This director needs to apologize

Chapter 40 Sense of Presence Relax

On the 9th, Shen Pengfei led Chen Yiming and made preliminary contacts with Humen Sales and Signal Vision.

Although the attitudes of the four groups of business representatives were different, the conditions presented were actually similar.

After all, these four companies are roughly on the same level in Hollywood.

Shen Pengfei used her rich trading experience to interpret the conditions of the four companies one by one.

Regarding the overseas distribution of "Holiday in Magic City", the Stan brothers, who have the most favorable conditions, are the least honest.

The so-called "North American box office share" is a complete deception. You want to take away the distribution rights with a mere deposit of 10 nut coins. It is really a fool.

The lighthouses with the shabbiest conditions are the most honest.

A one-time payment of 150 million Nut Coins will be made to buy out the global distribution rights of the film (excluding China, Taiwan, Taiwan and Taiwan).

Between the two, whether it is Gao Ya's 50 copyright + 8% guaranteed share, or Signal's 65 copyright + 15% box office share, they are not very reliable.

Hollywood companies spend too much money in distribution, and overseas companies can't compete with them. The best way to trade is to buy out and settle down in one go.

Regarding the adaptation rights of "Holiday in the Magic City", in fact, it has not yet reached the stage of showdown.

At least one thing is that the representatives of these four companies did not bring screenwriters or directors with them at all. It is very likely that even the project approval was just verbal.

For them, the best result is to talk nonsense about Chen Yiming, use resource replacement or spend a little money to get the adaptation rights of "Holiday in the Magic City".

The worst outcome is simply to wait and see for a while to see how the Qida's fight for the adaptation authorization of Princess Diary progresses, or whether any new players show up to express interest in the adaptation of "Holiday in the City".

Shen Pengfei believes that none of these four companies seem to be planning the adaptation themselves. Most of them want to be second-rate businessmen and join the company to share the rights to adapt "Holiday" to share the profits.

Now is the time to compete for patience. Whichever side loses its composure first will have to pay a higher price.

Chen Yiming said that he is the most patient. The box office of "Holiday in Magic City" in China has already covered the cost, and any profit received outside China is a net profit.

The white guys want to blame him for thinking too much. He is the one who is happy when he wins and loses as well. It doesn't matter if it lasts forever.

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At the second screening on the 11th, not only did two of the seven mentioned by Shen Pengfei, Columbia and Universal send people to attend, but Warner Bros., the parent company of Signal Vision, and Paramount, which is most enthusiastic about Huajian co-productions, also had representatives from the past. Come.

There was even a film company from the UK, Hammer Films, that flew to Montreal from London.

Representatives from many Hollywood film companies gathered at the Empire Theater, which naturally alarmed the filmmakers from all over the world who stayed in Montreal, especially the large number of Chinese filmmakers and media reporters from China.

The number of people present alone is definitely not as good as the opening ceremony of the film festival, but the excitement is far greater. After all, who doesn’t want to take the opportunity to expand their connections in Hollywood.

Chen Yiming also took this opportunity to get to know several respected seniors in the Chinese film industry.

For example, An Quan, a famous young director who is a regular at the Montreal Film Festival and the standard-bearer of the younger generation in the northwest circle.

This year he brought a rural-themed film, "Equinox," which he wrote and directed.

Coincidentally, the overseas financier of "Equinox" and the representative of Hammer Films were old acquaintances. They were both involved in the European literary and artistic film circles, so Director An easily integrated into the lively atmosphere of the scene.

Another young Chinese director who came to the scene, Director Lu Yichuan, was also very comfortable.

He comes from the royal family and has an extraordinary background. He made a documentary with international influence before he was 30 years old, and he is also famous overseas.

This year, his film "Wild Child", which he also wrote and directed, reflects on wildlife conservation.

Director An and Director Lu are known as the twins of Montreal. Together, they have won five silver medals in Montreal.

As for who of the two will be the first to win the American Grand Prix, the highest prize, has become an open question among domestic entertainment media. The latest wave survey this year shows that Director An is temporarily leading with a slight advantage of 7 percentage points.

Boss Cai's Hong Kong producer friend, the actress who played Axiang in Xu Zhu's short film, and several other Chinese colleagues who had no time to say hello at the opening ceremony, all came to support him.

There were many more media reporters than at the screening on the 8th. Basically, everyone covering the film festival came, and there were even several local Chinese-language media in Montreal who came uninvited.

