director of the millennium

It is now the end of September, and the heat from the release of "Ready Player One" is still there, but the attention of most Chinese netizens has shifted to other new hot entertainment.

In the Internet age, all hot topics are fleeting. Even the most sensational things can only cause a sensation for a while and will not become a long-term topic of conversation or focus of attention.

In China, "The Mermaid" finally retained its box office champion throne, and "Ready Player One" became the second place in mainland film history with a box office of 31.21 billion.

Internationally, "Ready Player One" currently ranks eighth with a box office of $7.5 million.

The movies that ranked before Ready Player One are:

Deadpool with a global box office of $7 million

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, with a global box office of $8 million

The Secret Life of Pets grossed $8 million worldwide

The Jungle Book has a global box office of $9 million

Zootopia, with a global box office of 10 billion

Finding Dory grossed $10 billion worldwide

Captain America: Civil War grossed $11 billion worldwide

可以看得出来，目前好来坞已经进入了超级英雄和迪士尼3D动漫二分天下的年代了，排名7、6、1的是超级英雄电影，排面5、4、3、2的则是迪士尼的3D动漫。

Following "Ready Player One" are "The Suicide Squad" and the ready-to-go "Doctor Strange".

If we don’t count the sudden appearance of "Ready Player One", the top ten include 5 superhero movies, 4 Disney animations, and finally a large IP sequel "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them".

It can be seen that Hollywood has lost its former advantage of diversity and has become monotonous and highly homogenized.

It is hard to say whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. After all, in Wu Yuan's opinion, it was zzzq that really ruined Hollywood. If Hollywood had not fallen into the dilemma of zzzq and insisted on imposing politics into movies, superhero movies would not have lost the Chinese market, and Disney's live-action animations would not have been ridiculed and might continue to be popular.

But all this has nothing to do with Wu Yuan anymore.

His current mentality is to watch him build a tall building, watch him entertain guests, and then watch his building collapse.

Anyway, the Chinese-language film market is becoming more and more prosperous. Although there are more and more bad movies, this is normal. It means that more movies are being shot every year!

It was also at this good time when the domestic film market was thriving that something that Guangying Times Company had been busy with and promoting for several years was finally settled.

The Dali International Film Festival, initiated and founded by Wu Yuan and hosted by Light and Shadow Times, has finally completed all procedures and is officially launched!

The first Dali International Film Festival will be launched in the second half of this year and will be held in the second week of March 2017. It will mainly screen non-Western (Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa) films and will have three screening units.

They are feature film unit, short film unit and newcomer film unit. The names are very straightforward, unlike the Pingyao International Film Festival, which has "Hidden Dragon Unit" and "Crouching Tiger Unit" that make people confused. The main reason is that Wu Yuan has strong connections. Although it is called a film festival, the Dali International Film Festival is completely prepared according to the standards of a film festival, but there are no direct awards. The winners can only get "Unit Attention" or "Special Attention", which is similar to the difference between the gold and silver awards of the three major awards.

As for the award settings, there are not so many subdivisions. There is only the most fixed "Special Attention" (Best Film), as well as the Jury-Unit Attention, Best Actor and Actress-Unit Attention, Best Newcomer-Unit Attention, and Best Screenplay-Unit Attention.

That is to say, there are only seven official awards in total, plus several separate awards for the short film unit and the new film unit. In total, only eleven or twelve honors are awarded at a film festival, taking the route of being few but good.

However, whether it is of high quality can only be determined after it has been held for more than ten sessions.

At least for now, both the company and Wu Yuan are looking forward to the Dali International Film Festival.

After all, this is an award that has been in the works for several years and has finally been implemented. Both the company and the local people of Dali attach great importance to it and are currently carrying out very serious preparations.

Wu Yuan will even serve as the chairman of the jury for the first film festival to be held in March next year, and he is also looking for jury members to invite.

As an "international" film festival, the jury members must have an international style. Fortunately, Wu Yuan's face is still useful. Compared with Chief Jia, he can really invite some heavyweight foreign filmmakers!

Even though Wu Yuan doesn’t actually know many international filmmaker friends, as long as he is willing to send an invitation, even if the inviter doesn’t actually know Wu Yuan, they will still consider it carefully after receiving the invitation and will not refuse it if they are not busy and can make time.

This is the influence of a top international director, which Jia Zhangke can never achieve.

After all, although Jia Zhangke has won the three major European awards, he is not a pure art film director who combines art and business and has a huge network of contacts in Hollywood and Chinese films.

One has only fame, the other has both fame and substance!
This is also why Jia Zhangke is Wu Yuan's senior, but Wu Yuan was still very determined to take the lead and snatch this spot, which could be the only one in the mainland that is allowed to be privately organized to hold a film exhibition.

He knew that Jia Zhangke was a good senior who loved to support newcomers, and he had indeed discovered some outstanding newcomers for the mainland director industry. He was a big brother who deserved respect, but organizing a film festival was different after all.

If there is only one spot, Wu Yuan firmly believes that if he is the one to host it, he will definitely be better than Jia Zhangke in terms of the influence of the film festival and the promotion of the mainland film industry!

From the perspective of whether it is beneficial or not to the mainland film market, the influence created by Wu Yuanlai taking the lead is definitely greater than that created by Jia Zhangke, even countless times greater!
This is an objective fact!

As soon as the news of the Dali International Film Festival was publicly disclosed on the Internet, countless netizens who had previously sneered at film festivals and film awards and did not care at all, began to curiously discuss this new international film festival event.

Just because the founder of this film festival is Wu Yuan!

In the film industry, Wu Yuan's current credibility and reputation are even more recognized by the public than the Golden Rooster Awards.

After all, the award-winning films selected by the Golden Rooster Awards are difficult for the general public to recognize and understand, but every one of Wu Yuan’s films can be sought after and loved by the public!

Everyone believes that the film festival he organizes will definitely select some really good films!
Then you must pay attention to it!

As a result, the Dali International Film Festival, which had just been established and had not yet started its first round of auditions, became very famous on the Internet. (End of this chapter)