China Entertainment: I have been a director since 05

Chapter 455 Cannes Awards, Chinese Jianghu, if I keep silent, who dares to speak?

The huge success of "Never Gone" and "The Beginning" naturally made Guan Ling, as a screenwriter and investor, the most watched person in the entire film and television industry.

But Guan Ling was strangely low-key.

After two days with Gulinazha.

He also looked for Yang Mi,

After returning to the crew, he was faced with Yin Tao's resentful gaze.

She knew before that there was something a little crazy between Guan Ling and Yang Mi, but she was thin-skinned and endured it.

This time when Gulinazha came to visit the set, Guan Ling just left.

Yin Tao couldn't hold it any longer.

So at this moment, sitting next to Guan Ling, Yin Tao had a look of resentment and an envious tone on his face.

"It's nice to be young."

"You've been going too far recently. I'm obviously in the crew, but you've been sleeping in Yang Mi's room every night. Now a little girl came to visit the crew and pushed me in the face again. I couldn't help it, so I told you. If you don't like it anymore, just say it. Even if I don't look for that ruthless person before, I won't be entangled in this heart every day."

Yin Tao was really anxious, and his tone of voice was no longer as gentle and sensible as before.

After just a few words, Guan Ling cooperated.

quickly,

The two of them fell completely silent.

After waiting for quite a while, the two of them calmed down completely, and Guan Ling reached out and smoothed back the few strands of hair that had fallen by the other's ears.

I said embarrassedly, "I really didn't do anything with Yang Mi. I was just reviewing the script every day. You are also filming this movie, so you know how bad Yang Mi's acting is. Compared with you, it is really far behind. I am planning to use this movie to compete with Hollywood blockbusters at the end of the summer season, so I must train her vigorously and not let her lose the chain. Do you understand?"

Yin Tao didn't even believe what he said.

But it was not easy for her to refute.

After all, she didn't go in, so she naturally couldn't see what the two of them did.

It’s just the smile on Yang Mi’s little face every day, and the tenderness and slightly blushing cheeks in her eyes when she looked at Guan Ling during the filming.

Yin Tao still saw it very clearly.

"Anyway, there are some things I can tolerate. I know you are young and can't tolerate it. But don't be too partial. I am different from them. I am ten years older than them. This time, I can only wear old makeup. That is, Yang Mi looks really young and is completely suitable to play a student, while I need to focus on acting in an older role. But I don't want to play her mother. I am obviously heartbroken, but you always make me feel cold.

I also need a warm hug and a burning sensation."

Guan Ling rubbed her forehead, smiled and nodded.

……

"I'm leaving for Cannes this afternoon. This time I'm going with my wife."

The next morning, Ning Hao called.

The Cannes Film Festival has opened, and "Never Say Die" also needs to join in the fun and go to Cannes for promotion and publicity.

"Didn't Wuershan go there too? Not coming with him?"

"He must be embarrassed. He just set a record with Painted Skin 2 two months ago, and I almost broke it during the May Day holiday. Now he is behind me, so of course he is embarrassed. Besides, my wife is here too, so it's not convenient for him to be with her. So I didn't ask."

"Okay." Guan Ling said, "Then I hope that these movies produced by Lingyun Media can sell more money."

Guan Ling will not go to Cannes this time. She only sent a professional legal negotiation team, including Ning Hao, Wuershan and others, to be responsible for the external publicity and copyright sales of "Painted Skin 2" and "Never Gone" respectively.

Originally, Guan Ling was considering whether to let Yang Qing bring "I Am a Witness" to the event and also contribute to the popularity of the upcoming film, but Yang Qing had already joined the crew to shoot "Hot Pot Heroes", so it was Liu Sisi and Sun Jian who finally attended "I Am a Witness", and the legal team helped to negotiate all matters.

The film industry is still in turmoil recently.

The domestic box office performance of "Thor" on its first day was not ideal.

First of all, many viewers responded that the post-credits Easter egg of "Thor" was deleted, and the 3D version released was only the dubbed version, without the original English soundtrack.

All these make Thor, the most powerful god of thunder born in Norse mythology, feel very powerless.

Many netizens speculated that the 3D version had no original English soundtrack but only dubbing, which was a distribution strategy aimed at diverting audiences to the 2D version.

However, many reporters conducted in-depth research and found that most theaters currently still schedule the 3D version of "Thor" more often, and the person in charge of a theater said that they would not increase the number of screenings of the 2D version for the time being.

It caused quite a stir in public opinion.

