Become famous another day.

According to rough reports on the first day of release, "The Mist 2" earned a total of 830 million US dollars in North America.

That number was slightly higher than the predicted first-day box office, but only slightly.

But it’s okay, as long as it’s not lower than the predicted box office.

The film received positive reviews, especially Lu Yanhe's performance, which received a lot of praise. Whether it was the media, critics or audiences, they all said that Lu Yanhe's performance was a highlight of "The Mist 2", supporting this film, which itself has a somewhat clichéd story.

After the first weekend, "The Mist 2" earned a total of 3150 million US dollars in North American box office and over 5000 million US dollars in global box office, performing well.

Lu Yanhe was the main force in the box office and the film did not go silent.

Judging from the current results, even if the box office of "The Mist 2" cannot be compared with the first one in the end, it will not decline sharply.

The box office performance of the first part of "The Mist" was a miracle of topic marketing that can only be encountered by chance.

Such marketing method is also difficult to replicate.

As long as The Mist 2 can break through $1 million in global box office, it will be profitable at the cinema box office level, and Lu Yanhe's "box office leader" physique will not be questioned. Judging from the box office performance and reputation of the first weekend, this goal should be easily achieved.

However, Lu Yanhe had never expected that because of his rave reviews for his performance in The Mist 2, especially being described by a film critic from The New York Times as "a young appearance with an old soul, his moment of appearance one can see the thick, foggy ghosts of the past in his careless and indifferent eyes. Lu Yanhe's performance gave this highly commercialized movie a subtle sense of time, and gave the movie a fascinating temperament that goes beyond the scope of commercial films", D19 suddenly announced that it would publicize this year's Best Actor Oscar for him.

Lu Yanhe was on the set of "Godless" and was in disbelief when he heard the news.

His first reaction was even "Fuck me".

Lu Yanhe never thought that he could get an Oscar nomination with a movie like "The Mist 2".

Even when he was acting in this play, he put in a lot of effort and did his best within the scope of his ability at the time.

But, after all, Lu Yanhe feels that for a role like that, form is more important than content.

He was completely interpreting the role in a "formalized" and "symbolic" way. This interpretation is certainly valid in this movie, but even Lu Yanhe himself did not think that this role deserved praise.

D19's move is actually to create momentum for the movie "The Mist 2".

Using the gimmick of competing for an Oscar, the film aims to convey the effect that "The Mist 2" has a very good reputation and is of high quality to the general public.

Of course, their public relations are real public relations.

After all, The Mist 2 has received high praise in terms of costumes, props, photography and other technical aspects.

Even if Lu Yanhe's Best Actor award is more hype than substance, "The Mist 2" can still make a bid for the technical department award.

However, The Mist 2 was released in January, so it would have completely missed out on Oscars and the Sentinel Awards at this time.

No one knows to what extent the volume of voice can be raised in a short period of time.

Anyway, Lu Yanhe didn't believe that he could be nominated for an Oscar with "The Mist 2". If it was that easy, the Oscar wouldn't have the status it has today. Unless "The Mist 2" has epic box office numbers, then with the whole industry's admiration for box office, it might be "guaranteed".

As the winner of last year's Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, Lu Yanhe was also invited to be the award presenter this year.

This is customary.

The winners of the previous session presented the awards to the winners of this session.

Lu Yanhe now has so many projects to do in the United States, so of course he has to get involved in this circle.

Therefore, Lu Yanhe took a day off from the "Godless" crew to attend the Golden Globe Awards.

But to be honest, just as enthusiastic was Lu Yanhe at the Golden Globe Awards last year, so was he "cold" this year.

The big hit "Home Alone" and the small hit "Buried" all "disappeared" during the award season. Of course, this is related to the subject matter of the film, which is indeed not the subject matter that the award season is keen on. However, given the nature of the Golden Globe Awards, with such a high box office and such a great influence, Huang Feng should be nominated for Best Actor in the Comedy/Musical category.

Even though they did not give a nomination, they still invited Huang Feng, Liu Teli and Luo Weida to attend.

The three of them will present an award.
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Compared to these two movies, what surprised Lu Yanhe the most was that "Friends" disappeared from the Golden Globe Awards nomination list.

It’s not that "Friends" should continue to be on the Golden Globe nomination list - but the Golden Globe Awards saw it and included it in the nominations when it was not so popular in Europe and the United States, and Lu Yanhe also won a screenplay award. How come "Friends" became a dud in the Golden Globe Awards' field of vision after it gained some popularity in Europe and the United States?

