director of the millennium

Chapter 21 Nomination!

Going to Hollywood to make a movie?
It's also a very tempting proposition indeed.

At least when Chen Yuan heard that John took the initiative to invite Wu Yuan to Hollywood, his expression immediately became excited.

Filmmakers of Chen Yuan's generation are absolutely yearning for Hollywood, and even regard it as a movie palace.

Who said Hollywood movies have conquered the global market in their generation? A movie can easily earn hundreds of millions of dollars at the global box office!
That big ship in 98 raked in US$18 billion at the global box office, not only smashing the iceberg, but also smashing the Chinese film market!

In comparison, the box office of domestic movies is only a few tens of millions of RMB, which cannot be compared at all!

At a time when Hong Kong's film industry is in decline, Hollywood has undoubtedly become the brightest pearl in the global film industry.

From directors to actors, there is no one who doesn’t want to go to Hollywood and make Hollywood movies!
Why is Wu Baige regarded as an international director by domestic filmmakers?

Is it because of the only Academy Award for Best Director trophy in his hand?
Are there very few directors who have won an Academy Award?
Or is it because of the hit movie "A Better Tomorrow" in Asia?
No, neither!
It's because he has been in Hollywood and directed A-level Hollywood blockbusters!

It's because the Hollywood blockbuster "Mission: Impossible 2" directed by him grossed more than 5 million US dollars at the global box office in May this year!
Although he later filmed "Windtalker", which cost 1.15 million US dollars but had a box office of less than 8000 million, and "Memory Rift", which lost everything, he was driven back from Hollywood in despair.

But after he came back, he was still praised as an international director and had a lot of fans!
Even if he filmed "Red Cliff", which is like shit, he is still a top-tier domestic director!

Now Wu Yuan has the opportunity to go to Hollywood to film a movie, and Fox Searchlight took the initiative to invite him to Hollywood!
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for any other mainland director!

Chen Yuan wished he could immediately agree for Wu Yuan!

But Wu Yuan was not so excited, but calmly meditated.

Having experienced memories in dreams, he is not as disdainful of the domestic film market as Chen Yuan is, the myth of Hollywood.

It is true that the current mainland film market is indeed very small, but soon the mainland film market will usher in a big explosion!
In just 20 years, the mainland film market has gone from not even being ranked in the top ten to becoming the world's largest film market.

Twenty years later, Hollywood will be like that. Except for superhero movies, the global box office of other movies may not be as high as that of mainland blockbusters!

To put it bluntly, Wu Yuan only needs to take root in the domestic film market and develop well. The domestic market alone is enough for him to eat.

It's just that there are still some years before the era of mainland blockbusters begins.

And Wu Yuan really needs a sum of funds to prepare for the era of mainland movie blockbusters in advance.

Wu Yuan is not willing to let him go to Hollywood for long-term development. He hopes to personally participate in this great era of reform in the mainland film market.

But he is very happy to let him go to Hollywood to make a quick sum of money, and then invest the quick money in the mainland film market to accelerate the development of the mainland film market.

It is true that making Hollywood movies is very profitable these days!
Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Wu Yuan's face.

"John, I will seriously consider your suggestion."

“However, let’s talk about the adaptation rights of Coherence first.”

In the end, the North American copyright of "The Night the Comet Came" plus the right to adapt it sold for $130 million.

This is a price that Chen Yuan is extremely satisfied with.

After the negotiation, Wu Yuan and John also exchanged contact information and work email addresses.

Fox Searchlight is not a company with stupid people and a lot of money.

Whether Wu Yuan can hitch a ride on Fox Searchlight depends on whether he can come up with a script that makes Fox Searchlight interested.

Although he has the idea of ​​​​going to Hollywood to make a quick buck, this cannot be negotiated in a short while, and he needs to get in touch slowly later.

After the most important North American copyright sale was settled, Wu Yuan no longer participated in the negotiation of copyright sales in other places, but handed over full authority to Chen Yuan.

Film studios in Europe, South America, and Asia are not as wealthy as North America, and the market is not that big. The average price offered by a film studio is only tens of thousands of dollars, which is not worthy of Wu Yuan's penny-pinching.

For him, the trip to this year's Sitges Fantastic Film Festival has been very complete.

The next movie week is completely a vacation and a trip to enjoy the movie.

Although "The Night the Comet Came" had added a lot of screenings at the local film festival theaters, the film festival was not just for Wu Yuan after all, there were still many other films being screened.

After observing the screening of "The Night the Comet Came" for a long time, he, Chen Kun, and Zeng Li continued their movie-watching journey.

Two days later, Chen Yuan had almost reached an agreement with film producers from all over the world. Including the North American market, "The Night the Comet Came" sold a total of 255 million US dollars.

Among them are the income from buying out the copyright, and the income from the adaptation right.

It's not a bad price, if converted into domestic currency, it's more than 2000 million!
And without having to share with the theaters, Wu Yuan can get more than 400 million from it personally!
In Chen Yuan's room, after the copyright sale was finally settled, he stared blankly at the white paper recording the sales situation in front of him, stared at it for a long time in disbelief, then took out his mobile phone and made an overseas call.

"Hello, Director Han."

Time in China is six hours ahead of Spain. It is already evening in China time, but Mr. Han is still in high spirits and his words are full of expectation: "How is it? How much did it cost?"

"255 million!"

"Dollar!"

The third master Han on the other end of the phone immediately fell silent, only the sound of heavy breathing echoed in the receiver.

After a few short and long seconds, he asked again: "How is it that Fox wants to invite Director Wu to film in Hollywood?"

"Director Wu said he wants to think about it and is still thinking about the script. It's impossible for people in Hollywood to throw money at it before they see the script." Chen Yuan replied with a smile.

"Okay! Okay!" Director Han's tone was very exciting: "Xiao Chen, you have to take good care of Director Wu outside. I'm waiting for your victory and triumph in the capital!"

Overseas calls are still very expensive. Even if Han Donggui is the deputy director of China Film Group, he was reluctant to waste the money. After a few more instructions, he hung up the phone.

Putting away the phone, Chen Yuan made some calculations in his heart.

Tomorrow is the end of the film festival, and the trip to Sitges for "The Night the Comet Came" can be said to be very complete.

Just one last thing to do now.

Now that you have signed up to participate in the film festival, you have to look forward to the film festival awards, right?
It's a pity that this thing is not something they can control. It depends on the idea of ​​the film festival jury.

Just as I was thinking about this, the Chinese translator hired by China Film Group to study abroad knocked on the door and walked in excitedly.

"Producer Chen, the organizer of the film festival has sent someone to notify us to attend the closing ceremony and awards ceremony!"

“Our film was nominated for three awards: Best Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Film!”

(End of this chapter)