Mu Ming's heart for "Genius Gunman" is about 300, after all, the cost of this film is only more than 5 million US dollars.
In fact, the highest copyright record for Chinese films in North America is $600 for Big Brother Cheng.
For films directed by Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaogang, the North American copyright is also about 5 million more.
As for "Let the Bullets Fly", which was touted as a sky-high price of $12 million back then, it has not been sold until now, and I don't know where the 12 million came from.
The organizers of the festival have arranged four screenings for "Talented Gunslinger", after all, this year's festival has a total of 342 films, excluding the opening and closing ceremonies for only nine days, and an average of 38 films will be screened every day.
It's good to have four.
There was only one screening on the first day, and the film and television companies that watched "Genius Gunman" did not complete the transaction on the spot, and they needed to go back and discuss it carefully before they could determine whether and how much to offer.
After all, the purpose of coming to the festival is to pan for gold, not to give money to people.
The audience of Chinese films in the North American market is mainly Chinese, and the market is not large.
There are indeed many North American viewers who like oriental elements, but compared to spending a lot of real money and going to the cinema to watch it, most enthusiasts are still willing to rent a videotape, or online on-demand to study slowly.
Fortunately, there are not too many oriental elements involved in this "Genius Gunman".
On the contrary, plots about cheating, STIC exams, wealth gaps, etc., are also common in North America, and the audience should be broader.
Because of this, there are many film and television companies that have been attracted.
In addition to the Fox searchlights that Mu Ming has seen before, there are also Disney's Touchstone Pictures, Canada's Lionsgate, and the infamous Weinstein Pictures.
It's good to have competition, so that you can get greater benefits.
Mu Ming never felt that he was a business genius, so things like price negotiations were handed over to Du Yang to be responsible.
Get rid of these trivial things, Mu Ming has a lot of free time.
Moreover, this is a film festival, with hundreds of films being screened, and as a movie lover, Mu Ming is not bored at all with the long list of films printed by the organizers.
After reading the film list, Mu Ming found that if "Genius Gunman" is counted, there are a total of three films from China at this year's Toronto Film Festival.
One is Wang Xiaoshuai's new work "The Intruder", starring Lu Zhong, Qin Hao, Feng Yuanzheng, Qin Hailu, these old actors and powerful actors; There is also Xu Anhua's "Golden Age", starring Tang Wei, Wang Zhiwen, Feng Teddy, Huang Xuan, Hao Yan and Yuan Quan.
However, these two have nothing to do with Mu Ming.
And obviously, as the backbone of the sixth-generation director and the director of Xiangjiang, the two of them don't look down on Mu Ming, a rookie director who makes commercial films.
Mu Ming naturally doesn't use her hot face to stick to her cold buttocks, and the reason why she goes to the movies is just because she wants to be close to teachers like Feng Yuanzheng and Qin Hailu.
So far, Mu Ming's three films are all newcomers + old actors or powerful actors.
And I'm afraid this pattern will continue in the future.
Therefore, it is necessary to make friends with such powerful actors.
In fact, Mu Ming really wanted to find Teacher Feng Yuanzheng to play the perverted neighbor who imprisoned the heroine's mother and son in "Room".
The perverted image of An Jiahe in the original "Don't Talk to Strangers" has become a shadow of many people's childhood, and with the words of "Room", it is estimated that this shadow can be deepened by several percent.
Mu Ming chatted with him for a while, but he didn't expect Teacher Feng Yuanzheng to be a little interested in this role.
But after all, this will be abroad, and it will be the screening site of "The Intruder", so the two made an appointment to wait for Mu Ming to return to China and talk in detail.
The Toronto Film Festival has always been known for the number of films screened and the variety of film themes that are available, so there are basically films from all over the world.
For example, Mu Ming saw a Russian movie called "Leviathan".
The Leviathan is a large, evil sea monster in the Bible, and in Western mythology it usually takes the form of a serpent or a whale.
However, after the mythical monster came to China, it took on more names.
For example, what corpse kun, bone kun, devouring kun, chen kun, Xie Guangkun......
In addition to a lot of films, there are a bunch of big-name stars.
Mu Ming originally wanted to see if she could take a photo with "Iron Man", but Donnie only attended the opening ceremony and the first day of the screening and left, which made Mu Ming regretful.
However, after missing the east corner of the mulberry harvest, Mu Ming saw another director he liked very much in his previous life, Damien?
Charesser.
He came here to promote his first feature-length feature film, The Burst Drummer.
Previously, at the Saint-Denis Film Festival at the beginning of the year, the film won two awards: the "Grand Jury Prize" and the "Audience Choice Award".
At the same time, it is also one of this year's Oscar hits.
The movie "Bursting Drummer" was only watched by Mu Ming in 17 years.
Before that, he watched another film by Damien Charezier, La La Land. is the movie that together with "Moonlight Boy", it made the biggest oolong in Oscar history.
To be honest, when Mu Ming first watched this news, she kept thinking that if the U.S. election came out like this, the scene would be estimated to be 100,000 times more exciting.
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After wandering around for three or four days and watching a lot of movies, Du Yang finally contacted him to go back to discuss the sale of the North American rights of "Genius Gunman".
"So far, a total of eight companies have quoted prices."
In the room, Du Yang introduced the situation to Mu Ming: "The two highest bidders, one is the Fox searchlight, and is willing to give a price of $4.2 million; There is also Weinstein Pictures, which gives a price of $6 million. ” "Weinstein forget it, I don't believe they give 10 million."
Mu Ming pursed her lips and vetoed a way first.
If you want to say that the most hated Hollywood filmmakers of domestic television directors, the Weinstein brothers are definitely at the top.
In the first few years of the new millennium, the mainland film market developed rapidly, and many good films gradually went abroad and began to explore the international market.
At this time, the Weinstein brothers, who were once known as the "benefactors of Chinese films" and later called "shameful liars", appeared.
The specific operation is that when a Chinese-language film is released on the international market, the Weinstein brothers shouted a high price of 8 million US dollars and paid a deposit of 20 to 300,000 yuan.
The rest of the film and television companies saw that the price was so high, so they naturally retreated.
And after these film and television companies gave up, he suddenly broke the contract, saying that he didn't want to buy the movie, and the deposit was also given up.
And when the filmmaker was helpless, he forced the filmmaker to sell this movie at a price of 1 million or even lower.
Coupled with the "Weinstein sexual assault case" that was exposed a few years later, Mu Ming didn't want to have anything to do with this kind of person at all.
It's hard for him to guarantee whether he's a collaborator or a prey.
That being the case, all that's left is the Fox searchlight.
It's just that the price of 4.2 million greatly exceeded Mu Ming's bottom line, which made him a little suspicious.
"The Fox searchlight bid is a little too high."
Mu Ming asked Du Yang suspiciously.
"It's really high."
Du Yang nodded, and then continued: "So, they have one additional condition. ”