Chapter 374 Wu Yusen: He Zhongqiu is too tall to play Guan Yu

On December 12st, New York University had its winter break.

On this day, the American Golden Globe Awards for Film and Television announced the nominations, and "White Bone" received four nominations for Best Director, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Screenplay, and Best Music.

When the news was announced, Director Zhang became the first Asian to be nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and his reputation skyrocketed.

He Zhongqiu called Director Zhang to congratulate him.

Director Zhang spoke with a smile and was very polite. He repeatedly thanked He Zhongqiu for giving him the opportunity to direct the big production "White Bone World".

Tang Yan and Bai Bingbing stayed at home for a few days and then returned to visit their families.

时间来到了2007年，随着100米提升到78级，贺中秋开始冲击100米10.10秒。

He has reached this result many times in training, but it is not yet stable.

10.10 seconds is not enough to qualify for the Olympic finals. Now in the 100 meters, only if you run within 10 seconds can you basically enter the finals.

According to the team's certification, with his current athletic ability, he can run under 10 seconds. His potential has not yet been fully tapped and his skills still need to be honed.

The Knicks' record has always been ranked first in the league.

Under his supervision, no one in the team dared to slack off.

He doesn't need to say much. Whenever someone plays poorly, he will ask about the teammate's statistics when they return to the locker room and discuss the reasons for their poor performance with him. The opponent will then feel nervous and will be fully motivated for the next game.

Everything is normal with Yang Xue, except that her belly is very big. She has to stay in Qiuxue Garden all day, so her workload has been greatly reduced and it is inconvenient for her to travel.

Yao Ming and Kobe Bryant have teamed up and their cooperation has gotten better and better. Yao Ming has become more and more familiar with the triangle offense, and the record together with Kobe has exceeded that of last season.

The Lakers are now in third place in the Western Conference, only below the Spurs and Mavericks.

Yao Ming currently takes 2.2 three-point shots per game, makes 0.78 of them, and has a hit rate of 35.5%. He is already quite threatening, and his three-point shooting tactics have begun to become one of the Lakers' regular tactics.

On New Year's Day, the NBA All-Star voting began, and Tang Yan and Bai Bingbing also returned to New York. New York University started school on the 3rd.

On January 1, Director Zhang came to Los Angeles to attend the Golden Globe Awards ceremony on the 14th and to promote the awards at the same time.

Also present were Liu Yifei, Zhang Ziyi, Zhou Xun, and Zeng Li. Four of the five main female protagonists of White Bone World came, and the remaining one is studying in New York and has already retired.

In addition, Liu Xiao Ling Tong, who performed the Monkey Song with He Zhongqiu, also came, as well as Zhao Wenzhuo who played Tang Monk, Xu Zheng who played Bajie, Sun Honglei who played Sha Monk, Yu Feihong who played the Fox Demon, and many more.

However, He Zhongqiu did not have time to attend the Golden Globe Awards as there was a home game that day.

However, he is already preparing to build momentum for Bone World. After all, it is only a month away from its release, and he has mentioned the film on various occasions.

The premiere screens for "White Bone Realm" have also been confirmed. The two most important markets are the United States, which has 6200 screens, and China, which has 5800 screens.

美国这边的首映银幕不如铁鹰王1，铁鹰王1是8000块，铁鹰王2是8500块。

This is because "White Bone World" is a pure Chinese-language film and has fewer screenings, but the 6200-yuan premiere screen is still the standard for Hollywood A-level productions, and Director Zhang is very happy.

The screening rate of the 5800 screens in China is even more terrifying. Currently, the total number of screens in China is just over , and more than % of them are filled with films.

The major domestic cinema chains combined only allocated a mere 1200 screens to "Kung Fu Hustle", with a screening rate of 16%, which is less than a quarter of that of "White Bone World".

