"Oh-ho-"

Snowflakes are floating in the sky, the vast Park City Deer Valley Ski Resort is full of white mangs, from the sky bird's eye view, only to see piles of snow-covered pine trees are still green, and there are some well-equipped tourists enjoying the fun of skiing in the wilderness and ski slopes everywhere.

"OK!READY-GO!" On the snow-white alpine slopes, Wang Yang, Joshua, Harry George, Alexis and others all held up the ski poles in their hands, and the skis were forced forward, and everyone rushed to the end of the mountain at a gallop!

The ski resort of Park City is hosting the 22nd annual Sundance Film Festival, which has given birth to "Reservoir Dogs," "The Crazy Clerk," "Memory Fragments," "Death Hallucination," and ...... Last year's production cost of only 2.8 million "River Rush" not only finally received 23.56 million global box office, but also 82% freshness of the awards season, producer MTV Movies and distributor Paramount Classic is quite enviable.

This year, a total of 120 films entered the festival, from the 19th to the 29th for 10 days, the opening film is Jennifer Aniston starring "Old Friends Are Rich", this 6.5 million production cost of the romance film by the independent producer "This-Is-That-Productions" (This-Is-That-Productions), due to the well-received reception after the premiere, it and "The Leading Dog", which has been scheduled as the closing film, as well as "Rite of Passage" and "The Inconvenient Truth" and other films have become the most sought-after items in Park City this year.

To this day, Sundance naturally has no shortage of film business personnel, celebrities, media reporters and others, such as Sony Classics, Focus Searchlight, Universal, Lionsgate, Weinstein...... Including the flame movie, it didn't mean to show off anything, obviously although the "Shanghai Kiss" exhibited in the exhibition is difficult to take on this important task, FF is here to hunt for treasures, and is looking for the kind of film that can be met but not sought, and this year seems to be a big year, and the opportunity has come.

"Hey fat guy, you're sliding too slowly! Galileo was right, when an object falls, the weight is not proportional to the speed! But he's wrong! Because I'm going to be faster!"

On the snowy slopes, Wang Yang, who first deliberately fell behind, and then made a force to catch up, shouted trash talk at Harry George, who was in penultimate place, and raised ski poles to overtake him, leaving a string of laughs: "Hahahaha-"

"I'll see you later...... Yang. Looking at the coquettish back of the coquettish man in a red ski suit who quickly walked away, the big fat man shook his head helplessly, who made him never be good at sports? It is so difficult to lose three pounds. Harry continued to carefully control his center of gravity and slid the skis slowly, how could he skate so fast......? Wang Yang is not only here to attend the film festival, but also to play on vacation, so he called Joshua and a few other friends to enjoy this ski weekend together, Jessica did not come because she had to take care of Keke, after all, it is a plateau and the weather is cold, and it will be bad if the baby catches a cold and is sick, although Keke has cold-resistant training.

"Oh ho-" Suddenly he heard an excited shout from behind, and Joshua knew that Jan was catching up! He suddenly bent his knees even more, leaned forward to lower his center of gravity, and couldn't help but hold his ski poles again and again, how could it! He had already known that Jan was obviously a master skier, and it was impossible to be the first to last! He wanted to tease everyone, it was so hateful! "Oh yes!" Suddenly the center of gravity was out of control, and Joshua wanted to slow down sideways, but he suddenly rolled into the snow and hit a pine tree before stopping.

Wang Yang exclaimed, the skis turned parallel to a halt, slid up and asked, "Are you okay? brother?" Joshua raised his head and spewed out a mouthful of snow, Wang Yang observed him a few times, and then laughed, it's okay! He started quickly, and shouted with a smile: "Yoshu, I know that the snow is free, but don't eat too much! It's not beneficial! Maybe someone peed there......"

"Wouldn't it!?" Joshua took a deep breath as he looked at the distant figure, slowly turned his head to look at the snowy ground, and then looked up at the large pine tree in front of him. "Poof-" Soon Zachary Levy also ate the snow, and looked helplessly at Wang Yang who was far away, that guy was not a rookie when he filmed "Youth Musical".

