Chapter 464 Golden Rooster Best Director

On the afternoon of October 10, Wang Chengguang had just re-recorded the dubbing of Yugong Moves the Mountains in the hotel when he received a call from Huang Zhenhua who was visiting.

He closed his high-tech notebook and went to open the door. When Old Huang saw him, he bowed and greeted him. After a few simple politeness, he served tea in the living room. Huang Zhenhua then stated his purpose, "Director Wang, I came here not only to congratulate our Infernal Affairs 2 on its great success, but also to ask about my personal schedule."

"Someone offered me 200 million yuan for a role in a movie. If the director wants me, I will turn it down."

In fact, after the filming of Infernal Affairs II was completed at the end of August, Huang Zhenhua was already free. He took a commercial and then flew to France when the crew of "The Hurricane Rescue" set off for France and stayed there for a few days.

Before the National Day prime time, he flew back again and started the promotional roadshow in the mainland with Deputy Director Li, Ling Jing, Fang Keming and others. Today is basically the day when Huang Zhenhua, Ling Jing and others have just had some free time. As I said before, piracy of big movies has been rampant in the second week.

Wang Chengguang took a sip of tea and smiled, "It's hard to say. I reserved a role for you in The Wandering Earth. It's hard to say how big it is. Even if you really come in, you can't get 200 million. Not even 200% of million, and it will take a long time."

"You need to relearn all kinds of green screen studio shooting and special effects-style motion capture, which is different from the acting in Infernal Affairs."

Huang Zhenhua nodded hurriedly after hearing these words. "Then I'll turn down the job outside and wait for you to start working. I never dreamed that I could easily make millions."

"Even after paying taxes, the after-tax income is still very high, equivalent to my salary for several years."

He used to be an architect in an architectural institute, which had a fixed salary, and at most had some generous benefits such as five social insurances and one housing fund.

In this dimension, Wang Chengguang perfectly served as his mentor, and the mentor of the entire Huang family.

Wang Chengguang smiled again and said, "On October 10, at the Golden Rooster Awards ceremony, you are nominated for both Best Newcomer and Best Supporting Actor. Even though the competition for Best Newcomer is high, you still have a chance. Get ready and go to the awards ceremony for the dinner."

"Now that I've made it to Vanity Fair, I might as well show off a bit."

Just like the dimension where Wang Chengguang first grew up, before his first time traveling through time, at the 2000 Hong Kong Film Awards, a certain Azhi was nominated for the Best Newcomer and Best Actress at the same time for the movie Wish Upon a Star.

She is also aiming for the Best Newcomer Award in both Wish Upon a Star and King of Comedy!
The entire crew of Infernal Affairs made a lot of money at this Golden Rooster Awards.

Huang Zhenhua couldn't stop laughing when talking about this. "Director, the whole internet is discussing this now, which means that you started filming in April. If it was a few months earlier, maybe Infernal Affairs 4 and Infernal Affairs would have fought each other at the Golden Rooster Awards."

"Ling Jing and Fang Keming not only have to compete with each other, but also compete with each other for the Best Actor. They were the biggest rivals in the Flying Tigers, and now they are in the film and television industry, they are still competing against each other. It's so funny."

Wang Chengguang was speechless. "It won't happen this year, but it will definitely happen next year at the 2002 Hong Kong Film Awards, and it may also happen at the Huabiao Awards. But these are just minor matters."

"It doesn't matter if I win all the awards in the mainland, but for international awards, I still have to look at the Wandering Earth project."

It is too easy to win awards in the mainland, as he is a big cheat. As for the big awards outside, once Wandering comes out, such as the Tokyo International Film Festival and the World Science Fiction Association Hugo Award, it won’t be a big problem.

It is difficult to win the three major international awards in Europe and the North American Oscars. That is not right. It is not a problem for The Wandering Earth to be nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars. The difficulty lies in winning the award under Hollywood rules.

Besides, the 2002 Hero was not only nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, but also the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.

In addition to the open and aboveboard operation of awards there, there are also serious problems of discrimination.

