"Fireflies leads the Oscars with 14 nominations" - Yahoo Entertainment;"The nominations for the 78th Oscars are announced, and the 14 nominations for "Firefly" tie the record" - Sina Entertainment...... After 2 months of various outposts, the much-anticipated 78th Oscars finally announced the list of nominees on January 31, opening the Oscar hall for the 06-07 awards season, "Firefly" received a total of 14 nominations, tying the record of "Comet Beauty" (1950) and "Titanic" (1997), becoming the third film in history to receive 14 Oscar nominations.

The 14 shortlisted awards are: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Cinematography, Best Makeup, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Editing, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Effects, Best Visual Effects. The nominees are Yang Wang, Joss Wheden, Heath Ledger, Jenn Kezmelik, Hans Zimmer, Valey Pfister, Grieg Canon, Kevin Kawanaf, Margaret Goodspeed, Sean Walsh, Richard Kidd...... The big victory of the team! The big victory of science fiction films! The cowboys are naturally happy, and "Comet Beauty" finally won 6 trophies (6/14) in history, and "Titan" won 11 (11/14), ranking first in film history with "Ben Hur" (11/12, 32nd) and "The Lord of the Rings 3" (11/11, 76th).

The most recent film to receive 13 nominations was 2003's Chicago, which took home only six trophies (6/13) including Best Picture, and this year's Firefly also faces several strong opponents, followed by Brokeback Mountain with 8 nominations, "Good Night, Good Luck" and "Memoirs of a Geisha" in third place both have 6 nominations, "Capote" and "Walk with Song" in 4th place have 5 nominations, and "Munich", "King Kong" and "Pride and Prejudice" in 5th place 4 nominations, tied for 6th place "500 Days with Sammo" with 2 nominations (Best Actor, Best Editing...... This is the second time that Wang Yang, who is about to turn 26, has been nominated for the Oscar for Best Director (1/2), and all of them have been nominated for science fiction films! George Lucas once, Steven Spielberg twice, Stanley Kubrick 3 times, Wang Yang 2 times, only 26-year-old scared to death.

Taking the past as a mirror, "Star Wars", which wore 10 nominations, took away 6 awards (6/10) at the 50th Oscars, but all of them were technical trophies, and the 4 awards that failed were Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Screenplay, the best film of the year was "Annie Hall", if "500 Days with Shamo" can kill "Firefly" at the Kodak Theater, it is almost equivalent to history repeating itself, but unfortunately "500 Days" was not selected for Best Picture, which also made Wang Yang shout to everyone when he finished " Kill "Firefly" failed to materialize.

"This is the biggest omission of the year. The Los Angeles Times put it, "'500 Days with Shamo' died in a controversial way." The comments of the "New York Times", for which the media and the public have expressed their dissatisfaction and regret, "500 Days" has the strength to be selected for the three awards of Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, but there are always only 5 places, so it is also a dilemma for them to pick out which Best Film nominee.

"Dr. Strangelove" 0/4 (37th), "2001: A Space Odyssey" 0/4 (41st), "A Clockwork Orange" 0/4 (44th), the 50th "Contact of the Third Kind" won the best cinematography and editing (2/8), the 55th "." 9 nominations, the final Best Picture, Director, original screenplay, editing and cinematography all failed, only the sound, sound editing, visual effects, original soundtrack Four Bottles of Golden Man (4/5), 75th "District 9" Won Best Director (1/7) for the first time, and now in three years the 78th edition?

But that year was really a miracle of youth, the so-called miracle is something that cannot be replicated to a certain extent, it is the fruit of the combination of the right time and place, and no one will believe that the Oscars will open their arms to science fiction films from now on. Therefore, "Firefly" has a high probability of winning any technical award, but the best picture, director, supporting actor and original script of "S Wound" and "ET Wound" are full of difficulties, of course, there is still a chance to win awards, the world is impermanent, and the magic film "Lord of the Rings 3" swept 11 awards in the first two years.

