Zhang Manyu originally had nothing to do with Zhou Yan, so she was naturally generous and held Wang Zuxian's arm.

"There has been no public response because the news is so boring."

"We're all very good friends in private, and I still hope you don't scribble."

"Let's pay more attention to movies."

Fortunately, there are more well-known actors who came today, and the reporters here just asked a few questions, and Zhang Guorong arrived on the other side, and the reporters ran over to interview Zhang Guorong again.

The current Xiangjiang Academy Awards do not have a fixed red carpet photo session like later generations, and some people maintain order, but the order is not particularly good, and the scene is still relatively chaotic.

These reporters are like guerrillas, interviewing an actor when they catch him.

Zhou Yan and the others saw that the reporters were looking for Zhang Guorong and other big-name stars, so they entered the venue hand in hand.

Once you found your seat, you had to wait for a long time.

I don't know if the organizer deliberately arranged the seats for the three of them together, and Zhou Yan was still in the middle, with a feeling of hugging left and right.

The key point is that the seats in the hall are very small, basically shoulder to shoulder, which is really crowded, and there are no armrests for the chairs, so there is no place to put your hands.

And Zhang Manyu is wearing a particularly bold dress today, a dress with a skirt to the middle of the thigh, which is nothing, mainly because her skirt is translucent, and the black underwear inside can be seen clearly.

Even compared with other female stars present, this dress is bold enough.

Fortunately, she is a pair of A's, which is not too eye-catching.

The times are different, everyone is still dressed differently, and at the awards ceremony in later generations, the actresses wore less than the other, and each of them was an evening dress.

It's not like now, you can wear everything.

Like Wang Zuxian, he wore a very casual gray suit.

Just now, Zhou Yan also saw the popular Yuan Yuyi for Best Actress, wearing a white T-shirt.

Wang Zuxian tilted his head sideways and asked Zhang Manyu, "Maggie, when will you come to power?" ”

"I don't know the specific time, it should be relatively late."

Zhang Manyu wants to go up to present the award, and it is the best actor.

Best Actor is the most watched award at the Academy Awards every year in addition to Best Film and Best Director, and even for most ordinary audiences, Best Actor is more important than Best Film and Best Director.

In fact, most audiences don't care which movie wins the best movie, they pay more attention to whether their favorite actor can win the actor or actress.

Usually after dinner, if you talk about which movie has won the best movie, many people may not know you, but if you want to say which actor has won the best actor or actress, many people can tell.

"Who are you most optimistic about this year's Best Actor?" Wang Zuxian gossiped.

Zhang Manyu leaned her head towards Wang Zuxian and whispered, "Of course I'm optimistic about Liu Qingyun, he has two nominations." ”

Wang Zuxian nodded in approval, "Yes, this year's "New Love" is a big hit. ”

This year's actor is indeed Liu Qingyun, the best actor has been shortlisted for a total of five roles, Liu Qingyun has accounted for two pits with the two movies "New Love" and "July 14", purely according to the probability, the probability of him winning the best actor is two out of five.

In addition to Liu Qingyun, it is Huang Qiusheng, Wu Xingguo and Jackie Chan.

Wu Xingguo is the least likely, and Jackie Chan and Huang Qiusheng are not as advantageous as Liu Qingyun.

But the award is not a thing that says whoever is popular can get it.

Zhou Yan didn't know much about this Academy Awards, but he knew that Huang Qiusheng did win the actor with "Barbecued Pork Bun", and he got it, which means that Liu Qingyun didn't get it.

After Wang Zuxian and Zhang Manyu started talking, the discussion couldn't stop, but they couldn't gossip too loudly, so they leaned their heads close to each other and discussed in a low voice.

Zhou Yan sat between them, and could only sit up straight and give up the position of his chest to them.

The two chatted for a while, and Zhang Guorong came in.

Zhang Guorong's seat was in front of Zhou Yan and them, and when he was looking for a seat, he raised his hand to greet Zhou Yan when he was still some distance away.

"Zhou Yan, you're here too."

