China Entertainment 1997.

Chapter 555 "Proud" Lu Tailang, "Magnanimous" Boss Cao
Xingmei's Boss Qin is very depressed these days.

As one of the founders of Heaven and Earth, he has no shortage of background contacts, and he also has a lot of funds in hand.

Entering the entertainment industry in 2001, Boss Tan ambitiously wanted to become an entertainment tycoon in China. Now that several years have passed, although he has made some achievements, it is difficult to call him successful, especially compared to Cao Xuan's stardom.

Every time there is a meeting of the film bureau or a gathering of relevant industry leaders, Boss Cao is the center of the center, and other big shots have to accompany him.

Standing up that year, partying to make smiles
At that time, Boss Qin was in tears and vowed to replace him

Boss Tan, who is very unwilling, has begun to study Fanxing's development route in the past two years, and plans to follow suit and surpass it.

In his opinion, a large part of Fanxing's success is due to the Fanxing theater chain. Boss Cao's domineering in the entertainment circle is exposed, and he is carefully supported by major filmmakers, and he also relies on the Fanxing theater chain in his hand.

And this is also the advantage of SMI.

[China Film Xingmei Cinema Line] The theater chain jointly built by China Film Group and Xingmei is currently ranked among the top five in the market.

Among them, China Film Group became the largest shareholder of China Film Xingmei in 2007 and realized controlling shares, while Xingmei still maintains 40% of the shares, and the power in hand is not small.

Since the controlling stake of China Film Star Beauty is in the hands of China Film Star Beauty, Star Beauty opened an independent holding company [Star Beauty International Cinema Co., Ltd.] in the past two years, and prefers to invest in high-end cinemas.

The size of the latter is definitely not far inferior to China Film Xingmei, but fortunately Xingmei can fully control it.

As a theater tycoon, why did Boss Qin not hold back in front of Cao Xuan? It was because of China Film Xingmei that he didn't count.

With Boss Cao's words, Fanxing Cinemas said which movie to target next movie, even if it directly started a war with others, Boss Cao would still take care of it.

But Boss Qin is different. He can influence Xingmei China Film Group, and even get a lot of resources to tilt, but some key issues cannot be decided.

China Film's business is spread all over the industry, and it has close cooperation with many companies in the circle, and its status is detached. It is impossible and will not allow its subsidiaries to become the knife in the hands of Xingmei.

So although Boss Tan is a bigwig in theaters, he can only use it for himself. It is far from enough to use it as a strategic weapon like Fanxing.

But even if it can't compare to Fanxing, if it can have a greater bonus to one's own side, it is also a very good advantage.

The film producers or distributors of various film and television companies always have the presence of China Film, Shanghai Film, and even Fanxing.

It is because the film studio has to win over these theaters, and everyone becomes "our own people", so that when the film is released, it will get enough film schedules, and it will not be bullied by other films in the same schedule.

In fact, Xingmei can barely do this. Some movies that intend to be shown in China Film Xingmei cannot be contacted by China Film, and the cooperation with Xingmei is the same.

Except for Fanxing and a few others, private film and television companies are drooling with envy for this kind of capital that is lying down to make money.

Huayi, Bona and other companies have squeezed money between their teeth and obtained bank loans to build their own theater chains, so that they can turn themselves into "masters" one day.

However, as the theater market is becoming more and more turbulent, the upper limit is extremely strict, and the investment is also increasing. Without sufficient capital, ordinary companies simply cannot afford it.

As of the end of April 2009, there were only a little over 4 theaters in China, and the number of screens approached 1300.

Among them, Wanda has developed rapidly this year. It has invested in the construction of double-digit theaters in just three months. Now it has a total of 50 theaters with 400+ screens, surpassing China Film Star Beauty and New Film Federation, and reaching the top of the industry. three.

And Fanxing Theaters now has about 65 theaters with 500 screens. At the end of last year, it joined hands with Shanghai to compete for the first place.

However, although Fanxing Cinemas is strong, its development is relatively stable, at least for Wanda, it is a bit "slow".

If Wanda continues to develop in accordance with the above-mentioned trend, with hundreds of screens a year, or even more, I am afraid that within a year or two, the combination of Fanxing and Modu will be overtaken.

No way, the development paths of the two parties are different. Wanda Cinema Line relies on Wanda Plaza, with its own brand and crowd effect.

And Fanxing Film and Television City is a simple theater with a single function, and it has to gradually become famous in the local area, and it takes an average of 1 to 2 years to get on the right track.

Even if no one goes to the cinema, Wanda will not be able to pay if the square is not cool. If Fanxing Film and Television City does not open up the situation, it will really lose.

