Domestic media published the box office of "Red Cliff Down" in the first week.

It's pitiful, only 55 million!

Compared with the previous one, this data is simply worse than the previous one, which makes Wu Yu want to cry, and the decline in word-of-mouth is directly reflected in the weakness of the box office.

"How is this all there is?"

Wu Yu took the newspaper and looked left and right, always feeling unreal.

Even if there were some flaws in the previous part, it finally got 300 million, and this one has a lot of big scenes, no matter how bad it is, there should be more than 200 million!

But now?

Looking at this data, at most a little more than 100 million is considered good!

"Alas!"

Sighing, Wu Yu began to think hard about how to deal with it, can't just let the box office remain soft, right?

"Jingle bell!"

The phone rang suddenly, he picked it up and took a look, only to see that Han Sanping's name was marked on the caller ID.

Damn it! It can't be that the teacher is here to ask for sin, right?

He frowned and pressed the connect button, but listening to the voice over there, he felt stunned in his heart, and the expression on his face was extremely "wonderful"!

"Slumdog Millionaire" won the prize!

Even "The Undertaker" won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film!

Hanging up the phone, an ominous premonition suddenly welled up in his heart, "Damn, you don't really want to donate all the director's fees, right?" Can this kid really win an Oscar? Impossible, right? ”

He felt more and more that something was wrong.

Domestic media are scrambling to report on it, and the same is true abroad.

However, compared with the praise in China, many people in Hollywood are questioning whether such a young Golden Globe Award for Best Director is a bit too much of a hype?

It wasn't until three days later that the Oscar shortlist was announced.

"Slumdog Millionaire" appeared on the Oscar shortlist with a total of ten nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Original Song, Best Sound Editing, Best Art Direction, Best Soundtrack, and a total of ten nominations!

For a time, the Hollywood media was all boiling!

This horse seems to be the rhythm of winning the prize?

Some media interviewed the Oscar jury and asked them if they were a little unworthy of the name, and whether this "Slumdog Millionaire" deserved such glory?

However, the judges were very direct, saying that this was a decision after many parties, and it was a decision that was approved by many people.

In other words, Chen Fei and "Slumdog Millionaire" are worthy of such results!

After the news was transmitted back to China, it immediately attracted greater attention!

"? Director Chen is going to win the Oscar? ”

"Wow! Ooh! Ooh! Awesome! It's awesome! ”

"He's only 24 years old, Oscar is doing this, will there be a suspicion of killing?"

"Don't make a fuss, have you ever seen anyone who won a golden bear and a golden palm at the age of 24? Director Chen is worth it! ”

"Okay, let's not talk about it, I must pay attention to this Oscar all the way and witness Director Chen's moment of becoming a god!"

One congratulatory call after another came to Chen Fei's side.

Ning Hao has already gone to Berlin and is in contact with filmmakers from various countries, but after the Oscar shortlist was announced, he still called excitedly.

""The Undertaker" has been shortlisted for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film?!"

"Yes, when the time comes, after the trip to Berlin, let's fly to Los Angeles again."

"Why do I feel like I'm dreaming?"

"This dream doesn't end there."

Chen Fei pointed out, his eyes flashed slightly, he wants to win the Oscar, and he also wants to win the Berlin award!

Chen Long also called, first congratulated him, and then said his true purpose, "The "Myth" TV series is about to start filming, do you want to come and play?" ”

Mythology?

After being stunned for a moment, Chen Fei suddenly reacted.

"Are you an investor in this show?"

"Well, it's still the director's system."

It was still very early for the release of "Zodiac", and Chen Long had nothing to do, so he simply started the filming of "Myth" in advance.

After the filming of this drama is completed, the movie will almost be online.

"If I have time, I can go shopping."

"Myth" will start filming in Hengdian, and there are still many crews that have invested in Feiyue Film and Television there, so you can go shopping when you visit the class.

Su Guohai has already determined the filming plan, they are ready to shoot "The Legend of Zhen Huan" first, and they are currently choosing a suitable director.

This drama will definitely have to go to Hengdian at that time, maybe Chen Fei will have to participate in it.

