1980 My literary era

"Farewell My Concubine" is a hit at the box office. Lin Weimin is very happy. Regardless of whether the box office may be concealed or underreported, the results achieved are real. The box office reached nearly 70 million in seven days, breaking the record of "Once Upon a Time: The Lion King". 150 million box office shouldn't be a problem.

Even if it is calculated based on the box office of 150 million yuan, the film studio and local distribution companies will share it 6:4, which is still 90 million yuan.

"Farewell My Concubine" invested 8 million US dollars, and the domestic box office alone has paid off, and there is still profit.

What's more, this is still a conservative estimate. If the special action to crack down on theft and underreporting of box office can be implemented as soon as possible, Lin Weimin feels that it will not be a problem to increase the box office by tens of millions.

Now that the idea is out, the next step is to see how Lao Teng and Xu Feng perform.

Lin Weimin took his bag under his arm and got off work leisurely.

Back home, Shen Xujia, whom she hadn't seen for a long time, was sitting on the sofa at home. Her eyes were swollen like peaches, and she looked like she had just cried.

Seeing him coming back, Shen Xujia quickly wiped his eyes, stood up and said, "Weimin is off work. Let's not talk about that. I'm leaving first."

"Don't mention it! It's so hard to come here, how can you leave without eating?" Lin Weimin said enthusiastically.

Shen Xujia is Wang Shuo's wife. Before getting married, she was a dancer in the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe. After getting married, she can take care of her children at home. She has a good relationship with Tao Huimin. Now they both take care of their children at home. They have common topics and occasionally sit together. One seat.

Faced with Lin Weimin's enthusiasm, Shen Xujia declined and insisted on leaving.

Tao Huimin sent her out, and Shen Xujia held her hand and said with envy: "I really envy you for finding such a good man like Wei Min!"

Tao Huimin felt uncomfortable listening to her words. The year she met Shen Xujia, she had just dated Lin Weimin.

That year, "Five Girls Wish Birthday" participated in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. Lin Weimin held a dinner party in Shichahai courtyard and introduced her to her friends. At that time, Wang Shuo and Shen Xujia were not married yet.

Soon the two children are almost ten years old. Wang Shuo has become more and more famous in recent years. Tao Huimin thought that the life of the couple would get better and better, but she did not expect...

While eating, Tao Huimin was distracted, and Lin Weimin waved his hand in front of her eyes.

"What are you thinking about?"

Tao Huimin came back to her senses, "Tell me, will you not want me one day?"

What did I do wrong?

When Teacher Lin was reflecting on himself, his mind was frantically searching for a standard answer to this question.

Fortunately, Tao Huimin didn't let him get entangled and said, "Do you know?"

"what do you know?"

"Wang Shuo has someone outside!"

Lin Weimin was not surprised. Not only did I know that he had someone, I also knew who the mistress was and what he was doing.

He had a surprised look on his face, and his expression was filled with surprise and a bit of contempt, "He has someone outside? That's nothing!"

Teacher Lin's performance made the best actor kneel down when he came.

"Really? You think so too, right? I just thought Wang Shuo had a bad temper before, but now he seems to have a bad character! Xu Jia and him were a couple in need. When she married him, he was very poor. It’s been a good few years!”

Lin Weimin also strongly condemned: "A person like him can't keep two ounces of sesame oil in his belly, and he is a bad learner when he has money. He is really not a thing!"

Tao Huimin looked at him, "Do you really think so?"

"Of course, I am ashamed to be friends with such a person."

Tao Huimin rolled her eyes at him, and the more she spoke, the more she went too far, as if she really didn't understand him.

Lin Weimin smiled guiltily, regardless of whether the words were true or false, the most important thing was the attitude.

In early July, the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television issued a special action document titled "Promoting the Healthy Development of the Film Market and Combating the Concealment and Underreporting of Box Office Box Office", and jointly launched a special operation with the public security, publicity and other departments to combat the concealment and underreporting of box office box office.

Many authoritative media, including People's Daily and Guangming Daily, reported on the day the operation was launched, and the mammoth special operation was officially launched nationwide.

Arita dispatched from Mingju, and the intensity and scope of the special operation were much larger than Lin Weimin expected.

The Ministry of Radio, Film and Television dispatched more than 200 people from all over the country, plus 100 people organized by the producers of "Farewell My Concubine", a total of more than 300 people were spread across the country.

On the first day alone, 9 cases of box office theft and concealment were reported and dealt with, involving a total amount of 368,700 yuan.

For three consecutive days, several cases of concealment and underreporting were caught on the spot almost every day, and the amount involved easily exceeded one million.

In just three days, the amount involved in the case exceeded one million, which shows what a huge chain of interests this is.

Among the victims of these cases are not only the popular movie "Farewell My Concubine", but also almost all the movies released at the same time.

The higher the attendance and the higher the box office of a movie, the more rampant these theaters are in stealing box office.

Some theater chains are the personal behavior of individual ticket sellers, some theater chains are a chain of middle-level and lower-level employees, and some theater chains are organized top-down box office thefts.

All of a sudden, all kinds of strange cases emerged one after another.

As more and more theater chains and distribution companies are caught in the act, many domestic distribution companies and theater chains are suddenly in a state of turmoil.

It only took a few days from the announcement of the launch of the special operation to the discovery of dozens of cases of concealment and underreporting of box office records, and many distribution companies did not even have time to respond.

Faced with a special operation launched directly by the ministry, this group of "mountain kings" who thought they were on one side finally became afraid.

