Chapter 76 Lao Chen’s Hollywood Journey
Why does Cao Yang tend to find actresses who have been sad recently?
According to experience, when you are sad, your mental fluctuations will be greater, and the effect of entering the drama will be better.
Now that you have decided on the movie you want to make, now that you have decided to make another movie queen, you must do your best to make preparations and try to be as foolproof as possible.
Cao Yang regards Gao Yuanyuan as an important candidate. He has now revealed that he wants to make a movie. As long as there is a schedule, domestic actresses will definitely be enthusiastic.
There's no need to rush now, the script hasn't been written yet. It's not too late to slowly look for candidates while writing the script.
On September 18, the 24th Hundred Flowers Film Awards announced the winners, and the 21st China Film Golden Rooster Awards announced the nominations.
Nowadays, the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Awards are not held every other year, but are held every year. Starting from 2005, the Golden Rooster Award and Hundred Flowers Award will only be judged every other year, and the Hundred Flowers Award will be judged in even years.
The Hundred Flowers Award gave the Best Actress to Gong Li, and "Alone at the Beach at Night" became one of the three best feature films.
This is expected to be controversial by then. Li Xiaoran won the Berlin Best Actress this year, and the movie box office also exceeded 20 million. How could she lose to Gong Li in the vote.
Gong Li has no movies released this year, and the winning movie was released in February last year.
But for the Hundred Flowers Award, if they say it’s a vote, let’s just take it as a vote.
However, the Berlin Best Actress won't be able to win the Hundred Flowers Best Actress, and the Golden Rooster Best Actress is probably a sure shot, otherwise she will lose her reputation as the Berlin Best Best Actress.
The Golden Rooster will not forcefully force Li Xiaoran to get the Berlin Best Actress in order to show its authority, otherwise it will make an international joke.
"Alone at the Beach at Night" won five Golden Rooster Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, and Best Cinematography.
This movie has been criticized by many people for having too simple shots, but why is it nominated for Best Cinematography?
Because when Nortel applied for the award, it said that this was a new wave film. It was praised by many judges at the Berlin Film Festival and was a model of new wave films in recent years.
You see, the film that won the Berlin Film Festival’s Jury Prize is still a model of New Wave cinema. It’s not too much to give it a nomination for Best Cinematography, right?
As a new wave movie, you can say that the lens of the new wave movie is unique, but as a professional, you cannot say that the lens is simple - are you denying the new wave movie?
Not everyone can bear this big hat.
Hou Keming told Cao Yang privately that in fact, at the beginning, Golden Rooster only gave two nominations for the Director's Debut Award and Best Actress, not even Best Picture.
But before the nominations were announced, Cao Yang unexpectedly won the Venice Golden Lion Award on September 8, becoming the youngest Golden Lion Award-winning director in the world. Even Xinwen Network was talking about it.
What else can the golden rooster do?
Of course, the nomination list was revised overnight, not only replacing the Director's Debut Award with Best Director, but also giving Cao Yang's film five nominations at once.
If the directorial debut award is really awarded to a Golden Lion director, it will really become a laughing stock around the world.
And after the nomination list was announced, Golden Rooster officials also informed Nortel, asking Director Cao to participate in the film festival.
Generally, if the golden rooster ventilates you and allows you to participate in the award ceremony, you will definitely be rewarded.
The school is very happy to win an award again.
However, Hou Keming did not reply to the Golden Rooster without permission. Instead, he consulted Cao Yang and asked him if he was willing to participate. He said that there is an unwritten rule of the Golden Rooster Award, that is, no award will be given if you do not participate, unless there are special circumstances.
He also said that if Cao Yang really doesn’t want to participate, that’s fine. The school will try to see if it can make it a special situation...
Cao Yang also wanted to see how much prestige the Golden Rooster could increase, so he said he would go there then.
Hou Keming left happily.
In a blink of an eye, it was almost time for the release of "Empty Room", and Mr. Han from China Film Group called specifically to make an appointment to discuss the release of the movie.
This time the movie has become even more popular, and the media is still reporting the relevant news, so there is no need to worry about publicity.
However, after discussing with Cao Yang, Mr. Han decided to conduct another premiere tour, visiting several major cities one by one, and chose Beijing, Shanghai, Jinling, Yangcheng, Shenzhen, Rongcheng, Jiangcheng and Ludong Island, the filming location. In addition, several media outlets were selected to conduct exclusive interviews.
Mr. Han confidently stated that with Golden Lion’s reputation and current popularity, coupled with the popularity brought by the premiere tour, the box office will definitely exceed the 30 million mark.
This time, Qingying Film Studio teamed up with China Film to issue 320 copies, which was 50 yuan more than Cao Yang's first film. It should be that they have enough confidence in Golden Lion.
On October 1st, "Empty Room" premiered in Beijing.
The premiere location was still chosen at the Beijing Theater.
This time there were more guests, including directors from the fourth generation who were slightly more active, and most of the fifth generation directors were also present.
The national teacher Yi Mou even put down the filming of "Hero" and came with the international chapter and the Nortel staff on the crew.
In addition to the international chapter, there were quite a few actresses with some connections this time. They were all gorgeous and their eyes lit up when they saw Cao Yang. They were both humble and enthusiastic.
Cao Yang smiled, shook hands with Yi and said hello, asked about the progress of the filming of "Hero" and said a few polite words.
After exchanging greetings with Imperial Master Yi, Cao Yang thought that since the International Chapter was here, he couldn't ignore him, right?
Just when he was about to shake hands and say a few polite words, he didn't expect that before he could reach out his hand, Jiujiang directly hugged Cao Yang, acting very close to him, and kept congratulating Cao Yang on winning the Golden Lion. It was so ambiguous.
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Do you know me well? This woman is really good.
The Imperial Master's face also darkened significantly. He smiled awkwardly and quickly led the group of people to their seats.
The great poet Kai Ge didn't come today, and Sister-in-law Hong came in his place.
Sister-in-law Hong explained with some pride that Brother Kai was doing post-production work on the movie at MGM, and there was really no way he could make it back this time.
Cao Yang didn't mind. Not long ago, Nortel opened a fragrance hall... No, when the symposium was held, Brother Kai came back. He stayed in the capital for two days and then went to the United States again.
Everyone knows this.
Last October, MGM invested US$30 million in Hollywood and hired the great poet Kai Ge as director to start filming the movie "Killing Me Softly." This was Chen's first blockbuster movie in Hollywood.
According to him, he is ready to have a big career in Hollywood...
Lao Chen's name is still very famous. Before the movie was finished, Xiaori had already spent 4.5 million US dollars to buy the rights to Xiaori.
Yes, at least 4.5 million was recovered in one fell swoop, still in US dollars.
I wish Lao Chen good luck and hope he can punch Hollywood and kick Oscars.
Well, I hope Lao Chen won't pay too hard, otherwise his career in Hollywood will be ruined.
It seems that I haven't heard of Lao Chen entering Hollywood again, so maybe it was this movie that cut off the future.
But it doesn't matter, MGM doesn't care about this bit of Lao Chen.
Last year, MGM not only invested US$30 million for Lao Chen to make a movie, but also invested US$115 million for Wu Yusen to shoot the war blockbuster "Windtalkers."
At this time, there are still nine years before MGM will actually go bankrupt. MGM can still survive until November 2010, so they can still afford to pay this small amount of money.
It's just a matter of entering the auction process again, no big deal.
(End of chapter)