Chapter 209: Participating in the Golden Horse Awards
Since the day the Super New Art City was announced, "Cheng Pao" has become the mouthpiece of the Super New Art City, and it is normal to report on the New Art City from the front again with the help of "Bloody Heroes". {Fun + Reading} Novel
The fairness of "Ming Pao", the advocacy of "Oriental Daily", and the all-round coverage of the film itself and the actors of other newspapers were finally compared to the black of "Sing Tao Daily".
I have to say that "Sing Tao Daily" is very black this time, even if it is a super fan of Dark Horse International, they must admit that Ya Hei has a lot of truth. Although November does not belong to the traditional four major schedules, since the release of "Bloody Heroes", the box office has surged upward, which gives people the illusion. As reported by Sing Tao Daily, Christmas has arrived early.
The "Oriental Daily" reporter once had statistics that the fifteen theaters under the Dark Horse Cinema Line, if the venue is full, the box office will be about 2 million per day, and the box office of "Bloody Heroes" will exceed 5 million in three days, and the average attendance rate will exceed 80%.
More importantly, due to the distribution of theaters, many people believe that if there are a few more theaters under the Dark Horse Cinema Line, the box office of "Bloody Heroes" will be higher.
Such a good movie, it was actually released before Christmas...... the evaluation of "Sing Tao Daily" is correct, the film schedule of Dark Horse Cinema is really piggy!
No one expected such a hot box office, and many high-level executives of Dark Horse International, even Wu Yusen, Zhou Yanfa, and even Chen Ping'an did not expect it.
Chen Ping'an remembered that this movie in later generations was released in the summer of 89. Achieved a box office of more than 18 million. Considering that the ticket price in '89 was 2 or 30 percent higher than that in '86, the box office was about 15 million in '86. It's about fifteen million for the summer vacation!
So Chen Ping'an arranged this movie before Christmas, but the box office in the past few days has brought him too much shock. So much so that he held a special symposium, which was attended by the company's top management, directors, and screenwriters, and all the main actors of the film were invited to discuss the success of the film.
This has the nature of a tea party, everyone chatted very happily, and Wang Jing has a kind of sigh that both Shengyu and He Shengliang, last year's "The True Colors of Heroes" could not be surpassed, and this year's "Bloody Heroes" saw that the momentum was close to the annual box office champion, and wanted to rely on "Ghost Fighting Zombies" to win the annual box office champion. I guess it's no fun.
Everyone expressed their opinions, and some people continued to congratulate Wu Yusen, Zhou Runfa, Li Xiuxian, Ye Qianwen and others, and the happy atmosphere made Li Xiuxian feel a little emotional, not to mention the previous Shaw Brothers, even if the current Jiahe, Debao and Xinyi City, there has never been such an atmosphere of river crabs.
This kind of big discussion is still very useful, for directors and screenwriters to analyze successful films and express their opinions. In the end, I was able to analyze the success of the film, as well as the various selling elements. Although Wu's violent aesthetic cannot be replicated, these elements of reading can be incorporated into his own work.
Through everyone's analysis, Chen Ping'an also gained a lot. finally figured out why the same movie achieved better results than later generations.
Wu Yusen and Zhou Yunfa Tong guò "The True Colors of Heroes" and "The Sequel to the True Colors of Heroes" have established the image of film critic partners who are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. "The Sequel to the True Colors of Heroes" is thin and deficient in terms of plot, and "Bloody Heroes" makes up for this reading very well. Because the release of the two movies is relatively close. This contrast makes the audience even more sought after "Bloody Heroes".
Secondly, "The True Color of Heroes" set off hero films, shootouts, and gangster fever continued at the highest peak. The emergence of countless follow-up films over the past year or so is the best proof of this, and Zhou Yunfa has also taken over several follow-up films. Zhou Runfa's appeal in this type of film is very high.
In addition, Dark Horse International has established its own brand and erected its image of "all products are high-quality" in the hearts of the audience, which inadvertently promoted the box office.
There is also a very crucial first reading, that is, there is no decent opponent in the same schedule. is not like the later "Bloody Heroes", which was released in the summer vacation with tough opponents and took away a lot of box office. This is also an opportunity for the box office off-season, once the movie is very good and there are no competitors, the off-season can also produce results.
In the hot screening of "Bloody Heroes", the film industry ushered in the annual Taiwan Golden Horse Awards. In late November, the Golden Horse Awards ceremony of the first Taiwan Film Awards was held at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei.
In this year's Golden Horse Awards, several films submitted by Dark Horse International are basically art films. "Dao Ma Dan" directed by Xu Ke, "Underground Love" directed by Guan Jinpeng, "Favorite" directed by Zhang Yijia, and "Sequel to the True Colors of Heroes" directed by Wu Yusen.
