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Chapter 25 Belgian Premiere

There are quite a few Chinese in Belgium, and Lin Bingkun started promoting it among the local Chinese community a few days ago.

The compatriots were also very supportive. I heard that two films will be exhibiting in Brussels this year, and they donated money to buy tickets to support.

At the entrance of the theater, "Sniping the Phone Booth" was not very popular.

After all, in a foreign country, even if there are compatriots to support, it is a bit whimsical to want to use this to drive up the popularity.

What's more, Westerners don't like oriental suspense and horror movies very much.

……

Tony is a veteran fan of cult films, and he comes to the Fantastic Film Festival every year.

"This year's film is really not very good." Tony is very dissatisfied with this year's film.

After watching it for two days, he didn't like any of them.

"Honey, how long are you going to shop?" Alice, the girlfriend, was already impatient.

"Hey, my dear, look, there is a video from Huaguo, Phone Booth."

"Come on! How do Chinese people know how to film suspense."

"Go and see, there are no good movies anyway. This magical land can always surprise people."

"Hello, two tickets to Phone Booth."

The name Phone Booth is easy to guess. For experienced fans of suspense films, they will automatically fill in their brains when they see this name.

Confined spaces are always a suspense horror favourite.

Cheng Yu'an and his party sat in the theater, waiting for the audience to arrive.

Dozens of spectators were sparsely seated in the movie theater.

The film starts showing.

The first is the necessary dragon logo, then the factory logo of Qingying Studio and the opening animation of China Film, and finally the logos of Remote Media, Yindu Organization, Yingyi Entertainment and Yinhuang.

Creators subtitles:

Director·Screenwriter·Editor: Cheng Yu'an
Producer: Han Sanping

Chief Producer: Lin Bingkun

Producer: Cheng Lingfeng
Producer: Hu Keming
Starring: Liao Fan, Wang Zhiwen, Ren Dahua, Xuan Xuan, Cheng Lingfeng.

The movie begins.

The bustling and bustling street scenes of Hong Kong appear on the screen.

The palms of the main creators began to sweat.

"Sniper Phone Booth" is a fast-paced movie with no urine point, and 80 minutes pass quickly.

There was warm applause in the movie theater, interspersed with cheers and whistles.

The crew of "Three Watches" watching the movie also gave warm applause.

Chen Kexin was surprised in his heart: "This young man is young, but the camera language and plot rhythm are very mature, not losing to the old director at all. It seems that this trip to Brussels, "Three Watches" will not be so smooth .”

Cheng Yu'an watched the applause, and finally let go of his hanging heart, and said to Liao Fan and others sitting beside him: "Let's go, take the stage and call the curtain."

A group of people walked to the screen and bowed to the audience to thank them.

Cheng Yu'an looked at the dozens of spectators and sighed in his heart: "The movie is really good."

Seeing that the audience had not left their seats for a long time, everyone stopped and kept bowing.

Finally, the theater staff came up to negotiate, and Cheng Yuan said to the audience in French:
"I am Cheng Yu'an, the director of this film. Thank you very much for your affirmation of "Sniper Phone Booth". However, the film festival has relevant regulations. Please cooperate with the work and exit in an orderly manner. Thank you." After speaking, he took the main creator and bowed to the audience.

The applause finally stopped, and everyone in Cheng Yuan watched the audience leave.

Tony came to the front with his girlfriend, excitedly holding Cheng Yu'an's hand: "This movie is the biggest surprise of this film festival!"

In the end, he used the only Chinese saying he knew: "Thank you."

"Thank you." Cheng Yu'an patted Tony on the shoulder and said in French, "I'm glad you like it."

Although the audience on the first day of the screening was small, the response was overwhelming and it was a good start.

Everyone left the theater, the excitement was still there, the most nervous one was Liao Fan, this was the first time he played such an important role: "I almost fainted on stage just now."

Wang Zhiwen stretched out his hands: "Me too, look, my palms are still sweating."

Mr. Lin Bingkun was well-informed and said with a smile: "These are small scenes, and you will get used to them after seeing them more. I have arranged for reporters to send back the premiere to Hong Kong Island, and we will start promoting it simultaneously."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work."

There is still no movement from China Film Group. After all, the Belgium Fantastic Film Festival is not a big film festival.

It is said that if "Sniper Phone Booth" wins one or two awards, China Film will have something to say and start promoting.

Tony comes home at night and posts on a local movie forum:
"A Movie from the Mysterious East, this will be the biggest surprise of this film festival!" "

First of all, I criticize that there are no good films in this year's film festival, and then I describe my situation of watching "Sniper Booth" in detail.

"Believe me, this film is definitely the biggest dark horse this year."

Someone posted below:

"I went to see it too, can anyone tell me if Cheng has any other films."

"As far as I know, this is Cheng's first film."

"Wow, then he is really a genius, Orientals finally know how to shoot suspense films!"

Tony's post quickly became popular, and more and more people joined the discussion.

It's just that there really aren't any particularly outstanding films in this year's film festival that can compete with "Sniper Booth".

At this time, Cheng Yuan was on the phone in the room:

"Lingfeng, the situation is good, and the audience has responded very well. Mr. Lin has already sent the photos of the scene to your mailbox. You can promote it on a small scale. China Film Group is not willing to promote it so early, so we will do it ourselves."

"Okay, I'll contact several newspapers and media."

"Don't forget to advertise online, the target audience of our film is young people."

"I know."

After hanging up the phone, it was already very late, and Cheng Yu'an fell into a deep sleep.

……

"Director! Director!" Liao Fan broke into his room and shook him awake.

"Brother Fan, what's the matter?"

"Hurry up, our movie is on fire! This morning, hundreds of people blocked the entrance of the theater demanding to add "Sniper Phone Booth", we are on fire!"

"What's going on?" Cheng Yu'an asked while washing.

"I can't explain it either. It is said that some viewers posted a post on the Internet to praise us after watching the movie last night, and then hundreds of people came to see it today. Go and see it."

"Let's go!"

Cheng Yu'an, Liao Fan, and Wang Zhiwen took a look at the entrance of the theater, and sure enough, there were many people queuing up.

"Please rest assured," the theater manager kept reassuring the audience, "We have added two screening halls, and we will definitely let everyone watch "Phone Booth"."

"You have six halls in your theater, why don't you show "Phone Booth" in all of them."

"This is a film festival screening, and we have to reserve exhibition halls for other films. Please understand. We have already reported the problem to the film festival officials, and they promised to add "Phone Booth" to the screening. Don't worry, please queue up to buy tickets. "

The theater manager shouted hoarsely.

In the past two days, the popularity of "Sniper Phone Booth" has continued to rise.

Domestic media have already begun to report:
"The new director went to Belgium, and the audience responded enthusiastically!"

""Sniper Phone Booth" exploded internationally! Chinese-language movies go abroad!"

The reputation of "Sniping the Phone Booth" has been fermented, and many filmmakers have come to discuss copyright.

　Chapter 1 arrives!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)