Victor was slightly stunned and said, "Mr. Chen, this 10 million US dollars is a pure profit, are you still not satisfied? You must know that if it is converted into box office, our company will have to earn at least 30 million US dollars at the box office in the North American market to ensure a loss." ”

Chen Xin smiled, shook his head and said, "Mr. Victor, I'm very sorry, I think the box office potential of "The Country Teacher" should be far more than that!"

Victor sneered, "Mr. Chen, you take this too seriously, right?"

Chen Xindao: "What do you say?"

Victor took out the materials in duplicate from his briefcase and handed them to Chen Xin and Yu Shijian, saying: "This is the data of the North American box office of Chinese films last year, you can see how the market reacts." Last year, a total of 598 films were released in North America, of which about 225 were foreign films, and only 16 were Chinese-language films.

Victor paused and continued: "Let's compare the box office, the total box office in North America last year was 10.174 billion, and the total box office of 16 Chinese films in North America was less than 3.5 million US dollars, which is less than a fraction, and even far behind India. You must know that India released more than 30 movies in North America in 2010, and there were more than 10 films with a box office of more than one million US dollars, with a total box office of 20 million US dollars. According to the past records of Chinese films, it is difficult for me to have confidence in your films! And to be honest, the movie "The Country Teacher", the big scenes look really shocking, but we audiences are not here to see the scenes, whether it is the director or the actors in this movie, they are unknown in the United States. If we don't invest heavily in publicity, no matter how big the special effects scenes of your movie are, it will be difficult for American audiences to be interested in going to theaters to watch a sci-fi film from China! I think buying out the distribution rights in North America for $10 million is enough to show the sincerity of our company!"

Chen Xin and Yu Shijian glanced at each other, it seems that this deputy director of Warner is not a fuel-efficient lamp, although he is very unhappy with this guy's disparagement of Chinese movies inside and outside of his words, but Chen Xin also has to admit that in some aspects, what Victor said is still very reasonable. No wonder Warners sent this guy over to negotiate.

Yu Shijian sneered, "Mr. Victor." What do you mean by that is that you don't have confidence in the distribution capabilities of Time Warner, one of Hollywood's eight major studios?"

Victor frowned and said, "Mr. Yu, what do you mean by this? Our Warner Company's distribution ability is well known, and it is not something that you can deny in a sentence or two. ”

Yu Shijian smiled. said: "Then why don't you have confidence in this movie? I admit that there is some truth in the data you have just listed. But if you compare Chinese-language films with Indian films, do I think this is discrimination against Chinese-language films? In my opinion, the reason why Indian films have a higher box office than Chinese-language films is. At best, the distribution and marketing of Indian films has done a relatively good job. As far as I know, there are at least three companies in the United States that specialize in distributing Indian films, and many excellent Indian films have landed in North America for the first time, while China has only one Huashi, and the quality of the films distributed is not high, and films like "Warring States", "Global Love", and "Happy Magic" are bad films even in China, so how can they achieve good box office in North America? Although China's Huayi and Bona injected funds into Huashi not long ago, the limitations are even greater, and China's excellent domestic films dare not ask them to do it. That's why we approached you for The Country Teacher, and we think Warner's marketing capabilities can maximize the benefits of the film. It's not about the quality of the movie, it's just about the marketing concept!"

Victor choked at once, and for a moment he didn't know how to refute it.

Chen Xin quietly gave Yu Shijian a thumbs up, and Yu Shijian's words were even eliminated, and Victor's arrogance was suppressed at once.

Chen Xin himself is outside the film industry, investing in movies is just a side business, and he doesn't know much about the film market.

Victor paused for a moment and said: "Mr. Yu, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to belittle Chinese films, I'm just talking about things, the poor performance of Chinese films in the North American market before is difficult for me to have confidence." ”

Chen Xin saw that the time was ripe, and said with a smile: "Mr. Victor, if it were yesterday, Time Warner offered such a buyout price, maybe we would have reluctantly accepted it, after all, what you offered was the highest price we have received so far." But today, it's hard for us to accept such a price......"

