After the official conclusion of the 66th Cannes Film Festival, the two works of "Adele's Life" and "Drunken Country Folk" have undoubtedly become the object of everyone's discussion, and in North America, the latter's attention is absolutely unparalleled.

At the Cannes Film Festival, the battle for the distribution rights of "Drunken Country Folk" has already sounded, and many of the industry's top film companies, including Focus Pictures, Sony Classics, Miramax Films, and Warner Bros., have joined the battle, and it is almost certain that this production will be a force to be reckoned with in this year's awards season.

What's more, whether it is the Coen brothers or Lan Li Hall, this has become the focus of competition for major film companies.

After a fierce battle, the North American distribution rights of "Drunken Country Ballads" were finally won by Sony Classics with a transaction value of 15 million US dollars.

Note that this is only the North American distribution rights!

At present, the overseas distribution rights are still in competition, including the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Mexico, France, Spain, Brazil, Japan, South Korea and other countries and regions are working hard to get this work released in China.

Compared with a series of other works such as "The Life of Adele", which are more focused on the screening of art theaters, the market prospects of "Drunken Country Folk" are widely optimistic, just because of the appeal of the Coen brothers and Lan Li, it is enough to make the major distributors vote in confidence.

The US$15 million also set the highest distribution rights deal at this year's Cannes Film Festival, completely overshadowing the "life of Adele", who won the Palme d'Or.

By the way, Sony Classics made a big splash at Cannes this year, winning the North American distribution rights of "The Past", "Only Love Forever", and "Drunken Country Folk", and started preparing for this year's awards season early, with a tough performance.

The reason why I mention this is because Sony Classic also won the North American distribution rights of "Burst Drummer" at the same time.

This is definitely a sudden change in the situation!

In the preparatory process of "Burst Drummer", all the six major Hollywood film companies took action, and the eight immortals crossed the sea to show their powers, presenting a noisy scene of a hundred flowers blooming and a hundred schools of thought contending.

Warner Bros. and Paramount have taken the lead in the chaos, especially Warner Bros., led by Barry Meyer, after the two works "Edge of Tomorrow" and "Gravity", the attitude of renewing the cooperation agreement with Blue Rite is very positive and sincere, and it is rare to see enough sincerity for independent art films.

Then Andre Hamilton came out of nowhere and quietly won the production rights of "Burst Drummer", and secretly began to seek partners, and in the end, Andre chose Sony Classics -

Among all the independent labels in Hollywood, Universal Pictures' Focus Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox's Fox Searchlight Pictures can be said to be unbeatable and far ahead, plus Weinstein Pictures, every year's awards season is the absolute main force, and the fourth place outside of this, there is some controversy, many labels large and small can play well, but Sony Classics is undoubtedly slightly advantageous.

As an independent label subsidiary of Sony Columbia Pictures, the overall momentum has been steadily rising in recent years, thanks to the substantial financial support of the parent company.

"Midnight in Paris", "Love", "A Farewell", "Scorched Earth City", "Growth Education", "White Ribbon", "The Moon", "Twelve Angry Men", "Frozen River" and other works are all their best works in the awards season in recent years.

This year, Sony Classics made an early effort, "Love Before Midnight", "Kill Your Love", "Blue Jasmine" and other potential seeds of the awards season were all in the bag, and after returning from the Cannes Film Festival, they successfully won the global distribution rights of "Burst Drummer" with a transaction value of 6 million US dollars.

For Andre, "Burst Drummer" has already paid for itself before filming has even started, and for Sony Classics, it is cutting off the beard before Warner Bros. and Paramount, and taking the most high-profile "Burst Drummer" in all of Hollywood.

It's a win-win.

It is foreseeable that in this year's awards season, Sony Classics is bound to be in full swing.

Returning to "Drunken Country Ballads", the news of the successful distribution rights deal has set off a frenzy of discussion, and everyone is closely concerned about the release date of the film, looking forward to the early arrival of this production from Cannes.

However, the Coen brothers are undoubtedly the top priority for the rights to "Drunken Country Folk" to be sold so easily and quickly, and no one can ignore their appeal in the North American market, and the movie soundtrack of "Drunken Country Folk" has also successfully set off a sales frenzy, which is more directly related to Lan Li.

