Regarding the performance of the movie "Country Teacher" in the US market, Chen Xin did not have much hope.

First, in the field of science fiction films, Hollywood has the absolute right to speak in the whole shijie, and a science fiction blockbuster from China, no matter how good the special effects are, it is not easy to knock on the door of the North American market.

The second is the shooting style of "Country Teacher", although it is also showing off special effects, but American audiences have become accustomed to science fiction movies in the Hollywood blockbuster factory model, and "Country Teacher", an oriental-style science fiction film, can meet the tastes of American audiences, even Chen Xin himself does not know.

Chen Xin thought about it, but decided to call Yu Shijian to ask about the situation, he asked for Yu Shijian's new number in the United States from the staff of Horse Racing Galloping Film Company, and dialed it directly.

The phone beeped a few times, and it quickly picked up: "Hey, who?"

Yu Shijian's voice was not loud, and he could faintly hear the noise of music and American English.

Chen Xin looked at the time, it was twelve o'clock at noon capital time, and Los Angeles time should be nine o'clock in the evening.

Chen Xin said: "Brother Yu, it's me, Chen Xin!"

Yu Shijian said in surprise: "It turns out that Brother Chen, you have come back from France? I am just looking for time to call you! Wait a minute, I am a little noisy here now, I will find a quiet place to talk first." ”

Soon, Chen Xin felt that the noise on Yu Shijian's side had become quieter, and Yu Shijian said, "Brother Chen, it's okay now." ”

Chen Xin asked, "Brother Yu, did you just say that you were going to call me? Could it be that "Country Teacher" has made progress in the United States?"

Yu Shijian sighed and said: ""Country Teacher" has not made much progress. I found a lot of distribution companies, some of them didn't want to watch it, they just said that they were not interested in Chinese science fiction movies, and even if they watched it, they thought it was a good movie, but the price given was not very high. Among them, Lionsgate, the highest bidder, only gave $8 million to buy out the distribution rights in North America, which was too different from the price we had in mind, and I didn't agree. ”

The results that Chen Xin and Mu Yunshan had achieved in Europe had reached Yu Shijian's ears at this moment, but he had not made the slightest progress in North America. This frustrated him.

Chen Xin thought for a while and said, "Brother Yu." If it really doesn't work, we'll slow down in North America for a while, I don't believe it, if "The Country Teacher" sells well in other parts of the world, the Yankees will not be moved. ”

Yu Shijian said: "Now it seems that it can only be like this." Oh. That's right. Today I'm at a dance party at Billy Foshan, guess who I'm Yujian?"

Chen Xin was slightly stunned and asked, "Who?"

"Thomas Tull, founder of Legendary Pictures, and Michael Ryer, vice president and chief executive officer of international operations at Blizzard. ”

Chen Xin was slightly stunned. Asked, "Legendary Pictures?"

Yu Shijian explained: "Brother Chen, do you know that Legendary Pictures was founded by Thomas Tull in 2004 and is a well-known independent film production company in the United States, whose parent company is Legendary Entertainment, headquartered in Burbank, California, USA. ”

More importantly, however, its founder, Thomas Toole, is well-connected in the American billionaire community, having raised $500 million directly from private equity firms to create the company. Legendary Pictures is arguably one of the first independent companies of its kind, backed by private Wall Street shareholders and hedge fund investors, to rival the big movie studios. In addition, in 2005, Legendary Pictures signed a seven-year partnership agreement with Warner Bros., which stipulates that the two companies will jointly fund and produce 40 films and television productions over the next seven years, which will then be distributed by Warner Pictures. In order to catch up with Warner Pictures, I specifically asked Thomas Toole to be the middleman, although in the end we did not negotiate the distribution rights of "Country Teacher" with Warners, but the other party also watched our "Country Teacher" with Warners, and was very impressed by the special effects in it. ”

"When I attended the prom today, I yujian him again, I didn't expect him to be with the vice president of Blizzard, it is said that Blizzard has handed over the adaptation rights of "Warcraft Shijie" to Legendary Pictures, Thomas Toole is very impressed with Cybertron Digital's special effects jishu, he hopes that you can participate in the special effects production, preferably in person. ”

Chen Xin was stunned for a long time, he didn't expect Yu Shijian to go to the United States to promote "Country Teacher", and he could still make such a play.

For "Warcraft Shijie", Chen Xin can be said to be familiar and can not be more familiar, it is the most successful online game in the past ten years, and it is also the longest online game that Chen Xin has played in college, for the movie version of "Warcraft Shijie", Chen Xin is the same as the majority of wower.

As Blizzard's fist product, as early as 2006, Blizzard announced that it would launch the movie version of "Warcraft", but unfortunately there has been no movement.

It wasn't until 2009 that Blizzard approached Legendary Pictures as a producer, signing Sam Raimi, the director of "Spider-Man", and Robert Rodart, who wrote films such as "Saving Private Ryan" and "The Patriot". However, due to the conflict of creative concepts, Blizzard was dissatisfied with the script provided by the two, and Sam Raimi was also dissatisfied with Blizzard's arbitrariness, and the cooperation was declared to fall through.

Chen Xin had learned these things before, he didn't expect that after so many years, the movie version of "Warcraft Shijie" had not seen much movement, and the cooperation between Blizzard and Legendary Pictures continued.

Chen Xin thought for a while and said: "Brother Yu, you and Thomas Tool, I am very interested in participating in the production of the movie version of "Warcraft Shijie", I will immediately apply for a visa to the United States, and call you after booking the ticket." ”

Yu Shijian said: "Brother Chen, you don't need to come over, the other party has already said just now, he can come to China to meet with you." ”

Chen Xin smiled and said: "Brother Yu, let's go over, I can go to the United States to experience the American style, maybe I will be lucky, and I can sell "The Country Teacher". ”

Seeing Chen Xin say this, Yu Shijian stopped persuading, he thought for a while and said, "Okay, you tell me the time of arrival in Los Angeles, and I will pick you up at the airport when the time comes." (To be continued......)