Today is the official opening day of the Lin'an Fantasy Film Festival, and the originally slightly deserted film and television industrial park has become a bustling city, and even the entire Lin'an City is full of festive atmosphere.

The streets of Lin'an can be found all over the streets of Lin'an, with film festival posters inspired by China's first horror film "Singing in the Night", as well as posters of various popular films that will be released in China.

The opening ceremony began at 4 p.m., but before 2 p.m., the red carpet entrance in front of the Palais des Cinémétes was crowded. Thousands of fans gathered around the red carpet of the opening ceremony early, ready to prepare their cameras and pen and paper to wait for their favorite stars to appear.

At the entrance of the red carpet, a large number of Chinese and foreign reporters gathered who could not enter the red carpet area for interviews. In order to enter the red carpet interview area, you must obtain a red carpet shooting permit. Of the more than 4,000 media outlets around the world, only 250 were accredited, including top media outlets such as the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, and Reuters.

The only TV station that was allowed to broadcast live was Zhijiang Satellite TV, and the reason why the broadcast rights were handed over to Zhijiang Satellite TV, instead of movie channels or other TV stations, was not because the film festival was in Lin'an, but because Zhijiang Satellite TV won the TV broadcast rights of the film festival with 70 million.

Film festivals are very expensive, and large-scale film festivals are even more expensive. For example, the Cannes Film Festival has an annual budget of 20 million euros, the Venice Film Festival has an operating budget of about 12 million euros, and the Berlin Film Festival has a budget of about 10 million euros. For example, in Cannes' budget of 20 million, the French National Film Center and the Cannes city government bear 50% of the financial burden, and the same is true for Venice and Berlin, and the rest of the money can only be raised by themselves, so the film festival will desperately pull sponsorship, will sell broadcast rights, and use various means to make money.

The operating budget of the Lin'an Fantasy Film Festival is 150 million yuan, except for the start-up funds of 5 million yuan each provided by the Century Summit and the Lin'an Municipal Government in the early stage of preparation, the rest of the money is completely raised by the festival itself. TV broadcast rights are a particularly important part of the film festival's income, so the film festival organizing committee contacted a number of TV stations, and finally sold the broadcast rights of the opening and closing ceremonies of the film festival and the main activities to Zhijiang Satellite TV at a price of 70 million.

The cost of 70 million sounds amazing, but it is definitely worth the money for Zhijiang Satellite TV, and it will be a great improvement to the overall image of Zhijiang Satellite TV to be able to exclusively broadcast the various activities of the Lin'an Fantasy Film Festival;

Zhijiang Satellite TV also attaches great importance to the live broadcast of the film festival, and has reported on the progress of the entire red carpet ceremony since one o'clock in the afternoon, and invited many relevant people to discuss and comment in the studio.

At this time, at the entrance of the red carpet, the host of Zhijiang Satellite TV was introducing the audience: "Have you noticed? The red carpet behind me is a little different from other film festivals, the whole red carpet is one meter higher than the ground, and there are railings on both sides of the red carpet, which looks a bit like a T-shaped catwalk from a distance." The design was inspired by the West Lake Broken Bridge, as the Lin'an Fantasy Film Festival is a bridge between China and the world. At four o'clock in the afternoon, 300 Chinese and foreign filmmakers, including James Cameron, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Leonardo, as well as Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu, will cross the bridge and enter the movie palace. ”

The camera switched, and in the largest hall of the movie palace, another host introduced to the camera: "The movie palace has five large movie halls, namely Dingjun Mountain Hall, Zheng Zhengqiu Hall, Fei Mu Hall, Xie Jin Hall, and Future Hall. Among them, the Dingjun Mountain Hall is the largest, with more than 2,800 seats. I believe that friends who are more familiar with Chinese movies know that China's first movie is "Dingjun Mountain", and Dingjun Mountain Hall is named in honor of "Dingjun Mountain". "Dingjun Mountain" is the beginning of Chinese films, and the organizing committee also hopes that the Lin'an Fantasy Film Festival will have a good start......"

At the same time, various discussions about the Lin'an Fantasy Film Festival on the Internet have been very loud, #临安奇幻电影节#直接被送上了微博热搜, in the world gossip, in the movie box office bar and other places with many fans, even opened a live broadcast building, while waiting for the red carpet to start, while discussing various gossip about the film festival.

In the expectation of countless viewers and fans, the time soon came to 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and the red carpet ceremony officially began.

Red carpet emcee Hua Shao began to host: "Distinguished guests, girls, gentlemen, media friends now, as well as audience friends who watch the live broadcast through TV and the Internet, good afternoon! Welcome to the Avenue of Stars of the 1st Lin'an International Fantasy Film Festival, I am the red carpet emcee Hua Shao......"

After a brief introduction to the organizers of the film festival and the content of the film festival, Hua Shao raised his voice: "Next, let's welcome the first guest of honor to walk on the red carpet today, she is the famous Chinese actress Miss Zhang Ziyi!"

As soon as Zhang Ziyi, who was dressed in a white gauze dress, walked on the red carpet, the audience immediately burst into enthusiastic applause and shouts, and flashing flashing lights lit up all over the world.

Zhang Ziyi is one of the most internationally renowned Chinese actresses, especially the three "Time and Space Warriors" launched at the peak of the century, with a global box office of nearly $2 billion, making her truly an international star, and there is no more suitable opening candidate than her.

