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0409 【End】

Two years later, on May 31, 2016, at 11:00 pm.

The pedestrians on the streets have gradually become sparse, but the entrances of major cinemas in Beijing are still crowded, and the queues can occupy the entire street in front of the cinema. This grand occasion, when "Titanic" was released in China in 1998, can be compared.

And this time, the reason why it attracted so many people was queuing up in the middle of the night to buy tickets.

There is only one reason.

That is, after two years of filming, Wan Xiaohu returned to the Chinese film industry with honors, and invited a large number of Chinese superstars such as Liu Dehua, Zhou Runfa, Chen Kun, Liu Yifei, Huang Xiaoming, and Zhang Ziyi to join. The epic mythological blockbuster "Huangdi" directed will premiere in midnight.

There is no need to promote it at all. "Yellow Emperor" has become a must-see movie for any Chinese person this summer.

It is not only because of the record-breaking RMB 1 billion in "Huangdi", but also because of the numerous Chinese international superstar lineups, but also not just a story about Chinese ancestors that children know. There are many reasons, including the director of "Huangdi" is Wan Xiaohu!

One of the greatest directors in the world, influenced an entire generation of Chinese dream idols.

For young people, you may not know who the Prime Minister is, but you will definitely not know who Wan Xiaohu is.

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"Crazy, crazy, all of them are crazy because of "Huangdi"!"

A day later, Mtime Time Network announced the box office achieved by the midnight show of "Yellow Emperor" with a bright red title.

The holder of the previous midnight record was the 40 million RMB record created by Transformers 4 two years ago. But this time, everyone knows that "Yellow Emperor" will break this record. But no one would have thought that it would break so thoroughly.

"Getting 129.5 million yuan, "Huangdi" has created a record that it is almost impossible for midnight games in mainland China to exist!"

"The whimsical mythical world, charming legendary characters, magnificent flowers, plants and trees, incredible birds and beasts, exquisite and perfect camera rhythm, epic ancient battles. The ups and downs of the plot, everything makes the audience have to indulge in the ancient times created by "Yellow Emperor"!"

With the outbreak of midnight shows, the premiere during the day on Children's Day on June 1st. Even on Wednesday, major theaters still held nearly 80% of the events for "Yellow Emperor", bringing the total number of events to an unprecedented 100,000. The box office on the premiere day did not disappoint the theater's expectations.

334.6 million yuan per day, plus 129.5 million yuan in midnight show, 464.1 million yuan per day! It created a single-day film history in mainland China, Wednesday and premiere day, with the fastest box office record of RMB 100 million, RMB 200 million, RMB 300 million, and RMB 400 million.

Five days later, the box office of the premiere week also came out, with Thursday 246.8 million, Friday 267.8 million, Saturday 316.7 million, Sunday 295.6 million, and the total box office was 159.1 million yuan. It has also set a series of records. Single week, premiere week, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, the fastest breaks 5...1.5 billion yuan, 100 million, 200 million US dollars records, etc.

At the same time, North America also began to be released on June 3, winning 85.6 million US dollars in three days on the weekend, winning the weekly championship, and also setting a box office record for the Chinese-language films premiered in North America.

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Four months later, the mainland and overseas trips of "Yellow Emperor" were all over. Among them, the mainland won the championship for 6 weeks, with a final box office of 3659 million yuan, equivalent to 596 million US dollars, which directly increased the box office championship record of 1975.08 million yuan maintained by "Transformers 4" by nearly 1.7 billion.

North America also received US$346 million, setting a new record for Chinese-language films. The global box office was US$1.436 billion, and it squeezed into the top ten films with Chinese-language films for the first time.

While it was a big box office success, the reputation of "Yellow Emperor" was also very good.

Mtime Time Network’s Old Time Rating includes 782 film reviews, of which 749 were qualified, with a brightness of 96%, and the user’s comprehensive score also reached 8.8 points. IMDb score is 8.7 points, with the highest score for Chinese films, Rotten Tomato website’s freshness is 91%, and 236 film reviews are included, of which 215 are qualified.

Metacritic website comprehensive review scored 88 points, 32 positive reviews, 6 neutral reviews, and no negative reviews.

In the media awards season that followed, "Yellow Emperor" was selected as the top ten movies of the year voted by magazines such as "Time", "Variety Show", "Empire", "American Entertainment", and "China Film News".

At the Film Festival Awards Season, "Yellow Emperor" first won the 33rd Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award, Best Picture, Best Screenwriter, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress.

Then he won the 53rd Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards, Best Drama, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Visual Effect, Best Art Design, Best Styling Design, Best Action Design, Best Sound Effect and Audience Voting for Best Picture Awards.

Then he entered 2017, first he was nominated for the 74th Golden Globe Awards, with two nominations for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Director, but he finally lost.

Then he was nominated for seven nominations in the 8th to 9th Academy Awards, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Director, Best Photography, Best Art Design, Best Costume Design, Best Sound Effect Editing, and Best Sound Effect. He finally won two technical awards: Best Art Design and Best Costume Design.

He then moved to the 36th Hong Kong Film Awards. Because he had no Hong Kong capital and was a domestic film, he could not participate in the awards and won the Best Cross-Strait Chinese Film Award.

