Chapter 848 Super Interesting "Oscar Nomination Ballot Party"!

Here, Chen Fei and Liu Yifei had just landed in Los Angeles when a call came from China.

"Mr. Chen, Alibaba sent an invitation to the Double Eleven Gala, inviting all our company executives to attend the ceremony, and said it was a grand event..."

At the airport exit, Chen Fei rolled his eyes.

It was just a crappy gala, but they actually used words like "attend the ceremony" and "join in the celebration". If you didn't know, you would think that Ma Yun was going to be a big official.

"Ignore these idiots, let them have fun by themselves. They are like people with a disease. They even want to show off their muscles in front of me? Are they crazy?"

"Okay."

On the other end of the phone, Su Guohai responded, and after hanging up the phone, he immediately threw the invitation on the table into the trash can without any nostalgia.

After leaving the airport, Chen Fei and Liu Yifei took two cars.

Miss Liu was going to the villa to adjust to the jet lag, while Chen Fei was in a very good mental state and was going to the company to see the post-production progress of "Ready Player One".

After going all the way and arriving at Walton Pictures, Chen Fei came to the post-production under the surprised gaze of a group of employees of the company.

With the continuous expansion of the department, now only the post-production department has occupied two floors of Walton Pictures.

When he came to the post-production project team of "Ready Player One", Chen Fei met the project manager.

"Fei, long time no see."

A middle-aged white man with a round head came over and gave Chen Fei a gentle hug.

The rest of the people in the studio also turned around from their workstations and raised their hands to greet him.

After greeting everyone, Chen Fei asked directly: "How is it? What is the progress of the post-production now? Is it going smoothly?"

"We have completed 1/5, Fei. You know, this project is very difficult. We need to put in more effort than "Avengers."

"Well, I understand. Thank you for your hard work. After the project is over, everyone can get a 3-fold bonus!"

As the saying goes, money moves people's hearts.

For workers, money is always the best source of motivation.

Sure enough, after Chen Fei announced the good news, the members of the project team seemed to type much faster.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Fei announced another good news: "Starting tomorrow, I will also participate in the post-production of the project. I hope we can work together to successfully complete this project."

He is not a fool like Megan Erie, who actually thought of letting multiple producers participate in the post-production and editing of the film, which would definitely ruin a movie!

At the same time, when Chen Fei began to follow up on the post-production of "Ready Player One", Megan Ely was listening to the report of her subordinates in Annapurna Pictures.

"Boss, so far, "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" has been screened at least 9 times in advance, and the fans on site have given it an A- rating, with far more positive reviews than negative reviews..."

Sitting in the office, Megan Ely, who was sitting with her legs crossed, was in a good mood after hearing this.

She knew that her latest editing method would definitely be loved by fans, and this also proved from the side that she was definitely a genius-level female president in the film investment circle!

However, the entire screening research team, including her, overlooked one point.

That is, the leading actor of this "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" is Christian Bale!

With the many "Batman" series movies he has played before, Christian Bale has a large number of fans in North America, and his popularity is also extremely high.

Based on this, every preview ticket of "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" will be snapped up by Christian Bale's fans.

This also means that during the more than 10 previews, almost all the people who went to the scene were Christian Bale's die-hard fans.

Although there were passers-by fans, the number was very small, even negligible.

In this case, as Christian Bale's fans, how could they give a bad review after watching the movie starring their idol?

So, the "A-", which is second only to the "A+" level on-site rating, was freshly released.

Megan Ely didn't understand the unspoken rules at all. As for the other people in the team, even if they found something abnormal, they would conceal it by default for the bonus.

So, what was presented to her was good news, and good news!

"From today on, we will officially cancel the preview plan. We must prevent the film from being pirated by the outside world. We will become famous as soon as the film is officially released!"

"Yes, Boss!"

Megan Ellison was thinking about the box office success of the film, while his subordinate was thinking about getting a huge bonus, so they both smiled at the same time.

"I will instruct the finance department to continue to allocate funds. We must increase the publicity and promotion efforts. Now there is less than a month left before the film is released. This period is very critical..."

Just for the project of "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword", Megan Ellison has already invested more than 200 million US dollars. Now with the post-promotion and promotion, this number has soared to 300 million US dollars!

The sunk cost is simply terrifying!

But it is precisely because of the huge investment that Megan Ellison is very confident in this project.

"Star Wars: The Force Awakens", jointly produced by Walton Pictures and Lucasfilm, will officially land in North American theaters on the 18th of next month.

She directly scheduled the release of "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" on Christmas Day, just one week later than "Star Wars: The Force Awakens".

Her idea was to snipe the latter's box office, and she was very determined to succeed.

And this would also be the moment for Annapurna Pictures to become famous in Hollywood!

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Once you get into the work of post-production editing of movies, time often flies by without you noticing.

When Chen Fei received Liu Yifei's call, he turned around and looked at the time again, and found that it was already 10 o'clock in the evening!

