Huayu: I'm reborn, but you still force me to be a scumbag?

Chapter 255 I am your big fan
While Chen Nuo, Fan Binbing, Liu Yifei, Wen Yongshan and others were still playing in the studio,
The second weekend box office data for the North American market has just been released and delivered to Rob Friedman and many Hollywood film company bosses.

"Twilight"'s Sunday box office fell by nearly half from Saturday, closing at 2050 million.

It eventually won its second North American weekend box office championship with a score of around 5850 million.

"007", which was in its third week of release, and "Bolt", which was in its second week of release, also took in 1200 million and over 3900 million. Combined with the sporadic performances of some other small-budget films, the North American box office this weekend reached 1.2 million US dollars.

Once again, it set a new record for the best weekend market performance since The Dark Knight, 50% more than the previous weekend.

This made many box office experts laugh and cry, but they had to admit that Twilight was indeed a "market-saving film" as many theater owners said.

While making money for itself, it also does not prevent other movies from making money. In this sense, Twilight is even more awesome than The Dark Knight.

As for the reason, many box office experts have actually analyzed that the audience of Twilight is actually an incremental market.

The PG13 rating made many American middle school girls dedicate the most precious first movie-watching experience of their lives to the handsome and evil Edward Chen.

At the end of the weekend, the total box office of "Twilight" reached 2.51 million US dollars, firmly securing the third place in the North American box office in 2008.

But the sharp drop in box office sales on Sunday was a bad omen for Monday.

Even though Chen Nuo's Facebook page had over 50 followers in just two days,
That postmodern photo of vampire hunting has received over 17 likes.
It is also impossible to reverse the fact that Twilight lost popularity due to its poor public reputation.

One of the reasons is that there are still too few girls in the United States today, and male-to-female transgenderism has not yet become popular, otherwise it would not be impossible to make another push.

Now, we can only rely on the remaining few weeks of release time and slowly polish it to see what we can get out of it.

When Chen Nuo was on his way to the Golden Horse Awards ceremony, he received a call from Rob Friedman.

On the phone, the old Jewish man told him about the weekend's results, and after a long chatter, he revealed the real purpose of his call...

The second part of Twilight will start shooting in March next year.
However, director Catherine disagrees with this, believing that it is difficult to produce a good film a year.

No wonder.

Women always value their reputation more. Twilight was scolded so badly this time that she felt a huge pressure.
Therefore, Catherine not only asked for an increase in the production cost of the next film, but also believed that Twilight should be filmed at a frequency of one and a half to two years, just like Harry Potter.

I don't know if Rob Friedman is okay with this.

However, before making a decision, he still wanted to hear Edward Chen's opinion.

If Twilight's biggest guarantee for making money disagrees with some of his decisions, then he can hold his nose and communicate with Katherine again.

But after listening to him, Chen Dehua answered with only three words. When he said it, it was like a cold wind blowing across a frozen lake. There was no emotion or fluctuation in his voice.

"I DON'T CARE."

I don't care.

After Rob Friedman hung up the phone with satisfaction, he slapped himself lightly in the face.

In the first place, we actually treated this cold-blooded little bastard as a saint and gave him tens of millions of dollars more. We can't blame anyone for that!

Susan also commented on the noble character of this Asian sweetheart!
noble?

His treatment of Catherine was no more noble than the way the Jews treated the Gaza refugees.

If Chen Nuo knew that Robert Friedman compared him to a cold-blooded animal, he would be quite surprised.

After all, in his opinion, Twilight is not a movie, but a business.

The female director doesn't want to do business. She wants to have higher artistic pursuits and wants to use the girl movie "Twilight" to prove her directorial ability. What can Chen Nuo do?
We can only wish her well and send her off. How can such a kind-hearted philanthropist be compared with those butchers who killed people and massacred cities in the Middle East?
"Nozi, it's about the things in America, right? Twilight City?"

