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Chapter 316

Wu Baige was bad in his later years, but he did make important innovations in the world of gunfight action movies at his peak, so it is completely reasonable for him to win the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement in Venice.

Wu Baige is indeed very influential in the international film industry.

This year's Shanghai International Film Festival has actually worked hard.

Many big names were invited: Harvey Weinstein, CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America Robert Pisano, Ren Zhonglun of Shanghai Film Group, Bernard Yudong, Feng Xiaogang, Wang Xiaoshuai, Ning Hao, Gong Li, Li Link, Zhou Xingxing and others.

Even Liu Yifei was invited to be an award presenter.

star-studded
The Shanghai Film Festival tried its best to invite Cheng Yu'an, it doesn't matter if you don't bring the crew, it doesn't matter if you don't walk the red carpet, just come to the film forum.But Cheng Yu'an still pushed it back, saying that he had a script to write, and the company's top management had just changed, and there were too many things to be busy, so he apologized to the organizing committee.

But in fact, Cheng Yu'an just didn't want to see the old bastard Harvey Weinstein.

Bob had told him that Weinstein had always wanted to work with a major studio.Needless to say, Cheng Yu'an knew what kind of guy this guy was. Bob had spent his whole life in the Hollywood production circle, and he also knew that Harvey was not a good guy, so a big film company didn't pay much attention to him.

But this old bastard made a dirty trick to discredit a film produced by a big film company. Although the company responded, it still caused irreparable losses.

He didn't bother to talk to Harvey, but someone talked to him.

Director Feng Xiaogang was tough.

At the film forum on the second day of the Shanghai Film Festival, Feng Xiaogang sprayed Harvey in the face: "Chinese films should be based on the domestic market, and don't fantasize about how much money they can make overseas."

But Harvey disagreed with Feng Xiaogang's point of view: "Chinese films are also successful in the United States. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Hero" are both very good. Your director Cheng Yu'an is a guest of Hollywood studios."

Feng Xiaogang refuted Harvey's point of view one by one: ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Hero" crawled out of the bones, too many died. And these two are not Chinese movies in the strict sense.

"Cheng Dao's company is very successful in Hollywood, but he has never made a Hollywood film himself. As far as I know, his films sell well in other parts of Asia except the mainland, but they still fail to sell in Europe and America."

Uh... This is true. Cheng Yu'an's movies have always been poor at the box office in Europe and the United States, and they all make money by selling copyrights.

Then the dinner began, and Feng Xiaogang did something that now seems very satisfying: "I have to tell you about Harvey. He often deals with Chinese filmmakers, and his usual trick is to buy the North American distribution rights of our movies. He started The bid was 800 million, and when others saw it, they didn’t want to grab it from him. He gave a deposit of 20 US dollars. When the filming was finished, he said, I don’t want this movie anymore, return it, and it’s too late if you want to sell it to someone else. When I find you, I will offer you $100 million."

Feng Xiaogang seemed a little excited: "Do you know how many people in China regarded him as the savior at that time? Now when they talk about him, they say 'oh, liar'."

"Don't try to enter Hollywood, they will only give you a temptation, but they will ask you to sacrifice a lot of interests. Buy a few Chinese films symbolically, and keep them in the library. This way, you can have leverage to negotiate with China. Market more of their films."

Richard Gelfield, the investment president of IMAX Corporation who was also at the forum, was very embarrassed and could only explain: "Actually, Harvey's reputation is not very good with us, but I want Director Feng to know that foreign filmmakers Not all of them."

Cheng Yu'an was quite happy watching the news on the Internet. Whether you said that Feng Xiaogang was incompetent and furious because he couldn't sell in the international market, or that he was marketing for the upcoming "Tangshan Earthquake", what he said was indeed correct .

Although this year's Shanghai Film Festival is unprecedentedly grand, the film itself has been overwhelmed by celebrity gossip.

Zhao Yanzi came back after giving birth, Zhang Bozhi walked the red carpet with his son Lucas, Gillian, who hadn't seen her face for a long time, also appeared on the red carpet of the Shanghai International Film Festival, and Li Xiaoran, the heroine of the recent uproar about Yan Po's chopping incident, also appeared on the scene.

As a result, no one watched the competition film, and everyone went to see the stars.

When the competition film was screened, the venue was full of people. Liu Jie, the director of the hit movie "Bi Luo Snow Mountain", complained: "I took "Dialysis" to Venice, and I had to accept interviews with five or six groups of reporters a day. Now I am showing the film at my home. Instead, no one came to see it.”

In the end, Li Lianjie half-jokingly said the truth: "I hope the Shanghai Film Festival will become more and more like a film festival."

Cheng Yu'an only paid attention to this year's Shanghai Film Festival for a few days, and then threw herself into the intense work again.

Cheng Yu'an has no intention of going to the film festival, but some people miss him.

Whenever the forum talks about the cooperation and differences between Chinese and Western films, Cheng Yu'an will be used as an example.

For example, Feng Xiaogang encouraged filmmakers to learn advanced Hollywood production techniques: "It is not necessary for everyone to fantasize about being a director, but we can also learn production techniques and come back to make our own films. I admire director Cheng Yu'an in this aspect. Although he is young, It is not big, but it is very bold in terms of technology investment. Yuanyuan invests a huge amount of research and development expenses in Tiangong Yicai every year, so that Tiangong Yicai can learn very good technology whether it is doing its own research and development or studying abroad. The "Tangshan Earthquake" project was established early, and I failed to cooperate with Tiangong Yicai, and I will consider Tiangong Yicai for my next film."

Then, Luc Besson was introduced by Huang Jianxin, and the two visited Cheng Yu'an.

Cheng Yu'an only likes "This Killer Is Not So Cold" for Luc Besson. He once fought against the strongest king, but his strength declined too quickly.

Cheng Yu'an didn't know what Luc Besson was looking for him for. Logically, he was Cheng Yu'an's senior, and he seemed to be asking for something.

Cheng Yu'an is good at both English and French, and there is no obstacle in communicating with Luc Besson.

After talking for ten minutes, Luc Besson finally expressed his intention. He wanted to make a Sino-French co-production with Cheng Yu'an.

Cheng Yu'an said with a smile: "If there is a good script, we will definitely cooperate."

In fact, he was already scolding his mother in his heart. In recent years, Luc Besson has become more and more like a businessman than a director. The purpose of making co-productions is to make money for Europa Films to continue his life.

He also said that he could sell part of the shares of Europa Films to Cheng Yu'an.

Europa Films is in debt of 18 billion and you want me to take over?
With a smile on his face, Cheng Yu'an entertained Luc Besson for half an hour with MMP in his heart, and then sent the two of them out after talking.

Huang Jianxin was quite embarrassed before going out: "He told me to talk to you about movies before, but he didn't expect to talk about these things."

In his opinion, the Sino-French co-production is a good idea, but the fact that Europa Films is in decline is an ironclad fact. Luc Besson wants Cheng Yu'an to take over, and he, the introducer, doesn't look good.

"It's okay, let's cooperate. We can't just talk about it." Cheng Yu'an didn't care at all.

He didn't plan to cooperate with Luc Besson at first, and he has very full production tasks in both China and the United States every year. Luc Besson is so blatantly coming up to cheat money—at least take "Taken" as a meeting gift. ——I really think Chinese people are stupid and have a lot of money.

Except Jimei Pictures.

　Happy Lantern Festival everyone, Chapter 2 will be coming soon!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)