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Chapter 137 Shortlist! Zhang Yimou's value!
Chen Jin and Zhu Yanmanzi hurried to the studio.

Everyone was there, including Zhang Mo, Zhang Yimou’s daughter.

It seems that today's meeting is not simple.

Zhang Yimou was not there and no one knew where he had gone. The meeting was called by Pang Liwei.

"Everyone is here!"

Pang Liwei looked at Chen Jin and Zhu Yanmanzi who were sitting down, and said, "All the promotion plans for "Hawthorn Tree" that were previously formulated are invalid!"

The first sentence made Chen Jin raise his head suddenly.

Oh shit, this is really a big deal, right?

Chen Jin glanced at Pu Lun next to him, and Pu Lun smiled: "It's a good thing, don't worry!"

"Under the Hawthorn Tree has been shortlisted for the Venice Main Competition. I just received a confirmation letter!"

"Yes!"

Pang Liwei just finished speaking.

Everyone in the audience, including Zang Xichuan and others, roared with great excitement.

Very normal.

A movie is not the masterpiece of one person, but the joint efforts of a team.

Zhang Yimou may not care about fame or nominations because he has already won enough; however, for everyone in his crew, especially those who have not had such experience, this honor is completely different.

This means promotion and salary increase.

It means that you have your own representative works, and you will have face when you talk about them in the future. After all, you are also the assistant director, screenwriter, script supervisor, etc. of the films shortlisted in Venice.

These are all plus points for working!
Zhu Yanmanzi's face also blushed with joy. The first film she participated in was actually shortlisted for Venice? !

Chen Jin, on the other hand, looked at Pu Lun in surprise: "So fast?"

Only 10 days!

Is this the value of Zhang Yimou?

"It's just a shortlist, and the film festival is still more than a month away!"

"I guess Venice will release the specific list of nominees for this year's main competition tomorrow!"

In fact, many directors who have been nominated for or won awards at the Venice Film Festival will be invited by the three major film festivals to participate in the selection as soon as their new works are released.

The video review is also very fast. If there are no problems, it can be completed in a few days.

Special matters will be handled specially. Newcomers or those who have not participated before must send a copy of the film to the Venice Selection Committee before the end of June.

It takes two rounds of film screenings to decide whether your film can be shortlisted for a certain category.

As for Zhang Yimou, all the judges only need to look at it once to basically determine whether he can be shortlisted.

In addition, with the presence of Venice’s own man, Marco Muller, the speed... is obviously even faster.

10 days, including 2 days of quarrels between Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping!
Zhang Weiping obviously didn't want Zhang Yimou to go there. He wanted "The Hawthorn Tree" to be released earlier so that Zhang Yimou could devote himself to working on "The Flowers of War". After all, he couldn't make much money from art films.

Although the copyright of the TV series has been sold for a large sum, and New Picture did not invest a penny in "The Hawthorn Tree", who would complain that they have too much money? !
"Okay, be quiet!"

“I know everyone is excited!”

"But the battle has just begun!"

Pang Liwei smiled and said, “From now on, all our focus will be on promoting the movie ‘The Hawthorn Tree’!”

"If nothing goes wrong, it should be released in early September, in sync with the Venice premiere!"

"This way we still have one month to prepare!"

"Don't fight a battle you are not sure of winning!"

What Pang Liwei said excited everyone present, and everyone looked very excited.

"So this time, we have to split into two groups!"

"One way is to go to the Venice Film Festival. Director Zhang wants to take Xiao Jin and Xiao Zhu there. You two are the leading actors, so you must attend!"

"As for the rest of you, stay at the base camp and do a series of promotional work before the release!"

"Ok!"

Chen Jin and Zhu Yanmanzi nodded.

"Of course, you have a job too. How many followers do you have on Weibo?"

"Let me take a look!"

Although Chen Jin watched it every day, his fans increased every day. Chen Jin opened his phone and took a look: "92 people!"

"How many?!!"

Zhang Mo next to him was also shocked: "92? So much?"

There are only more than 500 of her, but she is obviously not known as Zhang Yimou's daughter. Only some friends and classmates in the circle know her.