Victor's face changed slightly: "Mr. Chen, I don't understand what you mean. ”

Chen Xinhaha smiled and said: "Mr. Victor, you don't know about the shocking air battle in Las Vegas last night, right? F22 shot down a UFO, and it was also filmed by a local TV station, this should be regarded as the most sensational UFO incident in history." I believe that unless aliens are really going to occupy the earth, no matter how much the American government hides it, in the future, the whole range will set off a big discussion about alien civilizations and UFOs.

Victor fell silent, the two Chinese were already aware of the subtle change in the situation, he thought about it, and was about to speak, when a pleasant ringtone suddenly rang.

Victor hurriedly took out his mobile phone from his pocket, looked at the number on the caller ID, looked up and said to Chen Xin and Yu Shijian: "Mr. Chen, Mr. Yu, I'm sorry, I have a work phone ......."

Chen Xin made a gesture and said, "Please!"

Victor walked to a corner of the open-air restaurant with his mobile phone, pressed the answer button, and whispered: "Hey, Lucas, I'm negotiating now, what's the matter?"

A middle-aged man's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Victor, how are you talking?"

Victor said, "Those two damn Chinese guys have already seen through our intentions and are not willing to accept the offer of $10 million. ”

Not long after the revelation of the UFO incident in Las Vegas, almost all Hollywood studios realized that the opportunity for extraterrestrial sci-fi was coming.

But at this time period, there are not many sci-fi blockbusters released in Hollywood, and there are not even any sci-fi movies involving alien themes.

At this time, Warner's top brass thought of the "Country Teacher" that they had rejected.

That's the real reason why Victor came.

Lucas said: "This is what we expected, 10 million is just the most good result. But Victor, something unexpected is happening now, the board of directors has just made a decision to ask you to go all out to win the distribution rights of The Village Teacher. You listen now, change the negotiation immediately, if necessary, you can agree to the box office share proposed by the other party, but we have to get at least fifteen points of box office share, this is the bottom line, understand?"

Victor was stunned for a moment, the distributor took 15 percent of the box office, and the producer took the remaining 30 percent, which is a normal proportion for a Hollywood blockbuster, but for a science fiction film from China, this is already a very high courtesy.

Victor frowned, "What the hell happened, how could the board make such a decision?"

You must know that the bottom line given by the board of directors was 20 percent of the total box office, but now it has been raised by 10 points at once, are the directors' brains cramping? According to Victor's own estimates, the box office of "The Country Teacher" in North America is at least 100 million or more, which is a loss of tens of millions of US dollars!

Although Victor knew that Warner was determined to win this film, he would not be in such a hurry.

In his opinion, even if Chen Xin and the others see through Warner's intentions, there is absolutely room for negotiation, and he is even confident that Chen Xin's box office share will be reduced to about 15%.

In fact, after watching this movie, the opinions of Warner's distribution department were divided into two groups, one group was very optimistic about the movie, believing that according to the quality of "The Country Teacher", it might be able to occupy a place in the annual box office list in North America, and it was worth Warner's big price to grab the distribution rights of the film.

The other school believes that the film originated from Red China, and the shooting style is very different from Hollywood, although in the eyes of professionals like them, the film is really good, but whether the American audience can accept it or not is still two opinions.

In the end, the opposition's opinion prevailed, and Warner offered a buyout price of $5 million, which directly made Yu Shijian slam the door and leave!

Lucas said: "This matter will be unclear for a while, in short, no matter what method you use, you must win the distribution rights of "Country Teacher", that's it, hang up!"

Listening to the beep sound ringing on the phone, Victor's face was ugly, and he scolded in a low voice: "fuck!!"

As Time Warner's deputy director of distribution, Victor has previously been a leading opponent of spending a lot of money to get the distribution rights to "The Country Teacher."

In his opinion, a sci-fi film from China, no matter how well it is made, will be worth millions of dollars.

The Chinese lion named Yu Shijian opened his mouth before, and it was completely the rhythm of death in Hollywood.

And later, Victor heard that Yu Shijian ran into walls everywhere in Hollywood, but the movie was never sold, and he gloated in his heart, laughing at this Chinese for not being able to do anything.

In his opinion, this Chinese will find Warner again sooner or later, but he never thought that God seemed to be on the Chinese side now, and the air battle in Las Vegas suddenly made Chinese movies become fragrant in Hollywood. (To be continued......)