"The winner of the Best Actor Award is Tony Leung Ka Fai for "Chilling"!"
On the evening of April 13, the 32nd Academy Awards was held at the Grand Theater of the Hong Kong Cultural Center.
It was Yu Jiajia's first time to participate. She sat down without any emotion and watched with cold eyes an award ceremony for self-entertainment. Why do you say self-entertainment?
Because "Chill" saved the market, with a box office of 250 million in the mainland and more than 40 million in Hong Kong, a double harvest.
This is amazing!
Host Eric Tsang shouted: "We are all one family!"
Wu Siyuan was even more emotional with tears in his eyes: "May God bless Hong Kong movies!"
There was a tragic atmosphere of immortality in Hong Kong films permeating the whole place, as if every time a film with good word-of-mouth and box-office success appeared, there would be an Academy Award - but everyone collectively ignored that "Chill" was invested by Yu Jiajia
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There were many nominations from the mainland for this year's Academy Awards, but only "1942" won the Best Chinese Film Award.
Miriam Yeung won the Best Actress award for "Chun Jiao and Zhiming", "Chill" is naturally a big hit, and has won 7 awards. Tony Leung Ka Fai has become the emperor for the fourth time.
Then he won the Best Director Award, 8 awards.
When the director was speaking, the etiquette lady invited Yu Jiajia to attend and guided her backstage, preparing to award the most important Best Picture Award.
His partner is none other than the chairman of the Hong Kong Film Awards, Chen Jiashang.
"Thank you, Boss Yu, for bringing Fortnightly back to life..."
Chen Jiashang took the initiative to chat and said: "I started reading the biweekly when I first entered the industry, and later it became a must-read for every issue. I was very sorry when it stopped. Unfortunately, I was not strong enough to help."
"It's a trivial matter! I heard that the Academy Awards were held biweekly that year?"
"Yes, it was held for like 8 times, and then the Hong Kong Film Awards Association was established. Now the board of directors has 13 industry associations, which basically include all practitioners in Hong Kong."
"Approximately how many people?"
"There are only more than 4,000 people left, and there were 20,000 at the peak!"
"Can these more than 4,000 people start working?"
"It's not that easy. More than half of them can't get a job for several months, and many of them are working part-time."
Chen Jiashang was quite sad, and Yu Jiajia was also very sad. It’s great that you don’t have the concept of “mobilizing the masses to make revolution”!
After a while, the staff signaled that they would be out soon.
The two adjusted their clothes, and when the music started, they stepped out of the backstage, and applause burst out. There were also some stars from the mainland to support them, including Zhang Guoli, Xu Fan, Wen Zhang, Jiang Yiyan, etc.
They watched Yu Jiajia come to stand in front of the stage, glanced over, and felt that she was staring at them, and couldn't help but tremble.
In fact, Yu Jiajia couldn't see clearly at all and said the lines to Chen Jiasheng:
""Chilling" is so popular, is Boss Yu interested in making a second film?"
"It depends on the result. If the envelope says "Chill", then I will make the second one."
"Oh? It's a deal!"
“It’s a deal!”
"Okay, let's see who won the Best Picture Award at the 32nd Academy Awards..."
The tense music of "dong dong dong" leaves no room for suspense. Yu Jiajia revealed the answer: ""Chill"!"
"Whoosh!"
"Cold War" is also a frequent guest in Hong Kong variety shows. It is often seen that the biggest highlight of this film is that it breaks through the "cops and gangsters" pattern and rises to the political level.
It's a pity that the creators still couldn't control the game between the top brass of the police force.
The first part was great, but the second part is a matter of opinion.
Of course, objectively speaking, "Chill" is indeed eye-catching.
A group of main creators came on stage and won 9 trophies. They were the biggest winners tonight. As the boss, Yu Jiajia also joined in the celebration. Jiang Zhiqiang and Zhang Jiazhen were both sitting in the audience, looking at each other across a few seats.
Hong Kong films and 99 Entertainment are indeed tied too deeply and must be decoupled as soon as possible.
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Yu Jiajia didn't know the strategy of these people. After the Academy Awards, she immediately invited the heads of several associations and key officials. This was also her biggest purpose in coming to Hong Kong.
There are 13 associations in total.
She did not find the Directors Guild or the Performing Artists Guild, but she found 8 associations for screenwriters, photographers, action stunts, art, editors, lighting, post-production, and administrative staff.
The president, vice-president, and executive committee members totaled about 80 people.
Yu Jiajia recognized two of them, one was Wen Jun, the president of the Screenwriters Association, who had directed the "Young and Dangerous" series; the other was Qian Jiale, the president of the Action Stunt Association, who needed no introduction.
The place is in the hotel's large dining room, which is the roughest place and is full of good wine and good food.
A group of people who live in the spirit of not eating for nothing are full of anger. Not many of these people are from serious academic backgrounds. They are all trained through hard work, and they are full of Jianghu atmosphere.
Wen Juan had the highest status and was obviously the leader. He was more polite and toasted: "Thanks to the boss for the hospitality, it's a joke... You came to us today. Is there anything you have to say?"
"That's fine!"
Yu Jiajia smiled, stood up, walked to the stage, and took the microphone. Everyone stopped when they saw this.
"I won't be polite, but I have one thing to say today. Hugelive needs a lot of movies and TV series to enrich its film library. Such works are not broadcast in theaters or TV stations, but are directly released on online platforms. I call them big online movies and online dramas.
No matter what the theme, what content, what scale, what actors, you can find local ones or overseas ones, no need to count the quantity, I want as much as you can!
Listen to the pattern:
You save your own projects and ask me to approve the budget, which is less than 10 million per piece..."
"Isn't 10 million too little?"
"Twenty years ago, it was more than 10 million!"
"Does Boss Yu know that a hot pot meal in Hong Kong costs several thousand yuan?"
As soon as I said this, there was a commotion below.
Yu Jiajia amplified the microphone, and the sharp and harsh sound instantly silenced them.
"I said, if you don't go to theaters or TV stations, you don't have any revenue pressure. As long as the film is up to standard within the budget, you will make pure profits.
I know you all want to make blockbusters, but you also don’t think about it. If one movie worth hundreds of millions is released a year, how many can you squeeze in?
Millions of movies, 30 movies a year, everyone has something to eat!
Can you understand this account?"
"You are the leaders, so you don't have to worry about no jobs, but what about the people below you? There are more than 4,000 people in 13 associations, and I heard that more than half of them have not been able to get a job for several months!
Don’t you think about them?”
"..."
This is serious, and no one dares to jump out and say no.
"Also, the budget is only the most basic, your film is linked to traffic.
We adopt a 5-minute statistical system. Non-paying members can watch for free for 5 minutes. The more users who watch for more than 5 minutes and the longer the time, the greater the traffic.
I will formulate detailed rules based on the traffic and split the accounts with you.
Again, you have no revenue pressure, you are just making money!!”