The road to becoming a movie star from the villain

Chapter 316 Support from America's Largest Theater Chain
The filming of "Batman 2: The Dark Knight" was completed, which lasted nearly 5 months.

During this time, Hong Chen has been on the set.

The production of this drama is excellent, and Nobara is worthy of being a top international director. The shooting techniques and artistic conception are perfect.

Even if this drama is completed, it will become a memory that people in the crew will never forget.

Especially Hong Chen's clown.

However, at the same time, Hong Chen signed a confidentiality agreement.

That is, before the movie was released, Hong Chen was not allowed to release any information about himself as the clown.

Otherwise, there will be huge compensation.

For Hollywood movies, in order to prevent spoilers, many audition actors are required to keep secret during the audition, and must avoid the eyes and ears of the media to come to the audition.

After the audition is successful, there will usually be an official announcement.

But there are a few movie exceptions.

Hong Chen didn't care about this.

And let's be honest, telling the world he's playing the Joker now, not only won't boost his popularity, but he'll get a lot of ridicule.

This is reality.

When the movie is released, even if he doesn't say he is a clown, he will receive praise from countless people.

After "The Dark Knight" was finished, Hong Chen didn't rush back to Kyoto immediately.

Because two days later, Yan Chi held the premiere of "Fatal" ID in a big theater in New York.

This guy knows how to market his own movies. He is already well-known in the thriller and suspense world, so he naturally wants to firmly grasp this part of suspense-loving fans.

Hong Chen was invited to participate.

During this time, Yan Chi has not been idle, and has been editing "Fatal ID".

Editing didn't take much effort, and it took about two months to complete.But the next step is more troublesome, involving the distribution and promotion of the film.

Distributing movies in the United States has never been so easy.

With the foundation of the previous "Comet", Yan Chi found Hill Pictures again.

When "Comet" was released, the two parties made an agreement to share the account, that is, the amount of box office, the share agreement will be changed, so the contract was signed.

But this time, Hill Pictures obviously wants to earn more.

Yan Chi didn't even expect this.

Several companies were not optimistic about the last film, and Hill Pictures was full of sincerity.

This time he came here with sincerity, but Hill Pictures began to raise higher demands.

The reason is also very simple. The resignation of the manager Sif who signed with them back then means that the relationship is no longer there.And now that Hill Pictures is getting bigger and bigger, they have more resources and better recommendations, so naturally they want more.

Hong Chen and Hill Pictures split the box office of the last "Comet" in the US, with Hong Chen getting $1.04 million and Hill Pictures getting $2600 million.

The total investment was less than 100 million, and when they got 1.04 million, Hill Pictures was obviously jealous.

So, for this part, they asked for [-]% of the June [-]th release.

Hill Films stated that Confederate and other distributors will only ask the same.

Therefore, Hill Pictures is their best choice.

This time, the manager of Hill Films was called Ryder, and he said to Yan Chi: "You have to know, it's not so easy for Chinese films to be released in the United States, and we've already treated you very preferentially."

Yan Chi told Hong Chen about it.

Hong Chen didn't expect this to happen, so he resolutely decided to register a film and television company as the overseas branch of Hongchen Media.

The advantage of registering a film and television company is the ability to distribute movies.This means that the film can be released in theaters and obtained legal recognition.

This also involves a lot of very troublesome things.

Ge Chen also brought the backbone of several companies here to take charge of this matter.

Fortunately, in a country like the United States, the power of power is not as powerful as that of money, that is to say, with money, one can do whatever one wants.

Therefore, from starting a company to obtaining the ability to distribute movies, they used money to build relationships all the way, and finally established an overseas branch.

Because the foundation is very weak, the company was established in a dilapidated office building in the suburbs.

With distribution capabilities, the next step is naturally to contact theaters to prepare for distribution.

This, too, encountered difficulties.

For a film and television company that doesn't have much work, the cinema is simply unwilling to deal with it too much.

Because, every year, many people make movies and want to show them in theaters, but it is not so easy to show, and they need to communicate in advance.

In the United States, the film industry has always been a profiteering industry. In addition to the movies of the eight major film and television companies that people see every day, there are actually a large number of small film and television companies making some works every year.

It's just that these works will not be screened in large theaters, and the screening rate of small theaters is relatively low, so only a small number of people can watch them.

At this time, Hong Chen found AMC Cinemas.

AMC Cinemas is the largest cinema in the United States, and the owner of this cinema is Wanda Pharaoh.

In China, the relationship between theater chains and film and television companies has always been good, and the two can be said to be closely related.

Moreover, Wanda will also participate in film and television investment and film production.

The relationship between Hongchen Media Company and Wanda Films is acceptable, Hong Chen asked Ge Chen to contact Lao Wang, and went back to treat Lao Wang to a meal to discuss the release of "Fatal ID".

This is the relationship in the entertainment industry. With a relationship, everything is easy to handle.

Old Wang: "The movie is coming out, what a big deal, it's a trivial matter."

The two sides hit it off.

Hong Chen is now the ceiling of mainland film and television, so Lao Wang is naturally willing to give him face.

So, the next step is to contact AMC Theaters to discuss the promotion of "Fatal ID".

This is undoubtedly a good start.

Other theaters found that the largest AMC theater suddenly released a new film "Fatal ID".
All of a sudden, other theaters also became curious.

Movie theaters are a place to make money, and profits come first.

The reason why every movie theater rushes to get a blockbuster movie when it is released is because it can bring profits to the theater.

Now AMC has chosen a very strange movie to release, and why.

At this moment, Ryder, the emergency person of Hill Pictures, was also dumbfounded.

"What? Their movie is showing in AMC theaters?" Ryder said angrily, "Damn it, you damn Chinese!"

Later, when Yan Chi contacted other theaters, the journey went smoothly.

Other theaters also agreed to release "Fatal ID", but the filming rate was not so high.

Regarding this, Yan Chi didn't ask any more.

And today, "Fatal ID" premiered at the AMC theater in New York, and it was also a spot screening. Yan Chi made a lot of publicity and invited a crowd of thriller and suspense lovers. Most of these people are film critics or on INS. well-known bloggers.

When Hong Chen came to the theater, Yan Chi had already prepared a seat for him.

"Long time no see, how is your movie going?" Yan Chi asked him.

"It's okay, just wait for the release." Hong Chen shrugged and said calmly.

"Nolan, Bell, and Gardman are all filming with you?" Yan Chi said with great interest.

Nuo Lan is Yan Chi's idol, especially the "Inception", which can be said to be Yan Chi's most admired movie.

"Yeah, director Nolan is indeed very good."

Yan Chi looked at Hong Chen, envious. It's only been a while, Hong Chen has already acted with these international first-line stars.

At this time, the movie hall was already full of people, and there were no empty seats.

Most people are looking forward to this movie very much.

Before coming, some people guessed whether this movie will be as classic as "The Night the Comet Came", or they just consumed the popularity of "The Comet".

The result will be announced soon.

(End of this chapter)