In fact, Zhou Mo Sen overlooked someone's emotions.

And that person is Scarlett Johnson.

This burgeoning star, also a very beautiful and sexy girl.

At that time, she really agreed without hesitation.

But this agreement... didn't she have any special thoughts?

At least, Scarlett herself knew that she wasn't just lending a hand.

She was fully aware that if she helped, Zhou Mo Sen would owe her a favor!

That's right, she agreed back then, and then nothing was said.

But that's enough, absolutely enough.

Scarlett was completely certain that Zhou Mo Sen would owe her a favor.

Actually, Europe and America are also societies based on favors.

'Favor' is something that can be said to be very similar to the 'martial world.'

This similarity, of course, comes from that saying.

Wherever there are people, there is a martial world.

Likewise.

Wherever there are people, there are favors.

Scarlett Johnson certainly didn't know that some people in China thought Europe and America didn't care about personal relationships.

But in reality, the reason Scarlett Johnson is where she is today, debuting as a child star.

Wasn't it all thanks to her parents?

She never thought there was anything wrong with this.

Moreover, isn't Hollywood just like this? She's not some unique existence; many are star children or director children.

Parents create opportunities, and then it's up to oneself to seize them.

With a good family background and social connections, Scarlett worked even harder in honing her acting skills.

Striving for success, moving further.

To become a true superstar!

Scarlett Johnson's ideas, of course, had no problem, but making Zhou Mo Sen owe her a favor.

This seemed... she hadn't even thought about how to use this favor.

In any case, let him owe it first.

Scarlett thought well, but soon after, she was astonished by Zhou Mo Sen.

Returning from Cannes, of course, all her efforts had to be poured into the release of "Escape from Clone Island."

The movie's release wasn't as easy as many thought it would be.

Before the film began shooting, even before the roles were confirmed, there would be a contract negotiation process.

And the contract would include many things.

For instance, publicity during the movie's release, if you're the lead, you'd have to be involved.

Yes, that's the promotional work we see, with the movie's main creative team continuously coming out to promote, or attend film festivals, or appear on TV, or attend premieres, or interact with fans offline.

All these tasks are discussed at the beginning and need to be clearly written in the contract.

Which means, an actor's pay isn't just for their performance in front of the camera; there's a lot of work they need to do.

Thinking this way, it seems... perhaps stars are paid too much!

Alright, let's not dwell on that.

Scarlett followed the contract and joined the main creative team, but while doing so, she realized something was off.

This "Escape from Clone Island" was undoubtedly the most anticipated blockbuster this year, and Scarlett Johnson planned to further climb the ladder.

However, this movie actually...

Received poor reactions from fans, and its box office was getting worse and worse.

Also, some well-known movie magazines' reviews.

Many incredibly famous magazines were quite blunt!

They directly criticized!

What's going on?

What exactly is the situation?

Is this movie doomed?

In the United States, movie box offices are counted based only on weekends because weekend box office truly reflects the situation.

As a result, this "Escape from Clone Island" had a decent opening weekend, but then kept plummeting!

After two weeks passed, the third week's box office practically wasn't worth watching.

Totally unbearable!

It's incredibly difficult for the North American box office to even reach one hundred million; only counting the global box office could it surpass one hundred million.

This is an absolute huge failure!

To be honest, Scarlett Johnson had never led such a blockbuster before.

In terms of box office performance, this movie represented Scarlett Johnson's personal best record.

Yes, absolutely number one.

Her previous films never sold this much.

But!

This movie's investment was huge!

As it stands, if it barely breaks one hundred million dollars.

Then this movie is a total loss!

Even regarding Scarlett Johnson's feeling when attending events...

Less than three weeks in, there were virtually no more events.

This shouldn't be!

Really shouldn't be, even for a regular movie, there should be events going on for at least over a month.

Actors, celebrities, that's the way it is.

But this time nothing.

Indicating extreme disappointment!

And then rumors were...

Spielberg might be collapsing!

Because of this movie?

When Scarlett Johnson thought about this, she really had some fear.

Because, she was worried about being implicated.

One must know, this is how it is in Hollywood.

When your movie can't make money, or even loses money.

Then no one will invite you to do movies anymore!

Scarlett Johnson truly didn't want such an outcome.

And if such an outcome were to happen...

She thought of Zhou Mo Sen.

She felt Zhou Mo Sen was a man she could rely on, if she truly ran out of options, maybe Zhou Mo Sen would save her.

This... the favor owed before, seems useless now.

...

Cannes.

Of course, Zhou Mo Sen didn't know Scarlett Johnson's real thoughts.

However, he did feel he truly owed that girl a favor.

Yet, the way he considered repaying the favor was more straightforward.

Next time they meet, just get her drunk.

Yes, just like that.

Anyway, she likes it too.

So, Zhou didn't think much of it.

Originally, he planned to handle some matters before returning to the United States.

The matter mainly involved the distribution of "Infiltration" in Europe.

Already considered an old hand, he was certainly very clear that film festivals are actually 'film trade markets.'

Many films' distribution rights and copyrights are negotiated here.

Zhou Mo Sen was here to explore; for "Infiltration" in North America, it would likely rely on Warner Brothers, if negotiations really didn't go smoothly, then just switch.

But in Europe, if he didn't know the pricing, wouldn't he easily get exploited for a price difference?

So, he wasn't just here to accompany his girl for the film festival.

And truth be told, there were indeed gains.

Two distributors in Spain were quite interested.

When he thought of films over there, they indeed like dark, plot twists, and various thrillers.

Then "Infiltration" really fit the bill.

Thus, it was also an expansion into the market.

And the other thing... Zhou Mo Sen also probed Qin Hong a bit.

Money talks, his Mandarin was quite standard, naturally making inquiries easy.

It turned out Qin Hong was indeed feeling like he had to flee.

That guy had a case back home, if it got messy, the best outcome would have been to escape.

Zhou Mo Sen calculated... hehe... don't blame me for being uncharitable.

Collecting materials, then look for an opportunity to report this bastard.

Anyway...

Revenge! Necessary revenge!

Just like that, the Cannes Film Festival was over.

And the festival outcome... Gao Yuanyuan failed to win the best actress.

This... Zhou Mo Sen didn't want to stir up more trouble, so decided to leave Cannes.

Unexpectedly, he'd already bought the ticket.

But then came a call.

It's from Gao Yuanyuan.

"Do you have time?"

"Ah?"

"I want to go to the depths of the ocean."

Zhou Mo Sen heard her words... they sounded somewhat odd.

The depths of the ocean, is that somewhere you just go?