Chapter 522

The heat of the Golden Globe Awards hadn't passed, and Wei Jin was on the hot search at home and abroad again.

40 days after release, the global box office of "Gravity" exceeded 1 billion US dollars, and Wei Jin officially completed the slogan he shouted, achieving the achievement of a top big director.

This is also the 9th film in global film history to reach 1 billion US dollars. The previous seven are "Jurassic Park," "Titanic," "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," "The Dark Knight Rises," "Inception," "Avatar," and "The Avengers."

In fact, there will be many films that will reach the 1 billion US dollar standard line through re-release, but for now, there are only these 9.

Even if it is another 10 years, there are less than 50 films with a global box office of more than 1 billion US dollars. This gold content is too high.

Especially for a Chinese-language film to achieve this achievement, at present, it can be called a terrifying achievement that shocks the world.

Less than thirty years old, historical ninth, absolute winner in life, film legend, even if Wei Jin retires now, he is an existence enough to be deified! But netizens are still not satisfied. What's the point of ninth? You have to be first.

Unfortunately, there is the result of "Avatar" exceeding 2 billion US dollars in front, and it is basically impossible to overturn this mountain.

Since that's the case, let's compare some comprehensive data.

There are data gods who summarized the career box office of famous directors around the world. In the past, this kind of data had nothing to do with Chinese directors. Those who can be compared are top commercial directors in Hollywood.

But when the data came out, netizens were shocked.

Since his debut in 2003, the global cumulative box office of all films shot by Wei Jin has reached an astonishing 4.2 billion US dollars.

What is this concept? Converted, it is close to 30 billion RMB! Equivalent to the total national box office for two years in the country.

It is even more than the GDP of many county-level cities in the country for a year! And there are only two people who rank ahead of Wei Jin in results, and that is Spielberg and James Cameron. Even big shots like Lucas and Nolan rank behind him.

Now it's comfortable. Third in the world, in ancient times, that is also a Tanhualang, which sounds much more comfortable than the historical ninth.

The key is that Wei Jin is less than thirty years old. With his current filming speed of one or even two films a year, even if he keeps filming Chinese-language films in the future, he has a great hope of breaking Spielberg's global record of 8 billion US dollars and reaching the top of film history!

As a result, netizens were happy, the media reported overwhelmingly, and even overseas media paid great attention.

So much so that Wei Jin received many interviews while filming on the set, and related congratulatory calls were one after another.

In the evening, when Wei Jin and Huang Mengying were taking a bath, they received a call from Han Sanping, asking about the celebration banquet.

"Director Han, I have to film here and do Oscar public relations, how can I have time to return to China to attend the celebration banquet? Why don't you notify Cheng Long and Zeng Li to attend, I can't come anyway..."

While speaking, Wei Jin patted Huang Mengying's pretty face, and the latter immediately understood, lowered her head, and the warmth struck instantly.

"You kid, what's the point if you don't come? Besides, hasn't public relations been handed over to La Vice Chairman, do you think I don't know?"

"Cough cough, La Vice Chairman has been dealing with filmmakers overseas all year round, and he is very good at this kind of occasion, even enjoying it. We should know people and use them well..."

Wei Jin is also very good at this moment, enjoying it. The young and tender body in his twenties is really tender enough to drip water.

"Alright, then I'll just do it simply here."

"Hmm, Director Han, feel free, let's do this first, goodbye."

Regarding Han Sanping's words, Wei Jin didn't believe a word of it. On such an occasion, if Old Han didn't turn it into a summary meeting, he would be sorry for his status as a system person.

It's just that after hanging up the phone, Wei Jin also planned to do it simply, so he reached out and patted the little assistant who was still working hard.

"Mengying, today is a day worth celebrating, are you ready?"

Huang Mengying slowly raised her head, and when she left, she also stretched out her little tongue to roll it, then looked at Wei Jin's eyes and showed a healing smile.

"Boss, what do you think?"

"Hmph, it seems little Mengying is hungry..."

