In a reception room of the hotel, Ronan met Harvey Weinstein, the two are not familiar, but they are not strangers, after all, the number of people in Hollywood's high-end circle is actually not very large.

"Ronan, come here to buy the film this time?" Harvey Weinstein remembers Ronan buying "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" from right under his nose, and asked tentatively, "Is there a goal?"

Ronan smiled, "I just arrived today. ”

Harvey Weinstein was also direct: "It looks like we're the same." With a smile on his fat face, he said, "I'm going to go to the trade fair of the film festival to have a look, and I don't know if I can meet valuable films." ”

Ronan didn't go around the bush and said, "I'll go to the fair too." ”

For those of them who own distribution companies, trade fairs are often more attractive than competition units, and the films in competition units are all clearly placed, and there is a clearer measure of value, but the films at trade fairs, if you are lucky, you can find the kind that is small and big.

Of course, neither Ronan nor Harvey Weinstein expected to find films like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" or "Blair the Witch" at the Shanghai International Film Festival fair.

After all, they are mainly engaged in the North American market, and the Shanghai International Film Festival is currently not comparable to the three major European film festivals or the St. Denis Film Festival.

Harvey Weinstein suddenly said, "Ronan, we're all from Hollywood, and we're bound to be the ones who will get the most attention at the trade fair, and I have a proposal. ”

"Speak. Ronan looked at the big fat Jewish man.

Harvey Weinstein said: "You and I have been to a lot of film festivals, and some studios like to use competition from multiple distributors to drive up prices. ”

Ronan nodded slightly: "There are indeed quite a few such cases. ”

Although the distributor stands at the absolute top of the food chain, there are two or more distributors eyeing the same film at the same time, and the producer has the capital to sit on the ground and start the price.

Harvey Weinstein proposed, "How about if one of us takes a fancy to a movie at a trade fair and makes a bid, and the other doesn't compete?"

Ronan thought a little about it, director Zhang Da's film did not participate in the trade fair......

"Yes. Ronan said: "At the trade fair, Embassy Pictures will not buy those expensive films. ”

Harvey Weinstein is a veteran of the business, saying: "Miramax is about the same. He laughed, "We're done." ”

Ronan also smiled and said, "My reputation has always been very good. ”

Harvey Weinstein admits that there are some rumors in Hollywood that Ronan Anderson is very particular about what he does.

But Harvey Weinstein didn't mention anything other than the trade fair, and Ronan also didn't say that he knew that Harvey Weinstein had a secret connection with that director Zhang.

I think Harvey Weinstein also knows that Director Zhang also has a connection with him.

That "Hero" does have a certain value, if it can be obtained at a reasonable price, Ronan will naturally not let it go, but the value of this movie is limited, no matter how extreme it operates, it cannot be compared to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" dressed in the Orient but with the core of the West.

For Western audiences, "Hero" is nothing more than a science fiction film from the East.

Maybe it can also be said to be a magic movie.

In the following day, Ronan, accompanied by the person in charge of the Oriental Branch of the Embassy Pictures, met with many big figures in the film industry here, such as the chairman of the organizing committee of the Shanghai National Film Festival, the head of the Film Bureau, the chairman of China Film Group, a person in charge of Big Scissors, and so on.

On the basis of maintaining his position, Ronan also released a certain intention of cooperation to these people.

And he does work with companies here, such as the companies here that are responsible for the production of DVDs and many other movie peripherals for Relativity Entertainment.

In the context of economic leadership, foreign investors like Ronan are quite popular, and even leaders from many regions have secretly sent invitations to him to inspect the investment environment in the local area.

At the opening of the Shanghai Film Festival, Ronan, as an important guest, also participated in the opening ceremony, and found an opportunity to chat with Director Zhang.

Director Zhang invited Ronan to a reception next week, saying that he would introduce and promote his new film on the spot.

Ronan could guess that this was an attempt to gather a number of foreign distribution companies to sell "Heroes" at a good price.

In this era, distribution companies like Europe are actually far inferior to Hollywood, and there is not much competitiveness at all, especially Director Zhang's Oscar plot is here, and the first choice must be Hollywood's company.

Ronan thought about it carefully and roughly estimated the value of "Heroes".

After attending the opening ceremony, Ronan asked Connie to contact the organizing committee and went to the film festival's trade fair to change clothes.

What can really support the film festival is the competition unit on the one hand, and the huge film transaction is on the other.

The film fair was held at the International Convention and Exhibition Center, and filmmakers from more than 20 countries came to participate in the exhibition with new and old works, and more than 200 films urgently needed to find buyers.

In some ways, movies are a buyer's market, where distributors need audiences to buy tickets and producers need distributors to pay for them.

