Chapter 448 Miracle Wholesaler
"Oh ho—"
Snowflakes are floating in the sky, and the vast Park City Deer Valley Ski Resort is full of white lights. Looking from the sky, you can see piles of snow-covered pine trees still green. In the snow fields and ski trails everywhere, some well-equipped tourists enjoy the fun of skiing.
"Ok! ready-go!" On the snow-white mountain slope, Wang Yang, Joshua, Harry George, Alexis and others all supported the ski poles in their hands. The skis were driven forward under the force, and everyone rushed towards the finish line at the foot of the mountain!
Park City is hosting the annual 22nd Sundance Film Festival, where "Drunk", "Crazy Shop", "Memory Fragments", and "Diet Hallucination" were born here... Last year, "The Busy River", which cost only 2.8 million yuan in production, not only received 23.56 million yuan in global box office, but also received an 82% fresh awards awards. The producer mtv movie and publisher Paramount Classics are quite enviable.
A total of 120 movies have entered the film festival this year, and lasted for 10 days from the 19th to the 29th. The opening movie is "Old Friends Are Rich" starring Jennifer Aniston. This romance film with a production cost of 6.5 million yuan was launched by the independent producer "This-is-that-productions". Because it has received wide acclaim after its premiere, it has become popular products in Park City this year, along with "Leader Dog", which is scheduled to be the closing movie, "The Ritual of the People", "The Unknown True Picture", etc.
To this day, Sundance will naturally not lack the figures of film business personnel, celebrities, media reporters, etc., Sony Classics, Fox Searchlights, Universal, Lions Gate, Weinstein... including Flame Movies, it has no intention of showing off. Obviously, although the "Kiss of the Sea" exhibited by the exhibition is difficult to take on this important task. ff is here to hunt for treasure and find the kind of film that is hard to come and find, but this year seems to be a big year, and the opportunity is here.
"Hey fat guy, you're sliding too slowly! Galileo is right. When the object falls, the weight and speed are not proportional to the speed! He is wrong again! Because I will be faster!" On the snowy hillside, Wang Yang, who first deliberately fell behind, then exerted force, shouted trash words at the penultimate Harry George, and raised his ski pole to surpass him, leaving behind a string of laughter: "Hahahaha--"
"See you later... Yang." Looking at the sexy back of Feng Wu wearing a red ski suit who was quickly gone, the fat man shook his head helplessly. Who made him not good at sports? It is so difficult to lose three pounds. Harry continued to carefully control the center of gravity of his body and slowly slide the snowboard. How could Yang slide so fast? He can even participate in the Olympic Games...
Wang Yang came to attend the film festival and also to have a vacation. For this reason, he called Joshua and several friends to enjoy this ski weekend. Jessica did not come because she had to take care of Ke Ke. After all, it was a plateau and the weather was cold. If the baby caught a cold, it would be bad, although Ke Ke had cold-resistant training.
"Oh ho--" Suddenly, he heard a thrilling cry from behind. Joshua knew that Yang was catching up with him! He bent his knees even more, leaned forward and lowered his center of gravity. He couldn't help but hold his ski pole continuously. How could it be? If he had known that Yang was obviously a ski master, he would not be the last place! He wanted to play everyone, which was really hateful! "Oh!" Suddenly, the center of gravity was uncontrollable. Joshua wanted to slow down sideways, but suddenly rolled into the snow and hit a pine tree before stopping.
Wang Yang exclaimed, and the double board turned parallel to the evil spirit stopped, slid up and asked, "How is that okay? Brother?" Joshua looked up and squirted out a mouthful of snow. Wang Yang observed him a few times and then laughed. It's okay! He started and laughed, "Jie Shu, I know that those snow is free, but don't eat too much! It's not good! Maybe someone has urinated there..."
"No way!?" Looking at the back that was moving away, Joshua took a deep breath, slowly turned his head to look at the snow, and then looked up at the big pine tree in front of him. "Puff--" Soon Zachary-Levi also ate the snow and looked at Wang Yang who was moving away helplessly. When he filmed "Singing and Dance", that guy was no longer a rookie.
