After Kong Qingqi promoted the magazine "Movie Talk", it was bought by a large number of Chinese people in the United States.
Nowadays, when books, newspapers and magazines are almost being replaced by the Internet, the sales of "Movie Talk" increased significantly within one day, which attracted the attention of many people in the industry.
Even the internal staff of "Film Talk" were shocked by the sales data coming in from all over the place. A day later, the American media were surprised when they learned that the people who bought "Film Talk" magazine were mainly Chinese in the United States, and were shocked by the controversy caused by one of the reporters' articles about a Chinese movie called "Devil" at this year's French Film Festival.
The movie "Devil" came into the sight of foreign audiences indirectly thanks to the increase in sales of "Film Talk" magazine.
This incident made people abroad pay attention to China's huge consumer group. While they were shocked by the purchasing power of this group of people, more people also noticed the reasons why everyone bought magazines.
Like in China, the movie "Devil" is frequently mentioned in the United States, and the Chinese director Zhao Rang is mentioned as one of the directors who is not inferior to Spacey.
Many media also quoted such titles to attract public attention, and the discussion of "The Devil" gradually increased.
At the French Film Festival, Zhao Rang did not miss such an opportunity. "Demons" is about to be released worldwide. He has invested a lot of effort in this film, and he naturally hopes that "Demons" can gain a greater reputation.
While attending the film festival, he also cooperated with major media to increase publicity for "Devil".
Compared with the number of people who watched the movie on the premiere day, the theater for "Devils" is now always full, to the point where reservations need to be made in advance.
Jiang Se and Liu Ye are now very popular. Their images in the movie were exposed to the audience in advance through the stills of "Movie Talk" magazine.
In order to better fit the roles, the two leading actors, one lost a lot of weight while the other tried hard to gain weight, making their images in the movie completely unrecognizable. Even though only one still has been exposed so far, this still shows Jiang Se's professionalism and the fact that she does not rely solely on her beauty to act.
The more people learned about "Demons" through magazine introductions, the more comments from Shu Pain and the positive comments from foreign media, the more enthusiastic domestic audiences were about this film.
At the French Film Festival, many films that were scheduled to participate in the festival were eliminated in the past few days. When Feng Nan first brought "Revenge" to the French Film Festival, he was full of confidence.
"Revenge" is a low-budget movie, but because of Feng Nan's family background, origin and her identity as an actress, she also serves as a director and is able to sign up for the French Film Festival. All these factors have made many people in China quite optimistic about the prospects of this movie.
Even Feng Nan himself has high hopes for "Revenge". All the above gimmicks indicate that the box office performance of "Revenge" may far exceed Feng Nan's expectations.
She did a much better job than Li Li, the original director of "Revenge". She adopted better methods in the investment and shooting of the film, and the investment in post-production was also higher than the original "Revenge".
What's more, her performance should be better than the original female lead in the movie "Revenge". She has given birth to a child and understands the feeling of resentment. She thinks she can interpret the feelings of the mother in the play. However, "Revenge" finally got an opportunity to be screened at the French Film Festival, but there were very few people watching it.
Feng Nan's initial idea of using a small budget to create a gimmick for the movie doesn't work here.
In this world-class film festival, there are many directors and screenwriters who are more talented than her, and others make better films than hers, even at a lower cost.
Her film was eliminated in the first round and never heard of again.
Next, she was supposed to appear in a beautiful dress and become famous in the country.
However, the competition between "Devil" and "Accident" in China is fierce. Jiang Se and Liu Ye's efforts for the movie have been widely publicized. Even people in China feel honored that Chinese stars and movies have been featured in foreign magazines. Recently, the news every day has Jiang Se, Liu Ye and "Devil" as the headlines.
Even though she dressed up beautifully, no one was interested in her.
The reporter who was originally scheduled to interview her was actively trying to meet with Jiang Se. This trip to France did not play the role it should have for Feng Nan at all. She did not choose a good time for this ambitious work, but was caught in the battle between "The Accident" and "The Devil" and sank silently.
The film festival is coming to an end, and "The Devil" has made it all the way to the finals. For Chinese films, this is a very honorable thing.
Jiang Se has been very busy recently. Under Xia Chaoqun's arrangement, she accepts a large number of interviews from the media and magazines every day. Although this is good for her to increase her popularity, she is almost too tired to move when she returns to the hotel at the end of the day.
I only learned about the latest news about the movie through Mo Anqi.
On the last day of the film festival, the remaining films are the best ones selected by the judges. On this day, all the remaining films in the film festival will be released. Audiences who have not seen the films can seize this opportunity to watch them first, cast their votes and give their own ratings to the films.
Xia Chaoqun did not arrange any work for Jiang Se that day because she received news that Cesare was invited to the film festival as a special guest and would attend the awards ceremony.
Although Cesare did not enter any works this year, he is famous and has a high status, and the organizers of the film festival used many methods to invite him.
He put aside his work and arrived at the film festival a day in advance, and happened to stay in the same hotel as Jiang Se.
After learning the news, Jiang Se took the initiative to send a message to Cesare, wanting to have dinner with Cesare, but the great director did not reply.
The two of them had a private acquaintance back then because of a book called "Prisoners". They had a good personal relationship. If Tao Cen had not intervened, the friendship between Jiang Se and this great director would have been even deeper.
When Cesare was going to shoot "The Lost City" that year, he even recommended Jiang Se and went to the imperial capital specially to invite Jiang Se to dinner.
But after the news was exposed, the two never contacted each other again.
After the message was sent, Cesare did not reply for a long time. Mo Anqi hated Tao Cen with all her might, but at the same time she was a little worried. She was afraid that Jiang Se would be hurt by this, and she was also afraid that Cesare's misunderstanding of Jiang Se would become even deeper.
"Sese, how about you explain what happened at that time in the message."
Mo Anqi made a suggestion. (To be continued)