The Best Director

""Firefly" leads the Oscars with 14 nominations" - Yahoo Entertainment; "The 78th Oscar nominations were announced, and "Firefly" tied the record with 14 nominations" - Sina Entertainment...

Big event! Big event! After 2 months of various preliminary battles, the highly anticipated 78th Oscars finally announced the nomination list on January 31, opening the Oscar hall for the 2006-07 awards season. "Firefly" received a total of 14 nominations, tying the list. It broke the record for the most Oscar nominations for "Come on Earth" (1950) and "Titanic" (1997), becoming the third film in history to receive 14 Oscar nominations.

The 14 awards up for grabs are: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Cinematography, Best Makeup, and Best Art Direction. Best Costume Design, Best Editing, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Effects, Best Visual Effects. The nominees include Wang Yang, Joss Whedon, Heath Ledger, Jenn Kezmelik, Hans Zimmer, Valle Pfister, Greg Cannon, Kevin Kavanagh Husband, Margaret Goodspeed, Sean Walsh, Richard Kidd...

Big win for the team! A big win for science fiction! The Cowboys Bebop were naturally overjoyed. Historically, "Beautiful Man" finally won 6 trophies (6/14), while "Titanic" won 11 trophies (11/14). Together with "Ben-Hur" ( 11/12, 32nd) and "Lord of the Rings 3" (11/11, 76th) ranked first in film history.

In addition, the most recent film to receive 13 nominations was "Chicago" in 2003, but in the end it only won 6 trophies including Best Picture (6/13). This year, "Firefly" is also facing strong digital competition. Enemies, "Brokeback Mountain" followed closely with 8 nominations; "Good Night, and Good Luck" and "Memoirs of a Geisha" in third place both received 6 nominations; fourth place was "Capote", "Wing Song" "Walking Together" received 5 nominations; "Munich", "King Kong" and "Pride and Prejudice" ranked fifth, received 4 nominations; "500 Days with Summer", which ranked sixth, received 2 nominations (Best Actor, Best Actor) (Best editing)…

This is the second time that Wang Yang, who is about to turn 26, has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Director (1/2), and both of them were nominated for science fiction films! George Lucas once, Steven Spielberg twice, Stanley Kubrick three times; Wang Yang twice, only a terrifying 26-year-old.

Learning from the past, "Star Wars", with 10 nominations, took away 6 awards (6/10) at the 50th Oscars, but all of them were technical trophies. The 4 awards it lost were for Best Picture and Best Director. , Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Screenplay. The best picture of the year was "Annie Hall". If "500 Days of Summer" could beat "Firefly" at the Kodak Theater, it would almost be like history repeating itself. It's a pity. Unfortunately, "500 Days" failed to be selected for the best picture, and Wang Yang's slogan of "Kill Firefly" that he shouted to everyone when filming was completed failed to come true.

"This is the biggest omission of the year." The Los Angeles Times said, "500 Days of Summer died because it was not controversial enough." The New York Times commented,

For this reason, the media and the public have expressed their dissatisfaction and regret. "500 Days" is fully capable of being selected for the three awards of Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. However, there are only 5 places. They are asked to choose which one is the best. Picking the best film nominees is also a dilemma.

"Dr. Strangelove" 0/4 (37th); "2001: A Space Odyssey" 0/4 (41th); "A Clockwork Orange" 0/4 (44th); "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" won the 50th Best Cinematography and Editing (2/8); the 55th "E.T." received 9 nominations, and in the end, Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Editing and Photography all failed, with only Sound, Sound Effects Editing and Visual Effects nominated. , original soundtrack and four statuettes (4/5); "District 9" won the Best Director award for the first time in the 75th edition (1/7). Now three years later, the 78th edition?

But that year was truly a miracle for young people. A so-called miracle is something that cannot be replicated to a certain extent. It is the fruit of the right time, right place and right people. No one would believe that Oscar would open its arms to science fiction films from now on. Therefore, "Firefly" has a high possibility of winning any technical awards. However, "SW's Wound" and "ET's Wound" have many difficulties in terms of Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor and Original Screenplay. Of course, there is still a chance to win awards. Things are changing. In the past two years, the fantasy film "Lord of the Rings 3" swept 11 awards.