Anne Darren is currently among the top in this ski race. She is not an ordinary tourist. The standalone love film "Flannel Pajamas" starring her participated in this year's drama competition unit. At this time, seeing Wang Yang chased him and moved forward parallel to her, Anne smiled and said hello: "Director!"
"Hey, Anne!" Wang Yang turned his head and looked at the freckled woman. She was wearing a white plush hat and her long hair was draped on her back. Her face with faint freckles was no longer youthful, childish, tender, but she had the mature style of the neighboring sister, which made people feel very soft and comfortable. He smiled and said, "You are so slippery! Others don't know, but they thought you grew up in Judaism." Anne, a girl from Nebraska smiled and said, "I'm not, maybe I just... have a little talent."
Listening to her chuckle, Wang Yang also laughed: "Then my talent is higher than you." He did not speed up and shook her away, and said: "We haven't chatted like we are now in a long time. You know, we should come out for more fun."
Although he didn't say "just-you-and-me", his words were still ambiguous. Maybe others would think it was a hint, but Annie knew that he had no other meaning and never had it. He was so careless just by treating her as a good friend. She smiled and said, "Yes, I haven't congratulated you on winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Director." Wang Yang said in confusion: "Please, didn't you say 'congratulations'? What else can you do?" Annie, who was teased, just laughed blindly: "I don't know, a greeting card? Oh no no..." She naturally thought of "500 Days with Shamo" and was amused by herself: "No, no."
"Haha!" Wang Yang looked forward with a smile, gradually bent his body and made accelerating preparations, and asked, "So your movie "Flannel Pajamas" premiered tomorrow?" Annie replied, "Yes." Wang Yang held up a snow pole and shouted, "Take us to see it tomorrow! Goodbye later, girl!"
Wang Yang really wants to see Anne's performance now, and wants to know what level she has reached. Watching "Flannel Pajamas" is a good opportunity. For Anne Darren, Wang Yang knows that he has some different feelings in his heart. This girl has become famous because of him. He has a bit of a "hope to be a dragon" mentality, hoping that she can become a function and shine with her own light. However, there have been no opportunities for cooperation in recent years, but Anne does not lack the film contracts for major supporting roles, and actively participates in independent film performances. She keeps low-key and simple in life, and is not lost in the hard-earned flash, and is very competitive.
Soon, there will be a chance to cooperate soon, not "I'm a Thriller". The second half of the script adapted by Mark Plutosevic and Aziva Gossman added female characters for commercial considerations, but he doesn't plan to do that. The whole film is only Robert Neville, and the others are zombies.
"Oh ho ah ah--" The strong wind whistled through my ears, and the snowflakes hit my face coldly. Wang Yang didn't think much and continued to chase Alexis in front at full speed: "Ah ah--" If you look from a bird's eye view from the sky, you will see a red dot quickly approaching the blue dot, and then go in parallel for a while, and the red dot exceeds.
"What are the actions of Flame Movie?" Park City is already full of rumors. Which movie is better to buy? Should I buy a copyright or a distribution right with dividends? Distributors are talking about it, and senior executives of various corporate companies gather together like teachers and talk about gossip. Sony Classics is about to win "Old Friends Are Rich", Universal Pictures has already negotiated "Leader Dog", Miramax competes for "Midnight Listener"... The most popular is the "Miracle Wholesaler" Flame Movie!
It bought "Crash" at the Toronto Film Festival, it bought "Memory Fragments" and "Detective Hallucination" at Sundance, and even producer Newmarket has been annexed... In the 22nd Sundance this year, which miracle preparatory student has Fire attracted to?
