Wang Zhengfei first arranged for Dan Fu to take a rest in his own lounge in the company, and then he entered the company's reception room. At this time, Gao Yan was laughing and communicating with a foreigner in English.
To be honest, Wang Zhengfei's English is not bad, and at least there shouldn't be much of a problem in basic communication. However, there is still a gap between the two people's obviously fluent English.
For an ancient country with a civilization of five thousand years, the saddest thing is that when its citizens cannot even learn their own language well, they still force the entire nation to learn a foreign language. In fact, most of them
Most people will never use it in their lifetime, and they will forget it after a while, and all the effort they put into it is basically useless. What’s even more ridiculous is that there are countless people who don’t know how to learn foreign languages.
This leads to deviations in life. I was born in China, lived in China, and may have lived in China all my life, but because of the language of a country that I may never visit in my life, I was unable to get into the ideal school and find a job.
It is true that there are many people who need the ideal job, but just to meet the needs of these people, it is undoubtedly a very stupid thing to drag everyone with them.
Seeing Wang Zhengfei come in, Gao Yan stood up and introduced: "Mr. Smith, this is the director and star of "Qin Shi Mingyue", Wang Zhengfei! Zhengfei, this is the manager of Lionsgate Pictures, Mr. Smith!"
"Hello!"
"Hello!"
After the two said hello, Wang Zhengfei sat down and Smith said with a smile: "Mr. Wang, your youth is beyond my expectation. I have never seen such a young director who can achieve such great achievements."
!”
Although converted into U.S. dollars, "Qin Shi Mingyue - Part 1" is less than 100 million U.S. dollars, but that is only because of the exchange rate. If it were in the United States, it would have exceeded hundreds of millions long ago, and the most important thing is that now "
"Qin Shi Mingyue" has only been released for ten days, and there is still a lot of time to come. He also knows what it means to have a box office of over 100 million US dollars in places like Asia.
"It reminds me of Stephen Paul, but I heard that you were younger than him when you became a director, and he didn't have such great achievements as you!" Smith exclaimed. Stephen Paul is the youngest director in the history of Hollywood.
Director, in 1980, when he was only 20 years old, he directed his first movie "Love Again". This record has never been broken by anyone, but compared with the young man in front of him, it is really nothing.
, when this young man directed his first movie, he was only nineteen years old, and the box office success was quite good, and the subsequent scripts he produced were all high-quality works, and even this time "Qin Shi Mingyue" was even better.
It's amazing, it achieved pretty good box office results in Asia.
Before coming, Smith did a lot of homework and knew a lot about Wang Zhengfei, even more than Wang Zhengfei imagined.
"Thank you, Mr. Smith!" Wang Zhengfei said modestly.
Smith knew that this should be the usual modesty of the Chinese, so he did not take it seriously.
"Mr. Smith, I have learned about your purpose through our boss!" Wang Zhengfei said with a smile. "Lionsgate Pictures is a first-class company with a long history. I personally feel that your company can select "Qin Shi Mingyue"
I am very happy and I believe that your company will not be disappointed!”
Wang Zhengfei gave the other party a high hat as soon as he came up.
"Of course, I personally am very optimistic about the movie "Qin Shi Mingyue", but I don't know the market attitude in the United States. Oh, you know, the United States and China are two countries with completely different cultural systems.
, it can even be said that the United States and Asia are two regions with completely different cultural systems, so although "Qin Shi Mingyue" has achieved very good results in Asia, it is still unknown whether it can achieve such results in the United States!
"Smith said with a bit of embarrassment on his face.
Wang Zhengfei immediately understood what this cunning Smith was planning. There was only one general idea, that is, they were very unsure whether "Qin Shi Mingyue" would have a good box office in the United States. After all, "Qin Shi Mingyue"
》The Chinese flavor is too strong, even to a certain extent.
However, Wang Zhengfei immediately felt that Smith was talking nonsense. Although culture has national boundaries, good movies have no national boundaries. When their Hollywood movies were rampant around the world, why didn't they say there were differences in culture? But now they have to
Mention this.
