the selling point, it still couldn't escape the fate of being withdrawn from the broadcast.

So, Fan Bingbing and Zhang Ziyi, who had never gotten along with each other before, could be described as "enemies meeting and becoming extremely jealous of each other" this time!

Looking around, the two sides were fighting with bayonets, and the battle was already bloody, with a fight to the death.

It is still unclear how the subsequent developments will be, but from what is known now, the "battle situation" is extremely tragic.

However, what’s interesting is that when the two top stars started fighting, they actually injured Li and Ma.

PG Wang wrote a song called "Christmas Eve". As soon as it was released, two women related to him, one was automatically substituted into "cos" and the other was automatically substituted into "Christmas reindeer".

Then, because Ma also played Fan Bayi's "sister" Ba Hongxiang in "The Legend of Ba Qing", he naturally suffered indiscriminate attacks from Zhang Ziyi...

After a barrage of attacks, three members of "That Year There's Hip-Hop's Cheating Scandal" were the first to gameover, and the launch time of "Legend of Ba Qing" was postponed again, and it may even be postponed indefinitely!

Seeing this, Fade Chen couldn't help but marvel and exclaimed "wonderful"!
The methods used by today's young actresses born after 95 are really too immature. Look at the methods used by the big first-tier actresses, they are really awesome!
While they were confronting each other, they even took down two second-tier top-tier actresses born in the 80s.

Look at this fighting power, it’s like a knife pulling the butt - it opens the eyes of the popular young actresses!

"Jingle Bell……"

The sudden ringing of the phone interrupted Chen Fei's enjoyment of the melon.

After taking a look at the name on the caller ID, he pressed the answer button.

"Hello? Kevin? What's going on?"

Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios, said, "Fei, Venom is going to hold a wrap-up press conference tomorrow. Do you want to attend?"

Venom wrapped?

Chen Fei was slightly stunned, but he quickly reacted.

The filming of this movie started in September, and it has been nearly 9 months now, so it is almost time to wrap up.

"Wait a minute, let me check the schedule."

Flipping through the schedule on the table, Fade Chen shrugged and said helplessly, "Sorry, Kevin, I have a promotional event for Black Panther to attend tomorrow morning."

"Okay, I'll let you know when the launch conference is held."

"Well, okay."

After hanging up the phone, Fade Chen turned his gaze and looked at the box office data of several domestic movies released in January.

Much to his surprise, apart from "Dying to Survive" and "Ready Player One", the current highest-grossing film is actually the love-themed movie "Ex-Files 3" produced by Huayi!
After 17 days of release, the box office has reached 15 billion, which is really surprising!
In addition, as January approaches the end of the year, many films that will be released in February have already sounded the clarion call for the sprint.

Nearly 2 movies, including "Wushuang", "Lost in Hong Kong", and "Monster Hunt 10", have been released one after another, and the publicity effects have been very good.

Of course, the most popular one is undoubtedly "Wushuang"!
At the instruction of Chen Fei, the film producers teamed up with the TikTok platform to organize a very "unique" live broadcast.

That is: making counterfeit money!
Of course, copying RMB is definitely not allowed, but there is no clear legal provision in China that copying US dollars is illegal. (ps: the premise is not to use it outside)
Thanks to the efforts of professionals invited by the film crew, the US dollar bill was drawn.

Things like acid-free paper, color-changing ink, etc. are all good.

And when Liu Shishi finally took the US dollar bill in her hand with a nervous look on her face, put it into the money detector, and confirmed that it had passed the inspection, everyone at the scene and those who were watching the live broadcast were all stunned!

Although the live broadcast was quickly cut off, it was reposted by countless netizens and marketing accounts.

For a time, the popularity of "Wushuang" skyrocketed!
Now many experts in the film and television circles have stated with certainty that the box office champion of this year's Spring Festival will definitely belong to "Wushuang", and no one can snatch it away.

Other film producers participating in the competition at the same time also held similar ideas.

After all, after that live broadcast, the popularity, topicality, and discussion of this movie have soared to the extreme!
That's US dollars in your hands! Who wouldn't shout "Awesome" when seeing this?
Due to this, the box office of this movie will definitely not be bad.

However, when someone is happy, someone will naturally be worried.

Seeing that "Monster Hunt 2" was overshadowed by "Wushuang" in popularity, Jiang Zhiqiang was very dissatisfied.

After all, this movie is too important to Edko Films and it cannot afford to fail!
Then, a very bold idea came to his mind.

What should you do if you want a movie to have high box office, but the quality of the movie is mediocre and the publicity and marketing effects are not particularly good?

"steal!"

Once this thought appears, it will be like hell!

However, what Jiang Zhiqiang didn't know was that behind everything he was doing, there was a pair of eyes watching him closely!
……

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is already late January. At 1pm on the 23rd, when many people in the industry were focused on the filming of "Kung Fu League" that Liu Zhenwei had just announced was completed, the latest news from Hollywood suddenly appeared on the hot search list!
The list of film nominees for the 90th Academy Awards has been announced.

Although there are still no Chinese-language films nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Award this year, there is "Manchester by the Sea" directed by Chen Fei.

Everyone is quite curious about what kind of results he will achieve after nearly half a year of fighting in Hollywood.
In a villa in the capital, Shu Chang was holding his mobile phone, counting carefully and seriously, fearing that he would make a mistake or miss a key award.

"Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Art Direction... Wow! A total of 10 nominations! That's awesome!"

Hearing her best friend's exclamation, Liu Yifei turned her head subconsciously: "How about 10?"

