Chapter 226: I don't like the way she looks at you

On April 18, 2004, the 57th Cannes Film Festival officially announced the shortlist for each unit.

Pure commercial films like "The Foreign Land" were screened as non-competition units at this Cannes.

The jury led by Quentin unanimously decided to select the Chinese-US co-production "The Foreign Land," directed by Chinese director Lu Kuan, as the opening film of this year's film festival.

The most glamorous and eye-catching part of the opening ceremony is the red carpet where everyone competes for beauty, which will attract a lot of audiences and reporters.

Just taking advantage of this east wind to increase the media exposure of "The Foreign Land."

A week ago, Old Mouzi found Boss Lu and asked him to contact Quentin to allow "House of Flying Daggers" to delay delivery.

Zhang Ziyi's surgery in Barcelona was very successful. From October last year to May this year, "House of Flying Daggers" was finally completed without any danger.

In order to welcome this east wind of hype and warm-up, the official blog of Inquiry Realm and the official website of "The Foreign Land" carried out interaction:

In order to give back to the support of the crew and the film by domestic and foreign audiences, everyone is invited to leave messages and forward the promotional copy of "The Foreign Land."

The official will draw 20 lucky audiences from two channels to follow the crew to Cannes to participate in the screening, providing the entire food, accommodation, and transportation expenses.

Such a lottery is also being carried out on the official websites and distributor websites of different countries.

At the same time, 2000 lucky audiences will be drawn to give tickets, and free viewing will be allowed after the premiere of "The Foreign Land" in China.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves. Sci-fi enthusiasts, Lu Kuan film fans, and Liu Yifei fans who were crazy about this blockbuster before started forwarding and leaving messages one after another, spontaneously recommending the film.

Being able to travel abroad for free is too attractive to the general public during this period.

At the same time, in order to cooperate with the advertising marketing of the Asian market, Lionsgate and Miramax started carpet bombing on the North American official and controlled screens.

The electronic screens at the entrance of more than 700 cinema halls in the US started the loop playback of trailers, posters were everywhere, and press releases from Little Li and Tom Cruise appeared once every three or five days.

This loop broadcast of the electronic screen was specifically requested by Lu Kuan, absorbing the advertising dissemination experience of domestic Focus Media, and looping the wonderful fighting scenes, sci-fi plots, and ferocious monsters in "The Foreign Land" regardless of the time period.

Even including some trailers controlled by the two companies, the audiences watching the film were full of expectations early on.

April 20, Liu Yifei's residence in Changping.

"How about this one?"

"No."

"How about this one?"

Yang Siwei supported her forehead: "Can you find something decent?"

Liu Yifei was helpless: "No, I went to Venice with 'Drummer' the year before last, and Lu Kuan helped me find Sister Mei's exclusive designer to get the clothes."

Yang Siwei frowned and didn't speak. In the year or two since entering the industry, she had accumulated some connections, but the resources of the fashion circle were too scarce.

As mentioned before, there are very few people in the domestic entertainment industry who can have keen eyes to seize and pay attention to fashion resources.

Perhaps only Bingbing, who has been irrigated by Boss Lu... no, enlightened, counts as one.

The cover of "Harper's Bazaar," fashion blockbusters filmed abroad, and occasionally leaked photos of watching shows.

Step by step, she is building her own persona.

Liu Yifei laughed: "Don't worry, if you have trouble with foreign affairs, find Lu Kuan."

Her scenes in the first four episodes of "Zhu Xian" were finished. Counting with her fingers, it had been almost a month since she saw him!

Boss Lu received a call in the study. The script of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" had been completed after several times, and he was perfecting the storyboards and storyboards.

"Hmm?"

"When are we going to France?"

"Two days in advance, around May 10."

Liu Yifei said "Oh," and then playfully said: "I have no clothes to wear, take me to buy clothes!"

"What the hell?"

"Cannes red carpet! I don't have suitable clothes!"

"Let Yang Siwei find one for you at Rose Workshop. In Beiping now, only Guo Pei is decent."

Liu Yifei's status in the domestic entertainment industry can be considered to have basically stepped into the first line, but high-end brands like Dior are definitely not reachable yet.

"You take me, her vision is not as good as yours. Don't you say that directors are the most knowledgeable about aesthetics?"

Yang Siwei looked at her coldly.

Liu Yifei, isn't it a bit presumptuous for you to say this?

