America is in control

Chapter 303 "Hollywood" and winning the movie (will order tomorrow)
"Go Away! (Go away!) Get out of the way!"

Martin, Lei and several members of the security team protected Liu Jiang and others from the encirclement of artistic people.

"Boss, it's a good thing you put on a simple disguise before going out, otherwise these guys might not give up so easily."

After getting rid of those artistic people, Ronald leaned into General Liu's ear and sighed softly.

"That's right! Boss, don't take off your sunglasses and baseball cap. It's best not to attract other people's attention."

Jonathan also echoed.

General Liu didn't reply, he just pulled the brim of his baseball cap and nodded calmly.

To be honest, he didn't expect that these artistic people promoting movies would be so crazy, and they were quite trying to pull people's heads!
In fact, many of these artistic people are not professionals.

They make a movie purely out of hobbies and try their luck at film festivals.

Most of these films are experimental short films costing hundreds to thousands of dollars, and are basically of no value.

Cutting teeth with these guys who are obviously movie buffs is a complete waste of time.

For distribution companies, the real value is those feature films produced by professionals or semi-professionals at a cost of tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Looking for valuable films at film festivals is like buying antiques at an antique market. It requires a keen eye.

This actually tests the film buyer's vision and sensitivity to the market, but for Liu Jiang, choosing movies does not seem to be a difficult task.

After all, he had watched a lot of Hollywood movies in his previous life, and he also dabbled in unpopular masterpieces and excellent independent films.

As long as it is a movie that can make Liu Jiang feel familiar, it must have certain value.

The group of people walked along the street and looked slowly over, not missing any movie stall.

The sky is getting dark, and these roadside movie stalls have TVs and small screens.

Filmmakers began showing their films over and over again in an attempt to attract crowds of people passing by on the streets.

They want to take advantage of the rare opportunity at the Atlanta Film Festival to sell their movie and become famous!
Liu Jiang and others were walking around. As long as it was a movie that was being played, he would stop for a while and watch it.

After confirming that the movie in front of him didn't feel familiar at all, he would take the people away.

After wandering for a while, Liu Jiang and his party did not gain anything.

He simply took his people and found a high-end restaurant to have dinner.

After Hu Chihai had a drink, Liu Jiang and others paid the bill, and then walked towards the city center square.

The night is getting darker, and there are more and more pedestrians on the street.

Most of these pedestrians are movie fans, and their preferences are all kinds of weird. Even the weirdest movies can attract some movie fans to stop and watch.

That is to say, during the film festival, at any other time, it would be impossible for these movie fans to find such a weird movie.

These films shown on both sides of the street will rarely appear on the big screen, and even the chances of being turned into video tapes or DVD discs are very small.

"Boss, one of the people in the front seems to be a film viewing expert from New Line Cinema. His name is Doron."

At the entrance of the city center square, a large movie stall was playing a movie, with dozens of people gathered around it.

Martin had sharp eyes. He pointed at a middle-aged white man in the crowd and said excitedly.

"Let's go take a look too!"

Liu Jiang looked in the direction of Martin's finger. Duolong's Mediterranean hairstyle was indeed particularly eye-catching.

The group of people approached slowly and came to stand in the gap facing the small screen.

Duolong also saw Liu Jiang and others, and he nodded to everyone very friendly.

General Liu smiled back and said nothing. After all, the two sides only met a few times.

"This movie is quite interesting!"

A passerby movie fan seemed to like the movie very much, and he exchanged a few words with his companion next to him in a low voice.

"That male protagonist seems to be the actor who played the little boy Elliott in the movie "ET"! He has grown so big."

His companion had read countless films and had very keen observation skills. He recognized the film's leading actor Henry Thomas at a glance.

Liu Jiang watched the movie carefully while listening to the audience's comments.

What can I say about this movie? The picture quality is indeed a bit rough, like a TV movie.

But the storyline is more interesting, and it is a typical satirical and funny film.

Kevin Conroy (played by Henry Thomas), who grew up in Michigan, believes that he has an excellent talent for film production.

