Rhapsody of Entertainment Rebirth

The Academy did not let Shan He go, and awarded the best director to Shan He and "The Life of Yi" as scheduled.

In their opinion, a best director is enough to sway Shanhe and media public opinion. Naturally, it is impossible for Shanhe to take away the best film as well.

As soon as Will Smith came on stage, everyone probably understood who would win the Best Picture. A popular black actor came on stage alone as an award guest, and the award could only be for the film "12 Years a Slave" which reflects racial discrimination against black people. , this is in line with the political correctness of Country M and Hollywood.

This result was within Shanhe's expectation. Rather than the award announcement, he was more interested in Will Smith who was chatting on the stage.

In Shanhe's memory, he was a fierce warrior. At the Oscars ceremony a few years later, in front of a global audience, he went directly to the stage and gave the host a slap in the face. It was so ridiculous and special. That’s enough!

The most ridiculous thing is that after Will Smith slapped the host, he didn't delay anything and actually won the Best Actor statuette that night!

Thinking of this ridiculous and embarrassing scene in his mind, Shanhe couldn't help but grin with joy, and his perfunctory applause seemed a bit more powerful.

This made Bruckheimer on the side misunderstand. He and Shanhe had been partners for more than ten years. The cooperation between the two could be described as close. The old gangster always claimed to be the one who knew Shanhe best.

Shanhe's attitude towards Will Smith made him thoughtful. Did Qiu fall in love with Will Smith?

fuck! Why didn't I expect that Will Smith is indeed the best candidate to star in "Green Book". He is popular enough and his acting skills are not bad. He was nominated for the Oscar winner twice but did not win. Will Smith's insistence on the Oscar winner Nian is not much worse than the original "Little Plum".

Let him participate in "Green Book", not only will there be many topics to hype, but it will also allow him to reduce his salary to star. This is my and Qiu's movie, no one will refuse, there are many benefits!

Bruckheimer couldn't help but give Shanhe a thumbs up.

"Qiu, your idea is great, I will arrange it!"

Shanhe was confused for a moment by the old gangster's inexplicable behavior. What the hell does this mean? The old gangster can see through the future like me?

Just as Shan He was about to leave his mouth to ask, Will Smith on the stage announced the winner of the Best Picture.

“The winner for Best Picture is… 12 Years a Slave!”

Amid the applause and cheers of the audience, the crew of "12 Years a Slave" walked onto the stage excitedly.

Shanhe and all the guests stood up and applauded with a smile, but at the same time he asked Bruckheimer:

"What do you know?"

"Come on! Qiu, no one knows you better than me. Will is indeed the best actor candidate for "Green Book"!"

"Fuck!"

Shanhe couldn't help but burst out laughing when he heard this. Old gangsters can really have random thoughts. From my expression, I can actually connect it to this. However, it is a good idea to let Will Smith star in "Green Book".

"Okay, Jerry, you are indeed the smartest producer in Hollywood, and I've seen through it!"

"Haha...this is my greatest advantage!"

"Haha...you are really smart!"

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The 86th Oscar Awards Ceremony is over. Although "Life of Yi" missed the Best Picture Award, it was still the biggest winner at the awards ceremony. Ten nominations won seven statuettes. Mountain and River and "Boy" "Book of Changes" has once again become the subject of heated discussion around the world.

The Shanhe couple attended the Vanity Fair cocktail reception after the award ceremony as usual, but they only stayed for half an hour. They said hello to Heath Ledger and his wife and a few acquaintances before leaving the merry-go-round.

When they arrived in Los Angeles, Shanhe felt that they should invite friends to have a party together. The Shanhe couple did not accept Bruckheimer's suggestion to hold a happy party. Instead, in accordance with Chinese customs, they invited the most famous Chinese chef in Los Angeles to prepare a party at home. There was a banquet.

The couple didn't have many friends, so they happened to fill a table together, including Heath Ledger's family, Bruckheimer, DiCaprio, Hathaway's best friend "model worker sister" Jessica Chastain, Emily Blount and others experienced Chinese hospitality together.

After everyone talked and laughed and enjoyed a Chinese-style dinner, they said goodbye to Shanhe and his wife one by one and left. The Heath Ledger family was left behind by Shanhe.

Michelle, who is eight months pregnant, had a great time chatting with two pregnant women, Hathaway and nine-year-old chubby Matilda.

Shanhe and Heath Ledger were making tea and chatting in another corner of the living room.

Looking at the mature and steady Heath Ledger with a beard, Shanhe was filled with emotion again. Originally, this man had passed away for six years, but Shanhe changed everything about him.

