Chapter 949 How many signings are you going to hold?
Lin Fei could clearly see the happiness on the faces of the reporters. Lin Fei had never expected that interviews could reveal happiness.
Although the reporters entered the interview session, they had to endure the host's long speech first.
Because Zhang Zhong was present today, the host was also very excited. Due to his excitement, he spoke a few more words, and the opening speech alone lasted nearly ten minutes.
After ten minutes passed, the interview session officially began, and many reporters raised their hands impatiently.
Zhang Zhong picked one at random, and the reporter stood up and asked, "Pz, did you come to France specifically to attend the wedding of those two fans?"
Sure enough, what reporters were most concerned about was what happened yesterday.
Zhang Zhong replied, "You can say that."
"Pz, I heard that the box office performance of the new movie "The Devotion of Suspect
The original work was also written by you, do you know the reason for this?"
Zhang Zhong shook his head, "I'm not sure, but if you want to know, I can ask our company's staff later if anyone knows about it. If so, I'll find a time to tell you later."
"This movie has just been released in North America. I heard that the box office performance is not bad, but the box office is much lower than that in China. Have you expected this before? What do you think is the reason? Could it be?
Because the movie is full of Chinese faces, North American audiences can’t adapt to it?”
Zhang Zhong raised his eyebrows, this topic was quite interesting.
In fact, as this reporter said, the box office performance of "The Devotion of Suspect X" in North America was not ideal, and could even be said to be very poor.
In China, the box office gap between "The Devotion of Suspect X" and "Murder on the Orient Express" is not big, and the former may even surpass the latter.
However, in North America, there is a huge gap in the box office between the two movies. After only three or four days of release, the gap between them reached two to three billion Chinese dollars.
It is simply impossible to say that there were no reasons mentioned by the reporter just now.
In the current film industry, European and American faces are definitely more popular. Not only in Europe and the United States, but also in Asia, Africa and Latin America, European and American white faces are more popular.
Take China as an example. There is still a circle of people who basically don’t watch domestic movies. They only talk about a certain foreign movie star. If they see anyone talking about a domestic movie star, they will definitely sneer at it.
Watching foreign movies means you have good taste, but watching domestic movies means you are old-fashioned.
This is the extreme view of some people in the film industry.
So let alone Europe and America.
Of course, this situation has gradually changed in the past two years. Zhang Zhong has produced more and more works and is becoming more and more famous. He is a business card in his own right, a business card with a Chinese face. People begin to slowly accept Zhang Zhong.
With this face, he began to accept the faces of other Chinese people who looked similar to Zhang Zhong.
On the other hand, the protagonists in many of Zhang Zhong’s works are Chinese people. Readers will subconsciously have a good impression of the Chinese people while reading the book.
If it weren't for Zhang Zhong's influence in the past two years, I'm afraid the gap between the two movies these days would be more than two to three billion Chinese dollars.
The box office of "The Devotion of Suspect X" itself has exceeded 200 million these days, which is a very high box office for a movie with all Chinese characters.
Even the previous "The Last Starfish" was not all Chinese actors, many of them were European and American faces.
Even though there are reasons for fans of the original work to support it, it cannot be ignored that the cultural counter-export in recent years has been very effective.
However, things have to be done bit by bit, and output has to come bit by bit. Sooner or later, the situation will become completely different.
Facing the reporter's question, Zhang Zhong smiled and replied, "I believe European and American audiences will get used to it."
By implication, he did admit what the reporter said about the problem that Europeans and Americans are not used to Chinese faces.
If it were in the past, a reporter might ask: Then what you meant was...
But now basically no one dares to ask Zhang Zhong such questions, because everyone in the media knows that Zhang Zhong is most afraid of being asked nonsense questions.
It is said that Zhang Zhong also has a small notebook, which contains a bunch of blacklists from news media. As long as he is on this blacklist, there is basically no chance to interview Zhang Zhong.
Some people may wonder whether Zhang Zhong can remember it if there are many names on the blacklist, and whether he sometimes forgets about it.
But according to the blacklisted media, Zhang Zhong can indeed remember it. As long as the media has offended Zhang Zhong, even if they can run to Zhang Zhong, Zhang Zhong will not be able to answer questions.
"Mr. PZ, first of all, I would like to say Happy New Year to you here, because not long after your Chinese New Year's Eve, it is said that tomorrow is the Lantern Festival? I wonder if you will go back to celebrate the festival? In addition, we also know that,
On the day of the Lantern Festival, you have a new book to be released. This "Cat City" has touched the hearts of readers. You can see it tomorrow. And luckily, this novel will also be released in France the day after tomorrow with French readers.
Let’s meet. What I want to ask is, if you don’t go back, will you stay in France for a few more days and promote your new book? If you decide to go back for the holidays, is there any chance to come back after the holidays?
What about France? You are very popular in France. Basically everyone who reads books knows your name. However, you have only held one signing event in France in the past few years. Of course, I also know that you are very busy, but I
What I’m thinking is, because French readers like you so much, can you come to France to hold a few more book signings?”
Zhang Zhong noticed that the reporter who asked the question took a deep breath after he finished speaking. He had to say that the paragraph he asked was indeed long enough.
It is estimated that he was also afraid that he would not have a chance to ask another question after this question, so he spoke out what he wanted to say as quickly as possible.
In fact, Zhang Zhong held more than one signing event in France, but it was in different places during the same period, which was the global signing event that year.
So it makes sense to say that Zhang Zhong only came to France once for a book signing.
In response to the reporter's cordial invitation, Zhang Chong responded with a smile, "First of all, I thank you for your New Year greetings. In addition, after the promotional meeting here, I will go to the airport to catch a flight. I will definitely spend the Lantern Festival with my family."