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Chapter 200 "Pirates"—The Pain in Disney's Heart

Cannes is located in the Mediterranean Sea, with a climate that is warm in winter and cool in summer. The average temperature in summer is 23 degrees and not lower than 0 degrees in winter. It is the first choice place for Europeans to vacation in winter and escape the heat in summer.

Today, Cannes has been transformed into a tourist attraction.

Palais des Festivals, Old Port, Croisette

The beautiful buildings, coastline and streets make people feel the romance of the Mediterranean seaside even if they are not during the Cannes Film Festival.

During the annual Cannes Film Festival, this seaside town attracts countless filmmakers from all over the world, and movie lovers flock here.

"There were a lot of us, and "Monster" was not a competing film, so I didn't have to meet the jury members, so I didn't book a hotel and rented a local B&B."

After meeting with He Jing and Li Meijing, He Jing, who set off from the United States and came to Cannes first to make arrangements, led Jiang Liu and his party into a local European-style house.

"It's good. The hotel is probably going to be expensive now."

Jiang Liu was very satisfied with the simple decoration style of the house and the clean kitchen.

"It's more than expensive. It's pricey but not marketable." He Jing smiled and arranged rooms for Li Meijing, Bae Douna and other Korean people.

"Have the booth procedures been completed?"

"It's done, just set it up a little tomorrow." He Jing said.

Jiang Liu nodded and recognized He Jing's work. They came to Cannes for only two things. One was to use the influence of the 57th Cannes to promote the film.

The other thing is to promote and sell Yi Xin's movies to film studios around the world.

This time they not only brought "Monster", but also "Cell Phone", "Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger", Ning Hao's "Green Grass", and the first season of Yan Liang and Du Haibin's documentary "Qingliang Ancient Road".

There were many people and few rooms, but He Jing still prepared a small private space for Jiang Liu.

Putting down his luggage, Jiang Liu picked up the program catalog of the 57th Cannes Film Festival on the bed.

The only Chinese film shortlisted for the main competition of the 57th Cannes Film Festival was Wong Kar-wai's "2046", and Jiang Liu knew that this film would eventually fail.

Wong Kar-Wai's favorite actress Maggie Cheung won this year's Best Actress award for her role in the French film "Clean".

Jiang Liu read the venue brochure and felt sleepy. He forced himself to take a shower and then fell asleep.

The next day.

Everyone was busy with their own affairs, and Li Meijing went to visit the director Park Chan-wook of the Korean film "Oldboy" who was shortlisted for the main competition and his party.

Jiang Liu, He Jing and others went to the Film Palace to set up the Yixin booth.

Jiang Wen took Lu Yi, who was visiting Cannes for the first time, to enjoy the sunshine on the beach.

Ji Nan and the accompanying domestic media reporters went to the streets to capture the wild international superstars walking on the streets and beaches of Cannes.

"thorn"

At noon, the movie palace was overcrowded. He Jing and others opened the roll-up banners and placed carefully crafted posters such as "Mobile Phone", "Pirates" and "Monster" in conspicuous places.

Jiang Liu knew the location of the booth, so he left a few people and wandered around the movie palace.

At this time, Cannes was a super-sized film trading market, which dazzled and excited people like him who loved watching movies.

Soon, he was attracted by a rather dark movie poster.

"kon ni qi wa!"

Seeing the person speaking in Japanese and bowing at 2 degrees, Jiang Liu said: "RB Film Company? Can you speak English? Is this poster for "Ghost in the Shell" directed by Mamoru Oshii and shortlisted for this year's main competition? Team 》?”

"Yes."

"Have the film and television adaptation rights of "Ghost in the Shell" been sold?"

Seeing the other party shaking his head, Jiang Liu happily handed over a business card: "Ask anyone who can speak usefully to call me."

Although "Ghost in the Shell" cannot compare with big IPs such as Hollywood Marvel and "Harry Potter".

But if the film and television adaptation rights can be obtained at a low price, it would be good to use them to create Qin Lan or other actresses in the future.

As soon as he came up, he gained something, and Jiang Liu became more interested. He didn't slowly return to the Yixin booth until lunch time.

"Boss, we meet on the wrong side of the road. Look at 9 o'clock. There is another fat foreigner named Harvey Weinstein, the boss of Miramax Film Company."

Following He Jing's gaze, Jiang Liu couldn't help but become speechless.

