Chapter 293: Good News, Gangsters and Maniacs
After the opening ceremony of Cannes, the red carpet continued, and the domestic news was also very lively.
Seeing all kinds of actresses competing for beauty, the most dedicated is Fan Xiaopang.
Almost every red carpet has not fallen.
Soon, at the closing ceremony, the news spread back to China, and "Mr. Tree" did not win the award in the end, but it was shortlisted for the main competition unit, which also attracted the attention of many foreign film companies.
"Sister Shuang, how much did you say it was sold?"
"France, England, about seven or eight regions, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of dollars together, sold for a total of 1.6 million dollars."
Li Shuang's voice was full of joy: "Section Chief Jia has helped a lot. β
"Not bad."
Zhou Yutang nodded with satisfaction.
After a simple calculation, I can't help but feel good.
This movie is wholly owned by Jiangdong Entertainment, the cost is only 2 million, and the overseas copyright is sold for 1.6 million US dollars, which is almost more than 11.1 million at the current exchange rate.
Going abroad to participate in film festivals is a means of publicity, through the display platform, so that more people, mainly foreign filmmakers, can see the film, in order to expand its influence.
It is not that you can only sell overseas copyrights if you win awards, it is important to have connections and professional teams behind it.
Chief Jia is really interesting to the old brother, the first movie directed by Han Jie, he also produced under the name of the film, and personally followed the crew of "Mr. Tree".
He started as a literary filmmaker, has a relationship with distributors abroad, and has helped contact many foreign film companies.
Of course, it is also related to the quality of the "Mr. Tree" movie itself.
Overall.
The first literary film filmed by Jiangdong Entertainment can be regarded as a remarkable achievement.
"By the way, when are you coming back?"
"It's over here, tomorrow's plane, when the time comes, Bao Qi and they will fly directly to the magic capital, and then there will be the magic city international film festival."
"Thank you for your hard work, Sister Shuang."
Zhou Yutang chuckled lightly and continued to talk to Li Shuang for a few words before hanging up the phone.
At the Magic Capital International Film Festival at the end of May, "Mr. Tree" also had many nominations.
He had some expectations.
Maybe there's a surprise then.
Before leaving for the Demon Capital.
Zhou Yutang first received the good news from his agent Zou Zhongyan from overseas.
"Congratulations, Ah Tang, the box office of "Clear Plan" has exceeded 100 million, and it should be difficult next, there are a lot of blockbusters here, otherwise the box office should continue to rush up. This time, you're really making a lot of money. β
"Sister Zou."
In the office, Zhou Yutang sank into the comfortable leather boss chair, rested her legs on the table, and corrected her statement: "It's us, we make a lot of money." β
"Yes, it's us!"
When Zou Zhongyan heard this, he smiled heartily.
In fact, as early as nearly 20 years ago, she made a movie with a box office of hundreds of millions of dollars.
In her early years, she participated in Zou Wenhuai's famous "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" project, but at that time she was stuffed into it by her father and gilded.
I saw Zou Wenhuai, who was in the prime of life, making a shocking gamble.
At that time, the overall investment in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" reached an astonishing $15 million, which was $15 million in the 90s!
The volume of the two films is different, and the market expectations are naturally different.
This time, as a producer, she participated in the production process of "Human Eradication Project".
Seeing the box office take-off of this movie with my own eyes, I have an inexplicable feeling of joy.
"During this time, the new line was very active in communicating with me about the box office accounting, and he was very sincere, but it will take a while for the account to arrive."
"Hehe, when it's confirmed, you can contact Wen Ziren, there is no problem with the script of the "Conjuring" series, you can start filming, in addition"
"Okay."
Wrote down the points instructed by Zhou Yutang one by one, and after Zou Zhongyan ended the call, the whole person was full of fighting spirit.
Many media are ridiculing that Zou Wen gave birth to an unsuccessful daughter, and Adou can't be supported by anything, so that the Golden Harvest movie dynasty is declining.
Now that "Clear Plan" is a blockbuster at the box office, the Hong Kong media sourly ridiculed her for hugging Zhou Yutang's thigh.
Zou Zhongyan also understood.
As long as you can make money.
What's so bad about hugging your thighs?
"The thriller "Human Eradication Project", which cost only $3 million, has a global box office of $118 million, with a return rate of nearly 400%, the biggest dark horse in the North American film market!"
Last year's "Rain of Swords" and "Big Man" have recently come down, and "Let the Bullets Fly" and "People in Embarrassment" will take a while.
With such a large amount of money in the account, the financial department of Jiangdong Entertainment Company is like a New Year.
