"Hello, senior, I'm sorry to keep you waiting." Lin Yuquan smiled and shook hands with Senior Lu, in addition to being a member of the Executive Committee of the Directors Guild, Senior Lu was also born at the Kyoto Film Academy, and after dealing with each other a few times before, the relationship between the two was good.

"You're so polite, making a movie is naturally the most important thing, and I'm very much looking forward to Yuquan's new movie "Immediate Rescue". Senior Lu said with a smile.

"Really? Then I have to shoot carefully, it's a pity that "A Room for Two" was not nominated this time. Lin Yuquan said regretfully.

"It's no pity, everyone's eyes are very bright, and in the end, I didn't shoot it myself." Senior Lu shook his head, "A Room for Two" is the lowest rated of the five movies he has shot, and he himself is not very satisfied, strictly speaking, this movie is not really his work, the script and funds, including the actors, are all set by Zhu Shimao, it is completely a movie that Zhu Shimao and Cong Shan tried to continue to write after "Wrangler", he is almost just a photographer who helps the producer and star Zhu Shimao and Cong Shan take a "family photo", which is completely different from the previous movies in which he wrote his own scripts.

"It's no wonder you're senior." Lin Yuquan shook his head, and then smiled: "By the way, senior, what movie are you going to make next?" ”

"A war film, telling the story of Japan's bombing of Chongqing in World War II, or focusing on the fate of people and ordinary people in the war, I have been thinking about this movie for several years, and the rapid change in the fate of the characters in war movies is very exciting and fascinating." Senior Lu did not hide this.

"Oh, a war film with the theme of Chongqing bombing, the perspective is good, but to make such a movie well, the investment must not be low, and it is not so easy to attract investment." Lin Yuquan said. Due to the endless emergence of war-themed and military-themed TV dramas on the TV screen, the most direct and effective way to shoot war films and achieve good results on the big screen is to present magnificent war scenes.

If it is biased towards literary drama, it needs to have a strong box office appeal to attract audiences on the basis of a relatively good filming, such as Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaogang, who are the most attractive directors themselves. Or a sparkling star cast. Either way, the investment needs to be at least tens of millions. As a director who has been shooting small production films with an investment of one or two million, and is not a commercial director himself, it is undoubtedly more difficult for Senior Lu to get such a huge investment than to ascend to the sky.

"Who's to say it isn't!" Senior Lu suddenly smiled bitterly.

"Actually, I'm very interested in investing in such a movie, if the script is suitable, I hope to cooperate with you, senior, you can bring the script tomorrow, or send it to my mailbox, I'll take a look at it first." Lin Yuquan said with a smile.

"Huh. All right! Senior Lu naturally had no reason to refuse this, and then smiled: "I saw Director Zhang just now that he was also there, I shouldn't be the last one to come tonight!" ”

"No, but it's about the same." Lin Yuquan smiled.

For this year's post-reform commendation conference, both Lin Yuquan and the leaders of the Directors Association are very enthusiastic and strive to do their best in all aspects.

Among them, the jury of the preliminary and final evaluation is naturally the most important. In addition to Lin Yuquan, the chairman of the jury, there are 10 judges in the final jury. They are Zhang Yimou, Senior Lu, Yin Li, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Zhang Guoli, Li Shaohong, Xie Fei, Zhou Liming, Li Zongsheng, Huang Jianneng, seven of them are very well-known and influential directors in China, Zhou Liming, Li Zongsheng, and Huang Jianneng are respectively highly influential domestic famous film critics, Baodao musicians and Hong Kong art directors.

After Senior Lu. Zhou Liming and Tian Zhuangzhuang also arrived one after another, and all the members of the jury of this commendation conference have arrived.

"Guys, I'm sorry for keeping you waiting, but I'm going to punish myself with three glasses first." Lin Yuquan drank three glasses of wine with an expressionless face, and then smiled: "The next seven days will require hard work for everyone." ”

After a warm dinner. Lin Yuquan immediately went home, nothing to say all night, the next morning, he drove to the Tianlun Dynasty Hotel with his luggage, although except for Li Zongsheng and Huang Jianneng, the rest of the people themselves live in Kyoto, but in order to better watch the film and eliminate external interference, all the judges will live in the Tianlun Dynasty Hotel near the Shuguang Cinema.

After all the people arrived, everyone immediately went to the Dawning Cinema and secretly entered the Dawning Cinema through the special passage of the mall to enter the theater specially reserved for everyone to watch the film.

A total of 15 awards were set up at this commendation conference, of which in addition to the special award of the annual outstanding contribution award, each of the remaining awards has five nominations, a total of 70 film nominations from 27 films, including today, in seven days, everyone's task is only one, that is, to finish watching the 27 shortlisted films.

