China Entertainment King of Science Fiction

Chapter 499 Gift Video Debt Collection

"Hey, Mr. Jiang is such a rare visitor. I'm not prepared for this, but the boss is laughing at me."

Chen Jingxing hurried to the reception room, shook hands with Jiang Ruoping, general manager of Guoying, and invited him to his office.

Jiang Ruoping does not look like a state cadre, but a somewhat polite intellectual wearing glasses.

This is also related to his background. He is also a filmmaker, and he graduated from the Yangtze River Opera. He worked as a screenwriter and a producer, and later became the deputy director of the Yangzhou Opera.

After Qin Zhonghe retired, Guoying ushered in a new chairman and general manager, and he is the new general manager.

However, even though I have been in office for more than a year, I really haven’t had much interaction with Chen Jingxing.

It is undeniable that after Qin Zhonghe stepped back, although the relationship between Guoyin and DreamWorks was still considered good, the somewhat close personal relationship obviously no longer existed.

Jiang Ruoping looked at Chen Jingxing's spacious office, especially the huge floor-to-ceiling windows and the sunshine and green outside the window, and shook his head: "This is not a joke, it's time for me to see more. I have been to so many film companies, even

We have also inspected the major Hollywood studios, and your DreamWorks headquarters is still the most magnificent."

Chen Jingxing kept being modest: "It's mainly because I'm willing to spend money. In terms of background, there is still a gap between DreamWorks and several other big companies in China."

After all, DreamWorks is not a company that aims to produce art films.

This trip was not only to visit Chen Jingxing, but also to prepare the relationship between the two families to return to the honeymoon period when Qin Zhonghe was in power. Jiang Ruoping talked with Chen Jingxing for a long time and finally revealed the purpose of this visit.

As the general manager of National Film Group, Jiang Ruoping is also under performance pressure, and he is also very greedy for such box office results.

What is this concept?

The blockbusters invested by National Film Group themselves, including blockbusters with main theme themes such as "Eagle Attack" and "The Founding of the Army", have not achieved very good results, and their reputation has also suffered.

As the leader of domestic studios, China Film has a large portfolio and a wide range of business, but so far all blockbusters that have entered the 3 billion club have been jointly produced with DreamWorks.

The box office forecast for "WALL-E" on the ticket purchasing platform is 3.45 billion.

And 3 billion is the domestic box office. He is also paying attention to the overseas performance of "Wall-E". The overseas box office has reached a cumulative US$320 million.

However, Chen Jingxing and Universal Pictures later reviewed the situation and found that this was normal.

Naturally, Tian Xinye and Zhang Yi were inevitably disappointed.

"District 9", which has received high-profile nominations for several major awards, ran almost the entire process and only won Best Original Screenplay and Best Art Direction.

The three films "Gravity", "The Martian" and "Operation Red Sea" were all produced in cooperation with DreamWorks.

As for other conservative and xenophobic ideas that cannot be brought to the table, they must also have an impact.

"Inception" won Best Sound Editing.

"...Congratulations to "Wall-E" for its box office exceeding 3 billion. An animated film has finally appeared in the top ten of our country's box office rankings. This was something I couldn't even imagine before."

Of course, the Best Original Screenplay was awarded by Chen Jingxing and the head of the writing team of "District 9" on stage together. It can be regarded as Chen Jingxing's second Best Original Screenplay.

At the Oscar Awards ceremony that just passed, although DreamWorks had three films nominated, it still had no big gains and only won three technical awards.

Fortunately, China Film still has enough capital to attract DreamWorks in terms of theaters, distribution and other political advantages.

On the other hand, "Inception" and "District 9" were both shortlisted for Best Original Screenplay, so it seems a bit unreasonable not to award it to Chen Jingxing.

Mainly because "District 9" was released too early.

And this is almost the best opportunity for DreamWorks to get involved in the Oscar for Best Picture or Acting Award.

For an animated film to reach this level, the response in the country is no less than that of "Spike II".

