Going to Hollywood to make a movie?

This is indeed a very tempting suggestion.

At least Chen Yuan immediately became excited when he heard that John took the initiative to invite Wu Yuan to Haolaiwu.

Filmmakers of Chen Yuan's generation definitely yearn for Haolaiwu, and even regard it as a movie palace.

Whoever called Laiwu's movies conquered the global market in their generation, and a movie easily won hundreds of millions of dollars at the global box office!

The big ship in 98 won $1.8 billion at the global box office, not only smashing the iceberg, but also smashing the Chinese film market!

In comparison, the box office of domestic movies is only a few million yuan, which cannot be compared with it at all!

At the moment when the film industry on Hong Kong Island is in the twilight, Hollywood has undoubtedly become the most brilliant pearl of the global film industry.

From the director to the actor, there is no one who doesn't want to go to Hollywood and make a good movie!

Why is Wu Baige regarded as an international director by domestic filmmakers?

Is it because he has the only Academy Award for Best Director trophy in his hand?

Are there very few directors who have won Academy Awards?

Or is it because of the Asian blockbuster "True Colors of Heroes"?

No, it's neither!

It's because he has traveled to Haolaiwu and directed a blockbuster produced by Haolaiwu A-level production!

is because of the Hollywood blockbuster "Mission Impossible 2" directed by him, which grossed more than $500 million at the global box office in May this year!

Although he later filmed "The Wind Whisperer", which invested $115 million but had a box office of less than 80 million, and "Memory Rift", which lost a lot of money, he was driven back from Haolaiwu in a gray way.

But after he came back, he was still praised as an international director, and there were many people!

Even if he filmed "Red Cliff", which is the same as, he is still a first-line director in China!

Now Wu Yuan has the opportunity to go to Hollywood to make a movie, and it is Fox Searchlight that takes the initiative to invite him to Hollywood!

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for any other mainland director!

Chen Yuan couldn't wait to agree for Wu Yuan immediately!

However, Wu Yuan was not so excited, but pondered very calmly.

He has experienced the memories in his dreams, and he does not look down on the domestic film market like Chen Yuan, and the myth is good to dock.

It is true that the current mainland film market is indeed very small, but soon the mainland film market will usher in a big explosion!

In just 20 years, the mainland film market has not ranked in the top 10 and has directly rushed to the world's largest film market.

20 years later, Hollywood is just like that, except for superhero movies, the global box office of other movies may not be as high as the box office of mainland blockbusters!

To put it bluntly, Wu Yuan only needs to take root in the domestic film market and develop well, and the domestic market alone is enough for him to eat.

It's just that it is still some years before the opening of the era of blockbusters in the mainland.

And Wu Yuan really needs a sum of money to lay out in advance for the era of mainland blockbusters.

Let him go to Hollywood for long-term development, then Wu Yuan is unwilling, he hopes to participate in the great era of the reform of the mainland film market.

But let him go to Hollywood to make a quick buck, and then invest this quick money in the mainland film market to accelerate the development of the mainland film market, then he is very happy.

It's really profitable to make a good Laiwu movie this year!

Thinking of this, a smile also appeared on Wu Yuan's face.

"John, I'll seriously consider your suggestion."

"But let's talk about Coherence's adaptation rights first."

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In the end, the North American rights to "The Night the Comet Comed" plus the adaptation rights sold for $1.3 million.

This is a price that Chen Yuan is extremely satisfied with.

After the negotiations, Wu Yuan and John also exchanged contact information and work emails.

Fox Searchlight is not a company with a lot of money and stupid people.

Whether Wu Yuan can hitchhike with the Fox Searchlight depends on whether he can come up with a script that will make the Fox Searchlight tempting.

Although he has the idea of going to Hollywood to make a quick buck, this is not something that can be negotiated for a while, and he needs to get in touch slowly later.

After the most important North American copyright sale was completed, Wu Yuan did not participate in the negotiation of the copyright sale in other places, but handed it over to Chen Yuan with full authority.

European, South American, and Asian filmmakers are not as rich as North America, and the market is not so big, and the average price of a filmmaker is only tens of thousands of dollars, which is not worth Wu Yuan's price.

For him, this year's trip to the Sitges Fantastic Film Festival has been very successful.

The rest of the film week is all about vacationing and enjoying the movie.

Although "The Night the Comet Comed" has added a lot of screenings in the local film festival theater, the film festival is not for Wu Yuan alone after all, and there are still many other films being screened.

He, Chen Kun and Zeng Li continued their movie-watching journey after observing the screening of "The Night the Comet Comed" for a long time.

Two days later, Chen Yuan and filmmakers from all over the world were almost talking, and with the North American market, "The Night the Comet Came" sold a total of $2.55 million.

Among them, there are the proceeds of buying out the copyright, and there are also the proceeds of adaptation rights.

It's a pretty good price, but when converted into domestic currency, it's more than 20 million!

And there is no need to share it with the theater chain, Wu Yuan can personally take more than four million from it!

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In Chen Yuan's room, after the dust finally settled on the copyright sales, he looked at the blank paper in front of him that recorded the sales, and stared at it in disbelief for a long time before he took out his mobile phone and made a transatlantic call.

"Hey, Han Dong."

The time in Huaxia is six hours faster than in Spain, and it is already night in Huaxia at this moment, but Han Sanye is still in good spirits, and his words are full of expectation: "How is it, how much did it sell?" ”

"2.55 million!"

"Dollars!"

Han Sanye on the other end of the phone immediately fell silent, only a heavy gasp echoed in the earpiece.

After a short and long few seconds, he asked again: "What happened to Fox asking Director Wu to come to Hollywood to film?" ”

"Director Wu said that he had to think about it, and he was still thinking about the script, and it was impossible for someone to come to the dock to throw money before they saw the script." Chen Yuan replied with a smile.

"Good! Good! Han Dong's tone was very excited: "Xiao Chen, take care of Director Wu outside, I'm waiting for your victory in the capital!" ”

Transatlantic calls are still very expensive, even if Han Donggui is the deputy director of China Film Group, he is reluctant to waste this money, and after two more sentences, he hung up the phone.

Putting away his mobile phone, Chen Yuan thought about it in his heart.

Tomorrow is the end of the film festival, and the trip to Sitges from "The Night the Comet Commet" can be said to be very successful.

Now it's the last thing left.

Now that you've signed up for the film festival, you have to look forward to the festival awards, right?

It's a pity that this thing is not something they can control, it depends on the opinion of the jury of the festival.

Just thinking about this, the Chinese translator hired by China Film to study abroad knocked on the door and walked in excitedly.

"Producer Chen, the organizers of the film festival have sent someone to inform us that we are attending the closing ceremony and the award ceremony!"

"Our film was nominated for three awards: Best Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Film!"