Become famous another day.

In Asia, first of all, with such a subject matter and such a main lineup, plus the publicity and promotion capabilities of Linghe and Tiaoqi, the box office in China alone will be at least tens of millions of dollars. If it sells better, it is not impossible to exceed 100 million dollars in a single market.

Outside of China, South Korea and Japan are already important markets for Hollywood movies, and Southeast Asia has a large Chinese population, plus the popular Cai Na, so the topic is bound to be high.

If the movie can finally sell more than $100 million outside of North America, no one will say anything.

"Fly Paper" must have been one of the movies with the highest return in the year of its release, and Yan Liang must have gotten a ticket to become a Hollywood leading actor with such box office results.

So, even though "Fly Paper" is a low-budget film, it has already started promoting itself at this stage to attract attention.

After Lu Yanhe had settled many things, he was preparing to return home when he suddenly received a notice that Midoriya decided to hold a premiere of "Tropical Rain Season" in New York.

All the crews are coming over.

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

So, Lu Yanhe, who was originally preparing to return home, stayed.

This year, Midoriya really intends to do a good job of publicizing the performance award for Lu Yanhe.

Among the current predictions and calls, Lu Yanhe has always been one of the most popular candidates for the Best Actor award at the Citol Film Festival.

But now all parties are still hesitating whether to nominate Lu Yanhe for the Best Actor or the Best Supporting Actor.

Judging from the role he played, it would be more appropriate for Lu Yanhe to nominate for Best Supporting Actor.

However, this year is a weak year for Best Actor. Judging from the current situation, Lu Yanhe has a great chance of making it into the nomination list for the Oscar for Best Actor.

However, according to analysis, "Tropical Rains" is not an English film after all, but a Malaysian Chinese film. Relying on Lu Yanhe's momentum in the American film industry in recent years and the title of Best Actor at the Citol Film Festival, it is possible for him to make it into the nomination list for the Oscar for Best Actor, but there is basically no chance of winning the award.

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

This is the point that everyone is struggling with now.

Which one to choose?
Even if it's the Best Supporting Actor, it doesn't mean there's much hope of winning.

If there are only two nominations, the nomination for Best Actor is definitely more valuable than that for Best Supporting Actor.
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"It's all right."

Lu Yanhe is very open-minded about this.

It’s not that he doesn’t care, but because for him, he thinks any choice is good. As long as he can really make it into the nomination list, it will be a victory.

In fact, even if he hadn't been nominated for an Oscar for "Rampant", he would have won anyway.

The best actor award at the Sitour Film Festival is already a very valuable gift.

Darren Wilson is all about what exactly he's got planned for awards season this year.

Lu Yanhe is his client. If Lu Yanhe can achieve something in the awards season, it will be of great significance to Darren Wilson's career.

Lu Yanhe smiled and asked, "Darren, your clients should also be striving for awards season this year, right?"

For the American entertainment industry, awards season is something that no one can avoid.

And when this matter has nothing to do with you, it only means that you are an actor who is not yet up to standard and has not entered the mainstream circle.

An agent of Darren Wilson's level has more than a dozen clients with names and surnames.

There are three or four A-listers.

Lu Yanhe believes that Darren Wilson will never be absent during every awards season.

However, Darren Wilson came to ask Lu Yanhe about these things at this time, which might be considered as an attempt to "gather intelligence".

Lu Yanhe is not the only one who has to worry about whether to apply for Best Actor or Best Supporting Actor.

Everyone needs to discuss with their public relations manager and team to come up with an application strategy that best suits them at the moment.

No one would say at this time that as long as the performance is strong enough and as long as you have enough ability, it doesn’t matter what you sign up for.

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

Every year, the actor's qualifications, the subject matter of the work, the groundbreaking nature of the role, the themes of social concern, whether the public relations strategy hits the hearts of current Academy members, or how competitive the other nominees are, all affect your choice, especially the outcome.

For example, among the several seeded contestants who have nominated for Best Actor this year, if Lu Yanhe, who has a chance of getting a nomination, switches to nominating for Best Supporting Actor, that means there will be one less competitor. This also means that the actors in the second tier of the priority sequence will have one more spot to compete for, which may increase the possibility of this group of people nominating for Best Actor.

Lu Yanhe smiled at Darren Wilson.

"I can do both, whether it's the leading actor or the supporting actor."

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

"No." Lu Yanhe shook his head, "This is not a decision I can make alone."

Darren Wilson nodded and said, "This year, I have only one client who is going for the Best Supporting Actress award. She is not in competition with you, so don't worry."

Lu Yanhe: "Darren, do you think I have a chance of getting my first Oti this year?"

Darren Wilson said: "Of course, since you won the award at the Sithole Awards, you have been one of the most popular people this year, especially several Asian directors and actors in Hollywood. They have mentioned your achievements as a young actor and your contributions to the industry on various occasions."

Lu Yanhe: "Then would you suggest that I spend more time during the award season this year?"

"That's right." Darren Wilson nodded, "Especially in January and February next year, you should focus all your energy on this."

Lu Yanhe: "This is really a very energy-consuming thing."

"All actors say this, but this is the rule of the game," Darren Wilson shrugged. "Except for a few individuals who never follow the rules and are still favored, most people have to constantly do public relations through interviews, cocktail parties, program recordings, and publicity trips to expand and consolidate their own momentum."

This is truly a game where you don't know the outcome until the very last moment.

In a parallel universe, in the latest Oscars, Nicole Kidman and Angelina Jolie were originally the top seeded players.

