Chapter 387: Oscar Nomination
Legendary Pictures, formerly an independent film production company in the United States, is a well-known film company in the United States in addition to the six major studios, and it does not have the ability to distribute films, and the original films are basically distributed through Warner Bros. or Universal Pictures, and maintains a good cooperative relationship with many large studios. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
For example, the "Batman" trilogy, the "Superman" series, "300 Spartans", "Inception", etc., are all produced by Legendary Pictures and then distributed by many major studios, including Warner Bros. and Universal.
The current Legendary Pictures was acquired by Huaxia Wangda Group, with a huge capital injection, and Wangda Group has already won the second largest cinema chain in North America, AMC, and the fourth largest cinema chain in North America, the largest cinema chain in Europe, and the second largest cinema chain in Australia with AMC.
Even if the previous "The Great Wall" co-produced by Legendary Pictures failed miserably at the box office, this is still an ironclad fact.
Well, if Wang Da or Legendary Pictures wants to save their honor through the upcoming co-production of "Future War", it is not all for nothing.
Of course, in other words, it is to continue to explore the mode of Chinese films entering Hollywood!
As for Lucasfilm's production capabilities, especially special effects, the "Star Wars" series alone is enough to show how powerful it is, no, it should be said that it is a great company!
The Hollywood team, which has always had the most contact with Hou Muyun, and ILM, or Industrial Light & Magic, are subsidiaries of the studio.
Luxes Films has also been acquired by Walt Disney (non-wholly-owned acquisition), and about the so-called Huaxia Capital, in fact, Hou Muyun can't say whether Lukes Films or Walt Disney has the shadow of Huaxia Capital behind it, anyway, it has not been officially announced to the public, Hou Muyun only heard a vague from his short and tight mouth, in short, there is a shadow of Huaxia Capital.
In the end, Hou Muyun was quite satisfied with the cooperation with these two film companies, the former could schedule films for him, and the latter could give him technology, which are two crucial points for movies, especially those that want to make money.
Especially Lucasfilm, to be honest, Hou Muyun's current "Seventy-two Changes" special effects studio imitated ILM somewhat at the beginning of its establishment, and even now it is still difficult to get rid of the shadow of ILM, and next, "Seventy-two Changes" is absolutely indispensable to deal with ILM, whether it will imprint more shadows of the other party, in fact, Hou Muyun doesn't care too much, because he has been thinking about how to dig ILM through this opportunity to cooperate!
It's very difficult, but Chu Qing thinks you can try it!
Yes, it was Chu Qing who felt that it was obvious that Chu Qing had learned a lot from talking with Dwarf and Tight and from other sources, and it seemed that he had long known that Hou Muyun had ideas about ILM, and as soon as Hou Muyun mentioned this idea, he took out a bunch of information and told Hou Muyun that he had a certain possibility of operation.
What is the good help, this is!
No, no, no, to be precise, Hou Muyun is Chu Qing's virtuous helper!
On the same day that Future Chronicles confirmed its partners, the annual Oscar nomination vote was launched.
"Sword Zun", which has achieved excellent box office in North America and around the world, although it is a real commercial film, still appeared in the competition for many nominations, such as Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film and other nominations.
In addition to "Sword Zun", another work related to Hou Muyun appeared in the nomination for the Oscars, and after the voting was launched, the number of votes in the nomination was far ahead, and its final qualification was almost determined as soon as possible, this work is nothing else, it is the Hou version of "Three Monks", and the nomination is the best animated short film!
The next day, the animated film "The Adventures of Anu" also confirmed the distribution company, Wang Da Pictures is one of them, and the other is Walt Disney!
Indeed, the main market for "The Adventures of Anu" is Huaxia, but it is still ready to be released worldwide!
On January 6th, that is, the first day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, Hou Muyun's bib was updated with a scarf, and the content of the bib was about the first trailer of "The Adventures of Anu", and it was announced that the movie was scheduled for February 5th, which is the first day of the Lunar New Year!
The United States and Worldwide will be released on the weekend of February 8.
Regarding "The Adventures of Anu", Hou Muyun has promoted it many times, and many people know and look forward to it, especially after Hou Muyun announced the dubbing lineup before.
And after the first trailer came out this time, netizens were completely dumbfounded.
Nima's trailer with no picture and only sound throughout the whole process is also no SEI!
As soon as this trailer came out, it attracted countless scoldings, which was 100%, of course, scolding and scolding, everyone's expectations were also higher.
Many people have analyzed the voices in the trailer, and from the analysis, first, it is confirmed that Hou Muyun's previous announcement of the lineup is true, and second, the plot is also speculated from the sound - after all, there is the original work, and the plot has a basis for discussion.
On January 13th, Hou Muyun announced the second trailer, this time there is a picture, and as soon as this picture came out, the Internet was full of numbness, and it was directly sprouted by the cute things in the picture!
Undoubtedly, that's Anu!
Anu is the spirit animal of the protagonist of "Xuanyuan Sword Master", whether it is in the original book or in the TV series, it is a super cute existence, and Anu in the earlier cartoon is already very cute, but it is still very different from the version of the animated movie that was set by Hou Muyun himself and processed by the animation editor.
There are also a group of other characters who will appear in the movie in the trailer, especially one of the group of spirit beasts named "Chaos", which is far more cute than the Minions, and it grabbed the audience's attention as soon as it appeared.
In addition, there are several very majestic characters in the trailer, which are also outstanding.
On the same day on the 13th, voting for Oscar nominations ended.
On January 20, Hou Muyun announced the third trailer, which is also a global trailer, and it can be regarded as the first trailer that is really related to the plot.
Three days later, on January 24, the Oscar nominations were announced.
Judging from this year's Oscar nominations, it is undoubtedly certain that last year was another small year for movies, and there were not too many good movies, and there were naturally no movies that could be called great.
Looking at this list, the most attractive ones are undoubtedly the best picture, best director, best actor and actress, best supporting actor and actress, best animated feature film, at most the best foreign language film....... and so on!
HOU!
Hou Muyun!
The melon-eating masses in North America and China all saw Hou Muyun's name, and then they were all dumbfounded.
Not because Hou Muyun has received many nominations, but because Hou Muyun alone has three works shortlisted for this year's Oscars!
"Sword Zun", 7 nominations, including Best Foreign Language Film, Best Original Score, Best Original Song and other awards.
The Three Monks, 1 nomination, Best Animated Short Film.
The third work is the first episode of "China on the Fingertips" "The Quintessence of the Land Grows in the Land", which was also stunned by Hou Muyun after seeing it, and won the nomination for Best Documentary Short Film!
It is not uncommon for a person or a work to receive multiple nominations in the history of the Oscars, with a maximum of 14 nominations, but it is definitely the first time in history that a person has three different works nominated at the same time!
Originally, the nominations for these three works were not big awards, but now they have become the biggest highlight after the announcement of the nomination list, and for a while, not only North America, but also Europe and even the world's media have reported on it, not to mention in China.
According to the words of the melon-eating masses in China, the Oscar has not yet been awarded, and Hou Muyun has created another record.
A person, making a pure commercial film with a super high box office, exporting a revolutionary animation and producing a documentary that can be nominated for an Oscar, purely from the director's ability, Hou Muyun is undoubtedly very close to the omnipotence!
Coupled with the fact that he is a person with a topic in his own right, it is also foreseeable what kind of waves this nomination will make!