The small theater on the first floor of the guide building is beautifully furnished, with a black backdrop with gold words reading "AsianFilmAcademyAwards" and "Asian Film Academy Commendation Conference", and the theater seats are already full of journalists. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

When the time pointed to ten o'clock in the morning, the reporters saw Zhang Ran on stage, and immediately picked up the camera and pointed at Zhang Ran and pressed the shutter frantically.

Zhang Ran stood in the center of the stage, smiled at the reporters in the audience, and said, "Gentlemen and ladies, welcome to the nomination site of the Asian Film Academy Commendation Conference. In recent years, there has been an increasing number of collaborations between Asian films, which has become a trend, and we at the Asian Film Academy were established for this purpose. In order to further promote the exchange and development of the Asian film industry, we jointly organized the Asian Film Academy Commendation Conference with the Beiping Film Academy, Chung-Ang University in South Korea, and Nihon University, and we voted for the best Asian films and filmmakers in the 12 months from September '05 to August '06 through rigorous and fair selection!"

After saying this, Zhang Ran felt extremely awkward, a good Asian Film Academy Award can't be said, it must be said that it is the Asian Film Academy Commendation Conference, it's too fucked!

This year, a certain upper-level leader didn't know which tendon was wrong, and thought that there were too many domestic film awards, so the General Administration issued instructions to prevent too many film awards and festivals, and to reduce or prohibit various award activities in the film industry, and only allowed Huabiao, Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers and other film awards to exist, and many other selections have been banned, even the Directors Association Award, which was just established last year, has been banned. Fortunately, Zhang Ran has a good relationship with the General Administration, and the Asian Film Academy Awards commends the entire Asian film, which has the feeling of all nations coming to the dynasty and can show the grandeur of the Heavenly Dynasty, so the General Administration gave the green light.

However, in order to respond to the call of the leaders to hold the award ceremony, the General Administration still put forward requirements for Zhang Ran and them, the award can be done, but it cannot be called an award, it can only be called a commendation conference, and the award-winning director must be said to be a commended director, and the award speech must be said to be a commendation speech. Zhang Ran and they complained in private, is the award-winning trophy estimated to be a trophy and can only be called a commendation proof object?

When the Beiping Film Festival was founded in the last century, the General Administration did not approve it at first, and the Beiping Municipal Government played a trick and changed the name of the application to "Beiping International Film Festival", but the English name was still called the Beiping Film Festival. Zhang Ran has a sample, the Chinese name is "Asian Film Academy Commendation Conference", but the English name is "AsianFilmAcademy Awards", which is the Asian Film Academy Awards.

Zhang Ran exhaled and continued: "Everyone knows that the Asian Film Academy was jointly founded by universities in China, Japan and South Korea, so the Asian Film Academy Awards, no, the commendation conference will also be held by the three countries in turn. This year marks the first edition of the Asian Film Academy Commendation Conference, which will be jointly organized by the Academy and the Busan Film Festival, and will be held on October 19, the day before the closing of the Busan Film Festival. I would like to invite Mr. Amamba, the Chairman of the Executive Committee, to announce the list of nominees!"

Amid a round of applause, Amamba walked up to the stage and said with a smile in English: "Ladies and gentlemen, I'm Alejandro Amamba, and this is the announcement of the nominees for the 1st Asian Film Academy Awards, and I will announce the list of nominated films next!"

Amamba opened the envelope, took out a stack of lists, and read them out smoothly: "The shortlisted for the best film editing are: Zhang Ran's "Three Fools" China, Tan Jiaming's "Father and Son" Xiangjiang, China's Xiangjiang, Koike Yoshiyuki's "The Life of the Disgusted Matsuko" Japan, Park Quzhi's "Despicable Street" South Korea, Kim Xianmin's "Han River Monster" South Korea!"

Most of the people present were Chinese journalists, so after Amanba's announcement in English, Zhang Ran announced it again in Chinese, and then Amamba began announcing other nominated films.

There are a total of 12 awards at the Asian Film Academy Awards, and Amamba holds the list of nominees, reading them down one after another, while the reporters are also making notes quickly. Many of these nominated films have been seen by everyone, but some have heard it for the first time, from China, South Korea, and Iran, and it is indeed a veritable Asian Film Academy Awards.

Amamba read it quickly, and in less than ten minutes it was the best picture. Amamba took the list of nominees and read calmly: "The shortlisted for best films are: "Han River Monster" South Korea, "Three Fools" China, "The Life of Disgusted Pine Nuts" Japan, "The Color of Basati" India, "The Best Time" China Taiwan. ”

As soon as the nomination ended, the reporters quickly rushed to Zhang Ran, and the questions were thrown at Zhang Ran like they didn't want money.

"Zhang Ran, "Three Fools" and South Korea's "Monster of the Han River" won 7 nominations, do you have anything to say?"

"What is the selection process of the Asian Film Academy Awards, and how to ensure the fairness of this award?"

"Jia Niliang was nominated for Best Actor, but many well-known actors were not nominated, is there any shady, what do you think?"

"Ladies and gentlemen, if you have any questions, you can go to our official website to check, or you can ask Mr. Amamba, I'm just a soy sauce guy and don't know anything!" Zhang Ran didn't answer the reporter's question, and quickly walked through the crowd, leaving Amamba to bear the reporters' fire.

After the press conference, Xinlang and other portals quickly reported the news in the headlines of the entertainment section and announced the list of nominees. The news was quickly reposted and became a hot topic in a very short period of time.

