Chapter 185 What’s the use of Hollywood resources? The total box office of Lost on Journey is amazin

Chapter 185 What’s the use of Hollywood resources? The total box office of Lost on Journey is amazin

"The 79th Academy Awards nomination list has been announced, and the Chinese film "Painted Skin" has been nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Award!"

"Following Zhang Guoshi's "Hero", Director Zhou Qing's "Painted Skin" was nominated for an Oscar again!"

"Director Zhou Qing's "Painted Skin" was shortlisted for an Oscar. Can Director Zhou Qing win the Oscar and break the situation where Chinese-language films have no Oscars?"

"Director Zhou Qing never disappoints. The nominations for the 79th Academy Awards have been announced, and Painted Skin is on the shortlist!"

Related reports soon leaked out, and the name "Zhou Qing" once again attracted attention in the circle.

"Painted Skin" was actually nominated for an Oscar!
Frankly speaking, when the Film Bureau announced that Painted Skin was being submitted for review, people in the industry were generally not optimistic about the matter.

Indeed, Zhou Qing’s record in the three major awards is indeed amazing, having won the Golden Bear and Golden Lion, as well as two Best Director awards.

Judging from this impressive resume, he is one of the top experts in the entire Chinese language field.

If we were to ask which Chinese entertainment director is most likely to be nominated for an Oscar, besides Zhang Guoshi, it would be Zhou Qing.

But even so, everyone is still not optimistic about Zhou Qing.

Why?

It is much more difficult for Chinese-language films to win an Oscar than the three major awards.

Throughout the history of Chinese-language films, Chinese-language films have won the three major awards many times, but how many times have they won Oscars?
Not once.

Even getting a nomination is extremely difficult, let alone winning an award.

Counting on my fingers, there are only four movies so far.

"Ju Dou", "Raise the Red Lantern", and "Hero" by Zhang Guoshi, and "Farewell My Concubine" by Chen Shishi.

Other than that, there were no further nominations.

It is indeed not an exaggeration at all, being nominated for an Oscar is much more difficult than winning any of the three major awards.

Even "The Promise", which poet Chen spent three years of hard work to create, failed to do so.

Under such circumstances, the nomination of "Painted Skin" becomes even more valuable.

I can only say that Director Zhou Qing is really awesome.

Especially considering the age of Director Zhou Qing, many people felt that their hearts could not take it.

"Painted Skin is really nominated for an Oscar. Great, very good! It was indeed the right choice to choose Director Zhou!"

Han Sanping's mouth was almost stretched behind his ears, and he felt so light that he was about to fly.

I feel refreshed and am as proud as the spring breeze!
Director Zhou is awesome. Really awesome.

Frankly speaking, although Han Sanping tried his best to send "Painted Skin" to the Oscars, he did not hold out much hope.

After all, it is really not easy for Chinese-language films to be nominated there.

But "Painted Skin" really did it!

Director Zhou has done what only Master Zhang and Poet Chen can do!
Director Zhou is awesome.

Now there was only this one thought in Han Sanping's mind, nothing but admiration.

Thinking that the movie "Painted Skin" was also a project that he had made possible, Han Sanping felt even more elated.

"Painted Skin" is such a great success, it was a box office hit and was nominated for an Oscar, what a great achievement!
Especially at this critical juncture when the leadership change is imminent, it is even more pleasing.

Sure enough, having high hopes for Director Zhou Qing and choosing to strongly support him was the best decision he had made so far.

“Painted Skin is actually shortlisted!”

Poet Chen was also very surprised by this, and at the same time felt a little uncomfortable.

Looking back, his "The Promise" was so ambitious and passionate, and he vowed to achieve a breakthrough for Chinese-language films at the Oscars.

But what about the results?

But there was not even a nomination.

However, this time, a movie made by his junior was nominated. It would be strange if poet Chen felt good about it.

As both films are submitted for Oscars, "Painted Skin" and "The Promise" are inevitably compared.

The nomination of "Painted Skin" is not a big deal, but "The Promise" was dragged out again to be criticized.

Many people continued to mock "The Promise", making poet Chen feel as sick as if he had eaten a fly.

“I did stumble after watching The Promise, but one movie doesn’t prove anything!”

"I will let everyone know that I am still the same Brother Chen Kai, the Brother Chen Kai who filmed Farewell My Concubine!"

Poet Chen couldn't help but hold his breath.