"The popularity of the top scorer in the college entrance examination, plus the publicity from Beijing Film Academy and Peking University!"

“It’s normal to have so many fans!”

Pang Liwei thought about it and said, "When the time comes, you have to update the news frequently, and you have to participate in the trailers, stills, etc."

"Xiao Zhu wants one too!"

Pang Liwei added: "After the promotion starts, interact more with Chen Jin, okay?"

"Ok!"

She only has about 3 fans, so she doesn't make much of a splash at all.

“Once the release date is actually finalized, the trailer can start dropping!”

"There are also relevant stills and press releases..."

"This time, the world premiere of The Hawthorn Tree will be held in Venice, and there will be simultaneous coverage in China. All domestic media will be there this time!"

Zhang Yimou participated in Venice, and this was the biggest attraction of Venice.

The media will definitely go there.

Pang Liwei was worthy of having experienced many movie premieres, and the entire meeting was full of useful information. Chen Jin was full of admiration for her.

Two hours later, Pang Liwei didn't even drink a sip of water and said directly: "Okay, that's all!"

"Then contact us in the group, by text or phone!"

"If you don't win the award, just do what I just said. If you win the award, that's even better. You have to keep up with the publicity and promotion!"

"..."

Pang Liwei has a plan for all the follow-up.

In fact, the ones who have it the easiest are Chen Jin and Zhu Yanmanzi. The two of them are working with Zhang Yimou. All they have to do is post the materials on the Internet and interact to increase the popularity.

There is also the participation in the red carpet, premiere, and screenings in Venice.

Looking at everyone busying around, Chen Jin felt that he had to find something to do.

He was pouring water for everyone.

"Thank you, Brother Xiaojin!"

Zhang Mo looked at Chen Jin with some sarcasm. She was doing post-rendering and modification on the trailer. The original schedule could not be used, so it would definitely have to be changed.

"What are you thanking me for? I don't know what to do. Everyone seems so busy!"

"Hey!"

Assistant Director Zang Xichuan was busy while saying, "Brother Jin, you still haven't figured out your identity!" "?"

Why couldn't Chen Jin understand what these people were saying?

"Now our entire studio depends on you for payroll!"

Now Chen Jin finally understood.

The investors will pay for the filming of "Under the Hawthorn Tree", but now that it's finished, doesn't it mean that the studio will pay the salaries?
Where does the studio’s current income come from?
We can only rely on Zhang Yimou and Chen Jin.

Zhang Yimou relies on funding from New Picture and has no other income.

But now that Chen Jin is making so much money, the studio can become completely self-sufficient, so the motivation is obviously even greater.

The endorsements signed by Chen Jin these days are worth more than 300 million in total, which is enough for the studio to operate in the short term.

Of course they were polite to this "financial sponsor".

"Go back, there is really nothing for you to do here!"

Pu Lun said, pointing to Zhu Yanmanzi next to him: "Oh, by the way, send Xiao Zhu back, is Master Cheng downstairs?"

"Yes, my assistant Xiao Wang is in the rental house!"

"Then go back, just prepare to go to Venice, you don't need to worry about the rest!"

"it is good!"

Chen Jin’s main point is to listen to advice. After sending Zhu Yanmanzi home, she directly looked up relevant travel guides for Venice.

The next night at 10 o'clock.

The official website of the Venice Film Festival has finally published the shortlist for this year's main competition.

The 67th Venice International Film Festival Main Competition
Miralle, directed by Julian Schnabel

Black Swan, directed by Darren Aronofsky
……

A total of 23 films were nominated.

Chen Jin actually saw an extremely familiar film, which was included in the system's list of films for next year.

"Detective Dee: The Mystery of the Phantom Flame", director: Xu Ke!
"Isn't this a commercial film? Old Tsui Hark shouldn't be able to make an art film, right?"

“Can this be shortlisted?”

Chen Jin looked at it several times before he was sure that it was officially issued by Venice.

"Maybe this movie was made by Xu Ke, who is really good!"