After walking the red carpet and being interviewed by emcee Zhu Dan, Zhang Ziyi said with a bright smile: "The year before last, I went to the Austin Fantastic Film Festival in the United States with the crew of "Three Color World" to promote, which was different from the film festivals I participated in before, which was very fun. Fans will be dressed as zombies, vampires and the like, and the whole film festival is completely a festival for movie fans, completely different from the three major film festivals. I thought it would be nice if we had a film festival like this, and now that we do, it's great!"

After Zhang Ziyi's shining debut, stars from all walks of life began to appear one after another. Zhou Xun, Zhao Wei, Fan Binbin, Hu Jun and other domestic first-line stars have appeared on the red carpet, attracting countless films. It is no exaggeration to say that the main force of Chinese films is basically here today.

As the most important force in the Chinese film industry, a film event like the Lin'an Fantasy Film Festival is naturally indispensable to Zhang Ran's students, and they all came with their works. For example, Yang Fan came with the crew of "Painted Skin 2", Wang Luodan came as the heroine of "Border Storm", and Bai Ling and Ji Chen appeared as the heroes and heroines of the movie "Ants", this thriller sci-fi film directed by Wu Ershan is also the closing film of this film festival. They were unrivalled in popularity, with applause, cheers, and the flashing white light of the cameras almost non-stop after their debut.

It's already mid-June, and the students will soon be on vacation, and the summer vacation will begin. For many domestic films that are about to meet the audience in the summer, there is no better publicity stage than the Lin'an Fantasy Film Festival, and they all expect to use the Lin'an Fantasy Film Festival to build momentum for the film. As a result, dozens of new films such as "Havoc in the Heavenly Palace", "Cold War", and "Painted Skin 2" have signed up with the organizing committee for promotion, almost including the seed contestants of domestic films in the summer file.

Among all the crews, the movie "Havoc in Heaven" adapted from the Chinese classic "Journey to the West" is the most star-studded, when Donnie Yen, Zhou Runfa, Huang Shengyi, Chang Jirong and other leading actors appeared, the atmosphere was very hot, and the screams of fans even overshadowed the voice of the emcee on the scene.

The applause and cheers received by Huang Shengyi and Chang Jirong were particularly high, and the limelight completely overshadowed Zhen Zidan, Zhou Yunfa and other Xiangjiang superstars. Zhou Yunfa sighed with emotion, Chinese films are already the world of young people in the mainland, and the glory of Xiangjiang movies is really gone!

In addition to domestic films, there are also many Hollywood movies released in the summer file, and for these Hollywood films, the Lin'an Fantasy Film Festival is also an excellent publicity stage, so the main creators of these films have also appeared on the red carpet.

"The Expendables 2" has been confirmed to be released in the mainland in September this year, in order to promote the film, director and star Stallone, with Chinese old friend Guo Dastatham, and Chinese superstar Li Lianjie with them. When they appeared on the red carpet, the scene was thunderous, and there were many people shouting "Guo Da".

Jason Statham was taken aback by this formation, and saw that many people couldn't stop screaming at him, and he felt a little proud in his heart, this is completely a huge treatment, so he asked Li Lianjie next to him: "They have been shouting pot, what does this mean?"

Li Lianjie was happy when he heard this question, and said: "Guo Da is a greeting!"

When Jason Statham heard the greeting, he waved at the fans, and then greeted everyone: "Pot!

Boom, the atmosphere of the scene exploded instantly!

To talk about the popularity in China, Jason Statham is far inferior to Tom Cruise, he is really an old friend of the Chinese, especially after starring in "Jinling Thirteen", the Chinese audience's favorability towards him has simply reached an unprecedented level.

As soon as Cruise appeared on the red carpet, it caused an earth-shattering scream from the fans at the scene, and even the reporters at the scene became crazy, shouting "Tom" while taking pictures. Cruise is very close to fans, almost everything he needs for autographs and group photos, and he walked for fifteen minutes on the red carpet that should be done in five minutes.

Now the Chinese market has replaced Dongying as the most important market for Cruise outside of North America, and the potential of this market has not really been explored, and the future has unlimited possibilities. Therefore, the movie "Lost Battlefield" has just been filmed, and the production has just begun in the later stage, so he can't wait to come over to promote the movie.

At the end of the red carpet, the emcee Zhu Dan stopped Tom and interviewed him. Zhu Dan is a very professional host, and he will definitely not ask special questions such as "what do you think of Chinese movies", "what is your impression of Lin'an", "what kind of food have you eaten". But there are some questions she must ask: "You have participated in many film festivals, do you have any different feelings about participating in the Lin'an Fantasy Film Festival this time?"

Cruise didn't think about it and said directly: "The film festival is run by Zhang Ran, and I knew it must be a great movie before I came." When I arrived, I found that it was even better than I thought it would be, and it couldn't have been better. The Chinese film market has become one of the most important markets in the world, and it is believed that the Lin'an Fantasy Film Festival will build a bridge for filmmakers around the world. ”

Zhu Dan smiled and asked, "Then will you come to Lin'an to film in the future?"

Cruise said seriously: "I have already made two movies in China, in 05 in the magic capital to shoot "Mission Impossible 3", last year in Jinling to shoot "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins", as long as I have the opportunity to shoot in Lin'an, I believe that Lin'an will become the world's most important film shooting base, filmmakers from all over the world will come to Lin'an to film." ”

Zhu Dan didn't know if Tom Cruise was telling the truth or being polite, but as a native of Zhijiang, he was still very happy to hear that Tom was so optimistic about Lin'an. Zhu Dan was just about to continue to ask questions, only to hear Tom add again: "Peter Jackson has turned Wellington into an important town in the world film industry, and Lin'an has Zhang Ran!"