The nominees for Best Feature Film are: "Terrorists" and "We All Grew Up Like This" produced by the film company, "Every Day and Seven Weeks" produced by Debao Company, "Tangshan Over Taiwan" produced by Taiwan Factory, "Dao Ma Dan" and "Favorite" produced by Dark Horse International.
Best Director nominees: Li Xing "Tangshan Over Taiwan", Zhang Yijia "Favorite", Xu Ke "Dao Ma Dan".
Best Actress nominees: Zhang Yijia "Favorite", Yang Huishan "My Love", Miao Qianren "Terrorist".
Best Supporting Actor nominees: Qin Pei "Every Day and Seven Weeks", Xu Jinjiang "Underground Love", Long Mingen "Public Dinner".
Best Supporting Actress nominees: Miao Qianren's "Favorite", Jiao Jiao's "Why Have Me", Jin Yanling's "Underground Love".
Best Original Screenplay Nominations: Ono "We All Grew Up Like This", Ono and Yang Dechang "Terrorists", Zhang Yijia "Favorite".
Best Cinematography Nominees: Ma Chucheng "Favorite", Zhou Yexing "Tangshan Over Taiwan", Bao Dexi "Underground Love".
Best Editing Nominations: Huang Minglin "Flying Antelope", Mai Zishan "Sequel to the True Colors of Heroes", Jiang Guoquan "Favorite".
Best Art Design Nominations: Zhang Shuping "Favorite", Zhang Shuping "Dream Man", Zou Zhiliang "Tangshan Over Taiwan".
Best Costume Styling Nominations: Zhang Shuping "Dream Man", Gu Ningyuan "Tangshan Over Taiwan", Ye Jinxi "Sword and Horse".
Best Film Interlude Nominations: Shi Chuyong "Tangshan Over Taiwan", Zhang Zishi "Father and Son Relationship", Li Zongsheng, Zhong Xiaoyang, Zhang Yijia "Favorite".
"Sword and Horse", which was released during the Chinese New Year this year, received three nominations. "Underground Love" released in the Chinese New Year file received two nominations, and "The Sequel to the True Colors of Heroes" released in the summer vacation file only received one nomination. However, director Zhang Yijia's "Favorite" was nominated and became the biggest dark horse of this year's Golden Horse Awards!
When this year's application brochure is out. Chen Ping'an and Zhong Chuhong starred in "Ghost Love", because the dialogue was in English, and was rejected from this year's Golden Horse Awards, which made many film companies happy. Before the registration brochure came out, many people were worried that this movie would be even more ferocious than last year's "True Colors of Heroes" and swept this year's Golden Horse Awards.
However, when the nominations were announced, industry insiders exclaimed again. Although the registration brochure blocked "People and Ghosts", "Favorite" directed by Zhang Yijia came out of the air and won the nomination in one fell swoop. One more than last year's "True Colors of Heroes...... It's really worthy of being a dark horse international, dark horses one after another, and they don't let people live!
Last year's Golden Horse Awards ceremony, Chen Ping'an did not attend in the United States, and this year's nomination has nothing to do with him, but he still came to Taiwan to attend the Golden Horse Awards. It is rumored that this is Chen Ping'an's overture to the Golden Horse Awards to make up for last year's rift, but the top management of Dark Horse International knows it. Chen Ping'an went to Taiwan entirely because of Zhang Yijia's persecution.
Zhang Yijia joined Dark Horse International because he was forced by Chen Ping'an to run Lianhai Pictures for him. As time passed, the earlier gap between the two had long since dissipated. Especially the rise of Dark Horse International and the change of ownership of New Art City, Zhang Yijia decided that it was a wise choice for him to join Dark Horse International. She also has a good relationship with Chen Ping'an, and has always been commensurate with her brother and sister.
"The Favorite" is the first film she made after joining Dark Horse International. On the day of the premiere, Chen Ping'an filmed "Autumn Fairy Tale" in the United States. did not attend the premiere, Zhang Yijia once complained to him on the phone. Say he doesn't value himself.
After the shortlist of the Golden Horse Awards came out this time, "Favorite" was nominated, and Zhang Yijia specially called him and asked him to come to Taiwan to participate in the Golden Horse Awards this year to cheer for "Favorite", which can be regarded as compensation for his absence from the premiere.
A handful of people, such as Mr. Wu, knew he had gone to Taiwan for another purpose, to visit Mr. Lin.
Before going to Taiwan, he hurried to shoot "A Chinese Ghost Story", the crew rushed to work for several days, and before leaving, he specially explained to the special effects studio, asking them to follow their own ideas and seize the time to make special effects.