Therefore, Fanxing must work steadily and steadily, and strive to revitalize each new theater, but Wanda has no worries, all kinds of sieges and villages, and then slowly adjust and clean up afterward.

Under such circumstances, Wanda has a unique trend. Unless Cao Xuan also builds a Starry Plaza, he really can't beat it.

Of course, Fanxing is not without other preparations, and Fanxing may consider entering some chain shopping malls in the future.

Especially in the third- and fourth-tier cities, there is actually no need to hoard land to build theaters independently, and renting may not be impossible. If the local market is not good at that time, the cost of canceling and leaving is not so high.

At that time, Fanxing will walk on two legs, first- and second-tier cinemas will be built independently, and boutique cinemas will continue, and third- and fourth-tier or even towns will cooperate with local or certain chain shopping malls.

There is no way, Wanda is too big, and the potential of the theater chain to sink the market cannot be ignored, and it is impossible for Fanxing to give up.

But in this way, the amount of investment will be exaggerated, and it may not be possible to get a loan just by using land as a mortgage.

Cao Xuan and some high-level executives are also thinking about it. If it doesn't work, the Fanxing theater chain will be independent, and then go public to collect money to expand the theater chain...

Let's talk about Xingmei, although many companies are envious of its own advantages, but Boss Qin is not satisfied, so he started to get involved in film and television.

There are talents in film and television, Boss Qin does not have Huayi's advantages in the Beijing circle, and he is not like Cao Xuan's "sight like a torch", turning stone into gold.

So he used a stupid method to find a famous director or artist to cooperate with, and at the same time move closer to the Hong Kong circle.

Although under the pressure of the stars, the capital in the Hong Kong circle is not as strong as the original time and space, and mainland artists have also begun to rise, especially the new generation, which is almost completely surpassed.

But also because of Fanxing's many films, the success of directors Xu Laoguai, Chen Kexin, and Lin Chaoxian made director Xiangjiang more valued than Yuan Shikong.

Old Monster Xu and Lin Chaoxian were signed by Fanxing, while Chen Kexin became the favorite of Media Asia and Xingmei.

Boss Qin regards Chen Kexin as Xingmei's old monster Xu and old schemer, and the two have been hooking up since "If Love".

After "Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff", Chen Kexin started filming "Certificate of Fame", and Xingmei was the main investor.

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Boss Tan agreed to all of them. Compared with him, Boss Cao was considered a stingy person.

"Certificate of Fame" has not been released yet, and Chen Kexin started to toss about the new movie "Martial Arts", and Boss Qin still strongly supports it.

He doesn't blink at many investments, even if he buys dozens of straw hats for thousands of dollars, he can bear it...

In addition to Chen Kexin, Boss Qin is also betting on the discovery of mainland directors.

After all, the new screen has Lao Mouzi, Fan Xing supports Ning Hao and Feng Xiaoning, and Huayi supports Feng Xiaogang. In this way, with the backbone and pillars of the company, it can also be regarded as contributing to the mainland film industry and accumulating fame and prestige.

Therefore, Xingmei has been currying favor with Director Chen. In addition to Chen's own company, Xingmei and Shanghai Film Group are the main investors in Chen Dao's new work "The Orphan of the Zhao Family".

However, after all, Director Chen has a good reputation and is good at real estate bonuses. Except for Fanxing, there are only a few companies. In a word, everyone is investing with money.

Even "The Orphan of the Zhao Family", in order to attract Director Chen to come to Fanxing Film and Television City to film, and to make the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Film and Television City famous, Fanxing also invested some money and named a joint production.

Director Chen also needed Fanxing Cinemas, so he let go of the grievances of "The Promise", and the two sides reconciled briefly.

Unable to monopolize Director Chen, Xingmei focused on Lu Tailang, the sixth-generation famous director who was as famous as Ning Hao, and the two sides signed several film contracts.

In addition to "Jinling, Jinling" currently being released, Lu Tailang's follow-up "The King's Feast" is also invested by SMI.

If it is said that Chen Kexin's "Certificate of Voting" and "Martial Arts" in the original time and space made Xingmei feel bad enough, but the follow-up movies such as "Chinese Partner" and "Dear" also made Xingmei return a lot of blood, not completely. people.

Then the two movies of Lu Tailang, Boss Chunchunqin is the big wronged...

"Jinling, Jinling" invested 8000 million yuan, among which the actors' remuneration is not high, Gao Yuanyuan, who is the most famous, is only 100 million yuan. He is called the male lead, and Liu Huohua, who actually has a very low role in the role, only has 80 yuan, and the rest is just persuasive. and scene.

