Chapter 417： Mr. Tree

Chapter 417 Mr. Tree

Link left the coffee room and called Andrew Kramer to talk about "Far Cry".

He has seen this movie. The production level is average, far inferior to the horror movies produced by Lionsgate Pictures.

The heroines and supporting characters in swimsuits are not as good as European and American actors, and the scale of exposure is not large enough. There are also several thrilling scenes that are not enough for American audiences who are used to seeing blood flying everywhere. Scary.

The only advantage is that this is a Chinese thriller, which is relatively novel and may arouse the interest of some viewers.

After buying the North American distribution rights, the film will first be shown in Chinatown theaters in major cities. If the box office performance is too poor, it can be released on DVD or sold to Netflix for free playback on video websites.

As long as the price for "Far Cry" is not high, Lionsgate will basically not lose money with its current channels.

 He ​​asked Andrew to keep the price to the lowest when negotiating, with the maximum price not exceeding half a million US dollars. The production cost of "Far Cry" was only two to three million US dollars.

"Huh?"

As soon as I put down the phone, I suddenly noticed a screening message for 'Mr.Tree' flashing on the electronic screen in the theater in front of me. This film is from China, and the film producer is Chinese director Jia Zhangke, who has been shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival twice. , other information is not displayed.

Link stopped and walked into the venue to take a look. There were not many people in the venue. There were more than 100 seats, but only about a dozen people were sitting there. Most of them were Chinese.

The movie has been running for more than 20 minutes, and it is about to show the scene where "Shu" goes to the hospital for eye treatment and teases the little nurse.

The movie only has English subtitles and no English or French dubbing. Foreigners need to stare at the subtitles when watching the movie, but the subtitles are full of errors in translation, and the preface does not match the subtitles, making people confused.

In addition, if you pay too much attention to the subtitles, it is easy to ignore the plot and make it even more difficult to understand.

Within thirty minutes of the movie showing, almost all the foreigners in the venue were gone, leaving only seven or eight Chinese people in the front row.

“This movie is very good, how come no one has watched it?”

“It’s hard for me as a Chinese to listen to the dialogue, let alone a group of foreigners.”

“Indeed! Literary films are inherently obscure and difficult to understand, and coupled with the language barrier, it’s strange that someone would watch them.”

“Hey, there is another person there, why is he still wearing a hat while watching a movie?”

Hearing the comments from the people in front, Link smiled softly, watched for a few minutes, and then stood up and left.

 Coming to the aisle, he called Andrew and asked him to buy the North American distribution rights of "Mr. Tree".

The production cost of this kind of film is very low, and no foreign film studio will buy it. It can basically be bought at a bargain price. He does not buy this film to make money, but mainly because he likes it.

“Mr. Weinstein, you haven’t finished watching the movie yet. Would you like to watch it again?”

“Trash movie, a waste of my time.”

Link just put down the phone when he saw Harvey coming out of the screening room opposite, accompanied by two assistants, and behind him was a bald middle-aged man. The middle-aged man chased Harvey, but Harvey had a straight face. He walked out aggressively.

“Link?”

 Harvey immediately stopped walking when he saw him, narrowed his eyes and looked at him, the brown bags under his eyes trembled.

“Hey Harvey, what a coincidence!”

Link said with a smile.

Harvey snorted, took out a cigar, squinted his eyes and said, "I heard that your Lionsgate movies are also participating in the exhibition? Are there any films shortlisted?"

"No!"

“Ha! I had expected it. Lionsgate specializes in making garbage movies. It’s surprising that it was shortlisted.”

“It doesn’t matter, my movies have high box office and I specialize in dark horses.”

Link said with a raised corner of his mouth. Harvey's face suddenly darkened, and the fat on his face twitched a few times, and his expression became very ugly. He understood what Link was talking about. This **** was showing off the box office results of "Bridesmaids" in front of his face.

“Hmph! You won’t be lucky forever, we’ll see.”

