Huayu: Starting from Fahrenheit

Chapter 395, "Those Bygone Years," begins its promotional campaign.

In addition to major music awards, Wu Zhuo also won awards in film this year.

In early March, the Hong Kong Film Awards announced its nominees.

Wu Zhuo was nominated for Best Newcomer for his role as Abang in "Connected" and for Best Actor for his role as Asheng in "Painted Skin".

Two films starring Wu Zhuo last year were nominated for two major awards.

This made Wu Zhuo a highly anticipated figure at this year's Hong Kong Film Awards.

There is widespread speculation that Wu Zhuo may become the first actor to win both Best Newcomer and Best Actor.

However, Wu Zhuo himself felt that he probably had no chance of winning Best Actor.

A very simple truth.

While Wu Zhuo's performance in "Painted Skin" was commendable, it paled in comparison to the other nominees for Best Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards.

The nominees for Best Actor this year are Nick Cheung for "The Witness", Tony Leung for "Red Cliff Part I", Louis Koo for "A Good Dad", and Simon Yam for "Sparrow".

Although the box office performance of these actors' films was only average, their acting skills were all quite remarkable.

Wu Zhuo himself felt that there was little chance of success.

As for the Best Newcomer award, Wu Zhuo is almost certain to win it.

It's mid-April now.

Filming for "Ip Man," which took nearly four months, has finally wrapped up.

The production team organized a wrap party that all the actors attended.

"Zhaozai, do you have any availability for the second half of the year? Let's collaborate again!"

At the wrap party, Raymond Wong was very happy and kept drinking with Ng Cheuk.

He was indeed happy.

Immediately after filming wrapped on "Ip Man," several foreign film distribution companies approached the company, wanting to buy the international distribution rights for the film.

Even Universal Pictures from Europe and America approached them.

The fact that the movie had such a strong appeal even before its release is certainly not because of the large IP of "Ip Man".

It's mainly Wu Zhuo's fame.

Chinese action films already have a certain influence in the international market.

Now that Wu Zhuo has joined the cast, a large number of distribution companies have come knocking on the door as soon as "Painted Skin" finished filming.

Raymond Wong made a preliminary estimate.

As long as the word-of-mouth isn't too bad, given the current situation, "Ip Man" will definitely make money for him.

He had seen the quality of the movie.

It can only be described as very impressive.

Based on Raymond Wong's experience, the chances of this film flopping are very low.

Since collaborating with Ng Cheuk can be profitable, Raymond Wong naturally wants to collaborate more often.

As for Wu Zhuo, he was too busy, which caused the production team to wait for him for almost half a year.

This was not a problem at all in his eyes.

As long as it makes money, this is not a problem at all.

"Mr. Huang, I'm afraid it won't work this year. I have a concert tour in the second half of the year and I also need to prepare a new album."

In addition, Legendary Pictures also has a new movie in the works.

I probably don't have the time.

But rest assured, we'll definitely cooperate again next time we have the opportunity.

Wu Zhuo raised his glass and explained his situation.

He didn't have much to do this year.

However, the few things that are available are all major events and require a great deal of time.

He no longer has enough time to take on more roles.

In addition, last year he took on a bunch of roles due to planning issues, and almost couldn't keep up with the workload.

This ultimately led to rumors that he was arrogant and difficult to work with.

Therefore, he does not plan to take on any more roles this year.

His work this year includes:
A global tour is a project that requires a long timeframe and can take several months to complete.

Then he will also be starring in "The Founding of a Republic". After that, he will definitely be preparing a new album.

In addition, Legendary Pictures will definitely be preparing a new film.

With so many things going on, he no longer has time to go out and take on acting roles.

"That's it!"

Upon hearing Wu Zhuo's words, Raymond Wong expressed some regret, saying, "I thought we could continue to work together! What a pity!"

"There's a chance."

Wu Zhuo smiled and clinked glasses with him.

……

On April 19th, Legendary Pictures' "Fleet of Time" finally completed all its work and set a release date.

After discussion, Wu Zhuo and others decided to release "Fleet of Time" during the May Day holiday, when there was less competition.

Unfortunately, several films have already been scheduled for release this summer.

All of them are imported blockbusters.

Ice Age 3, Transformers 2, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and so on.

These are just the films with confirmed release dates; more films will definitely be added later.

With such fierce competition, even with Wu Zhuo at the helm, "Fleet of Time" dared not take too many risks.

Therefore, everyone unanimously decided to release it on May Day.

However, this time slot should not be underestimated.

The films "City of Life and Death" and "Wolverine" are the biggest rivals of "Fleet of Time".

In order to gain an advantage in the competition during this period.

Also to make Legendary Pictures' first film famous.

Starting on the 20th, the production team of "Fleet of Time" began a series of promotional activities.

Of course, the focus of the publicity was still on Wu Zhuo.

Because he's the most famous.

Starting from the 21st, Wu Zhuo took on the important task of publicity and began traveling all over the country.

During this period, he attended every award he was nominated for, whether it was a music or film award, in order to increase the exposure of the film.

Especially at the Hong Kong Film Awards, after Wu Zhuo won Best New Performer, he asked the reporters he knew to help promote "Fleet of Time" during a backstage interview.

Compared to last year's "Painted Skin" and "Red Cliff", the promotional scale of "Fleet of Time" is obviously not as large.

This has nothing to do with how powerful the investors are, nor with the cast.

Rather, it's related to film investment.

The total investment for "Fleet of Time" was only over 30 million yuan, and the publicity budget was only a little over 5 million yuan.

This is something that simply cannot be achieved by investing in such a large market.

It was precisely because of Wu Zhuo's involvement that many media outlets spontaneously promoted him; otherwise, the promotion would have been much more difficult.

On April 22, "City of Life and Death" was released.

The film achieved remarkable box office success after its release, grossing 30 million yuan in its opening week.

The strong performance of "Nanjing Nanjing" put a lot of pressure on the "Fleet of Time" production team.

In order to prevent the film from being suppressed upon release, Wu Zhuo chose to release the theme song from "Fleet of Time".

The production team released two versions: one is the male version sung by Wu Zhuo, and the other is the female version sung by Liu Shishi.

Wu Zhuo put in a lot of effort to help Liu Shishi sing this song well.

Liu Shishi was brought to tears because Wu Zhuo forced her to practice singing every day.

She even cried and said she would never sing again.

However, Liu Shishi was forced by Wu Zhuo to declare that she would never sing again.

But her version of "Fleet of Time" is still very good.

In addition, there's Wu Zhuo's version.

As soon as the two versions of the song were released on online platforms, they immediately took the top two spots on the new song charts.

(End of this chapter)