The movie "A Chinese Ghost Story", if you want to make a breakthrough in the achievements of later generations, you have to rely on sophisticated special effects, at least grandma's big tongue can't be so rough.
The day before the Golden Horse Awards ceremony, Chen Ping'an, Xu Ke, Guan Jinpeng, Ye Jinxi, Bao Dexi, Dwarf Niu and others took a plane to Taiwan and met Debao and his party on the plane.
In this Golden Horse Awards, Debao has two films nominated, "Every Day and Seven Weeks" and "Dream Man". The latter film was mainly nominated for two individual awards by Zhang Shuping, while "Every Day of the Week" was nominated for heavyweight awards such as Best Supporting Actor and Best Feature Film.
Such a result is very good for Debao, which was officially established this year, didn't you see that the veteran film leader Golden Harvest didn't even get a nomination? As for Dark Horse International...... Pan Disheng directly ignored that he would always be a dark horse worthy of his name, so why should he compare himself with such a strange company and make himself anxious?
This time he went to Taiwan to attend the Golden Horse Awards ceremony, Pan Disheng personally led the team, Michelle Yeoh accompanied him, Hong Jinbao and Shum Jianxun stayed in Hong Kong to prepare for the upcoming Christmas schedule.
After the misunderstanding at the beginning of the year, the relationship between Dark Horse International and Debao became very harmonious, and the two films nominated by Debao this time, the male protagonists are invited by Zhou Yanfa, an artist under Dark Horse International, and Lin Qingxia, the heroine of "Dream Man", is also an artist under Dark Horse International.
When Hong Kong films land in Taiwan, they often change their titles for various reasons. For example, last year's "Mr. Zombie" was changed to "Temporarily Stop Breathing" in Taiwan, and this year's "Royal Meal" was also changed to "Public Dinner". Debao's "Seven Days a Day", which was called "The True Story of the Crazy Guy" when it was released in Hong Kong, tells the story of a social worker who is loyal to the cause of helping the mentally ill, and has achieved nearly 10 million box office in Hong Kong, and the results are not bad.
"Mr. Pan, what a coincidence!" Chen Ping'an's location is only separated from Pan Disheng and Yang Ziqiong's positions by an aisle. In order to facilitate chatting with Chen Ping'an, Pan Disheng deliberately changed positions with Michelle Yang, letting Michelle Yang sit by the window and sit by the aisle.
Pan Disheng was very personable, and said with a smile: "A'an, our two families are so familiar, and they are still shouting so rawly?" Do you want me to call you 'Mr. Chen'? ”
"Okay, Brother Pan."
Pan Disheng read the head with satisfaction, "That's right." A'an, your dark horse international is amazing, how many trophies are you going to take away this time? ”
"It depends on how many people are willing to give." Chen Ping'an smiled and waved his hand at Yang Ziqiong inside, "Sister-in-law is good." ”
Yang Ziqiong smiled back with a red face, and Pan Disheng said with a smile: "You kid is the boss of a big company, and he is not in shape yet." I ask you something, will your Dark Horse International move to Tseung Kwan O as a whole next year? ”
Many of the brands of clothing represented by Pan Disheng have opened stores in the World Trade Tower, and several of its brands are flagship stores. Since the Causeway Bay Conference Center was renamed the World Trade Tower, the passenger flow has increased significantly, in addition to the management of Ye Zhiming, the bigger reason is that Dark Horse International works here, and a large number of stars and directors come in and out every day, which stimulates the increase in passenger flow.
Pan Disheng needs to consider the impact of this incident on the World Trade Building, whether it will lead to a decline in customer flow, so as to decide whether it is necessary to open a store in the World Trade Building.
Chen Ping'an really thinks so. Except for Luo Dayou's record company, several other companies have all moved to the film and television base in Tseung Kwan O. Although Shi Nansheng, Zhang Guo, Jiang Zhiqiang and Ye Zhiming are each in charge of a company, these companies often overlap and are not so detailed.
At present, the companies are operating well, and Chen Ping'an is too lazy to score too carefully, so he simply moves over together, and it is convenient to discuss anything.
It's too chaotic to run like this. Pan Disheng wanted to remind Chen Ping'an, but in the end he just smiled: "Then I wish your company to make persistent efforts and achieve better results next year." ”
When the plane arrived in Taiwan, Zhang Yijia and Li Zongsheng brought people to pick up the plane outside the airport, watching more than a dozen luxury cars carrying dark horse international people away, Yang Ziqiong sighed: "I didn't expect him to have so many industries in Taiwan." ”
What's the use of more? Sooner or later, management chaos will go wrong. Pan Disheng said secretly in his heart, when problems arise in the future, I will remind him one more sentence and make this favor solid. (To be continued......) R640