The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 73 Zhang Weiping is not optimistic?

The news that Colombia spent 1320 million dollars to buy out the overseas distribution rights of "Fatal Identity" quickly spread to China. To be precise, it did not "spread" to China. Waiting for the moment of signing.

For domestic netizens and movie fans, this is exciting news. Since martial arts and kung fu movies have ebbed in the West, only Brother Cheng Long and Zhou Xingxing are the only ones who can sell domestic movies overseas. The only filmmakers who can rely on their own fame to attract foreign markets. Zhou's influence is mainly in Southeast Asia, while Cheng still has many fans and influence in Europe and the United States.

And now Chen Jingxing has joined this team, and it's not just "Fatal Identity", his debut work "Comet" is also very famous overseas, and it is still listed on the homepage of other regions of the Netflix platform except Latin America.

This means that Huaguo has produced another filmmaker who can bring Chinese-language films out of Asia and to the West.

Another question soon appeared on Zhihu’s top ten hot list: “What do you think of Columbia Pictures buying out the overseas copyright of “Fatal Identity” for US$300 million?”

The reason for this is because the question "How to evaluate the movie "Fatal Identity"?" is still the second hottest question.

The answers are basically positive, such as:

[Unexpected and reasonable, "Fatal Identity" not only tells an excellent suspense story, but also perfectly integrates a novel sci-fi idea into it, which not only surprises the audience who likes sci-fi, but also makes people who like suspense Fans enjoy it, and the harmony is better than Director Chen's previous work "The Night the Comet Came". Chen Jingxing is the kind who does not rely on martial arts or action, but purely by storytelling to capture the hearts of the audience.

And this kind of ability transcends a country and the cultural restrictions of a place. For movies like "Comet" and "Fatal Identity", it can be unanimously loved by young audiences all over the world. He broke our long-standing misunderstanding, science fiction Not only blockbusters are the only form, but science fiction can also be small and beautiful. Maybe we have fallen into a certain path dependence for so many years. Declining and declining, this proves that the old way is not going to work, we need to explore other ways, and "Comet" and "Fatal Identity" are exploring a new way for us, I hope other domestic filmmakers can recognize this knowledge and harvest. 】

Basically, the mainstream public opinion in all major forums is basically in pursuit. Regardless of whether it is domestic or foreign, the public opinion environment has always followed this law. When something gains momentum, everyone will follow the wind, like an echo in a closed palace. It will become stronger and stronger, and only after the momentum has passed, will there be a large number of voices among the rationalists or negative voices.

It stands to reason that when "Fatal Identity" is in full swing, there will not be many people blowing the opposite wind. Unexpectedly, there are voices of "reasonable people" coming out at this time. Zhang Weiping, a famous producer of Huaguo film Posted an article on Weibo:
[...First of all, correct some misunderstandings in some press releases. Some people say that the price is second only to "Hero". The US$1250 million is only for the distribution rights in North America, and "House of Flying Daggers" has also sold nearly ten million US dollars of copyrights in RB, which definitely exceeds 2000 million in total.

Of course, on the other hand, the copyright sold by "Fatal Identity" to Columbia does not include the Asia-Pacific region and the Internet copyright. If "Fatal Identity" also sells these two copyrights, it is not a big problem to surpass "Hero", but No matter whether it can surpass "House of Flying Daggers" or even "Hero", this is not something to be too proud of. Both "House of Flying Daggers" and "Hero" were movies ten years ago. Even if inflation is not considered, North American movies The market has also grown by 20% over the decade.

Don't think that selling the copyright means that the market appeal of Chinese-language films in Europe and the United States has come out of the trough. "Fatal Identity" can sell more than 1000 million, mainly due to the halo bonus of the Orlando Golden Cedar Awards, no matter how high the domestic box office is. It's not in other people's reference system, and there are quite a few box office hits in Orlando's dozens of gold award films.

The North American box office of "House of Flying Daggers" has just exceeded [-] million. Even with the DVD revenue, Sony has lost money to grandma's house. RB's box office is also not ideal, and the cost has not been recovered. It will be difficult for subsequent films to be sold abroad. .

There is really no need to be so eager to start touting the copyright just after selling it. To be honest, the Douban score of "Fatal Identity" is a bit too exaggerated. What is the concept of 8.9 points?Is it enough?Domestic audiences are mainly exposed to this kind of suspense-themed movies, so they are so sought after for a while. Why haven’t North American audiences seen it?So many suspenseful classics are created by Hollywood, just like when martial arts and kung fu movies first arrived in Europe and the United States, people thought they were very fresh and frantically sought after, but for us, we have watched martial arts and kung fu movies for decades, and there is no filter to add them.

And it's not that there are no film reviews of "Fatal Identity" in North America. When it was shown in Orlando, many film critics watched it, and the freshness of Rotten Tomatoes was only 70%. This evaluation means that the film is not so good in the eyes of professional film critics. Excellent, it is basically impossible for North American audiences to buy it like our country. If the more than 1000 million US dollars spent by Colombia cannot be recovered, it may face even greater difficulties for Chinese-language films to go overseas in the future. 】

Who is Zhang Weiping?The golden partner of the national teacher should be called the former golden partner. The two parted ways after "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins", and even went to court for a while. I didn't expect to speak out for the news of the overseas copyright sale of "Fatal Identity". The remark naturally attracted the tap water of "Fatal Identity" and even fans of Chen Jingxing's movie to visit.

[What kind of weird argument, and "there will be more difficulties in the future if Chinese-language movies go overseas", I laughed so hard, have any domestic movies sold at high prices in North America in the past ten years?Are you an idiot for Colombia?No market vision?If you have the ability, you can also make an Orlando Gold Award movie, and sell it for 1000 million US dollars?One sour chicken! 】

[Haha, the people upstairs may not know about Zhang Weiping. He has indeed produced movies whose copyrights have sold tens of millions of dollars, but the main credit is also the National Teacher. Mr. Zhang probably heard that there were overseas copyright transactions of films exceeding He's dead, a little unconvinced?Or is there "unfinished love" with the national teacher?Don't want to see the younger generation surpass the national teacher in this respect? 】

(End of this chapter)