Chapter three hundred and ninety seventh Berlin news
"Sister Jiao! Teacher Li!"
In this noisy free market, He Xin happened to meet Sister Jiao Xiongpin and Li Qiang, the screenwriter of "Peacock".
"Ah Xin, I was telling Li Qiang just now that the character you played in "Seven Swords" was too scary." Jiao Xiongpin shook hands with him with a smile.
"I'm actually in the trailer?"
He Xin was a little surprised when he heard this, because the previous trailers for the European and American versions were mainly about Li Min and Zhen Bullet. Although "Seven Swords" is still in post-production, as a movie with an investment of more than 100 million,
Production and distribution work started early.
He knew that the distribution rights of "Seven Swords" in Europe had been handed over to a well-known film distribution company in the Netherlands, and it would definitely appear at the Berlin Film Festival, which attracted worldwide attention.
The three major festivals in Europe are not only the palaces of literary and artistic films, but also the largest film trading markets in the world.
The so-called sixth generation directors, many of their films could not be released in China at the beginning, but why can they still get investment to continue making films?
The reason is that there is a vast overseas market.
Nowadays, due to the proliferation of domestic piracy, the film market is slowly recovering, and domestic films are paying more and more attention to the development of overseas markets. In particular, Guoshi's "Hero" swept the overseas box office of 140 million US dollars that year, shocking the Chinese people. This is also
This stimulated director Kai Ge to use popular stars from Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong to shoot the big-budget "The Promise".
The success or failure of "The Promise" is still unknown. After all, this movie has a lot of special effects shots and the post-production is slow.
But Feng Xiaogang, who has already made waves in the domestic film market, is very ambitious. At the Venice Film Festival last year, his new work "A World Without Thieves" was praised all over the world, but it was of no use. His works are destined to be bought only by domestic audiences.
Almost no one cares about it internationally.
"Your brand still works here!" Miss Jiao gave him a small compliment.
"Where! Where!"
Although He Xin was modest in words, he was still very grateful in his heart.
Speaking of which, when filming "Seven Swords", whether it was Li Min, Yan Yan or Yang Caini, Lu Yi's salary was much higher than his. Although the first three were all big stars in Hong Kong, Lu Yi was also a popular niche player in the Mainland.
, may be stronger than him in terms of box office appeal, and he understands these principles, but he is still a little unbalanced in his heart.
"When will Director Gu and the others come over?" He Xin asked.
"It's still unknown whether Director Gu can come over."
"What's wrong? What happened?"
The congratulatory statement was immediately startled. You must know that this time "Peacock" has been shortlisted for the main competition unit of this film festival, domestic officials have high hopes.
Sister Jiao said with a speechless face: "I heard that the passport and air ticket can't be found."
"..."
He Xin was also speechless, how could such a thing happen? But considering Gu Changwei's Ma Daha character who was very inconsistent with his appearance, such a thing might be possible.
Instead, Li Qiang explained: "The main reason is that Director Gu is too busy during this period. "Peacock" will be released simultaneously here and in China on the 18th. There are too many things going on in all aspects."
"Well, you said it's easy to get a lost ticket, but you can't find your passport. There's nothing you can do about it. And it's the Chinese New Year, so there's nowhere to get a replacement." Sister Jiao sighed.
For works shortlisted for the main competition, if the director is not present, it will not only affect the award evaluation, but also be a negative factor for the sales of the film. Others may think that you don’t care at all, so why should I give you an award or buy your film?
"Green Grass" premieres on the 12th. If the organizer doesn't retain it by then, they may leave for home on the 14th or 15th. But now He Xin still has to stand up for "Peacock", especially when he arrives
If Gu Changwei really can't come, he will still have to shoulder the role of the main publicity force, and he may not be able to return to China until the end of the film festival.
After chatting with Sister Jiao and Li Qiang for a while, we walked around the trading market. It was almost noon when we returned to the hotel.
As soon as he came back, Ning Hao yelled at him and Xiaodouding with a look of resentment: "You are so unreasonable, you just left me alone in the hotel. It's not like you don't know that this is my first time here.
, the unfamiliar environment and language barrier made me afraid to go out."
Before He Xin could speak, Xiao Douding immediately said without hesitation: "Tsk, who is to blame? We knocked on the door this morning, and we didn't know who it was. He was sleeping like a pig, and there was no reaction at all.
You have the nerve to talk about us!”
"Uh... Then you can't knock for a while, or you can just make a phone call!"
Seeing that they were about to fight again, He Xin hurriedly said: "Okay, hurry up and pack up for dinner. We have to go to the Youth Forum office in the afternoon."
They were shortlisted for the Youth Forum unit, so naturally they had to report to the Youth Forum office first.
The forum office is located in a building less than 200 meters next to the Film Palace. The place is small, very quiet, and the atmosphere is a bit like a cafe called Sculpture Time in Beijing. The surrounding walls are covered with the units of the youth forum that were shortlisted for this year.
Movie posters, the poster of "Green Grass" is actually posted in the most eye-catching position.
"Hey, long time no see!"
