Chapter 156： Cannes

Chapter 156 Cannes

The 53rd Cannes Film Festival opens on May 14 and ends on May 25.

One day in advance, Dunn and the crew of "The Girl Who Moved the Soul" arrived in Nice, France, and they will go to Cannes by car the next day.

After getting off the plane, she saw various reporters taking pictures everywhere, and Natalie pouted, "You can buy a plane, I hate this feeling."

Tang En said: "I have placed an order for Gulfstream. They are renovating the interior. It is estimated that it will be available in September."

"Ah? So fast?" Natalie blinked in surprise, "Is it expensive?"

"Gulfstream v, it's not expensive, it's only 40 million US dollars including the decoration cost." Dunn held her little hand, ignoring the enthusiastic French reporter.

"Sure enough, 40 million US dollars is not expensive!" Natalie wrinkled her nose angrily, suddenly thought of something, and laughed: "It's not the same plane as Jim Carrey, right?"

Tang En laughed, "Yes, it's the same model!"

Jim Carrey's plane is Hollywood's biggest joke.

Mainly because of the big name of Jim Carrey, all the movies he starred in must have a close-up of his private jet, which makes people laugh and cry.

Sam Mendes came over and lowered his voice, "Dawn, I heard that this year's judges are very beneficial to us."

He just won the Oscar for best director two months ago. If he wins the best director award at Cannes for "The Girl Who Moved Soul", it will undoubtedly be a legend.

Dunn said quietly: "It's quite favorable. Among the six judges, there is an American director, an English actor, and a Luc Besson."

Sam Mendes nodded.

Dunn smiled.

He personally came to participate in this Cannes Film Festival, just to win the award, of course, the public relations to the judges.

The American among the judges is the famous director Jonathan Demme, who has made classics like "Silence of the Lambs" and won the Oscar for Best Director in one fell swoop. However, "True Love", which invested US$55 million, failed miserably at the box office, which directly caused his status in Hollywood to drop to the bottom.

When "The Girl Who Moved Soul" was set up, Dunn Pictures intended to invite him to be the director, but his request for decision-making power and the right to revise the script was waived.

Now, Jonathan Demme has reached the point where he has no films to shoot. He came to the European Lighting Committee. If Dunn Films extended an olive branch for the second time, he would not refuse.

The Briton on the jury was Kristin Scott Thomas, who starred in The English Patient and was nominated for an Oscar. Such a Hollywood actress, as long as her IQ is normal and not too brain-dead, will definitely vote for "Soul Shifting Girl".

Dunn is a tyrannical figure who dares to challenge Disney and Fox. Christine will definitely try his best to please him, not to mention the relationship between Dunn and the British Gang has always been good.

Finally, there is Luc Besson.

Last year, Luc Besson launched the epic "Joan of Arc" with an investment of 70 million US dollars. As a result, both the box office and word of mouth were disastrous. Luc Besson packed up and returned to France.

Even the popular and promising actress Milla Jovovich was abandoned by Hollywood because she starred in "Joan of Arc".

Luc Besson is a commercial film director with literary and artistic temperament. The small space in France cannot accommodate him at all. Hollywood is his goal.

It is conceivable that he must be very unwilling to leave Hollywood!

The success of "The Fifth Element" that year was enough to prove that he was capable of making successful Hollywood commercial blockbusters.

Dunn's favorite thing is to give help in a timely manner!

Dunn Pictures itself is too weak, and the cooperating directors are young directors such as Zack Snyder, Christopher Nolan, and Sam Mendes.

If we can win over Luc Besson and Jonathan Demme, it will not only be of great benefit to this Cannes Film Festival, but also to the development of Dunn Pictures in the future.

There are five ordinary judges and one chairman at the Cannes Film Festival, and it is basically a success to win over these three people.

Why are the three major European film festivals declining?

Why does the authority of the Oscars shock the world?

Other than that, the selection mechanism speaks for itself. There are 5,000 or 6,000 Oscar judges, and the selection mechanism adopts the same "sorted-check system" as the US general election. It is not absolutely fair, but it can guarantee fairness to the greatest extent.

What the **** are the three major European film festivals? Several judges sat together and discussed blindly. There are a lot of human factors, and the role of public relations is very obvious.

Especially when filmmakers all over the world are courting Hollywood, basically no Hollywood films will come home empty-handed.

"Nate, I have an appointment with Mr. Luc Besson tonight, will you go with me?" Dunn asked softly.

Natalie shook her head, "Forget it, I'm tired."

Tang En was surprised, "Don't you have a good relationship?"

