Hollywood Road

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When Harvey Weinstein walked into the warehouse studio, the crew was shooting. Murphy just looked over there and continued with his work. The filming was in progress, and it was impossible for him to put down his work and go to say hello. ≥≯ Bayi ≯ Chinese Network ≤

In front of the camera lens, Jessica Chastain is wearing a short skirt and bust, and the lower half of her right leg is wrapped in a green curtain, dancing swaying.

She dresses sexy, has a hot body, twists her hips and sticks out her chest, she has a unique style, but her dancing posture is crooked, as if she only has one leg, which looks extremely funny.

This scene looks funny, but the crew is filming, and no one dares to laugh out loud.

Standing next to Harvey Weinstein, Quentin Tarantino looked at the women dancing on the set, and immediately remembered the script he had read. In the script, this was a one-legged woman dancing, and it was a striptease.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but turned to look at the young man behind the director's monitor. The script couldn't explain too much, but he could tell that the other party had a lot of ideas, and his ideas were very special.

Back then, he was also a whimsical young man.

Not long ago, after reading the script and proposal, Quentin became very interested in this project, especially the absurd setting, which was simply in line with his appetite. If it wasn’t for him and the unfinished project, he would have wanted to grab it Direct yourself.

Hearing that the crew returned to Los Angeles for filming, he came here specially to see if this interesting project would turn into an interesting movie.

In the middle of the afternoon, standing on the periphery of the set, Quentin watched the crew shoot five or six shots one after another, whether it was a simple and powerful close-quarters fight, or the heroine shooting eggs with prosthetic legs and prop guns, or dialogues, Not only is it full of strong cu1t style, but it also seems to incorporate the comedy style of some bad boy gang movies, which is extremely interesting.

After the afternoon's filming ended, Murphy handed over the work of cleaning up the set to Paul Wilson and walked over to Harvey Weinstein.

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

"Hello." The two shook hands.

Murphy took another look at Quentin Tarantino. This eccentric director looks even weirder than the image in the media.

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

The three of them chatted for a while, and the topic turned to the movie they were shooting. Quentin was obviously very interested, "It's a very good idea for a beautiful woman with a broken leg to wear an m4a1 as a prosthetic and kill zombies."

Probably because of his personality, he said directly to Murphy, "If you hadn't already started filming, I would definitely grab your director position."

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

Quentin Tarantino nodded, and Murphy said, "It's just right if you grab it, we can switch to shoot."

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

On the opposite side was the famous Quentin Tarantino, a guy who was rumored to not even be a bird of the six major companies. Unless he encountered something of great interest, it was impossible to show such enthusiasm.

"Okay!" Murphy didn't even think about it, "I wish I could."

He thought for a while and said, "Actually, I still want to add a few trailers before the main film of "Planet Terror" like in the 1970s and 1980s, real or fake."

Murphy glanced at Harvey Weinstein, "Harvey is also very supportive of my idea, but I didn't find a suitable trailer, Quentin, why don't you make a fake trailer and put it in."

"What do you want to fake?" Quentin Tarantino said carelessly, "Aren't you going to the Cannes Film Festival? By then I have already started filming. I will shoot a trailer for "Kill Bill" first. , put it directly in front of "Planet Terror."

Harvey Weinstein looks at Quentin and smiles, nodding slightly.

Just some geeks can't become a qualified director at all. Quentin also knows how to leverage. Murphy Stanton's previous film was a big hit. If this film is also successful, the added trailer will become an excellent advertisement , if you fail...

He shook his head, how could the film he worked on fail?

Not to mention the North American market, which has no real income now, the overseas screening rights of "Planet Terror" in nine countries have been pre-sold by Miramax. Dollars earned back.

He doesn't want "Planet Terror" to be as stunning as "Saw", as long as it has a certain quality, with Miramax's performance and operational capabilities, it should not be difficult to achieve profitability.

Moreover, Murphy Stanton's "Chain Saw" is extremely popular in many overseas markets. Now the director is also coming to the fore, and he has a certain reputation. These are very beneficial to "Planet Terror" situation.

