Chapter 326: Awards and New Trends
Chapter 326: Awards and New Trends
"Yes, that's fine, Baoqiang."
Wang Hao patted Wang Baoqiang's shoulder vigorously, not sparing his praise at all.
"The movie he starred in was able to participate in the Shanghai Film Festival. He might even win the Best Actor award again."
As early as 2003, Wang Baoqiang won the Golden Horse Award for Best Newcomer and the Best Actor awards at the French and Thai Film Festivals for his role in "Blind Shaft", so winning awards at this kind of film festival is nothing to him.
Wang Baoqiang also chuckled.
At this time, Xu Zheng, who was standing aside, repeatedly winked at Wang Baoqiang, and Wang Baoqiang immediately reacted and said to Wang Hao:
"Oh, by the way, Brother Zheng came to see me mainly because of his new movie."
"new movie?"
Wang Hao glanced at Xu Zheng, who immediately showed a flattering smile on his face and said in a relaxed tone:
"Yes, I was just talking to Baoqiang about you, Director Wang.
Because I am planning to work with Baoqiang on a project recently, and when the time comes, Baoqiang and I will act together. I am afraid that the audience will misunderstand that we are trying to take advantage of the popularity of your company's previous film "Lost on Journey". "
When Wang Hao heard what Xu Zheng said, he clearly understood what the other party meant. He was still planning to shoot "Lost in Thailand".
It’s just that in his previous life, Xu Zheng dared to steal the reputation of “Lost in Journey” and made a “Lost in Thailand”. Now that it is Wang Hao’s turn, with his current industry status and background strength, Xu Zheng probably doesn’t have the courage to do so.
Of course, Xu Zheng, who likes to be clever, would definitely not be willing to give up like this, so the other party found Wang Baoqiang. He probably wanted to take a roundabout way to save the country and let Wang Baoqiang come to Wang Hao for help.
After all, just from "Detective Chinatown" we can see that Tang Ren, played by Wang Baoqiang, will probably have a considerable role in the [Galaxy Cinematic Universe] in the future. Maybe Wang Hao will give him a favor.
Wang Hao neither disliked nor agreed with Xu Zheng's scheming.
We are all adults now, so let’s not talk about morality or immorality in the entertainment industry. When it comes to business, everything has to be based on interests.
If the "Lost in Thailand" project can make money, Wang Hao wouldn't mind getting involved.
Galaxy Pictures has so many employees, they have to make money to pay their salaries.
So Wang Hao nodded slightly, neither agreeing nor refusing, but teasingly said to Xu Zheng:
"So now I have to call you Director Xu?
Director Xu, I still admire your comedic talent. Let’s put it this way. If you have a script, please submit it directly to the review department of our Galaxy Pictures.
If the script is acceptable, we can also produce a spin-off. At that time, we at Galaxy Pictures can also contribute to the investment, production and distribution of the film."
Hearing this, Xu Zheng's face immediately became overjoyed.
In today's Chinese entertainment industry, Galaxy Group has already become a new force that surpasses Huayi. With the support of this powerful company, Xu Zheng's first journey as a director will be smoother.
After dealing with Wang Baoqiang and Xu Zheng, Wang Hao walked around the venue again, and even visited his own company's booth before returning to the hotel.
In the evening of the next day, when the Shanghai International Film Festival was holding awards ceremony, Wang Hao once again stepped onto the red carpet of the film festival in his best attire.
The last time he came to attend the Shanghai International Film Festival was the press conference for the first phase of "Galaxy Cinematic Universe". In the blink of an eye, 4 years have passed. Time really flies!
Facing the dense flashes of light, Wang Hao walked along the red carpet into the convention and exhibition center.
Also attending with him today were the leading actors of the movie "Wolf Warrior" Wu Jing and Xie Miao, but these two were just runners-up since their roles were not nominated.
The three of them were seated in the front row. Before they even sat down, the mainland actors around them who knew Wang Hao all greeted him enthusiastically.
If the closing ceremony of the film festival wasn't about to begin, I'm afraid they would all rush to Wang Hao.
Fortunately, the award ceremony started soon. The award of the Shanghai International Film Festival is called the Golden Goblet Award. As a film festival that claims to be in line with international standards, foreign films have always reaped great rewards in Shanghai.
But this year may be an exception. After a brief and not very interesting warm-up, the relevant awards were quickly announced.
