China Entertainment 1997

In early December 2006, the 43rd Golden Horse Awards was held in Taiwan Province

"New World" won the "Best Picture", and the "Best Director" was won by Chen Kexin for "If Love".

After Sun Honglei failed in the Golden Statue, he finally proved himself in the Golden Horse. With the role of Ding Qing in "New World", he won the "Best Supporting Actor" and the "Best Supporting Female" was Xie Xinying.

It is worth mentioning that "Crazy Stone" was nominated for [Best Director], [Best Original Screenplay] and [Best Picture], but in the end it only won one [Best Original Screenplay].

As for "Painted Skin", although the final box office reached over 500 million, except for one Zhou Gongzi who was nominated for "Best Actress", it did not receive other important nominations. Basically, it was behind-the-scenes awards such as special effects, photography, and costumes.

The same treatment was given to "The Banquet", which basically did not receive any important nominations.

It’s normal for large-scale commercial productions that don’t have a deep storyline to be popular in terms of awards. Everyone knows that even if they are nominated, it will be difficult to compete with those films that are literary or drama-oriented.

This time too, the battle for the best actress ended with "Painted Skin" losing to "If Love".

But what is gratifying is that the nominees for both movies are Zhou Gongzi, who is left-handed and right-handed, but in the end the good news will not go to outsiders.

Zhou Gongzi also won the Golden Statue and Golden Horse Best Actress in one go this year with "If Love", becoming one of the few double Golden Best Actress in the Chinese film industry.

If we say the female artist gained the most momentum last year, it was the international chapter.

Won a gold statue, holding a gold statue + mainland Grand Slam Best Actress (Golden Rooster, Hundred Flowers, Huabiao), starring in "Memoirs of a Geisha" with a global box office exceeding 100 million US dollars, nominated for the Golden Globe Award, and entered Hollywood.

This year, after winning the Golden Horse and Golden Statue, Mr. Zhou starred in two major commercial productions that exceeded 100 million yuan. In particular, "Painted Skin" broke the 500 million box office box office, setting a new record in film history, and even eclipsed last year's international film.

After all, no matter how good "Memoirs of a Geisha" is, most domestic audiences will not be able to experience it, and "Painted Skin" broke the record of film history with a box office of 500 million, but it is actually right in front of them.

And considering that the reputation of the two movies is very different, the popularity of the actors is also quite different.

Therefore, even if the International Chapter enters Hollywood, many people still support Zhou Gongzi as the number one actress in the country, and the two have formed a double star competition.

Frankly speaking, the international chapter currently has more achievements and status.

The two of them are both double-golden actresses in awards, barely equal to each other. The box office performance of Mr. Zhou is obviously inferior, and the only ones that can win are "Painted Skin" and "The Night Banquet".

The international chapter has also acted in "The Banquet", the heroine of Lao Mouzi's "House of Flying Daggers", the second female lead in "Hero", which can barely be regarded as the starring role, as well as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Rush Hour 2" and "Memoirs of a Geisha" " and other Hollywood movies, the cumulative total box office is very high.

After entering Hollywood, her status in the industry and international influence have also increased.

Zhou Gongzi may not be far behind the international chapter in the Chinese film industry, but when it spreads overseas, it is a bit unsatisfactory.

But Jiujiang has a fatal flaw, that is, his popularity with the public is poor, and Mr. Zhou's popularity with the public is the strongest among the four major celebrities, even Hu Jing is a little worse.

After all, her acting skills are on display here. The biggest drawback is that she has too many love stories, but she is also upright, has a lovable personality, and does not like to be a monster. She is still very popular with the audience.

Hu Jing actually has no controversial points. She is not a monster, has good acting skills, has a cheerful and generous personality, and her works are of a certain standard. She is usually very low-key and has almost no negative news.

But most of her achievements are difficult to escape from Cao Xuan. Therefore, in the eyes of many people, Hu Jing relies on Cao Xuan to rise to the top, and luck and background are more important than strength.

It may not matter compared to others, but compared to a talented player like Mr. Zhou who relies purely on strength to kill, it is still a little worse.

A certain Zhao was supposed to be the best among the people, but because of various suicide attempts, he turned himself into a controversial figure.