At the press conference of the Cannes Film Festival, the Coen brothers mentioned that in fact, the soundtrack of the film had been officially released before the film was released, but there was no serious publicity and no official announcement, so the sales performance has been sluggish.

After the explosive response to "Drunken Country Folk" in Cannes, it was widely spread on social media, hailed as "the best film of the year", some praised "this is the perfect combination of Lan Li's singing and acting talents", and some even exclaimed that "the melody of the music still hovers in my head".

The praise for the film itself is innumerable, and the praise for the soundtrack is equally overflowing.

The North American release date of "Drunken Country Ballads" is not yet confirmed, and it can even be said that it is far away, and the audience has shifted their attention to the soundtrack in order to ease their inner expectations and excitement.

It is undeniable that the "Drunken Folk" soundtrack is indeed a very good album, although the overall theme core is not as consistent as "Don Quixote", but the melodious melody and emotional lyrics are still a clear stream in today's fast food culture, highlighting the unique charm of folk songs.

As Levien says in the movie, "If a song is never new, but it is also not outdated, it is a ballad." ”

After the Cannes Film Festival, the sales of this soundtrack album have been climbing rapidly, and it only took three weeks to beat the regular albums of many singers with 230,000 copies sold in a single week, and reached the top of the North American Billboard album chart!

In fact, this is not the first time for the Coen brothers.

In 2000, the Coen brothers' film "Three Prison Escapes" was released as a soundtrack, and it became a huge hit, topping the Billboard album chart, and the North American year-end best-selling chart, selling a full 7 million copies — at a time when the music industry was still thriving at the turn of the century, and the soundtrack won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year the following year.

Now, the "Drunken Country Folk" soundtrack has also managed to do just that.

Because there was no chart or publicity, the singles in the album did not achieve significant results, only ranking in the top 100 of the Billboard singles chart, hovering in the low position after the 70th place, and did not attract much attention, but the album's sales data was exceptionally stable, and it can even be said to be gratifying.

In the past three weeks, the weekly sales have been more than 50,000 copies, and it has shown a rapid upward momentum, and in the third week, it has exceeded 200,000 and successfully topped the Billboard album chart!

This is just the beginning.

After the "Drunken Folk" soundtrack successfully topped the Billboard crown, it won four consecutive weeks without any publicity or expectation, and then slipped to second place.

With such an achievement, even the official website of Billboard expressed its amazement, cheering and sighing in the way of a homepage report, "In the case that the movie has not yet been released, and the release schedule has not even been determined, this soundtrack album has won the hearts of countless audiences in the market in advance, is this the Coen Brothers effect? Or the Blue Ceremony-Hall effect? As far as the current situation is concerned, it should be the latter." ”

Evidence?

The fact that the "Don Quixote" album is back in the top 20 of the Billboard albums chart is the best proof of this.

Although this album has never really made it out of the charts, and the sales figures have kept it on the charts for a long time, and it can return to the top 50 from time to time, but now it can suddenly burst out with 60,000 sales in a single month, which is an incredible recovery-

The "Drunken Country Folk" soundtrack is the only reason.

This has been proven by the facts.

The soundtrack fell behind the runner-up position and remained stable in terms of sales and on-demand, staying in the top five for 12 weeks and in the top 10 for 23 weeks.

It may be difficult to replicate the sales frenzy of "Three Kings Who Escaped from Prison" back then, but "Drunken Country Ballads" became one of the best-selling albums of 2013 in North America, enough to occupy a spot at the end of the year.

This is the appeal of "Lanli-Hall"!

Just one name is enough to create a craze in the world of film, music and theater, not to mention Vin Diesel or Christian Wagner, even Endeavour elite agencies have to think twice about what to do and watch the battle between Sony Classics and Warner Bros. and Paramount for the distribution rights of the "Burst Drummer".

At this moment, in the face of the anger that erupted on Christie's security side, Diesel also retreated a little defeated, unable to refute or speak, and the feeling of grievance was really indescribable.

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