The Greatest Showman - Chapter 2094

[2058 Active Invitation]

Alberto looked at Renly with a smile on his face, more serious than ever before, carefully observing the small changes in Renly’s expression, a moment of daze, but it was fleeting, and then he smiled again, “You are really full of Charming guy, you must be used to such words?”

Renly’s mouth rose slightly, “Praise can make the devil dance, who can resist?”

“Haha.” Alberto laughed heartily again. When he got up, the loud and hearty laughter made Renly’s eardrums vibrate faintly. For a sixty-year-old man, he was full of anger, “Although I still don’t fully understand what you mean by streaming, but I can sense that this should be a breakthrough to change the entire industry. As for whether it is good or bad, I can’t judge, the only thing I can say is that I admire your courage.”

“Just admire? Then join? I think , we are ready for a long-term cooperation.” Renly’s tone maintained a brisk joke and ridicule, even if he was rejected, he was not surprised at all because he knew that in between, all this would take time to settle and brew.

Alberto just spread his hands calmly, “You should know that some things are not that simple, just like what you just said, are you sure we need to continue wasting time on this issue?” Alberto is not an easy old fox either.

Renly pursed the corners of his mouth and nodded lightly in agreement, “That’s fair.”

In fact, the cooperation between the three major European film festivals and Don Quixote Channel is possible. Renly personally believes that Berlin is the most likely, and Cannes is the second most likely. After all, Venice is the most difficult.

From the perspective of historical development process, “Roma” directed by Alfonso Cuaron and invested and produced by Netflix was rejected by Cannes to move to Venice, and finally successfully reached the Golden Lion Award, which seems to mean that Venice is more accepting of streaming media. , but this is only an illusion

France has a rigid rule that “it must be released in theaters for a certain number of weeks” for Cannes entries, while Italy does not, which leads to this result; but in terms of the degree of acceptance and discussion of streaming media, France is systematically concerned about With the move of streaming media, Italy lacks a sufficient system framework, coupled with the intricate power relations of the Venice Film Festival, all this makes the prospect of cooperation full of more variables.

As Alberto said, Renly was not at all surprised by this result, as if Renly was invited to be the chairman of the jury, the cooperation between Venice and Don Quixote was also full of difficulties, and at this point in time, there is no further discussion necessary because it simply cannot happen.

Going a step further, now is not the best time to cooperate with the three major film festivals in Europe, and Renly is mentally prepared.

However, Renly is still planting a seed,

Waiting for the long development process in the future to slowly water, looking forward to one day in the future to really blossom and bear fruit, anyway, the development plan of Don Quixote Channel is not something that can be accomplished overnight.

Although Renly expressed his understanding and did not continue to entangle, Alberto’s thoughts were still unable to get rid of them immediately. Renly’s determination and desire to collaborate.

After slowing down a bit, Alberto continued, “Although the streaming platform may be more difficult, we can still have a long-term cooperation. The film produced by Sisyphus Films, we are always open to welcome you to Venice.” That’s when Alberto really got to the point, “Especially the work you starred in; we welcome with our hands raised, we are full of confidence, this is bound to be the beginning of a good cooperation.”

Renly chuckled, “Any one It is an honor for the film to go to Venice, it seems that we need to focus on film production, otherwise we will betray the trust of Mr. Alberto, which is not good.” This is not a polite word, Even if they don’t go to Venice, Sisyphus needs to get stuck on quality, or a little loss and failure could send them down the road to DreamWorks.

“There is a chance now.” Alberto was rounded up by Renly, almost forgetting his original purpose, and now he is finally back on track, “‘Boomman’ and ‘Nightcrawler’, willing to come to Venice Is it?”

This is the direct goal of Alberto’s special trip to New Orleans!

Everything else is a follow-up plan, and the starting point of the whole plan is the two works “Boom Drummer” and “Nightcrawler”, which Alberto hopes will appear in the main competition unit.

For the three major European film festivals, the film works are registered and applied by themselves, and then the film selection committee will watch the evaluation and select the works suitable for each unit.

In an average annual film festival, the film selection committee needs to watch 300 or more works, which is no easy task.