At the same time, compared to "SW" and "ET", "Firefly" was praised by film critics as a "magnificent epic". All three are highly praised and praised for different reasons. Although the "SW" series is great, its ideological connotation has always been criticized. The prequel trilogy was even labeled as a children's movie by Smashing Tomatoes; the innocent and beautiful "ET" cannot compete with "The Biography of Gandhi" (8/11); but "The Story of Gandhi" (8/11); The subject matter of "Firefly" belongs to the political category of "political systems, political philosophy, and thoughts", and it is politically correct and profound politics, unlike "The Future Trilogy" "It's so old and deviant, so it has reasons for people to look forward to it.

This year's other best picture nominees are: "Brokeback Mountain" (gay), "Capote" (gay), "Good Night, and Good Luck" (political persecution, McCarthy doctrine), "Munich" (politics, terrorism, assassination).

In addition, there are also controversial films with sensitive political and social themes such as "Across America" ​​(transgender) and "Crimson" (oil politics). It is truly a "controversial year." In addition, "Kung Fu" and "The Promise" both failed to be nominated for the best foreign language film; Fire Film's "Kung Fu Panda" failed to enter the best animated film nomination list...

How many statuettes can "Fireflies" win in the end? Who holds up the statuettes for Best Picture and Best Director? The whole world wants to know the answer, and this year the Oscars will be held on March 5.

"David Fincher will direct "The Amazing Director." - Yahoo Entertainment. Just as Wang Yang broke out, "The Amazing Director" announced new progress. Paramount told the media that the film was confirmed to be directed by David Fincher, who had just completed the new film "Zodiac". Fincher, 43, Qi is a director who started out in commercials and music videos. He is known for his sharp style and personality. Not counting the unreleased "Zodiac", he has made her debut on the screen in "Alien 3" (1992), "Seven" (1995), He has directed 5 films from "Mind Games" (1997), "Fight Club" (1999) to "Fear Room" (2002).

"Alien 3" has a global box office of 159 million (with a production fee of 50 million), and the Rotten Tomatoes three indicators are 39%/57%/55%. The classic series has turned into a mess; "Seven" has a box office of 327 million (with a production fee of 33 million). ), 85%/65%/94%, with mixed reviews from critics and a high reputation from the audience; "Psycho Game" has a box office of 109 million (budget not announced), 71%/58%/82%, and the response continues to be Fincher style ; "Fight Club" has a box office of 100 million (a production fee of 63 million), 81%/63%/95%, continuing the style; "Fighter Space" has a box office of 196 million (a production fee of 48 million), 77 %/71%/61%.

Putting aside the critical failure of his debut film, Fincher's three consecutive films have good freshness ratings from public critics on Rotten Tomatoes, but the freshness ratings from well-known film critics are on the verge of decay. This is because most of the well-known film reviews published in newspapers are very old. , was the immediate response from film critics after the film was released. Later, when Rotten Tomatoes successively included some new online film reviews from popular film critics, the freshness was increased. It was the response a few months or a few years after the film was released. Critics' reaction.

In other words, David Fincher's style is that when it is released, it is smashed by Rotten Tomatoes, but after a while, the movie is more and more appreciated, and it is vindicated and added as a classic. This kind of "advancedness" has also meant that he has never been nominated for any well-known awards. Over the years, there have only been two Saturn Award nominations for best director ("Alien 3" and "Seven") worth mentioning. But Fincher seems to have gradually found a way to "succeed the first time", or in other words, he has gradually abandoned some unflattering personal styles. Unfortunately, the audience did not buy it, and he personally rated it as "more mainstream" "Thriller", "date movie", "very good B-movie" "Thriller Room" was almost full of popcorn vomit at once.

The average global box office of the five films is 178 million. This independent director is still figuring out how to make the film critics and audiences applaud unanimously. Will it be "The Miracle Director"?

"Not bad!" A large number of Yang fans are quite satisfied with the choice of director. Fincher can be said to be young, promising, talented, and most importantly, cool and CULT! He is not the kind of conventional commercial film director, so it is really suitable for him to make this unofficial biopic of the amazing Yang. However, on the other hand, "divorced older literary and artistic young man" Finch is the mainstay of the underworld alliance, and Finch has a very good relationship with Brad Pitt, while Wang Yang has a very bad relationship with Pitt, which makes him To take photos of the charming Pokémon in the sunshine? What a joke!

