March, it's the liveliest festival in Los Angeles.

First of all, NCAA March Madness began, and UCLA, a prestigious school in Los Angeles, was a frequent visitor to NCAA March Madness.

In North America, the NCAA is even crazier than the NBA, and when it comes to the NCAA finals, there are no games scheduled for the NBA.

For Hollywood, March means that the selection of the Academy Awards has begun, and various film studios have begun to throw money around to win a vote for their films!

The selection of the Oscars is somewhat different from that of other film festivals.

At this time, the Oscars are selected in two rounds, and the first is that the film production company sends its own films to the Oscars for selection.

In the first round, the registered method is adopted, and the departments under the college are responsible for nominating, and the nominated films will be screened in turn in the college headquarters in the second round, and all members of the college will conduct the second round of voting after viewing, and finally the number of votes will determine the award of the film.

The judging body of the Oscars is not complicated in general, and it is divided into two pyramids, with the highest level being the jury of the president of the academy and the jury of the branch of the academy.

The jury of the President is selected from 14 subordinate branches: the Actors Guild, the Directors Guild, the Art Directors Guild, the Photography Guild, the Artists Guild, the Screenwriters Guild, the Film Executives Guild, the Film Editors Guild, the Film Producers Guild, the Music Guild, the Recording Guild, the Public Relations Guild, the Short Film and Feature Film Animation Guild, and the Visual Effects and Authors Guild.

Except for the chairman of the presidium from the Film Editors Association, the other members are composed of three representatives from each of the remaining associations.

The officers of the Bureau, consisting of the President, the First Vice-President, the two Vice-Presidents, the Treasurer and the Secretary-General, shall serve for a term of one year and for no more than four consecutive terms.

The management activities of the College are mainly carried out under the supervision of an executive officer appointed by the President of the College.

The term of office of the officers shall be one year and shall not exceed three consecutive terms in the same office.

The main criteria for membership are your contribution and reputation in the industry, and the recommendation of at least two serving members.

In addition to professional judges, the jury of branch societies under the presidium also includes a large team of voluntary members, with 5 or 6,000 members participating in each branch, which is actually the real source of Oscar influence.

In other words, some actors and directors are actually qualified for selection, which involves everyone's circle of friends.

Wu Jianye also came to Los Angeles at this time.

Originally, the creator of the movie "The World of Chu Xing" also had to come with Wu Jianye, but because everyone now has their own jobs, they will not be able to come to Los Angeles until the day of the Oscars.

After Wu came to Los Angeles at night, he went directly to the estate in Beverly Hills.

Li Xiuming and Wu Luoxin are already waiting here.

Because the previous separation time was not long, Wu Luoxin did not have too many surprises to see Wu Jianye this time.

Instead, he asked his two 'little brothers', Wu Nianyi and Wu Qichen, why they didn't follow Wu Jianye over.

After spending a day with their mother and son at home, Wu Jianye came to the Phantom Media Building!

The Phantom Media Building is located in the Phantom Cinema, and the construction sites that can be seen everywhere show that it is busy here, and at this time, for the Phantom Cinema, the most important project is actually the theme park of Jurassic Park, where I have to complain about the construction speed of the United States.

If it had been changed to China, I am afraid that such a project would have been completed a long time ago, but when it was changed to the United States, it was built for more than two years, and it was not completed.

But now it's almost there, and it will be officially launched with "Jurassic Park 2"!

The whole Phantom Cinema is divided into many parts, and the Phantom Media Building belongs to one of them.

After Wu Jianye came here, he saw a lot of staff coming and going.

Many people have also seen Wu Jianye.

Everyone also knows that Wu Jianye came to Hollywood this time, definitely for the movie "The World of Chu Xing" to participate in the Oscars.

Wu Jianye's identity in the Phantom has always been a mystery, and everyone knows that Wu Jianye has a decisive influence in the Phantom, but there are few people who really know Wu Jianye's identity in the Phantom.

The entire Phantom Media knows about this matter no more than a hand!

No matter what company you are in, there are hierarchies, even Phantom Media, and the differences between these hierarchies are often reflected in the small details.

For example, in Phantom Media, even the elevator has its own level, and only the top floor of the group and the elevator that the heads of each branch can take are independent.