"Yes!" Shu Chang counted again, then came over excitedly and shouted to the other side of the video call: "Chen Fei, come on! Bring back more trophies."

"Don't worry, it's very stable."

Although there is still more than a month before the award ceremony, Chen Fei has already won the championship.

After all, Oscar competitions are usually not held on the field, but outside the field.

If you want to win an award, the best way is not to "fight" with your competitors, but to find ways to play dirty tricks and trip them up...

As for the quality of the film, it is the least noteworthy aspect in the award-winning competition.

After all, what movie that is eligible to compete for the Oscars can be bad?

"Then when will you come back? After the nomination list is announced, there is still more than a month before the award ceremony officially begins."

Liu Yifei had already started to miss her husband. After all, they had been separated for nearly half a month.

Without Chen Fei's company, her sleep quality has started to deteriorate recently.

"I'll be home almost the day after tomorrow afternoon."

Chen Fei gave a very accurate time.

If you tell her the time to go back in advance, this girl will definitely be happy for a long time. This is much better than giving her a surprise suddenly.

"Great! Then be careful on the road and stay safe. I'll wait for you at home."

"Yeah, go back and hold me while I sleep..."

The two of them started to get close to each other again. Shu Chang was caught off guard and ate a mouthful of dog food, then quickly jumped out like a spring.

"Ugh! That's disgusting!"

She made a vomiting face towards Liu Yifei, and then...she fixed her eyes on the phone screen again.

Looking around, the hot searches on Weibo are now all filled with news about "Manchester by the Sea" receiving 10 nominations for the Academy Awards.

In the comment section below, many people are discussing enthusiastically:

"I have to say, Director Chen is really awesome. With 10 nominations, I don't know what this movie is like. How awesome must it be?"

"If I win another award, wouldn't that break the record for Oscars? Five Oscars! An unprecedented achievement!"

"I feel like this might be a losing battle. The previous film, The Shape of Water, won the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival. Can Manchester by the Sea beat this film?"

"I agree with the brother above. The Shape of Water is really awesome. It has all the LGBTQ, APK, X, REW. The stacking of these buffs is really exaggerated."

"And Dunkirk, which is no less threatening."

"I don't think you need to be so nervous. Director Chen has not seen all kinds of storms. So what if it's LGBT? So what if it's Dunkirk? Are they a bunch of idiots? Kill them if they get in the way!"

……

Along with the heated discussions online, many big directors in the industry cast envious glances and murmurs.

At Zhang Yimou's studio, just as Zhang Yimou finished his work, he received a WeChat message from his daughter Zhang Mo.

"Manchester by the Sea? Oscars? Ten nominations?"

He murmured to himself, his eyes full of envy.

It’s a pity that he may never win an Oscar in this lifetime.

After the failure of "The Great Wall", the foreign film and television companies that had been in contact with him have rarely appeared in front of him in the past year.

Although this gave him more free time, it also proved that he was no longer favored by foreign investors...

"Ugh."

With a long sigh, he stood up and stretched his body, then continued to devote himself to the post-production of "Shadow".

According to his plan, the post-production of this film must be completed next month, and then he will start working on his new project.

As for the subsequent scheduling, release, and promotion work, just leave it to Zhang Zhao.

Anyway, after May, his contract with LeTV will officially expire, and the latter will no longer have the right to control what he does.

On the other hand, Brother Chen Kai also paid attention to the news coming from Hollywood.

However, he only glanced at it and then looked away, adhering to the principle of out of sight, out of mind, and not to envy...

What's more, he doesn't have any extra time to pay attention to the outside world.

The tone of several unit stories in "My Motherland and I" has been determined, including: the founding of New China, the successful explosion of the first atomic bomb, the women's volleyball team winning the championship, the return of Hong Kong, the Beijing Olympic Games, the successful landing of the Shenzhou 70 spacecraft return capsule, the military parade commemorating the th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and many other iconic historical moments.

It is not easy to combine all of this into one movie!

As the chief director, he didn't even go home in the past few days. He ate, drank, defecated, urinated and slept directly in the project team. His main theme was "A second spring in career at the age of 66!"

However, compared to his current state, Feng Xiaogang on the other side is a bit too "restless".

"If it weren't for Chen Kai's film Searching, I would have taken 1942 to compete for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, and maybe I could have won a trophy..."

Listening to his nagging complaints, the executives of Huayi looked at each other in the huge conference room, and for a moment they didn't know what to say.

Feng Xiaogang is obviously bragging, but because the box office of "Youth" exceeded 10 billion, he seems to have some capital to be arrogant.

Therefore, everyone can only pretend not to hear his bragging behavior.

After a while, Wang Zhonglei interrupted again and said, "Okay, Xiaogang, the theme of our meeting today is "Cell Phone 2". There is no need to talk about other topics."

"Oh."

Feng Xiaogang responded but didn't say much. He quickly recovered and immersed himself in the discussion on the launch of the project of "Cell Phone 2".

After more than an hour, the discussions on details such as investment shares, producers, and distributors had already been finalized.

Wang Zhonglei closed the notebook in front of him, waved his hand, and announced: "If nothing unexpected happens, the script will be officially released in about a week. Everyone, we are ready to set sail again. Do you have confidence?"

"Have!"

"Have!"

"Have!"

For a moment, there were bursts of responses in the conference room.

Everyone had a smile on their face, as if they had already seen the moment when "Cell Phone 2" was released and successfully broke through the 3 billion or even 10 billion box office like "Youth" and "Ex-Files 20"!
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