Frankly speaking, it is not uncommon to see large domestic productions costing hundreds of millions, but an investment of 8000 million is still not a small number.

Prior to this, Lu Tailang and Huayi had three film contracts, but because "Looking for a Gun" and "Kekexil" were not so good at the box office, Huayi felt that the film was not a hit, so he dropped the vote.

Boss Xing Meiqin decided to take a gamble on Lu Tailang, so she participated in the vote.

Frankly speaking, according to the original 1.68 million box office of the film in the original time and space, "Jinling, Jinling" lost money, but it didn't lose much.

The key is to start the company's name and enhance its soft power. In other words, it can raise the company's stock.

Yuan Shikong, the boss of Huayi's Wang family, expressed regret. At that time, Huayi was preparing to go public. If there was such a movie with a box office of over [-] million, it would be very good for the stock.

However, it is different now. Being overwhelmed by "Taken 2", it is difficult for "Jinling, Jinling" to break [-] million at the box office.

Based on the internal data of Fanxing Cinemas, "Jinling, Jinling" took 37.3% of the box office.

The total box office of the original time and space was 1.68 million yuan, and the film studio was able to share more than 6200 million yuan. Due to word-of-mouth and subject matter, other income was not much, but compared with the cost, it only cost 800 million yuan. Considering various soft power bonuses, it is not a loss. .

But nowadays, it is difficult for a movie to exceed 3500 million yuan, and the box office is only about 4000 million yuan, with a minimum gap of [-] million yuan. No matter how you convert it, you can’t say that you have not lost...

Boss Qin's blood pressure has been high for the past two days.

Although Xingmei was founded by him, he is not alone, and a lot of the company's funds may not be cash.

Most of the bosses of film and television companies can’t even be ranked by Forbes. How can they have so much money? Most of the funds are bank loans and various fundraising. If they earn money and return it, they are playing empty-handed white wolves.

The entertainment industry is booming now, and Huayi is even preparing to go public, so hot money from outside is also willing to invest.

But the white wolf can't be used for nothing. If you make a profit, you can just pay it back. If you lose, you can't just expose it lightly.

Those investors who don’t have clauses and everyone pays out together are okay. Some loans have guarantee clauses, and some have to be repaid. Xingmei must give them an explanation.

More importantly, if this project loses money, it will cause panic among other XMI project investors. If they make trouble, it will not be a trivial matter.

Everything is bad, everything is bad, the negative chain reaction caused by the failure of "Jinling, Jinling" at the box office, although it will not hurt Xingmei, but it is enough for Boss Tan to be devastated for a while.

After making a few phone calls to appease the relevant investors, he made an appointment to go to the heaven and earth to relax at night. Boss Qin took antihypertensive medicine and gently rubbed his temples.

Ming Xingmei followed the example of Fan Xing, stabilizing the theater chain, investing in film and television, the way is similar, why the results are completely different,

Various projects surnamed Cao exploded one after another, the company flourished day by day, and film investors invested with their money, not even daring to ask for it.

As a result, as soon as I arrived here, there was a lot of mess, everything went wrong, and the years were unfavorable.

Is it my own bad luck, or is this guy cheating?

Just as Boss Tan was thinking about whether to find a temple to worship, the secretary knocked on the door in a panic and came in.

"Boss Qin, something happened!"

Boss Qin's right eyelid twitched, and he suppressed his trembling voice: "What's wrong?"

"Director Lu, Director Lu bombarded "Taken 2" and Cao Xuan at the Nortel publicity conference, and it has already been trending on Weibo."

"I * * *, who does he think he is?"

Boss Tan's temples were throbbing, and he couldn't help yelling.

He doesn't care about the word-of-mouth controversy of "Jinling, Jinling", and he admits to losing money, but it doesn't mean he wants to fight Fanxing, he and Xingmei can't fight.

Under the guidance of the secretary, Boss Qin logged into Weibo and quickly found the source, the video of the Nortel publicity symposium.

Lu Tailang can be regarded as the best student in the director department of Nortel in recent years, and this time he was also invited to return to his alma mater to promote "Jinling, Jinling".

During this period, a certain amount of debate arose, and many Nortel students questioned Lu Taro about the plot of "Jinling, Jinling".

Lu Tailang's ass is crooked, but he can make a name for himself because his subordinates have real skills. His sophistry, transferred to the different aesthetics of movies, really gained a lot of impression points.

But there are also many students who don’t like that. Even if the word-of-mouth can be put aside, the box office data is obvious. "Jinling, Jinling" was rubbed on the ground by "Taken 2". This is always true.

In fact, this question can be generalized by someone with a high emotional intelligence.

