In the eighties and nineties of the last century, due to the relatively developed economy of Hong Kong and the vigorous development of the entertainment industry, the Academy Awards became one of the most authoritative film awards in Asia. At that time, mainland film awards could only be the self-entertainment of mainland filmmakers, and not many people recognized it internationally.

However, after the mid-90s, with the outbreak of the financial crisis, Hong Kong's economy collapsed, while the mainland economy bucked the trend and soared to the sky. Soon, the situation of film awards came to a different position, and the major film awards in the mainland began to win their international prestige, becoming a decisive force in the world film industry, with more and more influence; The Hong Kong Academy Awards are in decline and increasingly marginalized.

Of course, the decline of the Xiangjiang Academy Awards is also related to its own positioning, because it focuses on taking care of Xiangjiang movies and only guards one acre and three points of land in Xiangjiang.

How big is Hong Kong?

Where the fart is a little bigger, it is still crippled, and it doesn't know how to forge ahead, and it deserves to be marginalized.

In recent years, the Hong Kong Film Awards have continued to reform and change its positioning to include films from more countries and regions, especially mainland films, in the hope of regaining its prestige. Unfortunately, this hope has become more and more extravagant, because in terms of scale, strength and influence, it is not comparable to the major awards in the mainland.

The change in this situation is reflected in the fact that the mainland people pay less and less attention to the Academy Awards, and many people only regard the Academy Awards as the old yellow calendar of the past.

For this reason, although the Xiaoao duo has many nominations at the Academy Awards, more people are concerned about how the Xiaoao duo will perform at the Cannes Film Festival, which will only be held in mid-May.

Stephen Zhao, as the screenwriter of Xiaoao's two-part series, was originally going to the scene, but the filming of "Source Code" was in full swing, and he couldn't get away, so he asked his secretary Lin Meijia to take him there.

Of course. There is also a reason why Stephen Zhao actually despises the Academy Awards.

Stephen Zhao did not publicly say this reason, but after the Academy Awards ceremony on April 20, many people in the outside world still saw through it at a glance, some people laughed it off, and some people gloated on the Internet: "Hehe, this is the Academy Awards." Xing Ye doesn't even bother to go! ”

Some people also expressed doubts: "Didn't the Academy Awards say that the director wants to be from Xiangjiang, and he must have Xiangjiang investment, and one-third of the crew is from Xiangjiang?" How can the two parts of Xiaoao also qualify for the shortlist? ”

Immediately, someone replied with a wicked taste: "It's not simple, please Xing Ye!" ”

Things on the Internet are boiling, and few people will take it seriously.

In real life, the reason why the Academy Awards made such a decision is because if mainland films are not included, the Academy Awards will die completely!

In the end, at the star-studded Academy Awards ceremony, Red Star Media won 7 awards with its two-part series. It is worth mentioning that compared to Cannes, the judges like the taste of "The Sunflower Book of Smiling Proud Rivers and Lakes". The Academy Awards judges obviously preferred "Smiling Proud Jianghu: The East is Undefeated", and gave the film 6 awards in a row, namely "Best Costume Styling", "Best Editing", "Best Art Direction", "Best Action Design", "Best Actress", and "Best Original Score". "The Sunflower Treasure Book of Smiling Proud Rivers and Lakes" only won one award, and won the "Best Original Song Award" with "A Laugh in the Sea".

Lin Meijia took the podium three times and received the three awards of "Best Art Direction", "Best Original Soundtrack" and "Best Original Song" on behalf of Stephen Zhao.

That night, the most dazzling actress was "Zhou Bing", this was the first time she won the Academy Awards, and she was in the limelight for a while!

On the second day though. Zhou Bing did not make headlines, but was made headlines by the absent Zhao Xingchi. The title is "Star Lord Disdains the Academy Awards".

As soon as this incident came out, Stephen Zhao didn't move, but the person in charge of the Academy Awards quickly stood up to refute the rumors, saying that the reason why Stephen Zhao didn't come was because he was too busy and had no other reason. The excitement of the mainland media and netizens immediately subsided after watching the lively three-minute event. A handful of Xiangjiang netizens persevered, and scolded the organizers of the Academy Awards for shamelessly kneeling and licking Stephen Zhao, and then shouted that Stephen Zhao was rough Xiangjiang.

Soon, this incident set off another scolding war, but in the end it was said by a handful of disgusting people. So within a day, the scolding war was over.

On the contrary, it was the fact that Zhou Bing did not make headlines that set off a bigger storm on the Internet, and countless netizens began to ridicule and spoof this matter, shouting "on the headlines", and even launched a hilarious netizen relay activity that made Zhou Bing make headlines.

In May, the filming of "Source Code" is getting faster and faster, and if nothing else, it can be filmed by the end of May, and then post-production will be completed in mid-June, and it will be released nationwide on July 7 as scheduled.

The publicity work is also carried out in an intense and orderly manner, with one or two stills breaking out from time to time, or revealing some filming tidbits, or interviews with the main creators, etc., always making the film "Source Code" appear in the audience's sight, deepen their impression, and arouse their appetite.

