Chapter 298 Transformation Is Successful! Pressure on Major Hollywood Animation Companies Has Doubled! Ginny Award! Oscar! God!

[Congratulations to Director Chen, his first animated feature film won the Golden Globe Award for Film and Television! ]

In this information age, Hollywood news is no longer a secret in China. As soon as Chen Fei won the award, the news spread back to China immediately.

"Fuck? So awesome?"

"Good guy, when it comes to transformation, I don't agree with anyone except Director Chen."

"Haha, have you seen the report a while ago? Director Chen's movie in South Korea actually promoted the improvement of South Korea's congressional laws."

"I also saw this news, fuck, it's so awesome!"

"I'm already looking forward to the Oscars. "Wall-E" and "Mulan" both participated in the selection. If Director Chen wins another Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, he will become a god!"

"Pfft... Beijing Film Academy is quite interesting. I just passed by there today and saw a banner hanging for Director Chen again."

"..."

The domestic media and netizens were in an uproar, and seeing the box office continue to rise, the theater chain was so happy that they couldn't close their mouths.

It has to be a Hollywood blockbuster. The money earned is simply too good!

"Director Chen, make more blockbusters. Wanda has always been your strongest backing."

"What about the IMAX3D thing?"

"I will definitely do it for you!"

"Okay, thank you, Mr. Ye."

Although "Inception" has not started shooting yet, Chen Fei has already started preparing for its future release.

~

The theater chain also looks at people and serves them well. When Wall-E won the award, the next day, the major theater chains in Hollywood quickly adjusted the number of screenings.

"Chipmunks", produced by Fox in the 20th century, was not very favored by the theater chain. Now, in order to make way for Wall-E, the number of screenings has been suppressed!

But if the most pressured now is Pixar Animation Studios.

After attending the premiere of "Wall-E", John Lasseter felt that he might lose the Golden Globe Awards this time.

Sure enough, he really guessed it!

An emergency meeting was held.

Bob Iger, the current CEO of Disney, came to the conference room in person to listen to his ideas.

"We didn't expect that Ratatouille didn't win the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, but we don't need to be discouraged. The quality of Up is not worse than it. We will strive to make this animated film appear in major theaters in 2008 to prove our strength!"

Bob Iger said slowly: "I need a specific time."

Disney will launch two animated films, Bolt and The Princess and the Frog, next year, but according to people familiar with the matter, the latest animated film of Walt Disney Studios has already started shooting.

If the new movie can still maintain the level of Wall-E, Disney may find it difficult to surpass it!

Therefore, the burden still has to be placed on Pixar Animation Studios.

John Lasseter thought about it and replied: "The post-production of animation is difficult, and it will be the end of the year at the earliest."

"Okay, I hope you can do what you said."

Temporary success or failure is not terrible. After all, Disney is a big family and a big business. It's good to win it back next time.

But I'm afraid that it will still fail miserably next time, then it will be a big trouble!

Katzenberg, president of DreamWorks Animation, which has separated from DreamWorks and completed its IPO, is also as worried as Pixar.

He is studying this year's strategic plan with Spielberg, who just won the Golden Globe Lifetime Achievement Award, and some senior executives.

The box office revenue of animated films accounts for a large part of DreamWorks' turnover, so they must ensure that there are animated films produced every year and that each film can reap high box office.

A senior executive took the lead in saying: "The news has been confirmed. Walt Disney Studios will launch a movie called "Kung Fu Panda" this year, combining the two elements of "Chinese Kung Fu" and "Panda National Treasure."

As a professional animation planner, Katzenberg instantly felt a sense of crisis.

"Chinese Kung Fu" is very well-known in North America, and "Panda National Treasure" is even more beloved by children.

He had a bad feeling that the new movie launched by Walt Disney Studios would lead the trend again.

"How is the post-production of Madagascar 2 going? Even if it's put off until the end of the year, this movie must be released this year."

In Hollywood, as long as the first movie is successful, it is destined to have a sequel.

This is especially true for animated movies!