You can also mention vision to me? You dress like a village girl every day, and you won't listen no matter how you persuade!

"No time!"

"No, if you don't have time, make time, otherwise I will wear a T-shirt on the red carpet. Anyway, it's the crew of 'The Foreign Land' that loses face!"

"Also, I don't want to work if I'm unhappy, I..."

"Stop, stop, take Yang Siwei with you, go directly to Rose Workshop, and meet there."

Liu Yifei covered her mouth and chuckled: "Okay! Feeling much better!"

Rose Workshop is in Sengen International, Chaoyang District. When Boss Lu walked over leisurely smoking, Liu Yifei was already waiting at the door with black sunglasses for a while.

"Do you have any gentleman spirit? Still late!"

Boss Lu glanced at her speechlessly, becoming more and more presumptuous.

If he wasn't really afraid that she would be like Gao Yuanyuan in the future, carrying a double-shoulder bag to walk the red carpet, causing the premiere of "The Foreign Land" to suffer, he wouldn't bother to run this trip.

Yang Siwei knew how to speak: "Hard work, Boss Lu, sorry to trouble you to give Xixi some reference. We know too little about international film festivals."

Liu Yifei wondered: "I just went in and turned around, it seems to be customized."

"Otherwise?"

"Going to the film festival once a year, borrowing a set is enough, save money."

Boss Lu thought to himself that you are truly worthy of being a female loser, and your understanding of yourself is quite clear.

However, this girl's aesthetics and fashion sense need to be cultivated, too casual.

It is the norm for female stars to borrow clothes, because a high-end piece costs hundreds of thousands and can only be worn once, and the fashion trends change every year.

So many female stars borrow clothes for cost-effectiveness, but this is not borrowed casually, there must be someone!

"Who are you borrowing from, who do you know?"

Boss Lu gave her a lesson: "There are several situations for female stars to borrow clothes, either you have a familiar designer."

For example, Liu Shishi and designer Lan Yu in the future, Chun Ge and Wang Daren.

"Or go directly to the public relations promotion department of top brands, but your status is not enough now, they won't pay attention to you."

"Or borrow from the editor-in-chief of fashion magazines. If you can't find good goods today, go to Su Mang."

Liu Yifei was not unhappy when he said her status was not enough, just felt it was so troublesome!

It is more comfortable to just put on something casually and go out.

"It doesn't matter if you pay attention to it before, 'The Foreign Land' will take you to appear in the international vision frequently, so you must pay attention to it."

Lu Kuan continued to popularize science while taking them inside.

"Female stars wearing dresses have two big taboos. First, they would rather dress plainly, never copycat."

Liu Yifei and Yang Siwei wondered: "What is copycat."

Slipped again.

"It is fake and shoddy, just find a designer or studio to copy the design and style of the first line."

"If you are discovered by top brands for opportunism, the whole fashion circle will draw a line with you, and it will be difficult to take top endorsements in the fashion circle in the future."

"Second, don't bump into clothes, especially with people whose status is lower than yours or whose figure is better than yours. Either lower your status, or make you look very unsuitable for this dress."

Liu Yifei nodded thoughtfully, lowered her head and evaluated whether she counted as having a good figure...

While the few were talking, Guo Pei's assistant greeted them: "Director Lu, Teacher Guo is waiting for you in the design room."

"Okay, thank you."

Guo Pei was communicating the plan with the second assistant while wearing glasses. Seeing Lu Kuan and the others walk in, she smiled and stepped forward to shake hands.

"Director Lu, Yifei, welcome."

Boss Lu called her when he came, but picking clothes still requires the person to be present to measure physical data in detail.

Picking the best from the short, there are many points criticized by Guo Pei in the fashion industry in the future, such as plagiarism, such as mindless element stacking.

However, in the current domestic fashion desert situation, it is really impossible to find a designer more suitable than her for a while.

Guo Pei is the earliest person in China to eat the bowl of clothing customization. She has designed dresses for the hosts of the Spring Festival Gala for ten consecutive years, belonging to the exclusive use of CCTV and major song and dance troupes.

Her most out-of-the-circle work in the future is the "Golden Fried Egg" at the 2015 Met Ball.

Met Ball, full name New York Metropolitan Museum of Art Charity Ball, known as the Oscars of the fashion industry. The one wearing Guo Pei's egg pancake at that time was Rihanna...

