Chinanews Client Beijing, August 20th (Yuan Xiuyue) Compared with previous years, this year's Beijing International Film Festival looks a bit deserted. The exhibition of films has been reduced from nearly 500 last year to more than 300 this year, and various activities are not as lively as in previous years.
However, the enthusiasm of movie fans is still high, 72% of the movie tickets have been sold out within ten minutes of ticketing. In addition to ticket grabbing, what else to watch at this Beijing Film Festival?
Part of the online screening of the Beijing Film Festival
Highlight 1: 250 online videos can be watched at home
This year's North Film Festival screening is divided into four parts: online screening, TV screening, cinema screening, and outdoor screening. More than 300 Chinese and foreign films will be screened.
Among them, 12 units were set up for online screening, about 250 films were launched, and about 50 domestic and foreign new films were launched at one time. During the May Day, the Beijing Film Festival cooperated with iQiyi to hold a spring online film festival, showing a number of films such as "Marriage Story", "Judy", "Spring Tide" and "Blast News". Next, iQiyi will also set up a special area for the North Film Festival, where audiences can purchase tickets online.
The online screening will last for one month. Currently, 27 films in three units have been announced, including "Gully of Hope", "Spring River Plumbing", "Helena: Life on the Canvas", "We Are X", "In the Name of Flower", and "Deader" Many new films that have attracted much attention from fans, many of which are the first to meet with the audience online.
TV show part of the movie poster
The TV show includes 10 domestic films and 10 overseas films, which will be broadcast on three channels of Beijing Satellite TV, BTV Film and Television and BTV Youth for 10 days. This is also the first time that a domestic film festival has opened up a TV show channel. Domestic films are mostly excellent works in recent years, such as "Wolf Totem", "Chinese Partner", and "The Grand Master". Overseas films include "Margarita", "Little Harbor" and "Ice Mama". Most of them are the first in domestic TV stations. Play.
The open-air screening is the highlight of the Beijing Film Festival. At that time, 24 Chinese and foreign films including "Love in Lushan", "Paradise Cinema" and "Wentini" will be screened in outdoor venues such as the Middle Art District of Haidian District. The theater screenings will be held in 18 theaters in Beijing, showing about 100 Chinese and foreign masterpieces in 400 times.
Beijing Film Festival Ticket Sales Report
Highlight 2: The classic movie "Second Nothing" is shown in theaters
The annual theater exhibition unit is the most concerned link for movie fans, and the degree of ticket grabbing is comparable to the Spring Festival. Although this year's theater screenings have shrunk, the quality has not declined. As in previous years, paying tribute to the film masters is still an indispensable part. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of French film master Eric Rohmer. The North Film Festival has set up a special "Romey Covenant" unit and will screen the "Female Collection Six films including "Home", "A Night at Mude House" and "Green Light" were all sold out on the day of ticketing.
In recent years, the re-screening of classic films has become a trend. Recently, the box office of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" and "Interstellar" has exceeded 100 million yuan. The classic re-screening of the Northern Film Festival has also become the most popular part of this year. "Apocalypse Now", "War and Peace", "Paradise Cinema" and "The Matrix" trilogy have reached the top 10 fastest sold-out movies.
Screenshot of the official website of the North Film Festival
Women's works have attracted attention this year, and the Beijing Film Festival has also set up a new "Female Voice" unit. This unit contains 9 works, including last year's hot movies "Jin Zhiying Born in 1982" and "Tropical Rain", as well as the old film "The Girl Under". The domestic documentary "The Moon in Hand" was also nominated for the Golden Goblet Award documentary. unit. Among them, the movie tickets of "The Moon in Hand" and "Tropical Rain" are all sold out.
There is no shortage of domestic films in this year's Beijing Film Festival. Commercial blockbusters include "My Motherland and Me", but more are the works of young directors, such as "Spring River Plumbing" directed by Gu Xiaogang and "Auspicious Ruyi" directed by Dapeng , "Back to the South" directed by Gao Ming, etc.
North Film Festival Cinema Show List
Highlight 3: Leading directors Ang Lee and Zhang Yimou gathered
The film festival is not only a carnival for movie fans, but also a gathering of filmmakers. In order to support the recovery of the film industry, the big names at this year's Beijing Film Festival are no less inferior than before.
Different from the opening ceremonies of previous years, this year’s Beijing Film Festival will adopt a special “Clouds” launching ceremony. Zhang Yimou, Chen Daoming, Huang Huilin, Sun Xianghui, Cao Yin, Fu Ruoqing, Yu Dong, Wu Jing and other 8 representatives from different fields of the film industry will Attend and give speeches on film development. At the same time, Wu Jing also served as the image ambassador of this film festival.
Some guests of the North Film Festival
This year's film master class has also aroused heated discussion on the Internet, with Li Ang, Guan Jinpeng, Austrian director Jessica Hausna and others as the key filmmakers. The theme of the Li Ang Master Class is "Oriental Expression and Digital Technology", and Guan Jinpeng's theme is "Hong Kong Film: Tradition Inheritance and Development Beyond". In addition to offline, the film master class will also be broadcast on the online platform.
North Film Festival Film Master Class
The theme forum is the most quintessential part of the annual film festival, where film people exchange views and collide. This year, the Beijing Film Festival will hold 8 theme forums, including "Ten Years · Ruying-10th Anniversary Theme Forum", "China Film Industry Development Summit Forum", "Explore Film Beauty Summit Forum", etc. Big wave film directors such as Xu Zheng, Chen Sicheng, Lu Chuan, Iwai Shunji, Zhang Yibai, Wen Muye, Guo Fan, Rob Minkoff, etc. will be present, as well as film and television companies such as Bona, Huayi Brothers, iQiyi, and Enlight Media. The boss, and many actors such as Yao Chen and Li Zhiting.
Some forums of the North Film Festival
In addition, the "Beijing Market" section of the Beijing Film Festival has also attracted much attention. Among them, Project Venture Capital is an incubator for young filmmakers. "Golden Producer" Chen Guofu will serve as the chairman of the project venture capital judging committee, and actors Yongmei and Deng Chao will serve as the final judges. The Beijing Film Festival also organized a film promotion conference in conjunction with China Film and China Film and Television to promote foreign films that will be released in the second half of this year, such as "Above the Cliff", "Pioneer", "I'm Home at One Point", "My Hometown and Me", "Jiang Ziya" The film will also appear at the filming meeting. We can see which movies in the second half of the year, and we can spy on them by then. (Finish)