China Entertainment: Gao Yanei wants to be the best actor

Chapter 270 Iceberg Undercurrent【Two in One】

Capital is the most realistic.

It is said that since the [-]s, mainland capital has been chasing Hong Kong stars.

What for?It's not about making money!
For this reason, they can tolerate any special treatment, and they don't need investors to suffer anyway.

But right now, the bullshit is about to be blown out, so the capital will naturally turn their faces and deny people.

It's just that this wave of Hong Kong stars is really wronged.

We must know that in recent years, there have always been arguments to bad-mouth Hong Kong stars, but they have never had much impact on the Hong Kong circle.At least in the domestic entertainment industry, the attraction of the Hong Kong circle is still top-notch.

However, the three international superstars who made their way to Hollywood, together with the fantastic lineup of Oscar directors, failed to support the box office. This is undoubtedly a blow to the domestic investors.

For the Hong Kong circle, it is really a blow to dimensionality reduction.

Although this wave of blows was... a bit too unexpected for them.

……

2008, April 6.

Shanghai International Film Festival, industry forum site.

When Gao Fei arrived in a hurry, he saw that the auditorium below the stage was full of media reporters, while there were four sofas on the stage for several bigwigs to give speeches.

Seeing this situation, Gao Fei went to the empty seat in the back row and sat down quietly.

At this time, Yu Dong on the stage was also talking about the recent trend in the circle.

"In the next few years, Bona Media will mainly consider co-productions and films with medium investment costs."

"In my opinion, films with an investment cost ranging from 1 million to 7 million will occupy the main market of the domestic film industry in the next few years."

Speaking of this, he glanced at Wang Jiawei on the stage with a half-smile, and then he laughed at himself and said:

"So Berner probably can't afford to hire superstars like Uranus."

"Berner Media will focus on the quality of movies in the future, and the cast will no longer be our priority."

As soon as this statement came out, some reporters thought that Yu Dong was advertising for Berner, but those well-informed industry insiders understood what he was talking about.

You must know that among the several major private film and television companies in China, Bernard is the closest to the Hong Kong circle.Almost all distribution business of Hong Kong films in the mainland was taken over by Bernard.

Although Berner has started to set foot in the field of film production again in recent years, the co-operators are still those Hong Kong filmmakers and Hong Kong stars.

Therefore, no one knows the style of those people better than Yu Dong.

It's just that in order to monopolize the resources of Hong Kong films at the beginning, and he was really fooled by the box office appeal of those people, so Yu Dong did not give up much in the past.

It can be said that Huayi Brothers is certainly the producer of "The King of Kung Fu" this time, but Yu Dong is more angry than the Wang brothers.

It has to be said that reality is sometimes even more absurd than fiction.

After all, not long ago, Yu Dong and the Wang family brothers were fighting openly and secretly in various ways, wishing each other to die, but in a blink of an eye, the two became brothers and sisters.

As soon as Yu Dong's words came out on stage, Gao Fei in the audience suddenly smiled strangely.

There's no way, these two days he really has won a bit.

He obviously didn't do anything, just silently filmed in the crew, but every movie invitation came to him like raindrops.

In just one week, nearly 20 scripts were received.

This is the result of Han Li passing the sieve, otherwise the final number would be more.

Of course, Goofy only has one body, and there are only 24 hours in a day.With his lack of skills, he may not be able to eat all these cakes in the end.

But even so, Gao Fei was still very happy.

And just as Gao Fei was secretly having fun in the audience, Han Li suddenly walked up to him quietly and whispered something to him.

So Gao Fei straightened his face immediately, and followed Han Li to the backstage.

……

"Mr. Ren, I have admired your name for a long time, and today I finally get to meet a real person!"

After entering a small box, Gao Fei saw a thin, elegant middle-aged man sitting in it, so Gao Fei took the initiative to greet him with a smile.

Because this is the main reason that prompted him to participate in this Shanghai Film Festival.

Speaking of the Shanghai Film Festival, although it is China's first international A-category film festival recognized by the International Film Producers Association, it is also one of the 15 international A-category film festivals in the world. It has been held since 1993.

However, its presence in China is really not high!

If it wasn't because he was going to walk the red carpet this time, so he had to make up some classes temporarily, Gao Fei really didn't know that there was a "Golden Goblet Award" in China.

Thinking about it this way, the previous Golden Goblet actor is still quite aggrieved, after all, taking it is the same as not taking it!
Of course, Gao Fei didn't know about these defamation of Ren Zhonglun.

After Gao Fei came in, Ren Zhonglun did not put on airs. After exchanging pleasantries, he chatted with him about the history of Shanghai Film Group with emotion.

Gao Fei knows a thing or two about this.

