Chapter 250

The hotel Chen Nuo stayed in was officially designated by the Golden Horse Awards, not the Hilton he was familiar with.

However, the hotel location was very good, located in the most prosperous area of Taipei, and not far downstairs was the Shilin Night Market he had visited with Wen Yingshan before.

Jiao Xiongping really kept her word. Saying she would lead the Golden Horse team to sweep the couch and wait, burning incense and waiting respectfully, she really waited in the lobby on the first floor of the hotel with a large group of people for Chen Nuo to come over.

Although the reporters who followed the car were blocked outside the hotel, the flashing magnesium lights through the glass windows were not something to be trifled with.

Perhaps the next day, like when the Japanese newspapers scolded Oono Saburo at the Tokyo Film Festival, they would put a hat of servility on Jiao Xiongping,

but the first-time-meeting Taiwan's most awesome female producer ignored this, introducing the members of the Golden Horse Awards Executive Committee to Chen Nuo in an orderly manner.

Just this alone showed extraordinary tolerance and politeness in front of Chen Nuo, and the impression was immediately very good.

No wonder before Jiang Wen learned he was coming to the Golden Horse Awards, he specifically called him, saying that as a producer, Jiao Xiongping had cooperated with him in "The Sun Also Rises," saying that this woman had very good character, was a real filmmaker, and was also a person who knew etiquette very well.

In fact, it was so. The welcome dinner that started at 5:00 PM was eaten until 7:00 PM. Jiao Xiongping, considering Chen Nuo had come from afar and hadn't adjusted his jet lag, took the initiative to propose ending the banquet.

The key was that at the banquet, not only Chen Nuo as the main guest, but also the entire cast and crew of "The Message" felt at home.

Whether it was Wen Yingshan, who was nominated for Best Newcomer and was a bit shy,

or Liu Yifei, the Best Actress candidate who had just returned from Africa,

or another Best Actress candidate, Fan Fan Binbing, who had just returned from a fashion week in Europe and was still adjusting her jet lag,

as well as Huang Bo and Duan Yihong, who were nominated for Best Supporting Actor,

and Ning Hao and Gao Qunshu, who were nominated for Best Director,

none were not taken care of properly by the long-sleeved and good-dancing Big Sister Jiao.

After the banquet, Jiao Xiongping specifically exhorted Chen Nuo to rest well, saying they could sleep in tomorrow, and the "The Message" crew could walk the red carpet whenever they wanted, as long as they didn't delay him from going to present the Best Film award.

This was of course a joke.

Because the "The Message" crew had long communicated with the Golden Horse, and they were arranged in the second half of the red carpet, just when the ratings were weak.

However, the way she said it sounded very comfortable.

The treatment after winning an Oscar was truly different.

Chen Nuo remembered that the last time he came to the Golden Horse, the arrangement for him was just an ordinary suite in a four-star hotel.

However, this time, the Golden Horse Awards not only generously arranged a five-star hotel for the entire "The Message" crew, including Duan Yihong and Huang Bo who were also competing for Best Supporting Actor, but every main actor had a luxury executive suite,

and makeup artists, agents, or assistants who followed the artists like Michelle were all provided with a large bed room each.

It could truly be called generous.

Chen Nuo stayed in a presidential suite.

However, he was used to it. After all, when he was acting in Korea, CJ generously opened a presidential suite at the Shilla Hotel for him for half a month.

These one or two nights at the Golden Horse were just drizzle.

However, after the banquet ended, the colleagues of "The Message" crew who hadn't seen each other for a long time had a place to go.

Everyone came to the spacious living room of Chen Nuo's suite one after another, sitting together to drink tea and chat.

After chatting for more than half an hour, Huang Bo and Duan Yihong left first, followed by Ning Hao and Gao Qunshu.

Unknowingly, only Chen Nuo and three women were left in the room.

This was the proper direct line of Chen Mouren, all his own people.

So, the few women also relaxed immediately, each without a sitting posture. Liu Yifei, who had been silent before, also started to perform, chatting with Wen Yingshan and Fan Fan Binbing about her stimulating experience in Africa this time.

She said that in November, she and the reserve patrol team encountered a small group of poachers on the grassland, and they even had a small-scale gunfight.

She even shot a poacher in the shoulder from several hundred meters away.

Hearing the other two women ask questions in disbelief.

Chen Nuo yawned twice on the side.

Because Liu Yifei had already mentioned this to him at least thirty times in text messages back then, repeating it over and over, and every time she recalled a detail, she had to tell him several times.

