A great director who grew up happily

Chapter 417: Film can be art, but ultimately it is about profit

After "Bad Genius" defeated "The Mummy", it means that in the next two weeks, except for "Alien", which has a relatively narrow audience, the other more than 20 domestic films released will not be able to snatch the screening share from Chen Jinnian.

This is equivalent to an inexplicable half-month box office window, which would have been completely unimaginable in previous years.

Due to the existence of the domestic film protection month, the summer vacation period is a reserved area for domestic films. No Hollywood movies will be released in July and August.

In this case, there is often a cluster of blockbuster movies released in June.

For the same reason, June is generally recognized as the worst schedule for domestic directors. Even if they don't mention it, when the movie is actually scheduled, they will run away if they can, believing that the body is more honest than the mouth.

In June last year, "X-Men", "Warcraft", "Finding Nemo 2", "Now You See Me 2" and "Independence Day" together took away more than 95% of the box office. Mainland Chinese films were hit hard, and even the Hong Kong film "Three's Company" with a top lineup only barely broke million yuan.

Therefore, it was unexpected that "Bad Genius" could win the mainland box office championship for the 23rd week in June this year despite being surrounded by opponents.

And according to the current attendance rate, there is also a high probability that it will win the title of mainland box office champion in the 5th week, and there will be no challenger until "Transformers " is released in the th week.

Because of his impressive box office performance, Chen Jinnian has been awarded the titles of Best Campus Film Director in China, Youngest Commercial Film Director in China, and Youngest Director with a Billion-Dollar Box Office.

So when Chen Jinnian and Wang Yidi returned to school to take exams, they had to take the exams separately to prevent disorder problems in the large examination room.

Fortunately, as their performance major is an art major, there are not many students, and the exam is not as important as changing majors, otherwise it would be difficult to coordinate.

The freshman exam week and the hit week of "Bad Genius" ended at the same time. "Transformers 5" swept all the screenings, and "Bad Genius" was forced to give up its screening share, falling below 10% for the first time.

The current total box office is 10.8 billion yuan. If there were no impact from "Transformers 5", "Bad Genius" could have tried to hit 12 billion yuan. However, even so, many industries still gave a total box office forecast of 11.4 billion yuan.

At the same time, Chen Jinnian also became the fourth Chinese director this year whose works exceeded 1 billion yuan, ranking third on the domestic box office list and tenth on the domestic film box office list.

He is so fierce that he doesn't even look like a newcomer.

In the evening, after the exam, everyone gathered in the house next to Chen Jinnian to chat and eat.

Qiao Yingzi patted his shoulder heavily, "Damn, you're so awesome now that I almost don't recognize you anymore."

"Can you be more civilized? If your mother hears your vulgar words, she will start to diss us again." Chen Jinnian rolled his eyes at her.

"I'm really happy for you guys." Qiao Yingzi put one arm around Wang Yidi and the other around Chen Jinnian. "When are you planning on coming back to receive your awards, like the Golden Horse and Golden Photo awards?"

"Forget it. I'm not a director trained in the mainstream system, so they won't give me an award. Han Han is much more famous than I am. Do you think he has any awards from mainstream film festivals? Anyway, what I heard is that his films are not even eligible for nominations."

Chen Jinnian himself had no interest in those awards and was too lazy to even apply for them, but he did want to arrange for Wang Yidi to receive an award that matched his status.

For this reason, he specially checked the situation and found that even the seemingly glamorous Chen Sicheng could not get into the mainstream award system and could only be nominated for some random things. If you didn't check carefully, you wouldn't even know that there was such an award.

Chen Jinnian was disappointed after the investigation. He knew that mountain culture was prevalent, but he didn't know it was so prevalent.

So he had already told Wang Yidi the situation in advance, telling her not to have too much hope. Even if the movie performed well and she performed well, there was a high probability that she would not even get the consolation prize for Best Newcomer.

"That's impossible. Our teacher said the award system is still very fair." Fang Yifan said suspiciously. He had just returned from Nanjing Academy of Fine Arts and heard that there would be a lively event in the evening, so he immediately ran over to participate.

"How old is your teacher?" Chen Jinnian asked.

"He looks quite young, but he must be almost fifty years old," Fang Yifan replied.

"No wonder. When he was young, awards were indeed more fair. But it's different now. The judges represent a variety of interest groups, and some even directly represent the voices of the group. If you don't kowtow to them, why would they give you the award?"

Chen Jinnian said in a playful tone.

As a director, Chen Jinnian's ecological niche is even lower than Wu Jing's. Although Wu Jing is just a martial arts actor, according to seniority, he is the junior master of many people in the circle, and his status in the circle is there.

That's why "Wolf Warrior 1" was able to pass the quality test, receive many nominations and awards, and was even nominated for Best Director, Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Newcomer, and Best Screenwriter at the Hundred Flowers Awards, and finally won some awards.

Chen Jinnian is a pure grassroots in the industry. He is a sleazy outsider who came to the circle to beg for food. He also started out by shooting online movies, so he won't even be nominated for Best New Director in mainstream awards.

But Fang Yifan, as a student, had a very positive outlook on life outside. He still believed in truth, goodness, and beauty. He continued, "As long as the film is good..."

"The commercial and artistic attributes of movies are different. Commercial attributes are determined by box office, while artistic attributes are determined by a small number of people. Even Oscars can't be avoided. Do you think something that is quickly produced in China can be naturally harmless?"

After Chen Jinnian finished explaining, he reminded Xia Yifan, "Your school has many awards, including places to join the Party. Do you think those are distributed fairly?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present understood what Chen Jinnian meant.

Even things with such small benefits are caused by inbreeding, yet they still think that film and television awards with such huge benefits are fair. This is so terribly childish.

"When you have the opportunity to play a role in a production, you'll see how difficult it is to nominate yourself for Best Newcomer. Don't even think about entering a wild card award or a guild award. As long as you can get the production to nominate you for Best Newcomer, I'll look up to you."

Fang Yifan felt both agreement and frustration when he heard Chen Jinnian's words. However, he remained stubborn and said, "That's because I don't have a chance. Wait until I find one. I'll definitely be nominated for Best Newcomer."

Huang Zhitao curled her lips and smiled, "You'd better wait until you can get into the crew. Aren't you going to work during the summer vacation? Go find a crew and try your luck."

"You say it's easy, where can I find it?"

"Let Jinnian introduce one to you."

Chen Jinnian suddenly had an idea and said immediately, "Hey, there actually is a crew. If you can endure hardship, I can take you there to try it out. They're short of people, and basically they want anyone they can, but the salary will be lower, at most four or five thousand yuan."