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One side did not want to pay more, but on the other hand, there was a higher price. No agreement was reached in this negotiation. Seeing Thomas Longman leave, Harvey Weinstein looked a little bad.

Originally, he was about to finish negotiating with Thomas Longman to buy out the copyright of "The Artist" outside of Europe for $10 million. Unexpectedly, a Bella Anderson jumped out in the middle, forcing him to increase the price to $15 million.

But $15 million still hasn't won the copyright.

This made him a little angry!

Matthew Horner's ragged bag studio has distribution capabilities? In the name of Disney and Warner Bros., he is here to swindle and deceive one after another.

Needless to say, this was definitely intentional.

Doesn't this block him? "The Artist" is his biggest discovery this year!

As soon as he arrived in Cannes, Harvey Weinstein discovered that the film was a tailor-made gift to the American Film Institute voter, whose average age was nearly 60: black-and-white, silent, mock-up Hollywood classics The star's gestures, the simple logic and just the right length (100 minutes) are all very suitable for him to run the Oscars.

The Oscars are conservative, and the elderly judges are always nostalgic for the past.

He has tried many times in Oscar PR, and even made fans around the world realize the fact that "the Oscar judges are a bunch of idiots".

Take "The Artist," and add his PR operation, and an Oscar-seeded contestant will be born.

Harvey Weinstein has always been full of confidence in himself, from the earliest "The English Patient" sweeping the Oscars, to the end of the century "Shakespeare in Love" beat "Saving Private Ryan", and then to "Chicago" stunning four, he has always been there. Playing PR tricks, and the way is changing with the times.

In "The English Patient," he liked to call his films "the greatest moving work in years," but in "The King's Speech," he openly expressed his distaste for this type of label propaganda, arguing that Refers to the self-proclaimed impetuousness of "The Social Network"; in "Chicago", he was keen to attack competitors from the side, and the gifts he gave during canvassing were relatively ugly, but later after seeing "The Hurt Locker" encounter the producer's email canvassing incident , he immediately narrowed the award-winning ambitions of "Inglourious Basterds" and focused on the best supporting actor.

He was determined to win this black and white silent film that could only participate in business fairs at Cannes.

Even, he has a preliminary plan. Since there is another key Olympic work this year, after winning "The Artist", he can hold it for a year, and then start operation from next year's Cannes Film Festival, all the way to major art Come down from the film festival, accumulate enough word of mouth, and then go to the Oscars.

There may be viewers who see this film and think they have been fooled and refund their tickets.

He also thought of this point, this can be hyped into news, and it is also a selling point of Chong Ao, which further makes voters feel: Oscar still needs to pay attention to grades, and ordinary audiences have no culture.

But these must obtain the copyright of "The Artist" to implement.

Harvey Weinstein thought about it and decided to continue the negotiation, after all, it was profitable.

In Los Angeles, a week after attending the premiere of "Iron Man," Matthew returned to Disney Studios to continue filming on "Fast and Furious 5."

The filming of this film has reached the end stage, except for Matthew, Paul Walker and Gal Gadot, the rest of the main actors have left the crew after the completion of the scenes.

Most of the remaining scenes for the three of Matthew are racing in front of the green screen in the studio.

Of course, they are not professional drivers, most of them are in very slow muscle sports cars, posing all kinds of crazy and cool looks.

Those fancy racing cars were all completed by stuntmen.

To this day, stuntmen can be said to be an inseparable part of Hollywood. Like photographers, prop artists and screenwriters, they are present in almost every crew.

These people are not very valued, especially the Academy, which has been refusing to set up stunt awards at the Oscars.

Also not taken seriously by the academy is the special effects industry.

The special effects of big Hollywood commercial films are very good, and they are often one of the most expensive aspects of filming and production.

Of course, this is not to say that Hollywood special effects are really invincible.

In Matthew's view, the special effects of Hollywood movies are excellent, and they are inseparable from the foil of their counterparts in the world.

Shooting in front of the green screen, for Matthew, is a scene that appears frequently in almost every movie, and there is not much difficulty.

After filming, Bella Anderson gave him good news.

The CEO of the leather bag studio, who has frequently made business deals at the Cannes Film Festival, has disrupted multiple Harvey Weinstein deal plans despite not buying a single film.

In addition, in a film, Harvey Weinstein vomited blood.

For a black-and-white silent film called The Artist, Harvey Weinstein could have secured rights outside of Europe for about $10 million. As a result, under the competition of Bella Anderson, Weinstein Films spent $25 million to get it. Get it.