Moreover, Chinese culture has no foundation in the United States, especially this kind of action movies. Chinese martial arts movies are quite popular in the United States. Americans call this Kung Fu, but the Chinese prefer to call it Wuxia. Basically, those foreigners
All of them are muscular men with simple minds and well-developed limbs. The essence of the word "wuxia" lies in the word "xia", but at most they can only see part of the word "wu". As for the "xiaxia" part, they can't see it. Or with their kind of culture,
It is difficult to understand the principle of using force to stop war.
Moreover, not all Chinese films cannot achieve good results in the United States. For example, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" directed by Ang Lee, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has a total box office of 128 million US dollars in the United States.
Judging from his cost of 10 million US dollars and the time six years ago, it can definitely be regarded as a successful work, so what Smith said is nonsense, although Americans prefer the kind of passionate works that involve fists and flesh.
Fighting, but Wang Zhengfei believes that the fighting and style of "Qin Shi Mingyue" with obvious ancient oriental flavor is still very marketable.
Wang Zhengfei sneered. He didn't know what the other party was planning, but it was okay to deceive other people. It was completely impossible to deceive him.
In the final analysis, if Wang Zhengfei guessed correctly, he was simply trying to lower prices. Of course, there is nothing that is off limits in order to make money in the mall. Everything is for profit.
"So I think the share ratio of 10% is more appropriate!" Smith said this figure seemingly in embarrassment.
"It's really dark!" The smile on Wang Zhengfei's face remained unchanged, but he cursed in his heart. This is too dark. He just gave him 10%. Even if Xingchen Entertainment has no market in the United States, this is definitely too bad.
Dark.
"That's not what you said, Mr. Smith!" Gao Yan said at this time, "Culture is not the only reason for box office. In fact, aren't your Hollywood blockbusters also sold all over the world? There is no cultural gap.
Isn’t it?”
"Of course it's different!" When he said this, Smith's face flashed with pride. The strength of the motherland can be directly reflected in one's attitude towards the outside world.
"Haha, Mr. Smith, there are many Chinese-language films that have achieved good results in the United States, right? Not to mention Bruce Lee, Chen Long and other top Chinese-language film stars, let's talk about Chinese-language films. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" a few years ago also achieved great success in the United States.
It achieved a very good box office, and Director Ang Lee also won an Oscar for it, which shows that culture is not actually the key!" Wang Zhengfei said with a slight smile at this time.
"But you can't deny the influence of culture on this matter. It is precisely because of this that our head office is worried about this. If the box office is not good, our reputation will be damaged!" Smith
He said with an embarrassed look on his face.
Wang Zhengfei secretly scolded him for being shameless. Lionsgate Pictures originally started out by acquiring movies costing hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of yuan. It acquires many movies every year, and it acquires 70% to 80% of them. What?
Reputation, is it the ability to discern a thousand-mile horse? Do they still have this thing?
They themselves can't come up with any movies that are good enough to attract everyone's attention, but as long as one or two of the movies they buy are a hit, they will make all their money back. This is how they cast a wide net and focus on fishing.
This strategy eventually reached the point where it was able to swallow up MGM, which is probably something that many people would never have imagined.
"But don't you think that from a publisher's perspective, 17% is already a relatively high share?" Wang Zhengfei said.
Even if according to international practice, Star Entertainment can get 35% of the dividend, Lionsgate Pictures can also get more than 17% of the dividend. Logically speaking, Star Entertainment is doing the publicity.
, the filming was also done by Star Entertainment, and the screening was a matter for the theater chain. They didn’t have to put in any effort at all, and they could still get a 17% dividend, which is already pretty good. They still want to push the envelope, which is not excessive.
Already?
This 17% is almost all given away, pure profit. Everyone knows this, and there is no need to hide it.
The embarrassment on Smith's face only flashed across his face. Although Wang Zhengfei saw through his intentions, there was nothing wrong with his expression, as if this was a normal thing.
"Although this is true, we still have to take a lot of risks!" Smith said, "Lionsgate Pictures has people from Disney Headquarters watching over it, so we can't take such big risks!"
"If that's the case, I think you don't have to worry at all. I've thought of a way. You can see if it works. If so, you can follow this!" Wang Zhengfei said.
This Smith is so shameless. What they are talking about now is box office dividends, not buyout. They can divide 17% of the box office out of thin air. What risk do they have? They are talking nonsense out of thin air!
