Hualiu Director

Chapter 311 The First Trip to Cannes

The preparatory work for "The Founding of the People's Republic of China" is Lin Hong's most important work during this period. First and foremost is the writing of the script.

Lin Hong joined the screenwriting team and was honored to meet several history professors of modern Chinese history. As consultants, they gave the screenwriting team a lot of advice, and Lin Hong also left their contact information.

"Uncle Liu, don't worry, although I don't have many undecided roles here, I will definitely reserve one for you."

Liu Hua also recently heard that "The Founding of the People's Republic of China" is going to be launched, and the specifications are top-notch in the history of Chinese-language movies. However, Han Sanqi and Huang Jianxin followed Lin Hong's suggestion to find a rare commodity to live in, and they really received an unexpected surprise. Effect.

Everyone in the current entertainment industry wants to play a role, so they look for relationships and opportunities, and Lin Hong is one of the people who can arrange roles.

As the de facto executive assistant director, Lin Hong was assigned more than 40 shooting tasks, and had almost 50 recommended roles.

This is actually the benefit that Han Sanqi and Huang Jianxin gave to Lin Hong and the others. Although it is only the right to recommend, as long as it is not out of character or a bad artist, there is basically no problem. Anyway, the dozen or so people recommended by Lin Hong so far have been approved. .

Liu Hua also really wanted to show his face in "The Founding of a Country", so he heard Lao Lin said that he didn't need to go to Renyi tonight, so he came to Lao Lin with two bottles of good wine.

Of course, both the Lin family father and son knew in their hearts that Liu Hua's visit today was out of drunkenness.

Sure enough, after drinking for three rounds, Liu Hua pretended to say that an old classmate of his from Chinese opera joined Chen Ge's group, and he was envious of him.

As a drinking buddy and fancier who has been close to each other for the past two years, of course Lao Lin wants to say something to Lin Hong, and Lin Hong is also very kind and said that he will leave a role for Liu Hua.

Hearing that Lin Hong gave him the precious quota so readily, Liu Hua was moved and took a half-sip of white wine.

"Lin Hong, don't worry, you can arrange my role as you like, so don't make things difficult."

"Uncle Liu, you are serious. Since I promised you, I will definitely assign you a role with a name and lines, but the role may be a little small, and there is no way. After all, except for a few leading roles, the other roles are basically They are all scenes within 20 seconds."

Liu Hua heard that it was a named character, and he couldn't be dissatisfied with anything, his eyes squinted happily. As for the short part, I heard that Feng Gang only gave Cheng Daoming ten seconds of the part.

"Hey, I said Lin Hong, have you arranged any role for my brother?"

Liu Hua suddenly thought that Lao Lin was also an actor, and since Lin Hong could arrange roles for himself, then Lao Lin must also have arrangements.

"Hey, he insisted that there was a historical figure whose temperament was very similar to mine and wanted me to play the role. I was hesitant at first, but the next day my colleagues in the troupe were all using their own channels to fight for the role, so I agreed. I was moved, and came back to check the role on the Internet, and found that I really acted, so I agreed!"

Lao Lin said this calmly, as if he didn't know how much the outside world was involved for a character.Liu Hua felt envious in his heart, but he could only be envious. Who told him not to have a great director's son like Lin Hong.

"Which historical figure?"

"Mao Renfeng! The spy chief of the military command."

Liu Hua scolded herself for talking too much in her heart, which made her envious even more.

After a drink, Liu Hua sang a little song and left the courtyard of Lin's family, but friends in the circle who were looking for Lin Hong to beg for a role still showed up in an endless stream.

And Lin Hong is not a saint, and those who can take care of their friends reasonably will not be cheap to strangers. For example, Huang Xiaoming got the role of Li Yinqiao, and Li Xian and Zhang Shan each got a named role. Xiao Yushen, Lin Qinglan and Ye Xianglun are all soldiers of the Eighth (Route) Army with cameras.

Of course, Lin Hong will not be hypocritical when he can replace the resources of other companies with his own resources. For example, Wang Yang's Qi Mei wants to put two actors under Lin Hong on Lin Hong's filming team, and then promises to Lin Hong and Wang Yang's theaters. 80% of Lin Hong's next film will be lined up.

After checking the information of the two actors, Lin Hong resolutely agreed. Anyway, it would not affect the overall effect at all if there were more than two people in scenes like reporters or representatives in a meeting.