"Are you coming back to sleep tonight? I'm a little scared to live in such a big house alone. Can you come back and sleep with me?"

When the beauty called, Chen Fei naturally couldn't refuse the kindness.

And although he was in good physical condition, he still had to adjust to the jet lag, otherwise his mental state would definitely be affected.

So, as soon as he hung up the phone, Chen Fei contacted the driver and asked him to take him back to the villa.

In the car, he was bored and started browsing the domestic news. When he saw the report on the headline, he almost burst out laughing.

"Ali's Jack Ma warmly invited the Queen and Wang Fei to sing together at the Double Eleven Gala, but was rejected..."

The comment area below was already noisy:

"Haha, the Queen is awesome. She can actually maintain herself under Jack Ma's money offensive. Awesome, really awesome!"

"Huh? What's going on? Isn't Ma Yun known to be omnipotent? Why didn't she succeed this time?"

"What the hell is the Queen? Isn't she just an actor? How dare she not give face to my father Ma? I think she doesn't want to mix anymore?"

"Just a woman who sings out of tune, what kind of Queen? It really makes me laugh."

"I bet that if Ali doesn't give face, Faye Wong behind will definitely be unlucky..."

Netizens were talking about it. Some people supported Ma Yun, and some people recognized Wang Fei. It was so lively!

But in Chen Fei's opinion, wasn't it just that the price was not negotiated? Otherwise, how could the princess refuse?

As far as he knew, the queen had a bad temper. If nothing unexpected happened, it must be that Jack Ma used his mouth to get something for free, and was rejected.

…

After galloping all the way back to the villa, Chen Fei saw Liu Yifei, who had already washed and smelled fragrant, in the master bedroom.

"Hey, little beauty, the big bad wolf is coming!"

"Oh! Why are you so impatient? Go take a shower first, you smell bad."

Chen Fei took her out of the quilt without saying anything: "Come on, take a bath with me."

"But I just finished taking a shower."

"Then you can help me take a bath."

Before Liu Yifei refused, Chen Fei had already carried her into the bathroom.

After a while, the mist and temperature in the air began to rise at the same time, and the bathtub was splashing with water. The battle was extremely fierce!

The next morning, Chen Fei went to the company refreshed and continued to be busy with his post-editing work.

Of course, Liu Yifei was not idle either. She started to adjust the subsequent training plan in the dance studio at home and made a schedule for Chen Fei to practice dancing for 3 hours every night.

The price was that she promised Chen Fei that she could unlock a new job every week.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, Chen Fei had just arrived at the company when Natasha came to his door and put a huge cardboard box on his desk.

"Fei, this is the 88th Academy Awards nomination ballot sent to you by the Oscar organizers, as well as copies of some films."

"Oh? Has the 88th Oscars started to mail nomination ballots?"

Chen Fei muttered as he opened the cardboard box and looked through it.

Unfortunately, looking around, there was no familiar name in these copies.

"So, this year Walton Pictures has no films to send to the Oscars, right?"

Natasha nodded gently: "Yes, last year we successfully won many awards with "The Revenant", so naturally there is no chance this year."

Hearing this, Chen Fei suddenly felt bored.

"Since our company has no films participating in the selection this year, just fill in a name that you like before the deadline."

As he said this, he pushed the box aside and started to get busy with the work at hand.

He was not interested in learning from other judges to watch one movie after another. It would be better to do something else more enjoyable with that time.

"Ok, as you wish."

Natasha did not continue to disturb him and turned and left.

Busy until night fell, Chen Fei dragged his somewhat tired body and rushed towards Beverly Hills.

However, just as the Rolls-Royce drove into the gate of the villa, the phone rang suddenly.

As soon as Chen Fei pressed the connect button, he heard Leonardo's loud voice from the other side of the phone, accompanied by dynamic dance music and music: "Fei, are you going to attend the Oscar nomination ballot party we are holding?"

Oscar nomination ballot party?

Chen Fei asked curiously, "What kind of party is this? How come I've never heard of it?"

"You'll know when you come over. I'm at Villa 3123 on the top of the mountain, just a 3-minute drive from you."

"Oh, okay."

After hanging up the phone, Chen Fei went back to the villa to find Liu Yifei and told her about Leonardo's invitation to the party.

"Oscar nomination ballot party? What kind of party is this?" Liu Yifei was also quite curious about this.

Chen Fei suggested: "It's not far anyway. Let's go over and have a look. If it's not fun, we'll come back. How about it?"

"Okay, then I'll go change clothes."

…

Ten minutes later, Chen Fei took Liu Yifei to Leonardo's villa.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw many familiar people!

Leonardo DiCaprio's good friends Matt Damon and Tobey Maguire were all at the party, as well as Matthew McConaughey, Kate Winslet, and his supermodel girlfriend.

Looking around, more than 20 people were gathered around the swimming pool, listening to music, drinking red wine, eating barbecue, and chatting happily.

