Chapter 296: Nomination Prospects

As the most famous personal film critic in the Dragon Kingdom, Chu Tian has won the love of many ordinary fans with his sharp and direct comment style, his personality that does not flatter capital, and his outspoken characteristics.

Each of his film reviews has been read by more than one million, and the highest one can even reach tens of millions.

Many fans, even after watching the film, will also turn out Chutian's film reviews, compare the two, they can have more understanding, many details that they didn't pay attention to, and after reading Chutian's comments, they can understand the deep meaning.

Chutian's film review is not limited to the movie itself, but also makes its own analysis of the actors' performances and the director's intentions, but like this film review, it is rare to have heartfelt articles in the form of chatting and chatting.

The last similar film review was given to Mr. Huang Chunfeng, who won his first Golden Goat Award for Best Actor two years ago at the age of seventy-eight for various reasons.

With the help of this popular movie review, there are really many fans who choose to watch "Infernal Affairs" for the second and third times.

Among them, Zhao Zhenghao's fans are naturally the main force.

Before "Infernal Affairs" was officially released, in fact, even Zhao Zhenghao's fans only regarded Wang Bangmin and Wu Hai's argument that "Zhao Zhenghao contributed actor-level acting skills in this movie" as a propaganda means and did not take it seriously.

Zhao Zhenghao's achievements in the field of music are enough to amaze the world, crossing over to the film industry, not only can he write and direct himself, but even his acting skills are "actor-level", there is no such all-round person in the world!

However, when "Infernal Affairs" was released, after they saw Zhao Zhenghao's performance on the big screen in the theater, they realized that Wang Bangmin and Wu Hai's words were not vain propaganda arguments, but facts!

As a fan who loves Zhao Zhenghao, he naturally doesn't think Zhao Zhenghao has many talents, and their idol should be this kind of all-round genius!

The Amway of Zhao Zhenghao's fans does not have much impact on the viewing choices of ordinary fans, but Chutian, who has a good reputation, and a series of popular film critics, unanimously recommended "Infernal Affairs" and called Zhao Zhenghao, and the curiosity of ordinary fans can no longer be hooked.

And the audience who entered the theater and watched "Infernal Affairs" was not disappointed.

This titular police film, although there are no thrilling scenes, but the story is novel, the rhythm is tight, and the acting skills are bursting, and everyone who has seen it is addicted.

This point, on the largest film review website in Dragon Kingdom, the audience score of "Infernal Affairs" has been maintained at more than 9.5 points, and it currently ranks third in film history, which is the most powerful proof.

Under normal circumstances, a commercial film like "Infernal Affairs", no matter how good the reputation is, the audience score is rarely above 9 points.

At present, on the audience rating list on the largest film review website in Dragon Country, the top ten, without exception, are all niche literary films, although the audience score is high, but the audience base for voting is very small, generally below 100,000.

Ten days after its release, the number of audience rating votes for "Infernal Affairs" on Dragon Kingdom's largest film review website has exceeded one million!

In order to purify the network environment and avoid the risk of swiping malicious bad reviews, the major film review websites in Longguo have set high restrictions on the qualifications of voting audiences, and only members who have registered for one year and have reached a certain level of activity are eligible to vote.

At present, among the 1.4 billion people in Dragon Country, the number of fans who go to the theater to watch at least three movies or more every year has reached 200 million, and there are only more than 10 million members with voting rights in Dragon Country's largest film review website.

That is to say, almost one-tenth of the active and high-quality members on the largest film review website in Dragon Country watched "Infernal Affairs" and voted for it, giving it a score of 99%, all of which are above 9 points, and the proportion of giving a full score of 10 points has reached an astonishing 63%.

"Infernal Affairs" has almost booked the "Best Popular Film" award at all the Dragon Kingdom Film Awards in the coming year!

What's even more unexpected is that the film critic score of "Infernal Affairs" has also remained above 9 points, and the film critic score is currently 9.1 points in the largest film review website in Dragon Kingdom, which is also among the top ten in film history, temporarily ranking sixth.

This situation almost guarantees that "Infernal Affairs" can at least be shortlisted for the "Best Film" competition of the three major film awards ceremonies of the Dragon Kingdom.

