Chapter 1104: The Fast Pace of the Month; Preparing for the Summer Release Window

Lin Nan and Liu Qianqian were so happy that they almost didn't sleep all night. Finally, for the sake of the little one in her stomach, Liu Qianqian forced herself to fall asleep before one o'clock.

But Lin Nan was not, his mind was abnormally clear and active, and he was excited until three or four o'clock in the morning, and then fell asleep while tossing and turning.

It is conceivable that under these circumstances, how could he get up in the morning?

Finally, it was Miss Liu who took his mobile phone at 8:59 in the morning and sent a text message to the administration, saying that he would not go to the company in the morning.

And when sending the text message, she herself had just woken up, still a bit confused.

After 10 o'clock in the morning, the noisy mobile phone vibration finally called Lin Nan up.

At this time, there was naturally only him in the room, and Liu Qianqian was already walking outside.

"Hello, who is it?"

The voice that hadn't woken up was abnormally obvious, and a complaint came from the other end of the phone, "Sure enough, you have retired from the screen, this life is comfortable, it's almost 10:30 and you're still sleeping!"

With a shock, Lin sat up instantly; at this moment, he was already more than half awake, and asked with a smile: "President Ren, what's the matter?"

"Notify you, the jury list and award-winning guest list for each unit module of the Shanghai International Film Festival will be announced and officially released in a while.

You are on the list of award-winning guests, and the invitation letter will be sent to your company in the next few days, don't drop the chain for me."

"Since I promised, I will definitely not stand you up. By the way, what date is the opening?" Lin Nan complained speechlessly.

"Opening on the 15th of next month. You don't have a film to promote this year, so for the closing ceremony red carpet, I will let them arrange for you and Qianqian to walk together, what do you think?"

"No, just let me go alone, you let them arrange it when the time comes."

"Is that so, that's fine..." Although he was quite puzzled, Ren Zhonglun didn't pursue it, and nodded in agreement.

Throwing away the mobile phone, Lin Nan went out of the bedroom, started to wash, and prepared to eat... breakfast.

His mood at this moment is just like last night, still very good, completely in line with the description of "people are refreshed when happy events happen"; no, it is double happiness, it is double cool!

And Liu Qianqian and her mother-in-law are absolutely in the same mood at this moment, it is estimated that they are already reporting the good news to the elders in the family.

"Hmm, I'll give you a surprise later." Looking at the smile that was about to overflow on his face in the mirror in front of the washstand, Lin Nan thought of reporting the good news to Old Man Lin.

In just half a day, the relevant news of the Shanghai International Film Festival swept through a host of film information this morning, becoming the focus of attention and heated discussion in the industry.

The only A-class film festival in the country has announced the specific time period, and a large number of filmmakers and actors have responded one after another, starting to adjust and determine the schedule...

It was also from the afternoon of the 4th that the "rhythm" of the Chinese film circle seemed to have suddenly accelerated a lot?

On the 5th, *Avengers: Endgame*'s global box office strongly broke 2.1 billion US dollars, and its gains in the Chinese film market also broke through to 3.6 billion RMB...

Possibly stimulated by *Avengers: Endgame* and afraid, the film *The Wild Goose Lake*, directed by Diao Yinan and starring Hu Ge, Gwei Lun-mei, and Liao Fan, decisively announced the withdrawal of the schedule on the morning of the 6th, and directly changed the schedule to December 6th at the end of the year...

And many films behind also followed suit, issuing articles one after another from the 7th, either withdrawing the schedule for further discussion, or directly changing the schedule...

At the same time, Lin Nan also returned to the very regular two-point-one-line life mode, that is, his daily itinerary was between the company and home.

On the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th... As time passed inadvertently, *Avengers: Endgame* suddenly began to weaken.

On the 14th, the Cannes International Film Festival officially opened;

The Chinese film circle rarely cast a concerned look, just because this year's Cannes is a big year for Chinese films to participate in the competition.

The industry is eagerly looking forward to it, paying attention to the only Chinese film seedling this year... can it win the gold?

After all, for Chinese filmmakers, the Palme d'Or is always so special.

The reason is that there is only one lonely Palme d'Or in the mainland; the rest are small Palmes d'Or, including the Palme d'Or for the jury prize in Lin Nan's hands.

In addition, there is the old joke: I think every time a Chinese film is shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Cannes International Film Festival, the filmmaker in the mainland who pays the most attention to the award results must be Director Chen, right?

