Chapter 193: The Heat (1/5)
What is Shen Mengxi busy doing?
Of course, it's about the project, and by the way, I go to the banquet...
The banquet is the last public relations, but it is not very useful, and the people who go to the parties of various film companies may be the same 200 or so people, who will eat your food and drink your wine, and praise your movie to your face, but when it comes to voting, they will not choose your movie.
But there is still work to be done...
In Liamine's words: Chicken in Los Angeles is like plastic, and we joke that this 'plastic chicken feast' needs to be eaten at least 25 times before it wins an Oscar. For the sake of the staff, no matter how unpalatable the 'plastic chicken' is, you have to swallow it. The Screen Actors Guild and the Film Critics Association have to pull relationships, they can't talk nonsense, and they have to go step by step to win the Oscars.
This is a battle, even if Shen Mengxi doesn't want to fight, the S studio behind "Hunting", Tang Ren Film and Television also forced him to fight!
The Oscars are always a big award in the film industry.
"Hunting" almost swept the two major awards of Best Director and Best Actor at the awards outpost, and it is impossible to give up.
Similarly, Shen Mengxi, as the bigwig of the film industry on the other side of the ocean, Hollywood is eyeing the other side of the ocean...
Seek the possibility of cooperation!
The main thing is cooperation in terms of funding...
In fact, if Shen Mengxi raises his arms and sets up an investment fund for Hollywood, not to mention much, one billion dollars can still be easily raised...
There is no need, Hollywood is a gold eater, and the projects that investment funds can intervene in are definitely not mainstream.
Starting this year, Bren House will release two series, "Fifty Degrees" and "The Hunger Games".
It's all a money-sucking weapon.
He mainly talks about cooperation with some producers, and never meets with the six leaders - the high-level infighting of the Big Six is too tragic, for example, Paramount, two days ago, John Lesser, president of Paramount Pictures, and Brad Weston, president of production, were both fired, and 100 employees were fired by the way...
You see, in this situation, Shen Mengxi dares to cooperate with them?
In addition, he also went to the Gulfstream headquarters in Georgia to place an order, a Gulfstream G550, a G450...
Both aircraft will be leased to the Dream Creek Group for a period of 10 years, with a rent of 50 million per year...
Not only that, but all the expenses incurred are borne by Dream Creek!
That's what they did.
In comparison, Shen Mengxi calculated well, at least he didn't write 'The plane is only for Ma Yun's personal use, and others are not allowed to use it.'" ’...
Buy two planes, artists set off to watch shows, participate in film festivals, etc., and save air tickets.
Why two?
The other one needs to be repaired!
You see, you are so busy that your feet don't touch the ground, how can you have time to pay attention to the domestic market...
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In fact, Liu Shishi still has a sense of professionalism, after all, his main profession is an actor, and he regularly hands over his works every year, which is equivalent to the KPI assessment of actors.
Coupled with the excitement of her girlfriend - Yang Xiaomi is already a Bond girl!
Be more angry.
She attaches great importance to "Time Love Letter", to what extent, that is, after the roadshow, she will search for the comments of "Time Love Letter" on Weibo, and then answer...
For example, ID's 'most handsome de Qingge' questioned: "The movie ended too hastily, I feel tragic for the sake of tragedy, and after watching it, there is only one sentence of emotion, 'Ah this'?"
She replied: 'There are always people in life who have to leave, and there are still people who will come, accompany and be accompanied, see different scenery, taste different foods, taste different wines, tell different stories, love has a strong vitality, gives you firm strength, and inspires you to keep moving forward. I even draw insights from it, listen to my heart, have dreams, and chase dreams to live in vain..."
ID'Heroic Spirit': 'I don't like this movie, it's too bland...'
She replied, 'But life itself is dull...'
By the way, post some shooting tidbits...
Really hard work!
The market performance is also okay, at least surpassing "LOVE"...
From the third day, "LOVE" has obviously fallen behind, with a single-day revenue of 7 million, ranking behind "Time Love Letter", "Adventure in the Center of the Earth", "Mission Impossible 4", and even "The Guy in My Body" has 4 million in a single day...
"The Guy in My Body" was released for 27 days and had a box office of 702 million...
It is estimated that the total box office is at most 720 million, which failed to meet Shen Mengxi's expectations.
There's no way, there are too many new films, and some of them are too good to play - "Mission Impossible 4", "Adventure in the Center of the Earth", "Happy Feet 2"...
There are too many films!
Back to "Time Love Letter", the box office performance of this movie is also okay, breaking 100 million in four days, 200 million in 10 days, and the final box office is expected to be about 250 million...
There are too many opponents to encircle and suppress, and a bunch of batches of films have been released: "War Horse", "Iron Elite", "Sword of the King", "The King's Speech", and even the 4K restored version of "New Dragon Gate Inn" has come to join in the fun!
Liu Shishi is not very satisfied with this box office data - although it is not a loss, it is not at all comparable to the first few youth films produced by Mengxi, which are all guaranteed at 300 million.
Next, I have to watch Zhao Li's "Teacher's Diary" starring the box office, this movie will be released in July...
After all, it is a direct competitor.
The main attention now is focused on the 84th Oscars...
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Not only Liu Shishi pays attention to the Oscars, but the entire mainland entertainment industry is very concerned.
Last week, the Directors Guild Award was awarded, and "Hunting" won Best Director, and the Screen Actors Guild Award was awarded, and "Hunting" won Best Actor...
As we all know, the Oscars themselves are union awards, but they are voted on by all more than 6,000 union members, the actor awards are selected by the actors' union, and so on, except for the best picture, which must be voted on together...
Throughout the 84-year history of the Oscars, only Denzel Washington defeated Russell Crowe "A Beautiful Mind" with "Training Day", Russell Crowe lost the Oscars in the case of winning the Golden Ball, broadcasting, unions, and the British Olympics, and the only one who won the four major weather vanes and finally lost the Oscars - it seemed to be the cause of scandal + Lianzhuang + Black Year.
"Hunting" won all the Best Director and Best Actor except for the Broadcasting Association Awards.
The prospects are great!
No matter how calm Shen Mengxi is, he is also a little nervous...
It's Oscar, after all!
And it can be said that before he was 40 years old, he was closest to the Oscar for Best Director.
After all, the focus of his work has since shifted to the mainland...
Of course, on Weibo, including in interviews, his performance was very decent, saying: "As the world's most watched film award, it is of course better to win the Oscar, but if you can't get it, it can be regarded as a valuable experience!"
However, Liu Yifei's Weibo revealed that he was reciting the 'acceptance speech' - it was a photo of Shen Mengxi holding a note in his hand...
The title is 'Best Director Candidate Working'...
The angry Shen Mengxi spanked her ass directly...
It's okay to say that if you don't win the award, wouldn't it be very embarrassing!