Chapter 292 Brokeback Mountain's Sky-High Copyright Price

It is March 2, and there are less than 5 days left before the Oscars.

Whether Lu Ping'an can win the first Oscar for a feature film has become the most discussed topic in the domestic entertainment industry.

8 nominations, 8 chances.

Most people tend to believe that Brokeback Mountain will not return empty-handed.

But there are also many people who have made various analyses saying that Lu Ping'an may not be able to win the Best Director.

In short, when it comes to his own family members competing for the award, the heat will not be low.

So much so that before departure, Lu Ping'an's mobile phone was bombarded with cheering text messages and calls from friends and relevant leaders.

Some people even wanted to organize to come to the crew and the airport to send Lu Ping'an off.

It was as if Lu Ping'an was really going to fight for the country.

Lu Ping'an certainly didn't want to see this.

So he directly used a smoke bomb.

He bought a flight and then took Wattsberg's private plane to the United States in advance.

After landing in the United States without any danger, Lu Ping'an's first thing was to secretly meet up with Yan Danchen.

Hu Qingquan also knew that Yan Danchen had come to the United States, so he didn't care at all that Lu Ping'an ran away as soon as he landed.

He was there for the Oscars, so it wouldn't be a big problem.

Compared to the Oscars, this year he was looking forward to having a little Lu Ping'an, he was still good at taking care of children.

There was a movie that said that every year when the peach blossoms bloomed, he would think of someone.

Lu Ping'an was a little more advanced and vulgar than that movie.

Every March when the peach blossoms bloomed, it was the time for him and Yan Danchen to watch the sunrise and sunset in the United States.

There were still a few days before the awards ceremony, and Lu Ping'an and Yan Danchen's schedule was also quite full.

Go to Houston to watch a ball game, go skiing in the Rocky Mountains of Maple Leaf Country, and go to the cinema in New York owned by Yan Danchen to watch "Chainsaw 3".

Like a day, time passed quickly.

The rest of the time was to stay in the Beverly Hills villa and do whatever she loved to do.

She could completely occupy Lu Ping'an for a few days, which was the treatment of the queen.

In fact, her treatment was more than that.

On the evening of the 4th, the two watched "Saw 3" in their own theater in New York.

The film started as smoothly as expected.

In the original time and space, "Saw 3" had a North American box office of 80 million and a global box office of 160 million.

Now "Saw 3" has been released for the fourth day, and the box office in the first three days was 17 million, which is more than 1 million more than expected.

The media predicts that the final North American box office will exceed 100 million, and it is not a problem to exceed 200 million worldwide.

"Insidious 2" will also be released in a few days, and the media is still optimistic.

In the evening, Yan Danchen specially used Yan's spoken language to celebrate Lu Ping'an's success in North America.

Lu Pingan was very happy and said to Yan Danchen: "Your spoken English has improved a lot, but it's not enough."

Yan Danchen's hair was messy and she misunderstood: "You seem to have tried to speak better? Tell me, who is it!"

"What are you thinking about? I'm talking about your spoken English."

Yan Danchen breathed a sigh of relief, spread her ponytail, and said nonchalantly: "It's good enough for daily life. Anyway, the Americans don't come often."

"That won't work. You have to make it work in the movie."

"Movie?"

Yan Danchen realized something instantly and asked, "Which movie is it?"

"Cheng Long's Rush Hour, a small role."

Yan Danchen was naturally delighted after hearing this.

Being able to act in a Hollywood movie, and a movie directed by Lu Pingan, and being able to work with Cheng Long, this is already the ceiling resource that mainland actresses can achieve.

However, compared to resources, Yan Danchen values ​​​​being able to spend more time with Lu Pingan.

She calculated it before coming to the United States.

The year before last, the two of them spent only 19 days together. Last year, minus the time they spent together filming, they spent only 17 days together. So far this year, they have spent only 5 days together.

Next, Lu Ping'an will have more projects than in previous years, and then there will be the Olympics.

So this year, it is estimated that it will probably not exceed 10 days.

