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Chapter 340 September
"The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" must be a literary film.

The current box office champion of domestic literary films is "Mei Lanfang" directed by Chen Kaige, with 1.1 million.

I don't know where Zhang Weiping got the courage to shout 3 million.

But it doesn't work if you don't shout.

Both "The Great Earthquake in Tangshan" and "Inception" were postponed. Although it seems that there is nothing wrong with it now, the theater has indeed returned the film.

There are two blockbusters, "The Expendables" and "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", followed by "Fist of Fist: Chen Zhen", "Sword Rain" and "Di Renjie: The Empire of Heaven".

You mean "A Little Thing of First Love"?
What kind of flowers can be found in campus youth movies that are used remotely to bring newcomers?
Zhang Weiping kept jumping up and cursing his mother in private, what the hell is this September?Summer time is not so intense!
In this case, Zhang Weiping can't speak too much.

But no matter how he dances, he can't take money out of the audience's pockets.

"The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" was cold on the first day, with only 700 million box office.

Zhang Weiping is crazy!
That's Zhang Yimou!

700 million on the first day, play me!
Under the siege of "The Expendables", "Love in the Hawthorn Tree" stumbled to 3400 million in the first weekend and four days.

Yang Fei, the person in charge of China Film New Northeast Cinemas, said: ""The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" has not been particularly popular since it was released, and there are still several commercial blockbusters to be released later, it will be very difficult to break through [-] million."

At the same time, theaters have lowered the schedule of "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree".

In fact, what Zhang Yimou really wanted to do was "Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling". Looking at director Zhang's resume, it is obvious that "Love in the Hawthorn Tree" is incompatible with other films.

But why do "The Hawthorn Tree" again?

Probably to earn some pocket money for Zhang Weiping.

"Jinling Thirteen Beauties" Zhang Yimou had been preparing for a long time. After "Three Guns" ended, "Thirteen Beauties" and "Hawthorn Tree" were approved at the same time.

Seeing that "Love in the Hawthorn Tree" was about to sink, Zhang Yimou didn't say much, and Zhang Weiping started to jump out:
"Yi is very busy. "Thirteen Hairpins" is already in preparation. This time we will invite top Hollywood stars to star. The male lead is in contact with Tom Cruise and Leonardo DiCaprio."

The news is great.

Cruise and Xiao Li have a huge number of fans all over the world.

Liu Yifei was asked this question at the event site that day:
"Zhang Weiping said that "Thirteen Hairpins" will invite Leonardo DiCaprio to star. Do you know anything about Yifei?"

"Ah?" Liu Yifei is still not sure about the situation, "I don't know much about Leon's future schedule, I only know that he will cooperate with Eastwood in a biopic later."

But what a good reporter, Leon has just finished cooperating with Cheng Yuan and Liu Yifei on "Inception", the world's [-] million, helping him reach a new peak in his career, he is going to come to China to film, Cheng and Liu must know, Liu Yifei is saying so now , it is basically certain that Zhang Weiping is blowing a cannon.

Liu Yifei is also an outspoken master, so she is not afraid of offending Zhang Weiping.

"Zhang Weiping said the day before yesterday that he would invite you to star in "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling". Has Yifei received the invitation?"

"Where did you get this news?" Liu Yifei smiled, "I like director Zhang Yimou very much, if he really invites me to star in "Thirteen Hairpins", I will definitely agree."

Of course Liu Yifei didn't receive the invitation, but she didn't say anything dead: "I don't think any Chinese actress will reject Zhang Yimou." But there was still the second half of the sentence: "But the producer can't be Zhang Weiping."

Zhang Weiping happily responded to Liu Yifei's call:
"The script is still being created, and it will be sent to Liu Yifei as soon as it is finalized."

Cheng Yu'an watched the news, and laughed with the young lady, "If he really gave you the script, would you accept it?"

"Of course I will." Liu Yifei came back from the event, changed clothes and sat beside the cat, "That's Zhang Yimou, who wouldn't want to cooperate with him."

Speaking of which, Miss Sister hasn't acted in a domestic blockbuster yet.

"Zhang Yimou likes to hire newcomers, you don't know that." Cheng Yu'an poured cold water on him.

"So what, I can act for free." Liu Yifei didn't care.

"Let me tell you... I'll answer the phone." Cheng Yu'an's phone rang, "Mark."

Mark Mueller called.

"...um... ok... ok... I have the script here... the actors, I have to think about it, I'm not prepared for such a sudden appointment with you... don't worry, I don't have any new plays this year... no problem, no problem, okay See you in Venice."

After chatting with Mark Muller for more than ten minutes, Cheng Yu'an hung up the phone.

"Who?"

"Marco Muller, he made an appointment with me for a play." Cheng Yu'an said.

"It's not good." The young lady heard about it, "He is the chairman of Venice, and he is going to make an appointment with you. Aren't you afraid that people will say it is a secret operation?"

"He is the chairman of the film festival, but not the chairman of the jury. It's useless for him to say awards."

Venice has become more and more sluggish in the past few years. The quality of the exhibited films has deteriorated year after year, and the film market has not grown.

Quentin gave the Golden Lion to his old lover, Sofia Coppola, and the special Golden Lion to his old mentor, Monte Hellman, in spite of the world.

"Black Swan", which was unanimously favored by film critics before the competition, only won the best newcomer award.

Actress Natalie Portman had a gloomy face and forced a smile at the awards ceremony.

The Best Director Silver Lion award-winning work "Sad Trumpet" was accused of being a customized work to cater to the chairman of the jury, Quentin.

Quentin likes this kind of absurd, violent, bloody and unconstrained style.

The Jury Prize "Necessary Killing" is seen as the winning and authoring film for the festival.

Chinese-language movies failed to show up in Venice this year, much to the disappointment of domestic moviegoers.

It can't be said that, Wu Baige won the lifetime achievement award.

This put a lot of pressure on Mark Muller, the chairman of the film festival. His second term as chairman is coming soon. If Venice continues like this, he will be killed by Cannes sooner or later. Then he mobilized his friends around him to make appointments with outstanding directors around the world.

His first phone call was Cheng Yu'an.

In the eyes of the outside world, Cheng Yu'an is of course a direct descendant of Venice, and some people even say that Mark Muller is Cheng Yu'an's guide in the international film industry.

Of course, there is some truth in saying this. Cheng Yuan won the Best Director Award when he participated in Venice for the first time. He is very grateful and respectful to Marc Muller and the Duamé couple.

Now that Mark Muller has personally asked him to play, he must follow up.

Cheng Yu'an is going to shoot a new film again, so she will take it directly to Venice. Of course Liu Yifei is very happy. She likes to see Cheng Yu'an working on the set the most: "Have you decided what to shoot?"

"I have an idea, but I don't know whether to make a domestic film or a foreign language film." Cheng Yu'an's mind was in a mess.

He hasn't touched a literary film since "Warm and Containing Light", and now he suddenly said to participate in the exhibition, he really couldn't make up his mind for a while: "Let me think about it."

(End of this chapter)