Chapter 474 Believe It or Not, It’s up to You!

"Little Miss Sunshine" first made a splash at the Sundance Film Festival. It began to be released on a very small scale in 7 theaters in North America in March, with a box office of US$370,000 in the first weekend; then the screening range gradually expanded, and it will be released on April 25 , this film was released in more than 1,600 theaters in the United States, with a box office of US$2.07 million on the day of release. The box office on the first week of release reached third place in the US box office list that week.

As of now, the film's cumulative box office in the United States is US$39.89 million...

And the reputation is very good. Generally speaking, a movie with a good reputation can be released in art theaters in the United States for half a year to a year. If you put more efforts and get a few titles during the awards season, the copyright revenue can be at least several million dollars more.

Compared with the cost of less than 8 million U.S. dollars, it was as if Qin Shihuang touched the switch and was stunned!

Harvey is just... so greedy.

"Little Miss Sunshine" is a project introduced by Shen Xudong. The script was bought out for US$1.8 million...

However, should we send a red envelope to express our feelings?

Forget it if he doesn't post it, Shen Xudong even said that Feng Xiaogang is his uncle, but he still cheats others.

This doesn’t give you face!

"Cooperating with Weinstein means that "The Banquet" enters the North American market. You should understand what this means..."

Harvey is used to being aggressive with non-North American film studios...

Shen Xudong’s face?

How much is it worth?

Harvey was confident that even if "The Banquet" was of poor quality, he could package it and sell it to Blockbuster.

There is a sex scene in "The Party", and Harvey is very good at hyping it up.

In the early years when Harvey was working on Miramax, he bought a lot of art films from Europe and then screened them in North America.

European art films often mean passion and sex scenes. Harvey cut out the nudity scenes and put them in trailers to attract audiences. This is how Miramax gradually developed.

Of course "The Night Banquet" can do this.

I should have known that the positioning of Oriental women in Hollywood is exotic and mysterious beauty.

Generally speaking, in Hollywood movies where Oriental women appear, if they don't have sex with the male protagonist, it's called going against the wishes of the audience!

So, most of them will give it a try.

Zhang Ziyi is currently popular in North America.

Not to mention anything else, the North American video rental and sales revenue of "Memoirs of a Geisha" is close to US$42 million!

If "The Night Banquet" is done properly, it can earn millions of dollars at least. If it is lucky enough to pass the quality standard, the income will be even higher.

Huang Zhonglei was a little hesitant. North America is the largest single film market in the world. Who doesn't want to get in and get a piece of the pie?

With a price tag of US$5 million, he was quite satisfied.

"The Night Banquet" cost 15 million U.S. dollars, and it sold nearly 5 million U.S. dollars overseas due to Zhang Ziyi's fame.

This time in Cannes, in order to sell it at a good price, a huge amount of money was spent. The publicity fee alone was as high as 2 million.

If it really sells for $5 million, that's not bad.

The overseas income is nearly 8 million, and only 7 million US dollars are needed to make money domestically.

So far, "The Night Banquet" has sold 15 million yuan in domestic DVD sales, plus 5 million yuan from movie channels and 15 million yuan from pre-roll advertising, for a total of 35 million yuan.

In other words, "The Banquet" can make back its money as long as it earns more than 20 million yuan at the box office.

Of course, the publicity cost is at least 20 million...

With Feng Xiaogang’s fame, how can the box office of “The Night Banquet” reach 100 million...

You can definitely make money!

But now, I hear Harvey is a liar...

Huang Zhonglei...is not very willing to believe it.

He chose to ask Zhang Ziyi's opinion.

The international chapter will definitely help Harvey speak for himself.

Let's put it this way, Weinstein Pictures recently had an Asian Film Fund project and announced that it would remake "Thirteen Eagles", "Drunk Man", and by the way, "Seven Samurai", starring Zhang Ziyi.

You can still find press releases: Zhang Ziyi is negotiating with the Weinstein Company to sign a contract to star in three films, including a remake of Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai."

In this context, how could Zhang Ziyi help Shen Xudong speak?

"I said it, it's up to you to believe it or not."

After saying this, Shen Xudong continued eating.

He has done what he should do.

Do not believe?

believe it or not!

…

Shen Xudong didn't go to see "The Summer Palace". He didn't have any special thoughts about Lou Ye.

Some people think that he is a symbolized director who belongs to the category of being represented - being banned represents excellence.

All liberal young people who are anti-establishment want to move up to the top and appear unique.

Therefore, literary and artistic young people cannot do without him, and they are indispensable for adulation. Looking at his works only from the perspective of movies can only be said to be boring.

The script came from a story meeting, but everything he filmed was artificial, pretentious, and had no central idea. Countless fans euphemistically called it literature and art.

But some people think he is awesome and focuses on expressing his emotions.

Shen Xudong used to have the first view, which was even more radical.

He once thought that the films produced by Lou Ye were more like the monologues of mental patients, a false world imagined by themselves. There were some beautiful scenes in them, but there was no logic in them. They were just pretentious, pretentious, straight-faced, and self-consciously sarcastic. In fact, there was nothing but wailing.

Just like the women in his movies, they make love and cry at the same time. They can't even make love properly, and they don't even talk about thoughts. They are just a crying man who is sad for the spring and autumn.

But then I watched "Spring Breeze Night" and "Massage"...

Overturned his own point of view.

This is a director with high standards and persistence.

But forget about "Summer Palace", it's too dangerous...

In fact, "Summer Palace" did not spark much discussion after it was screened in Cannes.

What we call large scale is actually commonplace in Cannes!

In European and American art films, if they involve love, there will inevitably be sex scenes, and there are so many passionate scenes.

Random examples: Bertolucci, Polanski, including Woody Allen, which one has not been exposed?

Even "The Wind Blows the Rice Waves", which received the highest score at Cannes this year, revealed a lot.

It is not appropriate to judge whether a movie is exciting simply by whether it is exposed or not, at least at a film festival!

Almodovar's "Return" led the way at Cannes this year. British director Andrea Arnold's "The Red Road" and Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's "Ideology" are also very popular.

Not to mention Ken Loach's "The Wind Blows the Rice Waves" and Kaurismaki's "Light in the Dusk", both of which scored above 3 points.

Against the background of so many excellent works, "Summer Palace" seems not enough to watch, and there is not much media discussion, which also means that there is no attention.

Movies that win awards may not necessarily be recognized as good movies, but they will definitely be discussed!

…

"Why are you going?"

"I'm going to a drinking party..."

Shen Xudong passed by Gong Li's interview site and was stopped by her to ask. Shen Xudong answered casually.

Gong Li asked him to come over, and then asked: "Did you tell the people at the movie channel that I will win the award this time?"

"That's right... My idea for doing "Carol" was to win an award. What? You don't have confidence?"

"... Xudong has full confidence in "Carol"!"

Shen Xudong glanced at the person who interrupted...

Well, it’s a reporter from Nandu.

Therefore, he said: "It's necessary...it will be officially screened tomorrow afternoon. You will know after you go and see it!"