Chapter 644

"Reprinted from the official website of the Film Bureau, public notice document:

Approved the extension key application for the film *Detective Chinatown*, allowing the film to be extended for release until the official end of screening on the evening of February 15th. The extension period is a total of 15 days..."

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Yesterday the film just broke 2 billion at the box office, and this morning the Film Bureau publicly approved the extension key application for half a month.

The entire mainland film circle saw it, and everyone was sighing endlessly;

*Detective Chinatown* is going to charge from the end of December to the middle of February, singing all the way from the New Year season, destroying everything in its path, and diving into the Spring Festival season.

But this also means that *Detective Chinatown* will inevitably have a fierce battle with several Spring Festival commercial blockbusters like *The Mermaid* for 8 days.

"You are increasing the pressure on us 'vulnerable film groups'!"

Ning Hao had a bitter face, looking at Lin Nan.

Because there was another "bandit" in front of *Nian Beast*, and 8 days in the difficult days became even more difficult.

"Director Ning, life and death are determined by fate, wealth and honor are in heaven."

Lin Nan patted Ning Hao on the shoulder, which could be considered comfort, but the smile on his face was a bit dishonest.

Ning Hao glanced at him with annoyance, then immediately changed the subject:

"Dong Ping and the others have already started to win over big directors in the industry. If my shares are diluted later, it shouldn't be a surprise."

"The big director alliance plan of Huanxi Media has officially started to advance?"

Lin Nan teased. When Dong Ping tried to win him over, it was before Huanxi resumed trading and went public, but that didn't count as a serious "big director alliance plan";

Because if he had agreed at that time, he would have been an original shareholder, not an ordinary shareholder who joined later in the "big director alliance plan."

"Mm, it started. Aren't you curious about who we contacted first?"

Ning Hao smiled very lewdly, but it could be seen that he was very satisfied with the big director candidate Dong Ping was winning over.

"If you want to say it, say it; if not, forget it. Looking at your appearance of holding back discomfort, it's like you're constipated."

"F*** your grandfather, you're the one who's constipated."

"Be civilized!"

Xing Aina roared at Ning Hao from afar, and the latter immediately went silent, just glaring at Lin Nan.

"Big directors in the mainland are not easy to poach; each one is backed by capital or is capital themselves.

So while Dong Ping is pulling mainland directors, he has put his main energy into Hong Kong; after all, Huanxi is also a film and television company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange."

"Any progress? Who?"

Lin Nan was really interested now, because there are only a few big directors in Hong Kong, and they can be counted on one hand!

"Wong Kar-wai, Chen Kexin!"

Ning Hao decisively spat out two names. Lin Nan curled his lips and said with quite a bit of disdain:

"Although I don't look favorably on many filmmakers in the Hong Kong circle, including Chen Kexin and his wife. But thinking about it carefully, there are really only a few big directors that Huanxi can win over!"

"So what if you don't look favorably on them? It's just shareholders and business, not living a life. You don't look favorably on Alibaba either, but aren't you and Alibaba both shareholders of Weibo?"

Fine, Lin Nan really couldn't refute Director Ning's words.

"How far has the progress gone? People over there are all extremely greedy!" Lin Nan changed the subject and asked.

Sure enough, he saw Ning Hao also reveal an expression of contempt, "Haven't you guessed it? Greedy, so they are negotiating the price! Negotiating the shares."

Hearing this answer, Lin Nan understood; since they can negotiate the price, it means that Wong Kar-wai and Chen Kexin will inevitably become big director shareholders of Huanxi Media!

"Tsk tsk, this circle is really a circle."

Lin Nan sighed, not excluding the possibility that Lin Nan Film's films might have a head-on conflict with Huanxi Media's films in the future; it would be interesting then, and it should be quite exciting.

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Five days ago, the Golden Globe Awards ceremony had just been held;

On the morning of the 15th, the news of the Oscars topped the entertainment headlines of the entire internet again.

Compared with the Golden Globes, the Oscars undoubtedly have higher attention in the country;

Because not to mention its top global popularity, just the results of the three Chinese-language films' Oscar campaign made the entire domestic film circle have to pay attention.

"The 88th Academy Awards nominations were announced at noon on the 14th Hollywood time, which is around 3:00 AM today domestic time!"

"Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, the film *The Revenant* received 12 nominations including Best Director, Best Actor, Best Picture, and Best Supporting Actor, making it the biggest contender for awards at this year's Academy Awards."

"Leonardo DiCaprio is expected to defend his Oscar Best Actor title with *The Revenant*..."

"The films *Wolf Totem*, *To the Fore*, and *The Assassin*, which were registered and competed for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film by the mainland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan respectively, without exception, none received nominations."

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"Isn't it just an Oscar nomination list? Everyone is making a fuss, it's not the first time the Oscar campaign has failed."

Sitting in the office, Lin Nan was complaining sarcastically.

The film parties have no confidence, and they are even more reluctant to spend money on public relations; in the end, they get this result, who can they blame? They can only blame themselves!

Browsing the news online, Lin Nan also admired Zhang Ziyi.

She is already posting on Weibo, saying that after finishing her postpartum confinement in the United States, she will just happen to attend the Oscar ceremony; she is really impatient to make a comeback. She definitely earned a lot less money by not taking any announcements for nearly a year!

Lin Nan estimated that the second round of ballots for the Academy Awards should be sent out soon. Hm, the guest invitations for the Oscar ceremony are the same, but this time it's not an ordinary guest invitation.

As the winner of last year's Oscar for Best Director, he is going to be a presenter this year, not a guest.

A knock on the door suddenly sounded; it was Jiang Xuerou.

"What's the matter?" Lin Nan looked up and asked.

"Lin Dao, the bureau issued a notice for the year-end industry conference. Those invited are all large and medium-sized production companies in the industry."

Lin Nan glanced at it and said without even thinking: "You or Director Yue can just go; I'm not interested."

He saw Jiang Xuerou smile helplessly: "Lin Dao, look at the content first; it specifically names you."

Hearing this, Lin Nan put down the pen he had just picked up and took the notice.

Good heavens, it really did name him; the notice had his name on it, not the company's name!

"I'm also convinced, the closer to the end of the year, the more meetings, right? Chairman Ren has been living in the capital for half a month just to attend various meetings! Isn't it better to do some serious work with this time?"

Although he was complaining like this, Lin Nan really couldn't not go.

"I don't know what kind of meeting it is?"

"It should be the summary meeting for the whole of last year and this year's industry plans, policy communication, etc. Last year, I was the one who attended, and it was about that," Jiang Xuerou guessed.

"Then why name me this year?" Lin Nan asked subconsciously.

"Maybe, maybe it's because our performance last year was too good? Need Lin Dao to go sit there in person?" Jiang Xuerou joked.

But don't say, Lin Nan felt that there was really this possibility! Set an example, establish a benchmark?

"Fine, fine, I'll go take a look, and it's tomorrow morning?! It looks like I'll be able to see quite a few peers again; there should be quite a few with bad faces. Hehe..."

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