China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 82 Before the release of the super body
On April 2007, 4, the 15th Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony was held at the Hong Kong Cultural Center Grand Theater. The film "Assassin" directed by Li Mu won the best film, best director, best screenwriter, best actress, New director, best action design and many other nominations.

On the same day, Li Mu and Li Lianhua were invited to attend the awards ceremony.

The Hong Kong Film Awards have always had problems of xenophobia, localization, and seniority. As a mainland director, Li Mu has been in the circle for a short time, so it is basically impossible to win the award. However, considering that Li Lianhua was nominated for Best Actress, and Li Muxin The heroine of the movie "Super Body" happened to be Li Lianhua. In order to promote the new movie, Li Mu finally decided to attend the awards ceremony.

At this year's Golden Image Awards, Li Lianlian was nominated for Best Actor for "Fearless", Gong Li was nominated for Best Actress for "Curseful of Golden Armor", and director Zhang Yimou was nominated for "Curseful of Gold". "A" was nominated for Best Director.

However, Li Lian, Gong Li, and Zhang Yimou, who are the three most popular candidates for best actor, best actress, and best director, were absent from the awards ceremony.Even Liu Dehua, the heavenly king, changed his usual attitude of being sure to come to every invitation, and also missed the award ceremony of this year's Hong Kong Film Awards.

To Li Mu's surprise, Zhao Benshan was the guest of this year's Golden Statue Awards and sat with Zhou Xingchi.The two kings of comedy are in the same frame, and Li Mu couldn't help taking out his mobile phone to record this moment.

This year's award ceremony was full of situations. Zhang Liangying did not recognize the traditional surname of "Zou Zhisheng", the winner of the best visual effect "Ghost Domain", and the Thai name of the winner of the best sound effect was stumbled. Baoyi's introduction to Zhao Benshan highlights the lack of basic understanding between Xiangjiang, the mainland, and Baodao.

The list of winners was finally announced, and "Father and Son" directed by Tan Jiaming became the biggest winner.

Best Picture: "Father and Son."

Best Director: Tan Jiaming "Father and Son".

Best Screenplay: Tan Jiaming, Tian Kailiang "Father and Son".

Best Actor: Liu Qingyun "I want to become famous".

Best Actress: Gong Li's "Golden Armor in the City".

In 1997, Zhang Manyu won the Best Actress Award at the Academy Awards for "Sweet Honey", but she was absent; in 2007, Gong Li won the Best Actress Award at the Academy Awards for "The Golden Flower", but she was also absent.

With Gong Li's status in the film industry today, she no longer needs to use the Hong Kong Film Awards to prove herself, so she could only hear her acceptance speech relayed through her agent: "I am very grateful to the conference for being able to win the award. I did not expect it at all. I am very happy to win the award, the first time in so many years to win the Academy Award. Every time I cooperate with Zhang Yimou, he has the opportunity to let me win the award. It is my luck to cooperate with him!"

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, and Gong Li has already been identified by the organizing committee as the first batch of invited Chinese filmmakers.

Gong Li won the Best Actress Award, also known as the best actress, although it was expected, but Li Mu still saw a little disappointed look on Li Lianhua's face, it seems that what he said before was not expected The words of winning the award are somewhat involuntary.

To Li Mu's surprise, he actually won the award - the New Director Award. The award is not important, but he still won the award after all.

Because he didn't expect that he would really win the award, he didn't prepare his acceptance speech in advance. When the host announced that Li Mu had won the award, Li Mu had no choice but to go on stage and organize a short speech. The key words were nothing more than happiness, excitement, and gratitude.No surprises, no surprises, a very ordinary speech.

At the end of April, the film "Super Body" completed all the post-production work. After discussing with Xiying, Bernard, China Film, and Huayi, Li Mu decided to officially release the film in the summer.

This summer, there will be a Hollywood blockbuster "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" in June, and "Transformers" in July, and Li Mu proposed to set the movie schedule in June.

In his impression, "Transformers" is much more popular than "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End". He makes movies because he likes them, and secondly, to make money. "This kind of blockbuster that must explode is in the ring.

On May 5, Li Mu led the main creator of "Super Body" to fly to Cannes, a city in southern France.It is worth mentioning that "Super Body" did not enter the main competition unit of this year's Cannes Film Festival. The purpose of Li Mu's trip was not to win awards, but to promote the film and sell the film. Therefore, Liu Siying, manager of Huashang Media Also went to Cannes with Li Mu.

On May 5, Li Mu's movie "Super Body" held a press conference in Cannes and released the movie trailer for the first time.More than a dozen film studios and dozens of media from all over the world attended the press conference.

After the press conference, at the Martinez Hotel opposite the Cannes Film Palace, Liu Siying, on behalf of Li Mu, conducted several rounds of negotiations with many foreign film companies.Due to the huge success of Li Mu's previous films "Assassin" and "Taken" in the world, foreign filmmakers are quite confident in Li Mu's latest film "Super Body", and the content of the edited version released by Li Mu has deepened. This kind of confidence of the film producers was lost, so the negotiation process was relatively smooth.

The cooperation still adopts the sharing model, and compared with the previous two times, the sharing this time should be carried out more thoroughly.This North American DVD rental and sales copyright will also adopt a guaranteed share contract for the first time.

The company that finally won the North American distribution rights of "Super Body" is Sony Pictures Classics, which promised in the contract that "Super Body" will open in North America with a scale of no less than 2800 halls.

On the evening of May 5, in the coastal city of Cannes in southern France, Huaxia Baodao actor Shu Qi and Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira jointly announced the official opening of the 16th Cannes Film Festival.

The figure of Chinese filmmakers has become a highlight of this year's Cannes Film Festival.

On May 5, Cheng Long appeared in Cannes with the film "The King of Kung Fu" and held a press conference, which caused quite a stir among foreign filmmakers.

Brother Cheng Long came to Cannes to promote the film in person. Li Mu and Li Lianhua naturally wanted to help out on the spot. Cheng Long was very happy to see Li Mu and Li Lianhua, and he said many times that it was a pleasure to cooperate with Li Mu and Li Lianhua. Make a movie together.

The movie "Assassin" released last year has proved the huge market potential of the cooperation between Cheng Long and Li Lianlian, two kung fu superstars. Therefore, although "The King of Kung Fu" has not been finalized, it has been frantically pursued by many Hollywood film companies. To get the relevant information, there is a long queue.

Liu Yifei has not left the crew for half a step since "The King of Kung Fu" was launched. Working with Cheng Long and Li Lianlian, two Kung Fu superstars, Liu Yifei is under great pressure. Liu Yifei let out a long sigh of relief when the news that "The King of Kung Fu" received affirmative praise from foreign filmmakers in Cannes came back to China.

On the evening of May 5th, the Cannes Film Festival screened the birthday short film "Everyone's Movie" specially shot by 20 famous directors for the 35th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, followed by a grand dinner.

Directors and stars from all over the world gathered together to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival.

Xiangjiang actress Zhang Manyu wore a golden floor-length dress, highlighting her nobility and elegance; actress Gong Li wore a green backless dress, showing the charm of a mature woman; Zhang Ziyi wore a white dress, which was extremely glamorous and moving.

(End of this chapter)