Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 560 Gunshots Ring Out
Warcraft is certainly a fan-oriented film that has been criticized by the industry, and it may be the biggest fan-oriented film in the world this year.

It's just covered with a large layer of skin.

The film was released in China two days earlier than in North America. The midnight screenings grossed 4975 million yuan, the daytime box office was 250 million yuan, and the total box office on the opening day was 290 million yuan.

It accounted for more than 60% of the screenings that day.

It's a very good result, but what's frustrating is that "X-Men: Apocalypse," which was released a week before it, had its rhythm abruptly disrupted by "Warcraft."

However, there's nothing we can do about it. We can't let them into the summer movie season for the time being, so putting them in June to warm up for the summer movie season is the best option.

Finding Dory will be released next week, and Now You See Me 2 and Independence Day 2 will both be released on the 24th, all serving the same purpose.

However, the market is hot right now, so even if you get together, you might still make a profit.

The Shanghai International Film Festival opens on the 11th.

As the most important social venue in the mainland film industry, Li Qiutang sometimes goes and sometimes doesn't, but this year she had to go.

The company needs to promote itself at the film festival, and the Changchun Film Festival will also announce important news at the Shanghai International Film Festival.

On the second day of the film festival, Li Qiutang attended the Changchun Film Festival press conference.

Holding a press conference at one film festival while another is not considered poaching. The Changchun Film Festival and the Shanghai International Film Festival were held about half a year apart, one is positioned domestically and the other internationally, so they don't even constitute a competitive relationship.

When Marco Müller was still in office, he frequently attended the Cannes Film Festival.

At the Changchun Film Festival press conference, the Jilin Provincial Radio and Television Bureau announced that since the launch of the Golden Deer Project Pitching Forum, as of three days ago, the forum had received 322 submissions of both feature and short film pitching projects. With the pitching competition about to end, he urged young filmmakers to continue submitting their work.

"Our preliminary review panel is working day and night to review venture capital projects."

It was on such a formal platform as the Shanghai International Film Festival that Director Xu formally issued his declaration of reform for the Changchun Film Festival to the outside world for the first time.

"We want to leverage Deer Antlers to propel the Changchun Film Festival forward."

"We want to make the Changchun Film Festival the most influential film festival in Chinese-language cinema and the best representative of the achievements of the Chinese-language film industry."

Then, Director Xu announced that this year's Changchun Film Festival will open on September 7 and close on September 11, lasting for 5 days.

Originally, it was supposed to be held after the National Day holiday, because the Hundred Flowers Awards were at the end of September this year. However, due to the influence exerted by Li Qiutang and others, the Changchun Film Festival was moved up by a month.

Why avoid the Hundred Flowers Awards?
Does anyone still watch the Hundred Flowers Awards?

Here comes the big announcement: Director Tong from the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television took the stage to announce the establishment of Changchun Film Festival Co., Ltd., exploring the path of corporatization reform for film festivals and supporting Changchun Film Festival.

The company is, of course, wholly state-owned, and the general manager is Tang Lijun, the former general manager of Shanghai International Film Festival Co., Ltd. and the former executive deputy secretary-general of Shanghai International Film Festival.

Is this another form of trolling? Asking the former head of the Shanghai International Film Festival to help them organize another film festival on the stage of the festival?

After delivering a brief inaugural address, Tang Lijun immediately announced the first action of the Changchun Film Festival in her new capacity.

"The Golden Deer Venture Capital is an important step in the reform of the Changchun Film Festival..." Tang Lijun gave a detailed introduction to the current progress of the Golden Deer Venture Capital. The Golden Deer Venture Capital has invited more than 20 film and television companies to join the venture capital unit and signed agreements for a minimum number of negotiation sessions. The film festival provides the platform, and the companies must also show their sincerity and not just come to go through the motions.

