director of the millennium

Chapter 18 Sitges Premiere

On September 9th, Spain, the coastal town of Catalonia-Sitges.

sunny.

After Wu Yuan landed at Barcelona Airport, he took the airport bus and arrived at this small town belonging to the Barcelona metropolitan area.

Accompanying him were Chen Yuan, the producer of "The Night the Comet Came" and an old friend of China Film Group Corporation, as well as the film's leading actors Chen Kun and Zeng Li.

Wu Yuan originally wanted to bring all the leading actors together. Anyway, there is no premiere when the movie is released these days, and everyone is idle at home. Why not take a trip to Spain and experience the Mediterranean style.

However, China Film did not provide much funds for the event, only enough for Wu Yuan to lead the two protagonists, and even the translation of the film crew was hired by local foreign students to work part-time.

The Sitges Fantasy Film Festival is one of the three major fantasy film festivals in the world and the top B-category film festival. It mainly selects action films, horror films, fantasy films, and suspense films.

This is a top B-category film festival. Although it cannot be compared with the top three in Europe, it is still very popular in the field of cult films such as horror and suspense.

Every year during the film festival, a large number of film producers from all over the world gather here.

Of course, it is different from the three major European film companies that all attract top international filmmakers.

The Sitges Fantastic Film Festival mainly attracts some small and medium-sized filmmakers, independent production and distribution companies.

This year's Sitges Fantastic Film Festival opened on the 28th and will last for a week until the closing ceremony on the 4th.

As for the awards, Wu Yuan didn't have much thought, he didn't even pay attention to which films participated in this year's film festival.

His trip was mainly to sell copyrights, distribution rights, and adaptation rights.

Now is the era when the exchange rate is 8:1, as long as Wu Yuan can sell 10 US dollars, not only will he make back his cost, but he will also be able to make three times the profit!
If he can sell for one million dollars, he will make a profit of more than 100 million yuan, and he will not have to worry about funding for his next movie!

If you can sell tens of millions of dollars, don't think about it, it's not realistic.

After meeting with the local translator in Sitges and checking into the hotel, it was the first time they went abroad. The excited Chen Kun and Zeng Li took Wu Yuan to stroll around the small town of Sitges, waiting for the arrival of the evening. Opening Ceremony.

This year, apart from their crew, there are no other crews from China, Mainland China, and Taiwan to participate in the Sitges Fantasy Film Festival.

The crew of "The Night the Comet Came" definitely couldn't walk on the opening red carpet. They were not well-known from the director to the actors, but they still had the qualifications to watch the opening ceremony.

The trio of actors and directors went shopping in Sitges, but the producer Chen Yuan could not relax.

As a veteran who has led teams to participate in many foreign film festivals, Chen Yuan was busy contacting the screening venue for the movie "The Night the Comet Came", communicating with the organizer, and inviting the judges to participate in the premiere.

In short, Producer Chen is very busy.

Wu Yuan is different from Chen Kun and Zeng Li.

The three of them were completely in the mentality of traveling. First, they watched a fairly good opening ceremony, and then watched the film festival for two days.

Seriously, how can we see so many horror and suspense films in China?
Nine out of ten films screened at the Sitges Fantastic Film Festival are films that would be impossible to pass censorship in the mainland and be introduced to the mainland.

Not to mention Chen Kun and Zeng Li, Wu Yuan has never seen most of them.

These two days can be regarded as a good time to see the three of them!
Of course, the fantasy films of Sitges are also very good to watch. This is also a rare type of film in China, and the three of them watched it with great interest.

But they weren't on vacation after all.

October 10st, the day when "The Night the Comet Came" was screened in China, was also premiered in Sitges.

The premiere time is at 8 pm. During this time, Sitges has six films premiering at the same time, and "The Night the Comet Came" is the least famous one.

The crew is not well-known, so naturally they couldn't get in touch with any big theater for the premiere. In the end, Chen Yuan only arranged for the premiere in a remote small theater.

Even so, Wu Yuan, Chen Kun, and Zeng Li all attached great importance to this premiere. They specially put on dresses brought from China, and sat in the infield full of energy, waiting for the audience to take their seats. The premiere began.

As a small town attached to Barcelona, ​​Sitges also has a lot of local Chinese. Chen Yuan had launched a promotion in the local area in advance a few days ago.

As the only Chinese film to participate in the Sitges Fantastic Film Festival, the local compatriots are naturally very supportive.

At a little after 07:30, the auditorium, which can accommodate more than 100 people, was full of audiences, most of whom were local Chinese compatriots.

There were only a dozen blond foreigners, and most of them were viewers who chose this movie out of desperation because they couldn't get tickets for other movies.

Ritsa is one such audience.

She is a native of Barcelona and a veteran fan of suspense movies.

She never misses the Sitges Fantasy Film Festival every year. This film festival is simply an audio-visual feast for her.

It's a pity that she didn't get the movie tickets for "She's Coming" today. She originally planned to go home and rest, but when she was passing by on the street, she saw a Chinese movie poster.

"Coherence" is a movie title full of quantum mechanics.

On the poster, a beautiful oriental woman looks directly at the camera with a solemn expression, as if she wants to break the fourth wall.

And on both sides of this oriental woman, there are two and a half faces squinting at her. If you look carefully, these two faces are also this oriental woman's.

Such a suspenseful poster, just looking directly at it gave Ritsa a chill down her spine.

Looking at the slogan at the bottom of the poster: "Do you believe in the theory of parallel time and space?", Ritsa raised her eyebrows. The movie successfully aroused her interest.

"Hello, a ticket for Coherence."

When Ritsa entered the screening room, the movie was about to start.

As soon as she sat down, the lights in the projection hall were all dimmed, the projector was turned on, and a beam of light and shadow was projected onto the screen.

The dragon logo that was just launched this year was the first to light up, followed by the "Beijing Film Studio" logo, and finally the subtitle list of the main creative staff.

Director and Screenwriter: Wu Yuan

Producer: Han Sanping

Producer: Han Sanping
Producer: Chen Yuan

Editing: Wu Yuan, Lin Tan

Camera Director: Albert Chen
Starring: Zeng Li, Chen Kun, Zhou Xun, Sun Honglei, Zu Feng, Qin Hailu, Chen Jianbin, Yan Danchen
However, whether they are Chinese compatriots or foreigners, they are all unfamiliar with the main creative team, and everyone pays more attention to the content of the movie.

Fortunately, the opening subtitles are not long, and the feature film will begin soon.

In a moving family car, Zhou Xun was on the phone while driving the car into the community...

All the audience, including the main creative staff, were watching the screen attentively, and no one spoke.

It was also the first time for Zeng Li and Chen Kun to watch a movie. As the leading actors, the pressure was even greater than that of Wu Yuan, and their nervous lips were trembling.

Fortunately, as the film was shown, there was no scene where the audience left in anger.

On the contrary, when the plot was getting better and the conflicts and suspense dramas were constantly being staged, various exclamations sounded in the small screening hall.

Zeng Li and Chen Kun couldn't understand Spanish, so they didn't know what those foreigners were exclaiming, but the words of the compatriots present came to their ears clearly.

"Is this a movie made in our country?"

"What a mind-boggling movie!"

"It's so cool. How many times have they exchanged spaces? Does it mean that people who leave the house and come back are not the same people?"

"Maybe I should read it a few more times!"

"How many parallel time-spaces are there?"

Hearing the exclamation of the audience, Wu Yuan raised the corner of his mouth in a very happy mood.

When an audience has a desire to explore a movie, it is the beginning of Ta's love for the movie.

　Thank you for the 500 starting coins rewarded by her de small bottle!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)