Director’s Legend

Time flies by quietly, whether it is "The Voice of China" dominating the ratings, or "Step by Step" igniting the palace feud, or the promotion of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" in full swing, or the constant scandals during the filming of "Adolescence", Even when Ma Tianyu's new album "Ten Colors of Yuguang" started to hit the charts, he was drowned in the hustle and bustle of the mainland entertainment industry.

In North America, the first episode of "The Big Bang Theory" has already begun to air. It was bought by Columbia TV station in the form of a ratings share. Although it hired actors who were not well-known, it still attracted a lot of attention with its creative story content. With fewer viewers, the ratings are rising.

And "Dance My Life" set off a storm. At a cost of more than 10 million, it won a miraculous box office of 65 million US dollars in North America and became another dark horse movie. Although part of the film copyright revenue was divided between Touchstone and Offspring due to original filming problems, Summit Entertainment still received a share of approximately 10 million yuan, which slightly alleviated the financial pressure.

The filming of "The Twilight Saga: Twilight" is progressing very quickly. It started shooting in July and was completed in October. After about two months of post-production, it will be released in the Christmas season.

All the progress of the companies under Dream Chasing Entertainment is going smoothly.

The release of the co-productions "Source Code" and "Painted Skin" in Europe also caused quite a stir. After all, "Source Code" took too long and only received about US$1,500 at the box office, making "Source Code" a success. Enter the $100 million global box office club.

"Painted Skin" took in 38 million US dollars at the box office, pushing the global box office of "Painted Skin" to 1.7 billion yuan.

These two movies. It also brought about more than 30 million yuan in income to Shao Shuaijun.

Shao Shuaijun's filming on the crew of "The Night Watcher" has also entered a period of high speed. The Hollywood film industry is different from the mainland. The shooting here is more institutionalized. The standard working hours are eight hours a day. When the time is up, the staff will automatically leave work without saying hello.

Of course, if you are willing to pay high overtime wages, they are also willing to work overtime.

As the protagonist Jack Jihahir, he was very dedicated at this time. Jumping off buildings, fighting hand to hand. They are all willing to try. Under Dong Wei's training, he has almost become an action master. In order to shoot different styles of architecture, the crew also traveled back and forth to more than a dozen cities. No 3D shots. Shooting becomes easy and smooth.

The original ten minutes of imax footage. Increased to fifteen minutes. Filming will be concentrated in the next phase.

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Fast forward to this day, on October 28, 2006, Shao Shuaijun appeared in Lin'an City, a paradise on earth with the beautiful scenery of the West Lake. Today is the day of the awards ceremony of the 15th China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival. The Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival has a long history. It was formed from the merger of the Golden Rooster Award and the Hundred Flowers Award. It rotates once a year. This year’s award is the Hundred Flowers Award.

Two films related to Shao Shuaijun, "33 Days of Love" and "Painted Skin", were both nominated for the Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award. "33 Days After Love" was shortlisted for only one nomination, which was Liu Shishi's nomination for Best Newcomer. "Painted Skin" was shortlisted for three nominations: Film Award, Best Director, and Best Actress (weekly news).

This time Shao Shuaijun came back to attend the awards ceremony, and the officials specially greeted him, hoping to use his current popularity to add authority to the film festival. At the same time, Shao Shuaijun will also be responsible for awarding the Best Newcomer Award. If it weren't for the above greeting, Shao Shuaijun would not have attended this award ceremony at all.

Needless to say, the best picture is either "Cheung Side" or "Yen Changxia". Anyway, it will not escape these two main theme movies. Not to mention the best director, it has been rumored that the director of "Zhang Side" is Yin Li. This is the reason why mainland film awards have low authority. As long as it is a main theme film, it is basically guaranteed to win the award.

If impartiality cannot be guaranteed, how can it be authoritative? Apart from sensationalism, I don’t see the point of such a film festival.

The first award at the award ceremony was the Best Newcomer Award. Shao Shuaijun wore simple casual clothes and took the stage to award the award.

"The winner of the 15th Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award, Best Newcomer Award is - Sun Li, "Fearless"!"

"Boss, you are really my lucky star!" Sun Li said with tears of gratitude after taking the stage. "Fearless" was filmed by her before "Painted Skin". It was released two years ago and received a box office of 100 million.

"This is what you worked hard for." After hugging Sun Li, Shao Shuaijun walked off the stage.

He needed to comfort Liu Shishi. "33 Days of Love" was a box office hit, but after all, it was criticized by many veteran filmmakers for being too poor in artistry and losing points early. Otherwise, based on the incredible box office performance of 300 million yuan, it would be impossible to win a Newcomer Award. Disaster. Not long after I comforted Master Liu, the news here was tragic again.

The best actress award was won by Liu Ruoying for "A World Without Thieves".

Zhou Xun shed his skin and appeared naked in "Painted Skin". It can be said that he did not work hard. Even with the bonus of global box office sales, he still failed to impress the judges. Even in terms of audience votes, it only came in third place with 35,664 votes. "Yen Changxia", a film that not many people know about, actually had 51,305 votes for the heroine, which makes people confused as to where this number of votes came from.

"This is just for fun, don't worry about it." Shao Shuaijun smiled at Zhou Xun.

Zhou Xun was more relaxed than Shao Shuaijun imagined, and said with a smile: "Director, you should still worry about whether you will win the Best Director and Best Picture. I just came to watch the show today without any baggage."

"It doesn't matter. I got 38,564 votes for the director and 70,598 votes for the "Painted Skin" film, which are the highest votes. Regardless of whether they give me an award or not, at least the organizer knows that my popularity far exceeds that of other directors. In terms of votes, it does not matter. Dare to do anything."

Not surprisingly, the best director was won by Yin Li, director of "Zhang Side".

The camera was focused on Shao Shuaijun, and Shao Shuaijun waved his hand without any frustration.

The final scene of the awards ceremony is the competition for best picture. The Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Awards are very interesting. They will select one of the best and two outstanding films, with the idea of ​​winning the first, second and third place. "Painted Skin" and "Kung Fu" were selected as outstanding feature films, the so-called runner-up and third runner-up.

"Kung Fu" director Zhou Xingxing did not arrive at the scene, but Yuen Hua came on stage to give a speech. Shao Shuaijun also wanted to imitate Zhou Xingxing but refused to come, but there was no way. Zhou Xingxing had been famous for many years, and even in Hollywood he was a big name. He could show off his temper, but Shao Shuaijun had to rely on his superiors to do business, so he could only say what he said on stage insincerely. Thanks.

"Thank you to the crew of "Painted Skin" for your support all the way. Thank you."

After saying this, Shao Shuaijun smiled at the audience, then returned to his seat and watched Yin Li say a lot of speeches. Perhaps even he knew that it was a bit reluctant for "Cheung Side" to win the best director and then the best picture. His speech was dry and he didn't even smile.

Instead of attending the dinner held by the organizer, Shao Shuaijun went out to eat with a few familiar friends. (To be continued...)

ps:  Thanks to Wu and Xin, the reward for pretending to be stuck, and the monthly pass for me who is a stickler.