Actor: My Entertainment Era

Chapter 472 Distribution VS Theaters

After entering November, the warm-up for the Lunar New Year stalls has begun.

This year’s Lunar New Year festival is very lively. Li An has “Pi”, Lu Chuan has “The King’s Feast”, Feng Xiaogang has “1”, Jackie Chan has “Twelve Zodiacs”, and in January there is also Wang Jiawei’s "The Grandmaster", and "Journey to the West" by Zhou Xingchi during the Spring Festival. 》

They are all top celebrities in the Chinese film industry.

You mean "囧" directed by Xu Zheng?

Although the first one made money by selling 3700 million yuan, the second one only exceeded million yuan. This achievement is not worth mentioning in the Lunar New Year period.

It has never happened before that such a lineup has gathered for the Lunar New Year holiday. With such a lineup, the publisher is going to cause trouble.

On the 13th, five distributors, China Film, Huayi, Bernard, SMI, and Kwong Sunshine, suddenly issued a "Notice to Adjust the Account Sharing Ratio of Domestic Films" to theaters across the country, requiring theaters to make profits and increase the producer's account sharing ratio from the original 43 % increased to 45%.

The "Notice" does not give theater chains any opportunity to negotiate and requires representatives of major theater chains to sign before the 20th.

The five major issuers this time are called the "Avengers" by netizens.

This sudden arrival on the eve of the Lunar New Year festival was something the theater chain never expected.

"It came very suddenly, completely unexpectedly."

However, theater chains are firmly opposed to such unilateral pressure from distributors. Some theater chain managers said that taking advantage of the market opportunity of the Chinese New Year blockbusters, the studios unilaterally requested to increase the share ratio, and did not give theater chains room for negotiation. This is Typical "impure motives" and "taking advantage of others".

Seeing that the theater chain is so strong, the Avengers also issued a statement, saying that if it does not agree with the demands of the "Notice", it will cut off the supply of New Year's goods, leaving theaters with no films to show.

On the 19th, 13 theater chain alliances responded to the "Notice" and formally rejected in writing the distributor's request to increase the share. They even stated that if the distributor persisted, it would likely cause serious consequences of large-scale refusal of screenings by theaters.

In addition, the theater chain alliance also listed the "eight sins" of the five major distribution companies: not understanding the rules, not understanding the history, being unreasonable, not understanding the timing, not understanding politics, not knowing the methods, not being honest, and being unfaithful for profit.

The two sides have now entered into full-scale war.

The whole industry is paying attention to this tug-of-war between distributors and theaters.

Even actors not directly related to the division of accounts were involved in this war without gunpowder.

"Don't look at it, the theater chain will definitely win." Zhang Yuanjun was running in the gym at home, and Liu Yifei was sitting cross-legged on the ground practicing yoga, her eyes always staring at the news page on her mobile phone.

"Let's not talk about other things. The theater chain is right to accuse these people of not knowing politics.

"The construction goal of 80,000 screens is written into the "Opinions on the Prosperity and Development of the Film Market". With this "Opinion" in place, distributors will not be able to compete with theater chains."

Zhang Yuanjun stopped the treadmill: "You can practice slowly, I'm going to take a shower."

But as soon as he walked out of the gym, Liu Yifei jumped on his back, bit his ear and said, "Wash together."

"I won't take a bath with you because the bath water is too hot." Zhang Yuanjun said, "You've been doing it a little too often since you got married."

"Just give it a try, just in case you can get pregnant successfully."

"Didn't you agree to have a child two years later?" Zhang Yuanjun carried her up the stairs.

"You said that both of us are fine, why didn't we respond for so long?"

After receiving the certificate, the two of them did not take any safety measures for more than half of the time, but more than two months later, Liu Yifei's body still did not respond.

