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Chapter 294 The whole network is hot, people from North America

What Li Yi miscalculated is that there are many differences between foreign countries and domestic countries.

For example, there is indeed such a group of zombie fans in China, and there are not too few of them.

But domestic fans of this kind are very scattered.

At most, it is to build a group for everyone to discuss and entertain themselves.

But foreign countries are different.

They like to engage in group organization, and the categories are varied.

And the zombie culture has a lot of influence whether it is in North America or Australia.

He didn't even know that similar zombie culture lovers had a large number of fan clubs in North America, Australia, and English-speaking regions.

And Rogers himself is also a zombie fan, so what he did was very simple, that is, to promote this short film to the zombie fan club in Australia that he joined.

"Walking With Weight" quickly conquered these zombie fans.

And there is another point that Li Yi ignored!
That is, the problem of cultural barriers.

Netizens in Huaguo want to upload YouTube, which is quite troublesome. Moreover, many popular videos abroad may not be popular in China. The same popular videos in China may not be popular abroad, but in Australia and North America, But there is no such problem.

Therefore, "Carrying Forward" quickly spread from the zombie fan clubs in Australia to the zombie fan clubs in North America, and then began to spread.

And "Forward with Weight" is a short film without dialogue, and the main actors who participated in it are from Australia, so it is naturally spread without any difficulty.

In addition, zombies have always been synonymous with horror and horror, but this time "Walking With Weight" subverts this inherent impression to some extent from another angle.

And "Moving Forward with Weights" is about fatherly love like a mountain, and some places with different emotions may have different cultural barriers.

But some things are universal.

In this way, "Forward with Weight" began to spread step by step within the group of zombie fans, and then began to spread outward.

In many cases, the breakthrough from 0 to 1 is the most difficult, especially for a good work.

After completing the breakthrough from 0 to 1, "Forward with Weights" began to gradually emerge.

Many people began to recommend it to their friends and began to share this short film on social platforms.

Back to China!

After Li Yi and Mu Qing came back, they separated.

Mu Qing is going to prepare for "Get Out!"Mr. Tumor", she is still waiting to "revenge herself".

After Li Yi went back, he was more salty.

After "Forward with Weights" became popular all over the Internet, there are gradually many voices saying that they hope that Li Yi can adapt "Forward with Weights", and make the short film into a feature film!
But Li Yi didn't pay much attention.

Although the theme of "Moving Forward with Weight" is fatherly love, but the theme of the end of the world, and the theme of zombies, it is doomed that even if it is adapted into a theater movie, it will not be released in China.

As for filming abroad, maybe it can be considered in the future, but at this stage, Li Yi has never thought about it.

However, Alex was quite moved.

After all, although he thought "Forward with a Weight" was good, it was only good.

Moreover, it is not so easy to attract film investment with a short film like "Forward with Weight".

But now it's different.

As "Going With a Weight" began to become popular on the North American network, this short film also attracted the attention of some North American film companies.

The founder of Damien Films in North America, Davis Damien found Alex and expressed his great interest in adapting "Forward with Weight" to a feature film.

And expressed his intention to invest in "Forward with Weight", Davis Damien persuaded Alex, and the two hit it off.

Alex immediately contacted Li Yi, and went to Huaguo with Davis Damien to discuss with Li Yi the copyright issue of "Forward with Weight".

Li Yi was very calm, but after telling Lou Jianjun, Lou Jianjun was quite excited.

"Dong Li, I checked Damien Films. Although Damien Films is not one of the top six in North America, it is also very strong. Moreover, Damien Films likes horror and horror the most. of videos.

I think we can take advantage of the opportunity of "Forward with Weight" to cooperate with Damien Films." Lou Jianjun said.

Li Yi can understand Lou Jianjun's thoughts, because although Huaguo's film market is booming at present, it can only be in the country, and it can only radiate to the Asian region.

In North America, the world's largest film market, many domestic films have tried to go global, but very few have succeeded.

Because of this, I thought of the opportunity to enter the North American market, and the short film "Forward with a Load" has a lot of popularity in North America, and the probability of success is very high.

Therefore, Lou Jianjun is very inclined to cooperate with Damien Company, rather than simply selling the copyright of "Forward with Weights"!

But Li Yi poured cold water on him: "Cooperation? How to cooperate? Joint investment? How to ensure that this investment can be recovered smoothly? Movie hits do not mean making money. You shouldn't understand this truth."

"The water in Hollywood is too deep!" Li Yi was still sober.

Lou Jianjun woke up suddenly.

"Sorry, Li Dong!" Lou Jianjun naturally understood what Li Yi meant.

Not to mention Hollywood, but in China, is it still rare for investors inside and outside the film industry to cheat?

It's just that this is indeed a very good opportunity to enter the North American market, which made Lou Jianjun a little bit at a loss for a while.

"Actually, it's not impossible to cooperate, but the premise is that if the two parties cooperate, we only need a share of the box office, not a share of profits. If the other party can agree to this condition, then cooperation is also OK." Li Yi said lightly.

Lou Jianjun nodded and said, "I understand."

Alex and Damien came very quickly.

Regarding the negotiation, Li Yi did not come forward, but directly asked Lou Jianjun to talk to Damien.

He took Alex to do his best as a landlord.

And the result of the negotiation from Lou Jianjun.

At the beginning, the two parties only talked about copyright, but the price difference between the two parties was too large. Afterwards, Davis Damien proposed another way of cooperation. The two parties jointly funded and cooperated to produce the film "Forward with Weight".

Even the conditions offered are very superior, but with Li Yi's previous pouring of cold water, Lou Jianjun is already sober, and naturally he will not be moved by the seemingly superior conditions offered by Davis Damien.

The other party proposed two conditions for cooperation. One is that the copyright is converted into an investment share, and the other party can agree to the price offered by Lou Jianjun.

The other is to convert the copyright into the investment share, and at the same time, both parties will contribute in the same proportion, each accounting for half of the investment share, and the final profit share will also be settled according to the investment share!

Such conditions seem to be very superior, but the more so, the more Lou Jianjun felt that his previous thinking was too naive.

Lou Jianjun put forward the condition of directly asking for a percentage of the box office share, but Davis Midan refused on the spot.

The reason is that since it is cooperation, it must bear the risk together.

Lou Jianjun naturally couldn't agree.

Negotiations between the two sides have reached an impasse.

(End of this chapter)