Chapter 24: October
At the end of the Hundred Flowers Award ceremony, it will be the turn of the Golden Rooster Award.
If the Hundred Flowers Award is a film award for the audience, then the Golden Rooster Award is the most authoritative and professional film award in the domestic film industry.
Ni Ping is the host of the Golden Rooster Awards.
Zhang Yimou, who is well-known in the world, seems to be not worth mentioning in the eyes of these committee members.
The Best Story Award, the Best Director Award, and "Ambush on All Sides" all lost to "Beautiful Magic City".
Best Actor Liu Ye, "Beauty Grass".
Best Heroine Double Yolk Egg, Zhang Ziyi, "Jasmine Blossom", and the heroine of "Beautiful Magic City".
The best supporting actor is also from "Beautiful Magic City", and the female supporting role is vacant.
"What about the box office of 150 million, what does the jury think, just give the best art award?"
Even Zhu Yawen had questions, and the atmosphere was very embarrassing.
The crew of "Ambush on All Sides" was a little gloomy, but Director Zhang still symbolically applauded the winners, and "Mobile Phone" was wiped out.
The CEOs of private film companies don't have a lot of smiling faces, and they have to make commercial films if they want to make money, but the Golden Rooster Award obviously prefers literary films.
"If you look at the list of the jury, they are all 'artists' from the time of the film studio, and then calculate the average age, commercial films are deviant in their eyes......"
Lin Nan looked ahead and replied to Zhu Yawen while applauding.
"Won't that go wrong?"
"Yes, commercial films will occupy the mainstream with economic development, and finally force the film festival to pay attention to commercial films, because literary and artistic films cannot promote the development of the industry, and art also needs money to nourish it."
At the end of the awards party, the official still wanted to keep people to hold an art seminar to analyze and analyze the development of the industry, but almost all the private film companies left, and the big directors also used the excuse that they were very busy, and only those directors who were named in each unit and their own people remained.
Lin Nan also received an invitation, "I'm sorry, I have to rush back to class." ”
The news of the portal is straightforward, and the opening is:
"High-grossing commercial films fail Golden Rooster!"
"Feng Daojin's rooster has a black face throughout the whole process."
……
On the train back to Beijing, only Lin Nan and Zhu Yawen, the two women, flew with a fly.
"When I go back, I'm going to sign the company, and the last time the advertisement was a contract for the teacher to help me read."
"You're starting to take ads? Yes, how much? ”
Lin Nan was shocked by Zhu Yawen's words, he hadn't heard of it.
"Who do you want to sign it for?" Zhang Mu asked again.
Zhu Yawen nodded, "In the past few days of the film festival, I took the time to meet Wang Jinghua of Huayi. ”
Zhu Yawen didn't carry anyone on his back for a few days, and Lin Nan also guessed it.
"Since it's decided, let's sign it, you have to distinguish between signing it for her or signing it for Huayi."
Lin Nan told Zhu Yawen about this a few times.
"I know."
"I wish you a long journey."
Lin Nan said sincerely, anyway, his company really didn't think about signing actors, and when he signed, he had to spend energy to find resources and various things.
He's lazy and doesn't want to be pressured to bring people.
"The publicity of "Return to Youth" should be strengthened, and there will be more than a week to go back, we have to turn the axis continuously, and many interviews have been arranged over there, and Senior Sister Yan and Shu Zhan will also come over to join the publicity and get ready."
Lin Nan reminded Zhu Yawen not to miss the business because of the signing.
On the 21st, Lin Nan returned to school to say hello and left again.
took Zhu Yawen, Yan Danchen and Shu Zhan and a few young people to meet reporters one by one and enter the studio.
Light is rich in resources in this area, and Wang Changtian started in this area.
"Director Lin, how did you come up with the idea of writing this script in the first place?"
"Well, cranky. You know, sometimes people can't sleep and love to think about everything, so there is an idea, who doesn't want to return to youth? ”
Every day when he opens his eyes to reporters and closes his eyes on the microphone, Lin Nan needs to make up countless stories to meet all kinds of questions.
On the other hand, the same hot propaganda, "Ke Ke Xili" focuses on human nature, law, and life.
Huayi's publicity is not inferior to Lin Nan's side, because of the nature of the movie, it has received a lot of official media support, which Lin Nan has no complaints, this movie is worth it.
Zhang Dabeard's "Condor", which has been marketed for half a year, is finally about to start.
actor Huang Xiaoming plays Yang Guo, and Liu Yifei plays Xiaolongnu after Wang Yuyan, who completely benchmarks Hong Kong Island actor Li Ruotong, and has a very high topic for a while.
"The crew is about to start up, don't forget about the class visit."
Lin Nan walked away with her waist bent, Yan Danchen was being interviewed, she is the heroine of "Return to Youth", and this movie is the heroine movie.
"I can't forget, how about I visit your class at the end of October?"
Lin Nan whispered and ran to the backstage.
"Why do you speak in a weird voice, are you in class? Shouldn't you be running propaganda? ”
"In the studio, I ran backstage, and Senior Sister Danchen was interviewed." Lin Nan's voice was amplified.
"Okay, I wish you a big box office hit, if you still lie to me, I won't let you go, hang up."
"No, no, no." Lin Nan smiled and put the phone in his pocket.
"What is Director Lin laughing at, so happy?"
