Chapter 686: 00,000, Don’t Be a Licking Dog

When he came to Toronto, Ronan's greatest interest was the screening and trading market of new films at the film festival.

When he discovered and purchased "The Blair Witch" at the Sun Denis Film Festival, Tony Koch was also one of the participants, and immediately followed Ronan with great interest.

"Is it possible to find a film like "The Blair Witch"?" Tony Koch is also a rich man now, and he doesn't pay much attention to how much money the film can make. Movies like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" will do."

Ronan stood in the front hall, looking ahead, there were all booths. Compared with the Cannes Film Festival, the film trading market in Toronto was obviously bigger.

Tony Koch said: "Come on, what are you waiting for? Ronan, let's start our journey of discovery."

Connie, who was half a body behind Ronan, answered the phone and said quietly, "Thomas from Embassy Films called. He won't be able to make it this morning."

Ronan nodded lightly: "Still dealing with "When Happiness Knocks on the Door"?"

"Yes." Connie said in a low voice: "We are coordinating with the organizing committee to increase the number of screening venues."

Tony Koch chimed in: "'Eavesdropping' could fill a theater for 'Happiness Knocks'."

Ronan looked at him curiously, and Tony Koch shrugged slightly: "Embassy Pictures won two theaters for "Eavesdropping Storm", but there are very few audiences. Although most of the audience who have seen the film think it is shocking, but It's a fact that the film is dull."

"This is a normal phenomenon." Ronan said: "European movies are still slow-paced and heavy-themed genres, which cannot be compared with commercial movies."

Even with the Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear Award and multiple European film festival awards, if a film like "Eavesdropping Storm" does not win Oscars, it will be too difficult to achieve good results in the North American film market up.

Tony Koch looked at Ronan: "So, the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film is very important."

Ronan walked towards the trading area and said, "Let's see if we can find a good film."

Tony Koch is very interested: "If you find out, let me negotiate."

"Okay." Ronan said: "If there is, I will ask the embassy film industry to authorize you."

Ronan just entered the trading zone,

It fell into the eyes of some caring people, and several groups of people came to say hello, and wanted to invite him to the booth to watch the film, but they were all stopped by the bodyguards.

"Someone is following us." Connie moved closer and quietly reminded, "It seems that there are buyers from other distribution companies."

Tony Koch shook his head and said, "Look, Ronan, if you really want to discover something, you must let me negotiate. Your goal is too big."

Ronan was a little helpless, and said, "Let's watch more."

The speed of the group slowed down significantly. Whenever they saw a movie with a gimmicky name, Ronan would stop to look at the clips and related materials, but refused to make any contact with the seller.

The people who followed were frantically collecting information at the stalls where Ronan stopped.

In recent years, Ronan and Embassy Pictures have purchased and distributed a small number of films, but each time they invest more than one million dollars, they can always get several times the revenue.

How could other people not be jealous?

Lionsgate's Navas got news about Ronan as soon as he entered the trading field.

"Ronan Anderson is here too?" Navas had a bad feeling, as if something that belonged to him was being snatched away, and he quickly ordered the people around him: "Go and follow Ronan Anderson, and the He writes down every movie he sees."

The young assistant hurriedly said, "I'll go right away."

Just in case, he took two other people with him.

Navas watched the three leave, held his temper, and went to find films useful to Lionsgate.

The trading area of ​​the Toronto Film Festival is huge. Ronan and others walked for more than an hour, but only saw less than one-fifth of the exhibition area.

When they came to the booth of a South Korean production company, Ronan and Tony Koch stood not far from the small screen, watching the hero fight to the death in the movie.

"How big is the prize?" Ronan asked.

Tony Koch knew that Ronan was asking about "Eavesdropping Storm", and said: "It is estimated to be difficult. There is no jury in the competition in Toronto, and the awards are all voted by the audience. A boring film like "Eavesdropping Storm" is born with no advantages. .”

Ronan nodded slowly: "The main thing is to do a good job in publicity and promotion, and the goal is still Oscar."

Although the Toronto film industry is also an international A-category film festival, it is fundamentally different from European film festivals such as the Cannes Film Festival and the Berlin Film Festival.

The biggest, most famous and best thing this film festival does is to improve the trading platform for many film producers, focusing on showing and trading films.

Although there is also an award process, there is no special jury, and there is no professional competition like other film festivals. The award is won by the film with the highest votes voted by the audience participating in the film festival.

