When it comes to Tingfeng Entertainment, it is estimated that the first reaction of all movie lovers is the "Step.up" series and the "Twilight" series. They started with distribution and then entered the production field. After ten years of brewing and development, they relied on the opportunity of Twilight to rise strongly and became the leader among independent film companies. In 2012, after Lionsgate acquired Tingfeng Entertainment, Hollywood ushered in a new opportunity to change the pattern.

Hugo is naturally familiar with the name Tingfeng Entertainment, but he did not expect that Tingfeng Entertainment actually learned to "procure" at the Sundance Film Festival in 1995, which is much better than many Hollywood companies. No wonder Tingfeng Entertainment was able to capture the hen that lays eggs in "Twilight" after entering the 21st century.

However, Hugo didn't ask too much, just nodded and expressed his understanding, "I will talk to Richard, but I guess he doesn't have much opinion. You can go and talk to Colombia first."

Seeing Hugo's attitude as if "I've finished talking", Rick hurriedly said, "What about the new work?" This made Hugo stop. Rick continued, "You know, Colombia not only hopes to get the distribution rights of 'before sunrise', but also hopes to have further cooperation with you."

"Oh..." Hugo suddenly woke up, but he did not nod and agreed immediately, but frowned slightly, "I haven't finished my holiday yet. Wouldn't I be very busy in the next month? I don't want to take the script yet."

Rick sat in his seat, feeling quite embarrassed.

Strictly speaking, after the filming of "life and death speed" in January last year, Hugo had not accepted a new script for a whole year, and after Rick took over Hugo's agent, he did not win a contract for Hugo. The only work "Before Sunrise" started filming is the work written by Hugo.

To take a step back, it was four months ago that the filming was completed "before sunrise". In the past few months, Hugo has not participated in the promotion of "Pulp Novels" and has not participated in the follow-up promotion of "Bathing in the Morning Light" album. He has been on vacation all the time. This really makes Rick very embarrassed. Although he doesn't want to force Hugo to take on the script immediately, at least Hugo can start reading the script.

Rick was thinking about how to talk about this issue with Hugo. He subconsciously looked back at Joseph. Joseph hesitated for a moment, but he took the initiative to help Rick out, "You can at least read the script, maybe there is something you like? If not, let Rick continue to search. Isn't this Rick's job responsibility?"

Rick nodded repeatedly to agree, and Joseph continued, "You know, since the Speed ​​of Life and Death, you have not taken the script. I mean, someone else's script."

In this case, Joseph can say, and of course Rick can say it, but Rick will inevitably taste different. Therefore, Joseph came forward to save Rick. From this perspective, the current cooperation between Rick, Joseph and Hugo has already been on track.

Sure enough, Hugo was not too repulsive, but raised his eyebrows in surprise, "Is that true?" He fell silent and thought carefully.

Since Hugo has been busy from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, although he gave himself a vacation after October, he has been busy for the first three quarters, so Hugo's memory has become a little crowded. "But last summer..." Hugo remembers that he had read countless scripts, one after another, especially after the release of "Schindler's List" and the box office victory of "Life and Death Hour". "Oh..." No one else needed to answer, Hugo reacted himself: he refused all of them.

In this way, Hugo has indeed not taken the new script since January last year. "Wow, the year has passed like this? I haven't taken the new script for a year? I really didn't expect it." Hugo himself was frightened, and time passed so quickly that he didn't feel it himself.

Joseph and Rick widened their eyes and nodded with a look of "Or what you said."

Seeing his manager and agent nodding at the same time, Hugo laughed silently, and he pursed his lips, "Okay, yes, I can start reading the script, Rick, you can find some...a suitable script for me."

"Don't worry, I will check it out." Rick said with a smile. Although he was very happy at this time, he did not show too obvious and was still restrained. But Rick knew that he had been working with Hugo for more than half a year, and everything was going well so far. However, he recommended scripts to Hugo for the first two times, but this was his dereliction of duty. Therefore, even if Hugo did not mention the script selection work this time, Rick knew that he must perform well, which is the cornerstone of their future cooperation.

