Millennium director

"Yuan'er, don't sleep! Get up quickly!"

Early in the morning, Chen Kun rushed into Wu Yuan's room and shook him out of bed.

Looking at Chen Kun's excited handsome face in front of him, Wu Yuan suppressed his anger and rubbed his face vigorously: "What are you doing, howling in my room so early in the morning!"

"It's a hit! Our movie is a hit!"

“Early this morning, people crowded outside the major cinemas in Sitges, demanding to show our film!”

"Good guy, there must be at least a thousand people!"

"What's going on?" Wu Yuan suddenly woke up and got out of bed to get dressed.

"I heard that the dozen or so local viewers who watched the movie last night promoted our movie after they went home, and many people wanted to watch it today."

Wu Yuan raised his eyebrows and smiled. This was an expected result, but he still became excited. Without washing his face or brushing his teeth, he casually put on a coat and pulled Chen Kun. Go outside.

"Come on, let's go take a look!"

The hotel where Wu Yuan and the others stayed was in the center of the small town of Sitges. There was a cinema across the street. The two of them arrived at the entrance of the cinema in just a few steps.

Sure enough, just as Chen Kun said, the cinema was crowded with blond local Sitges audiences and some film producers in suits and ties.

People kept shouting to the theater staff, and the voices were very fierce. Unfortunately, Wu Yuan couldn't understand Spanish and didn't know what the audience was talking about.

But the word "Coherence" is still easy to distinguish, and almost every audience member who argued with the theater staff mentioned this word.

This is exactly the English title of the movie "The Night the Comet Came"!

This movie certainly caused quite a stir in Sitges!

Seeing this scene, Wu Yuan's smile became even brighter. Once he became famous, he didn't have to worry about selling the film.

At this moment, Wu Yuan's cell phone rang, and it was from Producer Chen.

"Director Wu, our film has become a hit in Sitges. The film festival officially informed us that our film will be screened in the next few days, at least five times a day!"

"Also, many film producers from all over the world are coming to us, wanting to buy the copyright and adaptation rights of our movies. Please go back to the hotel!"

In the hotel, Producer Chen's room has been transformed into a temporary negotiation room.

Chen Yuan and Wu Yuan, wearing suits, were sitting behind office chairs and entertaining a somewhat bald foreign man.

"John, I know that Fox Searchlight is very capable and very powerful in the field of low-cost small film production and distribution."

"But the price you gave is really too low."

Wu Yuan frowned and kept shaking his head, looking like he couldn't reach an agreement.

Fox Searchlight is a subsidiary of Twentieth Century Fox, one of the six major Hollywood studios.

Twentieth Century Fox will definitely look down on B-type film festivals like Sitges, but their Fox Searchlight is an independent production company that focuses on the low-cost film market.

Although Fox Searchlight was only established in 1994, it has a strong background and the support of its parent company. In just seven years, Fox Searchlight has developed very well.

At least in the North American small-budget film market, Fox Searchlight is a very suitable partner.

Wu Yuan needs to be sold at a high price, and Fox Searchlight has money and is in urgent need of good films to capture territory for itself.

Unfortunately, the negotiations reached a deadlock at the beginning.

Fox Searchlight only hopes to buy out the North American rights to "The Night the Comet Came" for US$500,000, including theatrical release and DVD revenue, and also requires that the adaptation rights be packaged together.

Fox Searchlight plans to adapt its own version of "The Night the Comet Comes" starring all white people to be released in North America, and it must also obtain the adaptation rights.

In fact, Chen Yuan is already very satisfied with the package price of US$500,000.

The production cost of this movie was only 300,000 yuan, which is less than 40,000 US dollars when converted into US dollars!

40,000 versus 500,000, which is already more than 12 times the profit!

If Wu Yuan hadn't stopped him, he would have agreed.

"Fifty thousand US dollars, this price is too cheap!" Wu Yuan shook his head repeatedly: "Just for the North American copyright, it cannot be less than 1.5 million!"

