"Farewell My Concubine" is too long and was selected in the name of Xiangjiang. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is selected in the name of Tai Wan. "The Aviator" is the first movie to be truly selected in the name of the mainland and won the Golden Globe Award, which naturally inspired the public's enthusiasm for watching movies.

"Give me a ticket to the movie "The Aviator"!" A young man squeezed into the window and rushed to the ticket salesman impatiently and shouted.

"Sorry, the tickets sold out today, there are no tickets. Otherwise, you can watch "Kung Fu"!" The female ticket seller was helpless and recommended it to the young man.

"It's not yet seven o'clock, why did it be sold out? Why don't you start more sessions?" The young man couldn't help but scream when he heard the ticket seller's words.

The ticket seller explained: "There have been many more events today, but they are still sold out. I didn't expect it to be so popular! Otherwise, you can wait a moment, we have already reported to the manager that you may have to wait a moment."

Such a scene happens in many cinemas, and "The Aviator" is shockingly popular. Many middle-aged and elderly viewers who rarely enter cinemas come to join in the fun, wanting to see this movie that is awesome in the United States.

On the morning of the 18th, Britney and Ewan McGregor arrived at the headquarters of Santa Monica Lions Gate as an appointment to talk to Zhang Ran about the short film related matters.

After a few simple greetings, Zhang Ran called the makeup artist and took out a painting, and asked the makeup artist to stym Britney in the way of the girl in the painting. The girl in the painting had golden brown and fluffy hair, which was hanging to her chest and waist. She was wearing a light blue dress with a small bow tied around her head. She sat, put her hands quietly on her thighs, her face was a little pale, her big eyes looked ahead with melancholy, and she was worried.

Britney stared at the painting and said, "This is Renoir's "Little Erin"!"

Zhang Ran smiled and said, "Yes, the inspiration for the story I want to shoot comes from this painting."

Britney said puzzledly: "Don't you dislike Renoir's paintings?"

Zhang Ran was stunned: "How do you know?"

Britney said: "When you talked to Leo that day, you said you don't like Renoir!"

Zhang Ran then understood what happened: "Most of them don't like it, but they really like this painting, and they like the feeling created by this painting. I don't know what you feel about Paris, but I remember that there is bright light and a melancholy temperament. Just like the feeling "Little Erin" gives people, this short film wants to make such a feeling."

Zhang Ran wanted to make some new attempts in this short film. "The Aviator" has used all the things Zhang Ran has accumulated over the years. It is very difficult to make a better and more outstanding movie than "The Aviator". Just like Quentin, his later movies are good, but there is not a single movie that surpasses "Pulp Novel".

Zhang Ran was only twenty-seven years old and did not want "The Aviator" to be the pinnacle of his artistic career. He hoped to surpass himself, so he had to conduct new explorations, constantly experiment, and find new possibilities.

The makeup artist quickly tied Britney's hair and put a bow on her. Zhang Ran asked Britney to sit on the chair, and then asked Zhang Jingchu and Ewan McGregor how he was and whether he felt like Little Erin.

Zhang Jingchu and Ewan McGregor were both a little surprised. They remembered that Britney was Little Tiantian, very lively and happy, but at this moment she was sitting there, looking straight ahead with her eyes, and she felt a quiet sadness, and she did feel like Little Erin. They admired Zhang Ran's eyes and were so proud that this role was chosen so amazing!

On the morning of the 19th, the nomination list for the 77th Oscar was announced. When the list was passed back to China, it caused an uproar.

It is not because "The Ambush" did not receive any nominations, nor because "Time and Space Warrior" won the best visual effect and best sound editing, but because "The Aviator" won the incredible four nominations.

According to the normal historical trajectory, although "The Ambush on Ten" failed to get the nomination for the Best Foreign Language Film, it was nominated for the Best Photography. Unfortunately, "The Ambush on Ten" was not won this time, and the nomination for the Best Photography fell into the hands of "The Aviator".

This time, in addition to best photography, "The Aviator" also received the best artistic director, best film editing, and best director nominations.

In addition to "The Flyer", the French film "Spring of the Cowherd Class" was nominated for Best Original Song, the Spanish film "Sleeping in the Deep Sea" was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Makeup; the Brazilian film "Motorcycle Diary" was nominated for Best Original Song and Best Adapted Screenplay; in addition, the French film "Long Engagement" was nominated for Best Photography and Best Art Direction.

However, these movies cannot compare with "The Aviator". "The Aviator" not only received the most nominations, but also won the Best Director Award.

This is a huge breakthrough for mainland movies, and it is an achievement that "Farewell My Concubine" has not achieved. Even if the last award is not won, it is a huge victory.

In fact, it is not new to foreign language films nominated for the Oscar for Best Director Award, especially in recent years, almost every year. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in 2001, "Saying to Her" in 2003, and "City of God" in 2004 were nominated for the Best Director as a foreign language film. The most amazing thing is "City of God". In 2002, Brazil sent "City of God" to participate in the Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film, but failed. Unexpectedly, the movie was released in the United States a few months later, with rave reviews, and it won four nominations including Best Director at the Oscars in the second year.

