The film market is not as crowded and deserted as other fairs. After all, ordinary tourists don't come here, and the people who come to the trading market are basically filmmakers and filmmakers. Even the bosses of large companies, producers, and film sales agents don't come here, because they have their own network systems and don't need to go to the market to set up stalls. They stayed in a luxury hotel near the Palais des Films, and they got the business done with a cup of coffee in the hotel's café. Most of the people who come here are independent film companies from Europe and the United States, as well as countries and regions like China that do not have their own distribution channels overseas.

Compared with the situation where other booths were unattended, Xu Wangqiu's booth was much better. Yesterday, when Hu Jian and the others went to the booth to clean up, several film companies came to ask. They knew that the delegation would come to the official exhibition today with relevant materials, and they all arrived as scheduled.

These filmmakers are extremely excited after watching the trailer of "Falcon", which is not inferior to Hollywood's commercial blockbusters, and even Hollywood can't make commercial blockbusters. There are not only 10,000 artillery shots, tank group charges, fierce battles, exciting fights, and helicopter crash shots. If such a film is to be screened in its own country, the market response must be very good. Even before the film company saw the finished film, they were impatient to say that they wanted to buy the movie.

Xu Wangqiu didn't rush to make a deal, and now that the other party hasn't even watched the movie, the bid can't be too high. He told these filmmakers that "Falcon" will be officially screened on the 28th, and the specific price will be discussed after everyone watches the movie.

After lunch, Hu Jian and the people of China Film Company left the stage and went to the movie palace. This afternoon, the China Film Festival officially began, and "Havoc in Heaven" will be officially screened. Hu Jian and the people from China Film Company must be present, and there will be media interviews at that time. Xu Wangqiu used this time to wander around the trading market and take a look at other booths.

After a long walk, Xu Wangqiu found that the movies screened were mainly B-grade films, and they were all movies that he had never heard of. Here he meets the famous New World Films, the company of Roger Coleman, the king of Hollywood's B-movies. Xu Wangqiu went to ask, but unfortunately Roger Coleman didn't come to Cannes, otherwise he really wanted to talk to the king of B-grade films.

When passing by the Taiwan booth, Xu Wangqiu didn't see Qin Xianglin and them, only three staff members stayed behind. He waved at them and said, "Hello." However, the staff were very unfriendly and glared at him one by one.

After walking around, Xu Wangqiu went to the door to buy two newspapers, and returned to the booth to look through them slowly.

Yesterday the festival screened two films, the French film Enchanted, and the American film Heaven's Gate. The newspaper's evaluation of "Enchanted" is average, but the performance of the heroine Adjani is extremely beautiful, and she is considered the number one favorite for the Best Actress award at this year's Cannes Film Festival. In contrast, "Heaven's Gate" received bad reviews, and in the eyes of critics, the film was a pretentious, obscure, plot twisty, and extremely extravagant fiasco.

Xu Wangqiu was looking at the ground with relish, when he suddenly heard a thick voice saying "Hello", he looked up and was stunned. It was a strong man with a big belly, with eyes like two blue-blue beads sunken into a fleshy face, a neck as thick as a fire hydrant, and hands as big as lamb chops. His face looks fierce, a bit like the prison guard in the TV series "Prison Break". Forty years later, anyone in the film industry would be able to call out his name when they saw this face, Harvey Weinstein.

Xu Wangqiu has seen some information about Harvey, Harvey did not start out in movies, he and his younger brother Bob Weinstein initially made music, mainly to promote rock newcomers. In the mid-70s, the two brothers took over the Century Theatre. In order to keep the theater from being too deserted when there were no concerts, they began to show movies in the theater and gradually got involved in the film industry. In 1979, Harvey and Bob founded Miramax in New York and really started doing film distribution.

The Weinstein brothers' film journey was not smooth, and it would take a decade for the real rise to prominence. That year, they bought Steven Soderbergh's "Last Name, Lies, and the Tape" for $1 million, which not only won the Palme d'Or, but also had an impressive return on investment, grossing nearly 25 million at the box office and catapulting the Weinstein brothers to fame.

A few years later, Disney acquired Miramax from the Weinstein brothers. Disney didn't care about Miramax's business, and the Weinstein brothers proudly continued to run the company. With the help of Disney's platform, as well as the abundant funds provided by Disney, they embarked on a journey to conquer the world, successfully produced and released a large number of art films, such as "The English Patient", "Shakespeare in Love", "Chicago", "Vulgar", etc., and became the most thanked person at the Oscars.

Weinstein is now just a mud-eating fish at the lowest level of the film industry, far from being the tycoons of the future, who can only pick up films that other distributors don't want. Their favourite thing is to go to the UK and European film festivals to find art films and independent films with nudity. They cut out the nudity from the movie and made it into a trailer to attract the audience into the cinema.

Xu Wangqiu looked at Harvey and said with a faint smile: "Hello, Mr. Harvey Weinstein." ”

Harvey was startled, and thought to himself, how is it possible, this Oriental man actually knows me, am I so famous? He asked curiously, "How can you know me?"