As for the deleted content of the easter eggs, Jiang Defu, the press officer spokesperson of the China Film Distribution Company, responded using the Chinese film censorship system, completely leaving everyone speechless.

It is because of these additional factors.

The general view is that the three-dimensional effect presented in this film is not strong enough and the picture is relatively dark. The pseudo-3D conversion to 3D was also criticized!
The first day box office closed at 2400 million.

The result is neither good nor bad, but because the previous "Never Gone" has already raised people's psychological threshold to a certain level, the industry is still reluctant to buy into it.

"The 'pre-summer season' of May's film industry has officially begun. The Hollywood imported blockbuster Thor, which was released on Mother's Day, earned $2 million in its opening weekend in 5 theaters in North America, but it suffered a Waterloo in China and was not as good as the previous Iron Man . Moreover, due to the influence of word-of-mouth and the subsequent attack of Fast and Furious , Thor's good days of making money may only last for three days!"

"On the first day, the box office was 2400 million. Thor was less than a quarter of Forever Young. In the Chinese film industry, who else can surpass Guan Ling?"

"The box office of 'Never Gone' on the same day was still as high as 4300 million. Compared with the sharp drop during the May Day period, 'Never Gone' still firmly holds the single-day championship seat."

“Thor’s domestic box office performance is no surprise, and many blockbusters are about to be released!”

"Originally, it was thought that the Hollywood cinemas would be fully detonated by Thor, but Forever Young took away this honor and made Thor instantly silent. With the release of Chinese and foreign films such as Forever Young, The Favourite, and Fast & Furious 5, Thor's screening schedule in the mainland has been greatly squeezed. It is still a long way to go for the global box office to exceed $2 million."

"Two levels of word of mouth! European and American audiences say it's good, while mainland audiences say it's bad!"

The reasons include "mainland audiences are relatively unfamiliar with Norse mythology", "Thor's popularity is far behind that of Spider-Man, Iron Man and other comic book works", "the post-production 3D conversion effect is average and there is only a Chinese dubbing version", and "there are too few screenings in domestic 2D theaters".

Not only did this movie receive negative reviews such as "shallow story" and "average 3D effect", its rating was also ranked at the bottom among movies of the same period.

In addition, the "easter eggs" originally buried for "Captain America" ​​at the end of "Thor" were all deleted in the version screened in mainland China, which further triggered the public's negative emotions towards the film.

For a while.

The more lively the publicity was before, the more embarrassing it is now.

The next day, the box office was basically the same, but it was hard to stir up any waves in the industry or among the audience. In a flash, a few more days passed.

……

With each new day, the focus of online and industry public opinion on the film and television industry began to shift to Cannes.

Compared to the crazy popularity of Cannes in the past two years, this year's Cannes was obviously less popular because of the absence of Guan Ling.

But there are still quite a few people going to Cannes this time.

"The 64th Cannes Film Festival is about to open, and Chinese filmmakers are collectively promoting their films!"

Although no mainland directors were shortlisted for the main competition unit this year, the lineup of Chinese-language films and Chinese-language stars heading to Cannes is quite spectacular, with Chen Kexin's "Wu Xia" being invited to appear in the midnight screening unit.

"Confessions", written by Guan Ling and directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien, was initially selected for the Horizon unit, but later only 19 works in the main competition unit were added to the main competition unit.

I don’t know whether it was Guan Ling giving face to Hou Hsiao-hsien or Guan Ling.

But at least it saved a bit of face for Chinese-language films!
Many Chinese people go to Cannes for only one purpose.

Sell ​​movies!

If I can’t win an award, I can at least sell my film!
Chinese commercial blockbusters such as "Painted Skin 2", "Never Gone", "Wuxia", "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan", "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate", "Journey to the West", and "The Flowers of War" will hold different promotional activities in Cannes.

It was like a group of people flocking to Cannes to attend the fair.

It was only May 9th.

More and more stars and directors are showing up at the direct airport to Cannes.

And among the many actresses heading to Cannes, this year's visit was truly spectacular.

Gong Li, Tang Wei, Fan Bingbing and Li Bingbing, four beauties gathered together, competing with each other for beauty.

Although Li Bingbing's current development has experienced some ups and downs, his status in the international film industry is still quite high.

The one with the most experience is naturally the Singaporean actress Gong Li, who has participated in the Cannes Film Festival a total of 15 times and has had 9 films shortlisted for the Cannes Film Festival, making her the Chinese actress who has participated in the Cannes Film Festival the most times to date.

The rising star Fan Bingbing stole the spotlight last year with his "dragon robe", and what kind of look he will appear in this year is also attracting much attention.

