Chapter 13: This Year's Cannes (part 1 of 5)

'Revealing the mystery of the 800 million box office of "Titanic", the Chinese film market has a lot of stupid money?'

At present, our film industry is still relatively naïve, in a relatively rudimentary form, in the face of Hollywood's mature industrial stance, I think there must be an impact, and it is not a particularly small impact. At this time, all you can do is work on the content!'

'If you want to fight against Hollywood, even if you also shoot a big ship and Avatar, it's useless to rely on policy!'

"Titanic 3D" swept the Chinese film industry, with a box office of 800 million in just half a month...

A bunch of people in the industry expressed their opinions, including directors and major film experts...

"The Heartbreaker" is okay, after all, it has made a profit, and other movies, "Piff", "Killing", "Chunjiao and Zhiming" are all losing money...

Mourning is everywhere...

Many directors have called for policy intervention, of course, to put it mildly: if the policy is not effective in any industry in China, even a genius is weak. But the audience wants a movie made for them by free and healthy people...

Translation: Our policies restrict the freedom of filmmakers, too many filmmakers with materials cannot freely use their imagination, too many ideas cannot be freely expressed, which is doomed to lose our film industry to Hollywood at the audience level first.

Well...

It also makes sense.

In fact, the movie with the highest return on investment in the Qingming file also came from the project made by Mengxi Group - Lu Xiaoran: "Embroidered Shoes", with an investment of 5.6 million yuan, which made him sell 46 million!

The leading actor wanted to find Haiqing at first, but was rejected, and went to Liu Lin again, and later formed a combination of Liu Lin, Liu Mintao, and Zhang Xinyu, some of whom were responsible for acting skills, and some of whom were responsible for selling meat...

Horror movies must have meat as a burden, otherwise, who will step into the theater to watch horror movies?

Not only is it a big seller in the domestic market, but he has also negotiated the copyright of several markets in Southeast Asia...

Zhen Nyima has the ability, no wonder Zhang Xinyu kicked Wu Zhuoxi and wanted to be happy with him.

Sugar candy, what do you do?

......

On the 24th, "If Love Has Providence" was released...

This movie is a remake, Liu Shishi + Chen Xiao + Hu Ge, Mengxi two male gods escort, the story basically follows the Korean version, except for some changes to the background.

The story is actually quite simple:

Miss Everybody and the stupid boy of childhood.

Happy, uninhibited, natural emotional germination.

Especially the classic romantic scenes, the riverside surrounded by fireflies, the small bridge, and wonderful gifts.

A beautiful dream.

It basically satisfies the imagination of everyone who is waiting for romance and looking forward to romance...

The filming location is placed in Xidihong Village, just like a landscape painting, which adds a touch of romance.

Then there is the encounter, the friend's fiancée, the friendship, the unbearable betrayal, and the helplessness.

The hero's confession to the heroine after he has a disability, painful separation, and remembrance.

The reunion of children, the incredible fate...

Approximately!

The director found Xue Xiaolu, and the director of photography was Song Xiaofei...

The important thing is the box office results, it's okay, there are always many people who like hypocritical love movies, the first six days, the box office is 150 million, and breaking 300 million is not a big problem - "The Avengers" was pushed to May 7.

Shen Mengxi doesn't pay much attention to this movie, and he doesn't have time, he's busy blowing it at the moment... The correct way to say it would be to be interviewed.

Location in Cannes!

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In the 65th Cannes, Chinese films were more embarrassing, and only Lou Ye's "The Mystery of the Floating City" was shortlisted for a kind of attention unit.

Why is it a concern, not the main race?

It's better to put it: compared with the increasingly international and popular trend of the main competition unit, a concern has been insisting on pluralism and independence, and "The Mystery of the Floating City" is obviously not popular enough;

A more true statement: in terms of status, although a kind of attention and the main competition unit are set in parallel, both the attention and the gold content are obviously inferior to the main competition unit.

In other words, "Mystery of the Floating City" is not up to the level of the main competition!

That's also very good, Wang Xiaoshuai's "Me 11", signed up for the big three, and didn't even get the qualification for the shortlist, and later "The Intruder", Berlin, Cannes, Venice, the three major film festivals were reported all over again, and finally shortlisted for Venice...

It's still quite embarrassing, I mean Shen Mengxi feels quite embarrassed - he came to Cannes just to sell movies.

It's like when Peking University starts school and you sell mobile communication cards...

"Walking with God" was shortlisted for the film festival and will be officially screened tomorrow night.

This time I came to the same behavior as last year, chartered a few hotel rooms, negotiated copyright deals with several major film dealers, and unexpectedly, "Heartbreaker" actually sold very well, more than 40 countries and regions bought copyrights, and the copyright income alone was close to 13 million US dollars.

In addition, "The Guy in My Body" also sold for more than $6 million, and there are seven or eight studios that want to buy the adaptation rights, including the United States...

The North American adaptation rights have been granted to Bren House, this kind of comedy is very suitable for making R-rated, pee, and fart.

"Time Love Letter" didn't sell well, Southeast Asia has been released for a round, and it has a box office score of nearly 3 million US dollars, which is already very good, this kind of low-cost romance film, except for starring world-renowned actors, is not very popular in itself...

He was talking nonsense to a reporter from Tencent News:

"So far, this overseas sales are a bit different from last year... Last year, the copyrights of "Painted Skin 3" and "Little Fox and the Monster Hunter" sold well, and this year's "Nine Tails" sold very well, but "Walking with God" has not been officially screened yet, and we think that after the screening, we will sell the copyright..."

Overseas copyright of "Nine Tails"...

South Korea, Japan and benzene plus a piece is 25 million US dollars, and the copyright of other countries is calculated separately...

The "Painted Skin" series has proven to be in the market and is very sellable.

Asked if there were no Chinese films shortlisted for the main competition unit of Cannes, Shen Mengxi said: "A's "Sherlock on the Plains" is still in the late stage, and it really can't catch up with Cannes, if nothing else, I should sign up for Venice..."

"I don't have any plans to make a movie recently, but when I have an idea, I will definitely make another one. ”

"Titanic... It's mainly a sentimental bonus, after all, this movie was the global box office champion for thirteen years... Our current mainstream moviegoers only hear about it, and they haven't seen it in the theater..."

"There's nothing to say, the skills are not as good as people..."

"In North America, there are good genre films such as "The Hunger Games", "Dragon Tiger Boys", "Cabin in the Woods" and so on... There is only one "Heartbreaker" in the Chinese market, and the cost of "Heartbreaker" is less than one-tenth of that of "Titanic". In addition, "Heartbreaker" will be released in North America next week and will land in 480 theaters!"

And then...

talked about Wanda's acquisition of AMC Cinemas!

That's right, Lao Wang was furious, and just last week, he announced a $2.6 billion acquisition of AMC Cinemas Group, the second largest in the United States...

100% equity and debt.

At the same time, it promised that the operating capital of the merger and acquisition will not exceed 500 million US dollars, which means that Wanda will have to pay a total of 3.1 billion US dollars for the transaction, which is equivalent to about 19.6 billion yuan.

Shocked the whole world!