Millennium director

Going to Hollywood to film a movie?

This is indeed a very tempting suggestion.

At least Chen Yuan immediately became excited when he heard that John took the initiative to invite Wu Yuan to Hollywood.

Filmmakers like Chen Yuan's generation have an infinite yearning for Hollywood, and even regard it as a movie palace.

Who said Hollywood movies have conquered the global market in their generation? A movie can easily earn hundreds of millions of dollars at the global box office!

That big ship in 1998 took in 1.8 billion U.S. dollars in global box office. It not only broke the iceberg, but also broke the Chinese film market!

In comparison, the box office of domestic movies is only a few hundred or tens of millions of yuan, which cannot be compared with it at all!

At a time when Hong Kong's film industry is in decline, Hollywood has undoubtedly become the brightest pearl in the global film industry.

From directors to actors, there is no one who doesn’t want to go to Hollywood and make Hollywood movies!

Why is Wu Baige regarded as a great international director by domestic filmmakers?

Is it because he holds the only Academy Award for Best Director trophy?

Are there few directors who have won Academy Awards?

Or is it because of the hit movie "A Better Tomorrow" in Asia?

No, none of that!

It's because he has worked in Hollywood and directed Hollywood A-level blockbusters!

It's because the Hollywood blockbuster "Mission: Impossible 2" directed by him grossed more than 500 million US dollars at the global box office in May this year!

Although he later filmed "Windtalkers", which cost 115 million US dollars but had a box office of less than 80 million, and "Memory", which was a huge loss, he was driven back from Hollywood in despair.

But after he came back, he was still praised as an international director and had a lot of fans!

Even though he made the shitty "Red Cliff" again, he is still a top domestic director!

Now Wu Yuan has the opportunity to go to Hollywood to film a movie, and Fox Searchlight took the initiative to invite him to Hollywood!

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for any other mainland director!

Chen Yuan couldn't wait to agree immediately for Wu Yuan!

However, Wu Yuan was not so excited, but calmly meditated.

Having experienced memories in dreams, he does not look down on the domestic film market and Shinhwa Hollywood like Chen Yuan.

It is true that the current mainland film market is indeed very small, but soon the mainland film market will usher in a big explosion!

In just 20 years, the mainland film market has gone from not even being ranked in the top ten to becoming the world's largest film market.

20 years later, Hollywood will be like that. Except for superhero movies, the global box office of other movies may not be as high as the box office of mainland blockbusters!

To put it bluntly, Wu Yuan only needs to take root in the domestic film market and develop well. The domestic market alone is enough for him.

It’s just that there are still some years left before the mainland blockbuster era begins.

And Wu Yuan really needs a sum of funds to prepare for the era of mainland movie blockbusters in advance.

Wu Yuan was unwilling to let him go to Hollywood for long-term development. He wanted to personally participate in this great era of reform in the mainland film market.

But he would be happy to go to Hollywood to make a quick buck, and then invest the quick money into the mainland film market to accelerate the development of the mainland film market.

It is indeed very profitable to make Hollywood movies these days!

Thinking of this, Wu Yuan also had a smile on his face.

"John, I will seriously consider your suggestion."

"However, let's talk about the adaptation rights of "Coherence" first."

In the end, the North American copyright of "The Night the Comet Came" plus the adaptation rights were sold for US$1.3 million.

This is a price that makes Chen Yuan extremely satisfied.

After the negotiation, Wu Yuan and John also exchanged contact information and work emails with each other.

Fox Searchlight is not a company with stupid people and lots of money.

Whether Wu Yuan can hitch a ride on Fox Searchlight depends on whether he can come up with a script that makes Fox Searchlight interested.

Although he has the idea of ​​​​going to Hollywood to make a quick buck, this cannot be negotiated in a short while, and he needs to get in touch slowly later.

After settling the most important sale of North American copyrights, Wu Yuan no longer participated in the negotiations on the sale of copyrights in other places, and instead gave full authority to Chen Yuan.

Film studios in Europe, South America, and Asia are not as wealthy as North America, and the market is not that big. The average price offered by a film studio is only tens of thousands of dollars, which is not worthy of Wu Yuan's penny-pinching.

For him, this trip to the Sitges Fantasy Film Festival has been a complete success.

The following movie week is all about vacation and enjoying the movie.

Although "The Night the Comet Came" has been screened a lot in local film festival theaters, the film festival is not just for Wu Yuan after all, there are still many other films being screened.

He, Chen Kun, and Zeng Li continued their movie-watching trip after observing the screening of "The Night the Comet Came" for half a day.

Two days later, Chen Yuan had almost reached an agreement with film producers from all over the world. Including the North American market, "The Night the Comet Came" sold a total of 2.55 million US dollars.

Among them are the profits from buying out the copyright and the profits from the adaptation rights.

It’s a pretty good price, converted into domestic currency, it’s over 20 million!

And without having to share it with the theaters, Wu Yuan could personally take away more than 4 million from it!

In Chen Yuan's room, after the copyright sales were finally settled, he stared blankly at the white paper recording the sales in front of him. He stared in disbelief for a long time before taking out his mobile phone and making an overseas call.

"Hello, Director Han."

Time in China is six hours ahead of Spain. It is already evening in China time, but Mr. Han is still in high spirits and his words are full of expectation: "How is it? How much did it cost?"

"2.55 million!"

"Dollar!"

Mr. Han on the other end of the phone immediately fell silent, and only the sound of heavy breathing echoed in the receiver.

After a few short and long seconds, he asked again: "How is it that Fox wants to invite Director Wu to film in Hollywood?"

"Director Wu said he wants to think about it and is still thinking about the script. It's impossible for people in Hollywood to throw money at it before they see the script." Chen Yuan replied with a smile.

"Okay! Okay!" Director Han's tone was very exciting: "Xiao Chen, you have to take good care of Director Wu outside. I'm waiting for your victory and triumph in the capital!"

Overseas phone calls are still very expensive. Even if Han Donggui is the deputy director of China Film Group, he is reluctant to waste the money. After a few more instructions, he hung up the phone.

Putting away his phone, Chen Yuan thought about it in his mind.

Tomorrow is the end of the film festival, and the trip to Sitges for "The Night the Comet Came" can be said to be very successful.

Now there's just one last thing left.

Now that you have signed up to participate in the film festival, you have to look forward to the film festival awards, right?

It's a pity that this thing is not something they can control. It depends on the idea of ​​the film festival jury.

Just as I was thinking about this, the Chinese translator hired by China Film Group to study abroad knocked on the door and walked in excitedly.

"Producer Chen, the organizer of the film festival has sent someone to inform us to attend the closing ceremony and awards ceremony!"

“Our film was nominated for three awards: Best Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Film!”