And Madagascar is one of DreamWorks' big IPs, and it also has a complete sequel plan, which can stabilize the morale of the troops.

"Post-production is in progress and is expected to be completed around September."

"Okay! If there are not enough people, you can continue to send more people, and you must ensure this year's output."

"But Monsters vs. Aliens is also in preparation, and it may require more people. The company's current number is not enough."

"Keep hiring! Or go to Disney to dig, and dig at a high price!"

"Okay."

The senior executive in charge of personnel affairs nodded, and suddenly the grudge between his CEO and Disney popped up in his mind.

I'm afraid I have to fight with Disney for the rest of my life...

………………

Just two days after the Golden Globe Awards for Film and Television ended, the shortlist for the Annie Awards was announced.

Chen Fei, who was busy filming "Kung Fu Panda", received a newspaper from Bruce, which marked all the animated films shortlisted for the 35th Annie Awards.

The Annie Awards is an animation award and one of the highest honors in the global animation field. It has been held since 1972 by ASIFA-Hollywood, a member of the Los Angeles branch of the International Association of Animated Films in California, USA.

The award was originally designed to reward lifetime achievements in animation directors, producers, works, designs, screenwriters, dubbing, sound effects and soundtracks.

Later, the Annie Awards began to evaluate animation as a whole and established the Best Animated Film Award. At the same time, awards were also established in various animation fields.

The Annie Awards were held on February 8, half a month earlier than the Oscars.

"Best Animated Film, Best Animated Film Director, Best Animated Film Screenwriter, Best Animated Film Art Direction, Best Animated Effects..."

After counting them carefully, Chen Fei was surprised to find that "Wall-E" actually received a full 13 nominations!

In contrast, "Ratatouille", which was distributed by Disney and produced by Pixar Animation Studios, also received 13 nominations.

Next up was Sony's "Surf's Up," but the film only received 10 nominations.

Before Chen Fei could react, Natasha also rushed to the animation studio and shouted excitedly: "Fei, we can go to war with Disney!"

Chen Fei glanced at the newspaper in her hand and smiled slightly: "From now on, we will punch Disney, step on Pixar, and elbow DreamWorks."

"Are you confident?" Natasha asked with some anticipation.

Looking back at the modeling of the panda "Po", Chen Fei shrugged: "Why not confident?"

...

Old man Woody Allen is quite fast, and the filming of "The Twilight Saga 2: New Moon" is about to end.

Chen Fei decided to continue to put this movie in the summer vacation, when the high school students will be on vacation, and he can fool the pocket money in the pockets of American high school students again.

Thinking about it, there seems to be a little bit of evil~

"Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2" is still in preparation. Natasha specially built a shed in the suburbs and built all the equipment and scenes needed there.

As for Marvel, Chen Fei doesn't need to take care of it. Kevin Fei will arrange everything.

However, "Game of Thrones" requires him to personally take charge and cooperate with Industrial Light and Magic to continue fine-cutting, which also causes him to work overtime every night...

Wen Ziren finally finished filming Fast and Furious 4. He plans to take a break for a while and then make a horror movie to find the feeling.

Overall, everything is moving in an orderly manner.

Lionsgate and New Line are still contacting him from time to time, wanting to continue to cooperate with him.

It's a pity that Chen Fei's own "surplus food" is not much, and there is really no suitable script to share with them, so he can only decline again and again.

On the contrary, the preparations for "Inception" are a little more complicated.

In order to make a 3D version, Chen Fei could only squeeze out more time and start to modify the script.

The original script is actually quite good, and it belongs to the standard template for commercial script creation.

First, he started to do a small task, and introduced the basic setting of Stealing Dreams through a layer of dreams. Then the task failed, and he was forced to work for the big devil, and began to find people to form a team all over the world, and finally beat the boss.

The team members came one after another, conflicted with each other, tried to run in, and understood each other.

In the end, after the team completed the running-in, it officially started and succeeded!

This is actually a standard Hollywood commercial film routine, which is similar to the script theory of the Avengers.