Bingbing's dress at Cannes last time was also designed by Guo Pei. This time it was too late to find a foreign designer for Liu Yifei, so she could only make do with it.

Liu Yifei and others were new here. Guo Pei and her assistant took them to visit the Rose Workshop headquarters.

The first floor is a magnificent reception hall, displaying exquisite high-end custom clothing;

The second floor is a fitting room with different styles, providing a pleasant fitting place for guests of different nationalities and styles;

The third and fourth floors really shocked the "Granny Liu" Xiao Liu.

More than 20 senior designers, professional tailors, embroiderers, and pattern makers cooperated closely and were rushing to make a rose-red floor-length dress.

"Granny Liu" entered the Grand View Garden, it belongs to.

The few sat down in Guo Pei's office, and the latter prepared to measure Liu Yifei's figure data herself.

"Director Lu, you..."

"Oh oh, you measure first, I'll go smoke a cigarette."

So familiar, and so polite, really.

The precision of custom clothing is extremely high. Guo Pei asked Liu Yifei to go to the fitting room and remove excess clothing other than underwear.

"Wow, Yifei, the figure is very good!"

Guo Pei is not flattering. The good she said is not the kind of good with a protruding front and back, but the healthy beauty highlighted by her long-term exercise.

Xiao Liu was slightly embarrassed: "Sister Guo, is my figure... too flat, not good for wearing clothes?"

"Of course not! Big breasts are not good for wearing clothes. Look at those supermodels, which one is not flat-chested?"

Xiao Liu pursed her lips and didn't speak again.

You comforted very well, don't comfort next time.

When Yang Siwei greeted Boss Lu to come in, Guo Pei had already found seven or eight pattern diagrams for the few to choose from.

It's just that in the eyes of Boss Lu, who has browsed the classic designs of the future...

It's really average.

"How about this one?"

Liu Yifei looked at this excitedly, touched that: "This one is also not bad, I have fair skin, it should look very good to wear, right?"

"Lu Kuan? Asking you!"

"Ah?"

Boss Lu was stunned for a moment, and said to Guo Pei: "Teacher Guo, is there any Chinese style? After all, Xiao Liu is going to represent the co-production crew to walk the red carpet."

"This is also a good opportunity for us to convey Chinese fashion to the international stage."

Guo Pei pondered for a few seconds and said embarrassedly: "Currently, there are a few open-chested cheongsam designs that are quite trendy, but Yifei wearing them doesn't fit her age, it will look old."

Lu Kuan nodded, and couldn't help sighing in his heart.

The domestic fashion desert is really damn it.

It wasn't until 2015 that Wintour, the editor-in-chief of "Vogue," visited China.

After visiting top domestic designers such as Guo Pei and Ma Ke, she bluntly said that she did not see Chinese fashion design connecting with the international community, which made her feel very regretful.

This Wintour is the prototype of the poisonous tongue "Devil Wears Prada" in "The Devil Wears Prada."

The truth is hard to hear. Due to the lack of fashion culture, there are indeed no designers and classic series that can be taken out in China.

The key is that we have thousands of years of cultural treasures and aesthetic treasures, but no designer can fully explore Chinese elements, just deliberately stacking them.

Boss Lu thought for a while and decided to copy a design for Xiao Liu to wear in advance.

"Teacher Guo, if you don't mind, I have a design idea, see if I can provide some reference."

Guo Pei was not very willing in her heart. She recognized and admired Lu Kuan's directing talent, but he was showing off his skills in clothing design in front of her.

Isn't this contempt for her!

However, Boss Lu's momentum is booming in China now, and he is a prince in the entertainment industry. Guo Pei is also unwilling to offend him.

Forget it, if you want to show ugliness, show it.

"Boss Lu, give."

Boss Lu saw the unnaturalness of her face, and immediately didn't make a sound, took the design board and started sketching and painting.

Liu Yifei has seen Boss Lu bluffing people, seen him blowing cowhide, seen him filming and teaching people to perform.

Does he still have this talent?

The little girl couldn't help but be curious, leaned over to look.

As mentioned in the previous article, a considerable number of directors have deep art foundations, at least in hand-painting.

Because directors need to have strong visual imagination and expression ability in the process of creating movies.

How does Lu Kuan convey his lens design intent to Cao Yu, or Zhao Fei now?

Through his own hand-drawn storyboard scripts.

Like domestic Xiao Gang Pao, he was originally an art worker. People look a bit ugly, but the work in his hands is really not bad.