According to Chen Ziyan's speculation, she thought it was because Maxine was no longer exerting any strength from behind.

The American version of "Friends" has already started airing on Maxine. Although its popularity and other aspects cannot be compared with the original version, its reputation is actually quite good and it has been renewed. It seems that they still have expectations for the subsequent performance of the American version.

"Friends" was not so popular all over the world from the first season.

At this time, the Chinese version of "Friends" suddenly showed a trend of "getting stronger and stronger", which probably made Maxine a little hesitant for a while, not knowing whether to continue promoting the Chinese version of "Friends".

It's normal.

For some unknown reason, sitcoms are a genre that is prone to the "remake curse".

Everyone only recognizes the first one.

However, this time when "Friends" came to North America for promotion, the effect can be described as "a huge success."

This season of "Friends" basically always tops the daily viewing chart every time it is updated, achieving the best overseas viewing results in the past six seasons.

Discussions on social media are growing exponentially.

With such great popularity, Lu Yanhe feels that if "Friends" is not nominated for the Golden Globe Awards next year, it will probably be dissed by many people.

In any case, from Lu Yanhe's point of view, the Golden Globe Award played a huge role in promoting his journey in Europe and the United States.

Regardless of the fact that the Golden Globe Awards "favored" him in the beginning, it was actually out of the need for "popularity and popularity". They really did choose him from among the young creators with "popularity and popularity" all over the world, allowing his "Friends", "Love Letters", "Squidward Fever" and other dramas to receive global exposure and "recognition" provided by the Golden Globe Awards.

Lu Yanhe's attendance at the Golden Globe Awards as an awards presenter is itself a "sign" that he is further establishing his foothold in the Hollywood circle.

Every year there are people who become famous overnight, but whether one truly stands out in a circle depends on stability.

Lu Yanhe has had hit movies in Hollywood for several years in a row, which is why he has become a new powerful figure in Hollywood in many media in just a few years.

This also feeds back to many of Lu Yanhe's projects. At least the release of "The Mist 2", a sequel, and a blockbuster that aims to break 2 million in the global box office, is rare. This movie actually has only one movie star who can carry the box office. In this case, "The Mist 2" really maintained its box office performance and did not let the success of "The Mist 1" become a short-lived miracle.

Whether it is the invisible "attention" brought by the industry and media's expectations for Lu Yanhe's new work, or the trust in him and the willingness of all parties to provide the best resources within their scope to help support the film, it makes it possible to attract so many audiences to watch even though the film itself is not that outstanding and has not found a marketing point that has detonated the world like the first one.

Especially the "support" campaign launched by a group of "Friends" fans on social media. Many media are willing to report and continue to follow up on this matter, which has made this matter have a certain effect. The reason behind this is because of their appreciation and recognition of Lu Yanhe himself.

It's all interconnected.

Sometimes, if you see that a celebrity artist has some problems on social media, and there are some real people (not those who appear to be real people but actually you have no idea who this blogger is or what he looks like, and it is most likely a self-media account operated by a team) willing to stand up and talk about their past with the artist and say a few words for him, then you really can choose to "let the bullets fly for a while."

Because a person can speak for others in his own name at this time, unless there is a vested interest, it must be because that person has touched him in some way.

At this year's Golden Globe Awards, "Raise the Red Lantern" was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, but it was only nominated for this award.

It's a pity that Raise the Red Lantern was not nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Award, which Midoriya had high hopes for.

Lu Yanhe himself didn't care.

In fact, "Raise the Red Lantern" had pretty good luck in winning awards this year.

In the early stage, there was no situation where one movie crushed the others.

"Raise the Red Lantern" competed fiercely with two other foreign language films.

At this point, I have to digress.

The winner of this year's highest award at the Sithole Film Festival is a Spanish film, "The Crowded Room," also directed by a famous director.

It's also a strong contender for Best Foreign Language Film this year.

Raise the Red Lantern was the winner of the highest award at the Sitol Film Festival last year, but because it was only released this year, this led to a fight between two Sitol films this year.

The media all said that the Sitol Film Festival made a lot of money.

After all, the value of the Best Foreign Language Film award is very high worldwide.

The kind that can directly add a few zeros to the copyright value of an art film.

Major film producers around the world will rush to buy your film.

