Entertainment: Starting from playing the role of the villain in the competition

The Shanghai Grand Theater in Shanghai is brightly lit!

Just today, directors, actors, photographers, editors, and producers from more than [-] countries around the world are gathered here.

As the only A-category film festival in China.

Shanghai International Film Festival is an international film festival with the same reputation as Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival and Boleyn Film Festival.

It can be said that this is the only film festival in China where filmmakers from all over the world participate together, and it is the most important film festival.

Today, here, more than [-] films from [-] countries around the world will participate in the Best Film, Jury Prize, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Photography, Artistic Contribution Award, A total of ten awards for Best Documentary and Best Animation!

In fact, in terms of fame and audience, the Golden Goblet Award is indeed not as famous as the Golden Horse Award or the Golden Rooster Award.

However, in the eyes of insiders, if it is about gold content.

The Golden Goblet Award at the Shanghai International Film Festival is definitely the most important award in China that is well-deserved.

Because after all, it is competing on the same stage with the best filmmakers from all countries in the world.

After the bustling and flashing red carpet, Wu Zong stepped into the venue of the film festival.

Wu Zong came with director Jia Zhangke.

However, he is a contestant, while Jia Zhangke is an official invited guest of the master class.

As a newcomer to the International A-category Film Festival, he was naturally apprehensive.

Fortunately, director Jia Zhangke is very caring, and has been taking him to talk with well-known filmmakers who have only heard or seen in the news.

In fact, those who come to participate in the film festival awards ceremony are not necessarily all the contestants who were invited to be shortlisted.

Likewise, it is also an excellent opportunity for international filmmakers to communicate with each other.

Like today, Wu Zong took advantage of Jia Zhangke's Dongfeng to "visit" James Shams, Olivier Assayas, Kawase Naomi, Laf Diaz, Denis Villeneuve Watts, Hirokazu Kore-eda and others are the guests of a series of master classes.

You know, these are the top directors in the world.

Wu Zong won the unanimous love of the big bosses in the master class with his decent speech and manners, polite and modest attitude, and also paved the way for him to step into the international film industry in the future.

Of course, in addition to these internationally renowned directors, there are also many famous movie stars from abroad who have also come.

Like Chris Evans in Knives Out.

Nicole Kidman in "Untouchable."

Vithya Panslingam in "The Last Executor".

Penelope Tecilica in "Little England" blah blah blah.

Too much.

Wu Zong was dazzled.

Although there is no superstar lineup at the level of the Oscars or the Cannes Film Festival, these actors and directors can be regarded as international first-class filmmakers.

This is enough to show how fierce the competition in this film festival is.

However, after chatting with several big names, Wu Zong suddenly thought of a very interesting thing.

In this world, super British movies seem to have declined after the 90s.

Now, although there are many types of science fiction films in the world, those about mutants, zombies, spaceships, Star Wars, and Godzilla vs. Transformers.

However, those superhero movies, but very few.

The few films that were made also ended dismal in the form of hitting the street.

Probably, the latest super-English movie is the Fantastic Four more than ten years ago.

This is a bit interesting.

Wu Zong took advantage of the fact that the awards ceremony had not yet started, went to the bathroom and lit a cigarette, smoking while thinking.

I was smoking, suddenly, there was a bang!

The toilet door was pulled open, which startled Wu Zong.

"Oh shit!"

Wu Zong subconsciously let out a cry.

The people outside the door were also taken aback.

"Oh shit!"

Ah, such a kind Chinese dialect.

Wu Zong, who had been chatting with foreign devils for more than half an hour relying on an interpreter, was relieved to hear this familiar exclamation sound suddenly.

However, comfort is comfort, it is a bit too much for you to open the door when I suddenly go to the toilet.

Even if I didn't go to the toilet, just hiding here to smoke a cigarette, isn't it a bit inappropriate.

However, Wu Zong watched intently, and after seeing clearly who was coming, he couldn't help being a little surprised.

When the people outside the door saw Wu Zong, they were also surprised and greeted Wu Zong.

"Yo, you... are you here too?"

In the middle of speaking, the man seemed to feel a little embarrassed, but he also bit the bullet and continued.

Wu Zong looked more and more funny, and walked out from the bathroom.

"It's kind of embarrassing, isn't it?"

"Tsk, somewhat."

The man nodded.

"Let's talk outside."

"Let's go."

This man is quite familiar.

Speaking of it, the relationship between Wu Zong and him is not particularly good, it's just because he has some personal relationship with Wang Qianyuan, and he occasionally met Wang Qianyuan two or three times when eating with him.

However, when meeting him this time, Wu Zong was ready to get close to him.

