Xinya and his party were not the only team from Hong Kong this year, and after a whole day of crazy fun in Venice with Li Jiaxin, they turned half of the attractions aside, and returned to the hotel late at night.

However, if Lin Xiaozhi is not the boss, it does not mean that others are the same. Zheng Fei and Sima Jie didn't hang out in Venice for almost a day, but nested in the organizing committee to learn about the detailed regulations. As the director of "Friends", Yip Wai-shun was even more serious, not only inquired about many entries, but even exchanged information with another team from Hong Kong. As for whether he can win the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival, it is obvious that this young director attaches much more importance to it than Lin Xiaozhi.

It was from Yip Wai Shun that Lam Xiaozhi learned about the situation of another team from Hong Kong. Speaking of his acquaintances, this participating film from Hong Kong is "Mong Kok Carmen" of Ying Zhijie Company, and the team is led by Deng Guangrong and Wang Jiawei, and there are several leading actors such as Zhang Manyu and Liu Dehua. However, Lin Xiaozhi is not optimistic about their group, there is an unspoken rule in the three major film festivals of Venice, Cannes and Berlin, as long as a film wins one of the three major film festivals, it is basically difficult to win in the other two film festivals.

This is a pretty good rule, which not only guarantees more good films the chance to win awards, but also frustrates the delusions of some 'famous films' of winning awards. At the beginning of this year, "Mong Kok Carmen" just won the favor of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival, and was selected to participate in the "Film Critics' Week" unit of the 1989 Cannes International Film Festival.

After a long night, the next day came.

In 1989, the 46th Venice International Film Festival opened on the penultimate day of August. On the day of August 30th, Lin Xiaozhi and they got up early in the morning, thinking that they would arrive at the venue before the opening ceremony There would be very few people, but they still underestimated the influence of the Venice Film Festival, one of the three major film festivals in the world.

As the so-called starry stars, the Venice Film Festival definitely deserves this word, compared with the Venice Film Festival, don't talk about the Hong Kong International Film Festival in Hong Kong, even the Academy Awards ceremony, which is considered a feast for Chinese films, is trivial.

As one of the three major film festivals held in Europe, the Venice Film Festival gathers many European and American filmmakers, especially from Europe. Of course, for Lin Xiaozhi and others, these people are all foreigners, but for European filmmakers, these faces from the East are the real diviners.

The appearance of Chinese-language films at the Venice Film Festival in '89 is obviously a relatively new thing. Therefore, when Xinya and his party appeared, many foreign reporters took a few sets of photos with their cameras, which made them not completely devoid of attention.

And the group of Ying Zhijie Company and the crew of "City of Sadness" from Taiwan also pushed this craze to a climax. Although they did not stay in a hotel or guesthouse, it seems that the other two teams from Hong Kong and Taiwan also had the same idea as Lin Xiaozhi and others, and they all arrived at the venue before the opening ceremony of the film festival, as if there would be some bonus if they arrived early.

Seeing Deng Guangrong, Lin Xiaozhi and they felt very cordial, among a group of foreigners, these two teams from Hong Kong can also be regarded as 'fellow villagers', and they soon got together and formed a group.

"Brother, if I knew that you Xinya were going to come to the Venice Film Festival, I wouldn't have come at all. Now no one in Hong Kong knows that your New Asia has unlimited potential, and this Venice International Film Festival, I'm afraid that you New Asia will also come prepared."

"Brother Da Rong, you are really exalting our Xinya, what does it mean to be prepared, we just made a new movie, and came over to have a good time. If you want to say that you come prepared, you can compare to your shadow master. Ka Wei's "Mong Kok Carmen" is a film that has received a lot of response at the Cannes Film Festival. In my opinion, at this year's Venice Film Festival, your company's "Mong Kok Carmen" must be the favorite of the Golden Lion Award."

The two got together, and naturally they didn't forget to praise each other for a while. Lin Xiaozhi also took this opportunity and became familiar with Wang Jiawei, Liu Dehua, and Zhang Manyu.

If you want to say that among all the directors in Hong Kong, Wong Jiawei is definitely at the top of the list. Lin Xiaozhi didn't have a good impression of him, but just a few polite words with him. In her mind, this product is a poison, and it is easy to touch. Among the many directors in Hong Kong, Wong Jiawei can definitely be ranked No. 1 in terms of making movies. Lin Xiaozhi had heard before that many of the movies shot by this product had dragged down several investors. And he is not only slow to make films, but he is even more accustomed to spending money, and it is said that he once made one of his investors so angry that he vomited blood, which can be regarded as a kind of ability.

In the Chinese film industry, Wang Jiawei's reputation is better than Wang Jing's. But what he did and what he did were two extremes with Wang Jing. No amount of money is enough, and the more you give, the more you lose. You can give as much as you want, and the more you give, the better the movie will be, and the more money you will make. The former refers to Wang Jiawei, and the latter is needless to say that Wang Fatzi. Compared with Wang Jiawei, who has a good reputation, Wang Jing, who has a bad reputation, has a bad reputation, but his character has to dump him on the street, he is the kind of person who gives more money to the land, the better the movie will be.