This is not a one- or two-year deal, it is a long-term deal that will last for decades.
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Lu Yanhe met Chen Bige again at the Golden Globe Awards and took a photo with her with a smile.

"Thank you for your hard work." Chen Bige has been working with director Wang Zhong to promote "Raise the Red Lantern" during the awards season, and it is indeed hard work.

However, in order to increase her chances of winning the award, she, the absolute leading actress and well-known actress in Hollywood, can participate in the publicity schedule and play a decisive role in the film's public relations.

So, after realizing this, Chen Bige persisted without hesitation.

"You've worked hard too." Chen Bige said to Lu Yanhe very politely.

The two looked at each other and couldn't hold it anymore.

"It's too official." Chen Bige complained.

Lu Yanhe shrugged his shoulders and smiled at Chen Bige.

"Where's Director Wang? Isn't he with you?"

"He was stopped by someone just now." Chen Bige looked in one direction, as if Director Wang Zhong was there just now. However, her expression told him that she did not find Wang Zhong as she wished. "But now I don't know where he went."

Lu Yanhe: "It's okay, we'll meet each other later."

"Yes." Chen Bige nodded. "By the way, he has already written the script. He wants to talk to you about the script that you and I will star in."

Lu Yanhe said, "Let's wait until we finish all the things we have on hand, after this year's Oscars are over."

Now they are all so busy that no one can concentrate on one script.

A script they have been waiting for for a long time.

Chen Bige nodded.
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"The Mist 2" has grossed over 7000 million U.S. dollars in North America and over 1.3 million U.S. dollars worldwide.

As the leading actor, Lu Yanhe performed his task brilliantly.

Everyone was congratulating him, and someone even joked, "If it weren't for the fact that The Mist 2 was released too late, you should have been on the nomination list tonight."

This is in reference to D19's previous announcement that it would do public relations for him at this year's Oscars.

Lu Yanhe smiled and waved his hands, saying, "The film company exaggerated to promote the movie."

"Your performance in The Mist 2 is indeed brilliant. It is entirely because of your role and your performance that the quality of the film has been greatly improved. Otherwise, it would have been just an ordinary B-grade film."

That night, many people said this to Lu Yanhe.

Lu Yanhe realized one thing, it seemed that quite a few people in the industry had watched the movie "The Mist 2".

Many people have a wrong idea that people working in the film industry must watch a lot of films, including those currently being released - in fact, they generally watch a lot of films, but they may not have watched many of the currently released films or those in recent years.

Including Lu Yanhe himself, he is already the kind of person who consciously watches movies, but due to his busy work and various reasons, he has watched no more than two handfuls of movies released in theaters in half a year.

Lu Yanhe has watched no more than a handful of these movies during this year's North American awards season.

The deadline for the first round of Oscar voting is approaching.

He is now also a member of the Academy and has the right to vote, but he has not even seen many of the films, so how can he vote?
Can only abstain.

After going through this process himself, he realized firsthand why public relations prevailed during the North American awards season. If you want a movie to be nominated and gain attention, you must first let the people who are eligible to vote see the movie.

That’s what public relations is all about. They try every possible means to make you see the movie and the person, and then convince you from every angle that this person should win the award this year.

An idea suddenly popped up in Lu Yanhe's mind: Would "The Mist 2" really get him a nomination for Best Actor?
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"Raise the Red Lantern" defeated "The Crowded Room" and "Spring Rhapsody" to win the Best Foreign Language Film at this year's Golden Globe Awards, which became the most exciting moment for Lu Yanhe tonight.

He stood up and clapped and cheered in the direction of Director Wang Zhong and Chen Bige.

When the people around him saw how excited he was, they all understood after they realized what was going on.

Many people have forgotten that Lu Yanhe is the screenwriter of this movie.

Winning the Ballon d'Or is a good sign.

When Wang Zhong went on stage to receive the award, his first words were: "Bi Ge, Yan He, can you come up together and accept this trophy with me?"

Lu Yanhe shook his hands and indicated with both hands, "Enjoy this moment of honor yourself."

The same is true for Chen Bige.

"This is my first time to win a Golden Globe Award. As a director from China, I know it is not easy. So, I would like to thank the Journalists Association for having a good vision. Among so many excellent works, you gave this honor to our film Raise the Red Lantern."

