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Chapter 257 Arriving in Venice ([-] daily updates, subscribe~)

After talking to Gong Xi on the phone, Wu Jianye made a special call to director Bai Chen. He had been nominated for the Venice Film Festival for "Under the Bridge" before. Wu Jianye had just been a teaching assistant at the academy, so he didn't follow him. Director Bai Chen went to Venice.

In fact, not only Wu Jianye, but even the leading actress Gong Xi didn't have a past. Only director Bai Chen and a leader of Shanghai Film Studio went there.

This time Wu Jianye was nominated for the Venice Film Festival again, so director Bai Chen naturally wanted to tell Wu Jianye to do something about it.

"Leizi, I'm going to Venice in two days. I'll leave everything about Yanjing to you. Yanjing is our base camp. You have to watch over me!" Wu Jianye called Zhao Lei to the courtyard, exhorted.

Zhao Lei nodded: "Brother, don't worry, it's not the first time, I promise it will be fine!"

"Well, I'm at ease when you handle things." Regarding Zhao Lei, Wu Jianye was quite at ease. As Zhao Lei said, this was not the first time.

"Brother, how long are you planning to go this time?" Zhao Lei asked curiously.

"About a month!"

"Then do you need to bring some cash?"

It has always been the tradition of the Chinese people to be poor and rich. They would rather be poor at home than make themselves look too shabby when they go out.

"No, when we arrive in Venice, if necessary, I will ask Linda to send it to me!"

Most of Wu Jianye's domestic funds are in RMB, and it would be too troublesome to exchange them for US dollars. If you need money in Venice, it would be more convenient for Linda to send it there.

After exhorting Zhao Lei, Wu Jianye became idle again.

The college hasn't started school yet, and even if it starts, it won't be Wu Jianye's turn. They will not officially enroll students in their advanced classes until October.

For this training class, Wu Jianye is still looking forward to it, because in this training class, there will be two great gods.

One is the head of China Film in the future, and the other is the head of the China Film Directors Association in the future!
Especially the first one, Wu Jianye remembered that he had watched a domestic awards ceremony once, and forgot whether it was the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Award or the Huabiao Award. When receiving awards, I will be the first to thank this person.

Han Heping!
Feng Pants was able to shoot Lunar New Year files because of the support of Han Heping.

At that time, Han Heping was still the director of Yan Film Studio, and Feng Pants was targeted by relevant leaders because of his cooperation with Wang Shuo. Basically, the movies they produced would be shot.

It is precisely because of this that Wang Shuo separated from him and went to the United States, while Feng Pants received a call from Han Heping to prepare the first Chinese New Year movie "Party A and Party B" in the true sense.

What's cool is that the script of this movie was actually written long ago. At that time, Wang Shuo's name was on it, and it was not reviewed at all. After removing Wang Shuo's name, the movie not only passed the review smoothly, but also set a new record. Amazing box office record!

From then on, during the Lunar New Year period, Feng Pants started the road of gods blocking and killing gods, and Buddhas blocking and destroying Buddhas
Jinmen is very close to Yanjing, and it took one day to deal with the unit's affairs. On the second day, Li Xiaoli came to Yanjing. After seeing Wu Jianye, she was naturally very excited.

She lived in Fang Shu's home, and the two parties agreed that when Zhao Fei and others arrived in Yanjing, they would immediately leave for Venice.

At the same time, not only Wu Jianye and others went to Venice this time, but also played a leader of the studio, Zhou Qiang.

The I/O company also sent a leader, but to Wu Jianye's surprise, the leader turned out to be Sun Jiarui, who had originally disagreed with "Raise the Red Lantern" to participate in the Venice Film Festival.

"Dean, isn't this a joke?"

Wu Jianye found Cheng Yin, and said with some dissatisfaction that Sun Jiarui himself did not agree with "Raise the Red Lantern" to participate in the Venice Film Festival, but now he is sent as the leader of the entire team, Wu Jianye's villain In my heart, this exhibition may cause some troubles.

To be honest, even if Wu Jianye is the director and screenwriter of this movie, he is not the leader of the overseas delegation this time, but Zhou Qiang and Sun Jiarui.