Old Mouzi's storyboard script is also very exquisite.

The most out-of-the-circle is Tsui Hark. Whether it was the Hong Kong film period or the later period of moving north to film, he often drew a sketch of a comic book collection.

This is a storyboard scene sketch he drew in "Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame."

The worse ones are those who switched halfway, such as the "stick figure" of Jiang Wen in "Let the Bullets Fly."

Liu Yifei leaned over and looked carefully, a strand of hair teased Boss Lu to be a bit restless, and the girl's fragrance came from the tip of his nose.

He wrote and painted, and soon sketched a work from the future that still remained in his memory.

This is Armani's 2015 spring and summer high-end customization, Oriental Bamboo Rhyme.

Time is a bit long, and Lu Kuan is not a professional, just drawing a rough idea.

Seeing Guo Pei's face change drastically and thinking intently, Liu Yifei also curiously glanced at Lu Kuan. She didn't see how amazing this was.

"Director Lu, can you talk about your philosophy?"

"Open-breasted silk top, paired with loose and elegant high-waisted wide-leg pants, plus tassel earrings, and the characteristic of green bamboo climbing step by step as a metaphor for each other..."

Guo Pei heard him talk about a lot of things, and her doubts were even greater!

Because the superiority and novelty of his philosophy formed a sharp contrast with the amateurishness of his drawing.

Generally speaking, clothing design is divided into effect drawings and plane structure drawings.

Effect drawings are what models look like on their bodies. Designers put effect drawings on magazines and promotional posters.

But the internal structure drawings used for clothing making are structure drawings.

Structure drawings include decorative line cutting and structure lines of each key part. Tailors and personnel in different processes know how to make this dress at a glance.

This Director Lu spoke very professionally, including the design philosophy of this bamboo rhyme is also surprisingly imaginative, but...

But the work on hand is too rough, not like a professional designer at all.

Guo Pei hesitated. She could indeed design and make clothes according to Lu Kuan's requirements, but what if he plagiarized?

Her reputation in the fashion circle would stink!

Guo Pei continued to test: "Director Lu, where did your ideas and inspiration come from?"

She actually really wanted to ask if you were plagiarizing.

Boss Lu has always had a shortcut in bluffing: "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."

"The image of bamboo in this movie brought a strong visual and cultural impact to North American audiences."

"To do Chinese-style design, you must understand Chinese culture, philosophy, and aesthetics, and Bamboo Rhyme expresses the harmony between man and nature in traditional culture..."

Thinking of Guo Pei's "egg pancake" dragon robe, Boss Lu pointed out maliciously: "I don't like vulgarizing things like dragons, phoenixes, and peonies on clothes. These are skins, appearances, and cannot interpret the beauty and grandeur of our traditional culture!"

Guo Pei just wanted to speak out to defend something, but fell into deep thought together with the assistant beside her.

What a stick!

Only the witty Xiao Liu rolled her eyes secretly on the side.

She doesn't understand design, doesn't understand fashion, but she understands Lu Kuan!

This is obviously bluffing another one.

For a long time, I saw Guo Pei smoothing a wrinkle on the manuscript paper like a treasure.

"Director Lu, in fact, you can develop in the fashion circle. As a director, your aesthetic accomplishment is of course very high, and this design fully reflects your deep exploration of traditional culture..."

Boss Lu thought to himself that I remember there are many scripts that can be copied, but there are really not many clothing designs.

He said lightly: "In this era, the discourse power of movies is in the hands of Hollywood and the three major European festivals, but the discourse power of the fashion circle is also decided by the US and France. The difficulty is the same."

"Teacher Guo, before May 10, can we get the clothes?"

"No problem, we will give the finished clothes at the end of April, and then invite Miss Yifei to try them on and modify them."

"Okay, then say goodbye today."

Liu Yifei followed Lu Kuan out of the gate of Rose Workshop happily.

"Xiao Lu, you are really useful, how can you do everything?"

Boss Lu looked up and down at her dress today.

Since you are here, it is better to point out a few more words to her, including Yang Siwei.

Liu Yifei was hairy by his look, and her hands circled her chest: "What are you looking at?"

"You wear this dress, you have to pay attention in the future, now paparazzi are everywhere."

Yang Siwei's eyes lit up, today finally has a powerful one who can cure this goods.

"Boss Lu, please give some pointers."

