Harvey is a good trader!

In 1989, Miramax bought Soderbergh's famous film "Sex, Lies, Videotape" for $1 million, and with the efficient operation of the company, the Cannes Palme d'Or film achieved excellent market returns.

"Ju Dou", "Tie Me, Tie Me", "Cinema Paradiso", "Erotic Fragrance", "Eagle Project", "Farewell My Concubine", Hayao Miyazaki's "Princess Mononoke"...

More than half of the non-North American film masters of our time have worked with Weinstein.

He has a unique vision!

"Hero", a $21 million buyout, sold $53.71 million;

"Wu Ji", when the trailer was originally promised to be 5 million US dollars, after watching the finished film, I was only willing to give 500,000 US dollars...

Brother Kai is so angry that he is about to vomit blood!

Harvey just won't let go...

People have their own control over the market, and they know how much box office a film like "Wu Ji" can have...

As it turned out, he was right, "Wu Ji" grossed nearly $590,000 in North America, and since then, Lao Chen's films have basically not entered North America...

After the North American box office fiasco of the three blockbusters "Wu Ji", "Casting the Name" and "Red Cliff", influential distributors in the United States gradually distanced themselves from Chinese-language blockbusters.

Otherwise, it will not be Huashi's turn to specialize in the promotion of Chinese films.

Harvey's psychological price should be asked...

……

The drinking party lasted until the second half of the night, and when it was over, Zhang Junsheng was already a little drunk...

When I woke up the next day, it was almost eleven o'clock.

After washing, I went downstairs and went to the hotel lobby, took the house book handed by the waiter and flipped through it.

As the opening film, "Crazy Stone" is naturally the main target of the house magazine.

3 out of 10 critics gave it a 3, 4 gave it a 2, 1 gave it a 2.5 and 2 gave it a 1...

The average score, 2.2 is less than...

Not very high-rated...

But Zhang Junsheng didn't care much, in Cannes, the high score of the field magazine is not equal to the Palme d'Or, and the film critics are not the jury!

Many times, the film that wins the top prize does not necessarily have a very high rating on the critics!

Lao Wang's "2046" won the Cannes house magazine championship, with an average score of 3.3, and then, the film did not win any official awards...

The house magazine published a special review of "Crazy Stone": "Thin colors, serious atmosphere, and a style full of allegorical and rational political thinking, I really didn't expect it to be a comedy."

Telling is the story, pushing is the plot, and the famous saying is "ring after ring".

In the shooting, the camera switches smoothly, and dozens of segments are sprinkled to present a complex event with multiple branches to the audience clearly and coherently.

In terms of rhythm, it can be said that it is slow and urgent. At the beginning, the background and location of the characters in the story are introduced like a military parade, and a bird's-eye view is drawn to us unhurriedly; just as we slow down our thinking, suddenly a famous person becomes active one after another, and one location after another continues to boil, only to feel a boom, the changes and development are overwhelming, just like a thriller and suspense film with layers of disguise and nakedness, but you feel more nervous and curious.

In addition to these, there is no shortage of humorous lines and actions, which are desirable everywhere.

This director is indeed a talented fellow, talented enough to conquer Natalie Portman!"

"Damn, what does that last sentence mean?"

Zhang Junsheng put down the milk and was very angry!

Lao Tzu obviously relied on sticks and skills to conquer, and it has something to do with talent?

“… Your Natalie said she admires you and hopes to be in your movie!"

“… What are you kidding?"

After hesitating for a moment, he whispered for verification: "Did she really say it?"

Tang Ningyu nodded: "Well, face the reporter, express it openly!"

"it! It turns out that you can also pick up girls when you make movies..."

No wonder Lao Zhang was able to conquer Gong Li...

……

Zhang Junsheng is already famous!

Except because of Natalie Portman, the main thing is "Crazy Stone".

"Variety" considered "Crazy Stone" to be an epoch-making great movie, giving it a perfect score of 100.

"This is a film that lowers the camera to track the little people, and writes about the trivial things in the market, which may be a little exciting, but in mainstream movies, it will never take such a long length to write such a simple story, but the original circular narrative makes the whole movie look novel and interesting!"

"The Hollywood Reporter" thinks "Crazy Stone" is a bad movie, and their rating is only 39 points:

"Standard Hollywood-style movies, the triumph of the little people, even though they all rely on luck, they all get out of the disaster and even make a fortune. Such a movie may be a big hit in the market, but it has no practical significance at all, and the jokes in it are lackluster... I don't understand why it's at the Cannes Film Festival!"

Well, overall, the reviews of Crazy Stone are a bit polarizing...

Good people think it's very good, and bad hot people think it's completely a commercial film!

In the midst of the controversy, the attention of "Crazy Stone" has risen rapidly and has become the most watched film in the entire film festival...

Globally, there are not many film magazines known as authoritative films, with the British "See & Sound" and the French "Film Handbook" occupying the first echelon.

"Empire", "Time", "Rolling Stone", and "The New York Times" are almost in the second echelon.

Although each has its own characteristics and different readerships, its influence in the industry is undoubtedly huge.

For example, director Alfred Hitchcock, he was single-handedly picked up by "The Cinema Handbook".

His films do not contain as profound truths as European art films, so he has long been regarded by American critics as a craftsman and an ordinary director of commercial films.

But the Europeans found his worth.

With the rise of the New Wave in French cinema in the 60s, the 'authorship theory' dominated film theory, and the critics of the "Handbook of Cinema" school carried out a major overhaul of the evaluation of film directors, and Hitchcock was second to none among the newly respected film authors.

In 1965, Truffaut, a famous director and film critic of the French New Wave, traveled thousands of miles to Hollywood, USA, conducted a special interview with Hitchcock, and compiled the conversation between the two into a book, called "Hitchcock on Film". Truffaut's incisive questions and Hitchcock's unreserved answers reveal a wealth of Hitchcock's experience and techniques in film, making this book a rare textbook for film professionals and film lovers alike.

Since then, Hitchcock's status as a master of cinematic art has gradually been widely recognized.

Lao Jia can be famous in Europe, "Movie Manual", a lot of credit!

In that year, "Film Manual" selected the "Top Ten Best Films in the World Film Industry of the Year", and "The Good Man of the Three Gorges" ranked second...

Zhang Junsheng flipped through the "Movie Manual", only glanced at the rating, and smiled: 3.1 points

It's not high, but it's not low either – the Cannes Film Festival has a perfect score of 4...

The Cinémathèque gave birth to the French New Wave, with a special emphasis on authorship and the recommendation of films with a strong personal style. Movies that are peaceful and lack of personal style are scum in their eyes, so Li An and Lao Mouzi's movies have always been ignored by the "Film Manual".

The king of sunglasses and Lao Jia are highly respected.

"Crazy Stone" has created a multi-line narrative, and it is predictable that it will receive praise from "Movie Handbook"!

Old Xu Muyang said

Write more tomorrow and try to end the Cannes plot...

Speechless, that paragraph was deleted, I wrote it for a long time, alas...