This time on the red carpet, the Golden Horse Awards arranged a total of four extended limousines to pick up their crew.

Chen Nuo was in the same car with the director. After listening to him speaking foreign words for a long time, Ning Hao asked directly.

Chen Nuo nodded and said, "Yes."

Ning Hao asked curiously, "How much is the box office at the end of this week? 3 million?"

Chen Nuo shook his head and said, "No, not even close. It's only 2.4 million. I estimate that the final box office in the United States will not even reach 3 million."

"There are still two or three weeks left. I don't think it will be much different. And that doesn't even include the global box office."

"There are a lot of people watching Twilight in the mainland, and the key is those young girls. I like them very much. I heard from Brother Liu in the company that Edward is the best-selling poster at the stalls selling posters in front of No. 49 Middle School where his daughter studies. I don't know how many are sold every day."

"Here in Taiwan, I saw yesterday that outside the hotel there were fans everywhere holding Twilight movie posters looking for you... I'm sure the box office is good too."

“Plus Europe and South America.”

"Oh, you have a lot of fans in Japan and South Korea, right?"

"If you ask me, 500 million US dollars worldwide will definitely be no problem."

Chen Nuo smiled when he heard this: "Then I'll lend you my good words."

Ning Hao glanced at the silent Qi Yuntian and continued, "Nuozi, there is something I want to hear your opinion on. I have talked to President Qi before. After I finish filming The Whisper of the Wind, I want to make an art film to see if I can win one or two awards. Of course, it doesn't mean that I won't make commercial films, but I just want to take a year or two to test my level. What do you think?"

Chen Nuo dared to guarantee that this was definitely the aftereffect of Ning Hao's collaboration with Wang Jiawei. In his previous life, he had been a commercial person all the way and had never turned to the path of art films.

but……

"That's great. Why not?" Chen Nuo said seriously, "Brother Ning, when you joined the company, I told you that my company is small, but it has one advantage, which is freedom. Whether it's you or others, no matter what you want to do or try, Qi Da and I will support you unconditionally. So, no problem, just do it if you want to."

This doesn't sound surprising, because Chen Nuo didn't say, I'm responsible for all movies with a cost of less than 100 million, right?
However, it may be that men start to become sentimental after they turn 30.

Ning Hao was obviously a little touched, and his smile was a little unnatural. "Okay, Nuozi, since you said that, I'll give it a try. Maybe I'll need the company's support at that time."

Chen Nuo smiled and said, "That's for sure. To be honest, if the script is suitable and you like it, I can let you be the male lead."

"What?" Ning Hao sat up straight after hearing this, and his voice became at least three degrees louder, "Nuozi, you want to be the male lead for me? That's what you said!?"

Qi Yuntian coughed lightly and interrupted, "Let's talk about this later."

Ning Hao turned around and said in dissatisfaction: "Qi Da, what do you mean? Nuozi has already said it's okay, why do you have to say it again?"

Qi Yuntian said, "Because his schedule is full next year. He has a movie directed by Zhang Yimou, Twilight 2, and he is also going to the United States to shoot an award-winning movie. He basically has no time left."

"Go for the prize?" Ning Hao asked back, "Aren't I also going to go for the prize?"

Qi Yuntian smiled and said, "Can you win an Oscar?"

Ning Hao was stunned for a moment, turned around and said in disbelief: "Nuozi, you...you, you are not going to compete for an Oscar next year?"

Chen Nuo chuckled, "I have this idea."

Ning Hao looked like he was going crazy, waving his arms and legs and talking incoherently: "You want to win... Nuozi, you don't want to win... the Oscar for Best Actor, do you?"

Seeing him shaking his head, like a crooked potato, Chen Nuo immediately laughed and said, "What's wrong? I can't do it?"

Ning Hao saw that he did not deny it, and he felt a little numb. He shook his head and said seriously: "Nuozi, it's not you who can't do it."

