Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 246: One of the Eight, Walter Comes

ps: Walt is Disney, Marvel Studios makes superhero movies, and Walt usually distributes them. For convenience, this chapter will go directly to Walt, since the copyright is in Walt's hands anyway.

The news that Zhou Mo was chatting and laughing with a bunch of Hollywood's hottest stars spread back to China that evening.

Except for a very small number of netizens who were dissatisfied with Zhou Mo's verbal counterattack against some Hollywood actors' implicit discrimination.

They think that Zhou Mo's behavior is ungraceful, that others just don't understand the customs of rabbits and don't mean to offend, that young people are prone to suffer losses and are embarrassed... and so on.

The vast majority of other netizens responded with support and pride.

"You really are just like Director Jiang Wen. You can make friends with foreign celebrities when you go abroad."

"Times have changed, sir. Our Director Zhou is just so awesome!"

"I suggest those who think Director Zhou did something wrong to read more foreign reports. Do you think foreigners don't understand the customs of rabbits? If you go to someone's doorstep and don't understand the customs, do you mean you can poop there? Or if someone poops at your doorstep, instead of getting angry, you open your mouth and take the poop?"

"That's right, you don't know the classic three-piece suit for white people? You've never heard of birth, breast x, and death. Do you really think those people don't know the custom of rabbits?"

Some people who were in Cannes also felt complicated after learning about Zhou Mo's situation.

For example, Zhao Yanzi.

Thinking back to when "So Young" was first released, she felt that she might be the next Zhou Mo, or even surpass him.

But in the blink of an eye, Zhou Mo has already made a name for himself in the European and American circles.

And her "So Young" has basically announced its failure in its attempt to become the champion during the May Day period.

Don’t say you haven’t fought the alien in “Iron Man 3”.

He didn’t even fight his mortal enemy, Seattle!

"How come he can always make headlines everywhere!" Zhao Yanzi's tone contained three parts of confusion, three parts of envy, and three parts of emotion.

Different from the older generation of directors who prefer to stay behind the scenes, Zhao Yanzi, as a former top traffic star, became one of the Four Great Actresses, and then became a director, and has always followed the path of traffic + publicity.

This approach requires exposure, otherwise there won’t be enough traffic.

But exposure really requires hot searches.

As for hot searches, you can’t just make them whenever you want.

Zhao Yanzi knew that Zhou Mo had a platform that could build momentum for himself.

But having a platform does not mean that you can definitely get up to speed.

Money is not everything.

There are many people who capital tries hard to promote but just cannot become popular.

Some actors are obviously trying their best to make things happen, but they just can't become popular.

Some artists and celebrities can't even sing all five tones, but they are still famous all over the world.

There are indeed certain metaphysical factors involved in whether one can become popular in the entertainment industry.

Zhao Yanzi is definitely a popular person. From her debut to now, her traffic has always been online.

But even Zhao Yanzi couldn't do what Zhou Mo did, who could appear on the hot searches every now and then, creating a huge rhythm, and the final result was basically in his favor.

Zhao Yanzi has now seen the benefits of publicity.

There is no way she would give up the advantage of her own traffic.

It’s really difficult for her to maintain the traffic by herself.

"It seems that I still have to cooperate with others." Zhao Yanzi's eyes flickered.

She recalled a business tycoon who had contacted her hoping to establish a partnership.

Majek.

……

The assistant brought news to Zhou Mo.

"Walt wants to purchase the overseas copyright of Lucy? How much does he want to pay?" Zhou Mo asked.

The assistant was very excited. He had been in a state of excitement since he received the news from Walter.

That's Walt Pictures.

One of the Hollywood Big Eight.

If the copyright of "Lucy" is really purchased, the boss's status will probably rise even more this time.

"They didn't say, they just hope to have an interview with you."

Zhou Mo was not excited when he heard this.

Logically speaking, being noticed by the Big Eight is certainly something to be proud of. But the situation of Walt Walt should be known to the audience who have watched the later Marvel movies in the past.

His arrogance and unkindness make him unique among the eight major clans.

Zhou Mo met Walter's people.

Two foreigners, in their forties, with fair complexions and no beards, wearing suits and ties.

The middleman made an introduction.

"Hey guys, this is the director of Lucy, Blake Chow."

The English name Zhou Mo gave himself is Blake.

His name is Mo.

Ink is black.

Hence the name Blake.

"Hello, Zhou. Nice to meet you. We've watched Lucy. It's very exciting."

Zhou Mo just smiled slightly, his heart calm.

He has heard the same praise too many times.

"Thank you for the compliment. I think so too. Lucy is the best science fiction movie I have ever made." Zhou Mo skillfully began to raise the price of Lucy.

Anyway, he didn't lie.

From the moment the two parties met, the game of transaction had begun.

The two responsible persons looked at each other in surprise.

Aren’t they all saying that Chinese people are very reserved?
Why did this guy give such an answer as soon as he came up?

Obviously, these two people did not attend the previous party, so they had no idea about Zhou Mo's reputation.

But since Zhou Mo started bragging as soon as he came up, they naturally started to lower the price.

"Someone in our company saw Lucy before and thought that although the sci-fi quality of this movie was good, the investment cost was low and the script content was rather ordinary, so it could not meet the standards of big productions in the European and American markets..."

One moment they say the content is exciting, the next moment they say the script is just average.

Zhou Mo felt deeply moved when he saw the two persons in charge, whose words had such a huge difference before and after, but whose emotions did not fluctuate at all from beginning to end.

Sure enough, all businessmen have evil hearts.

Unlike him, he always treats people sincerely.

I will never cheat anyone.

Too lazy to argue, Zhou Mo spoke directly: "Let's get straight to the point... Just tell me how much you are prepared to pay."

The person in charge was stunned and said, "Six million, sell the script and all copyrights to us, and we will have nothing to do with you after that."

"How many?"

Zhou Mo felt like there was something wrong with his ears.

"Six million."

Zhou Mo almost laughed out of anger at this number.

Six million.

It's not even close to the cost he paid to his own special effects company.

I also want to buy all the copyrights of "Lucy".

What an international joke!
"Are you two kidding me? Six million, why don't you see if there are other movies available for purchase at this price?" Zhou Mo prepared to leave.

As soon as I stood up, I was stopped.

"Director Zhou, please wait a moment."

Look back.

One of them said with a smile: "Director Zhou, please don't be anxious. We haven't finished talking about our conditions yet. Director Zhou, please listen to us first."

Zhou Mo frowned slightly.

No words were spoken.

The person in charge continued, "It's like this. After we read Lucy, we found that the heroine in it is actually very suitable as a comic character. So, if Zhou Mo is willing to sell Lucy to us, we will open an independent comic for Lucy, and your name will be included in the character's editorial."

(End of this chapter)