In just a few days, more than 20 distribution and theater staff suspected of illegal crimes were controlled, and hundreds of people were warned, recorded demerits, and expelled. Once the iron fist of the dictatorship comes, it will inevitably fall on those people with thunderous force. On the head of a lucky person.

After the brief thunder operation, the hands of criminals were cut off and they did not dare to commit crimes. The number of cases of concealment and underreporting that were investigated and dealt with on the spot immediately decreased.

Whatever is done must leave traces.

Hundreds of staff across the country conducted overt and covert inspections in theaters across the country. After a few days, many past concealments and omissions were also discovered, and the amount involved had exceeded tens of millions.

Although Tian Congming felt a little regretful, he also knew that with the power in his hands, it was already the limit to what he could do.

At least in a short period of time, there should be no way to eliminate the chilling effect caused by the special operation. Eradicating and deterring a group of lawbreakers can be regarded as injecting new vitality into the film industry.

Moreover, the most important thing about this operation is that it severely punished some disobedient provincial distribution companies and expanded his voice in the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television, which will be of great benefit to the subsequent film reform.

Thinking about the pros and cons of this special operation, Lin Weimin's shadow flashed through Tian Congming's mind again.

This is another good move!

He is really unwilling not to get this man!

In a flash, "Farewell My Concubine" has been released for more than three weeks, and the special operation to crack down on concealment and underreporting has been completed for four or five days.

The box office statistics for the third week of "Farewell My Concubine" have just been released, which was 33.962 million. The box office for the second week was 42.661 million. The decline trend is very healthy.

The cumulative box office in three weeks has reached 145 million, surpassing the 150 million box office of "Once Upon a Time: The Lion King" at the beginning of the year. It will soon be ranked first in the box office of mainland China movies in 1993.

In the past twenty days, Xu Feng and Yan Film Studio have overcome all obstacles and once again won over more than 20 city and county-level distribution companies. The distribution scale of "Farewell My Concubine" has set a record since the film reform. Many small theaters have just screened "Farewell My Concubine" now.

At present, movie ticket prices have just been liberalized. Before the large-scale promotion of VCD and DVD, movie piracy was only on video tapes, which was not so rampant. After another wave of crackdowns on theft and underreporting of box office, coupled with Xu Feng's sparing no effort in promotion, With "Farewell My Concubine" such an outstanding box office performance.

In the fourth week, the box office of "Farewell My Concubine" was 14.465 million yuan, with the cumulative box office reaching 160 million yuan, successfully breaking the box office record of "Once Upon a Time: The Lion King" and firmly occupying the box office championship this year.

Not only that, without accounting for inflation, "Farewell My Concubine" has also become the highest-grossing movie in the history of the Chinese film market.

If calculated based on the number of moviegoers, "Farewell My Concubine" probably wouldn't even be in the top 50. Any movie produced in the 1970s and 1980s would be beaten by it.

Thank you for rising prices, thank you for the film reform!

The movie has been released for one month, and judging from the box office in the fourth week, it dropped by more than half from the previous week, which proves that the box office potential has been basically exhausted. It would be good to have a box office of 20 million in another month of screening.

After all, "Farewell My Concubine" is a literary film, and its current box office results are enough to make everyone involved in the film proud.

On the weekend of late July, Xu Feng held a celebration party for the film, and the location of the celebration party was Maxim Western Restaurant.

Song Huaigui was good at dancing and was close to many people in the film and music circles. Zhang Guorong spent the New Year here during the filming of "Farewell My Concubine".

Tonight, Xu Feng spent a lot of money to host a celebration banquet. All the famous people from the Yanjing film industry came, and many people from the music industry also came. Some people came by invitation, and some came with friends. of.

Lin Weimin and Xu Feng were sitting at the same table. She originally invited Teng Jinxian today.

"Farewell My Concubine" could not achieve the results it does today without the help of Teng Jinxian. Unfortunately, Teng Jinxian did not attend because of the impact.

Also at the table were Zhang Yimou, Cheng Kaige, Gong Li, Han Zhuangzhuang, as well as Cheng Zhigu, director of Yan Film Studio, and Manager Xu of Yanjing Distribution Company.

Xu Feng spared no expense on the celebration banquet and specially invited several popular singers to sing. The scene was brilliant and lively.

The song being sung on the stage is "I'll Never Understand Your Tenderness", and the singer is Chen Lin. This song was released in March this year, and it immediately made Chen Lin, a little transparent person in the music industry, popular.

Xu Feng was in high spirits on happy occasions. His body swayed slightly while listening to the song, and he was obviously in a great mood.

Zhang Yimou was chatting with Cheng Kaige, and the topic of conversation was movie box office.

Cheng Kaige has always been secretly competing with Zhang Yimou in his heart. This time "Farewell My Concubine" won the Palme d'Or, with a box office success of over 100 million, making history. Cheng Kaige was very ambitious and consciously stabilized Zhang Yimou. The small thoughts in his heart were long gone. He scolded Fang Qiu while talking, full of confidence.

"Our idea is to see if we can compete for the Golden Globe and Oscar. After all, we won the Palme d'Or. It would be a pity not to compete for these two awards. This will also help the box office of the movie when it is released in the United States." Cheng Kaige said half He said it to show off, half seriously.

Zhang Yimou has always been a good person, and he showed a bit of surprise at the right time, and congratulated him a few words, which made Cheng Kaige even more happy.

Not far away, Wang Shuo and Jiang Wen were sitting together. Wang Shuo was watching the performance on the stage with great interest. Sitting next to him was a young and beautiful girl, none other than Xu Cairen.

Jiang Wen looked at the triumphant Cheng Kaige at the next table and had only one thought in his mind.

He can replace it.