"Xiao Liu's figure, being tall is an advantage, but the body proportion is average, so try to avoid weaknesses."

"In addition, you have a bit of sloping shoulders. When exercising, do more dumbbell side raises and practice deltoids."

"People with sloping shoulders are best to wear larger ancient-style clothes, and modern styles just choose those with shoulders."

Boss Lu's sight moved down, and pointed to her legs again.

"You must pay attention to stretching after exercising to make your calves more slender."

"For example, you wear these jeans today, it is best to wear straight-leg, high-waisted ones, so that you can highlight the proportion of your long legs."

Liu Yifei looked at him with bad face, but if he dared to say a word that her legs were thick, he would look good.

Everyone says I am a fairy sister, why do you pick thorns every day!

French local time May 10, 2004, "The Foreign Land" crew arrived in Cannes.

Chinese actors and staff rushed from Beiping, and Tom Cruise and Leonardo and others would arrive on the opening day to help "The Foreign Land" as the premiere film.

Due to the deterioration of the US-Iraq situation, Cannes, which is full of stars, once again encountered the same terrorist threat as last year.

Of course, there is also the eternal strike.

For example, Lu Kuan, Liu Yifei and others who just walked out of the airport and were blocked on the road to the hotel.

One hundred thousand whys started to wonder again: "Why are they on strike?"

"These are all French entertainment industry workers, dissatisfied with the authorities' unemployment relief policy."

The strike battle in 2004 was particularly large, directly killing from the Film Palace to the airport.

The biggest impact caused is that the film copies of various crews air-freighted to Paris cannot be pulled to Cannes again.

The very famous "2046" by Wong Kar-wai arrived late in Cannes, which was also affected by the strike to a certain extent.

Liu Yifei stretched her neck and looked into the distance: "Fortunately, the front started to evacuate."

But when the crew's motorcade really moved slowly to the intersection, they found that it was even more chaotic here.

Liu Xiaoli suddenly exclaimed: "Xixi, be careful!"

The side of the car body sounded loudly. It turned out that a riot police officer pushed the protesters and smashed it on the left rear door.

Liu Yifei was startled: "It's still better in China, this is too free!"

Leung Ka-fai comforted: "Just get used to it, Hong Kong often has parades, it's okay."

"But this year seems to be particularly serious, Director Lu?"

Boss Lu laughed: "The US-Iraq situation is tense, and the police force has also increased this year. Look at those anti-riot vehicles over there, even high-magnification telescopes are installed."

Used to the order of China, I am still quite uneasy about such a disordered state, and have no sense of security.

During this Cannes Film Festival, there are 5000 media, 8000 film companies, and 1400 screening sessions.

Coupled with lively travelers, French special arms: pickpockets, are very lively from Paris to Cannes.

However, Boss Lu, who cherishes his life, brought Afei, and the security after checking into a high-end hotel can be considered safe.

Moving forward with difficulty, finally arrived at the residence. Liu Xiaoli was dizzy because of jet lag, so Liu Yifei went downstairs to eat with the crew by herself.

"Lu Kuan, shall we go shopping?"

Boss Lu was eating and drinking in the restaurant: "Aren't you eating?"

Liu Yifei stuck out her tongue awkwardly: "The dress designed by Guo Pei is a bit tight... I gained a little bit of weight in the past half month."

"I have to pay attention to these two days, otherwise wearing that bamboo rhyme style... will be ugly."

Boss Lu made up for the appearance of 3x version Liu Yifei wearing bamboo rhyme dress in his mind.

"Well, it was originally bamboo, you wore it and became a zongzi, hahaha!"

The little girl was so angry that she took a fork and pretended to throw it. Boss Lu apologized and admitted his mistake very interestingly.

"Let's go, walk around twice and come back, I have to write the script."

From the main entrance of the Film Palace, there is a wide avenue, which is the most famous Cross Avenue in Cannes.

The sunset falls, leaning on the beauty of the sunset, and the two sides of the road are planted with uneven palm trees.

On the left side of the Cross Avenue is the high-end hotel where Lu Kuan and others stayed, and on the right is the famous Palm Beach.

Liu Yifei sighed: "It's really good here, no one recognizes me, I can do whatever I want freely."

Lu Kuan didn't know if she thought of the great escape on the night of Valentine's Day watching a movie.

The sky was getting dark, and the two walked to the entrance of the Martinez Hotel. In the small dark alley next to it, several smokers suddenly waved to him.