Anne Darren is currently at the top of the ski race, and she is no ordinary tourist, and the independent romance film "Flannel Pajamas" starring her is in the theater competition section of this year's film festival. At this time, seeing Wang Yang chasing after her and moving forward in parallel, Anne showed a smile and greeted: "Director!"

"Hey, Annie!" Wang Yang turned his head to look at the freckled woman, she was wearing a white plush hat, her long hair was tied up on her back, and her face with light freckles was no longer youthful and immature, but she had the mature style of a big sister next door, which made people feel very soft and comfortable, and he smiled: "You are so awesome! People don't know it, and they think you grew up in Utah." Anne, a Nebraska girl, smiled, "I'm not, maybe it's just...... A little bit of talent. ”

Listening to her chuckle, Wang Yang also laughed: "Then my talent is higher than yours." He didn't speed up and shook her off, and said with a smile: "It's been a long time since we've talked like this, you know, we should come out more and have fun." ”

ALTHOUGH HE DIDN'T SAY "JUST-YOU-AND-ME", HIS SENTENCE WAS STILL A LITTLE AMBIGUOUS, MAYBE OTHERS WOULD THINK THIS WAS SOME KIND OF IMPLICATION, BUT ANNE KNEW THAT HE DIDN'T MEAN ANYTHING ELSE, NEVER, HE JUST REGARDED HER AS A GOOD FRIEND, SO HE WAS SO GRINNING, SHE SMILED: "YES, I HAVEN'T CONGRATULATED YOU ON WINNING THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR." Wang Yang was puzzled: "Please, didn't you say 'congratulations'? What else?" The teased Anne just smiled blindly: "I don't know, a greeting card? Oh no, no, no......" She naturally thought of "500 Days with Shamo" and was amused by herself: "No, no." ”

"Haha!" Wang Yang looked ahead with a smile, gradually bent his body to speed up, and asked, "So your movie "Flannel Pajamas" premieres tomorrow, right?" Anne replied, "Yes." Wang Yang stretched out his snow pole and shouted, "Take us tomorrow to see it!

Wang Yang really wants to see Anne's current performance, and wants to know what level she has reached, and watching "Flannel Pajamas" is a good opportunity. For Anne Darren, Wang Yang knows that he has some different feelings in his heart, this girl is famous because of his insistence, he has a bit of a "Jackie Chan" mentality, hoping that she can bloom her own light, but there have been no opportunities for cooperation in recent years, but Anne does not lack the main supporting roles, and actively participates in independent films, maintains a low-key and simple life, does not get lost in the hard-won flash, and is very competitive.

There may be a chance of collaboration soon after, not "I Am Legend", the second half of the script adapted by Mark Prutosevich and Aziva Gossmann added female characters for commercial reasons, but he didn't plan to do that, the whole film is only Robert Neville alone, and the others are zombies.

"Oh ho ahh

"What are the actions of the flame movie?" At the same time, Park City is already in a state of rumors, which movie to buy? Is it to buy out the rights or buy the distribution rights with dividends? Distributors are talking a lot, and the executives of various companies are gossiping together like grandmothers, Sony Classics is about to win "Old Friends Are Rich", Universal Pictures has preemptively negotiated "The Leading Dog", and Miramax is competing for "Midnight Listener...... And the one that attracted the most attention was the "Miracle Wholesaler" flame movie!

It bought "Crash" at the Toronto Film Festival, it bought "Fragments of Memory" and "Death Hallucination" at Sundance, and then even the producer Newmarket swallowed it up...... In the 22nd Sundance this year, which miracle prep did the flame fancy again?

"The flames seem to be interested in Little Miss Sunshine, and they're asking for the price. ", "Whose idea is it for some bland films?", "I heard that Wang Yang hasn't watched "Little Sunshine Beauty" yet, he has been skiing for the past few days, and he also said that he is here for a vacation, so he has no opinion. "Whoever had the idea, we're going to buy Little Sunshine!", "Flannel Pajamas Theatre Finds Wonder Young!", "He says the film is pretty cool!", "Flame is asking 'The Magician' again!", "Flame has a crush on 'Midnight Listener!'", "Flame has a shot at 'Boots'!...... For a time, the goal of the flame movie included almost the entire premiere unit and the drama competition unit, as well as several documentaries such as "The Inconvenient Truth", which one is it?