Because Shanghai Film Group is based on the Shanghai Film Studio and established the Shanghai Film Group Corporation in 2001.

It's just that Gao Fei doesn't know much about the inside story.

Therefore, Ren Zhonglun said with emotion:

"When I first took over in 03, the debt ratio of the entire group was as high as 70%, and the other end still owed more than 5 million to the bank. 71% of the subordinate units were loss-making units, and the total loss totaled 3500 million."

"Although we have the copyright of 800 feature films, Shanghai Fine Arts Studio has the copyright of more than 500 art films, and 1551 scientific and educational films."

"But do you know how much cash I had access to?"

Before Gao Fei could answer, Ren Zhonglun shook his head helplessly and said:
"1700 million! Just for this, we have to pay 1070 million one-time subsidy for retired cadres of Shanghai Film Group."

Speaking of this, he couldn't help sighing:

"So in the first week of my tenure, I was borrowing money everywhere and begging for money owed by others to Shanghai Film."

Of course, the purpose of Ren Zhonglun and Gao Fei to say this is not to cry to him.

What he played was nothing more than those tricks of "suppression before promotion". Gao Fei had seen a lot of tricks like this in the Tokyo court.

Therefore, although Gao Fei has no waves in his heart, he shows his acting skills at the level of the best actor in Berlin on the surface, and performs silently in line with Ren Zhonglun's words.

Then, as expected, Ren Zhonglun changed his voice and immediately said with a proud smile:
"But it's different now. Last year, China Film's main business income was only over 7 million yuan, and its profit was only 0.15 million yuan."

"But do you know how much Shanghai Film's income is?"

"15.18 billion yuan!"

"Our net profit is a full 2.16 million yuan-in terms of profit, Shanghai Film Group's profit is 20 times that of China Film Group."

This is a number that Ren Zhonglun is very proud of.

Because judging from the market performance in recent years, whether it is the number of films shot by Shanghai Film Group or the proportion of Chinese-style blockbusters, it seems that Shanghai Film Group is far inferior to China Film Group.

Just hearing this, although Gao Fei showed a look of surprise on his face, he couldn't help curling his lips in his heart.

After all, if he hadn't known the news, he wouldn't have asked for leave immediately after Shanghai Film Group contacted Han Li about joining the "Ghost Blowing Lantern" project.

He even knew that Shanghai Film Group invested more than 3000 million in "Red Cliff" and more than 1000 million in "Assembly".

It's just that I don't know if Gao Fei's acting skills are too good and his cooperation is too perfect, so after talking for more than ten minutes, Ren Zhonglun is still eloquent, and even became more and more interested.

He suddenly got up and took out a bottle of red wine from the closet beside him, poured it on Gao Fei, and then clinked glasses with Gao Fei on his own initiative.

After gulping it down, he looked at Gao Fei with a smile on his face and said:
"The reason why Shanghai Film Group can far exceed China Film Group in terms of profitability is because I have a principle in running a business, that is, I don't want to be lively, I don't want to be prosperous on the surface, but I take profit as the king and pay attention to win-win cooperation!"

Speaking of this, I saw Ren Zhonglun staring at Gao Fei with slightly condensed eyes, and said seriously:

"A general company does not have a lab, but we have one at Shanghai Film."

"In terms of the venue, we have the Chedun Film and Television Base."

"In terms of theaters, Shanghai Film has 18 theaters and 47 screens in 126 cities in 404 provinces across the country, and its box office sales account for one-tenth of the national box office."

"In terms of publicity, we also have movie channels and four movie magazine promotion networks."

At the end, I saw Ren Zhonglun holding a wine glass and saying proudly:

"Shanghai Film now has 30 sets of costumes and props, and our various guns for shooting can equip a division."

"So, Mr. Gao, as long as you cooperate with us, from the production of props in the early stage, the use of venues, to the post-production of copies, production, distribution, etc., we can help you complete it!"

As soon as this remark came out, the implication of Ren Zhonglun's words became obvious.

Obviously he didn't treat Gao Fei as an actor, but as a mature producer, or even the boss of a film and television company.

Because compared to the prosperity of the film back-end business, an embarrassing fact is that almost all Shanghai directors have gone to the capital to develop.

Of course, this reason alone does not make Ren Zhonglun look at Gao Fei differently.

The real reason why he gave Gao Fei such courtesy is because with the 1.5 million investment in "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", it is already considered a top blockbuster project in China.

Except for companies such as China Film and Huayi, no one has operated projects of this level so far.

Naturally, it's not because those small and medium-sized film and television companies are not as rich as Gao Fei.It's because they are neither sure...of course, nor are they as bold as Gao Fei.

But to be honest, even though he knew this was Ren Zhonglun's routine, Gao Fei was flattered.

