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Chapter 53 Netflix is ​​here again

After Chen Jingxing finished some finishing work for domestic promotion, he rushed to Orlando with the creative members without stopping.

I originally thought about taking my parents on a trip, but both teachers are public school teachers, so it is very inconvenient to take leave. Furthermore, they don’t want to take a long leave just to see their son’s works screened at a film festival. Their children have

If you have money, when can you not travel during the winter and summer vacations?

It was not that Chen Jingxing had never thought about inviting Tang Xin to go with him, but he quickly gave up the idea. First, the relationship between the two had not reached that point. The most important thing was that Tang Xin was a standard workaholic and enjoyed food.

Her shares are the carrot in front of the donkey, so she can’t even think about taking a vacation of more than ten days just to travel abroad.

Director Chen Da could only watch in loneliness as Xu Wenshen took his wife and daughter and went out to play somewhere as soon as they bowed. The other actors basically came to the film festival with their husbands, wives or even children, in pairs.

Among the main creative staff, only Chen Jingxing and Luo Chen are single, but they also have agents and assistants.

Besides, who knows if he has a girlfriend? After all, he is an idol. Even if he is nearly 30 years old and his flesh is no longer fresh, he would not dare to bring his girlfriend in public. I vaguely know that the idol has a girlfriend and is open to the idol.

Showing it to everyone is two different things. If fans are willing to be deceived by you, then you must be a qualified liar, otherwise you will be disqualified as an idol. Maybe this is the purpose of Luo Chen's eagerness to transform.

However, Director Chen Da did not have much time to mourn the spring and autumn. He originally wanted to go to the famous Orlando Comic Con, but unexpectedly, an uninvited guest came directly to the door.

One is white and the other is Chinese.

The introduction turned out to be from Netflix’s purchasing department.

As the largest film trading market in North America, the Orlando Film Festival not only attracts distributors from all over the world to come here to purchase movies, but streaming media like Netflix will not let go of such an opportunity. Except for a few movies, they can be screened in North American theaters.

After obtaining a certain scale of online release, most movies end up being released on DVD and screened on streaming media.

Mike laughed and said, "We haven't seen the movie yet, but Mr. Fairbanks, the director of the film festival, is our production consultant for Netflix. He revealed to us that "Fatal Identity" will be a major contender for the Golden Spruce Award.

One of the popular ones.”

Mike was not surprised by Chen Jingxing's answer. Although Netflix tried its best to shorten the window period for theatrical distribution, and even tried its best to promote the simultaneous release of movies online and theaters, this goal was too far away. Most filmmakers' first priority was

The choice is definitely theatrical distribution, and the online broadcast copyright will depend on the performance of the theaters.

Netflix’s news is even better than American entertainment media.

But Chen Jingxing still refused firmly: "I'm sorry, I don't want to discuss the online broadcast copyright of this movie now."

Ha, ambitious young man.

Since buying other movies that do not go to theaters will be boycotted by the film industry, then I will make my own movies, and the movies I spend money to produce will only be distributed online, even if they don’t go to theaters. Can you still control it? This is

Netflix’s logic.

The implication of Chen Jingxing's words is that "Fatal Identity" will definitely be released in North American theaters. It is not known whether it will be screened on a large scale or on a small scale. It is not yet certain how much box office it will get, but it will definitely not sell the online broadcast rights now.

Seeing Chen Jingxing's resolute attitude, Mike stopped insisting and instead discussed other possibilities of cooperation with Chen Jingxing.

Chen Jingxing was a little confused: "You haven't even seen my movie, right?" "Fatal Identity" is scheduled to be screened on December 30.

"Chen, I don't know if you know that "House of Cards" that caused a sensation all over the world this year is a series invested and produced by Netflix, and this is just the beginning. Netflix will also invest huge amounts of money to produce more series and even movies.

, we are very optimistic about your creative ability. If you are willing, Netflix is ​​willing to provide tens of millions of dollars in funds to help you shoot movies, and we can guarantee that we will never interfere with your creative freedom, but the movie will not be released on the Netflix platform.

There will be a theatrical release."

But we still have to go through the process: "Mr. Chen doesn't want to hear our quotation?"

Unless Chen Jingxing is a fool, he will agree.

If the movies produced by streaming media do not go to theaters, the film industry will have no control over it? How strange!

He could not accurately predict the future of this dimension, but in the United States in the previous dimension, the traditional forces of the film industry rebounded fiercely against the streaming media's practice of releasing movies exclusively on the theater network. Not only did the theater chains fiercely criticize,

Many actors, directors, and producers have spoken out publicly to criticize the boycott, and even many film awards events have tacitly refused to nominate films that debuted online.

Facing Chen Jingxing's question, Mike got straight to the point: "Mr. Chen, first of all, on behalf of Netflix, I would like to congratulate you on your second feature film being shortlisted for the main competition. Your talent fascinates me, and Netflix hopes to work with you and your company."

Another successful cooperation, I wonder what Mr. Chen thinks about the overseas distribution rights of "Fatal Identity"?"

Chen Jingxing was also quite cheerful: "I think you should know that I will definitely choose to release this movie in theaters. If you want online broadcast rights, now is not the time to reach a copyright deal. "Fatal Identity" is not just for the screening unit.

Movie."

It’s not that Chen Jingxing is unwilling to sell overseas copyrights to Netflix. To be honest, if he doesn’t sell it to Netflix, who will he sell it to? But he wants to use the North American box office as capital to negotiate with Netflix.

Mike was a little surprised when he saw Chen Jingxing. Caucasian people usually look older than yellow people. Chen Jingxing's face looked like a minor to Mike. Of course, Chen Jingxing's age is indeed considered a "minor" in the director's field.

Chen Jingxing understood that this was not surprising. After all, the organizers of the film festival and the jury members were all senior filmmakers in the industry. The circulation of information in a circle was very fast, especially when the opening of the film festival was approaching. Although the shortlisted films

It hasn't been screened yet, but the fame of several award-winning popular works has already spread, and some media have even publicly reported the names of several films that may win awards.

Mike tentatively asked: "Do you want to wait until after the awards?"

Chen Jingxing smiled: "Maybe it will be after "Fatal Identity" is released in North American theaters."

The person coming to the Orlando Film Festival this time is the head of Netflix’s film purchasing department, named Mike Woolsey, and he also brought a translator.

Maybe in another seven or eight years, with more capital pouring into streaming media and some black swan events, movies first released online will begin to be accepted by the film industry, but it is definitely not possible now.

It would be okay if it was a TV series, but what he wants to make is a movie, or a science fiction movie, and the cost is not much lower. Once he takes Netflix's money to make a movie and abandons it in theaters to premiere on Netflix, he will definitely offend the court.

Netflix may not be afraid of theater chains, but as a director, if he expects his future movies to be released in North American theater chains, he would definitely be out of his mind to offend North American theater chains.

Not to mention debuting on Netflix, in this day and age, if you dare to shorten the window period between theatrical distribution and online distribution, the theaters will be eager to eat you up.

But it can’t be said to death. Now streaming media can’t beat theaters. In a few years, it may not be possible. There may be opportunities for cooperation in the future. Therefore, Chen Jingxing looked embarrassed. Huaguo Fantasy World Network has already decided

I declined Netflix’s invitation on the pretext that I wanted to invest in my next project.

(End of chapter)