The last day of July.

The Venice Film Festival has officially announced this year’s list.

As Mark Muller said: "The new chairman seems to have different ideas from me."

In the first year after Alberto Barbara took over, he began to de-Sinicize the film. This year, not a single Chinese-language film was shortlisted in the main competition.

The cyberpunk martial arts film "Tai Chi from Zero" directed by Hong Kong director Lun and Huayi's bet was shortlisted for the screening section; "Tell Them, I went on a white crane" by mainland director Li Ruijun and "Three Sisters" directed by Wang Bing were shortlisted

Horizon Section; "Diamond Sutra" directed by Bay Island director Cai Mingliang is the closing film of the Horizon Short Film Section.

Such nominations disappoint Chinese-language filmmakers. The Venice Film Festival has not received much attention in the past two years, and the collective lack of Chinese-language films this year is even more displeasing to the industry.

But fortunately, Cheng Yuan became one of the judges of the main competition unit, which was a little bit of face that Barbara left for Chinese-language films.

Regarding Cheng Yuan’s election, the film festival organizing committee introduced this:

"He is one of the leaders of young directors in Asia and even the world. He is so young, but has such a profound understanding of movies. His movies always explore the purest emotions in the characters' hearts, impulse, loneliness, confusion, enthusiasm,

The characters under his lens always make people think.”

But China does not buy this explanation:

"It's really because Cheng Yu'an's performance is so outstanding. Even if Barbara wants to become Chinese, he can't ignore Cheng Yu'an's performance in the past two years as a direct descendant of Venice."

"If Cheng Yu'an is not a judge this year, Venice's domestic attention may drop to a historical freezing point."

"But the attention that Cheng Yu'an brings to the film festival as a judge is still far less than that of Chinese-language films shortlisted for the main competition."

But in fact, the entertainment headline is not that Cheng Yu'an was elected as a judge at the Venice Film Festival, but that the relationship between Zhang Ziyi and Xiao Sa was exposed.

A reporter photographed Xiao Sa flying thousands of miles to Guangdong Province to visit Zhang Ziyi, who was filming "The Grandmaster". The two behaved intimately and played together.

Some netizens revealed that the two began dating secretly in September last year.

Zhang Ziyi has been very unlucky in the past two years.

After returning to China from Hollywood to develop, the box office was good, "House of Flying Daggers" and "The Banquet" were both good at the box office, but the reputation was not that good, and I didn't win any decent awards.

She also had a bad time with her "best friend" Wendi Deng, who no longer introduced her to Hollywood resources.

She wants to get closer to Cheng Yu'an, but Cheng Yu'an doesn't pay much attention to her.

He actually "fooled" her with a TV series "The Legend of Zhen Huan".

Now that "The Legend of Zhen Huan" has become a huge hit, she actually regrets it.

I wanted to go behind the scenes and become a producer, so "Perfect" landed at my grandma's house.

Director and screenwriter Jin Yimeng was also involved.

Speaking of which, it's quite funny. "Perfect" is the first film produced by Zhang Ziyi, and she roped in Fan Xiaopang to work on it.

But the two were born with different personalities, and Fan Xiaopang and Zhang Ziyi were at odds with each other. In the end, as a producer, Zhang Ziyi kicked Fan Xiaopang out of the film's promotion. Korean promotion did not let her go, Korean version poster

There was not even a trace of her last night.

"Very Perfect" was so overwhelming that I couldn't even watch it.

Fan Xiaopang got revenge again this year by recruiting Jin Yimeng, the director of "Perfect", and is planning to shoot a "One Night Surprise" along the lines of "Perfect".

Zhang's personal reputation has also dropped to the lowest point since her debut. Let's not talk about the N heavy scandal. This year it was reported that she was "under investigation and banned from leaving the country."

Now let's point to "The Grandmaster" to make a comeback.

We might as well take a Godly perspective. Without "The Grandmaster", Zhang Ziyi might really be confused.

