“**！”

In the room, Chu Qing hung up the phone and actually scolded in English. Then he walked around the small living room, turned back and forth a dozen times a minute, looked very anxious, and said: "Ichikawa said to give up the fight for the Asian agency of "Blind Well", I will, I will ......"

He couldn't resist the swear words and sat on the couch. Since Fan Xiaoye didn't accompany the group this time, he had to stay home to read the script of "Ping's Shadow", so no one could persuade him if his feelings fluctuated.

Cheng Ying's weight was still very much, so she had to keep her head silent, and waited for the other party to ease up before she said: "Didn't Ichikawa have a lot of intentions before, why didn't he suddenly follow?" ”

"I guess they must have a deal with MK2."

Chu Qing rubbed his head and sighed: "Both of them are big companies, so they won't offend each other for us." ”

Cheng Ying pursed her lips, and her mood was also very depressed, this trip to Cannes was simply not smooth.

This genre is really loved by the American people, in fact, after the Berlin Film Festival, Hollywood began to pay attention to this movie. In the past three months, "Infernal Affairs" has been screened in the United States for n industry test screenings, in which the police and gangsters send undercover agents to each other, and the creativity of fighting wits and strength has been greatly appreciated by major companies, and they believe that the remake has a very high market potential.

Among all the competitors, Warner, DreamWorks, Paramount and Fox are the most fierce. DreamWorks made the first bid, and after several rounds of bidding, Warner finally won the remake rights for $2 million, and handed it over to the company founded by Bratpitt.

That's right, it's two million dollars, which is 250,000 more than the historical 1.75 million.

As soon as this news came out, it directly detonated the Chinese film circle. Because of this price, it directly refreshed the record of the price of film rights sold in various parts of Asia.

Asian films are already despised by Hollywood. Not to mention spending money on copyrights. If you talk about the last one, it is especially "Midnight Bell" in 98, which was sold to DreamWorks for remake for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and as a result, people made tens of millions.

Comparing the two sides, the national pride bursts instantly, which can be described as infinite glory.

Media Asia naturally will not let go of the great opportunity and launched the filming plan of "Infernal Affairs 2" in a timely manner. So well, not only Hong Kong is boiling, but Taiwan is also inexplicably following suit, and it is said that it has been waiting for it.

It's weird to mention. The box office of the first part is scum in Taiwan, but the sequel has achieved very good results, and I really don't understand the information reception of Wanwan compatriots.

But no matter how they do, Chu Qing, who is in Europa, can't feel the slightest sense of excitement, and at most he is relieved: when he pays dividends, he gets more, and in the end, he should make a net profit of two million, uh, Hong Kong dollars.

All right. It's a scary ROI...... It's less than a fifth of "This Summer."

In fact, sometimes he thinks about it himself, maybe "This Summer" is too powerful, so that it erects a benchmark and causes a lot of pressure on the back. As long as it is a little worse, I feel failure, frustration, ouch. That annoyance.

Anyway, with this remake fee, he stumbled to complete the escape mission of "Infernal Affairs".

And then. It's "The Blind Well".

Theoretically, the film would sell very well, and they would just have to wait for the price to sell. Chu Qing still prefers mk2 in his heart, after all, the last cooperation was very pleasant.

The difference between the two sides is that he only wants to release the European agency and hand over the distribution and sale of Japan and South Korea to Ichikawa Shozo, but the other party wants a global buyout, including DVD production zuò and TV broadcasts.

At that time, there was no negotiation in Berlin, and he had been waiting, waiting for Ichikawa Shozo to reply to the news, who would have expected that the two families would partner with him.

This is the real frustration and powerlessness, he finds that he has no right to speak, and the so-called friendship is not worth mentioning.

Chu Qing didn't think about changing an agent, but after considering the results, it is better to choose MK2, at least the strength is reassuring...... Although the means are a little disgusting.

"Xiaoying, I've got it thorough."

He calmed down a lot and said, "I'm really not a businessman, I don't have that cell at all, I used to count my fate." ”

"You're doing a great job, someone else is your age and doesn't have a girlfriend!"

Cheng Ying carefully persuaded, uh, let's call it persuasion.

“……”

Chu Qing twitched the corners of his mouth, ignored this off-line goods, got up and said, "Okay, keep your spirits up, and when those two films are released, we have to talk to them for a round." ”

"Are you okay then?" Cheng Ying was a little worried.

"It's okay! As for me, I'll shoot my drama honestly in the future, and I'll do a favor when I touch what I like, I can't die begging for nothing to plant it again, it's too bad! ”

…………

On the 22nd, "Purple Butterfly" premiered.

As the only Chinese-language film in the competition unit, it attracted a lot of attention before its release. On the one hand, it is Zhang's high popularity in the West; On the other hand, it is the success of "Suzhou River" that makes European film critics and film companies look forward to Lou Ye's work.

Of course, Chu Qing had to go to the scene, but he kept a low profile, so as not to be surrounded by reporters.

The response was not very good, and after the screening began, reporters left the theater one after another, and until the end of the film, the number of people leaving the theater with a capacity of 1,000 people had reached nearly 20%.

Chu Qing was serious throughout the whole process, and then found that he didn't understand.

Overall, it's a runaway movie. Lou Ye continues the petty bourgeois tone of Suzhou Creek, and is more unscrupulous, full of baroque structural images, as well as overlapping images and repeated jump-cut shots.

Visually, the pouring rain and icy blue interior tones are indeed very urine, but the plot is so scummy, that you don't bother to spend energy on certifying those basic character relationships.

Just like the scene on the platform, Chu Qing was stunned and didn't understand what classmate Zhang and Liu Ye were doing. saw Zhang Ziyi pull out a gun and shoot indiscriminately, and then a person fell in the distance, and Liu Ye began to go crazy...... The ins and outs of the matter, but they didn't explain it at all.

Anyway, he watched the whole film and felt that the director's best part was Li Bingbing dancing in the room, which was graceful and ambiguous.

The next day, the media gave the expected evaluation:

Americans admit that they can't tell who is who in the dozen or so characters in the film, and they can't even understand which party those anti-Japanese youths work for.

The Japanese felt that their actor Hiroshi Nakamura was watching Xiàn Bunker, but they didn't like the end of the film, because Lou Ye inserted a video record of the invasion of China.

The Europeans' comments, for and against, are clearly divided.

Mainland reporters felt that the music was high and low, and the Hong Kong film critics were more bitter and ridiculed, but in comparison, it was the Taiwan compatriots who supported this domestic film the most.

mixed up with this, the results speak for themselves, Zhang and Liu Ye both flew back to China to work, and no longer waited for the closing ceremony to be announced. Only Lou Ye stayed alone in Cannes, looking forward to the one in 10,000 possibility.

Chu Qing felt that he was a little, a little not free and easy, maybe this ground movie had a special meaning to him, and he refused to admit defeat even if he held on.

At this point, the festival is coming to an end.

For the first time, he didn't have any sense of involvement, and he was busy with his own, and when he came to his senses, he was surprised to find that the curtain was almost over.

The premieres of "Uniform" and "Incense" were scheduled very late, and it was the turn of these two films three days before the closing, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.

For Chu Qing, after these two screenings, he can have a final round of negotiations with MK2 to finalize the fate of the release of the four films.

For Diao Yinan and Ning Hao, in their respective thirty-five and twenty-six years of life, this is probably the most exciting day.

(Happy Birthday...... (To be continued......)