Chinese Entertainment

Chapter 647 Weibo Night Returns to China
The scene of the Golden Globe cocktail party.

David Russell became the focus of the whole audience, and "American Hustle" won three major awards: Best Picture, Musical or Comedy, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress.

The second is "12 Years a Slave", which won the Best Picture - Drama, which also means that this movie will become a hot favorite for the Oscars.

Although "12 Years a Slave" only won one award at the Golden Globe Awards, it was the most important "Best Picture - Drama" award.

Although the nomination list has not yet been announced, all the crew members of "12 Years a Slave" are confident that they will be shortlisted. Even director Steve McQueen imitated Gu Wei when he gave his acceptance speech and praised the Oscar Academy members in public. As for the effect, it is unknown.

"The Revenant", one of the most popular movies, only won the Best Screenplay Award, but Gu Wei didn't think it was a big deal. Maybe it was a good thing.

But for those who watched the live broadcast in China, this result is too bad.

Almost as soon as the Golden Globe Awards ended, major mainland media outlets immediately changed their headlines.

"Parasite lost the Golden Globe, and The Revenant won only one of four!"

"As a bellwether of the Oscars, the failure of the Golden Globe Awards may mean that "Wild" and "Parasite" will miss the Oscars in a month."

"The Chinese film "Parasite" failed to win the Golden Globe Award again. Is it because of the system or the difference between Eastern and Western cultures..."

...

At the cocktail party, Leonardo was both excited and a little disappointed.

Leonardo was extremely excited to win the Best Actor in a Comedy Award again after many years, but the failure of "The Revenant" was a bit depressing.

After all, no matter how important the Golden Globe Awards are, they cannot compare to the Oscars.

After noticing that there were fewer people around Gu Wei not far away, Leonardo held the champagne and apologized to the guest he was talking to, then walked towards Gu Wei.

Before the person came to him, Leonardo heard Liu Yifei comforting Gu Wei. Well, it should be comforting, after all, he couldn't understand Chinese.

"Gu, don't be so disappointed, be happy, after all, we still have a chance at the Oscars."

The more Gu Wei listened to Leonardo's words, the more uncomfortable he felt. Why did everyone come to comfort him one after another?

Martin Scorsese, boxing champion Tyson, and now Leonardo DiCaprio. Do you look like someone who can't stand losing?

The more he thought about it, the more depressed he became. Gu Wei looked at Leonardo and asked, "Leon, do you think The Revenant can win the Oscars for Best Actor and Best Picture this year?"

“Well, Gu, although I am very confident about "The Revenant", I have to admit that this year's opponents are very strong.” Leonardo said with a serious expression. Even though he had just won a big award, he was not very sure about the Oscar.

"Well, with what you said, I think The Revenant will definitely be nominated for an Oscar." Gu Wei joked.

"Why?" Leonardo pointed at himself and asked puzzledly.

"Because you have a lot of experience with the Oscars. Every time you feel that there is little hope, that is when there is the greatest hope."

"Puchi." Liu Yifei laughed unkindly and looked at Leonardo in front of her with a teasing look. The more she thought about it, the more she felt that the other party had the attribute of reverse prediction.

"Uh." Leonardo touched his nose, not knowing whether he should be happy or sad.

After the two chatted for a while, Leonardo turned and left. He was one of the focuses of the whole audience tonight, and too many people wanted to chat with him.

Halfway through the cocktail party, Gu Wei, Zhang Yimou and others left early. "The Revenant" is okay, at least it has a best screenwriter.

But "Parasite" achieved nothing, and Zhang Yimou felt it was a bit weird to stay.

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at the same time.

When the news of the loss of the Golden Ball reached back home, netizens were naturally extremely disappointed.

Sometimes the greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment, and after the disappointment is the time for netizens to vent their grievances.

When Gu Wei was successful before, some black fans did not dare to show up. Now that Gu Wei lost the Golden Ball, some of them began to jump out.

Some people joked that Gu Wei's fame and status in Hollywood were all exaggerated by the domestic entertainment media, and his failure at the Golden Globe Awards was the best proof of that.

Some people even posted that Gu Wei was a puppet pushed out by the big capitalists in Hollywood, a typical worker, and that the Hollywood movies he made were all used to reap domestic box office revenue.

Now, the fans are not happy about this.

"Those who say this are brainless. Just look at the box office revenue and you'll know that Director Gu is the main investor in the foreign films he made."

"Best Screenplay isn't a big award? It turns out that haters think with their butts."

Fans and haters were fighting on the Internet, but Gu Wei didn't pay any attention to the news.