So a large number of Young fans are very dissatisfied, especially female fans who are very excited: "If Fincher makes the amazing Young into a dark person, I won't watch it.", "I will kill him!", "Young" I'm just good friends with Rachel McAdams!!", "Finch, please don't mess around, or I'll curse you!"...

"It will not be R-rated. The film tells the story of 18-year-old Miraculous Yang. It is a core positive inspirational story. It must be rated PG-13." Producer Scott Rudin told the Los Angeles Times in an interview He said that if it is rated R, it means losing many young audiences, which is not a good thing. Furthermore, the story of "The Wonder Director" does not need to be made R-rated to be very impressive. Rudin also revealed that if everything goes well, The movie will be released globally as soon as December this year.

It depends on whether it can start filming before June, otherwise it may not be able to see the world until the end of 2007. All preparations for it are currently going smoothly, except for the biggest problem: the cast.

Casting work has been actively carried out as early as last year, and the supporting roles such as Lionsgate, Journalist, and the little girl who was almost scared to death have not been hindered. The problem lies in the leading actors, Jessica Alba, Rachel Mack Adams and others already have a shortlist, but the choice of Wang Yang is still a very, very difficult problem of the century. Earlier, it was rumored that Paramount was interested in the candidate Daniel Wu, and then he made it clear: "I I’m not interested because I can’t play Qi Qiyang at all.”

"Wang Yang is a charming person. He was like that when he was an 18-year-old adolescent. He is smart, humorous, confident, knowledgeable, and unexpected... He is good at sports and knows kung fu. You can see him at the same time. Seeing rationality and wildness, these give him a unique charm. To interpret him well, you must have strong self-confidence, which is crucial, and you also need to match the appearance, which is indeed difficult to find."

Director David Fincher said this. He has seen all the videos, pictures, texts and other materials from Wang Yang's early years, especially when he was 18 years old, as well as his high school graduation ceremony speech and graduation memorial. Waiting, I gained a deeper understanding of Wang Yang and "explored his heart." Both Fincher and Rudin said they will find a perfect candidate for the lead role. They do not believe that there are no Chinese acting talents in the United States, but they are buried due to lack of opportunities. Through large-scale casting operations, "The Amazing Director" will have The magical Yang that satisfies the world.

Fincher also said that he would handle the story normally. The so-called normal handling means that he will not be timid just because the protagonist of the story is Wang Yang. As for himself, he has not had much contact with Wang Yang, but he admires Yang and his movies. Wang Yang did not make any comments about the new developments of "The Fantastic Director".

Obviously, "The Amazing Director" is rushing to be released at the end of the year to match the huge momentum created by "Firefly" this year, which may sweep the Oscars and Wang Yang win the Best Director again. So in terms of publicity, you are spending twice the money to get twice or even triple the results. At the same time, if "I Am Legend", one of the "Trilogy" released in the summer of 2007, fails and Miracle Yang is really hit by the cabin ceiling and his brain is damaged, "The Miracle Director" will become out of date. , there were also "The Green Hornet" and "Iron Man" produced and adapted by him, which are really in danger!

So landing on the screen before his magical record is over will do a lot of good at the box office! In order to hit the awards season, "The Amazing Director" must be released at the end of 2006 or 2007. In 2006, it can at least be guaranteed to escape Wang Yang's personal sniper...

The curtain has come to an end from January 27th to February 2nd. Even though the new Fox comedy film "Undercover 2" only has a poor 6% freshness, it still topped the box office with 32.06 million in its first week; another new film "Nanny McPhee" It ranked second with 16.73 million; the third place was "Underworld: Evolution" with 14.44 million the next week; "Brokeback Mountain", which added 500 theaters, relied on the power of Oscar nominations, and the box office trend only dropped -5.1%. It ranked fourth with 10.22 million in 1,751 theaters, with a total box office of 61.22 million; "500 Days of Summer" only had 3.74 million (-45%), with a North American box office of 230 million entering the final stage of gradually declining. .

With the arrival of a new weekend, Wang Yang's family is still continuing their vacation trip in San Diego, preparing to celebrate his 26th birthday on Sunday the 5th and return to Los Angeles on Monday to end the trip.

"Let me think about it, yes, I have some interest, but I'm too busy, and no, we don't want to hire a nanny just yet... I'll think about it."