At 9 o'clock, Zhang Weiping, Zhang Yimou, Zhang Ziyi, and four other national faces surrounded Miramax executives Lodberg and Harvey Weinstein. Several people were talking about it. What are you saying. Zhang Weiping and Lodberg were salivating and looked excited.

Zhang Yimou next to him said nothing, with an awkward smile on his face.

On the contrary, Zhang Ziyi smiled coquettishly and flirted with each other from time to time.

Jiang Liuxiao said: "They must be arguing that "Hero" has not been released in North America yet, or that the promised money has not yet arrived. I feel uncomfortable watching it. Zhang Yimou is also the number one director in the country, so he whispered. "

Harvey Weinstein is an out-and-out movie profiteer in Hollywood. He has deceived countless Asian film companies with the gimmick of introducing movies to North America.

Jiang Liu remembered that at the film conference of "The Banquet", Feng Dapao once called this person a shameless bastard in front of the domestic media, which shows how deeply he was hurt by Weinstein.

"After you left, Bernard from Colombia also came over. He didn't say anything, looked at the booth and left again."

Jiang Liu didn't take it seriously and said, "It doesn't matter. This bunch of Hollywood film producers are stupid. Have any European film producers come here?"

"Not yet, the film festival hasn't started yet, and many film producers haven't come yet."

He Jing suddenly said in surprise: "Why did the dung beetle come to the Yixin booth?"

Jiang Liu turned around and saw Weinstein and Lodberg running toward them. Zhang Weiping and the others hung on behind them unwillingly.

"Hi Jiang, we meet again. This is the boss of Miramax and the famous Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. You should have heard of it." Lodberg introduced him very familiarly.

"never heard of that."

Jiang Liu answered without thinking and slapped Lodberg on the spot.

"I've heard of you, Jiang Liu. The most famous director in China and the best at making genre films is China's Spielberg."

Weinstein's flattery made Jiang Liu laugh out loud, and Zhang Weiping glared at the translator with a gloomy expression.

What does differential treatment mean? He just spat it out. Harvey was as silent as a dead man. When he saw Jiang Liu, he rushed over and praised Jiang Liu as the Spielberg of China.

"Harvey, if God says it's popular, I won't sell the copyright to "Pirates" either."

The box office of "Pirates" is not much compared to that of local Hollywood movies, with only more than 1000 million US dollars. This box office is far behind "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

But the strange thing about "Pirates" is that many clips in the film collided with Disney's later global hit movie "Pirates of the Caribbean".

This collision caused Disney's carefully produced "Pirates of the Caribbean" to be canceled, re-edited and re-shot.

Because of the technical staff and legal advisors, they insist that once the movie is forced to be released, the probability of winning the lawsuit against "Pirates of the Caribbean" for plagiarism is more than 90%.

Disney has been completely tortured, with complaints from the sky and the earth being unresponsive.

"Pirates of the Caribbean" is Disney's first movie to be rated PG13. It is Disney's ambition to move beyond family-friendly animated movies. Not only did it have to cut two classic scenes, it also had to re-do the soundtrack, and the production cost soared. .

However, after the movie was released, it was forcibly tied and hyped by Colombia, pushing the global box office of the bad movie "Pirates" to tens of millions of dollars.

With no one to express his inner pain, Disney executives slapped Lodberg in the face.

At the same time, it cut off Lodberg's ambition to enter the Disney Company.

After "Pirates" exceeded 100 million in box office in China, Disney consciously paid attention to the movie and asked Rodberg to buy the overseas distribution rights of "Pirates" no matter what.

As a result, the distribution rights of "Pirates" still fell into the hands of Columbia Pictures. Columbia Pictures made some operations and almost knocked Disney to death with its big stick.

The matter is not over yet.

"Pirates of the Caribbean" has lost a lot of reputation in North America because it involved plagiarizing "Pirates".

But the movie itself is well-made and the global box office is very good, so a sequel is bound to be made.

"Pirates" became a real stumbling block.

When word spread that Jiang Liu was going to produce "Pirates 2," Disney immediately panicked and started to panic.

The copyright of "Pirates" unexpectedly became popular in Hollywood.

So when Harvey Weinstein saw Jiang Liu and saw the "Pirates" poster, he ran over and started to flatter Jiang Liu.

"Pirates" may be a bad movie in some people's minds, but it is very, very valuable, and it would be great to resell it to Disney.

(End of this chapter)