You don't understand the happiness of the director

In addition to taking part of the box office five days in advance without competition, Huayi's original intention was to use these five days to spread the film's reputation and attract audiences to the cinema during the Spring Festival through word-of-mouth.

In fact, the film's reputation is indeed good, with Douban scoring 7 points. It is said that Huayi made three revisions after YYDS's test screening evaluation, and this was the final presentation.

Wang Quan looked smoother than the original version, but the result left Hua Yi a little disappointed.

This movie has the least investment of more than 100 million, not to mention that the box office in the past few days before the Chinese New Year did not meet expectations, and because of the early release, there were also a large number of refunds on movie tickets during the Spring Festival.

Many viewers who were looking forward to this movie wanted to watch the movie in advance, which resulted in the attendance and pre-sale box office of "Zhonglie Yang Family" falling to the bottom among the eight movies.

The knock-on effect is that the movie theaters' unconfirmed schedules for the second and third days of the year have begun to favor other films. In addition to the confirmed films for "The Yang Family" on the first day of the second lunar month, the subsequent film schedules have continued to decline, which is terrible.

Inside Huayi Brothers, Wang Zhonglei lamented repeatedly, feeling that he had made a bad move.

Feng Xiaogang comforted him with a few words, and then took him to the Directors Guild Awards ceremony, which was held in Beijing.

The Directors Association Awards are inclusive of both commercial and literary films, and the nomination list is not just a list of so-called literary films that no one has seen.

It may be that the Directors Guild has attracted many young directors, and these directors are basically directors who prefer commercial films.

Although Feng Xiaogang's "1942" suffered a serious box office loss, it may earn him countless honors at the awards ceremonies in the next two years. In addition, "Assembly" swept the Golden Rooster and Hundred Blossoms that year, huh, at least In terms of domestic awards, Wang Quan is no match for him.

For example, this time the Directors Association Awards were shortlisted for five heavyweight awards: Director of the Year, Film of the Year, Screenwriter of the Year, Actor of the Year, and Actress of the Year.

Since Wang Quan served as the chairman of the jury this year, the attention of this year's Directors' Association Award has been unprecedentedly high. The media rushed to report it, and it felt like it was no less beautiful than Baihua.

Feng Xiaogang's only worry is that Wang Quan will use his power to interfere with the award selection.

In fact, the judges of the Directors Association Award are only responsible for determining the preliminary list, and the final award still depends on the votes of all Directors Association members.

And in order to avoid suspicion, Wang Quan included "囧囧", but "Rich Second Generation", which had a higher box office, was blocked by him.

Today's Directors' Association Awards were indeed much more lively. Not only did Lao Mouzi and Cheng Long come to present the awards, but even Zhou Xingchi, who has always been low-key, also appeared at the scene.

But he mainly wanted to promote "Journey to the West". There are enough media today and the public's attention is extremely high.

One advantage of the Directors Association Award is that there is no particularly big leader. The speech session of traditional program leaders is just Huang Jianxin, the president of the association, summarizing the achievements of Chinese-language films in the past year.

“In the past year of 2012, Chinese-language films performed astonishingly. A total of two billion-dollar films emerged in the Mainland, both of which were produced by Chinese-language filmmakers. Among them, the director of “囧”, Xu Zheng, directed a film for the first time. "

When his name was called, Xu Zheng wore brown sunglasses and nodded with a smile.

In fact, he was a little bit confused when the movie exceeded 500 million. Then the movie went through all obstacles and has now reached a huge 1.3 billion!

Now he feels a little regretful. Although he has some share in this movie, the majority is still in the hands of Qiankun. If he had known earlier, he should have exchanged all the directors and actors' remuneration for the film investment share. In that case, his income would be directly Breaking 100 million!

But I will have more say in the next cooperation, and I definitely can’t suffer this kind of loss again.

Huang Jianxin continued: "In addition to the two comedies that have delighted the audience, our country's special effects film industry is also developing rapidly. Last year's "Painted Skin 2", "Capital No. 81" and "The Legend of Shushan" were all 3D films that won both box office and reputation. Movie."

This is somewhat of an art of leadership. The reputation of "Painted Skin 2" is far inferior to that of the first film. "Beijing No. 81" only scored about six points. As for "The Legend of Shushan", it is an old movie.

Because there are no special effects blockbusters on the scale of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", the Chinese special effects films in 2012 are actually not very good.

Later, Huang Jianxin affirmed the performance of new directors in 2012, including Xu Zheng, Chen Sicheng, Cai Jun, Sun Rui, Wang Jing, etc.