"John, in your eyes, is the value of "Coherence" not as good as that of Thailand's "Silent Fire"?"

"Just by releasing this movie on DVD in North America, Fox can make tens of millions of dollars from the DVD rental business, right?"

The DVD industry in North America is very developed, and many movies can earn more than 10 million US dollars annually in the DVD market.

Especially cult films, even those who are slightly famous can earn millions of dollars from DVDs.

Horror movies like "Blair Witch" and "Saw" can earn tens of millions of dollars a year from DVD alone.

But John would not let Wu Yuan raise the price. He also kept shaking his head and retorted: "No, no, no, this is different. Director Wu, this is a Chinese movie!"

"North American audiences don't understand Chinese movies, and they may not necessarily pay for a Chinese movie. This is a very risky thing!"

"What happened to Chinese movies?" Wu Yuan raised his eyebrows: "We have many excellent directors in China, such as Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige. They are all directors who have won the European Film Festival Award."

“Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, and Jet Li are all internationally renowned Chinese faces!”

"There is also "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" directed by Li Yu, which will be released in North America next week. I believe this movie will achieve good box office."

"Our Chinese films are also very popular in North America!"

"But this is Ang Lee plus Chinese Kung Fu!" John quickly interrupted Wu Yuan and said disappointedly: "Director Wu, this joke is not funny at all."

""Coherence" is not a Chinese kung fu movie. You know, only kung fu movies from Chinese movies have a market in North America!"

"No." Wu Yuan stretched out a finger and shook it: "John, you also know in your heart that North American audiences like movies like "Coherence"."

"'Coherence' is different from other Chinese films. It is a brain-burning science fiction suspense film, and there are a lot of North American audiences who like this kind of film, right?"

The two of them were in tit-for-tat confrontation, with neither one willing to take a step back and both using various excuses to add weight to themselves.

Chen Yuan sat aside and opened his mouth again and again, not knowing what to say.

Who is the producer?

Who is the person in charge of China Film?

Why do you feel that Wu Yuan understands the foreign film market better than him?

John also felt that the super young director in front of him was not only good at making movies, he was also very shrewd and difficult to handle beyond imagination.

"Huh." After a long sigh, John looked at Wu Yuan and said slowly: "We each take a step back. One million US dollars is the highest offer I can give within my authority."

"I believe no North American studio can offer a higher price."

"After all, this is just a movie made with a very small budget. I don't think the cost was even 500,000 yuan, right?"

Chen Yuan pulled Wu Yuan's arm under the table. He was really satisfied with the price.

Wu Yuan also knew that this was probably the limit that John could give.

After a few seconds of silence, he nodded, but before John could smile, Wu Yuan added: "It's just the North American copyright, not including the adaptation rights."

"If you want the adaptation rights, let's talk about it separately!"

This old boy wants to package the adaptation rights together. What a waste of money!

The adaptation rights of "Infernal Affairs" alone were sold for US$1.75 million. Even if the box office of "The Night the Comet Comes" cannot be as high as "Infernal Affairs", it can't be given away for free!

The adaptation rights to "The Night the Comet Came" had to be sold for two to three hundred thousand dollars, right?

The adaptation rights were not obtained in vain. The smile on John's face immediately stopped. He took a deep look at Wu Yuan and read out Wu Yuan's name completely for the first time.

"Director Wu Yuan? Sorry, your Chinese name is a bit difficult to pronounce."

John smiled, looked directly into Wu Yuan's bright eyes seriously, and asked with deep meaning: "Do you want to be the next Ang Lee?"

"Come to Hollywood!"

"Your film style and subject matter are very suitable for Hollywood and the North American film market."

"China's film market is not worthy of your film, at least not now."

"You will have a better future in Hollywood!"

"How about it? We at Fox Searchlight welcome an excellent director like you and are willing to invest in your movie."

"And you're smart, a smart guy."

"Smart people should understand that Hollywood is the right place for you to show your talent!"

This is indeed a Chinese entertainment novel, not a US entertainment novel.