Although many of the artists who had appeared on the red carpet had already slipped away and returned home after the opening ceremony, not all of the Chinese filmmakers who came here had come just to freeload off the red carpet.
A considerable number had come to sell film rights and promote their movies.
It wasn't only films that had been nominated that came to sell their rights. Even Section Chief Zheng's film wasn't among the most eye-catching domestic films on the market.
The ones genuinely willing to spend big on large-scale publicity were all commercial films.
As for whether they could make back the money they spent by selling the rights, only God knew.
Their goal might not even have been to sell the rights. Maybe they just wanted to put out a press release saying, "So-and-so Film's Cannes Rights Sell Like Hotcakes."
So this was Cannes.
It was a temple of art, but it was also a feast of money and capital.
The main reason Lu Wenyuan had appeared here was that the film he had acted in had come to Cannes for promotion.
Their film had made the biggest splash among all the domestic films at the festival's film market.
It seemed to be a fantasy commercial film about tomb raiding.
The kid seemed to retain a shred of shame. He hadn't gone to freeload off the red carpet, and the pictures he had released were just some street shots and photos of the beach.
His appearance in front of Bai Youlou again was actually to show his support.
But the amusing part was that, at first, the guy hadn't known he was coming to support Bai Youlou at all.
Bai Youlou himself had once been an idol, so he knew that when someone was relatively popular,