White-collar workers from other places, audiences with full attendance, and veteran actors from “Investiture of the Gods” all came to grab tickets... How is your performance at the Shanghai Film Festival?

Release time:Jun 07, 2024 13:24 PM

The countdown to the 26th Shanghai International Film Festival has entered. At 12:00 noon on June 7, the film festival will issue tickets on Taopiao Piao, the official designated ticketing platform. Within 10 minutes of going on sale, 36 videos and 200 shows were sold out. The 10 fastest-selling movies are "The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru", "Detective Conan: The Million Dollar Star", "A Man and a Woman", "Deep Space", "Seven Deadly Sins", "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Kangxi". Louis

According to official data, within one hour of the film festival opening, a total of 286,000 people participated in grabbing tickets at the same time, and 355,000 tickets were issued. Shanghai’s light and shadow appointment with movie fans is about to begin. Will you go to the appointment?

Zhang, who works in Suzhou, made an appointment with a friend in Nanjing to watch "Pulp Fiction" at Hall 1 of Tianshan Cinema-Wanping Theater Cinema on the evening of June 17. "Afterwards, we plan to watch five or six movies, and we have also booked a hotel in Shanghai. As boys, we don't bring too much luggage, so we pack light to make it easier to travel."

Having participated in many Shanghai International Film Festivals, Zhang has accumulated a lot of experience. The film list is also carefully selected, including "Pulp Fiction", "Moneyball" and other classics in film history, as well as "Crime City 4" and so on. Several new films this year were released, and he was lucky enough to snag 6 of the films he wanted to watch shortly after the tickets went on sale.

"What I most wanted to see at this film festival was the new film "Detective Conan: The Million Dollar Star", but I didn't get a ticket. When I clicked in, it sold out in seconds. The rush for tickets this year is still very fierce." Citizen Ms. Chen I am a fan of Japanese animation, and also like science fiction films and suspense detective movies. “Before the ticket sales, I excitedly made the film schedule. Fortunately, I didn’t miss anything. I snagged “Murder on the Orient Express,” which I like very much. , my friend also helped me buy "Weima's House". She said that the most anticipated aspect of every film festival is the interplay between classic films and new films.

There were still 20 minutes left to grab tickets. Wan Xiao, who was attending the Shanghai Film Festival for the first time, was busy asking experienced friends for tips on how to grab tickets. Her film list includes films such as "The Color of You", "The White Tower" and "Once Upon a Time in America". "I have been working in Shanghai for seven years, and this year I especially want to participate in this very important cultural event in Shanghai. I most want to watch it in the cinema. "Once Upon a Time in America" again.

Just after 11 o'clock in the morning, a reporter from Liberation Daily and Shangguan News encountered many elderly viewers in front of the Shanghai Cinema SHO's film schedule who came to do their homework in advance. In front of a huge film schedule about the size of an entire wall, citizen Aunt Zhao used her mobile phone to check the film schedule one by one. "There is a film schedule online, but we are old and can still see it clearly here." Aunt Zhao, who has retired from Putuo District, Come to the movie theater and help your girlfriends who are still at work grab classic movies such as "Gladiator" and "The Pianist". As for herself, she plans to go to Caoyang Cinema in front of her house after completing the task.

Mr. Ning, who was born in the 1990s, took a special vacation to come to Shanghai Cinemas to get a seat in the offline queue before the tickets were issued. "Although offline ticketing is an hour late, there will be some opportunities to miss out." Mr. Ning participated in the Shanghai Film Festival with a star-chasing mentality. He avoided popular old films such as "Paprika" and "Once Upon a Time in America" and instead aimed at arranging films. The main creator meeting venue with an asterisk on the table, "Hedgehog" in the main competition unit, is his first choice. "I like Teacher Ge You very much and want to ask him questions during the post-screening session; my girlfriend wants to see Wang Junkai. I also found the creator of "Fishbone" on Xiaohongshu and I want to grab it if I have the chance."

At Shanghai Cinemas, the reporter encountered an unexpected audience. "I am a member of the Shanghai Television Artists Association and I go to the movies almost every month." The 89-year-old has a loud voice and his almost white hair is perfectly combed. He actually played the role in the 1990 version of "The Legend of the Gods". Li Changnian from Su Hu. Li Changnian lives in Jing'an District and usually goes to the nearby Baiying Sanke Cinema to watch movies. He came to Shanghai Cinemas specially for the film festival.

Li Changnian grabbed tickets with the help of cinema staff. Photo by Zhong Han

Li Changnian started participating in the first Shanghai International Film Festival. In the past, familiar film and television festival staff would give him the conference journal. Not very good at buying tickets via mobile phone, he wrote the film list by hand on a piece of paper and asked the Shanghai Cinema staff to help him grab it in the software. "One year I called Suzhou and asked my nephew in Suzhou to help me rob it." He took out the film list, which included "Metropolis", "Under Gaslight", "Breakdown", "Three Murders in a House, Three Nights", "Russian" Day of the Rat" and many other movies. "It's mainly old movies. I've seen "Metropolis" in the theater before. Some of them are just based on the title to imagine what the movie will be like." He said with a smile, "One House, Three Nights, Three Murders" was chosen based on the title. "I guess it's a suspenseful, scary, and a little thrilling movie. I'm interested in the suspense genre."

