"Walking with God" was screened in Venice very well.

Although the film was not shortlisted for the main competition, it was successfully screened in the reviews section of some house books the next day after the screening day.

Perhaps because of Zhang Guorong's own fame in Europe, most film critics gave this movie a decent evaluation.

Of course, the score is given from the perspective of commercial films, not compared with literary films in the main competition unit.

Considering that he is an actor-turned-director, even if he is a director of a commercial film, as a non-professional player, it is already very good to be able to hand over such an answer sheet.

Also because of the praise given by some of the house books, in the next week, "Walking with God", which continued to be screened in small batches in various cinemas on Lido Island, was quite popular, and the attendance rate of the venue was more than half.

The head of the sales department of the group in the light and shadow era has also received invitations from some Asian and European filmmakers to negotiate the buyout of the distribution rights of the film.

Just as China Film has to purchase a batch of films from the three major European countries every year, filmmakers from other Asian countries will also come to buy a lot of Chinese-language films every year.

This year, it is obvious that "Walking with God" is a more popular style.

This kind of commercial film that is familiar to all Asian countries, combined with fashionable and popular packaging and creativity, gorgeous special effects and the tear-jerking plot that Korea is good at, fully integrates traditional culture and young taste, at least in Asian countries.

South Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Brunei, Thailand and other small East Asian countries were the most quick to reach a contract with the Light and Shadow Times to purchase the distribution rights.

European countries quickly followed.

The unit price of each country is not expensive, and on average, a country spends tens of thousands of dollars to pocket the domestic distribution rights of this film.

After three days of screening, the combined sales amounted to almost $2 million.

And Wu Yuan, who heard this number, couldn't help but sigh that the era of making a lot of money by selling copyrights is really going to be gone forever.

It's not that the copyright is not easy to sell, but that this price is really worthless for the current mainland films.

In the past, if a literary film can rely on the copyright fee of two million US dollars overseas, it will already make money.

After all, the shooting cost may not even be 2 million yuan, and rounding it up is ten times the benefit.

Wu Yuan's "The Night the Comet Comed" sold for $2.55 million that year, and he felt crazy to make money, and he had never seen so much money in his two lives combined.

But now "Walking with God" has sold $2 million, which is less than one-tenth of the cost of the film, let alone making money.

There is no way, now that a large amount of hot money has poured into the mainland film industry, the cost of making movies has increased significantly, even the most ordinary literary films, which used to be made by tens of millions of dollars, now generally cost two or three million.

Like Wu Yuan did back then, it is basically impossible to make a movie for 300,000 yuan now.

Times have changed!

Although "Walking with God" is known as a fantasy and magic blockbuster, in fact, there are not many special effects shots in this movie, only one-tenth of "Gravity", and the main focus is still an emotional drama.

Even so, the budget of this movie is as high as 100 million, and it took 84 million to complete the actual production.

In the face of this 100 million cost, the overseas copyright sales of 2 million US dollars can really only be regarded as a drop in the bucket.

Even if there is more than a week to be screened, the film is estimated to sell only four or five million dollars, barely recouping one-third of the production cost.

Unless it wins the blockbuster Golden Lion Award like "Li Wen" and "The Good Man of the Three Gorges", it is impossible to sell for tens of millions of dollars.

Not only "Walking with God", but the day after the screening of "Walking with God" in Venice, "Painted Skin 2" was also screened in Venice.

Chen Kaige's fame in Europe is also not inferior to Zhang Guorong, and the IP pioneering work of "Painted Skin" was filmed by Wu Yuan.

Back then, "Painted Skin 1" sold a round of copyrights in Europe and was released in mainstream European countries.

European audiences are still quite interested in this magical movie from the mysterious East.

Just as the Chinese people are full of mystery about Greek mythology and Norse mythology, Europeans are also quite curious about Chinese mythology.

After all, for European audiences, the legends and stories of Chinese gods and goblins are too fresh.

Most of the film companies that bought the overseas distribution rights of "Painted Skin 1" back then have returned their original capital, and even made a small profit.

According to statistics, the total box office of "Painted Skin 1" in Europe is almost 10 million US dollars, and the distribution rights buyout only collected 3 or 4 million US dollars.

With the previous work Yuzhu in front of this, after the screening of "Painted Skin 2" in Venice this time, it naturally made the European filmmakers who came to watch it ready to move.

Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei also attended the premiere that day.

is different from "Walking with God", Wu Yuan has watched the finished film of "Painted Skin 2" in advance.

There is no way, Chen Kaige has a criminal record, no matter how relieved Wu Yuan is about him, it is inevitable that he will beat a little drum in his heart.

As soon as this film was filmed and there was no post-production, Wu Yuan had already watched the footage shot by Chen Kaige.

Then when the post-production was completed, after Chen Kaige personally cut it, he watched it again.

Fortunately, although the whole film still inevitably has a strong "Chen Kaige-style film aesthetics", at least this time Director Kaige restrained himself and did not volatilize his desire to express himself.

The overall tone of the whole film is still the tone of a commercial film, and the plot story also follows the script.

Even unceremoniously said that the finished film shot by Chen Kaige is more advanced than Wu Yuan's "Painted Skin 1" in terms of picture aesthetics.

The kind of desert lonely smoke, the beautiful scenery of the sunset on the long river, the picturesque beauty of the Gobi and the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, under the lens of Chen Kaige, it is called a beautiful!

Zeng Li, the school flower of Chinese opera, and Zhou Xun, a unique vixen, have risen several levels of beauty under Chen Kaige's lens.

Chen Kaige, who can shoot Zhang Rongrong's Yang Guifei amazingly, comes to shoot a real beauty, that is called a strong strengthening!

The script story is good, the natural scenery is beautiful, the actors' pictures are amazing, and the special effects are enough to be level, the finished film of "Painted Skin 2" is undoubtedly very good, and it has the potential to be a big hit!

Facts have proved that as long as there is a good script, and Chen Kaige does not blindly change the script himself, then he can indeed make a very good movie.

The premise is that someone has to press him and make him not let go of himself.

Wu Yuan has a hunch that this time "Painted Skin 2" will definitely make Director Kaige ashamed in China! (End of chapter)