1980 My Literary Era.

Chapter 679 He Can Be Replaced

"Farewell My Concubine" is a big hit at the box office, Lin Weimin is very happy, don't care if the box office will be concealed or underreported, but the results that have been achieved are real, nearly 7000 million box office in seven days, breaking the 3 of "Once Upon a Time 1.5: The Lion King" Billion box office should not be a problem.

Even if it is calculated on the basis of 1.5 million box office, the 6:4 split between the film studio and local distribution companies is still 9000 million yuan.

"Farewell My Concubine" invested 800 million dollars, and the domestic box office alone paid back its capital, and it still made money.

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

Now that the idea is finished, the next step is to see the performance of Lao Teng and Xu Feng.

Lin Weimin left work leisurely with his bag between his arms.

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

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

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

Shen Xujia is Wang Shuo's wife. Before she got married, she was a dancer of the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe. After getting married, she took 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 sit down.

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

Tao Huimin sent her out, Shen Xujia held her hand and said enviously: "I really envy you, I found such a good man as Weimin!"

Tao Huimin felt uncomfortable listening to her words. She had just met Lin Weimin when she met Shen Xujia.

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

In a flash, the two children are almost ten years old, and Wang Shuo has become more and more famous in the past few years. Tao Huimin thought that the life of the couple would be better, but unexpectedly...

During the meal, Tao Huimin was absent-minded, and Lin Weimin's hand shook in front of her eyes.

"What do you think?"

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

What am I doing wrong?
When Mr. Lin was reflecting on himself, he frantically searched for the 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, but I also knew who this mistress was and what he was doing.

He was surprised, and there was a bit of disdain in his expression, "He has someone outside? That's too weird!"

With Mr. Lin's performance, the actor would have to kneel down when he came.

"Really? You think so too? I used to think that Wang Shuo had a bad temper, but now it seems that his character is not good! Xu Jia and him are a couple in need. When we married him back then, he was poor and white. It's been a good few years!"

Lin Weimin also strongly condemned: "A person like him can't store two taels of sesame oil in a dog's belly. If he has money, he will learn to be bad. He is really not a thing!"

Tao Huimin looked at him, "You really think so?"

"Of course, this kind of person, I am ashamed to be friends with him."

Tao Huimin gave him a blank look, and the more she said it, the more she went too far, as if she didn't understand him.

Lin Weimin smiled guilty, don't care if the words are true or not, the most important thing is the attitude.

In early July, the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television issued a special action document titled "Helping the Healthy Development of the Film Market and Cracking Down on Box Office Stealth and False Reporting", and cooperated with public security, publicity and other departments to launch a special campaign to crack down on false and underreported box office.

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

Arita dispatched from Mingju, and the intensity and scope of the special operation were much greater 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 film crew of "Farewell My Concubine", a total of more than 300 people were distributed to all parts of the country.

On the first day alone, 9 cases of box office theft and concealment were investigated and dealt with, involving a total amount of 36.87 yuan.

For three consecutive days, several cases of concealment and omission 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 how huge a chain of interests this is.

Among the victims of these cases are not only the popular fried chicken "Farewell My Concubine", but also almost all the movies released in the same period.

The higher the attendance rate and the higher the box office of the movie, the more rampant these theaters steal the box office.

Some theater chains are the personal behavior of individual conductors, some theater chains are connected by middle-level and bottom-level employees, and some theater chains are organized to steal box offices from top to bottom.

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

As more and more theater chains and distribution companies were caught in the act, many domestic distribution companies and theater chains suddenly panicked.

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

Faced with the special campaign directly launched by the ministries and commissions, this group of "kings of the mountain" who thought they were separatist finally knew how to be 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, demerited, and expelled. On the head of the lucky person.

After the brief thunderous action, the hands of criminals were cut off, and they did not dare to commit crimes against the wind, and the number of cases of concealment and omissions investigated and dealt with on the spot decreased immediately.

Whatever has been done will leave traces.