So far, there are no major black spots in International Chapter, but there are constant minor problems, and there is no fandom experience in several other Hua Dan TV series, resulting in the least number of fans and extremely low popularity among the public.

Many people may recognize her acting skills and achievements, but they just don't have much positive impression of her.

Not to mention among the four great dandies, even if all the four dandies were combined, she would be considered at the bottom...

But in this situation of competing for status in the industry, in addition to personal resume, popularity is the top priority.

Without enough loyal fans and widespread approval from passers-by, it would be extremely difficult to become the leader.

Therefore, even if the International Chapter's achievements are higher, in the eyes of the domestic Internet and even some media, Mr. Zhou is the one that everyone hopes for.

Even if Hu Jing can win one of the three best actresses, International Chapter will have to add another strong enemy.

Zhou Gongzi, who had two nominations, won the Best Actress award strongly. However, Cao Xuan, who was regarded as the favorite for this year's Golden Horse Best Actor Award, unexpectedly lost to "Father and Son"'s Guo Xuan. King of heaven.

And Cao Xuan did not attend the award ceremony because he had to deal with his grandma's funeral, which added to the topic of the matter.

Sure enough, after the Golden Horse Awards ceremony, the actor's upset caused an uproar and became the first headline of this year's Golden Horse Awards.

Many people felt grievances for Cao Xuan.

After all, "New World" is as famous as "Infernal Affairs", and even surpassed it by a large margin at the box office. It is regarded as one of the pinnacles of Hougang films in the new century.

Back then, Liang Chaowei won the Golden Horse and Golden Statue Best Actor in "Infernal Affairs", and this year Cao Xuan should be regarded as the favorite for the Best Actor in both awards.

Especially at the Academy Awards in April this year, Cao Xuan made an unprecedented breakthrough in history and became the first non-Hong Kong Best Actor. This made everyone believe that Cao Xuan would win the Golden Horse again and become the first in the history of the Chinese film industry. Three golden movie kings.

As a result, the Golden Horse Awards were a big upset.

In an instant, various conspiracy theories emerged one after another. Some people revealed that Cao Xuan was canceled as Best Actor because he did not come to accept the award. Some even suspected that the Golden Horse Awards did not want mainland actors to receive a grand slam, so they deliberately suppressed Yun Yun.

The Golden Horse Awards organizing committee was forced to issue an explanation and clarification, but it still did not calm the outside discussion.

This year's Golden Horse Awards are destined to become a huge awards controversy in its history...

As for the results of the Golden Horse Awards, Cao Xuan has never responded.

Award selection is inherently subjective and it is indeed difficult to say clearly. After all, he did a good job in "New World", but Guo Tianwang's performance in "Father and Son" was definitely not bad either.

Popular hits are upset every year. Cao Xuan has upset others and others.

The key thing is that Cao Xuan learned from various sources that the Golden Horse Awards did not deliberately suppress him. It can only be said that this year's judges prefer literary films.

The several important awards are basically for literary and artistic films, and almost all commercial films have failed. New World can only win "Best Picture" and "Best Supporting Actor".

Cao Xuan would definitely not want to be fucked by the shady, but he was not someone who couldn't afford to lose normally.

Moreover, at this time, compared to the death of his grandma, it is really difficult for Cao Xuan to devote much energy to the loss of the Golden Horse. Even if he won the three-gold Grand Slam, he would not be happy.

From beginning to end, Cao Xuan ignored Jinma's problem. Apart from accompanying his parents and taking care of the Empress of the West Palace, he put all other work aside for the time being.

If it weren't for seeing Sun Lan and his wife looking at Zeng Li's slightly swollen belly and feeling in good spirits, which dispelled a lot of the sadness of his grandma's death, Cao Xuan would have even declined the invitation from the director of this year's Spring Festival Gala.

At the same time, Cao Xuan also missed this year's American Music Awards and Billboard Awards again due to this matter.

However, the two awards did not ignore him.

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The album "Legend" dominated the Billboard charts for almost the entire first half of 2006.

It has topped the singles Hot 100 chart for 24 weeks and the album Top 200 chart for 19 weeks. A total of 6 songs have been on the chart for more than 50 weeks.

Among them, “Rolling in the Deep” topped the charts for 10 weeks, second only to “Sugar”’s 11 weeks.