The arrival of Chen Fei and Liu Yifei was warmly welcomed by them.

"Fei! I'm so glad you came to my party!"

As the host, Leonardo enthusiastically arranged seats for the two of them and served red wine and barbecue.

After greeting the rest of the people at the scene, Chen Fei asked curiously: "Just now you said on the phone that the theme of the party tonight is 'Oscar Nomination Ballot'. What does this mean?"

Hearing this, Leonardo and Tobey Maguire, who was sitting next to him, both had a bit of a bad smile on their faces.

"It's actually very simple."

DiCaprio stood up and clapped his hands. Soon, several supermodels took out the dart targets from the villa and placed them in a "one" shape across the swimming pool.

At the same time, several supermodels came to the crowd with several cardboard boxes.

Leonardo opened the carton himself, took out a large handful of darts, and distributed them to several people who were eligible to vote for the Oscar nominations.

Then, he began to explain the rules of the game:

"There are a total of 6 targets on the opposite side. From left to right, they are the target area for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and the last one. Best supporting actress target area.

Next, you can choose the appropriate target based on your voting rights and throw the darts in your hands.

In the end, as long as the dart hits the target, no matter what the result is, it will be written into the nomination ballot and mailed to the Oscar jury. "

Upon hearing this rule, Chen Fei's eyes suddenly lit up!

In the morning, he was still thinking that when the deadline for nomination voting was approaching, he could just write down a few names that were more pleasing to his eyes and mail them out.

Unexpectedly, Leonardo organized such a "voting party" just at night.

Using darts to determine the result depends only on luck, regardless of the process, and does not accept any public relations from the crew... It is very interesting just thinking about it!

"This game is good, I like it."

Chen Fei stroked the dart in his hand and looked at the two target areas opposite for Best Picture and Best Director with interest.

The pool is 4 meters wide, and it is not easy to hit the target from such a long distance, so this game is destined to last for a while.

It just so happens that you can eat meat and drink alcohol during the game.

This party is so much fun!

Chen Fei turned his head and glanced at Leonardo, who was holding his current supermodel girlfriend and whispering, and felt that this guy had reached the pinnacle of "playing".

Especially after winning the Oscar for Best Actor last year, he has become even more "chic", and the speed of changing girlfriends has increased from one every year to one every six months!

The goal he had been looking forward to for half his life was finally realized, and Xiao Lizi's life was considered perfect.

He is handsome, popular, rich, he is a superstar, he has all the awards and fame, his life is simply wonderful!

…

The darts game lasted until 11 o'clock, and Chen Fei selected the best film "Mad Max 4: Fury Road" and the best director Thomas McCarthy respectively.

Liu Yifei's dart was inserted into Cate Blanchett's name. The movie "Carol" starring her was very popular in Europe and the United States this year, and she was naturally one of the nominees for Best Actress.

After returning to her villa, Liu Yifei still couldn't hide her excitement.

"This game is really fun. It would be great if we could hold more games."

Chen Fei smiled and patted her head: "The Oscars only come once a year, how can there be so many opportunities for you to have fun like this?"

"Slightly!"

Liu Yifei stuck out her tongue, her face becoming rosier due to drinking a lot of wine.

Chen Fei was so excited when he saw it, he took her little hand and went straight to the bedroom.

It is said that people are prone to sexual incest after drinking, which actually makes sense, because alcohol will amplify some of the emotions hidden in the body on a large scale, and people will easily lose their minds because of this.

Of course, this premise is that you still have normal rationality and the ability to control your body.

If you are extremely drunk, let alone having sex after drinking, you may not even know that you have been tricked by others.

Negative cases ps: Huang Haibo, Wang Quan'an.

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At the same time, the time here in Hollywood is quickly approaching midnight, while in China it is just arriving in the afternoon.

Ye Ning did not go to the company this afternoon, but walked into the Huayi Brothers Building alone and very low-key, and took the elevator to Wang Zhongjun's office.

Lawyers from both sides were already in place, so after entering the door, he quickly signed his name on the contract prepared in advance.

At this point, he has officially joined the big family of Huayi.

Wang Zhonglei, who had been waiting for a long time, came forward with a smile and shook hands with Ye Ning after seeing him put down his pen.

"Welcome Mr. Ye to join Huayi. I hope we can make progress together and join hands in the future!"

At this moment, Wang Zhonglei smiled very happily.

With Ye Ning as a general, he believed that the development of Huayi Group's cinemas would definitely be a plus, and even surpassing Wanda Cinema and Pan Asia Cinema would not be a big problem!

And the most important thing is that with Ye Ning's joining, the Wanda Cinema management who had been working under him before could be successfully poached to Huayi Cinema.

At that time, Wanda Cinema would inevitably decline under the unexpected circumstances, and then Huayi would pounce on it and suck a wave of blood.

In this way, it can be said to be the best of both worlds!

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