Landing in Los Angeles, Chen Fei can even feel that the whole of Hollywood is shrouded in the heat of the upcoming release of "Avatar".

Fox is really ruthless, and he threw in 150 million US dollars just for the publicity and distribution costs, which is even enough for Marvel to shoot "Iron Man 3"!

At the same time, the entire North American theater chain is also ready to welcome "Avatar", and the 3D theater is spotlessly cleaned, just waiting to open the door to pick up customers.

Chen Fei did not return to the company immediately, and the movies launched by Walton Pictures had already made all the preparations before the release, and he didn't need to follow up on it.

He first went to DreamWorks to see the filming progress of "How to Train Your Dragon", and then chatted with Spielberg about his future vision for the animated film, and waited until the next day to return to the company.

"The Hunger Games" has already done some rough cuts, Chen Fei took over the job and began to help.

Taking advantage of his free time, he also deliberately paid attention to the post-production progress of "Super Body".

Kathleen Bigkoin has been busy promoting her film "Bomb Disposal Unit" recently, and this movie has to hit the Oscars, so she feels like she is busy with her feet not touching the ground!

…

At the same time, on the domestic side, the smoke of the Chinese New Year stalls has also been officially ignited!

Five movies in a row have formed a hot search trend that dominates the list!

The first is "Anti-Drug" co-produced by Emperor, Feiyue Film and Television, and Golden Harvest, directed by Chen Musheng and starring Gu Tianle, Zhang Jiahui, Liu Qingyun and others.

As a police movie, "Anti-Drug" focuses on brotherhood!

The film revolves around the sibling anti-narcotics policemen Ma Haotian, Zhang Ziwei and Su Jianqiu, and tells the story of Ma Haotian who was forced to give up Zhang Ziwei in an operation, which led to a rift in the relationship between brothers, but in the end Zhang Ziwei reconciled with Ma Haotian and Su Jianqiu, and defeated the story of the big drug lord Erawan Buddha together.

This film is also known as "the biggest battle of Hong Kong films in 30 years", and the luxurious cast of the film made the film a lot of popularity when it premiered at the Xiangjiang Asian Film Festival!

Followed by "Thorn Tomb" starring Jay Chou, Lin Zhiling, and Chen Daoming, the film tells the story of two groups with different purposes who go on a treasure hunt in a lost ancient city deep in the desert.

Obviously, this is another "fan-oriented" film.

At the same time, there is also a fantasy action-adventure film "Fengyun 2" directed by the Peng brothers (Peng Shuo, Peng Fa) and starring Guo Fucheng and Zheng Yijian.

This movie is based on Ma Rongcheng's best-selling comic "Fengyun", and it is also a sequel to the film "Fengyun Dominates the World" directed by Liu Weiqiang.

For many fans who love the "Fengyun" comics, the appearance of this movie has given them a lot of surprises.

In addition to the above three movies, there are two other favorable contenders for the No.1 box office of this year's Chinese New Year!

"Zodiac"

"Three Shots Surprise"

The former is starring international action superstar Chen Long and written by Chen Fei, telling the story of the Rogue Group led by the male protagonist JC, in order to obtain the high bonus offered by the international cultural relics sales group, to find the four lost bronze heads in the 12 zodiac signs of the Old Summer Palace, and finally was moved by overseas patriots, desperately protected the dragon head, and returned the found copper head to China.

Chen Long previously said in the promotion that "Zodiac" will be "his last life-fighting work", and the film will continue his signature action-comedy style.

And judging from some promotional clips released on the Internet, the quality of this movie will definitely not be any worse!

As for the latter, that is, "Three Shots Surprise", it is even more remarkable.

Zhang Yimou, who just won the title of god with the Olympic Games last year, personally directed it, and also led Xiao Shen Yang, Yadan, who became famous overnight in the 09 Spring Festival Gala, as well as Sun Honglei, Zhao Benshan, Yan Ni and other acting schools in the circle to create it, and the slogan shouted is to "refresh the box office record"!