"There are really a lot of talents, and they all come from other industries. Some are actors, some are writers, and some are teachers from film schools. It seems that our new directors who really study directing have to work hard."

After the opening speech, the host Jing Wei came on stage to preside over the award ceremony. Although he and Xiao Sa broke up, fortunately there was no "The Grandmaster" this year, so it wouldn't be too embarrassing.

The first award was given to Young Director of the Year. This moment almost replicated the famous scene at the Golden Horse Awards.

However, there are only three royal directors this time, namely Chen Sicheng's "Manslaughter", Xin Yukun's "Silence", and Sun Rui's "Dog 13".

There are also Cheng Er from "Border Storm" and Hao Jie from "Beautiful Sister".

Yang Mi went on stage to present the award, and even made the trip despite her busy schedule, mainly to support her brother Quan.

"The winner is Sun Rui, "Dog Thirteen", congratulations!"

Sun Rui was a little surprised. He didn't expect that he would be the one with the weakest sense of existence.

The movie was released at the end of December and grossed 10 million at the box office, setting a new record.

Fortunately, it didn't lose money, and it had a good reputation. It was considered to be sharp and bold in its exploration of Chinese-style families. It even encountered some minor troubles when getting the dragon mark, but fortunately it was solved by Wang Quan.

This young director, who achieved financial freedom with his novels when he was young, but has always lived under the halo of Han Han and Guo Jingming during the same period, took the stage and delivered his acceptance speech.

"Actually, this is really not my credit. I am grateful to Junior Sister Jiao Huajing who wrote this script, to Teacher Cao Baoping who helped me build the crew from scratch as a producer, and to Director Wang Quan who trusted me and supported me. I think I will continue to work as a director, thank you!"

Next, Liang Jiahui presented the annual Hong Kong and Taiwan Director Award.

He originally thought it would be the two directors of "Chilling" starring himself, but it turned out that they were not, but Wei Desheng of "Sediq Bale".

Then there was an Outstanding Contribution to Director Award, presented by Jiang Wen.

There is no nomination for this one, you will know just by looking at who is present at the scene.

"Oh, I have acted in this director's works, and I learned a lot from him. He is a kind teacher, and he is Director Xie Fei!"

Awarding this "Outstanding Contribution Director Award", which is similar to the Lifetime Achievement Award, to Xie Fei was unanimously recognized by the judges.

In the past two years, retired director Xie Fei has devoted himself to helping young directors. In addition to providing artistic guidance to directors such as Wang Jing, he has also been busy organizing the First Youth Film Festival to settle in International Film Festival. It can be said that he has worked hard and has good intentions.

Although he can no longer film, he has brought many young directors to the forefront and made outstanding contributions to the legacy of Chinese-language films.

Teacher Xie Fei wore glasses and came to the stage to accept the award. His speech was short and sincere. He is a person who has dedicated his life to movies. Because he loves watching movies, he hopes to see more good movies in the rest of his life.

"It would be great if these good movies were made by my own countrymen."

The Screenwriter of the Year Award was presented next, and Mo Yan, who had just won the Nobel Prize, attended the award.

Nominees include Liu Zhenyun's "1942", Chen Kaige and Tang Danian's "Search", Wang Quan's "Manslaughter", Xu Zheng, Ding Ding and Shu Huan's "Thailand", and Xin Yukun's "Silence".

The winner of the award for "Original Time and Space" is director Kai Ge, but Wang Quan has always felt that "Search" was not perfect as a film that reflects online violence.

The winner this time is rather surprising, not Wang Quan, but Xin Yukun of "Broken Silence".

But it has to be said that "Hot Search", which Xin Yukun later filmed to reflect online violence, was not as good as "Search".

This award is the only award that Wang Quan has been shortlisted for, but it ended up being left out. What is it called? This is called a topic. This award alone is enough to discuss for a while, and it can also increase the popularity of Xin Yukun.

The next award was a special commendation from the jury, and the winner was "囧". Xu Zheng took the stage with a shiny bald head to accept the award. He specially washed his hair on such a big day as today.

What does this award mean? It is equivalent to removing one correct answer from the annual film.

There are currently four awards left, and they are also the four most talked about.

The first is the Actor of the Year Award. Actors care more about this award than their own Screen Actors Guild award.

Shuang Bing, a white dress, and a black dress, went on stage to present awards together. It was quite impressive. Wang Quan supported his waist. His sacrifice was definitely not a small one.