First of all, the quality of a movie is not equal to the box office. Many high-reputation movies don’t have a lot of box office. Secondly, Cao Xuan’s reputation is here, and there are many movies that have been rubbed against him, so it’s not shameful.

Strictly speaking, this is considered a forced thorn, and it will not cause any real harm to Lu Tailang.

But I don't know if the tone of the student who asked the question was too sarcasm, plus the various questions before made Lu Tailang suffocate, and Lu Tailang couldn't hold back his defense.

First, he attacked the domestic film market for having too little soil for such serious historical themes, and then satirized a wave of domestic audiences' aesthetics, thinking that movies are not popular, because most audiences only like to watch actions and comedies that are not nutritious.

By the way, I also compared "Jinling, Jinling" with various classic Hollywood war films. The Chinese audience and market are not worthy of this movie.

In a word, it's not that my movies are bad, but that the audience and the market are too rubbish.

After scolding the audience and the market, Lu Tailang began to bombard the filming schedule again, thinking that "Jinling, Jinling" was too low in the filming schedule because there was a Cao Xuan movie at the same time, and Fanxing deliberately suppressed him.

At the same time, he also said that Fan Xing and Cao Xuan are the tyrants in the film industry, and no one dared to offend him.

When I was eating with Boss Xingmeiqin, everyone was scolding Cao Xuan for being domineering, but they didn't dare to speak out publicly, but I was different, I dared to speak the truth, and I was not afraid of Cao Xuan.

There is nothing remarkable about the stars. All the movies are kneeling and licking the audience, which is why they get high box office. They don't have the character and bottom line that a filmmaker should have, which spoils the audience.

Perhaps Cao Xuan is an outstanding businessman and actor, but from an artistic point of view, he is definitely a cancer in Chinese movies...

After saying everything, Lu Tailang smashed the microphone angrily, and walked away with aloofness all over his body, like a soldier fighting for the truth.

After watching everything, Boss Qin wished he could strangle him to death.

You are lofty, you are amazing, but why don't you pull me!

Especially when Lu Tailang used himself as an example, Boss Qin couldn't help but take another antihypertensive drug.

Yes, when everyone was eating, he occasionally complained, but it wasn't really an insult to Cao Xuan, it was more of a kind of envy and hatred.

Fanxing is domineering and domineering, but in fact, strictly speaking, it has never done anything that angers people. Except for a few cases such as Orange Sky, there is no bullying or other companies. Everyone is exchanging interests and cooperating for win-win results.

Even if it is a project competition, there are almost no out-of-the-box moves, and they are all normal duels.

Of course, Starry Resources has a lot of confidence, and it will have a great extra advantage in competition.

If this is considered unfair, Fanxing can't help it. Shopping malls are like battlefields. Fanxing can't just leave good resources unused, and has to weaken itself before competing.

No matter what industry or industry, the reality is that the jungle of the jungle preys on the jungle, and it would be naive to enforce fairness.

To be honest, compared with leaders in other industries, all kinds of monopoly suppression, bullying and troublemaking, Fanxing is particularly kind and conscientious.

After a few minutes of calm, Boss Tan picked up his mobile phone and called Lu Tailang.

"Director Lu, do you know what you are doing?"

"Mr. Qin, don't worry, Cao Xuan is not that awesome, he doesn't have the ability to cover the sky with one hand, if he has the ability, he will block me."

Lu Tailang is very confident, he is not Ye Luzi, he was born in Nortel, he is an authentic academic, his father is also a veteran of the circle, he is considered half of the Beijing circle.

It's understandable when you think about it. Without enough background and contacts, Jiang Wen can play the male lead when he debuts, and Han Sanye himself came to play a cameo.

Although Fan Xing is powerful, Lu Tailang doesn't believe that Cao Xuan can ban him. Even if he can, it would be too overbearing. How will people in the circle think of Cao Xuan in the future.

"..."

Boss Tan didn't talk nonsense and hung up directly. He was not in the mood to watch Director Lu continue to show off his IQ.

It is true that it is impossible for Cao Xuan to ban Lu Tailang, but there are ways to deal with him behind the scenes, and it hurts more to kill with a soft knife.

Lu Tailang only thought about Cao Xuan's reputation, so he didn't dare to kill them all, so as to prevent everyone in the circle from endangering themselves.

But he didn't want to think that if Cao Xuan didn't kill chickens to make an example to monkeys, anyone would dare to ride on Cao's neck and shit in the future. For the sake of Cao Xuan and Fan Xing's majesty, he had to express it.