He swore that when the "Mei Lanfang" he was currently preparing was released, everyone would look at him with admiration again.

The snowball of "Soldier Assault" is slowly rolling, brewing and accumulating silently.

The Shanghai TV, the four western provinces, and Heilongjiang terrestrial channels have also introduced this drama.

Because the appearance was average, the ratings were also not very high.

But even so, with the coverage of several platforms, "Soldier Assault" has completed the basic "expansion".

There were more and more comments on the Internet, and many netizens became fans of "Soldier Assault", frantically recommending it to others.

“Never give up, never abandon. These are the simplest yet most touching words I have ever seen.”

"Squad leader Shi Jin, how can there be such a lovely person in the world."

“Everyone is Xu Sanduo, but not everyone is Xu Sanduo.”

Discussions and comments about "Soldier Assault" have been popping up like mushrooms after rain in major bulletin boards and forums.

"Director Chen."

Zhou Qing glanced at the comments and nodded with satisfaction, then casually called Director Chen over.

The other party was given a task: to hire internet trolls to post positive reviews for "Soldier Assault" online and hype up the popularity of "Soldier Assault".

Even if Zhou Qing doesn't have to do anything and just lets "Soldier Assault" ferment on its own, the drama will still be a hit.

But when it comes to becoming famous, the sooner the better, and Zhou Qing doesn't mind speeding up the process artificially.

"I highly recommend a good drama called "Soldier Assault". I can't sleep at night after watching it every day."

Zhou Qing himself even took action and posted a special message recommending "Soldier Assault".

With Zhou Qing's current influence, his QQ friends quickly forwarded it immediately.

"The drama recommended by Director Zhou must be a good one. Needless to say, I must go and watch it!"

Fan Bingbing was surprisingly the fastest, forwarding the message almost in seconds, and even shouted for Zhou Qing.

"It turns out that Director Zhou is also watching "Soldier Assault". I watched it too, it's really good!"

I don’t know whether what Zhou Xun said is true or false, but it doesn’t matter, the recommendation effect has been achieved anyway.

"Qingzi's taste is really amazing. Soldier Assault is really good!"

Huang Xiaoming also actively joined in the fun and forwarded the message as quickly as possible.

Like other celebrities, they all started to repost it.

Although the influence of Penguin QQ Space is still very limited at this time, and the effect is even more limited, with so many celebrities forwarding it together, the effect cannot be underestimated.

In addition to his QQ space, Zhou Qing also posted the same content on his personal blog.

But the effect was really unsatisfactory to Zhou Qing, a reborn person. "It's really inconvenient. It would be great if there was Weibo."

Zhou Qing couldn't help but complain.

At the same time, an idea came to my mind. Weibo will be a very important platform for voicing opinions in the future. Should I get involved?

It seems like it can be done.

The warm-up effect of Liu Yifei's "Liu Yifei" is very good, it can even be called very good.

You should know that "The Return of the Condor Heroes" has already finished airing, and "Painted Skin", a record-breaking movie in film history, has just been released.

The girl’s fans in China are actually still very scary, much more terrifying than in the original time and space.

With so many fans, how could the album sales be bad?
Everyone is now looking forward to seeing whether this album of "Liu Yifei" is good or not.

While Liu Xiaoli was busy warming up for her album, she also got to know the situation of the "Double J Plan".

Huayi is indeed conducting auditions in secret.

There are two main female characters, one is the White-haired Witch and the other is Golden Swallow.

Both roles require a certain level of martial arts skills, because this is a double J kung fu movie, so naturally there are a lot of fighting scenes.

Fortunately, fighting scenes are not a problem for Liu Yifei at all.

She had quite a few fighting scenes in The Return of the Condor Heroes, and she has extensive experience in filming fighting scenes.

The only thing to consider now is that the White-haired Witch seems to be a villain.

Then Liu Xiaoli naturally hopes that Liu Yifei will get the role of Golden Swallow.

If you say that Liu Yifei lacked confidence before, after all, Liu Yifei is just a newcomer in the film industry.

How could she possibly compete with so many female movie stars in the industry?

Well, now it's different.

The movie "Painted Skin" gave Liu Yifei great confidence, and even more so Liu Xiaoli the confidence to negotiate!

In addition, Huayi has always wanted to sign Liu Yifei, so Liu Xiaoli felt that it could still be done.

So while Liu Xiaoli was busy with Liu Yifei's album, she also started contacting Huayi, intending to fight for Liu Yifei.

