You don't understand the happiness of the director

Chapter 685 ① Ten films ② Below Yifei ③ He was anxious ④ Scheduling fee ⑤ Golden Bamboo Award statistics ended
In order to take care of some elderly judges who are not very good at using the Internet, physical paper ballots were also mailed out two days after the online voting channel was opened.

Because mailing takes time, they need to mail the ballots back in advance, and once they are mailed, they cannot be changed.

If someone votes both online and by mail, the online vote counts.

Tian Zhuangzhuang is also one of the judges of the Golden Bamboo Awards. The director said that he has completed his voting online and selected relatively niche works. After all, there are so many people supporting popular works, so one more person will not make a difference.

He is the director of the directing department of the Film Academy, and Wang Quan is considered his student. The entire Beijing Film Academy is very supportive of the Golden Bamboo Award. After all, they are professionally matched. Once the Golden Bamboo Award is awarded, the biggest beneficiary will be their Film Academy.

But he walked down the hospital corridor with a paper ballot in his hand: it was for his mother.

Tian Zhuangzhuang was considered the leader in their class back then. Who could be the leader depended on their family background, and his family background was far superior to that of his classmates such as Chen Kaige, Li Shaohong and others.

Their parents were directors and employees of the Beijing Film Studio. His father was the first director of the Beijing Film Studio, and his mother, Ms. Yu Lan, was the founder of the Children's Film Studio.

Ms. Yu Lan is 98 years old this year and has qualified as a judge as an actress.

At her age and still living in the hospital, her health is not very good, so it doesn't matter whether she votes or not. However, she still asked her son to make the trip for her, deliver the ticket, and then mail it out.

She chose two for the best feature film because she basically watches movies on TV now, and most of them are old movies. She had only seen three on the list, and she didn't like one of them very much.

As for the actors, she only chose those she had seen herself, especially her son Zhuangzhuang's performance in "Us and Them", which surprised her and she chose him without hesitation.

The Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Newcomer awards are not separated during the preliminary selection. Everyone makes the same choice. They will be separated when the Golden Bamboo Awards list is announced.

Seeing that his white-haired mother only chose Mr. You Benchang and himself in the actor category, Tian Zhuangzhuang finally understood why the old lady insisted on filling out this ballot.

His eyes were a little moist. He thought of how happy he was. He was almost 70 years old and still had his mother loving him.

How unfortunate I am. As a director, I can only appear in front of the public by performing.

Fortunately, his new directorial work is about to be launched.

At that time, A Cheng had three famous short and medium-length novels. "The King of Children" was filmed by Chen Kaige, with Xie Yuan as the leading actor, and "The King of Chess" was filmed by Yan Hao and Xu Ke, with Liang Jiahui as the leading actor.

Now there is only one movie left, "Tree King", and he decided to give it a challenge. The funds are in place, and the male lead will be Zhang Yu, who became famous this year with "Dying to Survive" and "The Unknown".

After watching his mother fall into a deep sleep, he secretly vowed to let his mother see his work before she passed away.

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Also in the hospital, Zhao Liying was receiving an IV drip while pregnant. Sitting next to her was Liu Yifei. She couldn't help but curse, "I didn't expect Wu Xiubo to be such a scumbag! It's really too much!"

Feng Shaofeng was stunned when he pushed the door open. No, this child is not mine, right? It should be mine? Could it be Bosu's?
Seeing Feng Shaofeng coming in, Liu Yifei realized that her words seemed ambiguous, and quickly said: "No, uh, we just saw the news about Wu Xiubo and couldn't help but complain a little."

Feng Shaofeng wiped his sweat and almost thought that he was the one who took over.

The incident involving Wu Xiubo had been a hot topic for so long, and it finally ended with Bo Su suing the girl for extortion and having her locked up.

Although Bosu no longer has to worry about having his gold coins stolen, his acting career is almost over.

From being a late bloomer to being hated by everyone, the peak of his career was too short, like a dream.

Zhao Liying held Liu Yifei's hand and said, "Okay, I'm fine. Go and do your thing."

It was only today that Liu Yifei found out that Zhao Liying was pregnant and would give birth in two months. No wonder she hasn't been seen in public for a long time.

