new kung fu king

Chapter 646 The Hesitant Filmmaker and the Quarrelling Judges

The day after "Mulan" was released in Cannes, Concorde's booth at the trade fair was crowded with people. They are all distributors from around the world. Through last night's screening, their keen business sense immediately Feeling the commercial value of "Mulan", they came to the trade fair early in the morning, keeping Winterdur and the employees of several companies busy.

Introductions about "Mulan" were distributed to filmmakers, but they were not interested in this aspect. After all, most of them had already seen the content of the film, and what they wanted to know now was the price.

"Dear sir, what we need is the agency price!"

"Yes, you give us a price range so we can buy it and bring it to our country!"

"Gentlemen, please be quiet, I can understand your eagerness." Winterdur said with a smile: "In fact, our Concorde company has achieved long-term cooperation with the United States, China, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, and even the United Kingdom. The relationship of cooperation, and our company has never signed any so-called one-time agency contracts.”

"What do you mean?!" Someone immediately asked.

"It's very simple. In the major countries I listed above, their agents have signed box office sharing contracts with us. As for the detailed description of the sharing contracts, I have written clearly in the last two pages of this beautiful film introduction."

As soon as Winterdur's words fell, there was a sound of flipping through the profile in front of the trading platform, but soon, dozens of screams of pain came.

"Damn it, there's such a large proportion of share in the first round of screenings!"

"Sir, we in Germany have always signed a one-time buyout contract. Behaviors like yours are asking for death!"

"SHIT, the first round turned out to be a [-]-[-] split. Is your Xiehe company sucking blood?"

"We didn't make any money at all!"

This is a reflection of the mood of most film producers at this time. Yes, they think that the agency contract of Xiehe Company is very unreasonable!

After participating in the Cannes Film Festival for so many years, they have always bought out a certain film at one time, even the Palme d'Or films from all walks of life have never opened their mouths so much!

In their minds, a film like "Mulan" is undoubtedly a rare and good product, but if the contract requires a [-]-[-] split, the profits of the filmmakers will suddenly decrease.

They won't buy a film without profit, they think Xiehe Company simply doesn't know the heights of heaven and earth, and they are ruining their own way of making money!

Most of the film dealers who came to negotiate left, because they knew little about the situation of Xiehe Film Company, while the remaining film dealers were still hesitating.

They are well aware of Concorde's position in the ranks of world films over the years. Yes, all of the world's top-grossing films over the years have come from Concorde, such as "Star Wars", "Rocky", "Home Alone", "ET", "Jaws", "Mythology", and "Shaolin Temple", which caused a sensation in various countries last year, each of these films is a sharp weapon to refresh the box office.

If the box office of these films is added up, the global box office data of the seven films is an astonishing 21 billion US dollars!
21 billion US dollars is just an astonishing figure created by Concorde in less than ten years. May I ask which film company in the world can have such a strong strength?

It's no wonder that people sell movies and always get a share of the box office, and they are clearly full of confidence in Xiehe!
Just when they were hesitating, there was a commotion behind the crowd, and a few people shouted: "Get out of the way, get out of the way!"

Five or six bodyguards squeezed out a path from the crowd, and the Las Vegas gambling king Kerkorian, wearing sunglasses and smoking a cigar, made his debut. He walked to the front desk angrily and said to Winterdur: "Damn it, where did that Tiger guy hide?"

"Uh, Mr. Gambling King, don't get excited." Winterdur felt a lot of pressure in the face of this gambling king who became a mafia. He used to communicate with MGM as staff with the same status. It was the first time that he had such a direct communication with the president. "I came out early in the morning, the boss seems to be still at home, right?"

"He's not at home! There's not even a ghost in the hut you rented!" Kerkorian said gloomily, "I want to see him, so help me find him."

Winterdur shrugged and said, "I'm afraid it's impossible. If he's not at home, I'm afraid I can't find him either."

"Damn it!" Kerkorian threw the cigar on the ground, stomped on it vigorously and said, "I want to be the first to sign a contract with him for the release of "Mulan" in North America."

"Sign the contract?" Winterdur was taken aback by the violent appearance of the gambling king, with a few drops of sweat streaming down his forehead, he hurriedly took out a contract from the drawer on the platform and said, "Here is the contract. The boss has already signed it."

"OK! It's easy to do things with a contract!" The gambling king didn't even look at the contract, signed his name on the six-point contract, and then picked up two of them and said, "Tell him when you see Tiger, I'm sorry!" A presidential suite has been customized for him at the Holiday Inn, that kind of shabby little place is not suitable for his status!"

