I was just thinking about taking the arts exam and you said I've been playing supporting roles

Chapter 293 Such a high rating?

In the early morning, after the premiere successfully ended, Chen Jin turned on his mobile phone backstage.

"The 28th China Film Golden Rooster Awards shortlist!"

An internal document that Han Sanpin sent him last night.

If nothing unexpected happens, the entire network will start pushing the news either tomorrow morning or tonight.

"Aftershock" led this year's Golden Rooster Awards with 9 nominations with its undisputed strength.

Of course, "The Founding of a Party" deservedly won 8 nominations!
The seven items of "Life Events" ranked third.

These three films are also the favorites to win this year's Golden Rooster Awards.

And "Love Is Not Blind" only received... a pitiful 33 nominations.

Best Directorial Debut, Best Small or Medium-Cost Feature Film.

This is considered to save some face for Lao Guo, probably because he is a student of Beijing Film Academy.

On the contrary, Chen Jin received two nominations.

Both the films "Life Events" and "The Founding of a Party" were nominated for Best Actor, which should be the result of the Venice Film Festival's best actor.

So whether it was Zhao Jinmai or him, they both became the youngest nominees for the Golden Rooster Best Actor and Best Actress in history.

It's not just Zhao Jinmai.

However, Zhao Jinmai is only 9 years old, so her nomination for Best Actress is indeed more talked-about.

Chen Jin received two Best Actor nominations, which also went down in history; there has never been such a "double nomination" in the history of the Golden Rooster Awards, let alone such a young person!

Therefore, the nomination list for this year's Golden Rooster Awards is likely to be very controversial.

But for "Life Events", it is a big benefit.

Because all the topics are about it, whether it is Chen Jin or Zhao Jinmai.

"Did Dean Zhang tell you about the symposium the day after tomorrow?"

Tian Zhuangzhuang was sitting in the backstage of Huaxing Cinema, taking a break and smoking a cigarette. He asked Chen Jin who was looking at his phone.

"I told you, isn't it... tomorrow?"

Chen Jin put away his phone and nodded at Tian Zhuangzhuang.

"Oh, tomorrow, it's already early in the morning, I forgot about it!"

Tian Zhuangzhuang said with a smile: "I am getting older. Nowadays, cinemas are getting bigger and bigger. It's great!"

This was the first time he felt the atmosphere of a premiere in a large cinema.

The premiere of "Life Events" was held at the now very famous five-star cinema Huaxing, which is also the first IMAX theater in the capital.

Last year, "Avatar" was released, setting a single-theater box office record of over 3000 million, and an IMAX theater single-screen box office record of over 2000 million!

It is a hit across the country.

These two records cannot be broken by any cinema, let alone in 2010 or after 2020.

For the entire Chinese film industry, it is like an absolute chasm that is simply unimaginable.

The national box office of many movies may not reach 3000 million, but some movies can earn that much in one cinema, with one theater alone earning 2000 million. Later, "Nezha 2" was so popular that Yuejie Cinema was still trying to break this record after being out for a month.

Of course, the main reason is the ticket price.

A single ticket for the "Avatar" IMAX theater costs 150-180 yuan, which is an unaffordable price.

If the box office of "Nezha 2" was set so high in the future, it would have been criticized to death by netizens; it is only because of the current global appeal of Hollywood movies that they can endlessly reap all kinds of leeks in China.

No one is watching domestic films now even at 30 yuan a ticket, and tickets for "Transformers 3" at 100 yuan a ticket are being snapped up in first-tier cities.

Of course, "Life Events" does not have IMAX special effects shots, but it does have high-definition format, which is convenient for theaters to promote and increase ticket prices, so it was arranged to premiere here.

The pre-sale revenue of the Huaxing Cinema alone was 210 million, which really shows the status of this cinema in the imperial capital.

However, who would have thought that after being popular in the imperial capital for decades, it would still face the fate of being closed.

It’s not that no one goes to see the theater, but the location is too good. The shopping mall is jealous and wants to operate its own cinema, so it won’t rent it to Huaxing.

"At the symposium, I'll come and introduce you to it!"

"Half of the judges for this Golden Rooster Awards will be here!"

Tian Zhuangzhuang glanced at Chen Jin. He should have also received the news about the nomination for the Golden Rooster Awards.

"Dean Zhang told me the same thing!"

Chen Jin knew what was going on.

The current Golden Rooster Awards is in a balance between business and art.

It really wanted to raise the profile of the award, so in the past few years it tried to please several domestic film and television companies in an effort to attract some sponsorship, and Huayi was the biggest beneficiary.

Work closely with Golden Rooster.

The Golden Rooster Awards also gave many Huayi artists "approval awards".

However, after being exposed by many media in recent years, the radio and television industry has become somewhat restrained, and the Golden Rooster Awards has begun to carry out corresponding reforms.

However, the Beijing Film Academy gang has always been the biggest force behind the Golden Rooster Awards.

Many of the best actor and actress awards winners were actors from the Beijing Film Academy. On the contrary, there are fewer actors from the Central Academy of Drama and the Shanghai Theatre Academy than from the Beijing Film Academy.

