Entertaining Children

Among the people Xiao Yao met in the United States, most of them were singers, actors, and models. The senior executives of fashion companies knew some because of Chen Xuan and the photographer, but the senior executives of film companies and distribution companies, Xiao Yao still I really don't know a few, so I thought of asking Mu Ying for introduction and contact. But in practice, Xiao Yao found that this matter was not as difficult as he thought.

Not counting the current film being filmed, Mu Ying has only directed two feature films, both of which were made at low cost and small production. As an assistant to the director's work, generally speaking, he is still a rookie director in Hollywood. Although he did know quite a few film company executives, he was not well-known, and he didn't have a deep relationship with the film company's top management.

After Xiao Yao told Mu Ying about Tong Luo and Fang Yiran coming to the United States to sell the film, Mu Ying agreed to Xiao Yao's help to contact the American film company, but he also stated that he was just introducing it as a middleman, and there was no guarantee. What a role to play in it.

But in this matter, Muying actually doesn't need to play a big role in the middle.

The United States does not have a quota system for imported films like China, and there is no quantitative limit when importing foreign films. "Wall-E" has won more than 2.1 billion box office in China, which is more than 300 million in US dollars. This box office is quite impressive even in the United States. Businessmen are chasing profits, and American film companies will naturally not turn a blind eye to this "fragrant bun".

Of course, due to different countries, different markets, and different cultures, it does not mean that a movie that hit the local box office will definitely achieve a good box office when it arrives in the United States, but the movie "Wall-E" is different. Most of them have actually seen it. The people who made this movie are also very optimistic about the box office of this movie in the United States.

In a movie, the appeal of the stars in the movie is an important factor affecting the box office. But the appeal of celebrities in different countries and regions is different. Even some Chinese stars who are well-known in the United States have completely different box office appeal in the United States than in China. However, "Wall-E" is an animated movie, and there is no live-action performance, which shows that the movie's high box office in China is not due to fans of the stars appearing in the movie. In the first place, possible differences in this respect are avoided.

Look at the content of the movie "Wall-E" itself. The scene is space and the earth. In the movie, the earth and human beings are taken as a whole. There is no country in it, and it does not involve any sensitive issues such as ZZ or race. The theme is about environmental protection and love, which are common all over the world. theme. From this point of view, there should be no difference in the acceptance of audiences in the two countries, and the acceptance of "Robot Love" by American audiences may even be higher.

In the end it's the quality of the movie. Although it is a 2D animated film, the character images, scenes, color tones, artwork, lines, special effects, and soundtracks in the film are all of a very high standard.

Even if it is placed in a Hollywood 2D animation movie, it is a rare masterpiece.

The release of this movie in China has basically ended. After the box office results of more than 2 billion came out, some well-informed American film companies knew about this movie and became interested in this animated movie.

Before Tong Luo and Fang Yiran came to the United States to visit the film, some American film companies had already contacted them, expressing their intention to cooperate in the release and release in the United States, but Tong Luo wanted to come to the United States to bring Xiao Yao together to talk, He did not express his opinion lightly.

Tong Luo and Xiao Yao want to sell the film and let this animated film be released in the United States. American film companies want to buy tickets and want this animated film to be released in the United States. In fact, both parties have cooperation intentions in this regard . It's just that Tong Luo's small special effects company has never cooperated with an American company, and Xiao Yao has not had much contact with an American film company. Both sides are very unfamiliar, so they inevitably have some scruples. With Muying, the middleman, as a bridge, it is easier for the two parties to communicate.

There are many film companies in the United States, and there is more than one company that wants to act as an agent or purchase the copyright of this animated film in the United States. Naturally, it is the seller's market on Xiao Yao and Tong Luo's side. Since it was a seller's market, Xiao Yao and Tong Luo naturally took the initiative. In addition to allowing the other party to make room for Xiao Yao, who needs to be filming on the set, and set the negotiation time in the evening when contacting and meeting, Xiao Yao and Tong Luo can also strive for some better conditions.

When a film company introduces a finished film, it generally adopts two forms: buyout and account sharing. For people like Xiao Yao who have to share in selling songs, selling movie copyrights will definitely not choose to buy out, what they want is to share the account. For film companies, it is definitely more convenient and cost-effective to buy out this one-shot deal. The differences between the two sides in this regard also made it difficult to negotiate this matter.

Xiao Yao and the others are in a seller's market. When the other party has competitors, Xiao Yao, who insisted on splitting the bill, finally reached an agreement with an American film company. It's just that Xiao Yao also made some appropriate concessions, and promised that the publishing company would cooperate with some related publicity activities.

Celebrity promotion is a very important way of publicity. Although this is an animated movie, it also has stars that can be advertised.

During the publicity period before the movie was released in China, the stars who ran the publicity were Xiao Yao, He Ying and Huang Shi. He Ying and Huang Shi are hardly well-known among non-Chinese groups in the United States, and they are not considered celebrities. Naturally, there is no need for them to come to the United States for publicity. However, Xiao Yao has caused many popular incidents in the United States, and his popularity is not small. Even as the director, screenwriter, producer, dubbing, and soundtrack of the film, he is also a very good publicity point. And adding these identities together, he is even more topical and interesting than a certain star actor in a live-action movie, and the American film company that has obtained the distribution rights will definitely not let it go.

Xiao Yao and Mu Ying planned to shoot the Parkour movie for two months. People from China who came to America to visit the set came during the fourth week of filming, and there will be more than a month to shoot. It is obviously impossible for these people who came to visit the set to stay in the United States until the end of filming.

