Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 249 6 billion!
The Berlin Film Festival prefers films that deal with politics and social realities, but the schedule of "In Time" did not allow the film to have its world premiere in Berlin, so it had to regretfully miss the main competition unit of the Berlin Film Festival.

But the crew still received an invitation to screen the film at the Berlin Film Festival, and Focus Features also invited the crew to fly to Berlin for promotion.

Li Qiutang, Liu Ye, Liu Yifei and two staff members flew to Berlin to promote the new film's release in Europe.

Li Qiutang and Focus were right in their judgment. In Time is very popular in Europe. Focus Features made a lot of money in the trading market of the Berlin Film Festival these days with In Time.

Focus Features offered a whopping $1300 million, and French national television did not even bargain, directly buying out the European rights to In Time at this price.

You know, Focus only spent 1400 million to buy the copyrights in Europe and the United States.

Even if Focus Features has the copyrights to South America, Africa and other Asian countries and regions languishing in its hands, In Time has already made it money.

An excellent project is one that brings profits to all partners.

The premiere of "In Time" was held at the Berlin Film Palace, and the venue was packed.

The new Golden Globe Awards for Best Director and Best Picture are more effective in Europe.

Although the copyright had nothing to do with Li Qiutang anymore, she was still very excited when she saw the Cinema Palace filled with guests who came to watch the movie.

Liu Yifei fell asleep in the Film Palace. She was too tired these days. Wherever Li Qiutang went for promotion, she followed her everywhere. Li Qiutang could hold on, but she really couldn't bear it.

When Zhang Liangying's voice sang the ending song "As Wish" from the speakers, Li Qiutang woke Liu Yifei up.

The whole audience stood up and applauded the creators. Li Qiutang stood up and shook hands with the guests around him in a friendly manner.

Li Qiutang gave up his seat to let Liu Ye and Liu Yifei come over, and gave them a round of praise, signaling everyone to cheer and applaud his leading male and female actors as well.

Liu Ye and Liu Yifei bowed slightly and greeted the audience.

"The Spring Festival blockbuster "In Time" was screened at the Berlin Film Festival, and the Film Palace was packed. After the film was finished, all the audience stood up and applauded for 5 minutes. The picture shows Li Qiutang leading Liu Ye and Liu Yifei to thank all the audience."

It was at this time that the crew released the sale of the copyright of "In Time" for publicity.

"In Time achieved great success in the Berlin Film Festival market, earning hundreds of millions of yuan."

Although "In Time" was only screened, it almost enjoyed the treatment of a competition film, and the main creators had to be interviewed by at least 5 media outlets every day.

It was really tiring, but all three of them were full of energy.

This film has brought so much to the director and the actors.

During the interview, Li Qiutang avoided talking about politics and ideology and only talked about movies.

However, the European media are not going to let him go and have been actively asking him to explain the purpose of his description of financial capital in "In Time".

Li Qiutang simply said: "In the movie, Lan Tiejun is a banker, but I personally don't know much about finance. Lan Tiejun can be a financier or an entrepreneur. Their dramatic functions are the same. Let's just talk about the movie."

It's not like he was playing dumb. Li Qiutang didn't know much about finance and banks. He only knew that in the past two days, many familiar bank presidents and credit directors in China said they wanted to lend money to Qiu Tian Pictures, and the amount was quite large. They said they would have the money at the beginning of the year and asked Qiu Tian to go and negotiate quickly.

When did banks become so easy to talk to?
The crew of "In Time" returned to Yanjing on the eighth day of the first lunar month. At that time, the total box office of the movie had reached a terrifying 4.3 million yuan, which took 7 days.

Almost all theater managers predicted that "In Time" would reach the 10 billion mark, but they were not optimistic about breaking the record of "Avatar" because "In Time" was considered to lack the disruptive innovation of "Avatar".

On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the first working day, box office revenue dropped from 5300 million the day before to 3100 million, and on the ninth day it was only 1500 million.

The Spring Festival consumed too much enthusiasm for watching movies. But the publicity war is not over yet.

The momentum of "In Time" is really good, and the producers still require the creators to continue promoting it.

Especially Guangxian. Guangxian Pictures is also seeking to go public. If "In Time" can really reach 10 billion, it will be a great thing for Guangxian Pictures and Guangxian Media.

But Li Qiutang withdrew from this round of publicity after the New Year. One reason was that it sounded nice and gave the exposure to the actors in front of the stage, and the other was that Li Qiutang had other work to deal with.

None of the three theme songs of "In Time", "The World", "Misplaced Time and Space" and "As Wish", were sung by Liu Yifei.

This goes against the promise Li Qiutang made two years ago.

In this regard, Liu Yifei put the blame on Li Qiutang: "The director didn't know the importance of writing songs. These three songs require very high singing skills, and he said I couldn't sing well."

Liu Yifei likes to sing, but her singing skills are average, and there is nothing to be embarrassed about.

Liu Yifei also said: "There will be a chance to listen to my singing in the future."

However, Liu Yifei still sang two lines of "As Wish" at the request of fans at the scene, which was also very nice to hear, but it was definitely not as good as Zhang Liangying's.

The huge success of "In Time" heralds Liu Yifei's return, and a super strong return.

Although Liu Yifei's performance in the film is still criticized by some people as "not smart enough" and "just a passing vase in a commercial blockbuster."

But what does it matter? How many people want to play this vase but can't knock on Li Qiutang's door.

Liu Yifei received so many endorsements and film contracts after the New Year that she was overwhelmed by the choices.

Liu Yifei doesn't even need an agent to bring her work; the work comes to her on its own.

But big names have their own rules, and Liu Yifei used the tricks she learned from her boyfriend on the film contracts after the New Year.

I'm asked to see the full script. It doesn't have to be the final version, but it must be the full version.

It can't be said that she is playing big shot, but this is the rule Liu Yifei follows now when choosing films. You don't have to indulge Liu Yifei.

After the New Year, the film market fell into a slump, and the daily growth of "In Time" became lower and lower.

At this time, another source of box office revenue began to emerge - government agencies, enterprises and institutions booking the entire theater.

The theme of "In Time" is iron-clad and correct in China, and coupled with the Golden Globe Award, this is a very significant achievement in foreign propaganda - it should be said that my country's foreign propaganda has always been poor.

Would you mind if such movie theaters are not booked out?

On the 25th, news came from France.

"In Time" once again defeated "The Social Network" and won the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the 36th French Film César Awards.

It is indeed an old revolutionary base.

With the help of private screenings and the promotion of the César Awards, the box office of "In Time" was pushed to the 6 million mark during the Lantern Festival weekend!
Round A? Another price increase!
Cooperation? Another price increase!

Sorry, but you can be so arrogant if you have awards and box office success. This is an iron rule in the industry.

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