Seeing Zheng Fei bowing his head and starting to think, Lin Xiaozhi didn't bother him, and walked around the venue again, only to find that there were a lot of foreigners and local filmmakers around a certain booth.

Lin Xiaozhi seemed to have found someone at a glance, and hurriedly asked Zheng Fei, who spoke better English than him, to go over and inquire over there. Not long after Zheng Fei squeezed into the crowd, he saw him come over with a foreigner man, and he also brought good news: "Mr. Lin, this is a British distributor called 'Entertainment Company', which is purchasing films there. ”

Then he pointed to the foreigner and introduced him, "This is Mr. Noble, C's purchasing specialist, if we have a movie that we want to sell to them, he will go over with us to see the quality of the movie and then set the price."

He introduced Lin Xiaozhi in English to the foreigner who looked to be about forty years old and similar in size to Lin Xiaozhi, and immediately saw the foreigner take the initiative to reach out and greet him: "Hello, Alex Noble, SH Purchasing Specialist, if your film company has a film and wants to sell us the British distribution rights, I think we can talk." ”

This man, Alex Noble, naturally uses English. After more than half a year of teaching by Zhou Huimin, Lin Xiaozhi's English is much better than before, but there are still some problems in oral communication.

"Hello, you can call me Mr. Lin directly. We really want to cooperate with your company, why don't you go to our booth? ”

He replied in jerky English, thanks to the foreigner who seemed to travel between Hong Kong and England frequently, although he frowned, he barely understood what he meant, nodded and joined them, and went to the booth of New Asia over there to sit for a few hours.

The booth of the film festival was applied for with the special department responsible for the municipal bureau, and the four films reported by Xinya are "Maoshan Taoist Fighting Zombies", "I'm Crazy for Qing", "Can't Help It" and "Color is Empty". Since three of the four films are tertiary films and are not suitable for mass communication, the booth is not only in the corner, but also has a special shelter tent, which is restricted to minors.

If you want to talk about the struggle between literature, art and commerce in films, in fact, you can see the development of Hong Kong and European films in recent years. Although literary films have more connotation, they are not as effective as commercial films in boosting the film industry of a country and region. Although the United States started early, has a large market, and has a developed economy, all kinds of special cases have come together, so that American films can take into account the development of literary and commercial films, but they are still commercially popular, and literary films are slightly inferior.

Not to mention Hong Kong, the film industry developed based on a city is even more commercial, and it can even catch up with the predecessors of American films, which have been on the road of commercial films for decades.

The literary and artistic atmosphere in Europe is too strong, even to the point of suppressing the development of commercial films.

In Hong Kong, three or four hundred films can be shot every year, while in the huge United Kingdom, about 200 movies are shot a year, and most of them are difficult to land in theaters for one reason or another. It is important to know that the British box office in 19RR was 1.4 billion pounds (about 1.9 billion US dollars), which was 15 times the total box office of Hong Kong and slightly higher, and it was the second largest box office market in the world after the United States.

In such a large market, relying only on Britain-produced films is obviously unable to meet the needs of the audience, and a large number of foreign film sources need to be introduced. The proud John Bull, despite being a cousin of Uncle Sam, has struggled to change that in the years since American films took up two-thirds of the UK box office in 1977. It's a pity that local films are too incompetent, and British domestic films have only accounted for one-fifth of the domestic box office for many years.

In order to prevent American culture and values from invading Britain, the British have imported films from Europe, Hong Kong and even India to be released in their own countries all year round, and at the same time reduced the number of American films introduced.

"Mr. Lin, we don't want the exorcist and vampire movies made by you Hong Kong people, and if you introduce them, they can only be released on a small scale in Chinatown, basically losing money......"

Alex Norber spent almost all of the day at New Asia's booth, where European folk customs are open, and the acceptance of movies with the theme of Fengyue is also higher than that of Hong Kong. For example, this Norber, after watching several of New Asia's films, was very interested in several tertiary films shot by New Asia.

"However, these films meet our qualifications for introduction, and if your company has the intention of selling the distribution rights, I think we can talk about it."

"Maoshan Taoist Fighting Zombies" in Alex Noble became an exorcist vs. an oriental vampire, and Lin Xiaozhi didn't refute it with a smile. In fact, it's not just the British who call it that, after leaving the Chinese cultural circles such as East Asia and Southeast Asia, basically other countries call it that, and Noble didn't say nonsense, this kind of movie is indeed not popular overseas. Just as European and American vampire movies came to the Asian box office, they introduced them and could only be released on a small scale in Chinatown.

"Mr. Noble, we are happy to cooperate with your company, but we don't know what price your company can offer?"

