China Entertainment started from Nortel 2002

Chapter 256 Sexy Jiang Wen
Back in 2000, the annual box office in mainland China was only 8 million.

In the blink of an eye, 10 years later, the total annual box office of the domestic film market has exceeded the [-] billion mark, which has given many filmmakers a shot in the arm.

In the whole year of 2010, there were 26 movies with a box office of over 4 million in mainland China. At the same time, there were a record number of 6 movies with a box office of over 2 million in mainland China: "Avatar", "Tangshan Earthquake" , "The Witch", "Inception", "Let the Bullets Fly" and "If You Are the One [-]".

“‘The Martian’ is the first shot of the year.”

"Hurry up and release it, the wait has been too long, your wallets are ready!"

Netizens are already shouting enthusiastically.

"The Martian" has always been in the top of "Today's Topics List" and "the top three in this week's Topics List."

Naturally, it depends on the tireless efforts of netizens to "survive themselves on Mars."

The higher the click-through rate of a topic on the topic list, the easier it is to achieve dissemination, which in turn promotes the improvement of the topic list ranking. This is a virtuous cycle and the marketing effect is significant.

The second part of the promotion for "The Martian" needs to wait for the film reviews after its release in North America, and there will be a wave of film review bombardment.

On the other side, Disney spent US$3 million to create, directed by Joseph Kosinski, and co-starring last year's Oscar winner Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde and other movie stars, known as "Tron", one of the most expensive movies in history, will hit theaters in mainland China starting from January 1.

This movie is even said to be expected to surpass last year's "2012" and "Avatar" and become a new phenomenon.

"Tron" is the sequel to the 1982 science fiction film "Tron".For many senior science fiction fans, "Tron" is an epoch-making work, which opened the "cyberpunk" era of science fiction movies.

However, the producers don't know if they just want to catch up with the top two in terms of visual effects, so that the plot tension can be said to be weak and difficult to describe.

“It’s better to watch 3D news broadcast”

"A movie that relies entirely on visual effects. If you don't watch 3Dimax, this movie is basically useless. I just hope that "The Martian" directed by Li Mu will not make this mistake."

"Bad movie, identification completed!"

This blockbuster, which relies solely on special effects, only earned 7000 million yuan in its first week in China, which is far less than the first-week box office of domestic blockbusters such as "Let the Bullets Fly."

Jiang Wen has been very proud of himself recently. The national box office of "Let the Bullets Fly" has exceeded 6.4 million. During the New Year group visit, facing the enthusiastic audience, Jiang Wen began to speak eloquently: "Many people in the Chinese film industry have not reached the level of the audience. They How can you make a movie for the audience?”

These words immediately made some directors in the circle unable to sit still. Although they didn't say anything openly, they were all cursing secretly.

"Damn, I feel like I've stung a hornet's nest!"

Jiang Wen has felt the invisible power in the circle these days, which makes him feel a little uncomfortable.

Everywhere he went he was scolded by people. Although Jiang Wen was crazy, he didn't want to scold everyone.

"Although what you said is very true and you only need to know it in your heart, you are not allowed to say it in front of the media and the audience."

This is reality. If you expose it, it will be your fault. After all, most people in the industry have not reached the audience level. They live in their own world. If someone exposes you, it will embarrass them and you will feel uncomfortable.

Lao Mouzi's "Jinling Thirteen Panties" was also being prepared in secret. Li Mu knew that building a church in Jinling cost tens of millions.

Moreover, Lao Mouzi has made movies in recent years, which is somewhat similar to Li Mu, that is, the confidentiality is extremely high.

So far, almost no other news has been leaked about "The Martian" except for the news specially released by the crew, which ensures its appeal before its release.

This year's Directors Guild Commendation Conference was held, and Xue Xiaolu even won Screenwriter of the Year, but as soon as the awards were handed out, she closed the door to think.

Journalists were not welcome, and even the invited weekly magazines were not allowed to enter the venue.

Reporters who went to the scene said that they often heard the directors arguing fiercely outside the venue. Later they found out that the directors were scolding each other together.

This made Li Mu very curious after reading the report, so he called Ning Hao at night to find out.

"What are you doing?"

Not only Li Mu was curious, but even Liu Yifei couldn't help but prick up her ears. Everyone wanted to hear this gossip.

"It's not just the 100 billion box office that's causing the trouble. They're all criticizing the fact that stars' salaries are rising too fast and that there are too few good actors."

