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Chapter 829 September
What is the mix of film festivals?
Of course, the quality of the film must be.

But to be more realistic, film festivals are about relationships.

Foreigners also have this set of human sophistication.

The blatant bribery is not enough, this group of art lovers still need to show some face.

But it can be exchanged for something else.

Why did Cheng Yu'an abandon Venice to become the chairman of Cannes?
In addition to his own level, Jacob helped a major film company establish a distribution channel in France is a very important reason.

Why did Cheng Yu'an not give the best director award to Hou Xiaoxian under the pressure of all the judges when Cheng Yu'an was the chairman?

Because the Golden Horse Awards selected his favorite actress Gong Li, he wanted to pay back the knife to Wan Dao for Gong Li, and at that time "The Invisible Guest" wanted Gong Li to star.

Therefore, it is not surprising that Zhang Yimou's "Three Billboards" beat "The Shape of Water" to win the Golden Lion Award for Best Picture.

Of course, Toro is also a very good director, and he is a very popular "weird" director in the field of literary films.

But compared to Zhang Yimou, his popularity at the film festival is not so good.

Zhang Yimou has not been to Venice for many years, and the Venice official gave him the highest courtesy to welcome Zhang Yimou's crew.

Empty the entire red carpet and set aside a full 7 minutes for the "Three Billboards" crew.

Because of the arrival of Zhang Yimou, the number of media in Venice this year is the largest in the past three years.

Alberto released the news half a month in advance that the film festival officials will hold a film master class for Zhang Yimou himself.

Previously, no Chinese-speaking director had received such courtesy.

In addition, Cheng Yu'an used her influence in the United States to guide Annette Bening, the chairman of the jury of this year's film festival's main competition unit, for "Three Billboards"—and recommended her to Disney for the role in "Captain Marvel" which will start next year. "In the corner of the Supreme Wisdom.

Also donated $200 million to the Annette Bening couple's foundation for charitable causes.

How did Toro beat Zhang Yimou?
Zhang Yimou has not won an international award for a long time.

The winning of the Golden Lion has aroused strong repercussions in China.

Some people say that Director Zhang "the sword is not old" and "the old one becomes stronger".

It is said that Zhang Yimou will rejuvenate his "third career spring"-the second spring is the period of "Heroes".

Some also said that "Zhang Yimou quickly stepped out of the shadow of "The Great Wall" hitting the street".

Of course, there are critics too.

Said Zhang Yimou, "Since there is "A Lawsuit by Qiu Ju", why did the same "Three Billboards" be made."

And accused Zhang Yimou of "making a foreign language film."

For these doubts, Zhang Yimou responded at the media appreciation reception after his triumphant return.

He doesn't think "Three Billboards" is "the same" as "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit", although both films tell the story of a woman dealing with various parties in pursuit of truth and justice.

""Three Billboards" is still full of freshness for me. In order to prepare for this play, my team and I have studied a lot of American historical and social materials very carefully. Both films are just "litigious". The skin, the inside is different."

Although Director Zhang is almost 70, his energy is still strong, and his creative desire is still not comparable to that of young people.

He still has a lot of things he wants to shoot.

He even expressed to Cheng Yu'an that "if there is a good opportunity, I want to try science fiction films".

This is why Cheng Yu'an likes Director Zhang. He always loves movies and only wants to talk to the world through movies.

At the appreciation meeting, a reporter asked Jiang Xuerou, the chief producer of Yuanyuan, why he collaborated with director Zhang Yimou on literary films.

After "Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling", the two broke up, and Zhang Yimou turned to cooperate with Yuan Cheng, but in the past seven years, Yuan Yuan and Zhang Yimou have cooperated with all literary films, such as "Return", "Pain and Glory" and the already completed "Movie Movie". ", and now "Three Billboards."

Jiang Xuerou explained: "The company never asks Director Zhang what to do or not to do." He also praised Zhang Yimou, "And we all feel that at Director Zhang's level, it is no longer possible to simply use box office data to restrain him. Yes, we will support whatever Director Zhang wants to do."

The media believed that what Jiang Xuerou said was true. Just ask who has Zhang Yimou in his hands, who will let him make four unprofitable literary films in a row, and help him every step of the way from a distance.

Moreover, Yaoyuan has said more than once before that Zhang Yimou's production authority in Yuanyuan is the same as that of Cheng Yu'an - to shoot whatever he wants, and how he wants to shoot.

Regarding how "Three Billboards" will be arranged in the future, Jiang Xuerou said frankly: "This is a movie that is not that popular, so we will go to various film festivals first."

The news of rushing to the Olympic Games does not need to be released so early.

Regarding the domestic release, Zhang Yimou said: "It's not so early, but we are actively communicating."

"Three Billboards" went through the channel of a big film company, and it was bought in the country remotely in the form of batches.

The domestic release will have to wait until next year at the earliest.

The topic of "Three Billboards" ended, and the reporter turned to ask about this year's Golden Rooster Awards.

"Yi Fei was shortlisted for the Best Actress Award, what will the company do?"

"That's what you said." Jiang Xueju said, "It's just being shortlisted, so how do we deal with it? We are very happy for Yifei, and we will just wait for the good news."

"Yifei is filming in Western Studios, will she be there then?"

This year's Golden Rooster Award happens to be in the northwest, in Mongolia, but it's not far away.

"I'm not sure about this, you can ask her herself."

The reporter's questioning session of the thank you reception ended in this way, followed by the meal and social part, the guests and the host had a good time, so I don't have much to say.

Entering the third week of September, the films that hit the National Day file at the end of the month have launched large-scale publicity one after another.

Among them, the loudest one is "Space Hunting".

Director Da Hei Niu's debut film, joined by his fiancée Fan Xiaopang, has earned enough attention for this film.

The popularity of "Wolf Warrior 2" also brought unprecedented exposure to the film.

"Wolf Warrior 2" detonated the main theme, and the outside world also took a high look at "Sky Hunter", and they all believed that "Sky Hunter" "may create the box office myth of "Wolf Warrior 2."

Even the creators of "Space Hunter" are full of confidence in this.

In fact, "Space Hunter" was established earlier than "Wolf Warrior 2". On the one hand, the main creators felt that Wu Jing had robbed the main theme that should belong to them. This movie doesn't do badly either.

Therefore, the film's publicity team chose to post "Wolf Warrior 2" for marketing:

"The police force has "Operation Mekong", the army has "Wolf Warrior", "Wolf Warrior 2" has joined the navy, and the air force has "Space Hunter"!"

It's true to say that "Air Hunter" does have the support of the Air Force.

Otherwise, will the J-20 be lent to the crew for real shooting?

By the way, "Pure Mind: Chasing Dreams in Showbiz" is also on the National Day file this year.

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