These two songs are also Cao Xuan's only two songs that have topped the Billboard singles chart for 10+ weeks.

At the same time, Cao Xuan also became the first male singer in Billboard history to have two songs top the singles chart for ten weeks. Before that, only female singers or groups such as Sister Niu and the Black Eyed Peas had this achievement.

"What are words" won the championship for 6 weeks, "Roar" and "Skin" won the championship for 3 weeks respectively, and "Monsters" broke out for the last time, winning the championship for a total of 2 weeks.

The previous album "Release" topped the singles chart for 13 weeks and the album chart for 6 weeks.

24+13=37

19+6=25

Purely calculating sales, the album chart with less gold content is placed in the average. Cao Xuan's number of weeks on the Billboard singles chart is exactly 37 weeks, which is exactly the same as Michael Jackson's record.

Although this is not the first time that Cao Xuan has equaled or even surpassed Michael Jackson's achievements or records, every time a similar situation occurs, there is still a lot of media hype.

Especially in Asia, it is difficult to compare several top-level bands. The one with the highest reputation and greatest influence is Michael Jackson.

Comparing Cao Xuan with Michael Jackson can allow many readers and people to feel Cao Xuan's achievements most intuitively.

The album "Legend" has been on the charts since January, with the first song taking the top spot in February. At its peak, all the songs from the album were on the charts, ranking first on both charts, with 8 songs ranking in the top ten at the same time, a single album dominating the list. Ranked in the top five of the Billboard Singles Chart, and dominated the Billboard Singles Chart for nearly two months, breaking records one after another...

Throughout the first half of 2006, the European and American music scene was basically in the shadow of "Legend".

It was not until August that the popularity of the album subsided, no song won the championship again, and the ranking gradually declined. Only then did the American music scene, which had been suppressed for more than half a year, barely return to normal.

In the words of the editor-in-chief of Billboard Magazine——

"Cao's talent is incredible, and the achievements of "Legend" need no elaboration. There is no doubt that it is the greatest album of the 21st century and even the greatest album in the history of pop music, just like the name of the album. , it’s a legend.”

Not to mention, the sales performance of "Legend" is terrifying. It only took about half a year to exceed 20 million sales, becoming the recognized global annual sales champion in 2006.

As of the end of 2006, "Legend" had sold almost 27 million+, surpassing the masterpieces of Linkin Park and Jones Nora.

Among the albums after the new century, the only ones ahead of it are The Beatles' new century greatest hits album and Eminem's peak album with sales of 30 million+.

Judging from the current trend, it is hard to say whether it can surpass these two albums, but there is a high chance that the total album sales will exceed 30 million.

"Legend" is destined to become a palace-level album in the history of world pop music.

Under such circumstances, it no longer matters whether Cao Xuan is Chinese or not. If any music award dares to ignore "Legend", it will be throwing his credibility to the ground.

So regardless of whether Cao Xuan came to receive the award or not, he was very effective in both awards.

Among them, Cao Xuan defeated the popular American queen Blige in the Billboard Awards and won [Artist of the Year], [Male Vocalist of the Year], [Album of the Year], [Single of the Year], and [Best Song of the Year]. Popular Single] 5 important awards.

The most pitiful person is the new singer Chris Brown, the ex-boyfriend of Rihanna who is said to be 25 centimeters tall.

The singer performed well this year and won three important awards in the original time and space, but now that Cao Xuan is there, he was completely crushed and only won one [Best Newcomer].

It is worth mentioning that Rihanna won [Female Vocalist of the Year] at this year’s Billboard Awards, and I don’t know if the two became friends at this time.

It is worth mentioning that due to various reasons, the Billboard Awards intends to suspend the event starting next year, and the original time and space will not be restored until 2011.

Cao Xuan had an early start. If the album is released a year later, it will be five years before he wants to win this award.

Cao Xuan was the big winner at the Billboard Awards, and the American Music Awards were also full of gains.

Since the American Music Awards largely consider sales, that is to say whoever sells more will be more likely to win the award, which happens to be Cao Xuan’s strengths.

[Most Popular Pop/Rock Male Singer], [Most Popular Pop/Rock Album], [Most Breakthrough Artist Award].

