Chapter 416 Returning to China
Although Liu Yifei had already exchanged champagne for Cheng Yu'an, there was a celebration banquet for the crew of "The Hunt" after the Oscar dinner. After two rounds, Cheng Yu'an was still treated like a dead pig.
Hollywood, or the entire entertainment industry, is actually quite simple.
It is so simple that there is only two words left - profit.
Cheng Yu'an's fame has soared, forcing Hollywood to re-recognize him and one of his major film companies.
Active cooperation projects come like snowflakes.
The business cards Cheng Lingfeng and Cheng Yuan received in one night could be packed in sacks.
Cheng Yuan woke up from bed the next day, his head still groggy.
There was a note written by Liu Yifei on the bedside, saying that she wanted to continue training for "Pacific Rim" and was leaving first.
"Pacific Rim" will start shooting in early March, and Liu Yifei will have two days of trial shooting after training, so she really doesn't have time to accompany Cheng Yu'an.
Cheng Yuan washed up and came to the company.
Cheng Lingfeng has just arrived at the company.
"I thought you wouldn't come." Cheng Lingfeng said.
Cheng Yu'an sat there drinking coffee: "I'm going back to China in the evening. I just checked my mailbox. Good guy, the company's schedule for me is until the end of next month." He took out his mobile phone again: "I don't have a mobile phone now.
Dare to drive."
The domestic scene is really noisy. #成宇安 Oscar Best Director # was ranked first in the hot searches and has not even come down yet, and even #成宇安六一飞# has also been trending.
Interested people discovered that Cheng Yu'an thanked Liu Yifei for her company for all the awards won by "Hunting".
Five of the top ten hot searches are about Cheng Yuan and "Hunting".
The Film Academy posted "Congratulations to Director Cheng Yu'an for winning the Best Director at the 84th Oscar" on its official website.
Click here to view Cheng Yuan’s glorious deeds since joining the school.
Of course, there is no description on the website of Cheng Yuan's "glorious deeds" of being the youngest at that time, being naughty and mischievous, and having all the teachers in the school chase him to the directing department to file a complaint.
Cheng Yu'an didn't want to go back to China, but he had to go back immediately.
There are countless seminars and lectures waiting for him in the country. These are either organized by the General Administration or invited by the college, but he can't recommend them.
"I have a story idea, but it can't be done in China. You can try it with a screenwriter in the United States." In fact, Cheng Yu'an had nothing to do with Cheng Lingfeng. He mainly wanted to discuss the movie.
Then, Cheng Yuan told Lingfeng the story of the "Human Purge Plan", and Sarah, who arrived later, also joined in and listened with great interest.
The selling point of "Human Clarity Project" is very simple and crude: legal killing!
Sarah's eyes lit up after hearing this: "The setting is very novel. It's not illegal to kill people. It's a bit like a doomsday carnival. The cost won't be too high. You can make one for three to five million."
Since the seventh installment of "Saw" was shut down by James Wan, the company has been lacking in signature low-budget horror films.
Although James Wan's "Latent" also sold well.
The company has also been looking for high-quality horror films in the past two years, and has produced several films but all of them have suffered losses.
The Purge could have made a lot of money just based on the idea of legal killing.
The three of them discussed it and decided to do it.
A major film company is focusing on two movies this year. The first one, "The Hunger Games," will be released on March 23.
The second part is the finale of the "Twilight" series and will be released in November.
The rest are some mid- to low-cost productions, such as "Crash Landing" and "Contraband", which cost 20 to 30 million yuan.
The underappreciated "Teddy Bear" was put into the June summer schedule by Paramount, ready to be used as cannon fodder.
"Ex Machina" has finished filming, and we are trying to schedule the film. Otherwise, it will be hammered into a pig head by "The Hobbit" and "Django Unchained" in the Christmas period at the end of the year - this is visible.
Otherwise, it will be moved to the deserted March next year. SM is reluctant to put it into the summer schedule because there will be "Superman: Man of Steel" in the 2013 summer schedule.
