Zhang Chu is still very sorry that "Youth Pi" will not appear at the Cannes Film Festival.

But since the producer, Warner Bros., is unwilling to release the "Life of Pi" movie so early, it must have its own considerations.

The Cannes Film Festival will be held in May, and the list of Oscar nominees will be announced on December 20, and the awards ceremony will be in February next year.

If the film is exposed too early, there will be a lack of strength in the future, so most of the works that aim for the Oscars will be released collectively in the second half of the year, especially after November!

The relationship between the Oscars and the three major European film festivals is quite complicated, and to some extent it rejects the big three, which has only changed in recent years.

Many awards that have won the highest honors at Cannes or Venice or Berlin film festivals are lucky enough to get a few salty nominations at the Oscars, and if they are unlucky, they are simply ignored completely.

The film festival is more inclined to artistry, and the discovery of excellent art films is the real purpose of the film festival.

The Oscar is a commendation award in the American film industry, and it is a recognition of the industry elites for filmmakers every year, and they are more inclined to take care of the films that are both artistic and commercial!

In terms of influence, the Oscars are based on Hollywood, and use the United States to export culture to the world through its global status.

It can be said that to a large extent, the combined influence of the three major film festivals cannot compare to the Oscars, which truly represent the most mainstream films in the world.

Some films that won awards at the Berlin Film Festival may not even be able to recover their investment when they are placed on the market, because it is very likely that it is not the choice of the mainstream audience, but the choice of more than a dozen judges!

Among the award-winning films of the three major European film festivals, there may be many that ordinary audiences can't watch or understand.

However, in the list of Oscar winners and even the list of nominees, there are basically works that the public can watch or will not look obscure, and there will be no experimental themes or experimental shooting techniques.

It's interesting to use the words of a film insider to describe these film festivals.

Cannes is the largest film festival in Europe in terms of volume and scale, and its artistic and commercial properties are relatively high.

They likened Cannes to an art exhibition, Berlin to an educational institute, and Venice to a avant-garde tea party.

The Oscars are different from the three major film festivals in Europe, this is a vanity fair, and it is the annual summary of American film festivals!

On the surface, the films are struggling, but in fact, it is the wrestling between the production companies, the redistribution of power and the layout of the awards.

Every company has the so-called one push, two push.

A push refers to recommending the film with the best resources, and it is also the most promising to win the award, and all kinds of public relations and publicity are put on this movie.

Now it seems that "Life of Pi" is very likely to be pushed by Warner Bros. and is tightly protected!

Zhang Chu has memories of his previous life, when the film was on earth, it won more than a dozen nominations, and it was a big winner in the nomination stage, but when it came to the awards ceremony, it only won the heavyweight award of best director.

In this life, the owner of "Life of Pi" has become Warner Bros., a company that is also well-known in Hollywood, backed by Time Warner, a super-large-scale media company, at least in terms of publicity and public relations.

As for the quality, Zhang Chu can't make a conclusion before seeing the finished film!

"If the quality isn't too bad, maybe the nomination isn't a problem. As for winning the award, it really depends on luck and public relations level. ”

This may become Zhang Chu's first film to be associated with the Oscars.

At present, the global sales of "Life of Pi" are not saturated, and once the movie is released, it will usher in a blowout.

If it is nominated for an Oscar, or even wins an Oscar, it is estimated that it will more than double its book sales!

That's why those studios are keen to hit the Oscars, and that will bring benefits.

The box office growth of the movie is the most intuitive, in addition to the sales of DVDs and various broadcast rights, as well as the derivatives of this movie, and even the value of the actor will soar.

Zhang Chu, as the author of the original work, will also enjoy the dividends brought by the Oscar!

No one will do something that doesn't make money.

After Zhou Kang heard Zhang Chu's words, he responded coldly: "Director Xu said that "Farewell My Concubine" may also compete for the Oscar to see if there is a scene in the best foreign language film." ”

"This is probably a bit hanging, let's set a small goal, first compete on behalf of our mainland, and see if we can be shortlisted for the last nine films!"

This year is the year of his collective explosion of film adaptations, at the beginning of the year, the BBC British drama "Sherlock" was angry about its existence, and now it is about to appear at the Cannes Film Festival at the same time with three films, which is estimated to be much more confident than the rest of the actors who go to the red carpet.

At the end of the year, there will be "Life of Pi" to hit the Oscars, and maybe "The Da Vinci Code" will also stir up trouble at the box office.

Compared to last year, when only "City Lights of Psychological Sin" was released, this year's works are much more!

It seems that not only the book market will explode, but even the film market will have to dominate.

That's it!

The works that were carefully written in front of them were not filmed and produced until this year.

"Count it up, you're amazing. Even without the various income dividends of these films, it is possible to top the global author's income list with book sales alone. ”

Zhou Kang looked at the young man eating bananas in front of him with a complicated expression, who would have thought that he would climb to the top of the world in just a few years?

Zhang Chu smiled and said, "How is it possible, the income can't be so high!"

"Why not, you earned more than $60 million last year, and you're only $30 million away from being the first. After the release of these movies this year, the sales will not be exploded? I seriously doubt that your income will exceed 100 million yuan this year, or in dollars. ”

Zhou Kang feels that this is not a strange thing, the income of writers is like this, the more works, the higher the income, especially for a book like Zhang Chu.

Writing a new book doesn't mean that no one will buy old books to read!

As long as there is one copy of this type of work, you can retire peacefully, let alone so many books.

Zhang Chu began to worry at this time, "You said that if I really make so much money, how should I spend it?"

"How do I know that I don't have any troubles like yours. ”

It's also a tragedy to have money that you don't know how to spend it!

Now Zhang Chu has fallen into this kind of tragedy, but this is a happy tragedy, and the happiness of having money is really unimaginable.