"We will continue to invite film and television companies to the Golden Deer Venture Capital Forum. Now, I would like to introduce the final review chairman of the first Changchun Film Festival Golden Deer Venture Capital Forum. Please welcome Director Li Qiutang."

Regarding the selection of the first venture capital chairman, Changchun Film Festival did indeed give it much thought. They considered finding a senior figure to take the lead, such as Professor Huang Jianxin. Li Qiutang had no objection to this candidate.

However, Tang Lijun, Zhang Zhao, and others later felt that Li Qiutang should personally take the lead. The first venture capital event had to be a resounding success. While the veterans were certainly respectable, Li Qiutang was clearly a more suitable candidate.

Under Li Qiutang's leadership, the Towering Tree Project has become the most renowned new director support program in China, nurturing outstanding young directors such as Han Yan, Lu Yang, Tian Yusheng, and Guo Fan in just three to five years.

Many new directors hope to join the Towering Tree Project, so who is more suitable to be the chairman than Li Qiutang?
Being the chairman of a venture capital firm would inevitably affect Li Qiutang's directing work, but he felt that he still had the time and energy to support it, so he took on the job.

Amid applause, Li Qiutang slowly walked onto the stage, saying that she was very nervous about taking on this task.

"I'm still a young director myself, how can I guide other people's venture capital projects? The speaker on stage might be older than me."

After the joke was over, Li Qiutang added that she would do her best to be the chairman of the venture capital firm: "I'm short of money, and luckily I have some."

The audience laughed.

"I can also revise the script a little."

He laughed again.

"I'm short of post-production staff, and I happen to own a post-production company."

The audience burst into laughter.

"But I can't handle the entire venture capital process by myself. I still need to rely on the companies that have signed with us. I hope that you will meet and talk with us newcomers as much as possible, and don't be stingy with your funds. Venture capital provides the platform, and the companies perform the show. You are the main actors, and we judges are just doing some minor work. Thank you."

The press conference for the Changchun Film Festival was quite successful, and it touted the slogan of positive reform—whether the outside world believes it or not is another matter.

They also came up with some specific measures, such as establishing a company to operate the Changchun Film Festival, setting up a venture capital unit and inviting Li Qiutang to serve as its first chairman.

Everything is thriving.

The media rushed to report on the press conference and the signals it conveyed.

The domestic film awards are so lifeless. Now that one of them has publicly said it wants to reform, and that it "represents the achievements of the Chinese film industry," it's very exciting for the media.

"Changchun Film Festival is committed to reform and aims at the industrialization of film!"

"Changchun Film Festival fires the first shot in the reform of domestic film festivals! Li Qiutang appointed as the first chairman!"

"The Changchun Film Festival is about to undergo restructuring, and its future is uncertain!"

Some are optimistic, while others are pessimistic; this is all normal.

But one thing is certain: the future of the Changchun Film Festival's reforms is indeed uncertain.

After attending the Changchun Film Festival press conference on the first day, Li Qiutang temporarily left Shanghai. His wife had recently moved from Suzhou to Moganshan, which is only a 3-hour drive from Shanghai. Li Qiutang chose to go see his wife to relieve his own loneliness and also to help her relieve hers.

Knowing that her husband would be attending the Shanghai International Film Festival, Liu Yifei would ask him to visit her on set every few days.

Just as Li Qiutang arrived at Moganshan and got off the car to change her legs while enjoying the scenery of Moganshan on her way to the film crew, Wan Da held a film list release conference at the Shanghai International Film Festival.

They have released many films, more than half of which are from Hollywood, including the currently showing "Warcraft" (Wanda Films did not participate, but Legendary's participation is equivalent to Wanda's participation), the unreleased "The Great Wall" and "Pacific Rim 2" (both are Legendary works), the sequel to "The Great Hypnotist" "The Great Hypnotist", and so on.

It's safe to say that Vantone's film slate this year is fantastic!
Among the domestically produced films, one film stands out in particular:
Mojin: The Lost Legend 2!
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