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On the third day of post-production, Lyman came to Europa Pictures.

He needs to discuss what Luc Besson said about participating in the Cannes Film Festival.

When he came to the office, Luc Besson was already waiting.

"Coffee?" he greeted.

"No." Lyman waved his hand.

"Do you have any plans? What about Cannes?" The two cooperated many times, but they avoided the boring polite time.

Sitting on the sofa, Lyman asked straightaway.

"It's not what I thought, but the Cannes jury took the initiative to invite." Luc Besson explained.

After all, Lehmann is a French director, but he has made two or three works, and he has not participated in the Cannes International Film Festival. This seems to be something wrong.

So, after the jury over there inquired about the completion of Lehman's new film editing, they immediately came to urge Europa Pictures.

Luc Besson naturally had a very good relationship with there, and he agreed casually.

In his opinion, a wave of publicity is also a good thing, and it will definitely win prizes.

As for why, take a look at the local talent support policy.

This is not a secret. Venice, Berlin, and Cannes, none of the so-called three major international film festivals are selfish.

First of all, we must understand that their premise is a regional film festival in order to rise to the international market.

Without the support of the French government, there would be no such name.

Besides, the jury is mostly French, how do you let them choose?

The crows in the world are generally black, regardless of Oscar's unspoken rules, which are not inferior here.

"Okay." Lehman thought for a while. He didn't think anything was wrong. He just found it troublesome. Since he really saw the Oscar selection, he has never felt that the movie awards selected by a group of selfish people will How fair.

However, it is also true that he has not participated in Cannes.

People are so supportive of you, it seems impossible to not give face.

"At that time, I will go with you, and get to know more people circles, it will be very helpful for you." Luc Besson said quite honestly.

"Well, you arrange."

......

On May 10th, Lyman, Thomas, Wen Ziren, Ryan, and George Eva Green, who had not seen each other for a while, met again at the Paris airport.

The chairman of the jury of the 56th Cannes International Film Festival is Patrice Xiahou.

Well, this person was born in Leszigny, France. In 1994, he won the 47th Cannes International Film Jury Award for the feature film "Queen Margot", and he is regarded as the directing line of the Cannes Film Festival.

The group waited for a while in the waiting room before boarding the plane.

Next to Lyman's seat was Eva Green.

"how are things?"

"It's nothing. I stayed at home for a while." Eva Green's words were somewhat resentful.

Think about it when they were shooting, they had nothing to do with each other, but when the work was busy, Lehman could really avoid contacting her.

For 20 days, I never made a call.

Eva doesn't know how to describe this anymore, anyway, in her impression, Lyman has always been a workaholic, and she treats the work of film very carefully.

"Um..." Lehman was stunned, suddenly he didn't know what to talk about, and the atmosphere was a bit awkward.

Random topics were directly killed by Eva Green's grievances.

No way, can't say, can't it be expressed by action.

Seeing this, Lyman leaned directly next to her and put his arms around her waist.

Eva Green turned her head, glanced, and said nothing.

The body is very honest and actively leaned over a little bit.

"Tonight, go to my house." Lyman said softly.

"No, I'll just stay in the hotel." Eva Green blushed and refused decisively.

"Don't you want to..." (30 words are omitted here.)

......

After all, Eva Green failed to reject Lyman's proposal.

About two hours later, the plane landed at the airport.

A group of people walked out of the passage with their luggage, and Lehman looked at the familiar scenery around him with some emotion.

This beautiful seaside town, which is usually too quiet, will show its noisy side only then.

Every year, May is the season of movies, and the brilliance of the screen covers everyone.

When they arrived, the opening ceremony was almost approaching, and many tourists and film professionals could already be seen on the small land.

Since the 1990s, it has advocated the introduction of Hollywood films to the exhibition.

Nowadays, Cannes also has a commercial atmosphere everywhere, and it has become the world's largest film trading market.

Sitting in the car, huge propaganda posters can be seen everywhere.

"X-Men 2", "The Matrix 2", "Fake God"... Well, there is no lack of "Bad Guys" promotional posters, because it is due to local combat, the momentum is even more enthusiastic.

Although they were not shortlisted in the competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival at all, they did not prevent Hollywood filmmakers from using this platform to promote them.

......