It's good to negotiate the price with foreigners, don't drag the mud and water, when there is no Hong Kong side to talk, you have to play tricks, you hang up my phone, I will cold you for half a month. Noble thought for a while, "Mr. Lin, we are willing to give 50,000 pounds for the third movie we watch, and we can give you 70,000 pounds for the fourth movie." As for the second film, I can call the shots and give you 100,000 pounds."

Lin Xiaozhi and Zheng Fei looked at them in surprise, and they followed the order. They were the first to screen "Maoshan Taoist Fighting Zombies", followed by "I'm Crazy for Qing", "Can't Help It" and "Color is Empty", but I didn't expect that the price given by foreigners in "Can't Help It" and "Color is Empty" is not high, but "I'm Crazy for Qing" sold the highest price.

"Mr. Knobber, the price you gave is too low"

Lin Xiaozhi was a little dissatisfied, he was still very happy to be able to sell the British copyright of the movie, after all, he made an extra amount of money, and Xinya did not have its own overseas channels, even if he contacted him himself, he didn't know if he could find a better one than this, but the price was a little low.

Noble shook his head, "Mr. Lin, I know the exchange rate between the British pound and the Hong Kong dollar, although this price is not high, but it is okay for the channel to buy out the film." If you go to our registry over there, you'll find that the movies we've bought out are basically around £50,000, and there are very few over £100,000. As a purchasing specialist at SHC, I have many years of experience in sourcing films, so the price I offer is basically the highest price I have ever given. If Mr. Lin doesn't believe it, you might as well go and ask another purchasing specialist, the price must be lower than what I gave."

Zheng Fei has been engaged in publishing all year round, and he knew that what Noble said was true, and whispered a few words to Lin Xiaozhi, reminding him that the other party was indeed right.

It's just that Lin Xiaozhi was still not satisfied with this price, and discussed with Na Nuobo for a while, and finally the foreigner made a concession and said, "Okay, Mr. Lin." If you really have the intention of selling films, because it is the first time to cooperate, we can increase it a little bit, but it can't be too high. Well, your company probably doesn't have a European distribution channel. Let's change the agreement, if you sell us the European distribution rights for the three films, you're willing to double the buyout price I gave earlier."

Originally, the distribution rights of the three films were only sold for 220,000 pounds, or more than 2.6 million Hong Kong dollars, but now it has doubled and has exceeded 5 million. Although Lin Xiaozhimin felt that the big head was definitely going to be earned by foreigners, who let Xinya have no European distribution channels, and it was inevitable to suffer some losses now.

After thinking about it, he finally nodded and decided to sell the European distribution rights of the three films to

Several people never talked about the distribution and release sharing from beginning to end, because the box office sharing was completely for blockbuster treatment. For films like this, which are imported from overseas countries in large quantities, the distributors generally buy out all the distribution rights and other generic copyright rights such as videotape publishing, and the price given is not very high.

As soon as he saw that the three movies had been discussed, Alex Norber seemed to be very happy, and immediately beckoned Lin Xiaozhi and them to go there to complete the registration and leave the company address of New Asia, and they will send someone to New Asia to sign the distribution agreement in the next few days.

"Mr. Lin......"

Helping Lin Xiaozhi and them complete the registration, Noble's attitude was also a little better than before, and said with a smile: "Hong Kong has always had the reputation of 'Oriental Hollywood', and I have come to the film festival every year in the past few years, and by the way, I have bought out some film distribution rights." If you want the movie to be more expensive, you might as well make more cops, action movies, and kung fu movies. As far as I know, this is the type of Hong Kong film that sells the best in the UK. Last year, I heard that our old rival HCI had bought out a gunfight film featuring a police officer for more than two million pounds. And it sold well in the UK for three weeks, with a box office of about 9 million pounds."

Jack Cheng is undoubtedly Cheng Long, the action movie with the police as the protagonist should refer to the "Police Story" series, but I don't know if Lu Dao is the first or the second.

However, Norber's words also made Lin Xiaozhi's heart move, he had nothing to do recently, and after he was busy with the release of "Color is Empty", he moved and moved to make another movie. It's just that I think about too many movies for a while, but I don't know what genre is best to make. The foreigner reminded him that compared with the local market in Hong Kong, overseas is bigger and more profitable. Therefore, if you want the movie to sell better, you can't go the niche route, and you have to make movies that the public likes.

After having such an understanding, Lin Xiaozhi no longer had the idea of continuing to waste time at this unpopular film festival venue, and went home directly to the company, preparing to get the script of the new movie in the shortest possible time.