"If you can't do it, then no one in our country can do it. It's not just me who thinks so. I can say that more than 90% of directors in China probably think so."

"It's just..." Ning Hao smiled bitterly, "Aren't you a little too fast? You just won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. When I was chatting with Brother Gao and Brother Li before, we all thought that you would have to wait until you were 30 before thinking about this issue. Aren't you a little too young now? The American judges don't just look at acting skills, they also look at seniority and age."

Of course Chen Nuo understood what Ning Hao said.

Not only age, but also skin color and nationality are all issues.

But before 2014, he won the Best Actor award and one of the Top Ten Young People, thus putting a less shameful end to his youth after his rebirth.

This is the goal he set for his family.

The further back you go, the more difficult it becomes.

Is this why he decided to start competing for awards starting next year?
Because there are too many accidental factors involved in winning the Best Actor Oscar. No actor, not even Marlon Brando reborn, can say that he can hit the mark.

In this regard, the strategy he discussed with Qi Yuntian was,
The early bird catches the worm, the shameless one tries to get something for free.

What does that mean?

He plans to attend the awards ceremony at the Kodak Theatre every year starting from the 2010nd Academy Awards in 82.

Don't you think I have yellow skin?
Don’t you think I’m too young and too outrageous?
Don't you think I have no qualifications?

Don't you think I'm Chinese?

That doesn’t matter. Anyway, I make a nominated movie every year, so you have to see my young yellow Chinese face every year.

If you haven’t seen enough in one year, then watch it for two years. If you haven’t seen enough in two years, then watch it for three years.

If you don’t vote for me once, then twice. If you don’t vote for me twice, then three times. If you still don’t vote for me three times, then four times, five times, and six times.

In short, I want you to have seen enough of me and feel that it is time to vote for me. If you don’t vote for me, the audience all over the world will be unhappy.

At that time, you will naturally give me this award.

The "you" here refers to the thousands of judges of the Actors Guild.

The inspiration for this strategy comes from Leo in his previous life. As we all know, the year Leo won the award, the whole world was speechless.

Although there are still many people who do not approve of Leo's acting skills and think he is overdoing it, they have all shut up.

This is what is called "a best actor is born out of a debt."

The road to shirking one's responsibilities is not an easy one. It can even be said that, except Chen Nuo, no one can accomplish this in just a few years.

Because even being nominated for an Oscar isn’t easy.

Aunt Mei doesn't dare to say that she must have a seat at the Kodak Theater every year. But Chen Nuo is different.
Next year is 2009. In his previous life, Pan Chengrong would have settled in LA, and he would have started to live in the United States.

When I was studying language in the United States, Linda, the teacher in the language class, was a senior movie fan. She told us to go home and watch more movies to practice speaking. He watched quite a few movies for this purpose.

Moreover, the more award-winning films with more lines and slower plots, the more he will watch them.

After all, you can't learn vocabulary by watching action movies with lots of gunfights and ping-pong.

So, he knew that his memory of Oscar-winning films was pretty much the same.

This greatly increases his chances of making good movies and getting nominated for an Oscar.

He just didn't believe that he would sit in the Kodak Theater for five consecutive years and still not win an award! ?
So how can the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences convince the growing fan base it gains every year with commercial films?
Do you really think Edward and the Joker were played for nothing? When the fans go crazy, they can stab others besides him.

"We have to try anyway." Chen Nuo said with a shy expression, as if he had no confidence, "If we get lucky, we never know, right?"

Chen Nuo pretended to be a philanthropist abroad and couldn't adjust to the situation immediately after returning to China.

Ning Hao really thought he was joking, so he just laughed and stopped trying to persuade him. Instead, he encouraged him a lot.

That means it doesn't matter if you fail to be nominated for an Oscar or if your reputation flops, because you'll always have someone to make a living in China, Mr. Chen.

If it really doesn't work out, I, Ning Hao, will go back to my old ways and write a script about crazy racing, crazy barbarians, etc., and make some money from it to support the company. So, go for it without any worries.

