Hasen broke his plan with a word, Gu Xiaofan was slightly surprised in his heart, and thought, this Hasen is thousands of miles away, and he actually knows that he has just finished editing "The Undertaker" today? Sure enough...... nickname "Hawkeye" was not called in vain. [No pop-up novel network]

However, since Hasen had already guessed his thoughts, Gu Xiaofan did not hide it, so he admitted: "Well, I really want to find you and plan to discuss the issue of distribution in North America." ”

"Director Gu, I was not disappointed, don't worry, I have already arranged the release."

Hasson said, giving a general overview of the situation: "As I said at the beginning, I can't release 'The Undertaker' to you in the name of Warner this time, and I plan to let you borrow the backdoor under Lionsgate...... Take the art film route, starting from New York. ”

"That's what I mean, too." Gu Xiaofan thought in his heart, Hasen really has some doorways, and he can actually let him borrow the channel of Lionsgate, if so, can he develop in the United States without acquiring Warner?

Speaking of Lionsgate, the company is not simple, it was established in 97 to distribute art films, and later transformed into a succession to distribute "Chainsaw", "Cabin in the Woods", "Blair the Witch" These low-cost and high-income horror films have been very successful, and now it is the strongest film company in addition to the six major Hollywood companies.

But this thought was only fleeting in his mind, Gu Xiaofan understood that things were not as easy as he imagined, and Hasan was willing to help him like this, also because he had use value, if he didn't have this ability, Hassan wouldn't bird him at all.

And although Lionsgate has a certain strength, there is still a considerable gap from the Big Six, and it can only be issued on a small scale.

The most important thing is that if you want to shoot "The Dark Knight", he can't get around the giant Warner after all.

In the end, Gu Xiaofan and Hasen reached an agreement and decided to release Lionsgate in North America.

For the domestic Chinese New Year file, due to his own company's "Let the Bullets Fly", Gu Xiaofan considered the friendship with Jiang Wen, and was unwilling to fight himself, Gu Xiaofan decided to postpone "The Undertaker" to be released in China in February.

Anyway, the box office of this kind of literary film will not be too high, and Shanghai Film Industry will not lose anything, so it is better to concentrate resources and grab the box office with "Let the Bullets Fly".

In this way, the United States has become the first place for "The Undertaker".

And the next hurdle is the Film Bureau, the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film needs to be declared by the National Film Bureau like the Oscar Organizing Committee, and there is only one place in the mainland.

There is only one opponent in this declaration, a documentary "Building Dreams 2008", and the film reviewers of the Film Bureau almost unanimously approved "The Undertaker" to represent China in the 81st Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film after watching the sample film of "The Undertaker".

Among the Chinese films, the most popular is Taiwanese director Wei Desheng's "Haijiao No. 7", and the representative of Hong Kong is Chen Jiashang's "Painted Skin".

However, although the film bureau has a very high evaluation of "The Undertaker", the leaders of the General Administration also admitted in private discussions that this list is much weaker than the combination of "The City Full of Golden Armor" and "Night Banquet" the year before last.

After all this was confirmed and arranged, Gu Xiaofan also posted this news on his personal Weibo.

Under the anti-expectation of many fans, after waiting for so long, "The Undertaker" was the first to be released in the United States as soon as the news came out?

Domestic media soon gave a headline report: ""The Undertaker postponed its mainland release date, debuted in the United States, and the 'billion directors' rushed out of the country, can they be shortlisted for the Oscars?" ”

""The Undertaker" is about to be released in the United States, and "The Undertaker", which is considered to be completely oriental culture, can it replicate the miracle of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"?"

Regarding the date of Gu Xiaofan's domestic release of "The Undertaker", many film critics have written articles to analyze it before, and domestic fans have long been psychologically prepared.

However, the expectations for the release of "The Undertaker" in the United States are quite low.

Although Gu Xiaofan's box office myth has been staged in the mainland, it has never been brilliant when he goes abroad, no American company is willing to release a big production like "Outwitting Tiger Mountain", how many old American artists are interested in literary films like "The Undertaker"?

What's more, Gu Xiaofan is notorious in the United States, except for Chinese in the United States, I'm afraid no one is willing to buy movie tickets to support him......

So this time, various film critics have been singing about the voices of decline, and even the Douban film critic "Zhang Fei's Tongue", who has always supported Gu Xiaofan, also posted a comment on Douban:

In the United States, on 25,000 screens, an average of 87 new films from all over the world are released every day, many of which are masterpieces of international films, but almost all foreign films cannot trigger any market reaction, and they disappear silently.

Even the "Mr. Bean" movie that swept the UK has fallen into the sand here, not to mention the non-English movies that require subtitles.

For native American audiences, who have been watered by Hollywood movies for decades, other country films are not at all appealing.

Gu Xiaofan, who is in full swing in China, will also face this problem in "The Undertaker" this time.

Of course, we will not forget that both "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Hero" have achieved good box office results in the United States, but all of this is premised on 'costume action movies'.

The only Chinese theme that Americans love is action movies, thanks to the era created by the superstar Bruce Lee a long time ago, which made Americans full of curiosity about Chinese kung fu, and this curiosity was also added to costume action movies.

Therefore, if you want to expect "The Undertaker" to get good results in the United States, I'm afraid it's not so possible. ”

The review also lists a list of Chinese films that have grossed less than $200,000 in the U.S., with the exception of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Hero," which are very dazzling.

Among its Chinese art films, the best achievement is director Zhang Yuan's 2000 work "Bath", which was released in New York and reached a box office of 1.3 million.

And Wong Kar-wai's "East Evil and West Poison", "In the Mood for Love" and "2046", which are famous all over the country, do not exceed 1 million......

This made the fans who had not yet figured out the situation startled