"Okay, okay." Winterdur nodded again and again, and only after the gambling king left in a mighty way, he wiped the sweat from his forehead, and the pressure in his heart disappeared immediately, because since the gambling king made an appointment for the boss If you get the presidential suite, then you have the opportunity to enjoy it, haha, this is very good news!
The rest of the filmmakers were already dumbfounded at this moment. After all, the gambling king Kerkorian is too famous in the world. In the shadow of a famous tree, a big group like MGM won't frown The contract was signed directly on it, which shows that "Mulan" is indeed worth buying.

Several film producers hesitated again and again, and finally decided to take a gamble. They approached Kerkorian and asked for a contract. Driven by them, people joined the ranks of signing contracts one after another.

Just like the busy scene of the trade fair, the judges of the competition main unit are also exchanging opinions intensely for the 19 shortlisted films.

The 18 judges present held various materials of the shortlisted films in their hands. They have been watching these 19 films these days. Today is the time for them to vote for their three favorite films.

At the very beginning, there were three candidates for the Palme d'Or, namely "The Great Missing" by American director Costa Gavras, "Road to Freedom" by Turkish director Imaz Guni, and "Mulan" by Hong Kong director Wang Xiaohu. ".

The first thing to do is the pre-selection stage.

"I vote for "Mulan"!" French representative Gilles Jacob went up to vote for "Mulan". After spreading his hands, he said: "The actors moved me with their superb acting skills, and the director even He used his skillful technique to tell us how an oriental version of Joan of Arc defended his family and the country, and more importantly, we saw the strong artistic heritage of China in the film, and I like Mulan."

After the French side voted, there was a lot of discussion in the jury immediately. Everyone knows that the French love Joan of Arc, and they directly apply this love to the voting, which is somewhat shameless. !

A British judge with a background in music production stood up and voted for "Mulan", and then explained why he likes this movie. He said: "From the perspective of film post-production, film music is one of the highlights of the film. In the scene of fighting in "Mulan", the director abandoned the original sound of fighting and killing swords and guns on the battlefield and replaced it with silent shouts, which is another way to show the anti-war theme of the film itself. And the military song that the soldiers sang together amazed me even more, it is of great artistic value!"

Unlike the French judges who held high the banner of "Oriental Joan of Arc", this British judge spoke in a very professional tone about the outstanding music production of "Mulan", and the other judges had no opinion.

As a result, the two judges had already voted for "Mulan", which immediately made several judges who supported "The Great Missing" and "Road to Freedom" feel aggrieved.

So the next voting became tense, and the preselection results came out. "Mulan" got 8 votes, "The Great Missing" and "Road to Freedom" got 5 votes each.

At the beginning of the second round, the judges had a big fight, and the worst one was a judge from the United States.

The American judge did not support "The Great Disappearance" in his own country but supported "Road to Freedom". He said: "This is a politically critical film that is considered to be influenced by modernism. The director put the intention of political criticism Tightly combined with the form of the movie, it expresses a meaning of "conclusion" or "way out", pointing out a road to light for this country that has been trampled by the Communist Party. And the "Mulan" The whole film is full of blood, violence and almost hopeless grief, which cannot reach this level in terms of artistic structure, it is a commercial film dressed in ethnic and artistic cloak!"

When the American director made such a fuss, the French judges and the British judges stopped doing it immediately. They stood up and objected loudly, "Please understand that Turkey's prisons are notorious in the world! And according to what we know, "Road to Freedom" "When the film was filmed, their director, Imaz Guni, was still squatting in a prison in Turkey!"

"Do you think that a director who has been in prison for a long time will shoot too much artistry? No, what we see is the director's various dissatisfaction with the prison and venting. Do you understand venting? It is a very selfish thing. , it is not worthy to talk about art at all!"

French General Representative Jill Jacob said excitedly: "Mulan is different, she is so beautiful, she is so strong"

The two major factions appeared in turn, expressing their dissatisfaction with each other.
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There was a bug in the last chapter. Yes, I made a mistake in one link. The film festival is only open to people in the industry. Since 1995, the city of Cannes has organized an event called "Forum" so that film lovers and Cannes citizens can see several films shortlisted for the festival. The "Director's Half Moon" project is open to the audience. SO, it is impossible to have ordinary audiences in the screening halls in the movie palace, they are all people in the industry, please add explanation, forgive me.

(End of this chapter)