It's a pity that the United States prefers classification and awards awards according to pop, rock, soul, rap, dance, country, etc. Otherwise, Cao Xuan would have won all the important awards in one go.

Prior to this, Cao Xuan had been nominated for the American Music Awards many times, but had never won. It was not until this year that he won 3 awards, finally collecting all three major pop awards in the United States.

Among them, 6 Grammys, 3 American Music Awards, 5 Billboards this year, and 2 last time for "Release", bringing the total to 7, plus 2 Brit Awards.

Cao Xuan's awards would be envied by a large number of European and American singers.

The most important thing is that this year’s Grammy and Brit Awards haven’t even started yet.

The extraordinary performance of "Legend" has made everyone think that Cao Xuan is the favorite for Grammy this year, and he is also expected to win several Brit Awards.

To paraphrase the Los Angeles Times, Cao Xuan’s music trophy this year can be packed in a sack, and he will be soft-hearted when it comes to winning real awards...

Originally, Cao Xuan's fans were aggrieved because of his loss at the Golden Horse Awards, and many good friends also thought of calling to comfort Cao Xuan.

As a result, I saw a steady stream of news about winning awards from overseas, and all the words were swallowed in my stomach.

I haven’t even left the country yet, so maybe someone will comfort whom!

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On December 21, "A City Full of Golden Armor" will be released

Still continuing the fate of Chen and Feng, Lao Mouzi was scolded.

I feel that apart from the acting skills of Fa Ge and Gong Li, the only thing worthy of praise in the movie is the dense... waves on the screen, so the movie is also nicknamed "The City is Full of Big XX".

But there is one thing to say. Compared with "The Promise" and "The Banquet", this movie is not that bad. Although it is not a classic, it still has a lot of merits.

However, the reputation of Lao Mouzi's films in the past two years has been extremely controversial, with some approving and others disdainful. As a result, the evaluations of "The City of Golden Armor" are also very different.

However, despite this, because "The Promise" is really too disappointing, although Lao Mouzi's new work does not have a high reputation, it can really make a comeback.

The same as the endings of many big productions, although "The Golden Armor" has inconsistent reputations, its box office performance is excellent, and not average.

The box office in its first week exceeded 100 million, becoming the second movie after "Painted Skin" to do so in its first week.

Although the subsequent performance is not as lasting as "Painted Skin", it is not like "The Promise" that immediately collapsed after the first week, and the stamina is still sufficient.

In the second week, it was almost 70 million. In the third week, although it was only 40 million, it was approved for extension, but it was slightly less than "Painted Skin" and was only postponed for 20 days.

But even so, if this momentum continues, "The City of Gold" has a high chance of exceeding 300 million at the box office.

This is not surprising. The film "Original Time and Space" has a box office of 290 million. Now that there are Star Cinemas, the market size has increased.

Although Cao Xuan doesn't like the new boss Zhang, he has a good relationship with Lao Mouzi. The director of "Three Kingdoms·Red Cliff" alone has to give him face.

Besides, there are no movies to be released in Fanxing in December, so the movies that can make money will definitely be given priority.

Unless Cao Xuan gives special instructions, Fanxing Cinemas will make normal arrangements and will definitely not target this movie. They will even increase resources to earn more box office.

After all, according to the cooperation of the movie "The City of Gold", theaters can only share about 52% of the total box office in the mainland of 300 million+.

Fanxing Cinemas is currently slightly ahead of the New Film Alliance, ranking second in the mainland. Its theaters and screens account for between 10% and 15% of the total mainland theater market, and all of them are high-quality theaters.

As I said before, theater chains cannot be calculated simply by the number of theaters/screens.

Especially in 2006, the market had not yet sunk, and the box office available in third- and fourth-tier cities and lower towns was extremely limited.

Many times, the annual box office of a large theater in Beijing or Shanghai will even exceed the total box office of theaters in one or more prefecture-level cities.

Fanxing Cinema Chain has dozens of theaters, most of which are located in second-tier cities or above. There may not be many theaters in a few large theater chains, but the box office data has always been at the forefront.

The movie "A City of Golden Armor" is expected to earn a box office of 300 million+, many of which are in northern and second-tier cities, which is exactly the focus of the official Star Cinema chain.

I can’t say how much Fanxing Cinemas earned from this movie, but it’s estimated to be around 20 to 30 million.

