Before coming to Cannes, Wang Xiaobai thought that this was a big city, although it was not as big as Jiangcheng, but for a world-class film festival like the Cannes Film Festival, how could it be as big as a provincial capital?

But when I arrived at the place, I found that the fantasy was beautiful, but the reality was extremely cruel.

After checking the information, I found that the total area is less than 20 square kilometers, and even a small town in China is much larger than it.

However, a Cannes film festival has made this town very prosperous, especially during the Cannes Film Festival, tourists from all over the world have flocked to this small town.

Not only are there more tourists, but there are also more film dealers.

Filmmakers from more than 100 countries around the world, they take their films, get booths here, and try to sell them.

At the same time, they also waved the banknotes of their own countries and picked the films they liked.

As I said before, this is a film fair.

Wang Xiaobai and others arrived at Nice Airport at 11:30 a.m. on April 18, French time, which sounds quite new.

They were on the plane at 11 a.m. Beijing time, and after a seven-hour flight, the time turned back again.

Of course, it wasn't actually like that, but Wang Xiaobai felt fresh.

Several people got off the plane and came to the small city of Cannes under the help of the people sent by the Cannes Organizing Committee.

After a few hours of sitting on the plane, everyone was exhausted.

However, Ling Yan'er came to Cannes for the first time, and she was full of freshness, clamoring to go shopping everywhere, and even Murong Bing was a little interested.

Wang Xiaobai didn't accompany them to toss around, and said directly: "If you want to go shopping, go shopping by yourself, I have to go back to sleep and replenish my strength." ”

"Weak chicken! I can't stand it after only a few hours on the plane?" Ling Yan'er was full of contempt.

Wang Xiaobai was too lazy to talk nonsense with her, turned his head to look at Chu Tiange, who was also not in a very good state, and said, "What are you going to do?"

"I'm tired too, so they can go shopping if they want, let's go back to the hotel and sleep." Chu Tiange said listlessly.

"Huh~!It's disgusting!" Ling Yan'er looked at the two of them with disdain, and said mockingly: "If you go back and sleep, you'd better take a shower, change your clothes and see us again, I don't want to smell strange." ”

"Huh?!"

The little assistant listened to this, looked at Chu Tiange and Wang Xiaobai, and was shocked in his heart-could it be true that what was said on the Internet?

Looking forward to it.

The heart of gossip is burning.

"Don't talk nonsense!" Wang Xiaobai glared, this little girl began to let herself fly as soon as she arrived abroad, she really thought that she was not famous in the world, so she was not afraid of reporters secretly shooting?

It's too much to think about!

When he just came out of the airport, he saw many Chinese reporters shouting loudly.

This group of reporters is also awesome enough, and they have traveled all the way here to shoot news.

"Smoke, don't mess around. Murong Bing said, Ling Yan'er pursed her lips, but she stopped making trouble.

Murong Bing looked at Wang Xiaobai and said, "Okay, you two go to sleep, you have to go to the booth in the afternoon." ”

Yes, find a booth.

The so-called booth is actually a small theater, and the audience buys tickets to go in and see it.

Of course, the main thing is for the world's major filmmakers to watch.

Cannes is a large-scale film trading market, and Wang Xiaobai brought "The God of Medicine" to Cannes, not only to participate in the award ceremony, but also to sell "The God of Medicine" to more countries.

After talking a few words to a few people, Wang Xiaobai and Chu Tiange left.

……

Wang Xiaobai was woken up.

I had only slept for more than two hours when there was a knock at the door.

This knock made him very vigilant, and he tiptoed to the door, and found that it was Ling Yan'er and the three of them through the cat's eye, and then he was relieved.

I don't blame him for being timid.

Although he has never been abroad, he has seen a lot of successive shootings of foreigners.

He didn't want to go abroad to receive the award happily, and in the end, the employees of Quanxinghai happily attended his funeral.

The three of them came in with large bags and small bags, and at first glance it was a shopping struggle.

"What a pity, you know what we just saw when we were walking on the beach?" Ling Yan'er chattered as soon as she entered.

Wang Xiaobai glanced at her without energy and said, "There is a woman running naked on the beach?"

"Phew!"

Ling Yan'er's face turned red and she chirped, "What are you thinking about all day long. ”

"What's my...... Phew!" Wang Xiaobai also snorted.

Murong Bing glanced at him helplessly, and began to solve his puzzles: "I happened to see Steve and his wife on the beach just now. ”

"Who?" Wang Xiaobai doesn't know anything about foreign celebrities, and he is blind, in his opinion, unless he is particularly ugly or beautiful, foreigners look the same in his eyes.

"It's the two who played "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"!" Ling Yan'er said, full of contempt: "You are still known as a big domestic director, and you don't even know this?"

“……”

Wang Xiaobai was speechless.

Subsequently, Ling Yan'er said that this time a certain international celebrity would also come, and she wanted to ask for an autograph from an international director.

Wang Xiaobai looked at it with a sweat, eldest sister, you are also a first-line star in China, okay, can you not be like a mentally retarded?

I'm going to be ashamed for you to take you out like that.

The little assistant looks very fresh, and I never thought that big stars would be no different from ordinary people in private.

……

Wang Xiaobai and others came quite early, and there were still two days before the opening ceremony, so those more famous celebrities had not yet arrived.