Hearing Zhang Guorong's voice, Wang Zuxian and Zhang Manyu raised their heads and sat back.

At this time, Zhang Guorong also saw that it was Wang Zuxian and Zhang Manyu who bowed his head and chatted, and greeted the two of them again, "Maggie, Xiaoxian, you have also arrived." ”

Zhang Manyu said, "We were ahead of you just now. ”

"Oh, I didn't see it." Zhang Guorong sat in his place, then turned around and grabbed the back of his chair, "Zhou Yan, how long have you been in Xiangjiang this time, you have time to have a meal together, we haven't seen each other for a long time." ”

Although "Farewell My Concubine" has been filmed for a long time, Zhang Guorong still speaks Mandarin very well, but there is a problem that he may have seen Zhou Yan, so he said Mandarin deliberately with a Beijing accent.

He probably thought it was nothing, but it sounded quite strange to Zhou Yan. But hearing that Zhang Guorong was willing to speak Mandarin, Zhou Yan felt very good.

In fact, Zhang Guorong still minds that "Farewell My Concubine" did not use his original voice, and he has said this several times before.

But there is no way, Xiangjiang actor, it is very good to be able to speak Mandarin to the point of Zhang Guorong, or just like Qin Pei, who has lived in the mainland since he was a child, and his natural language foundation is good.

In addition, Zhang Guorong has just taken over Chen Kaige's new movie "Fengyue" recently, so he is also consciously practicing his Mandarin during this time.

Faced with Zhang Guorong's invitation, Zhou Yan shook his head with a smile, "I'm afraid it won't work this time, I have an event tomorrow, and I will return to Yanjing the day after tomorrow." ”

"That's a pity." Then Zhang Guorong said with a smile, "But it doesn't matter, I'm going to the mainland in a while, and we'll meet in the mainland when the time comes." ”

Zhang Manyu asked curiously, "What are you doing in the mainland?" ”

"Go filming, a new movie directed by Kaige." Zhan Guorong explained, looked at Zhou Yan and said, "It's a pity, I heard Director Kaige say that he originally asked you to score his new movie, but you don't have time, otherwise, we can work together again." ”

Zhou Yan didn't expect Chen Kaige to tell Zhang Guorong about this, in Zhou Yan's eyes, according to Chen Kaige's character, he shouldn't have said that he hadn't invited Zhou Yan, after all, it was quite embarrassing.

And it's not just that he is embarrassed, he should also consider Zhao Jiping's face, after all, Zhou Yan didn't answer before he went to Zhao Jiping, and it was a bit unpleasant to say it.

Although Zhao Jiping will most likely not care about this, Chen Kaige should take it into account.

"It's really not a coincidence, I wish you all a smooth filming of this drama."

"It will definitely go well, this time it is Director Chen Kaige and his brother who are joining forces." Wang Zuxian said.

"Farewell My Concubine" has been too strong this year, so as soon as everyone heard that Chen Kai cooperated with Zhang Guorong, they felt stable.

For new movies, Zhang Guorong himself is also very confident, after working with Chen Kaige once, he is now very persistent in this kind of literary films.

Now many movies are looking for him, but he can't watch it, and even said in public that some of the movies he has made before are not movies.

didn't win Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, which also made him angry.

A few people chatted for a while, and there were more and more people in the museum.

Coincidentally, the people sitting around Zhou Yan are basically known to him, and the position on Zhang Manyu's left is Liang Jiahui's.

There is also Anita Mui, who is sitting diagonally opposite Zhou Yan, and such a seating arrangement is probably specially arranged by the organizers.

There are also some unfamiliar ones, Wu Jiali on the right of Wang Zuxian, and Liu Qingyun behind Zhou Yan.

About ten minutes before the ceremony began, Zhang Guorong went to the edge of the stage, and today he was in charge of the opening, and the task was quite heavy.

After Zhang Guorong left, Zhou Yan and the others didn't talk much anymore, and now they are talking to each other, and it is easy to be photographed by the camera.

Soon, the ceremony officially began, Zhang Guorong came to the stage alone to speak, and then took a group of children to perform a performance.