This depends on Wang Chengguang's own operational ability. He happens to be good at getting along with all kinds of circles! He was able to get along with Xiao Ma Ge in the early days of the struggle plane, and the film festival was just a small matter.

Huang Zhenhua hurriedly said some nice things, such as The Wandering Earth will definitely win international awards and win so many awards that his hands are tired. Then he smiled and said, "Director, the Easter eggs in Infernal Affairs 2 have once again sparked a hot topic on the Internet."

"Some netizens with divergent or smart minds have guessed that you might be setting a trap, and started a debate under the theme of the movie Infernal Affairs on Spark, but no one has figured out how big the trap you are setting is yet to be determined."

"I like this kind of fun the most when I read posts recently."

Infernal Affairs 2 is the mainland version without the tomb-sweeping easter egg. The two people sweeping the tombs with their backs said that the sacrificed policemen Lu Qichang and Luo Ji should be reincarnated as rich second-generations in their next life.

People like Ni Yongxiao will definitely go to the eighteen levels of hell to be punished after his death.

The Harbour City and South Korean versions have this Easter egg. Smart netizens discovered that this Easter egg, which should have no leitmotif, is not shown in mainland theaters? Is it because of the rule that spirits cannot be created after the founding of the People's Republic of China?

Is it possible that Infernal Affairs will film some spooky stuff? Will the third part have a plot about the underworld?

It's true that there are so many talented people and so much fun on the Internet. When similar topics pop up, they arouse a certain amount of curiosity, attention and discussion, but most netizens and movie fans still ignore them, or just criticize these weird ideas and then walk away.

Dahuang doesn’t know the concept of the entire underworld universe. He has never even seen the 10-minute version of the underworld Easter eggs, but he has many ghost soldiers as friends!
The underworld in the dimension of Shrouding the Sky does not have so many theories of merit and cause and effect. The mighty King of Hell will still launch wars and conquests, including the existence of dark turmoil. It is even more impossible to talk about good causes and good results, and large-scale reincarnation.

However, Wang Chengguang brought over some concepts of the underworld from Journey to the West, so all the ghost soldiers naturally knew certain things. They were all very much looking forward to it.

Huang Zhenhua didn’t know how powerful and vast the mythical underworld universe was, but that didn’t stop him from looking forward to it.

Wang Chengguang took a sip of tea and said, "You have time and leisure, so it doesn't matter how you entertain yourself."

At this moment, his cell phone rang. He picked it up and saw that it was Nancy calling. As Huang Zhenhua stood up and stepped back more than ten steps to avoid suspicion, he answered the phone, "Boss, there are Paris Mafia and second- and third-generation dandies who have harassed our crew more than once."

"I have already taught them a lesson several times, but it has only caused greater conflict. Now there are two mafia groups clamoring for us to get out of Paris, and a leading black police officer is also putting pressure on us under the command of the dude."

"Want to have some fun?"

Wang Chengguang was amused. "Are you here for the beauty or the money?"

Nancy and Zhou Wenwen are two beautiful women leading the team, and the heroine is Huang Yimei. This crew is in Paris... Paris has long been a black city. There must be no problem with the configuration he left for the crew, and he can always sense the crew, but there is no need to be too distracted.

Nancy explained, "Most people come to me because, boss, you have arranged for me to be a rich and beautiful woman with a net worth of over 100 million US dollars. The halo of wealth has temporarily made me more attractive than Wenwen and Rose."

Wang Chengguang coughed and said, "Then let's show a suicide by being shot in the back. As a director, you can also eat melons during the filming process and post them online to continue to promote Infernal Affairs 2 and our new film."

During the shooting of traditional film and television projects, all kinds of hype and rumors are spread to keep public attention focused on them and create constant topics. This is an essential skill for many directors.

But most of the projects are just about hyping up scandals, competing for star status and other ordinary excitement. Even Wang Chengguang, when promoting Infernal Affairs 1, hyped up the unspoken rules.

Since Paris is so wild, it would be a good idea to debut with alternative news.

