Chinese Entertainment

Chapter 782 Amazing acting skills in "Heaven and Earth"

Because the time interval between this year's Oscars and the Spring Festival is too short, Gu Wei's upcoming schedule is very tight.

After finishing breakfast at home on the first day of the new year, Gu Wei and Miss Liu followed Gu's father and mother to pay New Year's greetings to their grandparents, and naturally had lunch with several close relatives at noon.

There was no time to rest in the afternoon, so the two of them went directly to Miss Liu's grandmother's house and stayed there all night.

The next day was the second day of the Chinese New Year.

The two of them met with the company's senior executives and directors at noon, and in the evening they went to Jiang Wen's invitation and had a few drinks.

Early in the morning on the third day of the Lunar New Year, when the domestic box office war was in full swing, Gu Wei, Miss Liu, Zhang Yimou and his party appeared at the Capital Airport.

"Director Gu, Yifei, Director Zhang, are you going to attend the Oscars?" the reporter asked excitedly. After all, if you go abroad at this time, it seems that the only thing you can do is to go to the Oscars.

"Yes, hehe!" Miss Liu nodded and replied with a smile.

Since these people showed up at the airport so brazenly, they were naturally surrounded and interviewed.

Finally, after answering several questions, everyone was able to escape.

Less than half an hour later, Liu Yifei, wearing a coat and making a "yeah" gesture to the camera, became a hot topic, quickly suppressing all the reports about Huang Shengyi in Hollywood.

"Haha, I'm dying of laughter. Yifei wouldn't just know this one gesture, right?"

"Have you noticed that Yifei seems to have gained weight during the Chinese New Year, and there is some fat on her face, haha."

"Haha, this proves that Director Gu's family has good food."

"You gain three pounds during the Chinese New Year. Even big stars can't escape this rule, hehe!"

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After more than ten hours of flight, Gu Wei, Miss Liu and Zhang Yimou arrived in Los Angeles safely.

Reid came to pick them up as usual. As soon as they left the airport and got into the car, Gu Wei's cell phone rang.

Warner's Tsujihara knew that Gu Wei had arrived in Los Angeles, so he wanted to invite him over for a gathering.

Firstly, it was to welcome him, and secondly, it was to make up for the regret that Gu Wei did not attend the celebration party of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes".

"Let's talk about it after the Oscars." Gu Wei replied and hung up the phone.

To be honest, it did surprise some people that "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" successfully won the North American box office championship last year.

Even Gu Wei, before the movie was released, thought most about surpassing Lionsgate's "The Hunger Games 2" at the box office, but who would have thought that Warner would accidentally retain the record of being the North American box office champion.

Ultimately, it’s because Hollywood released too many bad movies in 14, and this trend will become more and more obvious in the next few years.

In other words, after its heyday at the end of the last century and the beginning of this century, Hollywood has now begun to decline.

Many Hollywood media reported that the rise of Chinese films had affected Hollywood blockbusters, but in Gu Wei's opinion this was pure nonsense.

You know, no matter how bad some Hollywood special effects blockbusters are, they can't be worse than Chinese special effects movies.

The bottom line is that Hollywood released too many blockbusters in previous years, and in recent years it has been relying on its old success to make sequels to these blockbusters, causing audiences to become aesthetically fatigued.

As for the view online that Hollywood is declining because there are no good themes and good scripts, Gu Wei believes that this is also one-sided. After all, there are good stories every year and there is no shortage of various themes.

It’s just that many big Hollywood companies have lost their previous ambition to forge ahead, and Gu Wei is happy to see this.

I want to say, "You guys can just give up, and I will be brilliant in the future."

I haven't been here for a long time, but the villa in Beverly is still as new as ever. I don't need to ask to know that Reid must have arranged someone to clean it regularly.

After praising Reid who took the opportunity to take credit, Gu Wei drove him out of the company.

After all, the boss can rest anytime and anywhere, but as a worker, the New Year is over, why don’t you hurry up and start working?

Seeing Reid leave with a resentful look on his face, Miss Liu couldn't help but laugh.

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At the same time, domestically.

The collective release of seven or eight domestic blockbusters on the same day also had an impact, that is, more than a dozen films released before the New Year began to be withdrawn from the theaters.

You have to know that even for a movie that was released on February 2st, it hasn’t even been a month yet.

However, the market competition is too fierce, and under the suppression of many blockbusters, this batch of films can no longer generate "profits".

To this end, more than a dozen small and medium-sized producers collectively responded to the call for "fair scheduling."

Unfortunately, the cinema chain has always been the one that takes whoever feeds you as their own. If you can’t create value, I’ll put a screw on you and tell you to go to hell.

It has to be said that the "curly" characteristics of the Chinese people have slowly begun to show up.

But where some people are sad, others are happy. "Somewhere Only We Know" was released for 12 days and the box office successfully won 2.8 million yuan. A low-budget movie, just because it used a "fresh meat" Wu Fengji, successfully achieved a box office success.

This operation made other companies in the industry shine. "You can create stars, so why can't we?"

As a result, many companies in the industry began to publicly "create stars" while fighting at the box office.

