Huayu Entertainment: Who let him be the director!

In fact, Zhu Yawen, Song Jia and others all understood that the objects of those shots were Zhou Qing.

Companions like them brought by Zhou Qing are nothing more than the "background boards" in Zhou Qing's photos.

But even so, it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Wouldn't it be a huge profit if I could appear in the international media with Zhou Qing?

Not to mention anything else, just being able to wave and smile at the media on the Oscars red carpet without being driven away is already very difficult.

This is an Oscar.

The Oscar that Chinese entertainment has never been able to win!

The value of its red carpet is naturally extremely high.

Be it Zhu Yawen, Song Jia and others, they all thoroughly enjoyed themselves following Zhou Qing.

"I now declare that the closing ceremony of the 90th Academy Awards will begin now!"

After entering the main venue and after the opening and prelude, the host solemnly announced the news.

All the filmmakers in the venue were subconsciously cheered up.

The most critical moment has finally arrived.

Especially those filmmakers who received relevant nominations, all of them subconsciously sat up straight.

There was excitement in his eyes, but also uneasiness and nervousness.

Zhou Qing is probably the only one who is as calm and composed as he is.

"Now we are going to present... the Special Achievement Award!"

This was especially true when the award ceremony officially began, adding a bit of oppression to the bustling hall.

This is especially true for people like Zhu Yawen and Song Jia who are attending the Oscars for the first time and whose level is obviously insufficient.

"Next up is the award for Best Sound Editing."

The various small awards were given out for more than half an hour, and it was only at this moment that Zhou Qing became slightly alert.

There is no other reason. "The Martian" was nominated for this award.

But in the end, "The Martian" missed out on this small award.

The award was eventually won by Nolan's "Dunkirk".

Nolan couldn't help but reveal a brilliant smile on his face.

Although this award is not big, it at least is a good start for "Dunkirk".

Hua Hua Hua.

Zhou Qing, like everyone else, applauded the movie "Dunkirk".

"The next award to be presented is... the Best Editing Award."

After winning the Best Sound Editing Award, "The Martian" has won several smaller awards and is starting to gain popularity again.

"The Martian" was also nominated for this award.

Zhou Qing was personally in charge of editing, and he believed that it was absolutely the best standard in the world.

After all, Zhou Qing’s editing skills are also maxed out.

Therefore, as long as the public relations are in place, Zhou Qing feels that the possibility of winning the award is not small.

If it were an ordinary person, most of them would really spend money to give it a try.

But for Zhou Qing, this kind of small consolation prize is really not worth his attention.

It's not worth spending tens of millions of US dollars for such a small prize.

It's not worth it at all.

The result is obvious. "The Martian" missed the Best Editing Award again.

Not only did it miss the Best Editing Award, but it also missed the Best Visual Effects, Best Adapted Screenplay, etc.

"It's okay, Qingzi, these are just small prizes, there are big prizes waiting for us later."

Zhu Yawen was afraid that Zhou Qing would be hit hard, so he spoke to comfort Zhou Qing.

Little did they know that Zhou Qing didn't take these things to heart at all.

"Next up is the Best Actor award."

Zhu Yawen instantly lost his composure, even his breathing became a little rapid.

Although Zhu Yawen knew in his heart that his acting skills were not up to par and he still lacked a lot of skills.

Winning the Oscar for Best Actor is really a dicey proposition.

But when the grand prize is announced, how can you remain calm?

What if?
What if? Right?

"The winner of the Best Actor Award is... Gary Oldman for Darkest Hour!"

The fact is that you can dream as much as you want, but it is really impossible for dreams to come true.

The movie star was moved away by his dog dad.

Zhou Qing was convinced of this.

Dog Dad's performance in "Darkest Hour" is indeed impeccable and 100% worthy of an Oscar.

"Yeah, what am I thinking? How could it be me?"

After waking up from the dream, Zhu Yawen shook his head and chuckled in self-mockery.

"Old Zhu, you are not the type who is going for awards, just focus on making your commercial films."

Only then did Zhou Qing smile at Zhu Yawen.

If you want to know whether Zhu Yawen’s acting skills are good, of course they are, and they are pretty good.

But there is still some distance to winning awards or something.

