"Stocks have made a lot of money, but they are still far from that number." Lei Ting said coldly, and lightly lit a cigarette, but immediately thought of the ban on smoking here, so she could only scold "damn" in Korean and snuff it out with her fingers.

"I'm not the director of the second production anymore, I can finance and make films, not to mention that the US economy is so bad now, and after a while, the company's market value may shrink." Li Xiaole snatched the cigarette with a smile, squatted in the corner and took a puff very happily, and lit the cigarette that had not been completely extinguished, this is the cigarette that Lei Ting bought in Cannes, the taste is very peculiar, there is a fragrance of palm leaves.

For him, there is no need for a complete acquisition, as long as he gets a part of the equity, it doesn't matter whether the company is good or not, what he wants is his shell of the issuance.

Wait...... There are still two years to accumulate strength, and after two years, his Black Pearl, which has begun to take shape, can officially sail in the broadest sea area of the United States, imagining that he will meet the invincible armadas in those fields, can his dreams be more brilliant? Li Xiaole couldn't help but look forward to it, everything depends on his own growth in the past two years.

"Who's smoking there~!?" The staff of the film festival looked at the smoke and shouted at this side, and walked over to arrest someone, and Li Xiaole saw that Harvey Weinstein's dead fat man was still smiling and fooling people back and forth in China, and walked over, throwing the remaining half of the cigarette into his wide suit pocket from behind while he was not noticing.

The French staff came over, looked at it for a long time, and finally found Harvey Weinstein smoking in his pocket, and immediately rushed up to him and asked: "Smoking is not allowed here!" Please go out and come back in after you finish the draw~"

"When did I smoke?" Harvey Weinstein's fat face was full of doubts, but the French staff didn't care so much, they pushed him out, and Harvey found that his pocket had been burned by cigarettes and a hole was scolded: "Who is it!" Who is the prank!? I'm innocent~ It's really not me! Wait, don't you know me? I'm a representative of Miramax Films~You don't have the right to let me go~! ”

Seeing this sinister fat man being dragged away, those production managers in the China region laughed, Li Xiaole also smiled proudly at Lei Ting, looking at Lei Ting's speechless sideways face, he felt very happy, no matter what aspect he looked at, Cannes is indeed a pleasant place.

After a short period of dealing with the follow-up work of the film festival, Li Xiaole and his entourage returned to China, as the director of the second production, Li Xiaole came back and read the box office results of "The Sun Also Rises" for the first time, and the result made him completely relieved.

This pure stream-of-consciousness movie, under the double hit of 29.7 million in a single week in the super disaster film "The Day After Tomorrow" produced by Twentieth Century Fox, and the 5.79 million box office of "Pulsatilla" Steve Martin's starring family comedy "A Basket of Children", it only ranked third with a box office of 4.32 million in a single week.

How to calculate, the box office of this movie with a total investment of more than 50 million yuan is only about 20 million at most.

Secretary Xiao Wang also knew about Li Xiaole's bet with Jiang Wen, so he came over and patted his ass with a smile: "This Jiang Wen, who has no ability, knows that he doesn't take other people in his eyes every day, so let's plant it this time~~ Director Li, let's have a meeting in the afternoon, let's have a meeting in the second studio, you have to talk about him." ”

"It's about talking about it." Li Xiaole squinted his eyes, and he was also thinking about how to handle Jiang Wen, an artist with a very good character.

Just thinking about it, I suddenly saw the door being pushed open, and I saw the tall Jiang Wen excitedly said in a deep voice: "Xiaole~ This film is completed~ This film is completed." ”

Seeing Jiang Wen coming over imposingly, Xiao Wang, who had just said that he wanted Li Xiaole to teach him a lesson, immediately shrank his head and didn't even dare to raise his head.

Jiang Wen waved the newspaper in his hand and immediately put it in front of Li Xiaole, and said in a low voice: "Xiaole, look at this." ”

Li Xiaole hurriedly stood up, took the "Chuzhejiang Daily" and looked at it, the entertainment page was all the news of the Cannes Film Festival such as "Li Crazy Cana Encounters Waterloo", and asked suspiciously: "What? ”

"You're looking, looking, right on the right, a little below." Jiang Wen pointed to the location, Li Xiaole was easy to see, in the entertainment version of the extremely small position, marked a short comment of less than 200 words: "Recently, Jiang Wen's eye-catching new work "The Sun Also Rises" was released, this movie uses novel techniques to describe three extremely wonderful stories, showing unparalleled artistry, and it is a rare masterpiece of Chinese films......"

"Rare good comment, it does get to the point......" Li Xiaole looked at the comment that was so small that it was almost invisible, he was speechless, but his face showed a very admiring look, Jiang Wen didn't call him Director Xiao Li when he entered the door, he didn't call him Director Li, but called him Xiaole, what this Teacher Jiang was going to do, he could probably guess.

"Xiaole, do you say that big brother, did I shoot this film well?" Jiang Wen stared at Li Xiaole and asked.

