The Crown Prince of Huayu!

After a little intimacy and sweet talk in the car, Liu Yifei drove to the nearby Hanlin Academy.

Don't get me wrong, it's not the Hanlin Academy where people study in TV dramas.

It's a hotel.

It’s quite expensive. It cost more than 6,000 yuan for two people.

After Liu Yifei paid the bill with her credit card, the two went to the cinema together to watch the newly released "Iron Man 3".

As the third film in this series, when it premiered, Han Jiadong did not go to North America to promote it like he did when "Avengers" premiered.

The film's box office was not affected by his absence.

After the director of the second film was changed to Li An and the global box office dropped to more than 1.8 million, this film was changed back to Han Jiadong and it took over million in the first week of its release in North America.

It surpassed "Harry Potter 7" and ranked second in North American film history, second only to "Avengers".

It undoubtedly won the box office championship that week.

The box office fell by more than 55% in the second weekend, but it still earned nearly million in the second weekend, ranking fifth in film history.

The ones ranked ahead of it are "The Avengers", "Avatar", "Interstellar" and "The Dark Knight".

It won the box office championship for the week.

In just two weeks, the North American box office exceeded 300 million.

It also sold well overseas, with box office revenue exceeding 300 million.

The total global box office has exceeded 600 million, exceeding the final box office of the second film, and is only a few million away from the box office of the first film.

Judging from the box office trend of "Iron Man 3", it is only a matter of time before it surpasses the first one.

There is even great hope that it will become another billion-dollar movie.

Seeing the terrifying speed at which "Iron Man 3" is making money around the world, not only domestic audiences, but even North American audiences seem to have an illusion: the movie industry is about to enter the era of Han Jiadong!

After all, it would be great for others to have a movie that grosses over 1 billion.

Even Spielberg, who has the highest global box office, has not yet had a movie that has grossed over 1 billion worldwide.

The most profitable movie, "Jurassic Park," has been re-released several times, and is still just short of reaching one billion.

As a result, Han Jiadong’s third billion-level movie is about to be released.

And considering the popularity of the Marvel series, he will most likely be able to make several more billion-dollar movies in the future relying solely on the Marvel series.

Even more outrageous than Cameron.

Although Cameron ranks first and second in the world, he is also the only director whose single movie can gross over 2 billion.

But his efficiency is too slow.

It takes several years or even decades to polish a movie.

In terms of global cumulative box office, it has even been surpassed by Han Jiadong.

Thanks to the huge sales of "Avatar" and "Titanic", although Cameron has not made many films, the total global box office has reached over 6 billion US dollars.

Surpassing Peter Jackson, who owns "The Lord of the Rings" series and "The Hobbit" series, and was previously second only to Spielberg.

The former has a global box office of over 5.5 billion.

The latter’s cumulative box office has reached over 9.5 billion!

At this time, Han Jiadong has surpassed Cameron and is rapidly approaching Spielberg.

Its main representative works include:
"The Avengers": 16.7 billion

"Interstellar": 15.1 billion

"Inception": 9.07 million

Gravity: 7.9 million

"Twilight": $7.13 million

"Iron Man": 6.5 million

"Iron Man 3": 6.5 million (now in theaters)
"5.1": million

"Lost on Journey: Detective Chinatown": 5.02 million

"Lost in Thailand": 2.6 million

"Juno": 2.3 million

"Paranormal Activity": 2.05 million

……

The total box office has also unknowingly reached over 9 billion!
There is even a great possibility that he will surpass Spielberg with "Iron Man 3"!
There is even a greater chance of becoming the first billion-dollar director!
After staying in China for a while, Han Jiadong went abroad to start filming the fifth season of "Game of Thrones".

When he was signing a special effects cooperation contract with Lu Ying, he saw an unexpected person.

"It's you?"

Han Jiadong looked at a woman in the legal team in surprise, and couldn't help but look at the other members of the team carefully one by one.

Su Mei was so excited by his question that she was almost incoherent: "It's... it's me, Director Han, do you still remember me?"

I am extremely grateful that I got the opportunity to come to North America.

Han Jiadong didn't see the person he wanted to see. He didn't know whether he was disappointed or relieved. He nodded: "Well, why are you here?"

When others saw that Han Jiadong actually knew Su Mei, they looked at Su Mei with a little more envy.

Su Mei said happily: "I am also an employee of Luying now."

"Aren't you from the capital? Why did you go to Luying?"

"You still remember this?"

