This time, Zhang Bufan didn't stay in Oak Mountain for too long, because there were a lot of things waiting for him to be busy.

There is nothing to do at the Venice Film Festival, everything is to follow the process, all they have to do is to rush to Venice before the 29th and confirm the process with the organizing committee, such as the screening process of the film, the communication process of the main creators, and the red carpet and award process.

Zhang Bufan is busy with the follow-up of the movie "Five Flavors of the World".

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The movie is made, of course, it can't just be sent out to participate in a film festival awards ceremony, and it is also necessary to sell films, in fact, Zhang Bufan's main purpose is not necessarily to win the award, if you can get the best, it doesn't matter if you can't get it, just sell it well.

This time it is much easier to sell the film than it was to sell "Stone", whether it is Tian Zhuangzhuang or he Zhang Bufan, he is not a nobody abroad, with "Five Flavors of the World" being announced to enter the main competition unit, there are not a few people who take the initiative to come to the door, just like the kind of film selling agency that Zhang Bufan cooperated with in Berlin back then, there are also some film companies who want to win the right to screen the film in some countries and regions in advance.

Of course, these film companies are not strong enough and do not have enough strength to compete with those blockbusters, so they want to get the screening rights of some good movies through early contact, but based on their strength, the price they can give is relatively low, Zhang Bufan is not short of money, and naturally it is impossible to sell the movie to them at a low price so easily.

Therefore, at present, Zhang Bufan's main task is to choose a more reliable intermediary, and they will give a plan for selling films.

In addition to selling films, Zhang Bufan has a more important thing to do, that is, the release of "Five Flavors of the World" in China.

Although it has experienced several rounds of large-scale fancy publicity, and there are such gimmicks as stars participating in it, "Five Flavors of the World" still belongs to a literary film, which cannot be changed.

You must know that the domestic film market does not have the kind of art cinemas similar to those in the United States or many European countries, all films are treated equally, and the screening time is basically about a month, depending on the quality of the results, the key to be drawn or extended in advance.

Zhang Bufan didn't have the ambition to extend the key, but he didn't want the movie he had worked so hard to toss out was drawn ahead of schedule because of his poor results after only half a month of release.

Therefore, when the maximum benefit can be obtained from the release is a big question worth studying.

However, the schedule available for him to choose from is actually not too much.

It's already August, and the movie is going to participate in the Venice Film Festival at the end of August, and it is destined to not be released before that, and a month after that, it will be the National Day.

After the National Day file, there will be less than a month before the New Year file will be opened, and then, with the help of Christmas, New Year's Day, Spring Festival, and Valentine's Day, the domestic film market will usher in the hottest period.

Therefore, in the end, if the movie is to be released this year, there are basically only two schedules left.

One is the period from the beginning of September until the National Day, and the other is the period that begins at the end of October and November.

Of course, Zhang Bufan has another choice, that is, to greatly delay the release of the movie and put it directly to next year, at that time, a lot of schedules will be chosen at will.

However, this also has disadvantages, one is that the popularity of participating in the Venice Film Festival will definitely pass next year, and without this help, it will naturally not be good for the box office of the movie.

Another point is that there will inevitably be pirated versions sold in other countries that will flow into the country.

This version doesn't need too many people to watch it, only a small number of people need to watch it, and then make arguments like the movie is actually a literary film, which will have an extremely negative impact on the box office of the movie.

Oh, literary films, I don't know when these three words have been linked to the low box office and can't be untied, even if Lao Jia's movies have won all kinds of awards internationally, they are still extremely miserable when they return to China, just like "The Good Man of the Three Gorges", which won the Venice Golden Lion and dozens of awards at home and abroad, is still squeezed by Zhang Guoshi's "The City is Full of Golden Armor".

So in this regard, Zhang Bufan has to pay attention to it.

So on this day, Zhang Bufan, as the producer of "Five Flavors of the World", and the galloping people as the distributor, met representatives of major theaters in the capital and began exchanges and negotiations on the release of "Five Flavors of the World".

first watched the movie, and then, naturally, it was a battle over various issues related to the release of the movie.

The first thing to discuss is, of course, the release date, in fact, the ideas of these representatives are similar to Zhang Bufan, and after watching the movie, it is natural to exclude it from the National Day file and the Chinese New Year file.

And under the reason that Zhang Bufan "wants to take advantage of the Venice Film Festival, so it will be released within the year", the final time was set at the end of October and the beginning of November, so that after returning from Venice, there is still plenty of time for publicity and momentum.

Then there is the problem of account sharing, this is the simplest problem, there is no gambling agreement, it is the most common 57:43 account sharing method, in today's mature enough market environment, it is not easy to obtain certain privileges, especially in terms of money, of course, if the film director is replaced by Zhang Dashi or Xiaogang Cannon, the theater chain may make certain concessions.

It's not that Tian Xiangxing can't do it, but in terms of box office security, he is really not good, and the theater chain only recognizes money!

In the end, it came to the film scheduling that Zhang Bufan was most concerned about.

The first two problems were all solved in one morning, and in the last question, Zhang Bufan and the galloping man on the horse had to fight with each other for a whole afternoon before finally reaching a conclusion.

In the first week, the basic film schedule shall not be less than 10%, and if the film wins an award at the Venice Film Festival, the proportion will automatically increase by 5%, in addition, according to the effect of film promotion, the number of films scheduled will increase to a certain extent.

In addition, the film shall not be released in advance, and the number of films scheduled shall not be less than 7% within two weeks of release.

For these conditions, Zhang Bufan is still not particularly satisfied, before this, he has investment, participation and other deeply involved films, there is no film schedule below 20%, and it is natural to think that more than 20% of the film schedule is normal.

Until the person on the galloping side of the horse whispered and persuaded, "Mr. Zhang, this is already the best result we can strive for, as a literary film, it is unique in our country to be able to win such a schedule." ”

"There's really no way to go up again?" Zhang Bufan still asked unwillingly.

"There's really no way to go up anymore!" the man nodded heavily.

"Okay, so be it. Zhang Bufan took a breath and finally nodded.