Among the 16 nominated films, the Chinese film "HELLO! Mr. Tree" won the Golden Goblet Award for Best Film, and its director Han Jie also won the Best Director Award.
When he won the Best Director Award, Han Jie was quite moved. He took the microphone and first thanked his mentor Jia Zhangke, and then said:
"I'm still young, and you're giving me this award. It's very hard for me to do this job. Being a director must be like this. Sometimes I have a split personality, and sometimes I have to control myself. I have to be able to endure hardships and manage my mental problems."
Another Chinese film that was also nominated, "The Man Next Door Singing Mountain Songs," became the big winner of this year's Golden Goblet Awards, winning Best Music, Best Screenplay and Best Actress.
Lu Xingchen, who was acting for the first time, won the Best Actress award for this debut film. She was so nervous that she was speechless on the stage.
"It's so surprising. I really didn't expect it. I dare not even think about it."
At the same time, she also sang a theme song on the spot, showing her excellent singing skills.
Afterwards, the Turkish film "The Woman Who Can't Afford to Be Hurt" won the Best Picture and Best Actor awards.
However, the leading actor of "The Woman Who Can't Be Hurt", Saiwuket Emura, was absent from the award ceremony due to illness, so the director of the film went on stage to receive the award on his behalf.
In addition, the Thai film "Friday the 13th" also won the Jury Award and Best Photography Awards.
After all the awards were presented, the last grand prize, the Jury Grand Prize, was finally read out by Zhang Jingchu.
"The winner of this year's Golden Goblet Award is Wolf Warriors!"
Following the shout, Wang Hao, the director of Wolf Warriors, stood up with a smile, hugged everyone around him, then walked onto the stage with a smile and received the trophy from Barry Levinson, the president of the film festival who was presenting the awards.
"thanks, thanks!
I would like to thank the jury for giving me this award. It is a recognition of my hard work over the years.
Here, I would also like to thank every behind-the-scenes staff member of our crew and every actor in the crew.
Because of your efforts, "Wolf Warrior" can be loved by more people.
Thank you. My colleagues and I will continue to provide you with more and better works in the future!"
Wang Hao, holding the trophy, walked off the stage amid warm applause.
After returning to his seat, Wu Jing asked for the trophy with envy on his face, and stroked it repeatedly in his hands.
This unfortunate boy, although he has acted in many works, has never won any awards. Even the only nomination was the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 07th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards in 44, but he lost to Leung Ka Fai.
"Okay, don't watch it anymore. We've already registered Wolf Warrior for the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Awards at the end of the year. We'll at least give you a Best Actor award to help you look good."
Wang Hao looked at the disappointing Wu Jing and couldn't help but laugh and scold.
Wu Jing still didn't believe it, "Really?!"
"Of course it's true," Wang Hao said confidently, "You've definitely won the Best Actor award this time, I say it!"
Of course, he is determined to win not only the Best Actor awards, but also the Best Director and Best Picture awards at this year's Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival.
Even though Wang Hao was competing with "Let the Bullets Fly", he was not afraid at all.
Wang Hao, who won the Golden Goblet Award, did not stay in Shanghai for long. After declining the hospitality of the vice president of the Magic Shadow Group, he flew back to Beijing that evening.
He still has to worry about the post-production of "Inception". In addition, he also needs to devote some of his energy to dealing with the group work that was squeezed out before.
It was at this time that Wang Hao learned that two months ago, on May 5, the famous public intellectual Ai Diajin was sentenced to six months in prison for drunk driving, which caused a rear-end collision of four cars and injured three people.
Also, because Ai Dajin had previously made many negative comments about Wang Hao's film works on online media, when faced with this opportunity, even though Wang Hao did not give any instructions because he was filming at the time, the public relations department of the Galaxy Group arranged for a group of internet trolls to take advantage of Ai Dajin's misfortune in public opinion.
Wang Hao just smiled indifferently at his subordinate's unauthorized actions. He was just an annoying little character. Wang Hao had never taken him to heart before, and now he would not punish his employees because of this person.
However, not punishing employees for being short and big does not mean that their behavior is right.
They used the company's resources to attack someone without authorization. This time they can use Wang Hao's name, and next time they can use someone else's name. We must not encourage this unhealthy trend.
Therefore, the head of the publicity and public relations department was severely criticized by Wang Hao and was told that it would not happen again.
