At seven o'clock in the evening of the 15th, the Berlin Film Festival officially opened in front of the cameras and cameras of countless journalists. Cheng Peng and Tong Liyu also participated in the whole process and completed their first red carpet show in their lives.

However, their red carpet debut did not attract any attention, and the eyes of foreign media were focused on the superstars, while the domestic media did not know Cheng Peng and them at all, did not know who they were, and there was no report about them, and they missed a chance to make headlines in vain.

In fact, this is completely caused by Cheng Peng's inexperience, under normal circumstances, before the film goes to the film festival, a small press conference will be held, telling reporters when they will arrive at the film festival and whether they will attend the opening ceremony, the purpose is to tell the photojournalists who will go to the red carpet to broadcast that we have to go out on the red carpet and pay attention to taking pictures, so as to grab the headlines in China.

Of course, Cheng Peng and they didn't want to show off at the opening ceremony, they wanted to accumulate a little red carpet experience when they walked the opening ceremony, because five days later was the premiere of their movie, and there was a red carpet exclusive to them.

Early the next morning, Tong Liyu flew back to China, because the second test of Chinese opera was about to start, and she had to go back to take the exam.

Cheng Peng and the three of them came to the Movie Palace, signed up with the exhibition organizer, and started selling films. There are several exhibition locations for the film festival, and other exhibition locations are far away, so Cheng Peng and his team chose the location at the Convention and Exhibition Center of the Film Palace.

The Palais du Cinema is in the best location, but of course the price is also the most expensive, Cheng Peng's booth is less than 10 square meters, but the price is 6,000 euros. In addition, you have to spend money to rent a computer, spend money to open the Internet, spend money to rent a large-screen TV to play the trailers, etc., and the whole process costs nearly 10,000 euros.

Before coming to the film festival, Cheng Peng and his family had already made relevant preparations, all the things that displayed the surname were ready in China, and it was not difficult to set up, the booth was quickly set up, and then the pre-made display boards were hung up, brochures and promotional materials were placed on the table, and the film trailers began to be played on the TV.

I just sat in front of the booth for a while, and the imaginary scene of the film company did not appear, and I didn't even see the shadow of the film company, only two international students who were interested in movies and wanted to find a job in China came to inquire.

Zhang Meng was a little shocked: "Anyway, we are also a shortlisted film in the main competition unit, why don't we even ask?" ”

Zhao Linlin can see it: "Take your time, it's only the first day now, we are newcomers again, who knows what the quality of our film is, and it will definitely be much better after the movie premieres." ”

Cheng Peng felt that Zhao Linlin's words made sense, and there was no point in sitting here, so he left the booth and walked around in front of the booths of other Chinese films.

In fact, the Berlin Film Festival is composed of two parts: the film festival and the film market, as one of the most important film trading markets in the world, every year there are thousands of companies and thousands of films in the Berlin Film Market for trading, which is naturally indispensable to Chinese filmmakers, Cheng Peng's booth is located in China, all of them are domestic film companies, looking at it has the illusion of participating in a domestic film festival.

Among these domestic film companies, Cheng Peng found Huayi and Bona, both of which have good distribution capabilities, although he is not very optimistic about the domestic box office, but mosquito meat is also meat, and he came to Huayi's booth in order to be able to sell a little yard.

Huayi's boss Wang Zhongjun was shocked when he knew that Cheng Peng was the director of the shortlisted films in the main competition, so young, this is a genius director! But he is not interested in Cheng Peng's films, and it is a thankless task to make the distribution of literary films that is time-consuming and laborious and does not make money, but he is very interested in Cheng Peng himself, so young and talented, if he cultivates Zhang Yimou, who may become a friendship, he revealed the intention of solicitation.

But Cheng Peng didn't have the mind to become a pawn in the hands of others, and it was difficult to ensure his creative freedom by cooperating with these businessmen, so he smiled and declined.

The same is true in Bona, Yu Dong is interested in Cheng Peng, but not interested in his films, Cheng Peng's road to selling films is destined to be long.

Soon, Cheng Peng walked to the booth of "Baby in Love", although he didn't like this tricky film very much, but he still had more respect for Li Shaohong himself, after all, other people's achievements were there, and he could only look up.

Li Shaohong knows Cheng Peng, and also knows his movie "The Two of Us", this movie once invited her actor Yang Fan to be the protagonist, but unfortunately Yang Fan and her agent are relatively young, and their understanding of the movie is relatively shallow, so they can't see the quality of the movie, and they missed a masterpiece.

Afterwards, Yang Fan cried sadly, because participating in the film festival is too rare for a fledgling rookie actor like her, and it is an excellent opportunity to open up her fame.

Although Li Shaohong regrets Yang Fan in her heart, she has no bad feelings towards Cheng Peng, as a senior, she is very optimistic about this young man: "It's amazing that the first movie can be shortlisted for the main competition unit, it seems that our China is going to have a second Zhang Yimou!" ”

Cheng Peng shook his head with a wry smile and said: "I hope that I am Zhang Yimou, so that I don't have to worry that my film can't be sold, which is like now." I thought that there must be a lot of people who came to buy the film when they were shortlisted for the main competition unit, but I didn't expect that there would be no one to ask. ”

Li Shaohong sighed and said: "Chinese films are good for kung fu films, and other films are not easy to sell, and the same is true for us." But don't worry, there will be studios watching the movie at the premiere, and with media coverage, the situation will improve. It would be even better if I could win the award, when I came to Berlin with "Pink" ten years ago, it was the same at the beginning, and on the day I won the Silver Bear, dozens of studios came to my door! ”

After chatting with Li Shaohong for a while, Cheng Peng knew a lot about the film festival, but he didn't stay long and continued to wander around other booths.