Xu Wangqiu laughed: "I attended a salon in the French film industry the night before yesterday, and I said that we would come to the Cannes Film Festival to sell films, and some people talked about you, saying that you are an arrogant bastard, saying that you like to cut out nude scenes in movies and make trailers to attract audiences." I'm sorry to tell you that our film doesn't have any nudity at all, not even a kiss. ”

The current Harvey is not an old fritter later, just a newcomer who has not been in the film industry for a few years, and when he heard Xu Wangqiu's words, he turned red and said with a sneer: "That, in fact, I don't want to do that, I can't help it, we are a small company and can't get attractive movies at all." If I could get a good movie, I would definitely not do it, and I would definitely promote it well. Do you know which movie I like the most? I like Truffaut the most of the 400 blows, I like Truffaut I like Fellini, I like Visconti, I just don't get a chance to release their films.

Xu Wangqiu knew that although Harvey was a bad person, he really loved art films. It was with his assistance that many art film directors became famous all over the world. In fact, there are a lot of rotten people like Harvey in the film industry and the art circle, and art really has nothing to do with morality. Of course, there are artists who are both virtuous and artistic, but most of the time it is just a beautiful imagination. Xu Wangqiu didn't like Harvey, but if the other party was really willing to pay a high price, he would definitely not refuse, pointing to the position in front of him and saying, "What is there to sit down and talk." ”

Harvey said "thank you", sat down with a big belly, then looked at Xu Wangqiu and said: "I saw your movie "Hoe Rape" in the movie theater in Chinatown last year, and it was really an incredible movie. I've never seen a movie like this, it's amazing. I was thinking how good it would be if I was given the release, and if I were allowed to issue it, it might sell for millions of dollars. I've been following you very much ever since, and I came right over as soon as I found out that your new film was being screened at Cannes. ”

Xu Wangqiu showed a smile in his mouth, thinking that Harvey is really good at talking, obviously he came to Cannes to buy a film, but he said that it was specially for my movie, if others heard your nonsense, they might believe it, but I definitely won't believe it, and said lightly: ""Falcon" is different from "Hoe Rape", "Falcon" is a commercial blockbuster with an investment of 5 million US dollars. Before arriving in Cannes, the rights to Dongying were sold, selling for $4 million. Can you do it when you distribute a commercial blockbuster like this?"

Harvey was shocked when he heard that Dongying's rights were sold for $4 million, he used to buy movies for basically 230,000 yuan, and there were no more than 500,000 yuan, so it was impossible for him to pay millions of dollars to buy movies, and he couldn't afford to pay so much money.

However, he did not doubt Xu Wangqiu's words, he had already seen the film of "Falcon" just now. Tens of thousands of charges, tank groups, and helicopters, if it is filmed in Hollywood, it will definitely not be possible without tens of millions.

There must be a lot of companies that want to buy the rights to "Falcon", and it is very difficult to stand out with Miramax's strength, but he still wants to try: "Of course, if you know our company, you must know that last year we released John Celes's film "The Return of the Seven Sikakus", which sold for $3.5 million, shocking the entire independent film industry, and our distribution ability is second to none in the film industry!"

Xu Wangqiu thought to himself, I believe you are a ghost, I am afraid that movie was not released by you, and the box office could not be so high, otherwise Miramax would have risen a long time ago, but he did not debunk it, and said with a faint smile: "Then how much money are you going to pay for "Falcon"?"

Harvey felt that something was in place when he heard this, and a bright smile rose and fell on that big fleshy face: "I haven't seen the finished film yet, so I can't give an exact price." But I have a better suggestion, which is to split the account. After the movie was released, we split the box office equally. Take "The Return of the Seven Sikakus" as an example, the film cost $60,000, and we only paid 100,000 when we bought it, but it ended up selling for $3.5 million. The money has nothing to do with the studio, because we have already bought out the distribution rights. If it is distributed by other film companies, "Falcon" will sell more than one million at most, but if you share the account with us, you will definitely earn more. ”

Xu Wangqiu was a little surprised when he heard this, but he didn't expect Harvey to propose to divide the account. While box office splitting sounds tempting, it's actually a big hole because you can't oversee and account for distribution costs. Feng Xiaogang suffered this loss, "Big Names" sold for $2 million overseas, but when Colombia settled the accounts, the travel expenses and publicity expenses were particularly high, and in the end, the distribution fee spent $2.3 million, and Huayi didn't get a penny.

If it was other big companies, the situation might be better, but Harvey didn't pay for his life, and he cheated many filmmakers. Sharing accounts with Harvey is definitely sending the lamb to the wolf's mouth.

Xu Wangqiu stared into Harvey's eyes and said with a smile: "I heard that many American film companies like to trick people by splitting accounts. Because independent film companies do not have the ability to supervise the distribution process of films, the distribution company calculated the travel expenses and publicity expenses as very high when it settled, and it only cost 500,000 yuan, but they said that it cost 2.5 million. Suppose the box office of a movie is 5 million, and after sharing the account with the movie theater, the distributor can get 3 million. After removing the issuance cost of 2.5 million, only 500,000 remains. The producer can only get 350,000 yuan, so instead of this, I might as well sell it for 1 million!

Harvey looked at Xu Wangqiu dumbfounded, what kind of person is this guy, he even knows this kind of thing, doesn't he say that China is very backward and closed? How could he know this?