Chapter 19： Seeking release (1/2)

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The afternoon in Los Angeles was sunny. Looking at the high-rise building of the Chicago School of Architecture, Wang Yang encouraged himself and strode in.

A few days ago, he made all the post-editing of ”Smart and Ghost Recording”. The feature film was finally set at 98 minutes. In his view, this movie is definitely worthy of the word wonderful. People will definitely scare a cold sweat. Anyway, just the day after the cut, Jessica and Joshua, who came to his house together and saw them, were all scared and blushed, even though they already knew the story of the movie.

And Wang Yang himself was miserable, because he lived in the apartment where the film was made. Perhaps this is the aftereffect of shooting horror movies.

After editing the movie, Wang Yang went on to the next job, the distribution of the movie. If a movie wants to be released in a movie theater, it needs to be negotiated by the distributor and the theater, and the theater will arrange its movie theater to be released. This movie distributor is the goal of Wang Yang's contact.

In the United States, in California, there are countless film companies. The most famous are naturally the eight major companies in Hollywood history, including MGM, Paramount, Columbia, Warner Bros., Universal, United, 20th Century Fox, and Disney; of course, after so many years of evolution, with the ”Paramount Case”, the law determined that film companies cannot own cinemas and cinemas. With the end of the era of big studios, the power of the eight major companies has long gone. Too.

They may become part of a media group, like Paramount, which was acquired by Viacom; or they continue to work hard to support and maintain the status of an independent production company, but they will always be in huge deficits, like MGM. However, they are still the leader of the Hollywood film industry and the producer of commercial blockbusters.

Among them, there are also several companies that have subsidiaries that will distribute independent films that are not produced by their own investment. For example, Fox Searchlight, a 20th Century Fox distribution company, has distributed more than ten independent films on behalf of the company, and It has been very rewarding.

But the Fox searchlight agent's movies cost millions and more than 10 million, and they are film movies. There is no one portable DV movie in the world now. After all, DV was only a few months old.

While Wang Yang knew that a big company like Fox was unlikely to watch his movie, he called and tried it out, so there was at least one more chance, wasn't it?

On the phone, the manager of the purchasing department of Fox Searchlight heard that his movie was made with a home DV, and he did not arrange to meet, he refused with a smile. He even thought Wang Yang's phone was a prank. What jokes, portable home DVs, and movies? He knows DV, and he knows more about the quality of DV's shooting, so can it be put on the big screen? Who will see it? Wouldn't it be the child who bought a DV and made a random filming, just as if the thing he made was a movie?

Of course, more importantly, there is no need to take risks on Fox searchlights, or to make jokes. They now have a good profit, so just continue with this management policy.

This result was also expected by Wang Yang. He was not entangled, and entanglement was useless. These big companies are accustomed to big productions. The cost of ten thousand dollars is a joke in their eyes. How to make a movie for ten thousand dollars? They are not without vision. After all, DV movies are something that has never happened before. This is an initiative and a subversion. This is the case with human beings. The first person to eat crabs does not rely on vision, but courage.

So, after contacting all the major companies, Wang Yang, who had nothing to gain, began to contact some small and medium-sized companies. Some of them would produce small-cost movies themselves, and some were distribution companies mainly based on agency distribution, such as Xinxian, Dimen, etc. Wait.

They also felt unbelievable and thought that Wang Yang was playing a prank, but unlike big companies such as Fox Searchlight, they did n’t directly reject Wang Yang on the phone, as if they were “idle and idle, watching The idea of ​​”Look at it well” gave Wang Yang a time to meet.

In the past few days, Wang Yang took the DVD disc with the recording of ”Spirit-Ghost Record” and went to several companies such as Xinxian and Dimen, but the result was surprisingly consistent. When the movie started showing, When they saw the picture with very poor quality and the extremely shaking lens, they shook their heads and said, ”There is no need to look at it anymore.”

This time Wang Yang was entangled, but no matter how hard he tried to sell, saying that shaking the lens was the style of DV movies, pseudo-documentary theory, etc., they all smiled and said ”NO”. The reason for their refusal is actually the same as that of the Fox searchlight. They are also not optimistic about DV movies. They feel that making movies with DV is a joke and cannot be accepted by the audience.

Think about it. When the sound film technology just came out, most companies were still worried that the sound film would not be accepted by the audience. Some people even insisted on the idea of ​​long live silent film. Now they are dismissive of DV movies, it is not surprising.

Therefore, Wang Yang ’s entanglement is ultimately useless, others say no, what else can you do?

But this company is different today, Wang Yang is full of confidence and hope, and full of enthusiasm, because this company is called ”Artist Film Company”, and it is in the future that it releases the DV movie ”Witch Blair”, setting a world-wide Shocking results. If anyone has the courage to eat the crab in the DV movie, it is them.

Artisan Film Company is a small company specializing in the distribution of independent films. It does not have its own office building, and its headquarters is located on the twelfth floor of this commercial building.

Wang Yang came to the entrance of the artisan film company today wearing a decent black leather jacket and carrying a briefcase with a movie script and a DVD copy of the movie. He looked at the artisan logo hanging on it, took a deep breath, and walked in.

”Hello, welcome to the artisan!” The lady at the front desk smiled and greeted people. She was a black woman in her twenties. Although she was a professional smile, she was very pleasing.

