At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 474 Believe it or not, it's up to you!

"Little Miss Sunshine" first made a big splash at the Sundance Film Festival. In March, it began to be screened in seven theaters in North America on a very small scale, with a box office of 7 US dollars in the first weekend; then the screening range gradually expanded until April 37 , the film was screened in more than 4 theaters in the United States, with a box office of 25 million US dollars on the day of its release, and the box office of the first weekend of the show rushed to the third place in the US box office list of the week.

As of now, the cumulative box office of the film in the United States is 3989 million US dollars...

And word of mouth is good. Generally, movies with good word of mouth can be shown in old and beautiful art theaters for half a year to a year.

Compared with the cost of less than 800 million U.S. dollars, Qin Shihuang simply touched the switch, and he was numb!
Harvey is really... too greedy.

"Little Miss Sunshine" is a project introduced by Shen Xudong, yes, the script was bought out, $180 million...

However, should I send a red envelope to express my feelings and reason?
It's fine if you don't post it, Shen Xudong has already said that Feng Xiaogang is his uncle, and he is still cheating him.

This is not giving face!
"Cooperating with Weinstein means that "The Banquet" has entered the North American market. You should understand what this means..."

Harvey is used to being aggressive towards non-North American filmmakers...

Shen Xudong's face?

How much is it worth?

Harvey was confident that even if "The Banquet" was poor quality, he could sell it to Blockbuster as a package.

"The Banquet" has a sex scene, and Harvey is very good at hyping it up.

In the early years when Harvey worked on Miramax, he bought many art films from Europe and screened them in North America.

European art films often mean passion and sex scenes. Harvey cut out the nude scenes and put them in the trailer to attract the audience. This is how Miramax gradually developed.

"Night Banquet" can certainly do this.

I knew that the position of oriental women in Hollywood is exotic and mysterious beauty.

Generally, in Hollywood movies with oriental women, if you don't have a show with the male protagonist, it's called going against the wishes of the audience!

So, most of them will come.

Zhang Ziyi is currently popular in North America.

Among other things, Memoirs of a Geisha grossed nearly $4200 million in North American video rentals and sales!
"Night Banquet" is operated properly, at least it can earn several million dollars, and if it is lucky enough to pass the quality test, the income will be even higher.

Huang Zhonglei was a little hesitant. North America is the largest single film market in the world. Who wouldn't want to go in and get a share?

He is quite satisfied with the price tag of 500 million US dollars.

The cost of "Night Banquet" was 1500 million U.S. dollars, and it sold nearly 500 million U.S. dollars overseas based on Zhang Ziyi's fame.

This time in Cannes, in order to sell it at a good price, they spent a huge amount of money, and the promotion fee alone was as high as 200 million.

If it can sell for $500 million, it's not bad.

The overseas income is nearly 800 million, and only 700 million US dollars is needed domestically to make money.

So far, "Night Banquet" has sold 1500 million yuan in domestic DVDs, including 500 million yuan from the movie channel and 1500 million yuan from pre-roll advertising, for a total of 3500 million yuan.

In other words, as long as "The Banquet" earns more than 2000 million at the box office, it will be able to recoup its capital.

Of course, the publicity cost is less than 2000 million...

With Feng Xiaogang's fame, how could the box office of "The Banquet" reach [-] million...

Sure to make money!
But now, hearing that Harvey is a liar...

Huang Zhonglei...not very willing to believe it.

He chose to ask Zhang Ziyi's opinion.

The international chapter certainly speaks for Harvey.

Let’s put it this way, Weinstein Films has recently launched an Asian film fund plan, and stated that it will remake "Thirteen Cold-Blooded Eagles", "The Drunk Man", and by the way, "Seven Samurai", starring Zhang Ziyi.

You can still find press releases now: Zhang Ziyi is in talks with The Weinstein Company to star in three films, including a remake of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.

Under this background, how could Zhang Ziyi speak for Shen Xudong?
"As I said, believe it or not, it's up to you."

After leaving a word, Shen Xudong continued to eat.

What he should have done has been done.

Do not believe?
believe it or not!

……

Shen Xudong didn't watch "The Summer Palace", he didn't have any special thoughts about Lou Ye.

Some people think that he is a symbolized director, belonging to the category of being represented-prohibited means excellent.

Liberal young people who belong to all anti-system groups want to move up and look unique.

Therefore, young literary and artistic people cannot do without him in their mouths, and they cannot do without praise. Looking at his works only from the perspective of movies can only be said to be boring.

The script comes from the story club, but everything he shoots is artificial, mysterious, and has no central idea. Countless brain-dead fans call it literature and art.

But some people think that he is awesome and focuses on the expression of lust.

Shen Xudong used to be the first view, even more radical.

He once thought that Lou Ye's film was more like the monologue of a mental patient, a false world imagined by himself, and there are some good-looking shots in it, but there is no logic, only affectation, mystification, sarcasm, self-consciousness and sarcasm. In fact, there was nothing but wailing.

Just like the women in his movies, they cry bitterly while making love, they can't even do love properly, and talk about their thoughts, it's just a crying man hurting the spring and the autumn.

But then I watched "A Night Intoxicated by the Spring Breeze" and "Massage"...

overturned his point of view.

This is a director with a high standard and his own persistence.

But forget about "Summer Palace", it's too dangerous...

In fact, after the screening of "Summer Palace" in Cannes, there was not much discussion.

Our so-called large scale is actually commonplace in Cannes!
European and American art films, if they involve love, there must be sex scenes, and there are a lot of passionate scenes.

Random examples: Bertolucci, Polanski, including Woody Allen, which one has not been exposed?
Even "The Wind Blows the Rice Waves", which has the highest score in Cannes this year, revealed a lot.

It is inappropriate to judge whether a movie is exciting based on whether it is exposed or not, at least at a film festival!

This year's Cannes Almodóvar's "Return" led the way.British director Andrea Arnold's "Red Road" and Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's "Thoughts" are also popular.

Not to mention Ken Roach's "The Wind Blows the Rice Waves" and Kaurismaki's "Lights in the Evening", both of which scored above 3 points.

Against the background of so many excellent works, "The Summer Palace" seems not enough to watch, and there is not much media discussion, which also means that there is no attention.

Movies that can win awards may not necessarily be recognized as good movies, but they will definitely be discussed!
……

"Why are you going?"

"I'm going to a drinking party..."

Shen Xudong passed by Gong Li's interview site and was stopped by her to ask a question, Shen Xudong answered casually.

Gong Li asked him to come over, and then asked: "Did you tell the people on the movie channel that I will win the award this time?"

"That's right... My idea of ​​doing "Carol" is to win an award. What? You don't have confidence?"

"...Xudong has full confidence in "Carol"!"

Shen Xudong glanced and interrupted...

Well, it's a reporter from Nandu.

Therefore, he said: "It is necessary...the official screening will be held tomorrow afternoon, you can go and see it!"

(End of this chapter)