Huayu: A Commercial Director

Chapter 364 The Golden Globe nominations are out, or is it a bet?

Foreign films are making a strong showing, with "Poseidon" grossing 1.57 million yuan on its opening day.

On the 11th, good news came from the Golden Globe Awards in the United States, and the entire domestic film and television industry focused its attention on Chen Shouzhe.

With nominations for Best Director, Best Actor, Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Screenplay, Chen Shouzhe instantly became the focus of the Chinese entertainment industry, making his second attempt at the Golden Globe Awards with five nominations, enjoying immense success.

However, since this is the second time, it hasn't caused as much of a stir. The film and television industry probably still has mixed feelings about his achievements, especially those veteran directors. They wonder how they feel about being surpassed by a comedian who came to the industry halfway through his career.

Meanwhile, the investors could only sigh. They watched helplessly as Chen Shou profited from the foreign films without giving them a single drop of soup. Of course, they still had to criticize China Film Group and Shanghai Film Group for their betrayal back then.

After a few lively days, with wave after wave of guests arriving at the horse farm, the 15th arrived in the blink of an eye, and Huang Bo's movie premiere press conference was held as scheduled.

The premiere was a large-scale event, spearheaded by Chen Shouzhe. The domestic film and television industry gave him a lot of face, and almost everyone who was invited attended.

The premiere was a grand affair. Despite the film's modest budget, the scale of the premiere made it clear to everyone present that Chen Shou was not only promoting Huang Bo, but also genuinely competing with foreign films.

Alibaba will also hold the premiere of Jiang Wen's movie tomorrow. The movie will be released on the 25th, directly competing with "Blue Star 2". Alibaba has already stated in its promotion that it will not be worse than the other movie and wants to prove that domestic movies are capable.

They made no attempt to recall their previous experience in Venice, where they had failed to harvest any ginger and were ridiculed by various media outlets.

Since it's still in the promotional stage, we can exaggerate it as much as possible. You wouldn't click on it if the headline wasn't a bit shocking.

Choosing the auditorium as the venue for the press conference, and naturally welcoming guests as the host to support Huang Bo, was a natural move.

There were so many media outlets invited today, they were packed tightly on both sides of the red carpet, it's safe to say that the publicity has been pushed to its absolute limit.

"This...is too much of a favor." Many celebrities who walked the red carpet discussed privately, and were taken aback when they entered the hall and saw Chen Shouzhe and Huang Bo personally greeting them.

"After all, they're competing with American blockbusters for money, so Director Chen has to stand up for Huang Bo and give him his support," someone next to him laughed.

"I really envy Huang Bo. He tried it out on a plane back then, and now he's a big director." Many actors envy Huang Bo. Seeing him standing next to Chen Shou, who wouldn't be envious?

Many famous directors were invited, and Chen Shouzhe received them one by one. After seeing Ning Hao and Xu Zheng inside, Chen Shouzhe smiled at Huang Bo and said, "We didn't have any contact with you?"

"We've been in contact for a while now." Huang Bo knew what Chen Shou was asking and said with a smile, without hiding anything.

"Aren't you tempted? Those people who join are all worth hundreds of millions. It's such a fast way to make money."

"You think it's free? Wong Kar-wai is now making TV dramas and web series. A film director who has fallen to that level and bowed to capital, if he had any demands, it would be almost impossible for him to go back. I heard that Director Zhang accepted it too," Huang Bo said in a low voice.

"Yeah, I've heard about it too, one after another, sigh~"

Chen Shou couldn't help but sigh. Making movies was indeed a tough business, and with the current volatile capital market, there would only be fewer and fewer people willing to make good movies.

Huanxi is clearly going to follow the old path of those people in Hong Kong and use the stock market's methods of exploiting retail investors.

The alliance of top directors is more about exploiting the talents of these directors.

If you can't make movies, can't get high box office returns, and can't stimulate the stock market, then go make money and make your financial statements look good.

Whoever pays the money, that's whose movie we'll make, we don't care if it's a TV series or a web series.

Chen Shouzhe didn't say anything about it. He continued to make his movies, and let them make web series if they wanted to.

At worst, they can ask Tencent for a few projects. After all, Tencent is currently cooperating with them to jointly develop IPs.

