194 Noto House(1)(1/2)
With a purchase of the North American distribution rights of "No One Leaves", it will definitely be a loss to make a lot of money.
Bai Kui mainly praised this to win over Zhang Mouzi. In the future, he will film excellent movies such as "The Big Red Lantern Hanging High", "Jupou" and "Alive". They can be watched in the past "friendship" and will be sold to Wademark for the first time.
Secondly, it is to open up Wademark's image of fame in China.
Not only has Chen Kai arrived, but a group of Chinese directors known as the "sixth generation" have also come to the door.
For them, Bai Quinn's reply was: "Watch it as a movie." He used the results to buy out North American distribution. Those who have the potential to win the prize will go to theaters, and those who don't have to release videotapes and DVDs.
Wademark's image is taking the winning route, and you need to learn from Miramax and create the personality of an award winning expert.
We need to come up with more good movies to firmly tie up American art theaters.
Bai Quinn was unwilling to discuss box office share with the manager of the Arts Academics at one percentage point and one percentage point each time.
If you want to gain the right to speak, you must make the theater manager dare not abandon you easily.
Five or six foreign films can be introduced every year, and two or three of them have the potential to win awards, which allows managers of the art theater to sign long-term contracts with Wademark Image and to spare a free time for the movies introduced by Wademark Image when needed.
Obviously, Chen Kaige's "Jing Ke Assassination of Qin King" is difficult to meet Bai Quinn's needs. In terms of winning the award, it is far inferior to Zhang Mouzi's rural films.
Most Americans are not interested in history outside of European history. Telling a historical story with causes and consequences is better than a superficial adventure to attract ordinary audiences.
Films that reflect the modern urban life in China are difficult to satisfy the curiosity of the Oscar judges, and they are more willing to go to stories that happen in an environment that is completely different from their own lives.
Strangeness creates curiosity.
Watching a movie like this will make them feel out of the low-level interest and look at other civilizations from a higher level.
Voting for such a movie can occupy the high ground of public opinion and show your broadness and fraternity.
This is also one of the factors that makes Zhang Mouzi's "Big Red Lantern Hanging High" and "Jupou" nominated for Oscars.
Whether intentional or better at this field, Bai Quinn feels that being able to seize the judges’ favorite Zhang Mouzi is more valuable than giving up the great situation of "Farewell My Concubine" and turning to film big-scale commercial films.
The so-called "after the film is completed, let's talk about it again, it's just an oriental refusal.
Unfortunately, in Zhang Mouzi's drama film, dialogue is the main means to promote the plot, and American audiences do not like to watch subtitles, which is a major reason why foreign language films are not ideal in the box office in the United States.
Last year's total box office of foreign language films accounted for 2% of the total box office in the United States, and most of them came from art theaters that focused on long-term screenings.
An ordinary American audience can only watch movies for $8-10 a year, most of which are concentrated on watching movies during holidays. They can’t even watch domestic blockbusters, so they can’t choose foreign language films that are difficult to understand.
Only those young people from wealthy and leisure families who are rich and have a leisurely life, whether they are artistic, to show their taste during dates, or who are really interested in the content of the movie, will choose to go to the theater and watch a foreign language film.
As for B-level films, European art films, and Jack-sen's action films that benefited from the reduction of videotape rental prices after the 1980s, they are another category.
In short, it seems that Wademark's image is temporarily difficult to take into account both the winning and the box office. To win the winning and winning the winning and losing three or five million yuan is within an acceptable range. Once a certain film wins the Oscar for the best foreign language film, it can earn three or five years of operation costs in one wave.
However, Bai Quinn had a vague confidence that with the economic development of China, the film market in China would also experience a booming era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.
At that time, excellent commercial films will inevitably emerge, and excellent works that can open up the American market.
As long as he participates in it at the right time, he will be able to catch up with the dividends of this wave of development and then he can make a good fortune from the box office.
By then, the investment now will be retracted several times.
After all, Bai Quinn is still a businessman.
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Bai Quinn and Sarah visited the Forbidden City, climbed the Great Wall, traveled to Xi'an and Chengdu, then arrived in Chongqing, took a boat down the river to visit the Three Gorges, followed by Wuhan, Nanjing, Shanghai, and finally set off from Shanghai to Japan.
In addition to promoting "Rush Hour" and playing, Bai Quinn also has other purposes to come to Japan.
As the saying goes, the person who cares about you the most is your opponent. Bai Quinn's attention to Harvey is also in all aspects. This time he is here to dig out Harvey's corner again.
As early as two months ago, Bai Quinn learned from Lena's online audience that Miramax's cartoon "Ghost Princess", edited and directed by Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki, encountered "unbridgeable differences", and even led to "Ghost Princess" not being released this year!
To be precise, the producers of "Princess Ghost" Toma Bookstore and Studio Ghibli sold the North American distribution rights to Disney, rather than Miramax, who has independent operation rights despite being listed under Disney's name.
Moreover, in order to win "Princess Ghost", Disney bought two other cartoons "Sky City" and "The Little Witch's House" produced by Studio Ghibli in the 1980s.
After being dubbed in English, these two movies were not publicly released, but entered the video tape market directly.
By the way, after Christen Dunst finished filming "The Big League of Fans" co-starring Wademark Image and Sarah Knoshang, the old man in New York, he went to help Disney dub the protagonist Kiki, the Little Witch's Housekeeper.
As for the 1997 Japanese box office champion "The Ghost Princess", Disney gave it to Miramax, who has rich experience in distributing foreign language films.
If it were normal, Bai Quinn's Wademark image would naturally not have any idea to Disney, but this time Harvey seemed to offend Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki. With the mentality of having no dates but having a shot, Bai Quinn visited Hayao Miyazaki, hoping to win the North American distribution rights for Studio Ghibli's future works.
