"Popular Film" is considered the most authoritative and professional film magazine in the Mainland. It was founded in 1950. During this period, the magazine's headquarters moved from Shanghai to Beijing, and then from Beijing to Shanghai. After the reform and opening up, the magazine's headquarters moved from Shanghai to Shanghai again. Moving back to Beijing can be said to have gone through many twists and turns.
¡°Popular Films¡± in previous years was all manually edited by the China Film Industry Association. Just a few months ago, "Popular Cinema" was finally separated to form its own magazine. At the same time, it boldly revised its edition to become more interesting, fashionable and newsy based on the original professionalism and ideological nature. .
Zhao Lei is the chief editor of "Popular Films". After learning that Wang Zijun was going to hold "A Chinese Ghost Story" at the Grand View Tower, she personally came to interview as a reporter. If possible, she hopes to conduct an exclusive interview with Wang Zijun and write Wang Zijun's first exclusive interview article in mainland China.
Zhao Lei brought Xiao Chen, a photographer from the magazine. The two arrived at the scene an hour in advance, but found that many movie fans had gathered there, and they were fans who could not watch the movie without tickets.
¡°We want to watch a movie!¡±
"Is your Daguanlou People's Cinema? How do you serve the people? People want to watch movies but you don't sell tickets."
"Yes, sell tickets, sell tickets quickly! I have plenty of money."
"Why can those people get in? We can't get in!"
¡°Down with privileges, buy fair votes!¡±
¡°Down with privilege!¡±
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Zhao Lei and photojournalist Xiao Chen were blocked outside and were dumbfounded. That's why it was so crazy when Li Lianjie's "Shaolin Temple" was released a few years ago.
¡°In fact, not only Zhao Lei and the others, but also Wang Zijun himself was quite surprised. "A Chinese Ghost Story" has only been promoted in the mainland for more than half a month, and the promotion intensity is not very strong. I just placed a few text ads in "Popular Films" and several newspapers that allow commercial advertisements, and it can actually have this effect. .
The manager of Daguanlou Cinema was helpless and had no choice but to come out to explain. He held up a metal microphone and shouted: "Don't panic, everyone. Today is the premiere of "A Chinese Ghost Story". It is used for art discussion and advertising. There are only three screening halls showing "A Chinese Ghost Story", and all the people invited are people from the literary and art circles and the press. It is an official public screening. Please wait for another week"
The theater manager talked hard for a while and finally calmed down the anger of these movie fans. He only had to wait for another week, so just wait slowly.
There are also some guys who got premiere tickets from who knows where and sold them for 50 yuan a piece. Those scalpers almost got a slap in the face - am I mistaken? Movie tickets worth 50 cents each have already been sold. Up to the sky. It actually doubled a hundred times.
But those movie fans didn¡¯t come in vain. From time to time, movie stars who are rarely seen like Fu Yiwei, Liu Xiaoqing, Zhang Yu, and Si Qinggaowa came over. There were many names on the fans¡¯ signature books.
"Sister Zhao, look, Zhang Laomou and Brother Chen Kai are here too." Xiao Chen, who had a camera hanging around his neck, suddenly pointed to the front and said.
Zhao Lei stood on tiptoe and took a look, and it turned out to be Chen and Zhang. It¡¯s normal when you think about it, even those movie stars were invited. We will definitely invite these two internationally award-winning directors and photographers. But Wang Zijun is really proud. Zhang Laomou and Chen Kai were both in Xi'an some time ago, and they made a special trip to Beijing to attend the premiere.
Xiao Chen took a few photos of Zhang Laomou and Brother Chen Kai, then turned his attention to the back. Suddenly his eyes widened and he said, "Sister Zhao. Why are there foreigners over there?"
Zhao Lei said without paying much attention: "I heard that Wang Zijun has a foreign bodyguard with him, maybe he is his bodyguard."
"No, that man looks very familiar!" Xiao Chen explained.
"Where is it?" Zhao Lei asked.
Xiao Chen pointed outside and said: "Across the street, there are two candied haws eating ones."
Zhao Lei took a closer look, but there were two white people, a man and a woman. She didn¡¯t recognize the woman. But Zhao Lei, the bearded man, had seen the photos countless times and couldn't help but urge: "Quickly, take pictures of them! That man is Spielberg, the director of "Jaws"!"
"Spielberg? Ah! Why is he in Beijing?" Xiao Chen reacted suddenly, fought his way through the crowd with a camera in his hand, ran half way across the street and knelt down in front of Spielberg with a bang. , raise the camera and take a photo.
Spielberg was startled by the sudden appearance of Xiao Chen. He didn¡¯t realize it was a reporter until he saw the other person taking photos. He very cooperatively posed for Xiao Chen to take photos. At the same time, he smiled and said to the black-haired beauty next to him: "Oh. Kailin, it seems that Chinese reporters are no different from Hollywood reporters."
The black-haired beauty did not answer, but spat out the candied haws in her mouth, frowned and said, "This Chinese dessert tastes really weird!"
"Haha, let Zachary treat us to roast duck tonight!" Spielberg laughed.
While the two were talking, Zhao Lei had already squeezed out, stretched out her hand and smiled at Spielberg: "Hello, Mr. Spielberg, I am Zhao Lei, a reporter from "Popular Cinema"."
