The Best Entertainment Era

In a reception room of the hotel, Ronan met Harvey Weinstein. The two were not familiar with each other, but they were not unfamiliar either. After all, the number of people in Hollywood's high-end circle is actually not that many.

Ronan, are you here to buy a movie this time? Harvey Weinstein still remembered that Ronan bought Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon under his nose, and asked tentatively, Do you have a goal?

Ronan smiled: I just arrived today.

Harvey Weinstein was straightforward: It seems that we are the same. With a smile on his fat face, he said, I'm going to the film festival trade fair to see if I can meet valuable film.

Ronan didn't go around in circles and said, I will also go to the trade fair.

For those who own a distribution company, trade fairs are often more attractive than competition units. The films in competition units are all placed in the open, and there is probably a clearer measure of value. Instead, films at trade fairs, luck If it is good, you can find the kind that is small and big.

Of course, neither Ronan nor Harvey Weinstein expected to find films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or The Blair Witch at the Shanghai International Film Festival trade fair.

After all, they are mainly engaged in the North American market, and Shanghai International Film Festival is not comparable to the three major European film festivals or the Saint Denis Film Festival.

Harvey Weinstein said suddenly: Ronan, we are all from Hollywood, and we must be the most eye-catching objects at the trade fair. I have a proposal.

Please tell me. Ronan looked at the fat Jewish man.

Harvey Weinstein said: You and I have participated in a lot of film festivals, and some film companies like to use the competition of multiple distributors to drive up prices.

Ronan nodded slightly: There are indeed many such cases.

Although the distributor is absolutely at the top of the food chain, but if two or more distributors are eyeing the same movie at the same time, the producer will have the capital to sit on the ground and raise the price.

Harvey Weinstein proposed: What if one of us sees a movie first at a fair and bids, and the other doesn't compete?

Ronan thought for a while, the film directed by Zhang Da did not participate in the trade fair...

Yes. Ronan said: At the trade fair, the Embassy Films will not buy those expensive films.

Harvey Weinstein is a veteran of the trade,

Said: Miramax is similar. He laughed: We've made a deal.

Ronan also smiled and said, My reputation has always been very good.

Harvey Weinstein admits this, and there are rumors in Hollywood that Ronan Anderson is very particular about his work.

But Harvey Weinstein did not mention anything other than the trade fair, and Ronan also did not say that he knew that Harvey Weinstein had private contacts with the director Zhang.

Presumably Harvey Weinstein also knew that there was also a connection between Director Zhang and him.

That Hero is indeed of certain value. If he can get it at a reasonable price, Ronan will naturally not let it go, but the value of this movie is limited. It is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon at the core of the West.

For Western audiences, Hero is nothing more than a science fiction film from the East.

Maybe it can also be said to be a magic movie.

In the following day, Luo Nan, accompanied by the person in charge of the East Branch of the embassy's film industry, met many big figures in the film industry here, such as the chairman of the organizing committee of the Shanghai National Film Festival, the head of the film bureau, and China Film Group. The chairman of the board, a person in charge of the scissors, and so on.

On the basis of maintaining his position, Ronan also released a certain cooperation intention to these people.

And he is indeed cooperating with companies here. For example, many companies here are responsible for producing DVDs and many other movie peripheral products for Relativity Entertainment.

Under the general environment where the economy is in command, foreign investors like Ronan are very popular, and even the leaders of many regions secretly sent invitations to him to inspect the local investment environment and so on.

The Shanghai Film Festival opened, and Ronan, as an important guest, also participated in the opening ceremony, and found a chance to chat with that director Zhang.

Director Zhang invited Ronan to a reception next week, saying that he would introduce and promote his new film on the spot.

Ronan can guess that this is to gather a number of foreign distribution companies to sell Hero at a good price.

In this era, European distribution companies are actually far inferior to Hollywood, and they don't have much competitiveness at all. Especially with Director Zhang's Oscar plot here, the first choice must be a Hollywood company.

Ronan thought about it carefully, and roughly estimated the value of Hero.

After attending the opening ceremony, Ronan asked Connie to contact the organizing committee and go to the trade fair of the film festival to change her costume.

What can really support the film festival is the competition unit on the one hand, and the huge film deal on the other.

This film fair was held in the International Convention and Exhibition Center. Filmmakers from more than 20 countries brought new and old works to the exhibition, and more than 200 films urgently needed to find buyers.

In some respects, movies are a buyer's market. Distributors need audiences to buy tickets, and producers need distributors to pay for them.