That is, Chen Fei, Chen Kaige, and Feng Xiaogang did not participate, otherwise this year's Chinese New Year file would be much more interesting!

There has been no movement on Huayi's side this year, the series "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" has been temporarily suspended, Feng Xiaogang is currently studying the later stage of "The Great Earthquake", and he is busy with his feet not touching the ground, and he hasn't shown his head for a long time.

And Zhang Weiping has recently been on the back of his feet and frequently appears on major social media.

The invitation to the premiere of "Three Guns" was even more overwhelming by him, and there was a feeling of "there is no tiger on the mountain, and the monkey is the king"!

However, the smile on Zhang Weiping's face did not last long.

Because the competition for the Chinese New Year was just about to start, the domestic film magazine "Youth Film Handbook" suddenly announced that it would hold the first "Golden Broom Award" and announced the list of nominees in advance.

Just by the name, you can tell that this is definitely not a good award.

News soon spread in the circle, and some people familiar with the matter said that the "Golden Broom Award" is emulating Hollywood's "Golden Sour Plum Award" to satirize those films, directors, and actors with extremely poor quality.

Zhang Weiping didn't pay much attention to it at first, he still felt very good about himself, and he didn't think that this award would have anything to do with him.

But when the nomination for the first Golden Broom Award was announced, he was directly confused!

"Three Guns Shooting Surprise" topped the list, followed by the new movie "Thorn Tomb" starring Jay Chou, and the most unexpected thing is that Lu Chuan's "Nanjing!" has been released from theaters. Nanking! was even piggybacked.

After the list was announced, it was immediately criticized by many parties!

Zhang Weiping personally went out to open fire, expressing extreme dissatisfaction with the main programming of "Youth Film Handbook", asking him to quickly withdraw the list of nominees and publicly apologize.

And Jay Chou's fans also expressed strong dissatisfaction on Weibo, Tieba and other places, obviously the promotional video issued by "Thorn Tomb" is so good, why should you take a "broken broom"?

As for Lu Chuan, who suffered an unwarranted disaster, he was even more angry!

Originally, because of "Nanjing! Nanking! In this film, he has already been beaten at the airport, and now there is a "broken broom", isn't this horse a pure disgusting person?

"Filming will stop today, and I'll go back to Kyoto."

Lu Chuan directly stopped the filming of the crew of "The King's Feast", and he is not in the mood to continue filming now.

Everyone wants to poop on his head!

Where in the world is there such a truth?

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Because of a "broken broom", there is a lot of discussion in the industry.

However, at the same time, the promotional trailer of "Avatar" landed in the mainland, which directly dropped a bombshell on this chaotic film market!

In just a few minutes of promotional film, the domestic film market once again saw what is called a "Hollywood blockbuster"!

"It's... Is this a 3D epic? ”

Feng Xiaogang, who was doing the late stage of "The Great Earthquake", directly broke the defense.

He originally wanted to try to catch up with "Inception" and make a strong mark on the 3D market.

But now?

Everything is over, and in the face of "Avatar", he actually had the idea of powerless resistance for the first time.

Xu Ke even called Chen Fei directly, and the first thing he said was, "Director Chen, can you make this effect?" ”

"Absolutely."

Chen Fei is not proud of what he said, he holds the three major special effects companies of Industrial Light and Magic, Digital Field, and Dianjing Digital, plus he is also a loyal partner of Weta Digital, so it is naturally not a problem to make this effect.

There are some technical difficulties to overcome in terms of 3D cameras, and I heard that Cameron's team also developed a camera for filming, which is really upside down!

"That's... How much does that cost? Xu Ke asked tentatively.

"Don't think about it, I don't dare to toss now, this is not something that can be done casually, the capital investment is enough to hollow out several domestic companies, and I'm afraid it's not even enough."

Chen Fei's words directly dispelled Xu Ke's thoughts.

He has already taken over the work of "Dragon Gate Flying Armor", and he will devote himself to it after the filming of "Di Renjie", but the special effects are still a difficulty.

