The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 514 "The Wandering Earth" becomes the opening film of the film festival

On June 6th, Shanghai Metropolitan Theater.

Star-studded on the red carpet, Chen Jingxing led the other six judges to pay tribute to the camera and the camera with a smile that was about to freeze.

After finally holding on for 3 minutes, Chen Jingxing breathed a sigh of relief and led the judges towards the grand theater.

After the Shanghai Film Festival closed last year, under the persuasion of the leaders of the Film Bureau, Chen Jingxing took over the chairman of the Shanghai Film Festival's jury, and it was two consecutive terms.

Fortunately, he is not the director of the organizing committee. Like other judges, the chairman of the jury is busy with the festival for nine days. During the few days when the films are screened at the festival, he has watched all the films in the main competition unit, and then judges each award.

Fortunately, part of the filming of "Interstellar" has already been done. After the Shanghai Film Festival, Chen Jingxing was able to take the crew abroad to shoot scenes on the water planet and the glacier planet in Europe, and the filming schedule was not delayed much.

The Mordu Film Festival invited him to be a judge, nothing more than to use his fame to bless the film festival with some halo, and at the same time increase the number and quality of the films submitted.

After all, most of the previous jury chairmen of the Shanghai Film Festival were domestic filmmakers and well-known actors, and foreign filmmakers also served as chairmen, but they were all directors of literary and artistic films with little reputation.

There was no such internationally renowned director as Chen Jingxing as the chairman of the jury in the first 21 editions of the Shanghai Film Festival.

After all, there are only a few famous commercial directors like Chen Jingxing in Hollywood, and the Shanghai Film Festival cannot invite them.

As for whether he, the chairman of the jury, has played a supporting role in the film festival, it seems that there are still some changes.

For example, more than 4300 films have been registered for this year's Shanghai Film Festival, and the number of registered films has hit a new high, more than 500 more than last year.

Moreover, there are three science fiction-themed works among the feature films and short films in the main competition unit, which have not been seen before.

But this change is better than nothing.

There is just over a month between the Shanghai Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival. High-quality films must be registered in Cannes first. Of course, many films will also be registered in Shanghai. However, the films that can be selected as the main competition unit of the Golden Goblet are basically the ones that failed in Cannes. By.

How many good art films can there be in a year?
Those shortlisted in Cannes may not be very good, let alone the losers.

The three major European companies are separated by four months, and they have almost caught all the movies of the past year.

Other film festivals make a living by picking up leftovers, and they can only be the tallest among the dwarfs.

But it's not that Chen Jingxing didn't get benefits from being the chairman.

The opening film of this year's Shanghai Film Festival is "The Wandering Earth".

The opening film of the Shanghai Film Festival is usually not a film shortlisted for the main competition.

Sometimes it is a commercial blockbuster that attracts the attention of the media, and more often it is a so-called "legacy" that has not been shortlisted for the main competition. There is no fixed rule.

This year's opening film competition is extremely fierce.

"Apocalypse Eight Hundred" and "The Wandering Earth" competed for the opening film.

Jingying's "Eight Hundred Revelation" started shooting in early 2017, but because of the shooting scenes, script revisions and other reasons, the official shooting was delayed until the second half of the year, and it was not completed until the beginning of 18.

Then, due to auditing reasons, it was not until April that I got two certificates, namely the public screening license and the digital film technology certificate.

Therefore, "Apocalypse of Eight Hundred" decided to set a summer file. After all, the National Day file is full of gift films, and "Apocalypse of Eight Hundred" is not a gift film. The best choice is the summer file.

After all, it is the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and the 70th anniversary of the Korean War.

DreamWorks' space sci-fi movie can at least take advantage of the development of Huaguo's aerospace industry to be a gift for the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

"Eight Hundred Apocalypse" is difficult to get close to.

The most important thing to do is the 74th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.

And "The Wandering Earth" is scheduled to be released on June 6, and it is going to be a summer file.

Because there are gift films in the National Day file this year, the competition for the summer file is extremely fierce.

After the National Day file last year, several studios joined forces to force the palace and asked DreamWorks to give up some of the cake.

After all, Jingying, Tianrun, United Cinemas and other big companies control a lot of theaters, and DreamWorks has indeed continued to eat more fiercely in the big schedule, and rarely cooperates with other studios to share the profits. Indeed less.

So after comprehensive consideration, Chen Jingxing made a compromise and did not participate in this year's summer vacation.

But it can be edged.

Released in late June can be regarded as being on the edge of summer vacation.

And other companies can't say anything. After all, during the past summer domestic film protection month, many Hollywood split films will also be scheduled to be released in late June or at the end of August. You can't say that Hollywood has broken through the domestic film protection month.

DreamWorks has taken a step back, and it can't be too bullying.

And Chen Jingxing plans to screen it for the first time at the opening ceremony of this year's Shanghai Film Festival, and then conduct a week of small-scale screenings to accumulate word of mouth until the large-scale release on the 22nd.

It was also unlucky for Jing Ying, who just happened to catch up with Chen Jingxing as the chairman of the judging committee. After some communication, "Eight Hundred Revelations" naturally lost to "The Wandering Earth" without any suspense.

The Organizing Committee of the Shanghai Film Festival also welcomes "The Wandering Earth" as the opening film, which can increase the exposure and attention of the film festival, which can be described as a win-win situation.

