One side didn't want to pay more, and on the other hand, there was a higher price hanging, and this negotiation didn't reach any agreement, and watching Thomas Longman leave, Harvey Weinstein looked a little bad.

Originally, he was about to negotiate with Thomas Longman to buy out the rights of "The Artist" outside Europe for $10 million, but he didn't expect a Bella Anderson to jump out in the middle, forcing him to raise the price to $15 million.

But $15 million still hasn't won the rights.

This made him a little angry!

Matthew Horner's tattered leather bag studio has the ability to distribute it, and it's here under the guise of Disney and Warner Bros. to smuggle him and ruin him one after another.

Needless to say, it must have been intentional.

"The Artist" is his biggest discovery of the year!

As soon as he arrived at Cannes, Harvey Weinstein found the film to be a tailor-made gift for American Academy of Film voters, with an average age of nearly 60: black and white, silent, simulating the gestures of Hollywood classics, and a simple and just right length (100 minutes), all of which were perfect for his Oscar operation.

The Oscars are conservative, and the elderly judges are always nostalgic for the past.

He tried and tested repeatedly in Oscar public relations, and even made fans around the world aware of the fact that "the Oscar judges are a bunch of fools".

Win "The Artist", plus his PR operation, and an Oscar seed will be born.

Harvey Weinstein has always had confidence in himself, from the earliest "The English Patient" sweeping the Oscars, to the end of the century "Shakespeare in Love" Rick "Saving Private Ryan", to "Chicago" to the big hit, he has always been fiddling with PR tricks, and the way is evolving.

At The English Patient, he liked to label his film as "the greatest moving work in years", but when he ran The King's Speech, he openly expressed his dislike for this kind of labelling propaganda, alluding to the self-selling impetuousness of The Social Network; 's ambition to win the award has shrunk, and it's okay to keep an eye on the best supporting actor.

This black-and-white silent film, which can only be used at commercial fairs at Cannes, is his ambition.

Even, he has a preliminary plan, because there is another key Olympic work this year, after winning "The Artist", he can press it in his hand for a year, and then start operating from next year's Cannes Film Festival, all the way down the major art film festivals, accumulate enough reputation, and then hit the Oscars.

There may be viewers who will think that they have been fooled and refund their tickets when they see this film.

He also thought of this, which can be hyped into news, and it is also a selling point of the Olympic Games, which further makes voters feel that the Oscars still have to pay attention to the grade of taste, and ordinary audiences have no culture.

But these can only be implemented by obtaining the copyright of "The Artist".

Harvey Weinstein thought about it and decided whether the negotiations should go ahead, after all, it would be profitable.

In Los Angeles, Matthew returned to Disney Studios to continue filming Fast and Furious 5 a week after attending the premiere of "Iron Man."

The filming of this film has reached the final stage, and except for Matthew, Paul Walker and Gal Gadot, the rest of the main actors have left the crew after the scenes are completed.

Most of the rest of Matthew's scenes are racing in front of a green screen in the studio.

Of course, they're not professional-level drivers, and most of them are in very slow muscle sports cars, posing in all sorts of crazy cool drag and blow up poses.

Those fancy drag racing cars are all done by stuntmen on the field.

Today, stuntmen are an integral part of Hollywood, along with cinematographers, prop masters and screenwriters, and they are present in almost every crew.

These people are not very taken seriously, especially the academy, which has always refused to set up a stunt award at the Oscars.

Also undervalued by the academy is the special effects industry.

The special effects of Hollywood's big-budget commercial films are excellent, and they are often one of the most cost-burning parts of filming and production.

Of course, that's not to say that Hollywood special effects are really invincible.

In Matthew's view, Hollywood movies have excellent special effects, and they are inseparable from the foil of their world peers.

Shooting in front of a green screen, for Matthew, is a scene that appears frequently in almost every movie, and there is not much difficulty.

In addition to filming, Bella Anderson gave him good news.

The CEO of the leather bag studio, who has made frequent commercial deals at the Cannes Film Festival, has disrupted Harvey Weinstein's many trading plans despite not buying any of the films.

In addition, on one film, Harvey Weinstein vomited blood.

A black-and-white silent film called "The Artist", Harvey Weinstein could have gotten the rights outside Europe for about $10 million, but under the competition of Bella Anderson, Weinstein Pictures spent $25 million to get it.

The only consolation for Harvey Weinstein is that the $25 million was the worldwide rights to the film.

