The next day, Zhang Yuan went to the exhibition hall shared by "Isabella" and "Crazy Stone" as planned.
Director Peng Hao saw him coming, and then he stood up lazily.
Except for him, the other members of the "Isabella" crew were also sitting bored.
The heroine Liang Luoshi was bored and went shopping to hook up with white foreigners, but no one was seen at all.
The main reason why these people are so bored is because in the past three days, there have been very few people coming to watch, and there are absolutely no people buying movies.
Zhang Yuan remembers that "Isabella" finally won a Silver Bear Award for Best Film Score.
This thing adds very little to the value of the film itself, but it is quite helpful to film musicians.
"Zhang Yuan, this is what small-budget movies like ours are like."
"It would be better if they won an award. If they don't win and there are no big-name actors and directors, it will be very difficult at the film festival. It’s hard to get attention.”
Peng Haoxiang was afraid that Zhang Yuan would think they were deliberately not helping with promotion and would complain to Brother Hua.
Zhang Yuan didn't think about that at all.
But he saw that the rebellious guy Yu Wenle deliberately squeezed out a few smiles towards him, as if to say hello.
After being reminded by Peng Haoxiang last time, Yu Wenle became more careful.
Then when I was bored, I read through the "Crazy Stone" that Zhang Yuan brought, and found that there was Fan Bingbing in it!
The crew immediately realized that Zhang Yuan’s network of connections in mainland China might not be simple.
"It's okay..." Zhang Yuan patted the other party's shoulder and told him to relax: "Can you prepare some tea and snacks for me?"
"A big shot will be coming soon."
"Oh, prepare more tea and drinks."
"There will be more people in the future."
"What do you mean?" Peng Hao was confused.
At this moment, guests suddenly arrived outside the small exhibition hall.
“Zhang!”
An old white man swaggered into the room, then pulled Zhang Yuan and gave him a warm hug.
To be honest, Zhang Yuan was a little disgusted.
Afraid of contracting some disease that you shouldn’t get...
Peng Haoxiang raised his eyes and immediately opened his mouth.
"Harvey..."
"Who is this?" Seeing his reaction, the other members of the "Isabella" crew hurriedly asked.
Peng Haoxiang immediately gave a general introduction to several people.
Soon, the rest of them also showed the same expression.
"Why is Harvey so enthusiastic about Zhang Yuan?" Everyone was puzzled.
“When I make a low-budget movie, I can find Fan Bingbing.”
“I come to Berlin to sell movies and I can get Harvey...”
“He and Ha What’s the relationship between Wei and Wei?”
They didn’t know that Harvey invited Zhang Yuan to be a fellow traveler last night.
If it weren't for Zhang Yuan's fear of being dragged into fencing by him, both of them would have accomplished one of the "Four Irons in Life" by having visited a prostitute together.
Du Wenze, Huang Qiusheng, and Yu Wenle, these rebellious guys, had a neutral attitude when they met Zhang Yuan.
When I usually go to mainland China to hold press conferences, I tend to be nonchalant.
Now as soon as I see Harvey.
Good guy!
The waist is as bent as a crayfish.
The smile on that face and the wrinkles on it can kill mosquitoes.
Zhang Yuan saw the performance of several people and said that he had to learn.
Because if we film an anti-war drama in the future, and play a translator, the Imperial Army, or something like that, we only need to put them in their current state to ensure that they can be accurately portrayed.
It’s true that “the first one is strong and then the second one is respectful, it makes people laugh when they think about it”.
But Harvey was just joking on the surface and had no interest in these guys at all.
And the more you lick him, the more he will treat you as a fool.
After Harvey sat down, Peng Haoxiang hurriedly prepared to play "Crazy Stone" and even ran to fetch tea and water himself.
The domestic version of the film is 98 minutes long, and Zhang Yuan strongly requested Ning Hao to cut the version broadcast at the film festival to 88 minutes.
A faster pace can catch people.
Harvey originally planned to take a few fake looks, and then start going through the process as agreed with Zhang Yuan yesterday.
What I didn’t expect was that, looking at it, this person really took it in.
""Memory"."
""Two Smoking Barrels"?"
Halfway through, Harvey turned to ask Zhang Yuan.
"Almost the same, but with a lot of Chinese characteristics."
"Wow!" Harvey sighed in surprise.
At first he thought it was some kind of literary film, but he didn’t expect it to be a small-budget commercial film.
