Chapter 781 Six Oscar NominationsThe South Korean movie has been released for more than half a month and has earned 20 million US dollars at the box office.
It looks like it will surpass the box office of "Interstellar".
When it comes to class stratification, South Korea can be said to have felt the same way.
The same is true in daily life. The two countries with the highest suicide rates in Asia have the same troubles.
1800 million US dollars shows their recognition.
As for the North American market, the effect is not so obvious. Although Chen An is still in charge of Lightspeed Pictures, neither Warner nor Goldman Sachs intends to intervene before Chen An's defeat.
It also chose to release it on a small scale first, test the market and then strive for an Oscar.
The effect is good. During these days of screening, the number of theaters increased from five to thirty-five.
The total box office revenue was 367 million US dollars.
This result is unremarkable for Chen An, but it is extremely impressive for Chinese-language films.
But it was not widely reported because the director was Chen An.
On January 1, before the Chinese New Year, the final list of nominees for the 24th Academy Awards was announced.
The name of "Parasite" also appears in it.
In order to get the film screened in various regions, it participated in many non-A-category international film festivals and won no less than thirty awards of varying sizes.
The momentum was overwhelming, and the film received a large number of nominations as expected.
As a foreign language film, it received six nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best Editing and Best Foreign Language Film!
In fact, foreign language films have been nominated for Best Picture and Best Director quite a few times.
"Parasite" is just one of them, but few can win awards.
Chen An didn't think there would be such an opportunity.
Looking back now, the only film that has won so many heavyweight awards is "The Last Emperor".
"Life is Beautiful", which is hailed as one of the best films in film history, only won the Best Actor award!
His own identity is ultimately different from Bong Joon-ho's.
Of course, it is precisely because of the precedent of "The Last Emperor" that the Oscars awarded the Best Picture and Best Director awards to "Parasite" after various choices.
And now China and the United States are gradually becoming tense.
There is no need to think too much about Hollywood, which is the first step in cultural invasion.
'Parasite, the grand slam winner of the three major film festivals, is shortlisted for the Oscars! With six nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director, can Chen An accomplish the feat of The Last Emperor? '
They were no longer surprised that Chen An was nominated for an Oscar, but they had new expectations.
The most heroic miracle was that "The Last Emperor" won the Best Picture and Best Director awards of the year as a foreign language film.
However, this movie is in a very embarrassing position in the country.
This internationally acclaimed film tells the story of China during a turbulent period and the last emperor Puyi, but it was made by a foreign director.
After the New Year, Chen An also responded to the media: "Don't have too high expectations. The goal of the film is to win the Best Foreign Language Film Award."
He felt the chances were slim, despite the huge reputation of Parasite.
It’s much bigger than when Bong Joon-ho filmed it in his previous life.
Chen An's final Grand Slam work, although it won the Golden Lion Award, was much more dazzling than South Korea's first Palme d'Or.
The film was released in Europe much earlier and has already grossed $7600 million.
Maybe it's difficult to break 100 million, but 80 or 90 million US dollars is still within reach.
In terms of box office, it has surpassed the original version.
The Oscar nomination and the upcoming launch of Ready Player One indicate that Chen An’s journey to Hollywood will take several months.
Fortunately, the filming cycle of the movie is not preset to be long, and post-production is the top priority.
So at the opening meeting of the year, Chen An gave special instructions and warnings.
“The production of both “Kuang Bi” and “Celebrating Life” are top priorities!”
Chen An repeatedly emphasized the importance he attached to these two projects.
Both projects are drama king-level!
As the old saying goes, two kings cannot meet, but unfortunately this year 2017 is very awkward.
In March after the Chinese New Year, the king of dramas, In the Name of People, will be aired soon, and it is absolutely unrivaled. One of the two dramas will definitely be postponed to next year, so Chen An plans to postpone Joy of Life to next year, after all, it is a series.
There are three parts in the overall plan, and one should be kept.
Therefore, "Kuang Kuang" will be released in the second half of the year, and "Joy of Life" will be released next year.
Several senior executives nodded.
Chen An continued: "The script of 'Dying to Survive' has been approved and preparations have begun. Zhang Li first took some time off from the 'The Wandering Earth' project and worked with Han Jianu to complete the crew.
"I came back from Hollywood and joined the crew directly."
A quick decision was made. Han Sanping is Han Sanping after all. The script was revised a lot but there were not many changes. It still passed the review.
This kind of movie can only be decided quickly, shot quickly, and then polished with the censors.
I haven’t been this busy for a long time. I’m shooting two movies this year.
"I understand." Zhang Li nodded.
He was already a little dark, but now he looked even darker and a lot thinner.
But it’s better than Guo Fan’s. I was also shocked by his visit during the New Year.
The once fat boy is now skinny and has put a lot of thought and effort into "The Wandering Earth".
I estimate that if I didn't lose 100 pounds, I must have lost at least 50 to 60 pounds.
Of course, there are more companies this year, including the reboot of the Detective Chinatown series.
Chen Wei also agreed, and it didn't take long.
It will be finished filming this year and will be released during the Lunar New Year holiday next year!
Thanks to the screenings reviewed on Internet streaming media in recent years, its reputation is very good.
As a series, there is a lot of room for development.
The post-production of Wu Jing's "Wolf Warrior 2" has basically been completed, and it has been basically confirmed to be released in the summer.
After the meeting, Chen An left in a hurry.
I went to Weibo first, and then to Jumping Light Years.
"Look at this data." Chen An threw out a piece of data straight away.
Liang Rubo asked in confusion: ""
Opening the statistical file, it shows a product of , a privately-listed company in Shanghai.
It contains data about the product software.
It was launched in North America in 2014 and is nicknamed the beautiful Chinese version of a certain short video software.
In 16, a second application was launched for live streaming.
In 2015, its monthly downloads in North America surpassed those of Facebook and YouTube, ranking first!
Of course, this is also due to the latter two reasons and the approaching market saturation, but it is also a very good result.
Today, the number of downloads has exceeded million, reaching 1200 million, and more than million new videos are released every day.
You have to know that this is in North America, and the combined population of the largest markets, Canada and the United States, is less than half of our country's.
The population of the United States is less than million, so this number of downloads is terrifying.
And the number of monthly active users is as high as 40 million.
This data cannot be compared with the domestic data and is extremely terrifying.
Liang Rubo roughly understood what Chen An meant: "Mr. Chen, are you planning to acquire it?"
"Yes, this is the first step for Tik Tok to go global, and it can save a lot of things."
Chen An has long had his eyes on . The rapid internationalization of Tik Tok or the so-called Tik Tok is inseparable from the acquisition of .
He must take advantage of the overseas market, and we will talk about the follow-up matters later.
Liang Rubo continued to look through the data: "I'm afraid it's a bit difficult."
Simply put, it requires a lot of money, which will be a huge investment.
Tik Tok has not yet officially turned a profit, so acquiring will be a difficult undertaking.
(End of this chapter)