Chen Nuo couldn't help but feel a little dazed for a moment. Wasn't it you, Ning Tudou, who first said that you wanted to make an art film?
Isn't it my turn to say what you are saying now?
……

……

The way the crew of "The Sound of the Wind" walked the Golden Horse red carpet was still the same as its premiere. The actors and actresses of all ages mingled together, laughing and greeting the audience as they walked.

In order to take care of some actors and directors who rarely walk the red carpet, and those three beautiful actresses who worked hard for several hours to put on makeup, so that they can fully show themselves on the red carpet of the Golden Horse Awards, one of the highest stages of Chinese-language films, and ensure that their hard work on makeup and custom-made clothes will not be in vain.

And to give Harry Winston a rare opportunity to show up in the East, Chen Nuo deliberately slowed down his pace this time, and walked leisurely at the end of the team.

That's right, according to the contract he signed with Winston, Harry Winston would provide him or his female companion with jewelry for free.

Although he had three female companions this time, Winston was not petty. He flew a team over from the United States and brought a safe full of jewelry for the three actresses to choose from.

Therefore, the three women on the red carpet were less seductive than in the previous music videos, but they were countless times more gorgeous.

Under the spotlight, the three girls wore exquisite diamond jewelry hand-crafted by Winston's top craftsmen. When these immortal stones complemented the beautiful faces of the three girls,
Only then can people understand,
Why this allotrope of carbon makes every woman in the world obsessed with it.

In addition to the three ladies, others including Ning Hao, Gao Qunshu, Huang Bo and Duan Yihong were also enjoying this level of cheering outside the mainland for the first time and were all very excited.

Seeing that Huang Bo was so outgoing, Chen Nuo actually took the initiative to walk to the fence and signed a few autographs for the movie fans in Taipei.

Chen Nuo suddenly felt that perhaps some of what Jiao Xiongping said sounded empty and like clichés, but in a sense, they were particularly correct.

At the banquet yesterday, she said, "Brother Chen Nuo, I am really happy that you can come. Not only do I know that there are many fans in Taiwan who want to see you, but also because this is a stage to honor Chinese-language films. If you, who won an Oscar this year, don't come, the 45th Golden Horse Awards will lose half of its meaning."

Chen Nuo felt that the second half of the sentence was not correct.

He agrees that the Golden Horse Awards, a makeshift team, seems to be a stage for many people to commend their work achievements, and it seems to really inspire many filmmakers to continue on this path.

However, he no longer needed encouragement.

So afterwards, whether he was entering the interview and photo-taking area, or answering questions from the hosts Sui Tang and Huang Zijiao, Chen Nuo didn't say anything. He just stood aside quietly, acting as a nobody.

"Don't you think you made Huang Zijiao a little embarrassed just now?" After taking her seat, Fan Binbing waved and greeted someone in the front row, while moving her lips slightly and said to Chen Nuo.

"Have it?"

"Yes. You don't like him?"

Chen Nuo looked at her strangely: "Am I very sentimental? Do I like everyone I meet?"

"So why are you so nice to Jay Chou? And why do you want to act in his music video?"

Chen Nuo said: "What do you mean? I see you are having a lot of fun acting today."

Fan Binbing rolled her eyes at him and said, "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't go. I might as well sleep two more hours."

Chen Nuo sighed and said, "Don't you have youth? Have you never heard his songs?"

"I do, and I quite like to hear it. But these are two different things. Don't say that you are giving face like this for the sake of your youth... Damn, Boss Chen, you are not right, are you?"

"Not what?"

"You don't want your sister to debut in China in the future, do you? She used to be an idol in Korea, right? Let her release a few of Jay Chou's Chinese songs?"

Chen Nuo frowned and said, "Nonsense."

Fan Binbing covered her mouth and said, "Wow, it's really like that! Jay Chou said he would give you three songs and give us one song each, right? There are six songs now, which can make up half of the album..."