The award of the Toronto film industry is called the Audience Choice Award.

In the past few years, the winners of the audience's choice award are famous films, such as "The Pianist", "American Beauty", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Amelie", "Whale Rider" and so on.

"Eavesdropping Storm" originally wanted to compete, but judging from the audience's response, the chance was less than one percent.

On the contrary, "When Happiness Comes Knocking on the Door" received a good response, and the current vote rate is also very high. It is hoped that it will hit the audience's choice award.

Will Smith has been in contact with Ronan, and he will be in Toronto in a few days for a couple of promotional events to get as many votes as possible.

Wherever there is voting, the method of canvassing votes will always be indispensable.

A Korean movie was being shown, when the beautiful girl in the restaurant opened her legs and the male actor sprayed rice, Ronan remembered the title of the movie.

This is one of the few Korean movies that left an impression on him, and it seems to have been made into a series. If I remember correctly, it should be called "Sex is Empty".

Tony Koch asked: "Interested in this film?"

Ronan shook his head: "North America can only enter the DVD market, and you will lose as much as you invest in theaters."

Tony Koch looked at the actor on the screen and said with emotion: "Poor spare tire."

Ronan became interested and asked, "Have you ever had the experience of being a spare tire?"

"The lesson was painful." Tony Koch said to Ronan very seriously: "This is a lesson I have personally experienced. Don't be too nice to a woman who uses you as a backup, and don't be a licking dog."

Ronan gave him a thumbs up: "Tony, it's not easy to see through this."

Tony Koch sighed: "Licking the dog has nothing but driving up the market price in the end."

Ronan patted him on the shoulder: "Tony, you have really enlightened." He asked curiously, "So, how many spare tires do you have now?"

"A lot." Tony Koch showed his rich and handsome demeanor: "There must be seven or eight. Unlike you, there are only two left now."

Ronan said, "No way, the environment is like this."

At this time, according to the usual practice, Finch asked someone to ask the booth company for some film materials, and Ronan and Tony Koch left here.

The Toronto Film Festival is not so much a film festival as it is a large trading market.

After watching it, Ronan found a lot of impressive movies, such as "Zhou Yu's Train" from the East.

However, most of these films are sold with North American copyrights. It is difficult to recover the investment in the North American market.

Even if the selling price is not very high, there is still a cost to get the direct distribution of DVDs with low investment.

After watching for a long time, Ronan didn't find a suitable purchase target. After all, films like "The Blair Witch" are hard to come by. How many films have only been released in Hollywood's decades of history?

Tony Koch was a little anxious: "No goal? I'm waiting to show my skills."

Ronan shook his head, and looked at another booth. There was a film of the island country showing the rope art.

At the trade fair of this kind of film festival, large-scale films abound. There are many films made by directors, especially experimental films, which are shockingly large-scale.

However, it is basically difficult to sell highly experimental films, and no matter how low the price is, it is useless, because once the hairdressing company puts the film on the market, no matter how it is distributed, it will cost money.

No one can deny the role of experimental films in exploring the future development of the film industry, but most experimental films are unwatchable, or unbearable.

After watching several experimental films and collecting a large amount of information, Ronan came to the booth of an independent American filmmaker.

"This actress looks familiar." Tony Koch gestured to the actor on the poster with his eyes.

Ronan took a look: "Sandra Bullock, starred in "Speed."

Tony Koch immediately remembered: "Yes, yes, she acted with Keanu Kieves, she was very popular back then."

Ronan not only saw the poster of Sandra Bullock, but also saw her figure in the broadcasted film, and Don Cheadle, who signed a long-term contract with Marvel Entertainment and will soon star in "Iron Patriot", starred in Brendan Fraser of The Mummy series...

This is an independent film. Ronan watched it for a while. Based on his years of experience and the current situation of the actors, it is not difficult to judge that the investment scale of the film is seven to eight million US dollars.

In the video played, the prosecutor couple played by Brendan Fisher and Sandra Fisher were pointed at the head by two black boys, and could only watch helplessly as they snatched away their beloved SUV. .

Multi-line narrative, clear plot, tight rhythm...

Ronan watched the film calmly. It can be seen from the film that the director and editor have a very good level.

The director and producer with a bald forehead also saw Ronan and wanted to say a few words, but was blocked by the bodyguards.

A few minutes later, the bald director watched the well-known Ronan Anderson leave without any regrets, and couldn't hide his disappointment on his face.