Su Mei was even happier: "I'm your fan, so I joined Luying with my classmates."

"Your classmate..."

Han Jiadong almost blurted out to ask about Su Mei, and his heartbeat quickened at this moment, but in the end he forced himself to hold it back and just nodded: "Do your best."

Then he handed the signing matter over to other people and left the meeting room alone.

After signing the contract, leave the CP Building.

The head of the legal department immediately approached Su Mei in a gentle voice and asked about her relationship with Han Jiadong.

After asking, he immediately decided to give Su Mei a promotion and a raise.

Su Mei was so happy that she shared her news with her friends after returning home.

Before filming Game of Thrones, Han Jiadong handed the script of "Fast & Furious 7" to Universal, and designated James Wan, who had filmed horror series such as "Saw", as the director.

After several films accumulated, this series finally broke through the 500 million mark from the previous 100 million or 200 million.

Han Jiadong decisively followed the previously agreed agreement and exchanged his investment share of "Twilight" with Universal.

Universal had no objection either. After all, the box office of each film in the Twilight series was consistently over 700 million to 800 million.

After finishing the filming of the fifth season of Game of Thrones, Han Jiadong returned to China. After some consideration, he decided that he had no movie he wanted to shoot for the time being, so he started filming the fourth season of "The World of Cultivation" first.

During this period, he also attended the Hundred Flowers Awards with Liu Yifei, Tong Liya, Huang Xiaoming and others.

finally.

Thanks to his performance in "Chinese Partners" and his super high popularity.

Of course, the most important thing is the Oscar and Golden Globe nominations. Liu Yifei easily defeated Yang Caini (Cold War), Hai Qing (Beijing Meets Seattle), Tong Liya (Lost on Journey: Chinatown Detective), and Zhang Lanxin (Chinese Zodiac) for the Best Supporting Actress Award. Liu Yifei, Yang Caini, and Tong Liya are actually the heroines of the movies, or the leading actresses of the movies.

It’s just that these three movies mainly tell stories about men, and their roles in them are not important, so it’s normal for them to give up the female lead and compete for the second female lead.

The Best Supporting Actor award was won by Xiao Yang for his outstanding performance in "Lost in Journey: Detective Chinatown".

With this role, he defeated several opponents including Li Xian from the same movie, Zhang Lanxin and Peng Yuyan from "Cold War" and won the Best Newcomer Award.

The Best Actress award was won by Zhang Ziyi for her performance in "The Grandmaster".

Although some people say that she actually played a character with expressionless face, it really fits the role very well. She has also won several Best Actress awards for this role.

Including the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress, which still sounds very impressive but actually has no value.

Even an incomplete movie like "The Grandmaster" was able to sweep the Academy Awards, which shows how decadent Hong Kong films are now.

The male lead award was won by Huang Xiaoming's "Chinese Partners", beating Jackie Chan's "Chinese Zodiac", Wu Xiubo's "Yanjing Meets Seattle", Wang Baoqiang's "Lost on Journey: Chinatown Detective" and Liang Jiahui's "Cold War".

His performance in "Chinese Partners" has indeed won recognition from many people.

The Best Screenplay award was won by "Lost in Journey: Detective Chinatown".

The Best Picture and Best Director awards were both won by "The Grandmaster"...

Although he had never expected the group of public judges for the Hundred Flowers Awards and had anticipated this result, Han Jiadong was still speechless for a long time when he saw the result.

Although the public opinion is now praising this movie and commending Wang Jiawei for his ten years of hard work.

But this movie, as a whole, is not excellent at all.

There isn't even a "whole".

Because the shooting time of this movie far exceeded the scheduled time and the cost far exceeded the scheduled cost, which was too much for the investors to bear, so they forced Wong Kar-wai to stop filming!

In other words, this movie has not been completed at all!
The fact that Wong Kar-wai took the film to North America and Europe to participate in film festivals, and the fact that each version released in China was different, also showed that Wong Kar-wai himself was very dissatisfied with the film.

Looking at the content of the movie again, as many viewers joked, the movie should not be called "The Grandmaster" but "The Legend of Gong Er".

This couldn't be more clearly off topic.

The story was clearly paving the way for Ip Man in the early stages, but it inexplicably shifted to Gong Er in the middle.

And judging from the early settings, Gong Er was obviously there to set off the protagonist Ip Man.

Because Gong Er's behavior is contrary to the "Master".

