Chapter 224 Movie Seven Gentlemen

A few days later, Chen An received two calls in succession.

One call was from the school, saying that the movie was finally approved after some work, but the domestic release version still needed to be changed.

Chen An agreed without thinking twice. From the beginning, he had made preparations not to release the film in mainland China.

Principal Zhang finally made a helpless voice on the phone: "Xiao Chen, you won't have this chance next time. This time the higher-ups are planning to recruit those underground directors. Your movie has become a token of your loyalty, and you have to save face for me, otherwise your work will be in vain."

"Make sure to complete the mission."

Chen An finally said jokingly.

After hanging up the phone, Chen An finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Maybe I was luckier this time.

It happened to be the amnesty campaign in 03, which was the period when the sixth generation of directors were recruited.

That was the so-called "Seven Gentlemen of Movies" incident that shocked the media and the industry in the second half of the year.

The name of the sixth generation directors has officially become famous!

After thinking for a while, I decided not to continue sighing and immediately called the company.

Ask someone to take the film to Cannes.

should be no problem.

But not long after the call, Jerry called again: "Long time no see, Chen, is the Batman suit well kept?"

"You called me all the way across the Pacific Ocean to ask about this, didn't you?"

Hearing the other party's smiling voice, Chen An really wanted to hang up the phone.

"Hahaha, of course not. Don't you know that someone has offered a reward of half a million dollars for one of our bat suits online? That's crazy."

"If you're okay, I'll hang up."

"No, I have something to tell you."

Seeing Chen An hang up the phone impatiently, Jerry immediately said, "Batman Begins has been completed. Do you want to come and take a look? The company is planning to release it in June, which is almost the summer season."

“Do we need to go over there to promote it?”

"It's not that urgent. The focus of this promotion is not on the director but on the character and the actors. And Warner really needs to thank us this time."

Chen An was a little confused. He stole the other party's props, but he wanted to thank him for no reason. "What is there to thank him for? Thank us for stealing his excellent props?"

"Haha, Chen, Warner's props are the hardest to get in the industry. Although this theft made many people laugh, it was still a great success in terms of publicity. So he should thank us for exchanging two bat suits for millions of dollars worth of publicity fees."

Jerry on the other end of the phone laughed wildly, and Chen An finally understood why he was so happy.

For the producer, the film's publicity was inexplicably successful. Although it was unfortunate, it also made people aware of the film.

For him, he had already gotten the bat armor, and he was even happier when he saw others offering such a high price for it online.

Chen An glanced at the Batman suit in the corner and thought it was a real treasure. Then he said to the other end of the phone:

"That's just right. I don't have that much time to promote the movie. This year I have a movie going to the Cannes Film Festival."

Jerry on the other end of the phone was delighted to hear the news and said, "Oh, Chen, thank you for telling me the news. I will wait for you in Cannes. I forgot to tell you that the director of the Cannes Film Festival has invited the film. Batman Begins will be screened for the first time in Cannes."

"Well, see you in Cannes, Jerry."

"See you in Cannes, Chen. I hope you can win the Palme d'Or this time."

After hanging up the phone, Chen An threw the phone on the table.

Chen An knew that some Hollywood films would premiere or be screened at the three major film festivals to achieve publicity effects.

I just didn’t expect Batman Begins to be like this, maybe because I’m the director this time so I participated in the Cannes Film Festival.

All major film festivals welcome this kind of thing, and it is very helpful to the film festivals even if they do not participate in the competition.

After all, it is a Hollywood blockbuster and has great attention! Some famous blockbusters such as the "Star Wars" series have participated in it.

In the impression of people in China, participating in major film festivals is to win awards and gain honors.

In fact, that’s not entirely true. Participating in film festivals is also a way to increase publicity and promotion by leveraging media coverage of the film festival.

Or the film producers may sell the copyright.

The reason why the Big Three are the Big Three is because they can attract film producers and a large number of media from all over the world to get enough exposure, so the gold content is high, and the copyrights sold are really valuable!

Not all foreign A-level film festivals are great, some are not as good as the Golden Rooster Awards.

Of course, a movie like Batman Begins won't be screened in rotation like competing movies.

It will only be screened once, and most of the time only critics and some stars attending the film festival will be invited.

As for the audience, it depends on whether you can grab the tickets.

"Finish it quickly so you can take a break." Chen An said as he looked at the script he was writing on the table.

Cannes is in mid-May and Batman Begins is released in late June.

There is no need for me to go there to promote the film for now, but I will definitely need to participate in the promotion one or two weeks before the release.

By then I'll probably have to work non-stop again.

It's now early April, and if I hadn't informed Cannes director Gilles Jacob in advance, I would have to make another phone call to discuss it.

It is because of my current identity that if I had started at the beginning, I would have almost missed the time.

After all, more than a month must be left before the opening for the judges to watch the submitted films.

The films sent to Cannes, currently the most popular international film festival, are simply disgusting.

As for Chen Wei, the filming was finally completed.

Jiang Wen also happened to have time to go to Cannes, and before leaving, he patted Chen Wei on the shoulder:

"I'll leave the post-production to you for now. If you have any questions, just ask your brother. He knows everything."

Chen Wei, who looked a little listless, nodded tremblingly to show that he understood.

Chen Wei, who was used to filming movies with Chen An, was almost worn out to death by Jiang Wen.

Even a Hollywood movie that took seven months to shoot would not be so troublesome. The shots were shot and deleted, deleted and revised, and revised again and again.

The other party also asked him to try to design the composition of the picture, and if he felt it was not good after taking the photo, he would start over again.

I would never continue to cooperate with Jiang Wen even if I were beaten to death.

Jiang Wen looked at the frightened young lady with a face as rough as his own and couldn't help but smile and said:

"That's all. Brother Diao is much more resilient than you. You have a better photography talent than him and a better sense of the picture lens, but you are less smart than him. Both are good and talented. Keep going."

He didn't say much. Of the two, he preferred Diao Yinan. Although he was not a professional, his spirituality was very good, just like himself.

Chen Wei's style is more like Zhang Yimou's compared to his own, that is, his personal style is not very strong, but some of his performances are very good.

Originally, he thought he would be more like Chen An, after all, he had filmed so many movies with him.

Maybe they all graduated from the photography department.

The crew was still packing up, putting away all the props and other things before they could leave the filming location.

Jiang Wen didn't care about that and left it all to Chen Wei.

I have to go to Cannes to see how Chen An’s movie is going.

Although I was given a script, I was still very unhappy that I was not allowed to join the crew. Let's see how you can shoot it.

(End of this chapter)