She stared at Chen Nuo blankly, and suddenly smiled very charmingly. Her voice became sweet and sticky, and she said softly: "...Boss Chen, do you still need a sister? I really want a brother."

"roll."

Fan Binbing laughed and said, "What's wrong with you today? Why are you so cool? Oh, is it the mission given to you by Twilight City that requires you to always maintain the image of Edward?"

Damn, this vixen is really smart. Chen Nuo said calmly: "You think too much."

"Isn't it?" Fan Binbing's eyes flickered. "When we were walking on the red carpet just now, I felt that the last time we were in Cannes, you didn't ignore us as much as you did today. Your fans are about to break through the fence, and their voices are almost hoarse. I looked back at you several times, and it seemed that you didn't hear me."

Chen Nuo said unhappily: "Since you know this, why are you asking?"

Fan Binbing was stunned and asked, "What do I know?"

"I knew the fence was about to be breached. Did I want to die? Did I say hello to them at that time?"

Fan Binbing immediately showed an expression of not knowing whether to laugh or cry, but a sudden "puchi" laugh came from the other side of Chen Nuo.

Liu Xinyou really didn't know why she was laughing.

She was actually very nervous.

She never expected that she would sit next to him at the Golden Horse Awards.

Maybe it was because Feng Sheng was nominated for too many acting awards, so she, as the award presenter, could just make up the number and sat in a row with Feng Sheng, next to him.

The seats at the Taipei Chiang Kai-shek Auditorium, the venue for this year's Golden Horse Awards, are not very spacious.

When he sat down, his shoulder accidentally touched her arm, and then he immediately reacted and said sorry to her.

Liu Xinyou feels that she is not a love-brained person and she doesn’t like handsome guys that much.

So, she didn't expect that just an apologetic smile and a word of sorry could make her heart beat like this as a woman who was almost 27 years old.

After that, she kept wondering if she had said "it's OK" too quietly and he didn't hear it?

Or, should we speak Chinese?
Although he is good at English, he has never had an English name.

She had seen the report online and he had even confronted foreign reporters about this matter.

Then it is possible that he doesn't like speaking English.

When Chen Nuo and Fan Binbing were chatting, Liu Xinyou really didn't mean to eavesdrop, but she had no choice because of the seating arrangement.

His voice kept drilling into her ears without asking for her consent.

It's not the voice of a middle-aged man in The Dark Knight, nor is it the shrill boy's voice in Blueberry Nights. It's also very different from the deep voice of the vampire in Twilight this time.

Including the voices in those Chinese movies and TV series, they are all different.

But just like his appearance, he is very manly and has an indescribable magnetism.

It seems that even high-fidelity hi-fi speakers have their limits.

This kind of taste can only be known by hearing it with your own ears.

Listening to his conversation with Fan Binbing, Liu Xinyou found it very interesting. When she heard the last sentence, she couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Seeing Chen Nuo turn his head and look at her, Liu Xinyu's face and neck turned red, and she wished there was a crack in the ground for her to crawl into.

She thought her smile must look very strange, maybe as strange as the heroine in Twilight. She lowered her head and whispered, "Sorry, I didn't mean it."

“It’s OK.”

When the man, who was several years younger than her, smiled and repeated what she had said before.

At that moment, Liu Xinyou couldn't help but admit that her friends were right.

She can get really carried away sometimes.

Like now.

If the hosts of this year's Golden Horse Awards, Cheng Yuling and Chen Jianzhou, had not come out from behind the scenes at this time to announce the opening of this year's Golden Horse Awards, she would really have said something.

At least she had to say that, "Chen Nuo, I like you very much. I'm your big fan. Can you sign an autograph for me?"

　Thanks to the brothers who voted for the monthly ticket in the past two days.

　　Some of the names I see often,
　　Most of these were the first time I saw you, and it was also the first time I truly felt the reality of you.

　　Thank you.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)