Since I need to go back home for about three weeks during the Chinese New Year, the progress of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" will naturally be affected.

In order to avoid too much influence as much as possible, Gu Wei could only devote himself to the filming.

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Hollywood.

Just a few days after the Golden Globe Awards, in the early morning of January 1, local time in Hollywood, the nomination list for the 16th Academy Awards was announced in Hollywood.

The awards ceremony will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on the evening of March 3nd local time.

"The Revenant" was successfully nominated and will compete for the Best Picture with eight films including "12 Years a Slave", "American Hustle", "Captain Phillips", "Dallas Buyers Club", "Gravity", "Her", "Nebraska", and "Philomena".

In addition to Best Picture, "The Revenant" was nominated for Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay.

Leonardo DiCaprio was nominated for Best Actor as he wished, but not for "The Wolf of Wall Street", for which he had just won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

"The Wolf of Wall Street" was only nominated for Best Director and Best Supporting Actor.

"The Great Gatsby" was nominated for Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design.

However, Leonardo set a new Oscar record, with three films starring him being nominated for the same Oscar.

However, the most popular film in China is naturally Zhang Yimou's "Parasite", especially directors, filmmakers and media in the industry, who are particularly concerned about its "Oscar bid".

After all, "Parasite" is the "purest bloodline" film ever to represent the mainland in the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

In the past, Zhang Yimou's "Raise the Red Lantern" and Chen Kaige's "Farewell My Concubine" became Hong Kong Island's "Olympic bid representatives" because their investment companies were registered in Hong Kong Island. Although both films were shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, they are not actually mainland domestic films in name.

When the list came out, the mainland film and television circles were in an uproar.

China’s “Parasite”;
Italy's "The Great City";
The Hunt, Denmark;
Palestine's "Omar"
Belgium’s “Broken House”;
"Parasite" successfully completed the nine-to-five competition and will compete with four other films for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

The previous favorite, "Blue Is the Warmest Color," last year's Palme d'Or winner, was eventually eliminated.

It has to be said that the Oscars' move has made audiences around the world full of expectations for the winner of this year's Best Foreign Language Film.

"The Golden Globe Awards are indeed the opposite. I hope they can create a miracle at the Oscars."

"Fuck, even the Palme d'Or winner can't be nominated. The gold content of this year's Best Foreign Language Film is a bit too high."

"With a 20% chance of winning out of five choices, there's no chance that Penguin will be able to take the time off, but I can't say for Oscar."

"No one noticed that all three movies starring Leonardo DiCaprio were nominated. Awesome!!"

“The Grandmaster is also nominated for Best Costume Design.”…

The crew of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes".

Filming continues...

After Gu Wei finished filming this morning's scenes, he discovered that his phone had dozens of missed calls, hundreds of blessing text messages, and more calls coming in.

"Is it done?" This was the first thought that popped into Gu Wei's mind.

Before he could even turn on the news, Scarlett Johansson came to him shouting and congratulating him non-stop.

“Have the nominations been announced?”

"Yes, director, it was just announced at 11 o'clock in the morning. The Revenant won four nominations and Leonardo was nominated for Best Actor." Scarlett Johansson said with a smile.

"Haha." Hearing this, Gu Wei was completely relieved.

After accepting congratulations from Jason Statham, Guo Fan, Han Jianv and others, filming continued as usual.

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In the evening, the shooting ended.

After returning to the villa, everyone naturally congratulated them again.

Especially the young lady threw herself on Gu Wei with a bear hug, and kept shouting "In, in".

Qin Hao, Chen Minghao and others have not returned to China yet. Their schedule is the same as Gu Wei. However, Hu Ge and Yuan Quan flew back to China after the Golden Globe Awards ceremony.

Hu Ge has recently become fascinated with drama and has just accepted an invitation from the Shanghai Theatre Academy to go on a three-month tour.

The same thing happened to Yuan Quan, except that it was the Central Academy of Drama that invited her.

"Parasite" and "The Revenant" were both shortlisted. After Qin Hao called Zhang Yimou, everyone naturally celebrated.

Before I finished my meal, Cao Guowei from the other side of the ocean called me.

"Director Gu, congratulations, congratulations!" Cao Guowei started congratulating him as soon as he opened his mouth. It was obvious that he called him specially at the right time.

"Mr. Cao, you are well-informed." Gu Wei said with a smile.

"Someone in the company has been keeping an eye on this matter. They should have called you a long time ago, considering that you might be filming a movie, haha."