After solving these small issues in the company, Wang Hao began to pay attention to the big issues in the company.
After more than half a month of release, the box office of "Detective Chinatown 4" has successfully exceeded the 5 million mark, and its trend remains very strong and continues to rise. It is not only expected to break through 6 million, but even million is possible.
This amount is already a huge profit for "Detective Chinatown", which had a total production cost of 3000 million.
Yes, the production cost of "Detective Chinatown" is only 3000 million.
Wang Hao didn't know why Chen Sicheng in his previous life had to spend 200 million to shoot a movie like this with no special effects or big scenes. Even if we excluded inflation and the increase in Wang Baoqiang's salary due to his rising status, it shouldn't be that high.
Of course, Galaxy Pictures’ ability to lower costs is also related to the fact that their film industrialization system has basically been successfully established.
According to statistics from the company's finance department and production budget department, the same movie, when shot by Galaxy Pictures, can at least reduce production costs by 15% compared to other companies.
In addition to Galaxy Pictures' own experienced and sufficient staff, they also have their own venue, Galaxy Cinema, as well as supporting costume and prop factories.
Even the cafeteria and shops inside [Galaxy Movie City], as well as several guesthouses and hotels in the surrounding area, are all properties of the Galaxy Group.
Don't underestimate this point. A lot of a crew's expenses are often wasted on these unnoticed details.
Take the simplest boxed lunch of the crew for example. The general food standard of the crew nowadays is between 10 and 13 yuan for an ordinary employee. For a more generous crew, it may be up to 15 yuan.
However, in reality, the actual cost of the boxed lunches that the low-level employees of the crew can eat may be only 8 to 10 yuan, and some are even as low as 5 yuan. Basically, they only have some vegetables, potatoes, tofu and some rice.
The assistant directors or life producers who are responsible for ordering meals can make 2 to 5 yuan from each lunch box.
Don't underestimate these few dollars. A medium-sized film crew may have dozens or even hundreds of people a day.
Each person earns two dollars per meal, and two meals for a hundred people would cost four hundred dollars, which would amount to twelve thousand dollars a month.
This is still an underestimate. It is said that the producers of large crews can often make hundreds of thousands of dollars just from ordering lunch boxes during the filming of a movie.
In addition to props, there are also many viewers and movie fans who would respond that sometimes the costume styles of a film or TV series over a period of time tend to be unified.
Either they are all vegan, or they are all complicated, or they are all photo studio style.
Because many times, the costumes of a crew are often not determined by how they design them, but by the costume and props companies around their filming location, and what styles of costumes and props they have at the time.
This is no joke, especially for large film and television bases like Hengdian and Xiangshan. Any service and makeup company that can open a service and makeup company in the surrounding areas will have a certain black background.
If you, an ordinary crew, dare not use their things, I'm afraid you don't want to film the movie well.
Of course, the crew members who are responsible for this aspect do not have the spirit of continuous improvement and are not willing to fight with these local tyrants in order to make a good work. They are usually content with just giving an acceptable answer.
So many times, the costumes and props that a crew spent a lot of money to design and customize are actually mostly second-hand items found in other people’s warehouses.
As for the price difference, it naturally falls into the pockets of some people.
It cannot be said that the bad habits and unspoken rules mentioned above in past film crews no longer exist at the Galaxy Group, but they have been reduced to an extremely low level, leaving no room for the parasites to survive.
First of all, the film and television production base [Xinghe Movie City] belongs to their company.
Those costume and props companies, as well as the canteen that supplies fertilizer for the crew, are also properties of the Galaxy Group.
The management systems of these supporting companies are very formal, and the related items and food are clearly marked with prices, and you get what you pay for.
And let alone the crew of Galaxy Pictures, other film and television crews that come to Galaxy Film City to shoot and produce are treated equally, and there is no problem of accepting kickbacks or cutting corners.
With this advantage, the reputation of [Galaxy Cinema City] in the film and television industry spread rapidly.
Perhaps many of those crews rely on small tricks to make money from investors and are not suited to the model of Galaxy Film City.
But there are also some crews that still want to manage well and shoot the film well.
It is precisely because of them that more than a dozen studios in [Galaxy Film City] have reservations scheduled for half a year later.
Nowadays, the third phase of the [Galaxy Cinema Metropolis] is also under intensive construction, so that it will be able to meet the needs of more regular crews across the country in the future.
(End of this chapter)