Full-time actor

Chapter 703 It’s another year in Berlin, there’s hope!

February 2007, 2, Berlin.

After another round of transfers, the moment he got off the plane, Chen Yu felt that there had been no changes in the airport and the city.

It is still the same as it was 4 years ago.

but--

It’s been 4 years. Do you know how I have been spending these four years?
Oh, he has won several international film actor awards and made more than a dozen films, but it must be said that this city in front of him witnessed the beginning of his rise, so Chen Yu always has a special memory of Berlin.

This is where he won his first international actor award; now four years later, Chen Yu is here again.

"I hope I can get some good luck!"

Chen Yu said to Liu Yifei, and Liu Yifei also took a deep breath and said with a grin, "I hope so!"

"I haven't had time to watch the full movie yet, so I don't know how I performed..."

Liu Yifei was talking, but Li Yang beside her smiled and said, "I've seen it, it was performed very well. With this PR, the chances of winning an award are still very high!"

"But don't get your hopes up!"

Chen Yu added a sentence.

As the saying goes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. He actually didn’t think too much about it at the beginning, and then he took it accidentally.

Now, if Liu Yifei focuses on this and fails to get it in the end, she will obviously be very disappointed.

So Chen Yu had to remind her of this.

"Well, I see!"

"I just have a wish, but I know it's hard to win the award!"

Every year, so many actresses around the world compete for these 1-2 spots, so the competition is of course fierce; and as for Chen Yu’s public relations, of course others will be able to do it too.

So in the meantime, it depends on each other's hard power and relationships.

"Let's go, let's go to the hotel first and then go to the party!"

Chen Yu turned on his cell phone, and the sounds of missed calls and text messages popped up one after another.

When I arrived, the first-day box office of "Invisible Mission" in mainland China had already come out.

1.13 billion!
China has officially entered the days where a single movie can gross over 1 million yuan in a single day.

And it far exceeded that, reaching 1.13 million, which far broke the previous single-day records of "Mission Impossible 3" and "Departures", and these two movies were also starred by Chen Yu.

"Yesterday's mainland box office was 9731 million!"

"It should be around 9000 million today. With pre-sales, the total box office has already exceeded 5 million!"

Looking at the message sent by Yang Lu on his phone, Chen Yu could feel the violent shock in the entire Chinese film and television industry.

Now, who is still questioning the Spring Festival schedule?
Last year's "Escaping" was the first attempt, with a daily box office of around 7000 million yuan. It eventually broke the box office record of Chinese films and reached a total box office of 7.21 million yuan.

And now, a year has passed.

It’s Chen Yu again.

He came with the movie "Invisible Spy", which he invested in, wrote and starred in, and is also the sequel to "Extraction".

All related records were broken in less than 3 days.

The fastest to break 2 million, the fastest to break 3 million, the fastest to break million... every day is setting new records in the history of Chinese film.

No one dares to question the strength of the Spring Festival period.

The two films released with "Invisible Mission", "The Disciples" and "Night at the Museum", both benefited from the Spring Festival period. In less than two days, the former earned 2 million and the latter 7120 million!
Normally, there would be no such record. This is because many viewers who did not buy "Invisible Mission" chose these two movies.

Although the screenings of "The Disciples" and "The Museum" are being reduced every day, and the daily box office has dropped from more than 3000 million to less than 2000 million, they are still making a lot of money thanks to the popularity of the Spring Festival.

This is a phenomenon that many people in the industry need to pay attention to.

The box office explosion of movies starring Chen Yu is something that everyone can predict. And the two "Disciples" films have such good box office performance. Is it an improvement in the quality of the films?
Of course not, it is obviously because of the special period of the Spring Festival.

Chen Yu ignited this market with "Invisible Mission", and other movies also benefited from it.

The performance of the Spring Festival period has obviously confirmed the super awesomeness of this period.

A number of Chinese filmmakers are gearing up and can't help but want to make a blockbuster next year, or those who originally wanted to hit the Lunar New Year box office want to try the Spring Festival box office instead.

The performance of "The Disciples" really made them jealous.

They cannot envy "Invisible Duty", which would have grossed 6-7 million yuan even if it was released in any other period; relying on the Spring Festival period only pushed the box office up a big step.

10 billion!

This is a number that no Chinese filmmaker dared to imagine, but is now being brought forward again and again by the media and film critics.