If it is a film like this, if it is placed in small theaters in North America and advertised with the Chinese version of "Two Smoking Barrels", it might really create a lot of box office.
Anyway, the other party said, give me two years of free broadcasting rights, and I will make money no matter what I do.
Harvey was satisfied.
He discovered that this Chinese boy was not only very powerful, but his photos were also anything but ordinary.
88 minutes later, Harvey watched the entire film and even clapped with satisfaction.
“I saw the creativity of Chinese films.” He commented.
Peng Hao saw that he was so generous to him, so he quickly asked him to take a look at his "Isabella".
Harvey thought to himself that this film should be of the same genre as "Crazy Stone".
Just take a look, it might be interesting.
Twenty minutes later.
"Zhang, I'm very busy today, let's sign the contract now."
Peng Haoxiang:...
"Crazy Stone" made Harvey watch the entire audience, but when "Isabella" was played, Harvey felt that the door to Chinese low-budget films that had just been opened by "Stones" had been closed again...
When they saw that Harvey and Zhang Yuan signed a copyright contract worth 500,000 US dollars, Peng Haoxiang and Du Wenze were so jealous that they almost bled.
500,000 US dollars is equivalent to or even exceeds the production cost of "Crazy Stone".
The reason Zhang Yuan set this price was because he wanted Harvey to serve as an anchor for the price.
He is a North American tycoon and naturally has deep pockets.
Other small European film producers cannot afford as much money as him, but they will use his price as a reference. After taking into account the population and consumption power of their own market, they can come up with a rough price.
So the price is set too low, and the upper limit is stuck.
Setting it too high will scare away film producers.
The price of US$500,000 is relatively reasonable.
Soon, news spread throughout the Berlin Film Festival that Harvey spent $500,000 to purchase a small-budget Chinese film.
Immediately, a large number of small film producers followed suit.
If Harvey buys it, it means there is a market for this film!
In the next two days, a total of hundreds of film producers came to visit, and more than ten of them signed one to two-year copyright contracts with "Crazy Stone".
Zhang Yuan hired a professional manager. Such people are easy to find at film festivals.
After rough calculation, I have received a total of almost 1.35 million US dollars in copyright fees.
Excluding taxes and miscellaneous fees, you should be able to get more than one million US dollars.
The US dollar exchange rate in 2006 was close to 1:8.
In other words, Zhang Yuan earned more than 8 million from selling copyrights in the past few days alone.
And this part of the money does not need to be shared with the theater chain or the producer. There is only so much that can be obtained.
If you want to get 8 million in revenue through theaters, the box office must be at least 20 million to 25 million.
Even Feng Xiaogang only raised his box office to this level after "A Sigh" in 2000.
The total box office of "Big Shot" in 2001 was less than 40 million.
It is not easy for a small-budget movie to earn 20 million box office in China Cinemas in 2006.
So this sales result may not seem like much, but it has already made the crew of "Isabella" salivate.
The key point is that "Crazy Stone" Kuang Kuang has signed a contract, but "Isabella" has not opened yet!
Especially after Zhang Yuan and Brother Hua made a good news call.
After knowing that the film had paid back and made money before it even aired, Brother Hua happily said that he would invite Zhang Yuan to his home.
Because Andy Lau knew very well that Zhang Yuan must have done something to make the film sell so many copies.
The millions earned are not a lot of money for Hua Ge, but if this film can make money, it can help him get rid of the title of "investing in the dark lamp".
This is what makes him happiest!
[I received a thank you from Andy Lau, +1 for my acting skills! 】
Because of this, Brother Hua thought that "Isabella", a film he also invested in, turned out like this.
It seems to be entirely a matter of personal ability.
I am afraid of comparison in everything. Once compared, these Xiangjiang guys will appear to be incompetent.
“That’s right.” Brother Hua was happy and told Zhang Yuan something: “There will be a movie at the end of the year, in which I will star, and I am preparing it now.”
"Are you interested in coming over and playing?"
"What movie is it?" Zhang Yuan was curious.
“The one who talks about drug dealers is called ‘The Disciple’.” Brother Hua replied.
Hey...it's a good movie.
Zhang Yuan became energetic.
"Don't be nervous, just read the script first and call me if you are interested." Brother Hua said politely.
Obviously because of "Crazy Stone", I wanted to give him a reward.
"Okay, thank you so much, Brother Hua."
