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Chapter 442 Cannes Daily
Cheng Yu'an also took Liu Yifei to visit the scenery while attending the forum in Cannes.

The entire industry was shaken by a shocking acquisition.

Wanda spent $31 billion to acquire 100% of AMC, the second largest theater chain in North America.

Among them, 7 million is the actual purchase price, 19 billion is AMC's liabilities, and 5 million is the operation and management fee invested after the acquisition.

I have to say that Lao Wang is really rich at this time!

Cheng Yu'an was also asked about his opinion on this acquisition in Cannes. After all, Long-distance is the most powerful film company.

"Very powerful." Cheng Yu'an couldn't possibly break the cold water for the outside world at this time, "It is in line with Mr. Wang's usual generosity."

"I hope that the development of Wanda Pictures will get better and better. It is a good thing to be able to earn US dollars overseas."

"Will Remote have similar acquisition ideas in the future?" The reporter asked
"You mean to buy overseas theaters?"

"Yes."

Cheng Yu'an shook her head: "Our Yuanqiu Golden Harvest Cinemas is doing pretty well, and we have no overseas development plan for the time being."

Golden Harvest originally had its own theaters in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and other places, but it has not expanded wantonly in the past few years, but only upgraded step by step.

"Will Remote cooperate with Wanda Films in the future?"

"Wanda Cinemas has always been a long-distance important partner."

"Will you cooperate with Wanda remotely in the production?"

Wanda Films has been committed to film and television investment before, and only announced this year that it will test the water production business. It also sent a business manager to talk to several major manufacturers such as Long-distance, Pony, and Light.

But it seems that no one wants to take him to play.

It’s still bullying, you can just do investment and theater chains, and you can play the production.

Cheng Yu'an is so cunning, he didn't open his mouth to answer this kind of question: "Remote has always been open, if Wanda wants to cooperate with us in the production, we definitely welcome it."

Wanda's transition to film production is foreseeable. Lao Wang is rich, and the theater chain has become the number one in the country. He must reach out to the upstream content side.

I heard that Wanda Productions' "Holding Love" was looking for Yang Mi at the beginning, but Yang Mi didn't like the crew of "Holding Love" at all. The director Zhang Qi can only be regarded as average in the industry, and the leading actor She has never heard of Liu Kaiwei.

After much deliberation, she refused the script because she could not bring herself any rewards for taking this role.

Chinese-language films are held in Cannes this year. Although there are very few nominations and awards, they have a lot of exposure and voice.

Not only Jackie Chan and "Zodiac", but also "One Step Away" by Jiang Wen.

French audiences and film festival officials like Jiang Wen very much.

The shooting plan of "One Step Away" was announced in Cannes, and the film festival publication "Silver Screen" directly gave him the cover.

This is the only time Screen has published posters of non-competing films this year.

Although "Sunny Day" won an award in Venice, Jiang Wen's relationship with Cannes is deeper.

In 00, "The Devil Is Coming" won the Grand Jury Award, in 03 Jiang Wen served as a judge at the film festival, and in 09 "Let the Bullets Fly" was also released in Cannes.

After three years, Jiang Wen came to Cannes again with "One Step Away".

Mark, the film's investor and exuberant person in charge, revealed: ""One Step Away" plans to launch in the second half of the year, and all actors are still in the negotiation stage. We are willing to cooperate with all good actors, and we will officially announce it when it is confirmed."

Cheng Yu'an didn't need to say anything, the remote staff approached Mark and wanted to participate in the film.

After "Let the Bullets Fly", the industry has no brains to invest in Jiang Wen.

Cheng Yu'an didn't intervene, and based on the relationship between Yuan Yuan and Emperor, it was very easy to become a co-producer with a part of "One Step Away".

Cheng Yu'an had another purpose in asking Jiang Wen to drink alone.

The two had met and chatted a few times in China before, and they hit it off quite well.

"Why don't you let Lucas die under the gun?" Among Cheng Yu'an's movies, Jiang Wen liked "The Hunt" the most, and he asked Cheng Yu'an this question as soon as he sat down.

"I can't die, it's too cheap for Lucas." Cheng Yu'an answered this question countless times, and he didn't mind explaining it again.

Cheng Yu'an poured Jiang Wen a glass of wine: "Try this."

Jiang Wen sipped it to his liking: "What kind of wine is this?"

"I don't know, I stole from our old man." Cheng Yu'an said with a smile, "I like to drink and bring two bottles back with me."

The two chatted all over the world while eating and drinking. Jiang Wen was actually a very traditional person in his bones. He worshiped great men, and he was very hard-line in movies, and most of the stories he wrote were about the past.

"I love The Martian, but I can't make a movie like this."

"I can't make "Sunny Day" and "Let the Bullets Fly." Every director has his own style.

"Sunny Day" is about the youth of the children in the compound, but Cheng Yu'an's childhood was not like this.

Hard-core and crazy movies like "Let the Bullets Fly" are not Cheng Yu'an's style.

This movie may only be made by Jiang Wen, so if you are surnamed Shen, make it with a hammer!

The two have different understandings of movies, and in some respects they are even diametrically opposed.

Jiang Wenneili still made movies for himself, and although he didn't quite agree with Cheng Yu'an's commercial blockbuster "pleasing" the audience, he also knew that he had a company to support, so he didn't say much.

After chatting for a long time, Cheng Yu'an finally made it clear that he wanted the copyright of "Parents' Love".

Jiang Wen won the film and television adaptation rights of "Parents' Love" as early as [-]. He wanted to play Jiang Defu himself, but he couldn't find the time.

"My agreement with Liu Jing (the author of the novel "Parents Love") has expired long ago. If you want to make a film, you need to talk to Liu Jing."

"After returning to China, I will lead you a line, it shouldn't be difficult."

This year's awards ceremony has nothing to do with me, but Cheng Yu'an and Liu Yifei also watched the entire ceremony in the movie palace as guests.

The Cannes awards ceremony is much more serious than the Golden Globes and Oscars, but at the awards ceremony, Jacob, the chairman of the film festival, made a joke about Oscars and Venice in his speech in order to ease the atmosphere: "This year, the best film artists in the world Gathered in Cannes, dedicated the best films to the audience."

"Sorry, Cheng, even if you are the best director at Venice and the Oscars, I still can't let you into Cannes. Unless you make a better film than "The Hunt."

This is not the first time Cannes has dissed Oscar. The audience in the audience laughed loudly, and Cheng Yuan laughed when the camera was aimed at him.

After the chairman's speech, the awards began.

Cannes definitely favors local French films, that's okay.

Of the 7 winning films in the main competition unit, 3 are from France, or France participated in the production.

The Palme d'Or for the best film was given to German director Michael Haneke's "Love", allowing him to win the Palme d'Or for the second time.

Mexican director Carlos Reygadas finally took home the best director award after his fourth Cannes appearance.

Liu Yifei muttered beside Cheng Yu'an: "There is only one Palme d'Or for Chinese-language movies, and I don't know when I can get another one."

(End of this chapter)