"Thank you."

As a screenwriter, Wu Yuan took the stage to accept the award.

He doesn't speak Spanish, but he is fluent in English.

Holding the trophy high above his head, Wu Yuan had a bright smile on his face.

At the age of 18 years old, with this golden trophy, this can brighten up the blinding scene, and indeed made most of the guests in the audience show a kind smile and encouraging applause.

"I'm very grateful to the jury for awarding this award to me, Coherence is the first film I made, the Best Screenplay trophy, and the first film award in my life!"

"To be able to do it so well in the first movie, I must thank the school for its cultivation, thank Teacher Zhang Ming, Professor Xie Xiaojing, thank my parents and grandparents who bless me in heaven, and thank China Film Group for their trust in me and their willingness to invest in making movies for a student like me!"

"At the same time, I would also like to thank the eleven cast and crew of the crew, without you there would be no movie!"

After saying a heartfelt acceptance speech, Wu Yuan walked back to the audience with the trophy in his hand.

To be able to win an award is already a surprise for him.

As for the next awards, it has little to do with their crew.

The Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Editing, and Best Picture awards were awarded one after another.

Sure enough, the crew of "Coherence" did nothing.

Zeng Li still passed by the Best Actress Award.

If you want to say that there must be regrets, but Zeng Li is also very clear, this is the first movie she has acted in, and it is already very good to be able to achieve this result.

"Whew, it's okay, try hard next time!" Zeng Li smiled with relief.

Wu Yuan admired her mentality, thought about it, turned his head sideways and whispered to her: "Sister Li, I didn't get it this time, next time I will definitely get you a Best Actress back!" ”

"You said that!" Zeng Li's beautiful eyes immediately glared at Wu Yuan, and said with a smile: "Sister, I'm waiting for your new play!" ”

Yes, Wu Yuan nodded with a smile: "Then you have to wait, I'm afraid I won't have time to shoot in China for a while." ”

"What, did you decide to go to Hollywood?" Chen Kun on the side came over and asked excitedly.

"Hmm." Wu Yuan nodded calmly: "Go shoot a film to test the water!" ”

He still wants to go to Hollywood to make a quick buck!

It doesn't matter if no one invites him, and now that Fox Searchlight has taken the initiative to invite him to Hollywood to give it a try, there is really no reason to refuse!

Although Fox Searchlight only makes small-budget movies, that is, small productions with a cost of less than $10 million, for Wu Yuan, this is enough for him to show his strength!

The story of a small-cost counterattack, he has seen too much in his dreams!

......

Domestically, let's turn back the clock.

Just when Wu Yuan hadn't won the award yet, he was still busy selling the copyright of "The Night the Comet Comed" with Chen Yuan.

October 1st, National Day.

A new poster was hung outside the cinemas in the first-tier cities in China, that is, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and provincial capitals.

Like the poster seen at the Sitges Fantasy Film Festival, it is also a poster of Zeng Li looking directly at the camera on three sides, but the English on the poster has been replaced with Chinese.

"The Night the Comet Comt Comes" - the first suspense science fiction movie in China!"

In these years, there is no means of publicity and distribution for the release of the movie, and the great thing is to publish the news of the release in the newspaper and make a few push advertisements on the TV station.

As for things like ground push and roadshows, they have not yet become a scale and routine.

Even if it is a film released by China Film, it is just to distribute some material posters to major movie theaters before the release for them to hang out.

"The Night the Comet Commet" was released in China in a very low-key manner compared with later generations.

Of course, the box office results of the film on the day of its premiere will not be much better.

is still the same sentence, the ordinary Chinese people in these years really do not have the habit of going to the cinema to watch movies.

Since the 90s, everyone has been accustomed to renting movies and videos to take home to watch, not only cheap, but also to watch a few times if you want to, why spend dozens of yuan to go to the cinema to watch it?

Figure it has a big screen? Or does the figure it not fast forward?

Not worth it!

In addition, most ordinary movie fans in the mainland have paid attention to the movies on Hong Kong Island, that is, all kinds of pirated discs!

The movies made by mainland directors are too artistic for them to understand, and they don't want to understand them.

In most people's cognitive concepts, going to the cinema to watch a movie is a very literary thing, and it has to be done by literary and artistic workers, artists, and high intellectuals!

In fact, it is.

Most of the first wave of viewers who entered the cinema to watch "The Night the Comet Comed" were engaged in film-related work, or college students and teachers!

The other leading actors of the crew who did not go to Sitges with Wu Yuan, Zhou Xun, Yan Danchen and others, also spontaneously made an appointment together, and bought tickets to watch the movie they shot in the cinema on the day of the premiere.

They did not encounter a full theater, and in the theater that can accommodate nearly 100 people, in addition to seven or eight of them, there are only more than ten audiences.

The 93-minute movie is not long, and it was watched quickly.

"It's so well cut!" Sun Honglei said with some amazement.

Even if he had already read the script, and even acted it himself, Sun Honglei was still surprised by the finished film cut by Wu Yuan.

It was only now that he finally reassured Wu Yuan's directing level, the movie was not messed up, and the cut film was very good-looking!

"It's really a good movie, it's a novelty in China!" Zu Feng also said.

Zhou Xun frowned: "But there are not many audiences who come to see this movie." ”

There are not many movies released on National Day this year, except for "The Night the Comet Comed", there are only two movies of the same period.

One is called "Criminal Police Story", starring Liu Lin, who once acted in "Singing in the Middle of the Night" with Zhang Guorong, Wu Qianlian, and Huang Lei, and won the Best Actress Award in Singapore this year.

This movie really didn't go any way, and it wasn't even reported in the newspapers.

The other is "A Sigh" directed by Feng Xiaogang and released on September 20!

This movie is not a comedy, so it was not put in the Lunar New Year file, but the box office performance is still very strong!

Ten days after its release, it has already received 15 million box office, and it is still full of stamina!

Director Feng can be said to be really in the limelight at the beginning of this millennium!

This year's annual box office champion is the main theme movie "Life and Death Choice".

This movie has received strong support from theaters and policies, that is, employees from all over the country have been organized and mobilized to watch this movie, and finally won 120 million box office, breaking the box office record in the mainland.

But this is a film made by administrative power, there is no comparison, and there is nothing to say.

And the runner-up at the box office is Director Feng's "Endless" released on December 15, 1999, with a box office of more than 33 million!

Now Director Feng's "A Sigh" has exceeded 15 million at the box office within ten days of its release, which is also very strong, and it is very likely to win another 30 million box office.

Director Li Yan, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", which was released worldwide, only had a box office performance of 15 million in the mainland!

can't kill Director Feng Da!

It can be seen that Feng Xiaogang now has a lot of appeal in the mainland film market.

Specific to the theater, that is, eight out of ten audiences who came to the cinema chose to watch "A Sigh", and only two were interested in the poster of "The Night the Comet Comed" and tried to buy tickets for the movie.

How does this make Zhou Xun not worried?

Just when she was worried, Chen Jianbin gently patted her shoulder: "Don't worry. ”

Chen Jianbin pointed to the audience sitting in the front row: "You see, they all have unfinished expressions on their faces after watching the movie, and they discuss the plot of the movie fiercely with their companions. ”

"I also heard a young man say that he wanted to buy another ticket and watch it again, but he was too shy to buy it."

"What does that mean?"

"It shows that our movie is still very attractive to the audience!"

"There are fewer people watching it now, that is, the reputation of the movie has not spread, wait a few days, I believe the box office of the movie will be better!"