At night, the village of La Jolla in San Diego is peaceful. The sound of the roaring waves is pleasant to the ears. The entire coastline is beautiful and charming. On the balcony of the hotel suite, Wang Yang, who is sitting on the wicker chair, looks at Jessica putting down her mobile phone. She said with interest: "Interesting, what do you think?" Jessica pouted and shook her head without any idea. She sat down on the wicker chair and asked calmly: "What do you think?"

Although he is on a happy vacation, he cannot completely cut off business contacts. However, Wang Yang usually finds time to reply, give orders, make decisions, etc. Now it is Jessica. She received an invitation from the MTV Movie Awards. Do you want to be the host of the awards ceremony to be held on June 3 this year?

As the most popular "America's Sweetheart", last year's "Firefly" starring in "Firefly" swept everything, and the sexy and fierce "Riva" became popular all over the world. The MTV Movie Awards, which mainly focuses on young audiences, finally extended this invitation to Jessica. It's normal, but I didn't invite the busy Wang Yang, probably knowing that he would be rejected. However, Jessica is different. She currently has no film contracts and is not pregnant, but she can come back.

"Of course I support your wishes." Wang Yang smiled and shrugged. This will become an unforgettable and pleasant memory, right? He knew that she had that kind of ability, and there were many problems in asking her to act seriously. She was good at making her act spoof and talk endlessly. He took a sip of iced juice, stretched out his fist, and said with a smile: "I can give it to you. When making a spoof short film, what movie should you choose? "Firefly"? There are also "Harry Potter", "King Kong", "The Chronicles of Narnia", "Star Wars Prequels"..."

"Well..." Jessica touched his fist and listened to him enthusiastically counting the popular blockbusters of last year, and her heart couldn't help but move. This was indeed a very interesting thing. She was on the stage. I can talk a lot about him and "Firefly", but the problem is that being the host is not as simple as going to the Shenandoah Theater for a walk on the night of the 3rd. It also requires rehearsals, participating in the design of speeches, and participating in promotional interviews for the MTV Movie Awards. There are so many things to do when making a spoof short film!

And he has to prepare for "I Am Legend" and has so many other tasks, who will take care of Keke? She didn't want the person closest to Ke Ke to be the nanny. There were some emotions that only her father and mother could give to Ke Ke...

Besides, I don’t know when I will go to New York to prepare for the film. Thinking of this, Jessica’s thoughts disappeared immediately. She shook her head and smiled: “No, forget it, I have to take good care of Keke.” Wang Yang couldn’t help but feel It's a pity that Keke certainly has to take care of it, but he chuckled: "I think we can take care of these things, and we are not busy all day every day. When you are working, our mother can help take care of the baby, and we can also hire a nanny... ..." Jessica rolled her eyes and interrupted him: "No! I said no."

"Oh." Wang Yang said no more, looking at the boundless sea in the distance, and suddenly said: "I'll think about it after I get home. I really think the time can be arranged." Jessica smiled helplessly, and said His face immediately became serious again, and he said seriously: "This is an attitude. I don't want to neglect my baby for a few hours of award ceremony, I don't want to! I don't want to make our time and our lives so tense, you Are you so busy with me? It’s a disaster just thinking about it.”

Jessica rolled her eyes and shook her shoulders as if she had seen a ghost, exhaled, and said seriously: "Didn't we already agree? You make money and I will take care of the house. I will wait for you to come home at six o'clock, do you understand?! Don't I said it." She waved her hand forcefully and continued: "I am a stubborn person! And...if you think about it carefully, hosting an award ceremony is actually not that interesting. Taking care of your own daughter is much more interesting. "

"Oh." Wang Yang raised his eyebrows and nodded. What else could he say? He looked at her calm face and knew that although she was resolute, she had no regrets but no happiness. He understood that she could not be completely idle, she needed a sense of presence in her career. "HEY!" Seeing her turning to look, Wang Yang revealed mysteriously: "I want to invite you to come back and star in a comedy, not now, but in the future."

Jessica opened her eyes excitedly at first, blinked and then pressed them down, waving her hands and saying: "Let me think about it, why do you think I can act? I may not be interested." Wang Yang smiled and shook his head. : "No, you will definitely be interested." Jessica couldn't hold it back immediately, with a bright surprise smile on her face, and asked repeatedly: "Really? Are you directing? What kind of comedy? I love comedy! I am very funny. , look!..." Wang Yang watched her playfully and lively doing all kinds of ferocious and funny things, and couldn't help laughing. He laughed for a while before replying: "I can't be sure yet, not necessarily."