From time to time, some brilliant ideas pop up in his mind, and he firmly believes that as long as these brilliant ideas are put into practice, a great movie can be made.

In order to achieve this goal, Kevin Conroy entered Hollywood and became a production assistant on the big production "Moby-Dick 2: Ahab's Revenge".

But what no one expected was that he suffered brutal treatment from his boss, producer Michael Lawrence, and extreme humiliation from his opponent's agent, Russell.

Just when Kevin Conroy was about to collapse, his roommate Ted Sheen (played by Nell Mandyt) came up with a plan to get revenge on the crew and realize his friend's dream.

Ted Sheen asked Kevin Conroy to use his position to steal the crew's special effects footage, known as the most expensive special effects footage in Hollywood history, the white whale attacks Honolulu.

This was used to extort a ransom of US$15 from the crew as the initial capital for Kevin Conroy to shoot his own art film.

Every detail of this film embodies the bitter satire of all members of the Hollywood big-budget crew, who are lazy, greedy, immoral and brainless.

As the male protagonist, Kevin Conroy, an extremely humble production assistant, his life on the set was simply hell.

Kevin Conroy was responsible for all the trivial daily affairs on the set. He was like a lost puppy in the complex network of people on the set, running around constantly, panicking and struggling at the same time.

This feeling of extreme powerlessness contrasted sharply with the fast-talking and arrogant crew members around him.

This movie wouldn't be nearly as entertaining without Kevin Conroy, a production assistant who's tragic and hilarious.

His roommate, Ted Sheen, was a fun guy, an extremely confident, sharp-tongued guy.

Although Ted Sheen proudly claimed that his movie was in development, he never seemed to finish anything.

Kevin Conroy's boss, producer Michael Lawrence, is an unreasonable guy who often issues nonsensical instructions, such as transporting a pencil to a certain place.

Michael Lawrence's agent Russell is not a good guy either. He is the best at sneaking around and spends most of his time immersed in video games.

Interspersed between these characters are a group of sexy, brainless female characters who jump around and perform exaggeratedly, adding a bit of dry humor to the film.

Overall, this is a satirical film that is both vulgar and hilarious.

The most important thing is that Liu Jiang seems to be somewhat familiar with this movie.

"John, are you here too?" Bob Shea, the boss of New Line Cinema, led a group of people to Liu Jiang's group and said in a pretense of surprise.

General Liu turned his head, glanced at Xie, and then replied calmly.

"Just looking around! Mr. Shea, has New Line Cinema found a suitable target?"

"Not yet! The Atlanta Film Festival is getting more and more depraved! I've been shopping around for so long and I haven't found an interesting movie!"

Shay shook his head and said insincerely.

At this moment, New Line Cinema's film viewing expert Doron came over. He leaned into Shay's ear and whispered a few words.

"Mr. Shea, has your company's film viewing expert fallen in love with this movie?"

General Liu suddenly seemed to be interested. His eyes were shining, he stared at Shay and Duolong, and asked.

"No way! My people are complaining to me about how shoddy this movie is!"

Shay waved his hand and said with a look of disgust.

However, the gleam in his eyes seemed to indicate that this matter was not as simple as he said.

"The picture quality of this movie is really bad and the plot is a bit vulgar."

General Liu caught a glimpse of the other person's eyes flickering, not knowing that this old boy was not telling the truth. On the surface, he remained calm and agreed with a few words, but in his heart he kept sneering.

"Hey, you guys! I'm Nell Mandyt, the director, screenwriter and second lead actor of this movie."

At this moment, a small white man suddenly came between the two groups of Liu Jiang and Xie, and said hello with a smile.

This guy has quite a few titles! I don’t know if he is trying to put money on his face!

In fact, Nell Mandit had been quietly observing the movie while it was being shown.

He has been eyeing Liu Jiang and his group for a long time, but there is nothing he can do about it, because the other party has such a strong aura of a movie buyer!
Nell Mandyt is no simple figure. He won a National College Emmy Award during his junior year at the University of Detroit and later became an executive producer of the Golden Globe Awards.

After college, he became a reporter for Newsweek and ESPN.

