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Chapter 592 Cannes comes back [two-in-one]

This year's Cannes International Film Festival is scheduled to be held from May 5th to May 20th, lasting ten days.

Liu Yifei arrived in Cannes, France, with her assistant Zhang Xin and a group of Starry staff including Li Ruijun and Wu Renlin on the night of the 18th. After a night's rest, she started her current trip to Cannes.

This is not the first time she has led a team to attend Cannes. Compared with last year when she arrived in Cannes in a state of confusion and was almost fooled by Lou Ye, this time this time everything is familiar, including the hotel arrangements and the movie. She handled the festival process, attended various gatherings, and communicated with the organizing committee in an orderly manner.

Especially on the Cannes organizing committee side, she was even more at ease.

Because many of them are familiar faces from last year.

After all, last year, An's father was the counselor in France and took her to attend many gatherings. At that time, her fluent four languages ​​​​can be said to have conquered the hearts of many people present.

In addition, "The Intouchables" starring her won the final Palme d'Or.

Therefore, many key figures in the organizing committee were very impressed with her, which made her trip to Cannes this year go a lot smoother.

On the 19th, teacher Gong Li arrived in Cannes and met Liu Yifei directly.

At this point, the entire "Into the Dust" exhibitor team has arrived.

As one of the producers, Liu Yifei represents director Sun Yi and producer Xingkong Image, while Gong Li and Wu Renlin represent the main actors of the film as male and female leads.

In fact, logically speaking, assistant director Li Ruijun is more qualified to represent director Sun Yi, but with Liu Yifei here, he didn't want to stand out, so he said that he was bringing his uncle to see the world.

Liu Yifei really couldn't defeat him, so she could only let it go.

"Yifei, what are our specific arrangements?" Gong Li just arrived today, looking a little tired, and first asked Liu Yifei about the movie's schedule.

"Tomorrow we will walk on the red carpet at the opening ceremony and then participate in the main competition. Our screening will be on the second day of the opening ceremony. Because of my brother's performance last year, the organizing committee this year has given us the top treatment. We have the highest number of screenings in our class. "

Liu Yifei raised her eyebrows with a bit of pride. I have to say that this is not only the reason why Sun Yi won the Palme d'Or last year, but also the result of her active communication with the organizing committee.

Don't say that foreigners don't care about the world, they just keep everything on the surface.

"Not bad." Gong Li looked at Liu Yifei with admiration. She originally thought she needed to take action on her own and use her connections to get some screenings for the movie. Unexpectedly, this girl did it on her own.

You know, Gong Li's connections in Cannes are not limited. Compared with Liu Yifei's, they are just a lot more.

As early as 97, she was invited to serve as a member of the jury of the 50th Cannes International Film Festival, becoming the first Chinese to serve as a judge for the main competition unit of the Cannes International Film Festival.

It is also very possible that the staff of the organizing committee opened the door to Liu Yifei after seeing that the heroine of the movie was Gong Li.

Liu Yifei smiled, obviously very impressed by Teacher Gong Li's affirmation.

"By the way, Teacher Gong, I may not be able to walk on the red carpet with you tomorrow. I have to go to the crew of "Inception"." Liu Yifei said apologetically.

"'Inception'? Is that the movie directed by Nolan and Leonardo?"

"Yeah, yes, they are the opening film of this year's Cannes Film Festival, and I happen to be participating in it, so I have promotional duties."

"Tsk tsk, that's good, that's good. We've already acted in a Hollywood A-level production. It's okay. You can go ahead. I can hold on here. When the time comes, just let Ren Lin go with me."

Gong Li laughed, teased Liu Yifei a little, and then with a big wave of her hand, she took over the red carpet task with great style.

Walking the red carpet on behalf of a crew is not something you can do with as few people as possible, especially in a foreign country where there is no base of movie fans.

Some people may think that it would be great to go alone, with all the attention focused on you, but you have to think about it, who knows you?

The ultimate purpose of walking on the red carpet is to promote the movie, followed by the actors themselves. It is more of a mutually reinforcing relationship.

You are happy alone, and you have indeed attracted a lot of attention, but your work has been ignored, which is completely putting the cart before the horse. Therefore, it is correct to use the popularity of actors to join forces to attract attention for your work. .

