"Director Kiryu, I love you!!"
"Thank you for your support."
Amidst countless screams, Nanaya smiled, picked up the pen, and signed his name on several FZ posters.
As the leading actor of this movie, Washimine's publicity campaign for Nanaya himself was many times more than that of his previous movies.
Coupled with the consecutive success of his previous films, Nanaya is no longer the unknown director spurned by fans of the original novel in North America.
At least in the eyes of Fate fans, he is not only an outstanding commercial film director, but also the father of their favorite film series.
What's more, looking around the world, even though the number of movies with production costs of over 100 million US dollars has increased dramatically since 2000, there are still very few directors qualified to direct these movies.
Even in Hollywood, there seem to be only a few people.
Even fewer people have full control over a project.
It can be said that as a director, Nanaya has now reached the top of the industry.
Now he is moving from a pure director to a higher level, which is a completely different food chain.
Among those who have entered this field as directors, the most successful ones are George Lucas and James Cameron. Originally, Spielberg should have been included, but he was out the moment DreamWorks was acquired.
As a new generation director born after 2000, Nanaya Kiryu's achievements are obvious to all.
From a poor boy from the countryside to a star director that everyone is paying attention to, his legendary experience can be said to be an existence that is easily admired in any country.
Especially the America under Nanaya's feet. As a perfect representative of the American dream, Nanaya can be said to be the object of worship for most people.
From this perspective, it's no wonder that Nanaya is so popular among movie fans.
However, although the fans were very excited, especially some female fans.
Nanaya did not interact with them too much. He just signed a few autographs as a matter of routine and then shook hands with a few fans he liked.
After all, he doesn't know what else to do with the fans other than these.
It can't be true that the live performance is as exciting as these crazy fans say, right?
Putting aside the issue of moral indecency, if he dared to do this, Shion would probably pack him up and bring him back to Japan on a plane, and then drop him directly into Tokyo Bay from an altitude of tens of thousands of meters.
After finishing the interaction with the fans, Nanaya walked past the red carpet area and entered the interview area.
An assistant had been waiting here for a long time. After seeing Nanaya, she came behind Nanaya unnoticed so that she could give Nanaya hints at any time during the following interview.
In modern society, behind every public figure there must be an entire dedicated public relations team silently operating and maintaining the situation.
In this age of increasingly fluid information, sometimes a slightly inappropriate statement may be misinterpreted and magnified by someone with ulterior motives, and may even end up ruining the public figure.
After all, personal energy is limited. No matter how careful you are, there will be times when you are vulnerable. At this time, a complete team is very necessary.
Nanaya withdrew his eyes from the assistant and said nothing.
This assistant was specially assigned to him by Shion and would be his assistant at work in the future.
With more and more work and things to do now, Nanaya really needs such an assistant to help him arrange the related work reasonably.
Nanaya no longer wants to experience the situation in February again.
I just don't know if she was afraid that Nanaya would have to live a life of "assistant to do when there is work, [beep] assistant when there is nothing to do" from now on. Although the assistant that Shion found for Nanaya is young, her appearance is just ordinary.
Not to mention compared with the beauties like Shion and Rin, she is not even as good as Trier's foot-washing maids.
But Nanaya felt that Shion was completely overthinking, and he really had no other ideas at the moment.
Although this assistant is plain-looking, his professional skills are indeed impeccable.
At least during this period of time, Nanaya felt that this little girl was quite easy to use. Many things were arranged very reasonably, which made his work a lot easier.
For example, this time when dealing with various media, every time Nanaya answered, the other party would remind him of some details in a timely manner.
And the reminder was so small that no one except Nanaya noticed it.
This time the premiere was broadcast live on television, and each television station did not want to miss the opportunity to speak to the star director.
Even the media from Fox TV arrived and asked Nanaya questions in a friendly manner.
Although Washimine and 20th Century Fox Film Company have been at loggerheads, Fox TV was still very friendly to Nanaya this time.
This is not surprising. Although Fox Television and 20th Century Fox Film Corporation belong to the same group, they are two different departments after all.
Just like Washimine is in a life-and-death situation with Sony's game department in the console field, Washimine Entertainment's most pleasant partner in Hollywood is Sony Columbia.
