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    On the plane to Venice, Cheng Peng changed the crew into a tour group. However, after the film festival opened, he had no time to take everyone out for fun. He was busy watching movies, receiving film producers, and communicating with other directors.  For this reason, members of the crew protested to Cheng Peng: "Captain, where is the tour group we agreed on? We are waiting for you to take us on a trip!" Faced with everyone's protests, Cheng Peng could only raise his hands and surrender, announcing that tomorrow  Put everything down and organize a trip for everyone.  The next morning, more than ten members of the crew headed towards the main island of Venice. Only Zhang Ziyi did not go with them. She is the spokesperson of L'Oreal Asia, and there happened to be a L'Oreal event today.  Venice is one of the most important tourist destinations in Italy. It has many famous attractions. It is known as "Europe's most beautiful living room" Piazza San Marco. In the movie "Love on the Bridge at Sunset", "A kiss on the bridge can destroy everything".  Rialto Bridge and more.  ??????????????????????????????????????????????????: There are still many scenic spots that have not been visited. Everyone reluctantly boarded the passenger ship and prepared to return to Lido Island.  The ship was very spacious, and the crew gathered on the deck and kept taking pictures, while Cheng Peng was leaning on the side of the ship thinking about the movie. It was impossible for "Dark Invasion" to win an award. Is there any way to make it more popular?  At this moment, a man's voice came from beside him: "Are you the director of the movie "Dark Invasion"?" Cheng Peng turned his head and saw a middle-aged fat man with small eyes, a big nose, a beard, and his face looked a bit  Fierce, a bit like the warden in the TV series "Prison Break".  He felt like he had seen this person somewhere, but he couldn't remember who it was for a while: "Yes, I am Cheng Peng, I wonder who you are?" The fat man smiled and said: "I am Harvey Weinstein."  Harvey Weinstein, owner of Miramax!  Cheng Peng's eyes lit up. He was so familiar with this name. As long as he was filming a movie, I'm afraid no one would not know this name.  Harvey Weinstein and his younger brother Bob Weinstein are the most well-known independent film producers in Hollywood. No surname in Hollywood is more shining than "Weinstein".  The experience of the Weinstein brothers is quite legendary. In the first ten years after founding Miramax, their development was not smooth. The way to make money was to buy cheap, in-depth, and even soft-pornography films directed by European directors.  movies, and then pick out the revealing scenes in the movie and make them into trailers to attract the audience.  But his unscrupulous cuts to European films earned him the nickname "Weinstein Scissorhands."  In the eyes of some non-American directors, Weinstein is synonymous with "evil".  Hayao Miyazaki once said in an interview with the Guardian that when "Princess Mononoke" was released in the United States, he mailed Weinstein a samurai sword with a naked line written on the blade: "Do not delete."  Minus! "In 1989, Miramax bought Steven Soderbergh's award-winning film "Sex, Lies and Videotape" at the Sundance Film Festival for $1 million. The return on investment after its release  Extremely, this changed the fate of the Weinstein brothers.  Since then, they have embarked on a journey to conquer the world, successfully producing and distributing a large number of classic films, such as "The English Patient", "Shakespeare in Love", "Chicago", "Trainspotting", "Pulp Fiction", etc., for which they have won many awards.  He has earned the reputation of "the savior of modern cinema".  So far, they have been nominated for 205 Oscars and won 51 of them. Apart from God, they are the people who are thanked the most at the Oscars.  Cheng Peng knew that the Weinstein brothers were money-hungry and not easy to deal with, but their publishing capabilities were indeed very strong. They were the ones who published "Heroes". He smiled and said, "I have long admired your name, Mr. Weinstein!" Harvey -  Weinstein laughed: "When the festival opened, your movie shocked me and I was very impressed. I don't know if it was me, but the audience was shocked. This is the most interesting thing since the festival began."  Something!" "I hope you can come and watch the movie when it is released. I believe you will be scared many times!" "When will "Dark Invasion" be released? "" It will be at 8 o'clock the day after tomorrow.  I am very interested in "Dark Invasion". Do you have any relevant information? I want to see it as soon as possible. " "We come to Venice to sell movies. We have these. If you are interested, you can follow us.  Let¡¯s go back to the hotel to watch it!¡± ¡°Okay, I¡¯m looking forward to the movie!¡± Harvey Weinstein is really interested in ¡°Dark Invasion¡± and keeps asking about the movie; while Cheng Peng keeps doing it.  According to the introduction, he also hopes to cooperate with big companies like Miramax.  The two were getting excited about talking when suddenly there was a burst of noise. Cheng Peng looked up and said,Now the ship stopped six thousand meters away from the dock.  A group of police officers on the pier were investigating with instruments, as if they were looking for something.  Cheng Peng frowned and said, "What happened?" Harvey Weinstein also wanted to know what was going on, so he called his brother Bob Weinstein.  Soon, his face darkened: "I just received an anonymous call saying that a bomb was installed at the dock!" Bomb, how is that possible?  Cheng Peng had no memory of being attacked by a bomb at the Venice Film Festival. It probably wasn't true. He said calmly: "It must be a prank, just like the fireworks on the red carpet." Harvey Weinstein didn't expect Cheng Peng to be so calm. This was a bomb.  Ah, what if it's true? He looked a little nervous: "I hope it's just a prank!" After waiting for more than 20 minutes, the crisis was resolved. The detection near the dock was completed. There was no sign of a bomb. The anonymous call was just a  mischief.  