With the gradual rise of Fanxing Cinemas, Cao Xuan is no longer limited to the movies of Fanxing Entertainment. Under the premise of competition in different periods, he hopes that more and more high-box office movies will appear.

After all, the higher the box office, the more money he makes.

The total box office in 2006 exceeded 3.2 billion yuan, an increase of nearly 1 billion yuan compared with last year.

Although almost half of this is brought about by "Painted Skin", it can also be seen that the domestic market is continuing to soar.

According to the 50% to 55% share of the theaters, these 3.2 billion theaters can share at least 1.7 billion.

With its second-ranked cinema chain and high-quality cinemas, Fanxing Cinemas is the main box office driver. The 1.7 billion is expected to be divided between 15% and 20%. When converted, it is about 300 million.

Except for very special circumstances, the theaters owned by Fanxing Cinemas are basically self-built and self-operated. In other words, they own the theaters and the land.

This is also the reason why the investment of Fanxing Cinemas is relatively high. Other cinemas only pay for decoration, equipment and labor. Fanxing Cinemas buys the land to build it itself or buys the building and converts it into a cinema. Naturally, the cost is not at the same level.

However, although the cost is high, the benefits are also many.

One is that it can save rent. If all theaters are rented, the rent for dozens of theaters in first- and second-tier cities and above can easily reach tens of millions a year, and the price continues to skyrocket.

This year it will be tens of millions, and in a few years, it may reach hundreds of millions...

After all, many Star Cinemas are located in urban business districts or central areas. The rents are so high and the changes are so fast that Boss Cao grinds his teeth after seeing them.

Or are they ruthless in making money? ! !

Nowadays, most of Fanxing Cinemas’ theaters are self-operated and self-built. The theater chain can save on rent, which is a major expense, and its annual profits will be even more impressive.

Moreover, the house and land in hand are important assets. Fanxing Cinemas has a very high evaluation, and can also borrow money from banks, which is something that many cinemas cannot do.

Not to mention the future appreciation space of these land and houses. In the core areas of first- and second-tier cities, no matter how high the investment is now, you will not lose money if you spend this money.

When Fanxing first started to develop, some people still laughed at Cao Xuan. After all, he came from a rural area, had low vision and lacked courage. Now we are looking at 2007, and domestic housing prices have begun to rise.

Seeing that the overall market value of Fanxing Cinemas continues to skyrocket because it is self-built and self-operated, many people have begun to shut up. It is estimated that in a few years, they will regret it and slap themselves in the mouth.

If this group of people knew that Cao Xuan had already stockpiled a batch of buildings or land suitable for building theaters in many cities at low prices, they would probably die of soreness...

With the development of the mainland film market, Star Cinema’s revenue of 300 million this year is just the beginning.

Not to mention anything else, as long as it continues to increase its weight and kill the current market share of more than 10%, from now on Fanxing Cinemas will be a large enterprise that generates tens of digits in revenue every year and has a market value of tens of billions.

It's a pity that he can't copy Wanda's business model, and he doesn't want to copy it, otherwise he will directly stop Wanda's path and make Star Cinema a leader in the industry.

However, Cao Xuan's goal is the cultural industry, not commercial real estate. It is enough to have Fanxing Cinemas. He does not want to become Lao Wang.

However, you can still learn from each other by showing off.

We are very familiar with Cao Xuan from ordinary families, and are even good friends. We often visit and have dinner together. When Xiao Ma was getting married two years ago, he was also the best man.

I have met Jack Ma a few times, and he speaks quite mysteriously, but I have never heard that he regrets starting Alibaba. Brother Dong is not familiar with him, and I have only met him once. I did not realize that he is face-blind, but he recognized King Cao at a glance. Very affectionate attitude.

JD.com is currently short of money, and Cao Xuan is one of the top investors in the Internet. He has money and a good reputation.

Cao Xuan has passed all the big bosses, but Lao Wang has never had the opportunity to meet him. He really wants to meet him to see if 500 million is not a medium value to Lao Wang today.

There is also Mr. Wang. In terms of age, seniority and financial strength, although Boss Cao is only a dozen years older than him, it is not too much to call him a nephew.

Not to mention, Cao Xuan was quite looking forward to seeing his eldest nephew see him...

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