Chapter 731

In the Asian region, first of all, such a theme, such a home-court lineup, plus the publicity ability of Linghe and Jump Up, just the box office in China is at least tens of millions of USD, if it sells better, it is not impossible to exceed 100 million USD in a single market.

And outside China, South Korea and Japan are originally important markets for Hollywood movies, and Southeast Asia itself has many Chinese, plus there is a popular Caina, the topicality must be high.

If it can really sell more than 100 million USD at the box office outside North America in the end, no one will say anything.

*Flypaper* must be one of the movies with the highest rate of return in the year of release, and Yan Liang must also get the admission ticket for Hollywood starring under such box office results.

Therefore, although *Flypaper* is a low-budget film, it has already started publicity at this stage to attract attention.

After Lu Yan He negotiated many things and was about to return to the country, he suddenly received a notice that Green Valley decided to hold a premiere of *Tropical Rain* in New York.

The crew is coming over.

*Tropical Rain* will start small-scale screening in North America from the end of September. This is also a common distribution idea for award-winning films in the awards season, using small-scale screening to lengthen the front, ferment word-of-mouth, maintain the window period, and have more opportunities to be seen by the audience.

As a result, Lu Yan He, who had already prepared to return to the country, stayed behind.

This year, Green Valley really intends to do a good job in public relations for Lu Yan He's acting awards.

In the various predictions and calls at present, because of the Best Actor award at the Xitu'er Film Festival, Lu Yan He has always been one of the candidates with high calls.

It's just that several parties are still hesitating whether to report Lu Yan He for Best Actor or Best Supporting Actor.

In terms of screen time, it is of course more appropriate for Lu Yan He to report Best Supporting Actor.

However, this year is a small year for Best Actor, judging from the current situation, Lu Yan He has a great hope of squeezing into the nomination list for Oscar Best Actor.

However, according to the analysis, *Tropical Rain* is not an English film after all, but a Malaysian Chinese film, relying on Lu Yan He's momentum in the American film industry in recent years and the name of Best Actor at the Xitu'er Film Festival, it is still possible to break into the Oscar Best Actor nomination list, but winning an award is basically hopeless.

However, if it is Best Supporting Actor, there is hope of winning an award.

This is the point where everyone is struggling now.

Which one to choose?

Even if it is Best Supporting Actor, it is not said that the hope of winning an award is very great.

Then if it is just two nominations, the gold content of the Best Actor nomination is definitely higher than the gold content of the Best Supporting Actor.

"Both are fine."

Lu Yan He's attitude towards this is very open.

It's not that he doesn't care, but because for him, he feels that neither choice is bad, as long as he can really enter the nomination list, this is a victory.

In fact, even if he didn't nominate for an Oscar relying on *Tropical Rain* in the end, he was also victorious.

A Best Actor at the Xitu'er Film Festival is already a gift with very high gold content.

Darren Wilson is very concerned about what plans he has for the awards season this year.

Lu Yan He is his client, if Lu Yan He can gain something in the awards season, it is also of great significance to Darren Wilson's career.

Lu Yan He asked with a smile: "Darren, your clients should also be impacting the awards season this year, right?"

For the American entertainment industry, the awards season is something no one can get around.

And when this matter actually has nothing to do with you, it only shows that you are an actor who is not yet in the mainstream circle.

An agent of Darren Wilson's level, among the clients in his hands, there are more than a dozen with names and surnames.

There are three or four A-listers.

Lu Yan He believes that Darren Wilson will not be absent from the awards season every year.

However, Darren Wilson came to ask Lu Yan He about these at this time, and it is estimated that there is also a suspicion of "probing for information."

It is not only Lu Yan He who needs to struggle with whether to report Best Actor or Best Supporting Actor.

Everyone has to discuss with their public relations manager and team a declaration strategy that is most suitable for them at the moment.

No one will say at this time that as long as the performance is strong enough and as long as there is enough strength, it doesn't matter what you report.

