The second floor of the Century Film Palace is the news center, which is where journalists write articles and send and receive information. All journalists who register at the film festival can log in to the computer with their own account and password, just like an Internet cafe, which is very convenient.

But imagine that journalists from major media such as the Associated Press and AFP do not produce news here. They have special single rooms. These single rooms for reporting are on the underground floor of the Film Palace, and are specially prepared by the Film Festival’s official major media.

Next to the news center, there is a large cafe, which not only has free ift, but also provides free coffee, drinks and water for reporters. When reporters are tired of working, they can drink some water here, take a look at the beautiful scenery outside, and relax.

There are not many reporters in the cafe now, only a dozen, and basically all are Chinese journalists. Foreign journalists are either familiar with the various processes of the film festival, or go out for a trip or interview. At this time, the reporters in the cafe are becoming one of them, talking loudly around their respective computers.

"You can enter Guevara, and you can also search for movies at the festival, but you can't book tickets. It's been half an hour, and it seems that there should be something wrong with the ticketing system!"

"This is quite strange. Guevara has never done such an event. They are doing online ticket sales at the Magic City Film Festival. Didn't they do it well? Why did something suddenly happen?"

"There may be somewhere that has not been connected well. After all, the Lin'an Film Festival is only the first this year and I have no experience."

"But there must be a reason for what the problem is, right? Whoever has a way, hurry up and ask!"

Just as the reporters were talking about it, countless movie fans on the Internet were also talking about this matter. This time, there were more than 200 movies exhibited at the Lin'an Film Festival, and nearly 300 classic masterpieces such as "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Future Warrior 2". More than 500 movies were screened during the entire film festival, which was definitely a feast for fans.

Many movie fans were waiting in front of the computer early today, and even downloaded the ticket grabbing software to buy tickets. Guevara released the tickets at 9 am, but for some reason, Guevara's server was always busy and could not be opened at all. Movie fans felt that they were being fooled, so there was a lot of scolding on the Internet.

"I've been waiting in front of the computer since six o'clock in the morning and waited to buy tickets. Now you tell me that I can't buy tickets, so I'm so disappointed!"

"I started to refresh since 8:55, and now it's almost 9:30, and I haven't grabbed a ticket. After looking at the Weibo, I said that the page shows that the seat map has failed to load and no one has been grabbed. The tickets have been bought by scalpers! Haha! It's better to change it to Lin'an Scalpers Film Festival!"

"Why is there no test within the organizing committee? What about the emergency plan? How could it be like this? It's so embarrassing!"

Starting from six o'clock in the morning, many enthusiastic fans gathered at the entrances of more than 20 official cooperative theaters in Lin'an. There were long queues of more than 50 meters at the entrances of some popular theaters. Fans took their own printed schedules and citizens' movie viewing manuals, and were waiting while doing their homework. Among them, there were many middle-aged and elderly people.

Many enthusiastic fans have been queuing in line since the early morning and have been waiting for several hours. Among them, the fan ranked first is Zhang Ran’s fan. In order to grab the first ticket for "The Apocalypse of the Future", he became the first fan in the world to see a movie. He started queuing in line at the early morning yesterday, and has been waiting for nearly thirty hours so far.

After queuing for so long, I told me that I couldn't buy tickets! They were undoubtedly more angry than the movie fans who sat in front of the computer to grab tickets and seemed to be angry.

"Call your manager out and explain the matter clearly. What's going on?"

"Are you guys cheating? You said you would release the tickets at 9 o'clock. It's already 9:30 now, and there is no ticket!"

"The tickets for "The Apocalypse of the Future" are very popular. You won't embezzle these tickets and prepare to release them, are you?"

The cinema was also helpless about this. Now there was a problem with the movie's ticketing system, and they had no choice. They wanted to explain, but they didn't even know what was going on, so they couldn't explain it at all.

Zhang Ran also received news that there was a problem with the ticketing system at this time, which was really beyond his expectations. In 2004, Zhang Ran brought the movie "Flyer" to Venice to participate. At that time, there was a problem with the ticketing system of the Venice Film Festival, which caused movie fans to complain. Therefore, he attached great importance to the ticketing system of the Lin'an Film Festival, and specifically asked Guevara, who did online ticketing. Unexpectedly, there was still a problem in the ticketing process, and the situation was even more serious than that of Venice.

Zhang Ran directly called the phone to the phone of the person in charge of Guevara: "What the hell is going on? How long will it take for you to fix the server?"

The person in charge heard Zhang Ran’s bad tone and knew that Zhang Ran was angry, so he quickly explained: “Mr. Zhang, it’s not that we are slow, but that someone attacked our server. Now even the backup server is started is paralyzed.”

Zhang Ran was slightly stunned. He felt strange. It was not the first time Guevara was doing an event, so how could she have caused such a big mess? Unexpectedly, the website was attacked! Who did it? Zhang Weiping? Wanda? Or HT? These are all possible. Not only them, there are many peak opponents and enemies in the century, and too many people hope that Lin'an Fantasy Film Festival will be screwed up!

Zhang Ran didn't have the time to analyze who did it. The most important thing now is to solve the problem quickly and immediately said: "You want the audience to apologize in the shortest time and tell everyone the truth; second, you must call the police immediately; third, organize technicians to repair it as soon as possible and reply to ticket sales as soon as possible!"

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Ran pondered for a few seconds, wrote a ban apology in the name of the organizing committee, and told everyone that Guevara had been hacked. The official blog of the film festival sent the apology letter to Weibo as soon as possible; then, Guevara's official blog also apologized on Weibo, and at the same time stated that the organizing committee had called the police.