Fortunately, Zhou Qiang said something, he was sent by the acting studio. Although everyone is not familiar with it, they will give Wu Jianye some face-to-face, but this Sun Jiarui.
"Don't be emotional, this is an organizational arrangement!" Cheng Yin was also a little helpless: "You can think of it this way, this is also the trust in you from the organization. Send a leader of the import and export company to follow. If this movie It really won an award at the Venice Film Festival, and someone has to talk about selling the copyright!"

I have already talked about the domestic nature of I/O companies, as well as the relationship between the studio and China Film.

The studio is actually only responsible for shooting movies. As for the release, it is a matter of China Film and has nothing to do with the studio. If domestic movies want to be bought abroad, then it has nothing to do with the studio. The company is responsible.

Of course, part of the cost of selling copyrights still has to be paid to the studio.

In other words, even if the film won an award at the Venice Film Festival and was favored by distributors in Europe and the United States, Wu Jianye is not qualified to negotiate with the other party if he wants to purchase the copyright for overseas broadcasts. Company negotiations.
Originally, Wu Jianye's idea was that he could negotiate the price with the other party first, and then he, the middleman, would lead the two parties to get to know each other, so as to maximize the benefits of the movie, but now Sun Jiarui followed
Wu Jianye didn't quite believe it. He was able to talk about his own psychological price for this movie. Now he can only hope that Sun Jiarui won't sell the movie's overseas broadcast rights as a cabbage price!
Arrived in Yanjing with Zhao Fei and others.

Wu Jianye formally asked Sun Jiarui and Zhou Qiang to go to Venice.

"What's the rush? The film festival officially started on the 31st. Now it's only the 20th. What are we going to do so early? Don't you know how much it costs so many people to go? The current development in China, Money is needed everywhere, let’s save as much as we can!”

This is Sun Jiarui's reply, and his words are full of dissatisfaction.

"Manager Sun, the Venice Film Festival is a major event in the international film industry. At this time, the hotels on Lido Island will be full of filmmakers and distributors from all over the world. If you arrive late, there may not even be a place to stay. !” Wu Jianye reminded.

In another time and space, as a film lover, he has naturally participated in many international film festivals. When he went there for the first time, he was inexperienced. When he arrived at the place, he found out that the place was already overcrowded and there were no hotels left. Room.

Accommodation is a very big problem!
"Although the film festival officially starts on the 31st, we have to go there ahead of time to discuss with the organizers about screening the film during the festival!"

Sun Jiarui was sitting on the sofa, with a cup of tea steaming in front of him, holding an unknown document in his hand, without looking up.

"This time we used to mainly learn film techniques from Europe, America and other places. You are a new director. Don't always think that your first film will win an award. That's unrealistic. You should be humble!"

Wu Jianye's heart suddenly burst into flames, but he also knew that even if he was angry with the other party, it was useless. After all, the status of the two parties was too different. If Wu Jianye really got angry with the other party, then The only one who suffers is himself.

"Manager Sun, in fact, there is another advantage for us to go there early. We can get to know foreign distributors in advance. After all, we are planning to release this movie abroad!"

In desperation, Wu Jianye had no choice but to use another trump card.

unfortunately
"Okay, you don't have to worry about this matter, it's our export and import company's business, just do your part!"

Wu Jianye, who left the import and export company, was naturally angry, but he had no way to take any action against Sun Jiarui.

This is China, not Xiangjiang, Wu Jianye reminded himself panting.

The capital in hand is still not enough!
This was Wu Jianye's first conclusion for himself. If he had enough right to speak, he wouldn't be angry with Sun Jiarui today.

After returning to the courtyard, Wu Jianye suddenly saw Wu Jianzhang who hadn't shown up for a long time.

Wu Jianzhang was lying on the recliner in the courtyard, holding red dates picked from the jujube tree in his hand, and feeding them to his mouth one by one. After seeing Wu Jianye, he stood up obediently.

"elder brother!"

"Why are you here?" Wu Jianye asked angrily.

"Hey!" Wu Jianzhang rubbed his hands, showing an embarrassed expression.

"Who made you angry, I'll clean him up for you!"

"If you have something to say, if you have to fart!" Wu Jianye is not in the mood to argue with him now.

"Brother, can I borrow some money?" Wu Jianzhang didn't care about Wu Jianye's attitude, and said with a smile.