Judging from the screening schedule, The Forbidden Kingdom doesn't even have a chance to compete with White Bone World. Unless the word of mouth gets extremely good reviews after its release, and White Bone World's reputation is terrible, then there will be a slight chance of a comeback.

Xiangjiang, Yinghuang, Mr. Yang was so angry that he was shaking after getting the screening schedule of The Forbidden Kingdom.

"It's too bullying! It's too bullying!"

He felt dizzy, his heart was pounding, and blood was rushing to his brain. He quickly took out the medicine bottle and took the pills.

Yanjing, Huayi Company.

Since getting the ranking, Mr. Wang and Mr. Wang have been in despair.

"In three months at most, this company will no longer belong to us." Mr. Wang had a blank expression on his face, but he was in extreme pain in his heart.

The company he built from scratch had the potential to become a leading enterprise in the domestic film and television industry, but he angered Yang Xue by banning Liu Yifei and ended up in this situation.

Thinking about the fact that Liu Yifei was banned by Yang Xue again, he really wanted to find Yang Xue and ask that crazy woman in person, "Have you eaten too much?"

After Chenglong got the ranking, he, who usually smiled all the time, couldn't smile anymore.

"Zhongqiu, including the film salary and investment, I will lose at least 50 million. You have to pay me back." He called He Zhongqiu again.

"Brother Cheng, what does this little money mean to you? It's just a few million dollars. The copyright income from your old movies in a year is more than this." He Zhongqiu laughed.

Chenglong shouted, "I don't care. Anyway, you will be the first person I'll ask for investment in my future movies. Without your investment, I wouldn't dare to shoot it. I won't be able to get a screening schedule in China!"

"Okay, okay, you go ask Sister Xue for investment." He Zhongqiu said helplessly.

After Li Lianjie learned about the screening schedule, he couldn't help but feel fortunate that he was getting paid for the film. If he had chosen to share the box office profits like Chenglong, then it would have been all in vain.

He then let the matter go and is now focusing his energy on a fund that is about to be launched. He is contacting various business leaders to raise donations.

He also planned to find Yang Xue and beg for alms from her. He Zhongqiu donated 200 million last time, so he shouldn't be stingy.

On the 15th, the 64th Golden Globe Awards ceremony was held as scheduled in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.

After the game, He Zhongqiu defeated the Suns who came from afar and won the Golden Globe Award. Bone Realm received four nominations and won the Best Foreign Language Film Award.

Although he won a major award, Director Zhang wanted the best director award the most, so he was still a little disappointed.

The next day, riding on the popularity of the Golden Globe Awards, the Academy Awards Organizing Committee announced the nominations for the 79th Academy Awards.

"White Bone World" reaped a great harvest, receiving seven nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Foreign Language Film, and Best Visual Effects. In addition, Zhang Ziyi was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress award.

This also annoyed Zhang Ziyi. She was one of the leading actresses, so why was she the supporting actress? However, it was not bad to be nominated, and she was very happy.

At the end of January, after a month of technical training, He Zhongqiu improved the levels of three sprinting techniques and two long jump techniques. His 1-meter, 100-meter and long jump all reached second-rate level.

C. Track and field skills:
1. Sprint

a, 100 meters: Level 82

b, 200 meters: Level 80

c, 400m: Level 79

2. Long Jump

a. Running long jump: Level 83

B, Triple Jump: Level 74

The level of these techniques does not truly represent his strength, it only represents the level of pure technique.

Among the three short-distance running events, the 100-meter time has been stabilized at 10.10 seconds, which means that basically as long as there are no mistakes in training, this result can be achieved.

Now, he is striving to break the 10-second mark, and his real strength is close to that of a top sprinter.

This level of difficulty is higher than the previous one. According to the team's analysis, the 10-second mark is the limit of his current physical fitness and skills.

Breaking the 10-second mark means that his current combination of athleticism and technique has reached its limit. If he wants to make further progress, he must continue to hone his technique and improve his lower limb explosiveness. However, the team believes that he has great hope of reaching the 10-second mark because he already has the potential.