"Flame seems to be very interested in "Sunny Little Beauty", they are asking for price tags." "Who is the idea of some plain videos?" "I heard that Wang Yang has not been to watch "Sunny Little Beauty", he has been skiing these days, and he also said that he is here for vacation and has no objection." "Do you believe it? No matter who the idea is, we will buy "Sunny Little Beauty"!" "The theater of "Flannel Pajamas" discovered magical Yang!" "He said the film was very cool!" "Flame asked for the price of "Magician" again!" "Flame has taken a fancy to "Midnight Listener"!" "Flame has taken action against "Long Boots"!"...
For a time, the goal of Flame Movie almost covered the entire premiere unit and drama competition unit, as well as several documentaries such as "The Unrecognizable True Photo". Which one is it?
"The Beautiful Girl of Sunshine" is indeed the object of the flame movie at first sight, and the level has reached the highest ss level. Buy it! Be sure to buy it!
The film tells a dream-seeking story. 7-year-old Olive has a weird and crazy family. His father is a lecturer who sells success science courses and sells his "Nine Success Stories" everywhere. Brother Ge is an autistic patient who admires Nietzsche. He vows to be admitted to the Flight Academy and has not spoken to his family for nine months. His lesbian is a complete loser, dumped, unemployed, and attempted to kill himself... Grandpa is an old hooligan driven out of a nursing home, full of swearing and taking drugs; while Olive himself dreams of becoming famous overnight all day, firmly believes that he will be elected as a young American sister one day; his mother is probably the only normal person, if there are no symptoms of menopause.
With the support of these freak families, Olive participated in a beauty pageant called "Sunny Little Beauty Girl", and the family drove a broken van to a collective dream journey.
Several development track highlights can explain to a certain extent how many embarrassment this 8 million-yuan production-produced R-level family road film comedy has experienced before. 1: In 2000, Michael Arndt created the first draft of the script. Producers Ron Jexa and Albert Berger had a special idea to produce the work, but they could not make it due to funding problems. 2: In 2001, producer Mark Tetotu bought the adaptation rights of the script for 250,000 yuan, looking for the focus movie investment. 3: Focus thought about it and thought about it, and kept
The reason was that the script was too dull. 4: In 2004, Mark Tetotu spent 400,000 yuan to redeem it from the focus. 5:8 million yuan in production fee was jointly invested by four independent producers, bona-fide-productions, big-beach-films, third-gear-productions-llc, deep-river-productions, four independent producers.
Despite this, although this is the screen debut of the couple directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, "The Sunshine Girl" has become a hot spot in Park City, not only because its films show unignorable potential, but Flame seems to be very interested in it.
"It has many successful qualities." Mark Slunt, Chris Ball and others think it is quite extraordinary, and Wang Yang also thinks that he likes its characters, stories, themes, temperaments, very interesting, very touching, and very touching, and he knows more about its potential.
"Old Friends Are Rich" originally purchased by Sony Classic received 13.36 million North American box office/18.24 million global box office, 71%/70%/37% Rotten Tomatoes three indicators; "Leader Dog" bought by Global 15.3 million/32.14 million box office, 54%/56%/68% Rotten Tomatoes three indicators; "Midnight Listener" bought by Miramax 7.83 million/10.63 million box office, 40%/30%/36% Rotten Tomatoes three indicators...
They either have good results or end up being a loss-making deal. What about "Sunshine Little Girl"? It was originally bought by Fox Searchlight at a record high of 10.5 million Sundance transaction price, and also included a dividend clause of 10% of all total revenue. It did not disappoint Fox Searchlight, but was a huge surprise, with a box office of 59.89 million/100 million, Rotten Tomatoes three indicators 91%/89%/90%, Best Picture in the 2007 Oscar (nominated), Best Supporting Actress (nominated), and Best Supporting Actor.
How many movies did Sundance have been released? Anyway, many. Since Wang Yang knows its huge potential, the flame will not operate as conservatively as the fox searchlight. You should know that it has only 1,602 theaters at its most widest screening (released on July 21st, the widest from September 1-7th in the 6th week). He believes in increasing the publicity and adjusting the schedule to around November-March awards season, and then maintaining patience. Just like the operating model of "Brokeback Mountain", then the box office in North America is no problem with more than 80 million, or even exceeding 100 million.
