The next day, almost all the media put the hat of "prodigy director" on Cheng Peng's head., Cheng Peng's light is even more prosperous than Fatih Akin, who won the Golden Bear, no way, in the eyes of many media, it is not unusual for a German director to win an award in Germany, although Germany has not won this award for 17 years.

The domestic media is even more praised, Cheng Peng is not yet twenty-four years old, at this age to be able to win so many awards at one time, not to mention that it is the only one in China, there are not many in the world.

Of course, when domestic reports praised Cheng Peng, they also stepped on the Germans' feet by the way: ""The Two of Us" won the Silver Bear, and the Golden Bear Award received a mediocre response."

"This year's Berlin Film Festival is generally not shocking, and the Chinese film "The Two of Us" is particularly prominent, "The Two of Us" tells an emotional story between an old lady and a young girl, the film is a loose and tranquil narrative, sad and tender tone, realistic and keen perspective, sincere and delicate performance, praised by the judges, the film finally won three awards, which also means that the Chinese film in Berlin is brilliant again."

As for the media in Cheng Peng's hometown, it is the focus of the headline on the front page: "The young man from Qingdao is proud of Berlin!" ”

The content of the news is extremely exaggerated and sensational: "The film was very popular with German audiences, and the journalist, when talking to several German directors, said that it was the film that saved the festival. These once again prove that the original intention of "The Two of Us" to pay attention to ordinary people is international, erasing national boundaries and racial differences, and making people of different colors happy, moved, and crying at the same time! ”

Only one person expressed disdain for Cheng Peng's award, director Li Jiongkai, who said in an interview with the media: "If a person's character is not good, it is meaningless to win more awards!" ”

In addition to Cheng Peng, another popular among the domestic media is Tong Lihui, Tong Lihui's stunning appearance on the red carpet caused a whirlwind in China, and now she is on stage to accept the award, which is naturally even more sensational, Zhang Ziyi can only follow the director on stage, and Tong Liyu is on stage alone to accept the award.

Almost all the media are saying that Tong Liyu has the potential of an international star, and it is very likely to go international like Zhang Ziyi!

Cheng Peng didn't have time to read the media reports at all, as Li Shaohong said, once he won the award, the film companies would flock to it, in fact, not only the film companies, but also many reporters, almost crowded the booth. Cheng Peng had to leave the stage and find a place for an interview to make room for Zhang Meng and them, otherwise the business would not be able to be discussed.

After the closing ceremony, Cheng Peng and they stayed in Berlin for two days to negotiate all the relevant matters related to copyright.

The copyright of the film was sold for 2.05 million yuan, of which 650,000 US dollars was sold in Yueben, and China's high-quality literary films have always sold very well in Yueben, and this kind of delicate and warm film is especially for Yue's own appetite.

In addition to "The Two of Us" itself, the documentary was also sold, the name of the documentary is "Forward", which mainly documents the hardships and twists and turns of the film from preparation to completion, and the documentary sold for $400,000.

However, "The Two of Us" did not find a domestic distributor, whether it was Huayi, Bona, or other filmmakers who participated in the festival, none of them were willing to release "The Two of Us".

Zhao Linlin was very indignant about this: "These people have lost their money, and when our business is auctioned, we will resolutely let them be released!" ”

Cheng Peng was not too surprised, because the release of "The Two of Us" couldn't make any money at all, and others were naturally reluctant to do useless work, so he comforted with a smile: "If no one sends it, forget it, if you really have to lose money if you distribute it, you can sell it directly to the movie channel at that time, and you can get back hundreds of thousands!" ”

Zhao Linlin was a little speechless: "Such a good movie, sell it directly to the movie channel, you really want to think of it!" ”

Cheng Peng looked indifferent: "If there is anything I can't think of, the release will definitely lose money, and it will take a lot of time to publicize, is it necessary!" ”

Tong Liyu was a little puzzled: "Why, our film won three awards at the film festival, didn't the audience watch it?" ”

Cheng Peng nodded and said: "There is no market for this kind of film, Zhang Yimou's "Happy Times" is only 5 million box office, and our movie has a box office of 3 million!" ”

Tong Liyu still didn't understand: "3 million is not bad, how can you lose?" ”

Cheng Peng explained with a wry smile: "You don't understand the release of the movie, the box office of 3 million sounds good, but we can get very little of the 3 million." First of all, the special fund will take 5%, and the property tax will take 3.5%, which means that there are still 2.75 million left, how much can we share in the 2.75 million? Zhang Yimou's blockbuster can get a 40% share, and we can get a maximum of 38%, which means that we can get 1.05 million. And 15% of the 1.05 million will be given to the issuer, which means that we can get 890,000. Let's take a look at how much our distribution fee needs, 8,000 yuan for a copy, even if our movie is 100 copies, the cost of the copy alone is 800,000, what about the publicity fee? What about the cost of meeting the audience when the movie is released? All this money is paid by us, and it is certain that the movie will lose money when it is released in China! ”

Tong Liyu was dumbfounded, she would really lose money!

