The awards ceremony will have to wait until evening.
During the day, Han Zhou and Wang Xiya planned to go to the movies.
After all, it is a film festival, and all the films sent are being broadcast.
When he arrived at the park, Han Zhou saw a movie promotional poster and was immediately confused.
"This is……"
""dragon"?"
The name of the movie is "dragon" in Russian. You can't tell why by looking at the name, but on this poster, a lone boat is floating on the blue sea like a sacrifice. The heroine in a white dress is sitting on the boat, and a dragon is flying in the air.
This is not what "He is a Dragon" is.
Han Zhou suddenly remembered something interesting, and then said: "Ask them if this movie has been released in the Bear Country!"
Wang Xiya directly communicated with the conductor.
Soon, Wang Xiya received a reply: "It has just been released for a week, and the box office is dismal."
"Sure! That's it!" Han Zhou: "Let's go take a look!"
Wang Xiya was stunned when she heard Han Zhou's words.
What the hell, the box office was dismal, you can’t get your money back, why don’t you go and see it?
"Maybe I didn't make it clear enough. The investment in this movie was about 14 million U.S. dollars, and the first week's box office was almost 700,000 U.S. dollars. It is estimated that not even one-tenth of the cost can be recovered."
Han Zhou: "Let's go and buy tickets to see it."
The more you talk about it, the more it sounds like "He is a Dragon"!
"He is a Dragon" became a hit on the Chinese Internet. The film was widely praised by domestic audiences, and on the short video platform, there were more than 500,000 likes and no less than 50 commentary videos with more than 10,000 comments.
With this kind of popularity, if it had been delayed in China, it would have earned at least over 500 million at the box office!
However, this film was born in the country of the furry bears, which is a tragedy.
Because audiences in the Bear Country are only interested in war movies.
This "He is a Dragon" made me lose all my pants.
The previous movie "He is a Dragon", I heard it was a romance film based on their mythology, ended up taking over 50 million at the box office in China in one week, and was screened at the local box office in China.
The most important thing is that the Chinese copyright only cost 300,000 US dollars to import.
This rate of return is higher than robbing a bank.
Moreover, the publisher did not dare to market it at the beginning and just threw it out like this, which resulted in such box office results!
"It's based on local mythology, and it's a romance film. As long as it's shot beautifully, the effect should be the same as the one in the previous life."
As long as it has a 90% level, it will definitely be a golden mountain if you buy it!
Wang Xiya bought the tickets and walked into the cinema with Han Zhou.
At the same time, Timo Pushkin and his assistants were watching the list of foreign films.
“How much did this movie cost?”
Of course, Teemo was asking about the box office at the film festival, not the market box office.
"The attendance rate for the three games was 78%."
Teemo was a little surprised: "This? Seventy-eight percent?"
"Why?"
Teemo looked at the movie's cover poster.
Shoddy.
A man wearing a funny suit and a red sweater vest, with an unshaven beard and messy hair.
Running on the field, with the snowy scene behind and green grass in front.
There is a tall leafless tree growing at the boundary.
The dead tree takes up 70% of the entire poster.
Just by looking at it, you can see that the green grass in front is made from p, which is very fake.
And the name of the movie is, "Hello Tree".
What the hell? Why is there an attendance rate of 78%?
Teemo was numb with anger: "It depends on him."
Recently, Timo Pushkin's new movie was released, and it was a disaster at the box office. Now that I see such a shoddy movie, its attendance rate is three times lower than my own, so be sure to check out what he has made.
In fact, Timo Pushkin was a bit unlucky.
But it can also be said to be a bit stubborn.
He just didn't want to make a war movie.
Decades ago, Da Mao disintegrated, and the Mao Xiong people who had been deceived by the United States and had their legs broken came back to their senses and understood.
Subsequently, the Americans made an overwhelming amount of movies to seize the results of the Second World War.
The only thing the audience from the Bear Country could say after watching it was, 'What the hell, you captured Germany? Then why don't we, the Bear Country, have tens of millions of troops? Why are we there? Fighting aliens?'
Therefore, audiences in the Bear Country particularly like to watch war movies, especially war movies about fighting Germany.
The citizens of the Woolly Bear Country are not wealthy. Although the government tries to keep prices down so that they can meet their demand for high-calorie food to overcome the cold winter, the prices for things other than food and drink are still high.
