Sometimes, people are really weird. Before he won the award, Director Zhang was bent on winning the award and was quite keen on it. And after winning this award, his desire to continue to struggle in this area has faded.

The Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film can already be said to be the highest achievement film that a Chinese director can get. Although Director Zhang said that if Director Zhang is willing, he can cooperate with some American companies and try to see if he can shoot some movies to impact other awards, but his own foreign language is not very good, and his status in China is quite high, and he does not have much heart to leave China and go abroad to work hard, so for him, it is impossible to go abroad, stay in China to guard his honor, and enjoy the title of the first director in China.

And after the reputation is gained, Director Zhang thinks about more things when he shoots the movie. For commercial blockbusters, he seems to have lost sight of them all of a sudden. Anyway, his identity is enough, and he thinks more, and he actually returns to art.

He has won the top box office in the domestic market, and the international awards have also arrived, and now, he feels that these things are not interesting, but wants to turn back and want to continue to try to make art. Although a while ago, he wanted to shoot blockbusters and be a big-budget director, but in the 90s, he also made a lot of literary films, and walking back to that road is also his own life pursuit.

Of course, now Director Zhang is different from the past, in the past, he would definitely not consider the foreign market when filming, but now he has to consider the foreign market when filming. Even if a literary film is not profitable, it is a question of whether the film grade is enough to be distributed abroad, and he came to the United States to make contact, even if it is a literary film in the future, he can continue to distribute it.

This thought to him. After hearing this, Levi immediately expressed his willingness to support: of course this is a good thing for him, and it is better to pursue art than to lose oneself. Anyway, in his memory, he will have to walk back to this road in the future, what's wrong with walking back earlier?

Moreover, Levy is also looking forward to him being able to maintain the level of the 90s and continue to improve, because this is definitely a good thing for Chinese films. Although one person's efforts cannot change the state of bad movies in the Chinese film industry in the future, it is not a bad thing for someone to work hard in this regard.

As for the box office market, there's no need to worry: this year's films. It has expanded China's film market to 60 million, which is already a rare number, and in the future, this number will only get higher and higher, and it can even be said that it will break the imagination of everyone in the world.

And with Director Zhang as a role model, the people behind will naturally think about how to shoot new movies to win awards. Director Feng, Director Chen, are you afraid that there will be fewer people who are willing to invest?

They were able to shoot some good things, even if they had to take a detour. But there should be something good, too.

Regarding Director Zhang's request, Levi agreed. For him, it was effortless anyway. The release of literary films is simpler than commercial films, find a distribution company. Arrange dozens of screens, isn't that a simple thing?

And Director Zhang also said that he also found a few actors that Levi once mentioned that he wanted him to help find. They were given a simple English training, and the further development of the company depended on Levy's use.

to this list. Levy only glanced at a few of the names he was familiar with. There are some young actors such as Zhang Hanyu and Liu Ye, as well as some actresses such as Gao Yuanyuan.

It's just that although Levi recognizes these names, he also knows that there are really no domestic actors, in comparison, these are some actors who don't have too many opportunities in China. Compared with those who became famous early and now live a more comfortable life, they are open-minded and willing to come out and try to break through.

It's just that whether their English proficiency can pass the test and whether they can successfully pass here will have to be seen.

These things, anyway, don't be in a hurry. The novel of Three-Body Problem 2 has not yet been written, and it will take a while to become scripted, and the filming time of the blockbuster is time-consuming and laborious, no matter how you say it, it will take a year, so after calculation, there are still two years to use in it, and there is enough time for them to exercise.

Now, being able to find someone will make Levy satisfied. Here, the new TV series he was preparing was also ready to start filming, and Levy approached Jensen. As the leading actor of the movie, Zhang Guorong has no problems there, as long as the actors are selected here, they can start.

The actor found a handsome guy, and then chose a beautiful woman as the heroine, and found a few supporting roles at the same time, and then he could start filming the TV series. For Mystery Company, which now has a strong screenwriting team, it doesn't take much effort to produce such a youth-focused TV series.