The first four or five minutes are basically Zhang Guorong's solo performance.

This can be regarded as compensation from the Academy Awards to Zhang Guorong, because "Farewell My Concubine" is not recognized as a Xiangjiang movie, so this movie is not eligible for the Academy Awards.

If "Farewell My Concubine" can participate in the selection, it should be a random killing at this year's Academy Awards, and Zhang Guorong should also be able to win this year's actor.

As Zhang Guorong walked off the stage, the host fat sister Shen Dianxia and Curly Cen Jianxun walked onto the stage along the arch bridge steps.

The two hosts chatted for about two or three minutes, and Ren Dahua and Liu Tianlan took the stage to present the first award of the award ceremony - the Best Costume Design Award.

This award "Green Snake" was shortlisted, so Zhou Yan and they were quite concerned.

However, the final winner was "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch", and costume design director Emi Wada took the stage to give an acceptance speech.

The second award was Best Editing, Wang Jing and Zhang Jianting took the stage and presented it to Zhang Yaozong of "Serious Crime Team".

When the guest of the third award had not yet come to the stage, Zhou Yan saw that a camera was aimed in his direction.

The third award is the one that their crew is most concerned about - Best Film Score.

Knowing that the camera was aimed at him, Zhou Yan's face was calm, but the rest of the crew was quite nervous.

Wang Zuxian pinched the corners of his clothes, and Zhang Manyu bit his lip.

Tsui Hark, who was sitting on the other side, also squinted slightly.

The best costume design has been missed, and it would be miserable if the best soundtrack was not won either.

Award presenter Zeng Zhiwei said on stage, "The award we are going to present next can be said to be very important, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the soundtrack is the soul of the movie." And the films shortlisted this time performed very well in terms of soundtracks. ”

Another award presenter, Ke Shouliang, nodded and said, "That's right, it can be said that there are many masters, and you have also been a director, so you should know that the soundtrack is very important." ”

"You should know better that you also released a record last year."

Ke Shouliang waved his hand, "I'm just playing around." ”

At this time, a song by Ke Shouliang was played on the screen on the side, and the people at the scene were very face-saving and applauded.

However, Ke Shouliang is not modest, his song is indeed played casually, and his level is very average.

After watching the video, Zeng Zhiwei joked, "You develop well and strive for the best soundtrack award next year, and you will also come up to accept the award." ”

Ke Shouliang pouted, "Let's see which movies are shortlisted." ”

The side screen then began to play several of the shortlisted films.

After the playback ended, Zeng Zhiwei opened the card with the name of the award-winning movie and looked at it, "My eyes are not very good, I can't see clearly, but I can see that the name of the award-winning movie is two words." ”

There was a burst of laughter at the scene, and Tsui Hark quickly went through it in his mind, and only two of the six films shortlisted for the best soundtrack this time had two words in their names, except for "Green Snake", which was "Tempting Monk".

In this way, their chances of winning the award are greatly increased.

But soon, one of his hearts sank.

Ke Shouliang stretched out his head to look at the card and directly reported his name, "The best movie soundtrack is Liu Yida and Wei Qiliang's "Seduction of Monks". ”

The applause at the scene rang out again, and the award-winning Liu Yida and Wei Qiliang came to the stage to accept the award.

So far, the four awards shortlisted for "Green Snake" have lost the two most important ones, and there are still the best art director and the best newcomer actor.

Zhou Yan must be fake if he wants to say that he is not disappointed at all, the best soundtrack size of the Academy Awards is an award, if he doesn't care at all, he won't come.

However, he showed no emotion and applauded the winners with a smile on his face.

Tsui Hark's performance is much more real, and he looks unhappy.

He already had a stinky face, so he directly wrote the word "unhappy" on his face at this time, regardless of whether the camera was aimed at him or not.

In fact, many people at the scene were quite surprised, because the soundtrack of "Green Snake" is really good, in addition to a few songs written by Huang Zhan, the soundtrack written by Zhou Yan is also extremely eye-catching.