"Good, very good, with a peculiar rhythm to describe a very flavorful story, from the level of music, picture aesthetics, and the rhythm of the editing, it seems that it is the most haode I have ever seen, and the scene of Huang Qiusheng hanging himself is particularly shocking to me."

Li Xiaole nodded sincerely, this is his sincere words, this "The Sun Also Rises" is what he admires the most in Jiang Wen's works, the technique can be regarded as groundbreaking, the whole film has a sense of fantasy floating, and it can suddenly bring unexpected shocks, but this is in the eyes of a professional film director like him...... Ordinary people are afraid that they will be stunned for a long time, and there is no complete narrative structure at all......

"Then you said that it is not a bad thing that you can't recover the cost of such a haode movie." Jiang Wen slapped the table.

"Absolutely terrible." Li Xiaole continued to nod in agreement, and didn't speak, just looked at Jiang Wen and asked him to continue.

"Brother, you know." Jiang Wen put one hand around Li Xiaole's shoulder, stretched out a finger with one hand, and said in his ear in a deep voice:

"10 million, you gave my eldest brother 10 million, I took it for financing, Wang Shuo introduced me to an investor Wang Wei, this Wang Wei invested 20 million in me, and he is a very important person to me.

Wang Wei's brother gave me the impression that he was rich, material is not important to him, it is best to engage in a non-material thing, as much non-material as possible, I am afraid that you can't be immaterial, he has also known Wang Shuo for many years, and the two of them combined, saying, then let's find someone like Jiang Wen, a young man who has ambition, has earned money, and does not bend his waist for five buckets of rice. ”

"This person doesn't know you, Teacher Jiang." Li Xiaole hurriedly shook his head.

"It's still a brother, you know me~ This person really doesn't know me so fuckingly." Jiang Wen sighed again and again and squeezed Li Xiaole's shoulder:

"I remember an old gentleman said that even if you bend your waist, you may not be able to get five buckets of rice. But I don't like to do this thing, I have to 'protect my waist' first, and then 'grab rice', 'catch rice', you know? Jiang Wen made a gesture of grabbing something into his arms.

"Of course I understand, of course we have to make a movie at the box office." Li Xiaole nodded in Jiang Wen's arms.

"Yes~ This is to grab rice~" Jiang Wen nodded deeply: "Now that your eldest brother has done a good job of 'waist protection', I need your help in the matter of 'catching rice'." ”

"Publicity~ Publicity, we have to keep up, Mr. Jiang, what publicity resources do you want, everyone in our second producer will move." Li Xiaole nodded again and again, and beckoned to Xiao Wang: "Secretary Xiao Wang, come here, if Teacher Jiang has any requirements, you should write it down immediately." ”

Jiang Wen also seemed to be stunned, he didn't expect things to go so smoothly, and said in a deep voice: "I think so, I don't think it's enough to promote 450 copies nationwide, let's add 200 first." ”

"200 copies ~? The cost is 1 million? Xiao Wang snorted softly, and his eyes looked at Li Xiaole.

"Plus." Li Xiaole nodded without hesitation.

"There are also advertisements, I think we should do a little hard, we buy 500 poster advertisements on the bus stop signs in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chu and Zhejiang, there is not much time, two weeks is enough." Jiang Wen saw that Li Xiaole agreed so easily, thought for a while, and continued.

Xiao Wang didn't dare to speak anymore, let alone go to 3 million...... looked at Li Xiaole.

"Yes." Li Xiaole said and continued to look at Jiang Wen calmly.

"That'...... Do you think it's soft and wide? Advertise magazines and newspapers? "Southern Weekly" and "China Film News"? Two supplements? Jiang Wen felt a little strange when he said it, and his tone no longer had the momentum he had when he first came in.

"Okay, no problem." Li Xiaole sighed and looked at Jiang Wen with an expectant look: "Teacher Jiang, do you have any other requirements?" "That means, Mr. Jiang, if you ask for anything, I will meet you.

"It's gone...... That's all for now. Jiang Wen was a little hairy by Li Xiaole, and suddenly felt that the roles of the two had been reversed, and now that it was good, why did Li Xiaole seem to want him to beg for more publicity? Does this kid really want my movie to make more money at the box office? Not afraid of losing your bets?

"It's nothing, Mr. Jiang, you just ask Xiao Wang to fill out the application form for you, I'll sign it immediately, you can go to Shanghai tomorrow to publicize?" Li Xiaole asked in a caring tone, without a bit of abuse or an unhappy expression, but really cared about Jiang Wen, he had already figured out Jiang Wen's temper, those means of controlling his subordinates did not have Jiang Wen, and he could only rely on a sincere heart.

"Okay, xiexie, you're Director Li." Jiang Wen pulled Xiao Wang out with a complicated expression, walked to the door and suddenly remembered something, turned around and walked back to Li Xiaole's desk, and grinned:

"Didn't you say you had a notebook last time? Recently, the propaganda has been on the plane, boring~ You can show me that book. ”