This is also an unspoken rule known in the circle.

The reason is of course simple.

Most of the judges are from Beijing Film Academy, so of course they are biased towards their own younger classmates.

The symposium is like an opportunity to pay a visit to a leader.

"The more famous you are, the better it will be for Beijing Film Academy!"

"I won't go to the roadshow. You can go around the area tomorrow. You have something to do the day after tomorrow. You can go out of town on the weekend, right?"

Today is the premiere day of "Life Events", which is also Thursday.

There will be a symposium tomorrow, Friday, plus a dinner.

The day after tomorrow is the official schedule of the roadshow, starting from the imperial capital and heading south, which will take about 10 days.

After the roadshow, Chen Jin will have to prepare for the new film and attend classes in the directing department.

With the director of the directing department here, Chen Jin has already reported to him.

Chen Jin's directing courses, in Tian Zhuangzhuang's words, are special cases handled in a special way. He certainly didn't start from the freshman courses like ordinary directing students.

More importantly, we should be able to freely choose the knowledge we need, just like master's students.

Combining theory and practice in this way, Tian Zhuangzhuang is still looking forward to his first debut work.

"correct!"

Tian Zhuangzhuang suddenly stood up and put out his cigarette: "You want to find a director to help you with your new film, right?"

"Yes, preferably a commercial film director with some experience!"

"Okay, I'll help you find one!"

Tian Zhuangzhuang was ready to go back, and dusted off the cigarette ash on his body: "There will be many directors coming to the symposium, I will pick one then!"

"Let me choose?"

"You think so beautifully!"

Tian Zhuangzhuang grinned and said, "Do you want Chen Kaige to give it to you?"

"do not want!"

Forget the poet.

"You really want it?"

Tian Zhuangzhuang was just joking. How could Chen Kaige possibly be the crew director for Chen Jin?

He gave an example.

But I didn’t expect that Chen Jin didn’t like it.

Chen Jin really doesn't think highly of people like Feng Xiaogang and Chen Kaige. They sound like some of the most successful commercial film directors in China, but they're actually crap.

Relying on their fame to make bad movies to reap the box office, the future of the Chinese film market will be stagnant, which is not unrelated to these guys.

Lao Mouzi and others are jointly liable.

Feng Xiaogang also cursed domestic audiences as rubbish. There's a reason why he will fail in the future.

Chinese audiences should be the world's highest quality movie-watching group; there is a market for all types of films in China. For many foreign films entering China, the mainland is their first or even second voting base.

British, Indian, Italian, Japanese movies… if they don’t have a mainland market, many of them will lose money. Dangal made over 10 billion in China, and Indians were dumbfounded.

Lebanon's "Capernaum" grossed 5000 million US dollars worldwide, with 3.76 million RMB in China alone, accounting for 95% of the global box office.

The North American market is known as the largest in the world, but it is quite xenophobic.

The highest box office for foreign language films in North America has never exceeded 6000 million US dollars.

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" earned 1.28 million yuan, and that's also because it was a co-production between China and the United States.

Chinese audiences were deceived into going to the cinema by domestic marketing blockbusters one after another. After one or two times, a crisis of trust arose.

This is why the market is becoming increasingly sluggish.

Even without watching "Nezha 2", it was still able to break new records and even surpass the 20 billion US dollars in the North American market alone; the highest box office in a single region in North America is only more than 9 million, and that is Canada and the United States combined.

So it’s not that no one in China watches movies, but that there are no good movies to attract audiences to the cinema.

If Chen Jin wants to shoot "John Wick", he needs to find a director who can shoot action movies and an action instructor. Although there are finished films in the system, the action still needs someone to design it with Chen Jin.

It is definitely impossible to invite Yuan Heping and Cheng Xiaodong, and Chen Jin didn’t even think about them, but at least they have to be somewhat well-known.

So does the director.

After chatting with Tian Zhuangzhuang for a while, Chen Jin and his group prepared to go home.

Zhao Jinmai attended one day of classes after returning, and then rushed to participate in the roadshow with Chen Jin.

"Brother, goodbye!"

Zhao Jinmai waved to Chen Jin. Her mother Hu Ling has been thanking Chen Jin since she met him today.

So excited!

Hu Ling was obviously very happy that her daughter was nominated for the Golden Rooster Best Actress Award.

This achievement cannot be compared with how many movies and blockbusters one has participated in. It is real honor. When she goes out into the future, the title of being nominated for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress alone will be enough to surpass many actors of the same age.

In other words, Zhao Jinmai now has the best resume among child stars.

Hu Ling would never have thought that Zhao Jinmai's acting career would be completely changed just because of her participation in a movie "Life Events".

This was something that neither mother nor daughter had thought about when they first started filming the movie.

"Go to bed early, we have to travel overnight the day after tomorrow!"

Chen Jin smiled at Zhao Jinmai and her daughter. In fact, the reason why Zhao Jinmai was nominated for the Golden Rooster Award was more due to her own acting talent.

Although Hu Ling just kept saying that it was Chen Jin who took care of him in the crew.

Chen Jin did teach Zhao Jinmai a lot of acting skills, and also talked to her about acting; but if you don't have talent, it's like looking for fish in a tree.