It's only October 10th, and Infernal Affairs 9 has only entered its second week. The combined box office in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and South Korea in the first week was over 9000 million Hong Kong dollars. But if the popularity is high enough in the future, it is not impossible for the box office to exceed 3 million.

The first film finally took off at HK$2.8 million. Even though European and American distributors approached us to buy the copyright and screening rights, the box office did not exceed HK$3 million in theaters, so the nature of the film is different.

Nancy smiled sweetly, "I know, boss. Just wait and see the show."

Martial arts magic and robot puppets cannot control thoughts, but Teacher Yinbing can!

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October 10th is a good day to get married or move.

Originally, the enthusiasm for watching movies in Greater China, including South Korea, has faded a lot due to the bombardment of the blockbuster Infernal Affairs, but in addition to Douban's functional group sections such as Spark Movies, Spark Reading, and Spark Music, a blog section has been opened.

It’s called Spark Blog.

Nancy also verified her identity and had the endorsement of the blog platform. Her avatar was directly her photo. She posted a set of updates at around 10 a.m. Beijing time on the 8th.

"My name is Nancy. After studying two crews with Director Wang, I am now leading my team to shoot my first feature film in Paris."

"But Paris, a world-class metropolis and the capital of romance, was really unexpected. On the way to the set, our crew saw someone perform a bizarre feat of shooting himself in the back in public. What is this calling for?"

After the text, there were photos. The photos were of a park environment, with white, black, and mixed-race pedestrians on the street. In the center of the shot was a middle-aged mixed-race man with a fierce look on his face, standing by the park and roaring at the sky...

He still had a gun in his right hand. He stretched his hand back and put the muzzle of the gun against his spine and fired!
The first photo is a pose photo, the second is a shot of him falling to the street with blood spurting out after the shooting, and the third is a photo of him still struggling but not completely dead. It can be seen that Nancy's photography skills are very good. Not only is it high-definition, but ordinary netizens can also interpret the various emotions of a suicidal person before his death from the poses, struggling and lying dead behaviors in each photo.

With just this one update and a little promotion by the internet trolls, Nancy's blog went viral. A huge number of netizens from mainland China, Hong Kong and South Korea flocked to it, registering crazily, following it, leaving messages, etc.

This has made the Xinghuo platform even more popular, much more popular than the previous wave of movie watching and film reviews.

Now, let alone Weibo where celebrities interact with netizens and passers-by, there are no long blogs at all!

This was only October 2001, and traditional celebrities were still communicating with the public and being known by the public through television programs, magazines, newspapers and other interviews.

Nancy, who was officially listed as one of the assistant directors in Infernal Affairs 2, has a net worth of more than 100 million US dollars. The news spread all over the Internet. Other heads, sons and princesses of other chaebol conglomerates in South Korea also occasionally talked about Nancy on their shows, confirming her identity and wealth.

Infernal Affairs 2 is now in theaters!

She is not interviewing on TV shows or publishing in magazines, but... Xinghuo Film has opened a blog section, registered her own account and posted to the public... This was before the birth of Tieba, and netizens were watching the fun and discussing with each other, basically communicating in Tianya Community or other similar forums.

No one knows whether the person in front of you is a human or a ghost.

But Nancy was officially certified by Spark Blog as being her.

In just one day, the news of a mixed-race middle-aged man committing suicide by shooting himself in the back in Paris also spread, but the bigger sensation on the Internet was that the deputy director of Infernal Affairs, a super white and rich South Korean beauty, opened a blog account.

As long as ordinary netizens register, follow, leave messages, interact, etc., they can have conversations with big directors and super white, rich and beautiful women across the Internet?

In just one day, during the period when Internet cafes were still popular in the mainland, Nancy's personal blog directly gathered more than 500 million fans, in just one day!

Nancy's second update was some photos of the filming of Infernal Affairs 2, where she and Wang Chengguang were sitting behind the monitor directing the filming, including photos of her and Zhou Wenwen, and she thanked the enthusiastic audiences from all over the world for their support for Infernal Affairs 2.