Putting down the phone, Zhang Yuanxin said that Andy Lau is worthy of being an evergreen figure in the entertainment industry, and he is indeed a good person and doing things well.
He is a person who can truly make friends. When Du Wenze and Shawn Yue heard that Brother Hua was going to introduce film appointments to Zhang Yuan, their molars became sore.
We are all from Xiangjiang, why doesn’t Brother Hua praise us...
Is it because "Isabella" did not sell well?
That’s not a problem with our performance, nor a problem with the film, it’s obviously those foreigners who don’t know the stuff!
Zhang Yuan was too lazy to care what they thought.
Today is the last day for him and Hua Yi in Berlin. In the next few days, all copyright sales for "Crazy Stone" will be handed over to the manager.
If you are interested in coming to the door, this person will help you negotiate. Zhang Yuan only needs to make a decision and sign the contract.
Back in the exhibition hall of "Night Banquet", the Wang brothers looked not very good.
Because just as Zhang Yuan expected, after Harvey boasted about the $8 million in Haikou, he did not mention the signing of the contract for the next two days.
However, the Wang brothers were not wary yet and just assumed that the other party was busy.
"I heard your business is good there?" Wang Zhonglei took Zhang Yuan to sit down and chat.
He and Hua Yi reported the participation in the sale of "Crazy Stone".
Hua Yi has a good relationship with Liu Dehua, and he has shares in Zhang Yuan Company, so there is no reason to stop him, so he lets him do it.
I just heard in the past two days that there is a low-budget film from China that is very popular among European film producers.
After the Wang brothers found out, they went to inquire about it.
After asking, I found out that it was Zhang Yuan who had done this again.
“Can this kid still do sales work?”
The two brothers thought that Zhang Yuan’s work would be in vain. Who would buy a TV series that has not won awards and has no broadcast results? A low-cost movie.
And "Crazy Stone" is not yet China's "specialty" kung fu movies and court dramas.
Foreigners are generally only interested in Chinese movies with these two themes.
In addition, only dark content that describes the hardships of China will be popular.
Such as "Blind Well" and "Blue and Red".
Unexpectedly, this guy actually sold the film!
"Why did Harvey buy your movie?" Wang Zhonglei asked doubtfully.
“After the dinner that day, I happened to meet him the next day and invited him to watch a movie.”
"It should be "The Night Banquet" that gave him confidence in our Chinese films, so he would be willing to condescend to watch my film."
"Oh, hehehe, yes, yes, that should be the case ." Zhang Yuan's words were obviously very helpful to Wang Zhonglei.
The Wang brothers like to listen to flattery, and they take it seriously when they hear it.
"Look, only by cooperating with us, Hua Yi, will you have such an opportunity."
"So you have to follow the company's footsteps." Wang Zhonglei patted him on the shoulder.
"Naturally, "The Banquet" is the biggest movie I have ever made. This is the opportunity given to me by Hua Yi."
Zhang Yuanxin said that the sale of "Crazy Stone" was also the opportunity given by Hua Yi. .
Without you, I wouldn't have a chance to chat with Harvey.
After he finished having sex with Wang Zhonglei, Zhang Ziyi came to his side.
“Did you go out the night before yesterday?”
"Huh?" Zhang Yuan suddenly became alert.
"How did you know?"
"I...guessed it." Zhang Ziyi then realized that she would only know if the other person was there if she knocked on the door.
Wouldn’t it be revealing to say this?
"Don't worry, I won't leak it." International Zhang winked at her.
She was not from Huayi, so why did she need to report to the two brothers?
There are four members of the Huayi crew in the exhibition hall, including Zhang Yuan and Zhang Ziyi. Do you think the two Wang brothers can still be together?
"It must be that night, what did you do to find Harvey?" Zhang Ziyi said again.
"Maybe you sold yourself out? I heard that many of those Hollywood big shots are for both men and women..."
Zhang Yuan:...
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You heard it right, but your guess was wrong!
"If you want to say that, it seems that I have to find an opportunity to prove to you how upright I am." Zhang Yuan gritted his teeth and said.
"Okay, okay, when?" Zhang Ziyi heard what he said and hurriedly agreed.
Zhang Yuan: ...
“You’re kidding.” Seeing the tense expression on his face, Jiujiazhang calmly smoothed things over.
But it wasn't really a joke, only she knew it.
The reason why she said this was to determine whether Zhang Yuan had any personal contact with Harvey.