But there are also a small number of special cases, such as Quentin Tarantino or Woody Allen shooting a new work, then the film festival will take the initiative to send out invitations, hoping that the film can come to the exhibition; of course, the film selection The committee still needs to watch and judge. After adding favor points and fame points, it will judge whether it is suitable for the main competition unit or other units

occasionally have some embarrassing situations. The film festival invited a certain director master to participate, and the master also It is true that the work was completed in a hurry, but the quality of the finished product was not satisfactory. As a result, the film selection committee could only refuse. From the perspective of human affection and face, this is very embarrassing, but it does happen occasionally.

Just like Cannes established its own direct line, in fact, Berlin and Venice also have it, but the influence of the latter two lines is not perfect and the influence is relatively limited.

Alberto is now in New Orleans in person for two Sisyphus films.

Renly was a little surprised to learn about Alberto’s purpose, although from an objective standpoint, this was an unexpected but reasonable answer: otherwise, there is really no connection between Renly and Alberto, How could Alberto make a special trip to visit the class?

The reason for the accident was mainly because of Renly himself. He never really put himself in the position of the producer, never really interfered with the behind-the-scenes work in many aspects such as the production, distribution and publicity plans of the film; now, Alberto made a special trip to ask Renly’s opinion, and even if this was the most reasonable explanation, unexpected emotions inevitably surged.

Renly paused for a moment, then asked a very rudimentary question, “However, ‘Boom Drummer’ has already participated in the Sundance Film Festival, can I still participate in the Venice Film Festival? I always thought that you only accept global The premiere works participate in the main competition, and only markets like the Toronto Film Festival are open for registration, accepting applications for screenings of all films.”

As expected, it was a primary question, and Alberto laughed cheerfully, “I’ve never listened to it. Said such a rule, at least not in Venice.”

In fact, none of the three major film festivals in Europe have such rigid regulations. The reason why they prefer the works that are premiered in the world is to ensure the attention and attraction. After all, those works that have been officially premiered lack “uniqueness”. It is more or less affected by the attributes of the .

Last year’s Sundance Jury Prize “Fruitville Station”, then went to the Cannes Film Festival, not the main competition, but also participated in a kind of attention unit; Similarly, the 2012 Sundance Film Festival’s Jury Prize The work “The Beast of the South” was also shortlisted for a kind of attention unit at the Cannes Film Festival, and won a series of awards in Cannes, and finally entered the year-end awards season in one go, and broke out in the Oscar nomination stage.

This year, Sundance’s highly acclaimed “God Helps Girls” went to the Berlin Film Festival in just two weeks, and participated in the screening of the Crystal Bear unit.

There are countless similar situations. In the final analysis, the screening of film festivals is still limited to specific groups. It is really normal to go from one film festival to another film festival. Even the three major European film festivals are no exception, including The incredible Cannes Film Festival.

“As for other film festivals, I’m not very familiar with it.” Alberto’s eyes flickered with a sly light, although he did not explicitly name the name, but the implication inside and outside the words obviously pointed to the fact that Cannes

did not have this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Extending an olive branch to “Boom Drummer” also rejected “Nightcrawler”, because the styles of these two works are too gloomy and dark to suit the style of Cannes.

But now, in Alberto’s suggestion, other meanings are deduced. Are they tripping each other?

Renly couldn’t help but remember that when he attended Cannes last year, those high-level executives were also keeping Venice in the dark. , if the three film festivals are personified, the relationship between them will become more interesting, which is really intriguing, which also makes Renly show a big smile.

“Personally I’m really, really looking forward to seeing you in Venice again, ‘Blitzkrieg’ has received a lot of accolades at Sundance, our expectations are rising, I can’t wait to see this work, and I I sincerely hope that the Italian audience can enjoy this work for the first time.” Alberto further added, with a sincere and bright light in his eyes.

“Of course, and Jake Gyllenhaal.”

Just as Renly was about to speak, Alberto added this sentence, which made Renly chuckle, “I don’t think Jack will be satisfied with this. treatment, he should also be the protagonist, right?”

[End of this Chapter]