China Entertainment 2000.

Chapter 232 If you don’t go out, you won’t know how hot you are

The next day.

On the way home from Jiuhua Villa after soaking in hot springs, Jiang Liu received a call from his immediate boss.

"Jiang Liu, you're not going to participate in the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival?"

"Mr. Wu, I'm really busy. This film festival is in Yinchuan. It's too far away. If it were in the capital, needless to say, I would spare no time to support it."

Wu Yigong led the creation of China's first international A-class film festival in 93 - the Magic City International Film Festival.

Last year, Jiang Liu was elected as the new chairman of the Chinese Filmmakers Association, and Jiang Liu is a member of the Filmmakers Association.

Wu Yigong is Jiang Liu's true boss, but his binding force is so small that it can be ignored.

"Don't be so careless, do you have to force me to speak frankly?"

"You directors are well-known and popular with the audience, and none of you regard domestic film festivals as a meal. If you continue to do this, I call on the state to stop issuing subsidies to you for the completion of the production of domestic feature films."

"Mr. Wu, please don't." Jiang Liu parked the car on the side of the road.

Whether Wu Yigong can influence the payment of film subsidies is still open to question.

However, Jiang Liu is not willing to be tough. After all, each movie has a subsidy of one to two million per year, so why bother struggling with money.

"Mr. Wu, I'll fly to Yinchuan tomorrow."

"That's pretty much it. I'll call Zhang Yimou again, and everyone will be outrageous."

"Who?"

Jiang Liu restarted the car: "Mr. Wu, Chairman of the Film Association."

When he learned that he was the chairman of the organizing committee of the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival, Li Xin was immediately happy: "Let you participate in the 13th Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival?"

"I've said it before, if you want to be free and contented, there's no way you can do it. Either you don't make movies and you don't care about life and death."

Jiang Liu nodded noncommittally and said, "I have never participated in a domestic film festival after 2000. Mr. Wu seems very angry. Go and appease him a little, otherwise the next few festivals will definitely be endless."

"As for the development of Yi Xin, he has no ability to affect it."

One mind is not big, and there are more than 1000 employees.

But the value created every year is in the hundreds of millions, and it now ranks first among private film and television companies in the country.

After Yixin, Huayi and Bona introduced capital.

Looking at the film and television companies across the country, I am afraid that only China Film Group can be ranked ahead of Yixin. Of course, this is because the other company is a national brand.

In terms of annual net profit from film and television programs, Yixin is undoubtedly the number one film and television company in the country.

The chairman of the Film Association and the chairman of the 13th Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film and Drama Jury personally called, and Jiang Liu had to go to Yinchuan in person.

In order to show its importance to him, the organizing committee not only arranged for a special car to be on standby outside the airport early, but also arranged a rest room that was also the best luxury suite in an international hotel.

"A good film festival is a bit messy."

The vehicle slowly arrived at the entrance of the International Hotel. Ji Nan frowned as he looked at the crowd of spectators surrounding the hotel.

Jiang Liu smiled and said: "You change places every year. Once you grab the place to hold the event, don't you do a lot of marketing? Otherwise, you won't be able to get back your money."

"Jiaxing spent a total of 2000 million yuan to hold the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival last year. Looking at today's situation, Yinchuan can't do without much."

"Who knows, I got off the car, and the organizing committee arranged a photo session with the audience and a signing session." Jiang Liu said depressedly.

Jiang Liunao didn't know who invented the most important film festival in China, which rotates in various cities.

But one thing is certain, the person who invented this model has a lot of business acumen.

At this stage of China, there are few means to improve the image of the city. It is indeed a good way to use the charm of movies to promote the city and create a city image.

That's why the crews of directors such as Jiang Liu and Zhang Yimou are popular with local governments. For this reason, many cities in China are willing to spend a lot of money to win the qualification to host film festivals.

In the end, the film festival lost its cultural supreme symbol in the transfers from city to city.

Due to the huge increase in costs, the cities that host film festivals are doing everything possible to scrape money.

Selling tickets to the audience to guide them to take photos with celebrities, no prizes if people don't show up, local actors winning major awards and other practices have been staged, completely ruining the reputation.

"Boss, pay attention to safety." Ji Nan reminded Jiang Liu as he looked at the huge crowd of at least two to three thousand people.

Jiang Liu didn't take it seriously: "There are security guards. Besides, I'm not a celebrity and I don't have many fans."

"Not necessarily." After Ji Nan finished speaking, Jiang Liu had already bent down and got out of the car.

As soon as his feet landed on the ground, the eagerly waiting crowd at the entrance of the International Hotel first fell silent, and then erupted into loud noises and shouts that reached into the sky.

"I'm rough, Jiang Liu!"

"What a river!"

"Ah Jiangliu!"

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When the noise and screams resounded like thunder through the scene, the security guards standing on both sides of the river, holding hands to form a safe area, quickly twisted and tilted as if they had been hit hard by the huge water flow.

It was obvious that the crowd was desperately rushing towards the river.

Ji Nan stood high in the car and could see far away. He noticed that the crowd behind them was already like a pile of arhats, and his scalp went numb.

It is said that Jiang Liu's movies have mixed reviews.

"Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger" is undoubtedly a super bad movie, and it is suspected of being deliberately hyped and plagiarized.

The viewability of "Mobile Phone" is okay.

"Pirates" is so delicious and smelly that I can't say I like it, nor can I say I hate it.

"Monster" is watchable enough, but the story takes place in South Korea, which makes it a bit jarring.

Jiang Liu's character also has mixed reviews on the Internet.

Netizens have labeled him as a shameless person, a master of movie hype, an unconventional director, etc. Generally speaking, there are more bad labels and few neutral labels. There are good labels, but they sound like 'unconventional director'. It's just weird and confusing.

So before today, who would have dared to guess that just such a person would have so many fans.

Thousands of spectators will go crazy to get close to Jiangliu, and more than 20 security guards carefully selected by the film festival organizers will be alert and ready.

The organizers did not expect the sensation of Jiangliu's arrival.

Ji Nan had thought about it, but she thought that the crowd outside would only watch from a distance and shout a few times when they saw Jiang Liu.

It won’t be as crazy as Supergirl fans will see when they see Supergirl.

Several of Jiang Liu's movies have very high box office sales.

But the high box office is more due to the attractive subject matter of the movie, which is comparable to Hollywood movies and has never been set foot in by domestic directors.

Therefore, many viewers were attracted to the cinema. When they discovered that the plot of the movie was not bad, word of mouth spread, and two high-grossing movies were born one after another.

But when it comes to how many loyal fans "Pirates" and "Monster" have brought to Jiang Liu, Ji Nan doesn't quite believe it.

But the fact is that outside the car, the crowds of people were rubbing shoulders with each other, forcing the safety circle around Jiangliu to become smaller and smaller.

Let alone getting Jiang Liu to sign autographs and take photos, it would be difficult to even take a step forward.

(End of this chapter)