Millennium director

September 28, Spain, Catalonia coastal town - Sitges.

sunny.

After Wu Yuan landed at Barcelona Airport, he took the airport bus and arrived at this small town belonging to the Barcelona metropolitan area.

Accompanying him were Chen Yuan, the producer of "The Night the Comet Came" and an old friend of China Film Group Corporation, as well as the film's leading actors Chen Kun and Zeng Li.

Wu Yuan originally wanted to bring all the leading actors together. Anyway, there are no premieres for movie releases these days. Everyone has nothing to do at home, so why not take a trip to Spain and experience the Mediterranean style.

However, the funding provided by China Film Group for the project was not large, only enough for Wu Yuan to lead the two protagonists. Even the translators for the crew were hired from local international students part-time.

The Sitges Fantasy Film Festival is one of the three major fantasy film festivals in the world and the top B-category film festival. It mainly selects action films, horror films, fantasy films, and suspense films.

This is a top B-category film festival. Although it cannot be compared with the three major ones in Europe, it is still very popular in the fields of cult films such as horror and suspense.

Every year during the film festival, a large number of film producers from all over the world gather here.

Of course, unlike Europe's three major ones, which attract top international film producers.

The Sitges Fantasy Film Festival mainly attracts small and medium-sized film producers and independent production and distribution companies.

This year's Sitges Fantastic Film Festival opens on the 28th and will last for a week until the closing ceremony of the awards on the 4th.

Wu Yuan doesn't have much idea about awards. He didn't even pay attention to the films participating in this film festival.

His trip was mainly to sell copyrights, distribution rights, and adaptation rights.

Now is the era when the exchange rate is 8:1. As long as Wu Yuan can sell 100,000 US dollars, he will not only make back the cost, but also make three times the profit!

If he can sell it for one million dollars, he can make a profit of more than one million yuan, and he won't have to worry about funding for his next movie!

If it can be sold for tens of millions of dollars, don’t even think about it. It’s not realistic.

In Sitges, we met up with the local translator. After checking into the hotel, it was their first time abroad. Chen Kun and Zeng Li, who were so excited, took Wu Yuan to stroll around the small town of Sitges while waiting for the evening tour. Opening Ceremony.

This year, apart from their crew, there are no other crews from China, Mainland China, and Taiwan to participate in the Sitges Fantasy Film Festival.

The crew of "The Night the Comet Came" will definitely not be able to walk on the opening red carpet. From the director to the actors, they are not famous at all, but they are still qualified to watch the opening ceremony.

The trio of actors and directors went shopping in Sitges, but the producer Chen Yuan could not relax.

As a veteran who has led teams to participate in many foreign film festivals, Chen Yuan was busy contacting screening venues for the film "The Night the Comet Came" after landing, communicating with the organizers, and inviting judges to attend the premiere.

In short, Producer Chen is very busy.

Wu Yuan is different from Chen Kun and Zeng Li.

The three of them had a traveling mentality. They first watched a pretty good opening ceremony, and then visited the film festival for two days in a row.

Seriously, where can I see so many horror and suspense films in China?

Nine out of ten films screened at the Sitges Fantastic Film Festival are films that would be impossible to pass censorship in the mainland and be introduced to the mainland.

Not to mention Chen Kun and Zeng Li, Wu Yuan has never watched most of them.

It was a pleasure watching the three of them in the past two days!

Of course, the Sitges fantasy film is also very good. This is also a rare type of film in China, and the three of them watched it with gusto.

But they are not here for vacation after all.

October 1st, the day when "The Night the Comet Came" was released in China, was also the time of its premiere in Sitges.

The premiere time is at 8 pm. During this time, there are six movies premiering in Sitges at the same time. "The Night the Comet Came" is the least famous one.

The crew was not well-known, so naturally they couldn't contact any major theaters to schedule the premiere. In the end, Chen Yuan only arranged to have the premiere in a remote small theater.

Despite this, Wu Yuan, Chen Kun, and Zeng Li all attached great importance to this premiere. They specially wore dresses brought from China and sat in the infield full of energy, waiting for the audience to take their seats and the premiere to begin.

Sitges, as a small town affiliated with Barcelona, ​​has a lot of local Chinese people. Chen Yuan had launched local promotions in advance a few days ago.

As the only Chinese film to participate in the Sitges Fantasy Film Festival, the local compatriots are naturally very enthusiastic about it.

At a little after 7:30, the screening hall, which can accommodate more than 100 people, was filled with audiences, most of whom were local Chinese compatriots.

There were only a dozen blond foreigners, and most of them were viewers who chose this movie out of desperation because they couldn't get tickets for other movies.

Ritsa is such a viewer.

She is a native of Barcelona and a senior lover of suspense movies.

She never misses the Sitges Fantasy Film Festival every year. This film festival is simply an audio-visual feast for her.

It's a pity that she didn't get the movie tickets for "She's Coming" today. She originally planned to go home and rest, but when she was passing by on the street, she saw a Chinese movie poster.

"Coherence" is a movie title full of quantum mechanics.

On the poster, a beautiful oriental woman looks directly at the camera with a solemn expression, as if she wants to break the fourth wall.

On both sides of this Oriental woman, there were two half-faces squinting at her. If you look carefully, you will see that these two faces also belong to this Oriental woman.

Such a suspenseful poster gave Ritsa a chill down his spine just by looking at it.

Looking at the slogan at the bottom of the poster: "Do you believe in the theory of parallel time and space?", Ritsa raised her eyebrows. This movie successfully aroused her interest.

"Hello, a ticket for Coherence."

When Ritsa entered the screening room, the movie was about to start.

As soon as she sat down, the lights in the screening room dimmed, the projector turned on, and a beam of light and shadow was projected onto the screen.

The dragon logo that was just launched this year was the first to light up, followed by the "Beijing Film Studio" logo, and finally the subtitle list of the main creative staff.

Director·Screenwriter: Wu Yuan

Producer: Han Sanping

Producer: Han Sanping

Producer: Chen Yuan

Editor: Wu Yuan, Lin Tan

Photography Director: Chen Weiye

Starring: Zeng Li, Chen Kun, Zhou Xun, Sun Honglei, Zu Feng, Qin Hailu, Chen Jianbin, Yan Danchen

However, whether they are Chinese compatriots or foreigners, they are all unfamiliar with the creative team, and everyone pays more attention to the content of the movie.

Fortunately, the opening subtitles are not long, and the main film begins soon.

In a driving family car, Zhou Xun drove into the community while talking on the phone...

All the audience, including the main creative staff, were watching the screen attentively, and no one spoke.

It was also the first time for Zeng Li and Chen Kun to watch the film. As the leading actors, they were even more stressed than Wu Yuan, and their lips were trembling nervously.

Fortunately, as the movie was shown, there was no scene where the audience left the theater in anger.

On the contrary, when the plot got better and conflicts and suspenseful dramas continued to unfold, various exclamations rang out in the small screening room.

Zeng Li and Chen Kun couldn't understand Spanish and didn't know what the foreigners were exclaiming, but the words of the compatriots present reached their ears clearly.

"Is this a movie made in our country?"

"What a brain-burning movie!"

"That's so cool. How many times have they exchanged spaces? Is it true that as long as the person who walks out of the house and comes back is not the same person?"

"Maybe I should watch it a few more times!"

"How many parallel time and spaces are there?"

Listening to the exclamations of the audience, Wu Yuan raised the corners of his mouth and was in a very happy mood.

When an audience has a desire to explore a movie, it is the beginning of their love for the movie.

Thanks to her little milk bottle for the 500 starting coins!