On February 26, the crew of He Fang flew from China to Savannah, Georgia, USA, at Gulfstream's headquarters, where they will inspect and familiarize themselves with the new flight, and of course, a brief training session.

He Fang also flew to Savannah, saw his private jet, looked inside and out, 99% of the project was completed, and the remaining debugging of this scrap and the final test flight certification and the completion of all the formalities.

Finally had a plane of his own that could fly away at any time, and He Fang suddenly felt that his bound hands and feet were released a lot.

Back in Los Angeles, I didn't go to any drinking parties, because the awards season was over, and there was no need to go to the PR judges, who had already sent out their ballots.

And with the passage of time, soon on March 1, the whole month of release of "Edge of Tomorrow" has been completed, and so far, the box office data of "Edge of Tomorrow" have all been released.

Chinese mainland, "Edge of Tomorrow" won 988 million, 1.586 billion, 694 million, 198 million, and 99 million in five weeks in a single month, with a total box office of 356657 million, or 3.566 billion, or about $575 million.

This is to create a box office record in Chinese mainland, the first time a movie box office exceeded three billion, reaching 3.5 billion yuan, He Fang said a few years ago that the box office of a single film in the future can reach five or six billion yuan, at that time everyone thought he was bragging.

And now He Fang uses a "Edge of Tomorrow" to prove that it is not a problem for a single film to break through 3.5 billion, and the development of the current Chinese film market is far from saturated, so according to He Fang, the drinking and state of a single film of 5 or 6 billion still has a growth rate of almost 40%.

What is this concept? Now the box office of "Edge of Tomorrow" alone has reached one-third of the GDP of an ordinary county, and now the GDP of an ordinary county in China is more than 10 billion.

It is equivalent to the output of hundreds of thousands of people in the county for half a year, which is not counting the total revenue of "Edge of Tomorrow", and those have to add peripheral and DVD, TV and online media rights.

This concept is still quite impactful in 2014, and many industry professionals think that "Edge of Tomorrow" will hit 2.5 billion yuan at most, because the total domestic box office of "Mermaid" is more than 2.3 billion, and now it has only been six months since July 2013.

But who would have thought that from the beginning of the collective decline of media public opinion to the final stamina, and get a box office of more than 3.5 billion in a single month, far exceeding everyone's expectations.

Feng Xiaogang spoke in public: "I started the era of commercial films for the Chinese New Year, but He Fang opened the era of blockbusters, and my Chinese New Year movies are just making some noise in China." However, in the past few years, He Fang's blockbusters have been calling for wind and rain internationally, raising the ceiling of the global box office of Chinese films again and again, which is really shocking.

I'm a director who doesn't like to lie on his laurels, so I also have ideas for blockbusters. "Ready Player One" is also going to rush to the international market, and I don't dare to say where it will surpass the production of blockbusters, but I am also confident that it will be compared with the previous one, and I don't believe you will wait and see. ”

Feng Xiaogang has been doing this kind of thing for many years, so he is familiar with it.

"3.5 billion, this is unimaginable data, I don't know when someone will break this record, I hope that the era of 5 or 6 billion in a single piece will come soon, so that everyone can reach 3.5 billion."

Chen Kaige said in an interview.

"It's normal for Hefang's movies to break records at the box office, I'm not surprised." Zhang Yimou hasn't appeared in front of the media for a long time, and when he was interviewed by the media again, he said: "I'm concentrating on preparing a new movie, which is not a commercial film, nor a critical literary film, but a coming-of-age film." ”

Why hasn't Zhang Yimou appeared for a long time? There are two reasons, one is to eliminate the influence of his superbirth, and the other is to find a story he wants to film.

In addition to some people in the director circle who expressed their feelings about the record box office of "Edge of Tomorrow", some actors, stars and bosses of film and television companies have expressed their congratulations and feelings.

The media and the public are also talking about it, and everyone is very emotional about the new record created.

However, the domestic crowd sighed that the domestic box office of "Edge of Tomorrow" exceeded 3.5 billion, and the global box office of "Edge of Tomorrow" the next day also broke a new record for Chinese films.