……

An hour later, when Gao Fei came out of the box with a solemn expression, Han Li, who was guarding outside, couldn't help but feel a sinking heart.

But because the occasion was wrong, I could only suppress the worries in my heart.

But when the two got into the car, she couldn't help but asked worriedly:

"What's the matter, could it be... that the conversation has collapsed?"

Hearing this, Gao Fei didn't answer immediately, but rubbed his face vigorously first.

After all, he had acted for more than an hour just now, and the muscles controlling his expression were about to twitch.

After a little massage, Gao Fei could not help but smile wryly and said:
"No, the project talks went smoothly, and Mr. Ren is very generous this time!"

Seeing what Gao Fei said, Han Li immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

But then she couldn't help but wonder:
"Then why did you have that expression just now?"

Hearing this, Gao Fei didn't hide it from her, and even briefly explained what Ren Zhonglun meant.

In the end, Gao Fei not only sincerely said:
"It's too tiring to talk to these scumbags. You know that he has other plans, but you still can't help being moved!"

Don't look at Gao Fei's contempt for those civil servants and Confucian officials in Tokyo.

But he never underestimated them in his heart, no, he should be very afraid of them.

Because he knows that when it comes to official means, even ten of them can't beat this group of people.

After all, this can be regarded as the strongest cultural inheritance in China. After more than 2000 years, this group of people has long mastered this skill.

After listening to Gao Fei's words, Han Li couldn't help frowning and said worriedly after pondering for a moment:
"Then how should we choose... Shall we cooperate with Shanghai Film Group?"

As soon as this remark came out, the car suddenly fell into a dead silence.

But after a long silence, Gao Fei suddenly smiled and said:

"Since the conditions are so good, of course we have to cooperate."

Could it be that China Film Group's money is money, but Shanghai Film Group's money is not money?

Besides, even without him, Shanghai Film would at least have cultivated its own commercial director.

After all, Shangying is not the same as those coal bosses in Shanxi, they are big bosses in the industry.

So as long as they are willing to spend money to try and make mistakes, they will make up for this shortcoming sooner or later.

No, to be precise, this is what Shangying is doing right now.

Seeing that Gao Fei had said that, Han Li nodded silently immediately.

But after talking about it, Gao Fei didn't leave immediately.

Anyway, he has come here, so he still has to give the Shanghai Film Festival organizing committee a little face, at least he still has to attend the closing ceremony.

It is said that the chairman of the jury of this year's Shanghai International Film Festival is still Gao Fei's "old acquaintance".

Wang Jiawei, who had just served as the chairman of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival, was invited by the Shanghai Film Festival this time.

However, the two are familiar with each other, but they have no friendship at all.

So after walking the red carpet for the closing ceremony, Gao Fei just greeted him briefly as a courtesy, then sat in his seat and didn't bother to move.

Just watching all kinds of foreigners coming and going in the awards hall, Gao Fei suddenly didn't know what to say.

It has to be said that this year's Shanghai Film Festival really deserves its name of "International Film Festival".

Of the [-] films shortlisted for the main competition, only two were Chinese-language films, and the remaining [-] were all foreign-language films.

It's...well, nice and international!
But for such a scene, Gao Fei understood after thinking about it.

Because if you look at the Shanghai Film Festival and the Shanghai Film Group as a unified Shanghai circle, it is not difficult to understand the scene in front of you.

You must know that China's film and television center is in the capital after all.

So under the influence of the Beijing circle, the best crop of movies has long been taken away by Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers.

And without any outstanding films to sign up for the competition, the Shanghai International Film Festival has no choice but to search for the remaining films.

After all, it's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice!
But Gao Fei only thought about this kind of thing in his heart, because there were many aspects involved, such as the right to speak... This is not something he, a young actor, can worry about.

It's just that when Gao Fei was about to lie down, he didn't expect that the award presenter on the stage suddenly mentioned his name.

"The winners of this year's Golden Goblet Award for Outstanding Contribution to Chinese Films are - Gao Fei and Zhang Ziyi!"

"Congratulations, congratulations to both of you!"

As soon as this remark came out, there was a burst of applause from the audience.

This made Gao Fei stunned for a while, but after a moment of surprise, he immediately came back to his senses.

Because he is the same as Zhang Ziyi, neither of the films they starred in participated in the Shanghai Film Festival this time.

It's not that they don't want to, but the producers don't want to.

Therefore, the appearance of the two of them at the awards ceremony this time can only be regarded as a flattering nature.

But judging from the current situation, Shanghai International Film Festival's methods are quite flexible - "It doesn't matter if there are no films participating, I just create an award now!"

Thinking of this, some could not laugh or cry, so they had no choice but to tidy up their clothes, and walked briskly to the stage to accept the award.

(End of this chapter)