If she hadn't had a miscarriage today, she wouldn't have planned to tell her good friends.

The main reason was that I was afraid of upsetting Liu Yifei.

They are the same age, and Zhao Liying is about to become a mother, but Qianqian can't get what she wants. At this moment, Zhao Liying feels very emotional. Fortunately, she didn't have any illusions about Director Quan.

She is a rural girl from a small place and is more down-to-earth. Although Feng Shaofeng is not the super rich second generation she imagined, she can still live a good life on her own.

Last month, "Do You Know? It Should Be Green, Fat, Red and Thin" was broadcast on Xigua Video, and she once again had a classic high-scoring and high-data TV series in her hands.

At a time when Xianmi no longer films TV series, she has already become a TV superstar who can compete with the TV queen Sun Li.

After Liu Yifei left the hospital, she had just finished complaining about Wu Xiubo when she saw news about another scumbag.

It was said that Taiwanese director Niu Chengze was sued because of strong alkali. It turned out that I was right at the beginning. He is really not a good person.

But he was lucky to have been able to live freely for so many years, but it was hard for Ren Xianqi, who gained more than 200 pounds for Niu Chengze's new film.

It’s definitely impossible to make a movie now, and I have to lose weight quickly and find another job.

Afterwards, Liu Yifei went to the recording studio again. Ruyi and Tang Tian composed two new songs for "Zhu Xian 3". One was sung by Xianmi to liven up the atmosphere, and the other was the main song, sung by Liu Yifei and Yao Beina.

Now we are going to record the second song.

When old friends met, Liu Yifei first asked about Ruyi and Tang Tian's health, and then started recording the song.

Both of them are cancer patients, but fortunately they are still alive and can still play music.

Liu Yifei hasn't released any new songs for a long time, and her fans have been waiting for it.

After recording the song, Yao Beina and Tang Tian also talked about their Golden Bamboo Awards voting experience.

As a famous singer and music creator, Yao Beina is even known as the OST Queen, so the two of them also qualified as judges.

There are too many Chinese musicians, but only more than 50 composer and creative musicians who have worked closely with film and television dramas have obtained the first batch of qualifications. The recruitment will definitely be expanded in an orderly manner next year.

Yao Beina said that she really liked the song "Hu Guangsheng" composed by Ren Suxi for "The Unknown".

Tang Tian: "Yes, yes, yes, I voted for that one too. I also voted for the theme song of "Trembling Abe", the one sung by Rocket Girls."

"I like that one too, it's funny and sad, but it's a pity that I don't have the right to vote~" Liu Yifei said with a smile. She is from the acting department and can only vote for the actors except for the best film.

There are many people in the film industry who actually have multiple identities, especially actors and directors. Quite a few have joined both associations, but as judges of the Golden Bamboo Awards, they can only choose one department to join.

Like Xu Zheng and Wang Baoqiang, they all chose actors.

Zhang Jingchu, Chen Sicheng and Wu Jing are selected as directors, which may involve some of their plans for the future direction.

Throughout January, the Golden Bamboo Awards has been the hottest topic in the film industry. Some people did play tricks in secret, but the huge base of judges made these tricks seem insignificant. At least it ensured that the heavyweight awards such as film, director, and actor could not be influenced by a small group of people.

After all, this is the first year, and it was launched hastily. We will continue to improve the system in the future.

In addition to the Golden Bamboo Awards, the Spring Festival movie season has begun to gain momentum. Through online marketing, people were surprised to find that ten movies were released on the same day this year.

Ten!
In the past, the maximum number was eight, but this year there are eight live-action movies alone, and two animations.

And "The Mermaid 2" also started promoting Shen Teng.

So in addition to the two movies he starred in, "Crazy Alien" and "Speeding Life", Shen Teng can be seen in a total of three movies during this Spring Festival.

This year, Shen Teng will also bring Ma Li, Allen, Chang Yuan and other Mahua veterans to the Spring Festival Gala stage.

So some people say that the 2019 Spring Festival of the Year of the Pig is Shen Teng Festival, and he will probably be so busy before and after the New Year that he won’t be able to stop.

After this Spring Festival, his personal total box office will probably surpass Wu Jing and become the number one after Liu Yifei.