Many people think that film is a particularly profitable industry, and it is a huge profit, but this is not the case, even after ten years, the loss of films in the country is still as high as seventy percent, two percent of the capital is guaranteed, and only one percent of the real money is made.

Many people only saw those few money-making movies that stood at the top of the pyramid, but they didn't see those dead films, "Hero" made a lot of money, and as a result, one vote followed suit, what was the result? "Wuji" loses, "Night Banquet" loses, and "Vote for Fame" is a huge loss!

Of course, there is a particularly important reason for the loss of movies, which is money laundering, because many movies are born for money laundering. A film invests 50 million, but only a small part of the money is really spent on filming, and a large amount of money is used for other purposes, and this money becomes the legitimate profit of those related companies. In this way, the film company looks like it is losing money, but in fact, the black money is bleached through the film company. One of the reasons why domestic movies are bad is that there are too many money laundering films.

Zhao Linlin knows the domestic market very well, sighed and said: "I know what you said, this movie will indeed lose money when it is released in China, but this is good publicity for you and Yaya, and it can further improve your popularity. ”

Cheng Peng smiled: "Publicity? I feel like a box office poison hat is waiting for me and Yaya! ”

Zhao Linlin smiled: "I think this hat is good, only big stars will be deducted this hat, if you are deducted this hat, it means that you are already a first-line!" ”

Cheng Peng nodded with a smile and said: "Seriously, the publisher is willing to look for it, even if it loses a little money, it doesn't matter, our overseas copyright was sold for 2.45 million US dollars, and a few small dollars can still afford to lose!" ”

2.5 million US dollars, which is 20 million yuan, the budget for the new film is enough. Cheng Peng's original plan was to sell about 10 million domestic and foreign copyrights of "The Two of Us", prepare 3 million through new songs, and then use his fame to pull 7 million investments.

Now the copyright of "The Two of Us" alone is enough to solve the budget problem, and these steps can be omitted to find investors, and preparations can be carried out directly after returning to China.

After all the arrangements were over, Cheng Peng and the others got on the plane back to China, they did not deliberately hide their whereabouts, and the media knew that Cheng Peng and their return date, they all heard the wind and waited at the airport, waiting for Cheng Peng and them to appear.

Cheng Peng and the others were ready to be surrounded by media reporters, but when they just walked out of the airport exit, they were still startled by the scene in front of them, there were too many people.

Cheng Peng joked with everyone: "Yes, yes, so many people came to greet me, it seems that I am really popular!" ”

"It's not you who is on fire, it's Yaya, you see a lot of people holding Yaya's signs!" Zhang Meng pointed behind the reporter.

Sure enough, except for dozens of reporters, the others were all fans, and there were one or two hundred people at a glance, holding posters of Tong Liyu and words of support for her, all of whom were fans of Tong Liyu.

With the appearance of Cheng Peng and them, the sparks on the scene were suddenly ignited, and the strong flashing lights could simply blind people's eyes, and the reporters surrounded them and kept throwing out their own questions.

"Director Cheng, how do you feel about winning three awards at the Berlin Film Festival this time?"

"Tong Liyu, how do you feel about being able to take the stage to accept the award for the first time at the Berlin Film Festival?"

"Director, do you have any plans for the next step, and do you have any plans to hit the Oscars?"

"Director Cheng, do you have any expectations for the box office?"

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There were so many people who asked questions that they couldn't hear who asked what at all, and coupled with the shouts of fans, the whole airport was in chaos.

Cheng Peng didn't want to answer any questions, smiled and waved his hand, and walked towards the green channel of the airport.

At this time, a reporter asked Cheng Peng loudly: "Director Cheng, Director Li Jiongkai said that you have a bad character, what do you have to respond to this?" ”

Cheng Peng frowned, stopped, he raised his hand and pressed it, and the reporters stopped asking questions for a while, waiting to see what Cheng Peng had to say.

He paused for two seconds, spread his hands, and said with an innocent face: "Who is Li Jiongkai, I don't know him, can this person make movies?" ”

In the afternoon of the same day, Cheng Peng's remarks were published in a large number of newspapers, and the headlines were almost all the same: "Cheng Peng fired at Li Jiongkai, thinking that he would not make movies at all!" ”

In a villa, Li Jiongkai's hands trembled, his eyes stared quietly at the newspaper in his hand, his face was extremely ugly, and he was very emotional.

"Dead streetstock, dead streetstock, hateful ......" Li Jiongkai kept cursing, suddenly breathing urgently, gasping for breath several times, but failed to alleviate the symptoms, just when his wife was about to go over to help him, he suddenly rolled his eyes, tilted his head back, and fainted to the ground with a plop.

The woman didn't expect her husband to faint with anger, she was frightened, and shouted: "Husband, husband, what's wrong with you?" Come on, come on! ”

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