"It's normal for them to be slower, people want to read English subtitles." Jeff said of course, the movie uses the original Chinese sound, for foreign audiences, can only understand the plot through English subtitles, and North American audiences have never liked to read subtitles, which is not difficult to understand that there are so many super classic movies in the world, to the North American box office will not be too high, language is a big problem, plus the story told by "Zi Buyu" is relatively novel for North American audiences, never seen before, so it is inevitable to be a little dull.

He Mu was interested in the global market when he filmed "Zi Bu Yu", so the lens language in the film is more than pure language narration, and the focus is more on the movie spectacle and exquisite picture, which reduces some of the difficulty of understanding.

Jeff has the intention to win the North American copyright of "Zi Bu Yu", but think about it or give up, it is still difficult for the Rubik's Cube to achieve medium-sized or above film distribution, and it is not easy for foreign language films to produce results, if it falls into the hands of the Rubik's Cube, it will be even more blind to such a good movie, and Chinese films have not been very prosperous in the North American market in recent years, whether "Zi Bu Yu" can feel the pulse of Hollywood is not even easy to say to him, an old distributor, maybe even he himself will have to lose. Jeff's advice to He Mu is that if possible, it is best to sell the film to those big film companies, at least to those well-known independent studios with distribution capabilities, such as Lionsgate and Pinnacle, even if they suffer a little loss this time, as long as they become famous, they will all be able to earn back the second and third parts in the future.

The two of them were talking. A short Asian man walked over to He Mu, and He Mu could see at a glance that it was a Japanese, and this Japanese introduced himself to He Mu in English. It turned out that he was the person in charge of Sony Pictures Entertainment Co., Ltd.'s purchase of films at the Toronto Film Festival, and he took a fancy to He Mu's "Zi Bu Si".

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Sony (USA) Inc., and Sony (USA) Co., Ltd. is a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of Japan, which is equivalent to Sony Pictures Entertainment is a grandson company of Sony Corporation of Japan, even if it is only a grandson company, but Sony Pictures Entertainment is still very powerful, and spent $6 billion to acquire Columbia Pictures in 1989. In 2004, it bought MGM Pictures for $5 billion, and two major Hollywood studios were in hand, making Sony the world's No. 1 film company. In addition, Sony Pictures Entertainment also owns Sony Classic Pictures, Samsung Pictures, Sony Online Entertainment, AXN TV Network and other companies, which is a well-deserved global film and television media giant.

Sony Pictures Entertainment is mainly engaged in film and television production and distribution, and has global distribution capabilities. He has released global blockbuster movies such as the "Men in Black" series, the "Spider-Man" series, and "007: Quantum of Solace". Its strength is completely unquestionable, and it is much stronger than Lionsgate and Focus mentioned by Jeff.

Oda Ikeuchi first introduced himself and Sony Pictures Entertainment behind him, and then expressed his intention, he just watched "Zi Bu Yu" and was shocked, both Asian, and Japanese who were deeply influenced by Han culture, the story of "Zi Bu Yu" is not difficult for him to understand, and the most important thing is that Xiao Tian Chi has read the original comics of "Zi Bu Yu". Loved it. Because of the translation, Oda Ikechi didn't associate the movie called "I-see, I-don't-say" with the manga before. He will come entirely because of He Mu's influence in Asia, it is still worth paying attention to, and he has nothing else to do today, so he came over to join in the fun, and at a glance, he realized that the story of He Mu was written by Xia Da, a Chinese cartoonist who has been very popular in Japan recently, and "Zi Buyu", which is being serialized in "ULTRAJUMP" magazine, the comic is already excellent, but in He Mu's hands, the originally loose few small stories have become a very gripping movie, It can be said that this is the most comfortable movie-watching experience in Oda Ikechi after coming to Toronto.

As a film distributor with a wealth of experience and an amazing amount of films, and has a long life experience in both Japan and the United States, Oda Ikeuchi is very optimistic about "Zi Buyu", the style of this film is very similar to Master Miyazaki's classic "My Neighbor Totoro", all of which are adventures experienced by girls after they first arrived in the town, as if interspersed in two different worlds, no matter how cruel and cold the real world is, there is always so beautiful and innocent in that world, which makes people have a faint feeling of warmth after watching it.

"He Mujun, I hope Sony can get the distribution rights of "Zi Bu Yu" outside of Chinese mainland, and I can pay 5 million US dollars in terms of price!" After thinking about it for a while, Oda Ikechi gave this price that was not too high and not too low, although He Mu is a big star and has a great reputation in Asia, but after all, he is a rookie director, and the main actors are a group of teenage children, such a film cannot be compared with those Chinese blockbusters. Sony is a company that is very actively involved in the copyright trading of Chinese films, and Sony Classics, a subsidiary of Sony, has purchased the copyrights of Zhang Yimou's "Ambush on All Sides" and "The City is Full of Golden Armor" at a high price, of which the copyright of "Ambush on All Sides" in North America and Japan is sold for 22.5 million US dollars, and it is said that "Golden Armor" is even higher.