The final destination of the awards season is the Oscars, and the Oscars have never been an award that claims to produce award results with absolute fairness.

Every year, the actor's qualifications, the theme of the work, the breakthrough of the role, the theme of social environment concern, whether the public relations strategy hit the hearts of the current academy members, or how strong the competitiveness of other nominees is, these all affect your choice, especially the result.

For example, several seed players who declared Best Actor this year, everyone counts heads, if Lu Yan He, who has hope of getting a nomination, turns to declare Best Supporting Actor, that is equivalent to one less competitor, which also means that the actors in the second echelon of the priority sequence have one more quota to compete, which may make the possibility of this batch of people reporting Best Actor greater.

Lu Yan He smiled at Darren Wilson.

"I'm actually fine, whether it's Best Actor or Best Supporting Actor, both are fine."

Darren Wilson asked: "Haven't made a decision yet?"

"No," Lu Yan He shook his head, "This is not something I can decide alone."

Darren Wilson nodded and said: "This year, among the clients in my hands, only one person is going to impact Best Supporting Actress, there is no competitive relationship with you, don't worry."

Lu Yan He: "Darren, do you think I have hope of getting my first Oscar nomination this year?"

Darren Wilson said: "Of course, since you won the award at Xitu'er, you have been one of the people with the highest calls this year, especially several Asian directors and actors in Hollywood, they have mentioned your achievements as a young generation actor and your contribution to this industry on various occasions."

Lu Yan He: "Then would you suggest I spend more time during the awards season this year?"

"That's right," Darren Wilson nodded, "Especially in January and February next year, your energy should be completely put on this."

Lu Yan He: "This is really a thing that consumes too much energy."

"All actors say so, but this is the rule of the game," Darren Wilson shrugged his shoulders, "Except for a very few people, they never follow the rules of the game and are still favored, most people must constantly publicize, strengthen, and consolidate their momentum through interviews, cocktail parties, program recordings, and promotional trips."

This is indeed a game where you don't know the result until the last moment.

In parallel time and space, in the latest Oscar, Nicole Kidman and Angelina Jolie were originally seed players in the first echelon.

However, after the Golden Globe Awards and the Screen Actors Guild Awards came out, they both suffered Waterloo, and finally, they both lost their nominations and ended early.

And at the Golden Globe Awards, the Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres, who was originally regarded as a filler by everyone, won the award unexpectedly, was born in the sky, and finally really rushed into the nomination list.

And many people are saying that Mikey Madison won the award unexpectedly this year, in fact, before Demi Moore's Golden Globe award acceptance speech, the volume of both sides in the media was basically equal. Especially after Demi Moore won the Golden Globe and the momentum rose, Mikey Madison suddenly won an award at the British Academy Film Awards, one of the four major wind vanes (the judges of the two overlap a lot), leaving the suspense to the last moment.

If Lu Yan He doesn't run the awards season himself, it's really hard to say what kind of result he can get.

For many academy members, if you don't come to the awards season, it's probably that you are not interested in winning an award, then OK, we won't consider you.

Even, there are many academy members who actually don't finish watching the nominated movies at all.

Sometimes, it's really whoever has the biggest momentum, and the votes are given to whoever.

Lu Yan He hesitated for a long time and decided to discuss with Bai Jingnian and Hu Siwei to advance the filming of *Friends* this year.

There is no way to film like before.

He has to free up time.

Bai Jingnian also understood very well.

He said: "Then we strive to start filming in November this year and finish filming in a month."

"Still rehearsing?" Hu Siwei asked.

Lu Yan He said: "Can you try to keep the rehearsal time?"

Hu Siwei: "I'll arrange it, try to adjust."

The news that *Friends* is going to be filmed in advance spread like wildfire.

Filming *Friends* until now, the filming time and arrangements for each year have basically remained in the time period of "late November to early February" for several years.

This year, suddenly wanting to film in advance made everyone a bit curious, why is this.

With the premiere of *Tropical Rain* held in New York, everyone suddenly realized.

