Zhang Ran: Behind them is the press gallery. A young girl saw him and took the initiative to say hello: "Director Zhang, I didn't expect to meet you here, I'm worried about where to find you!"

Zhang Ran smiled at her: "Hello, is there something wrong?"

The female reporter hurriedly introduced herself: "I'm a reporter from the movie channel "World Cinema Journey", don't you have a promotion meeting tomorrow, we want to report, but we don't have tickets, I don't know if you can give us two?"

Luc Besson told Zhang Ran that the global media are very concerned about this event and want to enter the promotion meeting, and in order to ensure that the important information of the film is not leaked, less than 10 media are allowed to enter the scene. However, the movie channel is its own person, and "World Movie Journey" has an old relationship with Zhang Ran, so they must be let in. It's just that there are a bunch of reporters behind him now, and he can't say that he has tickets in his hand, so he said: "No problem, when the movie is over, I'll take you to Luc Besson, and I'll help you get two tickets!"

The female reporter was overjoyed when she heard this: "Director Zhang, thank you so much, otherwise I wouldn't know what to do!"

Many reporters around know that Zhang Ran has an extraordinary relationship with the movie channel, and they look at the female reporter with envy. This promotion meeting was star-studded, and they all wanted to go in, but Zhang Ran had never known them in his life, how could he get tickets for them. Tickets for the recommendation meeting are 2,000 euros each, and more importantly, you can't buy tickets even if you have the money.

The movie soon began.

Zhang Ran had watched "Blind Well" before, but he watched a disc, which is completely different from watching a movie in the theater. The whole film is shot handheld, and the scenes do not change much. The point of view is objective and calm, and there is no intervention in the occurrence of events and no emotion. Not artificially illuminated. Regardless of the visual beauty, the environment is realistically reproduced. It looks like a complete documentary. Because of this, the whole movie is particularly heart-wrenching.

After the movie was played, there was a warm applause at the scene, and the whole applause lasted for several minutes, and everyone expressed their respect for the film.

Zhang Ran applauded with force, and he used it harder than anyone else. To be able to risk his life and complete such a movie in a well where danger may occur at any time, the director and creator are worthy of respect!

At seven o'clock in the evening of the next day, Zhang Ran and Zhang Ziyi took a car to the outskirts of Berlin. The launch party for "Time Warriors" was held in a prestigious castle on the outskirts of Berlin. The castle is considered by the Germans to be the venue for the most prestigious events.

The presentation starts at 8 o'clock and has an hour and a half, and at 10 p.m. there is a big celebratory party with many celebrities in attendance. Zhang Ran, as the main creators of the film, must arrive before the promotion meeting begins.

When Zhang Ran got out of the car and looked up, he saw that tens of thousands of flowers were decorated in front of the castle, and two huge posters were erected on both sides of the green road nearly 200 meters at the door, and in front of the posters were 8 German male models wearing heavy SWAT uniforms in the movie, all of whom were more than 1.9 meters tall. The scene was spectacular.

This is the third time in nearly 20 years that the castle has hosted a film celebration in this way, the first being the launch of Bertolucci's "The Last Emperor" and the second being the celebration of "Star Wars Prequel". The third time is this promotion meeting. In order to play the 3D storyboard of "Time Warrior", Luc Besson rented a high-definition projector, which was transported to the castle yesterday afternoon. More than 60 people were mobilized to arrange this promotion meeting. 3 van trucks to transport related food, tableware, lamps, audio, equipment and so on.

Now. A large group of reporters gathered at the gate of the castle, and I am afraid that there are nearly 100 media outlets. They have been waiting in front of the closed gates of the castle since 4 p.m. However, they did not have a ticket and could not enter the castle to report, so they had to wait outside the door.

Entering the second gate of the castle, six German girls dressed in black dresses played elegant world famous songs, and the laser light of the English title and logo of the changing "Time and Space Warrior" kept shining over the castle. The world's top studios and filmmakers in formal attire rubbed shoulders with each other, reminiscing about the past.

Zhang Ran and Zhang Ziyi appeared in the hall and immediately attracted the attention of many people. Luc Besson greeted them with a smile on his face and chatted warmly with them.

Although Zhang Ran is very famous in China, he is the most concerned young director, and he has also won awards internationally, but in the eyes of these top filmmakers, he is completely a miscellaneous fish, and few people know him at all, but Zhang Ziyi is quite popular.

"Ziyi, hello!"

"Ziyi, you're so sexy dressed today!"

After a while, seven or eight people walked towards Zhang Ran and them. They all came to Zhang Ziyi, and when they talked to her, they seemed to have the idea of kissing Fangze. As for Zhang Ran, who is this obnoxious kid.

Fortunately, Luc Besson did not forget Zhang Ran, and took him to introduce to the filmmakers present: "Zhang, let me introduce you to you, this is Vincent Maraval, director of WildBunch, ......"

"Zhang, this is Sven Tedwick ...... SenatorFilm, Germany"

Under Luc Besson's threading needle, in more than ten minutes, Zhang Ran exchanged business cards and contact information with more than a dozen people. Zhang Ran is busy facing filmmakers all over the world, but his heart is extremely comfortable.

