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Chapter 379: Power seized? (Subscribe please!)

Xue Xiaolu’s film “Beijing Meets Seattle” has been scheduled to be released during the National Day holiday.

As the film is only a month away from release, a trailer launch event was held on the weekend of August 8th.

The male lead Liu Dehua did not attend because he was filming "Storm", but he also recorded a VCR.

At the press conference, Xue Xiaolu also revealed the previous agreement between her and Chen Dong to the media.

That is, if the box office of "Beijing Meets Seattle" is good and she is needed to go on a roadshow, then Chen Dong will help her teach.

The media likes this kind of explosive news, and after being polished by their pens, it became a hot search on the same day.

In Taiguo, Chen Dong, who had just finished filming and knew nothing, was suddenly reminded by someone: "Director Chen, take a look at the hot searches in China today. It's related to you."

"Is it related to me?" Chen Dong searched it on his mobile phone and found that it was indeed related.

As far as he remembered, the box office of "Beijing Meets Seattle" seemed to be quite good. It seemed that he would really have to go to Beijing Film Academy to help her teach for a day.

In addition, the recording time for the second season of "Go Fighting" is almost here.

But now the regular guests have no schedule at all, so after communicating with many parties, Chen Xi can only postpone the recording time by one month.

Chen Dong's crew will definitely not be able to finish filming in a month, because they have only completed a quarter of the progress. But in order to cooperate with Chen Xi's work, he will definitely let people go during the days of recording "Extreme Challenge".

The news from the opening ceremony of this year's Venice International Film Festival also spread back to the country.

Wen Muye did not go, so Lu Yang and the main creators of "Lost in Hong Kong" appeared at the opening ceremony.

But there was no screening scheduled on the first day...

The chairman of the jury is Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci, who also revealed a meaningful message in his speech that day.

The media interpreted his words, and the message they interpreted was that this year's Venice Film Festival might also follow the example of the previous Berlin Film Festival and break the one-film-one-award system.

Chen Dong didn't pay much attention to this news. At present, every actor in his crew, well, mainly Liu Haoran, one of the male protagonists but who has no acting skills, has gradually got into the state after a month of training by him. This has greatly accelerated the filming efficiency of his crew. Sometimes one day is equivalent to the previous two days. When Chen Dong also devoted himself to the task of filming, he seldom cared about the turmoil in the outside world.

Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye Jiang Wen's plane had landed at the Thai Kingdom's Bangkok International Airport again.

Of course, although Jiang Wen boarded the plane the night after attending the award ceremony, his speed still could not catch up with the speed at which the results of the award ceremony were transmitted back.

Italian director Rossi's "Rome Beltway" won the championship of this year, which is the Golden Lion Award.

"Scooting" directed by Tsai Mingliang from Taiwan Province of my country won the Grand Jury Prize.

The key point is that this year's Venice Film Festival really broke the one-film-one-award system.

The Greek film "Miss Violent" not only helped the director win a Best Director award, but also made the leading actor Pano become the best actor in this year's Venice Film Festival.

This was the only film that was like this, but people could still accept it. It was unlike the 61st Berlin International Film Festival, which was biased towards one film and produced so many no-shows that it is still criticized today.

Lu Yang also boarded a flight back to China on the day after the closing ceremony. Just as Chen Dong expected, with the foundation of the first two囧 series, the third "Hong Kong囧" would not fail to sell.

In fact, on the first day of the screening of "Lost in Hong Kong", many film producers expressed interest in it.

Especially the film producers in Asia, such as Japan, South Korea, and Singapore.

In total, the overseas copyright of "Lost in Hong Kong" was sold for 2620 million US dollars.

As for "A Man's Martial Arts", it was a little lower, selling only 360 million US dollars.

Although Chen Dong was not at the scene, he already knew about it because Lu Yang had communicated with him before the transaction.

As a judge at this year's Venice Film Festival, Jiang Wen naturally knew some inside information. After coming back, he was very jealous and had expressed in front of Chen Dong more than once how the "囧" series made Chen Dong's Dongcheng Pictures earn a lot of money.

"I watched Lost in Hong Kong in Venice, and I felt that this film was a little inferior to the second one in terms of quality, but with the foundation of the first two Lost in Hong Kong films, its box office will definitely not be too bad. It is very likely to be another film that will break the 10 billion box office. I am so envious of it. If I had known earlier, I would have gotten involved even if I had to beg for mercy."

Faced with Jiang Wen's frank envy, Chen Dong smiled and painted a big picture for him.

"Sure, if there's a fourth installment in the "囧" series, I can let you invest in it as well."