In particular, the song "The Nightingale" is not only of high level, but also widely disseminated.

This song has been included in the myth album "Mystic Country", which has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide, doesn't that explain the problem?

But even so, the jury ultimately awarded the best soundtrack to "The Seduction Monk".

However, many people are also used to it, it is very normal for awards to have some upsets, and besides, the best soundtrack is not a particularly important award in the first place.

The best soundtrack part passed quickly, and the next award happened to be the Best New Actor award.

The lineup of guests who came to the stage to present the award this time was strong, and all the seven little blessings came to the stage.

On stage, Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung talked and laughed for a while, and then began to watch the shortlisted movies.

After watching the shortlisted movies, Sammo Hung directly opened the card and announced, "The winner of the Best Newcomer Actor Award is Sammo Hung." ”

When Sammo Hung just shouted his name, many people at the scene began to applaud, but after two rounds of applause, they found that Sammo Hung was joking, and everyone burst into laughter again.

Qi Xiaofu on the stage laughed a few more words, Jackie Chan took the card from Sammo Hung hand, and then raised his eyebrows and said, "The winner of the Best Newcomer Actor Award is Zhou Yan." ”

This time, the applause really rang out.

The people next to Zhou Yan all looked at him.

Tsui Hark is also applauding Zhou Yan, but he is not too happy, because this award has little to do with him, this can be regarded as a fig leaf, but this fig leaf is too small to cover too much shame.

He even felt that being able to give this award to Zhou Yan was to make up for the best soundtrack award just now.

Zhou Yan raised his eyebrows, but he didn't expect that the Best Newcomer Actor Award, which was originally not competitive, was returned to him.

His performance level is still not comparable to that of professional actors, and he is a mainlander, so it is quite surprising that he can be shortlisted for the individual award.

Although the Academy Awards only stipulate that the film must be a Xiangjiang film, and does not stipulate that non-Xiangjiang people cannot win individual awards, the Academy Awards are very exclusive, and it is difficult for non-Xiangjiang locals to win this kind of award directly for actors.

After counting it carefully, Jet Li is the only mainlander who won the Academy Awards.

Zhou Yan stood up and hugged Zhang Manyu and Wang Zuxian first, and then hugged Liang Jiahui and Zhang Guorong.

In the middle, Anita Mui took advantage of Zhou Yan's hug of Liang Jiahui and dragged him over to give him a hug.

On the stage, Zhou Xingchi shook hands with Zhou Yan and congratulated him.

After taking the stage, Zhou Yan took the trophy from Jackie Chan, and then Qi Xiaofu stood on both sides, leaving the middle position to Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan nodded at the few of them, and then stood in front of the microphone.

He didn't prepare his acceptance speech, so he improvised and casually talked about it.

Looking at the trophy in his hand, Zhou Yan smiled, "I have won several awards before, but I didn't expect the first one to receive the Best Newcomer Actor Award on stage." As a newcomer to the film industry, standing next to several seniors made me feel a lot of pressure. ”

"I rarely act, but this award has given me some encouragement, maybe in the future, I will play a little more other roles, and strive to let everyone see me more on the big screen."

"To win this award, I must thank Director Tsui Hark, as well as all the other staff in front of and behind the scenes, the jury of the Academy Awards, and all the seniors."

After speaking, Zhou Yan took a step back, and his acceptance speech ended.

Then Zhou Yan and Jackie Chan walked off the stage together.

Jackie Chan congratulated with a smile, "Congratulations, I won this award for the first time in a movie." ”

"If he hadn't acted in a movie for the first time, he wouldn't have won this award." Sammo Hung said.

"Oh, that's right."

"I have to learn more from my predecessors."

Jackie Chan patted Zhou Yan on the shoulder, "You are too polite, we all know that you are a musician, and you are not interested in acting." ”

"I'm still a director, and if I have a chance in the future, I want to bring a few more of us."

This is completely polite words, Qi Xiaofu and these people, how can they ask others to support them in Xiangjiang, especially Jackie Chan, who is now starting to go to Hollywood.

Mr. Hong laughed.