As for the film and television city plan in the Sichuan-Chongqing area, it has been put on hold, and this plan is completely over, and no one will mention it in the future.

"Then I'll leave a role for you!"

Chen Long couldn't help but say it, and directly made a conclusion.

I just hung up the phone here, and someone called in again.

Chen Fei picked up a few more, but he was annoyed, so he simply turned off the phone, ignoring the people behind him.

Just a few words back and forth, it doesn't make much sense.

"Boss, boxofficemojo has released data on North American share for 2008."

The female secretary pushed the door and walked in and put a new newspaper in front of Chen Fei.

"Oh? How many can we occupy? ”

He asked curiously, picking up the newspaper and glancing at it.

"Third!" The female secretary replied softly.

In 08, Walton Pictures actually didn't have any outstanding performance, Marvel has been filming and has not launched a new series of movies, and Walton Pictures only has three movies on the side of "Twilight", "Kung Fu Panda", and "Slumdog Millionaire", and then the rest is the low-budget horror film "Insidious 2".

But just like that, all four movies can be ranked in the top three, which makes Chen Fei a little surprised.

"That's what other Hollywood studios do?"

He muttered as he looked up from below.

Last in the field is Universal Pictures with "Hellboy 2" and "The Mummy 3", followed by Twentieth Century Fox with "Houghton and Anonymous" and then Disney with "The Chronicles of Narnia 2" and "Lightning Dogs".

Columbia Pictures is still quite good, shining with "Superman Hancock" and "007: Project Quantum Break".

However, the most awesome thing this year is Warner Bros., which won the jackpot with the annual box office champion "The Dark Knight", which can be regarded as a hearty turnaround!

"Not bad."

Chen Fei nodded with satisfaction.

He is already looking forward to next year, and when Marvel comes to a big outbreak, he doesn't know if the other six Hollywood players will be taken aback.

Ready for the pain of being dominated by Marvel?

“Fei！ Great news! ”

The office door was suddenly pushed open, and Natasha walked in briskly with a newspaper on her face, full of surprise and disbelief.

"Huh? What? ”

Chen Fei looked up at her curiously.

"Look at this report, I didn't expect him to support us!"

Taking the newspaper, Chen Fei looked at a report on it.

This is a report about Okuroko, who opened his thanks after he took the position, and began to thank all the gold lords who supported him from various channels.

As for Chen Fei's gratitude, he used a way of lateral support.

For the movie "Slumdog Millionaire", he expressed his strong approval, and said in front of the media that he liked the movie very much, and even wrote a long film review of the movie, which expressed his governing policy after taking office.

Through the movie, he expressed his purpose of paying attention to the bottom and showed that he would contribute to the people of the United States.

As soon as he did this, the people who supported him naturally recognized it vigorously, and even with "Slumdog Millionaire", it also became a big hit!

Not only did the box office data usher in a wave of skyrocketing again, but the call for winning awards also became much higher.

"Hey? This black dude is kind of interesting. ”

Chen Fei smiled slightly, and the name of the JPMorgan Chase consortium subconsciously appeared in his mind.

This is probably the goodwill of many bets.

In the past few years since Okuroko took the position, he can also go more smoothly in Hollywood.

This film review not only became popular on Lao Mei's side, but even caused a lot of heat in China.

Not only major film and television companies, directors, and actors are discussing, but even some freshmen are also discussing.

On the Nortel campus, the freshmen who had already checked their results were whispering while visiting the campus.

"Mengying, is this Director Chen? So handsome! ”

In front of the alumni wall, Wu Jinyan pointed to Chen Fei's photo and exclaimed quietly.

Hearing this, Huang Mengying moved her gaze from Zhang Yimou's photo, and after glancing at Chen Fei's photo, she unconsciously fixed her gaze on the resume marked below.

This resume is updated in real time, and you can even see the words "Golden Globe Award for Best Director" still flashing with a faint golden glow.

"Talented men are the most handsome!"

She whispered, and couldn't help but feel a little yearning in her heart.

The reason why she applied for Nortel was because she was influenced by Chen Fei and hoped to see her idol in school!

