Chapter 559 Little ‘Fan Bingbing’? The Plan of Flattery Was Successfully Implemented! Yang Mi’s Ambition!
With the end of the opening ceremony of the Venice Film Festival, the award selection officially kicked off.
After returning to the hotel from the banquet, Chen Fei began to work on the premiere of "Dallas Buyers Club".
The invitations have been sent out, and the next step is to do some public relations, publicity, and marketing.
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The film festival has just begun, and it is the time when media reporters are crazy.
Not long after the opening ceremony of the film festival ended, various news reports have spread to the world.
As expected, the media in Europe and the United States mostly focused on Sophie Marceau's pictures, while in China, the attention was mainly focused on Chen Fei, Liu Yifei, and Yang Ying.
In addition to "Tai Chi 1: From Zero", the Chinese films shortlisted for the screening unit include "Tell Them, I'm Going on a White Crane" directed by Li Ruiqun, "Three Sisters" directed by Wang Bing, and "Diamond Sutra" directed by Taiwanese director Cai Mingliang.
Unfortunately, the attention of the latter few films cannot be compared with the former.
"The 69th Venice Film Festival officially opened, Chinese director Chen Fei led two Oscar winners to the stage, and the fans cheered wildly!"
"Yang Ying's dress design is bold, showing her figure, quite like a little 'Fan Bingbing'."
"Liu Yifei wore a white dress, she was elegant and graceful, her aura was no less than that of Hollywood actresses, showing the style of a heroine!"
Excellent entertainment reporters naturally understand the market demand and what the melon-eating crowd likes, and of course they will use this to make news.
The appearance of two Chinese actresses, Yang Ying and Liu Yifei, in Venice at the same time will naturally become the focus of media attention.
Of course, in comparison, winning awards is the top priority!
Hattie Politoff reacted extremely quickly.
By the next day, various reports about "The Master" had appeared on the program manual, entertainment network, newspapers, etc. related to the Venice Film Festival.
Looking around, without exception, all of them were very exaggerated flattering words.
"Through the story between a psychologist and his assistant, the film deeply explores the mysterious core of human emotions and explores the path of individual emotional liberation and self-salvation. The Master deserves a Golden Lion trophy!"
"The film does not simply expose the scandal of the cult. On the contrary, the structure of the film is composed of fierce struggles that are ongoing all the time. Paul Thomas Anderson deserves a Silver Lion Award for Best Director!"
"In my opinion, the script of The Master is a top-notch work, and the best script belongs to him!"
"The Master will surely win a great victory at this Venice International Film Festival, and the rest of the films can only serve as foils."
In just one morning, all kinds of flattering remarks surrounded the movie The Master.
And what was presented to the fans and other participating crews was that The Master was expected to sweep all the awards of this Venice Film Festival, including the Golden Lion Award, the Silver Lion Award for Best Director, the Best Screenplay Award, the Best Actor Award, and the Best Actress Award!
The flattering effect that Chen Fei wanted to achieve was very successful.
On the fifth day after the opening ceremony, an assistant under Hattie brought him a lot of good news.
"We spread a lot of information about Harvey Weinstein's actions in the process of winning awards, which once caused dissatisfaction among the other crews in the main competition unit.
In their view, all the online comments praising "The Master" were made by Harvey. He was praising the high and trampling the low, trying to influence the jury's selection."
Harvey is also notorious. When he participated in the Venice Film Festival last year, he locked someone in a hotel room for a whole day in order to buy a film from an overseas film company at a low price.
The year before last, he even guided public opinion and attacked a film that was in competition with him, causing the other party to lose.
The year before last, many people saw him lock a well-known European actress in a hotel room and force her to have sex with him.
With the support of these comments, coupled with the success of "praising to death", other crews participating in the main competition unit directly focused all their attention on "The Master" and Harvey.
Chen Fei often heard people discussing Harvey when he was eating in the hotel's dining area these days.
For example, this morning, he heard some comments that were very unfavorable to him.
"Harvey used the same tricks he used in Hollywood at the Venice Film Festival. There are many actresses from all over the world coming this year, and there will definitely be unlucky ones who will be forced by him."
"Others pay attention to the exchange of interests, and both parties are willing, but it is rare for someone to use force like Harvey."
"Alas, there is no way. He has money, strength, and status. Who can do anything to him?"
The appearance of these remarks all confirmed one point. At this Venice Film Festival, Harvey and the film "The Master" he invested in have become the target of many people.
Thinking of this, Chen Fei immediately ordered: "Please tell Hattie that the flattery can be temporarily stopped. The effect we want has been achieved. Next, let the bullets fly!"
"Okay."
The assistant nodded and turned to leave.
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With the holding of the Venice Film Festival, the time officially turned to September.
Although Chen Fei was busy with the premiere of the movie and dealing with Harvey, he did not give up his attention to the mainland cinema market.
"Anti-Corruption Storm 2", which was released on August 1, has been officially withdrawn from the theaters. The total box office was 40 million higher than the first one, and was fixed at 356 million.
"The Whisperer" was also officially withdrawn from the schedule, with a total box office of 232 million.
