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Chapter 339: The First Person to Promote Chinese Films to the World (Please Subscribe!)

Previously, due to the unstoppable popularity of "Lost in Thailand", Wang Changtian had to postpone the release of "The Four", which was originally scheduled for July 7, by half a month.

On July 7, the film was finally released to the audience.

The box office on the first day reached 2300 million, beating "Lost in Thailand" which had been released for 25 days and won the single-day box office championship of the day.

However, this result did not meet Wang Changtian's expectations. He expected a total box office of at least 5 million yuan, but according to the current trend, this is unlikely.

In addition, "The Four" was adapted from the martial arts novel of the same name by Wen Ruian. In Wen's novel, the character Wuqing was actually a man, but the movie changed him into a woman. This is the most controversial point among the original fans.

But leaving the original novel aside and just talking about the movie, Xin Zilei's performance as Wuqing was both strong and gentle, which was quite outstanding. Therefore, while she was questioned by the original fans, she also won the love of many movie fans.

Overall, the praise outweighs the criticism.

At the same time as "The Four" was released, the 69th Venice International Film Festival also announced the shortlist.

I don’t know if it’s due to Chen Dong’s influence last year, but there are a lot of Chinese-language films submitted to this film festival this year.

It is more than the number of hands.

Among them, Li Ruijun's "Tell Them, I'm Gone on a White Crane" and Wang Bin's "Three Sisters" were well received in the industry before the registration.

Consider them the favorites to win the prize.

But when the shortlist came out, all the Chinese-language films failed to make it to the main competition unit.

Even the two award-winning films were only shortlisted for the Horizon category.

Is it the decline of morality or the distortion of human nature?

Mistake, try again.

Did the domestic media overestimate these Chinese-language films, or is Venice not pro-China this year?

In the hotel booked by the crew of "My Love from the Star", Liu Yifei asked this question to Chen Dong on behalf of the media.

Regarding the two films by Li Ruijun and Wang Bin, Chen Dong had only seen the latter's "Three Sisters" in his previous life.

If it was based on his award criteria last year, even if this movie didn't win the award in the end, it would definitely have reached the "score line" to be shortlisted for the main competition unit.

So Chen Dong was also very curious, why was it only shortlisted for the Horizon unit?
After all, he had been the chairman of the jury at the Venice Film Festival, so it was not difficult for him to clarify the doubts in his mind. It was just a matter of a phone call.

"How to say?"

When Liu Yifei saw her husband coming back from the phone call, she turned her head and looked at him curiously while sitting at the computer desk.

"Honey, you know Mark Muller, right?"

"I know...Isn't Mark Mueller the chairman of the Venice Film Festival?"

The chairman Liu Yifei mentioned is not the chairman of the jury, but the chairman of the organizing committee. The former is replaced once a year, while the latter can be "re-elected".

"Mark Mueller has resigned. He just complained to me on the phone that the new chairman made major changes to some of his previous ideas, which made him very angry! Perhaps this is why no Chinese-language film was shortlisted for the main competition this year."

Liu Yifei took a while to digest this before muttering, "I see. I thought this year's jury chairman was more focused on foreign-language films."

Although Mark Muller is Italian, he is actually quite pro-China.

It was also under his philosophy that the Golden Lion Awards have gone to Chinese-language films for several consecutive years.

Of course, this does not mean that the Chinese-language films that won the Golden Lion Awards in previous years were duds. After all, Chen Dong himself is also a beneficiary. It’s just that if there was no influence from Mark Muller, no matter how awesome the Chinese-language films are, films from other countries wouldn’t be bad either. Why would you be able to win the Golden Lion Award again?
It is because of Mark Muller's preference for Chinese-language films that he is regarded in China as the first person to promote Chinese-language films to the world.

It’s just that Mr. Mark has just stepped down, and his successor can’t wait to delete and modify many of his ideas.

The direct impact is that all the Chinese-language films that registered for this year's competition have suffered some backlash to varying degrees.

Or it can be said to be an unexpected disaster.

……

Lost in Thailand has a higher box office potential than Nobody, which was released in the same period. This is good news.

The bad news is that the application for extension submitted by Dongcheng Pictures was rejected by the General Administration.

Even Chen Dong, who was filming, took a day off and went to the General Administration, but in the end his application was not approved.

Although the reason stated by the General Administration for not approving the application was that the conditions for extension were not met, everyone knew the real reason: it was caused by jealousy.

In the past two years, many domestic films have been losing money due to the influence of Hollywood blockbusters. However, Dong Cheng's films have been a hit one after another. How can this not arouse jealousy?
Anyway, after Chen Dong came back from the General Administration, he did not ask the company to continue submitting an extension application, which means that once the one-month period is up, no matter how much box office potential "Lost in Thailand" has, it will have to be taken off the theaters.

Lu Yang felt a little regretful when he heard the result. He had fantasized that "Lost in Thailand" could break the box office record of "Nobody", but now it has become a fantasy.

But it’s not that he feels disappointed. After all, with the success of Lost in Thailand, he has already received all the honors that a director deserves.

On August 8, Lost in Thailand was removed from theaters after 1 days of release, with a final box office of 30 billion yuan.

……

In the past, when Chinese people mentioned North American film festivals, the first thing they thought of was either the American Oscars or the American Global Awards.

But today, to be exact, this summer, the Toronto International Film Festival located in the north of North America has come into the vision of the Chinese people.

The key to all this is that Chen Kaige and Lu Chuan have successively sent their new films to Toronto...

In the past two years, Su Mang has made the Bazaar Star Charity Night more and more popular.

Last year, Chen Dong did not attend the Venice Film Festival because he was the chairman of the jury. But this year, Su Mang seemed to be afraid that he would run away early again, so he sent him an invitation letter a month in advance.

He received it, and naturally his wife received it too.

"It was supposed to be a charity night, but it's becoming more and more like a show."

Chen Dong threw the invitation letter on the table and sighed.

Liu Yifei nodded in agreement and asked, "Hubby, are you going to participate this year?"

"Go ahead. It's fun to watch other people perform live."

Liu Yifei was speechless after hearing this.

Then he took out the script and compared tomorrow's scene with Chen Dong. It was obvious that Liu Yifei had already turned to the last part of the script.

This means that "My Love from the Star" may be completed soon.

This is indeed the case. According to Chen Dong's estimation, if there is no delay, they will be able to hold the wrap-up party next week, or at the latest the week after.

Chen Xi has already completed all the preparations for recording Go Fighting, now all that’s missing are the actors.

It can be said that the only one missing is Chen Dong... I heard that his "My Love from the Star" will be completed by mid-August at the latest, so he personally came to the crew to explain why the recording time had to be advanced.

In fact, the main reason is the schedule issue...

Speaking of which, Sun Honglei, Han Geng and Huang Bo are all quite popular right now, and their schedules are much busier than Chen Dong, who is a boss, director, screenwriter and actor all in one.

"Okay, let's record it in advance. Actually, Chen Xi, you can just give me a call. You don't have to come in person."

Seeing Chen Xi's embarrassed smile, Chen Dong didn't dwell on it. He thought of something and added, "By the way, who is the director?"

"Mr. Wang recommended Yan Ming."

"Yan Ming, well, he can do it too."

After Chen Xi left, Chen Dong suddenly remembered that when recording the first episode, Director Nolan was going to bring the main creative team of "Batman..." to promote the movie.

So can we invite them to play?
Anyway, domestic variety shows are just starting out now, there aren’t too many rules and regulations, so you can be more free.

What's behind...

(End of this chapter)