Entertaining Children

While Xiao Yao was busy with the post-production of the animated film, the preparations for the parkour film had already begun.

In late March, this film crowdfunding project passed the review of a well-known crowdfunding website in the United States and was officially launched. Before the crowdfunding project passed the review, the film's official website was built, and the film's official website was launched the day before the crowdfunding project was launched on the website.

With the official movie website, the project description on the crowdfunding website simply introduces that this is a movie project, and the link to the movie’s official website is given below. For the specific situation, interested netizens are invited to go to the official website of the movie to find out.

In addition to posting part of the script outline on the film's official website, it mainly publishes the list of confirmed main creators and their biographical information.

The announced list of main creative personnel includes the main positions of the crew of the producer, director, screenwriter, action director and main actors. The overlap rate of names in these job lists is very high, and all of them hold multiple jobs. It feels like four or five people want to save up a movie. From this point of view, it is in line with the practice of crowdfunding movies. But after looking at the personal data of those main creators, it doesn't feel like that.

The most conspicuous among the main creative staff is Xiao Yao, who is listed in these positions.

A young singer and actor in China, he performed on the Oscar stage as a member of the "Immortals" band in his early years; he participated in the filming of the Eva Swimsuit Special last year, and was a guest performer in the "Eva Show", and he also performed twice; A member of the Basketball All-Star Celebrity Game and one of the MVP winners; his music works have been on the billboards of the United States and the music charts of European countries, and several original songs and MVs have swept the world; before the New York airport hijacking and New York fashion Zhou's robbery and kidnapping case.

These things have not been reported by the media of only one country, and Xiao Yao's popularity in the world is not low. Even people who are a bit unfamiliar with this name at first glance, after reading the introductions and representative works in the materials, can know who he is after a little hands-on research.

Another director, Mu Ying, is not well-known, but judging from his personal information, he has not only directed BMW's short films, but also officially directed feature films in Hollywood. At least in the film and television industry, he is not alone. An unknown rookie director.

Zhao Rui, Xu Fei and Chen Xiaoting, the three young people from Huaxia, are not well-known outside China, but judging from their personal data, these three are all actors by profession. At least, it should be a child star who has been acting since he was a child. The more experienced actors, at least in China, still have a certain reputation.

Judging from the personal information on the film's official website, the five people on the main creative list can be regarded as stars in the entertainment industry, not ordinary grassroots at all. Even if their personal income is not enough to support the production cost of a film, they are There should be enough resources and connections to attract investment, and there is no need to make movies through crowdfunding.

Four Chinese acting stars and a Chinese director who mixed with Hollywood went to crowdfunding websites in the United States to raise money to make a movie? For ordinary people, there are people who watch the excitement, but I am afraid that not many people are really willing to spend money to invest. However, the crowdfunding target of Xiao Yao and others is not ordinary people, but a specific group.

On the homepage of the movie's official website, there is also a video in a prominent position. This video is the biggest reliance of their movie crowdfunding project.

This is a promotional video shot by Xiao Yao, Zhao Tao, and Xu Fei together. In the video, the front is a scene of three people doing parkour. When the three stopped, they revealed to the camera that the three of them were the three members of the YRF team, and told about their plan to shoot this movie. The original intention of the parkour movie.

Below this video, there is also a link to the web address.

After clicking, you will be connected to the YRF channel on the PV video website. Here, is an exact same video.

The YRF channel of the PV website is recognized by parkour enthusiasts as the official video release channel of this veteran parkour team. Such a video appeared on the YRF channel of the PV website, which undoubtedly confirmed the fact that the three people in the video are the three members of the YRF team.

As the initiator of parkour, the three members of the YRF team have never shown their faces in the video. Their identities have always been a mystery to parkour enthusiasts.

Shortly after the kidnapping case at New York Fashion Week last year, Xiao Yao used the account of this website to post a video of recruiting MV actors. At that time, someone broke the news that Xiao Yao was a member of the YRF team, but Xiao Yao never made it public. Respond, that is, not admit it.

This time, the three members of the YRF team not only made a collective appearance, but also joined forces to make a parkour-themed movie. Those parkour lovers were naturally extremely excited and excited.