However, this time, Fan Bingbing went to Cannes to promote her new movie, "The Day of Landing", directed by the famous Korean director Kang Je-kyu and co-starred by Jang Dong-gun, Odagiri Joe and others. It is not as good as "Scarlet Witch", but at least it can bring her face.

When asked by reporters about her clothing style this year, Fan Bingbing said lightly: "Isn't it just wearing a piece of clothing to go out for a stroll? I'll see what I feel like after I wake up. There's no need to pay too much attention to it. Besides, clothes will fall apart if they're torn."

This sentence caused quite a stir.

The main thing is the four words "it will fall apart if torn", which are really reflected in life experience.

"Fan Bingbing appeared in Cannes for an interview. Why were his clothes often torn?"

When this news came out, Fan Bingbing was completely overwhelmed. In addition to Fan Bingbing, her parents also came to Cannes this time. For this reason, she did not stay in a hotel, but rented a local villa. She was accompanied by the assistant agent assigned to her by Lingyun Media.

Give Fan Bingbing enough face.

But this news left Fan Bingbing completely speechless.

Looking up at the sky at a 45-degree angle, Fan Bingbing's mind was full of Guan Ling.

From the blue and white porcelain cheongsam to the dragon robe, every piece of clothing she wore that set off the domestic and international film scene had been ravaged by Guan Ling.

There are even wrinkles.

Thinking of this, Fan Bingbing couldn't help but blush.

In order to prepare for the Cannes Film Festival, Li Bingbing, the lead actor of "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan", started preparing costumes and jewelry two months ago. According to the production team, he tried on two to three hundred sets of costumes in a month. The insurance policies of these custom-made costumes alone were worth over 100 million yuan, and the price of the jewelry he tried on was as much as 200 million yuan.

Although there are still some conflicts between him and Guan Ling, Li Bingbing is the custodian of Huayi, a second-tier company, and Huayi is still willing to spend money on him.

Among them, Tang Wei is also very popular, mainly because he is the person Guan Ling once saved. This time in Cannes, the director she collaborated with is Chen Kexin, but the actor is Zhen Zidan.

The scene where Guan Ling calmly said to Zhen Zidan, "You have to be grateful" is not far away.

And Tang Wei should also be grateful.

This is why Chen Kexin’s "Martial Arts" movie has just been released and it has been dubbed the "Gratitude Brigade" by netizens!
Make the industry laugh.

But as a clear martial arts film, this movie still received a lot of popularity and attention at the film festival.

In addition to the main creators reserving enough time for the film festival, the film company also attached great importance to participating in this film festival. They booked the most expensive advertising space opposite the Cannes Film Palace and hung a large outdoor billboard. In order to avoid the hassle of transfer and customs clearance, the crew spent 180 million yuan to charter a plane to send the copy directly from Thailand to Cannes.

Chen Kexin said in an interview that Zhen Zidan will have "three battles on the ground and one battle in the sky" in this film, which is a major breakthrough in traditional martial arts films. There will be a "Rashomon" of reality and speculation between the two male protagonists. In addition, he also claimed that he would incorporate medical and physical principles into the film, hoping to create a new concept of martial arts action films.

Facing the media, Chen Kexin talked freely: "In 1975, King Hu's A Touch of Zen was screened in Cannes, making Chinese martial arts known to the world for the first time. In 2000, Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon once again demonstrated the charm of Chinese martial arts in Cannes. Kung Fu is my first martial arts film, and it was in Cannes that I discovered the genes of Chinese martial arts. I hope to create a brand new martial arts world."

But he is not the real focus of Chinese-language films at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Although there are not many Chinese-language films this time, among the nine-member jury of this film festival, there are two Chinese-language film judges, Nansun Shi and Johnnie To.

The two generally believe that the biggest focus of Chinese-language films at this year's Cannes is still "Confessions".

This film was written by Guan Ling and directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien.

They represent the two top forces in mainland China and Taiwan respectively.

Even at Cannes, it was the same.

Although only Hou Hsiao-hsien came this time, Guan Ling was temporarily unable to come to Cannes due to her personal film shooting schedule.

But no one could help but care about Guan Ling.

Especially this time, there are also "Painted Skin 2" and "Never Gone", which were released in March and April respectively, sweeping and suppressing the mainland box office respectively!

Everyone has points.

Today's Cannes Awards, China's rivers and lakes,

As long as it is a Chinese-language film, if Guan Ling remains silent, who else dares to speak?

(End of this chapter)