Chapter 1354

After the official closing of the 66th Cannes Film Festival, "Adele's life" and "drunken folk songs" have undoubtedly become the object of discussion. However, in North America, the latter's attention is absolutely unparalleled. Even before the release time is confirmed, the discussion heat has been fiercely broken.

On top of the Cannes Film Festival, the battle for the distribution rights of "drunken Ballads" has already sounded the horn. Many top film companies in the industry, including focus film, Sony classics, Miramax pictures and Warner Brothers, have joined the battle. It is almost certain that this work will become a member of this year's award season that can not be ignored.

What's more, whether it's the Cohen brothers or Langley hall, it has become the focus of competition among major film companies.

After a fierce battle, the North American distribution right of "drunken folk" was finally won by Sony classic with a turnover of 15 million US dollars.

Note that this is just a North American distribution right!

At present, overseas distribution rights are still competing. Many countries and regions, including the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Mexico, France, Spain, Brazil, Japan and South Korea, are striving for this work. They hope that this work can be shown in the mainland. Such a frenzy is not inferior to even commercial films, This is also one of the most popular works in the distribution copyright market at Cannes Film Festival.

Compared with a series of other works such as "Adele's life", they are more focused on the screening of art theaters. The market prospect of "drunken folk songs" is widely optimistic. Just because of the appeal of Cohen brothers and Langley, it is enough to make major distributors vote of confidence.

The 15 million US dollars also created the highest amount of copyright transaction of Cannes Film Festival this year, which completely overshadowed Adele's life.

By the way, Sony classics made a big splash in Cannes this year, winning the North American distribution rights of "the past", "eternal love" and "drunken folk songs". It started to prepare for this year's award season early and showed a tough performance.

The reason why this point is mentioned is that Sony classics also won the North American distribution right of "pop drummer".

This is absolutely a sudden change!

In the preparation process of "pop drummer", the six major Hollywood film companies all took the initiative one after another. The eight immortals all showed their magic power, presenting a noisy scene of a hundred flowers blooming and a hundred schools of thought contending.

Warner Brothers and paramount once took the lead in the chaos, especially Warner Brothers led by Barry Meyer. After the two works of "tomorrow's edge" and "gravity", they continued the cooperation agreement with lenley very actively and sincerely, and rarely showed enough sincerity to independent art films.

Then Andre Hamilton was born and quietly won the production right of "pop drummer"; In the end, Andre chose Sony classic——

Among all the independent brands in Hollywood, Universal Pictures' focus film and 20th Century Fox's Fox Searchlight film are the top two. In addition, Weinstein pictures is the main force in every award season; There are some controversies about the fourth place. Many brands, big and small, can play well. However, Sony classic undoubtedly has a slight advantage.

As an independent brand company of Sony Columbia Pictures, thanks to a lot of financial support from its parent company, its overall momentum is steadily rising in recent years.

"Midnight Paris", "love", "a farewell", "scorched city", "growth education", "White Ribbon", "Moon", "Twelve Angry Men", "frozen river" and other works are all their masterpieces in the award season in recent years. Inadvertently, they can always create no small miracle, especially in the foreign language film department, there are surprises every year, Last year's best foreign language film and best documentary feature film all came from Sony classics.

This year, Sony classics made an early effort. The awarding seasons of "love before midnight", "kill your love" and "blue Jasmine" are all hidden in the seed pocket. After returning with a full load at Cannes Film Festival, Sony successfully won the global distribution right of "pop drummer" with a transaction amount of 6 million US dollars.

For Andre, the "cracker drummer" has not started shooting, he has recovered the cost; As for Sony classics, they cut off the Hu before Warner Bros. and paramount, which is the most popular "pop drummer" in Hollywood.

It's a win-win.

It can be predicted that in this year's award season, Sony classics will be in full swing.

Back to the "drunken ballad", the news of the successful distribution of the copyright transaction set off a frenzy of discussion. Everyone is closely concerned about the film's screening date, and is looking forward to the early meeting of the audience of this work which has returned from Cannes with high reputation.