Matthew was still a little surprised, spending a high price of $25 million to buy the rights to a black-and-white silent film, Harvey Weinstein is gambling big.

He certainly knew that Harvey Weinstein was betting heavily on the Oscars.

The question is, even if such a black-and-white silent film wins an Oscar heavyweight, how many people can watch it?

Anyway, if you give him money, he won't look at it.

Just as he never had an interest in the films of the Golden Age, the distance was just too far away.

Maybe he didn't understand Harvey Weinstein's movie world, just as he never really read the Oscars.

Because he has never set foot in the Oscar game of power and money.

The game is no cleaner than the campaign for the White House.

For example, as far as he knows, "Crash" knocked over "Brokeback Mountain" at the Oscars, and it was undoubtedly a big trick of money, and the public relations company hired by "Crash" produced and distributed a total of 160,000 hardcover CDs and souvenirs to the film academy's security guards from the judges to the gatekeepers, and the production and mailing costs of the CDs alone amounted to millions of dollars.

The effect is also obvious, the Oscar gave Ang Lee Best Director, but sent the Best Picture to "Crash".

"Bomb Disposal Unit", which won Best Director and Best Picture this year, did an even better job, Megan Ellison, a super-rich rich second generation, rushed for the award regardless of the cost, not only distributed discs and souvenirs, but also personally operated on the stage, asking a producer to send emails to many judges, directly calling on them to vote for "Bomb Disposal Unit".

This matter is almost public, and the film school can't turn a blind eye, if it weren't for the academy warning the crew of "Bomb Disposal Unit" and making Meghan Ellison relent, it is estimated that this year's Oscars will stink.

Truth be told, if David Ellison had given up on going the commercial route and had gone shirtless and attacked with money like Megan Ellison, Oscar might have faced a much worse situation.

The academy has stipulated that the judges can only accept memorabilia related to the film, but there is a lot more room for making a fuss about it.

When the first DVD player appeared, some people gave away movie discs and a valuable DVD player, which was called a beautiful name for people to watch the film.

The popularity of this thing was not high at that time, and it was completely reasonable, but after it was lent out, when it was taken back, the ghost knows.

As for the fine porcelain with the marks of the film, the ordinary champagne allowed by the Academy was turned into a prestige champagne...... None of this is too much.

There is always a hidden deal under the regulations, just like the three major European film festivals, if you get the chairman of the jury at the time, it is not a problem to win an award.

Matthew, who doesn't know much about politics, knows that political elections are full of compromises and deals under the table.

Politics is like this, and the film industry is no exception.

Harvey Weinstein got "The Artist" at a very high cost in Matthew's eyes.

It's a pity that Matthew is very sober, he has no influence on the Oscars, otherwise he will definitely give Harvey Weinstein some problems.

Regardless, he cost Weinstein Pictures an extra $15 million.

The time is gradually approaching the end of June, and after more than three months of filming, "Fast and Furious 5" finally announced the end of the filming phase, Justin Lin immediately led people into the post-production stage, and screenwriter Chris Morgan directly took his team to start the script writing of "Fast and Furious 6".

For the script of "Fast and Furious 6", Matthew also put forward corresponding requirements, a broader world view and a more powerful villain!

Without the promise of a strong villain, the drag racing family also looks weak.

It's better to come out with a whole team of corresponding villains.

Matthew also thought about giving some advice to Kevin Feige, so that the villains of the Marvel superhero movies are stronger, and don't be all mouth cannon bosses, and then be killed by awkward dancing and mouth cannons.

However, after careful consideration, he still gave up this plan, Marvel superhero movies are the simplest entertainment, the purest popcorn, you don't need to watch it with your brain at all, if you change the setting that is so simple that you don't need to use your brain, maybe it will have a negative effect.

Marvel superhero movies have a style that belongs to Marvel superhero movies.

Fortunately, many jokes in Marvel movies are awkward conversations, but they are not as vulgar as Michael Bay's Hercules Steel Ball.

In June, Matthew began to cooperate with the crew of "Inception" to promote, first in North America, then overseas, and ran around the earth for more than half a month.

After returning to Los Angeles, he took a few days off while he started focusing on a mega production.

Directed by Andrew Stanton and starring Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman, "Alien Battlefield", which cost a whopping $250 million to make, finally ushered in the moment of release after more than two years of preparation, filming and production.