Chapter 587: Lala International, a Scheming Company, Can Even Explode

Chapter 587 ① Lala with many tricks ② International Philippines ③ This can be a big hit

Yang Mi also wanted Liu Yifei to sing Happy Birthday to her, but Wang Quan said, "She is busy with her mouth, it is not convenient."

Yang Mi: "..."

After that, Yang Mi chatted with Wang Quan for a while, "The news that you won an award in Venice is the number one hot search again. Wow, the awards you won in this year are equivalent to what Lou Ye and Wang Xiaoshuai have won in their lifetime."

In addition to making movies to make money and sleeping with actresses, the biggest ideal of these sixth-generation directors should be to win gold and silver medals in the three major European competitions.

Among them, Wang Xiaoshuai has only one Jury Award in Cannes, one Jury Grand Prix in Berlin, and one Best Screenwriter, which is not as good as Wang Quan.

Wang Quanan has one Berlin Golden Bear and one Berlin Best Screenwriter, which is not as good as Wang Quan.

Lou Ye only has one Berlin Art Contribution Award (Photography), which is even worse.

Yang Mi counted on her fingers and found that, "Hey, these people seem to be quite different from you."

The best among this group of people, Jia Zhangke, only has one Cannes Best Screenwriter and Venice Golden Lion, which is still far behind Wang Quan who has one gold and three silvers (including Liang Jiahui's Best Actor).

Even as the leader of the fifth generation of directors, Director Kai Ge has only won the Golden Palm once, or half of it.

Among the three major European awards, the only Chinese directors who can compare with Wang Quan are probably Zhang Yimou and Li An.

Zhang Yimou has two Venice Golden Lions and one Berlin Golden Bear, while Cannes has two Jury Prizes and one Best Director.

In addition, he also won the Cannes Best Actor Ge You and Venice Best Actress Gong Li.

Li An has two Berlin Golden Bears and two Venice Golden Lions, but no Cannes awards, nor Best Actor or Best Actress.

Yang Mi concluded: "Look at it this way, Zhang Yimou is first, Li An is second, and you should be third. However, the Palme d'Or is the most valuable, so it makes sense to put you second, and you have just started to exert your strength."

Wang Quan: "Oh, don't say that, I will be proud, ah, ah, proud, proud!"

As Wang Quan was in a trance, Liu Yifei finally finished her work and sang a song for Mimi. As the queen of children's songs, she is a professional in singing this kind of song.

Yang Mi: "You sang very well, but can you moisten your throat before singing? It's like you have phlegm stuck in your throat."

Yang Mi hung up the phone, and the plane returned to calm. As New York approached, Xixi began to feel a little uneasy, "How about I not get off the plane at that time, and you celebrate Alex's birthday and then we go to Toronto together?"

Wang Quan gently put his arm around her shoulders: "Do you think it's appropriate? When we get married in the future, Alex will still call you Fei Ma."

This made Liu Yifei secretly happy, and finally nodded and said: "Then you should tell Dorothy and the others in advance, so as not to disturb your arrangements. After the birthday, I will go to my house upstairs to rest."

Anyway, the three houses are adjacent.

Dorothy and Xiao K expressed their welcome to Liu Yifei's arrival, and they even hoped that Liu Yifei could stay at their house overnight.

Liu Yifei naturally refused. Humph, the scheming Lala, they must be greedy for her body.

Apart from Wang Quan, she could only accept Mimi, and at most one more Gadot.

After meeting Liu Yifei, Dorothy gave her a big hug and congratulated her on the box office success of "Lucy the Witch".

Just now, this female action film, which has been released in North America for a month, has exceeded the box office of 200 million US dollars and entered the top ten of the year in North America.

In the Dragon Head Rising, it also surpassed popular movies such as "Kingsman" and "Fifty Shades of Grey".

In addition to the 1.1 billion+ performance in mainland China, the global box office of the film has reached 700 million+, and there is no suspense about the top ten of the year.

Dorothy smiled and said, "You are now a real international superstar."

Before Liu Yifei, there was probably only Cheng Long's "Rush Hour" series that could have such excellent box office performance internationally.

What Li Bingbing and Zhang Ziyi, they don't have such achievements, at most they play some marginal roles in big movies.

While waiting for the Black Widow movie, Scarlett actually hopes that Lucy will have a sequel. She has also made movies outside Marvel, but the box office performance is average. Only the Dragon Rises series has shown her box office appeal.