Harvey Weinstein is thinking about market operations, and Murphy and Quentin Tarantino are noir film lovers, and they can find quite a lot of common language. It is too exaggerated to say they hit it off, but they chatted happily.

"Quentin, you can direct some action scenes for me tomorrow." Due to Harvey Weinstein's acquiescence, Murphy and Quentin quickly reached an agreement, "But you have to pay attention to one thing."

"Don't worry." Quentin Tarantino was enthusiastic, "As you said just now, I won't make too much of a plot."

He just proposed that after Jessica Chastain performed a one-legged dance, add a scene of the zombie officer trying to grab sex, and it was a zombie officer who was rotting down below.

It's okay for this kind of plot to appear in a video tape, but it definitely won't work in a movie.

"Don't explode people's balls casually!" Murphy solemnly warned, "There are already many scenes of balls being exploded in the shots that have been filmed."

As we all know, Quentin Tarantino likes to explode the balls of the villain or the protagonist in the movie very much, and even has a tendency to become addicted to bombing.

"Let's talk about the Cannes Film Festival and overseas trips." Harvey Weinstein brought back the deflected topic.

However, for the rest of the time, he was the one talking, Murphy was listening, Miramax was the producer and director of the film, Harvey Weinstein came over, that is, he was optimistic about Murphy's future, Make a routine notification.

In particular, Murphy was told that after the shooting was completed and before post-production began, the people accompanying Miramax would meet with the film sales agent from the Cannes Film Festival.

The Cannes Film Festival is famous, and Murphy certainly knows it, but he doesn't know much about how a participating film sells.

Ninety-nine percent of the films participating in film festivals like Cannes, the most direct purpose is to sell a good price.

There are roughly two types of film festivals in the world, commercial film festivals and audience film festivals.

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 for the screenings, which are for companies from all over the world to watch.

After hearing the introduction from Harvey Weinstein, Murphy knew that in the entire film festival and venture capital system, the most important role is the film sales agent.

They are the ones who help exhibiting companies sell their films out, especially internationally.

A film sales agent would take some power from the production company to recommend projects to international peddlers, draft contracts, mail and deliver physical and video materials, and finally collect fees and repay the film company.

The international sales agents used by companies like Miramax are long-term partners, as promoting a project globally can be calculated on an annual basis, and the sales agents help Miramax create marketing materials and formulate film festivals. promotion plan.

Just like Harvey Weinstein asked Murphy to meet the sales agent with him before post-production, not necessarily after the film is finished, he can go to sales, now the path for Miramax to recover part of the cost through international pre-sales is through They are done.

Only then did Murphy understand that finding a suitable sales agent is very important for companies participating in the film festival. They will help a company's film get into the A-level film festival. If a long-term cooperation is established, the film company can also find and sell Produce videos with similar projects, and then follow the vines to sell them.

Of course, there is no such thing as a free lunch. Participating in film festivals is a high-level artistic act, but it is based on huge amounts of money.

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

Harvey Weinstein asked Murphy to meet these people. In addition to needing him to cheer for his film, he also had to prepare a series of materials.

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

This budget includes the cost of film festival screenings - even under the banner of art, if you want to show at film festivals, you have to pay! There are also promotional materials such as trade advertisements, posters, travel expenses, and other expenses.

In this regard, the cost of the Cannes Film Festival is quite expensive, and it is definitely not comparable to the money Murphy spent at the Sun Denis Film Festival.

Participating in this kind of international film festival often means a high expenditure.

In the lowest case, around $50,000 can allow some international sales agent to take a film and his director to one or two B-level film festivals for a few screenings and some basic promotion; but for A-level film festivals such as Cannes The cost is generally between 100,000 and 250,000 US dollars, and they will not pay for the screening, and all the screening fees must be paid by themselves.

After hearing these routine notifications from Harvey Weinstein, Murphy realized that participating in film festivals is far from as simple as he thought, and money is the most basic stepping stone for these film festivals that hold high the banner of art. (To be continued.)