But routines are routines, and the core of the story is the key to supporting the routine, and the concept of "Stealing Dreams" just supports the core of the story.

At the same time, in addition to modifying the script and showing the 3D effect, he also plans to modify the arrangement of the actors.

For example, the heroine "Ariadne" must not use the transgender actress for this role, and he plans to find a more suitable one.

In addition, there is the energy tycoon "Saito".

He doesn't want actors from ordinary lives, he wants to replace them with Chinese!

"Which actor in the mainland can take this role? He must be able to take on Leonardo's acting skills..."

Muttering to himself, Chen Fei drew an "X" on the two words "Saito", and then wrote the two words "Zhuang Zhou".

Dream stealing... Zhuang Zhou dreaming of a butterfly...

It's perfect!

Foreigners may not understand "Zhuang Zhou dreaming of a butterfly", but I believe that those domestic movie fans will definitely be unable to stop watching it!

A copy of the script of "Inception" has been given to Leo. This guy said he wanted to cooperate every day when he met. Now that he saw Chen Fei really invited him, he was still very excited.

This is also the reason why he went to China to attend the premiere of "Mulan".

Although it is not yet confirmed whether he will appear, it should be no problem.

In addition to the changes in actors, the filming location must also be changed.

In response to the call of the Film Bureau, Chen Fei decided to set some scenes about the energy tycoon in the mainland, and the main choice was Shanghai, which is more international and the effect of the filming should be good.

Script, actors, shooting location, pre-production preparation...

With the cooperation of many parties, everything is going on in an orderly manner.

…

The news that "Wall-E" received 13 nominations for the Annie Awards was first reported by Sina.com.

Mainland fans were a little confused when they first saw it. After all, no one had any impression of the "Annie Awards" and no domestic movies could participate in the selection.

Later, after some insiders explained it, the fans suddenly realized it!

"Wow, this is the battlefield for all animated films in the world to compete!"

"Oh my god, boom, I suddenly have a new understanding of Director Chen's level. 13 nominations? How good must this movie be?"

"Is it broadcast? Can I watch it on the computer?"

"Save Chinese animation!"

"Rainbow Cat and Blue Rabbit" was banned. It's speechless. Is there no Chinese animation that can be on the big screen?"

Some fans were arguing heatedly, but before the scope was fully expanded, the list of nominees for the 80th Academy Awards was suddenly announced!

Many people are not very familiar with the densely packed foreign names. Looking around, only Depp, who plays the "pirate captain", is familiar, and the others look very unfamiliar.

Therefore, after seeing the list, most people will focus on the "Best Foreign Language Film" without any prior agreement.

Austria, Poland, Kazakhstan, Russia, China!!!

"Fuck, "Mulan" is selected as the best foreign language film."

In the "Painted Skin" crew, Huang Xiaoming and Jiao Enjun shouted and yelled, completely without the usual calmness.

There is no way, who let them both participate in this movie, and Jiao Enjun has a lot of scenes in the crew.

"Is it true?"

Zhou Xun and others came over one after another, and even Ning Hao, who was organizing people to set up the scene, was startled.

Everyone gathered together and stared at the Oscar shortlist without blinking.

When they saw that "Mulan" was indeed on the shortlist for the best foreign language film, for a moment, everyone was so excited that they could not control themselves!

Ning Hao took out his phone without hesitation and called Chen Fei, but the display showed "Calling."

"The invitation letter for the premiere of "CJ7" has been sent to your email. Remember to come back and attend it when you have time. You are really awesome. You are actually nominated for the Oscars. Are you confident of winning the award?"

While listening to Han Sanping's voice on the phone, Chen Fei looked at the newspaper in his hand.

Nominated?

I really didn't expect it!

"It's hard to say. If you want to win an Oscar, you usually need to invest a lot of resources. At least it's difficult to win over the judges."

The end of the year and the beginning of the year are usually the "cocktail party" time of the Oscars. In addition to the high quality of the film, it is also the top priority to win enough votes from the judges.

