One side did not want to pay more, but on the other hand, there was a higher price. No agreement was reached in this negotiation. Seeing Thomas Longman leave, Harvey Weinstein's face looked a little bad.

Originally, he was almost done with negotiations with Thomas Langman and bought out the copyright of "Artist" outside of Europe for $10 million. Unexpectedly, a Bella Anderson jumped out of the middle, forcing him to raise the price to $15 million.

But $15 million still has not won the copyright.

This made him a little angry!

Matthew Horner's ragged leather bag studio has the ability to distribute? He cheated here under the banner of Disney and Warner Bros., and ruined his affairs one after another.

Needless to say, this must have been intentional.

Didn’t this cause trouble for him? “Artist” is his biggest discovery this year!

As soon as he arrived in Cannes, Harvey Weinstein discovered that this film is a customized gift for American Film Academy voters with an average age of nearly 60: black and white, silent, simulates the every move of stars of Hollywood's classic era, and the simple and just-right length (100 minutes), which are very suitable for him to operate the Oscars.

Oscars are conservative, and the elderly judges always miss the past.

He has been successful in Oscar PR, and even made movie fans around the world realize the fact that "Oscar judges are all idiots."

Win "The Artist" and his PR operation, an Oscar-seeded contestant will be born.

Harvey Weinstein has always been full of confidence in himself. From the earliest "The Patient in the British" swept the Oscars, to the end of the century, "Sading Private Ryan" defeating "Saving Private Ryan" to the amazing "Chicago" that shocked everyone. He has always been fiddling with public relations tricks, and his methods are also keeping pace with the times.

When "The Patient in the UK", he liked to claim that his movies were "the greatest moving work in many years", but when he was operating "The King's Speech", he publicly expressed his disgust for such label-style publicity, which alluded to the self-promotion of "Social Network"; when "Chicago", he was keen to attack his competitors indirectly, and the food for gifts when canvassing is relatively ugly. However, after seeing "The Bomb Defence Force" encountering the producer's email canvassing, he immediately narrowed his ambition to win the awards, and just keep a close eye on the best supporting actor.

This black and white silent film that can only participate in the commercial fair in Cannes, he is determined to win.

He even had preliminary plans. Since there is another key Olympic work this year, he can win "Artist" and then start operating from next year's Cannes Film Festival, and walk down major art film festivals, accumulate enough reputation, and then strive for the Oscars.

Some viewers may think they have been fooled and refunded their tickets when they see this video.

He also thought of this, which could be hyped into news and was also a selling point for the Olympics, further making voters feel that Oscars should still focus on quality and grade, and ordinary audiences are not educated.

But all of these must be implemented with the copyright of "Artist".

Harvey Weinstein considered it and decided whether to continue the negotiations, after all, it would be profitable.

In Los Angeles, Matthew returned to Disney Studios a week after attending the premiere of "Iron Man" and continued the filming of "Fast and Furious 5".

The filming of this film has reached its final stage. Except for Matthew, Paul Walker and Gal Gadot, the other main actors have left the crew after the scenes have been completed.

Most of the remaining scenes of Matthew and the other two were racing in front of the green screen in the studio.

Of course, they are not professional-level drivers, and most of them pose in slow-speed muscle sports cars, showing all kinds of crazy, cool and sarcastic looks.

Those fancy racing were all completed by stunt actors.

Today, stunt actors can be said to be an inseparable part of Hollywood. Like photographers, props and screenwriters, they are found in almost every crew.

These people are not very valued, especially the academy, which has always refused to set up special stunt awards at the Oscars.

The special effects industry is also not valued by the college.

The special effects of Hollywood large-scale commercial films are excellent, and are often one of the most expensive links in shooting and production.

Of course, it doesn't mean that Hollywood special effects are really invincible.

In Matthew's view, the excellent special effects of Hollywood movies are also inseparable from the world's peers.

Shooting in front of green screen is not difficult for Matthew to appear frequently in almost every movie.

During the filming, Bella Anderson sent him good news.

The CEO of the bag studio has made frequent moves at the Cannes Film Festival business fair. Although he did not buy any of the films, it disrupted several trading plans of Harvey Weinstein.

In addition, in a video, Harvey Weinstein vomited blood.

