Film Festival, big stars, red carpet, flash.

As the main venue of the Palme d'Or, the name of the Movie Palace sounds like it has its own holy light.

It contains twenty-five cinemas and screening rooms. The center is a six-story film festival palace, including a large cinema that can accommodate 1,000 people and fourteen small cinemas with 300 seats.

As the opening film of "Farewell My Concubine", of course, was screened in the Central Cinema, and its name is Debussy Hall.

The name comes from the French Impressionist music composer Asil Debussy, with luxurious studios, exquisite designs, and textured building materials. You can even see the Cannes Harbour when you go out.

Only movie screenings are available, and there are always crowds of people outside the door of Debussy's hall!

When Zhang Chu walked in, he found that the posters and stills of "Farewell My Concubine" were hung on the pillars. Different scenes and different characters made people feel very interested before watching this video.

At this time, many spectators had already entered the venue, and they were dressed up to a little more or less.

Films in the film festival are divided into "premiere scene", "media scene", "market scene", etc. Registered media and filmmakers can watch them with their documents.

Ordinary audiences need invitations if they want to watch movies, but they are actually movie tickets!

With the movie tickets for the premiere, you can walk on the premiere red carpet. Many internet celebrities are just invited to Cannes to buy movie tickets.

It is usually expensive to watch a movie for 30 or 40 yuan, and the cheapest one is more than 10 or 20 yuan. However, the red carpet price list circulating online is usually worth tens of thousands of euros, which is actually just spending money to buy a movie ticket.

Cannes requires audiences to wear formal clothes, so many people dressed up before the red carpet are actually ordinary audiences who love movies.

The small city has a permanent population of only 70,000, but three times the number of passengers flows in during the film festival.

For example, although the opening premiere of "Farewell My Concubine" is in the hall of thousands of people, it is only half the place left to ordinary audiences!

Film festival registration personnel can apply on the official website with their badge, and then wait for a response, and only then get the ticket after being made. Not all people who make an appointment can get it. In addition to coming first and then coming, it also depends on the qualifications of the applicant's institution.

Ordinary audiences lined up to line up with the crew, and the judges walked on the red carpet, so Zhang Chu did not encounter such a crowded situation.

Xu Ji already knows Cannes very well. He smiled and said, "This is Cannes, using the art of film as packaging to make money."

Although it is known as the three major European film festivals, Cannes is very high-end and does not sell movie tickets to the public. The entire film festival cannot find a ticket sales link, but is only for industry insiders. The other two film festivals will openly sell movie tickets to the public.

Cannes is not short of money. The French government gives money, the Cannes government gives money, and six major sponsors such as Chopin, L'Oreal, HP, Kering, Renault, and Mastercard give money.

In addition, there is also the cost of selling broadcast rights. The live broadcast rights are sold at the opening ceremony and final closing ceremony award ceremony every year, which is nearly tens of millions of euros, so it is so cold!

"I have long heard that Cannes maintain a balance between commercial productions and independent art works, and use commercial productions to cultivate art films. They really have this ability."

Zhang Chu is like a tourist who is visiting. He has quietly taken several photos with his mobile phone, intending to post pictures on his circle of friends to show off.

The red carpet has no highlights, but the interior of the movie palace is still particularly mysterious to the majority of netizens.

In fact, in his opinion, this movie palace seems to be no different from a large domestic cinema, but it is just a halo because it is the main venue of the film festival!

Zhou Kang and other crew members have already entered the venue with ordinary audiences, but they can't see where they are.

Zhang Chu followed Xu Ji to the front row. After the movie was over, they had to stand on the stage to accept questions and interviews from reporters, audiences.

Those who could sit in the front rows were official invitation letters. Xu Ji had greeted the chairman of the film festival now. The two gray-haired elderly men were communicating in English. Although they were not particularly fluent, they could finally understand.

Zhang Chu sat in his own position in accordance with the principle of speaking less and watching more. The position next to Xu Ji was the two male protagonists and the supporting actress Gong Li. He didn't want to attract attention, so he sat in the corner next to him, wanting to use shadows to cover up.

"Hey, are you an actor?"