The only consolation for Harvey Weinstein was that the $25 million was for the worldwide rights to the film.

Matthew was still a little surprised. He paid $25 million for the rights to a black and white silent film. Harvey Weinstein was making a big gamble.

Of course he knew that Harvey Weinstein was betting big on Oscar.

The question is, how many people will watch such a black and white silent film even if it wins the Oscar heavyweight award?

Anyway, if you give him money, he won't look at it.

Just like he has never been interested in the movies of the golden age, the distance is too far.

Maybe he doesn't understand Harvey Weinstein's movie world, just as he never really understands Oscar.

Because he has never set foot in the Oscar game of power and money.

The game is no cleaner than the White House race.

For example, as far as he knows, when "Crash" overturned "Brokeback Mountain" at the Oscars, it was undoubtedly a big money move. The public relations company hired by "Crash" gave the film academy to the judges to the security guards, the production And sent out a total of up to 160,000 hardcover CDs and souvenirs, and the cost of CD production and mailing alone was as high as millions of dollars.

The effect is also obvious. The Oscar gave Ang Lee the best director, but the best picture was given to Crash.

"The Hurt Locker", which won best director and best picture this year, did even better. Megan Ellison, a super-rich second-generation rich, won the award regardless of cost. Not only did he distribute CDs and souvenirs, he also personally On the stage, let a producer send emails to many judges, directly calling on them to vote for "The Hurt Locker".

This matter is almost public, and the Academy of Film cannot turn a blind eye. If the Academy had not warned the "Hurt Locker" crew and made Meghan Ellison restrain himself, it is estimated that this year's Oscars would stink.

To be honest, if David Ellison gave up going the commercial route and went shirtless and attacked with money like Meghan Ellison did, Oscar might have faced a worse situation.

The Academy stipulates that the judges can only accept souvenirs related to the film, but there is a lot of room for fuss.

When the first video disc player appeared, some people gave away movie discs, and at the same time, they also presented a valuable video disc player, euphemistically called lending people to watch movies.

The popularity rate of this thing was not high at that time, and it was completely reasonable, but after it was borrowed, when it was taken back, only the devil would know.

As for the fine china emblazoned with the movie marks, the regular champagne allowed by the academy turned into a luxury champagne...not too much of that.

There are always hidden deals under the stipulations, just like the three major European film festivals. If you get the current jury chairman, winning an award is not a problem.

Although Matthew doesn't know much about politics, he knows that political elections are full of compromises and deals under the table.

Politics is like that, and the film industry is no exception.

Harvey Weinstein got "The Artist" at an extremely high price in Matthew's eyes.

It's a pity that Matthew is sober, he has no influence on Oscar, otherwise it will definitely cause problems for Harvey Weinstein.

Either way, he cost Weinstein Pictures an extra $15 million.

The time is gradually approaching the end of June. After more than three months of shooting, "Fast and Furious 5" finally announced the end of the shooting stage. Justin Lin immediately led people into the post-production stage, and screenwriter Chris Morgan directly led his team to start Wrote the script for Fast and Furious 6.

For the script of "Fast and Furious 6", Matthew also put forward corresponding requirements, a broader world view and a more powerful villain!

Without the promise of a powerful villain, the drag racing family also appears weak.

It is best to come out with a corresponding villain team.

Matthew also thought about giving advice to Kevin Feige~www.wuxiaspot.com~ to make the villains of the Marvel superhero movies stronger, not all the bosses who are mouth-cannons, and then be embarrassed by dance and mouth-watering Fuck it.

However, after careful consideration, he still gave up this plan. Marvel superhero movies are the simplest entertainment, the purest popcorn, and you don't need to watch it with your mind. If you change the settings that are so simple that you don't need your mind, maybe will have a negative effect.

Marvel superhero movies have a style that belongs to Marvel superhero movies.

Fortunately, many of the jokes in Marvel movies are awkward, but not as vulgar as Michael Bay's Hercules Steel Ball.

In June, Matthew began to cooperate with the "Inception" crew to promote, first in North America, then overseas, and ran a circle around the earth for more than half a month.

After returning to Los Angeles, he took a few days off while focusing on a mega-production.

Directed by Andrew Stanton, starring Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman, the production cost of "Alien Battlefield" is as high as 250 million US dollars. After more than two years of preparation, shooting and production, finally It's time for the show.