"Isn't your popsicle stand pretty good? Why are you short of money?" Wu Jianye glanced at him suspiciously. Back then, this kid chose to sell popsicles. Now it's summer, so how could he be short of money!

"How much money can you make selling popsicles, how many cents each, and selling them for a day is not enough for you and your friends to have a drink!" Wu Jianzhang said carelessly.

It turned out that two days ago, he saw people frequenting Wu Jianye's side. Seeing their delicious food and wine in the yard every day, he was naturally envious. Thinking about it, it's not enough for him to go out to sell popsicles every day. Wu Jianye had other thoughts about the money for a day's drinks.

"no!"

Wu Jianye glanced at Wu Jianzhang angrily.

After the brothers came to Yanjing, both Zhao Xiaoqiang and Wu Jianhu performed very well, especially Wu Jianhu. According to Zhao Lei, because Wu Jianhu could get clothes at a cheaper price from Zhao Lei, he actually competed with the previous Yanjings. Clothes sellers started a price war.

It's not that no one wants to bully him as an outsider, but with Zhao Lei's help, nothing happened to him, and now he is one of the few clothes buyers in Yanjing.

Although Zhao Xiaoqiang does not have Wu Jianhu's ability, he is still working diligently and making steady progress.

Only Wu Jianzhang, fishing for three days and drying the net for two days, hadn’t opened a stall for more than a month in these two months, and now he even came to him to borrow money. Naturally, it was impossible for Wu Jianye to lend it to him. .

"Brother, don't say that, just look at your daily drinking money, it's enough for me for several days, just show it between your fingers, it's enough for me!"

Wu Jianzhang said shamelessly.

"You still have something to do, go back quickly if you have nothing to do, I must have no money for you here, if you don't want to make money, then go back to your hometown as soon as possible."

Wu Jianye naturally won't be used to Wu Jianzhang anymore.

When Wu Jianzhang saw what Wu Jianye said, he immediately lost his temper. How nice it is to be in Yanjing, where you don’t have to work in the fields, and you can eat meat every day.

In the end, he had no choice but to go back angrily.
May 8st!
Under the leadership of Sun Jiarui and Zhou Qiang, Wu Jianye and others finally got on the plane to Venice.

Venice is a famous tourist and industrial city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. Because Venice has the reputation of "born by water, beautiful by water, and prosperous by water", it enjoys the reputation of "water city" and "water city". ""Hundred Island City" and other good names.

However, since the venue of the Venice Film Festival is the Lido Island in Venice, after getting off the plane, everyone did not stay in Venice too much, but directly took the car to the Lido Island.

Lido Island is a slender island about 12 kilometers long, which runs southeast of Venice.The island is known internationally as a health resort.On the beach of Lido Island, there are huts in the film "Death in Venice" where tourists can rest.There are many private beaches on the island, and on the east side of the island, there are also government-run bathing beaches.There is a casino (Casino MuniciPale) on the island, which is elegant and open from April to September every year.Casinos include casinos, restaurants, nightclubs, theaters, etc., providing services for tourists who come to the island for vacation.

The most prosperous on the island is Santa Maria Elisabeta Avenue, which spans Lido from the shallow sea on the Venice side to the Adriatic seashore. There are many hotels, shops and restaurants for tourists along the street.There are many elegant open-air cafes on Lido Island, attracting many tourists and becoming a local feature.Although it is not as good as the oldest and most famous in Venice, the Florian Cafe facing St. Mark's Square, it still attracts many tourists to stop and taste.

After Wu Jianye and others arrived at Lido Island, Fang Shu and others were immediately attracted by the scenery of Lido Island.

At this time, Lido Island was already overcrowded, without the peace of the past, with elites in suits and leather shoes, and female stars from all over the world.

Now in the entire Lido, the Venice Film Festival is the biggest festival.

"Don't look around, let foreigners see it, how decent!" Sun Jiarui said dissatisfied.

"Manager Sun, let's find a hotel to stay in first. Seeing that there are so many people here, if you go late, there will be no room!" Zhou Qiang reminded.

Sun Jiarui nodded in style, "Okay!"

结果
"Sorry, our hotel is full!"

(End of this chapter)