As for "The Lion Roars 2", although it has not yet completed the entire schedule, due to the release of "The Amazing Spider-Man" and "The Dark Knight Rises", the former's daily new box office has fallen below 100,000.
The total box office is only 60 million now, which can be said to be a huge loss!
Looking around, the most eye-catching one is "Your Name".
170 million on the first day, over 600 million in the first week, now it has been released for 14 days, and the box office has reached 897 million.
It is estimated that in at most four or five days, domestic theaters will officially welcome a brand new film with a box office of over 1 billion!
As for "Tai Chi 1: From Zero", there is no movement now. It is suppressed by a group of imported films and is simply miserable.
However, the competition between Fan Bingbing and Zhang Ziyi is still ongoing.
Unfortunately, because the box office of "Dangerous Liaisons" is much worse than "Double Exposure", Zhang Ziyi inexplicably feels a lack of confidence.
As for "HOLD Live Love" starring Yang Mi, it is even worse than "The Lion Roars 2"!
Except for the first day of the 27 million, the daily new box office has never exceeded 5 million, and the decline is extremely sharp.
And because of the movie release schedule, Liu Yifei has also suffered a lot of criticism.
In addition, Tangren has fueled the flames, so that Yang Mi has not dared to market herself recently, for fear of negative impact.
At the same time, Chen Fei also received a lot of reports on the progress of the filming.
"Hidden in the Dust" directed by Shen Ao and starring Tian Zhuangzhuang and Yan Ni was officially announced to be completed.
"The Pursuer" directed by Kang Honglei and starring Zhang Yi, Aruna and Zhang Songwen was also officially announced to be completed.
As for the post-production of "A Man's Martial Arts", "Wolf Warrior", "Ghost Blowing Light: The Ancient City of Jingjue", etc., all the films have come to an end, and they are just waiting for the day of release.
In addition, there are a lot of news from Hollywood.
The second season of "Shameless" has officially been announced to be completed, "Iron Man 3" has also been successfully completed, "Wreck-It Ralph" has started shooting, and "Godzilla" has completed one-third of the shooting progress...
And the "How to Train Your Dragon 2" which is currently in theaters, is about to break through the North American box office of 250 million US dollars, and the global box office is approaching 600 million US dollars!
Catherine enthusiastically launched the pre-release promotion activities of "Now You See Me" and is preparing to officially launch a sniper against the film "Argo" produced by Weinstein Pictures on October 11.
Looking around, for Chen Fei, these are almost all good news!
Of course, he will definitely not fall behind in "eating melons".
Due to the popularity of "The Dark Knight Rises" and "The Amazing Spider-Man", many Chinese-language films in China have suffered a Waterloo at the box office.
The complaint mailbox of the Film Bureau has been filled up these days, and it is almost full.
In response to these protests, Han Sanping pulled Chen Fei out without hesitation: "Both are Chinese-language films, why can "Your Name" withstand the impact of Hollywood movies, but you can't?
Scheduling is certainly the key, but don't you watch the movies you made?
All the reviews on the Internet are bad, and the fans' scores are below the average. For such works, how can I increase the screening for you?"
This retort directly broke the defense of many producers, directors, and film companies in the circle.
There are more complaints and rebuttals, but the bureau did not respond or give any feedback, and pretended not to see them.
However, although the full invasion of imported films has led to more and more films with heavy investment losses, the number of films released has increased instead of decreased!
And in just a few days, many domestic films have been successfully approved.
However, looking around, almost all of them are youth love films of various types, and the main theme is "selling feelings"!
Among them, the most eye-catching is the "My Deskmate" by Ai Dajin.
In May last year, Ai Dajin was arrested for drunk driving and sentenced to six months of detention.
In March this year, the talk show "Xiao Shuo" hosted by him began to be broadcast.
It has only been six months, and he has come up with another script and successfully attracted investment from Guangguang.
I have to say, this guy is really capable!
In addition to "My Deskmate", on the other hand, the epic masterpiece "White Deer Plain" that has been hyped for two years is finally going to be released.
Wang Quanan boasted in front of the media, saying that he would not only tell a literary masterpiece in a movie, but also tell it in a wonderful way!
More than a week before the release, he has already held a film viewing.
Chen Fei saw the guest lineup reported by the media, and all of them were well-known first-line directors in China.
Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Gu Changwei, Tian Zhuangzhuang...
The details of the film have not been leaked, but according to the interviews of several big directors after the filming, it seems that the film is quite good.
Chen Fei couldn't suppress his curiosity and called Tian Zhuangzhuang to learn about the details.
When facing his own people, Tian Zhuangzhuang naturally said everything he knew: "The story cuts off the middle part of the novel, and the explanation is not clear. The theme is vague and the narrative is chaotic. In particular, the entanglement between the Bailu family and the opposition between Bai Jiaxuan and Tian Xiaoe are not clearly shown. Therefore, for the audience who have not read the original novel, it is impossible to appreciate the profound historical and social significance of the original novel "White Deer Plain" through the film..."
