Chapter 352 Ten Oscar Nominations! Let the Bullets Fly?

Chapter 352 Ten Oscar nominations! Let the bullets fly?

Domestic media published the first week box office of "Red Cliff II".

Very pitiful, only 55 million!

Compared with the previous film, this data is so bad that Wu Yu wants to cry. The decline in word of mouth is directly reflected in the weak box office.

"Why is it only this?"

Wu Yu looked left and right with the newspaper, always feeling unreal.

Even if the previous film had some flaws, it still got 300 million in the end, and this one has many big scenes, so it should be more than 200 million at least!

But now?

Looking at this data, at most a little over 100 million is good!

"Alas!"

Sighing, Wu Yu began to think hard about how to deal with it. He couldn't just let the box office continue to be weak, right?

"Dinglingling!"

The phone rang suddenly, and he picked it up and took a look. He saw Han Sanping's name on the caller ID.

Damn! Isn't she here to call for punishment?

He frowned and pressed the connect button, but when he heard the voice on the other end, he felt stunned in his heart, and the expression on his face was unusually "brilliant"!

"Slumdog Millionaire" won the award!

Even "Departures" won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film!

After hanging up the phone, he suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart, "Damn it, he won't really donate all the director's fees? Can this kid really win an Oscar? Impossible?"

He felt more and more that something was wrong.

Domestic media rushed to report, and the same was true abroad.

However, compared with the praise in China, many people in Hollywood questioned whether such a young Golden Globe Best Director was a bit over-hyped?

Until three days later, the Oscar nominations were announced.

"Slumdog Millionaire" appeared on the Oscar shortlist with a total of ten nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Original Song, Best Sound Editing, Best Art Direction, and Best Original Score!

For a time, all the Hollywood media were boiling!

It looks like it's going to win an award?

Some media interviewed the Oscar judging team and asked them if they were a little unworthy of the name. Does "Slumdog Millionaire" deserve such honor?

But the judges were very direct and said that this was a decision made after many discussions and it was a decision recognized by many people.

In other words, Chen Fei and "Slumdog Millionaire" both deserve such a result!

After the news was passed back to China, it immediately attracted greater attention!

"What? Director Chen is going to win an Oscar?"

"Wow! Wow! Wow! Awesome! So awesome!"

"He's only 24 years old. Isn't it suspected of flattery if the Oscars do this?"

"Stop kidding. Have you ever seen anyone who won the Golden Bear and the Golden Palm at the age of 24? Director Chen deserves it!"

"Okay, let's stop talking. I must pay attention to this Oscar and witness Director Chen's moment of enshrinement!"

Congratulations came to Chen Fei one after another.

Ning Hao has already gone to Berlin and is contacting film producers from various countries, but after the Oscar nomination list was announced, he still called excitedly.

"Departures has been nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar?!"

"Yes, when the trip to Berlin is over, let's fly to Los Angeles again."

"Why do I feel like I'm dreaming?"

"This dream won't end like this."

Chen Fei meant something, his eyes flickered slightly, he wants to win the Oscar, and he also wants to win the award in Berlin!

Chen Long also called, congratulated him, and then told him his real purpose, "The TV series "Myth" is about to start filming, do you want to come and play?"

Myth?

After a moment of hesitation, Chen Fei suddenly reacted.

"Are you the investor of this drama?"

"Yes, and the chief producer."

It's still a long time before "The Chinese Zodiac" is released, and Chen Long has nothing to do, so he simply started filming "Myth" in advance.

When this drama is finished, the movie will be almost online.

"If I have time, I can go shopping."

"Myth" will start filming in Hengdian, and there are many crews invested by Feiyue Film and Television there. I can go shopping when I visit the set.

Su Guohai has already confirmed the filming plan. They plan to shoot "The Legend of Zhen Huan" first, and they are currently selecting a suitable director.

This drama will definitely go to Hengdian, and maybe Chen Fei will have to participate.