The order of watching the films is naturally not arbitrarily arranged, but large and small films, commercial films and literary films are watched crosswise, so as not to cause visual fatigue.

"I have to say that the facilities of the Dawning Cinema are really first-class." Zhang Guoli exclaimed, obviously very satisfied with the environment for watching the movie.

"Yuquan, how many theaters has your Shuguang Cinema Line expanded?" Zhang Yi asked with interest.

"I haven't paid attention to it recently, in September, there were 32 theaters directly under the company, and there were 5 franchises, and by the end of the year, the number of theaters directly under the company should reach 40." Lin Yuquan said with a smile that he was naturally satisfied with the expansion speed of Shuguang Cinemas, and with the support of abundant funds, the expansion of Shuguang Cinemas will further increase in the next few years.

"Oh, awe, are all theaters the same size as this one in Kyoto?" Zhang Yi praised.

"No, only 3 are 10 theaters, and the others are 8 theaters." Lin Yuquan smiled.

"That's also very scary, in addition to the theaters built in recent years, there are a large number of theaters in China that not only have backward facilities, but also only have two or three theaters in scale." Yin Li said.

"Yes, in a few years, the Shuguang Cinema Line will have 100 theaters, and the box office generated by a single theater chain will be extremely amazing, and it should be the best era for commercial films in the mainland." Li Shaohong sighed.

"The film market in the future is huge, but it's a pity that I can only make music, otherwise I would have made movies." Li Zongsheng said with a smile.

In the chatting of everyone, the theater staff sent mineral water and popcorn, and the screening was all prepared.

After that, the theater went dark. Everyone held their breath and stared at the big screen, and in the sound of leisurely music, on the big screen, a ray of light penetrated the darkness and gradually revealed the outline of the rising sun. It is the logo of the dawn movie, and after that, the eye-catching word "painting wall" comes into everyone's eyes, and the seven-day viewing begins.

When it was released so before, when Zhu Xiaolian played by Liu Ye walked out of the dark stone passage under the leadership of the fairy peony played by Liu Yifei and pushed open a door at the end of the passage, a magnificent building appeared on the big screen hidden in the boundless beauty.

Compared to the average audience. The people who act as judges obviously have to consider a lot of content in watching the movie, so as the plot develops, sometimes frowning, sometimes smiling, sometimes brightening, sometimes shaking their heads, and in the attentive viewing, time undoubtedly flies quickly. When the theme song of the same name of "Painted Wall" sounded in the theater, the lights immediately turned on.

“OK。 It's time for lunch, but before going to eat, for ten minutes, everyone will record your feelings and comments when watching the movie, so as not to forget it later. Lin Yuquan clapped his hands and said, with a smile in his eyes. Although after watching the movie, out of avoidance, everyone did not directly applaud or praise "Painted Wall", but the satisfied expressions on everyone's faces fully explained everything, which naturally made him happy.

"Okay." Everyone nodded and immediately opened the notebook they were carrying.

The same is true for Lin Yuquan. Although "Painted Wall" is his own company's film, he is not completely satisfied, and in his opinion, there are many parts of the film that should have been done better.

Ten minutes flew by.

Lin Yuquan put the notebook away, clapped his hands again, and said with a smile: "Have you recorded everything?" Okay, let's go back to the hotel for lunch and watch the film in the afternoon. ”

"Don't say it, I'm really hungry, it is said that the food at the Golden Horse Awards and the Academy Awards is relatively bad, I don't know what kind of delicious meal our director Lin Da prepared for us?" Zhang Yi said with a smile.

All the judges immediately laughed, the Golden Horse Awards and the Academy Awards are held every year with only a few million, just these millions of funds, every time the awards ceremony is approaching, they have to pull money everywhere like beggars to find sponsorship, like the Hong Kong Film Awards at the beginning of this year, there are only 10 days before the awards ceremony, and the production cost of 4 million yuan required is still 500,000 yuan to get together, so that Chen Jiashang, who took over Wen Jun, is miserable, in such a situation, the Golden Horse Awards and the Academy Awards will naturally not be extravagant and wasteful on the judges' food and accommodation, The Golden Horse Awards provides two lunches and dinners every day, both of which are very simple bento.

Lin Yuquan himself smiled: "Now I finally know why everyone asked me to be the chairman of the final evaluation committee in the first place, it seems that when this commendation conference is over, I will have to cut back on food and clothing for a long time." ”

Hearing this, everyone immediately laughed louder.

In the midst of talking and laughing, everyone left the mall again through a special passage and returned to the hotel.

