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Chapter 807 Become a judge at the Cannes Film Festival? ([-] updates per day, please subscribe~)

The reaction of the Gambino family was much faster than Wu Jianye imagined. When Wu Jianye was about to leave for France the next day, Esther found Wu Jianye again.

"Wu, my father has agreed to your request and stated that you will always be the best friend of the Gambino family!" Esther Gambino said excitedly.

Wu Jianye looked at Esther's expression and said with a smile: "It seems that I should congratulate you too!"

"Thank you!" Esther said with a smile.

She naturally had reason to be happy. Old Gambino agreed to cooperate with Wu Jianye, which meant that her status in the family would undergo a complete and earth-shaking change. Within the Gambino family, the princess who is simply loved by everyone will be one of the most important people in power in the Gambino family!

Recalling the rich expressions on the faces of her brothers after hearing her father's decision yesterday, she was very satisfied.

"However, in terms of equity, my father still has some ideas, and I hope to have a good chat with you!" Esther said.

Wu Jianye shook his head and said, "Forget it, I'm going to France soon, and the Standard Chartered Bank will come over to negotiate with you!"

Wu Jianye will naturally not participate in the specific negotiations. Since the Gambino family has agreed to their cooperation, the rest can be left to the professional negotiation team of Standard Chartered Bank!

Now Yaoguang, Yiwang, Fengge Media and Phantom Media, Far East Group have their own professional negotiation team, and the people inside are all-inclusive, lawyers, psychologists, negotiation experts, etc., all kinds of people, etc., are working for Your own negotiating team contributes.

After rejecting Esther's invitation, Wu Jianye took his promotional team directly to France to promote "The World of Chu Xing".

France is now a very confused country, and they are clamoring every day that commercial movies destroy the art of movies. They hope to see more pure art movies, not the kind of boring popcorn movies.

But "Jurassic Park", a purely commercial film, had the best box office in France during its release in Europe
The Frenchman's body is still very honest.

But no matter what, the name Wu Jianye now has a very high influence in France, thanks to the fact that every movie of Wu Jianye can hit the G-spot of French audiences!
The French who like romance, saw the love they longed for in "The Love of Ghosts".

Those who like independent movies, "Raise the Red Lantern", "The Last Emperor" and "New Dragon Inn" are all their favorites, especially "The Last Emperor" made French audiences seem to open up a new world. Up to now, French audiences still think "The Last Emperor" is a great personal biographical film!

And "Jurassic Park", which let them say they don't like it but is extremely honest in body, has attracted countless fans of Wu Jianye.

So when Wu Jianye came to Paris, it immediately caused quite a stir.

The box office of the movie "The World of Chu Xing" in France is still higher than that of other European countries. It can be seen that here, Wu Jianye has already formed his own box office appeal.

That night, Wu Jianye led the team to participate in an exclusive interview with a French TV station, and talked freely about his experience in the creative process.

After recording the show, Wu Jianye looked at the tired He Qing, Chen Hong and others, and said with a smile: "I will give you a day off tomorrow, take a good rest, Paris is the capital of fashion, you can take a good look at it here!"

Women are very strange animals. If you tell them to continue working tomorrow, maybe they will show some reluctance because of their physical exhaustion, but if you say let them go shopping tomorrow, then for them, it is equivalent to A piece of red bull came, and it was instantly revived with full blood!

"Really?"

Even He Qing is a little excited. Paris is indeed an international fashion capital, and it is obviously very attractive to He Qing and others.

Chen Hong on the side also looked at Wu Jianye excitedly. Now when it comes to pure financial strength, Chen Hong is definitely the number one female movie star in China. After all, she once had a romantic relationship with Wu Jianye.

I also got the fruits of my own efforts.

Wu Jianye nodded and said, "That's right, I'll give you a holiday tomorrow, and a professional tour guide will come to find you. It's the same sentence, if you encounter any troubles, remember to call!"

"Ok!"

Both of them said very excitedly.

"Wu!" At this time, a powerful voice came from Wu Jianye's side.