Because he has this ability, the team set the target for improving his performance from 10.10 seconds to 10 seconds.

The planned breakthrough time is before the 07 off-season, which is before July, with still half a year left.

The planned improvement target is 0.1 seconds, which is incredible for ordinary sprinters.

Because for 100 meters, let alone 0.1 second, even 0.01 second is an extreme improvement and is extremely difficult to achieve. Improving 0.1 second at a time is a myth.

The 10-second mark is also the speed that top sprinters must possess, but currently no Asian can run under 10 seconds.

But He Zhongqiu is currently stronger in long jump rather than sprinting.

His running long jump level is second-rate, just like his 100-meter run, but that only represents his technical level. If his talent is taken into account, his strength would increase dramatically.

In fact, he has now reached 8.7 meters, which is absolutely the best level among the best in today's long jump world, surpassing the result of the 04 Olympic champion.

At present, he has a chance to challenge the world championship in the long jump with a running start.

The triple jump is not as good as the long jump with a running start because the technique is more complicated and requires relatively less time to practice.

For the long jump, the team's goal is to stabilize at a level of 07 meters during the 8.7 off-season, with a chance to touch the world record of 8.95 meters next year or the year after.

But He Zhongqiu felt that with his current athletic ability, he would have a chance to reach 08 meters without having to wait until next year, 8.95.

His speed and explosiveness combined with his ability to stay in the air is very strong, but his technique is still second-rate and his athletic qualities have not been brought into full play.

Now his explosive power has reached level 117. Although the limit of talent is level 150, he believes that the talents of the top athletes in the sprinting world cannot reach the limit of level 150.

He believes that level 120 to 125 is the limit of the explosive talent of the world's top sprinters, and he thinks it is unlikely to exceed level 125.

Now he has an explosive power of level 117, and his jumping ability should be considered the best on the planet, which is why he believes that level 120 to 125 is the limit of the explosive talent of top sprinters.

His level 140 bones and muscles and level 150 blood and qi are already inhuman levels. The blood and qi of all the people he meets are far weaker than him.

If someone's explosive power can reach level 140, it is estimated that the vertical jump can reach two meters and the 100-meter run can be less than 9 seconds.

The All-Star voting has also ended. He Zhongqiu once again became the super voting king, receiving 1450 million votes, 300 million more than last year, indicating that his global influence is still increasing.

Nash once again became the starting point guard for the Eastern Conference in the All-Star Game, and so did Yao Ming, the starting center for the Western Conference.

This year's All-Star Game will be held from the 16th to the 18th in Las Vegas, which is an innovation for the NBA.

However, the timing is a bit unfortunate. The 18th is the Chinese New Year and also the Oscars ceremony, and the 17th is the premiere of Bone Realm.

He Zhongqiu simply held the premiere of White Bone Realm in Las Vegas so that he could also attend the premiere.

It was February. On the 16th, Director Zhang once again led the crew of "White Bone World" to Los Angeles, and then transferred to Las Vegas to prepare for the premiere on the 17th and the Oscars ceremony on the 18th.

However, only half of the people came this time, including Zhang Ziyi, Zhou Xun and Liu Yifei, while the other half of the leading actors stayed in China to prepare for the domestic premiere.

He Zhongqiu is already in Las Vegas and has arranged for everyone to stay in the hotel.

In the evening, he set up two tables in the hotel and invited the crew to dinner.

"Director Zhang, you've been resting for such a long time, haven't you prepared any projects?" He Zhongqiu asked.

Director Zhang said: "Oh, my main focus now is preparing for the Olympics, and I am also preparing a script for the film.

By the way, your company also gave me a few scripts, all of them are good. I’m still selecting and planning to shoot another one before the Olympics.

Also, Yang Xue said that if Bone Realm is a box office success, she wants to strike while the iron is hot and make a sequel.”

