Chapter 130 Actor selection (Nemoo leader!) The monthly ticket has been caught up!
On April 5, 2004, Wang Shang received an invitation letter.
"China Film Awards?"
"Yes, it seems that this year's China Film Awards will be held soon."
At this time, Wang Shang thought that in February, when he was still in the United States, he received a call saying that "Death is Coming" had been nominated for four awards: Best Actor, Best Visual Effects, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography.
Wang Shang looked at the time and saw that it was held from April 25th to April 27th.
The China Film Awards was born out of the Hong Kong Film Awards, and learned some experience from the Oscars in awarding awards, and has become the most authoritative film award in China.
The Chinese film industry imitated the Oscars and convened all professional forces of actors, directors, screenwriters, photographers, and producers in the Chinese film industry to unite to form the "Chinese Academy of Film Arts and Sciences."
The first step in this award is for each department under the Academy to nominate (using a nominating method) the nominated films.
The nominations will be announced in February.
In April, a three-day awards ceremony will be held. The first two days will be for screenings of nominated films, and some cocktail parties will be held for all filmmakers to gather.
Then there is a vote on the nomination list to determine the final award winner. The people who vote are secret and not public. However, they are all highly respected people participating, and ordinary people cannot enter.
Voting is also anonymous. After the votes are cast, they are directly handed over to the law firm for counting to determine the final winner. The results are then put into a safe and kept by armed security guards. It is extremely strict. As for the votes, they are immediately counted after the votes are counted.
destroy.
On the last day, an awards ceremony will be held to officially announce the winners of all awards.
Last year, although "Those Years" achieved a lot of success at the box office, only a little worse than "Infernal Affairs", it did not gain recognition from the 'Academy' and only received a symbolic nomination for Best Actress.
, after the awards, I got nothing. As for the biggest winner of last year's Academy Awards, it must be "Infernal Affairs". It won eight awards in total.
"I don't know what kind of awards "Death Comes" can win this year. The biggest enemy is "Infernal Affairs 2".
"Director Wang, what are you thinking about?" At this time, General Manager Bi Han's words brought Wang Shang back to reality.
"Oh, it's nothing..." Wang Shang came back to his senses and looked at Bi Han, "Why are you so happy? Tell me some good news?"
Bi Han smiled so hard that he couldn't help but smile: "Dr. Wang. "Death is Coming" has been released all over the world. The global box office has been calculated. Look!"
Wang Shang took it, browsed it quickly, and finally focused on the bold red number at the bottom - 2.03 billion yuan!
Wang Shang wiped his eyes and thought he had seen it wrong. How could there be so many? He simply couldn’t believe it!
"Director Wang, I thought the calculation was wrong when I just watched it, but I checked with someone and found that there is indeed no problem. It is indeed 2.03 billion yuan! It is definitely the highest-grossing movie in the history of Chinese movies!" Bi Han was already so excited that he couldn't help himself.
I was depressed. Even when I spoke, I was a little trembling.
"Huh~~" Wang Shang was not much better, and he quickly took a few deep breaths to calm down. Although he had predicted it early in the morning, it was still difficult to control himself with such a large amount in front of him.
"Have you ever calculated how much our King Studio will get in the end?"
"I just asked someone to do some calculations. After deducting publicity expenses, I can probably get a net profit of 330 million yuan."
"Okay, not bad. With these 330 million, the studio's funds can finally be a little more abundant, and it no longer has to be stretched." Wang Shang thought of the consumption of the special effects team, whether it is various materials or various instruments, they all need to go abroad.
Imported and very expensive.
When Wang Shang saw the daily consumption of money, he had the urge to strangle the special effects team to death!!
Yali Mountain is huge!!
"This news is suppressed for the time being. Don't announce it yet!" Wang Shang thought for a while and ordered. The script of "Death Comes 2" has almost been completed. After completing it, we will announce the shooting plan together, and we will definitely get greater success.
sensation!!
Unexpectedly, before Wang Shang could keep it secret for long, a huge headline appeared in the April 8th issue of Yanjing Entertainment News: ""Death Is Coming" has achieved the highest box office of Chinese movies!"
""Death Comes" will be released worldwide on March 31. According to global box office statistics, the global box office of "Death Comes" is about 2 billion yuan!! Breaking the record for the highest box office of China Film and Television! And its profit will be
Reaching 310 million yuan!!"
As soon as the news came out, countless fans were excited, and the filmmakers turned their attention to it.
But after Wang Shang heard this, he immediately became depressed, and finally had to throw out the shooting plan for "Death Comes 2" in advance: recruit a director and recruit actors at the same time...
At this moment, most of the eyes of the entire entertainment industry are focused on "Death Comes 2"!!
With the first part achieving such a high box office, the second part will definitely not be bad!