At the same time, compared with "S" and "ET", "Firefly" was praised by film critics as a "magnificent epic", and all three were highly praised for different reasons. Although the "S" series is great, its ideological connotation has always been criticized, the prequel trilogy was even smashed on Rotten Tomatoes as a children's movie; the innocent and beautiful "ET" is no match for "The Biography of Gandhi" (8/11); but the theme of "Firefly" belongs to the political category of "political system, political philosophical thought", and it is politically correct and profoundly political, not as old and deviant as the "Future Trilogy", so it has a reason to be expected.

And several other nominees for Best Picture this year are: "Brokeback Mountain" (gay), "Capote" (gay), "Good Night, Good Luck" (political persecution, McCarthyism), "Munich" (politics, terrorism, assassination).

In addition, there are also films with controversial sensitive political and social themes such as "Crossing America" (transgender) and "Sinrena" (oil politics), which is worthy of the name "Controversy Year". In addition, "Kung Fu" and "Wu Ji" both failed to be selected for Best Foreign Language Film, and Flame Films' "Kung Fu Panda" failed to make the nomination list for Best Animated Film...... how many statuettes will "Firefly" take away in the end? Who will hold the best picture and best director high? The whole world wants to know the answer, and this year's Oscars will be held on March 5.

"David Fincher will direct 'The Fantastic Director'. —Yahoo Entertainment. Just when Wang Yang broke out, "Fantastic Director" announced new developments, Paramount told the media that the film is confirmed to be directed by David Fincher, who has just completed the new film "Zodiac", the 43-year-old Finch is a director who started shooting commercials and music MVs, known for his style and personality, not counting the unreleased "Zodiac", from the screen debut "Alien 3" (1992), "Seven Deadly Sins" (1995), "Mind Games" (1997), "Fight Club" (1999), and then to " Trembling Space (2002), he has directed 5 films.

"Alien 3" has a global box office of 159 million (50 million production costs), Rotten Tomatoes three indicators of 39%/57%/55%, and the classic series has finally become a mess; "Seven Deadly Sins" has a box office of 327 million (33 million production costs), 85%/65%/94%, with mixed reviews in the film critics and a high reputation among audiences; "Mental Games" has a box office of 109 million (budget not announced), 71%/58%/82%, and the response continues to be Vinci style; 100 million box office (63 million production costs), 81%/63%/95%, continue the style, "Trembling Space" 196 million box office (48 million production costs), 77%/71%/61%.

Putting aside the failed word-of-mouth debut, Fincher's three consecutive films have a good freshness of popular critics on Rotten Tomatoes, but the freshness of well-known film critics is on the verge of rotting, this is because most of the well-known film reviews published in the newspaper are old, and they are the first reaction of the film critics after the release of the film, and when Rotten Tomatoes successively includes some new popular film critics online film reviews, the freshness is raised, which is the reaction of the film critics a few months after the release of the film and a few years later.

In other words, David Fincher's style was smashed all over Rotten Tomatoes when it was released, but after a while, the movie became more and more appreciated, and was rehabilitated and added as a classic. This kind of "ahead" has also made him never nominated for any well-known awards, and over the years, only two Saturn Award nominations for Best Director ("Alien 3", "Seven Deadly Sins") are worth mentioning. But Finch seems to have gradually found a way to "succeed the first time", or he gradually abandoned some unpleasant personal styles, but unfortunately the audience didn't buy it, and "Shivering Space", which he personally rated as a "more mainstream thriller", "dating movie", and "very good B-movie", was almost smashed with popcorn vomit all at once.

The average global box office of the 5 movies is 178 million, and this lone independent director is still figuring out how to make the film critics and the audience applaud unanimously, will it be "The Amazing Director"?

"Not bad!" A large number of Yang fans are quite satisfied with the director's choice, Finch can be described as young and talented, and most importantly, cool enough to CULT! However, on the other hand, "divorced older literary youth" Finch is the mainstay of the Dark Alliance, and Finch has a good relationship with Brad Pitt, and Wang Yang has a very bad relationship with Pete, so let him shoot the sunny and charming Pokémon?