A foreign actress in a light yellow dress asked, "I heard that this story is very touching. What role do you play in it?"

Zhang Chu turned his head and smiled: "I am not an actor, I am responsible for the content of the screenwriter."

"You should try acting, of course the screenwriter is also very good. Without you, there wouldn't be a great movie. So can you tell me what the story is this?"

Anyway, I am idle, so it is of course a good thing for someone to chat, so it saves Zhang Chu from using his mobile phone to relieve embarrassment.

Just as he was about to speak, a white man in a blue suit appeared in front of him, and everyone around him was slightly surprised.

"Hey, is it Mr. Zhang Chu? I am Paramount producer Mark Johnson. Can I sit next to you?"

Leya is really curious about this movie. The French movie she starred in was unable to grab the opening film even though she had a local advantage. A movie that is said to tell stories about homosexuals in the far east has such treatment. I believe the content must be exciting enough.

The opening was just in time, so she dressed up and attended, but this was the home of other people's movies, so she consciously did not seize the starlight.

Otherwise, as one of the most popular actresses in French films, many viewers here could call her name.

I chose to sit in the corner and enjoy the movie seriously, but I met a producer who claimed to be Paramount!

Leya is a jewel in the palm of French films, and then repeatedly hit Hollywood but ended in failure. Now she is a little curious about what the producer thinks about finding a young screenwriter.

Zhang Chu pointed to the position next to him and said, "Please give me some advice."

Mark Johnson unbuttoned the suit before sitting down, otherwise his stomach would definitely make the buttons fly away.

"I heard that this morning, your new work "The Lord of the Rings" has been successful in Cannes. Congratulations."

"Thank you for your praise. I didn't expect that so many readers would like it here." The smile on Zhang Chu's face was not fake, it was indeed a happy thing.

"It's a fantasy type of work, and we Paramount intend to buy it for adaptation. What do you think of this proposal?"

Paramount did not make any finalists at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Mark Johnson just came here to find a suitable project, and was assigned by his own CIA Brad Grey to contact this popular writer.

He originally thought that a foreign writer would be frightened and trepidated after hearing Paramount's name, and even agreed without hesitation. He had seen many such authors.

However, Zhang Chu's reaction was a bit unexpected, "Sorry. The novel "The Lord of the Rings" has not been completed yet. I plan to consider the film and television adaptation after I finish writing it."

Rejected?

Leya in the back row of the two seats couldn't help but cover her mouth with her hands.

Didn’t that young screenwriter know how great Paramount is?

Even though it is already declining, it is still a giant!

Mark was also a little difficult to accept. He usually talked to the big names in the industry. If it weren't for the president's instructions, he wouldn't have condescended to talk to a writer about projects.

"Young man, don't rush to refuse. Brad likes your story very much. If you agree, you can even go through his personal green channel and get a nine-digit budget. There are few original stories in Hollywood now that can get such a high investment. If I were you, I must consider it carefully."

Brad Gray has the highest authority in Paramount and can even directly avoid the audit committee's review.

The nine-digit numbers here are not in RMB, at least they are all US dollars.

Hundreds of millions of dollars can be called a big production!

But Zhang Chu was not overwhelmed by this amount: "Sorry, I don't have any intention in this regard for the time being. If I decide to adapt, Paramount will definitely be within my consideration."

There are so many promises he can give.

So what if you have hundreds of millions of dollars, that's not for him!

What's more, "Pi" or "Da Vinci Code" is not a production cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.

I really think he is a nameless man.

Now that "The Lord of the Rings" has only been released, the overall plot has not yet begun, and the magnificent worldview has only revealed the tip of the iceberg.

Zhang Chu is sure that no big company can see the value hidden behind this work. Now Paramount is just trying to get it in advance for his previous work!

"The Lord of the Rings", which is not valued by the production company, are likely to be lying in the next few years.

What he has to do is to fully display the value of this novel. Now is indeed not the time.

Some people regard it as a work worth 100, and some people give a premium of 10. This seems to be a premium, but it is actually a discount.

This is not the first time Mark Johnson has dealt with a writer. He knows it is difficult to impress a writer with just one or two words, especially a writer who is a screenwriter.
Chapter completed!