A fiery atmosphere, encompassing the magnificent momentum of Unai, was suddenly formed.

Gradually, even the people who are least optimistic about Stephen Zhao's filming of "Source Code" have to admit that Stephen Zhao's publicity work has done a good job, which has stimulated people's interest in watching the movie.

In mid-May, the Cannes Film Festival opened.

In order to avoid trouble, Stephen Zhao continued to stay in the crew of "Source Code", but sent Zhang Tianlin to represent him.

Sure enough, after his move came out, the Chinese people thought that it was not because he didn't go to the Academy Awards before because he was disdainful, he was really too busy. It is also for this reason that Chinese people are looking forward to the low-cost sci-fi film "Source Code" more and more, because this is the first time they have seen Stephen Zhao take a film so seriously.

"Do you think that Master Xing really attaches importance to "Source Code"?"

"It's not nonsense upstairs, this is the first time that Xing Ye has tried to shoot a science fiction film, can you not pay attention to it?"

"I didn't go to the Academy Awards, it can be said that Xing Ye disdains it, but he doesn't go to the Cannes Film Festival, which is enough to show that in Xing Ye's heart, "Source Code" is much more important than going to any film festival."

"The Sunflower Book of Smiling Proud Rivers and Lakes" was shortlisted for the main competition unit, but I didn't expect the star master to go, it's really a cow. Look at other stars in the entertainment industry, not to mention that their films are shortlisted for the main competition unit, even if they are shortlisted for other competition units that they have never heard of, they must have run over. The man poses POSS, the woman shows off her figure, and she keeps showing off! ”

"Don't be so direct upstairs, be careful that they hire a sailor to flood you!"

"Xing Ye has always been a maverick, he is a wonderful flower in the Chinese entertainment industry!"

"It's not strange, the main thing is that the star master is strong, and no one is still popular all over Asia. Among other celebrities, who can be popular all over Asia on their own? Not one! ”

"Jay Sun was eaten by you? He relied on his talent to become the king of Asian music! ”

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For the Xiaoao duo that participated in the Cannes Film Festival, almost all Chinese people know that going to the exhibition is just a formality and joining in the fun, and there is not much hope of winning the award.

The only films that can win awards at the Cannes Film Festival are literary films!

Is the Xiaoao two-part film a literary film? Obviously, no, these two martial arts movies are purely commercial films.

In fact, as people guessed, "The Sunflower Book" shortlisted for the main competition unit still failed to win a Palme d'Or after all. The actor, heroine, and even supporting actor and supporting actress have no share, and even "Zhou Bing", which is very popular with Asian audiences, only won a "special award", which is a consolation prize at all, which disappointed Zhou Bing, who had just become the queen of the Golden Elephant.

Zhang Tianlin, general manager of Red Star Film Investment Company, who came to Cannes instead of Stephen Zhao, was disappointed and felt a burst of joy, because many European filmmakers expressed their interest in Xiaoao's two-part series and hoped to cooperate.

"This is called the Lost East Corner Harvest Mulberry Elm!" Zhang Tianlin happily launched fierce cooperation negotiations with European film companies, and in the end, he successfully promoted the two parts of Xiaoao Jianghu to several major European box offices, first Gaul, then John, then Germania, and finally other small countries.

The cooperation between Chinese films and foreign film companies is actually the same as the domestic cooperation model, one is account sharing, and the other is buyout, which is very easy to understand.

According to Zhang Tianlin's idea, Xiaoao's two-part series should adopt a sell-out model in Europe, and a series of copyrights such as release copyrights, DVD copyrights, and network copyrights should be packaged and sold.

But Stephen Zhao quickly issued instructions to adopt the account sharing model!

Zhang Tianlin asked the reason, and Zhao Xingchi only said one sentence: "The company's hairstyle ability should cover every country and region in the world!" ”

Zhang Tianlin immediately understood, and then did so.

The proportion of account sharing is definitely much lower than when it was in China, and even the policies of some countries do not support Chinese films to enter the domestic market in the form of account sharing, so they have to sell all the copyrights to them.

May 25th, night, Beijing Bird's Nest Gymnasium.

"Ready, 1, 2, Eksh!"

With the shouting of director Zhao Xiaogang, the dragon sets began to enter the scene, the male lead actor Wu Chaofan and the female lead actor Zhao Ziyi looked intimate, and appeared side by side in the camera, the two faced the colorful and beautiful bird's nest under the light and praised it, and then naturally held hands together.

"Life is beautiful, isn't it?" Zhao Ziyi smiled softly.

"yes, just like it!" Wu Chaofan reached over and took Zhao Ziyi's hand, then pointed to the bird's nest in front of him and smiled slightly.

Then, the two looked at each other and smiled, and walked towards the bird's nest.

“cut！” Zhao Xiaogang shouted loudly.

Source Code is finally complete! (To be continued......)