For a time, Wu Sewing Machine, Lu Han, Li Yifeng, Chen Weiting, Lin Gengxin, the Shit Cleaner Boy, Chen He and Hua Chenyu were all dubbed the "new generation of film and television superstars" and "little kings of Chinese music".

In particular, in order to hype up the movie "Old Cannon", Feng Xiaogang even shouted the slogan "With the support of Wu Yifan and Li Yifeng, "Old Cannon" is bound to break the 15 billion box office."

Afterwards, Shanghai Film Group was not to be outdone and released "Grave Robbers' Chronicles 2" starring Lu Han and Jing Boran, and shouted the slogan of breaking the 20 billion box office.

Coupled with the crazy fans of the brothers adding fuel to the fire, with all kinds of support and mutual criticism, the domestic entertainment industry can be said to be extremely lively.

In this situation, it also heralds the arrival of a trend: the era of "fresh meat" and "traffic stars" has arrived, and they are about to officially take the stage!
Correspondingly, Xingchen Film and Television Company has introduced young new forces such as Han Dongjun, Chen Xiao, and Zhu Yilong, and their slogan is: "A new generation of powerful young actors"!
Although Han Dongjun has not graduated yet, he has played the leading role in "The Wandering Earth" and "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" consecutively, and now he has won the leading role in "The Great Wall". He can already be called the leader of the new generation of young actors and a truly first-line male star.

After starring in "The Journey of Flower", Chen Xiao directly bought out the artist contract of Huanyu Film and Television, abandoned Si Yatou and joined Xingchen Film and Television Company.

As for Zhu Yilong, Wang Jinghua intercepted the Capital Oriental Feiyun International Film and Television Company and introduced him to the Shiba Culture Company.

At the annual meeting of Xingchen Film and Television, Wang Jinghua brought him with her, and Gu Wei also had some impression of him. Although he did not directly say that he would be the male lead in the next movie, with the resources of Xingchen Film and Television, it would not take long for him to rise strongly.

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We spent more than ten hours on the plane. Due to the time difference, we left the capital during the day and it was still daytime when we arrived in Los Angeles.

Gu Wei slept for five or six hours in a dazed state.

Miss Liu fell into a deep sleep as soon as she got on the plane, and this time she woke up earlier than Gu Wei.

It was getting dark outside, and Gu Wei went downstairs directly after washing up.

The nannies in charge of food had already prepared dinner. Seeing Gu Wei coming down, Zhang Yimou pointed in the direction of the dining table. It was obvious that he and Miss Liu had already eaten.

At the same time, a piece of entertainment gossip spread in Hollywood.

The content of the news left everyone dumbfounded and felt like it was something completely ridiculous.

Huang Shengyi and the Juli Pictures team issued a bilingual press release in Chinese and English and accepted an interview with Sina's Hollywood reporter.

They cried aggrievedly, saying that at one or two o'clock this morning, the villa where the group lived was stolen.

Among the stolen items, the most valuable was a large suitcase.

Inside is the dress prepared for Huang Shengyi to wear when attending the Hollywood Independent Film Festival and the Academy Awards.

These dresses are all high-end dresses provided by brand sponsors and are valuable.

If it were just that, it would be fine, but not long after the things were lost, Huang Shengyi's team posted a photo of Huang Shengyi being sick and hospitalized on social platforms such as Weibo.

First the dress was lost, then the house was robbed and the jewelry was gone.

Finally, after Sina Entertainment reporters arrived at the scene again, they were informed by Huang Shengyi's team that Huang Shengyi had diarrhea due to gastrointestinal discomfort and suddenly fainted while putting on makeup. She has been sent to a local hospital in Los Angeles for treatment.

It was as if there was an invisible force preventing her from attending the Oscars red carpet.

When Gu Wei finished his dinner and read the relevant reports, he frowned.

In front of Miss Liu and Zhang Yimou, he said directly: "Now, I guess many Hollywood filmmakers can see how powerful the acting skills of mainland actresses are."

"Haha." Miss Liu burst out laughing.

Zhang Yimou next to him also raised his lips slightly, and anyone with a discerning eye could tell that the other party was acting on purpose.

After all, it's too much to keep stealing things. Even if the security in the United States is getting worse and worse, thieves are fools. Can they steal from your family?

"Birds of a feather flock together. Birds of a feather flock together. You will become like the people you hang out with." Zhang Yimou said with a smile, his tone full of disdain.

Hearing this, Gu Wei naturally understood who Lao Zhang was talking about. The key point was that although such fabricated hype could increase the popularity, it would ultimately bring shame to the Chinese people.

You have to know that so many media and filmmakers in Hollywood are not fools. They can figure it out with a little thought.

Once people understand the truth, there will surely be media outlets that will use it to discredit the Chinese people.

Hearing this, even Miss Liu reacted and immediately asked, "Is this all acting?"

"Ok!"

After getting Gu Wei's affirmative answer, Liu Yifei opened her mouth into an "O" shape. She really couldn't have guessed that it could be hyped like this. It completely overturned her previous three views.

Just as Gu Wei guessed, even netizens from the mainland began to slowly come to their senses by this time.

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(End of this chapter)