American Movies Industry in China !

American Movies Industry in China ! 

The presence was most keenly observed and I found it rewarding to see our efforts fact that important market. I concentrate here on two important shifts for filmmakers and our country today in China and Finance.
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The 33rd American Film Market lasted seven days! 

. The leaders of the global film industry gathered in Santa Monica, CA buying, selling, pre-sale and financing of films in all stages of development and production.

The market has attracted more than

• 7,749 participants 
• from over 70 countries, 
• screened 442 films and conferences spoke to a large audience of 
• more than 700 present each day. 

Opening at the American Film Market held at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Resort October 31 in November 7, 2012 day. Photo courtesy of the AFM. I registered and I went immediately in the beginning of the "Day of Hong Kong," a long series of days of events that highlighted the benefits of co-production in Hong Kong, the gateway to the co- production in China.

I jumped in their seminar on co-production of Hong Kong and the AFM market session of interviews industry in China, Zhou Tiedon, President and CEO, China Film Promotion International and experienced panelists with great perspectives on China, including Tracey Trench, a Harvard graduate who is a consultant for Oriental DreamWorks, joined the new Shanghai studio adventure Jeffrey Katzenberg (Kung Fu Panda and the interests of its effects in China), and supervised and produced a total of thirteen feature films including THE PINK PANTHER, Yours, Mine and Ours, Cheaper by the Dozen and Just Married. She talked about the Chinese question 

"Why Hollywood makes our stories" 

and the importance of partners China looking for partners to internationalize Chinese stories. It highlights opportunities for Westerners to find deals co-production in China, but you have to learn the ropes. Content produced in China is subject to content review and censorship and financial details.
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A group member suggested that you do not ask what you can not do in China, but what you can do in China instead. Suffice to say a script can not be too violent, too sexy, too bloody, too political or too religious. Some producers produce two productions in China and dub in the script they want to do for the distribution of the West.

 If you produce films for the Chinese market somewhere else, it is strongly recommended to include Chinese actors from China, many of them speak English. In fact, everyone in Hong Kong speaks English and seems to be the entry point to engage in the movie in China for the crew, equipment, finance, travel and accommodation, and c is more comforting, again because everyone speaks English. Once you are on the mainland that will change.

 It was interesting to learn that the average age of moviegoers in China is 20 to 21 and the ticket price in China is the same as that of the United States, leading to be very expensive in China and only a small segment of the population can not afford to attend once or twice a year. Video on demand on the other side is a thriving market VOD invests in production. This seems to be where their market lies in changing times. There are so many that it is a huge learning curve before entering this market emerging media of this size it is difficult to imagine.

Once again fill East and West on a whole new level. Finance Conference, which brought together leading entrepreneurs, filmmakers, financiers and executives together to explore the state of independent film financing, emerging trends, where the money is and what the future holds.

 Bullish Finance Conference Panel Tom Ortenberg, CEO Open Road Films, Nigel Sinclair, Co-Chairman and CEO, Exclusive Media and Graham Taylor, Head of Global Distribution Group, Finance and William Morris Endeavor. Photo courtesy of the AFM. The facilitator and the panel are people that we all recognize and wish we knew better. Discuss "Current Issues in Film Finance" were moderator John P. Burke, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, panelists Nigel Sinclair, Co-Chairman and CEO, Exclusive Media, Tom Ortenberg, CEO, Open Road Films and Graham Taylor, Head, Global Distribution Group Finance and William Morris Endeavor. 

 The good news evoked by the entire panel is that experts are fundamentally bullish on equity financing and availability yet. Not since 2007, before the economic crisis, investment in shares become so abundant with opportunities for production. Presales is back in fashion and now more than ever desirable that distributors demand to fill their schedules to maximize and appease their customers worldwide.

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When Lehman Brothers went bankrupt in 2008, literally all banks have stopped lending. Fifteen months Studios Hollywood is not a single acquisition. Acquisitions are now more robust, banks like the early 90s, but more conservative, and according to P. John Burke, a movie $ 20 to $ 25 million could theoretically reach 60-75% of its pre budget today. Add to that a generous credit England New State Film Tax nets say that about 20 to 22%, the gap, mezzanine, equity requirement becomes much easier to manage at any time I can remember.


Conditions are favorable. deals with studio and network still require relationships. If you do not and you are looking for a studio or rental agreement with someone who does. It will take years to get a film made. (See the ball is in his section of the Court in this case where Gabrielle Savage Dockterman tells how his film clung to selfish red ribbon Hollywood and how his dilemma was actually resolved. You'll never guess.) Above all, there is still all about the script. Amazing material will eventually attract everything you need to get the movie made. There are trends in the handling cost and are traditionally required advance.