"Mom, you're being a little too optimistic. I don't think I'll have much hope of getting this role."

Liu Yifei talked about this matter with Zhou Qing, and to be honest, she was still relatively sober.

At least more sober than Liu Xiaoli.

Resources of this level were invested by Huayi. How could Huayi let such resources go to outsiders?
There are so many female celebrities waiting eagerly for Huayi, will Huayi be given to outsiders?
"I can understand your feelings, Auntie."

While Zhou Qing was casually responding to Liu Yifei, he was thinking about this matter.

In fact, whether Liu Yifei acts in a bad movie or not is not that important. Who can guarantee that an actor will not act in a bad movie throughout his life?

What's more, I can act with Cheng Long and Li Lianjie, so it doesn't matter even if it's a bad movie.

The key point is that Liu Yifei's performance in "The Forbidden Kingdom" was indeed a bad card played by Liu Xiaoli.

Is it so easy to release Huayi’s pigeons?

Huayi is now at its peak. It is not worth it no matter how you look at it, to be banned by Huayi because of such a film.

Frankly speaking, this is indeed a big pit for Liu Yifei.

Now that we know about the relationship between Zhou Qing and Liu Yifei, we definitely cannot just sit back and do nothing.

The ideal situation is to avoid it in advance.

Of course, "The Forbidden Kingdom" is not without any benefits to Liu Yifei.

It was because of her performance in this film that she was spotted by William Morris, a giant Hollywood agency.

She became the second Chinese signed actor after Zhang Ziyi.

Thus, Hollywood resources were obtained.

But to be frank, with Zhou Qing, a reborn person, here, is this even a problem?

What are Hollywood resources?

What's more, are Liu Yifei's Hollywood resources very good?
"Mulan" also flopped miserably.

So considering all these circumstances, there is really no need to film "The Forbidden Kingdom".

The disadvantages far outweigh the advantages.

"But Xixi, don't blame me for pouring cold water on you. The role of Golden Swallow is so important that it is unlikely for artists other than Huayi to get it."

"Unless you join Huayi."

Zhou Qing told Liu Yifei the truth and asked in return, "But will you join Huayi?"

"Of course not, didn't we agree on that?"

Liu Yifei said it as a matter of course.

But the girl had already made an agreement with Zhou Qing that after her contract with Sony expired, she would sign with Zhou Qing's studio.

Liu Yifei never considered whether Huayi or not.

"So, Xixi, just keep a normal mind. It would be great if you get the role, but if you don't, it doesn't really matter."

Zhou Qing nodded and said so to Liu Yifei.

He did not persuade Liu Yifei to give up the opportunity to compete for the Golden Swallow, because the matter was not with Liu Yifei, but with Liu Xiaoli.

What's more, from Liu Yifei's perspective, "The Forbidden Kingdom" is also a bombastic resource, and she definitely wants to shoot it.

It is not appropriate and may not be helpful for you to persuade Liu Yifei to give up.

It is even more unrealistic to persuade Liu Xiaoli to give up.

So Zhou Qing had to start from other aspects.

On February 2, Lost on Journey, which had been released for a month, was taken off the screen and its total box office was reported soon after.

6452 million!
Flashed in the eyes!
I don’t know how many people in the circle were dazzled by it.

The film market has been getting better and better in recent years, the number of big screens has increased year by year, and capital from all parties has continued to enter the market.

As a result, the box office of the movie continued to rise.

In 03, "Cell Phone" became the box office champion with a box office of 3 million, and now a movie has a box office of million.

There are several movies that gross over 100 million yuan each year.

But even so, a box office of more than 6000 million is still a very high box office.

You should know that the total box office of "City of Pain" starring Liang Chaowei and Jin Chengwu was only 5800 million.

The total box office of "Dragon Tiger Gate" starring Zhen Zidan and Nicholas Tse was only 5100 million!
The box office of "Lost on Journey" of over 6400 million is indeed a very impressive one.

Especially considering that the movie only cost 400 million, it is enough to blind people's eyes.

Director Zhou's move of making a small investment for a big gain was truly amazing.

With such a small cost, it can achieve such a huge box office. Director Zhou Qing is so awesome.

It's just like a slap in the face of those blockbuster movies "The Warring States", "City of Sadness" and "Dragon Tiger Gate", right?
Compared with Director Zhou, those movies really seem like rubbish. (End of this chapter)