"Director Chen, I heard that DreamWorks is planning to make a costume drama, is it true?"

"Director Chen, the well-known blogger Sanxiao broke the news that DreamWorks' costume drama has started casting..."

Chen Jingxing: "Today is the opening ceremony of the Shanghai Film Festival, please ask some questions about the film festival."

Questions about the film festival...

The reporters glanced at each other.

"Director Chen, is there any space scene in "The Wandering Earth"?"

"Director Chen, do you have any forecast for the box office prospects of "The Wandering Earth"?"

"I heard that "The Wandering Earth II" has already been approved. Director Guo said before that the characters in the sequel will be brand new, and "Spike III" is also in preparation, so won't Wu Jing appear in the sequel?"

Chen Jingxing nodded, it seems that the reporters are very good.

Because it is the opening film, the main creators of "The Wandering Earth" are all here, and they are being interviewed on the other side.

But after all, Chen Jingxing is on the screenwriter list of "The Wandering Earth", so besides interviewing Guo Fan, Wu Jing and others, the media will not let Chen Jingxing go.

After all, "Chen Jingxing Revealed" and "Chen Jingxing Said" must be more eye-catching than "Guo Fan Said" in the news.

Under the standard of not being too spoilery, Chen Jingxing is also very happy to satisfy the curiosity of the media.

Chen Jingxing was extraordinarily generous from the inside story of the casting of the actors, to the interesting things he had learned from project approval to filming, as well as the future planning of the film.

The screening of "The Wandering Earth" at the Shanghai Film Festival is an important step in the publicity and release, and it is the beginning of the screening in the following week. Therefore, more information needs to be given to the media to make them stir up the enthusiasm.

After dealing with the media, Chen Jing walked into the Shanghai Grand Theater.

The opening ceremony was not long, that is, the presentation of several special awards, speeches by leaders, and speeches by representatives of the jury. After the opening ceremony, most people had to go to the nearby Daguang Cinema to watch the opening film "The Wandering Earth".

Sitting next to Chen Jingxing was Zhu Wenjiu, the executive director of Tianrun Films and also a well-known producer in the industry.

He also has another identity, the director of the Metropolis Film Festival Center, the executive deputy secretary-general of the organizing committee, and the current representative of the Hua country of the International Film Producers Association.

It can be regarded as the real operator of the Shanghai Film Festival.

"Mr. Zhu, long time no see."

"Director Chen's words are wrong. The last time I saw Director Chen was at the Huaguo Film Creation Seminar in the New Era not long ago. It's just that you were speaking on stage, Director Chen, and I was the audience below."

Zhu Wenjiu is completely different from Wu Zhaoxian, the chairman of Tianrun, who Chen Jingxing deals with more often. Wu Zhaoxian has a strong businessman's temperament, while Zhu Wenjiu has a more serious similarity, and his temperament is elegant, which makes people feel like a spring breeze.

Weidao can become the helm of the Shanghai Film Festival.

Just like Jingying created the Beijing circle of the domestic film and television industry, Tianrun Films, which is also one of the Five King Kongs and one of the Six King Kongs, is also a representative of the Shanghai circle of the film and television industry.

Headquartered in Shanghai, it has a close relationship with Shanghai Media Group, which owns Donghai Satellite TV. The major shareholder is Wenguang Media.

Wenguang Media is one of the best comprehensive cultural industry groups in China, even larger than Mango Media.

With such a wholly state-owned enterprise as its backer, Tianrun can stand for a long time among the five kings of Huaguo, comparable to Guoying and Jingying.

Since it is in the Shanghai circle, the Shanghai Metropolis International Film Festival is naturally also the site of Tianrun Films.

However, Chen Jingxing, the chairman of the judging committee, did not receive any pressure from Tianrun. Zhu Wenjiu, the director of the organizing committee, never communicated with Chen Jingxing about any PY transactions.

Of course, on the one hand, the films in the main competition unit of the Shanghai Film Festival are all literary films, and most of them are foreign films.

Most of the time, there is really no conflict of interest, and there is no need to follow any unspoken rules.

The main competition units are the Asian Newcomer Award and the Media Awards other than the Golden Goblet Awards. This is where unspoken rules prevail.

There is also a whole set of awards in the media awards, including best film, director, leading actor, leading actor, supporting actor, and newcomer. Most of the winners are domestic actors.

Awards other than the Golden Goblet Awards have nothing to do with Chen Jingxing and the jury, they are basically the resources in the hands of Tianrun Pictures.

Although the gold content of the film festival's media award is far from that of the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers, the title of the first name does have the words "Modu International Film Festival", which is quite bluffing.

It's okay to use it to give money to some second-, third-, and third-tier actors.

Relying on the separate establishment of the main competition Golden Goblet Award and the Media Awards, the main competition unit of the Shanghai Film Festival is actually relatively clean, and the fairness is relatively guaranteed.

"Director Chen will have to work hard in the next few days. There are a lot more films registered this year, so the number of films in the main competition unit is also much more than last year. No film is willing to be eliminated."

"President Zhu, you're welcome. What's the hard work? Watching movies is a pleasure for me. The more movies, the better..."

"..."

"I heard that DreamWorks is going to make a costume drama?"

Chen Jingxing laughed secretly in his heart, he really couldn't hold his breath anymore.

(End of this chapter)