Megan Ellison is in final negotiations to pick up the rights and to make a significant financial commitment to the movie.
BERLIN -- In a David and Goliath twist for The Grandmasters, Megan Ellison's Annapurna Productions is in the process of beating out several established players to pick up the North American rights to Wong Kar Wai's martial arts epic.
Ellison is in final negotiations to pick up the rights and to make a significant financial commitment to the movie and its marketing. The plan is for Ellison and Wong to partner with a distributor in the coming months.
Grandmasters, starring Tony Leung, Zhang Ziyi and Chang Chen, is a biopic of famed martial artist Ip Man, who practiced the art of Wing Chun and is best known as the man who taught Bruce Lee. Action sequences were choreographed by Yeun Woo-ping
The movie is still in production but Wong took a break from filming to trek to Berlin, privately showing buyers footage from his epic Friday. (Wild Bunch is selling the film internationally while CAA is handling domestic.)
Ellison, who did not attend Berlin, practiced her own Wing Chun in Berlin to sweep the legs from under Weinstein Co., Fox Searchlight, Sony Pictures Classics and Focus Features, who were in the mix to nab the rights as well.
Wong was won over by Ellison's personal touch and personal commitment to him and the film, which is being bought off of 10 minutes of footage. With the deal that steps off the beaten parth, Wong will now also be partnered with a financier who will have more at stake than a more traditional company.
Annapurna has been making surgical moves to be involved with top talent as the company makes a name for itself as a producer and financier. Ellison was an exec producer on True Grit, and is a producer on The Wettest Country in the World, the Shia LaBeouf-Tom Hardy crime drama selling at EFM.
She recently partnered with Mark Boal and Management 360 to option The Boy Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, a New York Times Magazine article on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/berlin-annapurna-productions-takes-wong-99620

希望《一代宗师》能走得稳稳的！

回复：8楼
话语片也就《卧虎藏龙》和《英雄》在北美昙花一现。所以能一次性卖出个好价钱当然对制片方来说是最明智的做法。

我只知道每一部新片海外卖的都很好。

炒作也要创新的

期待王家卫爆。

到时候看发行规模怎么样,就知道是花多少钱买的了.王家卫在美国的最高记录是273万美元,但不算稳定,不如在欧洲的名气大.

这么快就售出了啊，宗师给力
墨镜被对方对于自己和电影的承诺打动,而且对方的出价比传统的公司更高
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我觉得墨镜心里有谱，对方肯定是做出了什么承诺才能击败其他公司，而且这家公司不是发行公司，真正的发行公司是另外一家，现在估计还没定吧


谋事在人成事在天
卖个好价钱就好
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这个女孩子Megan Ellison是甲骨文的CEOLarry Ellison的女儿,她和她的哥哥都在做电影,PTA的两部新片,老卡前妻的新片都是她做的,这种卖法说明墨镜对于北美票房的期待是很高的,绝对不是几百万美元级别

北美应该能有几千万.