Alexandra Ambrosio stepped on high heels and confidently walked out of the booth, and just after walking five meters away, she found that someone had taken the lead, and it was a middle-aged man wearing black-rimmed glasses, she could only sit down stupidly, "Billy, who is that middle-aged man, and why does he seem to have seen it somewhere?" ”

"That's Michael Barker. "If there was a little depression just now, then after seeing Michael Barker, Billy Wang didn't feel that way anymore, and he didn't think it was strange for Liang Baoguang to reject him at all to have such a connection."www.biquge.info

"Isn't Michael Buck a director? I've seen it before, and it doesn't look like this at all. "Alexandra Ambrosio is also a supermodel, and she knows a lot of people in Hollywood.

"That's Mike Barker, who made 'Twenty-Four Hours,' and this is the co-distributor of Sony Classic Pictures, and one of the two big bosses behind the scenes, who belongs to the most powerful class in Hollywood." As a professional model manager, Billy Wang naturally knows many more people than models, and in the eyes of many people, James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee and other big directors are amazing characters, but there are many real bigwigs above them, such as the middle-aged uncle who looks a little ordinary in front of him.

Alexandra Ambrosio and several rookie models around her are not calm immediately, the co-president of Sony Classic Pictures is really a figure in the sky for them, as long as they have a relationship, it is absolutely no different from opening up the second vein of Ren Du, and they can immediately fly in the sky. Few women who are models in the fashion industry can be models for a lifetime, and after achieving success, they will either become designers themselves to create their own personal brands, or they will enter Hollywood as actresses.

A group of models were excited, but Liang Baoguang was a little confused, because he didn't know this middle-aged man at all.

Good-looking men are easy to be flirted, which Liang Baoguang has been deeply touched by through more than 20 years of life, especially in this experience of living at Harvard, but what he can't figure out is why he is a man who comes to talk to him today, "Which company is this gentleman a scout for, and wants me to be an actor or a model?" ”

"Just looking at Mr. Liang's appearance, it is indeed more suitable to be an actor than a director." Michael Buck is very familiar with the SXSW music festival, knows that many talent scouts will be looking for potential newcomers here, and also knows that many people use this name to hunt for beauty here, he estimates that Liang Baoguang has been asked whether he wants to be an actor before.

"You know me?" Being able to call out his surname obviously means that he knows himself, and Liang Baoguang already has some guesses in his heart.

"Let me introduce myself, my name is Michael Barker, and I'm a co-investor at Sony Classic Pictures." Michael Buck stretched out his hand and shook Liang Baoguang, "Although I have seen your photos before, I still want to say that you are more handsome than the photos, which is really jealous." ”

"Michael Barker! You actually came to me in person to talk about film acquisitions? Liang Baoguang was stunned, of course he couldn't have heard of Michael Barker's name if he wanted to be a director, he was just speculating whether someone from Sony had found it, but he never expected that his small-scale film could attract one of the two bigwigs of Sony's classic movie to talk about the acquisition in person.

"It seems that you already know the purpose of my visit, and our Sony classic movie is really optimistic about the "This Man is from Earth", so I hope to assist you in distributing it." Michael Buck did not put on a big show, but behaved very kindly, and he spoke very well, obviously wanting to buy Liang Baoguang's film at a low price, but said that he was assisting him in the distribution of the film.

"Looks like you value my work." Liang Baoguang has something to say, since even the boss has personally come to talk about the acquisition, it means that Sony is really optimistic about "This Man is from Earth", and he doesn't take the opportunity to ask for a high price, and it seems that he is a little sorry for the boss of other people's people to come to this trip in person. This is how doing business in a market economy is, when he encounters something he really wants to buy, he is no longer in a hurry to sell.

Michael Buck came to SXSW out of personal habits, and although he was German, he spent his entire college at the University of Texas at Austin, where SXSW is held, "I was born here, and I've always been influenced by Men in Black (Johnny Cash), so I come back every year for SXSW, not for any particular purpose. ”

"I'm not going to beat around the bush, this film has put a lot of effort into me, so I want to buy all the rights for at least $8 million, I want to buy the distribution rights for at least $5 million, and guarantee my film commercial-level publicity and plenty of screenings." Liang Baoguang is not a lion opening his mouth, but trying to explore the psychological price of Ni, as far as an independent film is concerned, his asking price is relatively high, but it is not ridiculously high.

