Chapter 167

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When Harvey Weinstein walked into the warehouse set, the crew was shooting. Murphy just looked over there and went on with his work. The shooting was in progress. He couldn't give up his work and say hello.

In front of the camera, Jessica chastan is dancing in a short skirt and bust, with the lower part of her right leg wrapped in a green curtain.

She is sexy in dress and hot in figure. She has a special style of dancing. Her dancing posture is askew, as if she has only one leg, which is very funny.

This scene looks very funny, but the crew is shooting, no one dares to laugh.

Standing next to Harvey Weinstein, Quentin Tarantino looks at the women dancing on the set and immediately remembers the script that she saw. In the script, this is a one legged woman dancing, and it's also a striptease.

Thinking of this, he can't help but turn to the young man behind the director's monitor. The script can't explain too much, but he can also see that the other party has a very special idea.

At the beginning, he was also a whimsical young man.

Not long ago, after reading the script and the plan, Quentin had a strong interest in this project, especially the absurd setting, which was just too in line with his appetite. If it wasn't for his own unfinished project, he wanted to take over and direct it himself.

I heard that the crew came back to Los Angeles to shoot. He specially came to see if this interesting project will turn into an interesting film.

In the middle of the afternoon, standing on the outskirts of the set, Quentin watched the crew shoot five or six scenes one after another. Whether it was a simple and powerful close combat, or the heroine's shooting with fake legs and props gun, or the dialogue, it was not only full of strong ult style, but also seemed to blend into the comic style of some rotten gangster movies, which was extremely interesting.

At the end of the afternoon, Murphy left Paul Wilson to clean up the set and went to Harvey Weinstein.

"Murphy, let me introduce you." Harvey Weinstein introduced them. "This is Quentin. Quentin, this is Murphy. "

"Hello." The two shook hands.

Murphy took a look at Quentin Tarantino, the eccentric director, who looks more strange than the image in the media.

The set was a bit messy, and Murphy took the two men to his director's office.

After a few words of conversation, the topic turned to the movie. Quentin was obviously very interested. "A beautiful woman with a broken leg can use M4A1 as a prosthetic limb and kill zombies. It's a very good idea."

Probably because of his personality, he said directly to Murphy, "if you didn't start shooting, I would take your position as director."

But Murphy didn't answer him, "I heard you're going to make a kung fu movie?"

Quentin Tarantino nodded, and Murphy said, "if you grab it, it's just right. We can change it."

Hearing this, Quentin Tarantino seemed to be inspired and said, "otherwise, Murphy, I'll direct a few scenes for you, and my film is about to start shooting. How about you go to my crew and shoot a few scenes then?"

Opposite is the well-known Quentin Tarantino, a guy who is not even a bird in six major companies. Unless he meets something very interesting, he can't show such enthusiasm at all.

"Good!" Murphy didn't even think, "I can't wait."

He thought about it and said, "actually, I'd like to add a few trailers, real or fake, before the movie" planet terrors "starts in the 1970s and 1980s."

Murphy looked at Harvey Weinstein. "Harvey also supports my idea, but I didn't find a suitable Trailer. Quentin, why don't you take a fake Trailer and put it in."

"For what?" Quentin Tarantino said, "aren't you going to Cannes? By that time, I'll have started shooting. I'll make a trailer of Kill Bill and put it directly in front of planet terrors

Harvey Weinstein looks at Quentin, smiles and nods.

Only some geeks can't be a qualified director at all. Quentin knows how to make use of it. Murphy Stanton's previous film is a big hit. If this film is successful, the trailer will become an excellent advertisement. If it fails

He shakes his head. How can the film he runs fail?

Except that Mira has no real money to raise in the overseas production market, it has not been said that the follow-up production of "star of terror" has been put into the overseas market.

He doesn't want the horror planet to be as amazing as the chainsaw. As long as it has a certain quality, it should be easy to make profits with Miramax's distribution and operation ability.

In addition, Murphy Stanton's electric saw thriller is very popular in many overseas markets. Now the director is also on the stage, and he has a certain popularity. All these are favorable to the situation of terror planet.Harvey Weinstein is thinking about the market operation. Murphy and Quentin Tarantino are both black film lovers. They can find quite a lot of common language. It's too exaggerating to say it's the same at first sight, but they talk happily.

