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Chapter 432 [115] Golden Globe Award, shortlisted!
Xing Ye’s pinnacle work!

One actor a year, Zhou Xingchi for a hundred years.

"The opening scene is Wang Zhao, the gangsters are fighting the police, and the Ax Gang is taking advantage of the gangsters..."

"The police station's 'Crime Busters' plaque was cracked. It's a slap in the face..."

"..."

Chen Yu took a rare break at home, lying in bed and watching Star.com's reviews of "Kung Fu"; unlike the one-sided praise from film critics, this movie, like Douban in its previous life, received different ratings from Star.com. high.

7.7!

A rating that completely shatters people’s eyes.

The opening score of "Kung Fu" in the previous life was 6. After Douban was born in 05, "Kung Fu" scored 7.2, and then rose to 7.7 within a year!

Then for decades, the score has been hovering around 7.5, reaching 7.4 and rising to 7.9!

Then in 2015, the release of the "Kung Fu 3D" version truly let movie fans know the standard of this movie; after that, the rating continued to rise, reaching a height of 8.7 and 8.8.

In fact, this movie was very ahead of its time.

The reason why the ratings skyrocketed ten years later is simple; classic movies can withstand the baptism of time.

Feng Xiaogang has been making movies for so many years and has acted in many movies, but his most outstanding part is at the beginning of "Kung Fu"; and classics like "Who else?" "Is there still Wang Fa?" and so on There are no less than 100 lines in "Kung Fu".

These lines have become very popular memes in later generations, which is enough to show how deeply this movie left a deep impression on the hearts of the audience.

Therefore, professional film critics can see the classics of this movie; what about the audience?

They don't understand yet.

When Chen Yu was a child, he only thought it was funny when he watched Xingye's movies; but in "Kung Fu", he started to play with depth, and of course you won't adapt to it.

Because when you watch his movies in middle age, you have different feelings than when you watch them as a teenager or young adult.

At present, the main group of movie-watching groups are still young people, so the ratings are certainly not high.

"childish!"

"How exaggerated!"

"What a terrible movie!"

"The preface does not match the postscript!"

"The protagonist, Master Xing, is so stupid..."

"..."

It’s just that I was too young at the time. Later generations will look back and wonder why I was so average when I was young; youth and the feeling of youth cannot have both. Of course Chen Yu didn’t take these bad reviews seriously and even scolded him. Acting like a madman.

Chen Yu would just laugh it off.

Yesterday, the first-day box office of "Kung Fu" in Hong Kong, Baodao and Mainland China has been released.

Hong Kong's 1123 million, second only to the 1608 million created by Chen Yu's "The Blind Shaft", ranking second in the first-day box office in Hong Kong film history.

Treasure Island grossed NT$4192 million, and the northern region alone accounted for NT$2120 million, far surpassing the previous record holder, the American Hollywood blockbuster "The Day After Tomorrow" with a record of NT$1000 million; of course, this was the first-day box office result.

The highest single-day box office record for Baodao was previously NT$2180 million for "House of Flying Daggers". Now, it has also been broken by "Kung Fu".

Taking advantage of the super popularity of Mr. Star on the island and the "god-making movement" that people from all walks of life rushed to endorse Mr. Star, all pre-sale tickets for the evening show of "Kung Fu" in Taiwan have been sold out within a week, and the cinemas were packed with people. Yesterday, the additional openings lasted until four o'clock in the morning, but it was not enough.

Warner Village Roadshow, Cinemark and other movie theater chains all had full houses all the way.

The film's producers have estimated that the Taiwanese box office of "Kung Fu" will soar over NT$100 million in two and a half days over the weekend, breaking the record for the fastest weekend box office and fastest breaking NT$100 million in film history, and is expected to break the record of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" "'s box office of NT$200 million set a new record for Chinese-language films in Taiwan.

As for the mainland, the single-day box office was 1431 million yuan, second only to the first-day box office record of "House of Flying Daggers" of 2080 million yuan, ranking second in the first-day box office in mainland China film history.

The single-day box office is still maintained by "House of Flying Daggers", with 3180 million!
This is what "House of Flying Daggers" created on the first weekend of its release.

Today is Christmas Eve, Friday is Christmas Eve, and tomorrow is Christmas Day. Chen Yu estimates that "Kung Fu" should be able to catch up.

At present, the total pre-sale box office of "Kung Fu" Xiangjiang has reached 4871 million Hong Kong dollars, and the real-time box office is 1681 million; while the pre-sale box office of Baodao is 9120 million NT dollars, and the real-time box office has exceeded the 5000 million mark.