Wu Jianye took out his work card, directly opened the elevator that symbolized power in Phantom Media, and went directly to the floor of Phantom Pictures.

"Director Wu, you're finally here!"

Matthew Murphy was already in the office waiting for Wu to see the night.

After Wu Jianye walked to the sofa and sat down, he asked with a smile, "What's the situation now?"

Matthew Murphy hurriedly said: "The company's public relations have been done, and a public relations team has been set up for "Chu Xing's World", and the influence of this film in North America has always been higher than that of the other three films, and the possibility of winning awards is very high!"

With this reply, Wu Jianye is already satisfied.

As for doing public relations expenses for the movie "The World of Chu Xing", Wu Jianye didn't feel anything wrong at all.

This is the unspoken rule in this industry!

Wu Jianye is not interested in confronting the unspoken rules of Hollywood, this is just a transit point for him after all!

Later, Matthew Murphy reported to Wu Jianye about the recent situation of Phantom Pictures.

In fact, when Wu Jianye came to North America to promote "The World of Chu Xing" last year, he had already reported it, but Matthew Murphy still picked up a few major events and reported them to Wu Jianye.

The most important thing for Phantom Pictures this year is naturally the release of the new film "True Lies" by the golden duo of James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

James Cameron, Wu Jianye, and Jiang Qian are all directors with a particularly long shooting cycle, and when Wu Jianye was filming "The World of Chu Xing", James Cameron was working on the script of "True Lies".

I'm still working on the script.

Wu Jianye doesn't want to judge how a director shoots a movie, he not only agrees with a fast gunner like Wang Jing, but also appreciates James Cameron's rigorous work attitude.

The two sides can't say who is good and who is bad, as long as they are satisfied!

What's more, they are all worthy of their own investors, and Wang Jing in the early stage is also worthy of his audience.

After chatting for a while, Wu Jianye got up and left, this time he came here to familiarize himself with the operation of "Chu Xing's World".

By the way, he showed his face in front of the high-level people.

Wu Jianye did not go to Linda's office, at this time Linda was not in Los Angeles but flew to England, although the subsidiary of Phantom Media was enough to form its own closed loop.

But after all, it has only been a few years since it was formed, and there is still a lot of internal work to be done, and Linda is now busy with these things.

In the following days, Wu Jianye's life suddenly became leisurely.

But it didn't last long.

The 65th Academy Awards was held on the 29th of this month, and when the time came to the 28th, Wang Xiaoshuai, Zhou Xingchi, He Qing, Chen Hong, Zhang Guoli and others also came to Los Angeles.

Only Zhao Fei, who was busy choosing a location for a new movie, did not come.

That night, Wu Jianye held a banquet in the manor and entertained them.

Zhou Xingchi looked at Chen Hong for a long time, and suddenly said: "Chen Hong, my new movie is about to start filming, do you want to star in it?"

Regarding Zhou Xingchi's invitation, Chen Hong was slightly stunned at first, but then showed a happy smile and asked, "Can I?"

Zhou Xingchi did not answer Chen Hong, but looked at Wu Jianye, according to Zhou Xingchi's influence in Xiangjiang now, even Fengge Pictures will give him full respect.

In fact, Fengge Pictures has great respect for every actor, director, screenwriter, and other behind-the-scenes personnel.

When Jiang Zhiqiang took over Fengge Pictures, Wu Jianye told Jiang Zhiqiang that he would give these creators full autonomy.

Film is an industry based on creative output, and only by giving them full autonomy will they be inspired to create greater passion.

This is also the reason why Fengge Pictures can still hold the top spot in Xiangjiang despite losing the support of Wu Jianye's script.

Zhou Xingchi is now the top movie star of Fengge Pictures, and now Fengge Pictures no longer cares much about the film projects led by Zhou Xingchi.

That's trust!

In the past, other film companies in Xiangjiang would often play tricks on the box office in other cities, although it was said that the influence of movie stars in other cities was improved, but in fact, they could not get a more suitable box office share.

Of course, not every movie star can get a share of the box office, but the box office in other cities directly determines the salary of a movie star.

When Fengge Pictures did not appear, Hong Jinbao was the top boss in the circle, but in front of Golden Harvest, he still did not have much right to speak, and Hong Jinbao was extremely famous in Southeast Asia at that time.