Many people remembered that when the Golden Rooster Award was won last year, a reporter asked Zhang Ran if the Golden Rooster Award should not be scolded? Zhang Ran said at that time, what about after the scolding? Do you think it can be changed? In my opinion, it is better to do it! At that time, everyone did not know what Zhang Ran said to do, and some people even thought that he was pretending to be forced, but now everyone knows that he really did not pretend at all, and he was really doing things!

The Asian Film Academy Awards are voted for by the teachers and students of the academy, and the teachers of the academy include well-known directors such as Zhang Ran, Amamba, Park Chan-wook, and guest professors include masters such as Scorsese and Spielberg. Many people think that if this award can be done well, it will definitely succeed as the most professional award in China, and may even become the most influential award in the whole of Asia.

After reading the media report, Xie Fei, a retired professor at Nortel, went to the official website to look at the rules of the awards, applauded and laughed: "This award is well run, well done! Zhang Ran has done a beautiful job! The reason why Chinese films have become what they are today is that they talk too much and do too little! Zhang Ran is a great blessing for Chinese films!"

Of course, there are also a lot of criticisms of the Asian Film Academy Awards, and the Taiwan media think that Zhang Ran is because of the contradiction with the Golden Horse Awards, and deliberately holds an Asian Film Award to disgust the Golden Horse Awards; some Xiangjiang media think that Jia Milk Liang can be shortlisted for the best actor, but the Xiangjiang actor is not shortlisted, Zhang Ran is suspected of suppressing the Xiangjiang actor and praising his students for being on the top; many people in China are very dissatisfied with the academy's first award ceremony in South Korea, and scold Zhang Ran for kneeling and licking the stick.

Just when everyone was talking about this, the box office of the new week was released. "Baby Project" achieved a box office of 33 million in the first four days, ranking first, "Disciple" ranked second with 26 million, with a cumulative box office of 55 million, Feng Xiaogang's "Night Banquet" continued to dive high, ranking third with 11.5 million, with a cumulative box office of 105 million, and "The Queen Wears Prada" ranked fourth with 7.4 million, with a cumulative box office of 21.9 million.

Similar to previous years, this year, China Film Group has also prepared two imported films for the National Day schedule, planning to use "Jungle Counteroffensive" and "Dog's Heart" to focus on the family market, of which "Jungle Counteroffensive" is the second imported account-sharing film to be introduced simultaneously this year, but the box office of "Jungle Counteroffensive" is only 4.5 million in the first week, and the power of synchronization is not reflected in the box office. Another Japanese film starring real animals "Dog's Heart" is even more bleak, with only 350,000 box office in the first week.

What is surprising is that the historical documentary "Old Summer Palace", which was released silently on the 28th, actually pulled out its teeth during the National Day Golden Week and achieved good results. This is undoubtedly very rare for a documentary, not to mention the fact that it is not even promoted before the release. In fact, it can be seen from the response of "Old Summer Palace" that as long as the film is sincere and of good quality, even if there are no famous directors and actors, high technology, and even if there is no main theme of the red-headed document, it can attract the audience.

In the following week, "Baby Project" won 45 million with the National Day prime time, with a cumulative box office of 78 million, "Disciple" ranked second with 21 million, with a cumulative box office of 76 million, "Queen Wears Prada" ranked third with 6.3 million and a cumulative box office of 28.2 million due to the support of female white-collar workers, while "Night Banquet" only achieved 6.2 million, with a cumulative box office of 111 million.

After the National Day holiday, all movies began to dive high. "Baby Plan" has achieved a box office of 13 million, with a cumulative box office of 91 million, with the good reputation of "Baby Plan" among the audience, the box office is not a big problem to break 100 million, this will also be Cheng Long's second film to break 100 million in the mainland after "Myth". "Disciple" ranked second with 6.5 million, with a cumulative box office of 84.2 million, and the final box office should be more than 90 million, but there is no hope of breaking 100 million, but the cost of "Disciple" is only 40 million, and the mainland box office alone can almost return to the cost, and "Disciple" has performed well in the entire Southeast Asian region, of which Xiangjiang has achieved a good result of 27.5 million, and Golden Harvest has made a lot of money. "The Queen Wears Prada" ranked third with 2.6 million, with a cumulative box office of 30.8 million, and the peak of the century must have been earned, but due to the relatively high cost of publicity, it did not earn much. "Night Banquet" only achieved a box office of 2.2 million this week, with a total of 114 million, and the final box office cannot exceed 120 million, and the huge loss is doomed.

On the morning of October 17, Zhang Ran came to the Capital International Airport early and went to Busan to attend the award ceremony of the Asian Film Academy Awards on the 19th.

On the plane, Zhang Ran just sat down, closed his eyes and prepared to rest. A flight attendant recognized Zhang Ran, walked over and whispered that she liked Zhang Ran's movie very much, and then asked Zhang Ran if she could sign an autograph for her. Zhang Ran has never been a big name, he agreed with a smile, and chatted with the flight attendant after signing the autograph.

At this moment, a voice suddenly came from behind him: "Zhang Ran, I want to tell Zhang Jingchu that you accosted a flight attendant on the plane!"

Zhang Ran felt that the voice was very familiar, and when he looked up, it was his student Gao Hang, so he slapped it: "Stinky boy, it's not big or small!" Then he asked with a smile: "Why are you here?"

Gao Hang rubbed his head and said, "This year's Busan Film Festival has added a new event called Asian Rising Star Promotion, encouraging and promoting newcomers, and Tang Yan and I were recommended to participate in this promotion event." As he spoke, he turned his head to a tall and thin girl beside him and said, "Tang Yan, let me introduce you, this is Teacher Zhang Ran!"

Tang Yan bowed and saluted: "Hello, Mr. Zhang, I'm Tang Yan, I like your movies very much!"