So there is a large number of fans who are very dissatisfied, especially female fans who are very excited: "If Finch filmed Magic Young as a shady person, I wouldn't watch it." "I'll kill him!", "Jan and Rachel McAdams are just good friends!!", "Finch, please don't mess around, or I'll curse you!" ...... "It's not going to be R-rated, the film is about 18-year-old Wonder Young, a core positive inspirational story, definitely PG-13 rating." Producer Scott Rudin said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times that if it is R-rated, it means losing a large number of young audiences, which is not a good thing, and the story of "The Amazing Director" can be very impressive without being made R-rated, and Rudin also revealed that if everything goes well, the film will be released worldwide as soon as December this year.

It depends on whether it can start filming before June, otherwise it may not be seen until the end of 2007. At the moment, all preparations for it are going well, except for the biggest problem: the cast.

The casting work was actively carried out as early as last year, such as the CEO of Lionsgate, reporters, and the little girl who was almost scared to death, and other large and small supporting roles were not blocked, the problem is that several leading actors, Jessica Alba, Rachel McAdams, and several people already have a shortlist, but Wang Yang's candidate is still a very, very tricky problem of the century, and Daniel Wu, who was rumored to be Paramount's interested candidate, immediately made it clear: "I'm not interested, because I can't play Magic Young at all." ”

"Wang Yang is a charismatic person, as he was when he was an 18-year-old teenager, intelligent, humorous, confident, erudite, and unexpected...... Good at sports and kung fu, you can see rationality and wildness in him at the same time, which gives him a unique charm. To play him well, you must have strong self-confidence, which is a crucial point, and the shape that goes with it, which is really hard to find. ”

Director David Fincher said that he has seen all the videos, pictures, texts and other materials of Wang Yang's early years, especially when he was 18 years old, as well as the speech at the high school graduation ceremony, graduation commemorative book, etc., and has a deeper understanding of Wang Yang as a person and "probed into his heart". Both Fincher and Rudin said that they would find a perfect lead actor until they found a perfect lead actor, they didn't believe that there were no Chinese acting geniuses in the United States, but they were buried for a lack of opportunities, and through large-scale casting, "The Amazing Director" will have a magical Yang that will satisfy the world.

Finch also said that he would handle the story normally, and the so-called normal handling is that he will not be afraid because the protagonist of the story is Wang Yang, as for himself, he has not had much contact with Wang Yang, but he appreciates Magic Yang and his movie. Regarding the new progress of "The Amazing Director", Wang Yang did not make any remarks.

Obviously, "The Fantastic Director" was released at the end of the year in order to match the huge momentum caused by this year's "Firefly" may sweep the Oscars and Wang Yang win the best director again, so the publicity is simply spending twice the money to get two or even three times the effect; at the same time, if "I Am Legend", one of the "accident trilogy" released in the summer of 2007, fails, and Fantastic Yang is really hit by the ceiling of the cabin, "The Amazing Director" will become out of place, and there are "The Green Hornet" and "Iron Man" produced & adapted by him before It's really dangerous!

In order to impact the awards season, "The Fantastic Director" must be released at the end of 06 or 07, and in 06, it can at least be guaranteed to avoid Wang Yang's personal sniping...... January 27-February 2 has come to an end, Fox comedy new film "Undercover Fat Mom 2" despite only a pitiful 6% freshness, it still won the first week box office with 32.06 million, another new film "Magic Nanny McPhee" ranked second with 16.73 million, the third place was "Tales of the Night: Evolution" with 14.44 million the next week, and "Brokeback Mountain", which added 500 theaters, with the power of Oscar nominations, the box office trend only decreased by -5.1% , ranked fourth with 10.22 million in 1,751 theaters, with a total box office of 61.22 million, while "500 Days with Sammo" was only 3.74 million (-45%), and entered the final stage of gradually and completely painting with a North American box office of 230 million.

As the new weekend arrives, Wang Yang's family continues their vacation trip in San Diego, preparing to return to Los Angeles on Monday after his 26th birthday on Sunday the 5th.