You must have enough money to invest in order to make a good special effects movie, which is a dead end that can never be avoided!

…

China Film announced the weekly box office of "New Mulan", and the box office performance of 30.55 million yuan is comparable to the investment cost.

Zhao Yanzi took the opportunity to market a wave, and said that she wanted to go overseas and sell copyrights......

Unfortunately, her operation did not make any big waves.

With Chen Fei's "Mulan" Zhuyu in front, she is an unpolished stubborn stone, revealing a cheap taste everywhere.

On December 5th, "Sweeping Drugs" was the first to be released.

The box office on the first day was 21.6369 million, 3164.66 on the next day, and 2724.40 on the third day, and the total box office in three days successfully exceeded 80 million, directly leading the coquettish of the Chinese New Year stalls!

Yang Shoucheng was already preparing for the celebration banquet, and Chen Fei promised that he would definitely be there to participate, and let him prepare good wine and good food.

At that time, by the way, you can also go to the crew of "Ip Man 3" to visit the class.

On December 9, "Thorn Tomb" was released.

The box office on the first day was 10.1 million, which exploded directly and shocked the jaws of a group of people.

At this moment, there were originally many singers who thought they had reached the top in the music industry and were ready to switch to the film industry.

It's not about making money, it's about going to the road, and the risk is a little bigger, right?

On this day, many singers dispelled their thoughts, and shouted in their hearts: "Hold your hand, don't go, let's not mix it up first!" ”

At the same time, Chen Fei received a call from Huo Qigang.

""Cold War" was officially released from theaters last night, with a cumulative box office of 260 million yuan, and the response was not bad, and fans have a particularly high sense of expectation for the sequel."

"What I want is high expectations, I will send you the script of the second part tomorrow, and we will promote "Cold War 2" next year."

"Okay."

Huo Qigang nodded, which coincided with Chen Fei's thoughts.

For this sequel to be effective, it is necessary to keep the popularity high, and it is naturally much better to be able to launch it continuously than to have too long an interval.

The release time of "Fengyun 2" is only one day different from "Thorn Tomb", which is scheduled for December 10.

This position is quite embarrassing, and the two brothers of the Peng family are even ready to explode, but they didn't expect the box office on the first day to be 750,000 higher than "Thorn Tomb", earning 10.85 million!

"So, the money of comic fans is actually better than the money of fans?"

The two brothers have already begun to ponder, should they continue to make another "Fengyun 3", and everyone will make a quick buck?

…

Although Chen Fei didn't have time to attend the premiere of "Three Guns", and he didn't have a good impression of Zhang Weiping, for the sake of Lao Mouzi's face, he still sent Su Guohai to go instead of him.

After returning from the premiere, Su Guohai was quite surprised and called Chen Fei.

"This movie may be Zhang Yimou's smallest commercial film, it is less than 30 million, and Zhao Jiaban almost didn't confiscate any high salary, that is, he took some labor fees symbolically......"

"In order to praise people, Lao Zhao is still quite courageous in this regard, and he can't accept this."

There has always been a saying in the circle, "After passing the Shanhaiguan, you will find Zhao Benshan", this is not a slip of the tongue, it is certified by Lao Zhao himself!

On the 11th, "Three Shots Surprise" officially landed in mainland theaters.

The headlines of major portals have been given new headlines.

"Zhang Yimou's new film! It's coming! The sword points to the box office record of domestic movies! ”

"The new work of the national teacher, three years to sharpen a sword..."

"On the day of return, when the gods are canonized..."

You don't have to guess to know that these press releases must have been bought by Zhang Weiping, and Zhang Yimou's thick eyebrows and big eyes would never be able to do this kind of bragging about himself.

On the 12th, China Film announced the first-day box office data of "Three Guns".

23 million!

This data just exceeds "Sweeping Drugs", which seems to indicate that the throne of this year's Chinese New Year file is about to belong to Zhang Yimou.