Chen Fei assigned this work to Bruce. This guy is a master in communication!

"If you need help, just tell me. China Film will definitely support you."

"Haha, okay, thank you Mr. Han."

After chatting for a few more words, Chen Fei hung up the phone and pressed the power button.

He didn't have time to deal with too many "congratulations" calls. The production of "Kung Fu Panda" was very complicated and had to race against time.

In fact, in addition to "Mulan" being nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film, "Wall-E" was also nominated for the Best Animated Feature Film at the Oscars.

However, no one was shocked by this news.

It would be strange if such a movie didn't get nominated for the Oscars after winning the Golden Globe Award for Film and Television and 13 nominations for the Annie Awards!

Now everyone is only curious about whether "Mulan" can win the Best Foreign Language Film?

A group of film and television production company bosses and actors from major brokerage companies are waiting for Chen Fei to return. They are preparing to test the waters at the premiere of "CJ7".

If he is sure to win the award, Chen Fei's position in the mainland film market is unmatched!

Zhang Yimou, Li An... these people have to step back a little!

~

Time quickly came to January 22. After a month of release, "Mulan" finally ushered in the moment of being taken off the screen.

Many people are waiting for China Film to report the box office data of this movie.

They all want to know, can "Mulan" really exceed 600 million yuan at the box office as Chen Fei said?

There are many people sitting in Wang Zhonglei's office.

The two brothers of the Wang family, Feng Xiaogang, Chen Guofu and the Li Bingbin sisters.

At present, these people should be considered the most deeply involved in the interest community of Huayi, and they are also the helmsmen who can keep Huayi moving forward!

The topic of several people at this time is still focused on Chen Fei.

Wang Zhongjun said enviously: "This kid is really awesome. According to statistics, in the mainland film market in 2007, he alone accounted for 68% of the total box office!"

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but take a breath.

"The money was earned by his company." Li Bingbin meant something.

"There is no way, I can't envy him. This kid's screenwriter and director level is too high. It's not an exaggeration to describe him as "talented"."

So far, if calculated based on the box office of the movie, Chen Fei is already the first among the commercial film directors!

The second one is Ning Hao, the third one is Zhang Yimou, the fourth one is Feng Xiaogang, and the fifth one is Chen Kaige.

And it only took him "five years" to achieve the current level!

It's simply inhuman!

"Crack!"

As everyone was exclaiming, the office door suddenly opened and Wang Zhonglei's secretary walked in.

"Mr. Wang, the box office results of "Mulan" are out."

"How much? Has it exceeded 600 million?" A group of people stared at him.

The secretary nodded slowly, "637 million RMB in the mainland, and the total overseas box office is currently 213 million US dollars."

"Hiss!!!"

This time the sound of sucking in a breath of cold air was much louder than before.

213 million US dollars.

Converted into RMB is 1.704 billion, plus 637 million, the total is 2.341 billion!

The investment in the film is 70 million US dollars, which is 560 million RMB!

Counting the theater share, film copyright, DVD, and video copyright...

Wang Zhongjun swallowed his saliva, his face full of disbelief, "The revenue of this movie must be at least 1 billion RMB!"

As soon as the voice fell, Li Bingbin's face showed an uncontrollable shock!

In front of such revenue, Feng Xiaogang's "Assembly" is obviously a younger brother!

So… can the movie “The Forbidden Kingdom” that I participated in achieve such a result?

A group of people were still here for a long time, but at this time, major portals and entertainment media have begun to scramble to report:

[The first director in the 600 million box office club in the mainland - Chen Fei! ]

[Just after being nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, he entered the 600 million box office club, worthy of being the "script midas touch". ]

[The first person in the domestic film and television industry! ]

[Counting Director Chen's excellent "achievements" at home and abroad this year...]

[The total box office data of the mainland film market in 2007 has just been released, and Feiyue Film and Television Production Company alone accounts for 68% of the total box office for the whole year! Director Chen is awesome! ]