"Sir, do you have a lighter?"

Lu Kuan touched his pocket, only to remember that it had been emptied before getting on the plane, so he said sorry from afar.

It was only recognized who this was in the flickering light.

"Do you recognize her?"

Liu Yifei looked at Lu Kuan staring at the foreign woman with a cigarette in her hand strangely.

"Truffaut's mistress, Fanny Ardant."

"That big director?"

"Hmm, in the whole world, even in the history of cinema, can be ranked in the top five big directors."

Truffaut is the leader of the French New Wave, taking the lead in challenging traditional narrative modes, and also has a great influence on domestic directors.

Whether the film movement he initiated is right or wrong, the Fifth and Sixth Generations in China have really embarked on the road of giving up storytelling and specializing in art films.

But in fact, Truffaut's ability to tell stories is very strong, maybe domestic directors learned it crookedly.

Liu Yifei curled her lips: "Is she a mistress? Are all directors in your virtue?"

Boss Lu looked at her speechlessly: "If you can speak, say more!"

"Director, Yifei, is it you?"

Boss Lu tilted his head and looked, Zhang Ziyi walked towards them with a smile.

"Ziyi, I haven't had time to see you, you are much better, right?"

"Basically nothing, just pay attention to quiet cultivation at ordinary times."

Zhang Ziyi didn't seem to be affected by the small friction of the "The Foreign Land" crew at the beginning, and greeted the two with a smile.

Boss Lu looked around, and wanted to find if there was Old Mouzi's figure with bad taste.

Maybe it is also a model of our generation?

Zhang Ziyi came to Cannes last year because of "Purple Butterfly," and this year she was shortlisted again because of "House of Flying Daggers" and Wong Kar-wai's "2046."

If it weren't for the mistake in "The Foreign Land," she would really have become International Zhang.

One person represents three films.

"Yifei, I watched the trailer, the performance is very great."

Zhang Ziyi looked lucky: "Fortunately, you are there, otherwise my sin would be great."

Zhang Ziyi, who is determined to enter Hollywood, repeating and surpassing her predecessor Gong Li, is trying her best to release kindness in front of Boss Lu.

This might be able to make up for the trouble she poked, and save some image in front of this promising young director?

Liu Yifei waved her hand: "Sister Ziyi, the director said that the gap between me and you is still very large, and I want me to learn from you."

"Where, where."

Zhang Ziyi talked to Liu Yifei, and then turned to Lu Kuan.

"Director, will you go to the Hong Kong Night tomorrow night?"

Zhang Ziyi's exquisite makeup was shadowed under the dim street lamp, and she looked up at him with expectation.

Hong Kong Night is a promotion meeting held by the Hong Kong government in Cannes in conjunction with several film companies, famous directors, and actors.

Hong Kong Trade Development Council officials introduce Hong Kong films to film celebrities and investors from various countries attending the meeting, saving the increasingly declining Hong Kong film industry.

"Hmm, the crew received the invitation letter, they are all compatriots, and they must support when they go out."

In fact, he has another important purpose, to contact a candidate for the heroine in his new film.

Zhang Ziyi showed a cheerful expression. With her acting skills, she could not have been so excessive. She wanted to do it intentionally.

Men, generally have the spiritual need to be worshipped, she feels she understands very well.

"That's fine, Director, Yifei, see you tomorrow."

The three said goodbye, Zhang Ziyi walked a few steps, and looked back at the figures of the two stretched under the street lamp, her heart full of desire for female competition.

If only this little girl wasn't there, maybe tonight...

Zhang Ziyi is 25 years old this year, which is the prime of female stars. Whether in career or love, her ambition and vision have long surpassed the few flower girls of the same segment.

Mou girl is of course very good, but she also wants to be Lu girl, even...

Why can't she learn from her predecessor Gong Li and turn the director into her boyfriend?

Or learn from Zhang Manyu, who has the highest voice for Cannes actress this year, and find a partner who can push herself to the pinnacle of honor?

The two continued to walk aimlessly, but this intentional or unintentional "encounter" by Zhang Ziyi made her happy mood slightly reduced.

"How high is Zhang Ziyi's actual salary?"

Lu Kuan glanced at him, feeling a bit surprised.

Liu Yifei has had a superior family background since she was a child and has never cared about money. Why did she suddenly ask about other people's salary?

"3 million USD in China, if you want to film Hollywood movies, you have to lower it."