Of course, there is also Liu Yifei. The nearly 200 million dollars in China is probably all due to Liu Yifei.

"To show her sincerity, Scarlett is even willing to play the first role." Dorothy said. Although the two have the same role in this movie, Liu Yifei has more fighting scenes, but Scarlett is definitely the first role.

Liu Yifei looked embarrassed, and Wang Quan directly helped her to block it. After filming these film contracts, she still needs to take care of her body and prepare to have a baby.

Seeing how Sissi was so fond of Alex just now, Wang Quan swore in his heart that he must give her a baby!

Dorothy could only express regret for this. It seems that she can only shoot Lucy 2 first.

In order to wait for his father, Alex went to bed much later than usual and was already sleepy. After dinner, Xiao K went to coax the child to sleep.

Liu Yifei also got up and said goodbye. When she returned to her home in New York, she found it clean and tidy. There was no dust on the table. It seemed that someone cleaned it every week.

Although it was past 12 o'clock, she just finished dinner and couldn't sleep. She went to Twitter, which she hadn't been to for a long time, and was surprised to find that her Twitter followers had exceeded 5 million!

She remembered that her Twitter followers surged during the years when she was in love with Wang Quan. After they broke up, she even lost some followers, but then it basically stabilized at more than two million.

She checked it two months ago, and it was still more than two million. It seems that the extra two million is mainly due to "Lucy the Witch".

It is also due to her assistant Zhuzhu. She was too lazy to manage these social software, and Zhuzhu was the one who posted photos.

In addition to Twitter, Liu Yifei also looked at Instagram and Facebook, and the number of fans also surged a lot.

She also read some comments and was surprised to find that most of the new fans liked her role as the witch, and even looked up "The Witch", which was not well-known in North America before, and it can be watched on Netflix.

What surprised her even more was that many people mentioned "Don't Tell Her", and these obviously foreign fans also expressed their affirmation of her performance.

Her face turned red, it seems that she has really become an international celebrity.

The next day, Wang Quan took Liu Yifei and Xiao K to Toronto to attend the film festival.

Xiao K has "Room", Wang Quan has "Parasite" and "Who is He", and Liu Yifei also has "Don't Tell Her".

After arriving at the place, Wang Quan first found Fan Bingbing and Wen Yongshan, and then found Zhang Songwen and Jiang Peiyao.

In addition, the crews of "Mountains May Depart", "Old Cannon" and "Office Workers" that had previously intersected in Cannes and Venice also came. There are indeed many Chinese-language films this year.

Before Wang Quan came back, they all envied Fan Bingbing. Although Fan Bingbing didn't have many overseas connections, with Long Taiyang leading him, Fan Bingbing's presence was basically indispensable in any event.

Yesterday, she took a photo with Leo and became a hot search on Weibo.

How could Leo know her, but when he heard that she was the heroine of Wang Quan's new film "Parasite", it became "Oh, nice to meet you".

Wang Quan's transformation masterpiece, which has received many affirmations before it was released, even Leo is itching.

So he deliberately left a day later, waited for Wang Quan to arrive in Toronto, and attended the premiere of "Parasite".

Wang Quan didn't catch up with his "The Revenant", but the Chinese fans on the chartered plane did.

Although tickets were hard to buy, they spent money like crazy, and finally everyone got a ticket.

After more than two hours of screening, the scene applauded.

"Oh, David, I have learned a new word now, newbee!" After watching "Parasite", Leo learned the new words he learned from Quentin to express his admiration for Wang Quan's new film.

As an actor who has rarely made commercial films and has focused on art films in recent years to seek the best actor award, Leo didn't say that he understood it completely, but he also understood a lot of it, and the artistic content of this lot was as high as three or four floors.

He felt that if he and Wang Quan had not filmed "Inception" at the beginning, but the American version of "Parasite", he would probably have won the best actor award long ago.

The problem of the rich and poor reflected in "Parasite" is a problem that the whole world needs to face, and it is particularly serious in the United States.

Leo has even thought about remaking the film. If he still can't win the Best Actor Award for "The Revenant", he really wants to try Liang Jiahui's role. Didn't he win the Best Actor Award at Cannes for this role?

The release of this film in Toronto also made Fan Bingbing more famous. Some authoritative media directly used "Chinese sexy goddess" and "Marilyn Monroe of the East" to evaluate her.