Because recently, he heard some rumors about this person.

If you can give him a hand at this time, help him tide over the difficulties, not to mention picking up a favor, you will make yourself a lot of money.

You ask what is the matter, can it be so good?

The small calculation in Wu Zong's heart is flying to the ground - "Wolf Warrior 2" is in preparation for filming.

That's right, the man I ran into in the toilet was the box office record breaker in China in the previous life.

Leng Feng-Wu Jing. .

Chapter 241

Wu Jing has been very unhappy recently.

Because there is no money.

It's not that he has never made a movie, nor is he a fledgling kid.

He has participated in "Slaying the Wolf", "Spike Fang", "The True Colors of a Man" and so on.

Moreover, in the past few years, he began to transform into a director with "Wolf Warrior".

Although Wu Jing's acting experience is very rich, the director's "Wolf Warrior" can be regarded as quite satisfactory.

However, he himself has been tepid.

To say it is a second-tier star is a bit demeaning.

But let's talk about the first line, there are many kung fu stars such as Zhen Zidan, Zhao Wenzhuo, Chenglong, Li Lianjie and so on.

The position is neither awkward nor embarrassing, probably a first-line goalkeeper.

And Wu Jing, who is in such an awkward position, really wants to make some achievements.

One is to make myself proud, after all, he has debuted for more than 20 years, and he has been so tepid, even Bodhisattva has to be a little anxious.

Secondly, it is also to repay my wife Xie Nan for her silent support and dedication to me all the time.

So, he was going to put all his eggs in one basket and shoot a good-looking, positive military-themed movie to undertake his first work.

In this way, the planning of "Wolf Warrior 2" came into being.

However, with the establishment of the project, a very difficult problem was placed in front of him——

No money.

The total investment of Wolf Warrior 2 needs [-] million, which is a very difficult figure for him.

Adding up all the savings of him and his wife Xie Nan, they can only make up half of the money, 9000 million.

And the remaining 9000 million will need to be raised by himself.

A penny stumps the hero.

In order to get enough funds for the film to be filmed smoothly, Wu Jing did not hesitate to run around and borrow money to raise funds.

Borrowing money is one of the hardest things in the world.

An imposing seven-foot man, pulling his face down and bending over to borrow money from others, is simply a torment for a person like Wu Jing.

However, what can I do? If you don't have enough money, you have to humble yourself.

In the end, he scraped together and barely raised 3000 million.

However, this is just a drop in the bucket for the huge investment of [-] million yuan.

There is still an investment of 6000 million yuan, he can't get it out, and he can't borrow it.

So, Wu Jing could only take a slant and come to participate in this Shanghai International Film Festival to see if he could try his luck, get one or two sponsors, and then fill in a firewood for his film.

There is no unparalleled road, and he ran into Wu Zong.

Wu Zong knew how much benefit this Wolf Warrior 2 would bring to investors.

The level of entertainment consumption in this world is higher than that of my previous life.

Whether it's his album "Sun and Moon" or the movie "New Police Story", if this sales volume is placed in the previous life, it will definitely be the top three in China, which is indisputable.

However, here, although they can be regarded as works with very considerable sales, they have not reached the pinnacle and made history.

From this point, we can see how high the level of entertainment consumption in this world is.

In his last life, Wu Zong remembered that the box office of Wolf Warrior 2 was nearly 57 billion. He didn't know what kind of record would be created in this world.

In short, it cannot be lower than this number.

Aren't you still short of 6000 million investment, let me pay.

However, the problem immediately came to Wu Zong's side.

He also has no money.

Not a drop really.

Immortal Sword 3 is currently being filmed, and with a total investment of 5 million, Wu Zong has no other balance. Even Yang Mi and Yaya are unable to use new investment for him.

Because if they move again, Yang Mi will be blocked by the board of directors, and Yaya's side will be even more serious, and the company may even be shut down.

Now that things have happened, if you want to make a fortune in silence, invest in Wolf Warrior 2 to make a fortune under the banner of 'helping Wu Jing', you have to put all your eggs in one basket.

Wu Zong now only regrets why he didn't invest in Mr. Shu before.

At the beginning, because the investment of this movie was only one million, it was a low-cost movie, so Jiaxing invested, produced and distributed it alone.

Originally, Wu Zong didn't think about how much money this movie could make or how good the box office would be.

In addition, it was the time to raise funds for the filming of Paladin III, and based on the principle of saving a little, Wu Zong didn't make any additional investment.

Who knew that the film was affirmed and praised by director Wang Jiawei as soon as it was released.

Such a low-budget literary film actually created a box office of nearly [-] million in just one week!

The ROI goes straight through the ceiling!