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Chapter 309 Trip to Cannes ([-])

First of all, Cheng Yuan is in good health.

"After all, I am 28 to 30, so you don't know how to love me." Cheng Yu'an woke up the next day with sore waist and eyes.

"You go to the gym three times a week, and I bought you so many supplements, so I'm not allowed to check the results." Liu Yifei helped Cheng Yu'an pack his luggage, "Besides, you'll be away for more than ten days, so I'm not allowed to pay in advance."

Liu Yifei was crying while packing her luggage, Cheng Yu'an said: "It's fine, why are you crying?"

"When will such a day end?"

"Ah?" Cheng Yu'an was confused, "What's wrong? Do you think life is bad now?"

"It's not bad," Liu Yifei sobbed, "I'm just thinking, when will we be together in a fair and honest way. Every time we go on a date, we have to hide from the reporters. I can't come to visit the set even if you are filming, and I have to participate in activities." I hide from you, for fear of being photographed. We are unmarried men and women unmarried, we are together sincerely, and we are not thieves."

Cheng Yu'an was so distressed: "Okay, okay, don't cry. Why don't you come with me today, and we will walk out of this door to the airport in a fair way, let them shoot, and let them shoot when we go to Cannes."

Liu Yifei stopped her tears, and smiled through her tears: "Okay, I'll complain for a while, I know the seriousness, you go, don't miss the plane."

The two chatted, and Cheng Yu'an went out: "Have a good time at home."

"Let's go, I have an event in the afternoon, and I will invite someone to play in Shazhou after that, don't worry about me."

Cheng Yu'an got in the car and went to the company first, and met the two directors and producers of "The Dark Side" and "A Little Thing of First Love", as well as colleagues from the company's overseas business department, and a group of more than a dozen people set off.

"The Dark Side" is a very stylized genre film, and it makes sense to take it to the Cannes trading market. Why did "A Little Thing of First Love" go to Cannes?

Sell ​​the adaptation rights!
This kind of youth film is popular all over the world!

The investment is low, no big scenes are needed, the shooting cycle is short, and the production is simple.

It's easy to sell out.

Even if it doesn't blow up, you won't lose money if you sell a DVD and new media or dump it directly to the TV station.

A group of people are waiting on the plane to take off. To go to Cannes, they have to fly to Paris first, then transfer to Nice, and finally transfer to Cannes.

"Why are you nervous?" Cheng Yu'an looked at Han Yan at the side and smiled.

"Am I nervous?"

"Don't be nervous, what are you doing with your handkerchief?" Han Yan squeezed all the handkerchiefs distributed on the plane into rags.

Han Yan chuckled: "It's my first time going to the Cannes Film Festival, so I'm nervous."

Cheng Yu'an smiled and said, "Why are you so nervous? You can see how calm Director Teng is."

And Teng Huatao, who was sitting on the side, said at this time: "Please give me another glass of water."

"It's been 10 minutes since you got on the plane, and you've already drank three glasses of water!" Cheng Yu'an said.

"No way, it's my first time going to Cannes too. Hehe."

Cheng Yu'an comforted the two of them: "Director Teng, you have participated in countless film and TV festivals, big and small, why are you still nervous? We just went to the Cannes trade market, and we didn't participate in exhibitions or walk on the red carpet. To put it bluntly, the media wouldn't know Pay attention to us, there is nothing to be nervous about."

Although Cheng Yu'an said so, the two were still nervous. It was the Cannes Film Festival, the temple of movies. In their hearts, the three majors were no less important than the Oscars.

Cheng Yu'an said to Han Yan: "Actually, if "The Dark Side" is finished filming last year, we can get a shortlist this year if we don't guarantee it all. Then we can walk the red carpet in a dignified way."

"I haven't thought about it," Han Yan said.

"I can't enter the main competition unit. It should be no problem to be shortlisted for the Un Certain Regard unit. I looked at the shortlist for this year's Un Certain Regard unit. If "The Dark Side" can enter, maybe it can win an award."

"What is a kind of attention unit? I only know the main competition unit in Cannes."

"A kind of attention unit is a competition unit specially set up for new directors and films with unique aesthetics or strange styles. There are few reports on this unit in China, but the gold content is not bad. "Dark Side" fits the style of a kind of attention unit." Cheng Yu'an explained to Han Yan.

Han Yan also looked through the homework he had done before, and when he saw the shortlist of this year's Un Certain Regard unit, he exclaimed:
"What a new director! Director Jia Ke, Godard and Hideo Nakata are all in it!"

Cheng Yu'an said: "Mr. Jia is a frequent visitor to international film festivals. The "Legend of the Sea" he brought this year is a documentary. If it cannot enter the main competition unit, it will be placed in a special attention unit."

The group flew for ten hours to Paris, then transferred to Nice, and then transferred to Cannes. When they arrived at the hotel where they were staying, it was already late at night on the 10th local time.

"Everyone have a good rest. The film festival will start on the 12th. We rented a small meeting room in the hotel as a negotiation room, and strive to sell it out as soon as possible. Everyone can relax in Cannes."

Everyone went back to their rooms to rest, and Cheng Yu'an returned to his suite with his assistant.

He slept all the way on the plane, and now he was very energetic, so he casually opened the Cannes catalog that came with the hotel.

This year's main competition unit is only Wang Xiaoshuai's "Sunshine Chongqing" shortlisted. This year's big hit is undoubtedly Mike Lee's "Another Year", which scored a high score of 3.2 in the program, and the other is Xavier Biwas's "Man and God", the show magazine scored 3.4 points.

Mike Lee is really an old artist. When Cheng Yuan participated in the Venice Film Festival in 04, he lost to him. He won the Golden Lion Award that year.

"Everyday Chongqing" scored 2.2 points, and Takeshi Kitano's "Extremely Evil" was the lowest, with 0.9 points.

While Cheng Yu'an was flipping through the magazine, his assistant Xiao Zheng came over: "Brother, Fan Xiaopang and Qin Hao are here."

"Why are you here so late?" Cheng Yu'an was puzzled.

Both Fan and Qin are the leading actors of "Everyday Chongqing". It is very reasonable for them to come to Cannes, but later people usually think that Fan is here to rub the red carpet.

"Then I said you're already asleep?" the assistant said.

"Forget it, let them come in." Anyway, I couldn't sleep.

Soon, Fan and Qin came in.

After some chatting, I found out that the two of them came to send invitation letters. On the 13th, "Everyday Chongqing" held a press conference in Cannes, and Cheng Yu'an and others were invited to attend.

Cheng Yu'an said: "Just make a phone call, why bother to go there in person."

"Director Wang is not feeling well, otherwise he would have invited Director Cheng himself."

What a joke!Would someone as stubborn as Wang Xiaoshuai talk to Cheng Yu'an?
"No problem, we will definitely be there." After all, he is the only Chinese-language candidate in the main competition unit, so he should join in the show.

After delivering the invitation letter, the three chatted some gossip again, Fan Xiaopang said:

"The 22nd is Director Wang's birthday. We plan to hold a birthday party for him. Director Cheng will come too."

"Let's see." Cheng Yu'an doesn't like to participate in this kind of activities. "We are here to sell movies. We may not have time on the 22nd. Try our best."

Cheng Yu'an didn't say anything to death, and when the film sold out, he would go if he had nothing to do.

After chatting for more than ten minutes, Cheng Yu'an left Qin Hao's phone number, saying that there was a chance to work together when he returned to China, and the three of them broke up.

Sending Fan and Qin away, Cheng Yu'an stayed in the study until late at night, and fell asleep when sleepiness struck.

(End of this chapter)