Julius Byrne did not leave the cafe, but kept waiting there. The appearance of Clement Meteye gave him a sense of competitive tension.
Lin Chaoyang and his "The Truman Show" are not well-known in France, which is the most fundamental reason why he rejected Lin Chaoyang's request for royalties.
But Julius Byrne also understands that assuming that the movie "The Truman Show" can gain success at the Cannes Film Festival, there will be almost no problem in the movie being released in France, which will be a good publicity point for the introduction of the novel to France.
Moreover, based on his knowledge of French readers, stories like "The Truman Show" should be very popular.
If the publicity is done properly, you may be able to achieve good sales results.
Time passed slowly while Julio Byrne was thinking. After Clement Meteye finished talking to Lin Chaoyang, he stood up and left the coffee shop. He quickly stopped Lin Chaoyang.
Lin Chaoyang was a little surprised when he saw Julio Byrne, "Isn't Mr. Byrne gone yet?"
Julio Byrne had a smile on his face, "I just thought about it and felt it was necessary to talk to you again."
"Really? I'm very happy."
Lin Chaoyang sat down easily. At this time, Julio Byrne was not afraid of Lin Chaoyang's loud mouth and asked: "How did Mr. Lin know Mr. Meteye?"
Lin Chaoyang said: "It was at an official dinner of the film festival two days ago. Mr. Gilles Jacob introduced him to me. There were also several people from your publishing industry at the dinner that day, such as Southern Literature Publishing House.
Midnight Press.”
Julio Byrne felt a little headache. Of course he knew that Lin Chaoyang meant to create competitive pressure for him.
But he also knew that the Cannes Film Festival officials have always cooperated with these publishing houses, especially the Southern Literature Publishing House. A considerable number of Cannes Film Festival-related materials, albums and books are published by them.
With this thought in mind, Julio Byrne made a decision, and the publishing house has given him authorization.
He felt it was better not to drag it out any longer.
"Mr. Lin, regarding the royalties from "The Truman Show," I think I can promise you."
"Thank you, Mr. Bourne. But——."
Lin Chaoyang's turning point made Julio Byrne's face froze, and he had a bad premonition in his heart: "I have already negotiated with Gallimard Publishing House, and the novel "The Truman Show" will be published by them.
Enter France."
Julio Byrne was surprised and helpless. He never expected that Lin Chaoyang would reach a cooperation with Gallimard Publishing House so quickly.
Clement Meteye agreed to the 15% royalty requirement so easily?
He couldn't figure it out, but Lin Chaoyang didn't want to give him time to figure it out. He said a few polite words to him and left the Palm Cafe.
"Lin Sheng, how did things go?"
When the crew got together for dinner, Zou Wenhuai asked Lin Chaoyang with interest. Everyone in the crew went to the official banquet that day, and they all knew that a French publishing house wanted to introduce "The Truman Show"
thing.
"It's already been negotiated." Lin Chaoyang replied with a smile, and then asked about Zou Wenhuai's copyright transaction.
Since its premiere a week ago, "The Truman Show" has become the darling of Cannes film studios.
Zou Wenhuai meets with several film producers every day to discuss copyright matters.
But to this day, he has not signed any contract.
The copyright transaction at the film festival is actually very much like a gamble. Except for those films that have poor reputation and have been scheduled to be eliminated early, many films with award-winning status will not easily sign contracts.
Producers bet that their films would win awards and get a more generous contract.
The idea of ​​the film company is simpler. I will buy whoever wins the award. Awards will bring attention, publicity points, and box office potential.
Although the contract has not been signed yet, it does not hinder Zou Wenhuai's good mood. Through the exchanges with reporters, film critics, jury members and major film producers in the past few days, he has become more and more confident in "The Truman Show".
The films with the highest reviews at the film festival and the highest calls for awards are "War" and "
Sacrifice" and "The Truman Show."
Compared with the first two, "The Truman Show" is a more promising dark horse. Even if they don't win the Palme d'Or, winning the jury award is enough for them to make a lot of money.
May 19th, the day of the closing ceremony.
The small town of Cannes, which has been bustling for more than a week, has gradually become deserted, and many film crews have already left here.
Most of the tourists from all over the world have left, and the business of hotels, restaurants, and cafes that used to be bustling with traffic has been visibly reduced.
The closing ceremony red carpet was held at six o'clock in the evening. Compared with the opening ceremony, there were not as many enthusiastic fans.
But the reporters are still hanging on.
