Lance picked up the champagne in his hand, took a sip, and cooled his burning stomach a little cooled.

The surroundings are full of people wearing formal clothes and evening gowns, and almost all of them are strangers, as if standing at the intersection of Times Square in New York, with pedestrians and traffic, but no one will stop for themselves. However, this is not Times Square, but a grand party. The clothes are fragrant, the lights are bright, and the wine is green, and the delicacy is intoxicated... The luxurious and ostentatious atmosphere slowly wraps around the feet, like a piece of quicksand, making people fall deeper and deeper without realizing it.

In the past, when he was at Diorama, Ryan and Tucker were basically attending such parties as representatives, which was the occasion they were best at. But now, this responsibility must be borne by him.

Lance searched for Brad Grey in the crowd. The future leader of Paramount was obviously coming to Sundance Film Festival with his target. Although Paramount Pictures is not the first choice for independent film distribution companies, Brad's emphasis and affirmation of independent films is Lance's best opportunity.

What's more, in addition to the release of "City of God", it is time to capture the trap of Diorama Films to move to the next step, and today is the most perfect occasion.

Sure enough, Lance saw Brad talking to Niki Caro. After her "Whale Knight" was premiered this morning, she won the hearts of the audience again - the movie premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year, winning the People's Choice Award in one fell swoop and became the biggest winner. Unfortunately, the film's distribution rights were still not sold, so she missed the entire awards season and now she can only come to Sundance to find opportunities.

If Chaos Pictures still has activity funds, Lance would seriously consider taking the "Whale Knight" distribution rights, but now he obviously has no room for such a thing.

Lance decided to take the initiative and took a champagne glass and took a step. However, after only two steps, the road in front of him was blocked by a figure, and a generous and slightly honest figure walked out from the side, blocking Lance's way, "I didn't expect that we would meet again here."

The one standing in front of him was Harvey Weinstein, which surprised Lance, but it only flashed by. Soon Lance regained his calmness and showed a polite smile, "Really? Don't you come to Park City every year?" Lance's simple words were filled with guns and sticks, and the ironic meaning was really obvious.

This is the rise of Sundance, Miramax Film, and the Weinstein brothers will not miss it every year. I believe they have already obtained the list of participating in this film festival, so they will naturally not miss the "City of God". Therefore, Harvey's words were obviously a polite greeting in social occasions, but Lance directly exposed it.

Harvey didn't expect that Lance would stab himself as soon as he came up, but he had a lot of experience in dealing with such a scene, so he laughed slowly, "But not every year you can meet geniuses."

Lance paused for a moment, and did not answer immediately. He looked at Harvey with a light eyebrows, as if he wanted to find something from his expression. Then he frowned slightly and said, "So, do you think I am a genius?" This was a rhetorical question, but the joking confidence in his words further showed Lance's ease.

Harvey burst into laughter, "Are you always so arrogant?"

Lance shrugged and said for granted, "Maybe all geniuses are like this." After that, Lance asked back, "Isn't it?" In terms of arrogance, Harvey in front of him is also famous in Hollywood.

Harvey could not refute, and the smile on his face not only did not fade, but became even brighter. "Confidence and arrogance are often only a line, right?" The meaningful words fought back from another angle. They are worthy of being the old fox who has been in Hollywood for nearly ten years. "More importantly, even a genius still needs help after all, because he is not an all-rounder. For example, release."

Lance knew that Harvey came to him, for the right to issue the "City of God".

Every year, Miramax will reach several deals in Park City, and Harvey is generous and decisive, and decides to do it in a flash, and then make a deal in front of others first. This is also one of the important factors that Miramax can lead the awards season every year: casting wide nets and selecting them carefully. The Weinstein brothers have been making arrangements since Sundance at the beginning of the year, and constantly casting nets throughout the year. They will select seed players from them until the end of the year, concentrate their firepower on academy's public relations, and lead the awards season.

Therefore, "City of God" has received numerous praises since its premiere yesterday. Although the current prospects are still uncertain, Harvey already has enough reason to take action.