Zhang Ziyi will have a status and salary upgrade after "Memoirs of a Geisha," but she only received 500,000 USD in Memoirs of a Geisha.

"Why did you suddenly care about this question?"

Liu Yifei pursed her lips and didn't speak.

Because I don't like the way she looked at you unscrupulously just now, as if she didn't exist.

I will surpass her one day!

Boss Lu's phone suddenly rang, it was Harvey calling.

"Hello?"

"Lu, where are you, do you want to have a drink? Quentin and I are both there."

Boss Lu glanced at the curious Liu Yifei calmly: "No, I want to draw storyboards."

"Lu! Come here quickly, I have good news to tell you."

The sound of wolf friend Quentin's smug laughter came from the microphone, as if it were a secret signal, listening to Boss Lu a bit eager to move.

After hanging up the phone, Lu Kuan said to Liu Yifei: "Go back? Is this amount of exercise enough for you to lose weight?"

Liu Yifei looked suspicious: "Do you want to find Harvey?"

"Why am I looking for him? He and Quentin are not good birds, we are limited to working relationships!"

Xiao Liu was half-believing, but had no position to continue questioning him, and followed him back to the Carlton Hotel reluctantly.

Boss Lu stayed in the room for two minutes before quietly getting off the elevator like a cicada shedding its shell.

Damn, an unmarried man going to drink a few flower wines with wolf friends, actually made it like a thief!

No way, treating Liu Yifei can't be as unscrupulous as before.

Looking at her current stubbornness, what if she really has too deep a prejudice against her own dissolute, what to do if she can't be cheated later.

What if she can't be cheated, can't she really use her power to suppress her and ban her?

Looking at this grandmother's posture of disappearing in the domestic entertainment industry from time to time in the future, she doesn't look like a person who can surrender.

It also delayed my own investment in her in the early stage, delaying making money!

Boss Lu followed the map to the bar private room, inside only Quentin, Harvey and Lionsgate's Jason.

Harvey laughed: "I knew you would come!"

"Where is the person?"

Harvey was stunned and said: "What person?"

"Fuck!"

Boss Lu cursed in his country's language speechlessly, Nima's Arhat bureau?

"Lu, we need to talk about the North American promotion of 'The Foreign Land' together."

Boss Lu looked impatient: "What's the matter that must be talked about tonight?"

Harvey said excitedly: "Scheduling! We got 3500 screens! Isn't this worth celebrating?"

"Worth it, right?"

Quentin laughed: "This time I am the chairman of the jury, many eyes are staring at me, I have to be honest."

"Lu, I'm sorry to give you the wrong hint, haha!"

Jason and Harvey followed with loud laughter, and the private room was full of happy air.

It's just that such happiness didn't last long. Harvey went out to answer a call, and his face changed greatly when he came back.

"Lu, something happened!"

"My people at Disney received intelligence that they want to adjust the schedule of several movies to snipe 'The Foreign Land'."

Lu Kuan was stunned, Harvey continued to explain with a serious expression.

"We originally scheduled for June 16, but Disney suddenly moved 'The Princess Diaries 2' to June 12, and 'Around the World in 80 Days' to June 20!"

The Jewish businessman didn't say much more, Lu Kuan's frowning brows were enough to explain everything.

The North American film market generally has 5 schedules: winter, spring, summer, autumn, and Christmas.

Among them, the summer file is the top priority.

Similar to domestic, schools are on holiday, and the adolescent audience group has surged.

With the developed film culture in North America, this is a crowd that must be fought for all kinds of age-appropriate commercial blockbusters.

Of course, also because blockbusters are crowded, the competition in the summer file is the most tragic, the same meaning as the domestic New Year file.

Starting from June.

June 4 has the giant "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," its super popularity will cause siphon to other competing products within a week of release;

Followed by "The Chronicles of Riddick," "Garfield" starting after June 10, and blockbusters such as "The Stepford Wives" around the end of the month.

"Lu, Disney put Anne Hathaway's 'The Princess Diaries' series and your Chinese Jackie Chan's 'Around the World' before and after our schedule, wanting to snipe us!"

Lu Kuan pondered: "'The Princess Diaries 2' is a sequel to the series, the audience is fixed, 'The Chronicles of Riddick' has the same theme as us, neither is suitable to touch."

Harvey couldn't believe it: "Do you want to postpone? Jackie's 'Around the World' is also a terrible opponent, and there is Nicole Kidman's 'The Stepford Wives,' which is also a sci-fi film."

