China Entertainment King of Science Fiction

Chapter 72

Edward Birch disagreed with Zhang Tong's claim to the Orlando Gold Award: "Orlando has been held for dozens of sessions, and the Golden Mountain Awards do not have such a big box office appeal. The audience here is very picky about foreign movies."

Xu Wenshen retorted: "The Fatal Identity is not an ordinary Orlando Gold Award movie. Chen's previous movie "The Comet Night" has achieved great success here. It seems that North American audiences are not picky. Chen is a young North American

The director that people like, the audience will not be picky about him, just as he will not be picky about Jacky Chen."

If Chen Jingxing himself was present, he would naturally feel ashamed of this statement, but both Zhang Tong and Xu Wenshen were film businessmen and had a very thick-skinned face.

"Jacky Chen's identity is not a director, but an actor. The audience likes to watch Jacky Chen's performance. Johnson Chen is a director and behind the scenes. The audience will enter the cinema because of the actors he likes, not the director.

In addition, IMHO, "Night of Comet" is an online movie. It was not released in theaters and the box office score was zero." Edward Birch's words were unceremonious.

"The Comet Night has no box office results, but The Fatal Identity has box office results. Mr. Birch, according to the most conservative forecast, there is no problem with the box office in China exceeding 50 million US dollars."

Edward Burch's expression was not touched: "The Chinese box office market is not very convincing here. Since "The Ten-side Ambush", the overseas copyright prices of movies have gradually declined, but the Chinese movie box office is constantly

Growth... Mr. Zhang, Mr. Xu, let’s not go around in circles. I want to know, why are you unwilling to let us buy out the global issuance rights?

You cut off the distribution rights of Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia and the online distribution rights, and the copyright of this movie becomes fragmented. Not just us, there is no company in Hollywood that can meet your price. It's more realistic. If you sell it to us, you can sell it to us in full.

I can promise you to get the price of "Hero" in the year."

The National Master's "Hero" was bought out by Miramax for US$23 million. This is a record that no one can break so far. Of course, Mira also made a big profit, after all, the North American film market

Very mature, in addition to box office, there are DVDs, which is also a big income.

Zhang Tong once again firmly rejected Edward's temptation: "Mr. Birch, it is our bottom line to divest the copyright of Asia-Pacific and online distribution, and this cannot be compromised."

You can't even enter the gate of the National Cinema Owners Association. What can you do if you don't sell it?

However, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia can still be jointly issued with local publishers, and the revenue share has been announced. Lee Jung-jae's "Moonlight Night Fantasy Talk" has been released on the same day, and it will be released in seven countries in South Korea and Southeast Asia. RB, Australia

The date of release has also been announced.

Now another filmmaker has been added to this ranks.

Although the total box office in North America and other regions has also increased a lot, the box office of Chinese-language movies overseas has been declining, so a Chinese-language movie can be sold more than ten years ago.

The price of Heroes is a big breakthrough, enough to cause a sensation in China.

In the end, Colombia bought out the distribution rights of "Fatal Identity" except the Internet and Asia-Pacific regions for US$13.2 million.

Zhang Tong and Xu Wenshen looked at each other. If they could really sell the price of "Hero", they could write a record in the history of domestic commercial films, and there were also marketing highlights, but cutting out the Asia-Pacific region and the Internet distribution rights is a fantasy.

Chen Jingxing also strongly supported the decision of WorldNet, which is the bottom line of negotiations.

After hearing the other party's decisive rejection again, Edward Burch almost rolled his eyes and returned to the starting point.

It’s not easy. Chinese commercial films have declined overseas for nearly ten years, and finally one movie can get closer to the most glorious era of that year.

North America and Europe are beyond the reach, and it is impossible to sell it. Zhang Weiping, the producer of the national teacher, was jealous of the first week of "Hero" in North America, lamenting that "It's too much to sell the copyright", but immediately "The Ten-Plane Ambush" won't do it again

Copyright was sold to Sony?

"Fatal Identity" can't lose to second place? It's possible that people can sell East Asia with the title of Best Director of the Orlando Film Festival, and of course the winner of the Golden Summit Award can do it.

The online issuance rights are likely to be handed over to Netflix. Even if they are packaged and sold to Colombia now, Colombia will still be sold to Netflix. Other streaming media will not be able to do so. D+ and ATV+ have not been born yet.

Who are you giving to Netflix? Since you are all giving to Netflix, why do you need to make Colombia a second-trafficking dealer?

The issuance rights in the Asia-Pacific region (narrow sense) are not intended to be sold out at all.

This amount has exceeded the 12.5 million US dollars of the North American distribution rights of "Ten Faces" sold out. Although the two movies were ten years apart, it still made Zhang Tong and Xu Wenshen feel excited and proud.

Perhaps this is the last attempt by Colombia, or perhaps Edward Birch finally figured out that the Asia-Pacific region and the Internet are really the bottom line that the other party cannot give in. When Colombia gave up its pursuit of global copyright, it began to take serious care.

After the bargaining, the negotiations finally made a breakthrough.

But this is even more significant to Chen Jingxing. Since the new century, domestic filmmakers who can sell 10 million US dollars in copyright overseas can count Cheng Long, the national teacher, Zhou Xingxing and Feng Xiaogang.

The reason why this negotiation is difficult is that Zhang Tong and Xu Wenshen want to speak out and increase the price as much as possible. Second, Colombia does not seem to be on the spot to pay back the money, but instead does not give in and try every means to cross the Asia-Pacific region and the other side.

The online issuance rights were placed on the negotiating table together, which led to the failure of several rounds of confrontations to negotiate the price.

The only filmmakers who can sell copyrights for more than 10 million in North America are Cheng Long and the National Master.

Moreover, "Fatal Identity" has gained a great reputation in China and has an advantage in filming. Even if the overseas copyright prices catch up and even break the record of "Hero", it is icing on the cake, which is actually not a big boost to the domestic box office.

effect.

In fact, the ability to sell "The Fatal Identity" at such a price is the result of the combined effect of "The Comet", the Golden Spruce Awards, and the viewing of the movies displayed in Colombia in Orlando.

As Xu Wenshen, who was recruited by Chen Jingxing's personal interview, he felt particularly touched. Half a year ago, he would never have imagined that he would talk to Hollywood manufacturers about the copyright of the movie in Los Angeles on the other side of the ocean.

His young boss is a miracle!

Xu Wenshen and Zhang Tong walked out of the building and looked at each other and smiled.

Zhang Tong smiled and sighed, "Let's go, I'm still busy after returning to China, and there are RB, South Korea and Southeast Asia so many countries. This kind of opportunity is rare. I have been a producer for so many years, so I'm still the first one.

I have the opportunity to talk about such a large amount of overseas issuance and copyright transactions. I understand why Zhang Weiping was so arrogant and domineering back then."

(End of this chapter)