The parents of Xu Fei and Chen Xiaoting returned to China after only staying in the United States for three days. Lin Qisan and Nina Aiyiguli, a pair of friends who stayed in the hotel, returned with them. Zhu Zitong and Sun Tingting did not need to stay in a hotel, and the two girls who lived with their boyfriends in the hotel stayed in the United States for a whole week.

But Zhu Zitong and Sun Tingting are not the ones who have stayed in the United States the longest among those who came to visit this time. The ones who stayed with Xiao Yao the longest in the United States were Tong Luo and Fang Yiran, who came here for business, and some business people from Tong Luo’s company. The crew finished half a month early.

Tong Luo and Fang still stayed in the United States for a long time, of course because of the overseas release of the animated film "Wall-E". After negotiating with the film company in the United States about the release and release, Xiao Yao accompanied them to discuss the release and release with film distribution companies in several European countries.

Since Hollywood is the largest film production and export place in the world, film companies in many European countries also have branches or offices in Hollywood, and American film companies have relatively closer ties with film companies in European countries. Xiao Yao, who was filming in the United States, would definitely not fly to Europe on purpose when selling the copyrights of films released in Europe. Instead, he invited interested European film companies to send people to the United States for negotiations.

In addition to the copyrights for film distribution and release in Europe and the United States, Xiao Yao and others also reached an agreement with the largest online video rental company in North America to sell the overseas network broadcasting and DVD rental and sales rights of "Wall-E" to the other party. Since the business scope of this giant company covers more than 100 countries around the world, Xiao Yao did not find other European companies to cooperate with, and only gave them the rights to sell and rent Internet broadcasts and DVDs outside of China. Of course, since it is exclusive, the conditions in this respect will naturally be better.

The online broadcasting aspect must be scheduled after the movie is released. Although the movie in China has already been released, it has not been released in the United States. The overseas online broadcast must wait for the movies in the United States and Europe to be released.

The United States and European countries also have film censorship systems, but compared to China, the film censorship in these countries is more about grading movies. This animated film does not have any problematic lines or shots, and the rating is definitely a G-level suitable for everyone to watch, but this process still has to go through it all over again.

The film needs to be reviewed and graded, and there are a series of things to do before it is released, such as preparations and publicity work for publicity, organizing screenings in theaters, striving for film scheduling, etc. released overseas. The US film company expects the US release schedule to be in October, and the European side expects it to be around that time.

The movie is expected to be released in October, and it's not yet the promotional period. The producer has no tasks for the time being, and Tong Luo and Fang still return to China.

After the copyright of the animated film is settled, Xiao Yao can concentrate on the matter of the parkour film.

After Tong Luo and Fang Yiran returned to China, the filming took another two weeks before wrapping up. During these two weeks, the crew will have one day off per week as usual. And during the holidays, Xiao Yao was not idle as usual.

Xiao Yao asked Keith Craig to help him organize a MV filming crew. During the two-day vacation, he took the members of the "Immortals" band to shoot some shots needed for the song MV. Since the final MV is completed by editing the shots of the band members and some scenes in the movie, after the shooting of these shots, the band members can’t see the finished effect of the MV, so they can only wait for the movie. I'll talk about it after the shoot is done.

But the band members didn't have to wait too long, because four days after their MV filming ended, the parkour movie also ended filming and wrapped up.

The end of filming does not mean the completion of the film. There are still a series of post-production work such as editing and soundtrack to be done. However, these post-production work is the work of directors, editors, soundtrack engineers, etc., so there is no need for these current crew members.

For some films, during post-production, the crew will be reconvened for reshoots due to various reasons. Since Xiao Yao and Mu Ying would go through the shooting materials of the day after the shooting every day, they felt that there was definitely no need for post-shooting, so after the film was finished, Xiao Yao returned to China with Xu Fei and Chen Xiaoting.

It was already September and the school had already started. Xiao Yao, Xu Fei, and Chen Xiaoting, the three seniors, had asked for leave in advance and hadn't gone to school to report. They were going back to school to report and sell their leave. Zhao Rui stayed in the United States to participate in the post-production of the film with Mu Ying.

The director also needs to participate in the post-editing and soundtrack work, and he must play a very important leading role in it. Comparing the two directors, Mu Ying and Xiao Yao, Mu Ying's strengths lie in the control of action scenes and movie camera cuts, while Xiao Yao's strengths are in plot design, character performance and music. Therefore, in terms of post-production, although both of them participated, there was also a certain lateral division of labor. In terms of editing, Muying's control is the main control, and in terms of soundtrack, Xiao Yao's opinions are the main ones.

The editor and soundtrack of this film were hired in the United States, and of course the post-production location was also in the United States. After Xiao Yao returned to China, he didn’t see each other every day. It would definitely not work to just communicate with the editor and soundtrack artist through the Internet. However, due to Mu Ying’s existence, Xiao Yao could learn about the progress and results of post-production through Mu Ying, and discuss post-production with Mu Ying. It is barely feasible to pass the opinions discussed by the two to the editor and soundtrack engineer through Muying.

As an explanation to crowdfunding netizens, the official website of Parkour Movie will update the production progress of the movie in real time. After the filming ended, the film's official website not only updated the production progress of the film, announced the completion of the film, but also randomly selected some filmed materials as clips and put them on the official website, which made those netizens who participated in crowdfunding eat a lot. Peace of mind.

However, from the end of filming to the release of a movie, the time interval between the end of filming may be long or short, and it is not certain, so there is no release date of the movie on the official website.

The shooting time of the crew is relatively tight, because the filming location of this movie is in Los Angeles, so Xiao Yao and a few students will come to the United States to shoot during the summer vacation. The official website does not give netizens an estimated release date, so there is no need to rush in post-production, and you can grind slowly. This is also an important reason why Xiao Yao dared to go back to China and use the Internet and Mu Ying as a medium to participate in the post-production remotely.

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