Hollywood Road

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When Harvey Weinstein walked into the warehouse set, the crew was filming. Murphy just looked over there and continued his work. The filming was in progress. It was impossible for him to put down his work and greet him.

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

She is dressed in **** clothes and has a hot body, with her hips and **** tweaked, she has no amorous feelings, but the dancing posture is crooked and slanted, as if she has only one leg, which is very funny.

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

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

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

At the beginning, he was also a young man who liked to be whimsical.

After reading the script and plan not long ago, Quentin became very interested in this project, especially the absurd setting, which suits his appetite too much. If it weren’t for the project himself, he would want to grab it. Directed by yourself.

Hearing that the crew returned to Los Angeles to shoot, he came here 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 in succession and took five or six shots, whether it was simple and powerful melee combat, or the heroine using artificial legs to explode eggs and prop guns, or line dialogue, Not only is it full of strong cult style, but it also seems to incorporate the comedy style of some badass movies, which is extremely interesting.

At the end of the afternoon shooting, Murphy gave Paul Wilson the responsibility of cleaning up the set and went to Harvey Weinstein.

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

"Hello." The two shook hands.

Murphy took a look at Quentin Tarantino, the geek director, who is even stranger than the image in the media.

The set was a little messy, and Murphy took the two men to his director's office.

The three people chatted for a few words, and the topic turned to the film that was shot. Quentin was obviously very interested, "A beautiful woman with a broken leg can be used as a prosthesis on an M4A1 stand and can kill zombies. This is a very good idea."

Probably because of his character, he said directly to Murphy, "If it wasn't for you to start filming, I would definitely grab your position as a director."

Murphy didn't answer him, "I heard you are going to make a Kung Fu movie?"

Quentin Tarantino nodded, and Murphy said again, "What you grabbed is just right, we can change it."

Hearing this, Quentin Tarantino seemed to be inspired, and said, "Or, Murphy, I will direct a few shots for you, and my film is about to start shooting. Then you will go to my crew. How about taking a few shots?"

Opposite it is the famous Quentin Tarantino, a guy who is rumored to be invincible even in the Big Six companies. Unless he encounters something very interesting, it is impossible to show such enthusiasm.

"Okay!" Murphy didn't even think about it, "I can't ask for it."

He thought for a while and said, "Actually, I still want to add a few trailers before the start of the "Planet of Horror" feature film, real or fake, just like in the 70s and 80s.

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

"What are you going to do?" Quentin Tarantino said with a grin. "Aren't you going to the Cannes Film Festival? I have already started shooting by then. I will shoot a trailer for "Kill Bill" first. , Put it directly in front of "Planet of Horror"."

Harvey Weinstein smiled at Quentin and nodded slightly.

Just a few weirdos can't become a qualified director. Quentin also knows how to leverage. Murphy Stanton's previous film is a big hit. If this film is also successful, the added trailer will become an excellent advertisement. , If it fails...

He shook his head. How could the film he operated fail?

Not to mention the North American market, where there is no real income, the overseas screening rights of "Terror Planet" have been pre-sold by Miramax in nine countries. In addition to raising follow-up production funds, it has also invested 2 million yuan. The dollar earned it back.

He doesn't want "Planet of Horror" to be as amazing as "Chain Saw", as long as it has a certain quality, with Miramax's distribution and operation capabilities, it should not be difficult to achieve profitability.

Moreover, Murphy Stanton's "Saw Fright" is extremely popular in many overseas markets. Now the director is also moving towards the foreground, and he himself has a certain degree of popularity. These are all very beneficial to "Planet of Horror". situation.

Harvey Weinstein is considering the operation of the market. Murphy and Quentin Tarantino are both noir film enthusiasts and can find quite a lot of common languages. It is too exaggerated to say it at first sight, but they talk happily.

"Quentin, you can direct some action dramas for me tomorrow." Because of Harvey Weinstein's default, Murphy and Quentin quickly reached an agreement, "but there is one thing you should pay attention to."

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

He just proposed that after Jessica Chastain performed the one-leg dance, add a scene of a zombie officer who wanted to grab X, and it was still a zombie officer who was rotten below.

It’s okay for this kind of plot to appear on video tapes, but it’s definitely not good for movies.

"Don't explode people casually!" Murphy solemnly instructed, "In the shots I have taken, there are already a lot of exploding scenes."

As we all know, Quentin Tarantino likes to explode the villains or protagonists in movies, and even has a tendency to become addicted to explosive bombs.

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

However, most of the rest of the time, he was saying that Murphy was listening, Miramax was the producer and distributor of this film, and Harvey Weinstein came over, that is, he was optimistic about Murphy's future. , Make a routine notice.

In particular, I told Murphy that after the filming is completed and before the start of post-production, the people from Miramax must meet with the film sales agent from the Cannes Film Festival.

The Cannes Film Festival is so famous that Murphy certainly knows, but he doesn't know how to sell an exhibited film.

Ninety-nine percent of the films participate 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 of a commercial nature and have a large film market. For example, Cannes is the most typical commercial film festival, especially the screening link, which is intended to be shown to distribution companies from all over the world.

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

They are the people who help participating companies sell their films to the outside world, especially international sales.

The film sales agent will obtain some power from the production company, recommend projects to international distributors, draft contracts, mail and send entities and video materials, and finally collect fees and return the money to the film company.

The international sales agents used by companies like Miramax are long-term partners, because the promotion of projects around the world may need to be calculated in units of years. Sales agents will help Miramax produce marketing materials and develop film festivals. Promotion plan.

Just like Harvey Weinstein asked Murphy to meet with his sales agent before post-production, and he may not be able to find sales after the film is completed. Now Miramax's path to recover part of the cost through international pre-sales is through They did it.

Only then did Murphy understand that finding a suitable sales agent is crucial for companies participating in the film festival. They will help a company’s films to enter 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 sell them along the way.

Of course, there is no free lunch in the world. Participating in a film festival is a great artistic act, but it must be based on huge amounts of money.

The service fee of the sales agent at the Cannes Film Festival is between 10% and 15%, and a relatively strong company like Miramax can compress 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 needs to prepare a series of materials.

These are part of Miramax's marketing budget. They will sign an agreement with the sales agent, which includes cooperation time, authorized locations, etc., and need to agree on a sales budget.

This budget includes film festival screening costs-even under the banner of art, you have to pay for screenings at the film festival! There are also promotional materials such as transaction 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 on participating in the Saint Denis Film Festival.

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

At the lowest level, about $50,000 can allow some international sales agents to bring a film and his director to one or two B-level film festivals for several screenings and some basic publicity; but for example, A-level film festivals like Cannes The cost is generally between 100,000 and 250,000 US dollars, and they will not pay for the exhibition, and all the expenses of the exhibition have to be paid by themselves.

Hearing these routine notices from Harvey Weinstein, Murphy realized that attending the film festival is far from simple as it might seem. Money is the basic stepping stone for these festivals that hold high the banner of art.