Chapter 1111 1211. Another Battle on Saturn

Chapter 1111 1211. Another Battle on Saturn

Last year, Inception stole the show at the Saturn Awards, and this year, Interstellar is no worse.

This year, the Saturn Awards have a total of 22 film awards. Excluding those that are impossible to be nominated for thriller, animation, fantasy, action, international, etc., there are still 14 awards, and Interstellar has been nominated for 11.

Including Best Director, Best Screenwriter, Best Actor and Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Young Actor, Best Music, Best Editing, Best Special Effects, Best Art Direction, and of course, the Best Science Fiction Film.

For two consecutive years, Nie Wei has been ranked first in the Saturn Awards shortlist, and is a hot candidate for the Saturn Awards winner.

And this year, Nie Wei and his movie Interstellar are more favored by the media and the public.

After all, the opponents are different.

Last year's shortlist was so luxurious, "The Hobbit", "The Avengers", "Life of Pi", and "The Hunger Games", "The Dark Knight Rises" and so on.

This year, Interstellar's rivals are far behind. The only two movies that can pose a threat to it are Gravity and Iron Man 3.

However, it is only a small threat. Both Gravity and Interstellar follow the route of hard-core science fiction, but the former is far behind Interstellar in terms of science and imagination.

On Rotten Tomatoes, Gravity's freshness is only 73%, while Interstellar has been released for more than a month, and its freshness remains at 91%, and the downward trend is very weak. Many people think that this movie will remain stable at this number.

The score on IMDB is 7.6 for Gravity and 8.9 for Interstellar. Although the difference is only 1.3 points, this is the gap between excellent movies and classic movies. If you compare the two movies to see which one is better, I am afraid that at least eight or nine out of ten people will choose Interstellar.

Not to mention "Iron Man 3". Although Robert Downey Jr. still exudes the charm of a rich man in the movie, and Pepper Potts is still as beautiful as ever, this movie is not as good as "Gravity" in terms of word of mouth.

In terms of box office, "Gravity" and "Interstellar" are not much different. The former earned 274 million US dollars, and the latter's current box office data has reached 260 million. In the end, "Interstellar" should win with a slight advantage, but this is not a big gap.

"Iron Man 3" has a full advantage in the box office, with a box office of 409 million US dollars.

After all, this is a full commercial movie, and there is Marvel's golden signboard. The previous two series have a good reputation and have accumulated a lot of loyal audiences, so it has a natural advantage in the box office.

To be honest, even if Nie Wei were to choose, if he was going to the cinema to relax and date on the weekend, he would first choose "Iron Man 3". Listening to Tony Stark telling jokes, flirting with girls, watching the exciting fighting scenes, and thinking that he could also have an indestructible steel armor that could fly, it would be more interesting than the search for habitable planets for alien astronauts in "Interstellar".

These are the two opponents that Nie Wei thinks are the most threatening to him. As for the other nominated works, Nie Wei thinks they must have their own excellence, but it is unlikely to win a major award from "Interstellar". The chance of this is very small.

"This year will be another year of harvest for Nie Wei. "Interstellar" will harvest countless honors for Nie Wei and his team just like "Inception" last year!" - "Film Pioneer Magazine".

"The eleven nominations for "Interstellar" are well deserved, and Nie Wei may once again become the biggest winner of the Saturn Award this year." - "Light and Shadow Weekly".

"Keanu Reeves is nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Actor again after 15 years." - Los Angeles Entertainment News.

"Zhang Ziyi has been nominated for Best Actress for two consecutive years and has great hope of winning again. She has become a symbol of Chinese women in Hollywood." - Hollywood Magazine.

As soon as the Saturn Award nominees came out, the media reporters read it once and then determined the core of the day's report, which was to praise Nie Wei.

For a while, any topic related to the Saturn Award was inseparable from Nie Wei and his "Interstellar". For a while, there was even a trend that "Interstellar" winning the award was a general trend.

Of course, many fans of Nie Wei are most entangled in the Best Science Fiction Award.

Last year, "Inception" failed in this award, which made countless fans of Nie Wei regretful. This year, "Interstellar" fought for the Saturn Award again. These fans immediately ran to the Saturn Award to leave a message to support this movie to win this year's science fiction award.

"Last year's award for Batman was a face-giving to Nolan, but this year, I don't see any other movie that can rival Interstellar. If Interstellar is not given this award, I will really doubt the selection method of the Saturn Awards."

"This year's science fiction film, the Saturn Award is unique, its excellence surpasses all the nominated films, and it deserves this award."

"Nothing can be more fair than giving this award to Interstellar. Apart from anything else, please ask the judges to take a look at Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB. There are hundreds of thousands of audience reviews and voices there. They represent the choice of the public!"

When fans spontaneously cheered for Interstellar, Nie Wei also organized public relations in an orderly manner to increase publicity for the film and deepen its influence in the minds of the judges.

The other shortlisted opponents were naturally unwilling to lose before the battle. They all took out various means, either trying to promote their own movies, taking their team members to participate in major variety shows to increase exposure, or secretly doing some small actions. As the biggest enemy unanimously recognized by everyone, Interstellar and Nie Wei were naturally the ones who were attacked the most.

For example, on IMDB that day, tens of thousands of one-point negative reviews suddenly appeared in the rating area of ​​Interstellar, which directly lowered the score of Interstellar on IMDB by 0.1 points.

This incident immediately angered Nie Wei's fans. On that day, there were posts everywhere on the Internet condemning these malicious reviews. IMDB received more than 100,000 complaints in one day.

