Chapter 380 Revenge from the Mountain Cottage

Chapter 380 Revenge from the Mountain Cottage

Chapter 380 Revenge from the Mountain Cottage
It took more than a month in total, and "Detective Chinatown" was finally completed.

The preparation work was done very meticulously, from the script to the venue and scenery, everything was arranged in advance. The leading actors only needed to perform the contents of the script, which was very efficient.

After finishing the wrap-up dinner.

Gao Yuanyuan, who left Thailand first, got the leading female role in a movie and a TV series.

In order to promote her, Fan Wumian will specially tailor two new projects, "Yanjing Meets Seattle" and "Story of Yanxi Palace".

There's not much to say about the movie, but "Story of Yanxi Palace" is a drama he specifically chose that features a female lead and palace fighting.

In today's TV dramas of the same type, the heroines are mostly timid and submissive. They are bullied but dare not fight back. They are a bit similar to Ziwei and Xiaoyanzi in "My Fair Princess". Aunts and grandmothers like to watch it, but young people feel so depressed that they vomit blood after watching it, and they wish they could chop Rong Mama into two pieces.

"Story of Yanxi Palace" is different.

The heroine believes in "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth", and she takes revenge immediately, with a very exciting rhythm.

It is precisely because of this that it became a phenomenal work when it was broadcast.

Originally, Fan Wumian wanted to wait until Tudou.com grew to a certain size before releasing it, but Gao Yuanyuan currently lacks a representative work.

If a new version of "Story of Yanxi Palace" is successfully remade, it will be enough for her to reap the benefits for more than a decade and attract waves of young people to pay attention to her.

Both projects require time to prepare, and before that she can guest-star in other projects. For example, Gao Yuanyuan went directly to the crew of "Golden Eyes" today and played the heroine's best friend, paving the way for her participation in the second part.

The filming of "Golden Eyes", starring Chen Kun as the male lead, is already more than halfway through. The mean friend is played by "Li Dazui". The heroine of this movie does not have many roles and was given to Yao Xingtong, who had already signed a contract with Bandit King Media.

Gao Yuanyuan has never experienced this kind of feeling before, having to play roles in several big productions in a row.

I finally realized how wonderful it feels to have a financial sponsor. The smooth road ahead is paved and resources are directly at my fingertips.

of course.

People have different perceptions of this kind of thing.

If the sponsor was not Fan Wumian, but some other old man in his sixties or seventies, it would be a completely different matter. He would have to close his eyes, grit his teeth and make some sacrifices.

The main film of "Detective Chinatown" has been completed, but the easter egg has not yet been filmed, and the shooting location was arranged to be in the UK.

This had been discussed with Zuo Ziyan a long time ago.

After the filming of the Easter egg is completed, Fan Wumian will stay near Cambridge University for a few more days to accompany her, and they will also star in the movie "The Invisible Guest" together during the summer vacation.

The cooperation with Hollywood giant Paramount Pictures has just begun, and various projects are progressing steadily.

On the same day that the filming of "Detective Chinatown" was completed, the Cannes Film Festival in France officially opened.

Fan Wumian did not walk the red carpet, but Feng Ying'er, Wang Baoqiang, Xu Zheng and others all went to Cannes, France to join in the fun.

The films he invested in this time, "Time Trap" and "The Man from Earth", were both shortlisted for the main competition unit of this year's Cannes Film Festival. "Lost on Journey" will also be publicly unveiled in the film market to look for suitable overseas distributors.

Especially "The Man from Earth", which explores history, philosophy, art, science, etc. in the form of a tea party. It is said that the chief jury of this year's Cannes Film Festival is very optimistic about it and even publicly praised it in an interview a few days ago.

Fan Wumian is a vulgar man, greedy for money and lustful.

Compared to winning awards, he has always been more concerned about the performance of his works in the commercial market.

But this film festival is different. Whether "Time Trap" and "The Man from Earth" can shine will directly focus on the profits of these two low-cost projects, so the public relations team hired by Paramount Pictures and Bandit King Media is working together to lobby and win over the film festival judges.

At the same time, Paramount also used the resources of its parent company to build momentum for the upcoming release of "Time Trap". As "The Man From Earth", which is too literary and niche and has insufficient box office potential, will be sold directly on DVD.

After packing up, they arrived at the Bangkok airport. While waiting for the plane in the evening, Feng Ying'er called Fan Wumian.

She smiled and said:
"Thank you for the evening gown you arranged for me. It looks so beautiful in it. It's a pity that you didn't come to walk the red carpet with me. There are many A-list Hollywood stars in the hotel. I even saw Leonardo before."

Leo's lifestyle is more exaggerated than ten Fan Wumian combined.

Fan Wumian reminded:

"Remember to stay away from him. He loves to hunt for girls everywhere. If a reporter takes a picture of the two of you, you will have mud in your pants and you won't be able to wash it out."

Feng Ying'er replied with a smile:

"It's getting hot now, and a bunch of foreigners are gathering there. The smell of perfume and cologne makes me dizzy. Who would have thought that some of the beautiful women who look so sexy through the screen actually have such a strong body odor, and then I suddenly stopped envying them."

