Chapter 245 Whether You Win the Prize or Not Is Secondary (44)

At this stage, the information in the mainland entertainment industry is still quite backward, and the gossip is not as crazy as it was in later generations.

In addition, there are no works by major directors participating in the exhibition this time...

Except for several major portal websites sending special reporters to report, there is basically no official news...

In fact, they came here to report thinking that Jia Zhangke could create miracles. After all, Jia's previous films "Ren Xiaoyao" and "Platform" were shortlisted for the three major film festivals.

As for “Outstanding Citizen”…

Director Chen did accept a few interviews and briefly commented on "Outstanding Citizen" and screenwriter Shen Xudong...

To put it bluntly, "You can play this role. Younger creators, when they make a movie, they just make a movie. They don't care about anything else. They don't think about the box office or other things. They don't think about anything. They just make a movie." . ’

Oh, and 'Congratulations to "Heroes" for winning the North American box office championship for two consecutive weeks'...

Yes, it's "Hero"!

How could Director Chen answer? Of course, 'Congratulations to Director Zhang'!

Back to back, no one expected that so many reporters would gather around after the screening of "Outstanding Citizen"...

Wang Qingqiang acted as the translator and worked for almost half an hour, basically asking the manager...

European film festivals promote directors, also called auteur films...

Guan Ru was a little uncomfortable with it at first - after all, this was not his movie.

Later, I let it go - why is this not my movie?

I'm the director!

…

Shen Xudong looked at the people on the stage bragging, but he was thinking about "Hero"...

"Hero" has won the North American box office championship for two consecutive weeks, which can be regarded as a little solace for Ah Mou's injured heart...

The closing ceremony of the Athens Olympics was messed up. 14 girls were writhing around and wearing clothes, what should I say?

Brilliant white legs with a long history of five thousand years!

They say that a cheongsam is not a cheongsam, and that a short skirt is not a short skirt. They come out wrapped in a flower quilt, and the shorts are opened very high...

Kung fu and Peking opera followed, and the last little girl sang "Jasmine".

Good guy!

Before the closing ceremony was over, there were already criticisms online, and by the next morning, they were overwhelming.

Similar performances are old-fashioned in content, outdated in form, mechanical, hodgepodge, and fail to showcase Chinese culture...

In short, one sentence: I have exhausted all my talents!

Although the performance only lasted 8 minutes, the doubts about Ah Mou continued until the opening ceremony of the BJ Olympics for four full years.

After this performance, there were a lot of negative comments from direct instructions from the leaders to letters from the masses. Many people even made harsh words: Zhang Yimou cannot be allowed to be the director of the BJ Olympics opening ceremony again.

Later, Zhang Yimou said in an interview: "In these 8 minutes, the level of scolding, the occasion, the number of scoldings and the people were all quite large and quite high."

Because of this incident, on March 1, 2005, when the solicitation for creative proposals for the BJ Olympics opening ceremony began, Amou directly gave up the bid.

Later, a leader kept looking for Amou, saying that he should contribute to the country, so Amou convened a team and began to prepare a bid for the opening ceremony plan.

At the bidding meeting, Amou was successfully elected as the chief director of the BJ Olympics opening ceremony...

Therefore, it has to be Ah Mou!

Is it possible to write a script for Ah Mou?

"A City Full of Golden Armor" was too bad...

At that time, major domestic directors were cutting off the content and meaning of art, leaving only the form and technique of art. We admire formal beauty and art for art’s sake.

This thing has been seen in history, the gorgeous parallel prose of the Six Dynasties, which emphasizes form over content.

However, future generations only remember Zuo Sitao Yuanming!

…

The next day, the official program and local Italian media gave "Outstanding Citizen" a score of 4.00.6!

The full score is 5, and 4.6 is already very high...

Moreover, some media have even put the Golden Lion Award directly on the head of "Outstanding Citizen". It seems that this movie is indeed very popular with the Italian media...

