Chapter 385: Getting Shot Again
Chapter 385: Getting Shot Again
Most journalists have limited travel funds, and after watching the stars walk the red carpet on the opening day, they left the Cannes Film Festival early.
Only one in ten media remains, and I have to pick up some scraps every day to complete my performance appraisal tasks.
For example, if someone's work is successfully sold, or there is news that a certain movie may win an award, etc., these are all meal tickets in the eyes of reporters.
For example, today.
As the opening work of this year's Cannes Film Festival, "The Da Vinci Code" was reported to have made too many adaptations to the original novel, and most judges were not optimistic about it.
It has officially been released and its initial box office performance is quite good.
The global box office appeal of the male lead Tom Hanks is higher than that of Fan Wumian and Zhuang Muxi combined. The total box office of the two "A Quiet Place" films may not be able to surpass that of "The Da Vinci Code".
Most of the time, it is difficult for directors and screenwriters to strike a balance between commerciality and artistry. Although "A Quiet Place 1" had such a high global box office performance, it did not win any award at the Berlin Film Festival.
This year, it is the inconspicuous "This Man From Earth" that is frequently mentioned by people, and media from all over the world have given it high praise.
There are gains and losses.
The box office revenue of "The Man from Earth" was hopeless.
As a sci-fi art film with a bit of gimmicks, the DVD discs have sold quite well. A columnist for the New York Times has already written a review to express his praise.
Unfortunately, compared with the box office share, the payback period for making money from DVDs is quite long. Paramount Pictures will pay Bandit King Media regularly on a quarterly basis. Perhaps even 20 or 30 years later, Fan Wumian can still receive some money from this movie.
When Fan Wumian came to the Cannes Film Festival in a high-profile manner, the media in Asia heard the news and went to the film trade market in groups to interview him.
A reporter from Hong Kong City got there first and asked the following question:
"Did you come to the Cannes Film Festival this time because you received the award notice in advance?"
The reason for asking this is that when it comes to these film and television industry activities, Fan Wumian has always been rather aloof and will not easily participate in person.
He once again stood up the 4th Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony which was held in April.
It is widely rumored that the reason why he is unwilling to join in the fun is because the Academy Awards jury is unwilling to give Fan Wumian a heavyweight award.
His studio clarified that he was filming a movie in Thailand and could not leave for the time being.
The true and false news make it difficult to figure out the truth.
In fact, the reason why Fan Wumian stood up was because he received news that the jury was unwilling to give the Best Newcomer Award to Zuo Ziyan or Zhuang Muxi.
Given his current transcendent status in the Chinese entertainment industry, there is naturally no need for him to serve as a foil for anyone, giving reporters an opportunity to take advantage of him and make sarcastic remarks.
The ones who simply didn't participate were the ones who got scolded.
After all, the box office performance of "A Quiet Place 1" is so high, and "Those Years" and "Crazy Stone" are so wonderful. It is obviously not justified to only give him a few small awards.
As soon as the news came out.
Afterwards, there were "rumors" that said that because Hong Kong film and television companies were xenophobic, Fan Wumian had to stay in the mainland for a long time to film.
This is all thanks to the efforts of his public relations team, which prevented people from hyping up topics such as "not providing job opportunities to Hong Kong colleagues" and "only looking for mainland companies to cooperate".
Let me throw a basin of dirty water out first. If any of his colleagues in Hong Kong and city try to discredit him and put pressure on him again, it will be regarded as direct evidence of being excluded from the Hong Kong and city film and television circles, which is equivalent to putting on a layer of anti-armor.
After listening to the reporter's question, Fan Wumian replied with a smile:
"No, the results will be announced the day after tomorrow. How would I know? I just finished filming in London and came here to visit and exchange ideas. I hope to buy some movie copyrights and put them in Tudou's library for viewers to watch online."
How could the reporter not hear that he was taking the opportunity to advertise?
The media are also willing to cooperate with the old tricks used by celebrities to induce them to agree to be interviewed.
The reporter from Hong Kong City asked again:
"So, was your collaboration with Zhou Xingxing going smoothly? You brought several works this time, do you expect to win any awards?"
After so many interviews, Fan Wumian has become a seasoned man. He only replied:
"Who doesn't want to win an award? The cooperation between Sing and me went very smoothly, and the result was exactly what I wanted. We will hurry up with the editing and post-production, and maybe it will be released around December or January. This Chinatown Detective is a comedy, and I think everyone will like it."
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The reporter wanted to say that he didn't even ask when the film was expected to be released.
It was a rare opportunity to interview Fan Wumian, so he asked again:
"Someone photographed you meeting Miss Zuo from Zuo Real Estate in England. Does this mean good things are coming?"
Fan Wumian didn't even think about it and smiled calmly:
"As for my friend, she is a half-signed artist of my company. We happened to have a plot that needed to be filmed overseas, so I asked her to help out with a cameo. You guys gossip all the time, and every time I see her, I feel a little sorry for her." Hearing this, the reporter sighed sincerely:
"If there is a love rival like you, many people will indeed be deterred from pursuing Miss Zuo, and no one dares to pursue her anymore."