"Little Sunshine Beauty" is indeed the object of the flame movie at a glance, and the level has reached the highest SSS level, buy it!

The film tells the story of a dream, 7-year-old Oliver has a crazy big family, his father is a lecturer who sells success courses, and he sells his "Nine Steps to Success" everywhere, his brother is an autistic patient who worships Nietzsche, and he swears dumbly in order to be admitted to a flight academy and has not spoken to his family for nine months...... Grandpa is an old hooligan who has been evicted from a nursing home, full of swear words and drugs, and Oliver himself dreams of overnight fame and believes that he will one day be elected Miss America, and Mom is probably the only normal person, if there are no menopausal symptoms.

With the support of these freak families, Oliver participates in a beauty pageant called "Little Sunshine Beauty", and the family embarks on a collective journey of dreams in a broken van.

A few development track tidbits can go some way to illustrating how much embarrassment this R-rated family road movie comedy with an 8 million production fee has experienced before, 1: In 2000, Michael Arndt created the first draft of the screenplay, and producers Ron Yeksa and Albert Berger intended to produce it, but could not make it due to financial issues. 2: In 2001, producer Mark Tetotu bought the adaptation rights of the script for 250,000 yuan, looking for focus film investment. 3: The focus has been thinking about it again and again, and I have not been able to make up my mind to invest in the film, because the script is too bland. 4: In 2004, Mark Tetotu spent 400,000 to redeem it from Focus. 5: The 8 million production fee is jointly invested by four independent producers: Bona-Fide-Productions, Big-Beach-Films, Third-Gear-Productions-LLC, and Deep-River-Productions.

Still, while this is the screen debut of husband-and-wife directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Farris, "Little Miss Sunshine" is now a Park City hit, not just because of its negligible potential, but also because of its incredible potential, and the flames seem to be interested in it.

"It has a lot of qualities that make it successful. Mark Slunt, Chris Bauer and others thought it was quite otherworldly, and Wang Yang thought the same way, he liked its characters, its story, its themes, its temperament, it was very interesting, it was very moving, it was very touching, and he knew more about its potential.

"Old Friends Are Rich", which was originally purchased by Sony Classics, received 13.36 million North American box office/18.24 million global box office, 71%/70%/37% of the three indicators of Rotten Tomatoes, "Leading Dog" 15.3 million/32.14 million box office and 54%/56%/68% of the three indicators of Rotten Tomatoes, and "Midnight Listener" bought by Miramax 7.83 million/10.63 million box office, 40%/30%/36% of the three indicators of Rotten Tomatoes...... They either had good results or ended up being a loss-making deal, as was originally bought by Fox Searchlight for a record Sundance price of 10.5 million, with a 10% bonus on all gross revenues. It did not disappoint Fox Searchlight, on the contrary, it was a huge surprise, 59.89 million/100 million box office, Rotten Tomatoes three indicators 91%/89%/90%, 2007 Oscar Best Picture (nominated), Best Supporting Actress (nominated), Best Supporting Actor.

How many Sundance movies have come out in this year? Since Wang Yang knows its huge potential, then the flame will not operate conservatively like the FOX searchlight, you must know that it only has 1602 theaters at its widest screening (released on July 21, the widest in the sixth week of September 1-7), he believes that increase publicity efforts, adjust the schedule to around the awards season from November to March, and then remain patient, just like the operation mode of "Brokeback Mountain", then the North American box office will be no problem with more than 80 million, or even break 100 million.

"Little Sunshine Beauty" will also be the core player of the Flame Impact 06-07 awards season, when with the emphasis on publicity and heavy money, it can easily get more award nominations, instead of the Golden Globes only one nomination for Best Actress in a Musical/Comedy, the Oscar is more like a jackpot.