Hearing this, Huang Mengying gently turned her body.

Wei Jin got up and stuck to the front.

"~~Boss~~~"

Wei Jin didn't expect that he just discussed art with the little assistant, and another big event happened in the country.

Led by Director Xie Fei, a large number of literary film directors, including Lou Ye, Jiang Wen, and Jia Kezhang, jointly submitted an application to the General Administration.

The content of the application is only one, hoping to replace the film censorship system with a film rating system.

They sent an open letter to the industry, calling on all directors and filmmakers to unite.

The impact of the incident was great, and even Wei Jin, who was filming low-key in North America, was affected.

Many mainland netizens left messages under Wei Jin's Weibo, hoping he could join in and apply to the Film Bureau together.

After all, with Wei Jin's current achievements, his weight in speaking is full.

In addition, many famous directors, such as Zhang Yimou, Feng Dapao, Chen Shiren, etc., were also called out by netizens.

There were even many industry insiders who @Wei Jin on Weibo, and even the open letter was sent directly to Shanhe Media.

But Wei Jin didn't respond here, choosing a cold-treatment attitude.

After years of precipitation, he had new thoughts on the censorship system.

Due to national conditions, cultural carriers such as films and TV dramas must be under control. The so-called freedom of speech is not worth mentioning in the face of stability.

Some things cannot be filmed, that is, they cannot be filmed, and there is no room for negotiation at all.

What really made Wei Jin disgusted was that a group of old stubborns abused the power in their hands in the name of censorship.

However, this situation has been greatly improved after that censorship dispute.

In the future, as the market continues to grow, censorship will gradually give way and become more and more relaxed.

And this time, Feng Dapao, Chen Shiren, etc., none of them spoke, and even Ning Hao, who had always had great resentment towards the censorship group, did not speak.

Why? Because everyone sees it very clearly.

Those who are really dissatisfied with censorship are those directors who cannot film commercial films, failed in transformation, and have been wandering on the edge of the censorship red line for many years.

Believe it or not, if the censorship system is really opened up, this group of people can film works that break the bottom line for you? Just like the film rating system was briefly implemented in the 90s, what was the result? It was that all the Fifth Generation directors went to film marginal themes, novelty, bloody, perverted... All themes that can be imagined and cannot be imagined, this group of people will film them.

Instead, it made the audience lose interest in films, causing the market to shrink.

In fact, the total box office of the film market in the early 90s reached 1 billion, and the number remained unchanged until 2000, which is somewhat due to this aspect.

So there is a saying that is very good, freedom with constraints is true freedom.

Wei Jin didn't pay too much attention to the disturbances in the country and focused on filming his new film.

The schedule in Hollywood is different, and there are strict requirements for the working hours of actors, no more than 10 hours a day, and holidays on weekends.

So Wei Jin almost lived the life of an urban white-collar worker, going to work during the day and accompanying his beautiful wives and concubines at night. Two days passed in a flash, and he received a call from Leon, and the two agreed to meet at Summit Entertainment.

After the crew finished packing, Wei Jin arrived at the company and saw that Leon was already tasting coffee in the office.

"Hey, brother, coming so early, don't you need to run public relations?"

Leon put down the coffee in his hand and shrugged, "You know, the awards season lasts a long time, if I attend cocktail parties every day, my body won't be able to take it..."

"Hahaha, that's right, those girls are not so easy to dismiss."

Wei Jin has to admit that Xiao Lizi, who is almost forty, is still handsome, and must be the first target of hot girls at cocktail parties.

Without a golden finger, if he sings and dances every night, Leon is afraid he will die young.

"Wei, don't just talk about me, if you attend a cocktail party, I'm afraid you will be more popular than me, the world's youngest 1 billion US dollar big director, really amazing!"

Although he was teasing, Leon's tone also carried sincerity.

He has been in the film industry for more than 20 years and has filmed more than 20 films. His box office results are still quite a gap compared to Wei Jin.