In a black and white silent film called "The Artist", Harvey Weinstein could have obtained copyrights outside Europe for about $10 million, but under the competition of Bella Anderson, Weinstein Pictures spent $25 million to get it.

The only thing that makes Harvey Weinstein feel comforted is that the $25 million gets the global copyright of the film.

Matthew was still a little surprised. He spent a high price of $25 million to buy the copyright of a black and white silent film. Harvey Weinstein was gambled.

Of course he knew that Harvey Weinstein was gambled on the Oscars.

The question is, even if such a black and white silent film won the Oscar heavyweight award, how many people can watch it?

Anyway, he wouldn't go and see it if he gave it to him.

Just as he has never been interested in movies in the Golden Age, the distance is too far away.

Perhaps he doesn't understand Harvey Weinstein's movie world, just as he never really understood the Oscars.

Because he has never set foot in the Oscars game of power and money.

This game is no cleaner than the White House campaign.

For example, as far as he knows, "Crash" knocked over "Brokeback Mountain" at the Oscar, which was undoubtedly a big move for money. The public relations company hired by "Crash" produced and issued a total of up to 160,000 hardcover discs and souvenirs to the film school, from judges to doorkeeper security guards, and the CD production fee alone was as high as millions of dollars.

The effect is also obvious. Oscar gave Ang Lee the best director, but sent the best film to "Crash".

"The Bomb Demolition Force", which won the Best Director and Best Film this year, did even better. Megan Ellison, a super rich second generation, won the award at any cost. Not only did he distribute CDs and souvenirs, but he also personally went on the stage to let a producer send emails to many judges, directly calling on them to vote for "The Bomb Demolition Force".

This matter is almost public and the Film Academy cannot turn a blind eye. If the Academy had not warned the crew of "Bomb Demolition Force" and made Megan Ellison restrain himself, this year's Oscars would have been terrible.

To be honest, if David Ellison gave up on the commercial route and attacked with money like Meghan Ellison, Oscar might face a worse situation.

The college stipulates that judges can only accept souvenirs related to the video, but there is a big place to do it.

When the first video discs appeared, some people gave them a movie disc and also gave them a valuable video disc, which was called lending them to people to watch movies.

This thing was not popular at that time, which was completely reasonable, but only when it was taken back after it was lent out.

As for the exquisite porcelain printed with the movie mark, the ordinary champagne allowed by the Academy to turn into precious champagne... there is not too much of this.

There are always transactions hidden below the regulations, just like the three major European film festivals. If the current judges chairman is settled, it is not a problem to win an award.

Although Matthew didn't know much about politics, he knew that political elections were full of compromises and transactions under the table.

This is the case with politics, and the film industry is no exception.

Harvey Weinstein got "The Artist", and the cost of Matthew was extremely expensive.

Unfortunately, Matthew was very sober. He had no influence on the Oscars, otherwise he would definitely give Harvey Weinstein some problems.

Anyway, he made Weinstein Pictures spend an extra $15 million.

Time is approaching the end of June. After more than three months of filming, "Fast and Furious 5" finally announced the end of the filming stage. Justin Lin immediately brought people into the post-production stage. Screenwriter Chris Morgan directly led his team to start the script creation of "Fast and Furious 6".

Matthew also put forward corresponding requirements for the script of "Fast and Furious 6", a broader worldview and a stronger villain!

Without the promise of a powerful villain, the racing family also appears weak.

It is best to put together a corresponding villain team.

Matthew also thought of giving some advice to Kevin Feige, so that the villains in Marvel superhero movies are stronger, and not all bosses with verbal names, and then be killed by Ai Wu and verbal names.

However, after careful consideration, he gave up this plan. Marvel superhero movies are the simplest entertainment and the purest popcorn. You don’t have to watch them with your brain. If you change the settings that are so simple that you don’t use your brain, it may have a negative effect.

Marvel superhero movies have a style that belongs to Marvel superhero movies.

Fortunately, many jokes in Marvel movies are awkward chat, but they are not as vulgar as Michael Bay's Hercules steel ball.

As June began to cooperate with the promotion of "Inception" crew, first in North America, then overseas, and ran around the earth for more than half a month.

After returning to Los Angeles, he took a few days off and started paying attention to a super big production.
Chapter completed!