Chen Jin didn't take it to heart, but he was indeed grateful.

It is said that many women in this circle are trying their best to get ahead.

Given Zhao Jinmai's situation, who wouldn't be jealous if it were any adult actress?

One Golden Rooster nomination for each play, this is definitely the ceiling-level star-making ability; if Hu Ling always says that it is Chen Jin's credit, then there will definitely be more actresses who want to know Chen Jin.

The person who knows how to support actors will always be the most popular one in this circle.

Whether it is a director, an actor, or a producer.

This is a very important reason why Huayi is so famous; another reason is why there are "Mou Girls" and "Star Girls", which is also a recognition of the ability to create stars.

In fact, if Chen Jin can work well, there will probably be many actors who will voluntarily reduce their pay to perform in films in the future.

After returning home, Chen Jin fell asleep immediately.

It was already noon when I woke up, but the symposium was not held today, but tomorrow.

Chen Jin lay there without getting up. Instead, he took out his cell phone and read the first-hand midnight review of "Life Events".

Yesterday, the total pre-sale of "Life Events" was 5412 million, and the box office of the midnight show was 1121 million. That must have broken many records in art films; but compared with commercial films, it is obviously still not worth watching.

However, if nothing unexpected happens, today's box office will exceed 2000 million!
Judging from the pre-sale trend tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, they will be bigger day by day, so the box office can go higher. Word of mouth is very important.

"What the hell?!"

Chen Jin opened Douban and thought he had seen it wrong.

"It's a good movie, worth watching. How come it didn't win the Venice Golden Lion this year?! It's definitely Golden Lion quality!"

"Chen Jin's performance is so strong. He will definitely be the best actor in Chinese-language films in the future!"

"Five points for Chen Jin! Best Actor! I came to see the Best Actor in Venice!"

"lighting up the stars!"

"..."

A straight five-star rating.

Although the film has not been released yet, the rating is very domineering!

How can Pi County get such a high score?

In addition to the bonus from Venice, which led Douban netizens to spontaneously give it high scores, Chen Jin's performance and the quality of the film were also crucial.

"It looks like the opening score will be 8 or even 8.5?"

"It's higher than the 8 points I predicted..."

Chen Jin is actually quite modest. Considering the consistent reputation of Douban, he only gave the movie a score of 8.

Unexpectedly, the result seemed to be beyond his expectations.

Chen Jin opened Time.net again.

The rating on Mtime.com is more rational. Although its high score is not as high as Douban, 9 points on Mtime.com is comparable to 9.5 on Douban!

But many movies have higher ratings than Douban.

For example, "Life Events", Chen Jin estimated that... Time.net would be even more terrifying.

"Damn, is it possible to get 9 points?"

Chen Jin was a little scared by his own guess.

What is the level of a movie with a score of 9?!

The highest-scoring film Lao Tian has ever made, "The Blue Kite," which was banned for ten years and has only a score of 8.9.

Zhang Yimou has a film that scored above 9 points, but it was only "To Live" which scored 9.3 points.

However, Chen Jin thought about it and realized that "Departures" had a score of 9.1 on Douban, and "Life Events" was no worse than it, so 9 points was obviously possible.

The most important thing is that if "Life Events" did not win an award at the Venice Film Festival, Douban might have lowered its score by 1 point for the sake of being a domestic film; but now that it has won an award at Venice, which has been certified by foreigners, the score tends to be highly differentiated.

This is quite common on Douban nowadays.

Any movie that wins awards at the three major film festivals basically scores 7+, and many score 8 or above.

"It seems that the only movie in later generations that got a 9 out of at the opening was 'Dying to Survive', right?"

Some feminist films don’t count.

"Let the Bullets Fly" also slowly climbed to 9 points, and it was 8.7 points when it first opened.

"Dying to Survive" is a real strength.

Now Chen Jin feels that "Life Events"... may also have the potential to achieve such high scores.

This will certainly be very helpful for the box office.

Good word of mouth will attract audiences to go to the cinema to watch movies; "Dying to Survive" relied on the 9-point positive reviews to carve out a path in the Chinese market and won a box office of over 30 billion.

Chen Jin doesn't ask for "Life Events" to be as arrogant, as long as it can create a high-selling curve.

Next week, the box office performance will be better than this week.

Then "Life Events"... wins.

Unfortunately, there is a stumbling block next week, "The Revolution of 1911", and there will definitely be a fierce fight then.

After browsing some film reviews on Douban and Time.com, Chen Jin felt relieved. He got up, washed up, had some food, and drove to the company.

He had an appointment to discuss something in the afternoon.

Cai Shangjun, who won the Best Director Award at the Venice Film Festival, will bring several founders of his Honghu Creative Group to Chen Jin's company for a gathering.

Although Honghu Studio is well-known, the relationship between the founders is not as solid as it seems from the outside world.

Otherwise, after Zhang Yibai and his gang became successful, they would not have failed to bring Diao Yinan, Cai Shangjun and others along.

It is true that they are classmates and founded this screenwriting studio together, but they all make films independently.

(End of this chapter)