Looking back on Zhu Yawen's entire career, he has actually never won any decent awards. They were all just fake awards that are not worth mentioning.

"Are you trying to comfort me or to discourage me?"

Zhu Yawen couldn't help but roll his eyes at Zhou Qingkuang.

"The next award to be presented is... the Best Director Award!"

Zhu Yawen immediately stopped chatting with Zhou Qing and his expression became serious.

His eyes were fixed on the award presenter in front of him.

This award is a very important one for "The Martian".

Even if it has nothing to do with Zhu Yawen, Zhu Yawen still takes it very seriously.

Of course, the same is true for Song Jia and others.

It’s just a pity that the Best Director Award was missed by “The Martian” and was finally won by “The Shape of Water”.

Not only the Best Director award, but also the final Best Picture award was won by "The Shape of Water".

The Shape of Water became the biggest winner of this year's Oscars, winning 13 awards out of 4 nominations.

Including two major awards: Best Director and Best Picture.

"Best Picture? Qingzi, is this movie really that good?"

Zhu Yawen quietly expressed his doubts in Zhou Qing's ear.

He has seen "The Shape of Water" and found it to be okay, but just okay.

But you want Best Picture?
Compared with last year's "Moonlight" and the year before's "Spotlight", it really feels a bit inferior.

"It's better than The Martian anyway."

Zhou Qing smiled and responded nonchalantly.

"Okay, it's time for us to go back."

Because he didn't win the award, Zhou Qing didn't attend the cocktail party after the award ceremony, and immediately led the main creators back to the hotel. After a rest, they boarded a plane back to Beijing the next day.

"Director Zhou Qing missed out on an Oscar. The Martian received no award out of seven nominations and returned home with nothing."

"The 90th Academy Awards ceremony has come to an end, with The Martian, the favorite to win the award, running for the entire ceremony."

The news from Oscar was quickly passed back to Huayu, instantly blowing up the entire Huayu.

The failure of "The Martian" was reported extensively by all major media outlets.

Almost the entire entertainment industry was discussing Zhou Qing’s failure and laughing at his joke.

Zhou Qing was not surprised by this.

Who said that my rank in the circle is indeed too high?

Especially since he won every Oscar in the first two times, taking home two heavyweight golden statues. Who could have thought that he would get nothing in the third time?

This is a complete upset.

For others, just having so many nominations is incredible.

But if it happened to Zhou Qing, it would be a complete failure.

What's worse, there are even exaggerated headlines like "Director Zhou falls from the altar" and "Director Zhou runs out of ideas".

It seemed as if Zhou Qing was really dying.

Fortunately, as a shareholder of the old Sina Weibo, Zhou Qing is also a family member of the old Sina Entertainment, and he also owns a lot of shares in Penguin.

Therefore, Sina Weibo, Sina Entertainment, and Penguin News had completely opposite attitudes towards Zhou Qing.

Not only was there no disparagement, it was all bragging. It was already amazing that a commercial film like "The Martian" could get seven nominations.

It was also specifically pointed out that Zhou Qing did not do any public relations for "The Martian" and that he had no intention of winning any awards.

Generally speaking, Zhou Qing's situation would not be too embarrassing.

But even if this wasn't the case, Zhou Qing didn't care at all.

This level of hype is of no use to Zhou Qing, it is just pure empty talk.

Not a single hair of Zhou Qing can be harmed.

Zhou Qing is still the top director in Huayu Entertainment and there will be no changes.

"Some media outlets are just so mean. They only know how to do this kind of low-level hype. They failed despite being nominated for seven Oscars."

Instead, Liu Yifei was indignant and felt indignant for Zhou Qingming.

Please, 7 Oscar nominations, no one else in the entire Chinese entertainment industry has achieved this except Zhou Qing.

This is also a very remarkable achievement!
How come it is said to be so unworthy of mention?
"Isn't that the nature of the media? If you want to argue with them, how can you handle it?"

Zhou Qing smiled and his reaction seemed much calmer than Liu Yifei's.

"Okay, don't think about it. I have to go back to the company now. Do you want to come with me?"

After talking to the girl for a few more words, Zhou Qing stood up and picked up his coat.

Now that the fun is over and Oscar's matter is over, it's naturally time to go back to work.

"Let's go together. I'm fine staying at home."