"The Grandmaster" directly made her the second in the Chinese film industry to win three gold medals, and she was directly at the top of the list.

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By August, the cinema gradually became lively.

The first film to be released is "Le Fan Tian" directed by Wang Yuelun, starring Ning Jing and Jiang Wu.

A glossy release, a one-day trip to the theater, and no way to check the box office.

What is a front line!

Maybe Yue Lun will switch to playing games after filming this film.

But promise me not to choose tribulation!

A ridiculous thing happened in August.

China Film Group released "The Dark Knight Rises" and "The Amazing Spider-Man" on the same day.

Then "Prometheus" will be released on September 2nd, and "The Expendables 2" will be released on September 4th.

Four Hollywood blockbusters were released within 10 days.

The disgusting mother opens the door to the nausea, the nausea is so great.

Cheng Yuan wants to laugh, want to laugh!

This is probably a characteristic of our country.

As a result, both the crews of "The Dark Knight Rises" and "The Amazing Spider-Man" were reluctant to come to the mainland for promotion.

This arrangement of films is really not authentic.

Not to mention hurting Hollywood studios, it is also extremely detrimental to domestic theaters.

This centralized arrangement of Hollywood blockbusters has caused internal friction for them, which is the first time in the global market. This has made foreign media very dissatisfied and criticized the Chinese market for not opening up.

Even theater chains are opposed to this arrangement of films.

However, this has little impact on Yuan Yuan, which has two films to be released in August.

A low-budget comedy "Rich Second Generation" directed by Guo Fan, starring Guo Jingfei and Jin Chen, released on the 8th - "The Missing Bullet", Chen Zhixi didn't like LeTV, so he committed suicide.

"Border Storm" will be released on the 17th, starring Sun Honglei and Yang Xue. The reason why the two films are so close to each other is that Yuan Yuan does not expect "Border Storm" to sell much box office.

The structure of this film is very novel and the completion level is good, but this crime movie also really attracts the audience.

The first Saturday in August.

Some netizens exposed a photo of the rental agreement on Weibo.

From Qingying Studio Studio.

The photo shows that the long-idle Qingying Studio studio welcomed its long-lost guest - Remote Film and Television.

The rental photos show that a movie called "Old Father" has rented the studio for the November-December period.

And the director of this movie is none other than Cheng Yuan!

"Cheng Yu'an's new film is revealed!"

The media immediately followed up: "A few days ago, a screenshot of the studio registration was exposed. From the information in the picture, it can be seen that the new film directed by Cheng Yu'an is called "Old Father", and the new film may be aimed at family ethics."

The reporter went to the remote location and received confirmation:

"The exposure picture shows that it is indeed Director Cheng's new film. The film is still in the preparation stage, and it is not convenient to disclose more information."

Our client, Director Cheng Yuan, drove to the Magic City Drama Art Center and was introduced by Xu Shanzheng to visit the leading figure in Chinese drama circles, Mr. Jiao Huang.

Teacher Jiao is 76 and has retired a long time ago, but he still does some rehearsal and teaching work in theaters, and has basically stopped taking jobs in film and television.

The old man's health is fine, but his legs and feet are inconvenient.

When Cheng Yu'an and Xu Shan came to the door, the old man was sitting on a wicker chair at home listening to a play.

"Hello, Teacher Jiao." Cheng Yu'an respected the senior in front of him.

Jiao Huang may not know Cheng Yu'an, so Xu Shanzheng introduced him to the old man as a middleman: "Teacher Jiao, we Yu'an would like to ask you to act in a play."

Jiao Huang does not consider himself a figure in the film and television industry, and is even more opposed to others classifying him in the entertainment industry.

He said that he is from the theater industry and a dramatist, and his acting in film and television dramas is just a guest appearance.

The nobility of old-school artists.

"I've heard of you." Jiao Huang actually heard Cheng Yu'an's name, "You must have won the Oscar."
Chapter completed!