The people in the film business department are as excited as if they had been beaten.
It's very simple.
The better the company's efficiency and the more money they make, the more year-end bonuses they can get in addition to business commissions.
Zhou Yutang led Jiangdong Entertainment to rise strongly, treated the company's employees well, and attracted many talents.
Lin Xiong, the manager of the film business department, was even more energetic, and he actively went to Zhou Yutang's office to make a work report: "Mr. Zhou, Liu Tianwang took leave from the crew of "Sister Peach" to make up for the last scene. β
"It's arranged, I'll be over in the afternoon."
""Thirty-three Days of Broken Love" will be completed at the end of this month, the company has received news from China Film, and has said hello to the relevant departments in Thailand, "Thai Embarrassment" has no problem filming and framing over there, Xu Zheng, Wang Baoqiao, and Huang Bo's schedules have also been coordinated."
"You go and inform Xu Guang and Xu Zheng that if there are no accidents in the preliminary preparations, the machine can be started in July."
"Okay, Mr. Zhou, Lu Yang and Chen Shu came over with their team to sign the contract, and the project of "Embroidered Spring Knife" also began to do preliminary preparations, about the casting, Lu Yang has some ideas, I want to ask Mr. Zhou next year, do you have a schedule in the second half of the year?"
"Why did you get the idea on me?"
Zhou Yutang shook his head and smiled: "Tell him that my schedule for the second half of the year is over." β
"Then I'll go back and tell him."
Lin Xiong also smiled.
Now there is a saying in the film industry.
As long as Zhou Yutang is pulled, the box office of this movie will start at least 100 million.
There are also many big directors and production companies in the industry who have come to inquire about his schedule.
Some of them were directly frightened off by Zhou Yutang's sky-high salary offer of more than 20 million.
But there are still many production companies with capital support and strong strength behind them who are even more excited.
He even let out his words.
As long as Zhou Yutang nods, the artistic director, literary planning, and script development of the crew can be handed over to him, and the price can be calculated separately, as well as additional box office dividends.
A few days ago, I met Mr. and Mrs. Chen Shishi at the University Student Film Festival.
Sister Chen Hong probably got the instruction of Chen Shiren and took the initiative to come over to inquire about Zhou Yutang's schedule, as well as the copyright issue of the script "Search".
The successive defeats did not bring Chen down.
After the painful experience.
Chen Shiren finally had inspiration, and this time he aimed his attention at the theme of realistic public opinion, and wanted to join forces with Zhou Yutang to make waves and save his reputation.
As a result, Chen Meiren used her tongue to show three inches, but she still failed to get Zhou Yutang.
He still has some friendship with Chen Hong's sister and sister, and he has met at the award ceremony and various cocktail parties several times, Chen Hong is gentle and soft-spoken, and he is very polite.
This time, I don't blame Zhou Yutang for not giving Chen Meiren face, but he really promised Gao Yuanyuan first.
The script of "Search", Zhou Yutang was tailor-made for Gao Yuanyuan.
Of course.
The main reason is that he has already asked Da Meiyuan to try the play in professional clothes.
"Zhou Yutang is here!"
With an exclamation and shouting, the crew of "Rescue Mr. Wu" boiled uproar.
The crew members turned into melon eaters, and they came forward to watch and watched Zhou Yutang get out of the car.
His eyes lit up, he screamed all kinds of things, and then took out his phone and started shooting.
As a top handsome sniper in the entertainment industry, at least a woman and at least a woman and an aunt, Zhou Yutang is much rarer than a giant panda.
After all, when you go to the zoo, you can also see pandas selling cute.
The governor of Jiangdong is the only one in the world, and when he sees the last one, he can brag to his friends for a year.
"Ah Tang, congratulations on winning the award."
As soon as they met, Liu Dehua hugged Zhou Yutang familiarly: "My bed play is finally over." β
Huazi was arrested, Liu Tianwang was saved, and there were only a few scenes left in the detention center, mainly Wang Qianyuan's scenes, and Liu Tianwang did not have much room to play.
After greeting for a while, Zhou Yutang asked, "Brother Hua, how was the filming of "Sister Peach" over there?" β
"Director Xu is very powerful, and he can finish it soon."
Liu Tianwang said with a smile: "In the next July, I reserved ten days for the roadshow of "Thieves". β
"Thank you for your hard work, Brother Hua."
Zhou Yutang was slightly stunned and laughed softly.
The movie "Rescue Mr. Wu" is the first film directed by Wen Muye, and the filming period is a bit long, which is also a matter of no choice.
