In the following days, the sub-venue where "Shark Beach" was located was almost full throughout the day. Word-of-mouth gradually spread to all venues through spontaneous publicity from the audience, and even the main venue was overshadowed.
In the newspapers released by the film festival, there are more and more comments about "Shark Beach".
"'Shark Tank' is a very good-looking movie, with a screen full of clear water and long shots of the underwater world. The photography is very beautiful. The film is crystal clear, both beautiful and terrifying. It often shocks you unexpectedly."
"The beautiful beaches, graceful figures, and the magnificent underwater world are all eye-catching features of this film. At the same time, the movement of the camera and the large aerial shots undoubtedly show us a beautiful beach, this wonderful
The natural scenery seems a bit cruel as the place where the story takes place, just like the scenes where living people are bitten in half. At the same time, it is precisely because this is a primitive and uninhabited beach that our story can take place here, and there are many strange events.
Happening always requires a closed space, just like Annie's home far away from the crowd in "The Shining", the big hotel in the mountains in "The Shining", and the century-old house in "The Conjuring", all of which are inaccessible places.
place."
"The film has really created a scary atmosphere for the audience through the continuous suspense and evolving plot, making the audience very worried about the heroine. The constant display of time reminds me of the plot in "Black Hawk Down", it seems
We are getting further and further away from life, and death is getting closer and closer. The feeling that death is counting down the seconds to life but we are powerless arises spontaneously. It also makes us worry about girls, but in such an isolated environment, girls have no
Sitting there waiting for death, she tried her best to try to escape tactfully. Although she failed many times without accident, her intelligence was also vividly displayed here. When the hope of survival appeared again and again, it disappeared in the blink of an eye.
At the same time, each of us was captured, and that’s the success of the film.”
"If Beauty and the Beast were together, what would you think of? Is it the classic Disney romantic love story? Or is it the absurdity of misplaced love in South Korean romantic comedy movies?
No! None of this is true. The movie "Shark Tank" tells us that when a beauty meets a beast, it is definitely an extremely terrifying thing!"
But it's not all praise. In Europe, literary and artistic films still dominate the mainstream. These filmmakers who make a living by mainstream literary and artistic films criticized "Shark Beach", a rough interloper, as useless.
"It's a useless popcorn movie. Spending more than 80 minutes on this movie is a waste of time!"
"The plot has no logic. A shark that lives in the deep sea actually appears in the shallow water and seems determined to eat the heroine. Is this shark already so hungry, or is that whale not delicious enough?"
"A heroine who is like a superhero, has so much physical strength without eating or drinking, retains so much blood without fainting, and finally kills the ocean overlord shark by herself. This should not be a horror movie, it should be
Back in a science fiction movie!”
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The vast majority of negative reviews did not have any impact on the film, and the third sub-venue was still popular and became the most lively place of the film festival.
Tang An and the others gathered together for dinner. Xu Jinglei looked at him with envy, "It seems that this time the Audience Choice Award is yours!"
"This situation is basically stable!" Jiang Wen nodded affirmatively.
Yang Mi on the side cheered, "The movie I acted in is going to win an award. Brother An, Sister Lei, did I do a good job!"
"It's very good, much better than the first time I acted in a movie!" Xu Jinglei said with a smile.
"It's really good. This age is a good time to improve your acting skills. You are spiritual and have strong plasticity!" Jiang Wen also gave a rare compliment.
Frankly speaking, Yang Mi later filmed too many TV series, and the characters were too stereotyped. They were basically just a routine, and her acting skills became more and more rigid. On the contrary, they were not as good as when she was in her 20s.
"By the way, I asked you about it. All the overseas rights of this film were packaged and sold to Columbia Company. I heard that it was China Film Group Corporation that Chen Guofu went to personally!" Jiang Wen said something else.
Colombia, Chen Guofu?
Listening to these two names, Tang An fell into deep thought.
In fact, in the past few days, overseas film studios have been trying to buy the overseas copyrights of movies. Of course, Tang An refused them all.
At first, those film dealers thought he was just raising the price, but then the price became higher and higher. Today, there are only two days before the opening of the film festival, and the five major film markets of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, and Russia have already called for one region. The price is as high as 120,000 yuan, and film producers in the UK and Spain even offered it as high as 170,000 yuan.
Coupled with bids from other small countries, the European rights to this film have reached an astonishing million dollars.
One million yuan is equivalent to 8 million yuan, and the investment is only 3.5 million yuan.
It's a pity that this has nothing to do with Tang An, and all the money that was waiting for him went into China Film's pocket.
However, he still wanted to find out how much it was sold for, so much so that China Film even refused to take the mainland box office distribution CD, so he asked Jiang Wen to come forward and find out.
After all, they spent 3 million in costs plus publicity resources.
"I went to China Film Group in the morning that day, and the people from the distribution department signed a contract with me in the afternoon. I guess Chen Guobo was also there at that time. How much did it sell for? Brother Wen, have you found out?"
"Of course I found out, but I'm afraid you'll be heartbroken!" Jiang Wen said with a laugh.
Tang An was heartbroken, he couldn't have sold it for a sky-high price!
Then I thought that it was not impossible. Chen Guofu single-handedly brought Hua Yi to be one of the three giants along with Bernard and Guang Xian. His vision and ability were so sharp that he might not be unable to discover the potential of this movie.
Bernard has Yu Dong's distribution resources and connections in the Beijing Film Studio for several years, and is a capable subordinate of Han Sanping. He also has the resources of Huayi Group and Poly Culture Media, a subsidiary of the state-owned Poly Group, and has also merged with Oriental Dragon Pictures.
Guangxian has deep cooperation with major TV stations across the country, covering the four major fields of film, television, music and variety shows, and has the strongest publicity capabilities.
However, Huayi cannot compete with the two with only Feng Xiaogang and a few first-line stars. In terms of distribution capabilities, it is not even much better than New Picture.
However, it was Chen Guofu who joined and supervised the production of 13 films in 7 years, 10 of which grossed over 100 million yuan. It can be said that he took the main credit for Huayi's success.
"Assembly", "The Wind", "Painted Skin 2", "If You Are the One", "Detective Dee: The Empire of Heaven"... all of them are box office hits, even "Tai Chi" and "Tai Chi" which hit the street "1942" also performed well at the box office.
It can be said that Huayi's distribution channels were built by him by relying on movies with high returns and high box office.
Without Chen Guobo, next year's "The Night Banquet" filmed by Feng Xiaogang is likely to severely damage Huayi's vitality, or even make her unable to recover.
It wasn't until 2013 that Chen Guowu left Huayi. Huayi's stock plummeted 6.64% that day, and its market value evaporated by 800 million yuan overnight.
Looking at the thoughtful Tang An, Jiang Wen reported another number.
"1.4 million yuan, full overseas rights, this is the price paid by Chen Guo for the painting. It is estimated that these film companies will be able to pay this much in two days!"
call!
11 million yuan, no wonder the China Film Festival is so generous.
After figuring it out, Tang An felt much better. After all, he had no money and no channels!
ps: The name has been changed. If there are any omissions, please point them out.