Michael Buck shook his finger, "Young man, you just don't have the sincerity to talk about it seriously, but I have carefully watched this "This Man is from Earth", and it cost half a million dollars to film?" We're willing to pay a million dollars for it, all the rights. ”

At major independent film festivals, if a large company has a crush on a high-quality independent film, the transaction price will generally fluctuate between 1 million and 3 million, and the production cost of these films is generally between 80 and 2 million. This means that those film giants who can spend hundreds of millions of dollars to make commercial bad films for big directors and tens of millions of dollars for well-known box office poisons are only willing to pay independent filmmakers 200,000 films.

"Mr. Barker, your Sony classic movies are really insincere, do you sell paintings at the cost of canvas and paint? Movies are works of art, and the cost of filming is definitely not the cost of making it, and you know that better than I do. It is absolutely impossible for Liang to sell the film for a million dollars, and he will not sell the distribution rights at such a low price, "It's better to do this, let's sign the sharing terms." ”

"It can't be!" The box office sharing clause is the most desired affirmation of every Hollywood director, and only when you get the box office sharing can you be considered king, and the protagonists of entertainment novels are counting on the sharing clause to make a fortune. However, the reality is very cruel, there are only a few directors in Hollywood who can get a box office share, many people who have won the Oscar for Best Director do not have this treatment, and a newcomer who came out of nowhere wants a box office share? Michael Buck wanted to go up and slap Liang Baoguang so that he could wake up from his daydream.

"It's an art film, how many tickets do you think it can sell, or how much money do you expect to make from it? Give me a share of the box office, and you'll save a lot of money. "Liang Baoguang started to fool Mother Earth for the treatment of the male protagonist of his novel, if he is a director but can't get a box office share, what is the difference between it and salted fish?

"Which option is more suitable is our choice, I can give you two million dollars to buy the distribution rights of "This Man is from Earth", it can't be more." This is already Michael Barker's psychological price, because no matter what the quality of the film is, Liang Baoguang is always a rookie director, and the price is too high to break the unspoken rules in the industry, even if he is a big man, it is impossible to do so.

"Are you really optimistic about my movie, I mean, do you plan to win an award with it?" Liang Baoguang pursed his mouth in embarrassment, frowning, he seemed to have exhausted all his strength, and exhaled after a long reading, "If you are willing to do the best publicity, I don't need money." ”

At this moment, his acting skills exploded, from head to toe was a play, a rookie director fought bravely with a yearning for Hollywood and the cold reality, but found that there were walls everywhere and there was no way to break through the embarrassment and ups and downs. Whether it is in terms of eyes, expressions, movements, and lines, it is all meticulously performed, especially the action of pursing his lips and frowning at the end, which can best express the non-directional expectations of postmodernism and a strong indictment of this ruthless society......

"Don't want money, there is such a good thing? No, I mean, that's embarrassing. "Michael Buck has been in the film industry for so many years, and all kinds of tricks are very clear, even if the distribution company says that it wants to win the award, but how much money and favors to operate are only in their own hands, and the investment in publicity is too large, usually used as a means of "adjusting costs".

"If you're embarrassed, just give me money, you still lack those millions of dollars?" Liang Baoguang rolled his eyes, such a big company refused to even give five million, how could he get the budget to make the next movie, he was also ready to find an old actor to help, the actor's salary alone is a lot of money.

"I gave you five million dollars, and we will have to increase the price of other people's movies in the future, which is not easy to do." In good conscience, Michael Barker thinks that Liang Baoguang's movie is still worth five million dollars, or even ten million dollars, but he really broke the rules by paying so much money, "We will compensate you elsewhere, such as supporting the shooting of your next movie." ”

"If you really don't want to go, then give me the proceeds from the movie merchandise, oh yes, and the proceeds from the home video." Liang Baoguang shrugged, once is not enough to think about the next shooting, he is not a fool and has to give them Sony two advantages, "I don't accept pure profits, I want books." ”