Chapter 18: Sitges Premiere

September 28, Sitges, a small coastal town in Catalonia, Spain.

The weather was fine.

After Wu Yuan landed at Barcelona Airport, he took the airport bus and came to this small town belonging to the Barcelona metropolitan area.

came with him, as well as an old friend of China Film, Chen Yuan, the producer of "The Night the Comet Comed", and the heroes and heroines of this film, Chen Kun and Zeng Li.

Wu Yuan originally wanted to bring all the leading actors together, anyway, there was no premiere of the movie this year, and everyone was idle at home, so it was better to come to Spain for a trip and feel the Mediterranean style.

However, the activity funds given by China Film are not much, only enough for Wu Yuan to bring the two protagonists, and even the translators of the crew are invited to work part-time with local students.

The Sitges Fantasy Film Festival is one of the three major fantasy film festivals in the world, and it is also the top B-category film festival, mainly focusing on action films, horror films, fantasy films, and suspense films.

This is a top B-category film festival, although it cannot be compared with the three major in Europe, but it is also in the limelight in the field of horror, suspense and other cult films.

Every year, the festival attracts a large number of studios from all over the world.

Of course, unlike Europe, the three major films that attract top international studios are all high.

The Sitges Fantastic Film Festival attracts mainly small and medium-sized studios, independent production and distribution companies.

This year's Sitges Fantastic Film Festival opens on the 28th and will last for a week until the closing ceremony on the 4th.

Wu Yuan didn't have much idea about the awards, and he didn't even pay attention to the films participating in this film festival.

His main purpose here is to sell copyrights, distribution rights, and adaptation rights.

Now is the era of 8 to 1 exchange rate, as long as Wu Yuan can sell 100,000 US dollars, not only will the cost be earned, but he will also be able to make three times the profit!

If he can sell a million dollars, he will be able to make a profit of more than one million yuan, and he won't have to worry about the funds for the next movie!

If it can be sold for tens of millions of dollars... Well, don't think about this, it's not realistic.

After meeting the local interpreter in Sitges and checking in to the hotel, Chen Kun and Zeng Li, who were very excited to go abroad for the first time, took Wu Yuan to walk around the town of Sitges, waiting for the opening ceremony in the evening.

This year, apart from their crew, there are no other crews from across the Taiwan Strait to participate in this year's Sitges Fantasy Film Festival.

The crew of "The Night the Comet Comed" definitely couldn't walk the opening red carpet, they didn't have the slightest fame from the director to the actors, but they still have the qualifications to watch the opening ceremony.

The actor and director trio strolled around Sitges, but Chen Yuan, the producer, couldn't relax.

As a veteran who has led teams to participate in many foreign film festivals, Chen Yuan was busy contacting the screening venue for the film "The Night the Comet Comed" after landing, communicating with the organizers, and inviting the judges to participate in the premiere.

In a word, Producer Chen is very busy.

Wu Yuan is different from Chen Kun and Zeng Li.

The three of them completely had the mentality of coming to travel, first watched a fairly good opening ceremony, and then watched the film festival for two days in a row.

Seriously, how can you see so many horror movies and suspense movies in China?

Nine out of ten films screened at the Sitges Fantastic Film Festival are films that are impossible to pass the mainland review and are imported from the mainland.

Not to mention Chen Kun and Zeng Li, Wu Yuan has never seen most of them.

The three of them have been watched for the past two days!

Of course, Sitges's fantasy films are also very good, which is also a rare film genre in China, and the three of them watched it with relish.

But they're not here for a vacation after all.

On October 1, the day "The Night the Comet Commet" was released in China, it was also the time when Sitges premiered.

The premiere was at 8 p.m., a time when six Sitges films were premiering at the same time, with "The Night the Comet Came" being the least famous.

The crew is not famous, so naturally they can't contact any big theaters for the premiere, and Chen Yuan finally only arranged for the premiere in a small remote theater.

Despite this, whether it is Wu Yuan, Chen Kun, or Zeng Li, they all attach great importance to this premiere, specially put on the dress brought from China, and sit in the infield full of energy, waiting for the audience to sit in the seats and the premiere begins.

As a subsidiary town of Barcelona, Sitges has a lot of local Chinese, and Chen Yuan launched a local promotion in advance a few days ago.

As the only Chinese film to participate in the Sitges Fantasy Film Festival, the local compatriots are naturally very popular.

At half past seven, the screening hall, which can accommodate more than 100 people, was full of audiences, most of whom were local Chinese compatriots.

There are only a dozen blonde foreigners, and most of them are audiences who choose this movie in desperation because they can't get tickets for other movies.

Ritsa is one such viewer.

She is a Barcelona native and a long-time fan of suspense films.

She is never absent from the Sitges Fantasy Film Festival every year, and this film festival is simply an audio-visual feast for her.

It's just a pity that she didn't grab the movie ticket for "She's Coming" she wanted to watch today, and she originally planned to go home to rest, but when she was passing by the street, she saw a Chinese movie poster.

"Coherence" is a movie title that smells of quantum mechanics.

On the poster, a beautiful oriental woman looks directly at the camera with a solemn expression, as if she wants to break the fourth wall.

And on both sides of this Oriental woman, there are two faces that are squinting at her half-faced, and if you look carefully, these two faces are actually the same as this Oriental woman.

Such a suspenseful poster gives Ritsa a chill down her spine just by looking at it.

Look at the slogan below the poster: "Do you believe in the theory of parallel time and space?" Ritsa raised an eyebrow, and the film managed to pique her interest.

"Hello, a ticket to Coherence."

When Ritsa entered the screening room, the movie was about to begin.

As soon as she sat down, the lights in the screening room dimmed, the projector lit up, and a beam of light was projected onto the screen.

The dragon mark that was just opened this year was the first to light up, then the factory logo of "Beijing Film Studio" was connected, and finally the subtitle list of the main creators.

Director and screenwriter: Wu Yuan

Producer: Han Sanping

Producer: Han Sanping

Producer: Chen Yuan

Editor: Wu Yuan, Lin Tan

Cinematography: Albert Chan

Starring: Zeng Li, Chen Kun, Zhou Xun, Sun Honglei, Zu Feng, Qin Hailu, Chen Jianbin, Yan Danchen

However, whether it is a Chinese compatriot or a foreigner, they are all unfamiliar with the main creative team, and everyone pays more attention to the content of the movie.

Fortunately, the opening credits are not long, and soon the feature film begins.

In a moving family car, Zhou Xun drove the car into the community while making a phone call......

All the audience at the scene, including the main creators, looked at the screen intently, and no one spoke.

Zeng Li and Chen Kun are also watching the film for the first time, and as the leading actors, the pressure is even greater than that of Wu Yuan, and their nervous lips are trembling.

Fortunately, with the screening of the movie, there was no scene of the audience leaving the table in anger.

On the contrary, when the plot gradually gets better, and the conflict and suspense drama continue to play out, all kinds of exclamations resounded in the small screening room.

Zeng Li and Chen Kun couldn't understand Spanish, and they didn't know what those foreigners were exclaiming, but the words of the compatriots present clearly reached their ears.

"This is a film made in our country?"

"What a brain-burning movie!"

"That's cool, how many times have they swapped spaces, is it that as long as they walk out of the house and come back, they are not the same people?"

"Maybe I should have watched it a few more times!"

"How many parallel planes are there?"

Listening to the exclamations of the audience, Wu Yuan curled the corners of his mouth, and he was in a very happy mood.

When an audience has a desire to explore a movie, it is the beginning of Ta's love for the movie.