After leaving the company, Cheng Yuan spent the rest of his time with Liu Yifei on the set of "Pacific Rim" and didn't get on the plane to fly back home until evening.
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On the plane, Cheng Yuan looked at the domestic film list for March.
After the Spring Festival, the entire market fell into a deserted state.
There were a lot of them, but none of them attracted an audience.
However, there were a few good literary and artistic films released.
"Qian Xuesen" by Chen Kun, "Sister Tao" by Hua Ge, and "Late Autumn" by Tang Wei.
It was later that Hollywood blockbusters came to the market: "Pursuit", "Alien Battlefield" and "Wrath of the Gods".
To complain, "Alien Battlefield" is really bad.
It was already early morning in Beijing time when Cheng Yuan landed, but he still underestimated his current popularity in the country.
At the airport in the early morning, there were not many people around, but the reporter was still squatting with Cheng Yu'an.
As soon as Cheng Yuan came out, he was surrounded by reporters.
"Director Cheng, what's the special feeling about winning the Oscar?"
"Director Cheng, please say a few words."
"Director Cheng."
Cheng Yu'an flew all the way without a good rest and did not have the energy to answer reporters' questions. He just said: "Everyone, it is already very late. This is the airport. Let's disperse."
The reporter was obviously not so easy to deal with, but he also noticed that Cheng Yuan was not in good spirits, so he quickly asked a key question:
"Director Cheng, "Titanic 3D" has been confirmed to be introduced into China and is scheduled to be released on April 10th. Do you think it will have an impact on "Thieves" which will be released on May 1st?"
This news shocked Cheng Yuan!
This film was converted into 3D effects by Cameron at a cost of US$18 million.
It's clear that he's here to make money, but his emotional marketing in China is really good.
Cheng Yu'an answered this question: "There will be no impact. "Titanic" is on the 10th and "Thieves" is on the 26th. They are more than ten days apart, so the impact on each other's box office will not be that big."
"What about "Avengers", which will be released on May 5th? Is Director Cheng worried about this film?" The reporter felt that Cheng Yu'an was obviously more willing to talk about the competition for the next schedule, and did not want to say anything more about the Oscars. For the sake of more
After a few words, he asked about "Avengers".
"There will definitely be an impact, but we are confident that we can hold on to the May 1st stall."
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Cheng Yu'an didn't plan to say anything more, so he got into the car that picked him up and left.
Leaning on the car, Cheng Yu'an closed her eyes and rested while asking her assistant Xiao Zheng what happened in the company recently.
Xiao Zheng picked out a few and said: "There is nothing else but Cai Yinong has been very active in the past few months, urging Liu Shishi to meet with many crew members."
"What's up with her?"
"Cai Yinong feels that the company does not pay enough attention to Liu Shishi and has not given her movies."
"Can I still chew the rice and feed it to her? If I want to act in a movie, I can take the initiative, but the company won't let me."
"But you also know Liu Shishi's character. She can only take two steps after being whipped. She doesn't care about it. But Cai Yi became anxious and went to discuss resources in person to accept Yang Qing's new film "Inner Beauty" for Liu Shishi.
, will be launched in May.”
Cheng Yuan hummed to indicate that he understood, and the car fell into silence. After a long while, Cheng Yuan said: "Xiao Zheng, how long have you been with me?"
"It's been four years." Xiao Zheng didn't know why Cheng Yu'an asked this.
"Four years is not a short time." Cheng Yu'an continued, "Have you ever thought about doing something else?"
"Brother, you are going to fire me!" Xiao Zheng was anxious. He was quite satisfied working as Cheng Yu'an's assistant.
The assistant to the chairman, except for a few people such as Chen Zhixi, Guo Fei, Jiang Xuerou and Cai Yinong, no one in the company calls him Brother Zheng.
"Where are you thinking? I mean if you want to do it, I'll let you go to the Magic City Branch (after the acquisition of Tang Ren, Magic City Tang Ren became the Remote Magic City Branch) as the vice president and you can also get some training."
Xiao Zheng thought about it immediately, but still refused: "I'm doing a pretty good job now, and I'm quite content to be your assistant."
Chapter completed!