Hearing this, Gu Wei smiled and said, "Boss Cao, is there anything else?"

"Weibo Night is about to announce the final list of guests. Is your and Yifei's schedule okay?"

As it involved the most important event before Weibo's IPO, Cao Guowei had to confirm again whether Director Gu and Liu Yifei could attend.

"No problem, we will set off to return to China on the 22nd at the latest, so we will have enough time." Gu Wei was fed good words by the young lady and said while eating.

"Haha, that's good. I won't disturb you from having dinner, Director Gu." Cao Guowei obviously heard the noise as well. He smiled and said something, then suddenly thought of something. "By the way, Mr. Song gave me a list of artists under Xingchen Film and Television Company. There are more than a hundred people. Do you think we should invite all of them?"

"Fuck, is Old Song expanding his army? Why are there so many artists?" Upon hearing this, Gu Wei suddenly had an idea, and a scene of more than a hundred people standing up and greeting him instantly emerged in his mind.

“Isn’t it a bit too high-profile? Who cares? Just treat it as a team-building event for the company’s artists.” Gu Wei thought silently.

Suddenly, Gu Wei thought of Cao Guowei who was still waiting for a reply on the other end of the phone. "Invite everyone. Let's have some fun together and make the scene bigger. If it's inconvenient for you to invite some guests, let Song Ge do it."

"Haha, OK, Director Gu, if we can invite a few Hollywood superstars, I think Weibo Night will become a unique event in China."

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This year, actors, stars and artists in the film and television circles and the entertainment industry have clearly felt a slight difference.

Because the official guest list of Weibo Night includes many big names in the industry.

Not only big directors such as Chen Kaige, Feng Xiaogang, Jiang Wen, Ning Hao, Lu Yang, Wu Ershan, Gu Changwei, and Xu Ke will be in attendance, but also the bosses of major film and television companies such as Guangguang, Huayi, Bona, Star Media, and Wanda will be present.

There are even Gu Wei and Liu Yifei who appear on the guest list for the first time in several years.

This kind of lineup can't help but make the actors and stars in the film and television industry think more.

Therefore, whether or not one has received an invitation to Weibo Night has become a new round of showing off capital in the circle.

Big stars such as Li Binbin, Fan Binbin, and Zhang Ziyi publicly uploaded photos of their invitation letters on Weibo. Liu Yifei, who is in Hollywood, also posted a photo of herself and Gu Wei's invitation letters.

In an instant, first-line male stars such as Chen Kun, Huang Xiaoming, Qin Hao, Deng Chao, and first-line female stars such as Yang Mi, Su Chang, Tong Liya, Wan Qian, and Liu Shishi all opened their invitation letters to check in.

As for the second-tier artists, there were too many who posted their invitation letters, and if you add the third-tier artists invited on Weibo, there were thousands of them in total.

Netizens expressed their feelings that now not only half of the entertainment industry but the entire entertainment industry is coming.

Later, Weibo officially announced: "There will be a 'mysterious guest' on the day, Weibo Night on the 23rd, everyone please look forward to it!"

It has to be said that the continuous posts on Weibo have directly increased the hype of this event.

After all, Weibo Night is not like the red carpet of some film festivals, and some stars are not qualified to go.

But Weibo Night is different, the range of stars is very wide, from first-tier to third-tier.

For those who are invited, the work they produce may be secondary; the most important thing is their status and fame in the circle.

For a time, the four words "Weibo Night" dominated the list, and the top five hot searches were all about it.

News such as Guo Jingming's second two parts of Tiny Times being halfway through filming and writer Han Han to make his directorial debut So Young were all covered up. Even the loss at the Golden Globe Awards and the announcement of the nominations for the Academy Awards were also overshadowed.

Upon seeing this, Cao Guowei was so happy that he lost his mind and praised his operation to everyone he met.

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Time passes, day by day.

News about the progress of "Jurassic World" directed by Zhang Yimou and "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" directed by Gu Wei are exposed on major social media from time to time.

At the same time, Gilles Jacob, the current president of the Cannes Film Festival, announced that he will leave after the 67th film festival this year.

The mainland media gave corresponding reports and conducted an exclusive interview with him.

In Hollywood, the Oscar topic is undoubtedly the most popular, and the Oscars do create hype.

From nominations to predictions and analysis by major media and Oscar candidate luncheons, and there are also several special events, the Oscars will not stop being popular in this month.

It’s all preparation for the day of the awards ceremony.

21 number.

Los Angeles International Airport.

Gu Wei, Liu Yifei and their group boarded a plane to the capital...

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(End of this chapter)