According to the reaction of the market, Zhao Zhenghao's amazing performance in "Infernal Affairs" is also infinitely higher than the possibility of being shortlisted for the list of five "Best Actors" at the Dragon Kingdom's three major film award ceremonies.

The three major film award ceremonies of the Dragon Kingdom, in order to distinguish each other, deliberately staggered the time of their respective award ceremonies, the Golden Dragon Award is usually held in February, the Golden Goblet Award is held in June, and the Golden Goblet Award is held in November.

In order to demonstrate their independence, the three major film awards ceremonies of the Dragon Kingdom also have different restrictions on the release time of the shortlisted films.

The Golden Dragon Award held in February will be held for films released from January to December of the previous year, the Golden Goblet Award held in June will be selected for films released from May of the previous year to April of this year, and the Golden Goat Award will be held in November for films released from October to September of the previous year.

Due to this staggered selection range, it is rare for a film to kill the three major film awards ceremonies of the Dragon Kingdom, and it is rare for a director and an actor to sweep the three major film awards ceremonies of the Dragon Kingdom with only one film!

Up to now, there are only two films that have completed the Grand Slam of the Golden Dragon Award, the Golden Goblet Award, and the Golden Goblet Award, namely "Yellow Earth" and "Mother", these two films are also the first and second places in the audience score and film critic score in the current Dragon Country film history.

The audience score of "Yellow Earth" is currently 9.8 points, ranking first in the history of Dragon Kingdom films, with more than 80,000 voters, giving it a full score of 10 points, as high as 90%, and its critic score is currently 9.3 points.

The audience score of "Mother" is currently 9.7 points, but its critic score is as high as 9.5 points, which is the champion of the Dragon Kingdom film history on this list!

And with one film, the directors, actors, and actresses who swept the three major film awards ceremonies of the Dragon Kingdom combined, so far, have not exceeded the number of one hand, and when this achievement was completed, it was all in the last century.

After entering the 21st century, there is no one who can sweep the three major film awards ceremonies of the Dragon Kingdom with a single film.

Even the situation where a film is shortlisted for "Best Picture", "Best Director", "Best Actor" and "Best Actress" at the three major film awards ceremonies at the same time has rarely happened in recent years.

"Infernal Affairs" is the most promising film in the past two years to achieve this achievement.

I don't know if Zhao Zhenghao is aiming at this goal, the schedule chosen for "Infernal Affairs" is at the best moment to complete this achievement.

"Infernal Affairs", which will be released on September 29, has caught the last train of the 32nd Yangcheng International Film Festival (Golden Goblet Award) to be held on November 25, and at the same time, it is not too far away from the 41st Beijing International Film Festival (Golden Dragon Award) to be held in February next year and the 37th Modu International Film Festival (Golden Goblet Award) to be held in June next year.

If the release time of "Infernal Affairs" is two days later, it will miss the selection of this year's Golden Sheep Awards, and there will be a year-long interval between the selection of next year's Golden Sheep Awards.

A few years ago, many films with good reputation, it was for this reason that they did not complete the achievement of "being shortlisted for the three major film awards ceremony of the Dragon Kingdom at the same time".

Just ten days after its release, all in the territory of the Dragon Kingdom, the box office has accumulated 4.1 billion "Infernal Affairs", which was not discriminated against by the organizing committee of the Golden Goat Award because of its high box office, and with its excellent film quality, it is very competitive in many awards of this year's Golden Goat Awards.

In addition to being generally optimistic that "Infernal Affairs" will be shortlisted for the "Best Film" of this year's Golden Sheep Awards, the industry also has great expectations for Zhao Zhenghao to win the nomination of "Best Director" and "Best Actor" at the first Dragon Country Three Film Awards with this film.

If "Infernal Affairs" can be successfully shortlisted for the follow-up list of "Best Picture", "Best Director", "Best Actor" and other awards at this year's Golden Sheep Awards, then Zhao Zhenghao will create a record in the history of Dragon Kingdom films - the youngest person nominated for "Best Director" at the Dragon Country Three Film Awards.

Before Zhao Zhenghao, the minimum age record for being nominated for "Best Director" at the Dragon Kingdom's three major film awards ceremony was 35 years old, and Zhao Zhenghao is now very likely to increase this record by nearly five years!

