my movie years

Chapter 359: A Chinese-language movie that failed to go overseas

"I talked with Warner Pictures about the overseas distribution of "The Wandering Earth", and Warner Pictures has decided not to distribute the film." Zhang Hao broke the bad news.

Guo Fan's heart sank. He originally had expectations for the overseas trip of "The Wandering Earth". If Warner didn't release it, this overseas trip would be a bit difficult.

"What should we do? Do we need to find a second-tier publisher?" Guo Fan asked.

"It's not impossible, it's just that compared to Warner's distribution channels, there are fewer opening conditions for theaters." Zhang Hao had already thought about it and discussed with Guo Fan:
"If it's possible, I think the film should wait until a new distribution company takes over."

Anyway, Warner Pictures won't distribute it, and other first-tier distribution companies will most likely look down on it, so Guo Fan can only wait.

Even though Zhang Hao's films are so smoothly distributed overseas every year, it is somewhat difficult for other Chinese-language films to go overseas.

Last year, Scissors held a special meeting to discuss the feasibility of Chinese-language films overseas, and Zhang Hao also participated.

At that time, Zhang Hao said that in a short period of time, Chinese-language films will still be based on the domestic market, and it can only be said that it will be difficult to go out.

A leader from Big Scissors asked: "Isn't it quite easy for your Zhang Hao film to go overseas? Other directors like us can do it as well."

Zhang Hao's answer was very straightforward, without any of the roundabout ways in official circles: "Just because I can, it doesn't mean that others can.

It is far from advisable to be too ambitious. What Chinese filmmakers should pursue most now is to get rid of their impetuous mentality and stay down to earth. "

Although the words were true and the reason was the same, the words were inevitably not very pleasant to listen to, and many officials from the Big Scissors frowned upon hearing this.

As for Zhang Hao, he doesn't care what Scissors thinks of him, his own status is here.

When the superior department leaders of Big Scissors saw Zhang Hao, they would say a friendly "Zhang" and then shake hands eagerly to show their optimism for Zhang Hao.

Of course, the words were a bit harsh, but Official Scissors was not an idiot and knew that Zhang Hao was telling the truth.

It can be seen between the lines of the guidance documents issued later that they listened to Zhang Hao's suggestions.

It's just a matter in the entertainment industry. If it can be solved by just sending documents, this matter will be simple.

After Zhang Hao's continuous success, especially last year's "Inception" which won the global box office championship and created history in Chinese-language films, other film companies are ready to make moves.

From last year to this year, countless films have been released overseas, but only a few have achieved success.

This is also the reason why Warner Pictures refused to release "The Wandering Earth". The foundation of trust that Zhang Hao established was exhausted by repeated failures.

But now, many first-line distribution companies in Hollywood only recognize Chinese-language films directed by Zhang Hao, and others are not acceptable.

I have to say that this opportunity is very unfortunate, but it is also reasonable.

Today's Chinese-language films still lack the foundation to become popular around the world. If Zhang Hao makes the same works as other Chinese-language film directors, he still won't be able to sell them.

Zhang Hao's movies are not so much Chinese-language movies as Hollywood movies disguised as Chinese-language movies.

Allen, the famous American talk show host, pointed this out pointedly.

By the way, Zhang Hao took the "Dark Knight" crew to the Allen talk show, and during the show, Allen expressed his views.

Zhang Hao did not deny it: “In fact, many times if you want to go global, you have to get closer to the center of the industry.

Hollywood is undoubtedly the center of the world's film industry. What can be popular in Hollywood can also be popular around the world. "

On the side, Zhang Hao admitted Allen's statement.

This is nothing to be ashamed of, at least, Zhang Hao added a lot of private work in the film.Through the promotion of the film, the international audience has improved a lot in terms of film culture in the past two years.

The opportunity that Zhang Hao and Guo Fan mentioned to wait for is undoubtedly [-]th Century Fox.If it were annexed by Chinese capital alone, the acquisition would definitely not be successful.But the interesting thing is that it is not Chinese capital, nor is it Disney.

Rather, all companies that could afford to participate in the acquisition did so, waiting for the moment when Twentieth Century Fox collapsed.

[-]th Century Fox has another movie "X-Men: Dark Phoenix" to be released this year, and the success or failure will depend on this movie.

Once a movie does not perform as expected or even fails, [-]th Century Fox's days as a Hollywood film giant are over.

It's ridiculous that as a giant company, it actually leaves the fate of the company to a movie. This is undoubtedly a gamble.

The film industry has always been a high-risk, high-return business, and it is undoubtedly unwise to do so.

But Twentieth Century Fox has no choice. The parent company News Corporation has split from Twentieth Century Fox. Without help from the parent company, it has no choice but to take a gamble.

This gave Zhang Hao and the capital behind an opportunity. Wanda once acquired Legendary Pictures, a second-tier Hollywood film production and distribution company.

Similarly, if Zhang Hao and the capital behind him take a piece of Twentieth Century Fox's flesh, there will probably not be any opposition.

Even if the North American market fluctuates later, the North American market is not the only one in the world.

The big deal is that before the rise of the Chinese market, Hollywood was still prosperous and had little impact.

Putting aside the matter of "The Wandering Earth" for now, after the Spring Festival, Zhang Hao once again participated in the Oscars ceremony with Da Power.

You can still win some Golden Globe Awards, but the Oscars are just spectators, watching from the sidelines.

Zhang Hao and Da Mi Mi smiled the whole time, their faces stiffened with laughter.

After the Oscars, the announcement of "The Dark Knight Rises" suddenly accelerated.

At the end of February, the film released an IMAX special trailer, demonstrating the powerful image performance of IMAX.

Similarly, "Avengers 3: Infinity War" was also shot in IMAX, but they used a new generation ALEXA IMAX 65mm camera to shoot "Avengers 3: Infinity War".

This is a new generation of revolutionary 2D digital camera jointly developed by ARRI and IMAX. It is used by the industry's leading directors to shoot IMAX format content.

This camera, combined with IMAX's patented Digital Remastering (DMR) technology, provides the highest level of digital content capture and playback.

The result is high-quality images with stunning clarity, incredible detail, lifelike colors and superior contrast with higher dynamic range.

But in terms of texture and picture realism, it is still not as good as film IMAX.

Not to mention, the unique graininess of film IMAX is not found in digital IMAX.

Of course, this does not mean that digital IMAX is not good. Both have their own advantages and disadvantages. Digital IMAX is cheaper and the film quality is better.

Probably because they were afraid of seeing the comparison, when "The Dark Knight Rises" released its IMAX special, "Avengers: Infinity War" next door did not follow up.

This was of course taken advantage of by Warner Pictures, which hyped up the second round of Batman v Avengers Season [-] in the media and public opinion, with Batman winning.

Disney was of course not happy, and also retorted, believing that the excitement of the film was the most important thing, not the so-called IMAX picture.

Having said that, you are actually afraid of a Batman in a movie that gathers Marvel superheroes.

I don’t dare to show the IMAX special, which still makes people wonder if I am timid.

(End of this chapter)