Wang Yang was referring to the R-rated comedy "Bridesmaids", a "bad girl gang". The character originally named "Helen" is really suitable for her. "Helen" is a rich friend of the bride Lillian. She is a housewife with a wealthy husband who has nothing to do. She is keen on being the perfect bridesmaid for others, as well as planning and arranging baby showers, wedding dress shopping, and bachelorette parties before the wedding. On the contrary, the heroine "Anne" is a messed up older single woman. She is also the best friend of the bride Lillian. When Anne is faced with Lillian's sudden marriage, Helen is competing to be the leader of the bridesmaid group. A situation... The hilarious, spicy and interesting battle officially begins.

After making some changes to the character "Helen", such as the name, Jessica will definitely be able to get into the role so much that she can no longer get into the role, and her comedy potential will be unleashed, because she is playing herself.

Kristen Wiig, who played the original "Annie", is a key figure. Not only is she the screenwriter of "Bridesmaids" with Anne Mumolo, but she also has an amazing and talented performance. It can be said that she is a possible "Bridesmaids" "An indispensable person in the series, Wang Yang has already contacted Wiig, who is now a regular actor on "Saturday Night Live", and will meet to discuss the matter after the holiday, but it is obviously not long before Jessica's comeback. There will be a long period of time when the matter of "Bridesmaids" is not in a hurry.

However, there are other anxious people. Recently, Flame Films received a call from Hong Kong. The producer of "Infernal Affairs" Liu Weiqiang asked whether the US version of "Infernal Affairs" is still being filmed? Nearly three years have passed since FF vowed to purchase the adaptation rights, and there is still no movement... When will FF launch this plan? How will it probably be adapted? Who will direct and star? Liu Weiqiang asked tentatively again, is Miyazaki Yang interested in directing?

"Me?" Wang Yang was a little dumbfounded when he heard it. There has indeed been no news about the "Infernal Affairs" project for too long, which inevitably makes people think that FF wants to hide it. He personally called Liu Weiqiang to express his confidence and expectations for "Infernal Affairs" , when he heard the question of directing, he didn’t know how to answer it for a moment. It’s not that he was not interested, but he just didn’t have so much time. It's really hard to divide one's body into parts. He did not say clearly, nor did he say YES, there is a possibility, but he once again assured that the American version of "Infernal Affairs" will definitely be produced, and it may be put on the schedule soon.

Speaking of "Saturday Night Live" and spoof short films, Natalie called Wang Yang that night because of one thing. After the call was connected, she smiled and said: "Hey Yang, are you disturbing your vacation?" ? OK, to make a long story short, you know I am going to appear on "Saturday Night Live" to promote "V for Vendetta", and I agreed to shoot a spoof rap..." She wanted to ask him what MV ideas he had, if he had time. , are you interested in filming her with the "SNL" crew?

"Oh! Interesting, let me think about it..." Wang Yang was very interested in this, spoofing a powerful RAP? He thought for a moment and immediately came up with an idea: "Just show off your demons! Everyone will be surprised. Juno, Amanda, Summer, Eve, all come out!" Then he enthusiastically said Said some ideas.

"Hahahaha!" Natalie couldn't stop laughing after listening to his words: "Yes, come out all..." She gradually stopped laughing, and her voice went from low to high: "My parents often tell me, Try your best to work hard and not be a jerk, but...it just can’t be done!!!"

"Then just be a super bastard!" Wang Yang cheered, showing off anything that is contrary to Natalie Portman's usual image, this is a prank! ! He smiled and said: "If I have time, I can help you shoot. I think "SNL" won't mind, but my time is very tight now. You know I can't guarantee you." Tali laughed even more crazily: "Well said! Should I say, 'How can I quit you?'"

Wang Yang shrugged and replied in a dead voice: "Don't tease me, I'm not a big dick..." Natalie smiled and said: "Obviously I got high, no matter what, let's shock the world. Come on!" Wang Yang laughed: "You crazy guy."

"By the way, happy birthday!" Before closing the line, Natalie came down to congratulate him seriously. Wang Yang looked at the night and smiled: "Okay, it's tomorrow, but thank you, good night."