After visiting the China Zone, Cheng Peng came to the exhibition area of Xiangjiang Films next door, Xiangjiang Films is much stronger than China in terms of commercial marketing, and he wants to see what others are doing in terms of marketing.

After walking a few booths, Cheng Peng found that every family in the Xiangjiang exhibition area has exquisite albums, which are as exquisite as a picture book, which contains stills, movie introductions, and various related information, while domestic films are much worse in this regard.

As he was walking, Cheng Peng saw a group of Xiangjiang filmmakers gathering in front of the booth of "Big Guy Has Great Wisdom" chatting enthusiastically, and saw many familiar faces in the crowd, Du Qifeng, Er Dongsheng, Zhang Baizhi, Du Wenze, etc.

Cheng Peng has a very good impression of Du Qifeng, this person has his own persistence and style, Hong Kong directors are about to count him except Wong Kar-wai, so he walked over with a smile: "Director Du, hello!" ”

When Johnny To knew that the young man in front of him was a finalist in the main competition unit, he was very surprised, this is too young, he looks like he is only twenty-three or four years old!

After a simple greeting, Du Qifeng joked with Cheng Peng: "Peng Zai, I am preparing a new film recently, you are so good-looking, are you interested in playing a role?" ”

Cheng Peng said with a smile: "It would be my honor to be able to participate in Director Du's film, but it's a pity that I was busy with my new film when I came back from the film festival, and I didn't have time at all!" ”

Du Qifeng said with a smile: "There will be opportunities in the future, anyway, I am a fast filmmaker, and I will definitely come to you if I make a few films a year!" ”

Zhang Baizhi next to him heard that Cheng Peng was preparing for a new film, Hong Kong films have declined in the past two years, the mainland market has begun to rise, and many filmmakers in Xiangjiang have gone north to seek development, she also has plans in this regard, and feels that this may be an opportunity, and said with a smile: "Mr. Cheng, my schedule has been relatively free recently, I don't know if there is a suitable role for me?" ”

Cheng Peng couldn't help but glance at Zhang Baizhi, to be honest, Zhang Baizhi looks good, in terms of facial features alone, he is definitely the top among the actresses of the younger generation, and he can definitely afford the title of the head of the jade girl, of course, the premise is that he has not seen Mr. Chen's art photography.

Now she is quite popular in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and she also has a certain appeal, if the movie is only released in China, it is a good choice to find her to play, but the overseas market of Cheng Peng's new film is too important, and she must find an actress with international influence to play the role, and said with a smile: "It is my honor to be able to cooperate with Miss Zhang, but now the film is still in the preparatory stage, many things are not easy to say, if there is a suitable role, I will definitely contact Miss Zhang!" ”

Zhang Baizhi heard the refusal, but she didn't give up easily, but went further: "This is my phone number, if you come to Xiangjiang, I can be your tour guide!" ”

Du Qifeng smiled: "Pretty boy is good, the beauty will hand over the phone to you directly, an old man like me can't enjoy this kind of treatment at all!" ”

Zhang Baizhi's little sister was born, and it is impossible to be red because of a joke like Tong Liyu, but laughed and said: "No way, I just like handsome guys!" ”

Everyone looked at Cheng Peng with a smile, looking like they were watching a play, Zhang Baizhi's boyfriends, Chen Xiaodong, Xie Tingfeng, and Chen Guanxi are all handsome guys, and it is normal to be interested in handsome guys like Cheng Peng.

Only Du Wenze saw that Cheng Peng was not very pleasing to the eye, and lowered his voice and said in Cantonese: "Cecilia, you really want to play this mainlander's film, they can only make that kind of movie, how can there be a suitable role for you?" ”

Cheng Peng didn't have a good impression of Du Wenze, this person stood there with a cold face from the beginning, as if Cheng Peng owed him money, and now he said bad things to his face, so he said lightly: "It's a pity, it's a pity that Mr. Du is not the chairman of the jury, otherwise this kind of dirty movie I made would definitely not have a chance to be shortlisted!" ”

"You!" Du Wenze's face darkened, then he laughed, stretched out his big hand, and shook Cheng Peng's hand, "Mr. Cheng, my mouth is unobstructed and I can't speak, don't be surprised!" ”

"It's okay, it's just a joke!" Cheng Peng also had a faint smile on his face, but he could feel the strength of the other party from his hand, that hand was simply an iron tong, and he wanted to cut off his hand.

Do you want me to make a fool of myself in public? Cheng Peng's subordinates also added strength, and smiled faintly: "It's really nice to know Mr. Du!" As he spoke, Cheng Peng shook his head.

Du Wenze only felt a strong force coming, and his hand bones were about to be crushed, and he let out a miserable scream: "Ah, you open me, let go!" ”

Cheng Peng gave it away, spread his hands, and showed an innocent expression: "I didn't expect Mr. Du's hands to be so delicate, I'm not light or heavy, I'm really sorry!" ”

Du Wenze's face was swollen red, he held the wrist of his right hand, and shook it wildly, he couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into, in front of so many people, he was embarrassed and thrown home!

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