Chapter 386: Yenching International Film Festival
After the news of the completion of "Infernal Affairs" was released, the scarf was full of people's comments.
"It's finally finished! Li Chencan's movie is really worth looking forward to! There is no doubt about it, his "Infernal Affairs", with the connotation of a police film, is quite interesting anyway, I will definitely watch it then, but I don't know when the Lu Dao movie will be officially released? ”
"I've been waiting for the latest news of "Infernal Affairs" for a long time, and today I finally know the exact news of the completion of this movie! I have to say that Li Chencan's efficiency in making movies is still quite high, how long has it been since the movie was completed? As for the quality of the film...... It's hard to say yet, but I always feel that Li Chencan may surprise us. ”
"Li Chencan's things will always have some special flavor, and I believe this "Infernal Affairs" is even more so, I am just looking forward to the real release of this film now...... I don't know when it is. I can't wait to see how he innovates cop films! Is this innovative place fun and how does it feel? I'm looking forward to all of this! ”
…… In this way, all kinds of news on the Internet have already begun to boil, and everyone is talking about things related to "Infernal Affairs".
During such a period of time, Li Chencan urged many editors to start editing "Infernal Affairs", and spent a lot of time cutting out the best state of the movie, and after spending nearly half a month, this matter was finally completed, and the finished product of "Infernal Affairs" has been cut out. In addition, it took a while to perfect the soundtrack and color grading of the film, and so that the finished film of "Infernal Affairs" officially appeared.
Li Chencan immediately sent the finished film of "Infernal Affairs" to the Film Bureau for review. "Infernal Affairs" and "Those Years" feel completely different, and the final result is not an ending of good triumphing over evil, so there is definitely no way to get the second-level A review standard like "Those Years".
On the side of the empire, there is no saying that the good guys must defeat the bad guys, and the ending of the police catching the thief can pass the review, as long as the story itself does not give people the taste of banned films, the movies can be approved, those movies with a larger scale. At most, it will suffer a little bit at the screening level.
There is no problem for "Infernal Affairs" to pass the review.
This was followed by publicity and various PRs, and the first trailer of the film was soon to be cut out and started being shown in various places...... But this still has to wait for the movie to be officially finalized before it can be played, otherwise. The publicity has gone on, and the trailer for the movie has been played, but it just doesn't tell the audience when you should go to the movie...... This is very irresponsible, and it will not achieve the best publicity effect. It's best to put the trailer on the trailer when the movie will finally be released, and that's how king.
So. It will be after the movie is officially finalized that the trailer of "Infernal Affairs" will start to be shown in many places.
When "Infernal Affairs" was officially cut out and sent to the Film Bureau for review, the time had already arrived in June, and in a blink of an eye, half a year had passed.
During this time, Li Chencan has done a lot of things, and these things are also blooming with their own brilliance.
In June, a very important thing for Li Chencan will also begin. That's the Yenching International Film Festival.
This year's Yenching International Film Festival runs from June 14th to June 27th, during such a period of time. The Yenching International Film Festival will start to show excellent films, from Chinese films to foreign films, including films from many countries.
During such a period of time, hundreds of films will be screened, and it is for this reason that the Yenching International Film Festival will become the most traded film festival in the world. Whenever this time comes, filmmakers from many countries in the entire world will gather in China, gather in Yanjing, polish their eyes and look for good prey, if they can get a few good films, it would be the best.
There are also many independent filmmakers, and many film companies are also coming to this international film festival with their own works, and at the same time, they also have their own dreams.
It's just that the Yanjing International Film Festival is to show the works of the entire world, but there can only be about 100 such works that will be screened for everyone to see, so the films that can be screened at the Yanjing International Film Festival still rely on their own hardness, and they need strong strength to be selected, and there is no way for ordinary films to touch this threshold......
Therefore, the screening quota of nearly 100 films is usually something that major film companies and many filmmakers compete for.