On the 19th, two and a half years after *Dunkirk*, Nolan's new film *Tenet* was also officially announced to start filming;

Nolan wrote and directed it himself, the couple produced it together, and their own company and Warner Bros. jointly produced it... This blockbuster labeled with sci-fi, action, thriller, comedy, and other labels undoubtedly attracted the attention of global fans.

Even Lin Nan no longer buried his head in the film's post-production, but specially found the password of his foreign social account that he had forgotten for I don't know how long, and then personally went to support Nolan's new film and shouted a few times...

On the 20th, *I Am Yu Huanshui* was publicly set up for casting;

On the 21st, the application for the extension key submitted by *Avengers: Endgame* to the Film Bureau was officially announced to be rejected...

This also means that this Hollywood blockbuster that has gained 4 billion+ box office in the Chinese film market must be taken off the screen as scheduled.

Lin Nan finally took some time to rush over to participate in the wrap-up press conference and wrap-up banquet of *My People, My Country*.

Looking around at the scene, almost half of the people in sight were his own people, old friends, and acquaintances, Li Yang, Zhang Yi, Shu Chang, Jing Tian, Han Jia, Ning Hao, Xue Xiaolu...

So much so that Lin Nan had an illusion, that is, is this *My People, My Country* a tribute film of China Film, or a mainstream melody of the Lin Nan Film Industry system?

However, when Director Fu greeted him with a smile, Lin Nan also hurriedly put away the thoughts in his mind, otherwise it would be a bit impolite.

"Lin Dao, it's really not easy to invite you over, haha."

Facing Director Fu's joke, Lin Nan could only respond with a smile, without refuting.

Because it was indeed after six people called him that he "couldn't refuse" and agreed to this scene; after all, according to the habit he had developed during this period, he should be at home accompanying Liu Qianqian to watch a movie at this time.

Of course, there were not only his own people and friends around Lin Nan at the wrap-up banquet tonight, but also those who didn't get along; look, like those Hong Kong circle producers and filmmakers...

"Director Fu, although we are competitors in the same release window, I sincerely wish *My People, My Country* a big box office success in the National Day release window." Lin Nan said something nice.

"If others say this, I will absolutely take it as polite; but Lin Dao, you say this, I will take it seriously."

Director Fu's laughter made many people around join in the fun, joking and asking Lin Nan to give a box office prediction of 40 or 50 billion for *My People, My Country* at the premiere... just because the box office prediction that came out of his mouth has always had an accuracy rate of 80% or 90% or more!

Before long, Lin Nan blended into the crowd and was drowned out by the greetings of those who said hello.

Many actors and people in the circle were also asking, asking why Liu Qianqian didn't come together, it's clearly not far from Shunyi here...

"I didn't expect Qianqian not to come with you. I haven't seen her for a month, and I was thinking of having a drink with her." Han Jia came to Lin Nan and complained in a whisper.

"The film has wrapped up, you can go to the house to find her in these two days." Hearing this, Lin Nan immediately reminded her with a hint.

Sure enough, Han Jia nodded busily, "Okay, I will definitely go to your house for a meal before the end of the month!"

Lin Nan smiled and nodded, without saying much. In these twenty days, Liu Qianqian's stomach was obviously bigger; now if she wanted to go out and didn't want to be found to be different, she had to dress a little looser.

Of course, when Han Jia goes to the manor villa in these two days... Liu Qianqian's situation will be completely unable to be hidden from classmate Little Han.

But then again, it's already this time, and it's really not good to deliberately hide it from good friends around, because it really can't be hidden for long.

"I'll move to accompany Qianqian tomorrow, her stomach... how big is it?" After a while, Shu Chang also ran over excitedly, asking Lin Nan in a low voice and eager to try.

"You go to the house to see for yourself tomorrow." Facing this question, Lin Nan really couldn't describe it, he couldn't gesture to her in public, right?

"Then I must touch it tomorrow, hehe..."

On the morning of the 24th, *Avengers: Endgame* was officially taken off the screen in the Chinese film market; as of last night, it had been released for 30 full days, swallowing 4.25 billion in box office.

What made the mainland film circle even more stunned was that even on the last day of *Avengers: Endgame*'s release, its single-day box office was still 11.36 million...

I dare not imagine, if it were given another month of extension, the producers would really be able to reach 5 billion RMB!

In addition, it was only a month of release time, and this film used the momentum of breaking rotten wood to strongly top the runner-up position on the global film history box office list... How hot *Avengers: Endgame* is, it is obvious.

