Huayu Entertainment: Who let him be the director!

Chapter 76 Crazy Acquisition
"The favorite to win the Golden Rooster Award, 127 Hours, was a surprise, winning only the Best Screenplay Award."

"It's embarrassing that 127 Hours received four nominations, but lost out on Best Director and Best Picture."

"Director Zhou Qing smiled awkwardly and fidgeted the entire time."

……

Related reports quickly spread, and I don’t know how many people laughed at Zhou Qing and “127 Hours”.

"Don't worry about that. How can a Golden Rooster or a Golden Rooster compare to your Silver Bear trophy?"

"I've won the Best Director Award in Berlin, so I don't need the Golden Rooster's recognition."

"Besides, there's the Golden Horse Awards coming up. I'm sure we'll win the grand prize!"

Huang Bo began to comfort Zhou Qing.

Little did they know that Zhou Qing didn't take this matter to heart at all, and had even anticipated it.

After all, Zhou Qing knew who the judges of the Golden Rooster Awards were.

Considering the vision and tastes of those people, it is not surprising that "127 Hours" was not well received.

However, Zhou Qing is actually quite looking forward to the Golden Horse Awards that Huang Bo mentioned.

Because just yesterday, the day before the Golden Rooster Awards ceremony, the Golden Horse Awards shortlist was also announced.

"127 Hours" was also nominated for multiple awards.

Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing.

All are big prizes except Best Original Screenplay and Best Editing.

This guy Huang Bo was nominated for Best Actor at the Hundred Flowers Awards and also at the Golden Horse Awards.

It can truly be described as being in high spirits.

"Don't be so confident. There are many strong opponents in this Golden Horse Competition."

Zhou Qing, who is foresighted, is not as blindly optimistic as Huang Bo.

He knew how the original version of "Infernal Affairs" swept the Golden Horse Awards.

The three major awards that "127 Hours" was nominated for, namely Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor, were all won by "Infernal Affairs".

In other words, the biggest rival of "127 Hours" at this year's Golden Horse Awards is "Infernal Affairs".

As for whether "127 Hours" can beat "Infernal Affairs", Zhou Qing is not quite sure.

This kind of thing can only be known when the award is announced.

"You are like this again. Can you have a little more confidence in your movie?"

"If you ask me, our movie will definitely win the Golden Horse Awards!"

Huang Bo was unhappy again and corrected Zhou Qing severely.

"Okay, okay, let's win the Golden Horse Awards and then you can win the Best Actor Award."

Zhou Qing agreed with this guy, which made Huang Bo satisfied.

I went to the post-production of "Departures" in the afternoon and saw that four-fifths of the post-production work has been completed.

Only a little tail is left.

According to the feedback from the post-production team, it will be completely completed in about a week.

He was very satisfied with the progress.

"Director Zhou, this is an invitation from the Cannes Film Festival."

Not long after I returned to the studio, my assistant Xiao Liu brought me an invitation letter.

This surprised Zhou Qing a little, as he had not signed up for Cannes.

But Zhou Qing quickly reacted.

As a rule, the three major European film festivals send invitations to some famous filmmakers every year.

No matter you have works or not, or whether you have registered or not, just post them.

Don’t be fooled by the high standards of the Big Three European studios, which attract filmmakers from all over the world.

In fact, when facing some powerful bosses, it is also a bloody fight.

For example, Jiang Wen’s "One Step Away".

When Jiang Wen was still doing post-production in the United States, the chairman of the Berlin Film Festival, Dieter, went there specifically to watch the film and then personally invited Jiang Wen.

There are actually countless similar examples.

Things like sending an invitation letter are just a small matter.

"Please reply to the organizing committee for me. I can't go to the next Cannes."

Zhou Qing waved his hand and casually told his assistant, "Understood, Director Zhou."

Assistant Xiao Liu responded and immediately started to work.

"Director Chen, come here for a moment."

Zhou Qing then received another internal call and called Director Chen over.

"Director Zhou, you called me?"

Director Chen politely sat down in front of Zhou Qing.

"Do you read science fiction novels? Domestic ones."

Zhou Qing asked Director Chen a question without any context.

Director Chen was stunned by the question.

He really has no habit of reading novels, let alone science fiction novels.

And domestic science fiction novels, well, they’re probably not its strong point, right?

"Director Zhou, which novel have you set your sights on for film and television adaptation rights?"

But Director Chen was not stupid and he guessed Zhou Qing's intention immediately.

"That's right. Contact an author named Liu Cixin and get the copyright for The Wandering Earth."

Zhou Qing nodded and gave instructions to Director Chen.

Purchasing the adaptation rights to "The Coffin Man's Diary" gave Zhou Qing a wake-up call.

Fortunately, "The Coffin Man's Diary" is a Japanese novel, and the adaptation rights were sold to Japan at the beginning.

That’s why Zhou Qing was able to obtain the film and television adaptation rights from China.

It was a near miss.

But what if this happened in the country?

Wouldn’t that be fucked?

Therefore, Zhou Qing has to learn a lesson and acquire some high-quality adapted IPs as soon as possible.

At that time, whether you develop it yourself or sell the copyright again, you can operate it well.

After all, it is still early and the concept of IP has not yet become popular.

When the price is really hyped up, it won't be as simple as doubling several times. It would be simply a money grab.

"The Wandering Earth? I understand Director Zhou."

Although he had never heard of this name, Director Chen immediately agreed.

"The most important one is The Wandering Earth, but we'll buy the copyrights of his other novels if we can."

Zhou Qing reminded Director Chen again.

As for "The Three-Body Problem" Liu Cixin has not yet finished writing it, Zhou Qing's main focus is naturally "The Wandering Earth".

But Zhou Qing doesn't mind taking over Liu Cixin's other novels.

Anyway, when Liu Cixin was popular, all his novels were sold out.

What's more, Liu Cixin only sold the copyright of "The Three-Body Problem" for 100,000 yuan. How expensive can the copyrights of these other novels be?
To put it bluntly, it's a steal.

Of course, it's not just Liu Cixin's novels. Zhou Qing is also eyeing works like "Ghost Blows Out the Light" and "Grave Robbers' Chronicles".

In addition, Zhou Qing also had no intention of letting go of books like Startling by Each Step.

But unfortunately, at this time, those novels have not been published yet.

Although Zhou Qing had watched these film and television works before, he had never read the novels.

Therefore, it is unrealistic to want to write a novel by yourself.

Just waiting to buy the copyright.

I believe that as long as you act early, the price will not be too high.

"I understand, Director Zhou."

Director Chen responded and left.

As for Zhou Qing?

Still in deep thought.

Should we also take action on some foreign copyrights?

There is no need to think about "Harry Potter", there is no chance for it.

But it seems that "The Hunger Games", "Twilight", "Maze Runner" and the like are not impossible?
(End of this chapter)