"Why should you be envious? You are already well-known in Asia."

After Fan Wumian finished speaking, he told her as a surprise:
"'The Lonely and Great God' made a lot of money from overseas licensing. I'm having people hurry up to edit 'My Love from the Star'. It should be aired in advance, around the National Day in mainland China."

"Really? That's great. I also want to be like Miss Zhuang and be surrounded by people wherever I go."

"Hehe, when you really encounter this many times, you will understand how it feels to have no privacy and how annoying it is." Fan Wumian just finished speaking.

Feng Ying'er suddenly reminded across the phone:

"By the way, my agent met two mainland businessmen on his way to France. They seemed to be in the DVD business."

"I heard them mention your new movie 'This Man From Earth'. They also said they already know which factory produced it. They never make money from you, so they finally get revenge."

"You have to be a little more careful. My agent also said that they mentioned placing an order for 200,000 or 300,000 pieces of goods in retaliation for you cutting off their source of income."

Since Fan Wumian lacked distribution, sales and promotion channels in the international market, the distribution and sales of the DVDs of "Time Trap" and "The Man from Earth" were handed over to Paramount.

The average production unit price of DVDs is around 80 cents.

Seeing how high the cost was, Fan Wumian thought the film was mass-produced in the United States. Only after hearing this did he realize that Paramount was being unethical and had placed the OEM production order in mainland China.

This is clearly sending a sheep into the tiger's mouth.

There is no need to guess, the result is that it is very likely that pirated discs of "This Man From Earth" have not yet been officially released, but have already appeared in mainland China.

The production management systems of many processing plants are not as strict as the closed factories where Fan Wumian processed his albums. Each link is leaky like a sieve, and it is easy for counterfeit dens to take advantage of loopholes.

Paramount produces DVDs at a high price, and the DVDs are sold at high prices in the European and American markets, but there is still an opportunity to make a lot of profit.

There is a high probability that there are some shady tricks involved, such as the average purchase price of 80 cents per piece, which is still far higher than the market price even if the logistics and warehousing costs are taken into account.

But Fan Wumian didn't care.

After all, there is no way to distribute and sell the products overseas by yourself. Even if you find other agents to cooperate with, the situation will not be much better and you may be cheated even worse.

Putting aside the publicity and promotion costs of the total budget of 300 million US dollars, the filming and production of "This Man Comes from Earth" only cost Fan Wumian more than million RMB.

The cost was recovered just by inserting a few advertisements during the filming, and more than 2 million RMB was earned from selling the video distribution rights in both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong.

at this time.

After listening to Ying Er, Fan Wumian smiled and said:
"This movie is a bit special, it has too much of an art film vibe, otherwise why wouldn't it be shown in cinemas and only sold on DVD? Mainland audiences probably won't like it, and some den owners might be in trouble, because if they mass-produce too much, they'll probably end up with nothing to sell."

After he revised the script of "Time Trap", it added some commercial potential. He will still cooperate with Kuangxian Media and release it in theaters in mainland China.

As for "This Man From Earth", although it is somewhat interesting, it is likely to be a critical but not commercial success, and is only suitable for watching DVDs at home to kill time.

Fan Wumian knew this very well, so he didn't even bother to hold a promotion meeting, and just wanted to try his luck by selling DVDs.
Cannes, France.

Feng Ying'er and people from Bandit King Media formed a group to attend the film festival.

In addition to Wang Baoqiang and Xu Zheng, Huang Shengyi also asked for a few days off from the "City Hunter" crew.

Shanzeiwang Media spent a lot of money to buy a large piece of space, and printed promotional patterns of several projects on the posters. Director Lu Hao also brought Huang Bo and others to set up a stall to promote "Crazy Racing".

With the huge box office success of "Crazy Stone", many distributors in Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia and other places carefully watched the edited promotional video.

Although it is still an authentic black comedy, the famous quotes from the stupid thief brothers have lost a little flavor after translation.

In this large-scale film trading market, one can not only promote one's own works, but also more easily sell them at a high price. Unlike in the past when it had little presence, today's Bandit King Media has already made a name for itself in the circle.

"A Quiet Place 2" will be released soon, and Miramax Films has used a large area to advertise Fan Wumian's new film.

Thousands of media outlets from all over the world gather here. As long as you can successfully stand out, the publicity effect will be impeccable.

At this moment.

Huang Bo nudged Director Lu Hao with his elbow and said with a smile:

"Did you see it just now? Even the foreigners recognized our President Fan and came over to take a photo next to the photo."

Director Lu Hao said calmly:
"Working with two big Hollywood companies at once, the films we made never failed, and of course our status has risen."

It was precisely because Fan Wumian had never failed that a group of copycat dens in the mainland became careless.

In the past few days, the boss of a den has spent money to get the DVD of "This Man From Earth".

Although I felt confused after watching it, I still kept the machine running 24 hours a day to churn out DVDs because of his famous name, hoping to make some money by taking advantage of the popularity of the Cannes Film Festival.

Because of his "remote battle" with Fan Wumian, he suffered several losses in succession.

The bosses of these fake dens were smug, thinking that Fan Wumian had taken all precautions, but this time he finally got caught.
(End of this chapter)