But this theory is an exception for Gong Li. She is the kind of person who can attract the attention of the audience by herself. She can carry a work alone.

As for bringing Wu Renlin along with him, that would be to support him.

Unexpectedly, Wu Renlin directly refused.

"Walking the red carpet? No, no, no, Teacher Gong Li, I'll forget it, this won't work, I really can't walk. When I hear this now, my legs are weak."

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Liu Yifei looked at Wu Renlin's embarrassed look, pursed her lips and snickered.

This Uncle Wu originally refused to come, and it was his brother who tricked him into coming. Now when he heard that Teacher Gong Li was going to take him to the red carpet in public, he felt numb all over.

Teacher Gong Li also shook her head helplessly.

On May 2010, 5, the 20rd Cannes International Film Festival officially opened in Paris, France.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, there was already a sea of ​​people outside the Cannes Film Palace. A group of French military police maintained order outside. The road where the Lumière Hall is located has been completely blocked. There is a bright red carpet in the middle of the road, surrounded by people from all over the world. Journalists from around the world.

In the red carpet lounge, after Liu Yifei arrived with Gong Li, they rushed to the "Inception" crew. Several creative staff including Director Nolan were there, and Liu Yifei hugged everyone one by one.

"Dear Crystal, you are beautiful again."

"Leon, your belly is getting bigger again, it's time to reduce it."

"Oh, God, you should be more tactful. I was just thinking about inviting you to dinner."

"Sorry, I have a boyfriend."

Liu Yifei and Leonardo started joking with each other as soon as they met.

During the filming of the movie, the two had many scenes opposite each other, and they became familiar with each other after going back and forth, and they had a good impression of each other. Later, Liu Yifei borrowed Sun Yi's Oscar theory in a casual chat and directly confused Leonardo, so he was deeply impressed by Liu Yifei.

"Crystal, I heard that you have other films to participate in the awards this time at Cannes?"

"Hmm, yes."

"What role are you playing this time?" Leonardo was a little curious.

"I didn't appear in it, I participated as one of the film's producers."

"Oh, was it directed by your magical boyfriend?" "Yeah, of course."

Liu Yifei nodded proudly. Seeing Leonardo's curiosity, even Director Nolan on the side was also aroused.

He was still very curious about Sun Yi's new movie. When he auditioned for Liu Yifei in the studio, the two met and had a communication. At that time, he felt that Sun Yi's thinking was very avant-garde, and many times he was very avant-garde. It coincided with his ideas, so I had a strong desire to communicate with Sun Yi again.

"Crystal, tell me when your movie will be screened, and I'll go and see it." Nolan took the initiative.

It would definitely be big news if director Nolan attended the film screening.

Liu Yifei was filled with joy, smiled sweetly at Director Nolan, and agreed: "Okay, director, I will definitely do it."

"Then I'll go take a look too." Leonardo next to him added, unwilling to be left out.

Liu Yifei pursed her lips and said happily, "Okay, I will invite you together when the time comes."

Director Nolan nodded, then turned to everyone and said, "Okay, let's get ready, it's about to start. We are the first crew, just behind the judges."

Everyone began to pair up with each other as arranged in advance.

The heroine Marion Cotillard stands with director Nolan, while Liu Yifei partners with the hero Leonardo. The remaining three men can only choose to stick together with each other.

"Inception" originally had no plans to participate in this year's Cannes Film Festival. For Hollywood, they don't care much about the three major European film festivals. In their eyes, they only have Oscars.

Therefore, few major Hollywood productions participate in the three major European film festivals.

But something is different this time.

"Inception" was originally scheduled to be released in North America in mid-July, which would conflict with Sun Yi's "Pacific Rim". Legendary Pictures, the original film producer, wanted the film to be released in June, but because In late June, there were sequel movies to two well-known IPs, "Toy Story 7" and "Twilight Saga 6", which had to be arranged by Warner until July.

You know, June is the best time for summer releases in North America. Legendary Pictures is very confident in the quality of "Inception". They are not afraid of "Toy Story 6" and "Twilight Saga 3". On the contrary, they are very confident about the quality of "Inception". I want to make my company famous by making these two films.

However, Warner, one of the investors, disagreed. Their choice was relatively conservative. The first thing they thought of was what would happen if the movie failed, rather than forging ahead.

