Chapter 472 Watching Beautiful Women Is Not a Movie!

Chapter 472 Watching beautiful women...no, a movie!

Old Americans are quite open to art.

After all, the term "unspoken rules" and "sex service" came from Hollywood - the red sofa!

How powerful is Hollywood’s distribution capability?

Directly oriented to the world, one role can take you from penniless to global fame.

The temptation is too great!

Yesterday I was poor, today I can make a million a day...

What is this called?

Class crossing!

In comparison, what are unspoken rules?

In fact, sex trade exists in the entertainment industry of every country.

But elsewhere, there is a certain degree of cover-up.

For example, reading scripts in the hotel, chatting about dramas all night long, etc.

However, in Hollywood, none of these exist, giving the unspoken rules a sense of ritual?

There is no need, Hollywood just comes right up and gets to the point.

As a senior practitioner - her parents are also insiders, Evan Rachel Wood is well versed in this set of things...

As a stamp collecting enthusiast, it is normal to have a handsome Asian guy on the list.

After revealing this idea, Shen Xudong doesn't care. He doesn't discriminate. What's wrong with the American people?

Not a human being?

When it comes time to communicate with them about technology and friendship, how can you refuse?

He is not weak either!

I just didn't expect the opponent to be stronger, with familiar skills and techniques, and extraordinary endurance. It can be said that when you meet your opponent, you will meet a good talent!

Regarding discrimination…

Hey, forget it, it’s not discrimination, I’m just not used to it…

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Shen Xudong came to Cannes for serious business...

I went to meet MK2 Company first...

"Carol" European distribution handed over to MK2...

"Outstanding Citizens" has already reached a cooperative relationship before.

The base camp of MK2 is actually France!

They have a very good relationship with the Cannes Film Festival organizing committee.

It can even be said that as long as those who are interested in art films get on the boat of MK2, they will have one foot in the door of the Cannes Film Festival.

A series of Asian directors, including Jia Zhangke, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Abbas, had their films shortlisted in Cannes largely because of the operation of this company.

Cannes is known as the palace of art films, but it is actually all about relationships. Without relationships, no matter how good the quality of the film is, it will be difficult to squeeze into the main competition section of Cannes.

Take Wang Jiawei's films as an example. Early films like "Chungking Express" and "Ashes of Time" were of very high quality and received high reviews from French film critics, but they just couldn't get into Cannes.

After MK2 became the agent for Wong Kar-Wai's films, "Happy Together" immediately entered the main competition section of Cannes and won the Best Director Award...

It’s the same all over the world…

Killer Films does not have global distribution capabilities, so North America can only rely on MGM - MGM has no time to take care of itself, and it is impossible for them to develop a queer movie like "Carol" overseas!

Let it find its own publisher...

After settling the matter of "Carol" - in addition to selling the copyright, they also hinted at winning awards or something. MK2 said that it would try its best!

They must also want "Carol" to win awards and save a lot of publicity funds.

After talking to MK2, Shen Xudong went directly to Jiahe Company's store.

Golden Harvest did not rent a booth in the trading market - the efficiency was too low. Those who were willing to visit the trading market were basically small film dealers, and few blockbusters were willing to go to the underground film trading hall on the first floor.

Jiahe simply booked a few rooms at the Grand Hotel, a ten-minute walk from the Movie Palace. Posters of movies such as "The Tailor", "Taken" and "Manslaughter" were all over the floor, and a separate comfortable room was also set up. living room to facilitate conversations with buyers who are inclined to trade.

Shen Xudong roughly understood that the rent for these rooms during the film festival would cost 40,000 US dollars, but Jiahe's staff also lived there, plus food and drink, etc., the five-person team would spend up to 100,000 US dollars...

very good already!

Generally speaking, for a team of five people selling films, the price of accommodation, transportation, food, tips, and booths adds up to a small amount of US$80,000 to 90,000!

Of course, these are minimum expenses. If you want to spend money, it's too easy - last year "The Promise" spent 1.5 million US dollars on a cocktail party in Cannes...

There are too many wealthy people!

Golden Harvest is selling movies this time.

Just a few houses and no other film producers?

There will be a Hong Kong movie night later, and more than 200 film producers from around the world will be invited, and Golden Harvest will definitely participate.

——Personally hosted by the Hong Kong General Administration of Trade!

Shen Xudong chatted with them and roughly learned that "Taken" was the best-selling movie. The UK, France, and Spain had already bought the copyright, and the asking prices were basically between US$800,000 and US$1 million. The US film market was still negotiating...

Jiahe wanted to ask for US$8 million here, but New Line thought it was too high...

In addition to "The Rescue", "Manslaughter" and "The Tailor" also sold very well, "The New World" was a little worse, and "Republic of China" was even worse...

Faced with Shen Xudong's question, the other party explained: "Not enough action! The actor is not famous enough!"

"..."Manslaughter" doesn't have enough action."

""Manslaughter" has Gong Li!"

All right…

Anyway, Shen Xudong knows that the five movie machines together have sold for about 19 million US dollars, and the majority of them have not been sold in North America yet!

Oh, the rights to Japan Benzene have not been sold either...

Golden Harvest in Southeast Asia released it themselves - "Taken" was released simultaneously across Asia on April 30. It is now May 4, with a box office of 17 million in the mainland and almost HK$4.6 million in Hong Kong.

After all, kung fu movies are very hungry for actors, and Donnie Yen's appeal is still far behind - last year's "Slaying the Wolf" was not even released in the mainland!

It’s not high, compared to the cost of close to 32 million.

Overseas box office is okay (concentrated in Southeast Asia), five days of release, 3 million US dollars...

According to expectations, the mainland box office should be 40 million, Hong Kong should probably exceed 10 million, and overseas should be almost 8 million US dollars...

No way, it’s time for Hollywood blockbusters to be released in turn.

Doesn’t look tall?

In fact, the main market for action movies is still discs!

Even in the Mainland, the disc copyright of action movies is much higher than that of ordinary movies...

The sales of "The Detective of the Republic of China" were very poor. Relying on Jiahe's connections, the maximum was 20,000 to 30,000 US dollars and the minimum was 4,000 to 5,000 US dollars. The total revenue was over 300,000 US dollars, which was considered a small profit...

It's good. Now these film producers are still willing to take a gamble. After a while, they won't even think about taking a gamble.

Overseas markets are sold in units of a region or a country. For domestic films, it doesn’t mean that you think they can’t be sold for 20,000 US dollars, but they can be sold for 10,000 US dollars. The concept is that if they can be sold, there will be an application. Some prices cannot be sold, they are 0, not a penny.

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After a day of shopping, Shen Xudong returned to the hotel and called Gao Fenfen: "I discovered that overseas, either action movies or cartoons are welcome!"

"I can understand action movies... cartoons?"

"You have to figure it out for yourself. How much does it cost for DreamWorks to make an animation? It can range from 100 million to 200-300 million US dollars. If the Eastern European market or France wants to buy "Shrek", it will not only be expensive, but it will also have to be divided among others. But They can buy the rights to our films for 20,000 US dollars, so why not? And there are no cultural discounts for cartoons, they are all suitable for younger audiences and are particularly easy to sell."

"real?"

"Why are you lying to me... Hong Kong's "McDull", I heard from them today, its sales were overwhelming, and it was sold in 65 countries in one day..."

"I said so!"

Gao Fenfen muttered on the other end of the phone...

"McDull" is released almost once a year, or even two or three times a year. I used to wonder how to make money, but now I understand!

"...Besides visiting the film market, what else did you do in Cannes?"

"Looking at beautiful women... no, watching movies!"