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Chapter 214 Awards Night

I don’t know if it was to get closer to Huang Ze, but after watching Days of Being Wild, Harvey Weinstein seemed more interested.

"Huang, I seem to see some shadows of In the Mood for Love in this film."

"I was Huang's assistant director when he was filming In the Mood for Love!" Wang Jiawei responded, "I really like the colors and illustrations in it, and I learned a lot from it."

"That's right." Huang Ze did not deny it.

"Is that so? That feeling is really well shot." Harvey Weinstein nodded with a smile and looked into Huang Ze's eyes. "I saw your name in the screenwriter column? I don't know if I read it wrongly. I don't know much about Chinese."

"Oh?"

Huang Ze really doesn’t know this.

I have seen the finished film of "Days of Being Wild", but who would look at the cast and crew list after watching a finished film?

This guy added his name to the screenwriter list?
Huang Ze turned his head and looked at Wang Jiawei beside him.

"I added it." Wang Jiawei smiled and said in Cantonese, which Harvey couldn't understand, "It's mainly because without you, this film wouldn't be like this. You gave me a lot of inspiration, so I added your name."

“Not in the first place?”

"After me."

"That's fine." Huang Ze didn't care about it anymore, but he had to give a warning. "Remember next time, if you add my name, ask for my opinion, don't act on your own! Otherwise..."

Huang Ze didn't say anything else.

This level should be enough.

Don't let this guy make some shocking film and put his name on it, wouldn't that be throwing mud at himself?

"I understand."

"Yeah." Huang Ze then continued the conversation with Harvey, "I also made a lot of suggestions during the formation of the script of this film, but it was mainly Wang who wrote the script."

"For two hundred thousand dollars, please sell me the North American distribution rights of this film." After confirming it, Harvey went straight to the point.

"Ah……"

Huang Ze shook his head.

If you hadn't mentioned the screenwriter, I'm not sure I would have sold it if the price had been raised a little more.

But now, that’s another price.

"You know, my friend, the fact that I'm the screenwriter alone is worth more than $200,000!"

"You can tell from the quality of Pulp Fiction. How many fans can my name attract?"

"But this wasn't taken by you after all," Harvey said.

"If I took the photo, I wouldn't be able to sell it even if I added a zero."

"Then how much do you want?"

"Five hundred thousand!" Huang Zezhao stretched out his hand.

"No, no, no, this is too expensive. Even you yellow people may not understand this film, let alone in the United States. Even if I market it to the Chinese community, they may not watch it, right?"

After some bargaining, the final price was set at US$350,000.

Harvey agreed to the offer, considering that even if the video was not released in theaters, he could still make back his investment by distributing the videotapes.

After signing the contract, Wang Jiawei felt relieved and breathed a sigh of relief.

Three hundred and fifty thousand US dollars, two million Hong Kong dollars.

I am still a little over 9 million away from the cost line.

Even if I lose money, it will be a small loss, not a big problem!

The film industry is inherently a high-risk industry, and any boss can accept a small loss.

"Hmm?" Huang Ze saw that Wang Jiawei was relieved and raised his hand to hold his shoulder. "What are you afraid of?"

"I was afraid no one would buy it!" Wang Jiawei smiled, "Now it seems that there are still people who know the value of it."

“I’m afraid there aren’t many people who know what it is!”

A prophecy.

In one day, only two deals were completed. One was to Harvey, and the other was sold to France for $100,000. They liked the tune.

The rest are all holding their coins and waiting.

Even in small countries where copyrights can only be sold for a few hundred or a few thousand dollars, there were no transactions.

“If we can win an award, it will sell much better.”

After three days of support, he got another deal, selling the Norwegian copyright for several thousand dollars. Huang Ze was too lazy to stay there, so he returned to the screening venue of "Pulp Fiction" and waited for a call from the organizing committee!

As for whether he could call or not, Huang Ze was not worried at all.

At least the film is extremely innovative in structure.

Although I am not a direct descendant of Cannes, I have won major awards there, and Warner is the distributor.

There will be a prize anyway!
The fruit is distributed among the queues, and with this configuration, you should be given one.

Sure enough, the day before the awards ceremony, a call came and the crew of "Pulp Fiction" was invited to attend the closing ceremony.

After receiving the call and celebrating with the crew, Huang Ze came to the room where the "Days of Being Wild" crew members were staying.

As soon as I raised my hand and knocked on the door, it opened.

Behind the door was Zhang Manyu, with his hands in front of his mouth, making a gesture to keep quiet.

Seeing that the person coming was Huang Ze, he smiled, pointed in the direction of the corner, and said in a low voice, "There's a phone call."

"Yeah." Huang Ze walked in without saying anything.

After waiting for half a minute, Wang Jiawei hung up the phone, turned around, and said with ecstasy on his face, "We will attend the closing ceremony tomorrow, and we have a prize!"

"Mr. Huang is here too!" At this time, Wang Jiawei realized that Huang Ze had come and restrained his smile.

"Laugh if you want to, it's worth being happy!"

"Hey."

Wang Jiawei grinned again.

The worries in my heart also completely disappeared.

Now "Days of Being Wild" has sold more than 4 million Hong Kong dollars.

After winning the prize, I have to sell it for at least another four million, right?
If we add the box office revenue in Hong Kong and Taiwan and other places, it should be no problem to recover the cost.

If you can sell a little more, you can even make a profit.

With two films in a row making profits, the first winning an award at the Academy Awards and the second winning an award at Cannes, Wang Jiawei has definitely established himself in the director industry.

The status is rising rapidly!

The only thing to worry about now is what award I will win.

"By the way, Mr. Huang, how are things going over there?"

"Mr. Huang must have received the call first before coming to our place." Zhang Manyu said.

"You know how to talk!" Huang Ze snapped his fingers at Zhang Manyu, "I think you have the potential to be a movie queen!"

"The three best actresses or the best actress of the Academy Awards?"

"All."

"Then if there is no role in the future, I will ask Mr. Huang for the role!"

"No problem!" Huang Ze smiled, "Okay, prepare your dresses. You'll be walking on the red carpet tomorrow. Don't fall on it."

"No way."

……

The next day, Huang Ze once again walked on the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival in a dress.

Having walked the red carpet so many times, Huang Zeru was not so excited anymore. He posed a few times as if he was working, and then came to the theater.

"Pulp Fiction" and "Days of Being Wild" were arranged relatively far apart, so Huang Ze sat between the male and female protagonists John Travolta and Jennifer Connelly.

What Huang Ze didn't expect was that he was given an award not long after the award ceremony started.

(End of this chapter)