"It's time to eat Laba porridge!" Liu Yifei cooked personally today and prepared Laba porridge for her family.

Sister Xiaoli, Mimi, Xiaoxianmi, and Wang Quan were all there. Xiaoxianmi praised Xianma's cooking skills.

Today is a good day for Wang Quan and Xixi to conceive, so Mimi took her daughter away in the evening.

However, when they got to bed, Wang Quan felt that Sissi was always a little absent-minded.

"What's wrong, baby? Is the bed no longer enough to satisfy you? Why don't we go to the kitchen?" Wang Quan suggested.

Liu Yifei: "It's not that, I'm just scared."

Wang Quan was startled, "What are you afraid of?"

"Recently, the Wu Xiubo and Niu Chengze incidents happened in the entertainment industry. One sent someone to jail, and the other was sent to jail. They were both about men and women. I'm worried about you," Liu Yifei bit her lip. "No matter what happens, I will be very sad."

She was a little angry at this moment. Why couldn't he be more peaceful? Wouldn't it be enough to have her and Mimi, and a few female confidantes? Why did he have to expand his business so much, with so many people and so many gossips?

Seeing that Sissi was worried about him, Wang Quan had no choice but to apologize and comfort her.

But let’s talk about whether to change it or not later.

To express his apology, Wang Quan asked Sissi to go to the movies the next day.

"what are you looking?"

"Let's take the recently popular 'White Snake: Origin'."

At the beginning of January, Light Chaser Animation’s fourth feature film, “White Snake: Origin,” was released.

This time, Light Chaser learned from the practice of pre-screening of "Nezha: The Devil Child Comes into the World" and released word-of-mouth through small-scale pre-screenings in the previous week. This led to a good performance on the first day, and it earned tens of millions of box office revenue among a number of blockbuster Lunar New Year films, with 1024 million on the first day.

Later, as word of mouth got better and better and it had the potential to become a small hit, Wang Wei, the boss of Light Chasing, breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it had finally survived this time!

So he ordered that the mythological film about Nezha and Yang Jian also be put into production!

If he has no money, he will find a way. Zhui Guang has finally found the path that suits him!

And today, Wang Quan gave Wang Wei another assist.

《Breaking news! Wang Quan and Liu Yifei dated in the cinema, suspected to be back together!》

During the report, the paparazzi mentioned that they were watching White Snake: Origin, and Light Chaser immediately used its limited remaining publicity funds to hype the matter. Netizens said they wanted to see what Wang Quan and Liu Yifei were watching on their date that made them so engrossed that they were accidentally photographed.

So in the second weekend, White Snake: Origin broke 3000 million in a single day, and the cumulative box office exceeded million! It became the most popular movie of Light Chaser, and this is just the beginning.

Huang Jianxin just came back from a meeting at China Film Corporation.

He laughed and said, "It's urgent. China Film is anxious."

"Oh, what's the matter?" Wang Quan asked.

"It's because the mainland film market experienced negative growth last year and lost the first place. The leaders above think that China Film and the Film Bureau are not doing their job well." Huang Jianxin said with a smile.

Once the leader is dissatisfied, the situation will inevitably change.

"So what measures have China Film Group Corporation and the Film Bureau taken?" Wang Quan asked.

"The first step is to relax the restrictions on imports. Take the most recent one, Deadpool 2, for example. It's going to be introduced, and it's said that there won't be many cuts," said Huang Jianxin.

The first "Deadpool" is famous for its R-rating and large-scale content, with blood, foul language, violence, and pornography; all the elements are present.

Mainland audiences thought they would never be able to watch this series, but they didn’t expect to actually be able to watch it. Maybe it was because they saw that "Venom", also a movie about an anti-hero, had a box office of 18 billion yuan in the mainland, so they gave it a try.

This is also good news for Long Taishan. There are some hit horror movies every year, but these movies are difficult to enter the mainland. For example, the big hit "Get Out" two years ago, it couldn't work without ghosts.

"But if you are willing to show some leniency to imported films, why don't you release the banned film from our company, and also "Along with the Gods"?"

Old Huang laughed: "It's better to be with foreigners. Besides, it's not up to the Film Bureau to decide. Don't you know whose nerves your film offended?"