After all, in Chen Jin's opinion, being shortlisted must be a great achievement. Little did he know that there have been so many sessions of the three major film festivals, and there have been many bad films shortlisted for the main competition.

The issue of connections and seniority is actually very common at the three major film festivals.

In addition to "Detective Dee", several other Chinese films were shortlisted for the main competition this year.

Not to mention "The Hawthorn Tree", what about "Jiabiangou", even if directors Wang Bing and Chen Jin have autobiographical films in the future, they have never heard of this person.

There is also a Chen Yingxiong. Chen Jin thought he was also from China, but unexpectedly he was a Vietnamese director.

This time, Venice Film Festival nominated these three Chinese-language films.

“Basically, the directors of these works have all been shortlisted for the three major film festivals before!”

"There are basically no newcomers, only Old Monster Xu and this Wang Bing..."

Chen Jin glanced at the shortlist, there were 23 works, and more than a dozen directors had a history of being nominated in the three major categories.

This made Wang Bing and Xu Laoguai feel very embarrassed.

It seems like it's just to make up the numbers.

After watching it, Chen Jin saw the members of the film festival jury. The chairman was Quentin, a guy Chen Jin was familiar with.

Chen Jin has read "Pulp Fiction" and the "Kill Bill" series.

"Kill Bill" was filmed in China, and the sets were built at the Beijing Film Studio. It is said that many students and directors from the Beijing Film Studio went to the scene during that period, so Quentin has a very good relationship with domestic directors.

The martial arts director of this film is the world's number one martial arts director Yuan Heping, and the assistant director is Zhang Jinzhan of "Farewell My Concubine".

Of course Zhang Yimou had a personal relationship with him.

He was still the producer of the North American promotion of "Hero".

However, among Chinese directors, he admires Jiang Wen the most, and has learned a lot of Chinese from him, such as "Niubi~~"

"If Lao Mouzi wins an award this time, there should be hope!"

The chairman of the jury has great power, so much so that he can have the final say. In addition to the influence of the Venice organizers, there are also several official judges among the members of each jury.

They can influence and interfere with the jury chairman's vote... but, in fact, there are limits.

If Quentin is determined to give the award to one person, he can really do it.

“This Venice seems to be very controversial!”

Chen Jin is checking the relevant news in the autobiographical film Future. Regarding Venice, Future Chen Jin is still very concerned, after all, it is a dynamic in the industry.

Sure enough, the Golden Lion Award at this year's Venice Film Festival went to Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere"!
This director is Quentin's girlfriend.

This result was beyond everyone's expectations. It was not just a surprise because the movie was a bad one.

To use the news description, the entire media center was in an uproar, and there was booing and sporadic applause from the audience.

Of course this isn't the first time Quentin has done this.

At the 2004 Cannes International Film Festival, the Palme d'Or was awarded to the controversial film "Fahrenheit 911/". Now, it is just "promoting the talented regardless of relationship" again.

And it’s not just one, it’s fine if the Golden Lion is given to the ex-girlfriend.

He also presented his mentor with a Special Golden Lion Award designed especially for him.

The chairman of the jury has this power.

"Then this year's Venice Film Festival... there will be something exciting to watch!"

Chen Jin smiled slightly, turned off the computer and went downstairs.

After only exercising for more than ten minutes, Zhang Yimou appeared in Chen Jin's sight.

"Director Zhang!"

Chen Jin greeted him.

The two of them started running in tacit understanding.

"The date is set, September 9th!"

Zhang Yimou suddenly said, Chen Jin nodded: "Okay!"

“The trailer, stills, etc. will be released in the next few days, and the world premiere in Venice will be on September 9th!”

"..."

Zhang Yimou was giving instructions and Chen Jin was writing them down one by one.

"When will the filming of The Founding of a Party start? Have you been notified?"

Zhang Yimou suddenly asked.

"I've been notified. The press conference will be held on August 8th and 18th. I have to attend!"

"That's fine. When will you join the group?"

"No word, to be determined!"

"Then I'll let Xiao Pu go and negotiate. At the end of the year... The Flowers of War will start filming, and you have to play an important role!"

(End of this chapter)