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"The Lunar New Year stall is coming soon." Wu Yuan murmured to Liu Yifei: "The competition between the Lunar New Year stall and the Spring Festival stall this year is still very fierce."

“I don’t know who will win during the Lunar New Year this year.”

With the changes of the times, the Lunar New Year period, which once dominated the Chinese film industry, has gradually lost its popularity. The first Chinese film period, which was pioneered by Feng Xiaogang, has now become a vassal of the Spring Festival period.

Whether it is media reports or people in the film industry, the Lunar New Year schedule has been merged into the Spring Festival schedule by default, and can even only be used as a warm-up schedule before the Spring Festival schedule.

But this does not mean that the Lunar New Year period will no longer work. December, when the Lunar New Year period is located, is still a schedule that some veteran directors attach great importance to.

The 2017 Lunar New Year holiday can even be regarded as the most important year in recent years.

Directed by Feng Xiaogang, written by Yan Geling, starring Huang Xuan, and co-starring Miao Miao and Zhong Chuxi, the movie "Youth" adapted from Yan Geling's novel of the same name is scheduled to be released on December 15, and will be released simultaneously in China and the United States.

Well, there are only a dozen theaters in North America that will schedule a show, but this sounds awesome. Feng Pants is really good at marketing.

However, this "Youth" is not a commercial film, but a literary film. Feng Pants' obsession with film awards is getting deeper and deeper.

When he first started making movies, he wanted to integrate into the mainstream film industry and get recognition from awards. However, the older generation of filmmakers who controlled the discourse looked down upon him at all and did not even regard his movies as movies. , I just thought it was a long sketch.

Later, Feng Pengtong broke up with these old men, and various scoldings broke out. He also got the nickname "Feng Dapao". When the quarrel was at its worst, Feng Pongtang was almost the same as Sun Houhou, who was promoted to Lingxiao Hall. That would really turn the world upside down.

Later, he was defeated by Feng Pants. After scolding him for several years, he finally won the Golden Rooster Award and reconciled with the Golden Rooster judges. He even praised the Golden Rooster a lot and said that all misunderstandings were over.

Since then, Feng Pants has been quiet for a while. It seems that he is not too obsessed with awards or anything like that, and he doesn't shoot as much.

But a few years later, perhaps after seeing Zhang Yimou's success, he was a little ready to take action again, and thought about making literary films again.

Well, the movie with which Feng Pants won the Golden Rooster before was "Assembly", which was also a commercial film. The literary films he usually made were really not good.

After achieving success in the commercial field, Feng Pengtang's obsession with literary films came back again, and this is how he produced "Youth". He even imitated Zhang Yimou and recruited Yan Geling, obviously aiming at "Youth". This movie was made on the level of "Alive" and "Return".

Feng Pants was really willing to spend money and spent a lot of money on the promotion of this movie. He not only wanted to win awards, but also wanted to win box office.

It's just that in this year's Lunar New Year, he is not the only ambitious director. Chen Kaige is following closely behind with "The Legend of the Cat Demon". In order to make this movie, Director Kaige even spent hundreds of millions to build a Tang Dynasty. city.

Not to mention, the Tang Dynasty he built for filming movies is much more meaningful to the development of the Chinese film and television industry than "The Legend of the Cat Demon" itself. At least "The Legend of the Cat Demon" can only leave a scene of the noble concubine looking back. However, the city has become the leading film and television base with a historical background of the Tang Dynasty in the next ten years. In the future, almost all film and television dramas involving the Tang Dynasty will be filmed here, making an extraordinary contribution!

However, "Legend of the Cat" should not be underestimated. After all, this is a rare movie in the post-Chen Kaige era. Although Chen Kaige's storytelling ability is still hard to describe, the picture of this movie is really good-looking. Currently released Some trailers have indeed made many viewers and movie fans look forward to it.

I have to say that in terms of trailers that do not involve the plot, Chen Kaige's movie still has an advantage.

In addition, this year's Lunar New Year movies include "Qi Men Dun Jia", "Psychological Crime: City Lights", "Blood of the Machine" and "Jieyou Grocery Store".

"Qi Men Dun Jia" was supervised by screenwriter Xu Ke, "Psychological Crime: City Lights" was joined by Deng Chao, and "Blood of the Machine" was even more outrageous. Cheng Long didn't know how much favor he owed, or whether he was behind the scenes. How deep is the insider trading, to actually take on such a movie that praises newcomers, and it is a joint venture between Macao, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The water behind it is too deep.

Even "The Worry-Free Grocery Store" with the simplest background is a collaboration between Emperor and Wanda, and it is adapted from Keigo Higashino's novel of the same name.

During the promotional period before these movies were released, no matter which movie they were, it seemed that they were going to be a hit, which undoubtedly made this year's Lunar New Year season the most competitive in the past five years.

Especially on December 29th, Light and Shadow Times will also join this melee. The company's "Exes 3 Goodbye Ex" produced by the company will be released on the 29th, targeting the market in the month before the Spring Festival!

In this regard, it was Wu Yuan's appearance and influence that led to some changes. Otherwise, there would have been two movies in the original time and space this year, "The Second Generation Fairy: Lucky in This Life" and "The Fairy Bell", which would also join this year's Lunar New Year melee. .

"Second Generation Fairy" was not included mainly because the producer wanted to kill Liu Yifei, but Wu Yuan also firmly believed that the film was meaningless. After a long delay, the producer gave up and settled for the next best option. He met Nazha, who also has a "fox spirit" feeling, which led to the postponement of the film's production and it was too late to be released in this year's Lunar New Year.

"The Ringing Bell" was supposed to be produced by Chen Kexin, co-produced with Happy Twist, and directed by Chen Kexin's wife. However, Wu Yuan intervened in this life, and Chen Kexin's trip to the mainland was not very smooth. Happy Twist would not cooperate with him, so this movie did not appear.

Even so, this year's Lunar New Year holiday also has 7 important movies plus 5 or 6 tie-ins concentrated in this month, and the competition is still very fierce.

"We must support our own "Ex-Files 3"!" Liu Yifei raised her eyebrows, put her arm around Wu Yuan's neck, and said with a smile: "Why don't we go to the cinema to watch this movie together? I've seen the first two, and they are quite interesting love comedies."

"Uh" Wu Yuan scratched his head, holding back the words of refusal.

Although the "Ex-Files" series is one of the current cash cows of the Light and Shadow Era, and he also knows that the box office of "Ex-Files 3" will be very good, creating the highest score in this series, but Wu Yuan really doesn't like this movie. In his dream, he went to the cinema to watch it more than ten times in order to figure out why this movie was so popular. He almost vomited. Even if he had a break for more than ten years, he was not interested in watching it again.

This is not a classic art film that makes people want to revisit it every few years.

But seeing Liu Yifei's expectant eyes, Wu Yuan still didn't say no, just smiled and nodded: "If you want to go, then I will definitely go with you. Anyway, the crew of "The Monkey King" will not start shooting until after the Chinese New Year, and I am still very free during this period before the New Year."

"Then it's settled!" Liu Yifei immediately followed up. She didn't like or look forward to this movie very much, but she hadn't gone to the cinema with Wu Yuan to watch a movie for a long time, and she missed the feeling when she was just in love~ (End of this chapter)