"Haha, no joke, the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and it will be the world of you young people in the future."

……

Returning to his seat, Wang Zuxian asked for the trophy and looked at it, "If you scratch off the word newcomer, you will be the best actor at the Academy Awards." ”

Zhang Manyu stretched out her head and looked at it, "No, the actor's trophy says Best Actor." ”

"Haha, then add the words "actor."

"Then just make a new one yourself, it's not difficult to make this thing."

……

The ceremony continued, the awards were announced one by one, and soon the best art director arrived, but unfortunately "Green Snake" still did not win the award, and the best art director was won by "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch".

At this point, the Academy Award journey of "Green Snake" is over, with four nominations and only one Best Newcomer Actor Award.

Tonight's biggest winner was "New Love", which won six awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress.

It's just that the Best Actor was unexpectedly sidelined, and Liu Qingyun finally lost to Huang Qiusheng and missed the Best Actor at this year's Academy Awards.

In fact, this also looks like a balance, if the best actor is given to Liu Qingyun again, then this year's Academy Awards will have no one else to play except for "New Love".

After the award ceremony, Zhou Yan was talking to Anita Mui and them, and Zhou Xingchi walked over.

"Director Zhou, do you have time for a while, so let's talk?"

Anita Mui said, "Xingzai, don't rob Zhou Yan with us, say that we will eat together." ”

Zhou Xingchi was stunned for a moment, "Isn't there a dinner party?" ”

After the party, the organizers organized four dinners, each in four different places, and Zhou Yan and them were all in one place.

Zhou Yan asked, "Director Zhou, are you talking to me about the new movie?" ”

Zhou Xingchi did not avoid Anita Mui and them, nodded and said, "We will go to the mainland in June to start preparing for filming, I want to find a time to talk to you." ”

"When are you going in June?" Zhou Yan asked.

"I went at the end of May."

"Oh, that's okay, I'll go to Chang'an in early June, and it's not too late for us to meet and talk again."

Hearing Zhou Yan say this, Zhou Xingchi nodded, "No problem, then we'll see you in Chang'an then." ”

After speaking, Zhou Xingchi said hello to Anita Mui and left.

After Zhou Xingchi left, Anita Mui was curious, "Xingzai's new movie, you also participated?" ”

"Well, I'm the soundtrack director." Zhou Yan said.

Anita Mui tilted her head and said, "Why do I feel a little strange when you give him the soundtrack for the movie?" ”

Others also found it strange, especially Zhang Guorong.

In Zhang Guorong's opinion, Zhou Yan should be paired with a movie like "Farewell My Concubine", and again "Green Snake", how did he run to a comedy movie?

Zhang Guorong can't watch these movies now.

It's not that others don't like comedy movies, they act in comedy movies themselves, but there is a big difference between comedy movies and Zhou Yan's style.

What made Zhang Guorong even more incomprehensible was that Zhou Yan actually rejected Chen Kaige and chose Zhou Xingchi.

Although he knew that maybe Zhou Yan had agreed to Zhou Xingchi first, he still felt strange.

Zhou Yan's soundtrack, isn't it a waste to put it in a comedy?

"Hey, there's nothing strange about it, my previous "Sanmao in the Army" is also a comedy movie." Zhou Yan waved his hand and said.

Anita Mui and Zhang Manyu have not watched "The Story of Sanmao in the Army", but Zhang Guorong was in the mainland during that time and went to the cinema to watch it, although "The Story of Sanmao in the Army" is also a comedy movie, but it is not the same thing as ordinary comedy movies.

"Sanmao's Tale in the Army" is more of black humor, and the whole movie is full of irony from beginning to end.

Although it was strange, Zhang Guorong didn't say much.

If you talk too much, isn't that offending people?

However, Zhou Yan saw their attitude and understood better why Zhao Jiping was reluctant to take "Journey to the West" at that time, even if he was from Xiangjiang, he was very prejudiced against comedies.

And the mainland's film practitioners have a much worse attitude towards comedy than those in Xiangjiang.