After some hesitation, the girl made this decision.

Zhou Qing took the girl's hand and happily returned to Zhou Qing Pictures with her.

"Director Zhou."

The first thing was to call Director Chen over and check in with each other on whether they had any information.

Needless to say, the next step is to formulate a full-year plan for 18.

In fact, Zhou Qing didn’t need to make any plans for this year; it happened almost naturally.

Lu Yang has already told Zhou Qing that the other party wants to adapt "Assassination of Novelist" and will start working on it after the post-production of "The Unknown" is completed.

Then the movie that Zhou Qing arranged for Lu Yang must be "Assassination of Novelist".

The same thing happened to Wu Jing. He also came to consult with Zhou Qing, hoping to shoot the sequel to Wolf Warrior, Wolf Warrior 2, and Zhou Qing agreed.

Then you will definitely not regret it.

Another one is "Detective Chinatown 2", which was originally planned to be produced last year but was temporarily cancelled due to schedule conflicts.

It's a new year now, and it's time to make the sequel to this movie, which is really starting to soar at the box office.

So what about other movies besides these three?
Zhou Qing had no plan to continue producing it.

It’s simple. Zhou Qing Pictures already has several movies in backlog that haven’t been released yet. Let’s digest them first.

Of course, this refers to films directed by people other than Zhou Qing.

So what about the films directed by Zhou Qing himself?

During this period of leisure and relaxation, Zhou Qing also thought it through.

Since "The Martian" opened the door to Chinese-language science fiction films, the popularity of science fiction films has been completely hyped up.

Then I might as well take this opportunity to make another heavyweight science fiction film.

Which one?
Without a doubt, it is "The Wandering Earth".

Zhou Qing acquired the copyright of Liu Cixin's original novel as soon as possible. Wasn't it for the purpose of future adaptation?

It’s just that the timing has never been ripe, so Zhou Qing has always put it on hold.

But now, Zhou Qing feels that the time is ripe.

We can produce this blockbuster which is a milestone in the original time and space.

This matter was agreed upon so happily.

"Xiao Liu, ask Director Chen Sicheng to come over."

However, before officially starting to write the script, Zhou Qing gave his assistant such an order.

"Detective Chinatown 2" is about to start its serious schedule.

"Director Zhou, are you finally planning to make a sequel to Detective Chinatown?"

After receiving the news, Chen Sicheng made time as quickly as possible and came to Zhou Qing.

It's hard to describe how excited he was. It wouldn't even be an exaggeration to say that he was hyper.

In fact, after he finished filming "Detective Chinatown" and it became a huge hit at the box office, he specifically sought out Zhou Qing to discuss the sequel to "Detective Chinatown".

It is true that Chen Sicheng is a director, but he is even more of a shrewd businessman. How could he not see the huge value behind "Detective Chinatown"?
What's more, Zhou Qing has always had the habit of making sequels.

"Ip Man" series, "No Mercy" series, "Painted Skin" series, "Lost" series, "Knife of the Assassin" series, "Beijing Meets Seattle" series, and so on.

There are really a lot of series of films launched by Zhou Qing Pictures.

Therefore, Chen Sicheng felt that it would not be difficult to convince Zhou Qing to continue developing the sequel to "Detective Chinatown".

Facts have proved that Chen Sicheng's guess was correct, and Zhou Qing did give feedback and will continue to develop "Detective Chinatown 2".

Since then, Chen Sicheng has been eagerly waiting for this day.

"It's been three years since Detective Chinatown was released. It's time to make a sequel."

Facing Chen Sicheng's scorching gaze, Zhou Qing nodded and gave a very affirmative answer.

Hi.

Chen Sicheng was completely excited.

This film has great potential and is a sequel that Director Zhou is very optimistic about. Is he finally planning to start production?
My chance has come again!
"This is the script for Detective Chinatown 2. I have already written it. Let's prepare it as soon as possible."

After communicating with Chen Sicheng again, Zhou Qing didn't waste any more words. He took out the script and gave the other party an instruction.

"Don't worry, Director Zhou. I will definitely make a good film for Detective Chinatown 2!"

Chen Sicheng quickly glanced at the script and patted his chest in front of Zhou Qing with confidence. (End of this chapter)