Now seeing his reaction, my suspicion was confirmed.
She never planned to join Hua Yi, she was very ambitious.
Especially after becoming an "International Chapter", I have reaped the dividends of Hollywood, with high salary and many endorsements, which is a lot of fun.
Look at those actors who have been to Hollywood, such as Fat Brother, International Chapter, Li Lienjie... After each return, they had a lot of requirements for filming and enjoyed all kinds of top-notch, even super perks.
How can I be willing to be controlled by Hua Yi if I feel so good?
Because of this, although she didn’t know how Zhang Yuan contacted Harvey, she understood that Harvey would definitely be helpful to her overseas development.
In addition, Zhang Yuan has shown enough strength to gain her respect in his previous work on the crew.
This man was very optimistic about Zhang Yuan's future and decided to make friends with him.
That night, Hua Yi and his party took a plane back to China.
A lot of European rights to "The Banquet" have been sold, but compared to the $8 million promised by Harvey, it's just a small sum.
Hua Yi also negotiated with Sony and other major companies regarding copyright rights in Bang and Island countries.
Although it has not yet been finalized, news has been released, claiming that Sony has offered a price of US$5 million for the rights to the island country.
In fact, it is all about creating momentum.
Only the two brothers know how much money they have received.
Anyway, Zhang Yuan was very satisfied with the income from this trip, which was a good start for his company's overseas development.
For the next few days, Zhang Yuan has been filming on the set step by step.
Everything is fine, no accidents.
But not long after, Wang Zhonglei came to the crew to supervise the work. He was very picky and dissatisfied with everything.
I also gave Feng Xiaogang a thumbs-up, saying that his filming progress was too slow!
Under normal circumstances, when a company's performance is not good, it will start to focus on attendance.
Zhang Yuan saw Xiao Wang's performance and he knew it roughly.
"Harvey's continued delay should have made the two brothers feel that something was wrong."
He remained calm, doing whatever he had to do, as if it had nothing to do with him. .
Xiao Wang didn't leave as soon as he arrived. He showed up for several days in a row and watched them acting and filming on the set every day.
If something goes wrong with this film, Hua Yi will suffer a big loss.
But Xiao Wang didn’t know how to film, so he could only watch and complain.
Seeing that the boss was upset, all the staff were very cautious, for fear of offending this famously irritable old man in the imperial circle.
At the same time, a few days after Xiao Wang came to the crew, Zhang Yuan saw an acquaintance again at the hotel where they were staying.
Huo Siyan.
Xiao Wang liked her quite a lot and took her with him wherever he went.
But this one does have some information.
Zhang Yuan clearly remembers the scene in "I Want to Be Famous" where he took off his clothes and took a photo.
Small branches bear fruit, this is what I am talking about.
A few days later, Zhang Yuan heard Feng Xiaogang and Zhang Li talking secretly before starting work, so he came over.
"What are we talking about?"
"It's you!" Feng Xiaogang covered his chest: "I was shocked."
Seeing the mysterious look of the two of them , Zhang Yuan knew something was wrong.
“What’s wrong?”
"That's you, just listen and don't tell anyone."
Director Feng and Zhang Li didn't treat him as an outsider.
"Last night, Xiao Wang answered the phone and immediately became furious."
"What happened?" Zhang Yuan asked knowingly.
"There should be a problem with the overseas copyright of the film. He rushed abroad early this morning."
"That's it. Isn't it a good thing that he's gone? I won't have to worry about you."
After Zhang Yuan finished speaking, Feng Xiaogang happily showed his big yellow teeth: "It's a good thing, hehe..."
< br>“But that’s not what we are talking about.”
Director Feng lowered his voice.
“Huo Siyan went to the emergency room at midnight last night.”
"I heard that he was carried away on a stretcher. There were a lot of bruises on his body."
"Not only was it swollen like a peach, but it was also stuffed with peach..."
"I understand. "Director Feng and Zhang Li both winked at him.
Then what don’t you understand?
Miss Xiangjiangguan also worked as a golf "caddie".
Nothing new about this.
So Zhang Yuan has always felt that the characters of the Wang brothers are very similar to those of the old Xiangjiang bosses.
As for Huo Siyan, he had no sympathy or regret.
Berlin celebrates with her.
Now that I am in a bad mood, I still use her when I vent my feelings.
The path is chosen by oneself.
"I want to be famous"?
There is a price to pay! (End of this chapter)