"The Aviator" was nominated for four, first of all, the quality was very good, and the media and film critics gave very high evaluations. Secondly, this year is the Little New Year of the Oscars, and there are not many high-quality films. In addition, Lionsgate's public relations plays a great role. Oscars are a public relations game. It is almost impossible to nominate and win awards without public relations. Ang Lee and Sony Classics conducted half a year of publicity and public relations, which led to the success of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" at the Oscars.

According to the original historical trajectory, in addition to four American movies, another British movie "Villa Drake", which was the movie that lost to "The Aviator" by one vote in Venice. "Villa Drake" was bought by Miramax and was originally planning to win the Oscars, but because Harvey and Disney split up, Harvey left Miramax with his own people. The new president took over for too short time and lacked public relations experience, so he eventually got cheaper.

Of course, it is already a victory for "The Aviator" to be nominated, especially the Best Director Award. It is really impossible to win the award. In the 77 years since the Oscars, a foreign language film has been nominated for the Best Director Award, but none of them have won the award. What's more, this is a Chinese film. To many people, you can pass it directly with the four words of Chinese films.

In any case, as a pure mainland film, being nominated for four Oscars has created the history of mainland films.

The news that "Flyer" won four nominations spread, and the entire Chinese-language film industry was shocked, and many Chinese audiences and Chinese filmmakers were stunned.

This guy Zhang Ran is simply a monster! This is to go against the will of heaven!

At Huayi Headquarters, Wang Zhongjun shook his head and sighed: "I knew Zhang Ran must have a backup plan and a bomb, but I didn't expect it to be such a bomb. No, this is not a bomb, it's simply a nuclear weapon!"

Feng Xiaogang sighed deeply. "The World Without Thieves" has been released, and the box office was finally frozen at 129 million. I thought I would be the runner-up of the New Year holiday, but now it seems that I can only be the third child.

In the United States, once a film wins an Oscar, it will be worth a hundred times. Roughly speaking, a film won an Oscar nomination is worth about $30 million and a prize of $20 million. Simply put, because a film received an Oscar nomination, it can increase the theater revenue by $30 million based on the original box office results, and once it wins, it can add another $20 million.

Of course, the specific numbers depend on many other factors, the most important of which is the commercial nature of the film itself and the premiere time. The more commercial elements of the film itself are, the further the premiere is from the Oscars, the less the box office stimulation effect of the Oscars.

Films such as "Shapes' Love History", "Pulp Novel", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Juno" were finally hit by the nominations and awards of the Oscars, otherwise the box office would be halved. Take "Shapes' Love History" for example. The film was released at the end of December 1998, and by February of the following year, the box office was 36.3 million US dollars; after the nomination, the box office more than doubled, and another $36.7 million was made; after winning the grand prize at the end of March, an additional $27 million was added. In other words, 60% of the box office of the film was directly related to its favored by the Oscars.

Zhang Weiping understood this point. When "The Flowers of War" was released, he wanted to use the Golden Globes and Oscars as gimmicks to drive the box office of the movie. Unfortunately, "The Flowers of War" had a bad reputation in North America and was only nominated for the Golden Globes, which was not possible.

But this time, Zhang Ran successfully implemented this strategy!

With the power of the Golden Globe Awards and Oscar nominations, "The Aviator" exploded in China in the next few days, especially on the two days of the weekend, which welcomed a blowout.

During this week, "The Aviator" miraculously won 43 million box office, while "Kung Fu" only had 4 million. One month after its release, "The Aviator" miraculously won the first weekly box office championship with two new films released.

This data is very magical. I don’t know if there is any case in other countries that suddenly exploded one month after its release and won the box office weekly championship, but there should be no such case in China!

The next week, the madness of "The Aviator" did not stop there, and the miracle continued. "The Aviator" on the Internet has been praised by domestic film critics and fans as a magical film, and has been catching up with "Farewell My Concubine" and "Alive". Some netizens with great imagination have begun to perform various strange interpretations, which have pushed more viewers into the theater.

In this week, "The Aviator" won 29 million box office and won the championship again, with a cumulative box office of 178 million yuan, while "Kung Fu" only had 1.4 million box office this week, with a cumulative box office of 175 million yuan!

In Xiangjiang, Xinghui Movie's office, Stephen Chow seemed very calm and not excited after getting the box office data.

"I lost!" Stephen Chow said lightly.

"Star Chow..." General Manager Wei Dashen looked at Stephen Chow worriedly. Just as he was about to speak, the other party waved his hand to stop him.

"Don't persuade me, if you lose, you lose. There is nothing that cannot be admitted." Stephen Chow suddenly laughed, "This is a respectable opponent with genius creativity. "The Aviator" is a movie that has famous film history. It is our glory to be able to fight with them until the end!"

In the morning, major domestic media were reporting that the Aviator had achieved a major reversal and defeated Kung Fu.

The front page headlines of China Youth Daily are also: "The Aviator completes an epic reversal and becomes the champion of the New Year's Eve!" (.)
Chapter completed!