Chapter 1922： Objective 3

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The 65th Venice Film Festival came to an end, and "Juno" became the most dazzling existence. Coupled with the upset of awards such as Best Actor and Actress, the fame of "Juno" has been raised more and more. Therefore, when "Juno" landed at the Toronto Film Festival immediately, it naturally attracted widespread attention, and people were curious about what the work that won the Golden Lion Award for Evan Bell looked like.

Evan Bell arrived in Toronto with the entire "Juno" crew. The hospitable city of York welcomed guests from all over the world with their bright smiles, waves of applause and excited cheers. The 33rd Toronto Film Festival kicked off.

The Toronto Film Festival, which has been gaining momentum in recent years, has the momentum to surpass Berlin and Venice and compete with Shana, but this year, Toronto has fallen into the same low ebb period as the three major film festivals, which also came from the end of last year. The aftermath of the 100-day screenwriters' strike has left the Toronto Film Festival's starlight almost a year less than in previous years.

In the past two years, the Oscar front or the literary and artistic films of the awards season have shined in Toronto, which is also the basis for Toronto to become the "fourth grand slam". The capital of the film festival's challenge - no matter what the current situation of the three major film festivals is, there is no doubt that they all started with high-quality participating films.

But this year, continuing the depression after the screenwriters' strike, Toronto's entries have hit a new low in five years. Not only that, but also works like "Unlimited Love" and "Burning After Reading" are also promising to compete at the box office. Become the main theme of Toronto.

On the other hand, the depression of the three major film festivals has caused more than half of the films to not sell their distribution rights, so they have to flock to Toronto to make a last-ditch effort, which also prevents the Toronto Film Festival's participating works from winning more attention.

Corresponding to this situation are those highly anticipated annual dramas, which have been absent from Toronto. Nicole Kidman & Heath Ledger in 'Australia', Clint Eastwood & Angelina Jolie's 'The Changeling', Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett "Benjamin Button Actually" cooperating with David Fincher and "Milk" starring Sean Penn, these works that have won countless attention when filming started early, have all missed the Toronto Film Festival, which is definitely for Toronto. for a fatal blow.

In fact, the most fundamental reason is the blank period after the screenwriter's strike, which has caused major film companies to adjust their distribution strategies one after another. January as the main battlefield, that is, after the Gotham Awards, the front line of the awards season will really kick off, which shows a big difference from previous years.

It is conceivable that this year's awards season will be carried out from December to November and the publicity strategy will be concentrated in October. The end of 2008 will definitely be exciting.

Judging from the works that the Toronto Film Festival has made with the audience so far, "Che-Guevara", "Blind Flu", "New York Allegory", "Wrestler", "Burning Plains", "Rachel's" "Wedding" and other works were transferred from Manna and Venice to Toronto, and they have all shown their exhaustion and have not won too many breakthrough evaluations.

"The Duchess" brought by Keira Knightley, who has become the new favorite of the academy by relying on "Pride and Prejudice" and "Atonement" in the past three years, has become the most anticipated work in the first half of the premiere in Toronto. Pingping, not only did Keira-Knightly's acting skills fail to make a breakthrough, but also Saul-Dibo failed to bring surprises in the director's position.

The most critically acclaimed work in theaters so far is Spike Lee's "Miracle of Santa Ana," one of America's most famous black directors, this time bringing a World War II tale that, after premiering in Toronto, won got a good review.

The ten-day Toronto Film Festival is clearly in desperate need of something exciting to fuel the stalemate of the audience, and while the Toronto Film Festival has always prided itself on being the largest film market in North America, they also don't host an awards ceremony, the only prize for the people. The Choice Awards are entirely voted on by viewers and journalists. But in essence, there is no difference between Toronto and the three major art film festivals in Europe, except that Toronto does not have the prefix "art" in its name, but Toronto still needs the support of the audience, the support of the producers, and the spotlight. support.

The mediocre quality of the works exhibited at present makes the Toronto Film Festival frown. The only good news is that the "Juno" crew of the Shenwei exhibition in Venice has arrived in Toronto collectively, which also makes the tyrant in the head of the Toronto Film Festival finally become Saw some sunshine.

