On April 5, 2004, Wang Shang received an invitation letter.

"Huaxia Academy Awards?"

"Yes, it looks like this year's Huaxia Academy Awards are about to be held."

At this time, Wang Shangcai remembered that when he was still in the United States in February, he received a phone call saying that "Death is Coming" was nominated for four awards: Best Actor, Best Visual Effects, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography.

Wang Shang took a look at the time, and the time of the event was from April 25 to April 27.

This Chinese Academy Awards, born out of the Hong Kong Film Awards, and at the same time learned some experience in the Oscars, and has become the most authoritative film award in China.

The Chinese film industry imitated the Oscars and convened the actors, directors, screenwriters, photographers, and producers of the entire Chinese film industry to unite to form the 'Huaxia Academy of Film Arts and Sciences'.

The first step in this award is for the nominated films to be nominated by the various departments of the Academy (by name).

The nomination will be announced in February.

In April, there will be a three-day awards ceremony, with screenings of the nominated films and a reception for all the filmmakers.

This is followed by a vote on the list of nominees to determine the final award winner, who votes for them is secret and not public, but they are all involved in the participation of some highly respected people, and ordinary people cannot enter.

Voting is also by secret ballot, and the votes are counted directly at the law firm to determine the winner, and then the results are placed in a safe to be kept by heavily armed security guards. It's extremely tight. As for those tickets, they will be destroyed immediately after they are counted.

On the last day, an awards ceremony will be held to officially announce the winners of all the awards.

And last year, although "Those Years" achieved a lot at the box office, only a little worse than "Infernal Affairs", but it did not enter the eyes of the 'academy', and only symbolically got a nomination for Best Actress, and after the awards, nothing was awarded. As for the biggest winner of last year's Academy Awards, it must be "Infernal Affairs". A total of eight awards were awarded.

"I don't know what kind of award this year's "Death Comes" will receive. The biggest enemy is still "Infernal Affairs 2". ”

"Wang Dong, what do you want?" At this time, General Manager Bi Han's words brought Wang Shang back to reality.

"Oh, it's nothing......" Wang Shang came back to his senses. He looked at Bihan. "What are you doing? So happy? Have good news for me? ”

Bi Han smiled a little from ear to ear: "Wang Dong." "The Grim Reaper is Coming" has been screened all over the world, and the global box office has been counted, look! ”

Wang Shang took it. After a quick glance, I finally fixed my eyes on the bold red number at the bottom - 2.03 billion yuan!

Wang Shang wiped his eyes, thinking that he had seen it wrong, how could there be so many? I can't believe it!

"Wang Dong, I thought I had miscalculated when I watched it just now, but I found someone to check it, and there was indeed no problem, it was indeed 2.03 billion yuan! It is definitely the highest-grossing movie in the history of Chinese films! Bi Han was already so excited that he couldn't hold back his emotions, and he even trembled a little when he spoke.

"Whew~~" Wang Shang was not much better, and hurriedly took a few deep breaths and calmed down. Although there was a prediction in the early morning, it was still difficult to hold on to such a large amount in front of us.

"Have you calculated how much our Heavenly King Studio can get in the end?"

"I just asked someone to calculate that after deducting the publicity costs, I can probably get a net profit of 330 million yuan."

"Okay, yes, with this 330 million, the studio's funds can finally be abundant, and there is no need to be stretched." Wang Shang thought of the consumption of the special effects group, whether it was all kinds of materials or various instruments, they needed to be imported abroad, and the price was extremely high.

When Wang Shang saw the money flow sheet consumed every day, he had an urge to strangle the special effects team to death!!

Yali Mountain is big!!

"This news is suppressed for the time being, so I won't announce it yet!" Wang Shang thought about it and instructed. The script of "Death is Coming 2" is almost complete, and when it is completed, we will announce the shooting plan together, and we will definitely get a bigger sensation!!

Who knows how long Wang Shang has been here, in the April 8 issue of "Yanjing Entertainment News", a huge headline appeared: ""Death is Coming" has achieved the highest box office of Chinese movies!" ”

""The Grim Reaper is Coming" will be released worldwide on March 31, according to global box office statistics, the global box office of "The Grim Reaper" is about 2 billion yuan!! Break the highest box office record of Chinese film and television! And its profit will reach 310 million yuan!! ”

As soon as the news came out, countless fans were boiling, and those filmmakers were eyed by it.

But after Wang Shang heard it, he was immediately depressed, and finally had to throw out the shooting plan of "Death 2" in advance: recruit directors and actors at the same time......

At this moment, most of the eyes of the entire entertainment industry are focused on "Death is Coming 2"!!

With the first part achieving such a high box office, the second part will definitely not be bad!