Wang Yang looked at her work card and knew that her name was Nicole Vivol, and she laughed: ”Miss Vival, hello, I am Wang Yang, and I made an appointment with your company's film purchasing department. Manager Mr. Thomas meets. ”

”Okay, please wait.” Nicole nodded, held the mouse to check in the computer, and then looked up and smiled: ”Oh, I found it. Yes, the agreed meeting time is 15:00, now It's 14:42, so please wait a moment. ”

Wang Yang nodded with a smile: ”Okay.” He walked down to the row of chairs across the front desk and sat down. He touched his briefcase and looked around. He was a little nervous and couldn't help but exhale gently.

At this time, the front desk lady Nicole Vivol looked at him, a little curious, and actively asked: ”Mr. Wang, you have an appointment with Mr. Thomas to discuss the distribution of the film. Are you the producer of the film?” Wang Yang nodded and said: ”Well, it can be said that I am a producer and a director.” Nicole smiled incredulously: ”Oh, you look very young, it's amazing.”

Wang Yang shrugged and smiled: ”So, my name is Young.” Nicole also laughed, and Wang Yang took the opportunity to ask her: ”Yes, there are often people like me who come to your company. Sell ​​your own movie? ”

Nicole Viver shook his head without thinking, saying: ”No, not many, there are not many independent films, and there are too many film companies, and only occasionally someone will come.” She didn't know that Wang Yang's film was DV filmed and laughed: ”In fact, we often take the initiative to attack, looking for good movies at various film festivals, like this year's Sundance International Film Festival, our company also bought a few movies . ”

Wang Yang nodded silently. Sundance International Film Festival is arguably the world's top independent film festival. The purpose is to encourage low-cost, independently produced films and give cutting-edge directors a chance to show themselves. Every year in late January, the Sundance Film Festival will be held in the city of Utah. At that time, a large number of independent filmmakers waiting for Bole will take their own movies and go to Utah to participate; and large and small film companies, also Will go to the film festival ”Gold Rush”.

There are many other film festivals of this kind, such as the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, the Scream Horror Film Festival dedicated to horror movies, and so on.

These film festivals are also Wang Yang ’s last hopes. If they ca n’t distribute in theaters, videotapes, or even cable TV, he will go to those festivals. Only influential such as Sundance Film Festival and Santa Barbara Film Festival are held in January, which means that if he wants to participate in these film festivals, he will have to wait until next year.

Was thinking, the time came at three o'clock. The front desk lady Nicole Vival picked up the phone, dialed it, and asked, ”Mr. Thomas, there is a Mr. Wang looking for you here. He has an appointment with you to discuss the film distribution. Well, okay.” She Smiling to Wang Yang, he stood up and said, ”Mr. Wang, please follow me.”

”Okay.” Wang Yang also stood up, followed her with a briefcase, and walked into the artisan film company. There were not many people in the office, but it seemed very busy. Everyone was working hard, or else Just walking around with something, and someone talking on the phone, vaguely heard saying, ”Hey, we need an advertisement at eight o'clock, yes, why is it so expensive ...”

Nicole Viver took him to an independent office, she knocked on the door, and there was a voice of ”in”, she opened the door and smiled: ”Mr. Thomas, Mr. Wang is here.” Then, she went back to the front desk.

Stephen Thomas, a middle-aged white man in his forties, with a bare forehead, wearing a gray suit and a black tie. He was sitting behind his desk writing something. When he saw them, he put down his pen, got up smilingly, and walked over, extending his hand, ”Mr. Wang, hello.”

”Hello Mr. Thomas.” Wang Yang smiled and shook his hand, politely saying: ”I'm glad you gave me this opportunity.”

”Oh, nothing, this is my job. Please sit down.” Thomas smiled and stretched the chair in front of his desk. He walked back to the table and sat down, looking at Wang Yang who was seated, and asked, ”Mr. Wang, you It looks very young. Asking boldly, how old are you? ”

Wang Yang smiled. He knew that Thomas asked this question, which means letting him introduce himself or give a resume directly, but he deliberately did not bring his resume because the previous film company read his resume and learned that he had I studied at the University of South Carolina, and then learned the reason why he was expelled. That company did not watch his movie, so he let him go.

Without a resume, you can hide from the sky as much as possible. Wang Yang replied with a smile: ”Well, I was born in 1980, and I should be fairly young now.”

Thomas frowned a little in amazement, turned to wow, and looked at Wang Yang, saying: ”That's a very young, 18-year-old director? Wow! You should be on campus now.”

Campus? Here comes ... Wang Yang suddenly became alert and laughed, shrugged his shoulders, and avoided talking authentically: ”You know, some people's way is different. And I want to watch a movie The quality depends on the movie itself, not the age of the director. ”

”Yes, you are right.” Thomas smiled and let Wang Yangsong breathe, he finally said the topic, ”Then let me see your movie script. I hope this is not a farce.” He rolled his eyes and said, ”I don't mean anything else, it's just a DV movie, an 18-year-old director ... I've never seen this happen before.”

”It's nothing, I understand.” Wang Yang took a script from his briefcase. This script was rewritten, and it was full of final movie content. He handed the script to Thomas opposite, saying: ” Please see. ”