Chapter 467 Daily Life (1)
This year is a small year for the Oscars, and the company has not arranged any films to compete for awards.
But Cheng Yu'an is still busy watching movies - after winning Best Director last year, he was admitted to the Oscar jury.
Many film producers took the initiative to send him DVDs. With a serious and responsible attitude, Cheng Yu'an would take time to watch them every day.
The Xiao Nian films are indeed not that good. The best actor must be Daniel Day-Lewis. His performance in "Lincoln" is so invincible.
For best picture, it depends on which one has better public relations, "Life of Pi" or "Escape from Tehran".
Cheng Yu'an personally prefers "Pi" and is willing to vote for Li An, but "Escape from Tehran" is more politically correct.
Best Director Cheng Yu'an voted for Li An without hesitation, "Pi" is worth it.
But Cheng Yu'an is worried. He won the Best Director last year. Will the Oscars give awards to Chinese people this year?
Weinstein Pictures has two films shortlisted this year, one is "The Master" which won the Venice Best Actor last year. Harvey wanted to elevate Joaquin Phoenix to the best actor throne, but Joaquin Phoenix openly said during the public relations period: "
I don’t care about the Oscars.”
This sentence basically sentenced "The Master" to death, and Harvey decisively gave up.
Instead, he praised "Silver Linings Playbook".
Harvey has no hope of winning Best Picture and Best Director. Although he has superb methods, he is not a fool. "Silver Linings Playbook" will never win Best Picture and Best Director no matter how hard it tries.
So I turned to PR for Best Actress, which has less competition this year.
Cheng Yu'an watched the film, and despite his prejudice against Harvey, he could not unconscionably say that his eldest cousin deserved a statuette.
However, Cheng Yu'an's performance as a heroine in other films was not bright, so he abstained from voting for Best Actress.
As of the release of "007: Skyfall", the box office of "Manslaughter" exceeded 300 million, and "The Grandmaster" reported 188 million.
The release time of "Skyfall" is very unlucky. There will be a lot of animated movies released in the future. "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" and "Rock Kingdom" both have a fixed fan base, which is bound to take away the film schedule of "Skyfall", let alone
It is said that on the last day of January, "Cloud Atlas" will be released.
"Manslaughter" is moving forward steadily in the market, and Cheng Yu'an does not need to worry.
"Father Trapped in Time" is in post-production. Cheng Yu'an can just go over and take a look in three to five days.
The company has been very busy these days, because Hu, Yang, and Tang are handling settlements with the company these days.
Brother Hu opened a personal studio and it was affiliated with a company, so his procedures were simple.
Yang Mi and his agent Zeng Jia opened Jiaxing Media and took two of the company's producers and a screenwriting team with them.
By the way, Yang Mi also took away Li Yifeng.
At first Li Yifeng didn't agree, but Yang Mi promised him to lead him in a male-led drama this year, so Li Yifeng agreed to leave with her.
Tangtang also opened her own studio. She originally wanted to open a company, but she was persuaded by someone later and opened a personal studio instead.
But her appetite was not small at all, and she wanted to pack up Reba and Yang Yang and take them away. Of course, the company did not agree.
Reba's popularity has soared through "Running Man", and her first movie is "Now You See Me" directed by Liu Yifei, which will be released this summer.
How could such a baby pimple company release Tangtang?
Needless to say, Yang Yang, through the training of the past few years, he is now firmly in the upper second tier, but his popularity and fan base have reached the first tier. He only needs a big hit work to push him up to the top, so naturally he will not let Sugar go.
Take the sugar away.
After much picking and choosing, Tangtang felt that she could not lose to Yang Mi, so she paid Zhu Yilong and Jin Chen liquidated damages and signed them under her banner.
The departure of the three people has caused many artists in the company to start their own independent businesses.
But we all know that the first condition for going independent is that you can get roles based on your own reputation.
Not to mention reaching the top ranks of Hu, Yang and Tang, you must at least be in the middle of the second tier. Post your name, and audiences will buy tickets and TV stations will buy dramas.
Otherwise, would you go out alone and starve to death?
Moreover, the artists also know that after Hu, Yang, and Tang go out independently, the company's resources will not consider them first.
The company holds shares in their studio/company, and the two parties still have a cooperative relationship, but the three are no longer the company's first choice.
Just like "Xiuchungdao", the heroine originally wanted to give Tangtang, but Cai Yinong intervened and gave it to Liu Shishi.
However, with the reputation of the three of them, there is no shortage of roles to play after they go out. Even if they are still carrying the company's films, they have not finished filming, let alone external films.
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Let’s talk about it in two parts, Saturday, the 5th.
The Academy Awards organizing committee announced this year’s shortlist.
"A League of Thieves" was nominated for seven awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Editing and Best Action Design.
"BJ Meets in Seattle" was nominated for three awards: Best Actor, Best Actress and Best New Director.
Except for these two films, the other shortlisted films are either purely Hong Kong films or co-productions.
The Academy Awards are becoming more and more closed.
Cheng Yu'an has not changed this situation, he just hopes that the Hong Kong Film Awards will not be so ugly - it is obviously biased towards Hong Kong films.
On the day the list was announced, Cheng Yu'an received a call from the chairman of the Hong Kong Film Awards, Chen Jiashang, inviting him to be the guest presenter for the Best Actress in this year's Hong Kong Film Awards.
Cheng Yu'an currently wins the most awards in Taiwan, Taiwan, Taiwan and Taiwan. The Golden Rooster Awards and the Golden Rooster Awards ignore each other, and he has no time to go to the Golden Horse Awards. If the Academy Awards can invite Cheng Yu'an here, he will definitely have an interview!
Moreover, when Chan Chia went to Chicken Thief, he said that he was invited to present the award, not as the director of "A League of Thieves".
He knew that with Cheng Yu'an's current celebrity status, he would be competing with others on the domestic awards ceremony, and there was no need for him to come even if he was not sure about winning the award - the director loves his face.
Cheng Yuan actually agreed and said he would come to present the award.
This made Chen Jiashang overjoyed and expressed his gratitude repeatedly.
In fact, Cheng Yu'an didn't want to go either, but he was told a few words at the headquarters a few days ago.
As Mainland China's first Oscar-winning director, if he doesn't go to the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers, he won't go to the Golden Horse. If he doesn't go to the Academy Awards, he will really be said to have his eyes above his head and not understand unity.
"Go there this year." Han Dong advised him at that time, "You don't want others to say you are arrogant because of your talent."
"Why am I so arrogant?" Cheng Yu'an always felt that he was quite easy-going.
"You haven't heard what some old comrades say about you," said Director Han. "After winning the American award, you look down on the local award. He won't even invite him. He's not old, but he has a lot of airs."
Cheng Yu'an couldn't argue, but he still said: "Is that because I don't want to go? I really didn't have time for the Golden Rooster last year. I was filming here. The Golden Rooster...it has been 10 years, and I have no objection to the Golden Rooster Award, but you
Take a look at what happened to the Golden Rooster Awards. To put it harshly, it means that it consciously has a unique taste and is divorced from the audience."
Chapter completed!