Everyone is full of such expectations.

Han Sanpin also called Chen Yu personally and told him to give it a try no matter what, even if he couldn't reach 9 million in the end, he had to think of a way.

The current Chinese market is in great need of such films to stimulate consumers, audiences and theater practitioners.

Build more cinemas, surrounding areas and industries!
Therefore, Chen Yu's "Operation Shadow" also shoulders the important task of promoting the country's cultural and entertainment industry.

However, Chen Yu felt that there was no need to brush it. According to this trend, even if there is not 10 billion, there should be more than 9 million.

The maximum subsidy is tens of millions.

"How is the box office?"

Li Yang is of course also paying attention to it. After all, he is a famous director in China. Of course he can feel that with the presence of Chen Yu in recent years, the consumption and market in cinemas, shopping malls, etc. are many times larger than before.

“It just broke 3 million, and if you include pre-sales, it will break 5 million!”

"Wow, it's only been 3 days, right? 3 million in less than 3 days!"

Li Yang couldn't even think about making 100 million yuan. It was not easy for the film "Blind Mountain" to pass the review, and when it is released, he still has to choose a suitable date for distribution.

Unless it can win an award in Berlin or something, it probably won’t perform very well in theaters.

Of course, award-winning films and commercial films belong to different fields and cannot be compared together.

"If Blind Mountain earns 5000 million, I will be satisfied!"

"I don't even want to think about 1 million, hahaha!"

Li Yang was laughing loudly. Chen Yu had already gotten into the car with Liu Yifei. He said softly, "If we do a good job of promotion, it should be able to exceed 100 million yuan. But winning the Berlin Award will definitely help. Yifei still has some box office appeal!"

Just big and small.

If Chen Yu's box office data is based on 5 million yuan, then Liu Yifei's may only be 1000-2000 million.

This is because Liu Yifei has filmed several good movies in the past two years.

With Jackie Chan's "Escape Plan" and the current "Invisible Duty", plus the basic foundation of TV series, we have the current data.

Of course she can't be compared with Chen Yu, but compared with many domestic actresses, she is already better than them all.

Liu Yifei is now the number one female star in the Chinese entertainment industry, and even Zhang Ziyi has to rank behind her. After "Invisible Spy" is released in North America and Europe, she should be able to completely ascend to the status of a famous international movie star, Liu XX.

Although she is still a marginal figure in Hollywood, she should at least be a familiar face. The movies she starred in, Jackie Chan, and now Chen Yu are quite famous among foreigners and Hollywood circles.

"I don't want to think about anything right now. I just want to go back to the hotel and sleep to recover from the jet lag!"

Liu Yifei yawned as the car drove towards the Berlin Film Palace, which was the Marriott Hotel where Chen Yu stayed when he first came to Berlin.

However, last time Liu Yifei and Liu Xiaoli did not live here because there were no rooms available, so they stayed at the Grand Hyatt not far away.

Now that two people live together, it must be one room. "Ah, I'm so tired!"

Liu Yifei collapsed on the bed, lying in a spread-eagle position.

Chen Yu casually picked up the brochure of the Berlin Film Festival, which introduced the jury and the films shortlisted for each category.

"I slept!"

Liu Yifei was very sleepy, Chen Yu nodded: "Well, go to sleep!"

He flipped open the conference journal.

The first page shows some introduction to this year's Berlin Film Festival, such as the theme, number of participants, and films submitted for review, while the cover page shows the film that will be at the opening ceremony tomorrow - "La Vie en Rose".

Chen Yu read page by page and finally saw what he wanted.

The jury!
Snapped!
Chen Yu couldn't help but snap his fingers.

There is a play!

Chairman Paul Schrader is a famous American director who has been nominated for three major film festivals many times, but Chen Yu does not know him.

The reason why he thought it was possible was because there were two Chinese judges on the jury.

That’s right, 2.

Chen Yu talked a lot about Xu Laoguai's wife Shi Nansheng when "Seven Swords" premiered in Venice.

There is another one, who was also a director shortlisted for the Venice Film Festival that year - Ning Ying.

Chen Yu also attended the premiere of her film.

There are 6 judging seats, with China occupying two. The probability of winning in this vote is still very high. Although it may not necessarily win the final grand prize, it should not be a problem to win a Best Actress award or a jury award.