If you can become the director or actor of this movie, you can definitely add more glory to your director/acting career!!
At this moment, the phone numbers in Tianwang's office were all busy, and the mailbox was filled with thousands of emails. As for the location of Tianwang's studio, many people wandered around every day, hoping to win Wang Shang's favor. Even if
The chances are slim no matter how slim they are.
Just when this matter was making a fuss, Wang Shang had already completed the script of "Tang Bo Hu Spots Autumn Fragrance".
Nonsensical and funny, this is the essence of this movie. Wang Shang did not delete anything...
After the script was written, the first thing he did was to form a crew and find actors. But the first thing Wang Shang did was to send an invitation to Stephen Chow, known as the King of Comedy.
Zhou Xingchi is now considered a big figure in the Chinese film industry, and the title of King of Comedy is well deserved and highly anticipated.
"Can you hire him? He is now a boss and a director. And there are still rumors in the entertainment industry that he has a very domineering temper..."
Just last year, Wang Shang heard negative news about Stephen Chow: People in the industry who had friends with him criticized him a lot. They called him stingy, harsh, domineering, bad-tempered, and he cursed people on the set...
Wang Shang didn't dare to ask for such a person, and he was not sure whether Zhou Xingchi would agree to participate as a simple actor.
But if this movie does not have him, it will always be a pity...
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Kowloon, Hong Kong.
In an office building, after having lunch, Zhou Xingchi's secretary Jiang Han routinely opened the boss's personal mailbox.
Suddenly, a very sensitive word caught her attention.
"Invitation from King's Studio?"
It can be said that Tianwang Studio has been stealing the show these days. How could she, a person in the entertainment industry, not know this?
"Invitation? Is it an invitation from "Death Comes 2"? Master Xing is not good at making these horror movies?"
With doubts, she quickly opened the email, which read: Hello, Mr. Zhou Xingchi, I am Wang Shang from Tianwang Studio, and I would like to invite you to participate in a nonsensical comedy movie with ancient costumes...
"Wang Shang? It was actually an email sent by Wang Shang himself!!" She was very shocked. She quickly browsed the entire email.
Soon Jiang Han printed out the content of the email and walked quickly to boss Zhou Xingchi's office.
The next day, after Zhou Xingchi took care of the company's urgent matters, he got on a plane and headed to Shanghai. Ever since he received the email, he began to think about his own problems.
Currently in China, the title of King of Comedy has firmly fallen on his head. But everyone's desires can never be satisfied, he wants more glory!!
So, he began to set his sights on a higher mountain - Hollywood!
For Zhou Xingchi, Hollywood is the next peak to climb in his film career. Once he climbs to the top, he will be able to enjoy the attention of the whole world. It will no longer be limited to China!
But he has never been able to find a suitable way to hit Hollywood, and now, it seems that there is an opportunity in front of him that may succeed.
So he took the initiative to come to the Magic City and have an appointment with Wang Shang.
The two soon met in a club.
After Zhou Xingchi was polite, his first sentence was: "I am optimistic about this movie and can participate in it, but I hope to get a commitment from you!"
Wang Shang was stunned: "What promise!"
"I want to break into Hollywood, but I haven't been able to find a way. I feel that you should have a way, so I need a promise from you!" Zhou Xingchi's eyes showed a strong desire!!
Wang Shang couldn't help but frowned, started to think about it, and finally said straight to the point: "To be honest, I have many blockbuster plans in the future, specially prepared to hit Hollywood, such as "Transformers", and the one I am currently designing.
That movie will definitely invite Chinese superstars to star in it."
Wang Shang took a sip of tea and continued: "Now, I have started to look for candidates for these movies, but I didn't think of you. When I thought of you, I thought of nonsense, and then I discovered that I
In my film project, there is no film suitable for nonsensical actors!!"
Wang Shang's unabashed words made Zhou Xingchi feel slightly angry, but he did not get angry because he knew his shortcomings. Although he is called the King of Comedy, sometimes his advantages can turn into disadvantages. This title means that his transformation is very easy.
It was difficult, because the nonsensical nature has penetrated deep into the bones, and it would feel awkward to act in other movies.
In the end, Wang Shang still failed to reach an agreement with Zhou Xingchi.
Because Zhou Xingchi put forward other conditions, in addition to the director's position, he also wanted a 30% dividend.
Wang Shang naturally refused. This was something Wang Shang wanted to direct personally, and the dividends were too high.
However, since the deal didn't work out, the two of them left amicably.
"We failed to recruit Zhou Xingchi, so who should we find to play the role?"
Wang Shang immediately thought of his own actors...
Wang Shang instantly thought of "Love Apartment". Isn't this a ready-made nonsensical comedy...
"Okay! It's just them!!"
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