Yes, even though "Condemned" was released and had great reputation and box office, it was not eligible for any awards, and director Cao Baoping kept a low profile for a while afterwards.

Huang Jianxin continued: "Also, the film industry fund may have to be reduced."

Wang Quan slammed the table excitedly: "Why are you still surrendering? We should just withdraw!"

In the past, we could say that 5% of the national box office would be used to support the distribution of films in remote areas, such as bringing films to the countryside.

But there are no movies going to the countryside now. Many county-level cinemas were built by various theater chains, with meager profits, and they have never received any subsidies from that fund.

Moreover, the national box office is more than 700 billion yuan, and 5% is 35 billion yuan.

Such a large sum of money is actually equivalent to increasing taxes on the film industry in disguise, and the collection is unclear.

In fact, a few years later, the mainland briefly cancelled the 5% film industry fund in order to stimulate the sluggish film industry, but it was of no use at that time and was restored.

After chatting with Huang Jianxin about the upcoming new policies, they brought the topic back to the Spring Festival period and sighed, "It's too crowded, really too crowded!"

Half a month before the Chinese New Year, cinema chains began pre-scheduling films.

Ten movies, including "Zhu Xian 3", "Detective Chinatown 3", "Crazy Alien", "The Mermaid 2", "Hidden Man", "Speeding Life", "Detective Pu Songling", "Integrity", "Boonie Bears: Wild Age", and "Peppa Pig Celebrates the New Year".

Based on the popularity of their previous works and their current popularity, theater companies have divided them into different levels.

The first class is naturally "Zhu Xian 3" and "Detective Chinatown 3". The previous works of the two series of movies have a scale of more than 30 billion, and behind the two companies are Wangdao + Maoyan, one is Wanda + Wangdao, and the other is Wanda + Wangdao, so they are definitely the number one seeds.

"Zhu Xian 3" is the final chapter. Although "Detective Chinatown 3" did not explicitly state that it is the final chapter, Q, who is hiding two movies and a web drama, may show up, which is also very attractive.

But even for the top seed, there is a possibility that the screening schedule on the first day may be less than 20%.

Then there are "The Mermaid 2" and "Crazy Alien", the former is distributed by Lianrui with a guaranteed minimum release, and the latter is distributed by Lekaihua with a guaranteed minimum release, and Guangxian is responsible for distribution.

Although the first part of "The Mermaid" also grossed over 30 billion, firstly, its reputation was not as good as the above two parts. Secondly, the leading actor was changed from Deng Chao to Allen, and the actor's appeal was downgraded.

Fortunately, Shen Teng's friendly appearance can make up for some of the losses, but it also depends on how many scenes Shen Teng has and whether Zhou's comedy and Shen's comedy are compatible.

"Crazy Alien" brings together Ning Hao + Huang Bo + Shen Teng, and it is said that Xu Zheng will also appear in this film in a special form.

In previous years, this lineup would definitely be the top seed.

But due to special circumstances this year, it can only be placed in the second slot with "The Mermaid 2".

The third tier is "Evil Never Dies" and "Speeding Life".

Jiang Wen’s previous film “One Step Away” failed both at the box office and in terms of reputation, so there will be more people waiting and watching this one.

But he was lucky to star in the "Xiao Yao You" series, and his popularity has soared in the past two years. In addition, with the joint release of Qiankun and Mi Shi, the popularity is still good.

"Flying Life" is a fresh combination of Han Han + Shen Teng, released by Bona.

Han Han's films have a distinctive personal style and are generally quite popular. This time, Shen Teng has joined the cast, and it's still the racing theme he's best at, so it's expected to be his first movie to break the billion mark.

As for Big Brother Long's "Detective Pu Songling", it can only be reduced to the same level as "Boonie Bears", and is for children.

"Boonie Bears" at least got another distribution channel, Maoyan, while "Detective Pu Songling" was only distributed by iQiyi itself, and the trailer gave people the feeling of an online movie, which is precisely iQiyi's strong point.

The last two, "Integrity" and "Peppa Pig Celebrates the New Year", are the least noticeable ones in the Spring Festival period.