"Sunshine Little American Girl" will also be the core player of the 2006-07 awards season. At that time, with the emphasis and heavy money on the promotion of the Chinese dynasty, it can easily win more award nominations, rather than the Golden Globe nomination for only one music/comedy category nomination, and the Oscar is more like winning the grand prize.
Higher box office, more nominations! The premise is that Flame Movie buys it.
Although "Sunshine Little Beauty Girl" is a hot topic now, if the Fire Movie was added, fox searchlights had already bought it. In fact, the record-high 10 million seems scary. In fact, it is only 2 million to make a profit after minusing the production fee. Compared with 6.5 million production fee/20 million buying fee, "Crash" is a big deal, and the total income dividend is like a blank check. However, it still scared Mark Tetotu, who was tortured by the focus for four years! Then, the entire production process of "Sunshine Little Beauty Girl" was ignored, and now...
"Sss level." Maybe the fox searchlight positioned it as a box office of 30 million, and maybe other film manufacturers were moved, but Wang Yang knew the most about flame's determination, no matter whether it was all bought or there was a dividend, no matter whether it was 15 million, 20 million, or 30 million, come on!
Flame's distribution and operation ability is not inferior to Fox searchlights. At this time, it is the price range, and sincerity and promises are decided by the winner. These negotiations and competition matters are operated by Mark Slunt and others. Everyone feels that it is better to have a tough time when the chairman is not on vacation.
In addition to "The Sunshine Little Beauty", Flame Movie also has a must-buy real goal, the pg-13 fantasy drama "Magic".
This is the second film of director Neil Borg's fake documentary "The Kennedy Assassination Certificate" (2002), starring Edward Norton, Jessica Bell, Paul Giamatti and others. It is jointly invested by five small producers including Niuyan Movies, Bob-yari Movies, Michael London Movies, etc. It is worth mentioning that the "leading brother" Niuyan and Bob-yari are the producers of "Crash".
In contrast, "Magician" does not have so many strange stories. This is just a normal production investment. However, the production fee of 16.5 million yuan also shows the confidence and spirit of the producer. After all, Niuyan and Bob-yari made a lot of money from the flames before. In fact, everyone understands that they came to Park City not to find people to buy at high prices. Who would pay 20 million or even more to buy a standalone movie? But "Magician" needs a theater publisher. If no one is interested, they can only try to release it themselves, although Niuyan and Yari have no release experience for the time being.
But things in the world are so bizarre. I am interested in flame movies, and I am interested in buying them at a high price!
"Sss level." Why not? Wang Yang is very clear about the potential of this movie. Originally, it really failed to find a satisfactory publisher. Bob-yari released "Magic" under the distribution brand Yari-film-group. With only 51 theaters in the first week (opening on August 18), and the widest 1,438 (week 5), "Magic" finally received 39.86 million North American/87.89 million global box office, and Rotten Tomatoes three indicators were 74%/87%/83%.
Yari became famous in this way, and the founder Bob Yari was even more ambitious. In 2007, he released four films: "New Street Dance Song", "Reorganization", "Finals Season" and "Perfect Christmas", and won the evil name of a "nova". However, the four consecutive defeats made the success of "Magician" disappear. Yari's corporate company filed for bankruptcy in December 2008.
Wang Yang felt that the relationship between Flame and Yari could be like Newmarket. If "Magic" was released by Flame, it would be difficult for him to estimate what the box office results would be. You should know that Yari has operated nearly 90 million, and Flame Movie... The world has exceeded 100 million.
More importantly, by putting "Magician" under the mercenary, Flame can add it to "Deadly Magic" released at the end of the year to some related publicity, as well as some bundling combinations that benefit both in terms of post-sales, sales and rental of the film. The "Magic Night Weekend Package" is simply perfect.
"Sunshine Little Beauty Girl" + "Magician"! This is a secret mission issued by Wang Yang to the people of flames. You can ignore other videos, and you must win these two movies!
Chapter completed!