"It's very good, but if you meet for a chat, I'll definitely go. If it's work, it's embarrassing for me to go." Natalie said lightly.

Dunn laughed dumbly.

This Natalie is really smart.

Luc Besson's life is very difficult now. He was originally a literary director and a traditional French director.

But after filming "This Killer Is Not Too Cold" and "The Fifth Element", he was unanimously criticized by the French critics, thinking that he was surrendering to Hollywood.

In the past, Luc Besson was still able to use the box office to justify his name, but with the fiasco of "Joan of Arc", he didn't even have the last piece of shading cloth, and was wearing an international director's big picture. Hats are despised everywhere in France.

So as soon as he received Dunn's invitation, he rushed to Nice from Cannes and waited early.

Because of Dunn Walker's name, it's so hot!

Not only was he successful in directing the two blockbuster commercial blockbusters "Titanic" and "Star Wars Episode 1", in fact, French culture has always been disdainful of it.

What caused a sensation in France was Dunn's move on the Nasdaq, as well as the now overwhelming publicity.

New era stock god!

Dunn's rough work in the stock market, within a few months, directly became the world's top 100 richest people, which is enough to shock everyone.

Including Luc Besson, seeing Dunn, has sincere respect.

Not only his status in the film industry, but also the huge wealth behind him.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Besson, for asking you out so late." Dunn got up and shook hands enthusiastically.

Luc Besson's English is very good, "You are too kind, Director Walker, your legendary story has spread all over France!"

Tang En laughed, "I'm afraid it's a scandal?"

Luc Besson immediately said, "How come? You are now an idol in the hearts of all young people in France! Our government is also actively promoting your patriotic behavior."

"what?"

This made Dunn quite surprised.

Luc Besson paused, "You know, France's tax rate is very high, in short, higher than the United States. Many rich people have immigrated, and the country takes you as a model and requires everyone to be a patriot who actively pays taxes. "

Dunn sweats profusely.

A patriot who also actively pays taxes, that is why he was deceived in the first place. Who wants to give his money to the country in vain?

Fortunately, it was self-defeating, which fulfilled his reputation.

Not only in the United States, but also in Europe, a tax-heavy region, Dunn's "patriotic move" generally has a greater impact.

Tang En waved his hand. He wasn't interested in this topic, so he took the initiative to say, "I'm seeing you this time, mainly for movies. Do you have any plans recently?"

Luc Besson sighed, "You know, "Joan of Arc" I'm planning to start a film company, I've already thought of the name, it's called Europa Pictures."

Dunn frowned, "Luc, I'm sorry, can I call you Luc? Oh, thank you. I want to tell you that running a film company is not easy. "

Luc Besson said with a smile: "It's not that complicated. I still have some contacts in France. Especially in French literary films, the investment is only a few hundred thousand dollars, which is not as capital as Hollywood."

Dunn was silent for a while, then smiled, "Why, are you still interested in going to Hollywood?"

Luc Besson reacted immediately.

Of course he is not stupid. He understands that at this point before the opening of the Cannes Film Festival, Tang En asked him to come out.

However, Tang En and Dian's judgment method is very clever Don't talk about Cannes, don't talk about "Soul Shifting Girl", and directly talk about cooperation, which makes people unable to reject Dianzhuo's discussion.

Luc Besson, who has just experienced the major failure of "Joan of Arc", desperately needs a blockbuster to prove his strength.

But big investment is not easy to pull, and Hollywood keeps him at a distance.

"Is there a project that suits me?" Luc Besson had already guessed what Dunn meant, and his face couldn't help being a little excited.

Tang En smiled heartily, "I have a story in my hand that I want to make into a movie. I think you are the right director."

"Can you tell me briefly?"

Tang En cleared his throat and said, "There is a couple who love and respect each other, but keep their inner secrets for each other. They are both legendary killers in the hiring world. They are well-trained and have superb killing skills. It's because they also perform missions for two rival organizations."

"Once, they received the latest mission to assassinate each other at the same time. The pride and work ethic of the two made the assassination operation escalate. After a series of incidents, they both understood that they were locked into the assassination target, and the love for them was convenient. It's the opponent this time."

"At the end, it must have been the couple who worked together to resolve the crisis and defeated the killer sent by the organization, a happy ending. The couple's surname is Smith, so the name of the movie is "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"."

The reason why Dunn chose "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" to cooperate with Luc Besson is that on the one hand, action movies are Luc Besson's good subject matter, and on the other hand, Dunn is very familiar with the story of this film and can easily come to it.

More importantly, "Mrs. & Mrs. Smith" is a movie released by Twentieth Century Fox.

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Chapter 156 Cannes