Hundreds of staff members from all over the country made unannounced visits to theaters around the country. After a few days, many past concealments and omissions were also found out, and the amount involved has 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 be able to achieve this level.

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

Moreover, the most important thing about this action 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 again in Tian Congming's mind.

This is another good move!
He is really unwilling to get this man!

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

The box office statistics for the third week of "Farewell My Concubine" have just been released, 3396.2 million, and the second week's box office is 4266.1 million, showing a healthy decline.

The cumulative box office in three weeks has reached 1.45 million, surpassing the 3 million box office of "Once Upon a Time 1.5: The Lion King" at the beginning of the year, and it is just around the corner to top the box office list of mainland Chinese movies in 1993.

In the past 20 days, Xu Feng and Yan Film Studio have overcome all obstacles and won more than 20 city and county distribution companies again. The distribution scale of "Farewell My Concubine" has set a record since the film reform. Theaters in small places are just now showing "Farewell My Concubine".

Right now, movie ticket prices have just been released. Before VCDs and DVDs were widely promoted, movie piracy was only videotapes, which were not so rampant. With such an excellent box office performance of "Farewell My Concubine".

In the fourth week, the box office of "Farewell My Concubine" was 1446.5 million yuan, and the cumulative box office reached 1.6 million yuan. It successfully broke the box office record of "Once Upon a Time: Once Upon a Time: The Lion King", and firmly sat on the box office champion of this year.

Not only that, but under the premise of not calculating inflation, "Farewell My Concubine" has also become the highest-grossing movie in the history of the Chinese film market.

If it is calculated by the number of viewers, "Farewell My Concubine" may not even make it into the top 80. In the [-]s, any movie that was picked out in the [-]s would beat it.

Thanks for rising prices, thanks for film reform!
The film has been released for one month. Judging from the box office in the fourth week, it has dropped by more than half compared with the previous week, which proves that the box office potential is basically exhausted. It will be good if it can earn 2000 million box office in one month of subsequent screenings.

"Farewell My Concubine" is a literary film after all, and its current box office performance is enough to make everyone involved in this film proud.

On the weekend in late July, Xu Feng held a celebration banquet for the movie, and the location of the celebration banquet was chosen at Maxim's Restaurant.

Song Huaigui has long sleeves and is good at dancing, and has a close relationship with many people in the film and music circles. Zhang Guorong still spent years here during the filming of "Farewell My Concubine".

Tonight, Xu Feng spent a lot of money to hold a celebration banquet. All the famous and surnamed people from the Yanjing film circle came, and many people from the music circle also came. Some were invited, and some followed their friends of.

Lin Weimin sat at the same table with Xu Feng. Originally, she invited Teng Jinxian today.

"Farewell My Concubine" could not achieve today's results without the help of Teng Jinxian, but unfortunately Teng Jinxian had to take into account the impact and did not attend.

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

Xu Feng did not hesitate to spend on the celebration banquet, and specially invited several popular singers to sing, and the scene was brilliant and lively.

The song being sung on the stage is "I will never understand your tenderness", and the singer is called Chen Lin. This song was released in March this year, and it directly ignited Chen Lin, a small transparency in the music scene.

Xu Feng was in high spirits on happy occasions, listening to the songs, his body swayed gently, obviously in a good 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 and successfully broke through [-] million at the box office, making history. Cheng Kaige is full of ambition and consciously stabilizes Zhang Yimou. The small thoughts in his heart have long since disappeared. He scolded Fang Qiu while talking, full of confidence.

"Our idea is to see if we can hit the Golden Globes and Oscars. After all, we won the Palme d'Or. It's a pity not to hit these two awards. This will also help the movie's box office in the United States." Cheng Kaige half It's showing off, half serious.

Zhang Yimou has always been a good guy, he showed some surprise at the right time, and a few words of congratulations 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, and beside him sat a young and beautiful little girl, who was Xu Cairen.

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

He can replace it.

(End of this chapter)