Millennium director

It is now the end of September, and there is still lingering excitement about the release of "Ready Player One", but the attention of most Chinese netizens has shifted to other new hot entertainment.

In the Internet age, all hot topics are fleeting. Even the most sensational things will only cause a sensation for a while and will not become the focus of long-term discussion and attention.

Domestically, "Mermaid" finally retained its top spot at the box office, and "Ready Player One" became the second-largest box office in mainland film history with a box office of 3.121 billion.

Internationally, "Ready Player One" currently ranks eighth with a box office of US$750 million.

The movies ranked before "Ready Player One" are -

"Deadpool" with a global box office of 783.1 million

"Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" with a global box office of 873.3 million

"The Secret Life of Pets" with a global box office of 875.4 million

"The Jungle Book" with a global box office of 966.6 million

"Zootopia" with a global box office of 1.0238 billion

"Finding Nemo: Finding Dory" with a global box office of 1.0278 billion

"Captain America: Civil War" with a global box office of 1.1533 billion

It can be seen that Hollywood has now entered an era where superheroes and Disney 3D animation are divided into two parts. Superhero movies are ranked 7, 6, and 1, and Disney movies are ranked 5, 4, 3, and 2. 3D animation.

Following "Ready Player One" are "Suicide Squad" and the upcoming "Doctor Strange".

If you don't count the sudden entry of "Ready Player One", there are 5 superhero movies, 4 Disney animations in the first ten years, and finally there is a large-scale IP sequel "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them".

It can be seen that Hollywood has lost its former diversity advantage and has become uniform and highly homogeneous.

I can’t tell whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. After all, in Wu Yuan’s view, it is zzzq that really ruined Hollywood. If Hollywood had not fallen into the zzzq dilemma and insisted on imposing politics into movies, superhero movies would not hurt. Without the Chinese market, Disney's live-action animation will not be ridiculed by all kinds of ridicule, and it may not be able to continue to be prosperous.

But all this has nothing to do with Wu Yuan.

His current mentality is to watch him build a tall building, watch him entertain guests, and watch his building collapse.

Anyway, the Chinese film market is becoming more and more prosperous now. Although there are more and more bad films, this is normal, which means that more films are shot every year!

It is also at this good time when the domestic film market is booming that something that Light and Shadow Times Company has been busy for several years and promoting for a long time has finally been settled.

The Dali International Film Festival, initiated by Wu Yuan and hosted by Light and Shadow Times, has finally completed all procedures and officially launched!

The first Dali International Film Festival will be launched in the second half of this year and will be held in the second week of March 2017. It will mainly screen non-Western (Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa) films, and There are three exhibition units.

They are the feature film unit, the short film unit and the newcomer film unit. The names are very straightforward, and they don’t want to confuse people with the “Hidden Dragon Unit” and “Crouching Tiger Unit” like the Pingyao International Exhibition.

The main reason is that Wu Yuan’s relationship is strong enough. Although it is called a film festival, the Dali International Film Festival is completely prepared in accordance with the standards of the film festival. It is just that it does not directly award awards. The winners can only receive "unit attention" and "special awards". "Attention" is similar to the difference between the gold and silver awards of the three major awards.

As for the award setting, it is not so subdivided. There are only the most fixed "Special Attention" (Best Film), as well as the Jury - Unit Attention, Best Actor and Actor - Unit Attention, Best Newcomer - Unit Attention, and Best The screenplay-unit focuses on these awards.

That is to say, there are only seven formal awards in total, plus several individual awards in the short film unit and the newcomer film unit. In total, only 11 or 2 honors are awarded in one film festival, taking the route of less but more excellence.

However, whether it can be valuable or not, we still need to hold it for more than ten years before we can make a conclusion.

At least for now, both the company and Wu Yuan are looking forward to the Dali International Film Festival.

After all, this is an award that has been in operation for several years and has finally been implemented. Both the company and the local area in Dali attach great importance to it, and very serious preparations are currently underway.

Wu Yuan will even personally serve as the chairman of the jury for the first film festival in March next year, and he is also looking to invite jury members.

As an "international" film exhibition, the jury members must be of an international standard. Fortunately, Wu Yuan's face is quite easy to use. Compared with Chief Jia, he can really invite some heavyweight foreign filmmakers. of!

Even if Wu Yuan actually doesn’t know many international filmmaker friends, as long as he is willing to send an invitation, even if the inviter does not actually know Wu Yuan, he will consider it carefully after receiving the invitation. If he is not busy, he can spare the time. If the schedule is tight, we will not refuse.

This is the influence of a top international director, which Jia Zhangke cannot achieve in any case.

After all, although Jia Zhangke has also won the top three awards in Europe, he cannot be generalized as a director who is simply a director of art films, who is both artistic and commercial, and who has huge connections in Hollywood and Chinese movies.

One only has fame, but the other has both fame and reality!

This is why Jia Zhangke is Wu Yuan's senior, but Wu Yuan was still very determined to take the lead and snatched this quota, which might be the only one in the mainland that allows private film exhibitions.

He knew that Jia Zhangke was a good predecessor who loved to support newcomers, and he really discovered some outstanding newcomers for the mainland director industry. He was a very respectable elder brother, but running a film festival was different after all.

If there was only one quota, Wu Yuan firmly believed that if he was to run it, whether it was the influence of the film exhibition or the promotion of the mainland film industry, it would definitely be stronger than Jia Zhangke!

From the perspective of whether it is beneficial to the mainland film market, Wu Yuan's leadership will definitely have a greater influence than Jia Zhangke's, even countless times greater!

This is an objective fact!

Once the news of the Dali International Film Festival was publicly disclosed on the Internet, countless netizens who had already sneered at film festivals and film awards and did not care about them, all curiously discussed this new international film exhibition event.

Just because the founder of this film exhibition is Wu Yuan!

In terms of movies, Wu Yuan's current credibility and reputation are even more recognized by the public than the Golden Rooster Awards.

After all, the winning movies selected by the Golden Rooster Awards are difficult for the general public to recognize and understand, but every movie of Wu Yuan can be sought after and loved by the public!

Everyone believes that the film festival he organized will definitely select some truly good movies!

Then you must pay attention to it!

Therefore, the Dali International Film Festival, which was just established and has not yet started the first application audition, has become famous on the Internet. (End of this chapter)