……

The next day, under the arrangement of Zhang Youan, Zhou Yan took Wang Zuxian and Liang Jiahui to hold a press conference on "The Sixth Sense".

Because the Academy Awards ceremony has just ended, in addition to film-related issues, reporters naturally inevitably want something related to the Academy Awards.

The reporters don't care if Zhou Yan is happy to win the Best New Actor award, they are more concerned about whether Zhou Yan is disappointed if he doesn't win the Best Soundtrack Award.

It's best to hear a few complaints from Zhou Yan's mouth, and the news will be easy to write.

However, Zhou Yan didn't give them a chance at all, and praised the award-winning "Seducting Monk" fiercely.

The day after the press conference, Zhou Yan returned to Yanjing.

After returning to Yanjing, the news that he won the Best New Actor Award at the Academy Awards first spread to the mainland, and the media rushed to report it.

This news has attracted a lot of attention in the mainland, because many mainland viewers are very concerned about the Hong Kong Film Awards.

And the fact that Zhou Yan won the Best Newcomer Actor Award is also quite new in the eyes of many mainlanders, because most people don't regard Zhou Yan as an actor at all.

Usually, when it comes to Zhou Yan, most people's first reaction is that he is a musician, because they see Zhou Yan on TV, and it is basically full at Zhou Yan's concerts, he is wearing formal clothes, or playing the flute, or playing the piano.

The "Yanjing Silent" concert has been broadcast on CCTV many times before, and the ratings have always been very good.

In addition to being a musician, some people will think that he is a director, and the first reaction is that he is an actor.

Two days later, the results of "The Flying Piano Boy" in the first three days of France also came out.

In the first weekend, "The Flying Piano Boy" attracted a total of 240,000 people to watch the movie.

It's not a particularly good result, but it's definitely not bad, and the key is that the first three days are getting higher and higher day by day.

The number of moviegoers on the first day was 65,000, the second day was 80,000, and on the third day, it rose directly to 95,000, which means that the movie's reputation is also very good.

If you calculate on an average of four dollars a ticket, the box office is close to one million dollars.

The French film market is relatively stable, with 240,000 moviegoers in the first three days, and there is no problem with the final moviegoers exceeding one million.

According to the current trend, there is no problem in the final number of moviegoers exceeding 2 million.

made such a good start, but Xu Feng was very happy.

When she called Zhou Yan to share the good news, she was overjoyed.

The investment cost of this film is 8 million US dollars, and if the box office in France can exceed 10 million US dollars, plus the sale of broadcast rights, it will soon be able to recover the cost.

If the follow-up film does not perform particularly badly at the box office in other countries, there is no problem at all with profitability.

"In two days, the movie will be released in the United States, and if the box office can reach two or three million dollars in the first weekend, then we can open the champagne in advance."

Xu Feng is right, if the film can reach two or three million dollars at the box office in the United States in its opening weekend, then there is basically no problem with the final box office exceeding six million dollars.

Typically, the final box office is two to five times the opening weekend box office.

For some movies with good early publicity but poor reputation, this multiple is a little lower, because the potential of the movie is consumed in the early stage.

And some movies with poor early publicity and good reputation have a much higher multiple, and it is common for the final box office to exceed five times the box office of the first weekend.

"Two or three million dollars, it shouldn't be easy." Zhou Yan said.

He was also worried that Xu Feng had too much hope in the early stage and would be disappointed that the final results did not meet expectations.

Xu Feng thought about it, "Even if it doesn't reach it, it doesn't matter, now that the basic plate of this movie is almost stable, no matter how bad the box office in North America is, it's not a big deal." ”

The opening box office in France can already be explained to investors.

The point is, Tomson doesn't just make money from movies, but also from music.

This time, "Flying Piano Boy" performed well in France, and even with it, the sales of the album "Piano Boy" will definitely rise.

Xu Feng has always been worried that Zhou Yan's music will not be able to open the market in Europe and the United States, and with such a breakthrough, the follow-up will be much simpler.

Even if the box office of the movie in North America is pulled again, it will play a positive role in the promotion of the music. (End of chapter)