Later, Nell Mandit served as the producer of the American Broadcasting Corporation's special documentaries "The Case of Simpson's Murder of His Wife" and "The Oklahoma City Bombing."

"Hijacking Hollywood" is the first film he wrote, directed and starred in.

This movie is actually not a new one. Nel Mandit raised funds to make it two years ago.

He went to many film distribution companies carrying the finished film, but the results did not satisfy him.

It’s not that no one wants this movie, the main reason is that the price has not been agreed upon!
Nell Mandit brought the film to the Atlanta Film Festival just to get a better price.

He saw a group of movie buyers unwilling to leave in front of his booth for a long time. Unexpectedly, when the movie was about to end, another group of people came. This made Nell Mandit not excited!
He quickly came over, introduced himself, took out his business card, and handed it to the two leaders, General Liu and Xie.

"If you are interested in this movie, you can contact me. All the copyrights of the movie are in my hands."

Shay waved his hand casually, turned his head away, and did not accept the business card handed over by the other party.

Duolong beside him was quite sensible. He took the business card and praised softly, "The movie is very unique!"

Xie Yi didn't know what he was thinking. After Duolong took the business card, he greeted General Liu and turned around to leave.

General Liu politely accepted the business card from Nell Mandit. After taking a look at the content on the card, he replied.

"Director Nell, the movie was well made and very interesting!"

There was a hint of joy on Nell Mandit's face. He smiled and nodded towards General Liu, and made a gesture of making a call.

Liu Jiang smiled and said no more. He put the business card into his pocket and continued to visit the film festival with others.

"Boss, have you watched that movie?"

After walking a certain distance, Ronald approached General Liu and asked softly.

"That's right! I think that movie should have some market value! What do you think?"

Liu Jiang glanced at several industry experts beside him.

"It's okay!" "If we can keep the price of buying out the movie rights as low as possible, we should be able to make a small profit!" "Some viewers seem to like this funny and satirical movie. I think this movie should have some box office potential!"

Jonathan, Ronald and Klaus answered one by one.

"Ronald, when you return to the hotel later, you and Klaus will contact the director of this movie and ask about the general situation first."

General Liu took out Nell Mandit's business card and handed it to Ronald.

"Okay, Boss!"

After wandering around for a while, Liu Jiang and his party found no other valuable movies, so they returned to the hotel.

Ronald and Klaus followed General Liu's instructions and made contact with Nell Mandit.

After understanding the general situation of the film, Ronald Jonel Mandit met for an interview in a cafe not far from the hotel tomorrow morning, and the latter readily agreed.

The next morning, the two parties met in a coffee shop.

General Liu did not show up. Negotiations should be left to professionals. After all, there are specialties in the art industry!

After a morning of intense negotiations, Ronald replied to General Liu with Nel Mandit's terms.

The other party was initially prepared to sign a distribution contract with New Caesar Distribution Company, but Ronald sternly rejected it.

What a joke, no distribution company will sign a distribution contract with a movie like this that costs less than a million dollars to produce.

Unless they own the full copyright of the film, the distribution company will consider releasing the film in North America or going directly to the video tape market.

Nell Mandy's pursuit of a release deal should be just a feeler.

After being sternly rejected by Ronald, he settled for the next best thing and opened his mouth to reveal an eye-popping buyout price of four million US dollars.

The production cost of this movie was only two to three hundred thousand US dollars at most. The other party suddenly increased the price by more than ten times. Of course, Ronald could not accept this sky-high price.

He argued hard and offered a price of 400,000 U.S. dollars, and the two sides immediately started a round of verbal exchanges.

During this period, Nell Mandit threatened that not only one distribution company was interested in "Hollywood", but he had many options.

Ronald is also a cunning person. He doesn't accept the other party's tricks at all, and Klaus is cooperating from the sidelines.

The two of them, one with a white face and the other with a red face, used all kinds of methods to bargain wildly, and finally reduced the price to 1.5 million US dollars.

At less than $1.5 million, Nell Mandit was unwilling to lower the price any further.

There is no other way, Ronald and Klaus can only temporarily suspend negotiations and come back to reinstate General Liu.

(End of this chapter)