"Hello, beautiful Zhao." Spielberg came to China specifically to shoot "Empire of the Sun" this time, and would travel to Shanghai, Suzhou and other places. Because I had to contact many Chinese actors, I had a very rough understanding of the Chinese film industry before coming, and Spielberg happened to know about the magazine "Popular Cinema".
"Thank you for your compliment," Zhao Lei turned her attention to the beautiful woman who came with Spielberg and asked, "Who is this beautiful lady?"
Spielberg introduced: "Kathleen Kennedy, my good friend."
Katherine Kennedy, who is the same age as Wang Zijun, used to be Spielberg¡¯s secretary and is now the boss of a production company. "Raiders of the Lost Ark", the "Back to the Future" trilogy, and later "Jurassic Park" and other films were all produced by Catherine.
¡°Empire of the Sun,¡± which Spielberg shot in China, was also co-produced by Kathleen Kennedy¡¯s company and Time Warner. The two have a good personal relationship. They came to China a few days early this time, just as Wang Zijun was about to premiere "A Chinese Ghost Story" in Beijing. After receiving the invitation, they came happily. In fact, they mainly took the opportunity to travel to Beijing.
Nowadays, mainland China does not know much about the outside world. Although Zhao Lei is the screenwriter of "Popular Cinema", she has never heard of Katherine Kennedy. She really thought she was just a friend of Spielberg and never talked to her more. sentence.
"Mr. Spielberg, are you here in Beijing specifically to attend the premiere of "A Chinese Ghost Story"?" Zhao Lei asked.
Spielberg smiled and said: "Of course, Wang and I are from Beijing. The roast duck in Beijing is very delicious. Do you know where I can buy it?"
Why did you suddenly switch from movies to food? Although Zhao Lei couldn't keep up with Spielberg's rhythm, she still took the opportunity to get close and said, "Quanjude's roast duck is the best. How about I take you two with me after the premiere?"
Spielberg did not want to be pestered by the media and said: "No, Wang arranged a guide for us, but we seem to have missed the guide. I will remember it, Quanjude, thank you, Miss."
After the two foreigners finished speaking, they crowded inside. None of the other media reporters recognized them. Zhao Lei followed closely behind, constantly introducing delicious and fun places in Beijing to Spielberg. The reason why she was so enthusiastic was that she didn't want to miss this opportunity to interview the big Hollywood director.
Wang Zijun will definitely come to Beijing frequently in the future, but Spielberg, an American bearded man, is hard to say. If he misses this time, he doesn¡¯t know what year it will be next time.
When Spielberg and Catherine entered the screening room, Wang Zijun was talking nonsense with Zhang Laomou and Chen Kaige, and Liu Xiaoqing stood beside the three of them to join in the fun and apologize.
The two foreigners came in quite conspicuously. Wang Zijun recognized them at a glance and said to Zhang Laomou and the others: "Two more guests are here. Let me introduce them to you."
??Brother Chen Kai and Zhang Laomou also won awards at international film festivals. They recognized Spielberg at a glance and asked in surprise: "Why is he here too?"
Wang Zijun smiled and said: "He will stay in China for a few months this year. The woman next to him is the boss of a Hollywood film company. If you are interested, you can chat with them for a while."
After leading the three of them over, Wang Zijun stretched out his hand to shake Spielberg's hand and said, "The guide I sent called back and said he lost you at the airport. He is so scared that he is still crying."
"Haha." Spielberg said, "Kaelin and I waited at the airport for half an hour but didn't find the guide who came to pick us up, so we took a taxi and came directly."
Wang Zijun curled his lips and said somewhat speechlessly: "That idiot guide is my new employee in mainland China. What he wrote on the pick-up board was the Chinese translation of the two names."
Katherine Kennedy smiled and said: "It seems that we should learn some Chinese, at least learn our own names."
"Let me introduce you," Wang Zijun said, "This is the famous Chinese director Mr. Chen Kaige, and this is the famous photographer Mr. Zhang Laomou. As for this lady, she is the famous Chinese actor Liu Xiaoqing."
Spielberg had heard a little bit about Chen and Zhang, but only to the extent that he knew there was such a person but couldn't name them. As for Liu Xiaoqing, who knows who she is?
The premiere started a while later, and the scene of several people chatting together attracted all the reporters present. Those reporters secretly inquired about the origins of the two foreigners.
A few people met to sit down, and Chen and Zhang chatted very enthusiastically with their two foreign friends.?. Liu Xiaoqing also wanted to join, but her English was not good and she couldn't even understand what she was listening to, let alone chatting. However, she did not abandon the near for the far. She leaned forward and almost ran into Wang Zijun's arms. She said familiarly: "Mr. Wang, when will you come to the mainland for filming?"
"It depends on the situation." Facing this naked temptation, Wang Zijun couldn't help but move aside some distance. The beautiful woman in front of me married a tragic young man from Beijing in order to obtain a Beijing household registration. She kicked her husband out on the fourth day of their marriage. Now she is living with a married director. The family broke up and she married him, but in the blink of an eye she cuckolded the director and hooked up with Jiang Wen (Lao Jiang's teacher personally confirmed that the two had lived together for three years).
This kind of woman is so terrifying that Wang Zijun thinks he can¡¯t afford it. . . )
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