In fact, not only mainstream theaters in the United States, but also many mainstream theaters in other countries have refused to show this movie in their theaters.
"Refuse to release? What's going on? Is there some misunderstanding in the sharing agreement?"
Zhu Youxing couldn't understand something.
It shouldn't be a big problem if a movie is shown in a theater.
It was Tukarev who told Zhu Youxing about this. It was night in the United States. He was sitting in his office in a bad mood and finally couldn't help but call Zhu Youxing.
During this time, his staff have been trying to distribute the film to theaters.
In the past, this was actually quite smooth. Even if I was targeted last time, it didn't affect my ability to release movies in theaters.
But this time, we encountered quite a few obstacles.
He asked his subordinates to go to multiple theater chains to negotiate in person, but the final results were not very good.
Tukarev explained while making a sound of Russian national curse: "It is not a question of the sharing agreement. They refused directly without even talking to us about the sharing. It is obvious that someone is instigating it behind the scenes."
After saying this, Tukarev let out several more classic Russian curses.
"Someone is instigating this behind the scenes? Instigating the entire film industry alliance. This has a lot of influence." Zhu Youxing said with a click of his tongue.
"This should be something that at least the top ten film industry groups can do. They all have their own power in the cinema guild, and I think there may not only be one film industry group exerting influence. Mr. Zhuyou, I'm afraid someone
It's directed at me, and it may also be directed at you. I'm very sorry that it affected the release of your movie."
Tukarev's previous release of his own Star Ocean movie in the United States really angered some colleagues.
Many of them are influential figures in the industry.
Although the final result was that his movie was a great success and became one of the models of low-cost and high-return, many people still dismissed him.
"No, you don't have to say that. We can be considered friends. We definitely need to advance and retreat together."
Zhu Youxing felt quite calm after hearing this.
It's quite normal to be targeted, but for a movie to be targeted like this, these people are really making a fuss out of a molehill.
"Then there's no way to let go?"
Tukarev shook his head and said: "I'm afraid not, Mr. Zhuyou. These people are very insistent this time and do not allow the movie to be released at all. Their persistence really surprised me. They were not like this in the past."
It’s hard to talk.”
Zhu Youxing was silent for a moment and then said: "Wait and see, I feel that this matter may not be over yet. Did you contact me after talking to multiple cinemas?"
"Yes, I just called you right after the negotiation with the last relatively large theater chain fell apart."
"Then let's wait. Anyway, the movie is not in a hurry. There is still half a year to go."
Tukarev nodded: "Okay, then I'm going to take a nap, Suka..."
Tukarev hung up the phone in a depressed mood.
Having been in the film industry for so many years, I have never had a smooth journey, which is really annoying.
On Zhu Yusei's side, he was still supervising the film production of Final Fantasy 7 just now.
The main thing is the rendering of special effects, which needs to be as refined as possible. The picture quality of Final Fantasy 7 Advent Children produced by myself is much improved compared to the original work.
The original work was released in 2005 and still used technology from around 2003.
In this world, the overall technology has been advanced for ten years, which is almost equivalent to the level of technology in 2013, so the special effects can also be done better.
Unexpectedly, the supervisor received such news which was not particularly pleasant.
As Tukarev said, it should basically be a few well-known film groups exerting influence.
These large film industry groups may not be able to easily shake their peers at the same level.
But a small film distributor like Tukarev can still deal with it easily.
There is no easier way to prevent a movie from being released than through their own hands.
After thinking for a while, Zhu Youxing felt that there was no need to continue wasting time on this. He would wait and see if there was any further movement in the United States.
Then he devoted himself to the development of movies and Monster Hunter again, and no longer paid attention to things in the United States.
In fact, as Zhu Youxing guessed, things did not end so simply.
I don’t know what’s going on, but a group of old guys from the academic school in Hollywood in the United States took the initiative to stand up this time, and took the initiative to say on some publicity platforms that Yuxing Electronic Entertainment is not professional.
"First of all, I must admit that Youxing Electronic Entertainment has an unshakable position in its own industry. This is really amazing. One company can occupy such a dominant position. Other companies that compete with Youxing Electronic Entertainment should be quite desperate.
But I want to say that it is a good thing for a company like this to enter the film and television industry, and it can explore new industries, but what he did really touched my red line."
During a movie premiere, a very senior filmmaker directly began to disparage Youxing Electronic Entertainment in front of the media.
His expression was very disgusting, as if he had a deep hatred for Youxing Electronic Entertainment.
The reporters almost put the interview microphone directly into the filmmaker's mouth, trying to get more interesting information from the filmmaker: "So, what is your red line?"
"My red line is the director's dignity."
"The director's dignity?"
"That's right." The filmmaker nodded and said, "This person named Zhu Youxing is an excellent game developer. Many people recognize this identity very much. Many people even give him the title of God of Games.
, this is very powerful, but I want to say that this is not the reason for him to override the director and become a higher commander. The director’s command power should be respected. His behavior is trampling on the director’s dignity. It’s just this matter that I
I will absolutely boycott all movies produced by Youxing Electronic Entertainment."
"I see, then besides you, are there many other filmmakers who have the same idea?"
"That's for sure. Now we have united with many movie theater chains to boycott this behavior. We must give the director the highest respect. Unless Youxing Electronic Entertainment changes its mind and allows the director to regain the dominant position, we will not let go."
This is more or less breaking news. A movie deserves to be boycotted by multiple well-known filmmakers. This is also a very rare thing.
Of course, things are definitely not that simple and innocent.
"Isn't this too obvious? Is there any more shameless behavior than this? When did the United States return to the system of absolute director responsibility? Why haven't I heard of it?" Tukarev said when he saw this interview video.
I couldn't help but curse again.
American film has gone through many stages of development, and it is an industry with a history of nearly a century.
A long time ago, movies were just very simple small pictures, and then gradually evolved into the medium of movies.
In this process, a director is gradually born, and then becomes the overall person in charge of a movie.
This situation changed until a certain big production that almost affected the entire industry was blocked. From then on, the United States no longer had a simple director-general-responsibility system, but added people like producers to supervise the director's behavior. It was necessary
It’s time to stop the director from wasting too much money.
This kind of thing has happened a long time ago, but from the mouths of these filmmakers, it seems that it has never happened.
However, Zhu Youxing's dominant behavior is actually a bit special.
Because Zhu Yuxing not only controlled the budget, but also imposed his own will on this movie.
Zhuyouxing provides the main creative content to the director, and the director is almost the master scheduler, without much freedom of expression.
However, the director himself doesn’t mind this kind of thing, and if outsiders come to criticize it, it’s really just a dog trying to get rid of the mouse.
If there is no inside story, he is really lying to a fool.