Chen Nuo felt that if he were given a pen now, he could probably draw the heroic posture of Miss Liu holding a gun and fighting the bandits:

Dressed in hunting clothes, with a ponytail, hiding behind a jeep, not panicking at all in the face of a hail of bullets.

The 21-year-old female warrior lay on the ground, slowly poking her head out from the tail of the car, like a Dinghai Shenzhen (stabilizing force) and a pillar of strength among the panicked patrol team, only to see her holding a gun in both hands to aim at the thief, and then pulling the trigger.

"Da da da," "da da da," "da da da."

Chen Nuo heard Liu Yifei talk about the feeling of shooting, and felt it was like playing CS, using an AK47 to shoot a three-round burst.

However, Miss Liu was even more awesome.

Because she used the M16 of the reserve patrol team to achieve this effect.

In the end, she used her god-like shooting skills to hit a bandit hiding next to a tree more than 300 meters away.

So that the group of poachers didn't dare to confront the patrol team that had her, the genius sharpshooter, anymore, dropped their prey, and fled in a panic.

This story was truly wonderful.

Liu Yifei also told it clearly.

Just ask if you believe it or not.

Anyway, Chen Nuo believed it.

Mainly because he couldn't not believe it; if he didn't believe it, Miss Liu would be angry, saying she must take photos for Chen Nuo to see next time.

Worried that Miss Liu might have an accidental discharge while looking for someone to pose, endangering her life, Chen Nuo could only choose to believe.

Chen Nuo yawned, and Wen Yingshan immediately noticed it, saying: "Da... everyone is tired, why don't we go back to rest."

Fan Fan Binbing glanced at Chen Nuo and said with a light smile: "Little Shan, you are really careful. Alright, then Yifei and I will go first. You two rest well."

Wen Yingshan's face was a bit red, saying: "I want to go too."

Fan Fan Binbing smiled. Seeing her appearance, Wen Yingshan's face became even redder.

Liu Yifei was stunned, looked at Wen Yingshan, and said with some doubt: "Little Shan, did you really break up with Chen Nuo? I always thought you were hyping it up. Are you really or fake, what's going on?"

Chen Nuo originally didn't want to speak.

He actually knew clearly that since Cannes, Wen Yingshan, Xia Yehe, and Fan Fan Binbing hadn't been right with each other.

There was a meaning of joining forces to resist foreign enemies.

So, there was some undercurrent between Wen Yingshan and Fan Fan Binbing, and he didn't want to care too much.

According to his experience, including the advice given by Chief Steward Qi, in the harem, several women shouldn't be at odds, that would cause trouble. But they shouldn't be harmonious and close like sisters either, that would cause even more trouble.

For him, the best situation is that the women are united but not in a group, fighting but not breaking.

However, Wen Yingshan was asked by Liu Yifei, and seeing she didn't know how to answer, he had to help her out.

He coughed lightly, preparing to say a few words.

Suddenly, Chief Steward Qi walked in from the outside with a smile.

He didn't even look at the three women, and said directly: "Jay Chou and Yang Junrong are here. Do you want to see them?"

Chen Nuo thought for a moment, "Okay. You call them in."

The next day, when Chen Nuo was preparing to attend the Golden Horse Awards ceremony,

the second weekend box office data for the North American market had already been freshly released and sent to Luo Bo Friedman and the bosses of many Hollywood film companies.

The Sunday box office of "Twilight" fell by nearly half compared to Saturday, reporting at $20.5 million.

Finally, with a result of about $58.5 million, it won its second North American weekend box office championship.

"007" in its third week of release and "Bolt" in its second week also took $12 million and $39-plus million. Plus the sporadic results of other small-production movies, this weekend's North American box office reached $120 million.

Once again refreshing the best weekend market performance since The Dark Knight, 50% more than the previous weekend.

This made many box office experts cry and laugh, but also had to admit that Twilight was indeed a "market-saving work" as many cinema bosses said.

While making money itself, it didn't delay other movies from making money. Speaking of this, Twilight was even more awesome than The Dark Knight.

The reason, many box office experts actually analyzed it, the viewing group of Twilight is actually an incremental market.

The PG-13 rating allowed many American middle school girls to dedicate their most precious first viewing experience in life to the handsome and evil Edward Chen.

The total box office of "Twilight" reached $251 million at the end of the weekend, sitting firmly in the third position of the 2008 North American box office.

But the sharp decline in Sunday box office had already predicted that Monday would not be good.