The award will be decided tonight. They have been waiting for more than ten days for today.
In order to predict the final award results in advance, many reporters will call all the film teams shortlisted for the main competition today and draw very convincing conclusions through clever calculations.
Some newspapers will also deploy people in hotel lobbies or airports. The purpose of this is to see which movie teams or stars have left and never returned, and which people have returned.
"Mi Gao! Mi Gao!" Shen Xicheng waved and shouted desperately at Xu Guanwen, finally attracting his attention.
When Xu Guanwen came to the edge of the red carpet, Shen Xicheng asked loudly: "Are you confident that you will win the Best Actor crown tonight?"
Xu Guanwen's face was full of joy today. When he heard Shen Xicheng's question, he waved his hand with a smile on his face.
‘How can we be sure about this kind of thing? Being able to persevere to the end is already a victory!”
Xu Guanwen's tone was very humble, but the smile on his face betrayed his heart.
At 4 p.m., the jury review and discussion ended and the list of winners was announced.
The chairman of the jury, Sidney Pollack, has notified all the winning film crews. This is a tacit understanding between the film festival and the winning film crews.
However, this kind of notification is limited to "winning", but what kind of award is won will not be announced until tonight.
Shen Xicheng watched Xu Guanwen return to the middle of the red carpet. The foreign reporters around him kept shouting his name, begging Xu Guanwen to give their camera a better angle.
"I can't believe that in just a few days, Michael is already a big star in Cannes!"
Wu Song, the Ta Kung Pao reporter standing next to him, nodded in agreement.
The two of them were able to come to Cannes only because "The Truman Show" was selected for the main competition, and the newspaper company also spent a lot of money.
They watched "The Truman Show" go from being unknown to becoming a hit in Cannes. Even as a bystander, it felt a bit dreamy.
These days, the two of them have frequently traveled to Xiangjiang to deliver various interview information.
There was no Internet these days. When the newspaper learned that "The Truman Show" was so popular in Cannes, they immediately instructed them to transmit it back to Hong Kong by fax and international long distance regardless of cost.
Over the past week, their own reports and reprinted reports from foreign media have aroused great repercussions among Hong Kong citizens.
Today is the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival, and it is also the day when the awards are decided.
The two of them didn't know why, but they felt even more excited than they were about winning the award.
The grand red carpet ceremony ended, and stars gathered in the Lumiere Cinema of the Palais des Festivals.
The closing ceremony of the 39th Shana International Film Festival officially began. Sidney Pollack, chairman of the jury, took the stage to give a brief speech, and then it was time to award awards.
Short film Palme d'Or, Camera d'Or, International Film Critics Award - the order of awards in all award ceremonies is from light to heavy, from small to large, and the Cannes Film Festival is no exception.
Every award was announced with thunderous applause, and the winners were all delighted.
After all the awards for non-competition units were awarded, the atmosphere gradually became tense.
The first main competition unit awards were announced, and the Best Actress award had a double yolk, awarded to Fernanda Torres for "Love Me Always or Never Again" and "Rosa Luxemburg" respectively. Barbara Sukowa.
The two actresses were so surprised that they hugged their colleagues and went on stage to receive the award. However, their colleagues...
But I couldn't be happy.
Because according to the regulations of the Cannes Film Festival, a film cannot win two or more of the Palme d'Or, Jury Prize, Jury Prize, Best Director and Best Screenplay at the same time.
Winning the Best Actress award certainly doesn't mean that these two films have no chance of winning the Palme d'Or, but the probability is obviously much lower.
Immediately after watching the awarding of the Best Actor Award, Xu Guanwen looked calm, but the white fingers he pinched pierced his inner nervousness.
After the award-winning guest came on stage, he glanced at Lin Chaoyang next to him. Lin Chaoyang seemed to be feeling something and looked at him.
"Do you think you can win the prize?" Lin Chaoyang's tone was teasing.
Xu Guanwen kept silent and did not give him a chance to tease him.
"Michael Hui!"
As the name resounded through the Lumière Cinema, Xu Guanwen's buttocks seemed to be loaded with springs, and he suddenly jumped up from his seat, vigorously pumping his fists in celebration, as did several other members of the crew.
"Congratulations, the new best actor at the Cannes Film Festival!"
Lin Chaoyang stood up and hugged Xu Guanwen, but he hugged her hard.
"Thank you! Chaoyang, thank you!"