"Think about it, yes, I'm interested, but I'm too busy, no, we don't want to hire a babysitter for a while...... Think about it. ”

San Diego La Jolla Village was quiet at night, the sound of rustling waves was pleasant, the entire coastline was beautiful and charming, on the balcony of the hotel suite, Wang Yang on the rattan chair looked at Jessica put down her phone, and immediately said with interest: "Interesting, what do you think?" Jessica pouted and shook her head without any idea, she sat down on the rattan chair, and asked calmly: "What do you think?"

Although she is on a happy vacation, she can't completely cut off the connection with affairs, but it is usually Wang Yang who finds time to reply, order, make decisions, etc., and now it is Jessica, she received an invitation from the MTV Movie Awards, do you want to be the host of the awards ceremony held on June 3 this year?

As today's most popular "American sweetheart", last year's starring "Firefly" swept everything, the sexy and fierce "Reva" became popular all over the world, and the MTV Movie Awards, which are dominated by young audiences, finally issued this invitation to Jessica, but it is most normal that she did not invite the busy man Wang Yang, probably knowing that she would definitely be rejected;

"Of course I support your wishes. Wang Yang smiled and shrugged his shoulders, this will be an unforgettable and pleasant memory, isn't it? He knows that she has that ability, there are many problems for her to act seriously, let her spoof acting and talk endlessly, she is very good, he took a sip of cold juice, stretched out his fist, and said with a smile: "I can make a spoof short film for you, what movie should I choose?" "Firefly"? And "Harry Potter", "King Kong", "The Chronicles of Narnia", "Star Wars Prequel" ......"

"Hmm......" Jessica touched his fist, listening to him counting last year's hit blockbusters with great interest, and couldn't help but be moved, this is indeed a very interesting and fun thing, she can say a lot about him and "Firefly" on stage, the problem is that being the host is not as simple as going to the Shoreland Theater on the night of the 3rd, but also rehearsals, participating in the design of the speech, participating in the promotional interview of the MTV Movie Awards, and making spoof short films, so many things!

And he has to prepare "I Am Legend", and there are so many other jobs, who will take care of Keke? She doesn't want Keke's closest person to be a nanny, and there are some emotions that only her father and mother can give to Keke...... Besides, I don't know when I'm going to New York to prepare for the film, thinking about this, Jessica's intentions immediately vanished, shook her head and smiled: "No, forget it, I'm going to take care of Keke." Wang Yang couldn't help but feel pity, of course Keke had to take care of it, but he shouted: "I think we can take care of all this, and it's not a busy day every day, when you work, our mother can help take care of the baby, and you can also hire a nanny......" Jessica interrupted him with a roll of her eyes: "No! ”

"Oh. Wang Yang didn't say anything more, looked at the boundless sea in the distance, and suddenly said: "Think about it after you go home, I really think the time can be arranged." Jessica smiled helplessly, her pretty face immediately straightened up again, and said seriously: "This is an attitude, I don't want to neglect the baby for a few hours of award ceremony, I don't want to! I don't want to make our time, our lives so tight, you and I are so busy? It's a disaster to think about." ”

Jessica rolled her eyes and shook her shoulders like a ghost, exhaled, and said seriously: "Didn't we talk about it earlier? You make money, I'll take care of the house, and I'll wait for you to come home at six o'clock, understand? She waved her hand forcefully and continued, "I'm a stubborn person......! If you think about it, it's not that much fun to host an awards ceremony, and it's a lot more fun to take care of your own daughter. ”

"Oh. He looked at her calm face, knowing that although she was resolute, she had no regrets but no joy, and he understood that she could not be completely idle, and she needed a sense of presence in her career. "HEY!" Seeing her turn her head to look, Wang Yang mysteriously revealed: "I want to invite you to come back and star in a comedy, not now, but later." ”

Jessica first opened her round eyes excitedly, blinked and then pressed it down, waved her hand and said, "Think about it, why do you think I will definitely act? I'm not necessarily interested." Wang Yang smiled and shook his head: "No, you will definitely be interested." Jessica couldn't hold back for a moment, with a bright surprise smile on her face, and asked repeatedly: "Really, what kind of comedy are you directing? I love comedy! I'm very funny, look at ......" Wang Yang watched her playfully and lively, doing all kinds of hideous and funny things, couldn't help laughing, and laughed for a while before replying: "It's not sure for the time being, not necessarily." ”