If the group has a request to discredit Washimine, Fox TV will not object and will carry it out smoothly.
But this year, Fox has almost no big-budget movies released.
Not to mention this year, even next year in 2008, Fox will not release a movie with a budget of over 100 million.
The reason is simple, Fox is planning a big move.
The movie "Avatar" has consumed too much of Fox's working capital, so that in the past two years, Fox has had no spare energy to develop other big projects.
In this way, Fox TV naturally lost its reason to attack Washimine.
For Fox TV, I can't just turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to the big news traffic for the next two years, right?
You know, Washimine has produced many blockbuster works in the past two years, which is good for ratings for Fox TV.
To put it bluntly, these news media are all profit-driven.
So after entering 2007, the relationship between Fox TV and Washimine Entertainment began to ease, and some positive reports began to appear.
Despite this, neither Washimine nor Nanaya's attitude towards Fox TV can be considered particularly friendly. It can only be said that it has changed from [hostile] to [normal].
No one intends to maintain particularly good relations with TV stations that can clearly foresee a fallout.
This interview was more like a routine matter. Under the questioning of the Fox TV reporter, Nanaya praised all the main members of the crew, from behind the scenes to the actors in front of the stage.
Of course, there is also praise for the FZ movie itself.
Entertainment promotion is not the time to be humble; naturally, it requires bragging and self-promotion.
"Director Kiryu, I heard that the story of FZ this time is much heavier than FSN, and it adopts a cruel story that is completely different from the original growth and inspirational story."
At the end of the interview, the reporter from Fox TV asked the last question, "As the screenwriter and director of the project, why did you create such a huge story?"
[Nonsense, this is a story written by two people. ]
"Because I don't want the audience to watch the same story over and over again, it is very necessary to keep the story fresh."
Nanaya's expression remained unchanged, and he directly activated the skill of [Staring and Telling Lies].
He replied with a serious face: "The last FSN story was about a boy who grew up in the war but never forgot his original aspirations. This time, I hope to tell the story of what choices different people will make in the war. At the same time, I want to show the cruelty of war to the audience, so that everyone understands that war has no glory or honor, but a naked life-and-death struggle. Peace is more important than anything else."
Although Nanaya's goal is to make money, some things still need to be said in a more dignified manner.
The recent U.S. military activities in the Middle East have caused various domestic reflections on peace.
Especially in Hollywood, it is a pioneer in the anti-war movement in the United States.
The banner of peace held high by Nanaya, just like the women's boxing and racial equality a few years later, was the most correct political correctness.
What's more, Nanaya's answer was also very cunning. He said that "peace" is more important than anything else, but as to whose peace this is, that is a bit ambiguous.
This kind of answer that does not offend either side is naturally more in line with the interests of Nanaya, an outsider in Hollywood.
Pah pah.
The assistant secretly touched Nanaya with his hand, signaling him to stop.
"I won't say any more. I believe the audience will like this movie." Nanaya immediately shut up.
Nanaya still understands the principle that the more you talk, the more mistakes you make.
Nanaya waved to all the cameras around him, then turned and walked towards the filming area.
"You did a great job, sir."
The assistant whispered in praise behind Nanaya: "Talking about peace can save us a lot of trouble. And it will also be very useful for us to enter the awards season."
"Barry, forget about the award season. I don't plan to compete for awards with Fate right now." Nanaya shook his head in denial.
The overly commercial nature of the current Fate series makes it completely unsuitable for winning awards.
Apart from anything else, last year's UBW also received zero awards at this year's Oscars, only being nominated for a few technical awards.
When the commercial performance of the Fate series reaches its peak, the academic community may give the series one or two technical awards to comfort it, which will be their greatest affirmation of the series.
Just like the MCU in its previous life, except for the very special movie "Black Panther", it is almost impossible for this series, which is full of the smell of money in the eyes of film critics, to win awards.
But even so, the three awards won by "Black Panther" were only technical awards, and it still missed out on any major awards.
But, Who Cares?
Anyway, Nanaya never thought that Fate and MCU would win anything during the award season. After all, these two series only had three goals from the beginning.
Make money, make money, and make more money.