director of the millennium

Chapter 23 Released in China!

"Thank you."

As a screenwriter, Wu Yuan stepped onto the stage to accept the award without hesitation.

He doesn't speak Spanish, but speaks fluent English.

Lifting the trophy high above his head, Wu Yuan showed a bright smile on his face.

With this golden trophy at the age of 18, this dazzling scene really made most of the guests in the audience show kind smiles and encourage applause.

"I am very grateful to the jury for awarding this award to me. "Coherence" is the first film I made, and this best screenplay trophy is also the first film award in my life!"

"Being able to do such a great job in the first movie, I have to thank the school for its cultivation, thank teacher Zhang Ming, Professor Xie Xiaojing, and also thank my parents and grandparents who blessed me in the sky, and I also want to thank China Film Group for trusting me , willing to invest in making a movie for a student like me!"

"At the same time, I would also like to thank the eleven cast members of the crew. Without you, this movie would not exist!"

After giving his acceptance speech from the bottom of his heart, Wu Yuan walked back to the auditorium holding the trophy.

To be able to win an award is already a surprise for him.

As for the next awards, they have little to do with their crew.

Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Editing, and Best Film were awarded one after another.

Sure enough, the crew of "Coherence" failed.

Zeng Li still missed the Best Actress Award.

There must be some regrets, but Zeng Li is also very clear that this is only her first movie, and it is already excellent to be able to achieve this result.

"Huh, it's okay, try harder next time!" Zeng Li smiled in relief.

Wu Yuan admired her mentality very much. After thinking about it, he turned his head and whispered to her, "Sister Li, I didn't get it this time. Next time I will definitely get you a best actress!"

"That's what you said!" Zeng Li immediately stared at Wu Yuan with her beautiful eyes and said with a smile: "Sister, I'm looking forward to your new drama!"

Yes, Wu Yuan nodded with a smile: "Then you have to wait, I'm afraid I won't have time to shoot in China in a while."

"Why, have you decided to go to Hollywood?" Chen Kun asked excitedly as he poked his head over.

"Yeah." Wu Yuan nodded calmly: "Go make a film and test the waters!"

He still wants to go to Hollywood and make a quick buck!
It’s okay if no one invites him. Now that Fox Searchlight has taken the initiative to invite him to Hollywood to give it a try, there’s really no reason to refuse!
Although Fox Searchlight only produces low-budget movies, that is, small productions with a cost of less than 1000 million US dollars, for Wu Yuan, this is enough for him to show off his talents!

He has seen too many stories of small-cost counterattacks in his dreams!

Domestically, let us turn back the time.

Just before Wu Yuan won the award, he was still busy selling the copyright of "The Night the Comet Came" with Chen Yuan.

October 10st, National Day.

A new poster has been hung outside cinemas in first-tier cities in China, that is, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and provincial capitals.

Like the poster seen at the Sitges Fantastic Film Festival, it is also a poster of Zeng Li looking directly at the camera from three sides, except that the English on the poster has been replaced with Chinese.

""The Night the Comet Came" - the first suspense science fiction film in China!"

These days, there are no means of publicity for movie releases. What is great is to publish the release news in newspapers and do a few push advertisements on TV stations.

As for things like ground push and road shows, they have not yet become a scale and a routine.

Even if it is a movie released by China Film, it is just to distribute some material posters to major movie theaters before they are released for them to hang out.

Compared with later generations, "The Night the Comet Came" can be said to be very low-key, and it was released in China.

Of course, the box office performance of the movie on its opening day will not be very good.

Again, the general public in China these days do not have the habit of going to cinemas to watch movies.

Since the 90s, everyone has been used to renting movies and videos to take home to watch. Not only are the prices cheap, but you can watch them as many times as you want. Why spend tens of dollars to go to the cinema to watch them?
Figure it big screen?Or does it mean that it cannot be fast forwarded?

Not worth it!

In addition, most of the ordinary movie fans in mainland China are paying attention to the movies on Hong Kong Island these days, that is, all kinds of pirated discs!
The movies made by mainland directors are too artistic for them, and they can't understand them, and they don't want to understand them.

In the cognitive concept of most people, going to the cinema to watch movies is a very literary thing, which must be done by literary workers, artists, and high-level intellectuals!

In fact it is.

Most of the first wave of audiences who entered the cinema to watch "The Night the Comet Came" were engaged in film-related work, or were college students and teachers!
The other leading actors of the crew who did not go to Sitges with Wu Yuan, Zhou Xun, Yan Danchen and others, also spontaneously made an appointment together, and bought tickets to watch the film they shot in the cinema on the day of the premiere.

They didn't encounter the situation that the auditorium was full. In the auditorium that can accommodate nearly a hundred people, apart from seven or eight of them, there were only a dozen or so audience members.

The 93-minute movie is not long, and it is finished in no time.

"The cut is really good!" Sun Honglei said in amazement.

Even though he had already read the script and even performed it himself, Sun Honglei was still surprised by the complete film that Wu Yuan cut out.

It was only now that he was finally relieved of Wu Yuan's level of directing. The film was not messed up, and the finished film was very good-looking!

"It is indeed a good movie, and it is very novel in China!" Zu Feng also said.

Zhou Xun frowned: "But not many audiences came to see this movie."

There are not many movies released on National Day this year. Except for "The Night the Comet Came", there are only two movies in the same period.

One is called "Interpol Story", starring Liu Lin, who once acted in "Midnight Singing" with Zhang Guorong, Wu Qianlian, and Huang Lei, and won the Best Actress Award in Singapore this year.

No one paid attention to this movie, not even reported in the newspapers.

The other one is "A Sigh" directed by Feng Xiaogang, which will be released on September 9!
This movie is not a comedy, so it was not put on the Lunar New Year schedule, but the box office performance is still very strong!
After ten days of release, it has already won 1500 million box office, and it still has a lot of stamina!

At the beginning of this millennium, Director Feng can be said to be truly in the limelight!
This year's annual box office champion is the main theme movie "Life and Death".

This movie received strong support from theaters and policies, that is, employees from all over the country were organized and mobilized to watch this movie, and finally won 1.2 million box office, breaking the box office record in the Mainland.

But this is a movie created by administrative power, there is no comparison, and there is nothing to say.

And the box office runner-up was Director Feng's "Endless" released on December 1999, 12, with a box office breaking 15 million!
Now Director Feng's "A Sigh" has been released for ten days, and the box office has broken through 1500 million. This result is also very strong, and it is very likely to win the box office of 3000 million again.

Director Li An, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", which was released worldwide, only earned 1500 million at the mainland box office!
You can't even beat Director Feng Da!

It can be seen that Feng Xiaogang has a lot of appeal in the mainland film market now.

Specifically in the theater, that is, out of ten audiences who came to the movie theater, eight of them chose to watch "A Sigh", and only two were interested in the poster of "The Night the Comet Came". They tried to buy this Movie tickets.

How can Zhou Xun not be worried about this?
Just when she was worried, Chen Jianbin patted her shoulder lightly: "Don't worry."

The mature and prudent Chen Jianbin pointed at the audience sitting in the front row: "Look, after watching the movie, they all had expressions of unfinished expression on their faces, and they discussed the plot of the movie intensely with their companions."

"I also heard a guy say that he wanted to buy another ticket and watch it again, but he was too shy to buy it."

"What does this mean?"

"It shows that our movie is still very attractive to the audience!"

"There are fewer people watching it now, because word-of-mouth of the movie has not yet spread. After a few more days, I believe the box office of the movie will improve!"

(End of this chapter)