At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 472 Looking at beautiful women... No, a movie!
Laomei is quite open about art.

After all, the words "unspoken rules" and "sexual services" came from Hollywood—the red sofa!
How powerful is Hollywood's distribution capabilities?
Directly facing the world, a role can make you from penniless to well-known all over the world.

The temptation is too great!
I was still poor yesterday, but today I can earn a million a day...

What is this called?
Class leap!

In comparison, what are unspoken rules?
In fact, sex trading exists in every country's entertainment industry.

But in other places, a certain degree of cover-up is carried out.

For example, reading scripts in a hotel, chatting about dramas all night, etc.

However, in Hollywood, none of these exist, giving the unspoken rules a sense of ritual?

There is no need, Hollywood just comes up and goes straight to the point.

Evan Rachel Wood, as a senior practitioner - parents are also insiders, knows this set of things well...

As a philatelist, it is normal to have a handsome Asian guy on the list.

Shen Xudong doesn't care if he revealed this idea, and he doesn't discriminate. What happened to the American people?
not human?

When it comes time to communicate technology and friendship with them, how can you refuse?

He is not weak either!
I just didn't expect the opponent to be stronger, with familiar skills and techniques, and extraordinary endurance.

Regarding Discrimination…

Forget it, it's not discrimination, it's just not used to it...

……

Shen Xudong came to Cannes for serious business...

I went to see the MK2 company first...

Carol's European release goes to MK2...

"Outstanding Citizen" has reached a partnership before.

The base camp of MK2 is actually France!
They have an excellent relationship with the organizing committee of the Cannes Film Festival.

It can even be said that as long as those who play art films get on the boat of MK2, it is equivalent to stepping into the gate of the Cannes Film Festival with one foot.

A series of Asian directors, Jia Zhangke, Hou Xiaoxian, and Abbas's films can be shortlisted in Cannes largely because of this company.

Cannes is known as the temple of art films, but it is actually about relationships. No matter how good the quality of a film is, it is difficult to squeeze into the main competition unit of Cannes.

Take Wang Jiawei's films as an example. Early films like "Chongqing Forest" and "Evil, West Poison" were of high standard, and the French film critics also gave high evaluations, but they just couldn't make it to Cannes.

After MK2 became the agent of Wong Kar-wai's film, "Happy Together" immediately entered the main competition in Cannes and won the Best Director Award...

It's the same all over the world...

Killer Films does not have global distribution capabilities, and North America can only rely on MGM-MGM can't take care of itself. It is impossible for them to make efforts overseas for queer films like "Carol"!

Let it find its own publisher...

After solving the matter of "Carol" - in addition to selling the copyright, there is also an extra hint about winning prizes, MK2 said that it will do its best!
They must also want "Carol" to win an award, saving a lot of publicity expenses.

After talking with MK2, Shen Xudong went directly to the Golden Harvest store.

Golden Harvest did not rent booths in the trading market - the efficiency is too low, basically only small film producers are willing to visit the trading market, and few big film producers are willing to go to the underground film trading hall on the first floor.

Golden Harvest simply reserved a few rooms at the Grand Hotel, a 10-minute walk from the Movie Palace. Posters of movies such as "The Tailor", "Taken", and "Manslaughter" filled the floors, and a separate comfortable room was set up. A living room for easy conversations with transaction-inclined buyers.

Shen Xudong had a general understanding. During the film festival, these rooms cost 4 U.S. dollars to rent, but Golden Harvest's staff also lived there, and with food and drink, the five-person team would spend up to [-] U.S. dollars...

very good already!
Generally, for those who come to sell movies, for example, a five-person team, the price of accommodation, transportation, food, tips, and booths add up to a small amount of [-] to [-] US dollars!

Of course, these are the minimum expenses. If you want to spend money, it’s too simple-last year, "The Promise" spent a whole reception in Cannes with a total of $50 million...

There are too many rich men!
This wave of Golden Harvest is selling movies.

Just a few houses and no other filmmakers?
Afterwards, there will be a Hong Kong movie night, and more than 200 film studios around the world will be invited, and Golden Harvest will definitely participate.

——The General Administration of Trade of Hong Kong is the host in person!

Shen Xudong chatted with them, and probably learned that "Taken" is the best seller. Britain, France, and Spain have already bought the copyright, and the asking price is basically between 80 and 100 million US dollars. The US film market is still negotiating...

Golden Harvest wants to ask for 800 million US dollars here, but the new line thinks it is too high...

In addition to "Taken", "Manslaughter" and "The Tailor" also sold well, "New World" was a little bit worse, and "Republic of China" was even worse...

Facing Shen Xudong's question, the other party explained: "Not enough action! The actor is not famous enough!"

"..."Manslaughter" is not enough action."

""Manslaughter" has Gong Li!"

Ok…

Anyway, as Shen Xudong knows, the five movie cameras together sold for about 1900 million US dollars, and the North American ones haven't been sold yet!
Oh, and the Japanese benzene copyright was not sold either...

Golden Harvest in Southeast Asia released it itself—"Taken" was released simultaneously across Asia on April 4, and now it is May 30, with a box office of 5 million in the mainland and almost 4 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong.

After all, kung fu movies are very popular with actors, and Donnie Yen's appeal is still a lot worse-last year's "Slaying the Wolf" was not even released in the mainland!

Not too high, compared to the cost close to 3200 million.

Overseas box office is not bad (concentrated in Southeast Asia), five days of release, 300 million US dollars...

According to expectations, the mainland box office should be able to reach 4000 million, Hong Kong can probably exceed 800 million, and overseas is almost [-] million US dollars...

No way, it's time for Hollywood blockbusters to be released in turn.

Doesn't look tall?
In fact, the main market for action movies is still discs!
Even in the mainland, the disc copyright of action movies will be much higher than that of ordinary movies...

"Republic of China" sold poorly. Relying on Golden Harvest's contacts, the highest was 30 to [-] US dollars, and the lowest was [-] to [-] US dollars. The overall harvest exceeded [-] US dollars, which is considered a small profit...

It's good, these film studios are still willing to take a gamble now, and after a while, they don't even have the idea of ​​a gamble.

Overseas markets are sold in units of a region or a country. For domestic films, it doesn’t mean that if you think you can’t sell 2 US dollars, you can sell 1 US dollars. The concept is that if you can sell, there is an application. Some prices cannot be sold, that is, 0, not a cent.

……

After shopping around for a day, Shen Xudong returned to the hotel and called Gao Fenfen: "I found out, action movies or cartoons are welcome overseas!"

"I can understand action movies...cartoon?"

"You do the math. How much does DreamWorks cost to make an animation? It can range from [-] million to [-] to [-] million U.S. dollars. If the Eastern European market or France wants to buy "Shrek", it will not only be expensive, but also have to be shared with others. But For our films, they can buy the copyright for [-] US dollars, so why not do it? Moreover, there is no cultural discount for cartoons, and they are all suitable for young audiences, and they are particularly easy to sell.”

"Really?"

"Why did you lie to me... Hong Kong's "McDull", I heard from them today, the sales volume is overwhelming, sold in 65 countries in one day..."

"I say!"

Gao Fenfen on the phone muttered...

"McDull" comes out almost once a year, or even two or three times a year. Before, I wondered how to make money, but now I understand!
"...what else did you do in Cannes besides visiting the film market?"

"Look at beautiful women... No, watch a movie!"

(End of this chapter)