After a night of carnival, the crew was officially disbanded, and it didn't take many people to do the next thing, and it was enough for the crew to leave only a few people.

This is the case with most independent films, and once filming is over, it's time for the crew to disband.

However, Ryan, Sophia, and Helen were not relaxed, but they were much busier than when they were filming.

Sophia had to negotiate with Skywalker Sound and contact the rest of the soundtrack team, and Ryan rented an entire professional editing studio and diveted headfirst into it with editor Chris Paul.

It is estimated that for at least a week, neither of them will leave the editing room for half a step, and they will have to stay in it for food and accommodation.

Chris Paul's skills, perhaps not the best, are enough to edit a horror movie.

As everything is going on in an orderly manner, "Blair the Witch", which has been released for more than a month, has finally begun to be lowered on a large scale.

The cumulative box office in North America is as high as $160 million, and the global box office is $258 million.

In comparison, the North American box office is slightly higher than the previous life, and the overseas box office is slightly lower, which is generally a big success.

As the distribution company and all rights owners of the film, Twentieth Century Fox made a lot of money.

Ryan, as the sole investor of the film, as well as producer, director, screenwriter and other positions, in addition to the $800,000 to buy out the copyright.

There is also a box office ladder sharing agreement, when the North American box office of a film reaches $50 million, for each additional $10 million, you can get 0.5% of the North American box office share, capped at 5%.

In other words, "Blair the Witch" grossed $160 million at the North American box office, and he could get five percent of the box office share, which would be more than $8 million.

Even for Twentieth Century Fox, it is a large amount, and the Twentieth Century Fox distribution department complains about it.

Fortunately, "Blair the Witch" is too dazzling, and Helen is staring, and Twentieth Century Fox does not play any tricks on payment.

On May 22, the second week after "Blair the Witch" went down in North America, Twentieth Century Fox transferred a huge sum of more than $8 million to Ryan's account.

The money was not his own, including Helen's commission, the repayment of the community bank loan, etc., and in the end there was only about $6 million left.

However, it still made Ryan a millionaire.

As for the next awards, including the Cannes Film Festival and the Saturn Awards, he will not choose to participate.

On the contrary, Helen will take Jessica Chastain to some awards to make appearances and rub off on the heat, so as not to be forgotten by the North American media.

Hollywood is like this, as long as it is not completely forgotten by the media, there is always a chance to turn over.

Speaking of which, Ryan hasn't seen Jessica Chastain in a while.

He is now preoccupied with the post-editing of "Saw Horror", and he has long forgotten about her.

After more than a week, the sample film of "Chainsaw" was finally edited, and Sophia rented a small screening room and called several leading actors in the film to come and watch it together.

There weren't a lot of people coming, just Ryan, Sophia, Helen, Monica Bellucci, Nicolas Cage, Edward Norton, and Chris Paul, who was the editor, operated the projector himself.

In addition, even several starring agents were turned away by Sophia.

"How does it feel!" Ryan asked, slightly nervous.

After all, he is not familiar with American horror films, and the film came out ten years ahead of schedule, which is different from the environment of the North American market in his previous life.

Don't underestimate the changes in external factors, many high-quality films are because of changes in external factors, so they hit the streets.

On the contrary, there are some films that are not very exciting, because they cater to the needs of current fans, so that they are ****** such as "Alice in Wonderland" is a typical example, a pseudo-3D film, with the help of "Avage" set off a 3D film view, the box office in the first week was as high as $116 million, and the global box office was as high as $960 million.

It's just speechless.

Sofia Coppola hesitated and said, "If you look at art alone, there won't be a critic who likes it." ”

Before she could finish her sentence, Ryan interrupted her and said, "This is a horror film, or a commercial film, don't care about the critics." ”

Evaluate a horror film from an artistic point of view?

Are you kidding.

What's more, he never wanted to please film critics, who are nothing compared to the audience.

"Anyway, I'm creepy. After saying that, Sofia Coppola simply closed her mouth and stopped talking.

She knew in her heart that Ryan didn't have the word "art" in her eyes at all, and it was better not to say it than to say more.

"It's a great horror movie, even if you are familiar with the plot for a long time, you can't help but feel frightened. Nicolas Cage exclaimed.

He has to admit that Ryan's handling of the plot of the film is perfect, especially in terms of gore and thriller.

Helen poured some cold water and said: "The film is really good overall, but it is too bloody, and the classification will be a difficult point, it is very likely to be classified as NC-17, and it is strictly forbidden for young people under 17 years old to watch it, and ticket buyers must show their ID cards." ”

"Unless the film distributor is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America. ”

The North American Film Association has only seven members, and it is none other than the seven major Hollywood studios that oversee all the film classifications in North America.

Once the distributor is one of the seven major studios, the film rating will definitely change from NC-17 to R: it is recommended that teenagers under the age of 17 be accompanied by an adult.

If the gore is less severe, it may even become PG-13: Children under the age of 13 are recommended to be led by a parent or adult.

Lionsgate, the distribution company of "Chainsaw", was considered the leader of Hollywood's second-tier film companies and one of the most successful independent film companies, so the final rating of the film was only R.

If you change to DreamWorks, it's 100% NC-17.

Ryan understands what Helen means, and tries to work with the seven major film companies so that he can avoid a lot of trouble.

"The distribution of the film is a real problem. ”

He had a bit of a headache.

If all the rights are sold like the previous "Blair the Witch", I think Twentieth Century Fox will be interested, and even pay a high price.

If you want to talk about sharing distribution, I'm afraid that Twentieth Century Fox will immediately become difficult to talk about, and even if it finally agrees, it will formulate a very harsh sharing distribution agreement.

In the previous life, "Saw Horror" did not encounter so many problems, and Lionsgate, the film's investor, itself had a North American distribution channel.

"Let's talk to Twentieth Century Fox first. Ryan whispered to Helen to stop dwelling on the issue.

The implication is that once you can't get along with Twentieth Century Fox, you will immediately look for a new publishing company.