The three of YRF said in the video that this parkour-themed movie was made by parkourers for parkourers to watch. In order to maintain the purity of this film, they do not want any film company or corporate capital to participate and affect any aspect of filming. They initiated this crowdfunding under the condition of insufficient funds. Since it is parkour people making parkour movies, and it is the veteran team of parkour creators working together to make parkour movies, then of course parkour lovers should give their full support.

Therefore, shortly after the crowdfunding project was launched, many netizens generously donated their money and joined the crowdfunding project.

The crowdfunding project is progressing smoothly, and Mu Ying, who is in charge of this matter, also feels a lot more relaxed. After it seemed that there was no problem here, he also shifted his focus to what Xiao Yao said was the pre-selection of crew members, location selection, and the primary selection of actors for supporting roles. Although there are still more than three months before the start-up time planned by everyone, it will take a lot of time and energy to actually do these things.

Although the movie crowdfunding project was carried out on a crowdfunding website in the United States, parkour is already a popular sport in the world, and the news quickly spread among parkour enthusiasts in many countries around the world. This aspect made the crowdfunding proceed more smoothly, and also made the news quickly spread to Huaxia, the country of several protagonists.

Parkour, a new type of extreme sports that is popular in the world, was actually initiated by a few young people in Huaxia. This news also greatly stimulated parkour enthusiasts and many ordinary people in Huaxia. Of course, those who are excited about this are naturally also the Chinese media reporters. The entertainment reporters are most interested in this, because the three founders of the movement are all Chinese performing arts stars.

The word parkour has once again become a hot topic in China, and this sport has also set off a wave of enthusiasm in China. At the same time, several parties have also received interview invitations from many media reporters.

At this time, Xiao Yao was still preoccupied with making soundtracks for animated films and other post-production stages, so he was naturally indifferent to this kind of interview invitation. Fortunately, the protagonist this time is not Xiao Yao alone, but also Zhao Rui and Xu Fei. The two readily agreed to the media reporter's interview, satisfying the curiosity of the reporter, countless parkour enthusiasts and some ordinary people.

In the interview, the two told reporters in detail about the process of the formation of the sport and their team formation, and also described in detail the various related aspects of the film from the idea of ​​the project to the establishment of the project, the planning of crowdfunding, the writing of the script and the current preparation progress. Condition.

From the interviews of the two, it seems that Xiao Yao came up with this sport in order to improve his action style when he was filming. Zhao Rui and Xu Fei of the same crew saw it and learned how to play with him. Such a team. Although Chen Xiaoting came up with the idea of ​​uploading the video to the website for sharing, it was Xiao Yao's idea to post the name of the sport, the name of the team, and even uploading the video to foreign websites to spread the sport to the whole world. And when it comes to filming parkour-themed movies and crowdfunding to raise funds for the movies, it was also Xiao Yao's idea.

Although parkour fans generally recognize YRF as the founder team, the real inventor of this sport is actually Xiao Yao alone.

Compared with the best newcomer actor of the TV series "Flying Award" for the role of "Chengying" in that TV series, the achievement of creating a new sport that is popular in the world is not small, and what is even more incredible is that, At that time, Xiao Yao was just a junior high school student who was promoted from the second grade to the third grade, and he made this incidentally for his own actions when he was filming on the set.

After these reports came out, the monster Xiao Yao became the subject of heated discussions on the Internet again.

When there was a lot of discussion in the media and the Internet because of the parkour sport developed by Xiao Yao a few years ago, Xiao Yao was busy with the animation film.

After the post-production of the movie is completed, what Xiao Yao and Tong Luo have to do is to find the distributor of the movie, submit the movie for review, and then determine the release date of the movie.

Xiao Yao has already made up his mind not to run a road show during the film's release. Roadshows are an important means of publicity for many film distributors during film releases, and they will also affect the theater's schedule of films, which in turn will affect the film's box office. In terms of film revenue, the distributor generally adopts a sharing model to cooperate with the producer. Xiao Yao's refusal to run road shows is not conducive to the promotion of the film and the scheduling of films in theaters, and it is also not conducive to the box office of the film. This is not in line with the interests of the distributors.

