Chapter 035: 5 million US dollars
"Zhou, this movie is very interesting, I like it very much, and I hope we can work together. ”
"Thank you, thank you. Zhou Chen shook hands with this polite viewer and thanked him.
"Zhou, the three leading actors, why didn't you see them?"
"Oh, we're still looking......"
"You're looking for it, oh buy cakes, Zhou, you're so humorous!"
"I'm sorry, I'm telling the truth. ”
"Hahahaha, Zhou, I like your cold jokes!" The filmmaker laughed a little embarrassed, unable to tell the truth of what Zhou Chen said.
"No, if you like movies. ”
Then Zhou Chen shook hands with the other filmmakers one by one and greeted them easily.
Someone heard his conversation, and even continued to ask if the three leading actors were really missing?
Zhou Chen said it was true seriously, and he didn't explain too much.
He won't tell these people more about the film until the cooperation is negotiated.
"Zhou, I decided to watch the film you showed at six o'clock in the evening, I don't know if it's okay?"
A female filmmaker asked after shaking hands with Zhou Chen.
"Absolutely, it's an honor. Zhou Chen happily agreed.
The filmmakers of these ten companies are all rushing to the horror film "Witch Elisa", and another screening at six o'clock is to show "This Man is from Earth" to people from several other companies.
"This Man is from Earth" was produced first, but there have been no active collaborators.
In the past, Professor Ram brought films to other film companies to promote, and today's screening will be a small-scale test screening, with four companies of filmmakers she invited, and the rest of the professors and students from the schools invited.
Zhou Chen doesn't pay so much attention to the confidentiality of this movie, as long as it is not pirated, it is easy to say anything.
He's basically focused on selling "Alyssa the Witch" now.
Before the filming of this movie started, he asked someone to make the official website of the movie, made a poster of the missing person, and simply promoted it on the Internet.
Now people from film companies are invited to watch the film, so the movie must be released as soon as possible.
Otherwise, all the previous preparations are wasted, once the truth of the movie is leaked, the publicity plan will be useless, and if the movie wants to achieve the desired box office results, it will be a bit of a fool's dream.
If the filmmakers of these film companies still don't give a satisfactory cooperation plan this time, then Zhou Chen doesn't mind taking the risk of trying to release it on a small scale in one or two theaters first.
He is now confident in the quality of the film.
After retaining the shooting style of the original film pseudo-documentary, due to the different background of the times, the cameras used by the three leading actors for filming are also more professional and the picture is clearer.
In addition, the story of different witches is fuller and the plot is more exciting, which makes this movie better than the original movie.
Zhou Chen scored the system, and it also reached 7.6 points.
This score can be said to be a high-quality horror film rating.
The system's scoring is based on the total average of the nine major aspects of the film, such as director, screenwriter, acting, cinematography, and costumes.
For a pseudo-documentary that only took 10 days to shoot, such as costumes, makeup, scenes, etc., are not of such a high standard, the score will naturally be low.
But this movie is excellent in several points in the horror genre, which is why the rating is so high.
The quality of the movie is good, the publicity strategy is appropriate, and if a large number of fans watch the movie, the theater chain will definitely be willing to expand the scale of screening.
It's really not good, and you can also give the theater a higher box office share, which is better than letting these distribution companies buy out the distribution and eat alone.
As for the failure, Zhou Chen has no regrets.
He came to the United States to make movies because he forced himself to take an extremely risky road, just to make money.
If he fails to achieve this goal, he would rather the film rot in his hands.
After greeting all the filmmakers, six people left first, saying that they had written a report to the company and would contact Zhou Chen after internal discussions.
The remaining four companies are all planning to watch another movie of Zhou Chen.
Since they came, they weren't afraid to waste some time.
Zhou Chen noticed that the tall, leather suit and bearded filmmaker from Lionsgate was still there, and couldn't help but be a little puzzled, but the other party had seen the film.
Sure enough, he saw that the other party saw that no one was greeting him anymore, so he walked straight over.
"Chou, I'm Dan Jeffrey of Lionsgate, and it's great to see you again. ”
"Hello, Mr. Jeffrey. Zhou Chen said politely.
"Zhou, I want to talk to you about this horror movie of yours now, listen to your request, I don't know if it's convenient for you?"
"No problem, Mr. Jeffrey, we can go to the café, or go to the school apartment to talk. Zhou Chen looked at Zhang Kejia next to him, and asked Dan again.
"Well, let's go to your apartment, I want to see you guys start a company at such a young age, shoot small-budget independent films, and shoot this creatively, I'd love to see your living environment. ”
Dan said with emotion, and said to Zhou Chen and the others: "Don't be so polite, just call me Dan." ”
"Okay, Dan, let's go this way. Zhou Chen was no longer polite, said a few words to Zhang Kejia, and walked forward with Dan first.
Zhang Kejia stayed here, to receive copies of the movie, and to host a viewing party for another film later.
The two arrived at Zhang Kejia's apartment within a few minutes.
This is a single student apartment, 30 square meters in size, very well equipped, but a little messy.
These days, they are busy with the post-production of two films, as well as contacting the film company, and they simply don't have time to clean up.
Zhou Chen briefly talked about things in order, asked Dan Jeffrey to sit down in the living room, brought him a bottle of mineral water, and the two got to the point.
"Zhou, I've heard from Professor Ham about you, and I know that you are not her student, but you came here from Huaxia specifically to make a movie.
I know that your film market in China has developed very well in the past two years, and the box office has exceeded 6 billion Chinese yuan, ranking first in the world in terms of growth rate.
"It's not a secret, it's mainly due to the script and the market, I believe I don't need to say more about this, Dan, you understand it very well. ”
Zhou Chen heard that the other party seemed to know the domestic market very well, and he didn't talk about any ideals or anything like that, so he replied directly.
"That's right, you don't have an art school in China, and horror movies are not as popular as in North America, your reasons are really good, are you planning to develop in Hollywood that week?"
"I don't have any plans for this for the time being. “
Zhou Chen would not say that he was shooting two movies in China, but he had no funds, so he went to the United States to make money.
"Oh, Chow, if you're willing to sell out, I'm interested in the movie 'Alyssa the Witch.' ”
Dan stared at the straightforward Zhou Chen, and suddenly turned back to the topic.
"I'm sorry, I won't be thinking about this for a while. ”
"Really, what if Lionsgate was going to sell it out for $5 million?" Dan asked amusedly.
"5 million US dollars?" Zhou Chen's heart twitched, and he said calmly on the surface.
"Yes, you heard it right. Dan said confidently with a shrug.
The young man on the other side was still too inexperienced, and this rhetorical question represented his shock, and no matter how calm he pretended, he couldn't hide it.
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