When they arrived, a well-dressed middle-aged foreigner and a Chinese with long hair, an unshaven beard, a pair of gold-rimmed glasses and a cheerful face came out to greet them.
The middle-aged foreigner is Christopher Tersit, the chairman of the youth forum unit. This guy is actually not very old, only in his early forties, but the foreigner looks older and looks older than Wang Qingqiang, who is nearly fifty next to him.
"Mr. Telsit, nice to meet you!"
He Xin smiled and shook hands with him. This was not the first time the two met. When He Xin attended the Cannes Film Festival the year before last, he met Lou Ye, the newly appointed chairman of the Berlin Film Festival Youth Forum Unit, through Lou Ye.
"This is Director Ning Hao." At the same time, he introduced Ning Hao next to him.
"Wow, Director Ning, I didn't expect you to be so young! It's hard to imagine that as a Chinese director, you could make such a beautiful Mongolian movie."
Ning Hao looked completely flattered. He participated in the Venice Film Festival the year before last and although he won the Special Attention Award in the Against the Current section, he was not warmly welcomed by the chairman of the section as he was today.
However, when He Xin heard the name Mongolian movie in Xiaodouding's translation, he couldn't help but frowned and said to Tersit: "I'm sorry, Mr. Tersit, I need to correct you here, "Mongolian Ping Pong"
"" is a Chinese movie, not a Mongolian movie. China is very big, with fifty-six ethnic groups, and Mongolia is one of the larger ethnic groups."
"Oh, I'm very sorry, congratulations! Please forgive my ignorance. In fact, after watching the movie, I was very confused as to why the children would think of going to Beijing after picking up the table tennis balls. And you actually played a Chinese policeman in it.
Image, everything is reasonable now. However, this still does not prevent it from being a good movie, right?" Telsit apologized frankly.
"Yes, this is indeed a good movie."
In this regard, He Xin was helpless. With more opportunities to go abroad, he found that many foreigners actually knew nothing about China. For example, most of the foreigners he had come into contact with had only heard of "Shanghai" and "Beijing".
Most foreigners will also add "Guangzhou", and foreigners who have experienced a lot will also know "Xizang".
Fortunately, Mr. Telsit's attitude of correcting his mistakes allowed their conversation to continue happily. Ning Hao started chatting with Wang Qingqiang.
Wang Qingqiang is a good friend of Guan Jinpeng and is also the film selector for the Asian region of the Berlin Film Festival. This time "Green Grass" was shortlisted for the Youth Forum section because of his recommendation.
However, the relationship between He Xin and Ning Hao can be traced back to when "Incense" participated in the Hong Kong International Film Festival, because at that time he was the chairman of the jury of the Asian DV Film Competition. It was because of his support that "Incense"
"Only won the gold medal.
In the original time and space, this Wang Qingqiang was Ning Hao's boss, but now that Ning Hao is becoming more and more mature, he is no longer the poor little director in the original time and space.
The Youth Forum unit is also a competitive unit, and it is also the unit with the most shortlisted films. A total of 35 works were shortlisted for this film festival.
In the original time and space, there was a Chinese documentary film that was shortlisted for the Youth Forum section along with "Green Grass", but this documentary film called "Drowning" is a film with extremely incorrect views from a director who claims to be compassionate.
It simply lost its harmony.
After completing the check-in procedures, He Xin and Ning Hao stayed in the office for about half an hour before getting up and leaving.
"Sir Wang just told me that Andy Lau has launched an Asian rising star mentorship program and asked me if I would be interested in joining." After leaving the house, Ning Hao casually laughed with He Xin.
Huh?
He Xin's heart moved. He remembered that in his previous life, Ning Hao's "Stone" seemed to be under the banner of Andy Lau when it was released. He couldn't help but feel a move in his heart and asked: "What do you mean?"
"It is a plan to support new directors. Sir Wang said that Andy Lau will give the new director the greatest space to develop and will not interfere with the specific creative process. However, the script must be reviewed and the budget must be controlled. At the same time, it must be a feature film."
Ning Hao explained, and then sighed: "You said when we were working on "Incense", why didn't we come across this kind of plan to support new directors?"
He Xin pondered for a moment and asked abruptly: "If there was such a plan at that time, were you sure that you would be able to get support?"
"Well……"
Ning Hao was suddenly speechless, scratched his scalp, and said with a depressed look on his face: "You don't mean to hit people like this!"
But he had to admit that He Xin was telling the truth. At that time, he was famous and had no works. Before meeting He Xin, he had encountered many obstacles. Why should people support an unknown person like him?
He Xin asked again: "Do you have any ideas about this plan?"
"Any ideas? Of course I have no ideas. We are not short of investment now."
After being successfully shortlisted for "Green Grass", Yu Dong has already scheduled the two parties to cooperate again next time. It should be said that Ning Hao now has no shortage of investment in making movies, and now he and He Xin have established their own studio, and he is also one of the bosses.
First, why bother to rely on others.
What's more critical is that the current partner, Bona, is not only the father of the funder, but also has strong domestic distribution capabilities.
Andy Lau's new star project, apart from money, probably only has Andy Lau himself as a Hong Kong star. Ning Hao obviously doesn't value this now.