A total of six actors were nominated, namely Zhang Guoli's "1942", Huang Bo's "Killing", Wang Qianyuan's "Manslaughter", Wang Xueqi's "Search", Duan Yihong's "Silence", and Zhang Song from "Dog Thirteen" Pattern.

Wang Quan was very pleased to see this list of nominations. This is a meeting between outstanding actors and outstanding characters. Whoever wins the award among these people can basically convince the audience, and everyone's performance is so on point.

The least well-known person among them is Zhang Songwen. He was a little uneasy sitting in the audience.

However, his two major disciples, Jing Tian and Nazha, are still very famous. Jing Tian also attended the award ceremony and was sitting in the back to cheer for his master.

Thanks to Tonazar, he played the role of a father in "Dog 13". He is gentle on the surface, but makes people feel chilled from the bottom of his heart. Although he is only 36 years old, his degree of completion is very high.

But the final winner was Huang Bo, a crazy character in "Killing".

This time Huang Bo finally won the Best Actor award by himself, but I won't say Best Actor here, it's just a commendation.

There are also six actresses.

Weekly News "Painted Skin 2".

Yan Bingyan's "Thousands of Arrows Pierce the Heart".

"The Mystery of the Floating City" by Hao Lei.

Gong Li's "Manslaughter".

Xu Fan's "1942".

"Search" by Gao Yuanyuan.

Liu Yifei lost to Gao Yuanyuan by one vote and failed to be nominated in seventh place, so she did not come today and was alone at home petting the cat.

Gao Yuanyuan has no acting talent, which she admits herself, but she can still perform well when she encounters roles that are more suitable for herself.

"Search" is a role that is more suitable for her, and director Kai Ge shot her beautifully, and I immediately felt the energy to see You Lian.

However, the competition with the above people was still not good enough. The final winner was Yan Bingyan, who had just won the Best Actress Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival for "A Thousand Arrows Pierce the Heart". Although her competitors were also very strong, this time she won the award. He was elected with a high vote, which is what a low-key and good actor deserves.

What Yan Bingyan was thinking at this time was whether her blind dates would be smoother in the future if she won this movie queen.

But it doesn’t seem to work. I have also won the Golden Rooster Best Actress.

The Directors Association Award and the Director of the Year Award are the biggest awards, so the Film of the Year award was awarded first. Cheng Long and Lao Mouzi presented this award.

Five films including "1942", "Thousand Arrows Pierce the Heart", "囧", "Mountain Runner" and "Silence" compete for this award.

Among them, there are three parts of Wangdao, one part of Qiankun, and one part of Huayi.

Wang Quan has already avoided suspicion, but with his strength here, there really is nothing he can do. If he avoids suspicion any more, someone will question the unfairness of the award.

However, Wang Zhonglei and Feng Xiaogang felt that this award would definitely go to Wang Dao, with a 60% probability.

However, this time it is really a small probability event. The winner is "1942", which failed at the box office.

Wang Zhonglei was still a little confused, but then he went on stage to accept the award with a smile and said some decent words.

The final grand prize was jointly announced by Wang Quan and Zhou Xingchi.

Feng Xiaogang looked at the two people on the stage, and the more he looked at it, the more disgusted he became. Wang Quan would not say anything else, he was too good, too rich, too popular with women, too handsome, I was just jealous and jealous!

As for Zhou Xingchi, we agreed to guest star in each other. I have already made a guest appearance in "Kung Fu". What about you? He said that he couldn't act in comedy now, so he gave himself up!

The other four nominees are Gao Qunsu for "Detective Hunter Zhang", Chen Kaige for "Search", Lou Ye for "Mystery in the Floating City", and Wang Jing for "Thousands of Arrows Pierce the Heart".

Wang Quan read the first half of the award speech and asked Zhou Xingchi to call out his name.

The white-haired Zhou Xingchi said in less fluent Mandarin, "Feng Xiaogang, congratulations!"

Feng Xiaogang's eyes were a little wet at the moment. This award was not decided by a few judges, but voted by all members of the Directors Guild. Although "1942" was not a commercial success, his colleagues saw his sincerity. , I saw my hard work and dedication!

Feng Xiaogang received the commendation certificate from Zhou Xingchi, and a photo of the two smiling together soon appeared on the Internet media. This photo of the two smiling together was considered to be a signal that the relationship between the two comedy directors had broken.

At this point, the commendation event officially ended. Afterwards, Wang Quan chatted with Wang Zhonglei about the Spring Festival schedule that bothered him, chatted with Zhou Xingchi about cinema investment and theater management, and chatted with director Wang Jing about the new film "The Tribulation of the Ming Dynasty" he was preparing.