Just as what Gong Er's father hoped for Gong Er, he hoped that as a child of the Gong family, she would have a broader vision and a more generous mind, and not be too entangled in personal love and hatred. At the critical moment of the country, she should pay more attention to the interests of the family and the country, so that she would have the opportunity to overcome that hurdle and become a master of her generation.

But what is Gong Er’s choice?
She couldn't be so noble and great, nor did she want to do so. She just wanted to take revenge and finally chose to avenge her father.

Her ending was that she started smoking marijuana to heal the wounds she suffered during revenge, which was obviously not a good result.

Combined with the previous plot, it is obvious that Wang Jiawei wanted to use her ending to contrast Ip Man from the beginning.

It’s a pity that there was no good plot to elevate the status of Ip Man as a great master, and the filming was wrapped up in a hurry. The original protagonist Ip Man was reduced to a useless role in the movie.

"The Grandmaster" is in name only.

But even if the name of the movie is changed to "The Legend of Gong Er", the movie still has many problems.

If the protagonist is Gong Er, then spending so many precious shots in the early stages to set the stage for Ip Man would be a waste of time.

The plot should be changed to one related to Gong Er, her father and the traitor Ma San.

But if that were the case, the movie would just become an ordinary story of revenge, and it would lose a lot of its class.

It's impossible to win the award by bragging.

But such a movie with problems everywhere won the Best Picture and Best Director awards...

Han Jiadong can accept the Best Picture award for "The Grandmaster". After all, the movie does look very impressive, and the pictures and dialogues are all top-notch.

But the director definitely drags the movie down, and he still won the Best Director award...

"Director, has the release date of Parasite not been determined yet?"

After the award ceremony, Zhang Ziyi, who had just won the Best Actress award, came to Han Jiadong with a smile on her face, and it was hard to tell that she had failed in seducing Han Jiadong before.

"Parasite" was filmed in May and all post-production was completed in August. Now it's already October, and there's still no news about its release. No wonder Zhang Ziyi would come to ask.

Han Jiadong did not hide it from her: "The film is going to participate in the Cannes Film Festival next year."

Unlike the Oscars, which require films to be released before they can be nominated, the three major European film festivals require films that have not been released to be nominated.

If Han Jiadong wants to participate in the Cannes Film Festival, he will have to wait until after that to release the film.

Zhang Ziyi's eyes lit up when she heard this.

Cannes Film Festival!

That is the most valuable of the three in Europe!

If I can win the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival, will anyone dare to compare myself with Zhou Xun in the future?

After participating in the Hundred Flowers Awards, Han Jiadong spent less than half a month to complete the fourth season of "The World of Cultivation".

Before disbanding the crew, Liu Sisi found an opportunity to urge Han Jiadong again, and also expressed her expectation for filming Han Jiadong's movie.

Her best film so far is the "The Four" series.

The quality is not even close to the movies directed by Han Jiadong himself.

Han Jiadong agreed considering that "Parasite" would not be released for the time being.

After some selection, I finally chose "Charlotte's Troubles".

The male lead is undoubtedly Shen Teng.

No one can perform that flavor except him.

As for the heroine...

It has not been determined yet, but it definitely cannot be Mary.

In the original time and space, people always tied "Shen Ma" together, and some fans even cursed their marriage partners because of this.

But the so-called "Shenma" is just marketing.

Even though Shen Teng is separated from Ma Li, he can still have box office success no matter who he works with.

However, the only movie in which he starred that flopped after he became famous was the one he starred in with Ma Li.

On the other hand, Ma Li has been struggling too much since she left Shen Teng.

So there is no need to worry that without Mary, the movie will not sell as well as it did in the original time and space.

Even in the original film, because the heroine is Ma Li, apart from the fact that she is a good woman in contrast to the second female lead, it is impossible to see why the hero likes her.

She was taken to the woods by gangsters. As an audience, I put myself in the male protagonist's perspective and did not feel at all what Xiaolongnu felt when she was about to be defiled by Yin Zhiping.

Of course, Han Jiadong didn't plan to let a particularly beautiful person play the female lead.

At least it won't overshadow Liu Sisi, who has already been cast as the second female campus beauty.

After comparing them, one can believe at first glance that Liu Sisi is more beautiful and is the well-deserved school belle.

At the same time, she has her own characteristics and is not completely suppressed by the second female lead like in the original film, making it difficult for the male lead, or the audience, to like her.

The characteristics can be cute, big bear, or long legs...

In short, there must be at least one better point than the second female lead.

After deciding these conditions, Han Jiadong began casting for the female lead. (End of this chapter)