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"Congratulations, Director Jiang, for making another groundbreaking work!"

After the audience burst into applause, Han Sanping spoke first, and at the same time felt fortunate that China Film could participate in the investment.

In fact, Jiang Heng is not the only company in China that can cooperate with China Film.

The famous Shanghai Film Group has sent people to contact Jiang Heng many times, and also proposed the idea of ​​jointly building a movie park.

The general idea is that Jiang Heng provides IP and funds, and Shanghai Film is responsible for solving the land and various procedures, and jointly develops and benefits.

These proposals made Jiang Heng very excited.

Shanghai's land and amusement parks will be a treasure pot and a cash cow in the future.

It's just that considering that the domestic consumer economy has not yet developed and there are not enough film and television IPs under his name, he has to resist the urge to invest.

But it also made Jiang Heng have the idea of ​​setting up an animation company. If nothing else, as long as "Kung Fu Panda" is produced, he can make a lot of money.

It's just that we are still in the accumulation and development stage, and there are too many things to do, so we put the proposal of Shanghai Film on hold, but we didn't completely reject it.

Han Sanping knew this, but it was hard to say anything. All he could do was to carry out more extensive cooperation to make the relationship between the two companies closer.

As for "Pacific Rim", which was jointly produced by China Film, iQiyi, Tencent Video, and Columbia, they naturally spared no effort to escort and widely publicize it.

In terms of review, it can be said that there was no obstacle.

The only objection was that a reviewer felt that the monsters in the film ravaged Japan, destroyed countless buildings in Tokyo, and killed so many people, whether it would hurt the feelings of the Japanese people.

Fortunately, most reviewers believed that Japanese audiences already like movies about monsters ravaging island countries. If you shoot the monsters so well, people may find it exciting and thank you!

So far, "Pacific Rim" has successfully passed the review and obtained the Dragon Mark. Global distribution matters are also officially on the agenda.

In North America, Columbia is responsible for distribution, and many South American countries are also responsible for it.

In other regions, China Film and Bona Film Group are leading the way, and the number of countries with box office revenue sharing has been expanded.

Japan adopted the revenue sharing model when "Lion Camel Ridge" was released, and this time is no exception.

And because it is a film about mechas fighting monsters, several large Japanese film companies are very optimistic about "Pacific Rim" and compete with each other. In the end, Toho Co., Ltd. obtained the distribution rights.

In South Korea, it is the first time to adopt the revenue sharing distribution model.

The film market in this country was dominated by Hong Kong films in the early years. In recent years, Hong Kong films have declined and have been occupied by Hollywood.

As for the rise, some believe that it should be counted from "Life and Death" in 1999, while others believe that it originated from "Memories of Murder" in 2003.

But no matter where to start, it proves that the local Korean film force is extremely weak at the moment, and it has no power to fight back against ordinary Hollywood blockbusters, not to mention the blockbuster "Pacific Rim".

Other countries such as Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Italy, and Australia all adopt the split-account distribution model.

There are two other box office giants that still use the buyout model because of special circumstances, namely India and Mexico.

Although the former claims to be a unified country, it is relatively divided in the film market.

There are many reasons, such as 22 official languages ​​in terms of language, each with a unique cultural background and market positioning.

Therefore, Indian films are filmed and distributed in different languages ​​in different regions to meet the viewing needs of different regions.

Relying on such an innate market "barrier", Hollywood movies have not been able to win the Indian market in the era of global conquest, let alone Chinese-language films.

But this market has a large population and cannot be completely ignored.

The only way is to increase the buyout price as much as possible to get a little more profit.

Another box office giant with special circumstances is Mexico. Here, the government is not the real master of the country. Can we still expect the film market to be unified?

It is still a high-priced buyout, allowing local film producers in Mexico to go back and distribute it themselves.

In other countries and regions, it is all buyout distribution.

And because of the great reputation won by the first three films, the world's first mecha special effects blockbuster has the gimmick of mecha fighting monsters.

Film producers from all over the world gathered in Hong Kong to buy the copyright, and the final copyright sales price reached a huge amount of 30 million US dollars, directly recovering one-third of the cost.

Including the split distribution, "Pacific Rim" will be released in more than 120 countries and regions around the world, which is unprecedented!

After the news was reported, even a group of Hollywood film producers were quite shocked.

Especially the "Transformers" crew, although they kept catching up, Paramount and DreamWorks found that there were too many problems to be solved during the entire filming process.

Sometimes they even pushed it back halfway.

For example, the appearance design and transformation design of Autobots such as Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and Megatron.

The previous animation version did have a general pattern, but it was too simple and rough, and it was definitely not directly usable.

Just these effect pictures and storyboard scripts took a lot of time for the preparation team.

Not to mention the script, actors, and models for filming. No matter how hard they tried, they could only start filming on the eve of the release of "Pacific Rim".

Neither producer Spielberg, director Michael Bay, nor project initiator Don Murphy could understand how Jiang Heng could prepare so quickly, as if all the images were already in his mind.

Several producers from the Transformers crew discussed whether to send people to attend the premiere of Pacific Rim in mainland China. According to the news from China, Jiang Heng will hold an advance screening after the premiere, and has successfully negotiated with IMAX to temporarily build an IMAX big screen in a sports stadium.

This will also be the world's first IMAX advance screening, which is full of gimmicks.

Spielberg looked serious, "We should go and have a look. It will be an inspiration for us to see how well his films turned out."

The chubby Don Murphy said with a smile, "I'm not so busy right now, so I'll just go and have a look. I never thought that China, which is so backward, could actually make high-tech films and use high-tech equipment. IAMX, the first in the world, actually cooperates with the Chinese!"

Another producer, Bryce, said, "IMAX also wants to make a name for itself with Jiang Heng's film. If it succeeds this time, I'm afraid we'll have to look for him to cooperate!"

"Yeah, a Chinese guy actually took the lead. I'm really unwilling to think about it!"

Several foreigners gathered together to complain, but after discussing, they still wanted to go to China to see what the charm of the world's first IMAX commercial blockbuster is!