Perhaps because it was afraid of offending the public, IMDB, which has always been slow in doing things, was much more efficient this time. After six hours, it revised the rating of "Interstellar". The more than 10,000 accounts with negative reviews were all banned by IMDB for three years, and the accounts were basically useless.

The opponent failed to steal the chicken and lost the rice. Not only did he lose tens of thousands of mature accounts, but the key point was that this wave not only did not blacken Nie Wei, but also made Nie Wei's fans feel a sense of crisis and united more. At the same time, this incident was also reported in the entertainment news, and it also aroused the sympathy of countless passers-by fans.

When "Interstellar" reopened the evaluation function, tens of thousands of good reviews were instantly added, and the overall rating actually rose by 0.1 points from before, returning to the 9.0 mark again.

For Nie Wei, this was really a pleasant surprise. He did nothing and enjoyed a wave of benefits sent by his opponent.

These are some stupid opponents, while truly smart opponents will never do such conspicuous little moves. They will find professional film critics to pick on your movie from a ‘professional’ perspective. Many ordinary people will really be misled by these people after reading these reviews.

They will also find someone to specifically create some negative news, such as complaining that Nie Wei burned farmland during the filming of the movie, causing local environmental pollution and wasting food, saying that there are so many children in Africa who can’t eat, etc.

However, no matter how many small moves there are, they can’t stop the general trend. The reputation of "Interstellar" can’t be brought to the abyss by these unreliable negative news.

In fact, Nie Wei’s opponents also know that doing so is not very useful. As long as they can’t catch Nie Wei’s big handle, they can’t cause any substantial damage to "Interstellar".

But then again, if they are asked to do nothing, they will not be willing, so making some moves can be regarded as a comfort to themselves. After all, maybe one trick can add some points for themselves and also reduce some points for the opponent.

In China, such petty and frivolous things do not exist. The voice of the domestic media is unanimous, all wishing Nie Wei another honor at the Saturn Awards.

Nie Wei's Weibo forwarded the list of Saturn Awards nominees, and there are already millions of comments below, most of which are netizens wishing Nie Wei a great harvest at the Saturn Awards this year.

There are also Zhang Ziyi, and the same is true under her Weibo.

Nie Wei is now the most well-known and well-reputed director in China. He is also the first director of Chinese nationality to gain a foothold in Hollywood. This is like Yao Giant who went to the NBA to play basketball. He has become a little giant in the hearts of countless domestic fans. I hope he can get better and better in Hollywood.

This kind of love is very pure and very touching.

Soon, more exciting news came back to China. Less than a week after the Saturn Awards nominees were released, the Oscars nominees were also announced.

"Interstellar" received eight nominations, which excited the hearts of countless Chinese fans.

"Interstellar" was nominated for eight awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Score, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Visual Effects. Nie Wei and his film team will once again represent China in the Oscars. Let us wish Nie Wei the best and hope that they can win the Oscar trophy and return home with glory."

This is a special episode of "Interstellar" specially produced by the movie channel. The host read a blessing and expectation to Nie Wei at the end.

This is also the idea of ​​many people. They all hope that Nie Wei can also achieve victory in the Oscars.

Wang Zhonglei's task has increased again. He must also build momentum for "Interstellar" at the Oscars. However, he is also painful and happy about this, because he and Huayi can also share the glory of "Interstellar".

Huayi has been in the leading position in the Chinese film and television industry for many years. Isn't it because of Nie Wei's influence? His good performance is the most precious wealth for Huayi.

Although the Oscars were the last to announce their nominations, they were the first to be awarded, at the end of March, while the Saturn Awards ceremony would not be held until the end of May.

In China, Interstellar, which has many nominees for both awards, is once again a big hit, with three consecutive days of box office exceeding 30 million, and the total box office figure reaching 4.6 billion. If nothing unexpected happens, this movie will undoubtedly break through the 5 billion box office barrier.

This figure makes many directors in the industry look up to it.

At the beginning, the 250 million box office of Zhang's "Hero" was called a myth. At that time, many professionals in the industry said that it might not be possible for a movie to break this record in ten years.

Of course, all those who said these words were severely slapped in the face.

Now, thirteen years later, "Interstellar" is about to create a box office record of 5 billion, which is 25 times the box office myth "Hero" of that year.

How could those people at the time have thought that there would be a movie with such a high box office, even the box office of all movies throughout the year added together was not more than one-fifth of the box office of this movie.

The 5 billion box office data of "Interstellar" has also increasingly stimulated the domestic film market. Many film companies have begun to prepare science fiction movies, hoping to make a fortune by taking advantage of the popularity of "Interstellar".

Of course, big companies have also learned to be smart, knowing that shoddy products cannot fool today's audiences. After all, the audience has been deceived for so many years and has learned their lesson.

So at one time, many companies launched many big projects, many of which had investments of hundreds of millions of yuan. The domestic film market was booming, and it also began to attract stars from neighboring countries to rush to the mainland to "make money".

This is what Nie Wei is happy to see. The reason why Hollywood attracts so many stars from all over the world is, on the one hand, its influence, and on the other hand, the benefits it gives to actors are the highest in the world.

Now the domestic market is also the same. When there is enough interest to attract, it will also attract countless talents to work in the mainland, which will invisibly increase the strength and competitiveness of the mainland market.

Only in this way can the domestic film market improve.

Time unknowingly came to March. Nie Wei spent a good New Year at home this year, and Zhou Duoduo also received a seven-digit red envelope from her brother as she wished.

After all, the little girl is about to debut. In Nie Wei's opinion, Duoduo may have fewer opportunities to go home for the New Year than himself in the future.

In addition, Nie Wei also fulfilled his promise and prepared to take Zhou Duoduo and her teammates to participate in the "Infinite Challenge" as promised.

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