Well, let's put the director's issue aside for the time being. Let's look at the members of the crew. The main actors and actresses, including the male and female leads, were all under 10 years old. It seemed that the order of the association had no effect on these young actors and actresses.
Of course, it was impossible that there were no mature actors and actresses in Harry Potter. But the problem was that, because of JK Rowling's request, the crew was not made up entirely of people from the Ying State. However, 95% of the crew were actors and actresses from the Ying State. No matter how broad Hollywood's influence was, it could not control people from the Ying State.
In fact, the people of the Ying State were very happy about this incident. The Ying State had always been very disdainful of Hollywood. Now that the so-called Oscars had been pushed to the ground, the people of the Ying State were of course very happy. Not to mention, the salary that the Daqian had offered was also very much in line with their wishes.
So, in the end, the news media found that, in the face of the Daqian's next new movie, the ban order of the Supreme Board was meaningless. The movie was still being filmed very smoothly and happily. The crew kept releasing photos of the crew through the media, showing that the whole crew was in a happy atmosphere.
This made the entire Supreme Board very angry, but there was nothing they could do about the Daqian. Although the Board had suggested that all the cinemas should ban the Daqian's movies directly.
This was indeed a very feasible way. If the Supreme Board had the ability to make all the cinemas in the United States refuse to screen Daqian movies, Boss Jia would probably be in tears.
However, the Supreme Board rejected this suggestion, because someone had already tested it. No cinemas would reject a Daqian movie.
The reason was very simple. So far, the Daqian had released a total of three movies, two of which were Pokemon movies and one of which was Titanic.
The worst of these three movies, "Pokemon's Counterattack", had a global box office of 780 million US dollars. "The Exploding of Rogia", which was still in theaters, had now exceeded 1 billion US dollars in global box office. It had become a monster-level movie.
Not to mention Titanic, which was the top movie in the global box office, had a total of 2.4 billion US dollars.
The three movies combined had already grossed over 4.1 billion USD in the global box office.
As a cinema chain, they could get 50% of the total box office, which was more than 2 billion USD. This was a result that the other 100 movies could not achieve even if they were bundled together.
If you ask the theaters to reject such a movie, isn't that the same as asking them to reject the box office earnings of 2 billion yuan? They would only agree to the Supreme Board's request if their brains were damaged. Could the Supreme Board give the cinema chain an Oscar for Best Cinema Chain?
Therefore, the Oscars could not affect Daqian movies at the cinema level at all. If the Oscars could not affect the cinema, the Daqian movies could be released as usual, and the problem was basically unsolvable.
"Can we exert some influence on the movie's review? After all, most of the committee members are our people …" Suddenly, a member of the board of directors said sinisterly.
"It's useless, unless you have the ability to classify it as NC-17. But we all know the plot of Harry Potter. It's a normal children's fantasy movie. There's no possibility of it being classified as NC-17!" A member shook his head and said.
The United States also had a movie review system, and the ratings were more comprehensive. It started with G-rated movies, which could be watched by all ages, followed by PG, which was recommended for adults to watch. After that, it was PG-13, which was recommended for 13 years old and above, R-rated, which was recommended for 17 years old and above, and finally, NC-17.
This NC-17 was more ruthless. It was forbidden for those under 17 years old to watch, and the content of the movies was basically what they were called. The more famous ones included Liang Chaowei and Tang Wei's Lust, Caution, 120 Days of XXX, Lionsgate's Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D, and so on.
However, this movie rating system was not stipulated by the United States government. It was reviewed by the United States Film Association, which was established by the major film companies.
Therefore, it was not compulsory. Generally speaking, even if it was an R-rated movie, if a 10-year-old child wanted to watch it, no one would stop them.
However, NC-17 was a bit special. Because it was too colorful and violent, the theaters would not sell tickets to audiences under 17 years old.
For a movie like Harry Potter, which was obviously for children, once it was classified as NC-17, it meant that it would lose more than half of the market. It was enough to deal a fatal blow to the Daqian. Therefore, a member proposed to classify Harry Potter as NC-17.
"It's not impossible. I've read the book Harry Potter. In the last part of the movie, there are scenes of the child wizard and various monsters, as well as the terrifying two-faced man fighting. We can use this reason to classify it as NC-17. It's reasonable!" The member insisted.
"That's true!" Everyone's eyes lit up. After all, the standards were set by people. As long as they had the intention to stop a movie from being released, it didn't matter how far-fetched it was.
"Well, let's wait until Harry Potter is finished filming and submitted for review. Before it is submitted for review, it's meaningless for you to say anything more!" The leader waved his hand.
Now, Harry Potter had just started filming. By the time they submitted the sample for review, it would be in August or September at the earliest. There was still about half a year left. Before the sample was submitted, it was unnecessary to say anything more.
"Sigh!" The members shook their heads. They really couldn't do anything to Jia Yapeng. They could only watch him be proud.
Just as everyone was about to leave the conference room and go home, a member's cell phone suddenly rang. He took out his cell phone from his pocket and found that everyone around him was looking at him with a strange expression.
"What are you doing?" The person was shocked.
"You old bastard, look at what cell phone you're using!" A person next to him couldn't help but scold. The member took a look at his cell phone. The Daqian's twelve-winged angel logo was on the screen.
"I bought this before … I bought this cell phone a long time ago!" The member said awkwardly. They were just discussing how to deal with the Daqian. Now, he went to take out the Daqian cell phone himself. It was indeed very awkward.
"Can't you change this cell phone?" Someone next to him said.
"Hey, what's the matter?" The person smiled and didn't answer the question at all. Then, he took the time to make a call.
What a joke. Even if the Daqian cell phone 2 was the cheapest new cell phone, it would still cost 1,200 US dollars. How could he be willing to spend this money to change a cell phone?
"I know!" The call ended quickly. The member looked at the others with a strange expression.
"What's the matter?"
"Is it related to us?"
Seeing this guy's expression, the others also reacted. This was probably related to the entire Supreme Board.
"That's right. Just now, Da Qian announced that he's going to set up a global film award in the capital of Huaxia. It's going to be called the Capital World Film Art Awards!" The group member pursed his lips and said. The others were also stunned.
They suddenly remembered that a few days ago, when Jia Yapeng flew into a rage at the Oscar Awards, he did say that he would also hold a film award.
They didn't expect the other party to really do what he said. In just a few days, the International Film Awards were going to be held.
However, after the initial daze, the people who reacted couldn't help but laugh. The more they laughed, the happier they became. Some people even laughed until they couldn't straighten their backs.
What a joke. In terms of capital and cinema chains, the Supreme Board may indeed have no way to deal with the Daqian. However, they didn't go to their own territory and insisted on coming to the Oscars to humiliate themselves. Wasn't this ridiculous?
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