When the movie fans heard Guevara being attacked by hackers, they suddenly realized that most of the resentment in their hearts dissipated. Many people even turned their fingers and scolded the hackers who were making trouble.

"If you have the ability, you can attack the White House website and attack the film festival's ticket sales system to make a fuss!"

"Yes, it makes everyone unable to buy tickets. These hackers are too cheap!"

"I bought a watch last year, which is too cheap. This kind of bitch should be caught and played little jj to death!"

The media that are not in line with the Century Peak, as well as Chen Qingsong and others will naturally not miss this opportunity to ridicule Zhang Ran and Century Peak. They have written articles to mock the film festival, saying that they are too amateur, embarrassing to the international community, and that the film festival has become an international laughing stock before it opens, and that are extremely mean.

When it was almost 0:30, the attack on Guevara stopped and Guevara's ticketing function returned to normal.

Netizens began to grab tickets frantically, and Guevara's data was refreshing wildly. The ticket issuance amount exceeded 2 million in minutes, 3 million in 2 minutes, and 4 million in 5 minutes... In 30 minutes, the total ticket issuance amount of Lin'an Fantasy Film Festival in Guevara exceeded 8 million. Among them, the fastest sold was Zhang Ran's "The Apocalypse of the Future", which was eight games in total, all of which were in the IA Hall, with more than 10,000 tickets, and was instantly lost by fanatical fans in 5 seconds.

After the problem of the ticketing system was solved, Zhang Ranxin was still hanging and did not dare to take it lightly. He gathered the heads of various departments of the film festival together and held a short meeting. Zhang Ranci emphasized that the work must be done well and that every work must be implemented to the people. It doesn’t matter if you make some tricks, but you can’t have big problems. This year is the first session of the Lin'an Fantasy Film Festival. If the first session fails, then people may not come again in the future.

Zhang Ran originally wanted to make the movie himself, but it was too late to go. Now film merchants, company representatives, and celebrities arrived in Lin'an one after another, and he had to meet some of the important guests.

At 2 pm, Zhang Ran came to the Century Hotel not far from the Movie Palace to meet L'Oreal's e. L'Oreal is one of the main sponsors of this film festival. They set up a powder room with an area of ​​more than 500 square meters on the fifth floor of the hotel to provide makeup and styling services to celebrities, directors and other film guests from all over the world.

L'Oreal attaches great importance to the Chinese market and also attaches great importance to the Lin'an Film Festival as a promotional platform. This time, L'Oreal e personally brought a L'Oreal makeup dream team to the table. Zhang Ran must meet L'Oreal's e and the makeup team composed of the top international makeup artists.

After meeting the president of L'Oreal, Zhang Ran met with another important sponsor of the film festival, the representative of the car sponsor Maserati. The film festival involves the pick-up and drop-off of VIPs, and celebrities also need concierge cars to attend the red carpet. It is impossible for the film festival to buy dozens of cars there, and can only be sponsored by car companies. For example, the car sponsor of the Cannes Film Festival is Renault, while the sponsor of the Berlin Film Festival is BMW, and the sponsor of the domestic Shanghai Film Festival is Cadillac.

There are many car brands willing to sponsor Lin'an Fantasy Film Festival. BMW and Mercedes-Benz have also contacted the Film Festival Organizing Committee, but Maserati has given the best plan. They proposed to prepare five models for the film festival, with a total of 200 cars, and said that the 5, 200 cars can be customized according to the needs of the film festival.

Maserati sponsored the Venice Film Festival for many years. Knowing the needs of the film festival, she proposed to adjust her car according to the official needs of the film festival. She eventually defeated other opponents and became the main sponsor of the film festival.

Car manufacturers don’t mean giving cars to the festival. After the festival ends, cars will be taken back. This batch of Maserati will be shipped back to Italy and sent back to the factory to erase its former glory and integrate into the ordinary mass market. 200 cars are transported from Italy to Lin'an and then shipped back to Italy, which is quite costly.

However, Maserati still feels it is worth it. The brand director told Zhang Ran: "There are many Hollywood superstars attending the Lin'an Fantasy Film Festival, and the cameras all over the world are facing Maserati. For Maserati, this is the best stage!"

Of course, there are not only L’Oreal and Maserati sponsors in Lin'an Fantasy Film Festival, but there are more than 100 sponsors in the entire festival. These sponsors are divided into different levels according to the sponsorship method and the depth of cooperation. Top sponsors like L’Oreal and Maserati are called main sponsors, and the display opportunities they receive are naturally the best. For example, L’Oreal, in addition to corporate leaders being able to attend the opening and closing ceremony of the film festival, sitting in the VIP area, and displaying media publications, exhibition boards, etc., the opening red carpet of the film festival will also be reserved for a special time to facilitate L’Oreal to arrange its spokesperson to walk the red carpet.

It is natural that Zhang Ran could not meet all the sponsors. There are hundreds of sponsors. He didn’t have so much time to throw all the sponsors away, so he could only meet with the few main sponsors who had the deepest cooperation and the most money. This is not Zhang Ran’s charity, the film festival itself is a business. Without money and sponsorship, it is impossible to start an influential film festival. Even so, it is already ten o’clock in the evening after Zhang Ran met several main sponsor representatives.

After meeting the sponsor representative, Zhang Ran returned home and was about to rest, a call forced him to give up this plan temporarily.
Chapter completed!