After grabbing his favorite movie, Li Changnian happily showed it off. Photo by Zhong Han

"Grandpa, I bought them all!" The sales started at 12 o'clock on time. The young staff of Shanghai Cinemas worked hard and won four movies in one go. They were even happier than they were when they got the tickets themselves.

""The Suo Lin Bag" at ten o'clock on June 16th, "Sunshine Club" at three thirty..." Twenty minutes after the ticket was issued, the Shanghai Cinema staff moved a ladder, one person read the titles of the sold-out films, and the other took the Wear stickers and put the word "full" on the film schedule. After a while, nearly half of the films had stickers on them. When a foreign reporter who came to cover the Shanghai International Film Festival saw the hand with the stickers reaching for "Taxi Driver" at 20:40 on June 17, he couldn't help shouting: "Mymovieisgone" !”

The staff climbed up the ladder and began to paste the word "man" one by one. Photo by Zhong Han

In just twenty minutes, the main battlefield of the popular film has been decided. "This year, classic films such as "Taxi Driver" and "Pulp Fiction" sold out almost instantly, and a special highlight is domestic films." Yang Bin, marketing manager of Shanghai Cinemas, said that this year's domestic films in Halls 3 and 9 " "They are full" very much and very quickly. "I have been involved in movie theater work for more than ten years and found that in the past, movie fans would first grab foreign films and classic old films, and then some domestic films, but this time the domestic films sold out very much and very quickly. , which proves that domestic films, including films in the main competition, are sought after by movie fans and have an increasing market audience.”

The audience is consulting the cinema staff. Photo by Lai Xinlin

This year, many movie fans told reporters that although popular movie screenings are still "empty in seconds", the overall ticket grabbing experience is relatively "silky". This is inseparable from the technical support of the official ticketing platform. On May 30, under the witness of members of the Shanghai International Film Festival Organizing Committee, more than 60 special technical engineers and staff from Taopiaopiao conducted a full link test for Shanghai Film Festival ticketing. Taking the Shanghai International Film Festival in 2023, which has the highest traffic volume in history, as the benchmark, the capacity of the ticketing system has been expanded to three times the peak in 2023, and can support all seats to be sold within one minute.

Before one o'clock in the afternoon, audiences who had just finished the "battle" came to the cinema to reap the results. "And, and, and, and..." In front of the Shanghai Cinema ticket machine, an old spectator kept taking out one ticket after another. The scene shocked everyone. The reporter asked about it and found that these were all movie tickets for the old gentleman. "As soon as the film schedule came out, I selected 23 movie tickets and asked my daughter to help buy tickets online. I bought 20 movies, 10 of which were at Shanghai Cinemas." Among his pile of movie tickets, there is this year's movie ticket The popular "French Pot".

Mei Haixing shows the movie tickets he purchased. Photo by Lai Xinlin

This old viewer is named Mei Haixing, and he is a senior fan of the Shanghai Film Festival. He has saved movie tickets for every Shanghai Film Festival since the first Shanghai Film Festival in 1993. Last year for the 30th anniversary of the Shanghai International Film Festival, the organizing committee held a commemorative exhibition at the Grand Guangming Cinema and asked him to borrow a ticket stub.

"Nowadays, film festivals have higher and higher requirements for screening theaters. The screens are bigger and the environment is more comfortable. However, the ticket price has hardly increased in more than ten years, and 70 yuan is still affordable." Witnessing the growth of the Shanghai International Film Festival all the way, this lover The Shanghai uncle in the movie feels quite happy and proud. At 2 pm that day, he was still unsatisfied and bought three more tickets at other cinemas, including "The Traveler's Needs" starring French actor Huppert. He is a fan of Huppert. One year Huppert came to attend the Shanghai International Film Festival, and he was sitting in the front row and asked for autographs.

"Watching movies, I see old age from middle age, from my 40s to my 70s." Mei Haixing lamented that the films participating in this year's main competition unit were quickly sold out, proving that the quality of the Golden Goblet Awards is increasing day by day. "Film festivals are a window through which we can learn about the customs and customs of various places."

This year's film festival will feature 461 films, about 1,600 screenings, and about 90 audience meetings. It will cover 47 theaters in 16 districts in Shanghai, including five new cities, and 6 theaters in 5 cities in the Yangtze River Delta region. . According to relevant data from Taopiaopiao, more than 233,000 movie fans have added their favorite movies to "My Schedule", from which we can get a glimpse of the movie fans' movie-watching tastes. As of 17:00 on June 6, the total collection of the top 100 films on Taopiao Piao's "My Schedule" has reached 500,000. Among them, "Paprika", "Pulp Fiction" and "2001: A Space Odyssey" have become the most popular films added to "My Schedule" by movie fans.

If you haven’t purchased the show you want yet, viewers can follow the Shanghai International Film Festival’s official Weibo. According to the organizing committee, if there is additional information, it will be announced in a timely manner on the official Weibo. At the same time, you can also use the fan group composed of movie lovers to exchange movie tickets for corresponding shows.

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