Amidst the applause that filled the sky, Xu Guanwen's voice was real and hot, and it reached Lin Chaoyang's ears clearly.
Full of gratitude.
Xu Guanwen's gratitude comes from the bottom of his heart. He has been seeking transformation in the past two years, but the results are not satisfactory.
Without Lin Chaoyang's script, none of this would be possible.
Cannes Film Festival Best Actor!
Before Xu Guanwen, no one from Xiangjiang had ever won this award. Even if we expand the scope to China and Asia as a whole, no one has ever won such an honor.
He had thought about it many times and hoped for it many times, but when he was actually crowned the Best Actor, the joy and excitement in his heart seemed to stretch his whole body.
I want to explode with joy!
When he finally stood on the stage, looking at the blond and blue-eyed foreigners sitting in the audience, he couldn't help but feel a strong feeling in his heart when he thought that this best actor was won in such a film festival dominated by European and American countries.
Deep pride.
After he delivered his acceptance speech in a mixture of English and Cantonese, the audience once again burst into warm applause.
"The Truman Show" has set off a wave of craze in Cannes since its premiere. In addition to the quality of the film itself, Xu Guanwen's performance as "The Truman" has also received a lot of praise, bringing him huge reputation.
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The film festival is different from ordinary film awards. Being shortlisted for the main competition unit itself means that the film has the possibility to win any award.
In other words, Xu Guanwen's honor as the Best Actor was only obtained after a fierce battle with more than 20 colleagues.
Among them are Robert De Niro, Erland Josephson, Gérard Depardieu and other movie star-level figures, who are full of gold. The heartfelt applause of the guests present is the greatest recognition of Xu Guanwen's acting skills.
After Xu Guanwen returned to his seat, everyone around him congratulated him again.
Although after winning the best actor award, the probability of winning another major award has obviously become much lower, but at least I have won a significant award, which can be regarded as a kind of peace of mind.
The awards ceremony continued, and the Best Screenplay Award was awarded next.
After Xu Guanwen sat down, with excitement still on his face, he said to Lin Chaoyang: "There is actually the best screenwriter this year, Chaoyang, you have a chance!"
There are only four awards for crew members at the Cannes Film Festival: Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay.
The first three will be awarded every session, but the latter is not.
At film festivals in previous years, there were often vacancies in awards, and it was common to award them every other year. The Best Screenplay Award at the Shaner Film Festival was last awarded in 1984.
Lin Chaoyang did not show any nervousness or Zhizhi mood because of Xu Guanwen's words. At this time, he was thinking about the award of the award, and whispered a few words to Xu Guanwen and Zou Wenhuai from time to time.
There are still Palme d'Or, Grand Jury Prize, Jury Prize, Best Director Award and Best Screenplay Award yet to be awarded.
Based on Ann Hui's performance, he will definitely not be able to compete with Martin Scorsese of "After Hours" and Roland Joffe of "On Fire" for the Best Director Award.
And if "The Truman Show" can win the Palme d'Or, according to the film festival's tradition of grading pork based on its urine properties, Hsu Kuan-wen's best actor probably won't be able to win it.
After excluding these two awards, "The Truman Show" is now most likely to win one or two of the three awards: the Grand Jury Prize, the Jury Prize and the Best Screenplay Award.
Listening to his analysis, Zou Wenhuai nodded frequently, agreeing with this judgment in his heart.
‘When Michael won the Best Actor, I knew there might be no hope for the Palme d’Or——··——·
As Zou Wenhuai said with some regret, "Chaoyang" suddenly sounded in the Lumiere Cinema.
Lin", Boss Zou didn't even bother to say anything and stood up all of a sudden.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s the Palme d’Or or not, as long as they can win awards, the more awards they win, the better. Every award they win now is a huge improvement for Hong Kong Film.
"Chaoyang, congratulations!"
"Congratulations!"
The crew members stood up and hugged Lin Chaoyang to congratulate him, and the applause in the theater rang out again.
At the same time, many filmmakers also stood up to express their congratulations, and the live footage of French TV 4 also cut to Lin Chaoyang.
It is true that "The Truman Show" is a big hit at this year's Cannes Film Festival, but most senior filmmakers understand that the film's strength lies in the screenwriter's unconstrained imagination.
It gives the film excellent imagination and extraordinary artistry, and while telling a good story, it also achieves a strong social critical significance.
This can be said to be the ultimate goal pursued by most art film directors and screenwriters.
Therefore, Lin Chaoyang's award made these filmmakers so excited.