Jiang Wen only grasped the key point of the second half of the sentence, and immediately said happily: "Really?"

"How can I lie to you about this?" Chen Dong nodded, and added in his mind that the prerequisite is that there must be a fourth part.

"Hahaha, okay, from now on I, Jiang Wen, will call you brother."

"That's not necessary..."

……

Xue Xiaolu is not without rivals during this National Day holiday.

"Detective Dee: The Mystery of the Phantom Flame" directed by Xu Ke also scheduled its release date during the National Day holiday.

And this movie is the second part of the Di Renjie series directed by Xu Ke.

The first one was called "Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame", which was released in 2010. At that time, it was promoted as the first 3D costume martial arts masterpiece in China and achieved a box office of nearly 3 million yuan.

Hence the second part.

As the main investor of "Shendu Dragon King", Huayi is naturally responsible for the promotion and marketing of this film in mainland China.

This time, the film did not continue to promote the 3D movie slogan, but instead played the sentimental card, and also did not miss the opportunity to bundle the promotion with "Beijing Meets Seattle".

After three years, Stephen Chow comes back with his movie.

"Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" was officially announced last year as a fantasy and comedy film starring Wen Zhang, Shu Qi, Huang Bo, Xiao Zhu and others.

This movie was originally tendered in the mainland. Although Chen Dong did not go, he heard that many mainland film and television companies went there at that time. Among them, Huayi, relying on its wealth, won the second largest investment share after Zhou Xingchi's Star Overseas.

Therefore, Huayi is also responsible for the promotion and marketing of this film in mainland China.

Of course, this time when Stephen Chow brought "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" to Beijing, it was not because he was eyeing the National Day schedule, but because he was targeting this year's Lunar New Year schedule.

A few days later, Huayi held a media meeting for the film, at which the release date of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" was announced.

The time is July 12th.

Lu Yang also came to China Film today to select a release date for "Lost in Hong Kong".

"How about you, do you want to compete with Zhou Xingchi?" Han Shanping joked with a smile as he handed the screening list to Lu Yang.

"Boss Han, you're right. I really want to pay tribute to Stephen Chow." Lu Yang changed the subject and continued, "But if I really do this, Director Chen will definitely skin me alive."

"Haha, not really. Maybe Chen Dong also wants to pay tribute to Zhou Xingchi like you do."

At the same time, in Taiguo, Jiang Wen, a member of the crew of Detective Chinatown, also joked to Chen Dong after seeing the release date of Zhou Xingchi's Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons: Part Two: The Return of the Demons, "How about letting your company's Lost in Hong Kong compete with Zhou Xingchi? It should be very interesting."

"It's quite interesting, but only a fool would be willing to do such a thankless task."

Jiang Wen nodded without comment, as if he had thought of something, and then said, "It seems that Feng Xiaogang has another comedy film, and I guess it will probably be released during the Lunar New Year holiday this year. These two films will probably collide with "Lost in Hong Kong"."

"If a collision really happens, I think they should be the ones who are worried." Faced with Chen Dong's confident words, Jiang Wen was speechless for a moment.

After a while, he murmured, "It seems to be true. By the way, which time slot will Lu Yang choose for "Lost in Hong Kong"? "

"He told me it would be in late December or early January, or maybe the Spring Festival period."

"The Spring Festival?" Jiang Wen commented thoughtfully, "This period is becoming more and more popular. I estimate that if we cultivate it for another two years, it should be a big period that is not inferior to the Lunar New Year period at the end of the year."

Chen Dong did not comment on Jiang Wen's statement. He was even very clear that the Spring Festival period would surpass the Lunar New Year period at the end of the year and become the most intense period for directors to compete for.

September is also the month when the annual Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival is held.

Last year it was Hundred Flowers, and this year it is naturally the Golden Rooster’s turn.

The 29th Rooster, oh no, the 29th Golden Rooster Awards.

It was also the poorest "Chicken". I heard that the entire opening ceremony only cost more than 300,000 yuan.

Because the previous Chinese Film Summit Forum, Science and Technology Forum, New Year's Film Promotion Gala, and various cocktail parties were cancelled; all screening activities did not use promotional balloons, did not send flowers, and even the flag-raising ceremony was omitted...

Of course, the organizer's explanation is to highlight frugality!
But this is too frugal. After all, it is one of the three major film festivals in China. How can it look so shabby?

Therefore, it was criticized by a large number of netizens online.

"I know that the theme of frugality is good, but being too frugal is an overreaction."

“Why don’t I see frugality, but instead see the feeling of the sun setting? Wry smile, jpg.”

"No wonder Director Chen doesn't like it. It's really going backwards."