More box office, more nominations!

Although "Little Sunshine Beauty" is now a sweet treat, if it weren't for the addition of Flame Films, FOX Searchlight would have bought it. In fact, the record high of 10 million seems very scary, in fact, minus the production fee, it is only 2 million profits, compared to the 6.5 million production fee/20 million buyout fee of "Crash", which is a small thing, and the 10% total income dividend is also like a blank check, but it still scared Mark Tetotu, who was tormented by the focus for four years......! "Maybe FOX Searchlight is positioning it as a box office of 30 million, maybe there are other filmmakers who are moved by the news, but Wang Yang knows best that no one can stop the determination of the flame, whether it is a full buyout or a bonus with dividends, no matter 15 million, 20 million, 30 million, come on!

The flame's ability to issue and operate is not inferior to that of the Fox searchlight, and at this time, it is the price, sincerity and promise that the winner is divided, and these negotiation and competition affairs are operated by Mark Slunt and others, and everyone feels that the critical moment is not good, and the chairman with a torch of eyes is still obediently on vacation.

And in addition to "Little Sunshine Beauty", the flame movie also has a must-buy real goal, the PG-13 fantasy drama "The Magician".

This is director Neil Borg's second film since the pseudo-documentary "Proof of the JFK Assassination" (2002), starring Edward Norton, Jessica Biel, Paul Giamathi and others, and co-invested $16.5 million by 5 small producers including Bullseye Films, Bob-Yari Films, and Michael London Films.

In contrast, "The Magician" does not have so many legendary stories, it is just a normal production investment, but the 16.5 million production fee shows the confidence and sharpness of the producers, after all, Bullseye and Bob-Yari have just made a lot of money from the flames. In fact, everyone understands that they didn't come to Park City to find someone to buy out at a high price, who would pay 20 million or more to buy an independent film? But "The Magician" needs a theatrical distributor, and if no one is interested, they can only try to release it themselves, although Bullseye and Yari have no distribution experience for the time being.

But the world is so bizarre, the flame movie is interested, and it is the interest of a high-priced buyout!

"SSS grade. Wang Yang is very aware of the potential of the film, originally it really failed to find a satisfactory distributor, Bob-Yari released "The Magician" under the distribution brand YARI FILM GROUP (YARI-FILM-GROUP), and in the first week with only 51 theaters and 1438 screenings (week 5), "The Magician" finally received 39.86 million North America/87.89 million global box office, 74%/3% of the three indicators on Rotten Tomatoes.

YARI made a name for itself in one fell swoop, and the founder Bob Yari was even more ambitious, and in 07 years, he successively released "New Hip-hop Songs" (1816), "Regrouping" (1605), "Final Season" (1011), "Perfect Christmas" (1307) Four films, won a "Upstart" notoriety, but they received a total of 14.89 million box office, an average of 3.72 million each, these four consecutive failures made "The Magician" ALL OF THIS WAS LOST, AND YARI FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY IN DECEMBER 2008.

Wang Yang feels that the relationship between Flame and Yari can be like that with Newmarket, if "Magician" is released by Flame, it is difficult for him to estimate what the box office performance will be, you must know that YARI has operated nearly 90 million, and Flame Movies ...... It is certain that the world will break 100 million.

What's more, by including "The Magician", Flame will be able to add it to "Deadly Magic" released at the end of the year for some related promotion, and in the future, in terms of post-DVD sales and rentals, it can also carry out some bundles that will benefit both, and the "Magic Night Weekend Package" is simply perfect.

"Little Sunshine Beauty" + "The Magician"! This is Wang Yang's secret mission to the flame people, it doesn't matter if the other films are made, these two must be won!

"Which movie did Wonder Young have his eye on?" Park City was shrouded in such a fog, and Lionsgate CEO Jon Philtimel naturally wanted to find out some news, so he dialed that number and said with a smile: "Hey Young, it's me, Jon! Are you in Park City? Which movie do you like? Oh, really? Just skiing? Haha, no, no, I'm still good for golf." Have you seen any movies?......

(To be continued)