Based on Xiao Yao's own reputation and his family's resources and contacts, his films should be able to find cooperation with China's first-class film distributors. But first-class publishers are generally big companies with deep pockets, and their tolerance for Xiao Yao will be lower.

Although Xiao Yao has always held the title of evildoer and genius, this first feature film directed by Xiao Yao is also a good gimmick, but Xiao Yao's film is an animation film.

At present, Huaxia's animated films generally lose money. Even though the word-of-mouth and box office seem to be good on the surface, due to the huge production costs, they basically lose money in the end. The production cost of Xiao Yao's animated film is also quite high. The distributor wants to make money, so the box office of the film is very high.

Although Xiao Yao has a great reputation and should have a strong appeal, this is an animated movie, and Xiao Yao will not appear in the movie screen. The publisher felt that it was still unknown how many fans Xiao Yao could attract to the theater just by having a bunch of behind-the-scenes names.

Originally, he didn't have much confidence in the box office prospects of this animated film, but now that Xiao Yao announced in advance that he would not even do a road show, those first-class distributors naturally lost a lot of interest in Xiao Yao's film.

However, Xiao Yao just doesn't run road shows, and it's not that he's too lazy to do any publicity. Moreover, as a producer, his interests are also linked to the movie's box office revenue. The only condition is that he does not run road shows. Xiao Yao's search for film distributors to cooperate with is just a little less choice, a little more difficult, and it is not impossible to find.

Even if those first-class distributors with deep pockets refuse to cooperate with Xiao Yao because of Xiao Yao's conditions, with his reputation and network resources, there are still some people in the slightly lower-level distributors who want Xiao Yao's name and this movie. quality and willing to cooperate with Xiao Yao.

To be honest, Xiao Yao is very confident in the quality and prospects of this film, as long as the distributors' publicity and distribution capabilities are passable, as for publicity, he doesn't have much demand for those distributors at all. All he wanted was someone who could help him get the movie into theaters. Cooperating with a lesser distributor, the producer can also occupy more voice, which is what Xiao Yao wished for.

Under the introduction of Ye Jiaying, Xiao Yao finally chose to cooperate with a relatively medium-sized film distributor in Huaxia, and entrusted the distribution of the film to the other party.

After the distributor is selected, the next step is to submit the film for review. The previous version of this animated movie was rated G in the United States, which is a movie rating suitable for people of all ages. There is nothing in the movie that would cause discomfort. When Xiao Yao made this movie, he intentionally increased the proportion of yellow race among the human characters in the movie, and even changed the most important role of the captain to a Chinese, so the review process of this movie went very smoothly. In less than a week, the release license was successfully obtained.

When I got the release license, the time has come to the end of April and the beginning of May. There is only more than one month left until the summer vacation from late June to the end of August and early September.

The summer file is a very important golden time in the film market. There are always blockbusters and the competition is very fierce. In order to avoid becoming cannon fodder on the summer battlefield, some films will deliberately avoid this schedule.

This year, in Huaxia alone, there have been several domestic and local films with well-known directors, well-known actors, and so-called commercial productions that have been announced to be released in the summer. In addition, there are also several so-called commercial blockbusters imported from Hollywood. Announced the scheduled summer release. The publicity of each movie gives people the feeling that it is coming aggressively, and it feels like a big battle in the summer.

A month or so is more appropriate for a movie's pre-screening promotion. Normally speaking, Xiao Yao's animation movie can just be released in time for the summer vacation. Then Xiao Yao’s animated film, which took two years to produce, entered the summer battlefield fearlessly, competing with those blockbusters, or avoiding the edge for the time being, postponing or advancing the release, avoiding the summer file, and choosing one What about the relatively less competitive schedule? For Xiao Yao, the answer will definitely be the former.

After getting the release license, Xiao Yao set the film's release time in late June, the beginning of the summer season, without hesitation. On the one hand, Xiao Yao has an unyielding temperament, and he has full confidence in this animated film, and he is not afraid to confront other so-called blockbuster films head-on! On the other hand, whether it is advancing or postponing the movie's release time, it will have a considerable impact on Xiao Yao's work.

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