A lunch is naturally quite pleasant, obviously the dishes did not disappoint everyone, and everyone did not talk about "Painting Wall" during the banquet, which is also the rule of this commendation conference when the final selection of the film, do not communicate with each other after watching the film, so as not to affect each other's judgment, of course there will be exchanges, but they have to wait until the final vote, each to express their own opinions.

After lunch, after a short rest, everyone immediately went to the theater, continued to watch the film, waited until lunch, went back to the hotel for dinner, and then went to the theater to watch the film, and then it was like this for the next few days, every day from 9 o'clock in the morning to 10 o'clock in the evening, and after returning to the hotel for supper, they returned to their rooms to rest.

Just when Lin Yuquan and others were busy watching the film, the outside world continued to ferment the topic of the commendation conference and the Golden Horse Awards for the award ceremony.

Focus 1: Nine of the eleven members of the final evaluation committee of the commendation conference are from the mainland, one is from Baodao, and one is from Hong Kong. This is doubtful, as the Golden Horse Awards have been marked by controversy over the outcome of the awards over the past 44 years.

Focus 2: Who will be the winners of the commendation conference? Compared with the registration system of the Golden Horse Awards, the commendation conference does not set any threshold except for the release time, and the producer can participate as long as the corresponding materials are prepared, and due to the temporary change of the time of this year's commendation conference, the release time span is longer, which makes the competition of this commendation conference extremely fierce.

This point is clear from the list of nominees for the Golden Horse Awards and the Commendation Conference. The Golden Horse Award nominees for Best Picture are "Cape No. 7", "Embarrassing Boy", "Assembly", "Half Sea, Half Fire", and "Vote for Fame", among which "Assembly Number" and "Vote for Fame" are clearly considered popular films at the box office. Looking at the commendation conference again, the nominees for the best film are "Assembly Number", "Lust Caution", "Casting Names", "Crazy Racing", "Days and Nights in Tin Shui Wai", four of which were blockbuster films with a box office of more than 100 million yuan in the mainland last year, and the other "Days and Nights in Tin Shui Wai" is from Hui Anhua, which is known as a moving movie, and each movie is extremely good.

The same is true for Best Picture, and in other awards, the competition at the Commendation Conference is also more intense, not to mention the level of the nominated films, there are five nominations for each award at the Commendation Conference alone, which is more than four for the Golden Horse Awards.

"Assembly Number" or "Lust Caution" or "Casting Names" or "Crazy Racing" or "Days and Nights in Tin Shui Wai", this is really difficult to guess, and it is precisely because of the fierce competition that it is difficult to guess that the award attribution of the commendation conference is touching.

Focus 3: Who are the award presenters and performers? How does it compare to the starlight of the Golden Horse Awards? I have to say that for any such award ceremony, stars are extremely important to watch, and too many media and audiences are curious about it.

Time passed day by day, in the attention of the outside world, the commendation conference also announced the first wave of award ceremony guests, Zhou Xun, Liu Yifei, Gao Yuanyuan, Gong Li, Fan Binbin, Zhang Ziyi, Li Binbin, Lu Liping, Wang Luodan, Hao Lei, Zhao Wei, Xu Jinglei, Siqin Gaowa, Qin Hailu, Xu Fan, the lineup composed of fifteen mainland actresses made the outside world exclaim, which almost wiped out the actresses who are active in the mainland film industry today, and also made people more and more curious about the lineup of male award presenters.

The week of November 10th to November 16th also came to an end, and this week's airborne "007: Quantum of Solace" sold $71.12 million in 3,461 theaters with the momentum of the king, becoming the highest premiere in the history of the 007 series of films, and received $253 million at the box office overseas, which is extremely impressive.

"Madagascar 2: Escape to Africa" received another $37.27 million with a considerable decline of 42.32%, with a cumulative box office of 119 million in two weeks, far exceeding "Kung Fu Panda" in the same period.

As for the world's equally eye-catching "Heartbeat", it closed $10.12 million at the box office this week, with a cumulative box office of $208 million.

At the same time, due to the strong impact of "007: Quantum of Solace", the domestic box office champion of "Heartbeat" failed to retain, winning 34.78 million box office in a single week, with a cumulative box office of 400 million yuan.

Together with the box office in other regions, so far, the global box office of "Heartbeat" has accumulated 669 million US dollars in five weeks, and the global box office has exceeded 700 million US dollars, which is completely just around the corner, compared to the production cost of 25 million US dollars, it has to be said that it is amazing.

Just when people were emotional, the news that Shuguang Movie was suddenly announced to the public caused a great sensation again. (To be continued......)

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