As the salon time came to an end, Mr. Roscoe, the chairman of the film festival, arrived belatedly and delivered a passionate speech.

Now "Holiday in Magic City" is completely complete. The filmmakers, media, chairman, and colleagues are all absent, and it has truly achieved "the light of China shines in Montreal."The reporters at the scene were all smiles as they clicked the shutter button. Finally, they no longer had to painfully look for a human background wall to take close-ups. Now they could just take a photo of a big scene with huge crowds of people.

Chen Yiming, who was previously unknown in the domestic film industry, made his presence felt in Montreal by accident.

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On the evening of the 13th, Chen Yiming finished interviews with eight overseas film companies and attended the closing award ceremony of the Montreal Film Festival in a relaxed manner.

After the screening, 40 of the 7 participating feature films received invitations to the closing ceremony.

Including "Holiday in the City", Chinese-language films ranked fourth among the seven in record-breaking numbers, the most awards in history.

Although official sponsorship was cut off, Maple Leaf Country still sent officials from the Film Bureau to the scene, and China’s cultural counselor in Maple Leaf Country also made a special trip to Montreal to attend the closing ceremony.

The scene was pretty passable.

However, after the awards ceremony officially began, the film festival's embarrassment could no longer be concealed.

Chairwoman Joan Lopez ran away immediately after throwing the list of winners to Roscoe, and did not attend the awards ceremony at all.

Also leaving was the Gaul director.

So Lao Luo had to present the awards in person. After all, letting film critics, reporters or curators award the awards was unjustifiable both emotionally and rationally.

The old man came up to the stage with the trophy, presented the trophy, and went back and forth more than ten times in one night.

He doesn't even have the etiquette to hold a cup for him.

Director An and Director Lu continued to stack up their number of silver awards, one won the Special Jury Award and the other won the International Critics Award.

Chen Yiming was shocked when he saw the director of Little Days come on stage to accept the award.

Fortunately, "Nothingness" won not the Americas Award, but the Best Artistic Contribution Award.

Making the masturbation shoot so earth-shattering and thrilling can be regarded as an interesting artistic exploration, and it deserves the title of Best Artistic Contribution!
Just as Shen Pengfei predicted, for the Best Actress Award, Lao Luo read out the name LILY-COLIN.

Lily's months of almost voluntary labor paid off. Not only did her debut film win her the title of International Best Actress, but she also had the opportunity to continue playing the role of a princess in the nutty version of "Princess Day Off", so she got two cakes of her own!
Chen Yiming hugged and congratulated Lily, who was holding her face in surprise, and applauded the girl for her incoherent speech.

Although he had already expected it in his heart, Chen Yiming still couldn't help but feel a little disappointed at this moment.

He recited the motto silently in his heart over and over again, admonishing himself to avoid "greed"!
Fate has given him a lot of blessings, and he has gained enough through "Holiday in the Magic City".

He regained his composure and sent sincere comfort to the disappointed Guyuehe.

"Don't cry, handsome man. I'll ask you to film Prince's Holiday next time. Then we'll sweep all the major film festivals."

The winner of the Best Director award was Chairman Rothko's Balkan fellow.

The Best Short Film Award was awarded to a German director. Xu Zhu's "Night-Scent" unfortunately failed to win.

The winner of the Americas Award is indeed a film from a female perspective. The same-sex love affair between sisters is indeed full of awards. If it doesn't win, who will win?

The last Chinese-language film to win an award was "The Bell" produced by Boss Cai's friend. Mr. Trump won the Best Screenplay Award, so he didn't return empty-handed.

All in all, the Chinese-language movies came back tonight with a full load, and Montreal is worthy of the name of the blessed land of China.

Chen Yiming felt completely and completely relaxed for the first time since time travel.

From writing the script and drawing the storyboard in mid-July to winning the award at the Montreal Film Festival in mid-December, it took a total of 7 months and 12 days.

Fulfilling his long-cherished dream of directing a feature film, he made up for the mistakes made by Xiang Rui, harvested the first pot of gold after time travel, and initially established a foothold in a strange time and space.

When he received a call from Ma Yunteng and learned that the box office of "Holiday in the City" had not decreased but increased in its fifth week of release, he didn't care much.

What made him most relaxed was that his momentary willfulness did not disgrace the classics of his previous life.

(End of this chapter)