Quentin also advised: "Lu, Jackie's 'Around the World' is an adaptation of Verne's classic novel, plus his martial arts, not a weak opponent."

Lu Kuan sneered in his heart, why can he always encounter movies that go against Old Dragon...

At the beginning, "Drummer" was a bet with his "The Medallion" for hype and publicity, and the latter flopped.

It's just that later Boss Lu and Emperor Motion Pictures had a good relationship, and didn't mention this matter again.

Now the two of them happened to be working in Hollywood again!

It's just that...

Jackie Chan's "Around the World in 80 Days" is even more earth-shattering and weeping.

Total investment of 110 million USD, the first week box office in North America was only 6.8 million USD, and the final North American market data was 24 million.

Jackie Chan also completely ended his career in Hollywood because of this film, and has since been at ease moving north to develop.

Thinking of this, Boss Lu gave Quentin and Harvey a weird smile, making Lionsgate's Jason feel cold on the back of his neck.

"Harvey, Jason, postpone directly to June 20, avoiding the strongest 'Harry Potter' at the beginning of the month, I don't think any other movie is our opponent."

Harvey and Jason saw his firm attitude and didn't persuade him again.

Harvey thought gloomily in his heart, is this the answer given by his religious belief?

The next day, Disney took the lead in announcing the advancement of the two films. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is a lesson for his disobedient younger brother Harvey.

Miramax, as a subsidiary of Disney, has a subtle relationship, but Harvey is already planning to break away completely.

Followed by the schedule change announcement released by Lionsgate on the official website, which will be officially released on June 20.

I hope to offer a wonderful summer blockbuster drama for the audience together with Disney's "Around the World in 80 Days."

This is a binding hype authorized by Boss Lu, and arranged for the media to start releasing soft articles with the gimmick of "'The Foreign Land' vs 'Around the World', Chinese newcomer director vs Chinese kung fu superstar."

Say a thousand and ten thousand, Jackie Chan's fame in Hollywood at this time is definitely much greater than Boss Lu.

Lu Kuan only said sorry to Old Dragon in his heart. This battle is his standing battle in Hollywood, only climbing up by stepping on your corpse!

It's just that everyone is drunk and he is awake alone. Such a decision is not understood by ally Harvey.

Not to mention the direct mouthpieces of Disney in Hollywood, who kept looking down on the prospects of "The Foreign Land."

After the two companies announced the schedule change, Box, a North American authoritative film prediction agency, announced the box office expectations for "The Foreign Land."

First week 22 million, final 55 million.

According to its prediction, Boss Lu would lose 20 million USD at the box office alone.

Disney's mouthpiece used the few million box office of Lu Kuan's previous "Drummer" in North America as an excuse to belittle and look down on it, claiming that this was a bad film that even Leonardo couldn't save.

And the allies of Lionsgate and Harvey also stared at Jackie Chan, claiming that his previous films were all flops, and Asian Jackie had become box office poison.

Some arguments were passed back to China, naturally attracting the attention and forwarding of interested people.

In 2004, all producers in the domestic film industry stared at this co-production with a total investment of over 600 million, for fear of colliding with themselves.

Now that there are negative opinions from foreign media, all competitors have voiced and expanded in unison.

In this day and age, a considerable number of netizens like to follow the trend, especially the trend abroad.

The black fans accumulated by Boss Lu since he broke up with the Hong Kong little king were manic, rushing back and forth on the Inquiry Realm and Lu Kuan blog homepage.

They have been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, and regardless of whether it is true or false, spray it first.

A lie repeated a thousand times will come true, and the domestic public opinion trend has changed suddenly, developing in a direction unfavorable to "The Foreign Land."

It is really that this movie is too tree-tall and attracts the wind, causing consistent targeting in the industry.

It's just that the Inquiry Realm's partners in China, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia, China Film and Emperor Motion Pictures, are also overlords. With the Inquiry Realm's powerful online and offline resources, the marketing intensity has gradually increased since May.

Regardless of whether the chaotic public opinion is praise or criticism, whether it is the main battlefield Blog Network or other popular internet forums;

Whether it is the nearly 90% elevator advertising resources controlled by Focus Media, or the cinema trailer advertising under the control of China Film;

All target audiences will receive ruthless trailer bombing until the national premiere in China, which is one month later than North America.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 227 =====