Then he won the 17th China Film Huabiao Award, excellent story film, excellent play, excellent director, outstanding actor, outstanding actress, excellent film music, excellent cinematography, excellent film technology award, and eight major awards.

Finally, he won the 31st Chinese Film Golden Rooster Awards, Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Original Script, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Photography, Best Recording, Best Art, and Best Music Grand Slam Awards.

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The great success of "Yellow Emperor" made Wan Xiaohu completely bid farewell to the plagiarist's heart. In the true sense, he devoted himself to the director's career.

Start to layout other movies in the ancient legendary film myth system.

The first episode starts filming three movies and a thirty-minute short film, namely the sequels of "Huangdi" "Huangdi 2: The Battle of Yanhuang" and "Huangdi 3: Dragon Totem". The thirty-minute short film is a film about the mythological background of "Huangdi: The Hundred Grass God Nong" in the prequel era, and Nuwa created humans.

Among them, Wan Xiaohu only directed the short film "The Legend of Heaven and Earth". The other three films are directed by two directors, Urshan and Zheng Baorui, and Wan Xiaohu is the producer.

In the end, "Huangdi 2: Battle of Yanhuang" achieved a box office of US$825 million worldwide, and "Huangdi 3: Dragon Totem" achieved a box office of US$929 million worldwide, which is not as high as "Huangdi". But it meets expectations. After all, breaking one billion is not something that can be done casually.

"Yan Emperor: Hundred Grass Shennong" achieved a global box office of US$531 million.

All three films were successful, and the other two films in the first episode also began smoothly. One was "Houyi: Shooting the Sun" directed by Chen Kaige, which earned $422 million worldwide. The other was "Xing Tian Wu Gan Qi" directed by Chen Jiashang, which earned $612 million worldwide.

In this way, the myth system of ancient legendary films. The first six movies ended perfectly, and the second one began vigorously.

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In addition to serving as the producer of various films in the ancient legendary film myth system, Wan Xiaohu also prepared to complete his second original film, "Walking in the Clouds".

This movie tells a romantic love story, the male protagonist of the down-and-out painter who is flying in the economy class and the second male protagonist in the first class. Because of a false air crash, he met the heroine who happened to go out for a trip. The three people gradually became entangled from the unrelated life circle.

The heroine likes the hero who has the dream of a painter, but because of the opposition of her family, she married the second male lead of the businessman.

A year later, three people took a plane at the same time, and the real air crash occurred. The plane fell to the ground. The captain decided to die and let the passengers parachuting to survive. The second male lead was pushed off the plane and jumped to the parachute in chaos. However, the heroine could not find the parachute backpack because of the passengers' snatch.

The male protagonist gave up his backpack and carried it on the heroine's back. The female protagonist was unwilling to accept it. She told her grievances and lovesickness this year, and decided to dance in the plane with the male protagonist, and fell to death with the plane that was encouraging to glide in the air.

The male protagonist agreed and danced with the female protagonist, but at the end of the dance, he suddenly said in the heroine's ear: "Love me, live with my dream!" Then he pushed the heroine out of the plane...

Ten years later, the heroine, accompanied by the second male lead and her son and daughter, held her solo exhibition with her theme entitled "Walk in the Clouds".

In one of the paintings, a man and a woman dance holding hands on the clouds.

"Walking in the Clouds" is a standard commercial art film, with fast-paced commercial rhythm and gorgeous scenes of sky and blue clouds, as well as the artistic connotation of love and thinking. It finally achieved a box office of 887 million US dollars worldwide, and once again won the Oscar for Best Picture and Best Director for Wan Xiaohu.

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After "Walking in the Clouds", Wan Xiaohu made several good movies one after another, until he was 45 years old. This year was 2025, 7D theaters have begun to become a trend, and some people have started to create interactive movies.

Wan Xiaohu also devoted himself to the pursuit of interactive movies. It took seven years to create a real movie "The Sims" that can change the plot at any time according to the audience's ideas. This movie is very large, very exquisite and shocking. Relying on ordinary 2D mode, 3D mode, and IMAX-3D mode, it swept the world's $2.9 billion box office.

In interactive theaters, audiences can play different characters in the play and change different directions, which once caused global madness. They still failed to meet the needs of the audience for two years after they were released. Although the number of interactive theaters was small, they still received a box office of US$1 billion.

It helped the total box office of The Sims to hit $3.9 billion, defeating Avatar 4's $3.4 billion, becoming the box office champion in film history.

In order to commend Wan Xiaohu's contribution to film technology, the Oscar awarded Wan Xiaohu's Lifetime Achievement Award in advance, who was only 52 years old.

In this year, Wan Xiaohu's eldest son Wan Chengjun made his first movie. In this year, Wan Xiaohu's eldest daughter Wan Juanjuan took over YouTube. In this year, Wan Xiaohu's second son Wan Chengyang, under the training of Su Ya, began to deal with the affairs of the international giant Ruiya, while his second daughter Wan Pingping had just been admitted to Peking University. His third son Wan Chengheng, under the influence of his mother Jessica Alba, began to learn performances and prepare to enter Hollywood.

This year...

There are many more legends about Brother Hu.

But this book can only be with everyone here. Whether it is a slash or a broken end, the life path of a big director is 1.27 million words, Lao Bai can only write these.

I feel reluctant to leave, but I have to write these three words!

The whole book is over!
Chapter completed!
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