In addition to the preparatory work for "The Founding of the People's Republic of China", Lin Hong also started writing scripts when he was not busy, especially some scripts that will be put on projects in the next few years, such as the script of Star Universe, and the script of "Spiderman" is of course the best. The first thing to be written is the "Hulk" series of scripts for Ang Lee.

In addition to the filming of his own company, the script of "Wolf Warrior Special Forces 2" that Wu Jin urged several times was finally handed over to him.

On the second day after receiving the script, Wu Jin took Lin Hong to have another barbecue, and then flew to South Africa with the team on the third day for preliminary scene inspection.

When Lin Hong knew it, he could only sigh with emotion. With such execution ability and enthusiasm for work, Wu Jin would definitely achieve great success even if he does not make films and engage in other industries.

In addition to domestic affairs, there is also good news from Hollywood. The post-production of "Joker-Origin of Evil" has been completed. In addition, the copyright of Lin Hong's song and his director's salary have also been paid to Wang Jinghua.

Speaking of salary, this is also the work that Lin Hong has received the highest salary so far.

Because the previous works either participated in variety shows with zero pay, or were invested by his own company, Lin Hong basically took 200 million symbolically, and the highest "Hello, Li Huanying" 800 million was only because the invested company was too Many, Lin Hong just didn't want to give them too cheap.

And the filming of "Joker-Origin of Evil" actually reached 1000 million US dollars. This is because Spielberg also received 1000 million US dollars. If either of the two directed alone, the film salary could not be less than 1500 million US dollars. .

This shows how much money big directors make in Hollywood.

Of course, the director's remuneration is not all, Lin Hong and Spielberg will each get 10% of the final box office profit, which is also the prerogative of great directors.

Although Lin Hong did not see the final film, when Spielberg called Lin Hong, he said excitedly that he was extremely optimistic about the performance of the clown in major international film festivals, and because many companies invested in this film For the sake of movies, he is also more optimistic about the competition for the Golden Globes and Oscars.

But it is a pity that this great work is destined not to be screened in mainland China, so when the two discuss the premiere location and premiere time, they don't have to consider the market in mainland China.

In the end, Lin Hong and Spielberg agreed to put the premiere at the Venice Film Festival at the end of August, so as to test the audience's acceptance and at the same time play a role in publicity warm-up.The real global release time is in October.

Next, the two selected a poster for the cover among the movie promotional posters, which was undoubtedly the one where Arthur danced on the stairs after turning into a clown.

After finalizing many announcement details of "Joker-Origin of Evil", Lin Hong asked for a week's leave from the preparatory team of "The Founding of a Nation", and then flew to France with the main creative team of "The Truman Show". The Cannes Film Festival is finally here.

This is the first time for Lin Hong to come to France. It is said that this is a romantic country, so of course Lin Hong has to bring his fiancée. He believes that with her company this time, it will be another fruitful journey.

It was already very hot in Cannes at the end of May, and there were bikini beauties everywhere on the beach. Lin Hong and Kong Xiao stood on the window sill of the hotel and saw this scene, and then looked back at their female companions who were packing their luggage. They could only sigh.

Lin Hong came to the Cannes Film Festival for the first time, but Kong Xiao is already an old bird, so he took Lin Hong to wander around. What Lin Hong likes most is the various exhibition halls, especially some short films and (independent) films People's works will always be amazing.

Just amazing is not necessarily suitable for the market to operate, and Lin Hong doesn't want to touch many controversial topics. He doesn't like being labeled with various labels inexplicably, so it's okay to look at some things.

As for getting him to invest, it is absolutely impossible. Even Lin Hong did not comment on controversial topics when interviewed by the media.

This year's Cannes is very lively for Chinese films, because in addition to Lin Hong's "The Truman Show", there are six Chinese films coming to Cannes. Lin Hong's main focus is Feng Gang's "Fragrant Years" and Zhang Guoshi's " shadow".

When it comes to "Fragrant Years", Lin Hong really wants to say something. Last year's Pingyao International Film Festival was confirmed to be released during the Spring Festival. At that time, Lin Hong's "Hello, Li Huanying" did not even have a lot of roles. down.

As a result, Lin Hong made the film in just a few months, and even entered the competition for the Spring Festival.

Because Huayi is also an investor in "Hello, Li Huanying", they were a little scared after watching the finished film.

Although Huayi is very optimistic about the quality of "Fragrant Years", after objective analysis, they feel that "Hello, Li Huanying", as a comedy that can make people cry and laugh, can definitely crush "Fragrant Years" in terms of box office appeal , not to mention that another box office monster "Detective Chinatown 2" has also announced that it will be released during the Spring Festival.

