Cheng Yun terminated the contract, and the secret marriage incident continued to explode in the country. When she woke up, the situation became more and more serious.
Yesterday Tao Tang called me, but although Cheng Yun answered the call, he didn't intend to let Tao Tang take over, and just said thank you.
Tao Tang expressed his kindness and did not force anything. He only said, "If you still need my help, just let me know when the time comes!"
French time am·07:00.
Under the leadership of Zhuang He, the two crews of more than ten or twenty people embarked on the road to the town of Cannes.
Cannes, also referred to as Cannes, is a leisure town in southern France near the Mediterranean harbor.
It is also the headquarters of camus and the venue for the Cannes International Film Festival in France.
Arriving in Cannes at nine o'clock, the group first went to the hotel prepared in advance to put away their things and tidy up. As for the media interview with Xia Yu, it was postponed to the afternoon, while Mr. Zhuang and Dai Chengbi arranged it for tomorrow morning——
Mr. Zhuang's side is mainly foreign media, and Lao Dai's side is mainly domestic media, with a few foreign media.
Interviews are inevitable and are the best free publicity opportunity before the movie is released.
As for Director Xie, who was registered together, because of his lack of international reputation, even if he has the title of director of "Cure", there are not many in China, let alone abroad. Even if he is a member of Zhuanghe Studio, he is a newcomer without any works.
This kind of treatment.
And there are two more things.
One thing is that Dai Chengbi still signed the director's credit in the movie "The Cure", and it was before Xie Guanhui.
Considering that he is a newcomer, Xie Guanhui has participated in several major film festivals, especially Cannes. Let alone wanting to win the Best Director award, based on the title of the film, it may be difficult for him to even be nominated for the main competition.
Lao Dai has been participating in the three major film festivals since nearly ten years ago, and has also won the Berlin Film Festival's Best Screenplay Award - and has been nominated for Best Director two or three times. If he really wants to win the award, his chances are at least 100% better than that of Xie Guanhui.
Fifty!
And it is 100% impossible for him to win the award.
For Xie Guanhui, there is nothing difficult to accept, it is an industry reality.
"Lao Dai, don't refuse. Although I have put a lot of effort into this movie, the effort you put into the entire movie's pre-preparation, mid-term shooting, and post-production is several times more than mine. Why do you insist on that point that you shouldn't? You
You were 'recruited' to be the director of the movie "The Cure". The most important thing is that if you don't sign your name, we may have to change it to another competition unit!"
Such as a unit of attention.
Why do you say that? This is related to the second thing.
Just in April, before Cannes organizers announced the shortlist, the crew of "Sparrow" voluntarily withdrew its application.
Why?
This is because although director Jiang Changli has made several films in China, he is still a newcomer internationally.
Although this newcomer is very strong and won the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival, his influence is still not enough. Competition in Cannes has always been fierce, not only for Chinese-language films, but also a large number of excellent films from around the world will flock to Cannes.
This is not something the Berlin Film Festival can match.
The most important thing is that Cannes is different from other film festivals. When selecting competition units, it will give priority to the director's qualifications, as well as his worldwide reputation and status.
As for what he knows about China, there are two highly competitive films, one is "Jinling Festival" by Zhuang He, and the other is "Cure" by Dai Chengbi. Zhuang He will not talk about it. Even Dai Chengbi is a frequent visitor to international film festivals. He
What to compete with?
Under normal circumstances, for films of the same level within a year, priority will be given to those with more influential directors. What's more, let alone "Jinling Festival", he is not sure it can beat Dai Chengbi's "The Cure".
After all, Dai Chengbi has won awards in three major film festivals and been nominated many times. This time, he is co-starring in the film with Xia Yu and Yu Junhao, the two best actors and actresses, and also with Zhao Jinhong, one of the top domestic screenwriters!
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This means that even if his application is successful, he will be shortlisted for at least one unit of concern in the end.
Main competition unit.
No need to think too much!
Let’s just focus on the Venice Film Festival, which is more suitable for old themes.
After finishing the arrangements at the hotel, the two crews had their own arrangements, but the general meaning was the same.
On the red carpet of the opening ceremony after twelve o'clock, you can go as long as you like. If you don't like to go, you can do whatever you want during the day. At seven o'clock in the evening, you can go to the theater to watch this year's Cannes opening ceremony film - "Close to Infinitely Warm Blue".
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This film is regarded by Mr. Zhuang and Dai Chengbi as their biggest competitor at the Cannes Film Festival.
The director is a Venetian director who has been nominated many times at the two major film festivals, Cannes and Venice. He has also won another top French award [César Award for Best Director].
Although the César Awards cannot compare to Cannes to some extent, its gold content is unquestionable.
At the same time, the list of the jury for this Cannes Film Festival has been released a long time ago.
The lineup is strong.
The chairman of the jury is one of the world's greatest directors, Spielberg.
He is known as the "Dream Weaver of Movies" and has twice won the American Academy Award for Best Director.
He is also a member of the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement!
Directors in the world are ranked in the top five or even the top three. You must know that Mr. Zhuang has just made it into the top ten!
And why mention the jury? The main reason is that this time there are acquaintances on the jury——
The remaining six jury members are not simple either. As for the so-called acquaintance, it is Gu Zhao, who has won the Oscar for Best Director once!
He also temporarily put aside his reading work on "The Black Moon Project" and actively participated in it.
And just in April, the two films "Jinling Festival" and "Healing" were both selected for the Cannes main competition, and Gu Zhao contacted Xia Yu.
Of course, it was difficult for the two of them to meet before the closing ceremony, so Gu Zhao made an appointment to get together with them after the closing ceremony.
Back to topic.
The opening ceremony is different from the red carpet of the closing ceremony. The opening ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival is a little more "wild". From a certain year, you no longer need to rely on your work to obtain invitations, but can directly purchase them by spending money.
This has caused the Cannes Film Festival to become a holy place for Internet celebrities to check in, especially Chinese Internet celebrities.
But at the same time, because of this system change, the influence of the Cannes Film Festival has also continued to expand.
The old man and the seniors don’t plan to go to the red carpet at the opening ceremony of the film festival.
When he arrived in Cannes, Mr. Zhuang definitely wanted to meet the founder of camus.
Xia Yu had an exclusive interview in the afternoon, and the red carpet for the opening ceremony didn't end until the evening. In addition, the arrangements there were relatively late, so there was no rush to walk on the red carpet.
At about ten o'clock, Xia Yu went out to take care of things for a while, and then followed the old man to the Camus headquarters.
The first is to meet the founder of camus and thank some people for three days of global hard advertising.