The mainland is the most fierce.

The total pre-sale box office is 7611 million yuan, and the real-time box office is 2090 million yuan!
"It may not be able to exceed the 3.1 million of "House of Flying Daggers", but it is definitely much better than the previous life!"

In the previous life, when "Kung Fu" was released together with "A World Without Thieves", it took in 1.73 and 1.26 million box office respectively, which added up to exactly 3 million.

At present, there is only one blockbuster movie in theaters, "Kung Fu", so why don't we try to increase the schedule? !

Moreover, Chen Yu's butterfly effect is also increasing the number of theater screens in the mainland. In his previous life, Chen Yu didn't know how many theaters and movie screens there were in the country at the end of 2004, but now because of the supernatural level of "House of Flying Daggers", Many more cinemas have been opened in the country.

This is much better than in the previous life.

In other words, if this virtuous cycle continues to develop, a new situation for Chinese films may begin 1-2 years earlier than in the previous life.

In those days, this speed will become faster and faster.

Because as Chen Yu's fame increases, it drives the development of the entire Chinese film industry.

Now Chen Yu estimates that it will be 1-2 years, and it is very likely that in another two years, it will have to accelerate again; as long as the films released by Chen Yu maintain such a high box office status, how can the capital side not use full power to get on the screen?

"It can be regarded as the first meaningful thing I did after being reborn!"

Chen Yu flipped through the movie reviews and finally closed the computer, preparing to box and relax.

At present, "Kung Fu" doesn't need to worry at all. The next question is when will it break 1 million, break 2 million, and whether it can break 3 million.

As for Xiangjiang and Baodao, it is no surprise that they will create new film history records; and other countries will also release them in the next few days!
It's the end of this month in the United States, so we can't catch up with Christmas, but we can still celebrate the New Year, which is obviously much better than April next year in the previous life.

It is said that it is because of Chen Yu.

In Southeast Asia, including Japan and South Korea, it is on New Year's Day; in Europe, it is after New Year's Day.

Jingle Bell!
Just when Chen Yu was about to do some tricks in the practice room, an unexpected phone rang.

Luo Yi.

The person in charge of CAA China Office.

Is the script for "Mission: Impossible 3" ready?
Chen Yu picked up the phone and pressed the connect button.

"Chan, congratulations on the release of another blockbuster movie. I watched it for the first time yesterday. It's great!"

This guy Luo Yi deserves to be a China connection. Every time he calls Chen Yu, he gets a lot of rainbow farts. "Kung Fu" was released before New Year's Day, and Columbia adjusted its schedule because of him. This guy also said it.

And unlike "House of Flying Daggers" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", which were initially limited in the number of studios they opened, because the investor was Hollywood Pictures, they opened with 500 studios, which can be said to be the first Chinese-language blockbuster in the United States. The film has the largest number of theater openings.

In the previous life, "Kung Fu" was actually the Chinese-language film with the most theater openings in the United States. It was basically open throughout the United States, covering 2500 theaters. Although it only took in a box office of 1710 million U.S. dollars in the end, that was in April, and the film schedule was still limited. unfavorable.

In addition, Xingye's box office appeal in North America is average. With this box office performance, he has actually ranked fourth in the history of Chinese-language films in North America!

The first is "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", the second is "Hero", and the third is "Fearless" released the year after tomorrow!
The box office deterrence of Li Yu and Li Lianjie is still very terrifying in North America.

So in this life, you can actually look forward to it; because Chen Yu has just emerged in North America, many people are still very interested in him. Coupled with the New Year's Day ticket warehouse, the whole museum is fully open, which is definitely much better than the 1710 million in the previous life.

"You called me, weren't you just to congratulate me?"

Chen Yu smiled, and Luo Yi hurriedly said: "No, no, no, I have a great thing to tell you, and we at CAA were the first to know about it!"

"what's up?"

If you put it this way, it should not be the script of "Mission: Impossible 3".

"I decided to put it aside and want to discuss the movie "Kung Fu" with you first. Really, it is very good. I decided to buy a few more tickets and let my family accompany me to watch it again!"

"Oh my god, do you know how disillusioned I was when I saw your video coming out?"

"Oh, God, for the first time I'm thinking, is this the same Chan I know?"

"How did he become like this?"

"..."

Luo Yi was talking nonchalantly.

If he had stood in front of Chen Yu, he would have been beaten by Chen Yu long ago; now, Chen Yu really wanted to cut off the phone, if he hadn't seen him showing off.