The group, led by the relevant person in charge of Europa Pictures who came first, went to the Majestic Barrier Hotel.

This hotel is directly opposite the Palais des Cinemas, less than 200 meters away. It is the official partner of the Cannes Film Festival all year round.

However, they didn't come here to stay. They all returned to "home". How can they stay in a hotel?

Get out of the car and walk in, before entering the hotel lobby, Lehman heard a familiar greeting.

Turning his head, he found that Luc Besson, who had arrived in Cannes a few days earlier, was walking towards him with a smile, and there was a man who was also dressed very formally beside him.

"Lyman, this is Mr. Patrice Xiahou." Luc Besson first introduced.

"Hello." The two shook hands enthusiastically.

"Director Lyman is really young and promising." Patrice Xiahou, as the chairman of the Cannes jury, did not have any airs at all, and said very politely: "It's nice to meet you." Opened his arms and embraced Lyman extremely enthusiastically...

The status of the two is not equal. In these years, directors with market achievements are more popular than so-called literary directors.

Regardless of whether it is in the industry or outside the industry, it seems that there will always be people who think that the position of art directors is inherently superior to commercial directors.

This idea is wrong. On the contrary, people in the industry are more optimistic about directors who can achieve results.

Can you say that James Cameron’s international status is no better than Gisebye Tonadore?

Oh, you don’t know the latter (the Italian director’s main works include "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily", "Paradise Cinema", "Sea Pianist"), that's all right.

Not to mention that Patrice Xiahou's achievements are not outstanding among a vote of European literary directors, but he has the qualifications, and it is his turn to be the chairman.

After all, the Cannes Film Festival changes the jury every year, and he should be on the line even if he is in line.

In a digression, Jiang Wen is also the judge of this jury.As mentioned earlier, the Cannes Film Festival is the most important film festival in China.

The so-called “carpet stars” (yes, Bingbing.) of later generations also spread from Cannes.

No way, the organizing committee has to generate income.

The importance of funds for the smooth running of such a costly film is self-evident.

Although the French government and the City of Cannes will cover part of the film festival’s expenses from fiscal revenues, and big-name sponsors such as L’Oréal and Dior will also give a lot of support, the film festival needs to be able to maintain it every year. Hematopoietic function.

Spending money on the red carpet is just one of all hematopoiesis methods.

"We have decided to set tomorrow's opening ceremony film as "Bad Guy"." Patrice Xiahou said with a smile.

"Really. Hahaha." Lyman didn't know how to deal with the goodwill released by the other party, and said haha.

Oh, here is an explanation. The opening ceremony he said was the premiere of a non-competitive unit.

After all, do the judges of the Cannes Film Festival still want to save face? You can't do too much, otherwise, the wind review will be bad, and it will not be good to fool everyone in the future.

However, being able to give "Bad Guy" an opening ceremony premiere can be regarded as Luc Besson's active lobbying and selfishness of the organizing committee.

Besides, Patrice Xiahou also has his own abacus.

Regardless of his Berlin Director Award, the French Caesar Director Award has been won continuously, but it is not easy to make films and invest.

After all, literary films belong to the niche category, which is a natural disadvantage. The industry is applauded, and the market's reaction is not a day or two.

If you can get along with Europa Pictures this time, it will be a very good thing for the release and investment of his film.

Everyone made their own small calculations and walked in hypocritically and politely.

Tonight, Luc Besson held a cocktail party for the film "Bad Guys" and will invite most film practitioners including the jury.

Communicate with each other, talk friendly...

In fact, it can be regarded as a disguised promotion and selling meeting.

There are so many film festivals around the world, but is the purpose of participating in a film festival really just for awards?

There are only so many awards, one by one cannot meet the needs of so many movies.

Why do those award-winning hopeless movies people come?Why do those filmmakers from all over the world come?Why should those investors come?

In fact, the most reasonable reason to participate in the Cannes Film Festival is to establish contacts and make film investments and transactions.

According to statistics, the Cannes International Film Festival can reach at least 100 million euros in film transactions during the screening period, with an indirect economic value of up to 700 million euros.

Here, except for ordinary people who really come to watch movies, the rest are not looking for investment or trading opportunities.

With so many filmmakers gathered together, it also represents countless opportunities.

Similar receptions can be seen everywhere during the Cannes show, and Europa Pictures is just one of them.

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