"Children are gifts from God. There is nothing wrong with our health. We just need to wait well. When the time comes, they will come naturally." Zhang Yuanjun put Liu Yifei on the sofa. "You have to think about it this way. If you get pregnant now, Are we still going to film the scenes we have discussed later? Hundreds and thousands of people are waiting for us to start work. Are you going to raise your baby on the set?"

The last sentence made Liu Yifei laugh: "Fuck you, I will not do this kind of thing on the set with my salary. Okay, I will listen to you and have a child two years later." "Hey, that's right."

"But I still have to take a shower today. I'll run the water." Liu Yifei took Zhang Yuanjun's hand and went upstairs.

"You have become thicker-skinned after marriage."

"Please respect the reasonable demands of a wife."

There was less work this year, and during the preparations for the wedding, both of them gained more or less a few pounds.

Because they have to participate in the Golden Horse Awards at the end of the month, Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei have been working hard to get in shape.

Therefore, the most pictures taken by reporters during this period were of the two of them entering and exiting the gym together.

"After getting married, the two quickly started working out, presumably to be in a healthier and fuller state for their future work."

"After the wedding of Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei, their movements have always attracted the attention of fans. Today, the reporter photographed the two of them entering a high-end gym to exercise together in the afternoon, and did not leave until late at night to have dinner at Liu Yifei's mother's house. It seems that Zhang Yuanjun and his mother-in-law got along well after the marriage. It’s also very harmonious.”

"The science fiction movie "Her" starring Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei has been shortlisted for 7 awards at this year's Golden Horse Awards. The couple has been working hard recently, and it seems that they pay enough attention to this award. According to reporter statistics, in addition to the Cannes Best Actor, Zhang Yuanjun has now won If Zhang Yuanjun can successfully win the Golden Rooster Best Actor and the Golden Statue Best Actor during his trip to the Bay Island this year, he will become the first three-Golden Best Actor in the history of Chinese films. Let us wish him good luck."

"The battle over the division of accounts between theaters and distributors is in full swing, but most actors in the circle are paying attention to the ownership of this year's Golden Horse. The relevant person in charge of Zhang Yuanjun's studio responded to reporters that Zhang Yuanjun confirmed his participation in this year's Golden Horse Awards. Regarding the award, the other party said: 'Golden Horse every year' The awards are a grand gathering for Chinese filmmakers. I am very happy to be shortlisted for the Golden Horse Awards and to make senior friends at the Golden Horse Awards.'"

In fact, this answer is for the Golden Horse Committee to see.

The three Chinese-language gold medals all have one characteristic: I hope the nominees will pay attention to the nominations, but I don’t like the nominees’ public relations.

Before the Golden Horse starts, if the mainland media speculates on the topic of the three gold medal winners, the Golden Horse Executive Committee will consider it as public relations and popping up champagne at half time.

So Zhang Yuanjun's studio quickly came out to stop this media hype.

It would be false to say that Zhang Yuanjun does not want to win the Golden Horse to achieve the unprecedented achievement of three gold medals. But he is indeed not very confident in this year's selection.

This year the chairman of the jury is Andy Lau, and the chairman of the executive committee is Hou Xiaoxian. He is not sure how "Her" will taste to them.

As for the contenders who were shortlisted together, he said, "They are all very good actors and performed very well."

To be honest, apart from Liu Qingyun's "The Deathly Gold", Zhang Yuanjun is confident of defeating the other three competitors.

Liu Qingyun's performance in "The Killing Gold" cannot be said to be outstanding, but it is better than stable.

He is so good at playing this kind of stubborn low-level bad boy.

"The King" can be regarded as the final film of Hong Kong-style gangster films. The loyal and honest Three-legged Leopards who believe in brotherhood are at a loss when faced with financial tricks and the awkward position of Hong Kong films in the development of Chinese-language films. .

This kind of film can easily arouse the sympathy of the judges.

Compared with "The King", the structure of "Her" is much smaller, focusing only on people's own emotional belonging issues.

Zhang Yuanjun can only find his best condition to face the Golden Horse Award.

(End of this chapter)