So in the end, Huayi persuaded Feng Gang and announced that "Fragrant Years" was withdrawn due to technical reasons.And in the end, when "Hello, Li Huanying" dominated the box office record of the Chinese film industry with absolute crushing momentum, Huayi's executives let out a long sigh of relief, it's so dangerous!

This is also the reason why "Fragrant Years" failed to be nominated for the main competition unit and came to Cannes this time. It is not for publicity. I hope to sell a few more tickets when it is released. By the way, see if I can develop an international market.

"The film is a good film, and it is okay to come here to promote it. As for the overseas market, it is fine. Besides the Chinese, is there any country where people can understand what happened in those ten years, and they can find a bunch of them. Logical bugs, why don’t you explain them to foreign audiences one by one!”

Lin Hong and others just came out of the screening hall of "Fragrant Years", and the results of watching the movie inside were also polarized. Chinese people were deeply touched when they watched it. For example, Song Xiaohan and the others all cried while watching it, but few foreign audiences. Some people can last for half an hour, because they don't believe in the logic and character setting of the plot at all.

Based on the situation of this screening, Lin Hong basically concluded that if "Fragrant Years" is forced to be released abroad, it will definitely be a result of loss and no gain.

"So Feng Gang's films don't have an international market. In this regard, he is far behind you and Zhang Guoshi."

What Kong Xiao said was not ambiguous at all. Lin Hong is his brother, and Zhang Guoshi’s films have also proved themselves at the international box office. For example, they watched "Shadow" yesterday, which is very good. Chinese people watch the mood, and foreigners watch it. , and then everyone applauded together after watching it, which shows that "Shadow" has a basic disk released overseas.

In addition, "Shadow" was also selected for two nominations in this year's main competition unit, which also has an added effect on European audiences when choosing movies.

After watching the movie, Lin Hong led Song Xiaohan to bid farewell to the big team. Of course, he wanted to go shopping with his wife. After finally coming to a place where most people didn't know them, the two finally had a relatively relaxed shopping environment.

Of course, there must be some paparazzi following the sneak shots. For example, Zhou Wei followed him to Cannes and always wanted to take some negative photos of Lin Hong.

What disappointed him was that Lin Hong came with his fiancée, those coquettish sluts who wanted to get close to him had no chance at all, and Lin Hong would keep a polite distance from the actresses of his crew.

So Zhou Wei wanted to film some scandals such as Lin Hong urinating in the street after drinking and spitting everywhere, but Zhou Wei was disappointed again.

However, Zhou Wei's mood fell to the bottom when something happened later. His wallet was stolen, and he clearly saw that it was stolen by two old men. When he chased him to the alley, the two old men Hei stopped running, turned around and changed stealing to robbery, so Zhou Wei's camera and mobile phone were robbed again.

When Zhou Wei found the patrolling policeman in embarrassment, the latter couldn't understand Zhou Wei's English with Chinese between them. Excited, Zhou Wei pulled the impatient patrolling policeman, and the French thought he was going to attack the policeman, so they almost killed him. Take out the handcuffs.

"Hey wait sir, he just needs your help, he's been robbed!"

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Holding 50 euros in cash and watching Lin Hong lead Song Xiaohan away, Zhou Wei never thought that one day Lin Hong would help him out, he felt it was a shame.

Lin Hong not only reported the case for him, but also gave him 50 euros, with which he could take a taxi back to the hotel. Thinking of this, he had to complain about the prices in Cannes.

Damn old black, why don't you snatch Lin Hong's, then I can also take some amazing photos.But he just noticed the two bodyguards, a man and a woman not far behind Lin Hong, and he felt that if he really met them, it would be more likely to rob Lao Hei.

Just when Zhou Wei was thinking wildly, he suddenly felt that his hand was empty, and he turned his head to see that there was another old black holding 50 Euros in his hand five meters away! <, can't you change someone else?

Lin Hong didn't know about this in the distance, and he didn't expect that the 50 euros would be exchanged for Zhou Wei's gratitude, because Zhou Wei is not such a person.

Lin Hong helped him purely because Zhou Wei was Chinese, and he couldn't bear not to help him when he was in trouble.If this happened in China, Lin Hong would not mind watching it.

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Excessive chapters, Cannes will not write too much, after all, there will be Shanghai Film Festival soon, Lin Hong will definitely win an award, but there will not be too much ink.Everyone must have guessed where the key point is, that's right, the 18-year Golden Horse.

Ask for tickets, ask for everything.