 Noguideline Game

 While the lines are blurred and no guideline game, a good script today will attract an actor who can be considered deferred income or even take some of the risk and become an investor or producer of your film with income share of profits. The rules are changing talent. Yes, artists are now more entrepreneurial. Another trend that benefits the industry is that advertising costs are lower due to the use of social media. As digital continues to mature its impact on the production, distribution costs and exposure will be significantly less than the demand for the product will continue to grow exponentially worldwide. via

Here is the great trump Film Finance, investors from all over the world want to get involved and everyone wants to be a content owner, build portfolios - take the portfolio approach. Search and go to the next year!

Tiananmen Square in Beijing

When you first arrive in Beijing and want to have an easy day to get over the time change, a good place to visit is Tiananmen Square.   It is an easy walk or short taxi ride from most central area hotels.  It is the Largest Square in the world and there are four sights around there to visit.  This photo I took from the tower at the entrance to the Forbidden City across the street from the Square.  To the left is the Museum on the Revolution.  Straight ahead is Mao's Tomb where you can see his preserved body in a glass container.  To the right is one of my favorite places to visit is the Great Hall of the People which is never included on any tour.   The government meets here in the large auditorium holding 10,000 people.   There are also State receptions and dinners held here and may be closed during those times.  There are also many large reception rooms each decorated according to each Province in China.  You can see

these rooms through glass windows.  The wide halls and stairways are usually covered with heavy dark red carpeting and marble.  Just a nice walk to these sights can be interesting seeing  local people on the streets and you will get the feeling of being in a World Capital for sure.     Click on the photo for a full screen view.

The China Movies Market

The China Movies Market

Cannes ongoing concerns not only the filmmakers promote their new works and flash paparazzi chasing after movie stars. Film France, the National Commission which promotes French cinema coproduction with foreign countries, using the event as a platform to attract producers and directors, particularly those of China International, draw and make movies in the country.

 France and China ! 

The Commission wishes to promote co-productions between France and China as it sees huge potential in the film industry of China, which is based on a market that is expected to surpass the United States in 2020 box office .

Fascinating history of growth in China and its multi-faceted society inspired the French filmmakers, who have begun to China and Chinese elements in their scenarios, explains Franck Priot, the Chief Operating Officer of Film France. "Anything that has to do with China carries an aura of excitement," he said. France is the first foreign films that co-production with China country. The first Sino-French film, The Kite, was directed by the Chinese director Wang Jiayi and his French colleague Roger Pigaut and was screened in 1958.


But cooperation is not really flourish until 2010, when the governments of the two countries signed a strategic agreement. To attract producers and directors with more incentives to come to the country more foreign, the French government decided in 2009 to offer a tax refund of 20 per cent for foreign films and television productions in the country, according Priot. Since 2010, seven films co-produced by China and France have been approved by the Chinese authorities.


The adaptation of the Chinese writer Jiang Rong "novel Wolf Totem French director Jean-Jacques Annaud in was also submitted for approval, according to figures from the General Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television. Eleven flowers Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai was the most recent example of a successful Sino-French film co-production. China is seen as a source of investment for film financing becoming more difficult to secure Western markets.

Meanwhile, co-production is also considered a method for foreign producers to make their way into the Chinese market and to avoid the quota of the country for the import of foreign films, which was increased from 20 to 34.

Chinese Film Festival in France ! 

Christmas Garino, technical and artistic adviser to the Chinese film festival in France, says that a subject and a script with universal values, whether it is a romantic comedy or a drama, which could appeal to Chinese and French audience is essential for the success of the co-production and export potential.

"At present, most of the co-produced by China and France movies are art films and are not those blockbuster or ordinary. We must move forward and produce films that appeal to a wider audience, "says Garino. "China is not short of money but talent and professionals," said Tess Liu,

 who runs a film production company named Zora Media Co Ltd in Beijing. Liu is in Cannes looking for a French producer and director for the new scenario, a story that takes place in China and France. "What we most need is the French technical skills and professional experience in film production," she said.


Writting by Olivia 

1.  see also Cheese in China 
2. street marketing for movie

The difficulty to find cheese in China

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We know that French are really attached to some values of their gastronomy like for example wine, dry sausage or cheese. The stereotypes about French people are thus mostly true.

When French travel abroad for different reasons, for tourism or for business, it is really hard for them to find products which represent their cuisine especially in countries where the culture is really different (Asian countries, emerging countries).

If we now look closely to the cheese, we see that there is two ways of see the situation. Either the cheese is simply not available in supermarkets that is the case for India for example, either it is possible to find French cheese but the prices are expensive. We can take here the example of China where the French cheese is mainly in hypermarkets such as Carrefour. A last alternative is to order directly online via online supermarkets which develop themselves slowly and which propose a wide range of cheese at reasonable prices (click here for more information).

The reasons of the difficulty to find cheese are pretty obvious. It is because of cultural differences concerning the gastronomy between China and France. Even if we can think that the globalization brings a lot of news things in many countries, the main culinary trends of chinese people will be slow to change because the ways of consumption are different.