Lin Chaoyang went on stage to receive the award, and after a routine thank you, he left the stage. Xu Guanwen ridiculed: "Your acceptance speech was too perfunctory."
"I'm not being perfunctory, I'm leaving enough time for the subsequent winners," Lin Chaoyang joked.
When it was the turn of the Best Director Award to be announced, it went to Martin Scorsese of "After Hours" as expected. Xu Anhua looked disappointed. After being a director for many years, the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival was the biggest she had ever been nominated for.
received the award, but it was a pity that I just missed it.
"It doesn't matter, there are still three prizes to come." Lin Chaoyang comforted her.
There are three awards: the Palme d'Or, the Grand Prix of the Jury and the Jury Prize. To make a simple analogy, they are the first, second and third prizes.
The Jury Prize was awarded to "Saint Therese", leaving only two awards.
The atmosphere in the Lumière Cinema has reached an extreme level. There are 22 films shortlisted for the film festival, and most of them did not win awards tonight. Everyone is paying attention to the award presenters on the stage.
The judges who awarded the jury award were judges Charles Aznifer and Sonia Braga. The two came to the stage to communicate in French. Just like the previous awards, no one understood them well and no one cared.
What everyone is concerned about is the ownership of the award.
"The winner of the Jury Prize is - "The Truman Show"!"
As soon as Sonia Braga finished speaking, several people from the "Truman Show" crew stood up, excited.
Although they missed the highest award, the Palme d'Or, it is still the second largest award after the Palme d'Or, not to mention that they had already won the Best Screenplay and Best Actor awards before.
One movie, three awards!
Even compared with the Palme d'Or, this achievement is not inferior in any way.
You must know that in the history of the Shiner Film Festival, it is rare to award multiple awards to a film. These three awards are undoubtedly the jury's high recognition of "The Truman Show."
Xu Anhua went on stage to receive the award as a director and was extremely emotional.
"Thank you Chaoyang for writing such a wonderful script, thank you Michael for giving us his best performance ever in this movie, and thank you to our investor Mr. Zou Wenhuai-··
This award is the pride of all Hong Kong filmmakers and belongs to all Chinese-speaking filmmakers—
The final Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival was awarded to Roland Joffe's "In War". At this point, the 39th Cannes Film Festival has officially come to an end.
Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night for the crew of "The Truman Show".
Not only is it the joy of winning the award, but there are also many media interviews to deal with. Zou Wenhuai is also busy making phone calls and meeting with film producers from various countries.
It’s a bit of a pity not to win the Palme d’Or, but with three awards including the Jury Prize, Best Screenplay Award, and Best Actor Award, “The Truman Show” is still the biggest winner at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Selling before the closing ceremony was risky, but he was right!
This time, "The Truman Show" will bring huge rewards to Jiahe.
The day after the closing ceremony, Chung Chu Hong and Maggie Cheung left Cannes. They were just vases at this film festival.
But it's been on the red carpet and featured in major media, and it's worth the price of admission.
Xu Anhua and Xu Guanwen still have to accept several interviews with European and American media, and plan to return to Hong Kong tomorrow.
Zou Wenhuai and Cai Lam are busy with copyright transactions.
And Lin Chaoyang was already on a plane flying to Paris.
"The Truman Show" won three awards at the Cannes Film Festival. In just a few days, the film will surely become famous in France and Europe.
After watching the live broadcast on French TV 4 last night, Clement Meteille from Gallimard Publishing House couldn't wait to call Lin Chaoyang.
Every year at the turn of spring and summer when flowers bloom, Gallimard Publishing House holds an annual reception in the large garden on the Left Bank of Paris. Clermont Meteye extended an invitation to Lin Chaoyang in the name of signing a publishing contract.
Lin Chaoyang was not interested in the reception, signing the contract was his main purpose.
The contract given to him by Gallimard Publishing House is no more generous than that of Grasse Publishing House. It adopts a stepped royalty rate. The royalty rate is 10% for novels sold below 3,000 copies, 12% for novels sold from 3,000 to 6,000 copies, and 12% for novels sold above 6,000 copies.
15%.
What Lin Chaoyang really likes about Gallimard Publishing House is their influence and promotion ability in the European literary world.
This publishing house, founded in the early 20th century, has been focusing on publishing literary works for many years, and has collaborated with writers such as Malraux, Camus, Sartre, Beauvoir, Yourcenar, and Sarraute.