Legendary Pictures has no choice. After all, their arms can't hold their thighs. They still have to listen to Warner. This is especially true for small investors such as Sun Yi and Xiong Xiaoge, who have no decision-making power at all.

But at this time, Sun Yi appeared with his "Pacific Rim", which was also scheduled for July and was still a 7D movie. This made Warner waver in its original decision.

The glory of the last 3D "Avatar" is still fresh in their minds. Although they don't believe that a director from China can make a real 3D big production, if this person is Sun Yi, they have to Weigh it carefully.

After all, Sun Yi's previous achievements in Hollywood are obvious to all. "Shelter" plus "The Intouchables" may not have a single box office. The highest box office of "Shelter" is only more than 1 million US dollars.

But the cost is low and the profit ratio is huge. Maybe one of their films with a box office of 300 to 400 million yuan is not as profitable as Sun Yi's film.

At this time, Warner was very confused.

On the one hand, there is Legendary Pictures' request for an early release, as well as Sun Yi's 7D "Pacific Rim" in the same period in July, and on the other hand, it is faced with the sequels of two major IPs, "Toy Story 3" and "Twilight Saga 3".

How to choose?
In the end, they desperately mobilized their connections and chose to release the film ahead of schedule, directly moving the schedule of "Inception" to early June to compete with DreamWorks' "Shrek 6."

Persimmons should always be softened!

In this way, both sides were solved. The only problem was that the release date was brought forward, and the original publicity time was greatly reduced. Only then did they think of Cannes and its publicity capabilities in Europe, so they came up with "Theft". "Dream Space" temporarily became the opening film of the Cannes Film Festival.

Speaking of which, Cannes is still a bit fond of Hollywood. As soon as they came and said they wanted to promote the opening, they did it without saying a word. The movie that was originally scheduled for was probably passed out in the toilet from crying.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the opening ceremony of the 63rd Cannes International Film Festival officially began.

The first to walk on the red carpet were the members of the jury.

This year's jury is still nine people, with Kate Beckinsale serving as the chairman of the jury.

This sexy and elegant British rose walked onto the red carpet in a bright red floor-length evening dress. Her charming smile attracted the first wave of attention from reporters, and fans on both sides of the red carpet spontaneously cheered loudly.

This kind of jury chairman may be the most popular among young movie fans.

After the jury, there is the crew of the opening film of this year's Cannes Film Festival. "Inception."

Director Nolan and Marion Cotillard were the first to appear, followed closely by Liu Yifei and Leonardo.

The two held each other's arms politely, waving to both sides while taking steps. The fans and media reporters on both sides of the red carpet immediately became excited.

This is really a gathering of big names. It is rare to see big Hollywood productions participating in European film festivals.

Click, click, the cameras in the reporters’ hands kept flashing.

Reporters from China are even more crazy.

There was news before that Liu Yifei participated in the audition for "Inception", but later Star Image revealed very little about this news. At that time, some media broke the news that Liu Yifei was just there to make soy sauce, not at all. What a starring role.

But looking at it now, Liu Yifei is clearly standing next to Leonardo. In this position, she must be at least the second female lead.

If they had seen the movie, they might be even more surprised. If we only look at the number of scenes, there is nothing wrong with saying that Liu Yifei is the female lead.

"Yifei, here, here!" A group of Chinese reporters called Liu Yifei loudly in Chinese, hoping that she would pay attention to this side and give them an angle to take pictures.

Leonardo was a very gentleman. He noticed these reporters with oriental faces and began to follow Liu Yifei's rhythm. From time to time, he also cooperated with Liu Yifei to make some poses and take photos for everyone.

"I got the bonus. Sister Fairy is really beautiful. With her by my side, this little plum feels a little ugly."

"Yes, by the way, Sun Yi hasn't come yet. Since he went to Hong Kong Island, there seems to be no movement."

"I don't know. I heard that people in Hong Kong are waiting to see his joke."

"Tsk, tsk, these people are really disgusting."

"Who says it's not? Over there, Gong Li is here, hurry up, take pictures!"

At the end of the red carpet, Gong Li wore a dark gold dress, one person represented a crew, and she walked elegantly on the red carpet as if the queen had returned.

Reporters and fans on both sides cheered, and even the staff on the red carpet stood up straight when they saw Gong Li's appearance, just like the queen's loyal guard.

(End of this chapter)