You don't understand the happiness of the director

Chapter 688 ① "Inception 2" ② Green Snake and White Snake ③ Life and Death ④ Building Shock ⑤ Golden Broomstick

Cameron focused on visiting the post-production of "Easy Journey 3". Wang Quan also hoped that he, an expert in special effects, would give some advice. Feng Tianming, Zhou Mingquan and others were also there, holding small notebooks and waiting to listen to the master's lecture.

The "Easy Journey" series is closely related to the sea, but the first and second parts are both above the sea.

In the third part, there are a lot of sections in the underwater world under the sea, and the technical difficulty is fully upgraded, so the cost of "Easy Journey 3" is also the highest in the series.

This is not the 1980s. The era of using a fish tank to block the camera to dare to shoot the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea is over. The audience needs a more realistic and immersive viewing experience, especially this is a 3D movie.

Now that 3D has quietly cooled down, only the 3D movies of Wang Quan and Cameron, the two 3D pioneers, can attract global attention.

After watching a clip of Jiang Wen and Chen Duling in the underwater world, Cameron quickly asked, "When will your movie be released?"

Wang Quan: "November this year."

After hearing this, Cameron was absent-minded for a while. Damn, he got ahead again! I feel like I have always lived in his shadow!

The second part of "Avatar" is called "Water's Way", which focuses on the gorgeous underwater world special effects. I didn't expect that "Easy Journey 3" has done so well. Although he just watched it on the computer, he can imagine how shocking it will be to present it in 3D on the big screen.

When the audience watches "Water's Way" again, it is estimated that it will not be so strange.

The only thing he can be thankful for is that "Easy Journey 3" is the end of this series, and "Avatar" has three more parts after Wood and Water.

Of course, if "Water's Way" performs too poorly and cannot make back the investment, then the third part will be the finale.

Looking back ten years ago, "Inception" and "Avatar" were born one after another, jointly promoting the great strides of 3D movies.

During these ten years, I was trapped in the world of "Avatar" and couldn't get out, while Wang Quan made so many movies in the middle, not only creating an oriental fantasy world, but also helping to revive the "Star Wars" series.

Star Wars 789 sequel trilogy all entered the top ten of the global film history box office list, what a great achievement.

However, when it comes to Wang Quan's works, Cameron still appreciates "Inception" more. Although "Avatar" is a science fiction film, the imagination of "Inception" impressed him and made him feel inferior.

So after the visit, Cameron asked Wang Quan, "Is there really no plan to make a sequel to "Inception"? Take advantage of the fact that Leo can still watch it now."

Wang Quan asked back, "Can it still be watched?"

Cameron thought about it, and then the two laughed. However, Wang Quan did think about the sequel to "Inception". He also thought about some script outlines and tried to expand them, but he was not very satisfied with them.

He cherishes the honor that "Inception" brought him. His becoming a world-class director started with this movie, so he will not make a sequel for the sake of sequel.

Afterwards, "Alita" held a premiere event in Beijing. Wang Quan also attended and had a face-to-face dialogue with Cameron. Also sitting on the stage was the co-producer of "Alita", Cheng Wucheng of Yuewen Group.

He has been working hard to promote the film and television adaptation of Yuewen IP. "Ever Night" and "Celebrating More Than Years" were all operated by him. He also hopes that Cameron can make a movie, or settle for the next best thing, and supervise the movie version of a Qidian work.

Just like "Alita" originated from the Japanese anime "Dream Gun", he thinks that Yuewen's novels also have the potential to become world-class IPs. The investment in "Alita" is to connect with Cameron and Hollywood capital.

As for Wangquan's Wangdao system, it has actually been doing this work. There are a lot of adapted script plans, but basically none of them have passed the green light system, because they are basically super-large investments and huge risks.

Wangdao prefers to adapt anime first, then expand its influence little by little, and then launch film projects.

In addition to movie fans, there are also many young directors from the mainland sitting in the audience, such as Guo Fan, who likes Cameron very much, and Lu Chuan, who regards Cameron as a god.

When "Avatar" was released in the mainland, Lu Chuan called the most, and Cameron also knew that he had such a fan, so he called him over.

Previously, Lu Chuan helped Huayi direct the "Great Desert Wolf" series. He is currently one of the few directors of Huayi who can make blockbusters and not lose money.