The two girls were chatting in a whisper, when they heard another voice next to them, "Director Chen is really good, and the movies he makes can make the president of the United States like it, and he also wrote a long film review for him, which is unique in the world." ”

The two girls were attracted by the voice.

"Huh? Isn't this the child star Tinker Bell? ”

"Who are those two boys next to him? So handsome! ”

The focus of the two is obviously not on the same channel.

Men, they always like to talk about politics and celebrities together, so after hearing Tinker Bell's voice, Zhang Yunlong and Liu Binlin glanced at each other and nodded in agreement.

"When it comes to international influence, among our domestic directors, Director Chen is definitely No.1!"

"That's right, even Director Li is not as good as him."

More and more people gathered in front of the alumni wall, and Li Meng and Li Chun were two of them.

Although the age of the two girls is a lot different, because they are in the same group during the exam, they are familiar with each other.

Listening to the discussion of their future classmates, the two glanced at each other and couldn't help but yearn for it.

"I heard that Director Chen also has a brokerage company, and I don't know if it's still recruiting, if only I could join in, maybe I can go to Hollywood to film!"

"It is estimated that it is difficult, I heard that Director Chen's queen heroine is Liu Yifei, how can we compare?"

A group of people chatted and looked forward to the future.

Nortel's popularity has stabilized Chinese drama in recent years, and there are more and more people who want to be stars, but the number of people who want to be actors continues to decline every year.

And to be able to be admitted to Nortel, and that is the child of an ordinary family?

Even before the official enrollment, the involution has already begun!

…

The news of the Oscar nomination did not make Chen Fei's busyness weaken, but he was even busier.

During the day, I had to cooperate with the special effects company to edit "Inception", and I had to pay attention to the preliminary preparations for "Kung Fu Panda 2", and even had to cooperate with "Fast and Furious 4" to do some pre-release publicity!

And in the evening, there are all kinds of parties, and I am so busy that my feet do not touch the ground!

However, Jiang Wen's arrival broke this busyness.

"Director Chen, hurry up, give me a staff look at this notebook."

"Hey? You flew here on purpose? Chen Fei looked at him in surprise, he didn't expect to see him in Los Angeles.

"That's not it, your sister-in-law and I came here for a vacation, and I came to you for a walk."

As they spoke, they sat down facing each other.

Chen Fei promised Jiang Wen before that he would definitely support him when he made commercial films, and even gave him a cameo.

No, Lao Jiang went straight to him as soon as he came to Los Angeles!

"Burning Clouds?"

Chen Fei looked at the book, the more he looked at it, the more excited he became, it was still that familiar smell, this script could be filmed by Jiang Wen, and others couldn't shoot that smell at all.

"Yang Dong is willing to give me face, he invested 100 million in me, I am ready to expand the investment to 200 million, and when the time comes, we will divide it into two, what do you think?"

"Okay, one person and half of it."

It's only 50 million yuan, which is a small investment for Chen Fei now, and it's not worth mentioning at all.

"Okay, you've done my brother a great favor!"

Jiang Wen was suddenly happy in his heart, he originally thought that Chen Fei would be able to support twenty or thirty million in the end, but he didn't expect that it would be fifty million as soon as he made a move.

To be honest, the first time he made this kind of commercial film, he was already quite bottomless, otherwise it would be impossible to talk to Chen Fei about it again and again.

When it comes to making commercial films, China still has to watch Chen Fei!

After reading the script, Chen Fei said bluntly: "Your name is not good, it sounds like a literary film, nothing new." ”

"What do you say? Brother, I listen to you! Jiang Wen looked very aggressive, he really listened to persuasion.

"It's called..."Chen Fei took a pen from the table, gently circled it somewhere in the script, and said, "Let the Bullets Fly, how about it?" ”

"Let the bullets fly?"

Jiang Wen chewed on these four words softly, and finally slammed the table.

"Okay! That's it! ”

The two then chatted for a while about some of the content of the script, and the lines and some scenes in it couldn't be broadcast at a glance, and Chen Fei also pointed it out to him directly.

At the end of the conversation, Jiang Wen's brows were slightly furrowed, full of reluctance.