Bai Quinn, who was impure in his trip to Japan, hurriedly ended the premiere in Tokyo, and met with Japanese employees who had been waiting for the image of Wademark for a long time, and drove to Yamagata Prefecture in northeastern Japan to the Yinshan River located in the mountains.
Silver Mountain is a mountain stream, famous for its hot springs. In addition to taking a hot spring to relax, Bai Quinn came here to meet Hayao Miyazaki here.
Tokyo has just begun to fall, and the altitude is high and the Yinshan Mountains are already chilling.
Several Americans who were not prepared felt the malice from the mountains as soon as they got off the car.
Bai Quinn hurriedly took off her suit jacket and put it on Sarah, who was still wearing a thin skirt, and hugged her girlfriend in her arms.
Carrey Fukunaga, a mixed-race Japanese-American who was born and raised in California, was obviously confused. This photography assistant who was in his early twenties and just graduated from Southern California University was sent to work as a translator because of his Japanese expertise. As a third-generation immigrant, it was also his first time to set foot on the land of his hometown.
Carey Fukunaga felt that he had made a mistake and failed to find out the climate in the mountains in advance.
Even though the boss Bai Quinn didn't say anything, Fu Yong was still very guilty.
When I saw the people I was traveling with, Sarah was taken care of by her boss himself. The youngest assistant wore a loose sweatshirt and pulled her hood on her, she looked like a person who was fine. She followed the boss's footsteps along the river and mountain road to the hot spring town.
Only another female assistant with short hair was left, wearing only thin pants and a long coat, and was already trembling with cold.
Fukuyong hurried forward, took off his coat and handed it to the female assistant named Lina.
Unexpectedly, the short-haired woman glared at me and didn't accept the clothes he handed over. She simply trotted to chase the boss ahead, leaving Fu Yong's face full of embarrassment and messy in the wind.
"Hey, Carey, hurry up and keep up, which hotel we booked in the Nong House?" Bai Quinn turned his head and shouted to Carey Fukuyong down the slope.
"At the end of Hot Spring Street, you have to walk about five or six bridges... Only the bridge that can reach the door is red..." Carrie Fukunaga has carefully checked the information. It is a rare opportunity. He needs to show his best side in front of his boss.
Although he is just a photography assistant, Carey Fukunaga's dream is to become a real director. For this reason, he is a history student, but since he entered the school, he actively participated in the activities of the school's film club and looked for opportunities to participate in real film production.
Fortunately, USC has a large number of alumni resources in the film and television industry, and these people often return to their alma mater to provide some internship opportunities for their juniors.
Carrey Fukunaga took advantage of the internship opportunity to enter the industry. With his intelligence, enthusiasm and hard work, he obtained a photography assistant position as Wademark Image after graduation.
This time, traveling to Japan with the boss is a rare opportunity for Carrey Fukunaga. After seizing the opportunity to please the boss, he is one step closer to his directorial dream.
The group passed through most of the hot spring street in the cold wind and finally arrived at the destination "Nengwu Hotel".
The Nengwu Hotel is a Dazheng-style building with a slight foreign style. It has four floors and a full wooden structure. The entrance of the hotel is facing the red railings on the Yinshan River.
Next to the gate is a tall paulownia "tower painting", which describes the name of the Ginyama Trailblazer "Mito Sazuo Gate".
The hotel owner in a kimono had been waiting for everyone at the door. Under the guidance of the boss, the group entered the hotel.
Because the hotel has floor heating, the chill was immediately dispersed as soon as you enter the house, and everyone felt comfortable. The boss introduced the history of "Neng's House" in a timely manner and told the guests very proudly that Neng's House was the filming location of the TV series "Ashin".
At this time, Carey Fukunaga played a role. While translating the boss’s introduction, he urged the boss’s wife to arrange for everyone to check in the room as soon as possible and provide warm yukatas to replace.
The boss and his girlfriend went to the hot spring to relieve their fatigue, and Carrie Fukunaga's work had not been completed. He kept in mind the important mission arranged by the boss, hurriedly changed into Japanese yukata, and went to find the boss's wife to get close to him to find out the situation of another group of guests who arrived yesterday. He needed to help the boss find an opportunity to "meet" Miyazaki Hayao.
The "Twenty-Power Tips" that was invincible in the United States failed in Japan. The boss immediately refused and his tone became cold.
And obviously, the Milf's boss lady doesn't eat Carrey Fukunaga's American and Japanese mixed-race appearance. If she was in Tokyo, which advocates American culture, Carrey Fukunaga could easily hook up with the little girl in the bar with the advantage of mixed-race. In the countryside of Northeast Japan, mixed-race such as him was derogatory as "Haf" and was the target of bullying and ridicule.
In the end, Carey Fuyon could only change his tricks and followed the boss's wife to complain, claiming that if he couldn't handle this, he would lose his job, and his family's life in the United States would be lost and he might be left on the streets.
These words finally moved the boss's wife, implying that his famous cartoon director likes to play table tennis with his friends after dinner.
Bai Quinn didn't know about the "sexy operation" of Carrie Fuyong, who had a wealthy family, and was disgusted by the hotel owner for free, and was still having sex with Sarah in the "private soup".
Finally, in the Great Harmony, a new song sung by a girl was added to Bai Quinn's Memory Fragment Library.
IknowthatIam nnin'outoftime
I know there is not much time left
Iwantitall
I want to have everything
AndI'mwishin'they'dstoptryin'toturnmeoff
I hope they don't try to bore me
Iwantiton
I'm going to keep moving forward
AndI'mwalkin'onawire
Even though I was terrified along the way
Tryin'togohighe
I also want to do my best to go further
...
Andnattertheweathe
Whether it is sunny or rainy
Weandoitbette
To be continued...