So much so that Lu Chuan felt that he was more awesome than Feng Xiaogang, so he didn't plan to shoot "The Wolf of the Desert 3" and planned to shoot a movie called "749 Bureau" instead, and Huayi also strongly supported it.

Since last year's incident, Huayi couldn't recover for a while. Later, the two Wangs attracted some investment and finally filled the hole in the post-production of "Eight Hundred".

After that, several projects such as "749 Bureau" and "A Little Wish" were launched. Although it was a bit risky from the perspective of the capital chain, the funding problem would be solved when "Eight Hundred" was released this summer.

Lu Chuan looked at Wang Quan who was talking to Cameron on the stage, thinking that sooner or later he would sit in his position.

Wait, "749 Bureau", as his masterpiece after the age of 40, will definitely succeed!

In addition to talking about "Alita", Cameron and Wang Quan also talked about "Avatar" and "Inception".

Old Cameron brought up the issue of the sequel to Inception again, and the audience was enthusiastic. Wang Quan ambiguously stated that he had never given up the development of Inception 2.

"But now there is another good news that I hope to let fans know, that is, Inception will be re-screened worldwide next month, and there will be some additions, deletions, and revisions."

The audience immediately became excited, and even Cameron shouted: "OMG!"

Today's premiere event was full of topics. Wang Quan and Cameron took advantage of each other's popularity, which was mutually beneficial.

Then "Alita: Battle Angel" ended the daily championship of "Zhu Xian 3" with a score of 130 million on the first day.

However, Cameron was not the screenwriter and producer after all. The rhythm of "Alita" and the special effects of the heroine with some uncanny valley effects were criticized. Otherwise, it should not be difficult to break 1 billion. Maoyan predicted 900 million.

Shortly after the release of "Alita", the Oscars ceremony began in Los Angeles.

In one of Wang Quan's houses.

He made an appointment with Chaoyue and Chengxiao today, and planned to let them accompany him to watch the Oscars.

When the two walked in, Wang Quan was happy, "Are you Xiaobai and Xiaoqing?"

At this moment, Chaoyue was wearing a white ancient costume, with an elegant temperament, while Chengxiao was wearing a capable green tight ancient costume, which especially highlighted her figure.

Chengxiao laughed and said, "I said before that Chaoyue's face is very similar to Xiaobai in "White Snake: Origin". I suggested that she make a set of COS costumes a long time ago, but she insisted on dragging me along, and I don't look like Xiaoqing."

Wang Quan touched Chaoyue's model face with one hand and climbed Xiaoxiao's Mount Everest with the other hand.

"You bold monsters, I can tell at a glance that you are not human, Great Dragon!"

Chao Yue, who has always maintained a ladylike image, finally couldn't help laughing: "I thought you would pretend to be Xu Xuan, but I didn't expect it to be Fahai!"

Wang Quan hugged the two women and sat on the sofa: "This is exciting, right, White Snake."

Chao Yue: "Master, you are a monk, you can't break the taboo."

"You don't even wear underwear, it's hard for me not to break the taboo."

Chao Yue said shyly: "It's all Xiao Xiao's fault. She said that wearing a bra in ancient costumes is inappropriate, so she didn't let me wear it."

Wang Quan looked at Cheng Xiao, who was so high without a bra, amazing!

The award ceremony has started now. This year's movie channel did not broadcast it, so naturally there were no Chinese subtitles or commentary. Cheng Xiao still knows some English, but Chao Yue basically can't understand it at all.

Although she has been working hard to make up for cultural courses in the past two years, especially Chinese and English, she didn't even graduate from junior high school, so it was very difficult to make up for it. Now she is barely at the level of the first and second grades of high school.

Therefore, Wang Quan was also responsible for acting as a translator, introducing the relationships between the characters in the audience and the situation of some works, so that they would know which films were the most popular.

"Among the eight best picture nominees, Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody are the most popular films, and Roma is from Netflix, so it is also considered one of our own."

At the beginning, there was a huge debate in the United States about whether Roma, which Netflix invested in, could be nominated for the Oscars.

Because this is a so-called online movie, although Netflix released the movie in Los Angeles and San Francisco for seven days in a small range in order to get Oscar tickets, it is still not a theater movie in essence, and the theater did not make any money.

But as Netflix became one of the seven major MPAA at the beginning of the year, the Oscars still let it go.