"Delete them all?"

"It's okay if you don't delete it, you have to change it, you're too bold, it's very likely that it will be banned after a period of time."

"Okay..."

Jiang Wen sighed, a little helpless.

He really listened to it, after all, the days when he was sealed were too painful, and he was actually afraid of being banned again.

Zhou Yun also came in the evening, and just had free time, Chen Fei simply went to have a meal with the couple.

"Aren't you going to get a girlfriend? Do you want Sister Zhou to introduce you to one? ”

Lao Jiang is a big mouth, and he even cares about his life's events!

Zhou Yun covered her mouth and smiled, it was rare, she almost didn't hear the scandal of Chen Fei in the circle, which is really rare for the group of directors.

After taking a bite of pasta, Chen Fei shrugged his shoulders and said, "Forget it, start your career first, and love is not in a hurry." ”

Jiang Wen: "......"

Still in business?

If you do it again, you will be invincible in the world!

Seeing off Jiang Wen and his wife, Chen Fei fell into busyness again.

Chinese New Year's Eve is approaching, and he plans to finish his work before the age of 30, and then leave the rest of the work to the special effects company.

However, before that, he still has to attend the finale banquet of "Twilight 3: Lunar Eclipse".

Old man Woody Allen is still quite awesome, although he is old, but the speed of making movies is quite fast, and the third part has been finished by him.

It's just that the post-production is very troublesome, and the old man doesn't know enough about the production techniques of special effects, so the progress in this area has been relatively slow.

When he saw Christine again, Chen Fei obviously felt that she had changed a little.

"Fei, I'm in love!"

"Huh?"

Chen Fei was stunned and looked at her in surprise, "Who?" ”

"Her name is Janet Bedman, I'll introduce you to you when I have time, she's very cute, and she has big sparkling eyes."

Well, this girl really got a girlfriend...

"Bless you."

Chen Fei's eyes were very complicated, he watched Christine bend, this feeling was really amazing enough.

The end of the finale banquet in the twilight area is over, and the end of the year is even closer, especially when he went to Chinatown with Bruce to buy small pills, Chen Fei even saw that the shops here were already pasted with Spring Festival couplets.

"I love Chinatown! It's here that gives me confidence! ”

Bruce held the little pill in his arms, thinking about his gradually recovering nightlife time, which was called a satisfaction.

"Cut, that's all you have." Chen Fei glanced at him with disdain, very disdainful.

Isn't it just that it's been increased from three minutes to eight minutes, and what's there to brag about?

If you follow Bruce's time, he can even go 15 times a night!

After leaving Chinatown, Chen Fei flew to New York again to pay attention to the progress of Marvel's work.

Kevin Feige accompanied him on a tour of the post-production center.

"Iron Man was the slowest in production, followed by Thor, and finally Captain America, and the first two had a lot of special effects shots that took a lot of time......

"Okay, don't rush, take your time."

Chen Fei took a brief look at some of the clips that had been done so far, but there were not too many deviations from the memory, and even more coordinated than the original in some details, which made him very satisfied.

After leaving Marvel Studios, he went to Marvel Entertainment.

The second season of "Game of Thrones" has started filming, and the preparations for "Spartacus" are also coming to an end, and it can officially start filming when the actors are in place.

Isaac Perlmutter found three directors for the latter, namely Michael Horst, Rick Jacobson, and T.J. Scott, all of whom are famous American drama directors in Hollywood.

"Fei, we're going to make this series well."

Facing Chen Fei, the three of them showed quite respect.

After telling some details, Chen Fei left the Marvel Entertainment Building and walked towards a café near the company.

There are already people waiting for him here.

"Ilona, long time no see."

“Boss！ oh！ No, private meeting, I should call you... Fei？ ”

"If you like it."

Chen Fei sat down at the dining table and looked at the curvy Ilona Berglova in front of him, only feeling that it was very unreal.

Who would have thought that the head of the finance department of his company would be the granddaughter of the biggest real estate tycoon on Lao Mei's side!

Could this be the legend... Story into reality? The second generation to experience life?

(End of chapter)