As for the film and television city plan in Sichuan and Chongqing, it has been shelved for now. This plan is completely over and no one will mention it again in the future.

"Then I'll leave you a role!"

Chen Long made a final decision without any explanation.

Just after hanging up the phone, someone else called in.

Chen Fei answered a few more calls, and he was annoyed, so he simply turned off his phone and ignored the people behind him.

There were only a few words back and forth, which was meaningless.

"Boss, boxofficemojo has released the North American market share data for 2008."

The female secretary pushed the door open and walked in, putting a new newspaper in front of Chen Fei.

"Oh? What place can we take?"

He asked curiously, picking up the newspaper and glancing at it.

"Third!" The female secretary replied softly.

In 2008, Volkswagen Pictures didn't have any outstanding performance. Marvel was still filming and didn't launch any new series of movies. Volkswagen Pictures only had three movies, "Twilight", "Kung Fu Panda" and "Slumdog Millionaire", and the remaining one was the low-budget horror movie "Insidious 2".

But these four movies were able to rank in the top three, which surprised Chen Fei.

"Are all other Hollywood film companies so bad?"

He muttered while looking from bottom to top.

The last one was Universal Pictures, which promoted "Hellboy 2" and "The Mummy 3", followed by 20th Century Fox, which promoted "Horton Hears a Who", and then Disney, which promoted "The Chronicles of Narnia 2" and "Bolt".

Columbia Pictures was still quite powerful, shining with "Hancock" and "007: Quantum of War".

However, the most powerful company this year is Warner Bros., which won the first prize with the annual box office champion "The Dark Knight", which can be regarded as a hearty comeback!

"Not bad."

Chen Fei nodded with satisfaction.

He has begun to look forward to next year. When Marvel has a big explosion, he doesn't know whether the other six Hollywood companies will be shocked.

Are you ready for the pain of being dominated by Marvel?

"Fei! Great news!"

The office door was suddenly pushed open, and Natasha walked in quickly with a newspaper, her face full of surprise and disbelief.

"Huh? What?"

Chen Fei looked up at her curiously.

"Look at this report, I didn't expect that he would support us!"

Taking the newspaper, Chen Fei looked at a report on it.

This is a report about O'Heizi. After this guy came to power, he started to thank all the financial masters who supported him from various channels.

As for Chen Fei's thanks, he used a side support method.

Regarding the movie "Slumdog Millionaire", he expressed his strong approval and said in front of the media that he liked the movie very much. He even wrote a long film review for the movie, expressing his ruling policy after taking office.

Through the movie, he expressed his purpose of paying attention to the bottom and showed that he would contribute to the American people.

As a result, those who supported him naturally approved of it, and "Slumdog Millionaire" also became a big hit!

Not only did the box office data usher in a surge again, but the calls for awards also became much higher.

"Hey? This black guy is quite interesting."

Chen Fei smiled slightly, and the name of the JPMorgan Chase consortium subconsciously emerged in his mind.

This is probably the goodwill from multiple bets.

In the past few years since O'Neal took office, he can also go more smoothly in Hollywood.

This film review not only became a big hit in the United States, but also caused a lot of heat in China.

Not only major film and television companies, directors, and actors are discussing it, but even some newcomers are also discussing it.

On the campus of Beijing Film Academy, freshmen who had checked their grades were visiting the campus and whispering to each other.

"Mengying, is this Director Chen? So handsome!"

In front of the alumni wall, Wu Jinyan pointed at Chen Fei's photo and exclaimed softly.

Hearing the voice, Huang Mengying moved her eyes from Zhang Yimou's photo to Chen Fei's photo. After taking a look at Chen Fei's photo, she unconsciously fixed her eyes on the resume marked below.

This resume is updated in real time, and you can even see the five words "Golden Globe Award for Best Director" still flashing with a faint golden glow.

"Talented men are the most handsome!"

She said softly, and couldn't help but feel a little yearning in her heart.

The reason why she applied for Beijing Film Academy was because she was influenced by Chen Fei and hoped to meet her idol in school!

