Chapter 1705 - 832: Asian Actor_2

Chapter 1705: Chapter 832: Asian Actor_2

That’s the way it is.

Why, when someone tried to take Zhou Yun’s female lead role at first, did Mélando ultimately decide to have Zhou Yun play it?

Besides the protest emails organized by Zhou Yun’s fans bringing enough shock to the higher-ups, there’s another reason—Zhou Yun’s box office appeal in the Asian market.

Investigating Zhou Yun, they learned about her nickname: Box Office Miracle.

In terms of total box office, it might not be very large, none of those works with over five hundred million dollars, but in terms of investment return rate, Zhou Yun’s achievements are among the best globally.

Not to mention, works like "Four Killers" and "Two Tigers" performed well in major global box office territories.

It’s important to know these two film works, as Chinese-language films, broke overseas box office records for Chinese-language films over the past decade.

No Hollywood film company now dares to say they don’t care about the Chinese film market anymore.

The Chinese film market is Zhou Yun’s greatest confidence in venturing internationally.

Brillanch hesitated.

Zhou Lan’s attitude was so tough, something he hadn’t expected.

However, upon carefully considering Zhou Lan’s words, Brillanch realized that Zhou Lan indeed had the confidence to say those words.

Moreover, Zhou Lan was actually not wrong. Brillanch, being with Mélando, was well aware of how many of Mélando’s executives, as Zhou Lan stated, did not regard Zhou Yun, such an "outsider," highly. Although the Chinese film market had become the second-largest market worldwide, these people still lingered in the old mindset, thinking Chinese cinema people still desperately wanted to go to Hollywood as they did more than a decade ago.

Every time, Brillanch needed to work hard to make them understand that Hollywood’s allure to Chinese cinema people is not as strong as before.

China’s own market is enough for them to play now.

To prove this point, Brillanch often used Song Chi as an example. Almost every Hollywood film company had sent Song Chi invitations, after all, Song Chi at that time was the most influential young male actor in China, like Zhou Yun now, at his peak. But Song Chi never agreed to come to Hollywood, making them very surprised.

Ultimately, communication between Brillanch and Zhou Lan did not achieve any expected goals. He had actually anticipated this long beforehand, having dealt with Zhou Lan before and knowing how difficult Zhou Yun’s agent could be.

Meanwhile, as external public opinion continued to rise, Zhou Yun’s studio began preparing for her upcoming trip to Berlin.

The Berlin Film Festival was extremely welcoming of Zhou Yun’s attendance at this year’s festival. Especially now, with Zhou Yun receiving worldwide attention, her appearance would bring more news and exposure to the Berlin Film Festival. Though among the three major film festivals, Cannes is the one most successful in commercialization and celebrity culture, Berlin and Venice are not indifferent to these things. Every successful film festival in the world absolutely does not lack commercial and celebrity elements.

Art is not achieved by mere isolated admiration.

This time Zhou Yun will appear at the Berlin Film Festival with Song Chi, making domestic CP fans very excited.

Although these two are a couple, they rarely appear together publicly or in the same frame.

Otherwise, their January appearance together on Lew Yuan’s new show would not have attracted so much attention.

Among their fan base, there’s actually a large portion who are "career fans," people who want to see them shine at work and in their careers.

For example, attending the Berlin Film Festival is work that can make their résumés more dazzling.

The only regret for Zhou Yun’s fans this time is that she did not have a work in competition.

Zhou Yun’s fans have always hoped she could win a Best Actress award in the main competition unit at one of the three major film festivals.

Zhou Lan told Zhou Yun, "This time, House D offered to provide a custom-made piece that hasn’t hit the market yet for us to wear on the opening ceremony’s red carpet, being the first worldwide to wear it. Of course, Zheng Xiaowen already informed us early on, wanting us to wear her latest design in Berlin."

There are many gowns prepared for Zhou Yun to choose from.

Zhou Yun took a look, considering her red carpet image over the past year, and said, "For the opening ceremony red carpet, I’ll wear D’s piece. I’ll wear the one designed by Xiaowen for the ’Cigarette’ premiere."