Chapter 281 Take the Initiative? Top 10 on Forbes! Movie Party? Fight You!

After arranging the follow-up work of Longxiang Capital, Chen Fei paid attention to Eric Kerger's progress, and then returned to Walton Pictures with Bruce.

He handed the negative of "Mulan" to the editing department for rough cutting, and he went to the animation studio.

The subsequent props and scene construction of "Robot Wall-E" have been completed, waiting for him to direct and shoot.

Andrew Broche was so happy to see Chen Fei coming.

"Fei, can we complete the final stage of shooting?"

Chen Fei patted his shoulder: "Yes, do it in one go and try to finish it in a short time."

This animation will be used to impact the Lunar New Year and the Oscar for Best Animated Film next year, so it must be released in December at the latest.

It is already August, and they still have four months left, so the time is still tight.

After the completion of this animation, he will seamlessly enter the shooting of "Game of Thrones".

Marvel is currently doing scene setting and preparatory work. Naturally, Chen Fei does not need to be responsible for this part of the work. The mature Hollywood industry saves him a lot of time.

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With the arrival of August, the domestic box office of "Twilight" has officially been fixed.

The 200 million data simply blinded a lot of people's eyes!

There are naturally criticisms, after all, the essence of this movie is a bloody romantic idol drama, but this does not affect its box office trend at all.

On Douban, even though many people say that the plot is too bad, the score remains above eight points.

However, the score on IMDb is a bit miserable, having dropped to 6.5 points.

IMDb is the most used movie rating platform in the world, and its top 250 film list is the Bible for countless movie fans.

Different from Douban, IMDb uses a ten-point system, and the deduction will be more detailed.

At present, the global total box office data has not been officially released, but according to the prediction of authoritative sources, it can at least be 450-500 million US dollars!

For a movie with an investment cost of only 30 million US dollars, this is undoubtedly a huge victory.

Sony sent a document to his mailbox.

Since its release on June 1, "2012" has finally created a record of 235 million US dollars in North American box office and 860 million US dollars in global box office.

And the score on IMDb is far higher than Twilight, reaching 7.5.

There is no doubt that this is also a big victory!

Just in terms of box office, Sony can get a share of 430 million US dollars. If the subsequent copyrights are counted, this income can steadily rise to 500 million US dollars.

And Chen Fei will also receive a huge share of the profits!

When going to Sony Columbia to attend the celebration banquet, Walker Engel and Roland Emmerich both had bright smiles on their faces, and they surrounded Chen Fei and praised him directly!

"Fei, your talent in screenwriting is the highest I have ever seen!"

"I really hope to cooperate with you in the future!"

Chen Fei smiled and nodded in response: "Don't worry, we will have plenty of opportunities to cooperate in the future."

Although the copyright of Spider-Man cannot be recovered for the time being, he will definitely not let go of this superhero character. This is an indelible link in Marvel's development plan for the next ten years.

But Chen Fei was not ready to immediately propose cooperation with Sony Columbia. He wanted the other party to come to him.

The initiative must be in the hands of Marvel!

~

After the celebration banquet, Chen Fei returned to the company and threw himself into the filming of the movie again.

However, he had just started working for a while when Natasha came over with great interest, with a bright smile on her face.

"Fei, congratulations, you have successfully made the Forbes list!"

Forbes?

After pressing the pause button of the camera, Chen Fei took the magazine.

"Forbes Global 100 Celebrities List 2007"

Looking at it, his name was ranked 9th!

The publication date shown on the magazine was August 1st. Obviously, Forbes should have intercepted the report card of the first half of the year and last year.

Recall that during this period of time, Chen Fei successively launched many masterpieces such as "Source Code", "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", "Iron Man", "Shoplifters" and so on!

The two awards of the Saturn Award for Best Director and the Golden Palm Trophy made his popularity spread all over the world!

Coupled with several challenging tasks from Red Bull and the identity of global spokesperson...

