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Chapter 659: Reputation is stable

"1000 million US dollars." Zhang Yang raised a finger before he could finish.

"That's a little less." Kevin analyzed.

If there is no public relations, the Best Actress award of 1000 million US dollars will definitely be enough, but if there are two awards, it will definitely be too little.

"It all depends on your Warner's strength." Zhang Yang shrugged.

Oscar public relations money is not the only indicator, otherwise Harvey would not be so great. By the way, he is also working on Quentin Quentin's "The Hateful Eight" this year.

After hearing this, Kevin thought for a moment and nodded in agreement, but then suggested again: "Zhang Yang, if you are willing to direct "The Deep", we will pay additional public relations fees for this time at Warner Bros."

"You don't have to talk to me about this topic until Steve changes his mind." Zhang Yang said with a smile.

Kevin shook his head helplessly.

"By the way, in addition to registering "Joker" for next year's Venice Film Festival and Oscar Film Festival, you also need to register it for the Magic City International Film Festival the year after that." Zhang Yang reminded.

"Modu International Film Festival? Not many people in our country go to this film festival." Kevin thought for a while before he knew what festival it was.

"But he likes to give awards to foreign films the most. He has given awards to many films that cannot be released in China."

Kevin was amused by Zhang Yang's words at first, but then he remembered something and asked tentatively: "I wonder if there is a possibility of "Joker" being released in your country."

After watching the movie today, he knew that Warner did not have the ability to release the movie in China.

Moreover, this is Zhang Yang's literary film. If Zhang Yang is asked to cut out a few scenes, he is probably unwilling to do so.

But they didn't have Zhang Yang, so he asked this question.

"Okay." Zhang Yang agreed simply.

Liu Yifei and Kevin both looked at Zhang Yang curiously. Liu Yifei felt that Zhang Yang could not agree so easily, and he should say a but.

Kevin was a little overjoyed.

"really?"

"But you have to give me 70% of the domestic box office share." Zhang Yangshi said loudly.

"WHAT." Kevin didn't expect Zhang Yang to have such a big appetite.

"You originally didn't get any box office, but I can let you get 30% of the box office, which is very good." Zhang Yang analyzed with a normal expression.

"That's what I said, but it's impossible for us to agree." Kevin refused with almost no thought.

Liu Yifei realized at this time that she didn't know if her ears were deceiving her. After Kevin refused, she heard Zhang Yang secretly exhale.

There was nothing left to talk about after that.

When the two returned to the villa, Liu Yifei asked Zhang Yang, "Did you just lie?"

"What big talk?"

"I heard you exhale after Kevin rejected your offer."

When Zhang Yang heard what Liu Yifei said, he couldn't help but reached out and touched her earlobe and muttered: "Could kissing the earlobe make the ears more sensitive?"

Liu Yifei's ears were really sensitive. She raised her hand and knocked away Zhang Yang's hand touching her ear and said softly: "Answer my question."

"A little bit. He really agreed. The worst I can do is delete some scenes." Zhang Yang had obviously thought of a way out.

Liu Yifei felt that her ears had misheard. Zhang Yang was actually willing to delete scenes from his own literary film?

"You've fallen."

"This is the last resort. Didn't he agree?" Zhang Yang argued.

This conversation ended with Liu Yifei's "haha".

The next day, Zhang Yang and Liu Yifei's movie promotion in the United States officially began.

In the morning, Zhang Yang, Liu Yifei and Phoenix were backstage at an AMC movie theater.

Liu Yifei said jokingly to Phoenix: "Phoenix, this time we are in your hometown and we have to ask you to take care of us."

"Actually, the audience may like you more than they like me." Phoenix said to Liu Yifei.

"Really?" Liu Yifei didn't believe it.

"Of course, there may be more people who like Director Zhang Yang than me."

"I still know how much the Phoenix audience loves you, otherwise they wouldn't have chosen you to star in the movie. Out of 100 people, maybe 80-90 people like Leon, and only 60-70 people like you.

But there may only be a dozen people who admire Leon, but there are at least dozens of people who admire you. "Zhang Yang praised him.

Phoenix's reputation in the United States is really good, which may be related to his own growth experience.

"Thank you for your compliment." Phoenix said modestly as always.

Soon a staff member came over and said to Zhang Yang and the others: "Director, Crystal, Phoenix, you can come on stage."

Zhang Yang smiled and nodded to him, and then said to the two of them: "Let's go!"

As the temporary host of the cinema said: "We invite our film directors and actors to come on stage."

Zhang Yang and the other two officially stepped onto the stage.

It turns out Phoenix really wasn't lying.

"crystal", "crystal"

"crystal".

Almost all the audience attending the movie screening called Liu Yifei. Of course, this may also have something to do with the movie being played.

If Zhang Yang plays "Joker" at this time, Liu Yifei may not be ignored if she stands on the stage again.

No one at the scene called Zhang Yang or Phoenix, but as long as you are willing to watch the movie, you are our customer, and you must not be treated well as a customer.

Although there were several bodyguards watching around. There is no way, who made this a free America.

After they all stopped shouting, Zhang Yang asked aloud: "Is the movie good?"

The voices of "YES" and "YES." came out again, and then they started talking nonsense.

The theater took out several exercise props that appeared in the movie and asked Liu Yifei and Phoenix to demonstrate them. Today's screening event ended in a beautiful atmosphere.

This event started on the 26th, with one event in the morning and one in the afternoon every day, in different places in the southeast, northwest and northwest of Los Angeles. By the end of the 27th, four events had been held. Zhang Yang and Liu Yifei were not planning to hold any more events. They were going back home on the 28th.