Harvey Weinstein breathed a sigh of relief and complained with a sullen face: "The organization of this film festival is terrible. There are troubles every day. The whole organization process looks almost amateurish. I have participated in many film festivals, and  I have never encountered a film festival with so many problems. " Indeed, as Harvey Weinstein said, this film festival can only be described as chaotic. The opening ceremony was half an hour late on the first day, and the following  The chaos was one after another. The world premiere of the movie "5x2" was supposed to be held at 10 pm, but it was actually 75 minutes late. Director Ou Yong was very disappointed; and the release of the film "The Merchant of Venice" was postponed by one hour.  Al Pacino, the Hollywood star who had been cast in the film, hung out outside the theater for more than half an hour; then the computer malfunctioned again, and more than 200 movie tickets were sold repeatedly, resulting in ""Starring Johnny Depp"  "Finding Neverland" has been postponed from its original midnight premiere to 2:15 a.m.  In the past two days, Cheng Peng had been praying that nothing would go wrong during the premiere of "Into the Dark." When he heard Harvey Weinstein complaining, he smiled and said, "I specially prepared a pair of cement shoes.  If something goes wrong at the premiere, let Mr. Mueller choose how to die: jump into the Grand Canyon, a hotel swimming pool, or the Venice Lagoon?" Harvey Weinstein laughed: "This is a good idea, what if that guy Mark?  If you find out, you will be scared to death. Make arrangements for everything later!¡± After the boat docked, Cheng Peng took Harvey Weinstein back to his room. There were big-screen movies, DVDs, and many crew members in the room.  This is the room where clips and movies are played for film producers.  Ninety minutes later, the movie ends.  Cheng Peng looked at Harvey Weinstein and smiled. During the screening of the movie, although Harvey Weinstein did not scream like the audience in the cinema, his body shook several times.  Harvey Weinstein was so frightened while watching the movie that his face turned a little pale. He exhaled and said: "The filming was good, very scary, but it is impossible to win an award in Venice. This is not a win."  Cheng Peng admitted frankly: "Horror films have a lot of deliberate features in order to achieve the purpose of being scary. This is a fatal flaw for the awards. Of course, it was beyond my expectation to be shortlisted."  This movie is not about winning awards, it is about making money. With enough money, I can make more movies." Harvey Weinstein laughed: "It's scary enough for a horror movie. I hope.  "How much are you willing to pay for the North American rights to this movie?" "What do you think? If possible, I hope to sign the contract as soon as possible in North America.  An important film trading market! " " 3 million is a good price. If the North American rights are sold for 3 million, the film will be repaid, but Cheng Peng is not in a hurry to agree.  In fact, after the crew arrived in Venice, distributors began to contact Cheng Peng and others, asking to see the film.  Cheng Peng was let go by several film producers, and the response was good. However, he was not in a hurry to sign a contract. He was confident in his film and planned to negotiate a contract after it premiered and received good reviews from the media.  The original version of "Dark Invasion" has a relatively high reputation both from the audience and from the media. Cheng Peng is confident that the film is better than the original version and believes that it will receive higher reviews. After a large number of positive reviews are released, the price of the movie will inevitably increase.  will rise.  Cheng Peng smiled lightly and said: "The price is good, but the contract is not urgent. We Chinese have an old saying, shop around. We will talk to other companies after the movie is released!" Harvey Weinstein  Unexpectedly, Cheng Peng did not agree to this price, and said with some surprise: "Are you not satisfied with this price? Cheng, you must know that Americans don't like to watch foreign language films or movies with subtitles.It is difficult for language-language films to achieve high box office. So far, there are no more than 15 foreign-language films with a box office of more than 10 million. These films are basically films that have been nominated for Oscars. This achievement depends on the influence of the Oscars.  So far, there has been no blockbuster foreign horror film. Your Asian hits "The Ring" and "The Grudge" both had zero box office in North America!  " "Although "The Ring" and "The Grudge" both had zero box office in North America, their DVD sales exceeded 10 million US dollars.  There are many things in these two movies that are incomprehensible to North American audiences. My movie does not have such problems. The story is relatively simple. The movie also tries to streamline the dialogue and uses movements, expressions, and other silent languages ??to tell the story. I believe that North American audiences  audience can understand.  " Harvey Weinstein was optimistic about "Into the Dark" because of this. There is no big obstacle for the audience to watch the movie. He originally thought that Cheng Peng had this style, but he didn't expect that it was deliberate. The look in Cheng Peng's eyes was  It¡¯s a little different: ¡°Oh, so how much do you think this movie is worth?  Cheng Peng smiled and shook his head, saying: "I'm not in a hurry to talk about this issue. After the movie is released, we will see the media's evaluation and the audience's reaction before making a decision!"  " Harvey Weinstein saw that Cheng Peng was determined to wait until after the premiere, so he didn't insist on it. He believed that he might not be able to buy it for 3 million after the premiere. He said with a little disappointment: "Well, wait until the movie premieres.  Let¡¯s talk after the screening!  "
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