Chapter 630： Cannes finalist

Bryan Cranston sat on the sidelines, listening to his agent try to make his actor contract more convenient.

With his achievements in the film and television industry, as the male protagonist of "Breaking Bad", his salary is almost 120,000 episodes, which is enough to match his worth.

After signing the long-term contract, Brian and his agent left with the script.

On the other side, Blake and Mark Tetotu are sitting opposite each other in an office discussing, thinking hard about the shooting plan of this drama.

For a long time, Mark Tetotu broke the silence and said: "In terms of actors, most of them have been selected, and Mr. Rust has also given candidates for the leading role, Lao Bai, and the image is quite suitable, so the most important thing now is to put the air first. Stand up."

Mark came to find him to discuss the preparations of the crew.

In this project, Lehman gave most of the workload to these two people, and although Mark was named a producer, it was convenient for him to spend a lot of energy on storytelling and determining the actors.

"The location was chosen in New Mexico. I went there last time I filmed No Country for Old Men. The landscape and environment there are in line with the script's selection. In this way, I will go to set up the studio tomorrow, and you can stay here. The props and costumes are set, and we should be able to start shooting next week."

Mark nodded and agreed.

Let him say that the shooting of "Breaking Bad" is definitely the biggest opportunity in his life. Whether he can change the status quo and stand out in the future will depend on this project.

Therefore, his creative passion is extremely high now, and his desire to shoot is urgent.

As for Lehmann, he is not a person who doesn't trust people. He has given him a lot of autonomy, which makes him excited.

After confirming the shooting date, Lehmann met with Mark Tetotu and Blake in the office again. After some encouragement, he asked them to go to the finance department to mobilize the second 3 million shooting budget.

On April 17, the entire crew of "Breaking Bad" went to New Mexico to film.

At the same time, the 59th Cannes Film Festival, which will open next month, has successively announced the finalists for the main competition unit, and "No Country for Old Men" and "Babel" successfully became the 21 selected films.

In this regard, Layman and Liam have repeatedly discussed the schedule selection of "No Country for Old Men". If they want to use the influence of the film festival to expand the energy of publicity and distribution, it will be 6 days after the opening of Cannes, which is May. Best in theaters on Wednesday the 24th.

First, Cannes needs to get word of mouth out of the film first, which takes time;

Second, in order to cooperate with the promotion, we must also set aside a certain amount of time for the distributors of Blue Butterfly Pictures.

Even the popularity of this series of screenings can be maximally guided to North American cinema chains and audience fans.

In this regard, Liam's consideration is not inconsiderate, and Lehman also agreed to release "No Country for Old Men" in this way, and at the same time communicated with the theater dealers in advance, selected the schedule and arranged the number of screens.

Because "No Country For Old Men" does not need to be screened on a large scale, but a long-term word-of-mouth screening. Therefore, this time, relying on Blue Butterfly Pictures' increasingly mature online public relations and certain advertisements, the distribution work can be well completed. , does not need to use joint promotion.

After all, although joint publicity can concentrate more theaters and publicity resources, which is beneficial to increase the total box office, but because it needs to share profits, it is not necessarily good for Firefly.

In other words, some movies that can be distributed by themselves don't need to be distributed to others. This is easy to understand.

The next morning, the day after the shortlist for the main competition at Cannes was announced, Lehmann called Liam, Joseph, Ryan, Thomas, and Alejandro and his partner Guillermo Arriga for a meeting. .

Guillermo Arriga is the writer-producer of Alejandro's many films, and a core member of their small group.

As for this meeting, the discussion is of course how to take advantage of the situation.

And taking advantage of the situation, it was the Cannes Film Festival, so naturally it was a question of winning.

As long as you get a substantial award, many media will spontaneously promote it. If you use it well, it will be the best hot report.

But here comes the question, which PR award is easier to win?

Of the people sitting around a table in the middle, Lehmann must be sitting at the top, Guillermo Arriga at the bottom.

