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Chapter 74 Word of mouth

Chapter 74 Word of mouth
In North America, the reputation of "The Pursuit of Happyness" continues to rise.

Movie fans who have seen the film have written down their viewing experiences on major movie review websites.

“Great fatherly love, inspiring story.”

“Like Forrest Gump and The Shawshank Redemption, this is a great movie.”

"Man, believe me, if you don't go to the cinema and watch it, you will regret it for the rest of your life."

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Of course, negative reviews are inevitable, such as:

"Another movie advocating "struggle" and "serving" the capitalists."

“Inspiration is the biggest scam.”

However, compared with the large number of positive reviews, these people's comments did not cause much stir.

In the office, Gu Wei was browsing the comments online.

I saw that "The Pursuit of Happyness" has a 91% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes (the founder of Rotten Tomatoes is a fan of Jackie Chan, and it was established to collect reviews of Jackie Chan's films), and the average score is 9.1, which is an excellent rating.

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In Hollywood, from the end of November to January, the movies released are mainly heartwarming films, children's films, and Christmas comedies, which are suitable for the whole family to watch.

Since January to February is the award season, especially the Golden Globe Awards and the Oscars, some heavyweight directors and actors will shoot many literary and artistic films with obscure content, focusing on biographies, historical events, and dramas that explore human nature, tailored to the tastes of the Oscars.

There were many Hollywood movies released in November, but the only ones that could compete with "The Pursuit of Happyness" at the box office were a few movies such as "The Incredibles". Thanks to the film's reputation, "The Pursuit of Happyness" won the box office championship for two consecutive weeks.

After entering December, competition in the film market has become more intense.

On the 10th, Zhang Yimou's film "House of Flying Daggers" was released in major theaters in North America.

Last year, after New Picture's "Heroes" was sold to Miramax, it was delayed in release and missed out on an Oscar.

Therefore, Zhang Weiping sold the North American copyright of "House of Flying Daggers" to Sony.

Sony is very optimistic about "House of Flying Daggers", so it is scheduled to be released during the Christmas season, which is as competitive as the summer season. This is also the time when Oscar-winning films strive for release. The film is 119 minutes long, and North American audiences will also be able to enjoy the original full film.

"Based on my experience, in addition to being nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, House of Flying Daggers will also receive many other nominations, such as stunts, costumes, art, music, etc. Zhang Yimou will also be nominated for Best Director."

The head of Sony Corporation spoke frankly in an interview with the media.

The film "The Aviator" starring Leonardo DiCaprio was scheduled to be released on Christmas. In order to apply for the Golden Globe Awards, the film chose to be released in a theater in the United States two weeks in advance.

"Gu, congratulations, your movie has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award."

In the office, Gu Wei received a call from Leonardo.

“Leon, congratulations on The Pilot being shortlisted as well.”

On the 13th, "The Pursuit of Happyness" and "The Aviator" were both nominated for the Golden Globe Awards. The two films will compete for awards such as Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director.

Also nominated are films such as "Million Dollar Baby", making the competition for this year's Golden Globe Awards particularly fierce.

On December 12, "A Series of Unfortunate Events of Lemony Schindler" and "The Iron Fist Man" were released on the same day, and the two films competed with each other.

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In China, the Lunar New Year box office is also highly competitive. Feng Xiaogang's film "A World Without Thieves" was released on December 12, which is also the work that made "Sha Gen" famous.

Two weeks later, Stephen Chow brought "Kung Fu" to major theaters in mainland China.

The first week box office of 6400 million broke the domestic film box office record and shocked the entire entertainment industry.

“Domestic kung fu movies are on the rise again.”

Domestic media were reporting the news crazily, and for a time, all the news about Gu Wei in North America was covered up.

Many people in the industry have begun to discover that the mainland film market is different from what it was a few years ago. It has been developing rapidly in the past two years, and the market has been visibly growing, which has also prompted more and more funds to flow into the film and television industry.

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"Director, how come you have time to call me?"

"I heard that your movie was nominated for the Golden Globe Awards? How is it? Are you sure you can win?"

The director of the directing department of Beijing Film Academy called me and asked three questions at the beginning. "Haha, director, whether you can win the award depends on the judges, I can't make the decision."

Gu Wei leaned back on the sofa and answered.

"You kid, everyone in school is talking about your movie lately."

Director Xie Xiaojing spoke eloquently.

But to be honest, ever since Gu Wei's movies achieved high box office, there has been no end of talk about him at the Beijing Film Academy.

Not only the students in school, but even the substitute teachers talked about this matter every other day and told them about it to their students. Fo Guwei's success made them feel proud.

"Keep going, if you can win the grand prize, the school will put up a banner for you."

When talking about the award, Xie Xiaojing sounded a little expectant.

At this time, in the QQ group of the 02 acting class, everyone was discussing what had happened recently.

"It depends on the situation. It won't be a problem for Stephen Chow's movies to break 100 million yuan in box office."

"What's wrong with breaking 100 million? Look at Director Gu's movie. It's been out for more than a month and the box office has exceeded 200 million US dollars. According to the exchange rate, it's over 100 billion."

Zhu Yawen saw the messages sent by other classmates and retorted.

"Director Gu is really amazing. One of his movies is worth the entire year's domestic box office."

"Have you read the news? The Pursuit of Happyness has just been nominated for a Golden Globe Award. I think Director Gu will definitely win the award."

Zhou Yang said.

"Xixi, you are familiar with Director Gu, do you know when he will return to China?"

Zhu Yawen tagged Liu Yifei and asked.

"Xixi is probably filming and may not be able to see the information."

Zhou Yang reminded.

Jiang Yiyan looked at the lively chat in the group and felt mixed emotions. She had not received a reply since she secretly passed a note to Director Gu Wei last time.

Now hearing the news of Gu Wei's success, my heart is filled with envy.

"No, if I can't get along with Director Gu, I'll have to try someone else." She thought silently in her heart.

Liu Yifei is currently filming The Return of the Condor Heroes in Yandang Mountain, Zhejiang Province. The crew is on a tight schedule and has no time to check group messages.

After work in the evening, I looked through the QQ group and saw the message from Zhu Yawen. After thinking for a while, I typed a reply:
"Senior didn't tell me when he would be back, so I'm not sure."

Not long after the message was sent, the group became lively again.

"Xixi, it's time to call it a day."

"Yeah, just got back to the hotel room."

"I think Director Gu will definitely come back after the Chinese New Year."

Zhu Yawen took the opportunity to say something.

"The senior's film has been submitted for an Oscar, so he may not be able to come back during the Chinese New Year."

Liu Yifei said suddenly.

"Oscar? Director Gu is awesome."

"That's an Oscar. I'm so jealous."

For them at the moment, being able to join a film crew is a bit of a luxury, let alone the Oscar Film Festival, which they dare not even dream of.

In the QQ group, a new round of discussion began as Liu Yifei mentioned the Oscar awards.

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