Ronan brought his assistant Connie and bodyguard Finch into the exhibition center. The venue is very large. Perhaps it is because they are used to this kind of large-scale gatherings for promotion. The densely packed exhibition booths are connected one by one.

Embassy Pictures also has a booth, but there is no film exhibition, just to introduce its distribution business to the producers.

The organizer may have considered the needs of many foreign guests. At the entrance of the venue, there are volunteers who will provide some services such as guides and translations according to the needs of different countries.

These volunteers are of high quality, and most of them come from colleges and universities in this city.

Qianqian, look quickly. In the volunteer area, a short-haired girl saw Ronan at a glance, pulled Wanqian, and said, Isn't this the Hollywood big shot that Vice Chairman Chen personally went to greet?

Wan Qian took a look and confirmed, It's the boss of Relativity Entertainment.

The short-haired girl had a very flexible head, and immediately pulled Wanqian forward, saying as she walked, Come on, he may need a translator or guide.

Wanqian hesitated for a moment, but followed.

It was not far away, but the short-haired girl came to Ronan in a few steps, and asked in English, Excuse me, sir, do you need volunteer services?

Ronan looked curiously at the short-haired girl, then glanced at another round-faced girl who seemed a little quiet behind, and asked, Volunteer?

The short-haired girl pointed to the volunteer clothes on her body, and said: This place is very big, and people from many countries and regions gather together. Many guests need guides or translators. If you are not prepared, our volunteers can provide this service. .”

Ronan switched to Chinese: I don't think there is any need for an English translation.

The short-haired girl was a little surprised. She didn't expect a Hollywood big shot to be able to speak Mandarin so fluently: Oh, ah... So, it turns out that you speak Chinese so well.

Ronan smiled and said, But I need a guide. He glanced at the round-faced girl behind him: Would you mind being my guide?

Me? Wanqian was a little surprised.

The short-haired girl had a very good relationship with Wanqian, so she quickly gave her a hand. Wanqian said, This is part of our volunteer work, of course.

Thank you. Ronan was very polite and introduced himself: I'm Ronan Anderson, from Hollywood.

Wanqian seemed to be inexperienced in society, so she paused for a while before reacting, and said, I am Wanqian, a student at the Academy of Drama.

The short-haired girl gave Wanqian a push quietly, and Wanqian made a gesture of invitation according to the etiquette trained in advance: Mr. Anderson, this way. Let's walk along this main road, and we can see all the booths participating in the exhibition.

Ronan nodded: Thank you.

Wanqian was in charge of leading the way, and Luo Nan walked beside, watching as he walked, and every time he passed a booth, he would stop and watch, especially the information about movies, he would browse through them one by one, hoping to find valuable movies from them.

In addition to him, several professional buyers from Embassy Films also came to the film festival. Two of them went to watch the screenings and competitions, and the remaining three were also looking for films in the convention center.

This is the booth of a company in Kazakhstan. Wanqian obviously made enough preparations for the volunteers: The film industry in Kazakhstan has developed rapidly in the past two years. At the fair last year, three Kazakh films were sold.

Ronan watched the movie shown on the big screen, shook his head and left before the reception staff came over.

Wanqian saw that after passing through so many exhibition areas, Ronan just watched, and seemed to have no intention of buying at all. She was very curious, endured it for a long time, and asked softly: Mr. Anderson, are you looking for a suitable film to show in North America?

Ronan replied, Yeah, I have a distribution company.

Wan Qian said with a smile: Embassy Pictures, I have watched The Bourne Shadow released by Embassy Pictures.

Ronan asked, What do you think of the film?

This film entered the Oriental Film Market for official screening.

Wan Qian said politely: It's very exciting. She glanced at Ronan: My male classmates really like this movie.

There are not many people walking around the exhibition area. In fact, at this kind of local film festival trade fair, the number of buyers is relatively limited, and the number of films that can actually be sold will not be many.

This is also the reason why the organizing committee is making great efforts to invite Hollywood film companies.

Many people in the booth saw Ronan and wanted to promote their movie, but Finch stopped them all. Ronan just watched the introduction of the movie and had no plans to make a move for the time being.

After walking through the booths of more than a dozen companies, Ronan never came across any movies he was interested in until he stood in front of Media Asia Pictures' booth.

In this booth, there are many names of old movies that Ronan is familiar with, such as the famous Zombie series.

The famous Taoist priest was an important reason that attracted Ronan to stop, and the other was the poster of a new film.

Infernal Affairs.

Looking at the two film stars on the poster, Ronan couldn't help frowning slightly. It seems that this movie was released at the end of 2002, and it's coming out now? With the filming and production mode of Hong Kong City Films, it seems a bit early, right?