Zhang Ran said gratefully: "All this is thanks to you, if you rely on me, I'm afraid that no one will be able to move." These people are not a few people I met when I was selling films at the Tokyo Film Festival. ”

Luc Besson said with a smile: "Except for Weinstein, who runs all over the world, other big film companies have fixed channels, and many things are solved through their own channels. With his own strength, it is difficult for a new director to break into the sales circle. ”

Just then, a voice came: "Hey, you two, what are you talking about?"

Zhang Ran raised his eyes and saw that the person who came knew him was Harvey Weinstein, the owner of Miramax. He nodded at Harvey and didn't speak. Although the North American distribution rights of "Burst Drummer" were sold to Harvey, Zhang Ran was always a little wary of this person, after all, this guy had deceived many people.

Luc Besson was enthusiastic and waved, "We just talked about you, Harvey!"

"Talk about me?" said Harvey, nodding to Luc Besson. While looking at Zhang Ran with interest, "Then you're talking about my Oscar victory." Or is it a box office bonus?"

Zhang Ran smiled and said: "Whether it is the award or the box office, we are optimistic about you." Just hope you don't finish the Oscars. At least we have to leave the actor to Adrien Brody, we signed him when we saw that there was hope for the best actor! If we can't get the best actor, we will have one less publicity point!"

Harvey was a little surprised to hear this, if this was the case, then this young man was a little too scary. Now the form of the Oscar for Best Actor is relatively clear, except for Brody, everyone else has won the actor, and it is very difficult to win it again, not surprisingly, Brody is the actor. But if only you could have seen that a few months ago. That's pretty impressive.

However, he didn't show it, and kept a warm smile on his face: "What I want is the best picture, and I don't have the idea of competing for the best actor." By the way, Zhang, I heard that "Bursting Drummer" has been released in China for three weeks, and the box office has exceeded 60 million, creating a miracle!"

"Yes, this is also beyond my expectations!" Zhang Ran nodded with a smile, and the box office of the third week of "Burst Drummer" was released yesterday afternoon. The weekly box office was 22.34 million, with a total of 60.44 million. He looked at Harvey and asked, "I don't know if in North America, you're planning to have 'Burst Drummer' in theaters." Or do you just send DVDs?"

"We'll do small-scale screenings, and if the screenings are good, we'll scale them up!" Harvey smiled. He is not optimistic about the box office of "Burst Drummer" in North America. However, if the film is released as a cult film, the response in the DVD market should be good.

The release of independent films in North America basically starts with screenings. If the film is good, the distributor will scale, and if the film is not good. It was also a promotion for the movie, and the DVD could be released quickly on the hot iron. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Slumdog Millionaire" were first screened in several theaters, and because of the excellent screening results, they gradually expanded their scale.

Zhang Ran is also not optimistic about the box office of "Bursting Drummer" in North America, the original movie with an Oscar halo only had a box office of $13 million, and now it is replaced by the Chinese version, which is estimated to be tens of thousands of dollars. The only thing he hopes is that it won't be like "Big Names", which only has a box office of $820, which is really a bit difficult to pass. He smiled and said, "I hope there will be a good box office!"

"I hope too!" Harvey replied earnestly, then smiled, "Actually, I'm more interested in Time Soldier, let's talk about it when you finish the trailer!"

In fact, Harvey regretted it a little, a few months ago, when he met Zhang Ran in Tokyo, Zhang Ran mentioned this project. At that time, he was quite interested, but Zhang Ran rejected him. If he had insisted on it and read the full script, he would have won the project. Now that this project has become a fragrant bun, the senior management of the six major film companies have arrived, and it is really difficult to snatch food from the mouths of the six major films!

Of course, he has been able to snatch the Oscars from the Big Six again and again, and this time he is confident that he can snatch the project from them. The Big Six have the advantages of the Big Six, and he also has his own advantages, and he is sure to convince Zhang Ran.

When the time pointed to nine o'clock, Luc Besson excitedly walked to the front of the podium and said enthusiastically: "Distinguished guests, friends, welcome to the promotion of "Time and Space Warriors", I am Luc Besson!"

After the opening remarks, Luc Besson began to introduce the story, funding, cast, and selling points of the film. Immediately afterwards, he asked Zhang Ziyi, the star of the movie, to come on stage to meet everyone. Because it was only a pitch meeting, and Keanu Reeves was busy training again, they didn't come to Berlin.

"Next, I would like to invite director Zhang Ran to give you a detailed introduction to the movie!" Luc Besson praised Zhang Ziyi, then gave up the podium to Zhang Ran, and retreated to the stage with a smile while applauding. Zhang Ran is the director of the movie, and he knows better than him in terms of conception, operation, and team, and Zhang Ran is better to talk about the rest.

Zhang Ran took the stage, introduced himself with a smile, and then introduced the relevant information of the film in detail in the form of slides, the behind-the-scenes team of the film, including James Horner, the Academy Award winner who created the soundtrack of "Titanic", to compose the soundtrack; the post-production team of the world's top films such as "The Matrix" and other films; the means of publicity and distribution not only include all-media, multi-faceted, long-term, high-density reports, massive advertising, etc.

Hollywood superstars, excellent stories, unbridled imagination, 120 million production costs, and a strong post-production team, all these elements came together to cause a strong shock on the scene, and everyone looked forward to this movie even more.

When Zhang Ran explained the situation of the movie in detail, the lights in the venue dimmed, and 3D storyboards began to appear on the huge curtain in front.

The venue immediately fell silent, and everyone's eyes were drawn to it. (To be continued.) )