When pre-scheduling just started, the two companies together accounted for less than 5%.

Later, "Peppa Pig Celebrates Chinese New Year" produced a marketing short film "What is Peppa?", which quickly became popular on the Internet and overshadowed the Hong Kong film "Integrity" in terms of momentum.

The screening rate of "Integrity" has never exceeded 3%. Some theaters even didn't schedule it at all, not even during junk time slots.

The investors of this film are Yindu Group and Herui Pictures, and they urgently contacted those theater chains.

People said that it was very difficult as there were so many films that it was hard to schedule them, and besides, attendance was guaranteed if "Zhu Xian" and "Detective Chinatown" were scheduled.

"How about this, after the fifth day when we are not so nervous, we will arrange you guys later, okay?"

How can this be done!
The most profitable time of the Spring Festival is the first few days. "Integrity" wanted to make a profit in the first few days by relying on differentiated competition, but in the end you let us lick the plate. Isn't that too much!
The other party said, "If you really want to schedule a screening, then you can pay some money and guarantee that our theater will have 8% of the screenings before the fifth day of the Chinese New Year. That should be fine, right?"

"How much, how much?"

"One million is still necessary."

With an expenditure of 100 million, they need a box office of 300 million to break even. Adding a few more cinema chains would only make tens of millions. If they can guarantee 8% of the screenings, they might be able to get several hundred million at the box office.

So "Integrity" was the first to pay the screening fee.

Later, the film producers discovered that these 8% of the screenings were during the garbage time periods in the morning and late at night.

After negotiations, I finally put up with it. During the Spring Festival period, the theater was packed even early in the morning.

With the first, there is the second.

Seeing that they could make money in this way, the cinema chain contacted films such as "Peppa Pig" and "Detective Pu Songling", which had not had ideal screening schedules.

"Boonie Bears" is determined not to spend this money. Their audience is very stable, and they can still rely on attendance even if there are fewer screenings.

However, "Pu Songling" and "Peppa Pig" were not so resolute. After paying the money, their screening share indeed increased a lot.

Cheng Long was becoming more and more depressed. His company had also invested in this movie, and he had always shared the profits with the cinemas. But this was the first time that he had to pay tribute to the cinemas before earning any money. This was like working for money.

This situation is so similar to the Qidian monthly ticket list at the beginning of the month.

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Golden Bamboo Award Office, the voting deadline has arrived and we can start counting now.

Wang Quan asked a general question, "How many people voted?"

"843 people voted online, and 125 people voted effectively by mail."

Wang Quan nodded. That means there are 968 people, and only more than people abstained, which is not bad.

However, if these more than 60 people are utilized, it will not be difficult to promote a movie.

Statistics also take some time. Online voting is simple and can be done through procedures, but paper voting still requires counting and counting.

While the first round of voting for the Golden Bamboo Awards was being counted, the Spring Festival film season had already been scheduled for a week.

Although the film scheduling work has not been completely completed, more than 40 screenings have been scheduled. With so many films this year, the number will definitely exceed 50 screenings.

The current situation is that the screening rate of "Zhu Xian 3" is about 18%, "Detective Chinatown 3" 17%, "Alien" 14%, "The Mermaid 2" 12, "Hidden Man" 12%, "Speeding Life" 10%, and "Boonie Bears" 4%.

In addition, "Detective Pu Songling" accounted for 6%, "Integrity" and "Peppa Pig" each accounted for 3%.

Seeing this scene, all major film producers sighed, "It's tragic, too tragic!"

The top seeded players only have 18% of the screenings!
Although money was spent on three films, this is the extent to which the theaters can do this. After all, not every theater chain has been bought off, and if money was not spent, there might not even be this much screening.

Moreover, they really look like they are going to fail, and if they are put in more rows, they will really lose a lot of money.

Now there is another option before them: change the file.

Changing the release date might have saved the day, but no one can afford to lose face. Besides, all the initial investment would be wasted if the film was withdrawn, and marketing and promotion also cost money.

So they could only hope that other films would not be able to hold on and would be withdrawn first, and so they held on until February, just before the Spring Festival.

In early February, after a few days of statistics, the list of nominees for the Golden Bamboo Awards will be announced...

(End of this chapter)