The target of an entertainment empire with a market value of [-] billion, even if it goes to the end, falls on Lu Tailang, who is not even a famous director, it is enough to make him fall hard.

"Issuing a company statement to the outside world, saying that Lu Chuan's remarks have nothing to do with our Xingmei. Xingmei is respecting the audience and peer companies, and at the same time telling Vice President Wu, let's divest the "King's Feast" project and let this guy play by himself."

After the secretary left, Boss Qin thought about it and made a phone call.

"Hey, Mr. Cao, it's me..."

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Los Angeles, USA
Cao Xuan hung up the phone, and Hu Jing, who was eating salad, looked at him: "Mr. Qin from Xingmei?"

"Well, Lao Tan explained to me that this matter has nothing to do with him."

"Why are you so timid? I thought he would protect Lu Taro."

Hu Jing heard about the plot of "Jinling, Jinling" and this incident made her feel very bad about this person, so she called him "Lu Tailang" along with Cao Xuan.

"Old Qin is not timid because it is unnecessary, if Lu Tailang's movie makes Xingmei make money, he dares to scold me along with him.

But Lu Tailang made him lose. The box office of three consecutive movies was mediocre or even lost money, which shows that Lu Tailang is not a mature commercial director, and Lao Tan will never offend me for a person who is not worth using. "

Cao Xuan knew in his heart that these veterans were good at it, and they would go up if it was beneficial, and if the momentum was not right, they would throw the blame and dodge it.

If Lu Tailang was replaced by Feng Xiaogang, who is currently in full swing, the Huayi Wang brothers would never give up so easily.

Of course, they may not dare to open their mouths to bombard Cao Xuan because they are worried about Fanxing Cinemas, they will only continue to treat him coldly and smooth things over, but they will definitely find ways to protect Feng Xiaogang.

To put it bluntly, Lu Tailang is pretentious, but in fact, in the eyes of others, he is just a pawn thrown away...

Thinking of this, Cao Xuan, who originally wanted to get rid of Lu Tailang, felt that doing so was too low.

But this does not mean that Cao Xuan let Lu Tailang go. After all, Boss Cao is famous for being "magnanimous".

Even though Sanye Han himself called to intercede, Cao Xuan did not let go.

Sanye Han sighed, and didn't say much. He and Lu Tailang had a good personal relationship, and he was the one who supported "Looking for the Gun" back then.

But Lu Tailang really didn't take this matter for granted. If someone else were to scold China Film and Sanye Han for no reason, it would be impossible for him to remain indifferent.

In fact, it is quite difficult to target Lu Tailang.

This guy himself doesn't have much ability, he's just average, with very few resources, and an average of one movie every few years.

Moreover, "Jinling, Jinling" failed at the box office, and Xingmei took the lead in withdrawing capital, making his "The King's Feast" a hot potato, and no one was willing to take over it in a short period of time. Cao Xuan couldn't find anyone to make trouble place.

After much deliberation, Cao Xuan found a way of thinking.

Soon after, there will be a "neutral company" that will invest and invite top domestic and foreign film critics, directors, screenwriters, major historians and professors, and even many foreign World War II experts to collect various materials and interviews with the parties involved.

A symposium will be held with "Jinling, Jinling" to analyze and discuss this film layer by layer from the perspectives of film art, history, humanities, director psychology, and national sentiment.

At that time, find CCTV or local satellite TV to broadcast live, Penguin and Fanxingxing media will focus on publicity.

Didn't Lu Taro think this movie was well made?Full of humanistic color and connotation depth,

Cao Xuan asked someone to peel off the hypocritical skin of this movie, let everyone see the essence of this crooked ass, and completely nailed him to the shame of the traitor.

It is too conspicuous for the career, and it makes people feel that Boss Cao is bullying the weak. People will habitually sympathize with the weak, but it is different when holding a seminar. Everyone is simply analyzing movies.

As for what came out of the analysis, maybe you can shoot it, so can't we say it?

If a director's reputation is bad, his career will be ruined. Even if it is not ruined, there is still Boss Cao.

Dealing with an ordinary director is called bullying, and dealing with a crooked director is called acting on behalf of the sky.

"Tsk tsk~"

After listening to Cao Xuan's plan, Empress Donggong shook her head repeatedly and commented.

"You are too poisonous, but I like it."

After finishing speaking, Hu Jing couldn't help but added: "It's best to coax Lu Tailang to the scene and debate on the spot. It depends on this guy's psychological quality. There must be unexpected surprises."

"Call me poisonous, your trick is not more ruthless."

"It's not a family, why don't you enter a family."

"..."

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ps: The sun hasn’t set yet this time, so it must be afternoon...

(End of this chapter)