"Nezha's Devil Boy Descending" broke 5 billion after the box office was re-recorded
On December 28, according to the data of Maoyan Professional Edition, the movie "The Devil Boy of Nezha" successfully exceeded 5 billion yuan after several rounds of box office data supplementation, becoming the second film in the Chinese film market to exceed 5 billion yuan after "Wolf Warrior 2".
It is reported that because some studios have the behavior of concealing data or intercepting the box office, resulting in the statistical box office being lower than the actual box office, the National Film Administration issued a notice requiring all studios and third-party e-commerce companies in the country to check whether the 2019 e-commerce sales box office data is consistent with the state-funded data, and there are differences that need to be made up for the box office difference. Among them, the total box office of the movie "The Devil Boy of Nezha" was 4.975 billion before the supplementary recording, and exceeded 5 billion after the supplementary recording.
Kubrick's version of "Lolita" starring Sue Lane died at the age of 73
On December 28, according to the New York Times, American actor Sue Lane died in Los Angeles on December 26 at the age of 73.
Between 1959 and 1980, Lane starred in more than two dozen films and television series, most notably Stanley Kubrick's Lolita, when she was 14 years old, for which lane won the 1962 Hollywood Foreign Film Journalists Association Most Promising Female Newcomer Award and the 20th Golden Globe Award for Best Female Newcomer. His representative works also include "Wushan Stormy Night" (1964), "Rocket Locomotive" (1971), "Murder in the Blue World" (1973) and "Crash" (1976).
British directors Sam Mendes and Steve McQueen were knighted
On 28 December, the BBC reported that British directors Sam Mendes (American Beauty) and Steve McQueen (Twelve Years of Slavery) were knighted by Queen Elizabeth in the British New Year Honours Judgs. The British New Year Honours Selection is derived from the British Honours System, which aims to reward citizens who have made contributions to the United Kingdom, dividing different honorary titles by merit and size, and judging them twice a year, on the occasion of the monarch's birthday month and the arrival of the New Year.
British director Sam Mendes's representative works include "American Beauty", "King Lear", "Stewart: Rewind Life" and "Lehman Brothers Trilogy", etc., won the Best Director Award at the 72nd Academy Awards in 2000 with the film "American Beauty", and the latest work "1917" is currently being released in North America, and the film has been nominated for Best Director in the Film Category at the 77th Golden Globe Awards and other awards.
British up-and-coming director Steve McQueen directed his debut feature film Hunger in 2008, for which he was nominated for the Best Director Award at the 21st European Film Festival; in 2011, he won the British Independent Film Awards for Best Independent Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and many other awards; in 2013, he directed the film "Twelve Years of Slavery", which won the Best Picture award at the 67th British Academy Film and Television Arts Awards and the Best Picture Award at the 86th Academy Awards.