Especially entertainment activities.
Now, 22 years later, on the streets of Furry Bear Country, one fifth of the people are still wearing fake Adadis and holding black-and-white Lokia screens.
Coupled with the rapid development of the TV industry in the Bear Country in recent years, with even TV series appearing in the United States dominating the charts, the living space of the film industry has been extremely compressed.
Their film market is not developed to begin with, and the audience strongly supports war films, but other films have suffered miserably.
Timo Pushkin's level of filmmaking is very high, and he was once recommended by a friend to go to the United States.
As a result, in the United States, the movie I received was... "Nata the Vampire Slayer". Natal was a president in the history of the United States. In other words, it was a spoof film.
As a result, Timo Pushkin was not convinced, so he just turned the spoof film into a drama as much as possible.
The final box office was also good.
However, Timo Pushkin could only receive some low-budget movies after that. After all, Hollywood doesn't like a disobedient director.
Even if you are talented, you are from the country of Mao Xiong. Don’t you have some skills?
So, after Timo Pushkin earned enough commissions in Hollywood, he returned to the country of the furry bears and filmed "Dragon" with his own money.
The result... was worse than Wangcai, Xiaoqiang and their master combined!
…
Coming out of the cinema, Wang Xiya was a little surprised: "The quality... is very high."
It can be said to be top-notch.
If we don’t talk about the story, but just talk about the sense of picture and atmosphere, it is not inferior to American Hollywood.
If we talk about it overall, it's at least an 80% movie.
After all, it was a movie on which a well-known director who had achieved modest success in Hollywood bet half of his fortune on this movie.
"Why did it do so poorly at the box office?"
"That's right!" Han Zhou smiled numbly. He smiled and stopped smiling.
In front of me, two people were walking towards each other.
On the other side, Timo Pushkin and his assistant walked out of the cinema, feeling depressed.
Regardless of his assistant's dissuasion, he took out a cigarette and lit it.
This is indoors!
Teemo: "That actor, I must let him be my leading actor once!"
"There are not even five people in Hollywood with this kind of acting skills."
The assistant was shocked: "Hollywood can't find five? Is it such an exaggeration?"
Teemo was very serious: "Five are too many."
At this time, Teemo stopped, looked forward, and asked: "Did I see it wrong... Is that... a tree?!"
The two teams met unexpectedly.
"Shu'er, hello, I'm Teemo, and I want to sign you to be the leading actor in my new movie!"
"Director Pushkin, hello, my name is Han Zhou and I am the president of China New World Entertainment Company. Do you own the overseas copyright of "Dragon"?"
Teemo said this to Han Zhou.
Wang Xiya helped Han Zhou translate this sentence.
Teemo was surprised: "What!?"
Wang Xiya translated for Han Zhou, and Han Zhou said: "Ha?!"
Finally, Teemo proposed to invite Han Zhou and Wang Xiya to drink coffee and have a good chat.
When we arrived at the cafe, Timo was very excited: "I like your performance very much. Without your performance, this movie is nothing."
Han Zhou: "..."
Timo: "Maybe this movie is trying to express an emotion? Indeed, a very strong emotion, but it is more of an emotion generated through your performance. The script is not clear."
Han Zhou: "I wrote the script."
Teemo: "..."
"No wonder you control this character to such an extent. It's so awesome. Then your original script must be very good, and the director's level is too low. We can cooperate!"
Han Zhou: "I am the director."
Teemo: "..."
The continuous flattery hit the horse's balls and hit the vital point directly.
Han Zhou smiled: "Don't be so excited. I know this movie won't be high at the box office, but I still made it."
Teemo's eyes lit up: "Heroes see the same thing!"
"I also knew that the box office of my movie "Dragon" would not be high, but I still insisted on filming it. It cost a lot of money, but I didn't care!"
After all, he is a director who has been working in Hollywood for several years. Although he is not famous, he makes a lot of money, which allows him to waste two or three movies.
Even if something went wrong, the worst possible outcome would be to go to Hollywood and make spoof movies for a few more years.
Han Zhou laughed loudly: "I like this sentence. In order to prevent you from losing too much, I decided to buy the Chinese copyright of your "Dragon". I have opened a new film company and want to introduce the movie to the theater."