With the blessing of these many conditions, he successfully entered the top 10 of the Forbes Global Celebrity 100 list!

"Not bad."

Chen Fei took a quick look at the other people who were selected.

Behind him was Steven Spielberg, and in front of him was Tom Cruise.

Looking around, Madonna, Oprah Winfrey, the Rolling Stones and other well-known Hollywood talk show actors, movie stars, singers, etc. were on the list!

Normally, this kind of list is played by the United States, and rarely attracts attention from the domestic side.

But this year, because Chen Fei entered the top ten, it instantly attracted the attention of many people!

Domestic portal websites reprinted this list on the same day.

For a time, domestic netizens went crazy!

Someone on the forum popularized science: "The ranking of this list is based on four dimensions: income, Internet influence, publication influence, and TV influence."

Someone immediately echoed:

"Good fellow, so Director Chen's influence in Hollywood has surpassed Spielberg?"

"It can't be said to be surpassed. After all, this list only counts the results of the second half of last year and the first half of this year. During this period, Director Chen's influence in Hollywood is indeed quite large."

"Good fellow, the speed of this rise is even faster than riding a rocket!"

"Ninth on the Forbes 100 Celebrity List?"

Su Guohai, who was entertaining at a cocktail party, received the news immediately.

He was quite amused. His boss was not only doing well in China, but also not inferior to those internationally renowned directors when he went abroad.

Steven Spielberg was ranked behind him. This pomp was simply amazing!

"Hello, Mr. Su."

A shout attracted Su Guohai's attention.

He turned his head and saw a woman in an off-shoulder evening dress raising a glass to him.

Huayi Public Relations Manager, Huo Siyan!

Thinking of this woman's record, Su Guohai suddenly resisted.

I have a family and children, so it's better to stay away from her!

"Hello."

Su Guohai nodded gently, clinked glasses with her, chatted casually for a few words, and then quickly went to China Film.

This scene made Huo Siyan a little confused.

She was still planning to chat for a few words and ask if there was any role suitable for her in "Painted Skin", but she didn't expect Su Guohai to turn around and slip away as if he saw the plague god?

She snorted a little depressed, raised her wine glass, and walked towards another director.

~

Although she was abroad, news from China continued to reach Chen Fei.

The literary and art circle is currently doing condolences. The famous crosstalk actor Mr. Hou Yaowen passed away. I heard that the funeral procession was quite large.

When he heard this name, Chen Fei unconsciously thought of Guo Degang and his son.

The phrase "filial piety in front of the hall" is so sad!

Huang Xiaoming, the "licking dog", finally woke up.

Ning Hao called and said gossipy things: "It's no secret that he likes Zhao Yanzi, but they are obviously playing him like a monkey. They openly talked about the rumors between the two of them on the talk show, and didn't give Xiao Ming face at all..."

"So how is he now?"

"He broke up before he even started dating, which just fits the state of Wang Sheng in "Painted Skin". I plan to let him bring this feeling to the filming of the movie."

"Hey? You are also a talent!"

"Hahaha!"

Ning Hao looked gloating. In fact, he paid attention to Huang Xiaoming's state at the first time. That guy was just very disappointed, and it would definitely not affect the subsequent filming.

If a grown man can't even bear this, what's the point of being in the entertainment industry?

~

After working at full capacity, the filming progress of Wall-E began to proceed rapidly.

The improvement of director skills made Chen Fei suddenly understand a lot of things. The original very complicated problems suddenly seemed effortless when looking at them again.

And this also made his filming progress faster!

The preparatory work for Kung Fu Panda has already begun. This time, Andrew Brochet has learned his lesson and is trying to get Chen Fei to work overtime every day.

A group of people want to drag Chen Fei to work overtime every day!

The Venice International Film Festival will officially open on August 29, and some people in the industry have already started to rush there.

Even if they cannot enter the main competition unit, they can still sell the copyrights. Who knows, they may catch a rich man with a lot of money.