The two girls were chatting in a low voice, and they heard another voice from the side, "Director Chen is really awesome. The movies he made can be liked by the President of the United States, and he also wrote a long film review for him. This strength is unique in the world."

The two girls were attracted by this voice.

"Huh? Isn't this the child star Doraemon?"

"Who are the two boys next to him? So handsome!"

The two of them obviously didn't focus on the same channel.

Men always like to talk about politics and celebrities when they are together, so after hearing Doraemon's voice, Zhang Yunlong and Liu Binlin looked at each other and nodded in agreement.

"In terms of international influence, among our domestic directors, Director Chen is definitely No.1!"

"That's right, even Director Li An is not as good as him."

More and more people gathered in front of the alumni wall, and Li Meng and Li Yu were two of them.

Although the two girls were quite different in age, they were in the same group during the exam, so they became familiar with each other.

Listening to the discussions of their future classmates, the two looked at each other and couldn't help but yearn for it.

"I heard Director Chen has an agency. I wonder if he's hiring. It would be great if I could join. Maybe I could even go to Hollywood to film!"

"It's probably difficult. I heard Director Chen's favorite female lead is Liu Yifei. How can we compare to her?"

A group of people chattered, full of expectations for the future.

In recent years, Beijing Film Academy has been more popular than the Central Academy of Drama. There are more and more people who want to be stars, but the number of people who want to be actors continues to decline every year.

And who can get into Beijing Film Academy is a child from an ordinary family?

Even before the formal enrollment, the internal competition has already begun!

…

The news of the Oscar nomination did not reduce Chen Fei's busyness. Instead, he became even busier.

During the day, he had to work with the special effects company to edit "Inception", pay attention to the pre-production of "Kung Fu Panda 2", and even work with "Fast and Furious 4" to do some pre-release publicity!

And at night, there were all kinds of parties, and he was so busy that he had no time to rest!

However, Jiang Wen's arrival broke this busyness.

"Director Chen, hurry up, give me some advice on this script."

"Hey? Did you fly here specially?" Chen Fei looked at him in surprise. He didn't expect to see him in Los Angeles.

"That's not the case. Your sister-in-law and I came here for vacation and came to visit you by the way."

The two sat down face to face.

Chen Fei had promised Jiang Wen before that he would definitely support him when he made a commercial film, and even give him a cameo.

As soon as Lao Jiang came to Los Angeles, he went straight to him!

"Fire Cloud?"

Chen Fei looked at the script, and the more he read, the more excited he became. It was still that familiar feeling. Only Jiang Wen could shoot this script. No one else could shoot it.

"Director Yang is willing to give me face and invest 100 million yuan in me. I plan to expand the investment to 200 million yuan. Then we will split it in half. What do you think?"

"Okay, half for each of us."

It's just 50 million yuan. For Chen Fei now, it's just a small investment and not worth mentioning at all.

"Okay, you have helped me a lot!"

Jiang Wen was immediately happy. He originally thought that Chen Fei could only support 20 or 30 million yuan, but he didn't expect that he would spend 50 million yuan at once.

To be honest, this was the first time he shot such a commercial film, and he was still quite unsure, otherwise he would not have talked to Chen Fei about it again and again.

When it comes to shooting commercial films, China still has to look at Chen Fei!

After reading the script, Chen Fei said bluntly: "Your name is not good, it sounds like an art film, nothing new."

"How do you say it? Brother, I'll listen to you!" Jiang Wen looked carefree, he really listened to advice.

"Just call it..." Chen Fei took a pen from the table, circled a certain part of the script, and said: "Let the Bullets Fly, how about it?"

"Let the Bullets Fly?"

Jiang Wen chewed on these four words softly, and finally slammed the table.

"Okay! That's it!"

The two then talked about some of the contents of the script for a while. Chen Fei also pointed out the lines and some scenes that could not be broadcast at a glance.

At the end of the chat, Jiang Wen frowned slightly, full of reluctance.