This thing, just like political correctness and anti-political correctness, will rebound.

In a sense, Chen Jingxing has won more awards at home and abroad for screenwriting, and has firmly established himself as the number one screenwriter in the country.

For a "union" award where thousands of judges vote, this is actually a pretty important factor.

After the two talked about the Oscars, Jiang Ruoping talked about the box office of "WALL-E".

Even if they have already won the Cannes Palme d'Or and Best Actor trophies, the Palme d'Or is not inferior to Oscar recognition in terms of popularity and authority, but people are always dissatisfied.

It’s not that the Oscar is so valuable, it’s just like collecting stamps. Who doesn’t want to earn more achievement points?

Most movies that aim to win the Olympics usually choose to be released in the fourth quarter, or at least the third quarter, of the previous year.

The global box office of "Kung Fu Panda" was only US$830 million.

Through the successful lobbying and marketing efforts of DreamWorks and Universal in 2016, the academy's recruitment and expansion included female judges, Asian judges and other more international and diversified judges, which radically pushed "Gravity" and Chen Jingxing to the throne.

There are also peripheral development and copyright income. Even as the big housekeeper of National Film, Jiang Ruoping feels a little dizzy.

In the past, it was DreamWorks that rode the boat of China Film, but now it is China Film that rides on the boat of DreamWorks.

Seeing this young man in front of me achieve such an achievement even in an animated movie, one cannot help but feel that "the gap between people is too big".

Seeing that the global box office of "Wall-E" is hitting 900 million or even higher.

Because the nomination list is announced in January, the judges are still fresh in their minds about the film that has just been screened. From the time the nominations are announced to the eve of the awards, the producers still have time to win a vote from the Oscar judges.

The box office of "Wall-E" finally crossed the 3 billion mark, temporarily ranking ninth in the Chinese movie box office rankings. Although it is 200 million less than the 3.2 billion "Tang Detective III", the gap of 200 million is very fast.

You can overtake it.

Including the domestic 3 billion, which is 440 million U.S. dollars, the global box office has reached 770 million U.S. dollars.

No wonder former chairman Qin Zhonghe appreciates this young man so much.

Jiang Ruoping seemed to want to contact Chen Jingxing to establish a relationship, and was not in a hurry to get to the point: "What is the heritage? Is it just a long history? I think the rows of golden trophies in your showcase downstairs are the heritage.

Although National Film Group also invested in "Tang Detective III", its share was not high and it was not as good as DreamWorks.

The last time it was won was with "The Matrix" two years ago.

Perhaps the domestic revenue of National Film Group is not inferior to that of DreamWorks, but combined with overseas revenue, the only ones that can rival DreamWorks are the major Hollywood studios.

Then there will naturally be a rebound.

The closer a movie is released to the end of the year, the higher its chances of being nominated and winning.

It is enough to rank second in the box office list, surpassing the 3.43 billion of "The Matrix II" and the 3.41 billion of "Gravity".

Second only to the box office record of 4.37 billion set by "Spike II".

You can win several Oscars for our Chinese films every year, isn’t this your heritage?”

"District 9" was released in May last year, and it has been a long time since Oscar voting began. Even though Universal Pictures has tried its best to hype it up, it still can't match the buzz of several Oscar-winning films released at the end of the year.

There are still quite a lot of old white men in the academy, and there are not a few who are unhappy with Universal Pictures inviting a wolf into the house, turning their elbows outward, and supporting DreamWorks, a foreign film company.

Now the two companies are completely different from each other.

Oscar, a century-old award, has long had a set of effective rules of the game.

"Movie plan?" Chen Jingxing was a little surprised: "The Korean War tribute film should start in the year after next, right? There is plenty of time, do we need to prepare it now?"

It turns out that Jiang Ruoping is here to "collect debts."

As a tribute to the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, DreamWorks has "The Wandering Earth" and "Spike III".

However, the project to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Korean War has not yet been approved.

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