In the next two days, Wang Xiaobai contacted the organizers and asked them to rent a small booth, which can accommodate 50 visitors at the same time, but the price is not cheap, 1,500 euros a day, equivalent to more than 10,000 yuan.

If the movie doesn't sell, it's a loss-making deal.

Looking to buy a ticket to get it back?

Wash and sleep.

The five of them adjusted for the time difference while setting up the scene.

said that it was a layout, but in fact, it was to get a few tables, put them outside the booth, put on the promotional posters, and play the promotional video of "The God of Medicine" on the public screen outside.

Although there are still two days before the official launch, Wang Xiaobai directly started selling tickets.

Movie fans from all over the world walked into the theater one after another, and the number was not large, about thirty or forty people a day.

At a price of 5 euros per ticket, there is no way to recoup the cost.

Due to the language barrier, Wang Xiaobai didn't know what the audience was muttering after the show.

I didn't bother to let the assistant translate.

On the 19th, there were gradually more big names coming, and the traffic of this town was also increasing, obviously fans from all over the world, in order to see the style of idols, followed here.

There are very few yellow-skinned people.

Also, few crazy fans will spend tens of thousands of dollars to see their idols.

On April 20, the first day of the opening ceremony, the red carpet has been pulled up, but the red carpet of the opening ceremony will not start until 7 o'clock in the evening.

However, there were obviously a lot more people on this day, and in just one morning, "The God of Medicine" sold more than 50 tickets, although it is still far from recovering the cost, but the situation has improved.

Wang Xiaobai was not idle all day, and walked around the exhibition with his assistant.

He came with the intention of picking up leaks, but after walking around, he found that if he picked up a fart leak, if there was a good movie, would he be aggrieved to sell himself at this exhibition?

"Damn, it's really all a lie inside!"

Wang Xiaobai was indignant, remembering the entertainment articles he used to watch at a certain point, the protagonist casually participated in a film festival, and found the pearl in the sea, and then bought the film with tens of thousands of US dollars, and finally made millions of dollars crazy The inspirational story.

When I really went to participate, I found that most of these movies that couldn't find distributors were all self-inflicted.

What the hell is it filming?

Even if the picture is shoddy, the editing technique is full of newness, and the script is full of loopholes, but they are all pretentious.

Many movies are in the nature of playing tickets at a glance.

Wang Xiaobai wandered around it from more than ten o'clock in the morning, and walked around until more than three o'clock in the afternoon, but he didn't find a good movie, but lost a lot of movie ticket money.

"Let's go. ”

Wang Xiaobai turned his head and said to his little assistant.

"Don't look at it?"

The little assistant is a little strange, the boss is still full of confidence in the morning, why is he a little angry at this time?

Wang Xiaobai said: "Look at the fart, it's better to go back and see how our booth is." ”

"Good. ”

The little assistant didn't dare to say more, and she did what the boss said.

Oh, I always forgot to say that the little assistant's name is Bai Lu, and it is not small, according to Wang Xiaobai's eyesight, at least there is a C...... Phew, at least 26.

used to be an assistant to the president of a foreign company, and he didn't know which tendon was wrong, so he went to the sea of stars to interview his little assistant.

As soon as I returned to the booth, I saw Murong Bing talking to a Southeast Asian-looking person, and I didn't know what he was talking about.

As soon as he saw Wang Xiaobai coming, the Southeast Asian rushed over quickly, grabbed Wang Xiaobai's hand, and said a lot.

Wang Xiaobai has a high school English level, although he can't understand the overall conversation, but he still understands individual English words.

But who knows how long this Indian is, he can't hear a word of English.

Although Wang Xiaobai can't understand, he can act.

He smiled kindly, as if he had met an old friend he hadn't seen for many years, shook hands with him cordially, and said to Bai Lu next to him, "Xiao Lu, what is this dead fat man talking about?"

"The boss, he said his name was Shaluko Baru, and he was the deputy general manager of the National Film Corporation of India. He watched our film and said that he was very interested in this movie and wanted to buy the broadcast rights of "God of Medicine" in India. Bai Lu explained.

"What? hooked on the big head?" Wang Xiaobai's eyes suddenly lit up, and he could really sell it!

He was so excited that he held his hand more cordially, and said, "Then you hurry up and help me ask, how much is he willing to spend on our movie?"

Bai Lu hurriedly followed the translator and chattered a lot on the other side.

Wang Xiaobai couldn't wait to ask: "Did he say how much?"

He said that he was willing to pay 20 million to buy out the broadcast rights of "God of Medicine" in India at one time. ”

"Euro?" Wang Xiaobai's eyes lit up, but he didn't expect that although this Indian was full of nonsense, he was very practical.

20 million euros, that's 150 million yuan.

"It's not. ”

"The dollar?" he asked, adding that although the film festival was held in the past, the dollar is the world's financial unit of settlement. So, he was also very happy.

"It can't be the yuan, right?" he was a little unhappy, but it wasn't unacceptable.

"It's rupees. ”

"Rupee, is there such a currency in the world?" Wang Xiaobai was stunned.

"It's India's national currency, and the exchange rate with the renminbi is about 10:1. In other words, 20 million rupees, which is equivalent to almost less than 2 million yuan. ”

Listening to Bai Lu's explanation, the frenzy in Wang Xiaobai's eyes instantly cooled.

Directly let go of Shaluko Balu's hand, with a smile on his face, he said the classic line: "I didn't expect you to be as fat as a pig, and your appetite is quite big......"

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