The market is here 

We note, however, some progress, with some cheese in food fairsand if we analyze the figures we see that the cheese market is booming. Indeed, there is agrowth of 22% for the year 2012. Countries that export their most cheese are New Zealand, Australia and the United States. France, is behind but catching upher lateness. Be careful though concerning the different food scandals that have hit Chinain recent times, cheese requires optimal storage conditions and improper storage of it may cause diseases.

Just as it was the case for the wine, it is important to educate the palate of Chinese to help them discover this rather unusual product. The Chinese will not necessarily love at first sight. There are different types of cheeses from different countries. Some French cheeses are very strong and it may not be to start with them. Again,if we were to draw a parallel with the wine, you could say it is beginning to emerge several experts from Frenchcheese and abroad to introduce Chinese in the manufacturing process but alsoto the taste.

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Strolling down a Beijing hutong off the beaten track

 

I've been very busy over the past few weeks. The tourist season is starting to warm up in Beijing. I've been very pleased to see old friends and also friends of friends introduced by past clients.

 

It's the middle of May and spring has nearly gone. Temperatures are rising again in Beijing, air conditioners are in demand, and we're all so happy when we get a sunny blue sky. I went with some friends on a stroll down a hutong recently, and it's surprising what you can find. There are some hutongs being restored and developed, but the more they become famous, the more they become commercialised and crowded.



This hutong is getting well known, but for now is still very quiet, look no traffic and very few people!

The street life is so varied. Here we see some neighbours (and their dog) enjoying the afternoon playing mah jong.

This little shop sells exotic products from Nepal

The guy dressed up like a  Confucian master actually is a man of many talents, giving clients advice on personal and company names, feng shui for their homes and offices, marriage counselling, choosing lucky days for events.....an all-round fortune teller!  

Some grand renovated courtyard houses can be seen...but what an ugly exhaust pipe!

Some original stonework.

The Chinese character for happiness is important no matter where you live.

 This is a well preserved courtyard house.......

Now used as a school....I hope the students know how lucky they are...and retired cadres' centre.

It was a Prince's mansion before, read on......!

Further down the hutong, we came across 2 quite different food shops. I'm sure you would all like the noodles but I'm not so sure about the duck blood tofu.......

 ....you can always go next door for some Hong Kong style desserts.

No 46 is an old factory compound which has been turned into a contemporary arts centre.

For relaxation, these prices are very attractive. (1 USD = 6.2 yuan RMB)

A new coffee shop has opened outside No 46.

And there's more choice around the corner. It may not be cheap but it's f....g good!What more would you want!

 

Pollution in China?

That is one question that I get asked now and then especially this year with the problem they had in Beijing.  Beijing has grown very quickly and added 10,000 cars per MONTH to the roads last year.  This has been an inverted air problem for a time this spring much like we get here in Seattle as well as other major cities in the world until the winds clear it out.  Most of China especially in the countryside the weather is clear and fresh including Shanghai which is on the sea.  Fall months when the farmers burn their straw from harvesting wheat and rice, there is some smoke pollution but lasts only for a few weeks.  The China Daily Newspaper which is in English and Free in most Chinese hotels lists the air quality in all major cities each day as well as the weather conditions and temperatures.   For more information on weather in China and the best times to travel and tour, email me at   interlak@eskimo.com    Photos below are:  Top:  Shenyang industrial city, Middle:  Beijing   Bottom:  Shanghai

What to Expect Eating in a Restaurant

Many people go on tours to China where the meals are ordered for them or in group tours they often have buffet meals to choose what you like.   It is an adventure to go to a restaurant on your own and order on your own.  The menu is usually in English and Chinese. Some have photos with the dishes.  Most restaurants will try to have an English speaking waiter or waitress but if they do not; then you can read and point.   Water costs extra.  Coffee is usually only available for breakfast.  Tea which normally came free with a meal is often charged for now.  Tipping is not necessary as it is included in the cost of your meal.  If you do tip, the money must be given to the owner of the restaurant.   Be careful about ordering some expensive things like lobster or special sea foods.  The price is often by weight rather than the dish and of course they would want to serve you the largest portion.  Many good restaurants require a reservation but your hotel or guide can help you with that.  Some restaurants will have a waiting line or room which may be up to one hour or more.  To avoid the crowds eat early as Chinese tend to have dinner about 8:00..  Chinese restaurants for the most part are very noisy so expect that.  Some smoking is done but becoming less and less each year.  Stay as long as you like as you will have to ASK for the check since it is considered impolite to bring a check without the customer asking for it.   For more details on restaurants contact me at   interlak@eskimo.com
I have had 50+ trips to China eating in hundreds of restaurants....and I haven't missed many meals!  :-)