Lao Mei is quite open in art.

After all, the unspoken rules and the word xing service came out of Hollywood - red sofa!

How strong is Hollywood's distribution power?

Directly global-oriented, a single character can take you from penniless to globally known.

The temptation is too great!

Yesterday I was poor, but today I can earn a million a day...

What is it called?

Class Leap!

In comparison, what are the unspoken rules?

In fact, this exists in the entertainment industry of every country.

But elsewhere, there is a certain degree of cover-up.

For example, reading scripts in hotels, chatting all night long, and so on.

However, in Hollywood, none of these exist to give the unspoken rules a sense of ritual?

There's no need, Hollywood just comes up and goes straight to the point.

Evan Rachel Wood, as a veteran practitioner - his parents are also insiders, knows this set of things...

As a philatelic enthusiast, it's normal to have a handsome Asian guy on the list.

revealed this idea, Shen Xudong doesn't care, he doesn't discriminate, what's wrong with the American people?

Isn't it human?

When it's time to communicate skills and friendship with them, how can you refuse?

He's not weak either!

I just didn't expect the opponent to be stronger, familiar with the skills and techniques, and the endurance is extraordinary.

About discrimination...

Forget it, it's not discrimination, it's just not used to it...

……

Shen Xudong came to Cannes for serious business...

I went to meet MK2 first...

The European distribution of "Carol" was handed over to MK2...

Citizen Illustrious has already entered into a partnership.

MK2 base camp is actually France!

They have an excellent relationship with the Organising Committee of the Festival de Cannes.

It can even be said that as long as you take the MK2 boat, you will have one foot in the door of the Cannes Film Festival.

A series of Asian directors, Jia Zhangke, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Abbas's films were able to be shortlisted for Cannes largely because of the company's operation.

Cannes is known as the temple of art films, but it is actually about relationships, and it doesn't matter how good the quality of the film is, it is difficult to squeeze into the main competition unit of Cannes.

Take Wang Jiawei's movies as an example, the early films like "Chongqing Forest" and "East Evil and West Poison" were of a very high standard, and the French film critics also had high evaluations, but they just couldn't enter Cannes.

After MK2 became the agent of Wong Kar Wai's films, "Happy Spring" immediately entered the main competition unit of Cannes and won the Best Director Award...

It's the same all over the world...

Killer Films doesn't have the ability to distribute globally, and North America can only rely on MGM - MGM is too busy to take care of itself, and queer movies like "Carol" can't be done overseas!

It's up to the publisher on its own...

After solving the matter of "Carol" - in addition to selling the copyright, there is also an extra hint of winning the award or something, MK2 said that it will do its best!

They must also want "Carol" to win the award, saving a lot of publicity money.

After talking to MK2, Shen Xudong went directly to the store of Golden Harvest Company.

Golden Harvest did not rent a booth in the trading market - the efficiency was too low, and the few large filmmakers who were willing to visit the trading market were basically small filmmakers, and few large filmmakers were willing to go to the underground film trading hall on the first floor.

Golden Harvest simply booked a few rooms at the Grand Hotel, a 10-minute walk from the Movie Palace, where posters of movies such as "The Tailor", "Hurricane Rescue" and "Manslaughter" filled the floor, and a comfortable living room was set up separately to facilitate conversations with buyers who were inclined to trade.

Shen Xudong roughly understood that the rent of these rooms during the film festival was 40,000 US dollars, but the staff of Golden Harvest also lived there, plus food and drink, a team of five, and the cost was up to 100,000 US dollars...

It's already good!

Generally, for those who come to sell films, for example, the price of accommodation, transportation, food, tips, and booths adds up to a small amount of eighty or ninety thousand dollars!

Of course, these are the bare minimals, and if you want to spend money, it's too simple – last year, "Boundless" threw a $1.5 million party at Cannes...

There are too many big guys!

Golden Harvest's wave is selling films.

Just a few houses, can't see other filmmakers?

After that, there will be a Hong Kong movie night, and more than 200 film companies from around the world will also be invited, and Golden Harvest will definitely participate.

——The Hong Kong General Administration of Trade will do it in person!

Shen Xudong chatted with them for a while, and probably learned that "Hurricane Rescue" sold the best, the United Kingdom, France, and Spain have all bought the copyright, and the price is basically between 80 and 1 million US dollars, and the American film market is still negotiating...

Golden Harvest wants to offer $8 million here, but the new line is too high...

In addition to "Hurricane Rescue", "Manslaughter" and "Tailor" also sold very well, "New World" is a little worse, and "Detective of the Republic of China" is even worse...

Faced with Shen Xudong's question, the other party explained: "Not enough action!" The actor is not famous enough! ”

"Manslaughter is not enough action."

""Manslaughter" has Gong Li!"

All right...

Anyway, as Shen Xudong knows, the five movie theaters together have been sold for about $19 million, and the majority of them in North America have not been sold yet!

Oh, and the Japanese benzene copyright hasn't been sold either...

Southeast Asia's Golden Harvest released its own - "Hurricane Rescue" was released simultaneously in Asia on April 30, and now it is May 4, with a mainland box office of 17 million and a local box office of almost 4.6 million Hong Kong dollars.

After all, kung fu movies are very addictive to actors, and Donnie Yen's appeal is still a lot worse - last year's "Slaying the Wolf" was not even released in the mainland!

It's not high, compared to the cost of nearly 32 million.

The overseas box office is okay (concentrated in Southeast Asia), five days of release, $3 million...

According to expectations, the box office in the mainland should be 40 million, Hong Kong will probably break 10 million, and overseas will be almost 8 million US dollars...

No way, it's time for Hollywood blockbusters to be released in turn.

Doesn't look tall?

In fact, the main market for action movies is still discs!

Even in the mainland, the disc copyright of action movies will be much higher than that of ordinary movies...

"Detective of the Republic of China" sold very poorly, relying on Golden Harvest's connections, the highest was 20,000 US dollars, the lowest was 45,000 US dollars, and the overall harvest was more than 300,000 US dollars, which is also a small profit...

It's good, now these filmmakers are still willing to gamble, and after a while, they won't even have the idea of gambling.

The overseas market is a region or a country to sell as a unit, and for domestic films, it doesn't mean that you think you can't sell it for 20,000 US dollars, and you can sell it for 10,000 yuan, its concept is that if you can sell it, you have a due price, and if you can't sell it, it's 0, and you don't have a point.

……

After shopping for a day, Shen Xudong returned to the hotel and called Gao Fenfen: "I found out that overseas is welcome, either action movies or cartoons!" ”

"I can understand action movies... Cartoon? ”

"Do the math yourself, how much does DreamWorks cost to make an animation, as little as 100 million, as much as two or three hundred million dollars, if the Eastern European market or France wants to buy "Shrek", it is not only expensive, but also has to share the account with others. But for our film, they can buy the copyright for 20,000 US dollars, so why not? And there are no cultural discounts for cartoons, they are all suitable for young audiences, and they are especially easy to sell. ”

"Really?"

"Why are you lying to you... Hong Kong's "McDull", I listened to them today, sales are booming, selling in 65 countries in one day..."

"I'll say it!"

Gao Fenfen muttered on the other end of the phone...

"McDull" is almost one a year, or even two or three a year, and I used to wonder how to make money, but now I understand!

“… What else did you do in Cannes besides visiting the Marché du Film in Cannes? ”

"Look at the beauty... No, watch a movie! ”