"The person above is talking about Director Chen Dong, right? It seems that he has never participated in the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Awards. I have seen him participate in the College Student Film Festival once or twice, but he usually attends international film festivals."

"I remember Director Chen seemed to have participated in the Hundred Flowers Awards once. That was a long time ago, and the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Awards had not yet been officially merged."

"Yes, I remember that Director Chen also won the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actor that year, although it was a double yolk. Since then, Director Chen's films have never appeared in this film festival again."

"The key is that Huahua and Jinji themselves are not doing well... I bet there will be double yolk eggs again this year."

"Is this still a gamble? Isn't this a normal operation?"

……

Although Chen Dong has not registered for the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Awards for many years, he still pays attention to its winning works after the award ceremony.

Just as netizens expected, double yolk eggs were indeed born this year, and there were two of them.

One award for Best Actor, also known as the legendary Golden Rooster Award, was won simultaneously by Zhang Guoli and Huang Xiaoming.

The other one actually won the biggest award of this film festival - Best Feature Film. The films that also won the award were "Chinese Partners" and "Premier Zhou's Four Days and Nights".

In addition, Zhao Wei won the Best Director Award for "So Young", the Best Actress Award went to Song Jia, who played Xiao Hong in "Xiao Hong", Chen Shiren's "Search" contributed a Best Supporting Actress Award to Wang Luodan, and Feng Xiaogang also won the Special Jury Award for "1942"...

There was no dark horse, as if everything had been scripted in advance.

The popularity on the second day was not even as high as the movie premiere held by Huayi for Xu Ke's "Detective Dee: The Mystery of the Phantom Flame".

Because can you believe it, the venue of this premiere is actually the 'Royal Palace'.

Well, actually, it was a fake palace built for the filming of “Dragon King of the Divine Capital”.

However, if you put the pictures online, they can definitely be mistaken for the real thing.

With the support of Huayi behind the scenes, "Dragon King of the Divine Capital" was widely discussed online that day.

This is also an important reason why its popularity can surpass the Golden Rooster Awards.

"Beijing Meets Seattle" will also hold a movie premiere.

But it will be one day later than "Shendu Dragon King".

It is held on the last day of September.

Chen Dong will return to China on this day, but the crew of "Detective Chinatown" will not take a holiday.

Assistant director Jiang Wen took over the baton.

It’s not that Chen Dong didn’t give the crew a holiday. To be honest, although the loss of the crew due to the holiday was as high as hundreds of thousands a day, Chen Dong could afford it. The extra 10 million investment funds he asked for were enough for him to build it.

The main reason is that some actors have very tight schedules and they would rather work overtime than take a holiday.

This made it difficult for director Chen Dong to act on his own, so he had to let Jiang Wen take over.

The key point is that just after Chen Dong left, Jiang Wen posted a rather funny Weibo post.

[V Jiang Wen: I finally got rid of this guy Chen Dong. Now I am the boss of the crew, hahahaha…]

Jiang Wen already had a history of this kind of thing, and now that he had posted this Weibo post, it immediately attracted a lot of people who were making fun of him online.

"Good guy, I just call him good guy."

"Haha, congratulations to Director Jiang for successfully seizing power."

"Lu Chuan said: See, I didn't lie at the beginning. It was Jiang Wen who stole my directorship."

"Then the question is, where did Director Chen go? Did he really get angry and run away?"

"You took it seriously when it was just a joke. I guess he must have returned to his country to celebrate the National Day."

"Can I understand that Director Chen is coming back for the holidays, and Jiang Wen still has to work for him?"

"Hahaha, after reading the above comments, Jiang Wen is really pitiful."

"Didn't you notice the announcement on Bazaar's official website? Huayue Charity Foundation will also join this year. As the founder of Huayue Foundation, Director Chen will of course come back to participate in this year's Bazaar Star Charity Gala."

"Also, Director Xue Xiaolu once said that if the box office of Beijing Meets Seattle takes off, she will go on the roadshow and Chen Dong will help her teach."

"From what you guys said, it seems like Director Chen won't be able to come back for a short time. Doesn't that mean Jiang Wen really has a chance to seize power..."

"23333, why am I a little bit looking forward to the rest of the scenes of Detective Chinatown being shot by Director Jiang?"

"Hahaha, you're not alone upstairs."

"Looking forward to +1."

"+99999."

After Chen Dong got off the plane, he logged into his Weibo at his wife's reminder and happened to see this comment.

So he also commented below: "I was fine when I came here, but suddenly I found myself being 'sidelined'. Family members, who understands?"

(End of this chapter)