Chapter 350: I Smelled a Sledgehammer

On December 10, "1937" completed the process in Los Angeles theaters.

Next, "1937" will be led by Hu Qingquan to start the journey of harvesting various North American film critics' awards and make final preparations for the Oscars.

On the 11th, "1937" won the Hollywood Film Critics Association's Best Picture, Best Cinematography, and Best Director awards.

On the 12th, "1937" won the National Board of Review's Top Ten Films of the Year, Best Cinematography, and Best Director awards.

On the 13th, "1937" was nominated for 6 National Critics' Choice Awards in 2006.

On the 14th, "1937" received 7 nominations for the Golden Globe Awards.

As the Oscar nomination announcement date on January 23 approaches, the copyright price of "1937" has skyrocketed, from about 6 million US dollars before the Los Angeles premiere to 42 million US dollars after the Golden Globe nominations came out. The film has also made great strides with its excellent technology.

The story about Nanjing is also becoming more and more known.

On the same day, Lu Pingan also started shooting Batman 2 on the Los Angeles set.

Lu Pingan came to the United States this time. The related tasks of 1937 were only one of them. The other big task was Batman 2.

Batman 2 should have started shooting a month ago because of the delay of 1937.

Heath Ledger also suffered more mental torture for this. Lu Pingan was afraid that he would die early, so he did not delay and started shooting directly.

At the same time, Lu Pingan also started the work of "Unity can unite" to escort the film's Oscar journey and his future career in Hollywood.

Hollywood, a field of interests.

As long as the interests are there, the relationship can be stable.

Now Lu Pingan has a good relationship with the Oscar officials. Sidney is very optimistic about this Chinese director who attaches great importance to the Oscars.

As the Chinese market grows, the relationship between Hollywood and China will become more and more solid.

In North America itself, Lu Pingan's interest chain with various large institutions will also become more and more stable.

Among them, the relationship with the six majors, he is actually cooperating quite happily with two of them at present.

For example, Warner Bros., no matter what, now Warner Bros. is very serious about Batman. This time, they have a 40% share in Batman 2, and have invested a total of 100 million US dollars.

The market prospects of this movie are very good. It is a commercially promising project among current superhero movies and even all types of movies.

They naturally don't want Lu Ping'an to die for some reasons.

So after Lu Ping'an said that he had encountered death threats these days, more than 30 armed security guards were added to the set of Batman 2, and they guaranteed that they could use some relationships to help when necessary.

So the interests are linked, and it seems to be the most stable relationship.

The same is true for Paramount.

Lu Ping'an and Paramount have cooperated on Saw 3 and Brokeback Mountain, and the high returns have made the relationship between the two sides very good.

Now it's time for the third cooperation.

On the 12th, the American version of Wonderful Night 1 was released.

For this movie, Paramount's initial expectation was that it would be quite satisfied if it could make double or triple the profit.

After all, the cost was only 12 million, and they accounted for 30%.

As a result, on the 15th, "Wonderful Night 1" was released in North America, and the box office in the first three days was 40 million!

This made the CEO of Paramount call directly, wanting to finalize the cooperation for the second part.

After all, it seems that "Wonderful Night 1" will definitely not be able to be sold in North America without 150 million or 200 million, and the global box office is estimated to be at least 400 million!

Compared with the cost of 12 million, it is simply a big hit, even more powerful than "Chainsaw 3"!

How can such a series be easily let go?

Paramount simply treats Lu Pingan as the God of Wealth!

In Hollywood, whoever is the most successful can bring benefits to others.

So it is not just Paramount, but many producers also asked when to cooperate in the second part, and they can't leave us behind.

Lu Pingan was very calm about this, as the global box office of this movie in the original time and space was close to 600 million.

Now there is another title of Lu Pingan's work adaptation, and "1937" is still hot. Although the Chinese version has been released, it seems that the box office performance of the American version of "Wonderful Night 1" will not be much worse than the original time and space.

But for the cooperation in the second part, Lu Pingan said directly: "Whether there will be a sequel depends on whether I will be killed!"

Paramount CEO: "Who?! Who wants to kill you?"

Lu Pingan took the opportunity to talk about the death threat.

Paramount CEO said directly: "Lu, don't worry! If there is really something, I will definitely help you. If Watts doesn't care about you, you come to me and you can say whatever conditions you want!"

Although these are more of polite words.

But when the interests are related and you don't commit suicide, these promises can indeed be used.

And this is also the reason why Lu Pingan was willing to spread the interests.

In North America itself, Lu Pingan's base is actually still the top.

Don't look at the small top before, it is not ordinary now.

Salty Fish Wattsberg and several shareholders have been regarded as Hollywood bigwigs by Lu Ping An.

These people actually have one thing in common, that is, their family backgrounds are not bad.

So this time Wattsberg seemed to have said something to his family, and after getting some promises, he pretended to be nice to Lu Pingan: "Lu, I know it's been hard for you during this period, and I rarely helped you in the past few years, but believe it or not, as long as we are still together in the future, I can help you solve any problems you encounter."

Lu Pingan actually didn't believe it.

In the past few days, he received threatening emails, and Hu Qingquan also received letters with bullets, as if the information protection of the top was useless. Lu Pingan certainly had some opinions about Wattsberg.

But Wattsberg was out of character today. When he saw Lu Pingan's expression, he raised his mouth: "If you don't believe it, let's make a bet!"

"Okay, what's the bet?"