Fan Wumian did not respond to this sentence.
After taking some time out to accept the interview, he originally wanted to find a masterpiece worth speculating on, spend money to buy it out, and then cooperate with Paramount, Disney, or Sony Pictures to make some quick money.
But after going around in circles, Fan Wumian realized that it was not that easy.
On the one hand, the truly good works have already been picked up by distributors, and on the other hand, he only knows the names of the movies that have been translated into mainland China.
For example, "Marie Antoinette" is literally translated as the historical name "Marie Antoinette", but its Chinese translation is "Marie Antoinette". It would be a miracle if Fan Wumian could recognize it.
There is also the "Oracle" company in Silicon Valley, which uses an English word that actually means "oracle."
When Tudou.com was purchasing equipment last year, Fan Wumian even made a joke of himself in private, thinking that he had spent more than 20 million RMB but ended up buying inferior brand server equipment.
Fortunately, I checked online first and did not call Wang Wei, the founder of Tudou.com, to ask him why he did not buy Oracle's server. Otherwise, I would probably be laughed at for several years.
There are countless examples of foreign movie titles being beautified into Chinese names.
In his previous life, Fan Wumian was not involved in the foreign film and television industry. Even if some good works with great commercial potential were placed in front of him, the probability that he would not be able to recognize them just by looking at the names would be relatively high.
Those agent distributors look for business opportunities around the world all year round and have a sharper eye than him. Any slightly famous movie will be screened repeatedly several times, so it is difficult for a box office dark horse to be buried.
For example, the actual filming cost of "This Man From Earth" in the previous life was only tens of thousands of dollars, but in order to sell DVDs, millions of dollars were spent on publicity and promotion.
These cold, low-budget movies will be discovered, not to mention other more eye-catching projects.
So after a stroll around the film trading market, Fan Wumian wisely gave up the idea of picking up bargains. The Cannes Film Festival was coming to an end and he arrived too late.
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the next day.
Shortly after getting up, Fan Wumian learned from Pu Jiajing that he was being used as a gun again.
The cause of the incident was that when he was interviewed yesterday, he was wearing a British suit and looked very handsome.
This is nothing. Being a star requires you to pay attention to image management. The photos were widely reported by domestic media and fascinated thousands of young girls.
The problem lies with a certain big V public intellectual in the mainland, who used Fan Wumian's photos to write an article and also mentioned how great the aesthetic taste of developed countries abroad is, which is far more fashionable than that of the mainland.
He also compared some photos of mainland celebrities wearing clothes at the Cannes Film Festival with those of Fan Wumian and others, and then indirectly inferred the view that "aesthetics are half a century behind those of foreign countries", and openly mocked many of his peers in the circle for being unsophisticated.
He was already a big V with more than 200,000 fans. After he posted several deliberately provocative posts on Weibo, the situation quickly became heated.
After carefully reading the other party's Weibo, Fan Wumian said angrily:
"All these psychopathic accounts should be blocked. I am convinced. When these people stumble, they probably blame the fact that China's infrastructure is not as good as that of Europe and the United States. It's fine if they are just trolls, but they even make me a target of criticism, attracting a lot of hatred for me. I am so angry that my blood pressure is about to soar."
In this era, there are obvious deviations in mainland China's aesthetic standards, and a non-mainstream trend is sweeping across the country with the development of the Internet.
Fan Wumian certainly knew it very well.
But he was once one of them, who would wait until his side bangs were about to poke his eyes before cutting them off a little bit to avoid being scolded by the teacher.
Things like wearing jeans under school uniforms, wearing short sleeves and a thin jacket in the middle of winter, and spraying hairspray on your hair thinking you were cool, are all youthful memories that make him feel socially dead every time he thinks about them. They're actually quite interesting.
Things are just beginning to brew and have ranked 46th on the Penguin Weibo hot search list, but have not yet become a big deal.
Fan Wumian thought for a while, then went out to buy clothes. He went to the beach to find some shorts, a floral shirt, and flip-flops, and took a group of unkempt photos and posted them online.
The caption reads
——“All Made in China, from head to toe, I spent over 100 RMB on them. They are pretty good, but my tie and shirt are so tight that I can’t breathe. I don’t really like them.
Some people actually said that I was a representative of Hong Kong's elites. I almost laughed out loud. Did they forget that my family was so poor that we had no money to pay the electricity bill and we had to light candles at night to live? In life, just be happy.
Beautiful appearances are all alike, but interesting souls are rare. I am who I am, and I want to be a different firework."
When it comes to crisis public relations, it’s better to do it sooner rather than later.
Many celebrities today are still not fully aware of the power of the Internet, but he understands that some small things can lead to very serious consequences.
Because of my own influence, I am worried about complications.
Fan Wumian only responded from the side to clarify his position and avoid being inexplicably drawn into the vortex.
(End of this chapter)