"Leon, you are humble. If you didn't race for awards all these years, your box office results might not be worse than mine, haha..."

Leon shrugged: "Aren't you also racing for awards?"

"Uh..."

Wei Jin found it difficult to say, you thick-browed and big-eyed guy, are you sure you want to compare with me, this cheater?

Thinking about it, Wei Jin still didn't intend to hurt him, so he opened the drawer, took out the script, and handed it over.

"Take a look first, these two scripts are prepared for you."

"Okay, let me appreciate it first, to see if it can compare to 'Hunting'..."

After Leonardo took the script, he leaned comfortably on the sofa and read it carefully.

In the office, it suddenly became quiet, leaving only the sound of occasional page turning.

Wei Jin didn't disturb him either, browsing the domestic news.

The farce of filmmakers and directors in the country ended very quickly.

In less than three days, the General Administration issued an approval, and the meaning was very clear.

"Considering the current development status of the domestic film industry, the rating system is too idealistic and not more suitable for industry development than the censorship system. In the future, perhaps under expert demonstration, it will be considered in a timely and appropriate manner..."

At this moment, there are many related discussions in the circle and on the Internet.

"The efficiency is quite high this time, it seems it has attracted attention..."

"Fart attention, look at what it says, future, this future is afraid that it may not be realized in ten or twenty years..."

"Sigh, the big directors didn't get involved, did they not look good on it from the beginning?"

"Of course, big directors can film commercial films, and they are not stupid, they have to die..."

"..."

Although there was no high hope in the circle from the beginning, this announcement still made many people a bit disappointed, which was too discouraging.

The crisp sound of the spoon stirring the coffee cup pulled Wei Jin's attention back from the computer screen.

I saw that Leon had roughly finished reading the script and picked up the coffee.

"Do you need another cup?"

"No."

After Leon put down the coffee cup, there was some emotion on his face: "Mental breakdown leading to crime, as well as themes exploring revenge, human nature, and survival, both scripts are very good, Wei, you have given me a difficult problem..."

"Thanks for the compliment, but perhaps you can listen to my arrangements before making a decision."

Leon raised his eyebrows: "Oh?"

"I intend to direct the script 'Joker' myself, but the time may have to wait a few more years..."

Leon heard the meaning in Wei Jin's words and couldn't help but be a bit surprised: "Then you mean, you won't direct 'The Revenant'?"

"Yes, the filming conditions for this script are too unfriendly, I can't eat this bitterness..."

The filming of "The Revenant" is too troublesome. Staying in the primeval forest for half a year, who the hell can stand it?

"Then who do you intend to let direct it? When will it start?"

"How about Alejandro?"

Leonardo is still very familiar with famous directors in Hollywood, and soon reacted: "Is it that Mexican director who directed 'Babel'?"

"Yes, in fact, after I bought the novel copyright, he had already come to contact, and also talked to Hunter about creative concepts. I don't think he will live up to this script. In addition, if you agree, it is estimated that it can be launched this year."

This person was originally the original director who lifted Leon to the Oscar Best Actor. Wei Jin of course felt it was suitable.

However, Leon had never collaborated after all, so he was a bit hesitant in his heart, still weighing the level of the two.

After a long while, Leon had the answer in his heart.

"Okay, then this script, but I have to meet him..."

"Of course, this should be, in addition, we may have to talk about the investment share later..."

"This is not urgent, I have another idea, you listen first."

Without waiting for Wei Jin to answer, Leonardo said to himself: "It was agreed that we would collaborate. Since you don't direct this script, if the time is right in the end, I also hope to collaborate on 'Joker'."

Wei Jin was amused, "Hehe, Leon, you want both?"

Leonardo spread his hands: "Otherwise? Children make multiple-choice questions, adults of course choose both."

"Hahaha, okay, I promise you, when 'Joker' starts, if you have a schedule, it will definitely be the priority choice, how about it?"

"Very good, my brother, it's getting late, do you want to go and appreciate the scenery of North America with me tonight?"

"0.0"

(End of chapter)