Wang Yang refers to the R-rated comedy "Bridesmaids" of the "Declining Girls Gang", and the role originally named "Helen" is too suitable for her. "Helen" is a rich friend of the bride Lillian, her husband is rich, idle housewife, keen to be the perfect bridesmaid for others, as well as planning and arranging baby showers, buying wedding dresses, farewell bachelorette parties and other pre-marital activities, and the heroine "Annie" is a mess of older single women, she is also the bride Lillian's best friend, when Anne is faced with Lillian's sudden marriage, Helen rushes to be the boss of the bridesmaid group, a joke-ridden, spicy and interesting struggle officially begins.

After some modifications to the character of "Helen", such as the name, it will definitely make Jessica very involved in the play, and she can't enter the play anymore, and burst out her comedic potential, because she is playing herself.

The original "Annie" actor Kristen Wiig is a key figure, she and Anne Mamorrow are the screenwriters of "Bridesmaids", but also have amazing genius performances, which can be said to be an indispensable person in the possible "Bridesmaids" series, Wang Yang has earlier contacted Wig, who is now a resident actor of "Saturday Night Live", and will meet after the holiday to discuss this matter, but it is obviously a long time before Jessica's comeback, and the matter of "Bridesmaids" is not in a hurry.

However, there are other people who are in a hurry, recently Flame Films received a call from Hong Kong, "Infernal Affairs" producer Liu Weiqiang asked about the American version of "Infernal Affairs" is still filming? From FF swore to pat his chest to buy the adaptation copyright, almost 3 years have passed, and there is still no movement...... When will FF start this project? How will it be adapted? Who will direct and who will star? Liu Weiqiang asked tentatively, is Magic Young interested in directing?

"Me?" Wang Yang was a little dumbfounded when he heard it, the project of "Infernal Affairs" has indeed been without news for too long, and it is inevitable that people feel that FF wants to hide it, he personally called Liu Weiqiang to express his confidence and expectations for "Infernal Affairs", and when he heard the question of directing, he didn't know how to answer for a while, he was not uninterested, but how could he have so much time? He didn't explicitly say NO, nor did he say yes, there is a possibility, but he once again assured that the American version of "Infernal Affairs" will definitely be produced, and it may soon be on the agenda.

Speaking of "Saturday Night Live" and the spoof short, Natalie called Wang Yang that night, because there was one thing, after the phone was connected, she smiled and said: "Hey, Jan, are you bothering you on vacation? OK, long story short, you know that I was going to go to "Saturday Night Live" to promote "V for Vendetta", and I agreed to shoot a spoof RAP...... "She wanted to ask him what MV ideas he had, and if she had time, would she be interested in shooting her with the "SNL" crew?

"Oh! interesting, I want to think about it......" Wang Yang was very amused by this, spoofing the hot RAP? he thought about it for a while, and immediately had an idea: "Just show your demons! Everyone will be pleasantly surprised, Juno, Amanda, Shamo, Eve, all come out!" Then he said some ideas with great interest.

"Hahaha!" Listening to his words, Natalie couldn't stop laughing: "Yes, let's all come out......" She gradually stopped laughing, and her voice went from low to high: "My mom and dad often tell me to work as hard as you can and don't be a jerk, but ...... It can't be done!!"

"Then be a super jerk!" Wang Yang cheered, what is the opposite of Natalie Portman's usual image will be revealed, this is a spoof!!He smiled: "If you have time, I can help you shoot it, I don't think "SNL" will mind, but I am very short on time now, you know I can't guarantee you." Natalie laughed even more maniacally on her phone, "Well said, am I going to say, 'How can I quit you?'"

Wang Yang shrugged his shoulders and replied in a dead voice: "Don't tease me, I'm not a marijuana ......" Natalie smiled: "Obviously, I'm pumping, no matter what, let's shock the world!" Wang Yang laughed: "You madman." ”

"By the way, happy birthday!" Before closing the line, Natalie congratulated him solemnly, Wang Yang looked at the night and said with a smile: "Okay, tomorrow is, but thank you, good night." ”

(To be continued)