Chapter 640: Premiere on the Same Day as Ling Yan
Most A-rated film festivals required that the movies were not released beforehand.
Therefore, most movies would hold a premiere at the film festival and then hold a domestic premiere when they returned home.
Lugano was not a large city, so when the premiere was held at the film festival, the venues always ended up being crowded.
However the movies were released in different cinemas.
The premiere of Sleepless was in two cinemas that were very close by to the cinemas where Dream of a Long Life 2 was premiering.
Song Yu was the Movie King of the Lugano Film Festival two years ago, and Gu Weiwei’s Eyes of the Eagle had won many A level Film Festival awards; Fu Shiyi was also a very popular star.
Therefore, the premiere was quite popular.
However, compared to Dream of a Long Life 2, which was premiering on the same day as them, Sleepless was much quieter.
Before the premiere started, many fans and media companies were already waiting outside for Dream of a Long Life 2.
Gu Weiwei found that she ran into Ling Yan in the lobby of the hotel she was staying in.
“Miss. Mu, I heard that your new movie is premiering today too?” Ling Yan greeted her with a smile.
“Yes, I also heard that Dream of a Long Life 2 is being shown today.” Gu Weiwei replied politely because of the media.
Ling Yan stretched out her hand and said with a smile, “Good luck with your Sleepless.”
Just because she acted well did not mean that she would be a good director.
She was really overestimating herself, especially because she was releasing her movie at the same time as hers.
Gu Weiwei shook her hand in front of the media.
“I also hope that Dream of a Long Life 2 will be even more brilliant than Dream of a Long Life”
The two of them left the hotel, got into their separate cars and rushed to the premiere of their respective movies.
Gu Weiwei and her team drove past the site of the press conference of Dream of a Long Life 2, where many of Ling Yan’s fans and journalists were gathered.
Qiu Ling was very jealous, when she saw them from afar.
When they arrived at the press conference of Sleepless and saw that only a small number of fans, media and film critics were present, they worriedly sighed.
The host was still doing the introduction, so she could not help but ask, “Director, we are going to release the movie at the same time as Dream of a Long Life 2, and we will premiere on the same day, is that really okay?”
It was very crowded on Ling Yan’s side, so it was very quiet over here.
And Mu Weiwei had also slapped Li Xing’er, which hadn’t helped either.
Although she had said that she believed Mu Weiwei would be able to deal with the problem well, she had not been doing anything with her agent, so she was a bit worried.
“Good.” Gu Weiwei chuckled.
“But our country…”
Qiu Ling wanted to say something but stopped herself. The movie was going to be out soon and all the cinemas had canceled their scheduled showing.
“I said that it will be solved, so it will be. Don’t worry.” Gu Weiwei said as she walked towards the stage of the press conference where the humorous host was standing.
She, Song Yu and Fu Shiyi were quite famous.
But it was indeed a bit dangerous for Sleepless to be released at the same time as Dream of a Long Life 2.
Many people had feelings for Dream of a Long Life and Ling Yan was the legendary Movie Queen, so Dream of a Long Life 2 received a lot of attention from the moment it started filming.
Also, many people would definitely watch the movie at the cinema.
Although Ling Yan was still the lead actress of Dream of a Long Life 2 and she even hired a famous director, she was sure that it would not be able to surpass the first film.
Ling Yan had never understood the movie and the famous director she hired did not understand the real Dream of a Long Life either.
Therefore, no matter how they filmed the movie, it would not have the original atmosphere.