Yan Danchen ended the interview, and as soon as he arrived backstage, he saw Lin Nan's smile on his face.
"It's nothing, you can rest after today, let's see the results on the National Day No. 1."
Lin Nan rejected China Film's suggestion to hold a premiere, the investment is only so little, and it is not cost-effective to hold a premiere.
On the 30th, everyone didn't publicize it anymore, Lin Nan asked everyone to go their own way, it's not a few years later, they have to run the whole country for the box office results, and the more it is released, the more they have to run.
Counting Lin Nan, "Return to Youth" has four producers, and the publicity has always been very strong, as for the result, it will be handed over to the audience and providence.
The thirtieth is Thursday, Lin Nan went to class, and the teacher looked at Lin Nan in a trance, shouldn't he be staring at the movie at this time.
On the first day of National Day, "Return to Youth" and "Ke Ke Xili" were released at the same time, and other movies followed, the first two did the most publicity, and "New Police Story" has been released for a week.
Lin Nan was alone in the dormitory, and the two people who slept together only lived for two months when they were freshmen.
Lin Nan always believes that if you don't live in a college dormitory for a few years, your college career will be incomplete.
He sat in front of the computer, with a penguin, his mobile phone next to him, a portal on the screen, and all kinds of news were very complete.
The news that has just been brushed up, "Return to Youth" is very popular, and in contrast, "Ke Ke Xili" is really unpopular.
This is inevitable, there was no "Return to Youth" at the original time, and in the end, "Ke Ke Xili" only got a box office of more than 6 million.
At present, the main opponent of "Return to Youth" is "New Police Story", which will be released on September 24.
The penguins are flashing and the phone is vibrating.
Lin Nan didn't look at his phone, and chose to reply to the penguin, all of which were good auspicious words and blessings.
"Thank you, Miss Long, for taking the time to contribute to the box office ...... my movie."
"Hey, Mr. Wang, I haven't received it yet, it's at least until the early hours of the morning, wait."
Mr. Wang of the light called and was very polite.
It stands to reason that he wouldn't know when the box office would come out on the first day, and he called at four o'clock in the afternoon to talk about it, and his attitude was obvious, it meant closeness.
On the entertainment news side, there are theater photos taken by reporters.
The calls came in one by one, most of them were classmates they knew, and they all went to the theater to support Lin Nan.
"How did you come up with this kind of plot, it's really fascinating."
"Senior Sister Yan is so beautiful!"
In the 02-level group of the performance department, there are already people talking about "Return to Youth".
Although Lin Nan is now a student of the directing department, he is still in the group of the acting department, there are too few people in the directing department, there is no group, and Lin Nan usually communicates less with them.
His friends are mainly students from two schools.
At eleven o'clock in the evening, Lin Nan turned off his mobile phone, he wanted to have a good night's sleep and listen to the box office results tomorrow, otherwise he would lose sleep in the second half of the night.
No one knocked on the door in the morning, and Lin Nan was still a little uncomfortable.
Well, Zhu Yawen seems to have gone home, and he signed it to Wang Jinghua at the end of September.
Dress, wash your face and brush your teeth, and finally turn on the machine solemnly.
The text messages rang non-stop, all reminding of missed calls in the early hours of the morning.
As soon as I pressed the computer power button, the phone came in.
"Lin Nan, yesterday's box office was 9.23 million, this movie is going to explode, hahaha."
The phones of Zhongying, Shangying and Guangguang are all front and back, and Lin Nan listened to it three times at the box office on the first day.
"Yes, it must be done, just notify me when the time comes, can I be unhappy!"
Nine million, on the first day, it was considered 10 million, so can we look forward to 100 million?
Seven days of long vacation, nearly a month of release.
Lin Nan lay on the bed and giggled and tossed and turned.
"100 million, 100 million, you must go up......"
Yan Danchen called, and she could be heard smiling happily, her former classmates have become famous, this time it is her turn, she is still the heroine of the movie, the heroine.
"Senior sister, be reserved, I heard your laughter next door."
Lin Nan joked and was scolded.
On the second, third, and fourth, the box office of "Return to Youth" came to more than 57 million.
Media reports on Lin Nan began to increase dramatically.
"Young commercial film director!"
"As a screenwriter and director, he is talented......"
……
The film has only been released for four days, and the cost can be said to have been recovered.
Five days later, the box office came to 70 million, and at this time, "New Police Story" was already out of its strength, and it was still trying to grow at 30 million.
"Ke Ho Xili" had a box office of more than 2 million in five days, a bottomless loss, but both the industry and the audience were unanimously praised, but this could not save the box office.
At the end of the National Day, the box office has reached 86 million, Lin Nan knows that from the 8th, the box office will be broken, but he is already very satisfied, hundreds of millions are inevitable.
The box office of No. 8 is really discounted, four million, No. 9 is more than three million, and No. 10 is three million......
Since the eleventh, the box office of "Return to Youth" has been hovering around two million, and it did not fall below one million until the eighteenth.
China Film brought Koreans to Lin Nan, "Export is definitely a good thing, I absolutely support it, but the copyright fee may have to be talked about." ”
On the issue of exports, Lin Nan did not approve of selling it out, and China Film also agreed to be issued by the Korean company, and the final account was divided.
As for the copyright issue of the film remake, several producers have to negotiate together, and Lin Nan, as one of the producers, is also the screenwriter and director, and he accounts for the majority.