Even if the number of followers on Chen Nuo's Facebook homepage broke the 500,000 mark in just two days of registration,

the number of likes for that vampire hunting postmodern photo exceeded 170,000,

it couldn't save the fact that Twilight was exhausted due to bad public reputation.

One of the reasons is also that there are too few girls in the U. S. now, and it hasn't become popular for men to become women, otherwise it's not impossible to rush again.

Now, it can only rely on the remaining few weeks of release time, slowly grinding, to see how much can be ground out.

Chen Nuo received a call from Luo Bo Friedman when he was on his way to the Golden Horse Awards ceremony.

On the phone, after the Jewish old man told him the results of this weekend and nagged for a long time, he stated the real purpose of his call...

The start time of the second part of Twilight was set for March next year,

but director Catherine had quite a few objections to this, believing that one movie a year is hard to produce a masterpiece.

This is no wonder.

Women always cherish their feathers more. This time Twilight was scolded to the point of being bloody, which made her bear huge pressure in her heart,

so Catherine not only demanded to increase the production cost for the next part, but also believed that Twilight should be like Harry Potter, with a shooting frequency of one and a half to two years.

Luo Bo Friedman didn't know whether to agree or not,

However, before making a decision, he still wanted to hear Edward Chen's opinion.

If the biggest guarantee for Twilight's sales didn't agree with his certain decisions, then he could pinch his nose and go communicate with Catherine again.

But Chen Dehua's answer after listening was only three words, and when he said it, it was like a cold wind blowing across a frozen lake, without a trace of emotion, and without any fluctuation.

"I don't care."

I don't care.

After Luo Bo Friedman hung up the phone with satisfaction, he gave himself a light slap.

He actually treated this cold-blooded little bastard as a saint at the beginning, so he gave out tens of millions of dollars more, which really couldn't blame anyone!

Susan also said that the character of this Asian sweetheart of his was so noble!

Noble?

His attitude toward Catherine was no more noble than the attitude of their Jews toward the refugees in Gaza.

If Chen Nuo knew that Luo Bo Friedman actually compared him to a cold-blooded animal, he would definitely be quite surprised.

After all, in his view, it's still the same saying, Twilight is not a movie, it's a business.

The female director doesn't want to do business, she wants to have higher artistic pursuits, wants to use "Twilight," this youth movie, to prove her directing strength, then what can Chen Nuo do?

Can only bless her, send her away. Such a kind philanthropist, can he compare with those butchers who kill and slaughter cities in the Middle East?

"Nuozi, things in the U. S., right? Twilight?"

This time going to the red carpet, the Golden Horse arranged four extended limousines to pick up their "The Message" crew.

Chen Nuo was in the same car as the director, and after hearing him speak foreign language for a long time, Ning Hao asked directly.

Chen Nuo nodded: "Right."

Ning Hao asked curiously, "How much box office is there at the end of this week? Is there $300 million?"

Chen Nuo shook his head: "No, far from it, this is only 240 million. I estimate that the U. S. side won't have 300 million when it's off the screen."

"There are still two or three weeks, I think it's about the same. Not counting global box office."

"There are many people watching Twilight in the mainland, the key is those little girls, I see they all like it very much. I heard from Brother Liu in the company that his daughter's school gate, the 49th Middle School, on those poster stalls, Edward is now the best-selling one. Selling I don't know how many every day."

"Taiwan side, I saw yesterday, there are movie posters of Twilight everywhere outside the hotel looking for you... box office is definitely not bad."

"Plus Europe, South America."

"Oh, you have quite a few fans in Japan and Korea too."

"If I were to say, $500 million global box office is definitely no problem."

Chen Nuo smiled when he heard this: "Then borrow your auspicious words."

Ning Hao looked at the silent Qi Yuntian and continued: "Nuozi, there is a matter I want to hear your opinion on. I talked to President Qi before, I want to shoot an art film after shooting The Message, to try to see if I can win one or two awards. Of course, it's not that I won't shoot commercial films, but I just want to take a year or two to try my level, what do you think?"

Chen Nuo could guarantee that this was definitely the sequelae brought by Ning Hao's cooperation with Wong Kar-wai. In his previous life, he had always been commercial to the end, and had never turned to the path of art films.

However...

"Very good. Why not?" Chen Nuo said very seriously, "When you joined the company, Brother Ning, I told you, my temple is small, but there is one advantage, that is freedom. Whether it's you or others, no matter what you want to do, what you want to try, I and President Qi will unconditionally support you. So, no problem, if you want to do it, go do it."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 251 =====