"Let's bet that if something happens during this Oscar period, and I can help you solve it, then you have to be the first to thank me and say my name when you go on stage to receive the award this time."

"Haha, that's fine, but what if you lose?"

"You can ask me to do anything!"

Seeing his confident look, Lu Pingan began to believe it.

"Okay, let's bet on a bottle of good wine."

"It's settled!"

"It's settled!"

"Then you can prepare the wine now!"

Watzberg said and walked away confidently.

Seeing him like this, Lu Ping'an also had some expectations.

But it's better not to make any mistakes.

Peace and safety are the real thing.

Just like this Christmas season, if he can make a few hundred million dollars with "Wonderful Night 1" and no one can mess with him, that would be the best.

"1937" in North America is going all the way, and his career is also going according to plan.

In China, there are also excitement.

There are two things that are the hottest in China at the moment.

One is that "Curse of the Golden Flower" is about to premiere.

"Curse of the Golden Flower" has been promoted since October, and the momentum is very good!

The entire mainland film industry, in Zhang Weipin's own words: no one can beat him.

"Warrior Warriors" will be released in November.

Andy Lau + Fan Xiaopang + Nicky Wu.

150 million yuan in cost!

I thought this movie would have a very high box office.

But now, almost a month has passed, and the box office in the mainland has barely exceeded 70 million yuan!

It's just a rookie among rookies!

And another potential rival, Lu Ping'an, seems to have given up the Lunar New Year period.

Zhang Weipin was very relieved.

A small drama with a mere tens of millions of yuan, what can it do even if it really hits?

So this year's Lunar New Year period, from popularity to box office, it's all my "Golden Curse"!

The result.

Just when "Golden Curse" was in full swing with the old tricks to promote it everywhere.

Big news from the domestic entertainment industry!

"Lu Ping'an's new work "1937" may be banned by Hollywood!"

Zhang Weipin was overjoyed.

The result started a few days later.

"Lu Ping'an's new film "1937" is recognized by the North American film critics as one of the biggest favorites of this year's Oscars!"

""1937" was shot in one shot and shocked the world!"

""1937" received 7 Golden Globe nominations!"

""1937"."

The twists and turns of "1937" directly exploded the entire domestic entertainment industry.

Zhang Weipin grabbed his head, stepped back, and kept stepping back. He almost knelt down and screamed to the sky: No.

If "1937" really comes, "Curse of the Golden Flower" will be in danger!

Seeing this, Lao Mouzi asked directly: "You didn't say anything nonsense at the time?"

"Of course not, how could I say anything nonsense about such a movie."

Zhang Weipin felt that he was not stupid, so how could he not see such a thing.

When he was out, people did things that were beneficial to the nation. Even if he didn't like it, he couldn't stand on the opposite side of the nation, so he didn't say anything at the time, just saying that cultural output chose the wrong direction, which was already very conservative.

"It's good that you didn't say anything nonsense."

Lao Mouzi nodded, breathed a sigh of relief, and then said, "This movie is very strong, get ready."

"Don't worry about it."

Zhang Weipin waved his hands in annoyance, and then quickly came up with a solution.

In fact, there are not many solutions.

At this juncture, we can only increase the publicity.

So that night, the news of "Golden Curse" came up again.

What premiere will invite so-and-so.

The behind-the-scenes footage of Lao Mouzi's filming was also released.

In the video, Lao Mouzi almost cried when he saw the actors' good performance.

However, the effect is very novel, but it didn't make much splash.

Because on the 15th, the domestic entertainment industry once again airborne news:

"Lu Ping'an's new work "The Bucket List" is scheduled for December 24th! Stay tuned."

"Lu Ping'an: This is the script I am most satisfied with so far."

"The Bucket List has been remade into an American version, Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson took the initiative to reduce their salaries to ask for a role."

"The Bucket List: A life gift for everyone"

"Andy: Watching "The Bucket List" can heal your life."

"The Bucket List" has finally started to promote!

And these news will make any movie fan in the mainland excited.

The most satisfying movie?

Hollywood movie kings took the initiative to reduce their salaries to act?

This script must be good!

And the most important thing is that this is Lu Ping'an's work!

Now the three words "Lu Ping'an" have become a golden signboard!

Many people have been looking forward to whether Lu Ping'an will have a movie in this year's Lunar New Year holiday, otherwise they really don't want to go out to the cinema.

Now, Lu Pingan has just experienced "killing an old beauty in one shot" in Hollywood.

Now his most satisfying script has arrived.

What else can you say?

look!

As a result, the popularity of "Bucket List" instantly surpassed that of "Golden Armor".

The "want to see" and "pre-sale" numbers on Douban and Taopiaopiao websites skyrocketed overnight, approaching the level of "Golden Armor".

This scene made Zhang Weipin feel a little dazed. At that time, Lu Ping'an had just debuted, and no matter how hard he tried to promote his work, it couldn't be compared to Lao Mouzi sneezing.

Now, it’s already this time and that time!

But the question is: "Why isn't it 1937?"

When Zhang Weipin frowned, he seemed to smell something like "killing a chicken with a bull's knife".

So confident!

Zhang Weipin hammer table.

But he still didn't panic.

I really don't believe it.

Promotion of your film started only a week before its release.

And my film has an investment of more than 300 million and has been promoted for so long. I will not be able to compete with your small film of less than 50 million!

Since you use this kind of low-cost feature film to compete with "The Golden Jacket".

Then use the box office to see the real story!