Harvey glared at him and left with the others.

“Mr. Baker, do you have time? How about watching my movie?”

The middle-aged man invited warmly.

Link looked at his watch. It was still early, so he walked into the movie theater to watch it. It was a French pornographic movie, shot in a similar way to candid photography. There was no plot and no artistic level. Watching this kind of movie was really a waste of time.

He watched for four or five minutes, got up and left, and then moved to another venue to watch.

  He watched clips from more than 20 movies in a row for more than an hour, but did not find any familiar movies. He found that it was extremely difficult to find one or two good movies among thousands of movies that had not been exposed by the media.

After a film is sent to the Cannes Film Festival, film lovers, media reporters, and professional film critics from all over the world will visit various film venues.

Which film is of good quality will be discovered by the audience at the beginning of the screening, attracting more people to watch, and then reported by the media. Film critics will publish relevant film reviews, word-of-mouth fermentation, and attract the attention of the jury. The good one will be selected Enter the competition unit.

The entire film festival process is a process of picking out the best films, and the possibility of good films being missed is extremely small.

After 9 p.m., the film festival shifted to midnight, and various venues began to screen some large-scale films.

The Palais des Festivals has also become more lively, with many moviegoers queuing up in the hall to get in, holding tickets collected in advance.

He was not very interested in this type of movie, so he returned to the beachfront hotel early to rest, and called Ivaca to inquire about the progress of the investigation into Warner Pictures' box office theft incident.

Ivaca said that when they arranged for an investigation, Warner Pictures discovered their actions, arranged for a marketing president to come over for negotiations, persuaded her and Catherine to give up doing this, and expressed their willingness to compensate for part of the box office.

Evaka’s request is to return all box office tickets, otherwise the investigation will continue and the law will be used to safeguard the company’s legitimate interests.

Warner Pictures said it needs to consider it.

Ivaca promised to give them time to consider and arranged for people to continue the investigation. At present, they have obtained evidence that some theaters are involved in box office fraud. With this evidence, although they may not win the lawsuit, by creating public opinion, they can also make people Warner Bros. Pictures' image was damaged.

Link asked her to be careful and bring more bodyguards with her when she goes out recently.

Ivaca smiled and said she understood, and asked him how was he in Cannes and did he pick up any beautiful women?

Link said no, no woman here can compare to one-tenth of her.

After talking on the phone, he sat on the balcony, drank a glass of red wine, and watched the sea view of Cannes for a while before falling asleep. When he came back from exercise the next morning, he picked up a few French newspapers in the hotel lobby and found that there were many French newspapers in them. Review of "Midnight in Paris".

In addition to praising director Allen for his talent and stable filmmaking, this film still has a distinct Woody Allen style and can be called a companion piece to "Midnight in Barcelona".

The rest of the comments are all praising Link's acting skills, praising him for his delicate and infectious acting style, and for being a very charming and talented actor.

Praised him for the wonderful emotional scenes with Marion Cotillard and Jennifer Lawrence, which raised the quality of the entire film to a new level.

It is said that the performance level of the three of them is not inferior to that of Javier Bardem, Scarlett Johansson, and Penelope Cruz in "Midnight in Barcelona".

Finally, newspapers such as "Le Figaro" and "Le Soir Française" published many of his movie stills in the entertainment section, all of which were close-ups of him in the movie.

"Le Soir Française" commented that "Everyone in Cannes last night was impressed by Link's grace on the screen. He conquered this year's Cannes with his personal charm." It also said that after the film is released, it will definitely set off a new wave of success around the world. Link Craze', when movie fans around the world will fall for the charm of Link.

Marion Cotillard also called and praised his handsome photo. She looked at it many times and planned to cut it out and keep it in the album as a souvenir.

Link touched his cheek and thought of Director Allen's words. If he was too handsome, he would be called a male vase and would be jealous of the Oscar judges. He felt helpless for a moment.

(End of this chapter)