Many mainland filmmakers also know very well that Chinese films still have a long, long way to go to reach this step, and the distance is so far that you can't see the end at a glance. At least *The Wandering Earth*'s box office overseas is not very optimistic.

"*Avengers: Endgame* just went off the screen, and *Godzilla: King of the Monsters* is going to take over on the 31st; the audience is happy to see it, but the peers in the industry can't laugh, tsk tsk tsk."

"*Spider-Man: Far From Home* was parachuted and scheduled for the 28th of next month, this is aimed at the summer release window; the Hong Kong film *The White Storm 2* is directly scheduled for the summer release window on July 5... these are all the most direct competitors of *Ne Zha* and *The Father*..."

As soon as he stepped into the door of Tiangong Color, Lin Nan could hear all kinds of film information, and everyone was united against the enemy.

"Same release window? Then it's needle-point against wheat-mang, let's fight." He took the conversation with a laugh and sat straight at his workstation.

"Lin Dao, as of now, the number of films scheduled for this year's summer release window is already 35% more than the total number of films in last year's summer release window;

It is completely foreseeable that the bloody degree of competition at that time will be several times higher than last year." Lu Yang reminded with a laugh.

"Last year's summer release window box office champion was *Dying to Survive*, which was 4.222 billion. I just don't know how much this year's summer release window box office champion will be?" Yue Jun also appeared at the door of Tiangong Color and walked in.

"Don't worry, we have quite a few films this year too, right? Just pull the promotion to the full and rush forward; the brand of the company can naturally add 200 or 300 million box office to each film!"

Lin Nan muttered indifferently while continuing to start the shots he edited yesterday afternoon.

"As expected of you, Lin Dao, this confidence is really stable!" Lu Yang teased and gave a thumbs up.

"Lin Dao, Director Jiang just called back." After joking, Yue Jun entered the topic.

"The matter of *Sheep Without a Shepherd* crew?" Lin Nan stared at the computer screen and asked.

"Yes, the shooting progress is more than halfway through. According to the plan, it is highly likely that it can wrap up around the 20th of next month. Director Jiang and Xiao Yang chatted about the schedule, and both of them have the intention to go to the New Year's release window."

Hearing this, Lin Nan stopped what he was doing, thought for a while, and finally agreed:

"Okay, ask them which day they want to set, and we can set the schedule later. Also, let Director Jiang connect with Enlight Media for the distribution."

"Hmm, okay." Yue Jun nodded, then turned and walked outside.

And at this time, Lu Yang also suddenly let out a schadenfreude laugh:

"Hahaha, Lin Dao, that film *The Eight Hundred* by Huayi and Guan Hu was beaten back again... I remember their schedule seems to be the 25th of next month, right? Hahaha..."

While Lu Yang, Lin Nan, and many producers and filmmakers in the industry were watching the jokes and excitement of *The Eight Hundred*, Huayi was indeed in a mess.

Wang Zhonglei's chest was almost exploding with anger. At this moment, in his opinion, Guan Hu's so-called re-editing was completely fooling ghosts and fooling fools!

"The real money for promotion and distribution is spent like running water, but you tell me that this is how you re-edit the film?"

Holding the phone, Wang Zhonglei suppressed his anger to the extreme, not letting himself scold out.

The group is not what it used to be, and now it can only make money through regular channels... Correspondingly, the money spent must be spent on the spot, and cannot be wasted!

"Wang Zong, this time I guarantee..."

"Now it's not a question of whether you guarantee it or not, the question now is whether we have enough time? There are only 29 days left until the release date."

The two ends of the phone seemed to have a tacit understanding, and they were all silent.

A moment later, a female voice sounded there, it was Liang Jing: "Wang Zong, can we postpone the release time, that is, the schedule, a little bit?

We are indeed aiming for the summer release window, this plan does not need to be changed at all, and there is no need to worry...

As long as the release date is postponed for ten days or half a month, all problems can be solved; it can leave time for the third censorship, and it will not affect our plan to continue to be released in the summer release window... What do you think?"

Hearing this, Wang Zhonglei suddenly realized, he was a bit angry just now.

"Okay. But I also hope that you can be more careful this time, and seriously delete those things that shouldn't be there and are ambiguous..."

"Wang Zong, don't worry, he will definitely be more careful to re-edit the finished film this time. As for the matter of cutting in line for censorship..."

"I will find someone again, you hurry up."

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