"Heath, what have you been busy with lately? When is Michelle's due date?"

Heath Ledger replied with a happy face:

"After filming "Guardians of the Galaxy", I didn't take any more roles. I stayed at home to take care of Michelle and Matilda. We will welcome another angel in April. He is a boy. We named him Lancelot!"

"Congratulations, Heath!"

"Haha... We are all the same. I heard that Anne hopes that her second child will be a daughter?"

"Yes! Our whole family thinks this will be a girl, and Anne has already named her Diana!"

"My daughter is very good, Matilda is my biggest treasure!"

"I'm looking forward to having a daughter. Bernie is getting more and more naughty now. Sometimes I'm really annoyed by him!"

"Hehe..."

...

After the two men exchanged some happy and helpless moments of being a nanny, Shanhe directly invited Heath Ledger again,

"Heath, Jerry found me another script called "Green Book". It's about the friendship between a white racist and a black musician in the 1960s that transcends race and class. I want you to play the white protagonist!"

"No problem!"

Naturally, Heath Ledger's trust in Shanhe was unmatched. He answered very straightforwardly,

"When will the filming start? What preparations should I make?"

"Not so soon, Preparations will not begin until the second half of this year. Michelle should be in good shape by then. You can discuss with her and you and your wife will join the crew and play the white couple in the play. "

"Michelle will be very happy!"

"You need to gain weight by then, at least 20 kilograms!"

"Ah, I am planning to exercise with Matilda to lose weight this year!"

"Hehe...little Matilda is a little fat. I will explain to her later. You and your daughter will work together. You gain weight and she loses weight!"

"Okay, Qiu, your movies are always like this, exciting and hateful!"

...

The Shanhe couple stayed in Los Angeles for three days and basically determined the main actors of "Green Book".

Coincidentally, Will Smith was preparing to accept the invitation of Columbia Pictures to join the crew of Peter Landesman's "Concussion". "Concussion" is also a realistic film, adapted from real events. Will Smith originally planned to use this film to once again impact the Oscar for Best Actor.

But after receiving Bruckheimer's call, Will Smith only thought about it for an hour before giving up the original "Concussion" and giving Bruckheimer a positive answer.

As his wife said to Will,

"Qiu's movies are God's gift to actors. Leonardo and Heath Ledger are the best examples. I think Fisher Tang's performance in "The Young Easy" is no worse than Chiwetel. He didn't get the little golden man just because the Academy didn't want Hua Xia Qiu to get too much! Will, no one in Hollywood will refuse Hua Xia Qiu!"

Will Smith deeply agrees!

After completing the itinerary in the United States, Shanhe and his wife did not stay in Los Angeles and flew directly back to Beijing.

Hathaway stayed at home to take care of Xiao Xiong'er and Shanhe rejoined the "Operation Mekong" crew to make the final preparations for the film.

Shanhe attaches great importance to the preparations in these two months!

"Operation Mekong" is an action gunfight film, and it can even be said to be a military action film, with a large number of real-life gunfights and explosions.

The location shooting locations include Xishuangbanna in China, Bangkok in Thailand, the Mekong River, the Golden Triangle and other regions, and the difficulty is no less than a march.

What Shanhe is most worried about is accidents on the way. Small accidents are easy to deal with, at most they waste time and money, but they are afraid of major casualties, which are not uncommon in the shooting scenes of previous action and gun battle movies.

The most famous example is "My Captain, My Regiment". A series of major accidents once caused the entire crew to collapse, and this TV series hovered on the edge of death several times.

There have even been cases of accidental deaths of staff members on the shooting site of Jackie Chan's movies.

This is a scene that Shanhe is unwilling to face and unwilling to accept.

Therefore, before the shooting started, he spent a lot of money to start the team running-in in advance in the Chuhe studio, especially the pyrotechnicians and props team. Shanhe's requirement is to arrange every detail, and there must be three groups of people to cross-check at any time. Small accidents cannot be completely eliminated, but major accidents, especially casualties, cannot occur.

At the same time, the producer teams of Chuhe Film and Television and China Film have been divided into groups and went to the location for filming. Shanhe asked them to make full communication and preparation with the local relevant departments, not afraid of spending more money, and try to do the work in detail. For example, the weather, transportation, escort and other logistics work must be adequately guaranteed, in order to reduce the accidents that occur during the filming.

"Operation Mekong" has not started filming yet, and the actors are still training in the special police team. The funds of the crew are wading out like water, which makes many staff members who cooperate with Shanhe for the first time feel distressed and sigh.

Is this the style of international directors? It's really generous. Such meticulous preparation work is really unheard of in China!