After the awards ceremony, Wang Quan accompanied Mimi back home, spending the last time with her before the Spring Festival.

Because Wang Quan may not be able to celebrate the Chinese New Year in China this year, Tao Weilong has invited him, so he may have to spend the Chinese New Year in Los Angeles this year.

And Mimi will also be very busy. She has two starring movies during the Spring Festival this time, and her requirements are not high. It is enough that the box office of these two movies can be ranked in the top two during the Spring Festival.

It must be said that Mimi is a contented girl.

On the first day of the Spring Festival, Wang Quan was already in Los Angeles, with his son and daughter by his side.

On New Year's Eve, the mainland box office reached its lowest point. The single-day box office was only 10 million. "The Generals of the Yang Family" shared 4 million of it, and the cumulative box office reached 35 million. However, the pre-sale box office on New Year's Day was already at the bottom. The situation is very pessimistic, and it feels like Huayi has no way back.

On this day, the old movies that were released in December last year are basically finished, and it is no longer possible to schedule movies on the first day of the new year.

On this day, Maoyan also announced its 2012 annual box office rankings in mainland China.

Wang Quan's "Rich Second Generation" set a new record in film history with 1.528 billion and 45 million moviegoers.

The second place went to newcomer director Xu Zheng's "囧囧". The film followed the creative style of "囧囧路", set the location in the exotic Thailand, fully upgraded the production and laughs, and won a box office of 1.311 billion. Ranked sixth in mainland film history.

The inspiration for Chinese filmmakers from "Second Generations" and "Thailand" is that whether you make a blockbuster or a comedy, the investment is small and the output is big. This is no more reliable than making a big production!

Indeed, in addition to Wang Quan's international market and the ability to make US dollars through blockbusters, directors such as Xu Ke and Wu Ershan who are good at special effects were still popular a while ago. There are fewer ogling investors.

A lot of capital is waiting to see this year's Spring Festival release, wanting to see if comedies are really still that profitable.

Ranking third on the annual box office list is the re-release of "Titanic 3D" with 917 million. This figure shocked the industry and outside, and even shocked people at home and abroad.

To a certain extent, this box office has become irrefutable evidence that people in the Chinese film market are stupid and have a lot of money. It has given rise to the booming 3D conversion technology overseas. Regardless of the film, if it is made into 3D, it will sell well in the mainland.

Similarly, there are "Men in Black 3" that ranks 11th with a box office of 498 million, "Ice Age 4" with a box office of 45.8 billion, and "Journey to the Center of the Earth 2" with a box office of 391 million.

Last year, Hollywood blockbusters conquered the mainland, and 3D became the sharpest weapon. It was also 3D that made many original resource-rich people reluctantly enter the cinema.

Although some 3D is very deceptive, the evil wind set off by this royal power will last for at least a few years.

In addition to the No. 1 "Rich Second Generation", the action film "The Witch" produced by Wang Quan and Golden Harvest ranked fourth with a box office of 766 million. It is also Liu Yifei's highest-grossing film, surpassing "To Youth".

The seventh-placed "Manslaughter" had a box office of 648 million, and the 17th-placed "Beijing 41" had a box office of 454 million, significantly raising the box office records of suspense and horror films.

Wang Dao collected a total of 4 billion in box office last year, while Qiankun received more than 2 billion in box office with films such as "Thailand" and "Police Story 2012". The two father-son companies accounted for more than half of the local films!

It can even compete with imported films released by China Film and Television.

In addition, the boss of Huayi is named Wang, and the boss of Guangguang is also named Wang. Netizens laughed and joked that it turns out that the Chinese film industry has a surname of Wang.

Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, four o'clock in the morning, Wang Quan is watching TV in the living room, next to his assistant Jiang Shuying, his mother has returned to China.

Although the Spring Festival Gala is getting more and more ugly in China, people abroad, and it is such an important festival, even when they see Chinese people on TV and listen to Chinese, they feel friendly. This kind of feeling is Dorothy's. It’s something that mixed-race people can’t understand.

The director of this year's Spring Festival Gala is Ha Wen, so the long-faced Li Yong must be one of the hosts. In addition, there is a new face this year, it is Li Sisi who personally interviewed Wang Quan back then.

She is one year younger than Wang Quan. She has already appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala at the age of 27. She is worthy of being a graduate of Peking University.

The song was originally sung by Phoenix Legend, and this pair is now very popular. Their songs can be said to be must-have songs for square dances.

Then there is the youthful and energetic Li Hong.

The first sketch is about the poisonous tongue Cai Ming and Pan Zi.