However, if the copyright of "drunken Ballads" can be sold so easily and quickly, the Cohen brothers are undoubtedly the top priority. No one can ignore their appeal in the North American market; The original soundtrack of "drunken folk songs" has also successfully set off a sales frenzy, which has a more direct relationship with Lan Li.

At the press conference of Cannes Film Festival, the Cohen brothers once mentioned that in fact, the original soundtrack of the film had been officially released ahead of the film release, but there was no serious publicity and no official announcement, so the sales performance was always low.

After the explosive response of "drunken ballad" in Cannes, it has been widely spread on social network media. It is known as "the best movie of the year". Some people praise that "this is the perfect combination of lanli's singing and acting talent". Some even exclaim that "music melody is still hovering in my mind".

There are countless praises for the film itself; The praise of the original vocal cord is also beyond words.

The release date of "drunken ballad" in North America is still uncertain, even in the distant future. In order to ease their inner expectation and excitement, the audience turned their attention to the original soundtrack.

It is undeniable that the soundtrack of "drunken folk songs" is indeed a very excellent album. Although the overall theme core is not as consistent as "Don Quixote", the melodious melody and emotional lyrics are still a clear stream in today's fast food culture, showing the distinctive charm of folk songs.

As Levine said in the movie, "if a song is never new, but never out of date, it's ballad."

After the Cannes Film Festival, the sales volume of this original album is rising rapidly. In just three weeks, with the sales volume of 130000 copies on a single Tuesday, it beat a number of singers' regular albums and became the champion of the North American billboard album list!

In fact, this is not the first time for the Cohen brothers.

In 2000, the movie "three kings of prison break" directed by the Cohen brothers became very popular after the release of the original soundtrack. It not only successfully topped the billboard album list, but also won the first prize; In addition, it also successfully topped the year-end sales champion in North America, with a total of 7 million copies sold; Finally, the soundtrack won the Grammy of the year album award the following year.

Now, the original soundtrack of "drunken folk songs" has successfully achieved this.

Because there is no billboard and no publicity, the single in the album has not achieved remarkable results. It just ranks in the top 100 of the billboard single list, hovering in the low position after the 70th, and has not been able to attract too much attention; But the sales figures of the album are particularly stable, even gratifying.

In the past three weeks, the weekly sales volume was more than 50000, and showed a rapid upward trend. In the third week, it has exceeded 200000, and successfully reached the top of the billboard album list!

This is just the beginning.

After the original soundtrack of "drunken ballad" successfully reached the top of the billboard title, without any publicity or expectation, it won the championship for four weeks, and then fell to the second place.

Even the official website of the billboard exclaimed at this achievement, cheering and sighing in the way of the front page report, "in the case that the film has not been released, and even the schedule has not been determined, this original album has won the hearts of countless audiences in the market ahead of time. Is this the Cohen brothers effect? Or the Langley Hall effect? As far as the current situation is concerned, it should be the latter. "

Evidence?

The best evidence is that Don Quixote is back in the top 20 of the billboard album charts.

Although this album has never really appeared on the list, the long-term sales figures make it stay in the list for a long time, and it can return to the top 50 from time to time; But now can suddenly burst out a single six million sales, this is the incredible recovery——

The only reason is the original sound of "drunken folk songs".

Facts have proved that.

After the soundtrack fell in the second place, it remained stable in terms of sales and demand. It stayed in the top five for 12 weeks and in the top ten for 23 weeks.

It may be difficult to copy the sales frenzy of the "three kings of prison escape" in those years; But there is no doubt that "drunken ballad" has become one of the best-selling albums in North America in 2013, enough to occupy a place in the year-end sales list.

This is the appeal of "Langley hall"!

Just one name is enough to set off a frenzy in the fields of film, music and drama, not to mention van diesel or Christian Wagner. Even the enterprising elite agency must think twice before it acts. It's enough to see the fight between Sony classic, Warner Brothers and paramount for the distribution right of "pop drummer".

At this moment, in the face of Christian's full-scale outburst of anger, diesel also lost some, unable to refute, also unable to speak, that sense of frustration is really indescribable.