Although the two of them call and text every day.

But this data is indeed a bit scary.

Yan Danchen felt that if this continued, something might happen, or even something might have happened.

So she agreed directly: "Tomorrow I will find a few foreign tutors and bring them back to China to teach me."

"You can practice now."

"How can I practice now?"

"You misunderstood again."

Pah~

Lu Ping'an received a shameful iron fist.

"You're coming again, my cheeks are sore."

"Then change to good morning~bite."

Pah~

Another shameful iron fist

The next day, Yan Danchen went back first.

Her birthday is on the 9th, so she celebrated it in advance these days.

After Yan Danchen left, Lu Pingan reunited with Hu Qingquan.

Hu Qingquan began to report the results of the public relations campaign in the past few days after seeing Lu Pingan.

Still the same, there was no hidden danger in the nationality issue.

On the contrary.

Because Lu Pingan successfully resurrected Batman, and was also known as the King of Horror, and now he has made a love masterpiece like Brokeback Mountain, the American people are very enthusiastic about Lu Pingan winning the Best Director Award.

In fact, this also shows that Lu Pingan has been in Hollywood for so many years, and the concept of nationality above his head is basically not mentioned in movies like Brokeback Mountain that do not involve politics and Eastern and Western cultures.

So the prospect of Oscar is very bright.

Of course, there are still some disadvantages. Dell said: "Due to the subject matter, it is difficult to win the Best Picture. However, whether or not it can win the Best Picture will not have much impact on the copyright price. It can only increase by about 5% to 10% at most."

Whether or not the Best Picture can be won has no significant impact on the subsequent revenue of "Brokeback Mountain".

The quality of the film is here. If it wins, it deserves it. If it doesn't, this year's Oscars will be recognized as a dark horse.

So the current value of "Brokeback Mountain" has basically been dug to the limit, and it is a win-win situation.

So Hu Qingquan and Wattsberg have already started the re-release of "Brokeback Mountain" and the copyright transaction.

"It doesn't matter. We have done everything we should do. Whatever the result, we can accept it."

Lu Pingan then asked how much the copyright price could be.

It was Hu Qingquan who answered him. He smiled and stretched out his palm and made a "five".

"Fifty million US dollars?!"

Lu Pingan was a little surprised.

This is definitely a super sky-high price.

It's too fierce.

But he didn't feel surprised.

This is the old Americans after all.

They are best at hyping these things.

"Yes, but this is full copyright."

The so-called full copyright refers to the distribution of discs, theaters, TV stations and movie soundtracks in a total of 131 countries and regions around the world, as well as all copyright prices involving quoted advertisements, including new copyright holders and several emerging streaming media that are burning money to enter the market.

"How much is the quotation in this regard?"

"Not much, online copyrights are not expensive now, accounting for less than 15% of the total."

"Not bad."

Lu Pingan expressed satisfaction.

Not only for the quotation, but also because he felt that his assets were about to soar again.

He didn't miss investing in these websites before.

Although the investment is not much, and there is a high probability that it will be eliminated before listing, it doesn't matter, as long as it can make money.

Then he asked again: "What is the domestic quotation?"

"The current negotiation is 5.6 million US dollars, and they can still make a lot of money at this price."

"Brokeback Mountain" is so popular in China, and the quality of the movie is there, the box office will definitely exceed 30 or 40 million.

And domestic distribution companies will not miss it, and will not ignore the opportunity to operate in advertising.

So if China Film Group can operate well, plus the box office, it can indeed make a lot of money.

Hu Qingquan sighed: "It's a pity that domestic piracy is a problem."

Lu Pingan shook his head: "That's not a problem we should care about. One person or a few companies can basically not play much role. It still depends on the national level."

"That's true."

Hu Qingquan nodded and stopped discussing copyright.

While talking, Lu Pingan's phone rang. It was Cheng Long.

"Ping An, have you come to Los Angeles?"

"Just arrived."

"Where are you? I'll come to you and let's talk about the script."

"Okay."