Let alone other things, the fireworks team alone constantly polished the gunfight and explosion scenes, which cost at least 30 or 40 million more. This money is enough to shoot a domestic theater movie with a not-too-small investment!

This is indeed the case. The funds consumed in the preparation of the film are several times more than expected. Hundreds of millions of RMB have been spent before even a hair has been seen!

Shanhe added another 200 million RMB to the original budget, and the investment in the entire film reached nearly 600 million RMB, surpassing "Take Her Eyes" and becoming the largest Chinese-language film in China so far.

As producers, Han Shanping, Yang Liu and Xing Guowei not only had no worries, but also became more and more happy. They gave money straightforwardly, giving Shanhe as much as it wanted, and even added a sentence "Is this enough? How about adding more!"

They can do this not only because they trust Shanhe himself, but also because Shanhe has a brilliant past record. The main reason is that what they lack the least now is money.

Shanhe is going to invest heavily in domestic mainstream blockbusters. Once the news came out, all the film companies in China wanted to invest in them. If they wanted to pay, they had to rely on relationships and backdoors.

So far, the producer of "Operation Mekong" has one more company, Bona Film Group, than before.

Even more enthusiastic than the film companies are the major domestic and foreign companies. As soon as the news that there are a lot of racing and shopping mall scenes in "Operation Mekong" came out, the contact numbers of major domestic and foreign well-known brands followed.

Shanhe himself is not hypocritical. This is a mainstream movie and a commercial blockbuster. Everything is produced and distributed according to the commercial process. As long as it does not harm the smoothness of the plot and does not make the audience out of the play, Shanhe does not object to appropriate advertising placement.

After Shanhe nodded in agreement to the advertising placement, the attitude of major brands to send money became more positive, especially the major automobile and mobile phone companies in the world.

For them, advertising investment is originally part of the product cost. These brands have a large advertising budget every year. The advertising insertion in Shanhe movies is the most cost-effective advertising promotion opportunity.

The influence of Shanhe works is difficult to estimate, especially in China. This emerging market has unlimited consumption prospects. The effect of this advertising insertion will be more direct and powerful than other publicity.

Several international car brands such as "Mercedes-Benz", "Audi", and "BMW" have offered prices of over 10 million, and they are in US dollars!

Domestic car brands are not to be outdone. We really can't compete with you in Hollywood movies. Now we are in China. Shanhe is Chinese. "Operation Mekong" is a Chinese-language mainstream movie. Can you grab this prize?

Domestic companies such as "FAW-Volkswagen", "SAIC-GM", and "Dongfeng Nissan" offer more generous prices, directly starting at 80 million yuan!

Several major mobile phone brands in the world are even more ruthless. The manager of the Chinese branch of "Samsung" even personally found Yang Liu and said that as long as they can design a plot close-up for the mobile phone in the movie, they are willing to bid 20 million US dollars!

Yang Liu rejected Samsung's proposal without even thinking about it. They wanted to throw money at me. Is 20 million US dollars a lot? Chuhe Film and Television lacks this little money?

Besides, the price offered by others is not much worse than yours, and they don't have such a high-handed attitude as you. Get out of here. I'm tired of you Koreans!

That's the fact. The competition for product placement among mobile phone manufacturers is more intense. Brand manufacturers such as "Apple", "Xiaomi", "Huawei", "OPPO", and "vivo" all suggested that the crew openly bid for this rare opportunity to place advertisements. No one lacks this little money!

Not only cars and mobile phones, "Operation Mekong" has an entire shopping mall scene. Advertising placement is a pure natural and pollution-free income!

Several producers roughly calculated. Damn, the film hasn't started shooting yet, and at least half of the 600 million yuan investment has been returned!

Yang Liu was fine. The marketing department of Chuhe Film and Television had expected this. Han Shanping and Xing Guowei were dazzled. You know, this is a domestic main theme movie. When did the main theme movie make so much money!

No wonder Forbes said in the magazine that the commercial value of Shanhe and Hathaway is amazing all day long. It is really amazing!

Xing Guowei, the producer representative of Golden Shield Film and Television, was the most touched.

Originally, Shanhe was just asked to make a movie to implicitly express its attitude to other countries, and to let the domestic public know the sacrifices and efforts of front-line police officers, and to know that Shanhe’s movie will definitely not lose money, and it may even make a little money. But I didn’t expect that the movie hasn’t started shooting yet, but it can actually recover so much!

When the movie is released, how much money will it make?

Damn, this is too much money. Golden Shield Film and Television can’t eat it. I have to report to the department!