Wang Xiya whispered: "Only eight film companies in the country have the qualifications to introduce movies, and you don't."
Han Zhou looked at Teemo with a smile, then turned to Wang Xiya: "Buy it first and then talk about it."
Wang Xiya translated it once.
Timo laughed loudly: "Chinese people like to be polite so much. No, I can accept my loss."
Han Zhou was very sincere: "If you don't accept it, you don't regard me as a friend. If I'm not a friend, it's just a matter of words."
Wang Xiya translated it once.
Timo Pushkin was stunned.
The assistant next to him said: "Chinese people are very concerned about face. If you don't accept it, you won't give it. For them, face is much more important than for us."
The word face also exists in Europe and the United States, but not to the same extent as in China.
They prefer to use the word dignity, and face is downwardly compatible with the word "dignity".
Timo Pushkin: "I can promise to sell you the Chinese copyright, but you can't bid too high. If you give me a high price, you won't give me face."
"Since we are all friends, don't be too polite."
Wang Xiya translated it once.
Han Zhou smiled numbly: "How about three hundred thousand US dollars?"
Timo Pushkin: "Fifty thousand dollars is a lot of money."
assistant:"???"
Han Zhou: "That won't work. Two hundred thousand dollars! It can't be any lower."
Wang Xiya: "???"
Timo became anxious and pressed Han Zhou's hand: "One hundred thousand dollars, don't talk anymore, I won't sell it if you say it again!"
Han Zhou was a little angry, and then he compromised: "Since you are so sincere, brother, then I... okay, one hundred thousand US dollars is one hundred thousand US dollars."
Wang Xiya was not sure whether the other assistant could speak Chinese, so she asked very quietly: "How did you negotiate the price?"
"Buyers are going to raise prices, sellers are going to lower prices?"
Han Zhou whispered: "I'm afraid that when he sees the box office of "Dragon" in China, he will turn against me and hit me... After all, I have to rely on my face to make a living at this stage."
"He probably thought that his movie wouldn't do well at the box office in China, and he didn't want to cheat me. After all, he asked me to be the leading actor in his movie."
Wang Xiya: "..."
Wang Xiya didn't know why Han Zhou was so sure that taking "Dragon" to China would make money.
But Wang Xiya knows that she also thinks "Dragon" is good-looking.
I have been influenced by it since I was a child, and my judgment of movies is not inferior to that of professional film critics.
There are many more things than them.
Professional film critics can only judge whether a movie is good or not, but they cannot judge the market.
Wang Xiya can judge the market and know what kind of movies and what kind of publicity routines are likely to stimulate the box office.
After seeing "Dragon", Wang Xiya felt that if this movie spends a lot of money to promote it, it will definitely hit a high box office.
But... Wang Xiya knew that Han Zhou had no money now.
Therefore, Wang Xiya was very curious about what Han Zhou would do if he got this movie.
Or simply put it, how to hype it.
How do you want Chinese movie fans, especially passerby movie fans, to buy into a movie that was made a flop in your own country?
"Han, it's about the starring role..."
Han Zhou smiled: "I have just released a movie, and I have another movie that has just been shot but has not been released yet. I also have a shooting plan, and there are variety shows in China, so I won't have time for at least a year."
Is the rejection obvious enough?
Timo Pushkin: "What?! Only one year? I will prepare my next movie for at least two and a half years!"
Han Zhou: "???"
Han Zhou: “Maybe my price will be a bit high then!”
Timo pondered: "This is indeed a problem. With your talent, I'm afraid the salary will be very high after two years. Why don't you sign the contract today?!"
Han Zhou: "Sorry, I won't lock myself into things that I haven't planned yet. I have a lot of things to do."
Teemo: "What's going on!?"
Han Zhou: "In three years, I will win all the best actors in the world."
"All...actor..." Teemo: "????!!!!"
"Then...are you sure about today's Best Actor?"
Han Zhou smiled slightly and took out his mobile phone: "Do you understand Russian!? Help me see what the text message sent to me by the organizing committee means?"
Teemo: "!!!"
You beast...you're just teasing me!
Damn retarded...
Timo laughed loudly: "Congratulations."
Han Zhou pressed his hand: "Calm down, I won't believe it is true until I get it."
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