This year Lu Yan He is going to impact the North American awards season.

The scale of the premiere of *Tropical Rain* is not large.

Green Valley doing this is mainly for the awards season rather than box office considerations.

Of course, the awards season is also for the box office.

*Tropical Rain* is about to start small-scale screening.

Starting from 5 theaters.

Lu Yan He invited Jiang Yuqian, Jiang Jun, Li Zhibai, Yan Liang, and Wen Minglan to the premiere.

These five people are also Chinese actors who have already or are about to film movies in Hollywood.

For Hollywood, they are all outsiders.

This is not a place where "foreign monks are good at chanting scriptures," so when there is an opportunity for them to be exposed in the North American mainstream media and have the opportunity to contact and communicate with people in Hollywood, Lu Yan He will invite them.

Caina also got the invitation letter.

It's just that because Chen Ziyan arranged for her to record a domestic CCTV program, the time happened to collide, so Caina couldn't come.

Although she couldn't come, she still posted the invitation letter on her social media, expressing regret, and asked her fans to support *Tropical Rain*.

Human feelings, grasped.

Sometimes, one has to say one thing, the so-called fate between people.

Caina is definitely not the most familiar foreign actor with him, but she is the one who got the most resources from him.

And this is not because Lu Yan He likes her so much and wants to support her so much, but because every time he needs such a person, she appears in time.

Caina is now the Thai actor with the highest popularity and the best mix in China. This is definitely not only related to her signing with Fire-Picking, but also because she is very good at being a person and very good at being a star.

This is "being a person" and "being a star" in the literal sense.

Under Chen Ziyan's arrangement, Caina's every appearance and every job in China follows the "national popularity" route.

It's not to say that Caina already has national popularity in China, but that Caina's every appearance is on the occasion where "national popularity" is very large, and she takes the "international friendly artist" route.

Popularity is brushed up bit by bit, and heat is also brushed up bit by bit.

And the image Caina usually shows is a girl with a very heavy neighborly feeling, not the image of a female star who is aggressive.

This makes her audience popularity in China better and better.

Resources like CCTV programs were also successfully connected in the end.

And she herself is good at being a person, which can be seen from the fact that she didn't attend this time and specially helped *Tropical Rain* with publicity on social media.

The premiere of *Tropical Rain*, besides those invited by Lu Yan He, Green Valley Film Company also invited several stars to join in the fun.

Of course, in the United States, the premiere of a movie is different from the advance screening of a movie in China today.

In the United States, after the movie premiere, the main release is the evaluation of various media, making the first wave of evaluation.

Some movies, media word-of-mouth collapsed directly, such as *Captain America 4*.

Some movies rely on the good word-of-mouth accumulated in the first wave to make the distribution company more confident to do a larger-scale distribution plan.

And in the country, there are very few premieres, but they are replaced by some special "star field viewing." Some star friends attended, gave some positive evaluations after watching the movie, and then the publicity side of the movie edited them into slices as publicity materials and put them on the internet for publicity.

Two modes, the former has been running for many years and is still continuing; the latter has not appeared for a few years, and now it seems to have started to be unable to continue. To put it bluntly, the former is generally true, the audience found that in most cases, they can believe their evaluation. The latter has become "human feelings," the audience was "cheated" into the cinema again and again, then disappointed, and then no longer believed in these "support-style" publicity of friend fields.

Lu Yan He is not worried about the media word-of-mouth of *Tropical Rain*.

Because this movie has already accepted a round of media judgment in Xitu'er.

*Tropical Rain* is a movie with a low viewing threshold, it is fresh, simple, has an introverted emotional expression method that is completely different from European and American movies, but its theme is common worldwide.

What Lu Yan He wants to know is what kind of evaluation American media will give to his performance in this movie.

What kind of view they have on his impact on the Oscars this year.

The early predictions and calls are just a beginning after all.

Went out to do many things today, too tired, not in good state, update more tomorrow. (End of chapter)