However, after the Golden Globe Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced, they all suffered a setback, and in the end, they all lost the nominations and ended their performances early.

At the Golden Globe Awards, Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres, who was originally seen as a filler, unexpectedly won the award, emerged out of nowhere, and finally made it onto the nomination list.

Many people are saying that Mickey Maddison won the award unexpectedly this year. In fact, before Demi Moore gave her acceptance speech at the Golden Globe Awards, the two of them had basically the same voice in the media. Especially after Demi Moore won the Golden Globe Award and her popularity soared, Mickey Maddison suddenly won the British Academy Film Awards, one of the four major weathervanes (many of the judges of the two awards overlapped), leaving the suspense until the last moment. If Lu Yanhe did not personally run the award season, it is hard to say what kind of results he would get.

For many Academy members, if you don't come to award season, it probably means you're not interested in winning an award, and then OK, we won't consider you.

There are even many Academy members who simply don't watch all of the nominated films.

Sometimes, all the votes are given to whoever has the loudest voice.
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Lu Yanhe 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 shoot the same way as before.

He has to make time.

Bai Jingnian also understood very well.

He said: "Then we will try to start filming in November this year and finish it in one month."

"Are you still rehearsing?" Hu Siwei asked.

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

Hu Siwei: "I will make arrangements and try to adjust it."

The news that "Friends" would be filmed early spread like wildfire.

Up to now, the shooting time and arrangement of "Friends" have basically remained in the period of "late November to early February" for several years.

The sudden decision to move up the shooting this year has made everyone curious as to why.

As the premiere of "Tropical Rain" was held in New York, everyone suddenly realized.

This year, Lu Yanhe will be competing in the North American awards season.
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The premiere of "Tropical Rain Season" was small in scale.

Midoriya did this mainly for award season rather than box office considerations.

Of course, awards season is also about box office.

"Tropical Rain Season" is about to begin a small-scale screening.

Start from Hall 5.

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

These five people are also Chinese actors who have or will soon be filming movies in Hollywood.

To Hollywood, they are all outsiders.

This is not a place where "outsiders are better at chanting sutras", so when there is a chance for them to be exposed in the mainstream media in North America and when there is a chance for them to come into contact and communicate with people in Hollywood, Lu Yanhe will invite them.

Cai Na also received an invitation.

However, because Chen Ziyan arranged a recording session for her for a domestic CCTV program and the schedule coincided with hers, Cai Na couldn't come.

Although she couldn't make it, she still posted the invitation on her social media, expressing her regret and asking her fans to support "Tropical Rain Season".

Know how to deal with human relationships and worldly affairs.

Sometimes, I have to talk about one thing, the so-called fate between people.

Cai Na is definitely not the foreign actor who is most familiar with him, but she is the one who has received the most resources from him.

Moreover, it’s not that Lu Yanhe likes her so much or wants to support her, but it just so happens that every time when he needs someone like her, she appears in time.

Cai Na is now the most famous and successful Thai actress in China. This is definitely not only related to her signing with Shihuo, but also because she knows how to be a person and a star.

This literally means "knowing how to be a human being" and "knowing how to be a star".

Under Chen Ziyan's arrangement, Cai Na's every appearance and every work in China all follows the "national popularity" route.

It’s not that Cai Na has already gained national popularity in China, but that every time Cai Na appears, it is at an occasion with a large “national popularity”, and she follows the route of an “international friendly artist”.

The popularity increases little by little, and the fame increases little by little.

The image that Cai Na usually presents is that of a girl next door, not the image of an aggressive female star.

This has made her increasingly popular with audiences in China.

Resources such as CCTV programs were finally successfully obtained.

She is a good person, as can be seen from the fact that she did not attend the event but instead promoted "Tropical Rain Season" on social media.
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At the premiere of "Tropical Rain Season", in addition to those invited by Lu Yanhe, Green Valley Film Company also invited several stars to attend.

Of course, the positioning of movie premieres in the United States is different from the current advance movie screenings in China.

In the United States, after a movie premiere, the main thing released is the reviews from various media outlets, which provide the first wave of reviews.

For some movies, media reputation has collapsed, such as "Captain America 4".

Some movies, relying on the good reputation accumulated in the first wave, give distribution companies more confidence to make larger-scale distribution plans.

In China, premieres are rare, and are replaced by special "star screenings". Some celebrity friends attend and give positive reviews after watching the film, which are then edited into clips by the film's promoter and posted online as promotional materials.

The former has been running for many years and is still going on; the latter has only been around for a few years and now seems to be starting to fail. To put it bluntly, the former is generally true, and audiences find that they can trust their reviews in most cases. The latter has become a "social practice", and audiences are "tricked" into the cinema time and time again, and then, disappointed, and then no longer believe in these "supportive" propaganda of the Friends' theaters.

Lu Yanhe is not worried about the media reputation of "Tropical Rain Season".

Because the film has already undergone a round of media trials in Sittur.

"Tropical Rains" is a movie with a low threshold for viewing. It is fresh, simple, and has a restrained way of expressing emotions that is completely different from European and American movies. However, its theme is common throughout the world.

What Lu Yanhe wanted to know was what kind of evaluation the American media would give of his performance in this movie.

What do you think about his bid for an Olympic medal this year?

The early predictions and calls are ultimately just the beginning.
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I went out and did a lot of things today. I'm too tired and not in good shape. I'll update more tomorrow. (End of this chapter)