First of all, "Edge of Tomorrow" won a record box office of $277 million for his personal film in North America at the North American box office, and "Edge of Tomorrow" has a lot of momentum at the box office in North America, and it is no longer the fans who like it to firmly support, including Leonardo's fans, and there is an intermediate movie fans who are attracted.

It's a pity that "Edge of Tomorrow" only grossed $545 million at the rest of the world, only $30 million more than "The Mermaid."

Therefore, after such a calculation, the total global box office of "Edge of Tomorrow" reached 1.39 billion US dollars in one month after its release, creating a new high at the box office of He Fang films, because the film will be postponed for a month in Chinese mainland and a month in North America, so the final box office will exceed 1.4 billion US dollars.

What is the concept of $1.4 billion at the box office? It is currently ranked fourth in the world, and in front of "Edge of Tomorrow" are "Avatar", "Titanic", "The Avengers", and the fourth place is "Edge of Tomorrow".

Is this hanging or not? Isn't it awesome? Is it worth bragging about? Thereupon......

"Leonardo accounts for two of the top four movies at the global box office, Leonardo just doesn't want to act in commercial films", a report in The Hollywood Reporter instantly ignited discussions in major media......

“？？？？？”

What the heck? How did it become a blow to Leonardo? No, shouldn't this blow somewhere? Shouldn't you blow Fan Bingbing?

Americans are too hateful, too good at stealing topics, obviously what kind of efforts they are making, they steal the limelight so much as if all the glory of "Edge of Tomorrow" has been taken away by Leonardo......

Angry? So what's the solution, who told them to control the trend of global public opinion, who told Leonardo to have more fans around the world, and who happened to be the leading actor in two of the top five box office movies?

But fortunately, Leonardo stole the limelight, and this time the New York Times did not criticize any more.

The popularity of this topic was only two days, and on the third day, all the headlines in the entertainment industry were snatched away by the 86th Academy Awards, and the Oscar gimmick was too big, far from being comparable to the topic of "Edge of Tomorrow".

For example, "American Hustle" and "Gravity" each lead the list of nominees for the 86th Academy Awards with 10 nominations, and "12 Years a Slave" has nine nominations and "Dallas Buyers Club" has seven nominations, both of which are also very threatening.

Of course, there are also powerful films such as "Blue Jasmine", "The Wolf of Wall Street", and "Nebraska", which can be described as full of highlights.

But even so, the Chicago Tribune made a strong prediction for this year's Oscars.

Their prediction is that the three most unsuspenseful awards of this year's Oscars have been decided, namely the Best Picture Award, the Best Actor Award and the Best Actress Award, and the Best Director Award is also very clear.

They analyzed that the three awards that have been decided are Leonardo for Best Picture "Twelve Years a Slave", Leonardo for Best Actor in "Dallas Buyers Club", and Cate Blanchett for Best Actress "Blue Jasmine", and where will the Best Director Award compete with Alfonso Cuarón.

Of course, there are other awards, but they are not as categorical as these awards.

While the Chicago Tribune may seem like a prediction, almost everyone who follows the awards season knows it's not a prediction, it's pretty much an announcement.

As for whether this is the case, we can only look at the specific Oscars.

This time, ByteDance's watermelon video and Maoyan video jointly won the broadcast rights of the Oscars, so domestic audiences can watch the live broadcast of the Oscars at nine o'clock in the morning on the 4th, although it is Tuesday, it still can't stop the enthusiasm of many fans.

Chinese fans are most concerned about whether "Dallas Buyers Club" can win the award, and who can win the award.

There is no guest analysis for this broadcast, it is directly the original broadcast, but there will be a delay of 30 seconds, and the purpose of the delay of 30 seconds is to give time to the translation, this time there is a real-time translation team, which is to meet the viewing needs of domestic audiences.

"This watermelon and cat's eye video is well done, in fact, we don't need the host to add the translation and interpretation of private goods there, we just need to listen to the original speech and translate it."