When the new day came, on October 10, the box office of Infernal Affairs II, which was in a slump, exploded again. When Nancy continued to share her blog updates and promoted the ongoing movie Taken, Spark Blog entered the South Korean market and rose rapidly. It seemed that it was going to dominate the South Korean Internet.

If you are not a South Korean, you will not have a deep understanding of what the chaebol ecosystem is. Even if Nancy's family is finished and only has a net asset of more than 100 million US dollars left, that is still wealth that countless South Korean families dare not even dream of.

That's 600 to 700 billion South Korean won! Nancy is already a successful director. At least Infernal Affairs is very successful, and she has a medal.

With the promotion and publicity from blog surfing, the box office of Infernal Affairs 2200 exceeded 3500 million Hong Kong dollars in the second week, with 4600 million yuan in mainland China, million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong and million Hong Kong dollars in South Korea.

Adding the revenue from the first week together, it’s over 200 million Hong Kong dollars!
The number of registered users on the Spark platform has easily exceeded 20 million and is heading towards 30 million. This refers to the number of users in Greater China and South Korea.

The rise of new platforms is so sharp that it has allowed East Asian netizens in the new millennium to enter the Spark rhythm from the very beginning.

The main body of Xiaohuo 7.0 is still building a new home on Earth, various large-scale infrastructure including the construction of a space fleet, but he left behind a clone that is sufficient to handle all development plans and structures, coupled with his previous knowledge and experience from different worlds.

The blog section opened up by Spark Films is rapidly updating towards the most complete version.

In the third week of October, stimulated by blogs, Zhou Wenwen and Huang Yimei opened their own certified accounts, attracting more than 10 million netizens, 5000 million users in South Korea, and more than 800 million in Hong Kong.

The number in the mainland is nearly 3000 million!
Not to mention the mainland Internet, some of the giants in the industry were stunned. They could not have imagined that such a huge platform would suddenly emerge? A portal?
The Internet in Europe and the United States is equally shocking. There are only a few mature and large-scale long blog platforms in Europe and the United States, and they are still in the early stages of development.

The evening of August 10th.

The total box office of Infernal Affairs 2.9 in East Asia has exceeded 3 million Hong Kong dollars, and it is not far from breaking 4800 million. The box office in the mainland alone is as high as million yuan.

Wang Chengguang and his party arrived at the Golden Rooster Awards ceremony venue by car. This was the first time that Wang Chengguang walked the red carpet in a suit, and he was the only one who brought Nancy and Zhou Wenwen, who were wearing evening gowns, with him.

Now these two are the most popular blog queens with many fans.

Amidst the numerous flash cameras, the three did not linger on the red carpet, but just walked by leisurely, leaving behind a few smiles.

Then she entered the venue and took photos with her camera, taking photos of different stars, directors, etc. She also used her laptop to post a blog to show her feelings. "The environment in the mainland is more stable. It's not like Paris where there are so many shooting suicide scenes that are scary."

"The awards will be announced soon. I wish Director Wang can win the Best Director award. This is also a way to cheer myself up. I hope that the movie I am currently filming, The Rescue, can also win an award."

This way of sharing life anytime and anywhere and witnessing the rhythm of life has really attracted the global Internet again. Now, not to mention that Chinese and South Korean netizens like to browse blogs, there are also many registered users in Europe and the United States, who mainly study the various structural designs and core gameplay of blogs.

Wang Chengguang laughed. "With your frequent interactions, it won't be hard for your blog to reach 2001 million users in . By then, it will have the potential to go public. How do you divide the equity?"

He knew that this was a team formed by the two women, with Xiaohuo helping out, but he didn't care about the details.

Zhou Wenwen smiled and said, "I'm 80% and Sister Nancy is 2nd. She said that foreign capital is more likely to cause trouble and it doesn't have the advantages of being a local Chinese company."

Zhou Wenwen got an 80% chance of getting it for free. Xiaohuo Intelligent is responsible for production and construction, so she only needs to spend some money to build servers and pay for broadband fees, or she can directly expand to the entire mainland, Hong Kong and Macau, and South Korea.