After the last event was held on the afternoon of the 27th, Phoenix asked Zhang Yang: "Director, do you want me to go back to China with you?"

"No need, you can just listen to Warner's arrangements and hold a few more screening events in the United States. Just remember to go to the premiere on the evening of the 9th, China time."

Phoenix nodded and said goodbye to Zhang Yang.

The next morning, Zhang Yang and the others officially returned to China. Just as their plane back flew into the sky, the American evaluation of this movie also came out.

Americans generally look at Rotten Tomatoes for movie reviews, which is equivalent to Douban in China.

But now the movie "Extreme Escape" has not been released on a large scale, so you can't see the rating on it.

Fortunately, there is also IMDb, which is the abbreviation of Internet Movie Database.

It allows you to rate movies that have been screened. Of course, the ratings here are generally a little higher than Rotten Tomatoes, but they are also of reference significance.

However, there is a mandatory requirement for the ranking to be displayed on it, which is that there must be 1250 votes, otherwise it will not be displayed.

Today, on the third day of screening of "Extreme Escape", this requirement has finally been met.

"Extreme Escape" has an IMDb score of 8.0, and the full score here is ten.

What kind of concept is this? "Avengers 1" scored 8.1 here, and in "Avengers 2" it only scored 7.4.

I’m just taking commercial films as an example here, not literary and artistic films.

It can be said that the initial reputation of "Extreme Escape" in the United States is stable.

Many people commented on the thrilling escape journey of the Chinese princess, and that the princess's skills have not diminished even in modern times.

As for the funny attribute, it was almost ignored by them.

On the contrary, the contrast between Phoenix's powerful mouth and the strength behind him made many Americans find it interesting.

Zhang Yang and Liu Yifei, who returned to the capital, were not in a hurry to start promotions. They waited until December to spend the next two days with their children.

Children are cute too. He will be fine if Zhang Yang and Liu Yifei don’t show up for a few days.

On the contrary, if I don't play with him for a while at home every day, he will get into trouble.

The child was peaceful in Liu Yifei's arms, but if he was not lifted in Zhang Yang's arms, he would feel uncomfortable.

"These are all bad habits, and we can't let them get used to them." Liu Yifei said to Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang nodded, but the little guy bared his teeth and claws in Zhang Yang's arms.

Zhang Yang was thinking about how to deal with him when his cell phone rang. Okay, don't think about it anymore, just give the baby to Liu Yifei to hold.

Zhang Yang saw Yiyi's obedient look and said to Yiyi: "I will never hug you again."

As a result, the little guy chuckled.

Zhang Yang walked out of the playroom, took out his cell phone and found that the call was from his assistant.

Zhang Yang answered the phone and asked, "What's wrong?"

“The day before yesterday, Ali Pictures Vice President Xu Yuanxiang’s speech about IP and screenwriters at the film and television forum triggered public outrage in the screenwriting community.

Many screenwriters have stated that they will not cooperate with Ahri. Do we want to express this? asked the assistant.

"Why can't one or two of them get along with the screenwriter?" Zhang Yang complained. Song Dandan was like this before, and it's like this again now.

"He himself apologized, and the CEO of Ali Pictures also emphasized that he respects the screenwriter."

"Maybe he was telling the truth at first, so just leave him alone. Everyone knows their true colors anyway." Zhang Yang hung up the phone after saying that.

In December, Zhang Yang and Liu Yifei attended a screening event in the Beijing area.

However, I only participated in one event in one day, and the popularity of the event on the first day of December was not as expected because something big had to happen.

Today Peter Pan Kobe announced his retirement! His 20-year basketball career finally came to an end.

Kobe fans are heartbroken! There are many Kobe fans in the entertainment industry! For example, Baili Tusu and Jiang Jinnegative.

Zhang Yang and others were speechless when they heard this feedback after participating in the event.

"It's okay. We will be promoting at the Beijing Sports University on the 3rd. When the announcement is made, many people will talk about you." Liu Yifei comforted Zhang Yang.

"They are complaining about me!" Zhang Yang said angrily.

However, Zhang Yang also found it funny when his assistant mentioned the two representative figures in the entertainment industry.

Baili Tusu likes to order takeout, and Jiang Jinhua likes domestic violence. They are both talented people!

Kobe has been unlucky for a lifetime to have these fans. Of course, he himself wasn't much better.

"Actually, today is the 70th anniversary of the founding of Shanghai Drama School. Xu Guangtou, Hu Ge, Liao Fan and others have all returned to school to participate in activities, and there is also a bit of enthusiasm." the assistant continued.

"It's the 70th anniversary of the show? Did we send people from Nortel?" Liu Yifei asked curiously.

"No one has gone to the two colleges in Beijing." The assistant said with an incomprehensible expression.

"This 70th anniversary is a bit sloppy." Zhang Yang commented.

"Did Lao Ma go there?" Zhang Yang asked curiously.

"No."

"Shanghai circles are starting to look up now. Even with Ah Li's support, he doesn't go over to deepen the relationship?" Zhang Yang asked doubtfully.

"Maybe he doesn't pay much attention to the film and television industry." Liu Yifei analyzed.

"You haven't seen him hanging out with many international stars, but he still wants to invite names."

Zhang Yang will only talk about these things a little bit.

In the blink of an eye, on the third day, there were more people participating in the activities of the Beijing Sports Institute.

Zhang Yang brought Wang Jinsong, Cui Xinqing, and Yan Danchen over, but Huang Xiaoming was really unavailable.

Of course, it's also possible that the character is just not that good.

(End of this chapter)