Hearing these words, Chen Fei suddenly realized!
Wang Quanan has been holding back for two years, and this is a fart!
No wonder the online reviews of this movie are almost all focused on the actors' acting skills, rather than the story.
It seems that these big directors are very careful about their feathers.
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After eating melons for the time being, Chen Fei stood up and walked out of the hotel.
Today is the last screening of "Dallas Buyers Club". Many invited guests have expressed that they will come today, and he, the director, naturally has to show up.
Usually, the premiere of a movie is the time when the most invited guests are invited, but this movie is the opposite.
The reason is very simple, because tonight is the time when the film festival jury officially decides the awards, and Chen Fei is going to let them deepen their impression of the film.
However, he never thought that when he just arrived outside the screening room, he received a call from Huo Wenxi.
"Mr. Chen, there is something I need to report to you. Is your time convenient now?"
Chen Fei looked down at his watch and walked to the side: "Tell me, what's the matter?"
"It's like this, Yang Mi's contract is about to expire, but she has set a renewal condition."
"What condition?"
"She wants to play the heroine of "The Martian."
Chen Fei frowned suddenly: "What a joke? Is she out of her mind? With her current box office appeal, can she support this science fiction masterpiece?"
Because of the failure of two movies in a row, Yang Mi has now been questioned by many people.
And more importantly, her acting skills are really not good.
It can be seen from "The Four Famous Catchers" that if Deng Chao hadn't been dragging her, her performance in the film would be even worse!
"Director Guo Fan also said that. He will never consider Yang Mi."
"Then what? Did you reply to her?"
"I have already replied. Yang Mi also made it clear that she will not renew the contract."
"Oh, if you don't want to renew it, then don't renew it. All her subsequent resources will be transferred to Zhao Liying and Shu Chang. If there are any left, you can also pay attention to other actresses."
As he was talking, two figures suddenly appeared in Chen Fei's mind: "You can also pay attention to Dilreba and Gulinaza. If there are suitable roles, you can recommend them to try."
"Okay, I understand."
Feiyinghuang Agency is not as overbearing as other companies. The main point is that it is a matter of mutual consent.
Since Yang Mi has decided not to renew the contract, Chen Fei will naturally not force her.
Withdraw the resources invested in her, and wait until the contract officially expires, and each will go their own way.
"By the way, what is she doing recently? It seems that she hasn't been active for a while?"
"After I clearly refused, she turned around and took a new play."
"What play?"
"The movie "Tiny Times" of the same name adapted from the best-selling book "Tiny Times", a youth-themed work written and directed by Guo Jingming."
Hearing this, Chen Fei suddenly fell silent.
After going around in circles, everything returned to the starting point.
He had also read the published novel "Tiny Times", but unfortunately, he stopped reading after reading only a few pages.
Although this book has many fans, the content it conveys is completely inconsistent with the mainstream values and morals of ordinary people, and is even a bit extreme!
The content is indeed very real, but that is only the reality of a few people.
Although the story is built in the current city, all the people and things presented overlook the real era with a "bright" and "floating" attitude. It is an unquestionable "present" that has been separated from the city's history and memory, and is expressed through the development of new consumption concepts and lifestyles.
Material, money, luxury, temptation, greed...
Adapting such a story into a movie will attract a lot of fans of the original novel, but it may also have a very bad impact on the actors.
Controversy is inevitable!
Unfortunately, Yang Mi can't see clearly...or what she wants is "controversy"!
But she didn't consider that if the reputation of a movie made by an actor completely collapsed, then whether the actor's future path can still go smoothly?
After hanging up the phone, Chen Fei shook his head and directly put all the things about Yang Mi behind his mind.
It's just that an actress terminated the contract, which has no effect on him at all.
Some people's ambitions will inevitably soar as their popularity grows, and such people are destined to be unretainable.
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In an empty office floor in the capital.
Yang Mi and Zeng Jia are selecting a location for their personal studio at this time.
"Mi Mi, I personally think this place is very good, with good lighting, suitable rent, and it is also in the center of several film and television production companies, which is very convenient for us to communicate with other partners."
"Well, I think it's very good here too."
Yang Mi nodded in response and asked, "How is the studio registration going?"
"It's almost there. The certificate will be issued in three days at most. When our contract with Feiyinghuang Agency expires, we can directly use the studio to conduct external business, including signing artists."
"Jiaxing Media?"
"Yes, you and I are both shareholders and bosses. Let's work together to create brilliance!"
"Okay, remember to tell me after the certificate comes out. Since the popularity of "The Martian" can't catch up, then we will open up a new route!"
Yang Mi's ambition can no longer be suppressed at this time, burning like a raging flame!
The current studio can only be regarded as a transition, and the film and television company is her ultimate goal.
Therefore, she didn't even think about registering the studio under other film and television companies.
In her opinion, Zhou Xun's choice to register her personal studio under Feiyue Film and Television is a very stupid approach.
If you want to make your own decisions, you can only choose to be completely independent!
From now on, she Yang Mi will be promoted to the boss and producer of the film and television company, and completely complete the leap from actor to capital!
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