There may have been reports in China, but Shen Xudong and the others did not know that Wang Qingqiang was discussing the sale of copyrights with Cao Huayi, who came here specially.

"Last night, more than a dozen film producers approached me to negotiate prices!"

"…Sold?"

"Sold eight companies, small countries like the Netherlands, Hungary, Sweden..."

"Sell it directly?"

Wang Qingqiang explained: "The European film market looks very big, but in fact it is mainly concentrated in the three countries of Britain, France and Germany. Italy and Spain can also be ranked occasionally, and the others can be ignored... just sell it at the price you ask!"

Yes, the total market size of these countries is here. Hollywood blockbusters account for 90% of the market share. How can there be room for movies from other countries?

Film producers attending film festivals every year are just like picking up leftovers, picking up some low-cost movies, tinkering with them, earning some hard-earned money, and barely enough to survive.

The price offered will naturally not be too high.

"Eight countries add up to 290,000 euros..."

Cao Huayi is already very happy - 290,000 euros, converted into RMB, is more than 3 million RMB!

It’s basically a tie…

For him, whether he wins a prize or not is secondary, the important thing is to make money!

Haiyan's Zhongsheng Chunqiu Film and Television has very tight funds - most of Haiyan's works are police and criminal themes, which happen to be dramas involving crimes, and are strictly controlled genres...

"Outstanding Citizen" will be released on September 17th - the closing ceremony of the Venice Film Festival is September 11th, and the plan is for a group of people to go back and promote for a week...

Originally it was just a small attempt - the total cost of "Outstanding Citizen" was only 3 million yuan.

Before Haiyan was in Hairun, one movie could earn tens of millions!

Before 2002, cable TV stations and satellite TV stations across the country were not the same. In order to compete for the right to broadcast TV series, they could really offer sky-high prices - the second part of "Kangxi's Private Interview" set an astonishing sales of 110 million yuan in pre-roll advertising!

Of course, after the restructuring, the purchase price of the TV series "Kangxi's Private Interview", which Superstar Pictures once sold for 100,000 per episode, was directly discounted by 30%, and the previous prepayment policy was no longer available.

The same goes for Haiyan drama...

It's not that I expect how much money "Outstanding Citizen" will make. Cao Huayi came here mainly to evaluate market expectations and so on...

After all, making copies is expensive!

Wang Qingqiang continued: "Other companies want to buy out the global distribution rights, but the price is too low, the highest is only 500,000 US dollars..."

$500,000…

This price is not low anymore!

That's more than three million yuan. Not only does the cost come back, but you can also make some money, but if you really want to sell it...

"I'm in contact with MK2..."

mk2, the third largest cinema chain in France, has its own cinemas in Germany and Italy, insisting on showing art films!

In the original time and space, Jia Zhangke's "The Good Man" relied on MK2 theaters to screen, and finally earned more than 2 million U.S. dollars at the European box office, and the copyright fee was as high as 4 million U.S. dollars...

Cao Huayi didn't quite understand what MK2 stood for. He struggled for a long time before he finally figured it out. Then Wang Qingqiang suggested: "It's best to hold a party and invite all the film producers..."

"Party?"

"Yeah, have a party!"

After hearing this, Shen Xudong was no longer interested...

In Venice, during the film festival, the whole party costs 300,000 euros!

What? open air?

Brother, this is September, not Cannes in May!

Who is out in the open with you?

He's not interested in this kind of topic, so let's go out and hang out...

Suddenly I feel a little regretful...

You shouldn't come to Venice - the festival has little to do with screenwriting.

No reporter will interview him, and he doesn’t even have a good word count...

There is not much to do on the island, so I got bored in two days.

Cao Xiwen, Chen Daoming and director Guan Fu all went to have a meal...

Why didn't he go?

They didn't send him an invitation...

Again, film festivals have nothing to do with screenwriters!

I still feel that Andy Lau's line in "The Wandering Earth 2" was inappropriate...

I feel completely separated from the main line!