After the Chinese New Year, after work, two foreigners came to Good Dreams, they were employees of Columbia Pictures in the United States. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The American film company set up an office in Beijing last year, in the same office building as Haomeng.

Lin Zixuan went to their office to hand out business cards, wanting to know about the channels for international distribution of films, but he didn't talk about the reason, people don't pay attention to small private film and television companies like Haomeng Company at all.

Columbia Pictures has an Asian region, and the Asian region is headquartered in Xiangjiang.

With a focus on the film markets in Hong Kong and Japan, as well as in Southeast Asia, the office in Beijing is responsible for contacting and coordinating with the Chinese film industry, mainly to promote the company's films.

Even if they want to cooperate, they will cooperate with powerful state-owned units such as Beijing Film Studio, or Zhang Yimou and Jiang Wen, who are well-known in the world, which is more secure.

This time they came to the Good Dream Company because of the film "See You or Leave".

One is that the film has achieved good box office results in China, and another reason is that the film shows the plot of life in the United States, and they feel that if it is shown in the United States, it will make good profits.

Americans may not understand the humor, but Chinese living in the United States should be able to.

This is the advice given by Columbia Pictures' marketing department in Asia, and they will analyze and draw conclusions about films that have a certain impact in Asia.

What are the elements of the success of this film, and whether there is any possibility of learning from it, is it worth continuing to pay attention to the director and actors.

They suggested getting the rights to show "See You or Leave" in North America at a low price, a business that wouldn't make much money and was just a small deal for Columbia Pictures.

As for the directors of Good Dream Company and Feng Xiaogang, their evaluation is that they have certain potential, and they can be contacted and observed.

Columbia Pictures has focused on directors like Zhang Yimou, and Feng Xiaogang is still at the second-tier level, failing to prove his box office power in the international film market.

It's just that the deal has not been negotiated, and the North American rights to "See You or Leave" have been sold, and the package price is the American film company that the crew cooperated with when filming in Los Angeles.

"Do you have any new plans for filming?" asked the foreigner.

Of course there is, Lin Zixuan and Feng Xiaogang introduced the current shooting plan of Good Dream Company to foreigners.

This is not to say that Lin Zixuan wants to cooperate with foreigners, but if he can get investment from Columbia Pictures, then he will not have to worry about international distribution after the film is made.

A film can't make much money just by showing it in China, especially when the domestic market is sluggish, it still has to be internationalized.

Outside funds entered the mainland film market in the 90s, first with funds from Hong Kong and Taiwan, for co-production, and later for art films invested by European filmmakers.

Now that American studios have joined in, they are more inclined to invest in commercial films.

The foreigner listened for a while, returned to his office, took a stack of documents, and handed them to Lin Zixuan.

Lin Zixuan took a look, this is a complete set of plans for the preliminary preparation of the movie.

How much do you invest in this film, how long will you shoot it, how much money will be allocated, what is the expected rate of return, why you chose these actors, their advantages and disadvantages, etc.

In other words, you have to write the whole movie from the script to the filming process in every detail, and it must be feasible.

With this detailed plan, Columbia Pictures will have several rounds of discussions, which may take months.

Then, they will decide whether or not they will invest in your film.

This is the attitude of American film companies, unlike in China, Lin Zixuan and Feng Xiaogang together, they think it's good to shoot this story, so let's shoot it, it's a very simple matter.

Simple is simple, but not professional enough, the so-called shooting plan is at most a piece of paper meeting minutes is over.

But Columbia Pictures' plan is a real book, and after that, let's talk about investment, and they're doing the film as a project.

Moreover, foreigners don't understand much about Feng Xiaogang's Beijing-style movies, so why don't they make movies that everyone can understand.

For example, themes that often appear in American movies, personal heroism, fighting crime, saving the world, and so on.

Lin Zixuan didn't know how to explain it, thinking about letting Ge You put on red underwear and fly around in the sky to save the world, this picture was too beautiful to bear to look at directly.

Foreigners also think that you should shoot commercial blockbusters and gather influential stars in China.

They saw Jiang Wen's poster on the wall of the conference room of the Good Dream Company, and felt that it would be very marketable to put Jiang Wen, Ge You and Gong Li together to make an action movie.

The idea of a foreigner may be successful in the United States, but it is difficult in China, mainly because of the investment.

"It's not that we don't have a good story, it depends on how much you can invest, you can invest 100 million dollars, I have a story of 100 million dollars. Lin Zixuan said confidently.

He stood up and walked to the edge of the wall, where there was a map of China, and he pointed to a point on it.

"This is the Great Wall, stretching for thousands of miles, and it is a symbol of China. Lin Zixuanxu said, "Most people think that the Great Wall was built to resist the invasion of the grassland peoples, but in fact, this is the passage for alien monsters to invade the earth, and the Great Wall is the last line of defense on the earth, and there have always been millions of soldiers stationed there. ”

This is a story of fighting monsters on the Great Wall and saving the earth, which is definitely in line with the American film company's concept of a commercial blockbuster.

"Millions of human soldiers and behemoths fought to the death, arrows rained down and artillery roared, this is a war that never stops. Lin Zixuan described, "Think about it, a collection of dozens of famous actors in China, as well as top stars from Europe and the United States, plus gorgeous special effects, shocking explosion scenes, are you willing to invest?"

"Lin, this story is creative, you should write it. The foreigner said excitedly.

Foreigners are particularly interested in aliens, and they are willing to film stories about Americans saving the planet.

"Are you really going to make this film?" Feng Xiaogang said in surprise after the foreigner left.

"Teasing them, there will be no drama in a big production like this for ten years, Lao Mei is not stupid, they know that they can't make it as soon as they study it, and now they will not only fail to achieve the effect, but I am afraid they will lose money. Lin Zixuan explained, "If they are really willing to shoot, it will also be good for us, and we can learn the experience of making blockbusters." ”

"In the past few days, I have been in contact with foreigners, and I found that we used to be too childish, Hollywood can achieve such a large scale, relying on professionalism, if we want to internationalize, we must first formalize. Feng Xiaogang said with some feelings.

"Come step by step, sooner or later there will be a day of convergence. Lin Zixuan responded. (To be continued.) )