Sony can spend so much money to buy films because of Zhang Yimou's global fame, influence and the film's strong cast, but even then it is a great risk, the box office has not been able to recover the high buyout price at all, or relying on DVD and TV station rights sales to slowly fill the deficit.

If the box office of "Zi Bu Silent" is many times the purchase price, then his bonus will be very generous, so Oda Ikechi is unlikely to give too high a price, but he will not be mentally retarded to think that others are mentally retarded and insult others' IQ with a very low price.

Oda Ikeuchi can give a price of 5 million US dollars is already very high, you must know that although he is talking about the global distribution rights, but with the identity of the Chinese film "Zi Bu Yu", the content of the story, and the cast of the actors, the three most dramatic markets are Japan, North America and Fu Hong Kong, which may account for the vast majority of the overseas box office of "Zi Bu Yu".

Among them, the capacity of the Hong Kong market is too small, and since the end of the golden age of Hong Kong films, Hollywood movies have become popular, I am afraid that "Zi Bu Si" will not be able to do much.

Although there were two "Red Cliffs" in the Japanese market last year to add luster to Chinese films, winning more than 10 billion (yen) box office, the box office is higher than that of the mainland, and DVD sales far exceed the mainland, but this is also the light of the theme, the Japanese love the Three Kingdoms too much, except for this movie that swept Japan, the rest of the Chinese films are not too strong in Japan, the days when Cheng Long can box office more than 1 billion (yen) with just one action movie are gone, and now there can be hundreds of millions of incense. In recent years, the films that have grossed more than 100 million yuan in Japan are basically costume fantasy films ("Wu Ji" 430 million), war films ("Ink Attack" 638 million), action movies ("Huo Yuanjia" 495 million) or works by international famous directors ("Color. Ring" 240 million), He Mu's highly rated "One Shot 147" also has a box office of nearly 100 million in Japan, but there is no precedent for successful Chinese films of this genre "Zi Buyu", because there were no Chinese films of this type before, but there are many close success cases that can be found in Japanese films, such as "My Neighbor Totoro" and "Spirited Away" (30.4 billion), in terms of subject matter, they are all similar, and the Japanese market is also the most optimistic about Oda Ikechi.

In the American market, when the trend of Chinese blockbusters caused by "Hero" and "Ambush on All Sides" faded, the box office of Chinese films in this land was very embarrassing, Sony has suffered a lot in this regard, not to mention that the box office of "The City Full of Golden Armor", which was given high hopes at the beginning, only had a box office of more than 6 million US dollars, and the box office of "Yangtze River No. 7" alone was more than 200,000 yuan enough to give Sony a head start, in those years, what "Yangtze River No. 7" and "Red Cliff" were all played, but it was He Mu's niche literary film "One Shot 147" Because of Canada's word-of-mouth box office, it has become the highest-grossing Chinese film in North America in the past two years, with more than 3 million, and it has long lost its glory.

So Oda Chiuchi doesn't have much hope for the North American market, if it weren't for the signs that "Cold Heart" starring He Mu is a bit of a hit, this price will definitely be less, and he is willing to take out 5 million mainly to bet on the Japanese box office.

5 million US dollars, more than 30 million yuan, almost the production cost of "Zi Bu Yu", in terms of the current reputation and box office scale of Chinese films in the world, this is definitely high, if He Mu gritted his teeth and stomped his feet and sold the film to Sony, then he would no longer have the pressure to recover the cost, and the share of the domestic box office in the future will be the company's pure profit, even if it only sells 10 million companies, it will be profitable, if you don't have much confidence in your movie, I'm afraid you would have agreed to it a long time ago.

"I'm sorry, but Mr. Stark of Rubik's Cube Pictures just now bid $6 million, and he only wants the rights to Japan and the United States." He Mu wanted to gamble, betting that Xiao Tian was very optimistic about "Zi Bu Si", so he would not be scared away by the high price made up by He Mu.

Jeff cooperated well with He Mu, and as soon as He Mu finished speaking, he said to He Mu dissatisfied, "Mr. Wood, how can you leak my reserve price, this is not what a collaborator should do." ”

"I'm sorry Mr. Stark, I just hope that Mr. Oda can retreat from the difficulties, I believe that "Zi Bu Silent" will belong to you, after all, our previous cooperation was very successful." He Mu explained.

Xiao Tian looked at the two of them singing and harmonizing, and fell into a dilemma...... (To be continued......)

PS: [ps: The first update, correct: The director of "The Piano of Steel" is Zhang Meng, and it is miswritten as Wang Meng, declare it~]