Entertainment: From the Octagon to the big screen

Chapter 622 - Negotiation
With the assistance of Etihad Airways, Chen Yu was able to process her visa much faster than Dilraba Dilmurat.

Emanuel's first round of negotiations with Percival Everett, author of the novel Erasure, did not go well.

Therefore, he returned to Paris from Houston, and went to Abu Dhabi and Dubai with Chen Yu to relax and spend their vacation.

Originally, Emmanuel and Chen Yu wanted Ana de Armas and Sigrid Agren to come and relax, but the two young ladies were busy.

Anna, who won the leading female role in the new film "007", is preparing to go to Scotland Yard to experience life.

Although there are significant differences between spies and police in terms of the nature of their work and working environment, some basic knowledge and some basic skills can be barely universal.

If Anna was a pure-blooded British lady, she would have the opportunity to intern in the British military intelligence system.

Of course, film and television actors are generally assigned to external public relations departments, propaganda departments, or join the British Military Police, which is the main force of British military counterintelligence.

Unfortunately, Anna was born in Red Cuba and lived in Spain for many years, and then she settled in the United States, so her application information was directly transferred to Scotland Yard.

Even if MGM and the 007 crew endorsed Anna, it would not work, which made director Cary Fukunaga very angry.

Anna is now busy handling various trivial matters in her jurisdiction in her police uniform, while Sigrid is actively participating in Victoria's Secret training, working hard to lay the foundation for her supermodel career.

At present, Emmanuel and his team only serve Chen Yu, Anna and Sigrid. As a junior sister, the latter is naturally taken care of by Chen Yu and Anna.

Moreover, Sigrid herself is very down-to-earth and hardworking, so after a period of study and accumulation, her reputation in the fashion and modeling circles has become increasingly high.

Now Sigrid has been successfully signed by Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta and Louis Vuitton as a brand catwalk model. Last year, she was shortlisted in the top three of the industry's role model rankings.

Sigrid, who was born in April 1991, already has a retirement plan: to open a pet shop after completing three Victoria's Secret shows.

"If you think about it carefully, it seems that we are the only ones who have nothing to do right now."

Emmanuel took the iced guava juice handed to him by the flight attendant and walked to Chen Yu's seat, muttering with a complicated expression.

Chen Yu, who was playing "The King of Fighters", raised his eyebrows when he heard this. He was going to get married, which was ten thousand times more important than any current job!
Emanuel curled his lips and did not comment on this, but then the two talked about the work at hand, such as "Erasure".

Through close contact, Emanuel discovered that Percival did not want "Erasure" to be adapted into a film or TV series because he wrote this work when he was full of resentment.

Therefore, the irony of black people and American society is too strong and distorted. Percival only depicts the dark corners, but to be honest, there is still a glimmer of hope in life.

Chen Yu put down the handheld game console and blinked in confusion, so Percival not wanting to sell the copyright had nothing to do with the bid?

"My friend, you can't always use money to speculate and measure the feelings of a writer, and he lives a good life."

Although $1.3 million was a large sum of money for Percival, he was not actually too tempted and still chose to stick to his ethics as a funny writer.

This made Chen Yu feel that Nguyen Thanh Viet, the Vietnamese monkey who wrote "The Sympathizer", was extremely reasonable. He finalized the contract details including the copyright fee during the first contact.

"Black American writers all have problems with their brains. You have to understand that they have gone astray in their evolution."

Although Emanuel is unwilling to get involved with Percival, the film and television adaptation of "Erasure" does give him hope of winning an award, so Emanuel is now full of patience.

Chen Yu had nothing to say but to support Emanuel in dealing with Percival. Since money was not enough, he could only change his mindset and play the emotional card. "Absolutely not. Chinese + Americans talking to a black guy about unity, mutual assistance and equality? Who the hell would believe that?"

Emmanuel sipped the guava juice and asked Chen Yu to be more serious and not take the opportunity to make fun of the relationship between races.

Strangely enough, people in Europe and America never regard Chen Yu as a Chinese, simply because he grew up in the United States and received private education in the United States, although his grades were very poor.

Moreover, the Lone Star Republic has established Chen Yu as a local Texas hero, and has also promoted cowboy culture and the Lone Star Republic spirit to the world.

As a result, some Chinese netizens really believed that Chen Yu was an American citizen; while other Chinese netizens used the fact that Chen Yu had lost her American citizenship to be sarcastic to Liu Yifei.

Di Lieba is particularly disgusted by netizens using Chen Yu's nationality as a pretext to attack Liu Yifei behind her back. It's not that she and the Fairy Sister are so good, but she is simply resistant and disgusted.

In fact, the personal relationship between Dilraba Dilmurat and Liu Yifei can only be described in a general way, that is, when they meet at ceremonies or events, they can exchange a few words.

Previously, "The Records of Nanyanzhai", co-invested by Dilraba Dilmurat, Liu Yifei and Yang Mi, had been completed but could not be broadcast.

This involves both actor issues and copyright confusion. Jing Boran wants to get all his pay returned and only asks that his name not be mentioned when promoting the series.

Anyway, Di Lieba and Yang Mi have already admitted their losses and left the scene together. Liu Yifei was very open-minded and took out 40 million RMB to cover the losses of Yang Mi and Di Lieba.

Neither Dilraba nor Yang Mi wants this money. They got together in the first place just to get what they needed. Now that the alliance has broken up, they can just part ways amicably.

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Speaking of the word alliance, Emanuel suddenly remembered that Chen Yu would attend the 71st Cannes International Film Festival in May, and immediately asked him if he was preparing to serve on the jury.

"Fifty Shades Freed" will compete in the official competition unit for three important awards: Best Director, Best Actress and Best Jury Award.

In fact, this work was also shortlisted for the final competition for the Palme d'Or and Best Actor, but compared with the above three, its hopes are slim.

Erotic films have always been an inseparable part of the Cannes International Film Festival in France and the Venice International Film Festival in Italy.

It was once a hot candidate or candidate for awards, along with political satire and exploration of human nature, but it has been in a slump since 2010.

The main reason is the sluggish European film and television market. Although Hollywood no longer has its former glory, Netflix has penetrated into Europe.

In order to disgust Netflix, Cannes officials announced that competition films must be shown in French theaters for a full ten days.

Netflix was also very tough and directly issued an announcement: all its works participating in the competition would be withdrawn from the Cannes International Film Festival.

Netflix's counterattack this time was beyond the French's expectations. All five works that were originally shortlisted for the official competition unit were withdrawn, and seven works in the Un Certain Regard unit were taken off the shelves.

These twelve works not only include Netflix productions, but six of them are co-invested by Netflix.

Netflix even called Chen Yu hoping to form a temporary offensive and defensive alliance to disgust Cannes together.

Later, Lionsgate, Disney, Paramount and other manufacturers stepped in to mediate the dispute.

Chen Yu promised not to withdraw from this year's Cannes International Film Festival, but "Fifty Shades Freed" cannot come in vain.

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