After a long period of silence, Lu Chuan finally regained his vitality!

"Nanjing! Nanjing!" held a film screening in the capital, inviting people in the industry and fans to attend.

Because the investors are China Film and Huayi, the invitation letter was sent by these two companies.

Chen Fei naturally received a copy.

"Feiyue Film and Television will not go."

He called Han Sanping directly and explained his ideas.

"Ning Hao..."

"He won't go either."

"Hey, you are really stubborn."

Han Sanping had a bitter smile on his face, but he was helpless.

After all, he couldn't just kidnap Chen Fei, right? And compared to Chen Fei, Lu Chuan didn't hold much of a place in his heart.

"I was thinking about the gossips from reporters and the media..."

"Let them talk if they want. Everyone is busy. Who has time to watch his crappy movie?"

"Okay, it's up to you."

Han Sanping didn't force him and hung up the phone.

What Chen Fei didn't expect was that Jiang Wen called in as soon as he hung up the phone.

"Director Chen? What are you doing recently?"

"Filming."

"Hollywood?"

"Yes."

"Is it convenient for me to visit you?"

Hey?

Chen Fei was amused as soon as he thought about it.

Old Jiang must have received the invitation letter from China Film. He could avoid it, but he couldn't.

Even if he used the excuse of going to the Venice Film Festival, the day hadn't come yet, so it wasn't appropriate to run away in advance...

Chen Fei happened to be abroad, so he might as well go to him!

"Okay!" Chen Fei responded immediately: "I just happen to be short of staff here, Director Jiang, come and help me, I'll give you an offer as an assistant director."

"Hahaha!"

Jiang Wen hung up the phone happily, and while asking his wife to buy him a plane ticket, he called Han Sanping.

"Alas!" He sighed heavily and said with some sadness: "Director Han, I'm really sorry, there is a very urgent project in Hollywood, so I won't go to the film screening."

"..."

On the other end of the phone, Han Sanping was silent for a while and then cut off the call.

No need to guess, these two guys must have contacted each other in advance!

~

The film viewing party was held quite smoothly. After all, there were two platforms, China Film and Huayi, and there were very few people who would not give them face.

Chen Fei read the media reports and found that many directors of literary and artistic feature films within the system were present, especially those from the older generation who were still able to move.

Wang Xiaoshuai, Jia Zhangke, Feng Xiaogang...these three are considered the most famous directors at the film festival.

As for Zhang Yimou and Brother Chen Kai, they did not go.

It's very close to the start of the Olympic Games. Lao Mouzi has been busy lately, so how can he have time to participate in such activities?

And Lao Chen was obsessed with his "Mei Lanfang" and didn't go to the scene.

Sohu.com excerpted an excerpt from Lu Chuan's speech and used it as the title of the report.

[This is a movie about fighting for national scars...]

"I'll fight you to paralysis!"

Chen Fei rolled his eyes, full of disdain.

Jiang Wen was also looking at his cell phone, but his expression was a little complicated.

"A lot of media are saying that we don't get along, that we have conflicts with Lu Chuan, that we don't support the domestic film industry, that we don't interact with each other until we die, and so on. I guess it was specially arranged by that guy..."

"Ignore him, he's just a piece of trash."

Chen Fei was not affected at all by media reports.

At any time, directors who can make money are more popular than directors who can only win awards!

No matter how deep his network of connections in the industry and how strong his family connections were, Lu Chuan could not influence the film bureau.

The higher-ups have just issued a policy to accelerate the development of the film industry. What advantage does he have as a director of literary and artistic films?

The media just watched the fun, and within a few days this news was replaced by other news!

~

In order to invite Chen Fei to guest star in Super 4, Romulo Otero did not hesitate to come to invite him personally.

"Fei, I'm waiting for you now. 70% of the plot is over, and almost only the part about you is left."