Ning Hao was still muttering, "Everyone is complaining. When a script is handed over, the investors don't read the script but directly ask which star acted it."

The salaries of celebrities have skyrocketed in the past two years, with some even tripling in one year.

"Then they train actors. They all want to use good actors, but they don't train them and wait for the actors to realize their enlightenment on their own?"

Li Mu also complained, everyone wanted to sit back and enjoy the success. For example, there was a movie with Chen Kaige, Jiang Wen, and Feng Xiaogang, and the male protagonists were all Ge You.

Directors don't give young people a chance, so where can good actors come from?

"What do you think about me setting up an actor training class?" Ning Hao suddenly had an idea.

"This thing depends too much on talent. Those with better grades are all picked up by the art academy. There are too few left, so you have to give them a chance."

"I plan to cast an actor in the training class for my "Golden Heist" and see if they can make it work."

Ning Hao also thought about it.

"You can try it."

Li Mu didn't dampen Ning Hao's confidence. Anyway, this thing is difficult to achieve, but he might be able to make some money.

"By the way, some directors complained that you were too domineering!" Ning Hao suddenly said with a smile.

"Ok?"

"They said that you didn't let Yifei go out to take roles, so some scripts that were very suitable for Yifei couldn't be found."

"Come on, their scripts are written like shit!"

It's not like Li Mu hasn't read the scripts handed over by these people. There aren't many good ones, and at best they're just passable.

Liu Yifei half-covered her mouth and snickered.

The annual Oscar season is quietly approaching again. Among the second-round candidates for the best foreign language film, the mainland Chinese film "Tangshan Earthquake", the Hong Kong film "The Thief of Time" and the report film "Monga" have all been submitted in advance. Out.

Last year, Li Mu won the best foreign language film, which shocked the industry, but this year it suddenly returned to its original form.

Netizens were a little disappointed. After all, it was not that they had never won it before, but it just seemed that they were not strong enough.

"'Earthquake' is not as good as 'Hawthorn Tree Love', I think 'Hawthorn Tree' should be on the list!"

"Feng Xiaogang is not the winning material, so he lost a spot in vain!"

"Suddenly I miss Li Mu's award-winning film. Let's not talk about whether he will win or not, at least the nomination is stable." Some insiders even made a special analysis: No awards, no masters, no backstage!
North American distribution companies, this is the backstage. If there is no backstage, then before entering the Oscars, you'd better gain success at the three major international film festivals - Berlin, Cannes, and Venice. If you don't have any, at least the director must have a master. title, so that the judges will have more patience to look at it.

"It's a pity that in the eyes of Hollywood, they only have Li Mu, Li Jian, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige and Wong Kar-wai, and half of them are Yang Dechang and Hou Hsiao-hsien."

These words made Feng Xiaogang's young heart feel a little uncomfortable. The meaning was almost made clear. If "The Great Earthquake" was directed by Li Mu or Zhang Yimou instead of Feng Xiaogang, it might have worked.

"Is this really like this?" Liu Yifei raised her doubtful eyes. She didn't know much about it. She only knew that every time Li Mu wanted to participate in the Oscars, David had to be busy for a long time.

“The early selection method for the Oscar’s Best Foreign Language Film is to watch each film for 20 minutes first. When the time is up, if no one raises a sign to ask for more watching, the film will pass.

Therefore, many films only have 20 minutes or at most 40 minutes.

The problem is, the first 20 minutes of many good movies can be really boring.At this time, if your film participated in the three major film festivals and even won an award, the judges' patience with you may be 60 minutes instead of 20 minutes. "

Li Mu is also well aware of this truth, so for the sake of caution, "Drive My Car" even went to Venice to get a golden lion back, which was regarded as a triple guarantee for it.

Feng Xiaogang is currently riding a tiger and it is difficult to get off. People in the circle analyzed it and found that more and more netizens outside the circle are criticizing him.
In fact, netizens probably also hate that iron cannot become steel.

Feng Xiaogang was also scolding in his heart, who doesn't want to win awards? Zhang Yi has such a high status, doesn't he just win more awards? Feng Xiaogang's box office is only lower than Li Mu, and many times higher than Brother Chen Kai, but his status is somewhat Low, isn’t it because I didn’t win an international award?

Vicious circle!

"Winning an award is naturally the best. Not being able to win an award will not affect my mentality. "Earthquake" has already won once at the box office, so it is reasonable to lose the award!"