"Yes, yes, just let us judge whether it's good or not, some celebrities don't know and don't need to give us popular science, people who want to know will naturally go to Baidu or Google."

"These stars on the red carpet...... Personally, I think Western women are really not good-looking, especially with freckles all over their faces, and some people have freckles all over their bodies, and then they start to have loose skin in their twenties. ”

"Yes, I think so too, I don't understand why so many people think Western stars are good-looking. Look, like Jennifer Lawrence, what's so nice about that? The popularity is so high, where is the good look? For the aesthetics of Western women, I think where is right, Anne Hathaway is definitely the first gear. ”

"I heard that He Fang has a story with Anne, I wonder if you have heard it?"

"Really? Don't spread rumors because they cooperate, Anne is married, and she is a devout Christian, and she used to aspire to be a nun? Moral issues are not allowed. ”

"Hey, where do you say she is spreading rumors about my faith, but you say that Christians are not allowed to have moral problems, whether it is historical or modern, those cardinals have fewer problems?"

"Do you think Christians are flower monks and stinky Taoists? People are very strict, and the moral standards of the West are very high, so don't speculate on other people's moral standards with our dirty minds. ”

"Huh? Are you ignorant of the history of the West or are you deliberately kneeling and licking? Could you please learn about history? Those are not made up by us, they are written by Westerners themselves. ”

"History also falsifies, people are just for slander, do you believe it? Isn't Christianity the world's number one religion? Will they create the best civilization in the world? Is it okay to be a little sober? ”

……

China's Internet is inseparable from politics in three sentences, the current situation and history in five sentences, and women or gossip in ten sentences......

At this time, Hollywood stars were walking on the Oscars red carpet, and red carpet hosts Laura Spencer and Jess Cagle kept greeting guests and asking similar questions.

After more than an hour, it was finally the turn of the heavyweight guests, such as the creators of "Dallas Buyers Club".

This time, "Dallas Buyers Club" won seven nominations, namely Best Film Editing, Best Original Screenplay, Best Makeup and Hairstyle, Best Supporting Actor, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Picture.

Of course, the hottest He Fang, Leonardo, and Leto were stopped by reporters to pose for a few POSE photos and then fans waved their autographs there to ask for autographs and group photos.

Those who could cooperate cooperated, and then the two hosts asked similar questions, that is, whether everyone was confident in winning the award? Or add 'Who do you think is the most appropriately dressed person who is also nominated tonight?' ', 'Which female star do you think is the most beautiful and sexy tonight?' ’

Let's go back and forth, He Fang's answer is also very resolute, and he is full of confidence in winning the jackpot.

When the time arrives at half past seven in the evening, the red carpet ceremony is basically over, and everyone is crowded into the Dolby Theater (called the Kodak Theater before 2012), which has a capacity of 3,400 seats, and holds important awards evenings such as the Oscars, Emmys, ESPY (Excellence in Sports Performance, the equivalent of the sports Oscars) and the BET (Black Entertainment Television) awards every year.

There are about 1,000 famous people in the Hollywood entertainment industry on the first floor, and the global box office of Hollywood films in 2013 was as high as 35.9 billion US dollars, which is only a pure box office, not counting the peripherals, according to the profits of Hollywood audio and video sales and rentals are equivalent to the box office of movies, plus TV on demand and online on-demand, as well as peripheral sales, etc., Hollywood movies in 2013 sold at least hundreds of billions of dollars in the world.

The idea of this data is that the hundreds of billions of dollars in Hollywood movies that take away the world are basically dominated by thousands of Hollywood's best people sitting on this level.

Thousands of people dominate hundreds of billions of dollars in assets around the world, this is called cultural hegemony, if someone wants to get a piece of the pie with such an easy accumulation, how will they respond?

It's far away, and the time is half past seven in the evening, and the announcer officially announces that the 86th Academy Awards is about to begin.

After a while, the awards ceremony officially began, first by Farrell Williams singing the song "Happy", the theme song of "Despicable Me 2".

(End of chapter)