Ronan took his assistant Connie and his bodyguard Finch into the convention and exhibition center, the venue is very large, perhaps because this side is used to promoting this kind of large-scale gathering, and the dense exhibition booths are one after another.

Embassy Pictures also has a booth, but no film exhibitions, just to introduce its distribution business to the producers.

The organizers may have taken into account the needs of many foreign guests, and at the entrance of the venue, there are volunteers who will provide some services such as guidance and translation according to the needs of different countries.

The volunteers are highly qualified, and most of them come from universities in the city.

"Qianqian, look. In the volunteer area, a short-haired girl saw Ronan at a glance, pulled Wan Qian, and said, "Isn't this the big man in Hollywood that Vice Chairman Chen personally went to greet that day?"

Wan Qian looked at it and confirmed: "It's the boss of Relativity Entertainment." ”

The short-haired girl had a very nimble head, and immediately pulled Wan Qian forward, saying as she walked, "Come on, he may need a translator or a guide." ”

Wan Qian hesitated, but still followed.

It wasn't far away, but the short-haired girl came to Ronan's side in a few steps and took the initiative to ask in English, "Excuse me, sir, do you need volunteer service?"

Ronan looked curiously at the short-haired girl, then at another round-faced girl who seemed a little quiet behind her, and asked, "Volunteer?"

The short-haired girl pointed to the volunteer clothes on her body and said, "This is a big place, and there are many people from many countries and regions, and many guests need guides or interpreters, if you are not prepared, we volunteers can provide this service." ”

Ronan changed to Chinese: "If you translate into English, I don't think you need to." ”

The short-haired girl was a little surprised, she didn't expect a Hollywood bigwig to be able to speak Mandarin so fluently: "Oh, ah...... It turns out that you speak Chinese so well. ”

Ronan smiled and said, "I need a guide, though." He glanced at the round-faced girl behind him, "Mind being my guide?"

"Me?" Wan Qian was a little surprised.

The short-haired girl had a very good relationship with Wan Qian, so she quickly pulled her by the hand, and Wan Qian said, "This is part of our volunteer work, of course." ”

"Thank you. Ronan was very polite and took the initiative to introduce himself: "I'm Ronan Anderson and I'm from Hollywood. ”

Wan Qian seemed to lack social experience, paused for a moment, and then reacted and said, "I am Wan Qian, a student at the School of Drama. ”

The short-haired girl quietly pushed Wan Qian, and Wan Qian made a gesture of invitation according to the etiquette of the previous training: "Mr. Anderson, go this way." As we walked along this main road, we could see all the exhibiting booths. ”

Ronan nodded, "Thank you." ”

Wan Qian was in charge of leading the way, Ronan walked beside him, watching as he walked, and every time he passed a booth, he would stop and watch, especially the information about the movie, and would browse it one by one, hoping to find valuable films from it.

In addition to him, several professional buyers from Embassy Pictures also came to the festival, two of them went to see the screenings and competitions, and the remaining three were also looking for films at the convention and exhibition center.

"This is the booth of a company in Kazakhstan. Wan Qian has obviously done enough volunteer preparations: "The Kazakh film industry has developed rapidly in the past two years, and three Kazakh films were sold at last year's fair. ”

Ronan watched the film shown on the big screen, shook his head and left before the receptionists arrived.

Wan Qian saw that after passing through so many exhibition areas, Ronan just looked, and didn't seem to have any intention of buying at all, she was very curious, and after enduring it for a long time, she still asked softly: "Mr. Anderson, are you looking for a suitable film to be screened in North America?"

Ronan replied, "Yes, I have a distribution company. ”

Wan Qian said with a smile: "Embassy Pictures, I have watched "Spy Shadows" released by Embassy Pictures. ”

Ronan asked, "What do you think of the film?"

This film entered the Oriental Film Market and was officially screened.

Wan Qian said politely: "It's exciting." She glanced at Ronan: "My male classmates, I like this film very much." ”

There are not many people walking around the exhibition area, in fact, the number of buyers at the trade fair of this kind of local film festival is relatively limited, and the number of films that can really be sold is not very large.

This is also the reason why the organizing committee focuses on inviting Hollywood studios.

Many people in the booth saw Ronan and wanted to come forward to promote their movies, but they were all stopped by Fincher, Ronan just watched the introduction of the film, and had no plans to make a move for the time being.

Walking through more than a dozen companies' booths, Ronan never encountered the film he was interested in, until he stood in front of the booth of Media Asia Pictures.

In this booth, there are many names of old movies that Ronan is familiar with, such as the famous zombie series.

The famous Taoist priest was a big part of what attracted Ronan to stop, and the other was the poster for a new movie.

Infernal Affairs.

Ronan looked at the two actors on the poster, and couldn't help frowning slightly, it seems that this film was released at the end of 2002, and now it is coming out?