Shen Tong, who has become famous in the past two years, did not participate in the Spring Festival Gala recording this time because of the promotion of the movie. However, Happy Twist still appeared on two programs, but Shen Tong was not there, which always felt almost boring.

After Zhao Benshan, Shen Tong is one of the few people who like the Spring Festival Gala.

Many people who want to see him can only go to the cinema and pay to see it this year.

This year's Spring Festival Gala was a huge hit. Liu Qian cueed Li Hong during a performance with pianist Li Yundi. Li Yundi seemed unhappy and even became a hot search topic that night.

With the singing of "Unforgettable Tonight", the Spring Festival Gala ended and it was dawn in Los Angeles. Wang Quan took Jiang Shuying back to the bedroom to get some sleep.

However, the two started fighting while they were sleeping, and they didn't separate until Little K knocked on the door.

Wang Quan asked Jiang Shuying to go back to sleep. He, Little K, Dorothy and their children were going back to Tao Weilong and Wendy's house to celebrate the New Year.

Wang Quan didn't know who the son-in-law was between him and Little K. Anyway, both of them had prepared some gifts.

Judging from the attitudes of the old couple, it seems that Wendy recognizes the royal power more, and Lao Tao recognizes Little K more.

While Wang Quan was having New Year's Eve dinner at Tao's house and making dumplings, the domestic Spring Festival war had officially begun.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the number of films scheduled reached 100,236!

After the cinema opens in the morning, it is almost always overcrowded. Because of the cinema, the catering businesses around are also on standby 24 hours a day, preparing to make a lot of money and have a good New Year.

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Jiang Peiyao is a girl from Beijing. She grew up in a college and is also a freshman in Nortel's Grade 12 Performance Department.

Since last year, it has become a trend to watch movies during the New Year. This year, she took her two nieces and nephews to the cinema early in the morning.

At their request, she watched Journey to the West today, which is also Zhou Xingchi's "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons". This is what she is most looking forward to during this Spring Festival. She even bought the IMAX giant screen hall of Dawangdao Cinema a week in advance. .

But there were so many people. Even for the first show in the morning, the attendance rate of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" was still over 50%. Fortunately, the seats for the three of them were pretty good.

Before the movie started, she even took a photo and sent it to the class group.

Soon people followed suit and posted pictures, and classmates were watching movies all over the country. It seemed that everyone felt that celebrating the New Year was boring, so it was better to watch a movie.

However, some are preparing to watch "Crazy Nian Beast", while others are waiting for "The Richest Man in Xihong City". The audience for the other movies is much smaller in their class.

After the movie officially started, Jiang Peiyao was a little surprised. This movie was quite scary.

Especially when the fish monster suddenly appeared behind her, her two nephews and nieces who had just been chatting were suddenly startled. The nephew was fine, but the niece was scared to tears.

And there is something even scarier later. A cute little girl was eaten by a fish monster. I thought that the little girl would be rescued after surrendering the fish monster, but it didn't happen. She was just eaten?

died!

She finally comforted her little niece while watching a movie, but then a pig demon with strange and unpredictable behavior came out. The roasted pigs in the store were actually roasting people!

Now let alone the niece, even the nephew can't stand it.

"Aunt, I'm afraid..."

Jiang Peiyao: "What are you afraid of? My aunt is here!"

Then when Zhu Gang transformed into a hyena, Jiang Peiyao jumped into her nephew's arms in fear. Mamma Mia, it's so scary!

Fortunately, Huang Bo and Xiaozhu created some laughs after they appeared on the scene, which relaxed the atmosphere a bit. What a young man with kidney deficiency.

But the little thing after Mr. Sun's transformation was also a bit ferocious.

After reading it, Jiang Peiyao bought a lot of delicious food to coax her nephew and niece, but they said they didn't want to eat fish or pork today.

Jiang Peiyao took a look at the group and found that many students thought "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" had too many horror elements and it was best not to watch it with children.

Jiang Peiyao: It’s too late. My nieces and nephews were frightened, but after watching it, I thought it was still good-looking and the special effects were very good.

Shang Yuxian: I watched "The Richest Man in Xihong City", which made me laugh to death and made me feel sad. Liu Yifei's performance was also very eye-catching. Her Bayan accent was so fun. I highly recommend it!

Song Yiren: Has anyone watched "Crazy Nian Beast"? What did it feel like?

Sun Yi: It feels different from what I thought. It’s not what Ning Hao is good at. There aren’t too many laughs. There are more family scenes. In addition, the scenes are quite big. It should cost a lot of money...

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