Penguin considered hiring Wuershan to film an online movie, and the conditions they offered were not low.

Now that big-name directors are willing to pay, why waste their fame? Their self-degradation has nothing to do with the company; on the contrary, it can be used to increase the value of their own intellectual property.

In a few years, these so-called big directors will lose their audience appeal and eventually become poison.

Huang Bo felt that staying under Shouzhe Film Industry was quite good. Chen Shouzhe imposed very few restrictions on them, and if they wanted to leave, they could do so at a small price.

However, leaving would mean the loss of all the resources Chen Shouzhe provided, such as the most important script.

Going to Huanxi can quickly acquire a batch of stocks, but there are many restrictions. It's like signing a betting agreement. Just look at Feng Xiaogang; he's already finished.

Joining Chen Shouzhe's company has one advantage: you can get scripts, you can get investment, and more importantly, Chen Shouzhe offers a lot of choices.

They can receive a salary, a share of the profits, and an investment stake.

For example, in the movie currently showing, Huang Bo has a 20% investment share, and he also has the authority to decide on the casting. Chen Shouzhe rarely interferes with the casting process, letting them handle the favors. If the movie does well, he will receive an extra bonus.

Much better than Baldy. Baldy had a falling out with Wang Baobao over pay, and in the third installment, he even kicked Wang Baobao out after working together on two films.

Huang Bo thought that he could talk to Baldy about box office revenue sharing or even investment because of his relationship with Baldy, but Baldy rejected him. Although the two met with smiles and even filmed a few movies together, their relationship could only be described in one word.

Brothers on the surface.

Almost everyone was invited. Before the movie even started, Chen Shou led the main cast onto the stage.

Several hundred people showed up, including over three hundred media personnel. However, these media personnel would leave after the premiere interviews, while people from the film and television industry would continue to attend the banquet, which would not end until around 2 PM.

"Thank you all for coming. Today is the ninth film produced by our company, marking the end of this year for Shouzhe Pictures. As for the achievements of other films, I won't mention them; everyone can see for themselves," Chen Shouzhe said, holding the microphone on stage.

The people in the audience had complicated expressions. In this year's film market, Chen Shouzhe still dominated. From "Candle in the Tomb" at the beginning of the year to Seattle, not counting the foreign film "The Departed", Shouzhe Pictures has indeed produced nine films.

With a box office of 13 billion yuan in the first half of the year, and the release of "Kung Fu Panda" in June, it has now grossed another 12 billion yuan. Not counting Huang Bo's film, the film market this year has just broken through 50 billion yuan, and Chen Shou has captured half of the film market.

As his company grew stronger, the practice of taking all the profits for himself became more and more common, exceeding 70%, a truly remarkable achievement.

Whether they are company bosses or entertainment stars, they are all impressed by Chen Shouzhe's words on stage.

At thirty, he dominates the domestic film and television industry; only world-class directors from abroad could make him take things so seriously.

"The domestic film market is getting bigger and bigger. Now a single release window can accommodate multiple films. I hope to see more excellent films in the future film market."

This year's Lunar New Year film season has many big releases, so I'll leave it to director Huang Bo. Next year, I'll bring out the first installment of Journey to the West to test the waters and prove that domestic films are capable. I'll then hand it over to director Huang Bo and let him discuss it with everyone.

Chen Shou put down the microphone and didn't linger on stage. He was indeed the screenwriter, but he mainly appeared on stage as the producer, leaving the rest of the stage to Huang Bo.

However, the audience was in chaos. Chan Sau-shun is going to put Journey to the West on the Lunar New Year film schedule next year, and with Operation Red Sea also involved, the second half of next year's film season is in danger.

Executives at various film and television companies are all figuring out how to schedule their films for next year to avoid the bombardment of Chen Shouzhe's blockbusters.

　Black Monkey is really fun, but also really difficult. I get motion sickness from 3D and can't play for too long. I mainly play it to see the CG. The story of Pigsy made me cry.

　　The battle between the Monkey King and Erlang Shen could easily be turned into a movie scene from the novel. You can imagine yourself in the game and enjoy the CG music.

　　Worth it!!!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)