Chapter 18 Sitges Premiere

September 28, Spain, the coastal town of Catalonia - Sitges.

The weather was sunny.

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

Accompanying him were old friends of China Film, the producer of "The Night the Comet Came" Chen Yuan, and the male and female protagonists of the film Chen Kun and Zeng Li.

Wu Yuan originally wanted to bring all the leading actors together. Anyway, there is no premiere for the release of the movie these days. Everyone is idle at home, so why not come to Spain for a trip and experience the Mediterranean style.

However, the activity funds provided by China Film were not much, only enough for Wu Yuan to bring two protagonists, and even the translators of the crew were hired by local international students as part-time workers.

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

This is a top B-class film festival. Although it cannot be compared with the three major European festivals, it is also very popular in the field of horror, suspense and other cult films.

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

Of course, unlike the three major European festivals that attract international top film producers.

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

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

Wu Yuan has no big idea about the awards, and he didn't even pay attention to which movies participated in this year's film festival.

His main purpose of this trip is to sell copyrights, distribution rights, and adaptation rights.

Now is an era of 8 to 1 exchange rate. 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 a million US dollars, he can make a profit of more than one million RMB, and he doesn't have to worry about the funds for the next movie!

If he can sell tens of millions of US dollars, don't even think about it, it's not realistic.

After meeting with the local translator in Sitges and checking in at the hotel, Chen Kun and Zeng Li, who were extremely excited about going abroad for the first time, took Wu Yuan to stroll around the town of Sitges, waiting for the opening ceremony in the evening.

This year, apart from their crew, no other crews from the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong and Macao came to participate in this year's Sitges Fantasy Film Festival.

The crew of "The Night the Comet Came" certainly couldn't walk the opening red carpet. They had no fame from the director to the actors, but they were still qualified to watch the opening ceremony.

The three actors and directors strolled around Sitges, but the producer Chen Yuan couldn't relax.

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

In a word, producer Chen was very busy.

Wu Yuan, Chen Kun and Zeng Li were different.

The three of them were completely in the mood to travel. They first watched a pretty good opening ceremony and then watched the film festival for two consecutive days.

To be honest, where can you see so many horror and suspense films in China?

Nine out of ten films shown at the Sitges Fantasy Film Festival are impossible to be approved and introduced in the mainland.

Not to mention Chen Kun and Zeng Li, Wu Yuan has not seen most of them.

These two days, the three of them have had a great time!

Of course, the fantasy films in Sitges are also very good, which is also a rare type of film in China. The three of them enjoyed watching them with relish.

But they are not here for vacation after all.

October 1st is the day when "The Night the Comet Came" was released in China, and it was also the day when it premiered in Sitges.

The premiere time is at 8 pm. During this time period, Sitges has six films premiering at the same time. "The Night the Comet Came" is the least famous one.

The crew is not famous, so naturally they can't contact any big theaters to arrange the premiere. Chen Yuan finally arranged for the premiere in a remote small theater.

Despite this, whether it is Wu Yuan, Chen Kun or Zeng Li, they all attach great importance to this premiere. They specially put on the dresses they brought from China, sat in the backstage with full spirits, waiting for the audience to take their seats and the premiere to begin.

As a subsidiary town of Barcelona, ​​Sitges has many local Chinese people. Chen Yuan had already started promoting it in the local area a few days ago.

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

A little after 7:30, the screening room that can accommodate more than 100 people was full of audiences, most of whom were local Chinese compatriots.

There were only a dozen blond and blue-eyed foreigners, and most of them chose this movie out of helplessness because they could not get tickets for other movies.

Ritsa is such an audience.

She is a local of Barcelona and also a senior suspense film fan.

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

It was a pity that she didn't get the movie ticket for "She's Coming" that she wanted to watch today. She had planned to go home and rest, but when she passed by the street, she saw a poster for a Chinese movie.

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

On the poster, a beautiful oriental woman looked straight at the camera with a serious expression, as if she wanted to break the fourth wall.

On both sides of this oriental woman, there are two faces half-looking at her sideways. If you look carefully, these two faces are actually this oriental woman.

Such a suspenseful poster, just looking directly at it gives Ritsa a chill on the back.

Looking at the slogan below 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 lit up, and a beam of light and shadow was projected onto the screen.

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

Director and screenwriter: Wu Yuan

Producer: Han Sanping

Supervisor: Han Sanping

Producer: Chen Yuan

Editor: Wu Yuan, Lin Tan

Director of photography: 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 unfamiliar with the main creative team, and everyone is more concerned about the content of the movie.

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

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

All the audience at the scene, including the main creative staff, were concentrating on the screen, and no one spoke.

Zeng Li and Chen Kun also watched the finished film for the first time. As the leading actors, they were under more pressure than Wu Yuan, and their lips were trembling with nervousness.

Fortunately, as the movie was shown, there was no scene of the audience leaving in anger.

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

Zeng Li and Chen Kun didn't understand Spanish, so they didn't know what the foreigners were exclaiming, but the words of their compatriots were clearly heard by them.

"Is this a movie made in our country?"

"What a brain-burning movie!"

"Too cool, how many times did they exchange spaces? Are people who walk out of the house and come back no longer the same people?"

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

"How many parallel time and space are there?"

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

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

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