As long as the two people have interests in the film industry or filming negotiations in China, making friends with Chen Yu would definitely be a good thing.

Now in the whole of China, who doesn’t know how great Chen Yu’s influence is?
To put it bluntly, he has now become a business card for China to export to the world.

Just because the higher-ups didn’t have a proper talk with him doesn’t mean they don’t know about Chen Yu.

Apart from these two Chinese judges, two of the remaining four can be defeated if nothing unexpected happens.

One is a Palestinian actor and director with a strong Asian orientation; the other is American Hollywood star William Duff, who will play the Green Goblin in the future Spider-Man. Chen Yu met him once at the Golden Globe Awards last year.

When the time comes, pay him a visit and maybe you can get a vote.

The last two are a Danish filmmaker and a Nigerian actor. Chen Yu has no way to deal with these two.

But if I can really win four out of six judges, it won't be a problem to win the Best Actress award.

"Yifei is a good sport!"

Chen Yu watched the judges there and also saw the chairman of this year's Berlin Film Festival.

Dieter Kosslick!

This old man has been the chairman since 02. Previously he was the director of the Hamburg City Council Office and later served as the head of the Hamburg Cinema, thus starting his film career.

Graduated from the University of Munich.

"Ok?"

Chen Yu had some idea of ​​the relationship through which Li Yang won the award.

She should be the chairman of the Berlin Film Festival, and her wife is the famous producer Wilma Halzenette, who graduated from the Cologne Film and Television Academy, where Li Yang also studied.

All three are alumni.

Li Yang was also a student at the University of Munich. He studied at two universities.

The connections at this university are indeed the most useful.

"Then this award is more secure!"

Chen Yu had been sitting there for more than 20 hours, feeling very tired. But after watching the introduction of the jury and the film festival, he no longer felt sleepy.

“I don’t know which movies are shortlisted for the main competition this time!”

Chen Yu turned to the page introducing the main competition films, and all 22 shortlisted films were written on it.

"..."

Chen Yu saw a movie that he was very familiar with.

Because if nothing unexpected happens, this movie will win the Golden Bear at this year's Berlin Film Festival.

This is the film that finally won the Golden Bear.

"This is a bit difficult to handle!"

Chen Yu was quite happy just now, but after seeing the names of the movies shortlisted for the main competition, he felt a little uncomfortable.

It's time to build up your network.

"Tuya's Marriage", Wang Quanan!
It was this film that won this year's Berlin Golden Bear, taking away the highest award.

It is also a Chinese film.

That's why Chen Yu was a little worried.

In addition to "Blind Mountain" and "Tuya", there is actually a Chinese film among the 22 main competition films - "Apple"!
In other words, there are a total of three Chinese films shortlisted for the main competition unit of Berlin this time.

In addition to China, there are 5 in France, 1 in the UK, 5 in the United States, and 3 in Germany!
The others are films from some small European countries.

"Then this time, the biggest competitor of Blind Mountain must be Tuya!"

After all, Tuya won a big prize in her previous life.

However, Chen Yu's goal is not the Golden Lion, he just wants Liu Yifei to win the Best Actress award, so he should not pose a direct threat... Even Yu Nan, the leading actress in Tuya, and Fan Bingbing, the leading actress in Apple, will definitely be vying for a Best Actress award.

So Liu Yifei undoubtedly faces fierce competition.

There are 2 in China alone, not to mention the others.

“There should be media from China coming here!”

"After all, there are three Chinese films shortlisted this time!"

Chen Yu was looking at the introductions of each movie, but suddenly he yawned.

I suddenly felt sleepy.

"Never mind, let's talk about PR after the banquet tonight!"

With such thoughts in mind, Chen Yu soon fell asleep.

The two of them only set the alarm for 2 hours because they were so sleepy, but they couldn't sleep too much, otherwise they would not be able to fall asleep at night.

So two hours later, when the alarm clock rang, Chen Yu had some difficulty getting up.

"Get up!"

Liu Yifei was actually very sleepy too, so she dragged Chen Yu to the bathroom.

After taking a bath together, the two of them prepared to go downstairs to meet Li Yang and attend the regular welcome dinner of the Berlin Film Festival.

There will be many European filmmakers present at that time.

At that time, it was a good time to do public relations with each other!

(End of this chapter)