In addition to these famous writers in France, they also introduced many foreign writers to France, such as Spanish writer Garcia Lorca, American writer Fitzgerald, Japanese writer Junichiro Tanizaki, etc.
During World War II, the "Seven Stars Library" series of books they published won even greater prestige for themselves, bringing the publishing house's reputation in the French and European literary circles to its peak.
After the 1950s, Gallimard expanded rapidly and gradually developed itself into one of the largest publishing houses in France through mergers and acquisitions.
It never hurts to find a strong partner.
After a short stay in Paris for a day, Lin Chaoyang flew back to Hong Kong.
As soon as he landed, he was surprised to find that he was blocked by reporters.
"Lin Sheng! Lin Sheng! "The Truman Show" won three awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Is there anything you want to share with the Hong Kong audience?"
‘Lin Sheng, you won the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival this time. It is said that the boss of a film company has already offered you a sky-high script fee of HK$500,000. Are you interested?”
"Lin Sheng——"
A group of reporters blocked Lin Chaoyang at the entrance of the passage. The flashes of their cameras kept flashing and they asked questions all over the place. The scene was chaotic.
Lin Chaoyang didn't have time to answer these reporters' questions. He just wanted to know now, how did these reporters know about his flight?
Listening to Lin Chaoyang's questions, these reporters looked proud.
"We have been guarding the airport these days. Cai Lan landed yesterday and told us that you would be back today and tomorrow."
Lin Chaoyang secretly cursed his friend, then discussed with these reporters to give up the position at the entrance of the passage, found a place and briefly accepted an interview before he was able to escape.
He took a taxi from the airport to go home. When he got in the car, the driver saw his face through the rearview mirror.
"Yes? Lin Sheng!"
Lin Chaoyang unexpectedly even knows him as a taxi driver. I really don’t know how many times the citizens of Xiangjiang have been baptized by the news of the Cannes Film Festival in recent days.
He smiled at the taxi driver and said, "Yes!"
"Lin Sheng Hou La! "The Truman Show" suddenly won three awards at the Cannes Film Festival, giving us Hong Kong people credit!" the driver said excitedly.
"Thank you. It seems that there has been a lot of coverage of the film festival in Xiangjiang these two days!" Lin Chaoyang said politely and casually chatted with the driver.
"Of course! Your film is the first Hong Kong film to win an award at the Cannes Film Festival. Ming Pao said it set a record for Hong Kong films.
Those newspapers still compare you with Li Hanxiang and Hu Jinquan. They were only shortlisted back then, and at most they won one——what’s that one? Oh, yes, it’s a technical award. Damn it. I can’t compare with you this time.
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Whenever you open a newspaper these days, you will definitely see your movie——"
The driver kept talking to Lin Chaoyang about the reports on "The Truman Show" in the Hong Kong press in recent days.
When the Cannes Film Festival announced its shortlist more than a month ago, the media in Hong Kong stirred up a wave of news, but that wave of enthusiasm soon died down.
This time the Cannes Film Festival opened, Ming Pao and Ta Kung Pao sent reporters to Cannes to conduct interviews and reports.
Not to mention that these two newspapers are not invited media from the film festival. The reporters’ food, accommodation and air tickets alone for overseas interviews are a big burden for the newspapers.
On the other hand, the real-time nature of the reported content cannot be guaranteed. There is no Internet these days, and information can only be transmitted through telephone calls and faxes, which are too expensive.
Therefore, Hong Kong media rarely sends foreign reporters to conduct interviews and reports abroad. This reality also highlights the importance these two media attach to "The Truman Show" participating in the Cannes Film Festival.
The attention paid by Ming Pao and Ta Kung Pao also received generous rewards.
When Shen Xicheng and Wu Song spread the popularity of "The Truman Show" at Cannes back to Hong Kong, they also translated and reprinted the high praise of "The Truman Show" by many European and American media, and it soon became popular among Hong Kong citizens.
It aroused heated discussion.
And as they relayed more and more news, citizens became more and more interested in "The Truman Show."
Until the Cannes Film Festival closed two days ago and the list of winners was announced, Shen Xicheng and his wife sent the news back to Hong Kong overnight.
Early the next morning, "Ming Pao" published a report: "
Sweeping the Cannes Film Festival, winning three awards over European and American films."
"Ta Kung Pao" was not to be outdone, and immediately issued a report: "Cannes Film Festival blows up a 'Hong Kong whirlwind',
Winning Three Prizes".
Chapter completed!