my movie years

Chapter 59 "Manslaughter" Sequel Issues

Because I had negotiated with the XN city government a long time ago, the location shooting in XN went smoothly.

Of course, money was not spared.

Zhang Hao is not as famous as Brother Cheng Long, who has fans all over the world. When Zhang Hao went to XN to film, the mayor of XN was his fan.

The mayor chatted with Zhang Hao and asked him if he knew Cheng Long, Zhang Hao said he did.

So the mayor's eyes began to shine, and he asked Zhang Hao for an autographed photo of Brother Cheng Long, and Zhang Hao agreed.

Probably because of Zhang Hao's agreement to take autographed photos, they filmed in XN very smoothly, completed all the exterior shots in less than two days, and returned to China on the third day after New Year's Day in 2010.

After going back, Zhang Hao didn't rest, and continued to work on the filming.

At the same time, the post-production of "Genius Gunner" is also in progress. Zhang Hao not only has to take care of the shooting work, but also completes the editing work with the editor, and supervises the color and sound design of the post-production work.

For the soundtrack this time, Zhang Hao found a newcomer, Chen Kun, who graduated from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and studied at the Conservatory of Music, also known as A Kun.

Although he has not been engaged in soundtrack work for a long time, the first draft he submitted has an international perspective. With "Genius Gunner", it seems to have the feeling of watching a spy movie like "Mission: Impossible".

Zhang Hao was very satisfied after listening to it, and after Ah Kun submitted the fourth version of the soundtrack, he decided to adopt this version.

As the filming of "Genius Gunner" came to an end, good news came from Zhang Hao's first film.

First of all, there is news about the box office. Although the mainland theaters have canceled their films as early as July, the film has been released in East Asia and other parts of Southeast Asia one after another.

As of December 2009, 12, the film had a box office of HK$31 million on Hong Kong Island.

This film does not have a well-known Hong Kong star, and its good box office results are entirely due to its excellent film quality.

In Taiwan, "Manslaughter" won a box office of approximately 867.4 million RMB, becoming the No. 2009 box office list in Taiwan in 13.

Compared with the mainland, the film market in Taiwan is really sluggish, and this achievement is enough to satisfy the filmmakers of Taiwan.You must know that they bought the copyright for only 100 million yuan, and they have already made a lot of money.

In other regions, the cumulative box office of Japan and South Korea was 926 million RMB, and the total box office of Southeast Asia was 533.8 million RMB.

But this is not the end, the film not only earns in theaters, but also in copyright income from local TV and the Internet.

The copyright in this area has brought high profits, making the local copyright owner a lot of money.

Moreover, the copyrights for TV broadcasting and online broadcasting are long-term, and copyrights can be sold continuously in the future, bringing in a steady stream of income.

However, overseas box office and peripheral income have nothing to do with China Film Bona and other copyright owners, because local film distributors have already bought out
It is difficult for domestic films in this era to participate in overseas box office and peripheral copyright income.Compared with the uncertainty of sharing, domestic films prefer to go around the film festival and then sell their copyrights.

"Manslaughter" did not follow the path of a film festival, and it is good enough to sell tens of millions of copyrights.

This is still not the end. The most surprising thing is that an Indian Bollywood film company valued "Manslaughter" and spent 350 million to directly buy out the copyright and remake rights in India.

It is said that the Indian film company plans to name the film "Contest", and plans to put it on the big screen in the Indian Bollywood film market in 2011.

The sudden strength of India's veterans, coupled with the purchase of copyrights by interested film studios outside of East Asia and Southeast Asia, allowed the overseas copyright income of "Manslaughter" to break through 2000 million.

This income does not need to be shared with theater chain cinemas, that is to say, even if "Manslaughter" is not shown in domestic theater chains, it has already made a profit by selling copyrights.

Of course, that’s not how it works. If it weren’t for the outstanding performance of “Manslaughter” in mainland theaters, it might not be possible to sell such a high copyright price.

Income from copyright is a long-term process. Even ten years later, "Manslaughter" can continue to generate profits and become a long-term meal ticket.

Also because of the good market performance of "Manslaughter", Bona has thoughts.

Zhou Zhizhe, director of the investment film production department of Bona Pictures, made a special trip to the crew to find Zhang Hao and discuss the possibility of a sequel.

"Camera No. [-], change to three or five shots. Let's take a close-up and focus on the facial expressions of the actors." Zhang Hao directed the set, while Zhou Zhizhe watched from the side.

After Zhang Hao finished directing, Zhou Zhizhe continued: "Director Zhang, really don't think about it anymore? We can increase the investment budget."

Zhang Hao shook his head and said, "Director Zhou, the story of "Manslaughter" is relatively full in general. I can't think of anything new to shoot. I really have no interest in making a sequel."

"However, according to Bona's research, most movie fans still hope that "Manslaughter" will have a sequel, and I also hope that you can continue to direct." Zhou Zhizhe still refused to give up and continued to persuade Zhang Hao.

Zhang Hao still refused: "I'm sorry, I'm really not interested. How about this, if Bona is interested in making it, I can transfer the copyright of the sequel of "Manslaughter" to you, and you find a new director to make the sequel film."

Zhou Zhizhe's eyes lit up: "This is a way. Will Haotian Studio continue to participate in the investment?"

"I and I are a small workshop, completely for myself, unable to participate in a project, and our studio will not participate in the production of sequels." Zhang Hao said.

"That's a pity, but can you be the producer of the sequel?" Zhou Zhizhe made a new request.

It was just a nominal producer, and he also repaid Bona and Yu Dong's support for him at the beginning, so Zhang Hao agreed.

Although Zhang Hao was not invited to direct the sequel, Zhou Zhizhe achieved the purpose of this trip with the copyright of the sequel.

After chatting with Zhang Hao about the "Genius Gunner" project, Zhou Zhizhe left.

Da Mi Mi had just left the show, saw the back of Zhou Zhizhe leaving, and asked Zhang Hao: "Director Zhou left with a happy face, is there any happy event?"

"It's nothing, he got the copyright for the sequel of "Manslaughter" from me, so he is very happy." Zhang Hao replied.

"The sequel copyright of "Manslaughter"? You don't plan to direct the second part?" Da Mimi continued to ask.

"Yeah," Zhang Hao checked the results shot in the camera, feeling very satisfied: "The first sequel of this movie is not interesting, if Bona wants to make it, let them forget it."

Da Mi Mi suddenly said: "So it is like this!"

In fact, because of the non-standard domestic copyright law and supervision, Bona can actually make a sequel without China Film and Zhang Hao. As long as he doesn't use the name of the sequel to "Manslaughter", no one can do anything about him.

But doing so would offend China Film and Zhang Hao after all. Now that Bona and Zhang Hao are in the honeymoon period of cooperation, they naturally don't want their relationship with Zhang Hao to become stagnant.

This is also a benefit of having achievements and fame. If you were an unknown person back then, people would not care whether you were the original creator or not.

Penguin plagiarized so many games, and it didn't see it go bankrupt, but it got bigger and bigger.

In the matter of movies, whoever succeeds counts. In the dispute between plagiarism and copyright, unless there is real conclusive evidence, everyone can only bite the dog.

In the next few days, Bona officially started negotiations on the copyright of the sequel with China Film Haotian Studio and the two copyright laws of "Manslaughter". Since both companies clearly expressed their lack of interest, Bona Films will carry out this project alone.

However, in order to share the risk, Bona will definitely attract new investors. With the title of "Manslaughter", many film and television companies will definitely be involved.

After that, it has nothing to do with Haotian Studio, and the income after the sequel has nothing to do with Haotian Studio.

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