In fact, after the rules of the Golden Bamboo Award came out, there were also controversies in this regard. Some Hong Kong and Taiwanese films could not be released in mainland theaters because of homosexuality or elements such as politics and ghosts, but the artistic content was not bad. The rules of the Golden Bamboo Award required that they must be released in mainland theaters, which was tantamount to excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan art films that were not tolerated by the mainland review system, which would reduce the influence of the Golden Bamboo Award.

Wang Quan also expressed deep regret for this, but it can only be done this way for the time being.

Pulling some Hong Kong and Taiwan movies that offended the censorship system together for the awards is definitely not a good thing for the new Golden Bamboo Awards, so it is very important that they have been screened in the mainland.

Of course, the short film unit is not subject to this restriction. As long as the short film is uploaded to the regular video website in the mainland and has not been killed, it is equivalent to compliance and can participate in the election.

The original Oscar host Kevin Hart was boycotted because of homophobic remarks, so there was no host for this year's Oscars, and the various award presenters were just a guest.

Soon "Black Panther" won the first award, the Best Costume Design Award, which was also the first time that a Marvel movie won an Oscar, the first time in history.

Then "Black Panther" won the Best Art Design and Film Music, a total of three awards.

It has nothing to do with "Black Panther" later. Giving a few technical awards is already the effect of Disney throwing gold coins. It is impossible to give it a high-value award.

Then the musical biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody" won the three awards of Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Effects and Best Editing.

During this period, Ms. Shi Zhiyu, a Chinese animator of Lighting Entertainment, won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film for "Bao Bao", which was the first time Lighting Entertainment won this award.

Wang Quan immediately made a note and invited Shi Zhiyu to be the award presenter of the Best Animated Short Film of the Golden Bamboo Award.

Next was the animated feature film. This time, Lighting Entertainment had no works nominated. The final winner was Sony's "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse". Sony once again found a new profit point from Spider-Man.

At this time, Chaoyue and Cheng Xiao were already disheveled. Seeing Xiaobai and Xiaoqing so charming, Wang Quan couldn't help but think of another character in "White Snake: Origin".

"What a pity, no one cosplayed that little fox."

Chaoyue patted Wang Quan, "Greedy, it's not enough to have the two of us."

Wang Quan: "But the little fox in the animation is too charming, it's exciting."

Cheng Xiao raised his head and wiped the corner of his mouth: "Actually, I bought that set of clothes too. If you can find someone to play this role, just ask for someone."

Wang Quan thought about it and felt that this role was a bit difficult to perform. She looked like a loli, but she was as charming as Daji. There was really no such talent around him, so he gave up.

Then the big awards came one after another. "Roma" won the Best Cinematography, Best Foreign Language Film, and Best Director (Alfonso Cuarón).

Rami Malek of "Bohemian Rhapsody" won the Best Actor.

Olivia Colman, the heroine of "The Favourite", defeated Lady Gaga and others and won the title of Best Actress.

Green Book won the Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Original Screenplay awards.

Dragon Raises its Head is still the biggest winner on the Oscar stage.

After Green Book successfully won the Oscar, the mainland promotion also began. On March 1, the film will be released in the mainland.

The reason for the delay is the Oscar's golden body. With this award, plus the story is not that kind of dull art film, it will definitely help the mainland box office.

At this time, there is still half a month before the first Golden Bamboo Award is issued.

Many domestic filmmakers pay special attention to this year's Oscars. They also hope that the Golden Bamboo Award can become an award like the Oscars, with absolute authority and influence in their own country, and even affect the world.

The previous Golden Rooster, Golden Image, and Golden Horse Awards could not do it, but the Golden Bamboo initiated by Wang Quan gave them hope. It is said that Hollywood celebrities will be present on the night of the Golden Bamboo Award, all relying on Director Quan's face.

There are still three days before the voting deadline for the Golden Bamboo Award, but the number of voters has exceeded 1,000. It seems that everyone's enthusiasm for participating in the final selection is much higher than that of the preliminary selection.

On March 1, in addition to the release of "Green Book", "All Is Well" starring Zhang Jingchu, Ni Dahong and others was also launched on Xigua Video, and became popular on the first day.

Zhang Jingchu, who has not acted in a TV series for a long time, has gained a lot of fans and popularity with the role of Su Mingyu. Of course, the most eye-catching one is still Comrade Su Daqiang.