However, the screening time of "Juno" has to wait until the penultimate day of the festival. The 33rd Toronto Film Festival, which has just passed its halfway journey, still has to insist on the audience's complaints about the quality of the entries. three days. Then Danny Ball took "Slumdog Millionaire" to Toronto for the first world premiere on the sixth day of the festival. However, the appearance of Danny Ball did not attract anyone's attention, mainly because the "Sun Catastrophe" launched by Danny Ball last year was praised as a super bad movie, and some people even thought that this work should enter the golden raspberry That's a huge blow for Danny Ball.

Danny Ball is a British director born in stage play. His works have many discussions on the spiritual world of the younger generation. His directorial debut "Devils" in 1994 made him famous, but it was 1996 that really made him famous all over the world. Year's work "Trainspotting". "Trainspotting" is still a regular in the top 20 of the British film list and is by far Danny Ball's most famous work.

It's a pity that, after "Trainspotting", although Danny Ball has a well-reviewed work such as "Twenty-Eight Days of Surprise Change", on the whole, his works are not well-known in terms of word of mouth, evaluation or box office. In terms of , impact, etc., they have failed to achieve further breakthroughs.

This time, Danny Bauer shot a work with India as the main stage, "Slumdog Millionaire", which is about a poor teenager who participated in a TV show and won a million prize money. A real-life story that has become a topic and caused controversy due to education.

Although "Slumdog Millionaire" only invested 15 million, this work Danny Ball has been preparing for a long time and went to India for filming. All actors are strictly selected, and one third of them are The language is Hindi and it can be said to be the work of Danny Ball.

Danny Ball's mood is a little uneasy. He hasn't felt this way for a long time. The last time he felt this kind of tension should be before the release of "Trainspotting", but the anxiety at that time was a little excitement in the tension, and The current anxiety is more of a feeling of uneasiness with expectations, but I am worried that my expectations will be empty. This kind of taste is not good.

In general, the screenwriter finds the director, handing over the script to the director or producer, hoping they can start the project. Not so with "Slumdog Millionaire," which was planned after Danny Ball learned of the script's boo: Simon Beaufoy, the screenwriter who wrote "The Six Heroes of the Light Pig," is planning A script based on the TV show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", Danny Ball showed great interest and took the initiative to contact Simon Beaufoy, hoping to become this director of the work.

When the cooperation was confirmed, Danny Ball worked hard for "Slumdog Millionaire". It is not easy to find investors due to the small number of film subjects, and because Danny Ball insists that the film will be filmed in slums in India, many advertisers are worried about affecting their brand image and are even more reluctant to provide sponsorship The complexity and difficulty of the casting work made Danny Ball suffer a lot, because he had to choose the right actor from the Indian teenagers: a ten-year-old child who could speak both English and Hindi, This is not an easy task; and the impact of local cultural differences and language barriers is even more unbearable.

Although the film only invested 15 million, this cost is a small budget for many large companies, but for Danny Ball and the entire "Slumdog Millionaire" crew, UU Reading www. .uukanshu.com has to count every cent carefully to ensure the smooth completion of the film.

After the film was finally made, Danny Ball faced an even more dire problem: no distributor was willing to take over the North American distribution of "Slumdog Millionaire". The main reason is that the subject matter of the film is too marginal, and the leading actors are all Indian actors, which is a huge exclusion point for Hollywood. As we all know, the United States has Hollywood, while India has Bollywood. It is called Eastern Hollywood on the bright side, but in fact, in the eyes of many Hollywood film companies, it is a copycat Hollywood, and almost no film companies are willing to have a direct relationship with Bollywood.

In desperation, Carney Ball could only land at the film festival for the first time in his directorial career. He chose the Toronto Film Festival, hoping to find a discerning distributor in this distribution market.

Although Danny Ball firmly believes that his work will have no problem landing in the North American film market, he has this confidence, but he absolutely did not expect the opportunity to come so soon, "Slumdog Millionaire" has not even been released yet, We won’t meet the audience until tomorrow, but Eleven Studios took the initiative to contact them, expressing their interest in the North American distribution rights of the work, which really surprised Danny Ball.

Eleven Studio, this is Danny Ball's hometown! So, Danny Ball is now sitting in the coffee shop, anxiously waiting for Evan Bell or Teddy Bell to show up.

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