Chapter 71 'The Bottom of the Mine' Premiere Ticket
Zhou Yilin hid in the hotel room, lowering his head and smoking cigarettes one by one.
The whole room was filled with smoke, and the assistant could hardly open his eyes.
The copyright contract lay motionless on the table.
The atmosphere in the room became increasingly depressing. Director Zhou Yilin had smoked more than thirty cigarettes in an hour, one after another.
The assistant just stood there, neither daring to go out nor sit down, nor daring to make a sound to disturb Zhou Yilin.
"Warring States" really exceeded their expectations.
I thought that the failure of "Warring States" to be shortlisted was a mistake by Berlin. As long as there were a few premieres scheduled, the overseas rights of "Warring States" would be sold very quickly.
but!
The situation is too bad.
Before watching the premiere of "Warring States", the film producers were still full of expectations for the movie "Warring States" and expressed that they could consider cooperation. However, after watching the sample film of "Warring States", no matter how enthusiastic the atmosphere was,
Those who applauded were excited, but the film producers unanimously chose to shake their heads.
"Let's watch other movies for now."
After leaving these words, they left the screening room one after another.
Watching them leave, Zhou Yilin felt angry at first. He wanted to tear off their heads and stuff them into the big screen to show them the film art he had made. He even wanted to scold these guys for not understanding film art.
, having eyes does not recognize gold inlaid with jade.
That feeling was like being punched hard in the chest. I was very angry, but couldn't breathe.
But after calming down, Zhou Yilin fell silent.
Any fool knows something isn't right.
He understood that there must be something wrong with the movie he shot.
The next day, two more copyrights were sold, but these two copyrights were really a drop in the bucket for the size of "Warring States".
The overwhelming investment in publicity and prime-time film screenings resulted in only a handful of film studios!
This sense of disparity inevitably gave Zhou Yilin a sense of despair.
"what time is it now?"
"Eight o'clock in the morning."
"The premiere of "Under the Mine" starts in three hours?"
"Yes, Zhou Yang sent us an invitation letter. Do we want to..."
In the room, Zhou Yilin finally put out his cigarette butt and looked at his assistant.
After hearing the assistant's answer, Zhou Yilin glanced out the window, his eyes flickering.
"Wang Shuai didn't come?"
"Well, when "Warring States" premiered, Director Wang didn't come..."
"Forget it, don't argue with such a chicken-hearted person. "Mineral Bottom" is our company's movie after all. You have to go and support it no matter what. After all, it's not the right thing to do to the person."
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The timing of the filming of "Under Mine" is indeed terrible.
There are a total of five filming scenes, and they are basically at unpopular times such as lunch and dinner. Compared with the filming schedule of "Warring States", it is like a biological mother gave birth to a stepmother.
As of one hour before the movie's premiere, a total of just over 20 premiere tickets had been sold.
Among them, there are several tickets that people in the crew paid for out of their own pockets.
certainly.
This is understandable. "Mineral Bottom" itself has no big-name actors, the director is a newcomer, and it is not a small-scale literary film with a big investment...
Who would go to watch a little-known literary movie from China during such a full period of time?
Wang Shuai is quite a celebrity at these film festivals...
However, there are not many directors like Wang Shuai at the Berlin International Film Festival, and Wang Shuai himself actually dislikes soliciting friendship and support, which makes him feel very hypocritical.
He always believes that a movie should rely on the strength of the movie itself rather than all kinds of nonsense.
So he looked down on Zhou Yilin's hypocritical attitude from the bottom of his heart, and didn't even bother to support him.
Of course, it is even more impossible for him to do friendly things like sending tickets everywhere.
By giving away tickets everywhere, doesn’t this mean that even you admit that your movie is cheap?
This kind of thing...
He really can't do it.
February 25th at 10:15am.
There are still forty-five minutes until the movie is released.
Wang Shuai left the hotel and came to Screening Room 6 in the Berlin screening area.
Then...
The deserted scene he imagined did not appear. Instead, he was surprised to find that the outside of the screening room was crowded with people!
So many women?
He was confused.
Just as he walked towards the bustling sounds and saw a figure, he was stunned!
He saw Zhou Yang standing next to the ticket sales staff, with a naive expression on his face, wearing a very cute bear suit, and holding a sign in his hand that read "The Premiere of "Mineral Bottom", thank you for your support..."
It's an English sign. There's a cute little bear picture painted underneath the English sign, smiling silly at everyone.
A group of blond girls gathered around Zhou Yang excitedly. Some bought tickets, some started chatting, some stepped forward to touch Zhou Yang and shrugged his belly. Some even held mobile phones and put their arms around Zhou Yang's shoulders to take photos with Zhou Yang. Some even wanted to take a photo with Zhou Yang.
Boldly make a gesture of kissing from afar...
What is this guy doing!
He squeezed into the crowd and came to Zhou Yang's side.
"If you don't go into the town, why are you staying here?" Wang Shuai frowned deeply.
"Ah, Director Wang, I came a little early today. It happened that a staff member wearing a bear overalls suddenly had diarrhea. I helped to replace him for a while. Thinking that our ticket sales were very poor, I ran over to help our "Mine"
I'm trying to canvass for votes, but I didn't expect the people here to be so enthusiastic..."
"Oh, it's almost sold out, let's go in!"
"Okay, I'm going to change clothes."
"Go for it!"
Wang Shuai looked at Zhou Yang's appearance, and the more he looked at it, the more uncomfortable he felt. Somehow, there was always an indescribable anger. He wanted to pull off the bear ears and hair that were stuck on Zhou Yang's head.
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Zhou Yilin originally thought that the premiere of "Under the Mine" would be simple.
No one came to see...
However, when he came to the screening room No. 6 and saw that the entire screening room was full of people, his eyes widened and he was a little unbelievable.
What made him even more unbelievable was that at first glance, 70% of the entire screening room were girls.
There were girls from all over the world. Before the movie started, everyone was chattering and holding popcorn, as if they were watching some idol movie.
What's going on with "Mineral Bottom"?
You should also be more serious when making fakes, right?
There are so many girls, even a fool can tell that you hired extras!
Zhou Yilin frowned and looked at the seat in the back row.
He saw several familiar figures.
Are they film producers from Australia, Panama, Mexico and other countries?
These film producers were pointing at these girls and the movie posters.
Why are they here?
Zhou Yilin was a little shocked.
This group of film producers are all film producers who have participated in "Hero" and "Warring States"!
"Director Zhou is here? Rare visitor, rare visitor, Director Zhou, I heard that you have sold a few more copyrights before? Congratulations, unlike our "Mineral Bottom", probably because there is no premiere, our "Mineral Bottom"
"Only five copyrights were sold... Hey, by the way, Director Zhou, how many copyrights did you sell?"
"Not much, not much, about the same..."
The person who greeted Zhou Yilin was not Zhou Yang, but Wang Shuai.
When Wang Shuai saw him, he showed a rare smile, as bright and warm as the sunshine in winter, and held his hand tightly.
Zhou Yilin also smiled brightly on the surface, but in his heart he wanted to tear Wang Shuai's mouth into pieces!
This guy definitely did it on purpose!
After taking his seat, Wang Shuai stared at the door of the screening room again, and several blond girls came in at the door, as well as several potbellied film producers...
What exactly is going on!
How come so many film producers and audiences come to this unpopular and cheating time?
Just when Zhou Yilin was confused, he suddenly saw several familiar figures.
His pupils shrank.
He noticed that the figure seemed to be Charlotte Celie, the chairman of the jury for the main competition unit!