Afterwards, "Who is He" was also screened in Toronto. Although it was not as popular as "Parasite", there was no English version, and only subtitles were available, which also lost a lot of viewing experience, but the legendary nature of this film is still very attractive.

Now the media in North America are reporting that Wang Quan caught the perverted demon who had been on the run for more than 20 years and crazily killed more than a dozen women through filming. He is the Jack the Ripper of China.

After the screening of both films, Zhang Songwen and Jiang Peiyao are about to return to China.

It just so happens that the domestic film "Who is He" is about to be released. Although the company has no publicity budget, it does not prohibit actors from actively promoting movies. If there is an invitation from a program, Wang Quan will not prohibit it at all.

Jiang Peiyao whispered: "Director, Running Man has invited me, so I will go?"

"Go," Wang Quan asked curiously, "Didn't you invite Teacher Zhang?"

Zhang Songwen said embarrassedly: "I guess it's because I'm old. This kind of high-intensity exercise is not suitable for me."

Although he is not yet 40 years old, he is indeed a life-lover who is accustomed to a slow life. Running Man does not match his style. If there is any "Longing for Life" at this time, it is right to find him.

Because Fan Bingbing still has to film in Taiwan, she also left, but she just flew to Taiwan.

Now the work in Toronto is temporarily over, just waiting for the closing ceremony, so Wang Quan asked Liu Yifei and Wen Yongshan to go to Los Angeles to play.

And Wen Yongshan was thinking, ah, can I also play with Liu Yifei?

The answer is: you wish.

Neither Dorothy nor Xiao K succeeded, so they could only play their own games.

As for Wang Quan, he still had to audition actors for "Xiaoyaoyou", and this series also needed some foreign actors.

He didn't think about saving money, with such a high budget, so the auditions were all first- and second-tier stars.

At this time, "Who is He" was also released in China as scheduled. Although it was released without publicity and the posters were made by the cinema itself, it got 40% of the screenings on the first day of its release.

This is the case. First, the cinema and the audience believe in Wang Quan. The pre-sale box office of the movie is very good, and the cinema must increase the screening.

Another reason is that there is no competitor at the same time. Last week's "Mission Impossible 5" has already made 600 million yuan, and there is no box office potential.

On the same day, there was only a third-tier Hollywood movie "Pixels", which was not a rival at all.

In this coldest box office period of the year, "Who is He" won 118 million yuan on the first day, which was a weekday. The popularity was beyond everyone's expectations.

At this time, two news came out from Baiyin. One was that the murderer Gao Chengyong had tried to commit suicide, but failed.

In addition, Gao Chengyong wanted to apply to watch the movie "Who is He" about himself.

Even the murderer himself wanted to watch it, so the audience wanted to watch it even more. Even if they had been vaccinated before that the movie was not very commercial, they didn't care, just to see the murderer lineup.

The news that the real murderer had appeared in the movie had been reported from Venice a long time ago, which became a major reason for the box office boom.

Wang Quan also called Team Zhang in Baiyin to ask if Gao Chengyong really proposed to watch this movie.

"Yes, it's true."

Wang Quan asked: "Did you agree?"

Team Zhang said viciously: "No, he is not afraid of death, nor is he afraid of humiliation. It's rare that there is something that can control him. He wants to watch it, but he is not allowed to watch it."

Wang Quan agrees with this approach, "Let him go with regret."

A few days later, Wang Quan and his team went to Toronto again to attend the closing ceremony.

By the way, they also have to receive the People's Choice Award.

Wang Quan won the award again.

Through the audience's votes, the film festival selected the first, second and third prizes.

"Parasite" won the first prize, "Who is He" won the third prize, and Xiao K's "Room" won the second prize.

Although it is a North American film festival, the aesthetic orientation of the Toronto audience is still literary and artistic. So many commercial blockbusters such as "The Martian" did not win the award.

Xiao K is very happy. This time, "Room" won the award, which gave her more confidence in the impact of the film queen.

After the Toronto show, Wang Quan and Liu Yifei set off to return to China.

As soon as they landed, they received the news that the box office of "Who is He" exceeded 700 million in the first six days!

All the domestic entertainment colleagues were jealous. This kind of movie can burst out such energy without any publicity. It's too bullying!

However, it is worth mentioning that because the commercial attributes are indeed not high, the box office trend has begun to decline by the weekend.

But it has already broken 700 million, and there is still such a long schedule behind it. It must not be difficult to break 1 billion~

(It's the end of the month, please give me a monthly ticket~~)