In 89, Hong Kong did not have the concept of the Four Heavenly Kings, but the young and handsome Liu Tianwang already had a strong Heavenly King Fan at this time. Iron man Liu Dehua is not misinformed in the circle, last year Liu Dehua took ten movies, this year only in the first half of the year, Liu Dehua took over ten movies, it is said that in the second half of the year, he has also negotiated the shooting of four or five movies. It is a foregone conclusion that more than 15 films will be filmed this year, and Liu Dehua has the momentum to shoot 20 films a year, so he can't stay longer at the Venice Film Festival, after the results of the first batch of shortlisted works come out on the third day, Liu Dehua may leave Venice and return to Hong Kong to shoot, unless "Mong Kok Carmen" can win the Best Actor Award, otherwise he should not come again.

In the year of RU, under the personal appearance of H's boss Shao Yifu, Liu Dehua, who had been blocked by wireless for more than a year, renewed his contract with H, but this renewal contract will only end this year. Liu Dehua was so miserable by TVH at the beginning, and he was only semi-forced to renew his contract with it at the beginning, after the contract expires this year, he who has already made a name for himself in the film industry will naturally not be able to renew his contract with H, and his departure is a foregone conclusion.

Lin Xiaozhi didn't think about signing Liu Tianwang, but another film company in the top five with them in New Asia-Arts Film, its boss Zhang Guozhong began to contact Liu Dehua as early as the middle of last year, which is not a secret in the circle, he asked people to inquire about the news of the contact between the two, and found out that the entertainment can proudly brandished a salary of about 13 million for nine movies and many other benefits to sign Liu Dehua. It is difficult for Xinya to come up with a better contract than this, so Lin Xiaozhi can only secretly say that it is a pity, and after October this year, Liu Dehua may become a signed artist of the performing arts.

However, chasing Liu Dehua is hopeless, but Lin Xiaozhi is very enthusiastic about Zhang Manyu, the other leading actor of "Mong Kok Carmen". This year is really a year of opportunity, just in this year, not only Wu Yusen, Zhou Yanfa, Liu Dehua and many other big directors have expired their contracts with superstars, but even Zhang Manyu is the same. She was a signed artist of Golden Harvest before, and it stands to reason that with Golden Harvest's big family, Zhang Manyu should not have the idea of running away. However, this is not the case, or it is precisely because of Golden Harvest's big family business, so now it is only a month before the contract expires, Zhang Manyu still has not expressed the idea of renewing the contract with Golden Harvest, and her agent is still negotiating with Golden Harvest.

Family is not a good thing, Golden Harvest now has Mei Yanfang, Lin Qingxia, Ye Tong, Guan Zhilin, Ye Yuqing and many other first- and second-tier actresses, and now it is rumored that Golden Harvest is chasing H's first sister Liu Jialing. This year, after filming "Intolerable", Liu Jialing, the first sister of H, has made it clear that she will not renew her contract with H and will move to the big screen. Now many film companies in Hong Kong are chasing Liu Jialing, and the most powerful of them are New Arts City, Golden Harvest, Yongsheng and Artseng.

Yineng has always liked to sign big stars, and it is also one of the film companies with the most first-line star appointments in Hong Kong. Yongsheng naturally needless to say, this film company with a community background is only Zhang Le so far, I don't know what means Lu Dao used to poach the signed actress from H, and the thirst for first-line stars is very high. The first-line actresses in Xinyicheng are slightly worse than Golden Harvest, and there are only three first-line actresses who have signed a contract: Zhong Chuhong, Zheng Yuling, and Zhang Aijia, and their desire for Liu Jialing is not low.

At present, Hong Kong's pursuit of Liu Jialing has already been rewarded with a top salary of 10 million for five films. Although Zhang Manyu is not bad, but the salary has been between 5 million, she obviously has no influence in the minds of Golden Harvest senior management than Liu Jialing, it is said that she wants a big contract with a million salary, but so far, Golden Harvest has not expressed its position.

So now, Zhang Manyu can be said to be half a free body. It's just a little regrettable to Lin Xiaozhi that Zhang Manyu doesn't seem to be interested in Xinya, the two chatted for a while, and he revealed to her more than once that Xinya wanted to sign her, but this woman just talked about him left and right, and she didn't talk about sex very much.

The opening ceremony began quickly, compared to the many European film superstars or big directors present. Lin Xiaozhi, Deng Guangrong and other faces from the East also quickly lost their attention, and in the light of the spotlight, many directors and stars from Europe walked on the red carpet, which made people both envious and jealous.

In the first two days of the Venice Film Festival, there was almost nothing scheduled. Almost all of the time the director communicates with the filmmakers, and the first European distributors who rushed to pan for gold also rushed to the place. Lin Xiaozhi also didn't have time to accompany Li Jiaxin, together with Zheng Fei and Ye Weixin, with the copy of "Friend", they contacted many publishers, but unfortunately the price given was too low. At most, a publisher from France was only willing to offer a price of 700,000 francs, which was only equivalent to about 1 million Hong Kong dollars when converted into Hong Kong dollars. Although the other party did not boast about Haikou, as long as he went to the French distribution rights of "Friend", France, as one of the three major box office markets in Europe, obviously could not satisfy Lin Xiaozhi by selling only this amount of money, so he naturally would not agree immediately.