"In the past few years, I have worked with Lu Yanhe one after another. First, he cameoed in my movie "Three Mountains", then he wrote the screenplay for "Rouge Button" and "Raise the Red Lantern", all of which were directed by me. I am sorry that I have enjoyed the wonderful process of co-creating a movie with a young man with unparalleled talent three times."

There was good-natured laughter and applause from the audience.

When Wang Zhong said this, the people around who were looking at Lu Yanhe did not think it was an exaggeration. Instead, they felt that Wang Zhong was right.

Lu Yanhe clasped his hands together and listened carefully to Wang Zhong's speech.

He felt embarrassed by the praise.

"Bi Ge, you are also incomparable." Wang Zhong looked at his heroine again, "There are many wonderful moments in movies. At my age, movies have become a lifelong career. After a long journey, it is very rare to meet a fellow traveler who can inspire my creative passion. I hope you can understand how important you are to me."

Chen Bige was sitting in the audience and blew a kiss to Wang Zhong on the stage.

"Our history, culture and fragments of the long river of time all seem to be rumbling away from us in this ever-changing era. As filmmakers, we are the weavers of light and shadow. Sometimes, we can turn out the old films at the bottom of the box and re-develop them, and perhaps we can find some brilliance that can still reflect the present. Raise the Red Lantern is such a movie. Many people have interpreted this movie in various ways. For me, it is a reminder not to trap yourself in a square yard forever for a red lantern that you don't actually need in the first place. Look up at the sky, it is very vast. It is always the eaves that need lanterns, not the sky. We must remember what we want to see when we look up."

Lu Yanhe let out a long sigh, and a feeling of being touched welled up from the bottom of his heart.

Director Wang Zhong's acceptance speech really touched his heart.

He also truly made his own interpretation of this script from a parallel universe.

That's how movies should be.

Some movies should be author-specific.

A story will be interpreted differently when filmed by different people.
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Wang Zhong's acceptance speech at the Golden Globe Awards was undoubtedly a successful one that could help Raise the Red Lantern gain further attention and winning chips during the awards season.

Midoriya even took a screenshot of his last speech and promoted it on social media to continue building momentum.

Lu Yanhe returned to the "Godless" crew and continued filming this movie which was almost not difficult for him.

Ivan seemed to like coming to chat with him more and more.

Basically, whenever I have free time, I will come and talk to him.

"Home Alone 2" has also begun promotion around the world.

Markets around the world are coordinating with the film's release date during the Chinese Spring Festival and will release it simultaneously on that day.

The first film grossed over 5 million U.S. dollars worldwide, so the second one is naturally the highlight.

Especially in the United States, this is a very unpopular schedule.

Generally, there is not much box office revenue during this period.

"Home Alone 2" came out without having to compete with any other film company for theater resources.

Just when the Oscar nominations were about to be announced, Lu Yanhe suddenly squeezed into the top five on an authoritative Oscar nomination prediction website with "The Mist 2".

This change was reported by all major media outlets at the first opportunity.

Darren Wilson even called Lu Yanhe and said that the wind in the academy was blowing in his favor.

Lu Yanhe couldn't believe it, no way?
real or fake?

"The Mist 2" helped him get an Oscar nomination for Best Actor?

This matter is a bit ridiculous no matter how you look at it.

This movie is not Oscar-worthy.

In the eyes of the older generation of Oscar members, this is purely a B-level movie and a genre film.

Darren Wilson added: "The most crucial reason is that this year the competition for the Best Actor award is not very fierce. You have been in the limelight from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. Everyone is talking about you. You are a big celebrity in Hollywood. The Mist 2 was released and many people went to see the movie."

Lu Yanhe thought, that shouldn’t be the case, right?

Although he knew that the academy was like this and paid close attention to every work of popular movie stars.

When Jennifer Lawrence made her comeback after giving birth, she made a small art film called "The Other Side of the Bridge". This movie was not even released in theaters, but only on streaming media.

Of course, her performance was still excellent. However, probably because she had been nominated four times and won the Oscar for Best Actress once, this movie did not help her get her fifth Oscar.

However, another black actor in the film was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for this film.

How should I put it? If this movie wasn’t Jennifer Lawrence’s first movie after her postpartum comeback, and it wasn’t an art film with high reviews, this movie would definitely not have won the actor the Otti.

It's not that he's not good enough, but not many people will see this movie.

The only reason why this movie attracted everyone's attention was that its leading actress was Jennifer Lawrence, whose performance was very good and worthy of everyone's attention. So he was also paid attention to.