It's a pity that the voting for the Golden Bamboo Award has ended and is being counted, otherwise there would be some bonus for Zhang Jingchu.

Wang Quan watched "Fragrant Osmanthus" directed and acted by Zhang Jingchu in the internal theater of Wangdao Building, and fully affirmed her performance and directing.

"Even if I can't win the award this year, it shouldn't be a problem next year."

Zhang Jingchu felt cold in her heart. The result is out? Is there really no chance this year?

Wang Quan quickly accelerated to make her warm up again.

Yu Feihong on the side calmly recalled the movie just now and nodded with satisfaction. It was a perfect movie with a heroine, very suitable for rushing for awards.

Afterwards, Yu Feihong arranged the film's schedule. It was a low-budget film with no expectations for the box office, so it was put on in May.

Wang Quan added, "Send it to Cannes first, and enter any category it can be shortlisted for."

Zhang Jingchu leaned in Wang Quan's arms and whispered, "Well, I'll listen to you."

At this time, Ma Fanshu came in and tapped the watch on his wrist to Wang Quan.

Wang Quan: "Oh, I have to catch a plane. I have to go to Hangzhou today."

Then Wang Quan went downstairs to call Yang Mi, and the two of them went together.

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Xixi and Ni Ni have been practicing basic skills in Xiaobaihua Troupe for half a month, and Wang Quan is going to see them.

In addition to the two young people, there is also a lady with a high status in the Yue Opera circle who is also training hard, and she is also training with the two women.

He Saifei is 56 years old this year. She originally sang the female role in Xiao Baihua, but Wang Quan invited her to play the role of Ni Ni's teacher, singing the male role, so she also had to practice. Learning from her good friend Mao Weitao, she felt like she had returned to the glorious years of the 1980s, which made people sigh.

In comparison, Tao Huimin, who played Liu Yifei's teacher, was much more relaxed. She still played the female role, and there were not many scenes that required her to perform on stage in person, so now she could stay at home and relax.

Li Yunxiao was the first to discover Wang Quan. Just as he was about to throw himself into Wang Quan's arms, he saw a familiar woman standing next to Wang Quan, Yang Mi, his ex-wife who was in a mess!

So Li Yunxiao stopped and touched Chen Lijun.

Chen Lijun was watching the fairy sister Liu Yifei practicing, and turned around, "Oh, Director Quan is back!"

Liu Yifei, who was spinning and jumping on the stage, heard Wang Quan coming, and fell on the stage in excitement. Ni Ni, who was beside her, quickly dodged to hug her.

They didn't hold each other, and both of them fell on the stage, groaning non-stop.

Wang Quan quickly jumped onto the stage and helped the two girls up with Chen Lijun. After carefully checking that they were not seriously injured, he was relieved.

"It's okay. I always warm up before every training." Liu Yifei patted her knees, not caring at all.

After that, Wang Quan greeted the two teachers, He Saifei and Mao Weitao. This time, in addition to checking the progress of the training, he also brought Xixi and Ni Ni back to Beijing to attend the Golden Bamboo Award Ceremony. Although they were not shortlisted, they had to attend for the momentum of the Golden Bamboo Award.

Wang Quan alone relied on his own body to mobilize more than 40 female stars from all over the world to participate in the grand event. It was really an exhausting effort.

Yang Mi asked Liu Yifei about their training guest list. Before she came, she felt a little regretful. She should have fought for this role and shouldn't have let Ni Ni and Sissi form a CP. Sissi will always be hers!

After coming: Fortunately I didn’t take this role, I’m so smart!

In the evening, Wang Quan and Yang Mi invited guests to dinner. Not many people came. They were basically the core staff of "Lily", including the prototype characters Chen Lijun and Li Yunxiao.

They had a good relationship with Liu Yifei Ni Ni during this period. Although they still didn't know what the script was about, they felt something was wrong from the name.

The script is called "Lily", the character played by Liu Yifei is called Ji Silei, and the character played by Ni Ni is called Zhou Lala.

With this name, they doubted whether the movie could be released in the mainland.

As for the fact that Liu Yifei would sometimes hit them both for no apparent reason, they only thought that Liu Yifei had some kind of rotten girl attributes.

Wang Quan and Yang Mi did not stay in the hotel that night. Yang Mi made a fuss: "I have long heard that Lao Quan and two beauties are staying in the dormitory. I will stay in the dormitory tonight too!"