Feng Xiaogang finally gave a simple explanation in a few strokes on Weibo.

It's just that anyone with a discerning eye can see that he is not very interested, and he can only use the box office as an excuse.

Not only movies are joining in the fun during the Spring Festival, TV series are also aimed at this day of family reunion, which happens to be the winter vacation again.

Cai Yinong has a dark face recently.

"Palace", which claims to be the first time-travel drama in China, has cooperated with Hunan Satellite TV and will be released on January 1.

Nowadays, the theme of ancient costumes is picking up, and the theme of time travel is favored by many producers.

Yu Zheng's "Beauty's Scheming" is a hit, and the palace-fighting dramas "The Legend of Zhen Huan" and "The Harem" are also being filmed in Hengdian, and they all want to eat this cake.

"How shameless!"

Apart from being angry, Cai Yinong doesn't have much good options now, and starting a war will only add fuel to the heat of "Palace".

"We can only make the production of "Bu Bu Jing Xin" faster. If we can't make the first part and release it, we must at least make the second part."

Cai Yinong thought in his mind.

On the other hand, Yang Mi is having a smooth journey now. "Palace" will be released this year, and the movie has been filmed, and she is just waiting to set the schedule.

Recently, she has been approached for a movie, and it can be said that everything goes smoothly.

Li Mu only took Jiang Wen to the North American premiere of "The Martian" because he had to rush back to the Chinese premiere, which was scheduled for January 1th.

Two days after the premiere, on Friday, January 1, it was officially released in North America.

"Tsk, my movie hasn't made it to Hollywood yet! My acting is a step ahead." Jiang Wen stepped on the soil of the United States and felt a little emotional.

Their generation just wants their movies to go overseas and prove themselves, and the United States is indeed a good place to prove themselves.

"Won't "Let the Bullets Fly" be released in North America in March?"

"Let the Bullets Fly" has been exclusively distributed in North America by Greyhound Sound Company, which plans to screen it first to boost word-of-mouth. This is also the most common way to release Chinese films in North America.

Because it was released on a large scale all at once, without a well-known Hollywood director or a well-known Hollywood actor, it was difficult for the film to be well-known by the audience.

Jiang Wen chuckled: "I'm afraid these ghost guys can't understand."

Your movie is a ghost if a ghost guy can understand it. Li Mu secretly complained in his heart.

"Boss!" David looked quite formal in suits and ties.

"This fat man walks very nimbly."

Jiang Wen took a serious look. This fat man was so nimble. I'm afraid that's how he got here.

After sending Jiang Wen to the hotel to catch up on jet lag, Li Mu and David went to Crystal Pictures.

"Boss, "The Twilight Saga 4" is divided into two parts. The first part has been produced, and "The Hangover 2" has also been produced. As for horror films, we maintain one film a year."

David is still talking to Li Mu about this year's film plans.

"By the way, boss, Warner has already begun to push for your film "Gravity."

Li Mu nodded, and occasional urging calls were made to him.

"There's no rush. By the way, let's start production on "The Hunger Games". Casting will start later. I'll come over in person."

David's eyes suddenly lit up. After all, his performance is linked to the performance of movies. The box office of "Twilight" is still fresh in his mind. The big IP of "The Hunger Games" has always been remembered.
Warner Bros. is responsible for promoting and distributing the movie "The Martian" in North America, so Li Mu doesn't have to worry at all.

After all, Warner has maintained countless media mouthpieces in North America.

Don’t think that only the Chinese entertainment industry has trolls.

In fact, the "Navy Army" was first born in the United States. Who said that the United States is the country that invented the Internet?

To put it more vividly, Warner is like a hunter with ten thousand wolf dogs in his hand. As long as he loosens the reins, the thousands of ferocious dogs will go out and bite crazily on the Internet.

Thanks to Warner's vigorous publicity, almost half of the people in North America, with a population of less than 4 million, know that a science fiction masterpiece from director Li Mu will be released in the near future.

"Tsk, this feels twice as good!" Jiang Wen was still recalling the feeling of being praised by the media and the audience just now.

Li Mu looked at him with some disgust: "You have been in Hollywood now, please calm down."

"Didn't you just hear that? After watching my performance, those big horses shouted 'Handsome' one by one. I found that they are particularly discerning!"

"Is it possible that he calls me? Everyone calls you 'so sexy', okay."

"Nonsense, how can I, a grown man, be sexy!"

"You may not understand Ocean Horse"

(End of this chapter)