Will such a situation occur in "The Mist 2"?
Lu Yanhe once thought that he understood Oscar's rules of the game, but now this situation made him stunned again, and he felt that he didn't seem to understand it that well.

Suddenly, in Hollywood, the topic of discussion became -

——Have you voted for Lu Yanhe?

——Will he really be nominated for the Best Actor Oscar as a dark horse this year?
——He just won an Oscar last year and was nominated again this year? His luck can’t be that good, right?
——Is his performance in The Mist 2 really good enough to be nominated for an Oscar? Is it really that good?

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Amid the discussions, Lu Yanhe finished filming on "Godless".

This time, it’s the final shot and I don’t need to come back.

Lu Yanhe breathed a sigh of relief.

Everyone gave him flowers and held a small farewell ceremony.

Ivan was reluctant to leave him. The boy's eyes were red. He hugged him tightly and said, "We should keep in touch in the future."

Lu Yanhe smiled and said yes.

"I hope to see you on the list of nominees for the Best Actor Oscar this year," Ivan added.

Lu Yanhe: "It all depends on fate. I don't know. I hope to see you on this list soon. You are very talented in acting. Come on."
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After the filming of "Godless" was completed, Lu Yanhe had three days of rest and then returned to China.

The reason why he took three days off was because three days later, "Home Alone 2" would have its premiere in New York and he wanted to attend it.

It is rare that I have no work arrangements during these three days.

Lu Yanhe gave his team a holiday and asked them to go play nearby. He also gave each of them a big red envelope and asked them to go shopping.

Zou Dong only went to the nearby shopping mall on the first day and bought his son a slightly expensive cowhide school bag and a latest model of mobile phone. Apart from that, nothing else.

After Lu Yanhe found out, he said, "Buy something for yourself, too."

Zou Dong smiled and said, "I don't lack anything, what is there to buy?"

Lu Yanhe said, "Then come with me for a walk and I'll pick out some gifts for everyone."

He and Zou Dong went for a stroll in the mall.

I bought a necklace for Chen Siqi and also picked out gifts for other friends.

No one lacks these things, but gifts are about the thought.

There were so many bags, big and small, that both of them finally had their hands full of bags and put them in the car.

Lu Yanhe suddenly saw a cinema across the street.

Seeing this, Zou Dong asked, "Do you want to go to the movies?"

"I wonder if there will be any screenings of The Mist 2? If there are, I would like to go and see it," said Lu Yanhe.

Zou Dong said: "I'll go ask, you wait in the car."

Lu Yanhe nodded.

After a while, Zou Dong came over with two tickets.

"There's one in an hour."

Lu Yanhe said, "Then let's go eat something nearby. It'll be perfect for us to come here after we finish eating."
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The reason why Lu Yanhe suddenly had the idea of ​​watching "The Mist 2" again was that he wanted to see again how good he was in this movie and how he suddenly and inexplicably became a candidate for the Best Actor nomination at this year's Oscars.

Sitting in a dark theater, the theater was only about one-third full.

Lu Yanhe and Zou Dong sat in the corner and watched the movie again.

Lu Yanhe had actually watched it twice, but he didn't have any thoughts at the time. He just felt that he had completed a task.

Watching it again this time, Lu Yanhe noticed that although the thriller and horror elements of this movie were greatly reduced compared to the first one, the gloomy and eerie atmosphere of the whole movie itself was still retained.

This makes the audience present stare at the screen nervously all the time, but there are no sudden images or sound effects to stimulate their adrenaline and interrupt their emotions.

Lu Yanhe on the screen is pale, cold, elegant and decadent.

Lu Yanhe inexplicably felt that he was playing this role with great enthusiasm.

At that time, he absorbed Gong Li's breathless characteristics in "The Monkey King 3" in his performance style, and in some key and instantaneous outbursts, he adopted the eerie and strange feeling of Ralph Fiennes in "Harry Potter" who was about to turn around and speak "snake language" to you at any time.

The first few times he watched it, Lu Yanhe didn't think it was a big deal, but now when he watched it again, it really was -

The entire character has undergone a step-change compared to the first part, and the sensory impression it leaves on people is even more profound.

The best scenes are those where he was betrayed by those guys from the ghost hunting team and imprisoned. The disappointment in his eyes towards human nature was so "expected" and yet so "invisible".

Lu Yanhe sighed.

It was indeed a good performance. (End of this chapter)