Chen Fei rubbed the tip of his nose and said with some embarrassment: "Give me another week, and the movie will be finished soon. I will definitely be there as soon as possible."

"Ok, then I'll wait for you?"

"Ok, absolutely ok!"

If it had been any other actor, Universal Pictures would have deleted the scene long ago.

But Chen Fei is different. As long as he participates, it can bring in at least 50 million US dollars in box office revenue, which is far beyond his salary.

If they hadn't signed the agreement in advance, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to hire this "big boss"!

Now, even if it means waiting a little longer, Universal Pictures is very willing.

As soon as Romulo Otero left, the company suddenly had another "visitor" that Chen Fei didn't expect.

"Huh? Isn't this Princess Cherry?"

Seeing Jing Tian timidly walking in under the guidance of the front desk, Chen Fei suddenly started to joke.

"Hello, Director Chen."

Jing Tian greeted him respectfully and handed a rather exquisite packaging bag in his hand to Chen Fei.

"What's this?"

Chen Fei took it curiously.

"cherry."

"Hahaha, you, the cherry spokesperson, can you eat for free?"

Spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a spokesperson, Chen Fei just thought about it and sighed at Lu Zheng's cool behavior.

Jing Tian nodded seriously: "Yes, they said you can eat for free. You can take as much as you want."

"Hey? Really?"

This girl is very innocent and talks silly.

After showing her around the animation shooting process, Chen Feishun asked, "Where's Mr. Lu? Don't you want to come with you?"

Jing Tian shook his head: "Uncle Lu went to help me contact the crew. He wants me to participate in the filming of Hollywood movies."

Nortel has issued the admission notice for new students, and Jing Tian is on the list.

Logically speaking, as the school year approaches, she should go to school first.

But now, it seems that she is preparing to copy Liu Yifei's path!

Comparatively speaking, this family's resources are indeed much better than Liu Yifei's, and the starting point for entering the industry is naturally much higher.

"So you have decided? To develop your acting skills directly through acting? Instead of going to class to learn?"

"Um."

Jing Tian had no intention of hiding it and nodded naturally.

"It's a pity." Chen Fei pointed out: "Xiaohong can rely on praise, but if you want to become famous, you still need solid acting skills."

"I know, I will learn and improve while filming."

Good opportunities are so rare that Lu Zheng doesn't dare to wait, and Jing Tian doesn't want to wait either, because they don't have much time to settle and learn.

The flowering period of actresses is not long. Jing Tian has not yet made her debut as a child star, so she can only choose to take shortcuts.

It just so happens that Lu Zheng is good at spending money...

~

When the little girl came to visit the class, Chen Fei naturally couldn't leave her alone.

After the day's shooting, he called Bruce, Natasha, and Andrew, and they went to dinner with him, and by the way, they went to see the latest release of "Transformers."

DreamWorks and Paramount teamed up to create this sci-fi masterpiece that took a year and a half!

Even though there were movies like "Twilight", "Ratatouille", and "Die Hard 4" before, when "Transformers" appeared, the first three movies all chose to surrender.

The box office in the first seven days of the week was 150 million US dollars!

Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, plus Megan Fox's slim waist...

It's amazing!

Bruce drooled on the side, looking hopeful: "Fei, promise me that you must find a chance to work with Megan Fox."

"What do you want to do?"

"I like her so much, can you shoot a bed scene with her? I am willing to be your cameraman. I know your fighting ability. I promise that I can last two hours without going to the toilet."

"???"

Fade Chen looked confused? When did this guy get the bad habit of NTR?

Jing Tian blushed as he listened, but his eyes couldn't help but glance at his side.

Two hours?

Is it true?

Even Natasha looked very surprised. She was much more straightforward than Jing Tian. She came over and started to inquire about the news.

Chen Fei rolled his eyes and ignored them.

There were underage girls around them. These two perverts didn't know how to restrain themselves. How could they ask a man how long he could last in person?