Actor: My Entertainment Era

South Korea's Lotte Entertainment has taken a fancy to the novel "Meet in the Rainy Season" by Japanese writer Ichikawa Takuji and wants to adapt it into a movie.

Japan once filmed this story called "Say I Love You Through the Raindrops", also known as "I Want to See You Now", starring Nakamura Shido and Takeuchi Yuko.

"Meet in the Rainy Season" is a best-selling novel. With the popularity of the movie released in 04, the sales of the novel exceeded one million copies in 05.

However, when Lotte went to Ichikawa Takuji to ask for authorization, they were told that the film and television rights of "Meet in the Rainy Season" were sold to the Chinese Maoyan Company. They bought it at the beginning of this year and the authorization is valid for 5 years.

The Korean guys played a trick. The film and television rights of the novel were sold by the author to a Chinese film company, and they bought the remake rights of the 04 movie.

When they found the film rights to Fang Dongbao, the Koreans did not say that they had talked to Ichikawa Takuji. They only said that they wanted to buy the remake rights of the movie "Say I Love You Through the Raindrops".

However, the producer of Toho said that the movie is an adaptation of a novel. Now that the film and television rights have returned to Ichikawa Takuji, the remake needs the authorization of the author, and the Koreans need to talk to Ichikawa Takuji.

The Korean guy got a bad start in Japan, but he was unwilling to give in, so he had to come to China and find Maoyan to buy second-hand copyrights.

As a result, the relevant person in charge of Maoyan told Lotte's producers that Maoyan was only responsible for the film and television adaptation and production of the novel "Meet in the Rainy Season" and that Maoyan was not responsible for the copyright transfer. The person who bought the rights to adapt the novel was Liu Yifei.

Maoyan kindly reminds Koreans not to try to contact Liu Yifei to buy copyrights.

"Because Liu Yifei plans to act in this drama herself. At least during the five-year authorization period, Liu Yifei will not sell the copyright second-hand in any form."

People in Lotte know Liu Yifei and her husband Zhang Yuanjun even more. Both of them have a good number of fans in South Korea.

Don’t know Lotte?
It is the Lotte that provides the venue for THAAD deployment.

The people of Lotte Entertainment had no choice but to leave China in despair.

The copyright of "Meet in the Rainy Season" does belong to Liu Yifei, and it was indeed Liu Yifei who bought it to act in it.

The novel has been handed over to Han Yan, who is particularly good at filming this kind of bloody family drama.

But it won't be so early. Han Yan still has a lot of other work on his hands. With a 5-year authorization period, Liu Yifei is not in a hurry at all.

On this day, the Film Bureau decided to send "Xuan Zang of the Tang Dynasty" starring Huang Xiaoming to represent the mainland in its bid for the Oscars.

The Internet is in an uproar!
How can this mediocre film with a Douban score of 5.4 represent the mainland in its bid for Oscars?

Director skills? Actors performing? Or photography art?
Netizens have taken pity on Zhang Yuanjun. In the eyes of many netizens, Zhang Yuanjun, as the number one Chinese actor, is only one Berlin or Oscar trophy away from becoming a god.

As an actor, he has great talent and superb skills. He is still so young, and he is the actor who can best represent the mainland and strive for Oscar performance awards.

But the General Administration seems to have deliberately never selected Zhang Yuanjun’s works to apply for Oscars.

Zhang Yuanjun walked into a gray area with the Cannes best actor "Transcendence". It is difficult to determine whether it is a domestic or Hong Kong film, so forget it.

"Redemption", which won Zhang Yuanjun the Best Actor Award at Venice this year, is a legitimate domestic film. Why not send this film to the Oscars? !

In the past few years, Zhang Yuanjun has continued to produce high-quality films, but none of his films have been selected by the General Administration to submit for Oscars. This is also where many movie fans feel regretful. Not to mention winning, at least try, but the General Administration did not even give Zhang Yuanjun a chance to try.

Zhang Yuanjun didn't have any complaints. The General Administration really sent "Redemption" to the Oscars, but he didn't know what to do.

He really has no interest in Oscars. His literary films are obviously along the lines of the three major European films, and the Oscars and the three majors are not welcome. In the United States, most of his films are medium- and low-cost independent films, which are really not that close to the mainstream of Hollywood - the mainstream of Hollywood. Probably not very accepting of Zhang Yuanjun.

Wang Zhonglei, the boss of Huayi, the producer of "Redemption", said that it doesn't matter whether it goes to the Oscars or not: "We are more interested in the audience's reputation. If the audience likes it, and the audience gives good reviews, that is our biggest gain."

But on the other hand, he said: "There are also regrets. Of course it's not for us. I think Yuan Jun's performance is worthy of trying for an Oscar. We hope he can have a chance to compete for an Oscar."

Then he began to blame the relevant departments: “I think the selection system needs to be reformed. To be honest, we have made so many movies, and I still don’t know the standards used by the General Administration to select Oscar movies every year.

"There is no open and transparent standard for what films can be selected for submission."

But "Tangshan Earthquake" is the selected film of 10.

"But I still don't know the rules. They called me that day and told me that we planned to send your company's "Tangshan Earthquake" to the Oscars, and then it was gone."

"We didn't know what we were going to do to compete for the Oscars. We said we wanted to choose and send them, and then we didn't know the subsequent process, so we were confused."

"'Redemption' is a very good film. To put it bluntly, I think this film is enough to be recorded in the history of Chinese films. Yuan Jun's performance in it is worth watching and studying again and again by every acting student."

"I feel sorry for Director Gu Changwei and Zhang Yuanjun that they didn't go to the Oscars."

The film bureau will not respond to Wang Zhonglei's doubts about the selection and submission standards at all. After all these years, when has the bureau ever been afraid of this?

In the first few years, Liu Yifei would still complain about her husband. She felt that Zhang Yuanjun's performance was good and the General Administration should send his movie to the Oscars.

In Liu Yifei's eyes, her husband deserves any film award in the world.

But in the past few years, she has gradually come to realize the reality. The Oscars will basically not bring Chinese people to play. This is one; secondly, the leadership department is not monolithic. Some people want to make Zhang Yuanjun a perfect idol in the Chinese film industry, but there are also some people. I don't want to see Zhang Yuanjun, I feel that Zhang Yuanjun is young and inexperienced, so he can just enjoy himself if he can develop to this level.

Therefore, "Ms. Bai", which won Liu Yifei the Best Actress at the Saint-Marie, was not nominated for the Golden Rooster, and "Pieces of a Woman", which won Liu Yifei the Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival, was not nominated for the Golden Rooster. Moving forward, "Miss Bai", which won the Cannes Grand Jury Prize, was not nominated for the Golden Rooster. "Her", the first Chinese sci-fi literary film, did not give a nomination to the male lead, but gave the dubbing Liu Yifei a nomination to the female lead. This should encourage this kind of innovation.

It’s not hard to understand why “Redemption” was not selected for an Oscar.

However, Zhang Yuanjun won the Chinese Grand Slam, while Liu Yifei still scored zero.

"It's all your fault." Liu Yifei kicked her husband, "You give me back the Golden Rooster Best Actress."

Zhang Yuanjun said with a smile: "Tomorrow you can take my trophy to a master and change the wording from Best Actor to Best Actress."

"It's not surprising." She said harshly. (End of chapter)