Wu Jianye turned around and saw that it was Mr. Jacob from the Cannes Film Festival.

Jacob, who is over 60 years old, is very strong and strong, without a trace of aging.

"Mr. Jacob!" Wu Jianye also smiled and shook hands with Jacob.

Regarding Jacob's arrival, Wu Jianye didn't think much about it. People from the Berlin Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival had already looked for him, so how could the Cannes Film Festival let it go.

When He Qing and the others saw someone coming to see Wu Jianye, they didn't say much, they directly preached to Wu Jianye, and they went back to their room first.

This kind of thing has been seen countless times during this trip to Europe. Now in the eyes of He Qing and others, Wu Jianye's friends seem to be all over the world. No matter where they go, they can See Wu Jianye's friend.

However, He Qing followed Wu Jianye to the Berlin Film Festival after all, and she knows more about the major European film festivals than Chen Hong, so when she saw Jacob, she couldn't help being surprised, Also a little proud.

"Who is this?" Chen Hong asked curiously.

At this time, He Qing is already Wu Jianye's younger sister, and she has no competitiveness with Chen Hong, so Chen Hong has no hostility towards He Qing. What really dissatisfies Chen Hong is that she has been following Wu Jianye all this time. Zhou Huimin next to Ye Ye.

He Qing said with a smile: "This is Mr. Jacob, the film selection director of the Cannes Film Festival. He has a pivotal position in the Cannes Film Festival. This time I came to Angkor, and I must have invited "The World of Chu Xing" to participate in the Cannes Film Festival." !"

Chen Hong said with some envy: "Director Wu is really good. Before the Berlin Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival came to invite Director Wu, and now even the selection director of the Cannes Film Festival has come."

He Qing said: "Actually, I can understand that Angkor has such a great influence now. If the film festival invites Angkor, it will definitely increase their influence. I heard that even if it is the three major film festivals, the relationship between them There is also competition, and everyone wants to make their influence the highest!"

While chatting, the two returned to their room.

At this time, Wu Jianye and Jacob came to the coffee shop of the hotel.

Zhou Huimin has also returned to her room.

"Wu, I believe, you should have already guessed my reason for coming!" Jacob said seriously.

Wu Jianye nodded and said with a smile: "It should be, but Mr. Jacob, I'm sorry, it's not up to me to let the film "The World of Chu Xing" participate in that film festival. There is no way to give you an accurate answer right now!"

This is still the official answer.

Jacob did not show any disappointment because of Wu Jianye's refusal, and said with a smile: "Wu, actually I came here on purpose this time because there is another matter!"

Wu Jianye looked at Jacob with some surprise, and asked, "Anything else?"

Jacob said with a smile: "It's actually like this. I know that Wu will return to China after finishing the promotion in Europe. I believe that I can be sure when I participate in the film festival. If I am If your country decides to send the film "The World of Chu Xing" to other film festivals, on behalf of the Cannes Film Festival, I invite you to participate in the grand film event of the Cannes Film Festival as a judge of the Cannes Film Festival next year Come!"

For Jacob's invitation, Wu Jianye really didn't expect it. He didn't expect that the other party would invite him to be a judge at the Cannes Film Festival!
If Wu Jianye remembered correctly, if he agreed to Jacob's invitation, he would become the first Chinese judge at the Cannes Film Festival!
In fact, later on, many Chinese directors or actors became the judges of the Cannes Film Festival. Wang Shajing once served as the chairman of the jury, but at that time, Wang Shajing made the Cannes Film Festival miserable.
As for domestic directors and actors, there are also many judges at the Cannes Film Festival. Chen Kaige, Gong Li, International Zhang, Jiang Yun, etc. have all served as judges at the Cannes Film Festival.

"Wu, our Cannes Film Festival is very sincere, and I hope you will seriously consider our proposal!" Seeing that Wu Jianye did not speak, Jacob continued to persuade.

In fact, Jacob has no choice. Now the three major European film festivals are staring at Wu Jianye's "The World of Chu Xing", hoping to bring this film to their own film festivals.