Let's discuss the awards first.

Palme d'Or, the heaviest, but also the most difficult to win. Off-site factors can interfere with the least energy (the organizing committee is still a bit stance, a film festival is founded on justice, even if it can't do all of it, it can't do all of it).

This option requires a certain amount of luck. After eliminating it first, Liam held a document and said: "I think it would be good to give priority to the PR actor award. The subject matter of "No Country for Old Men" is limited, and the performances of several actors are really brilliant. If one of them can win the Cannes Film Award, there will be many topics to report, and the publicity will be wider."

"Well, yes." Joseph was the first to agree.

It is a good starting point to go to the long-term screening by word of mouth, starting from the actor's acting skills to hype the heat.

Liam continued: "As for "Babel", it will not be released in traditional theaters. If it can win the Grand Jury Prize or Best Screenplay, Best Golden Camera (similar to Best Director, but the weight is almost too much, more It is mainly to encourage rookies), any of these categories can be sold for a good royalty fee on the trading platform.”

Alejandro heard everyone start discussing his work and said that he might win a prestigious award, and he suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of vanity.

Of course, for these literary directors, it is not a bad thing to pursue similar vanity. If there is no similar fame and fortune, who would go to shoot literary and artistic works attentively. I am afraid that it will not be replaced by commercial movies immediately.

The film festival is the last piece of pure land for literary films.

"The best screenwriter may be very difficult." Guillermo, who was sitting at the bottom, said: "I already won the last Cannes Film Festival, and I still owe a little favor. The organizing committee should not choose re-election."

Okay, everyone here, except for Alejandro, was shocked by this sentence.

No one expected that Guillermo had always been quiet, and when he opened his mouth, it was a surprise.

However, Guillermo did win the best screenplay last year for "The Three Funerals of Escada," which also starred Luc Besson.

Then, the best screenwriter can only be ruled out.

Everyone knows that even Zhuang is more difficult than the first time winning the award.

For a while, everyone's conversations faded.

There are only a few weighty awards to choose from, just focus on the public relations and determine the target.

Besides, it's up to people to make things happen. It doesn't mean that you can get it if you have public relations. It's just a matter of working hard in this area. If you can't succeed, you always need some luck or something else.

After waiting for a while, Lyman saw that the discussion was almost over, and announced the dissolution of the meeting.

After a business talk was over, everyone went back to work on their own affairs.

Lehman also went to the office and picked up the latest statement for approval.

Now, "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Breaking Bad" have both entered the shooting stage. In Zha's "Sparta", the macho training has not been completed. I heard that the actors have complained that the intensity of exercise is too high. , but complaining is complaining, but no one quit, except because they have persisted for so long, UU reading www. uukanshu.com quitting before the end is not a fool's errand, but more importantly, there is compensation in the signed contract.

If you delay the filming, you will have to lose a lot of money.

And "Deadly Magic", with Nolan there, it has been going smoothly...

On the other hand, another project "Juno" that was set early has not been put on the schedule. The reason is that the director that Ryman was interested in has no schedule for the time being and needs to wait - there are no directors, and the natural progress is not fast.

In addition, it was Akiva Goldsman who agreed to jointly develop the project "Legend of Doom".

However, this one needs to wait until the sequel to "Train to New York" comes out first. Akiva doesn't mind waiting, anyway, he doesn't have the money to invest in such a big production.

And the sequel to "New York Row", Ryman was initially set as "I Am a Hero" (the name of "I Am Legend"), and the story follows the setting of the New York Row, telling a story about a young man living in Brooklyn, New York. An ordinary office worker, because of the problem of zombies, was running around, the middle was bright, and the downturn was too low. In the end, he did not die in the hands of the zombies, but in the hands of the survivors. Such a rough plot.

For reference, the Japanese zombie movie "Please call me a hero", the Thai zombie movie "Ghost 5 Cruelty Backpackers", and the "Zombie World War"...

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