The shortlist of the various awards of this year's Golden Sheep Award is being screened intensively, and the list of nominees will be announced on October 22, at that time, whether "Infernal Affairs" can get the highest recognition in the Dragon Kingdom film industry, there will be a decision.

Although Zhao Zhenghao is also a little nervous about this, he has already done his limit in the film "Infernal Affairs", although one of the goals of filming this movie is to strive for the recognition of the three major film awards ceremonies of the Dragon Kingdom, but no matter what the final result is, he can have a clear conscience.

Whether or not he can be nominated for the Golden Sheep Award is not something that Zhao Zhenghao can decide, the public relations work is in charge of Penguin Pictures, and Zhao Zhenghao believes in their professionalism.

Now, all of Zhao Zhenghao's energy is still in the promotion of "Infernal Affairs", although the eleventh schedule has passed, the single-day box office of "Infernal Affairs" has fallen off a cliff, from more than 400 million a few days ago, to only more than 200 million on the first working day after the 11th holiday.

However, such a box office decline has exceeded the expectations of Zhao Zhenghao, "Zhenghao Studio" and Penguin Pictures.

If it continues according to the current box office trend, "Infernal Affairs" still has a little hope of impacting the single-film box office record in the Dragon Kingdom.

Eleven days after its release, the cumulative box office of "Infernal Affairs" exceeded 4.3 billion, and the 5 billion mark is close at hand, and under the active operation of Penguin Pictures, "Infernal Affairs" has obtained the key in advance, and the release period has been extended to 60 days.

In the next 50 days, it will be very difficult to fight for a box office of 4 billion, but even if there is a glimmer of hope, Penguin Pictures will work 100% for it.

Although Zhao Zhenghao is willful, he is miserable about the intensive publicity itinerary some time ago, and what especially upsets him is that he is busy these days, and he is almost out of time to follow the video, let alone accompany her by his side.

However, as the director and starring of "Infernal Affairs", it is his duty to cooperate with the distribution company's publicity itinerary.

The path you choose, even if you kneel, you have to go down.

There is no way, even the seniors like Wang Bangmin and Wu Hai, who are nearly half a hundred years old, are dutifully cooperating with the completion of the propaganda task, and Guo Ziping, who can take charge of himself, has to a large extent assigned propaganda pressure to Zhao Zhenghao, and Zhao Zhenghao has no qualifications to complain.

Under the active efforts of Zhao Zhenghao and Guo Ziping, the single-day box office of "Infernal Affairs" in the third week of release was relatively stable, and it could still report an average of about 200 million per day, and there was a small rebound over the weekend, with a single-week box office of 1.5 billion, and there is no doubt that it will defend the single-week box office champion again.

The cumulative box office reached 5.6 billion, surpassing "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "Journey to the West: The Great Sage Marrying" in one fell swoop, becoming Zhao Zhenghao's single-film highest-grossing film.

"The Legend of the Gods" and "Castle in the Sky" are dwarfed by "Infernal Affairs", and the total box office of the two of them this week combined is not as much as "Infernal Affairs".

Entering the fourth week of release, the single-day box office of "Infernal Affairs" fell again, with an average of only more than 100 million per day, and the single-week box office only got more than 900 million, although it once again defended the single-week box office champion, but so far, the total box office in the Dragon Kingdom has only accumulated to 6.5 billion, although there are nearly 40 days of release, but if you want to break the single-film box office record in the history of Dragon Kingdom (8.3 billion), it is even less likely.

Because, in the following week, several new films will be released, including the highly anticipated "Never Compromise".

"Uncompromising", like "Infernal Affairs", is also a police film, directed by Jiang Wenchao, one of the most famous directors of the Dragon Kingdom, starring Min Peng, one of the most box office appealing actors in the Dragon Kingdom film market, and known as the "King of Action Movies" by fans.

Originally, the original schedule of "Uncompromising" was also eleventh, but later, under the operation of Penguin Pictures, their producers postponed the schedule by more than 20 days and missed the box office war of the eleventh gear.

Now it seems that the choice of "Never Compromise" is quite wise, if it also joins the box office war in the first eleven gears, no matter how it performs in direct competition with the same type of film "Infernal Affairs", and under the encirclement and suppression of "The Legend of the Gods" and "Sky City", the final result is several defeats.