It's just that Levy himself estimates that the ratings of this TV series will not be very high, in fact, it may be better to wait until the establishment of CW TV to show such a TV series in a place where the ratings of CW TV are generally low. However, Levy's solution is to contact WB TV first, put this TV series there, and wait until the future may be moved to CW TV to continue to survive.

Those things are all in the future. Levy's movie needs to be filmed later, so as long as the TV series survives and doesn't die, that's fine.

These things can be said to have taken up the vast majority of Levy's experience this summer. At the same time, the release of the Three-Body Problem movie was all handed over to the company.

And the box office of this movie is already almost crazy at this time. Although Levy didn't take care of him too much, it was still growing like crazy.

By July, when the Three-Body Problem had been painted on a large scale in North America, it had a total of more than 300 million box office figures in North America, and in the world, his box office figures exceeded 480 million, so it can be said that the final box office of this movie should be close to 800 million US dollars.

Compared with commercial films, this is also a big difference. Most of the literary films have a box office in their home country, but it is difficult to sell at the box office in a foreign country after leaving the environment of their home country.

And this box office also made his total box office worthy of entering the top 20 in the history of cinema at this time - ahead of it. In addition to the two Lord of the Rings, two Harry Potter, and one Spider-Man, there are also a number of classic works from the 90s, such as Titanic, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, The Lion King, Star Wars Prequel 1, etc. And on a par with him, only works like Star Wars and Alien ET will do.

These names before the 90s. Almost every one of them is a miracle of the times at that time. The appearance of each of them has caused a sensation. And now, there is almost one such movie a year, or even several a year, which is also extremely amazing.

Such box office figures are very satisfying.

"I can't believe that our film can make $800 million at the box office."

When it comes to this number, even the mystery company up and down. They all couldn't believe it. Investing 100 million yuan to shoot a commercial film is also a big challenge for Mystery Company, and the cost of shooting this movie also makes many people feel distressed. But now look at what he's getting. People always feel that the effort is worth it.

"If we make one of these movies a year, then we're going to make a lot of money......" Looking at the box office, Alexander couldn't help but feel lustful. But. Such an idea can only be just a thought. After all, The Matrix 2 did not have much praise from the media, which not only affected the box office revenue of this one. Even many fans who dragged down stopped watching the third part, which also reminded Alexander that such a movie is not so easy to make, and if one is not good, it is very likely to lose a lot.

Such a contrast between income and loss also made Alexander look a little unsure of what to do.

"Actually, this is also the reason why film technology has developed in the past two years, and there is nothing to be proud of. With such technology, we can't even enter the top ten in box office history, and we have failed enough. ”

For this matter, compared to others, Levy is more open-minded.

Levy is not proud of the so-called number one box office in history - there is inflation and the problem that movies are getting more and more expensive. Now you can rank more than a dozen in this box office history, maybe in ten years, you can't even squeeze into the top ten, you know this, why be so excited?

This kind of box office is not enough to be proud of, if a commercial film really wants to be impressive, it still has to have a higher box office.

Levy's words were soon validated as well.

It wasn't until July that people's enthusiasm for the Three-Body Problem and The Matrix 2 calmed down. Because in July, the popularity of the two new movies also surpassed these two movies.

Although the start of Pirates of the Caribbean was not as strong as those two films, the film immediately caused a craze from its release. Disney's first PG13 movie since its establishment, this gimmick is enough to make many people curious, not to mention, the shooting level of this movie is indeed amazing, and it is a great success of a movie without any novel prototype, which also shocked Hollywood again.

And at the end of July, another movie was released, which was even more powerful, surpassing all the previous films in one fell swoop. This movie, called Finding Nemo, may not have as many stars as those movies, but the magnificent world created by this cartoon has made this children's movie box office that has already targeted consumer groups, easily surpassing the previous movies.

"This year, there have been more than four films that have been able to break into the top 20 at the box office, and if it is not bad, at the end of the year, there will be two more such movies - The Lord of the Rings 3 and Harry Potter 3 can be said to have been booked in advance, which means that there are as many as six films that have grossed more than $700 million this year - such a year, it is really unthinkable in the past."

Within a year, six films could challenge the top 20 at the box office -- a figure that also shows the fact that Hollywood's time has come. (To be continued......)