"Quentin, you can direct some action plays for me tomorrow." Thanks to Harvey Weinstein's acquiescence, Murphy and Quentin quickly reached an agreement, "but there's one thing you should pay attention to."

"Don't worry." Quentin Tarantino was in high spirits. "As you said just now, I won't go too far."

He just proposed that after Jessica chastan's one legged dance, he add a scene that the zombie officer wants to grab, and it's also a rotten zombie officer below.

This kind of plot appears in the video tape is OK, put in the movie definitely not.

"Don't blow people's eggs!" Murphy solemnly exhorted, "in the shot, there have been many scenes of exploding eggs."

As we all know, Quentin Tarantino is very fond of exploding villains or protagonists in movies, and even has the tendency of bomb addiction.

"Let's talk about Cannes Film Festival and overseas distribution." Harvey Weinstein brought the subject back.

However, the rest of the time, mostly he said, Murphy is listening, Miramax is the producer and distributor of the film, Harvey Weinstein came, that is, optimistic about the future of Murphy, do a routine notice.

In particular, he told Murphy that after shooting and before post production, he would accompany Miramax to meet the film sales agent from Cannes Film Festival.

The Cannes Film Festival is famous. Of course, Murphy knows it, but he doesn't know how to sell a film.

Ninety nine percent of the films take part in a film festival like Cannes. The most direct purpose is to sell at a good price.

There are two kinds of film festivals in the world: Commercial Film Festival and audience Film Festival.

Most of the well-known film festivals are commercial in nature and have a large film market. For example, Cannes is the most typical commercial film festival, especially in the exhibition stage, which is for distribution companies from all over the world to see.

After listening to Harvey Weinstein's introduction, Murphy learned that the most important role in the film festival's distribution and venture capital system is the film sales agent.

They are the people who help the participating companies sell their films, especially internationally.

The film sales agent will get some power from the production company to recommend projects to international distributors, draft contracts, mail and send entity and video materials, and finally collect fees and return money to the film company.

The international sales agents used by companies like Miramax are long-term partners. Because it may take years to promote projects around the world, the sales agents will help Miramax make marketing materials and make promotion plans for the film festival.

Just as Harvey Weinstein asked Murphy to meet with his sales agent before post production, he may not be able to find sales after the film is finished. Now Miramax's path to recover part of the cost through international pre-sale is completed through them.

Murphy realized that finding a suitable sales agent is very important for companies participating in the festival. They will help a company's films get into the A-level Film Festival. If a long-term cooperation is established, the film company can also find films similar to the projects sold, and then sell them.

Of course, there is no free lunch in the world. To participate in a film festival is an artistic act on a big scale, but it has to be based on a huge amount of money.

The service fee of the sales agent of Cannes Film Festival is between 10% and 15%. A relatively strong company like Miramax can reduce it to about 6% of the sales profit.

Harvey Weinstein asked Murphy to meet these people. In addition to waving the flag for his film, he also needed to prepare a series of materials.

These are part of Miramax's marketing budget. They will sign an agreement with the sales agent, including cooperation time, authorized location, etc., and need to agree on a sales budget.

This budget includes the cost of the film festival, even under the banner of art, if you want to show in the film festival, you have to pay! There are also transaction advertisements, posters and other publicity materials, travel expenses and other expenses.

In this respect, the cost of Cannes Film Festival is quite high, which is definitely not comparable to the cost of Murphy's participation in Saint Denis Film Festival.

To participate in this kind of International Film Festival often means a large sum of money.

At the lowest level, some international sales agents can take a film and its director to one or two B-level film festivals for a few shows and some basic publicity with about $50000. But for A-level film festival like Cannes, the cost is generally between $100000 and $250000, and they will not pay for the show, and they have to pay for all the shows themselves.

After hearing these routine notices from Harvey Weinstein, Murphy realized that participating in the film festival is far from as simple as remembering. Money is the most basic stepping stone to these film festivals that hold high the banner of art. (to be continued). )