"Whew... As Xu Jing smiled, Harvey suddenly felt that the momentum dissipated and became invisible, and he couldn't help but exhale, feeling a lot more relaxed. Looking at Xu Jing again, his eyes were no longer the look that could fool foreigners at the beginning, how could he have thought that this Chinese who was expanding the North American market for the first time could see through his methods and force him to be so embarrassed?

In fact, Xu Jing didn't plan to really force Harvey into a corner from the beginning, not because he was the future 'Oscar promoter', but because Miramax was the company that paid the most attention to the distribution of Chinese films in North America in addition to the Sony classics established after Sony became the owner of Columbia in the future. Harvey is also the Hollywood filmmaker who knows Chinese films best, except for the talented director Quentin Tarantino, who is still selling discs.

If he can establish a long-term cooperative relationship with Miramax, it will also be a good thing for Jiuzhou Company, after all, Harvey is very good at independent film distribution and marketing operations, and even Xu Jing can't think of anyone better than him.

"Tut-tut, let's go around the film festival and sell millions of dollars, and the money for making movies is really easy to earn, no wonder Taiwan Island is swarming to Xiangjiang to invest in making movies. After the reception, except for Zhou Xiaoxun, who did not participate in the reception because of his young age, Xu Jing and the others found a place in the rest area to sit down and chat.

Last year, he wanted to invest in making movies because of fate, although he thought about making money by investing in movies, but he didn't expect to make so much, not to mention that the box office share of "Killer" in Xiangjiang can earn at least more than 10 million after deducting the cost, and the copyright fees in North America, Europe, and South America sold by this wine party alone reached more than 5.6 million US dollars, which is like grabbing money.

"Eh, you say, why didn't anyone think of taking the movie to the film festival to sell the right to sell the board before?" After all, Lin Jianguo didn't know Xu Jing and Zhao Xiaojun about the film industry, and he didn't know much about some things in the industry, so he couldn't help but be a little curious.

"How can European and American copyrights be so easy to sell, didn't Golden Harvest send Cheng Long to Hollywood to make a few films in the early years? But it still can't be recognized by the market, so I went back to Xiangjiang. Zhao Xiaojun said: "Literary films are sent to European film festivals, but after all, they can't be sold for much money." ”

"Well, Lao Zhao is right. Xu Jing echoed: "In fact, if "The True Colors of Heroes" was exhibited the year before last, it should still be possible to open up the Western market a little, and the reputation will not be bad." It's just that most of the commercial filmmakers in Xiangjiang don't have much confidence in the Western market, so they generally don't take it to the exhibition, let alone spend a lot of money to hold a sales reception. ”

"So, with the precedent of "Killer", it is estimated that next year there will be a swarm of people rushing to the film festival?" Lin Jianguo said.

"It's about the same, but there are certainly not many that can open up the Western market. Xu Jing pondered for a moment and said: "Uncle, in the future, we must try to grasp the channels of those film companies, the box office of "Killer" in Europe and the United States should not be too bad, as long as we can maintain the production level in the future, the European and American distribution of the film will not be a problem." ”

"Well, I know, this time I also lacked heart, and I almost fell in touch with that bastard. Obviously, Lin Jianguo was still a little indignant about Harvey, which made Xu Jing and Zhao Xiaojun laugh for a while.

Speaking of which, Lin Jianguo and Zhao Xiaojun are more and more incomprehensible to Xu Jing's style of doing things, not to mention his ability to make such a good movie as "Killer" when he entered the industry, just saying that his thinking is different from ordinary people is incomprehensible.

When other artists were still brushing their faces to create the image of idols, he dared to play the role of middle-aged people. When other companies were still rushing to sell Asian rights, he dared to take the film to Western film festivals to sell rights. When other filmmakers hurried to make a prequel and sequel to a popular movie, and when he could make a twin brother of the dead character, he dared to try to make new types of films again, and even went to Hollywood to spend a lot of money to hire special effects and stunt teams.

These are accompanied by many unpredictable risks, and they are somewhat unable to understand why Xu Jing always uses such out-of-the-box thinking to do things, but what does it matter? With "Killer" in front, what reason do they have not to support him?

As mentioned above, what Xu Jing did was indeed a bit ahead of their time.

Take the "King of Haibian" they are going to shoot next, not to mention that this is a superhero film that no one has ever made in the East, and the bizarre things in it alone make people feel brain-opening.

For example, the delicate and small thing called 'mobile phone', which can not only take pictures, but also record videos, how imaginative it is to imagine 'Big Brother' so avant-garde? And the thing called 'laptop', which is not much thicker than a book, is said to be able to connect all computers to form a kind of 'network', which is set in their eyes is tantamount to some sci-fi props in "Star Wars".

These are also another purpose for Xu Jing and his entourage to come to North America. In addition to the flying footage of the final scene, which uses the green screen technology that has been in Hollywood for decades, there are also several simple special effects shots, computer screen footage, and animated shorts to be inserted, which need to be done by Pixar or other Hollywood special effects teams.

Regarding the computer screen screen, there is naturally no need to develop a real operation interface, with the memory of the previous life, it is enough to let Pixar make a flat effect.

Xu Jing is not worried about what these super-era things will cause in the future, compared with the 1968 sci-fi movie "2001 Space Walk" in the lunar module, space station, artificial intelligence, video phone, tablet computer and other more than a dozen extra-era items, these little things in "Haibian King" seem a bit pediatric.

Xu Jing wrote the script of "The King of Haibian" not to attract attention, but to shoot this film requires the use of simple green screen technology, special effects technology and other special shooting techniques that almost no one in the Hong Kong film industry uses, Xu Jing hopes to expand the company's team's vision and make some technical reserves for some films he wants to shoot in the future.

If you are always complacent and shoot some movies with a small pattern and small family style, not to mention whether they can be released overseas, I am afraid that even Jiuzhou Company will just rise and decline like most Xiangjiang Film Companies.