The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 53 Netflix is ​​here again

Chen Jingxing rushed to Orlando with the main creative members after finishing some finishing work of domestic publicity.

I originally thought about taking my parents on a trip together, but both teachers are public school teachers, so it is very inconvenient to ask for leave, and they don’t want to take a long vacation just to see their son’s work screened at the film festival. Money is gone, when can't I travel during the winter and summer vacations.

It's not that Chen Jingxing never thought of asking Tang Xin to go with him, but he quickly dispelled the idea. The first is that the relationship between the two of them has not yet reached that point. The most important thing is that Tang Xin is a standard workaholic. The stake is the carrot in front of the donkey, let her take a long vacation for more than ten days just to travel abroad.

Director Chen Da could only watch alone as Xu Wenshen took his wife and daughter and went out to play without knowing where to play. The other actors basically brought their husbands or wives or even children, in pairs, to the film festival. Among the main creative staff, only Chen Jingxing and Luo Chen are single, but they also have managers and assistants.

Besides, the ghost knows if someone has a girlfriend. After all, he is an idol. Even if his flesh is no longer tender when he is nearly [-] years old, he would not dare to bring a girlfriend in public. Showing it to everyone is two different things, fans are willing to be cheated by you, then you have to be a qualified liar, otherwise you will be disqualified as an idol, maybe this is the purpose of Luochen's eager transformation.

However, Director Chen Da didn't have much time for sorrow and sorrow. He originally wanted to go to the famous Orlando Comic Con, but he didn't expect an unexpected visitor to come to the door directly.

One white, one Chinese face.

The introduction turned out to be from the purchasing department of Netflix.

As the largest film trading market in North America, the Orlando Film Festival not only attracts distributors from all over the world to purchase films here, but streaming media like Netflix will not let go of such an opportunity, except for a small number of films that can be shown in North American theaters. The line has been released on a certain scale, and the final end of most movies is dvd release and streaming media screening.

The person who came to the Orlando Film Festival this time was the person in charge of Netflix's film procurement department, named Mike Wolsey, who also brought a translator.

Mike was a little surprised when he saw Chen Jingxing. Caucasians usually look older than yellow people, and Chen Jingxing's face looked like a minor to Mike. Of course, Chen Jingxing's age is indeed considered a "minor" in the director's profession.

Faced with Chen Jingxing's question, Mike cut straight to the point: "Mr. Chen, first of all, on behalf of Netflix, I would like to congratulate you on your second feature film being shortlisted for the main competition. I am fascinated by your talent. Netflix hopes to cooperate with you and your company. Another successful cooperation, I wonder what Mr. Chen thinks about the overseas distribution copyright of "Fatal Identity"?"

Chen Jingxing was also quite forthright: "I think you should be clear that I will definitely choose to release this movie in theaters. If you want the copyright for online broadcasting, now is not the time to reach a copyright deal. "Fatal Identity" is not just for the screening unit. Movie."

The implication of Chen Jingxing's words is that "Fatal Identity" will definitely be shown in North American theaters. I don't know whether it will be screened on a large scale or on a small scale. It is still uncertain how much box office it will get, but now it will definitely not sell the rights to broadcast online.

Mike was not surprised by Chen Jingxing's answer. Although Netflix tried its best to reduce the window period for theatrical release, and even tried to promote the simultaneous release of movie webcasts and theatrical releases, this goal was too far away. The choice must be theater distribution, and the copyright of the webcast depends on the performance of the theater.

But the process still needs to go: "Mr. Chen doesn't want to hear our quotation?"

Chen Jingxing was a little puzzled: "You probably haven't even seen my movie, have you?" "Fatal Identity" is scheduled to be screened on December 12th.

Mike laughed and said: "We haven't seen this movie yet, but Mr. Fairbanks, director of film selection for the film festival, is our Netflix production consultant, and he revealed to us that "Fatal Identity" will be the main contender for the Golden Spruce Award this time." One of the favourites."

Chen Jingxing understood, this is not unusual, after all, the organizers of the film festival and the members of the jury are all experienced filmmakers in the industry, and the information flow in a circle is very fast, especially when the film festival is approaching the opening, although the shortlisted films It has not been screened yet, but the fame of several award-winning popular works has spread, and some media have even publicly reported the names of several films that may win awards.

Netflix is ​​even more informed than the entertainment media in the United States.

But Chen Jingxing still refused firmly: "I'm sorry, I don't want to talk about the copyright of this movie's online broadcasting now."

Mike tentatively asked, "Do you want to wait until after the award?"

Chen Jingxing smiled: "Maybe after "Fatal Identity" appeared in North American theaters."

Ha, ambitious young man.

It's not that Chen Jingxing is unwilling to sell overseas copyrights to Netflix. To be honest, if he doesn't sell to Netflix, who will he sell to?But he wants to use the North American box office as the capital to negotiate with Netflix.

Seeing Chen Jingxing's resolute attitude, Mike stopped entanglement, and instead discussed other possibilities of cooperation with Chen Jingxing.

"Chen, I don't know if you know that "House of Cards", which caused a sensation all over the world this year, is a series invested and produced by Netflix, and this is just the beginning. Netflix will invest a huge amount of money in the future to produce more series and even movies. , we are very optimistic about your creative ability. If you want, Netflix is ​​willing to provide tens of millions of dollars to help you make movies, and we can guarantee that you will never interfere with your creative freedom, but the movie will be released on the Netflix platform. There will be a theatrical release."

Since buying other movies that don’t go to theaters will be boycotted by the film industry, then I will make my own movies. The movies I pay for will only be distributed online, but they won’t go to theaters. Can you still control it?This is the logic of Netflix.

Unless Chen Jingxing is a fool, he will agree.

If the movies produced by the streaming media are not shown in theaters, the film industry can't control it?No wonder!
He cannot accurately predict the future of this plane, but in the United States in the previous world, the traditional power of the film industry rebounded quite fiercely against the streaming media’s practice of disregarding the theater network’s exclusive distribution of movies, not only fierce criticism from theaters, Many actors, directors and producers have spoken out in public to criticize and boycott, and even many film awards activities have defaulted to not nominating films that are first released on the Internet.

Maybe in another seven or eight years, with more capital pouring into streaming media and some black swan incidents, movies released on the Internet will begin to be accepted by the film industry, but it is definitely not possible now.

If it’s a TV series, it’s okay, but what he wants to make is a movie, or a sci-fi movie, the cost is not much less, once he takes Netflix’s money to make a movie and throws it away from the theaters to premiere on Netflix, it will definitely offend the theater Netflix may not be afraid of theaters, but as a director, he expects his films to be released in North American theaters in the future, so he is absolutely delusional if he offends North American theaters.

Let alone the first release on Netflix, in this year, if you dare to shorten the window period between theatrical distribution and online distribution, the theaters would like to eat you.

But it can’t be said to die, now the streaming media can’t beat the theaters, it may not be possible in a few years, maybe there will be opportunities for cooperation in the future, so Chen Jingxing put on a look of embarrassment, thinking that the Huaguo Fantasy World Network has already decided I declined Netflix's invitation on the pretext of investing in my next project.

(End of this chapter)