But as long as you can cross this threshold and let the film really enter the screening list, the films in the exhibition can basically find their own opportunities, after all, in this world, there are a lot of film companies, with the development of the economy and film industry in the entire world, many countries have a great demand for films, and there are too many film companies at the Yanjing International Film Festival every year, of course, they will give those films that can participate in the screening a chance.
…… June 14 is the official start of the Yenching International Film Festival.
"The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years" has received a pretty good box office of one billion national dollars in the entire Asian region before, and its fame in the entire world has also spread, so this movie does not need to be screened at the Yenching International Film Festival, and there will be many filmmakers who will flock to it, so there is no need to occupy the quota of the Yenching International Film Festival, but when Li Chencan was at the Yenching International Film Festival, he still had to come to the scene to walk the red carpet, after all, "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years" has already made Li Chencan nominated, if you don't come, you won't come in vain.
The main purpose of his visit to the red carpet is not to brush up on his presence and attract attention...... Li Chencan's attention doesn't need too much hype...... The main purpose of his red carpet here is to promote his "Infernal Affairs".
The promotion of that film has officially begun, and Li Chencan hopes that he can add a fire to it.
Soon, June 14 has already begun.
As an international super metropolis, Yanjing has a permanent population of more than 30 million, which is the largest behemoth in the entire world. Therefore, such a city will have many grand occasions every year, especially when the city has hosted two Olympic Games, and there are even more people.
But the kind of thing that happens to the Olympic Games, not every year, China has hosted a total of three times so far, twice in Yanjing, and at other times, Yanjing is basically full all year round, at most, there will be many people in autumn to see the red leaves of Xiangshan, a little more people.
And every year when the number of people who come to Yanjing suddenly increases, it will definitely include June...... The reason for the sudden increase in the population of Yanjing in June is naturally because of this Yanjing International Film Festival.
On the other side of the Eurasian continent, when the Cannes International Film Festival is held, the city with a permanent population of only 70,000 will suddenly increase to more than 200,000 people crowded together. Yanjing is much, much bigger than Cannes, but it will still usher in a round of personnel surge.
It's been a period of exponential growth recently......
But for Li Chencan, all this doesn't feel too much, anyway, the room he lives in has been arranged, and more than 1,000 yuan a night is quite luxurious......
In fact, Li Chencan is becoming more and more stingy now, mainly because he wants to save money more and more, after the filming of "Infernal Affairs" reached the very end, the cost of filming was more than 60 million, this number is very terrifying, after counting the post-production, the entire production cost of the film has reached about 75 million...... After counting the post-publicity expenses of the film and various other public relations costs, the real investment of "Infernal Affairs" will definitely exceed 100 million national dollars, and it is estimated that it will be between 130 million and 150 million national dollars.
Li Chencan didn't expect that the investment data he lied to the media at the beginning would basically come true now...... This matter is still very distressing......
Such an investment has actually exceeded Li Chencan's expectations, and it has also caused a huge problem of tight funds for his studio...... After all, although "Those Years" can earn close to 200 million, many of the shares have not yet arrived, and it can only be a number. But the investment in "Infernal Affairs" has to be taken out in a down-to-earth manner......
The production cost and publicity cost of "Infernal Affairs" may be around 55, but the problem is that movies in this era are just about so much publicity, and they are reluctant to let children trap wolves, this is an immutable truth, anyway, Li Chencan can't compress the cost of movies, so all this money has to be spent......
As a result, the studio's financial constraints also appeared, after all, the studio had to maintain its operation, and it had to carry out such and such public relations activities, and at the end of last year, Li Chencan also issued a lot of bonuses, and after these things were calculated, Li Chencan's personal studio encountered financial problems, so he now wants to be stingy with himself.
Even, the original soundtrack version of Li Chencan's "Beijing, Beijing" appeared so soon before, and there were some reasons why Li Chencan wanted to return the funds immediately - it turned out that the song also took some responsibility, and the more than 20 million downloads also brought a lot of shares to the studio.
In short, the current Li Chencan is facing the major problem of opening up sources and reducing expenditure, fortunately, although Li Chencan's personal studio spends money like water, it has more channels to make money, so Li Chencan is not in danger of bankruptcy. (To be continued......)