If you become really popular outside, even netizens from Japan, Malaysia and Thailand will go online!
Thinking back to before joining the Spark Group, when she was still working in the prosecutorial system, she liked all these Internet trends and admired Lao Ma, Xiao Ma, and then Lao Wang. Now she is trying to grab everything again.

Even if you have been a river god for many years, it is still fun to walk the river again.

It's not a question of how much money is made, but the power of publicity and media is very important. If it weren't for this combo, Infernal Affairs 3 would not have reached a total box office of million so quickly.

Wang Chengguang nodded, "You will get used to the atmosphere of award ceremonies in the future, but Hurricane Rescue has little hope of winning an award, but it's okay to make a little money. Wait for the Huabiao Award and the Golden Image Award next year, and you can help me receive the award as assistant director."

What followed was the official award ceremony. The Best Feature Film award went to other projects, but Infernal Affairs won a series of awards including Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, etc.

The best supporting actress was Li Xin'er, who played Huang Yimei.

The best newcomer was Huang Zhenhua's Han Chen, and the best actor was Ling Jing.

There is no suspense about the Best Director and Best Screenwriter!

The second of the two films hasn't even been taken off the screen yet, but it's already grossed 600 million Hong Kong dollars in China and South Korea. This director is really good at making money. Not only did he make so much, he also directly organized a group to win awards. In mainland China, he is a man who has opened up new horizons in the entertainment industry.

At the buffet banquet after the ceremony.

When the Huang siblings each held a small trophy and came to Wang Chengguang to thank him and congratulate him, Wang Chengguang laughed and said, "You two are so funny, walking the red carpet together as siblings."

Huang Yimei laughed awkwardly and gossiped, "Director, Paris is too chaotic. Our crew has been there for more than a month and has experienced at least three gang riots and black police investigating this and that. Before, during, and after work, there was a long line of young, middle-aged, and elderly people who wanted to pursue Director Nan. Director, aren't you jealous?"

"After receiving the award, would you like to go to Paris with the crew to take charge? Although we have witnessed several people shooting themselves in the back, which is quite mysterious, I feel that it would be safer and more reassuring to have you, the director, take charge."

When Huang Yimei talked about metaphysics, her big eyes were full of confusion.

Huang Zhenhua was delighted and clinked his champagne glasses. "It's good that science and metaphysics develop together. Let's toast to metaphysics. Otherwise, the Hurricane Rescue crew won't be able to continue filming steadily."

Rose didn't know, but both he, the brother, and Huang Jianzhi, the father, knew that it was the mixed-race black and white ghost who was controlled by the ghost soldiers and teachers to shoot himself.

There are mafia bosses, corrupt cops and so on.

Now the relevant authorities in Paris have already blacklisted the Hurricane crew, and have even considered expelling them from the country and preventing them from continuing filming, but... This is a good idea, and it has just been proposed, and some people are still considering it.

There are new Mafia backbones who will go to the homes of these proposers and voters, or shoot themselves in the back at their workplaces!!

Those who were shot in the back and committed suicide were all troublemakers who had harassed and forced the Hurricane crew.

Are you surprised? Are you surprised? ? You said our metaphysics is unscientific, then let's have something really mysterious and wonderful.

Wang Chengguang's movie The Wandering Earth still hopes to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and the three major European film festivals through this way of making friends.

Wang Chengguang also smiled and clinked his glasses, "Cheers to Metaphysics."

When Nancy and Zhou Wenwen also clinked glasses with Huang Yimei, Huang Yimei said faintly, "It's the 21st century now. You big brothers and sisters shouldn't be superstitious."

Wang Chengguang took a sip of wine and said with a smile, "Don't worry about these. By the way, after we finish filming the two parts of Taken, there is a female lead role reserved for you in Wandering, but you need to show off your bald look. Rose, are you willing to give it up?"

He was talking about Han Duoduo in the second part, Liu Peiqiang's wife, who got cancer due to radiation sickness and appeared with a bald head.

He had considered before whether to let Huang Yimei appear in the filming of Lucy, but after much thought, he decided that it was unnecessary. It would be better to use the best special effects to depict the traditional myth of Houyi shooting down the sun and Chang'e flying to the moon.