Things went very smoothly afterwards. First, Richard agreed to Columbia Pictures without any doubt, and then the confrontation between Rick, David and Columbia Pictures.

The Sundance Film Festival continued and soon came to an end. However, the Sundance Film Festival did not hold an award ceremony, but only held a closing ceremony, and announced the ownership of each award at the ceremony, which was simple and simple. At the most popular jury award, "before sunrise" was ultimately trapped by the limitations of its own themes and could not make further breakthroughs. In the end, Edward Burns' "McMullen Brothers" defeated a group of strong men and won the jury award at the 11th Sundance Film Festival.

When all the noise ended, the "McMullen Brothers" stole all the limelight, and the news media were a little excited because people didn't care about the jury awards or the "McMullen Brothers". People were concerned about whether they could win the awards "before sunrise". As a result, the headlines of the major media became "before sunrise" and missed the jury awards". This way of reporting is really ridiculous, but it is the reality of the press.

However, media reporters quickly smiled because on the second day after the Sundance Film Festival closed, Columbia Pictures officially announced that they had purchased the global distribution rights "before sunrise" for a high price of one million US dollars, and were already intensively arranging the release of the movie, striving to allow American audiences to enjoy the work by February.

You should know that it was January 26 when the Sundance Film Festival ended. It can be seen that the transaction was completed very early and Columbia Pictures had already begun. Otherwise, it would not be so easy to arrange the theaters in such a short time, even the art theaters.

In an instant, all the news media became lively, not only because they had to officially meet the audience before sunrise, but also because the transaction amount of the issuance rights was really terrifying.

Since the establishment of the Sundance Film Festival, there are only a handful of works that have been able to successfully complete the distribution rights transaction at the film festival, and the highest transaction amount of the distribution rights cannot be verified, but it will definitely not exceed 500,000 US dollars. Taking Sundance this year as an example, before "before sunrise", the highest transaction amount of the distribution rights comes from "unspeakable love words".

This work, directed by James Mangod, also completed the distribution rights transaction by Columbia Pictures, with the final transaction amount of US$350,000.

Now, Columbia Pictures has directly thrown out a million dollars to purchase the distribution rights "before sunrise", which can almost be said to be a seismic transaction, not only creating a new transaction record since the establishment of the Sundance Film Festival, but also throwing other works far away.

Especially when the production cost "before sunrise" is only $2.5 million, Columbia Pictures paid one million dollars for a distribution right, which is even more terrifying.

From another perspective, Hugo does not remember the box office "before sunrise" because no one cared about the box office of this movie back then. To be precise, the influence of the movie "before sunrise" that year was very limited, and it was only circulated among specific audiences. In other words, the video tape market was continuous. It was not until "before sunset" that it was released in 2004 that this beautiful and romantic love attracted more attention, thus forming a trend.

Just talking about the box office of "Before Sunrise" when it was released in 1995, Hugo only knew that it was the recycling cost, but it was definitely not high, because it really did not cause widespread discussion.

Now, Columbia Pictures is willing to purchase the distribution rights for one million dollars, which shows their determination and courage. This really surprised Hugo.

Even Hugo, who is familiar with the future, is like this, let alone the American media who are confused about the current situation?

As a result, overnight, before the craze completely dissipated, the "Before Sunrise" once again became the focus of major media attention. Even the media that did not go to the Sundance Film Festival, after removing the burden of the Golden Globe Awards, focused their focus on "Before Sunrise".

This is really an unexpected situation or a situation carefully created by Columbia Pictures. But no matter what, "Before Sunrise" movie, which is almost unpopular, immediately became a hot topic after the end of the Sundance Film Festival. In addition, the excellent reputation the movie won during the release of Sundance, many viewers have begun to express their expectations for the movie.

Who could have thought that "before sunrise" that can almost be called the workshop's work, it sold a million dollars in the distribution copyright? No one, even David Geffen, did not expect it.

When Columbia Pictures announced this transaction, everyone was in a state of excitement, not only because "before sunrise" became the highest data on the transaction amount of the Sundance Film Festival since its establishment eleven years ago, but also because "before sunrise" that was not visible before was so popular, which was really an upset.
Chapter completed!