But Golden Harvest dares to say that the movie starring Hung Jinbao has a box office of only one Hong Kong dollar in the entire Southeast Asia!

Can you believe this?

This led to why Hung Jinbao frequently set up his own film company, just to get involved.

And Zhou Xingchi has seen through these problems, after Zhou Xingchi became famous, I only need a high salary, as for the box office or something, I don't need it.

This is also the reason why many people say that Zhou Xingchi's movies are highly paid!

In Wu Jianye's view, this is completely an act of exhausting and fishing.......

Fengge Pictures gave these movie stars full respect, and made the box office of the film in Southeast Asia extremely transparent, so that these top and qualified movie stars who participated in the film sharing had a full sense of participation.

Mutual benefit is the long-term development plan of the industry!

Wu Jianye smiled: "I believe in your vision, if you think Chen Hong is suitable, and Chen Hong also wants to participate in your movie, I have no opinion here!"

The smile on Chen Hong's face became brighter and brighter.

Zhou Xingchi thought for a while and explained: "You also participated in the filming of a Xiangjiang movie before, you should know that the shooting environment of Xiangjiang is different from the shooting environment in China, and the same is true of my films, so there are some things, you have to be mentally prepared, that is, my movie shooting, I will play very open, and the actors themselves can't pay too much attention to their own image!"

For Zhou Xingchi, the previous "The World of Chu Xing" made him see the dividends of the domestic film market, and naturally he also wanted to find domestic actors to star in his own movies.

The previous cooperation with Chen Hong was quite pleasant, and when he saw Chen Hong today, he remembered it all of a sudden!

Chen Hong smiled: "It's okay, I've seen your movie, I know what style it is, I can adapt to it!"

Zhou Xingchi nodded and said, "Director Wu, there is one more thing that has to trouble you!"

Wu Jianye looked at Zhou Xingchi with a smile and asked, "What's the matter?"

"It's the company's idea before that Gong Li was the female number one in this movie, but I talked to Gong Li, and she was a little worried about her image, and now she ......."

Wu Jianye understood what Zhou Xingchi meant, and said with a smile: "Okay, I'll tell the company about this matter!"

Chen Hong asked Zhou Xingchi with some curiosity what kind of movie it was.

Sure enough, as Wu Jianye expected, the new movie Zhou Xingchi mentioned is one of his masterpieces "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance"!

In another time and space, the female number one in this movie is Gong Li, although the whole movie still looks so funny, and even became one of Zhou Xingchi's classic works.

But attentive viewers can find that Gong Li's performance actually does not match the style of the whole movie.

Even Gong Li herself admitted that when she participated in this movie, she was really worried about her image and did not let go, and regretted not letting go at that time.

In fact, it is not the first time that Zhou Xingchi and Gong Li have cooperated, previously directed by Wang Jing and starring Zhou Xingchi, "Gambling Saint 2 Shanghai Beach Gambling Saint", starring Zhou Xingchi and Gong Li.

If it weren't for Wu Jianye's appearance, Gong Li would be the most popular actress in Xiangjiang in the entire nineties.

However, Gong Li is incompatible with the atmosphere of Xiangjiang commercial movies after all.

Although everyone didn't see the script of this movie, they also knew the general story in Zhou Xingchi's description.

Except that Wu Jianye listened to it more interestingly, after all, when Zhou Xingchi was preaching, Wu Jianye was able to make up the picture at that time, but others couldn't.

During this period, Zhou Xingchi also gave Zhou Xingchi some opinions based on his own experience, which made Zhou Xingchi very admired.

As for the others, some are not so interested, and the culture they accept is still some who can't understand Zhou Xingchi's films.

"Don't worry, Xingzi's movie sounds very interesting to me, and it will be a success when it is made!" Wu Jianye said conclusively!

Hearing that Wu Jianye was so optimistic about this movie, Chen Hong had no worries.

Compared with Zhou Xingchi, Chen Hong is more willing to believe in Wu Jianye's vision, since Wu Jianye said that it is interesting, then there is no problem!

"Then when are we going to sign the contract?" Chen Hong, who had no worries, immediately asked.

Zhou Xingchi smiled: "Let's wait until the end of the trip here!"

Chen Hong nodded.

The next day, the much-anticipated Academy Awards ceremony began!