He Zhongqiu nodded and asked, "If we make a sequel, Director Zhang, are you still interested in directing it?"

Director Zhang thought for a moment and said, "I've considered it, but I think I want to try a different type of film."

"I understand." He Zhongqiu nodded.

The two had talked about it before. Zhang Yimou wanted to make a movie about Overlord Xiang Yu, with He Zhongqiu playing the role. However, He Zhongqiu definitely didn't have time in the next two years, so the project was temporarily shelved.

Director Zhang smiled and said, "Zhongqiu, did Yang Xue tell you that Wu Yusen is preparing for Red Cliff? It is said that the investment is as high as 8 million RMB, which is higher than the investment in White Bone Realm. China Film, National Film, Poly Yihua, and several other large companies are preparing to invest."

"8 billion?"

He Zhongqiu shook his head and said, "Sister Xue never told me."

"China Film Group has invested, and Mr. Han Sanping is the producer," said Director Zhang.

He glanced at He Zhongqiu and said, "I heard that Wu Yusen plans to let Zhou Yunfa play Zhou Yu. The other leading actors are mostly Hong Kong stars. There is only one mainland star, Zhang Fengyi, who will play Cao Cao."

He Zhongqiu was startled and asked, "Did Uncle Han agree?"

Shaking his head, Director Zhang said, "I heard that he disagreed, but Wu Yusen insisted, and now they are stuck there. Director Wu is a big-name Hollywood director, and President Han is also a bit troubled.

In addition, Mr. Han wants you to play Guan Yu, but Wu Yusen disagrees. He thinks you are too tall and it would be difficult to match the role. "

"hehe!"

He Zhongqiu laughed and said, "His Windtalkers almost bankrupted MGM. In 05, Sony took over MGM, but the company didn't improve. Now MGM has too much debt and is about to go bankrupt again. It's hard to maintain operations. Can he still bear the title of a famous Hollywood director?"

After thinking for a while, he said, "I'll call Uncle Han later. Don't throw away the 8 million RMB investment."

Director Zhang continued slowly, "I heard that Poly Yihua is also preparing to shoot a Red Cliff movie, the director is Director Xie Jin, this subject is quite hot right now."

He Zhongqiu smiled and said, "How big is Poly's investment?"

Director Zhang thought about it and shook his head, saying, "It's probably not as good as Wu Yusen's film, at most 200 to 300 million."

“That doesn’t make for a big scene.”

He Zhongqiu shook his head. At this time, he noticed Zhou Xun and Liu Yifei and asked casually, "By the way, you two also want to develop in Hollywood, right?"

After Zhang Ziyi participated in "White Bone World" last year, she signed an overseas contract with He Zhongqiu's American sports and cultural agency, and did not sign with Williams Company that was interested in signing her.

Zhou Xun and Liu Yifei's overseas contracts are also with Frank Zhang. Of course, he would give the opportunity to his own artists. His cultural and sports agency does this.

Zhou Xun smiled and said, "Boss He, if there is a chance, of course it would be great!"

Liu Yifei didn't say anything. She had signed the contract with the monk's American company for nothing. Now the contract was about to expire, and she hadn't been assigned a role. What a scam.

He Zhongqiu said: "Wu Jing's Wolf Warrior has finished filming and is in post-production. They will be here soon. In the future, they will develop both sides. You can cooperate with them.

In addition, my company will also be shooting some Hollywood movies with many Chinese characters, and other film companies will also cooperate and strive to design Chinese characters in the script, so there are still many opportunities. "

"That's great!" Zhang Ziyi and Zhou Xun said happily.

Only Liu Yifei felt that the monk's company did not need to give her a chance. It was not that the monk made things difficult for her, but that his subordinates would automatically consider Sister Xue's problem. This was what her mother said.

Just like over the past year, the domestic entertainment industry automatically banned her because of Sister Xue.

(End of this chapter)