This guy has perfectly inherited the white man's character of teasing others.

"Luo Yi, if you don't want to be beaten by me next time we meet, I think you should tell me quickly?"

Chen Yu finally couldn't help but interrupt.

"Hahaha!"

"I knew it……"

Luo Yi smiled happily, but his voice became a little excited the next second: "Chan, you have created a new history in China. Congratulations, you have been shortlisted for the 62nd Golden Globe Award for Best Actor!"

"Do you know how excited I was when I heard the news?"

"what--"

This guy screamed on the other end of the phone: "Really, you are nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. Oh my God, what an incredible thing!"

"Let me see the date?"

Chen Yu was actually quite happy and said with a smile: "Oh, today is not April Fool's Day, so... is it true?"

"Truer than gold, man!"

"As expected, the rankings will be released at 11pm Imperial City time; this is based on the time the rankings will be released on Christmas Eve this morning, US time!"

"And, besides you, House of Flying Daggers has also been nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It has received many nominations and is the favorite for this Golden Globe Award!"

The more Luo Yi talked, the more excited he became. Of course Chen Yu was also very happy: "Luo Yi, thank you for telling me the news in advance!"

"Of course, I know you're going to celebrate. I wish you a good time!"

Luo Yi was about to hang up the phone, but Chen Yu suddenly said: "Luo Yi, I want to ask, what are the chances of me winning the Best Actor award?"

"I know what you mean!"

Luo Yi shrugged. The Golden Globe Awards in the United States have always been known as the Oscar benchmark. Many award-winning movies and actors have a high probability of winning the same award at the Oscars ceremony that year.

The Golden Globe Awards, a world-famous American film and television award, are held in the form of a formal dinner, hosted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

The final result of this award is voted by 96 journalists, about two-thirds of whom are part-time.

In other words, the awards are decided by these 96 people.

Although it claims to be a non-profit organization, in fact, it is the most well-run film and television awards in the United States.

In recent years, many reporters have even received a lot of public relations fees privately.

By 2022, it was acquired by Eldridge Industries and directly announced that it was starting business.

It’s time for me to show off my cards and stop pretending. I will sell this award publicly.

At this point, the gold content of the Golden Globe Awards has plummeted; but now, the gold content of the Golden Globe Awards is obviously very high.

Although these awards can serve as public relations, they are all done behind closed doors.

It is nothing new to have been exposed to many public relations scandals; sometimes, journalist members with voting rights are more affected by small favors and flattery.

Various film studios in Hollywood hold various banquets every year to facilitate these members' contact with directors and actors.

In 1975, at a media gathering in Dallas, Texas, some members admitted that they "often remember the studio being extra nice to us."

Therefore, this award can be purchased.

Chen Yu's question to Luo Yi was, of course, to ask him how much public relations fees would be needed to finally win the title of Best Actor? !
"House of Flying Daggers" was so bad in its previous life that it received several Golden Globe nominations, especially for Best Foreign Language Film. However, Zhang Weiping was not willing to spend money, so he did not win the final award.

In this life, "House of Flying Daggers" is so much better than in its previous life, and it is obviously normal to receive more nominations.

As for whether Zhang Weiping will do public relations this year, Chen Yu thinks the probability is very high, because he has earned more than 1 million US dollars from this movie, and it is normal to use it for public relations; in his previous life, "House of Flying Daggers" had a global box office of only million US dollars. When Zhang Weiping arrived and paid again, he was obviously a little distressed.

In this life, he has made 3 million yuan. If he doesn't express his feelings, Lao Mouzi will probably have a problem with him.

"Listen, Chan, actually at CAA headquarters, when we learned that you were nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, we held an emergency internal meeting!"

"But the other opponents nominated are too strong!"

"We still have a chance. Next year and the year after that, CAA will definitely help you fight for it!"

"..."

This is something that can't be helped.

Although awards can be good for public relations, they are richer than you, so the price-performance ratio is not high.

Of course, the more important thing is that the Golden Globe Awards must maintain its apparent fairness. For example, if there are strong candidates in the nomination list, then no amount of public relations will be useless.

Unfortunately, among the actors nominated for the 62nd Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor together with Chen Yu, there are two perverts like this.

Yes, not one, but two!
Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio!

"There is almost no need to award awards. We at CAA already know who the candidate for Best Actor this year is!"

Little Plum.

The son of Hollywood.

He has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor many times, and it would be unreasonable if he doesn't win again.

In fact, just like the later Oscar winner, he was nominated for many times and finally succeeded in public relations.

Now, it is obviously the same script!
(End of this chapter)