Dan Gilroy was excited.

He has been polishing the script of "Nightcrawler" for nearly seven years, and Toronto has received great praise as soon as it appeared!

The most widely circulated newspapers in North America, including The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times, are praising Nightcrawler.

The most mentioned thing is the perfection of the script!

Of course, the script is so perfect that it's easy to lose surprises...

However, with the help of the Toronto Film Festival's strong promotion capabilities, the overseas rights of "Nightcrawler" sold very well, not only recovering the investment, but also making a lot of money!

No, Focus Film and Television decided to add two million dollars in publicity and promotion expenses for the promotion of the Oscar outpost, if it can win several heavyweight awards in the outpost, this year's Oscar, "Nightcrawler" will definitely be able to win!

Now he is also a successful person among his friends!

……

Brother Ming gave up the interview seat, and Sister Yang must have held back her words.

After all, "Nightcrawler", she also invested close to three million dollars...

Now it's harvest time, of course, to blow a few words!

When I arrived at the hotel where Dan Gilroy was, I pushed open the door and saw two people I didn't know...

"This is director Damien Chazelle, this is Neil Blomkamp, these are my friends!"

“… Hello, I'm Shen Ming..."

Brother Ming was a little confused, how could Dan Gilroy introduce three foreigners to him?

And the two of them looked at him with a burning eye... Like, it's like seeing the yuan, no, it's the dollar!

"Damien and Neil are both very talented and thoughtful directors, they both have projects in their hands, and when they heard that you were coming, they had to pester me and say that they wanted to get to know you!"

“… No, Dan, I'm an actor, not an investor..."

"You take a look at their projects first, if you're interested, let's talk!"

Dan Gilroy has already investigated, Shen Ming is not an ordinary actor, if he is interested in a project, he can at least attract tens of millions of capital injections!

This one is true...

Now Shen Ming openly expressed his interest in a script, and immediately a bunch of people will rush to invest, although he can't directly smash hundreds of millions like Chen Kun and Huang Bo, but tens of millions of yuan is enough for the production, publicity and distribution of an independent film...

The two scripts in front of Shen Ming, "Burst Drummer" and "District 9"...

"Take it all!"

Kominsky, who hadn't spoken for almost two months, suddenly spoke, and in a hurry...

“… Hey, you're alive again?"

Shen Ming couldn't hold back his excitement and replied directly...

Then Dan Gilroy looked up at Shen Ming: "Shen, what did you say?"

"Nothing... I'll take a look first..."

Shen Ming hurriedly opened the script, and he watched "District 9" first...

……

"I Am Not Pan Jinlian" is a masterpiece of director Feng Da!

He's not a fifth-generation director!

Even if you're about the same age, it's not!

The fifth-generation directors pay attention to themes beyond reality, and the characters in the play don't care about firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, house tickets, but about fate struggles, family hatred, country hatred, and love and separation.

As for Director Feng, as early as 1997, when he filmed "The Back of the Moon" that was not broadcast, he focused on the lives of ordinary people.

"The Back of the Moon" is a ten-episode TV series based on the novel of the same name. It tells the story of a man and a woman who went to Hainan to speculate in real estate and calculated each other while falling in love.

The original work is very dark, with collusion between officials and businessmen, lovers turning against each other, and the temptation of huge wealth makes everyone expose their naked greed.

This drama was not broadcast at all, and even in the 90s, when the atmosphere was still open, it was an extremely sensitive subject.

From this point of view, he is very similar to the group of people born in the fifties of the last century, they all have a natural sense of social responsibility and mission, the wind and snow are not their ideals, the disadvantages of the needle are, this is true, people of their age have an active participation in the country and society.

It's a pity that it is a bit difficult for a person to completely transform from a commercial film.

Commerce, Literature and Art;

Audience, heart...

This is a difficult balance to grasp, and how to break through comes from the improvement of one's own ability.

That's why people often say: When your talent can't support your ambitions, then dive down and practice hard.

But Director Feng doesn't seem to have...

He went the other way, complaining and bombarding everywhere.

Over the years, Feng Cannon's fame surpassed that of his films...

In the story "I Am Not Pan Jinlian", the text is extremely difficult to change into images: there are many people, many words, and few scenes.

Most of the events in the original book are represented through dialogue.

This story is even more difficult to make into a movie than "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit".

Qiu Ju was wronged, her husband was kicked by the village chief and seriously injured his organs. The village chief has indeed committed a crime. Then Qiu Ju went to court all the way, and she did receive a lot of unfair treatment in this process.

The audience likes to watch how the people at the bottom bring down the big guys and then get justice, which fits the main line of a story. The protagonist has a strong, reasonable goal, and solves difficulties along the way to get closer to the goal and finally achieves it.

And what about "I Am Not Pan Jinlian"?

In the context of absurdity, a heroine with unreasonable motives, who has a fight with doctors and porcelain, tosses herself and the people around her all the way.

A protagonist who can't arouse the audience's empathy and empathy, the goal is unreasonable, and the behavior is unreasonable, how does this make the audience accept?

Therefore, there are a lot of praises, but it is still a lot worse than a first-class work.

Director Feng has studied the box office for half his life, and he knows very well in his heart that "Pan Jinlian" is estimated to be planted, at least there will be no look at the box office!

It's time for the next one!

The book "Fanghua" was written by Yan Geling, a story about the 70s to the 80s of the last century.

He likes this story very much, this book is a manuscript he invited, created by Yan Geling, and there are a lot of things about the army art troupe...

The problem is that every time he works, the Wang brothers will stuff people, and one role will be changed for one signing place!

Although it has been better in recent years, the main characters of "Fanghua" are all young people, and the Wang brothers will definitely not miss it...

And, frankly speaking, he doesn't have much confidence in the box office of "Fanghua"...

In terms of the male lead, the Wang brothers provided several candidates: Li Yifeng, Wu Lei and a man named Shen Ming...

He doesn't like any of these people!

Except for Li Yifeng, he didn't know either.

What kind of thing is this, can you perform Liu Feng's energy?

However, the Wang brothers like it very much, and they want to sign a few popular streams to supplement their cast...

So what to do?

I can only meet them one by one!

No, "Pan Jinlian" premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, and Yang Xin took Shen Ming to meet him!

accompanied by Wang Zhonglei and Zhang Ziyi...