For four consecutive days, the box office successfully exceeded 100 million, and the trend seemed to be very good.

Even if he was in Hollywood, Chen Fei actually saw the congratulatory news from CCTV news.

However, whether it is a person or a work, you can't just look at the surface of this thing, you have to carefully study the core of it.

Chen Fei opened Douban.com, and then saw a very dazzling scene.

Rating: 4.3!

"Damn, sure enough, I didn't even reach the passing line!"

Although he had expected it before, Chen Fei was still a little surprised when he really saw the Douban score and the complaints and bad reviews of fans.

Sure enough, the greater the expectation, the more disappointment comes, it will inevitably lead to an irreparable ending!

"From an objective point of view, this movie really didn't shoot well, I feel very dramatic when I look weird, and the logic of the story seems to be messy, I can only say that Zhang Yimou and a few comedians have messed up!"

"I don't know why, I can't see Zhang Yimou's style at all, isn't this a sketch that has been extended?"

"Obviously, this work wants to metaphorize a lot of real problems and use historical themes to show this theme, but the story is full of loopholes, the plot can't stand scrutiny at all, and the actors are too pompous and ridiculous, in short, it's a movie that can't be appreciated......"

"Zhang Yimou, I... I'm so disappointed in you! ”

"Forget about this movie, I don't even know how to praise it, I heard that there are "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" and "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" later, I hope I won't be too disappointed......"

Although Chen Fei can't see Zhang Yimou now, it is not difficult for him to imagine that Lao Mouzi's mood must be very complicated.

From "Red Sorghum" to becoming a god, to "Hero" being famous overseas, and then "Three Guns Shooting Surprise" fell off the altar, the entanglement in this can definitely make people cry uncomfortably!

I heard before that when filming this drama, Zhang Yimou's voice in the crew was extremely low, and almost all of them were Zhang Wei's comments.

Now that the film is out, it is estimated that it is not far from this rumor......

"The one who pretends to be asleep can't wake up, he has to wake up by himself!"

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Chen Fei has attended the premiere since he came to Hollywood, if not 100, but it is the first time he has seen such a grand premiere as "Avatar"!

Looking around, none of the six major are absent, and big-name directors, superstars, and producers can be seen everywhere.

Unfortunately, Leonardo is not included in this.

Since the global total box office of "Inception" officially surpassed "Titanic", Xiao Lizi's salary has reached the top, and there is no room for growth in the future.

After changing his girlfriend again, he also felt bored.

More than half of the goals in life have been achieved, and now we are waiting for the "Oscar winner" to fill the remaining emptiness.

However, that little golden man just hasn't come for a long time!

"You... You're almost fatter than Bruce? Patting the suit that was held up high by the big belly, Chen Fei was inexplicably a little emotional.

I haven't seen him for a month, how can he gain so much weight?

"Almost, hehe, almost." Leonardo didn't care at all, for the sake of the little golden man, why not be fatter?

"Well, it's really fat."

Chen Fei sighed helplessly, and after comparing the image of the male protagonist of "Hunting" in the script library with the current Leonardo, he suddenly shook his head in disappointment.

No, the gap is too big! I have to find a suitable actor again!

Soon it was time for the guests to enter the session, and Liu Yifei, who was responding to the reporter's interview on the other side, trotted over and found Chen Fei.

Today, the two of them will walk the red carpet together, which should be to create a wave of momentum for "Super Body" in advance.

"Welcome......"

At the entrance of the venue, there were two rows of female staff members wearing blue avatar costumes and wearing avatar makeup.

When they saw Chen Fei and Liu Yifei walking on the red carpet, these female avatars bent down to thank them, and the fullness of a white flower was extremely conspicuous against the backdrop of the flash.

Chen Fei didn't squint, and walked into the venue with a smile, but he thought that it was indeed the plot in "Heart Flower Road".

"All I want is Avatar!"

This is not a hot spot, this is called a mutual tribute between the director and the director, and it will be regarded as a good story when it is passed on!

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