China Entertainment: I have been a director since 05

Chapter 404: Oscar nomination! You can only look up to...

The box office performance of "New Shaolin Temple" on the first day was average. After the fierce battle of the Lunar New Year box office,
A tough battle for the Spring Festival.
The box office revenue on the first day was only 20 million yuan.

Caught between two Hollywood blockbusters, the box office is undoubtedly fierce.

It’s a good start for the Spring Festival movie season.

But the reviews of this movie went viral in a short time.

"The culmination of artificiality can be transformed into a building block for the roaring business."

"If Liu Dehua and Xie Tingfeng started kissing each other after pinching their necks... and if Liu Dehua said, 'Brother misses you so much' after slapping him, then I can forgive them. I will definitely give this movie the highest rating!"

"This is not a movie. This is a Shaolin image promotional film specially commissioned by Master Yongxin."

"It's an idiotic movie. It's called a new version, but it's actually an old movie. The actors try really hard, but the story is bullshit. It's called an action movie, but it's just a drill, and there's no kung fu involved. I haven't seen such a vulgar movie in years!"

Many people who watched this movie had high blood pressure.

"Director Guan, I am innocent."

Liu Dehua called Guan Ling, feeling like crying but without tears.

It can be said that these two recent movies have completely wiped out all the goodwill he had accumulated from his previous role as Di Renjie.

Liu Dehua himself was speechless.

"At least the box office is high." Guan Ling could only comfort himself in this way.

"Is it high? Pleasant Goat 3 grossed 1600 million on its first day."

Liu Dehua was in tears. In terms of box office appeal, he was even not inferior to Pleasant Goat.

"Think positively, at least you didn't lose to Pleasant Goat."

Guan Ling felt relieved but shocked at the same time. She was truly impressed by the box office performance of a movie like "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf".

He is on the right track by making cartoons.

Not wanting to chat with Liu Dehua any more, Guan Ling said a few perfunctory words and then hung up the phone.

……

"You got the script for me so quickly?"

When Liu Yifei saw the surprise Guan Ling had prepared, she laughed so hard that she couldn't close her legs.

The comedy movie that Guan Ling chose for Liu Yifei was "Extreme Job", the highest-grossing Korean comedy in the previous life. In fact, this movie has also been released in mainland China, but the box office was very poor. The name of the movie was "The Lobster Cop".

This is not just a problem of copying, but also because the people who produced the film in China did not do a good job of connecting the logic of the film.

After all, it is really necessary to deal with China's own national conditions, but the other party did not take it seriously and only went astray, which ultimately led to the failure of this movie.

But for Guan Ling, he thinks it is a problem with the people, not the script.

Therefore, he only made a few adjustments to the original "Extreme Job" script, all for the purpose of facilitating review.

"Set up a company. Since you want to be a producer, I suggest you set up your own company."

Guan Ling pointed at the script.

"This script is a lowbrow comedy with lots of laughs, but it's not stupid. And most importantly, it's easy to shoot."

"For me, a good shot is enough."

"Yes, if you are a producer for the first time, you don't need to try your best, just focus on it," Guan Ling said to Liu Yifei, "In fact, as far as the audience is concerned, as long as you earnestly sell them the jokes, you will be recognized by many people."

"I see."

Liu Yifei gave Guan Ling a sweet kiss. …

within the next week.

The Chinese entertainment industry has fallen into a period of silence.

Since no Chinese-language films entered the main competition unit of the 61st Berlin International Film Festival, people's attention to this award has declined significantly.

This film festival, known as the paradise for Chinese-language films, did not continue its good luck this year. Among the 16 films in the main competition unit, not a single Chinese-language film managed to get an "admission ticket".

The only films that entered the subsidiary units were "Under the Hawthorn Tree" and "Together", which are the New Generation Unit and Panorama Screening Unit respectively, but no one thought that these two plays could create any awards.

At least on a consensus basis, everyone knows that at this year's Berlin Film Festival, all Chinese elements are just for show.

"Wulin Waijia" unexpectedly attracted a lot of attention from the industry.

The first is people's prying into Yao Dazui's emotional life.

Since January, there have been rumors in the circle that Yao Dazui and his husband Hao Hao Sao have found new loves respectively, but the two have denied it one by one.

On Weibo, Yao Dazui mocked the reporters who wrote the gossip for being substandard.

Her husband even said directly: "Let the gossips come more fiercely, me and Big Mouth can handle it."

After that, the two continued to show their affection on various occasions, and her husband publicly stated that he wanted to hold a wedding for Big Mouth.

This wave of traction has brought a new wave of traffic to "Wulin Waijia".

The grand premiere held in Beijing also made the down-to-earth nature of this film deeply rooted in people's hearts.

As a movie adapted from a TV series that aired five years ago, no one expected that it would attract so much attention.

After the premiere, the internet was full of praise for the film.

"What's there to say? When Tongfu Inn appeared and the final music started, I was still not satisfied. I laughed and cried. It's hard to say whether this movie is a tragedy or a wash. This movie has returned with laughter and warmth after five years. If you take it too seriously, you won't be happy."

"It's just old friends meeting, just laugh and that's it."

"Sometimes I suddenly realize that I can't find the feeling I had back then, nor can I get back the time I had back then."

The next day, although the first-day box office of 1600 million was on par with "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf", considering the production cost of this movie, many investors already knew that this movie made a lot of money.

On the same day, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Tom Sherak, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and Mo'Nique, last year's Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner, walked onto the podium to announce the nominations for 24 of the 10 major awards at this year's Oscars.

The shortlist quickly exploded across the Internet.

"The King's Speech" reversed "The Social Network" at the Golden Globe Awards for Best Picture, and with 12 nominations, it took the lead in this year's Oscars.

The remake of the western "True Grit", which was rejected by the Golden Globe Awards, was unexpectedly nominated for 10 awards including Best Picture, ranking second in the number of nominations, surpassing popular films such as "The Social Network".

The Coen brothers, who won the Oscar for Best Director three years ago, were nominated for Best Director again with this film. Last year's Oscar winner Jeff Bridges was nominated for Best Actor again for his role in True Grit.

This is a big slap in the face of the Golden Globe Awards!
It was not surprising that "The Social Network", the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture, was nominated for eight awards.

What surprised everyone the most was that "Inception" directed by Guan Ling and Nolan also received 8 nominations, but except for the nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, the others were technical awards.

With "The Father", Guan Ling squeezed out "Black Swan" and directly stood on the nomination list for the Oscar for Best Director!
As the news came out, the whole network was shocked!

"Being on the Oscar nomination list for Best Director with a Chinese-language film, regardless of whether or not he wins, this achievement is enough to be admired by all Chinese directors in China!"

"Who else?!"

Almost everyone on the Internet was blinded by this news!

(End of this chapter)