Chen Lijun and Li Yunxiao were a little embarrassed. They and Wang Quan did not do anything good in the dormitory, and there were endless ambiguous little tricks.

Now Qianqian and Ni Ni live in Chen Lijun and Li Yunxiao's original dormitory, with only one room and two single beds.

Of course, in order to avoid being surrounded, I only stayed here occasionally, or took a break at noon. Most of the time I stayed in a hotel, and of course, it was also a room.

Today they decided to stay in the dormitory, and Yang Mi walked around their dormitory before running to Wang Quan's dormitory.

Seeing the photos of Li Yunxiao and Chen Lijun in Wang Quan's dormitory, she smiled and said nothing, but the two women were embarrassed and didn't know what to say. They should have removed those photos if they had known better.

Then Yang Mi smiled and asked: "I will sleep in this room with Lao Quan tonight, is it okay?"

"No, no."

"Of course no problem."

The two women waved their hands, completely losing their initial coolness when facing this ex-wife.

While lying on the bed, the two of them were still talking about Yang Mi.

"We are divorced, but I still feel like his wife." Chen Lijun said.

Li Yunxiao: "Maybe this is how people get along. Well, go to bed quickly. There will be a performance tomorrow."

Chen Lijun picked her ears: "Can you sleep with such a big noise?"

She felt that the entire dormitory building was probably starting to shake.

On the other side, Ni Ni had been looking forward to Wang Quan breaking in and the three of them having fun together, but he didn't wait until the middle of the night. He was probably squeezed dry by Yang Mi.

The next day, Wang Quan took Yang Mi and Qianqian Ni Ni to watch Li Yunxiao's performance.

Today's performance is the classic "Five Daughters Birthday Wishes", with Li Yunxiao playing Cuiyun and Chen Lijun playing her husband Zou Shilong. Although it is only a supporting role, Liu Yifei once again said that she got it, she got it!

Wang Quan and Yang Mi stayed in Hangzhou for two days, and then returned to the capital with Qian Qian and Ni Ni.

It’s the 6th now, three days before the Golden Bamboo Awards ceremony.

Today is also a month before the Spring Festival movies are released.

At this time, the box office of "Zhu Xian 3" has reached 4.1 billion, but "Tang Detective 3" has even more, as high as 4.38 billion.

Both films entered the top ten in mainland film history.

This year’s Spring Festival stalls are winner-take-all, but there are two winners.

The reputation of "Crazy Alien" is not worse than that of "Tang Detective 3". The two films' ratings on Douban and Maoyan are evenly matched. However, in terms of marketing, "Tang Detective 3" is much more mature and more systematic.

Therefore, "Tang Detective 3" has more than 4 billion, while "Alien", which ranked third during the Spring Festival, cannot even reach 2 billion.

Lehuahua, which released "Alien" with a guaranteed minimum of 2.8 billion, is expected to lose a lot of money, and Baoqiang will have a difficult time in the future.

However, Baoqiang did not pay the compensation alone. Although he was the boss of Lehuahua, the guarantee was completed by gathering multiple funds. Although he lost the money, not all the losses were borne by him alone. With his first-line man Xing’s income would not break his bones.

However, Lian Rui Pictures, which also released "Mermaid 2" with a guaranteed minimum of 2.8 billion, suffered a huge loss. This film just passed the 1 billion box office, which is a huge difference from the 2.8 billion. Zhou Xingchi made a lot of money, but the minimum guarantee was a loss.

Also using a guaranteed release is "The Evil Is Not Suppressing the Righteous", which has a guaranteed base of 1.2 billion, and the box office is now just over 1.2 billion. However, coupled with the publicity and distribution expenses, Qiankun and Mishi are equivalent to a wasted effort.

Lao Jiang agreed and decided to let Qiankun and Mishi invest in his next movie.

Lao Wang: Well, I’d better think about this again, think about it again.

Yang Mi: No, no, no, I’m afraid!

After the painful lesson of this Spring Festival release, it is estimated that the guaranteed release method will be abandoned in the mainland in the future. Even if it still exists, it will not be so exaggerated. It is estimated that it will stick to the return line to guarantee the bottom.

Wang Quan was holding Sissy and talking flirtatiously, when Yang Mi suddenly said excitedly: "Oh, the Golden Broom Award was awarded today, let me see if you are there~"