If you can become the director and actor of this movie, you can definitely add more brilliance to your director/acting career!!

At this moment, the phones in the Tianwang's office were all blown up, and the mailbox was filled with thousands of mails, as for the location of the Tianwang's studio, many people wandered around every day, hoping to win Wang Shang's favor, even if the chances were slim.

Just when this matter was in an uproar, Wang Shang had already completed the script writing of "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance".

Nonsensical and funny are the essence of this movie, and Wang Shang has not deleted any ......

After the script was written, the first thing was to form a crew and find actors, but the first thing Wang Shang did was to send an invitation to Zhou Xingchi, who is known as the king of comedy.

Zhou Xingchi is now a big name in the Chinese film industry, and the title of the king of comedy is well-deserved and expected.

"Can you please him? He's now a boss and a director at the same time. And there are still rumors in the entertainment industry that his temper is very domineering......"

Just last year, Wang Shang heard negative news about Stephen Chow: people in the circle who had friends with him accused him more, scolding him for being slamming, harsh, domineering, short-tempered, and scolding people on the set......

Wang Shang didn't dare to ask for such a person in his heart, and he was not sure whether Zhou Xingchi would agree to participate as a simple actor.

But this movie would be a pity without him......

……

Kowloon, Hong Kong.

In an office building, Zhou Xingchi's secretary Jiang Han routinely opened the boss's mailbox after lunch.

Suddenly, a very sensitive word caught her attention.

"Invitation from the Heavenly King's Studio?"

These days. Tianwang Studio can be said to be out of the limelight. How could she, who is in the entertainment industry, not know.

"Invite? Is it an invitation to "Death Is Coming 2"? Xing Ye is not good at making these horror movies? ”

With doubts, she quickly clicked on the email, which read: Mr. Zhou Xingchi, hello. I'm Wang Shang from Tianwang Studio. I would like to invite you to participate in a costume nonsensical funny movie......

"Wang Shang? It turned out to be an email sent by Wang Shang personally!! She was shocked. Quickly went through the entire email.

Soon Jiang Han printed out the content of the email and walked quickly to Zhou Xingchi's boss's office.

The next day, after Zhou Xingchi dealt with the company's urgent affairs. Just get on the plane and head to the magic capital. Ever since he received that email, he had been thinking about his own problems.

At present, in Huaxia, the title of the king of comedy has firmly fallen on his own head, but everyone's ** will never be satisfied, he wants more glory!!

So, he set his sights on a higher mountain - Hollywood!

And for Zhou Xingchi, Hollywood is the next peak in his film road that needs to be climbed. After boarding, you will be able to enjoy the attention of the whole world, and it is no longer limited to China!

But he has never been able to find a suitable way to storm Hollywood, and now, it seems that there is an opportunity in front of him that may succeed.

So he took the initiative to come to the magic capital and make an appointment with Wang Shang.

The two soon met in a clubhouse.

After Zhou Xingchi's politeness, the first sentence was: "I am optimistic about this movie, and I can also participate in this movie, but I hope to be able to get a promise from you!" ”

Wang Shang was stunned: "What a promise!" ”

"I want to hit Hollywood, but I haven't been able to find a way, I feel like you should have a way, so I need a commitment from you!" Zhou Xingchi's eyes were filled with a strong desire!!

Wang Shang couldn't help frowning, began to think about it, and finally said straight to the point: "To be honest, I have a lot of blockbuster plans in the future, specially prepared for impacting Hollywood, such as "Transformers", and the movie that is being designed now, and I will definitely invite Chinese superstars to participate when the time comes." ”

Wang Shang took a sip of tea and continued: "Now, I have begun to look for candidates for these movies, but I only thought of you, when I think of you, I think of nonsense, and then I found that there is no movie suitable for nonsensical actors in my film plan!" ”

Wang Shang's unabashed-free words made Zhou Xingchi feel slightly angry, but he didn't attack because he knew his shortcomings. Although he is known as the king of comedy, sometimes his advantages turn into disadvantages, and this title means that it is difficult for him to transform, because nonsense has gone deep into the bone marrow, and acting in other movies will feel awkward.

In the end, Wang Shang still failed to reach an agreement with Zhou Xingchi.

Because Zhou Xingchi put forward other conditions, in addition to the director's position, he also had to pay 30% dividends.

Wang Shang naturally refused, this was what Wang Shang wanted to direct himself, and the dividends were too high.

However, the business was not benevolent, and the two left amicably.

"Zhou Xingchi failed to recruit, so who should be found to play it?"

Wang Shang immediately thought of his actors......

Wang Shang instantly thought of "Love Apartment", isn't this a ready-made nonsensical comedy......

"Good! That's it!! ”。 (To be continued......)

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