Wu Jianye won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival and the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, but he was absent from the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, although he also won the Best Director Award, which symbolizes the highest honor for directors , but it still sounds a little worse in terms of friendship.

Jacob, who is familiar with Chinese culture, also has some understanding of friendship.

Therefore, the Cannes Film Festival does not have any advantage in competing for Wu Jianye's film, so it had to find another way.

Moreover, Wu Jianye has won countless honors, not to mention Wu Jianye as a judge, even if he is the chairman of the jury, it is more than enough. It is a pity that the Cannes Film Festival has already decided on the candidate for the chairman of the jury next year. We must first determine whether Wu Jianye will bring "The World of Chu Xing" to the Cannes Film Festival, so he can only be a judge!
Wu Jianye thought for a while and said, "If I can become a judge at the Cannes Film Festival, I think it will be a very good experience. If I can, I don't think anyone will refuse!"

Jacob smiled and said: "Then we've made a deal, Wu, if your country doesn't send the movie "The World of Chu Xing" to the Cannes Film Festival, then you will be the judge of our Cannes Film Festival Already!"

Wu Jianye smiled: "It's an honor!"

It has been 12 years since he was reborn. Wu Jianye has participated in almost any work in the film, but he has never been a judge of a film festival. It seems to be a good experience to be a judge of the Cannes Film Festival this time.

As for which film festival the film "The World of Chu Xing" participates in, it is not important to Wu Jianye. For him, the European film festivals have lost a great advantage to him.

That is the sale of overseas copyrights!
The three major European film festivals are not only a film awards ceremony, but also a huge film market. Film producers from all over the world will come here to find suitable films and sell them.

If other films want to go out of the country, the film festival is a very good way for film companies around the world to see themselves.

But now that the theaters of Fengge Cinemas and Phantom Pictures have spread all over the world, Wu Jianye's movies no longer need these filmmakers!

At this time, Wu Jianye has already completed his own closed-loop ecological chain of the film industry.

No matter which link has its own company to participate, so the three major film festivals in Europe have lost their biggest attraction to Wu Jianye.

However, it cannot be said that the three major film festivals do not have their usefulness. First of all, the sense of honor they bring must be there. At the same time, if "The World of Chu Xing" wins an award at a certain film festival, it will be of great help to their sales in the video tape market. , there is still some impetus!
After chatting with Jacob for about an hour, he said with a smile: "I heard that Chen's movie has also been filmed and is going to be released in the near future, is that true?"

Wu Jianye knew that Jacob was asking about Chen Kaige's "Farewell My Concubine", and said with a smile, "That's right, this movie has been scheduled to be released in Xiangjiang on January 1 next year!"

Jacob was slightly taken aback, "Why Xiangjiang?"

Wu Jianye chuckled, what can I say, should I tell Jacob that the movie "Farewell My Concubine" does not meet the screening requirements and has not passed the review!

The fate of the movie "Farewell My Concubine" is no different from that of another time and space. After the shooting, Chen Kaige submitted the movie for review, but the result was also unsuccessful.

However, this movie is different from the movie of The Grange, and there is still a glimmer of life, that is, this movie is invested by Xiangjiang Fengge Films, so as long as this movie can participate in the European Film Festival and win the grand prize, it will be With such influence, we can increase capital for domestic releases!
Jacob admired Chen Kaige very much, "Wu, you and Chen are good friends, can I ask you how Chen plans to handle his movie?"

Wu Jianye smiled and said: "Chen Kaige's new movie is participating in the Cannes Film Festival, and I will send you the movie when the time comes!"

Although it is not certain which film festival "The World of Chu Xing" will participate in, Wu Jianye can confirm that "Farewell My Concubine" will participate in that film festival!

As a film invested by Fengge Films, "Farewell My Concubine" does not need to pass China Film to participate in overseas film festivals.

In fact, Wu Jianye in "The World of Chu Xing" can also be determined, but sometimes the benefits must be shared by everyone, so that the benefits can be maximized!

And "The World of Chu Xing" is a great gift from Tangting Culture to China Film Group!
(End of this chapter)