The mythological story is simple, but if you make great special effects like ten suns appearing in the sky and the end of the world, and Huang Yimei's qualifications for playing Chang'e are good, she will not perform badly. This version of Chang'e flying to the moon is of course about Houyi shooting down the sun for the benefit of all people, and obtaining the elixir of immortality from the Queen Mother of the West.

When Houyi was out, Peng Meng violently snatched the medicine from him, and Chang'e ate it herself at the critical moment in order to protect the medicine. The story is simple... but it is no worse than the main storyline of Lucy.

As long as the special effects are good enough, there is no shortage of audiences in East Asia and Southeast Asia at least.

If the Journey to the West or Nezha animations are well made, with clear stories and straightforward and simple emotions, they can both sweep billions of box office in the future. This real-life mythological special effects is certainly worth looking forward to.

It has been decided that the next one to come will be the mythological special effects, which can be filmed after the first part of The Wandering Earth.

Huang Yimei, who had just taken a sip of champagne, was stunned. She touched her long black hair in a daze before nodding, "No problem, it's a small matter to sacrifice for art occasionally. After all, I don't have a bald head all the time."

At this stage, it has only been a few months since she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts. Her classmates are still complaining privately about the difficulty of finding a job and the difficulty of finding a job they like. She embarked on this journey in a daze, and not only herself, but also her father and brother have embarked on the journey.

They can easily earn hundreds of thousands of dollars in film remuneration, and can also attend national award ceremony banquets in Hong Kong, Paris, and today in Ningshi, Zhejiang Province... all with public funds.

What could be easier than such a life? Besides, as a fine arts major, she actually has opportunities to display her expertise in the film crew, whether it is art direction or costume design, simple aesthetics can show her talent.

She could easily make a lot of money, travel around and have fun, and have no shortage of delicious food and drinks. The most she needed to do was to put more effort into learning acting and showing off her superb college brain, but this was not a difficult task for her. After all, she had been out of campus for more than a year and could easily be admitted to Fudan University's science graduate school.

The undergraduate and graduate students in 2001 and the people with a master's degree delivering food or working as security guards in 2021, many years after the massive money printing, are completely different in nature.

Moreover, in the past six months, several of her roles were relatively vase-like and not difficult to perform.

Wang Chengguang smiled and said, "That's settled then. By the way, Zhenhua, you come and try the role of the pilot and the male protagonist's master. You need to practice how to fly a plane. If you really can't do it..."

Liu Peiqiang's master Zhang Peng was not only his navigator on his flight, but also the one who sacrificed his life heroically by flying a mushroom bomb and disappearing along with the moon during the lunar crisis.

He has quite a few parts in the film, and having played the evil villain twice, Da Huang can try to transform himself.

Huang Zhenhua hurriedly ran to get a new wine glass and came back to thank him. "I really didn't dare to think too much about flying a plane. This is much more interesting than being an architect. I just had a few experiences as a gangster and now I'm going to be a pilot. Thank you, director. I can definitely do it!"

If he can't do it, he can have Teacher Yinbing to direct the performance.

Amidst the laughter and chat, Bai Erru and Jiang Xueqiong came over together. The two expressed their gratitude. Bai said, "Director, thank you for bringing me in. If you need me in the future, just let me know. This kind of crew experience is really fun. It feels much more interesting than buying good things at a bargain price or spending money on auctions for valuable antiques."

Jiang Xueqiong was the female Yinbing teacher who had made progress with her. Initially, she was trying to develop the company's business, but was lured by the good antiques. Now, President Jiang also said excitedly, "Director Wang, I wish you a grand slam in film and television awards from today on. As long as there is a role in the new play, I can play any minor role."

From a business perspective, Wang Chengguang is also a devil-level director in her mind and a representative of the Chinese director community, not to mention that even the platform opened by Zhou Wenwen is about to be transformed into a giant Internet company.

This is something that she, an ordinary professional CEO of a company that hosts antique exhibitions, charity art exhibitions and other businesses, can only look up to.

(End of this chapter)