However, Lance did not expect that Harvey actually skipped the polite part and went straight to the point, being straightforward and neat, without any delay. Especially not long ago, Harvey played in person and rejected Lance's "City of God". Now Harvey has no barriers, and everything is based on interests. Even if he goes back on his word and slaps himself, even if he risks being humiliated by Lance, he does not hesitate, demonstrating the strength and decisiveness of the hero.

This decisiveness made Lance look higher on Harvey again.

Lance did not answer immediately, and Harvey was not in a hurry at this time. After the two men met in close combat, a blank suddenly appeared, which seemed a little weird. Then Lance smiled and asked, "How do you know that the right to issue is still in my hands?"

So far, the right to issue "City of God" is still in the hands of Lance. Although the movie has received rave reviews in the past two days, everyone is a fox, everyone is waiting and watching, and no one is in a hurry to make a move. In particular, the particularity of "City of God" is even more remote than the "Whale Knight", so no party has contacted Lance to negotiate the release.

Harvey Weinstein was the first one.

Objectively speaking, "City of God" was handed over to Miramax Pictures for distribution, which was a perfect cooperation. Lance also agreed with this, but this does not mean that Lance would nod easily. For the sake of interests, Lance was willing to abandon past grudges and cooperate with Harvey; but for the sake of interests, Lance didn't mind shouting prices everywhere, paying back the money, and knocking Harvey hard.

Of course, this is playing with fire, and Lance knows this clearly.

Facing Lance's calm and calm questioning, Harvey was not panicked at all - at least it seemed like this, but he began to wonder in his heart. Of course, he knew what Brad meant in Park City, and he knew better than Lance. Brad was exploring the path for Paramount to enter the independent film field, so Brad would definitely reach several deals here. This is also the reason why Harvey left all the calculations when he saw Lance walking towards Brad and went straight to block Lance - he wanted to give Lance better conditions before Brad and take the situation as much as possible.

This is a game, for Lance and for Harvey.

"Because I will put forward a condition that you cannot refuse." Harvey's understatement had strong confidence, which made people think of Vito Corleon in the "Godfather".

Lance raised his eyebrows slightly, then showed an expectant smile, "Really? Try it."

"One and a half million US dollars." Harvey gave a very high price as soon as he spoke. At the Sundance Film Festival, the distribution rights of independent works are generally less than two million US dollars. Occasionally, a few of them have super high amounts of three million, or even five million, which is enough to sensation the entire market. However, due to the particularity of independent films, the general price cannot be too high.

Considering that "City of God" is just Lance's debut work and it is a Portuguese work, $1.5 million can indeed be regarded as a good price. Harvey, the old fox, has a very accurate vision and a very accurate grasp of the price, because Lance's psychological price is between 200 and 2.2 million.

But Lance was not in a hurry at this time, but instead laughed happily, "Have, are you serious?"

It was the first time Lance picked up the guide, but it didn't mean he was a rookie. Harvey remembered Lance's previous experience at Diorama and knew that he could not fool those independent new directors like he was, so he didn't hesitate and said directly, "One million and 800,000."

Lance frowned and shook his head, "Harvey, do you know how much the cost of 'City of God' is to be made?"

"I am a businessman, that's not the category I need to consider." Harvey's rejection was also neat. What he needed to consider was his own profits, not Lance's. However, Harvey's words were humble and polite, and he still showed enough friendship.

"I'm a businessman too." Lance's answer was also very simple. "The cost of making the 'City of God' is three million dollars, so what do you think?"

Harvey frowned slightly and it was absolutely impossible to take out three million dollars to buy the copyright of "City of God", but as Lance said, they are all merchants, and they all have their own considerations, so it is not uncommon for Lance to be dissatisfied with the price. After thinking about it, Harvey spoke again, "Two and two million dollars." After that, he stopped, Harvey raised his right hand and made a stop gesture, "This is the final offer." The subtext is that "City of God" is only worth this price.

Lance didn't care about Harvey's strength, but raised the champagne and took a sip, "Mr. Weinstein, do you really think I'll sell the issuance right by a buyout?"

What does this mean? It means: the quotes of the two people just now were all empty talk. Lance did not intend to nod and agree from the beginning, but... he was just playing with Harvey. Even though Harvey was full of determination, his facial expression could not help but froze, and his chest was stuffy and he couldn't clear it.
Chapter completed!