Chapter 329 Playing together according to the rules
A wedding banquet, strictly counting, may cost only one million dollars in production, and the global box office was estimated to be worth less than ten million dollars. Because of winning the Golden Bear Award, it directly added more than 20 million and 30 million dollars in box office, causing the profit to rise directly from millions to more than 10 million.
This is why various film awards are sought after by film companies and filmmakers every year. They are not only famous but most importantly profitable.
So, when the awards season is approaching, all the relevant people and companies are starting to take action.
Not only was the bodyguard selected by Twentieth Century Fox to participate in the Oscar competition, but the last emperor was also regarded as the focus by Twentieth Century Fox, and he would also compete for the nominations for several technical awards when he returned to the Future 2.
Not only 20th Century Fox, but even Paramount also chose Top Gun as a movie to recommend.
In Hong Kong and China, nominations and even awards will definitely not have such a big impact on the box office of the movie.
This is also the reason why awards are awards in China, and the annual awards season of the three major European film festivals, especially the United States, is regarded as a business.
Every year, the PR fee of a movie that is valued may cost about the same as the production fee. The time spent in this year is still small. It may be enough for a movie to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars. When Harvey Weinstein was nominated for the Oscars season in the 21st century, the PR fee of a movie with a very high probability of winning can reach tens of millions of dollars.
No matter whether the cost is high or low, if you want to join this Hollywood feast, you have to end up playing in Hollywood and understand the rules.
It’s not that Qiao Feng made a lot of commercial films to earn box office and peripherals. If you want to gain a real foothold in Hollywood, you can not only make money, but also play with others and play according to the rules. This way, you can not only make money, but also have an influence.
Qiao Feng not only wants to make money but also wants to be influential. Just like Sony, Japan in the original time and space, when Sony first bought Columbia Film Company, not only spent a huge amount of money to be the sucker, but of course the Japanese were also rich at that time and were not afraid of cheating. After that, they lost money for years after buying it, but after years of running and hostile loss period, Sony ushered in pickable fruits.
Sony Colombia can be said to be a cultural exporter of Japan. Japan is infiltrating or participating in many fields. Therefore, Japanese culture, whether it is samurai, ninjutsu or karate, is so common in American movies.
Qiao Feng also wants to acquire Colombia, but Qiao Feng is not as rich as the Japanese. Qiao Feng is an individual and cannot be compared with the consortium. Logically speaking, Colombia is not that valuable, and it is snatching money for 6 billion US dollars.
But just steal money. Anyway, it’s a foreign company. Foreigners buy it. If they don’t rob you, whoever you rob you, whoever you rob you, the Japanese are willing to be the sucker if they have money. Qiao Feng doesn’t have that much money, of course he doesn’t want to be the sucker if he wants to think about it. So it’s fine.
However, if you don’t buy Colombia, you can also have other ways to penetrate culture and increase your influence. The first thing is to actively participate in this Hollywood game and participate in all aspects. For example, participating in this awards season. In the past, the movies that Qiao Feng invested in that look like European and American are not good types of award-winning awards, so Qiao Feng did not participate. They were all made by Twentieth Century Fox himself, so of course they didn’t take much attention. Anyway, just do it casually. If you are lucky, you can get a nomination and get a little more overseas box office, and then Twentieth Century Fox can make more money.
But next year's Oscars will be different. First of all, it is the last emperor. Although the director of this movie is different, it is not necessary for Bettoruc to be bad at all under the directing of Li Hanxiang, a Chinese director who particularly understands the history of the Qing Dynasty and has a very humanistic and literary heritage. Then such a movie is so easy to get nominations and awards.
Really, Chinese, especially modern Chinese-themed films are very popular among judges of major film festivals.
Let’s not talk about whether we are showing China’s bad side to please foreign audiences. For foreign judges like this, it is certain that foreign judges like Chinese themes.
Therefore, Qiao Feng must vigorously promote the last emperor. Whether it is the current public relations for nomination or the public relations competition for the awards after nomination, Qiao Feng and 20th Century Fox reached an agreement, and 20th Century Fox provided channels, relationships and cooperation public relations companies, etc. Then Qiao Feng would bear the remaining public relations expenses. Anyway, the professional public relations expenses were only a few million US dollars.
Then there are bodyguards, and Qiao Feng will also pay, but Qiao Feng only specializes in music awards to see if he can give Ye Qianwen a good assist.
As for returning to Future 2, it is the Twentieth Century Fox's own business. They do whatever they want, but Qiao Feng is not interested anyway.
In addition to these, the animation short film Xiaodiaowangou just made by DreamWorks Animation Studio will also participate in the competition for the animation short films. However, Qiao Feng is actually not interested in it. The main reason is that the two studio leaders are too interested, so Qiao Feng will naturally be the ones.
Qiao Feng stayed in New York, and while learning about the public relations situation in Xi'an and Hollywood from time to time, he occasionally looked at the shooting situation of Home Devil 2. The rest of the time he would either accompany Zhong Chuhong around or stay in the guest room of the Plaza Hotel to write.
During his days in the United States, Qiao Feng never forgot to go to Hong Kong to provide Kunlun's manuscripts to Ming Pao for a while while filming.
I basically take time to write thousands of words every day when writing, but now Qiao Feng is not writing Kunlun novels, but dinosaur novels.
Jurassic Park, the name of this movie is definitely greater for later audiences, especially non-American audiences, than for novels. But in fact, the novel of the same name of this movie is also very famous and has remained at the top of bestsellers in the United States for many years.
Of course, the movies must be more famous around the world, but it is precisely because of this novel of the same name that the movies that followed were created.
The box office sales of Jurassic Park movies were amazing. Before the Titanic, Jurassic Park had the highest box office and was also the first movie to have a box office of over 900 million US dollars.
The novel was published in 1990. Universal Pictures bought the copyright of the movie before the novel was published, and the copyright was only 2 million US dollars. The two million were a lot before the movie was released, but two million after the movie was released was a nonsense.
However, this is not important. What is important is that at least the novel should have been published in 1990. Global bought the copyright in about 1988**. So, now in 1986, Qiao Feng is planning to bring it out and then he can make a lot of money by shooting dinosaurs himself.
Chapter completed!