"Delete all?"

"It's okay not to delete, you have to change it, you are too bold, if you do this, it is very likely to be banned after a period of release."

"Okay..."

Jiang Wen sighed, a little helpless.

He really listened to her. After all, the days of being banned were too painful. He was actually afraid of being banned from directing again.

Zhou Yun also came in the evening. Just when he had some free time, Chen Fei simply went to have a meal with the couple.

"Aren't you going to find a girlfriend? How about asking your sister Zhou to introduce one to you?"

Old Jiang is a big mouth. She even cares about his lifelong event!

Zhou Yun covered her mouth and laughed. It was rare. She almost never heard of anyone spreading rumors about Chen Fei in the circle. This was really rare for the group of directors.

After taking a bite of pasta, Chen Fei shrugged and said, "Forget it. Let's focus on career first. Love is not urgent."

Jiang Wen: "..."

Still focusing on career?

If you do it again, you will be invincible!

After seeing Jiang Wen and his wife off, Chen Fei fell into busyness again.

New Year's Eve is coming soon. He plans to finish his work before the 30th of the lunar year and then throw the remaining work to the special effects company.

However, before that, he had to attend the wrap party of "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse".

Woody Allen is still pretty awesome. Although he is old, he shoots movies very quickly. He has already finished the third one.

It's just that the post-production is quite troublesome. The old man doesn't have a deep understanding of the production techniques of special effects, so the progress in this area has always been slow.

When he saw Christine again, Chen Fei obviously felt that she had changed a little.

"Fei, I'm in love!"

"Ah?"

Chen Fei was stunned and looked at her in surprise, "Who?"

"Her name is Janet Beidleman. I'll introduce you to her when I have time. She is very cute and has a pair of very bright big eyes."

Well, this girl really found a girlfriend...

"Bless you."

Chen Fei's eyes were very complicated. He watched Christine become gay with his own eyes. This feeling was really wonderful.

The wrap party of Twilight is over, and the end of the year is approaching. Especially when he went to Chinatown with Bruce to buy pills, Chen Fei even saw that the shops here had posted Spring Festival couplets.

"I love Chinatown! It gave me confidence!"

Bruce held the pills in his arms, thinking about his gradually restored nightlife time, he was so satisfied.

"Tsk, you are just this much." Chen Fei looked at him with disdain, very disdainful.

It's just increased from three minutes to eight minutes, what's there to brag about?

If it were according to Bruce's time, he could even have 15 times a night!

After leaving Chinatown, Chen Fei flew to New York to check on the progress of Marvel's work.

Kevin Fei accompanied him to visit the post-production center.

"Iron Man's production progress is the slowest, followed by Thor, and finally Captain America. There are many special effects shots in the first two, which take a lot of time..."

"Okay, no rush, take your time."

Chen Fei took a quick look at some of the clips that have been made so far, and they are not much different from what he remembered, and even more coordinated than the original in some details, which made him very satisfied.

After leaving Marvel Studios, he went to Marvel Entertainment.

The second season of Game of Thrones has already started filming, and the preparations for Spartacus are also coming to an end. Once the actors are in place, they can officially start filming.

Isaac Perlmutter found three directors for the latter, namely Michael Hirst, Rick Jacobson, and T.J. Scott, all of whom are famous American drama directors in Hollywood.

"Fei, we will definitely make this series a success."

Facing Chen Fei, the three showed great respect.

After instructing him on some details, Chen Fei left the Marvel Entertainment Building and headed towards a cafe near the company.

Someone was already waiting for him here.

"Irona, long time no see."

"Boss! Oh! No, for a private meeting, should I call you... Fei?"

"Just as you like."

Chen Fei sat down at the dining table, looking at the curvaceous Irona Berglova in front of him, and felt a sense of unreality.

Who would have thought that the head of the finance department of his company would be the granddaughter of the largest real estate tycoon in the United States!

Is this the legendary...story shining into reality? The second generation comes to experience life?