"Come, let's give a warm round of applause to the Independence Day crew!"
After awarding the Golden Dragon Award trophy to the Independence Day crew, Boss Jia returned to the microphone with a smile on his face. He even invited everyone to applaud.
Thus, the Hua Xia audience applauded enthusiastically while looking fearfully at the amiable richest man in Hua Xia. They all felt their hair stand on end.
"Ahem, our trophy has been handed over to the Independence Day crew. Next, it's time to award the Golden Dragon Award for the Most Commercially Valuable Award!" Boss Jia continued.
"What, there's a bonus for this award ceremony?" Many of the audience were stunned when they heard this. It seemed to be common knowledge that awards would give out bonuses. However, whether it was a film festival or a movie award ceremony, there were no bonuses. Even the Oscars had nothing other than an Academy Award and an honor.
The industry was already used to the fact that there were no bonuses for award ceremonies. Thus, many people were surprised when Boss Jia said that there was a bonus.
"There is indeed a bonus. It's written in the regulations!" At the same time, some guests who had read the regulations carefully explained to the people around them.
"Alright, it's just a token of appreciation! It's considered unconventional! " Someone said nonchalantly. There was already a pure gold trophy worth 10,000 USD. It was normal to have a bonus of tens of thousands USD.
Then, they heard Boss Jia say with a smile on the stage, "Let's congratulate the Independence Day crew for receiving a bonus worth 10 million USD!!!"
"What!!" This time, the audience members, regardless of whether they were Hua Xia or foreigners, were all dumbfounded. Some people even fell off their chairs directly. Then, the whole audience fell silent. Everyone, including the audience watching the live broadcast in front of the TV, thought they had heard wrong.
10 million USD? How was that possible???
The next second, Boss Jia repeated, "Let's congratulate the Independence Day crew for receiving a bonus of 10 million USD for the 1997 Golden Dragon Award for the Most Commercially Valuable Award!!"
Following Boss Jia's words, the projection screen behind Boss Jia began to play a video. "Let's congratulate the Independence Day crew for receiving a cash bonus worth 10 million USD! For a long time, the Daqian film industry has been thriving in the global film industry with the goal of promoting the birth of more outstanding films and filmmakers. It continues to contribute to the world's film industry and gives all outstanding films the greatest encouragement … "
Following the passionate commentary in the video behind, the eight ceremonial maids appeared once again. However, this time, each of them was pushing a cart. Each cart was made of transparent glass and the cart was filled with stacks of USD.
That's right, the car was filled with US dollars. It was real US $10 million.
Does everyone still remember the scene in "The Richest Man in Xi Hong City" when Shen Teng entered the vault and saw the one billion yuan worth of RMB?
From the perspective of inflation and exchange rates, the value of this 10 million USD was not much less than the 1 billion RMB in the future.
Then, all the guests were dumbfounded. They did not expect Jia Yapeng to have prepared 10 million USD in cash and even pushed it onto the stage. He was really going to award 10 million USD to the winner.
Everyone went crazy. Whether it was the people in the auditorium or the people in front of the TV, they all went crazy.
Especially Roland Emmerich. When he saw the 10 million USD in cash being pushed onto the stage, he immediately jumped up and shouted at his wife, "Honey, hurry up and book me a plane ticket. I want to go to Hua Xia, I want to receive my prize! F * ck the Oscars, I don't want any awards!! "
Nonsense, in front of 10 million USD in cash, the Oscars were nothing!
99.9999% of all the movies in the world did not even earn 10 million USD!
At this moment, in the 20th Century Fox office, from the CEO to the person in charge of the movie, everyone was stunned.
In fact, Roland Emmerich was dreaming if he wanted the 10 million USD.
The winner of this 10 million USD should be 20th Century Fox. Because this award was given to a movie, the winner should naturally be the movie's producer. The winner of the prize should also be the producer. It had nothing to do with a lousy director like him.
"Call Mr. Jia and tell him that we will send someone to receive the prize immediately. Our people will be here soon!!" 20th Century Fox had a special office in Hua Xia, so it was much more convenient for them to send people there. They did not need to take a plane at all, they only needed to take a taxi.
20th Century Fox was even more jealous of this prize. Although they earned a few hundred million USD on Independence Day, they lost money on other movies. Including salaries and expenses, 20th Century Fox lost 4 million USD in 1997.
This 10 million USD could directly help 20th Century Fox turn their losses into profits!
Unfortunately, no matter what kind of taxi it was, it would take at least 10 minutes to arrive at the venue. At this time, Boss Jia said through the live broadcast, "This 10 million USD is for the crew of Independence Day, so I will now count down from three to see if anyone from the crew comes!"
"One."
"Two."
"Three."
After counting down from three, no one stood up. After all, even if the crew learned how to move at the speed of light, it was impossible for them to arrive at the venue.
Because the live broadcast had a delay of about 10 seconds, when the crew members in front of the TV saw Boss Jia count down from three, on the other side of the world, Boss Jia had already finished counting.
"Unfortunately, it seems that the crew of Independence Day has given up on their prize!" After counting down from three, Boss Jia laughed and then said, "Since they have already given up, then this prize won't be given to them!"
"F * ck you!" Hearing this, Roland Emmerich, who was about to book a plane ticket, rolled his eyes and almost fainted.
His friends around him were in the same situation. After all, many of them were members of the crew of Independence Day. Logically speaking, this 10 million USD prize should be distributed to them as well.
At the same time, there was a burst of laughter at the awards ceremony. After hearing Boss Jia's announcement that the prize would not be given because no one from the crew of Independence Day came to accept the prize, the entire venue burst into laughter. They were extremely happy.
Originally, the prize money was not given to them, so they were a little jealous.
Now that they saw that the crew of Independence Day had missed out on the prize because they did not show up, they immediately felt better. It was really too satisfying.
"This bastard, he's just messing with us, he's just trying to make us feel disgusted!" Roland Emmerich, who had sobered up, quickly saw through Boss Jia's scheme.
That's right, this Jia Yapeng had no intention of paying out the 10 million USD prize. He just saw that the crew of Independence Day did not attend the film festival and did not give him face, so he deliberately used this method to make him feel bad.
This was such a vicious and cunning trick. He had only taken out 10 million USD to show off, and he almost fainted from anger. He was too cunning!
"Look, he took the money back. He didn't spend a single cent and he made us feel disgusted!" Roland Emmerich stood in front of the TV and loudly told his friends about Boss Jia's scheme. The other crew members nodded in agreement. This move was too vicious and cunning.
They should not have expected to receive the prize money because Jia Yapeng would never give them the 10 million USD prize money. Who in the world would give out 10 million USD as a prize money? It was impossible!
Thinking of this, the entire crew of Independence Day in front of the TV felt happy again.
However, this happiness only lasted for less than a minute!
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