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This film company, funded by all-Chinese shareholders, mainly invests in the shooting of films and acts as an agent for the distribution of films.

The global distribution agency of "Inception" has been handed over to Hualong Pictures, and the contract has been signed.

However, Hualong Pictures attended this year's Cannes Film Festival, and the overseas distribution of "Inception" is only part of the work, and the other part is to win the North American distribution rights of some excellent films.

The so-called excellent movies include but are not limited to Chinese-language films.

When I was shopping for movies at the Cannes Film Festival, there was a film that caught the attention of the staff of Hualong Pictures - "The Antichrist".

This is a 108-minute thriller ***** co-produced by Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Poland and other countries.

The film was shortlisted for the main competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Film and Best Actress. Two days ago, on May 17, Cannes local time, the film held a press conference.

And as soon as the movie was released, it became a controversial topic.

The film itself tells the story of a couple who accidentally lose their child, and the wife is unable to extricate herself from the pain. The husband moved to a quiet forest to recuperate in order to save his wife, but he still couldn't suppress his wife's mental disorder, and he did a series of terrible things.

It is filled with stark depictions of officials, abuse, and killings, and intersperses obscure religious metaphors into the story, and the scale of openness is unprecedented.

Shi Hao participated in the media test screening, and I have to say that this is a movie with beautiful pictures, and some of the scenes are very beautiful. Elegant slow-motion shots, perfect black-and-white compositions, complemented by opera excerpts...... But no one would have imagined that the wife who enjoys carnal desire would become so cruel and cut off the *** official of the husband and wife.

During the playback, screams came and went. The heroine's various ways of mutilating herself and her husband make the viewer cry out in pain and disgust, and the close-up of these violent scenes in the film also makes the audience dare not face them.

But the director of the film believes that this is a film full of too many morals.

For example, the husband went from being the head of the family who dominated the fate and was full of reason to suddenly become a victim who was slaughtered by others. From this point of view, the male as the master of modern society is like the female "Christ", and the antichrist is the female rebellion against the male, even killing.

Antichrist...... In order to draw a grand proposition equal to the number of Christ watching, the director did not hesitate to torture the audience's visual nerves through the most brutal violence and the most naked *** scenes in the film.

After the premiere of the film, the audience was polarized, and so was the media.

Some European media reporters accused the film of being too yellow and violent, which made the reporters collapse, but some European media reporters thought that this was a very good film, and it would be better if there was less extreme violence.

The U.S. media is equally polarized.

A reporter from Entertainment Weekly criticized the film as a film with beautiful pictures but sensationalism. He said that the film borrows a layer of pseudo-Christian fables to distort a normal person's thinking about the good and evil of human nature, which is the worst moral collapse in the history of the Cannes Film Festival.

But The Hollywood Reporter recommended that fans of director Lars von Trier watch the film, praising the film for its "flamboyant flamboyance and a lot of fascinating ideas."

For distributors in various countries, the choice of the film should have been tricky.

But considering that like "The Antichrist", the movie "This Man is from Earth", which also questioned Christ, swept hundreds of millions of dollars at the global box office, many distributors were moved.

"So, you also want to be tempted and want to snap up the North American distribution rights?"

After listening to Shi Hao's story, Mai Xiaoyu looked at him and asked.

"Perhaps the theme of antichrist has a huge potential market in the world. Speaking of this, Shi Hao paused, "Qingtian Group is also here, and wants to win the distribution rights of this movie at a high price." ”

Sniping at Qingtian, this is what Shi Hao is most concerned about. But he was not sure of the success of this movie, and he was worried that the sniper would be smashed in his own hands if he succeeded, so he specially came to discuss with Mai Xiaoyu.

Mai Xiaoyu pondered for a moment and asked suspiciously: "This kind of movie will definitely not be released in China, what is the use of Qingtian buying distribution rights?"

"Ning Shirong is representing Qingtian to negotiate the acquisition of cinema chains in the United States. It is said that within Qingtian, Ning Zhiyuan and the first series have successfully suppressed the opposition of Ning Zhihe and others, and there should be no variables in the acquisition. ”

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Mai Xiaoyu scolded secretly.

He now understands that what DynaSky wants is not the domestic distribution rights of Antichrist, but the North American distribution rights!

The more controversial the film, the more likely it is to cause a sensation.

And in the eyes of many, the success of "This Man Is from Earth" shows that the global antichrist market has great potential. Qingtian wants to use this film as one of the three fires after the acquisition of American theaters.

Mai Xiaoyu didn't answer in a hurry, he closed his eyes and quietly recalled the release of the film in North America and the box office in his mind.

He remembered that there was this movie in the strange dream because the controversy of the movie was so great. In his dream, as an international critic, he received money from the producer at that time, and he was no less interested in this film.

As for the box office after its release in North America...... He remembered that the film was banned in the United States because of religious issues and ideological advancement.

With a tap on Eliza's buttocks, Mai Xiaoyu opened his eyes: "Mr. Shi, my attitude towards this film is: fight without fighting." ”

Indisputable?

Shi Hao suddenly realized after a long time: "You mean that you are not optimistic about this film." But in order for DynaSky to win the North American distribution rights of this film at a higher price, we have to fight?"

"That's right, you have to take care of this scale, don't end up in your hands, then it's really a matter of stealing chickens and rice. ”

Shi Hao looked at the cute people, from the small bamboo raft that was tragically blocked by Qingtian to all advertising business, and developed into a half-step cheap, I believe in Mai Xiaoyu's vision and judgment.

"Don't worry, I'll take care of it. However, are you not optimistic about the North American box office of this film?"

"No, I think the U.S. will ban the film. ”

Don't think that Western countries are democratic, free and open, all countries are the same, and there are banned films!

"This Man Is From Earth" simply turns the protagonist into Christ, questioning the life of Jesus and the stories in the Bible metaphorically, which is not too much.

Because the European Middle Ages, like the Chinese feudal society, there was the possibility that the ruler managed the people by creating gods, and the movie itself has a bit of a discussion atmosphere.

But "The Antichrist" is different, violent, erotic, and emotional, and through the extreme situations of human nature and motherhood, it reverses religion, tears up normal values and family structures, and forces the audience to suffer the most direct pain.

What kind of death is this, so many Christians and Christians in the United States, how can they allow foreign movies to blaspheme the God in their hearts again and again?

"Be sure to be in a good sense of proportion. ”

Mai Xiaoyu told Shi Hao a word, and took Eliza to the sea to play a friendly match.

Before Shi Hao left, he reminded, "Don't forget to come to the media test screening of "Inception" tomorrow. ”

"I can't forget, I still want to see the faces of those media reporters......"