The main problem is Liu Tianwang's schedule.
His movies have not been very popular in recent years, but his popularity base is very strong, and various business announcements are inevitable.
As soon as Liu Tianwang asks for leave, the entire crew will have to adjust the shooting plan, after all, people look at Zhou Yutang's face, and it is extremely rare to be able to reduce the salary to join the crew, you can't ask people not to make money.
The process was hard, but fortunately, it finally came to the end of the day.
Huazi played by Wang Qianyuan is a veritable bandit, so it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a bold maniac, and in broad daylight, he pretended to be Uncle Hat and kidnapped the big star Liu Tianwang.
took him to the wilderness, ready to tear up the ticket after getting the money.
But in the end, due to Uncle Hat's heroic wit, Hanako was arrested on the spot.
Bring a silver bracelet and send it to the detention center, ready to eat peanuts.
The last scene.
It was taken in a detention center.
Duration.
Liu Tianwang specially came to deliver apples.
The most important thing is the scene where Huazi says goodbye to her mother in prison.
Before the start of filming, Wen Muye communicated with Wang Qianyuan and put forward a few shooting requirements.
Wang Qian was wearing a silver bracelet on his hand and a prison uniform, but the expression on his face was completely different from the past.
This shape shows that this crazy bandit in the past is at the end of his life.
"All the crew members are in place."
"Camera OK."
"The lights are fine."
"Recording is normal."
β ActionοΌβ
With Wen Muye's angry shouting, the last scene started filming today.
Zhou Yutang sat behind the monitor with him and watched the actors perform.
Hua Zi was imprisoned, and his old mother, who was already old, came to the detention center to see him.
At this time, the madman was like a child who had done something wrong, and he had a ridiculous feeling of being at a loss.
The prison guard patted him on the shoulder: "Control your emotions, don't get too excited." β
Wang Qianyuan had a smile on his face, pretending to be relaxed, but in fact, his movements and eyes had already released panic.
Seeing the white-haired old man sitting opposite, Huazi already had tears in his eyes, and his voice was choked: "Mom, I'm pretty down-to-earth now, and I don't have to toss." β
"Son, mom can't educate, mom is also guilty."
"Okay, pay more attention to your body when I'm away."
"In the next life, don't do such a thing."
"Forget it in this life, I will be filial to you in the next life."
Wang Qianyuan seemed relieved, relieved, and reluctant.
You can hear him crying, and you can intuitively feel that his emotions are on the verge of collapse.
But the amazing thing is that he didn't cry.
The slightly narrow, rugged face was red from congestion.
The green tendons on the neck flare.
Finally.
The pent-up emotions poured out like a flood that burst its banks.
Wang Qianyuan stood up, as if crying, and as if laughing: "My son kowtowed to you." β
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The forehead hit the transparent shield in front of him hard.
It's like a hammer hitting people's hearts.
Huazi's mother had already cried into tears, and her hands were on the transparent protective plate.
She wanted to touch her son again.
It's just that the two are close to each other, but it is like an insurmountable moat.
Behind the monitor.
Zhou Yutang was also extremely moved.
Wang Qianyuan is indeed a good actor.
It's only been a few minutes.
With expressions that seem to be smiling but not laughing, and crying but not crying, the complex emotions are vividly interpreted.
How fierce and crazy the first half of the movie is, how tragic and bleak the ending is.
The before and after comparison is more impactful and thought-provoking.
"Okay, it's over, it's done!"
Wen Muye was also very excited, and the last scene was very exciting.
The weather is getting hotter in May, but the movie is a story that takes place in winter, so Wang Qianyuan is still wearing a sweater, and his forehead is sweaty when he comes out.
After checking that there was no problem with the captured pictures with Zhou Yutang, Wen Muye clapped his hands and said with a smile: "Let's go back and clean up, the finale banquet will be held tonight, and Mr. Zhou will be there at that time, everyone will not be drunk and will not return!" β
"It's finally finished!"
"Wen Dao is awesome, long live Mr. Zhou!"
There was a burst of cheers in the crew.
At the finale banquet.
Many people in the crew came to toast Zhou Yutang.
But he didn't drink much, and the people around him blocked it.
Lin Liang is the general of Zhou Yutang's royal wine field.
This senior brother of the film academy has an unfathomable amount of alcohol, and his peak performance once drank the big barrel of teacher Liu Huan.
At the moment, those who came did not refuse, and the scene was extremely lively.
"Mr. Zhou, I also toast you."
A girl plucked up her courage and stepped forward.
Zhou Yutang saw this familiar face, but he was a little surprised.
(End of chapter)