Actor: My Entertainment Era

In the domestic film and television industry, the North-South conflict is actually very serious.

Among the three film and television and drama schools, 2 are in Beijing and 1 is in Shanghai.

In terms of awards, Magic City has the Magnolia Award, and Beijing has the Feitian Award; Magic City has an international A-class film festival, but Beijing has no film festival that can compete with it.

That’s why we came up with the Beijing International Film Festival, which was scheduled to take place in April, clearly trying to steal the limelight from the Shanghai Film Festival in June.

But in fact, there is a film festival in Beijing that has a long history and is quite good - the College Student Film Festival.

In fact, it is entirely possible to reorganize and build a youth film festival based on the Beijing University Student Film Festival, which can complement First and use the rich film and television resources in Beijing to provide a platform for young directors to showcase and socialize. The benchmark is the Busan Film Festival in South Korea, which is based in China. , radiating across Asia, the Tokyo Film Festival has declined, and Busan is competing with the capital.

But the organizers may have felt that this was too stingy and unstructured, so they decided to create an international film festival.

None of this is Zhang Yuanjun's business. He and Xu Anhua just take "Her" to participate in the promotion.

"Her" was shortlisted for the main competition in Cannes. Of course, the world premiere was in Cannes, but the first trailer and the first stop of promotion were still in China.

Compared with other crews who came to film festivals for screening or promotion, "Her" looked relatively shabby on the red carpet, with only three people: director Xu Anhua, actor Zhang Yuanjun and dubbing director Sun Ye, who is also the male voice of the artificial intelligence system in the film.

But the red carpet commentator was unambiguous when introducing "Her":

"Now on the red carpet is the crew of "Her". "Her" is the first domestic science fiction literary film. It tells the story of the male protagonist Zhou Qiang falling in love with an artificial intelligence system. The bold innovation and discussion of human emotions and ethics make the film It won the favor of Cannes and was successfully shortlisted for this year's 65th Cannes International Film Festival. The film is directed by Xu Anhua and stars Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei. "Sister Tao" directed by Xu Anhua won the best actress crown at last year's Venice Film Festival, with Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei. They are all actors that the audience is familiar with and like, and I don’t need to introduce them too much.”

After walking on the red carpet, the three were invited by the host to stop for an interview.

Zhang Yuanjun said that this was his first time coming to the Beijing International Film Festival: "Although the film festival is still very young, I still felt the audience's enthusiasm when I came to the scene."

The host added: "Just now, when Ziyi was interviewed by us on the red carpet, she said she wanted to work with you the most. Let me tell you, I have interviewed many directors and actors, and they all said they want to work with you."

"Thank you, thank you, I'm flattered." Zhang Yuanjun said modestly.

The host then asked: "Then which director or actor would you most like to work with?"

Zhang Yuanjun looked at director Xu Anhua on the side and said with a smile: "I most want to work with director Yimou, Zhou Xun and Ziyi."

After all, Zhang Ziyi had spoken, and Zhang Yuanjun had to respond, saying a few polite words without losing any weight.

"They are both good directors and good actors. When you say that, I look forward to seeing you collaborate one day. Thank you to the crew of "Her" for accepting our interview. Thank you."

This year's Beijing Film Festival was full of stars and the audience had a great time watching it.

However, the promotion focus of this year's film festival is not on film screenings, but on project venture capital.

This year's film festival has specially opened a project venture capital market, attracting the participation of many film companies.

In the first two days of the festival, more than 10 billion in transactions were made.

"Her" is not screened at film festivals, but it is also promoted in the trading market.

In the project roadshow market, Zhang Yuanjun saw many familiar films, but more of them were films that could not attract investment or get projects approved.

For example, Gong Li + Cheng Xiaodong's signature film "The Mystery of the Tang Dynasty" appeared at the first Beijing Film Festival last year, and it is coming again this year, saying it was "a shocking debut" in 13."New Shushan" directed by Huanrui Century and Yuan Heping is also on the market, and it is said that Yang Mi will star.

Starlight International, the producer of "The Legend of Hongmen Banquet", has released two films. "Fist Movie King" said that it was negotiating with Feng Shaofeng and Nini. Maybe it was to cooperate with the film company, but the two actually agreed to cooperate in this film; the other film is called "Mulanqi" "Fate", it is planned to invite Yang Mi to star.

Yang Mi will also collaborate with Wu Azu in "The Empty City" and star in Meiya Entertainment's "Chinese Princess Turandot".

busy person!
The film festival press release said she was a model worker.

There are also films such as Li Rengang's "Xuanwumen Incident", Tang Wei starring in "Wild Horse", and the comedy "Sister Zhiling Fights Again", with Zhao Jiaban's "Accidental Hero".

Zhang Yuanjun looked at the names of these movies and felt that the movie market is really cruel.

Of the 100 films on the market, how many can successfully raise funds to start production?
How many of them will be successfully released after filming?
How many of them will be successful and profitable after being released?

Maybe out of 100 new films, only two or three will be successful in making a profit.

Zhang Yuanjun watched Yang Mi shuttle between various activities and venture capital meetings, and suddenly felt a little pity for her.

How would she feel if she knew that the movies she was filming couldn't even be turned on?

However, I heard that Yang Mi still felt that the films she was currently accepting were not saturated, and wanted Zeng Jia to continue negotiating work for her.

On the third day of the film festival, Anle Pictures held a press conference for "Her". Director Tong and Director Han came to the scene to support the film. As the producer of China Film, Director Han said: "We decided to make this film the day after it was received by the group. To invest, under the guise of science fiction, the film discusses an everlasting proposition of film art - emotional belonging."

Director Tong praised the film: "It's very thoughtful, very bold and innovative, and very beautiful to watch."

Not forgetting to tease some of the crew: "Many creators always say that we can't make science fiction, but "Her" is a good proof that we need to open our minds. The angle of entry for science fiction films can be very small. You can't say that you can't figure it out, just It’s my fault that the overall environment is not good. I wish the crew good results in Cannes.”

After the leader's speech, the trailer of "Her" began to play on the big screen.

When the artificial intelligence system in the film switched from a male voice to a female voice, Liu Yifei's voice sounded for the first time: "Hi, I am Cici."

The fans present burst into warm applause.

Zhang Yuanjun was puzzled, what's so exciting about this?
The two-and-a-half-minute trailer ends with "promise with sound".

Even though it was just a trailer, the audience still gave Mianzi a warm applause.

Professional scholars and film critics at the scene can already roughly understand the theme of the film through this short trailer.

It is indeed the eternal theme of film art, the belonging of human emotions.

But Xinjiexin has put a layer of science fiction in "Her", and it also conforms to the popular Internet concept.

Zhang Yuanjun's performance doesn't seem to be much of a surprise from the trailer. It is still excellent and is his normal performance - in fact, no matter how good Zhang Yuanjun's performance is, the audience will take it for granted.

Yang Mi was also sitting in the guest seat. He looked at Zhang Yuanjun who was calm and composed on the stage joking with the host and the guests. He asked himself whether he should choose to act in literary films and win a few important awards to prove himself, so that the outside world would I won't scold her for cheating and poor acting skills. (End of chapter)