I am a director, but I have the skills of an actor

"Director Wan, you are also the boss of Qingshan Cinemas. Last time you sided with the producers, and now you side with them again.

Qingshan Cinema Chain is not a small cinema chain. You make a lot of money every year relying on Qingshan Cinema Chain.

Is it appropriate for you to do this? "

Wan Qingshan, who had just entered the conference room, was stunned for a moment!
The first thing Wan Qingshan did when he returned to China was to attend the mediation meeting.

The producers united again to put pressure on the theaters. The method was the same as before. They first sent notices to the theaters to increase their accounts.

again!

Of course the theater chain disagrees!
Then, Wang Zhongjun and the others withdrew all the scheduled blockbusters such as "[-]", "The King's Feast" and "Twelve Zodiac Signs".

It was the Spring Festival again, and something like this happened again. Cai Fuchao had no choice but to intervene.

Wan Qingshan looked at him, he might have quarreled with someone before, but Zeng Maojun, who looked excited, smiled and said,

"Mr. Zeng, you have to be grateful as a human being.

Although I am the owner of Qingshan Cinemas, I made my fortune by making movies.

Mr. Zeng, tell me, in my situation, is it appropriate to side with the theaters? "

Zeng Maojun was stunned for a moment and said, "Director Wan, I can't refute you!"

Then, he looked at Yu Dong, who had just argued with him.

"Mr. Yu, as you just said, your production cost is much higher, I admit that.

But the income of your producers has also increased a lot.

Nowadays, the box office is generally soaring. There are more than a dozen movies with a box office of [-] million yuan a year. You have high investment and high returns!

You also made a lot of money from the movie peripherals you produced.

Add these two aspects together, and you will make a lot of money!

As for our theater chain, as everyone knows, the current housing prices are ridiculously expensive.

Housing prices are ridiculous, so our rent is also ridiculously high, and labor is not cheap now.

The increase in movie box office is simply not comparable to the increase in rent and labor.

Popcorn is no different from before, and we can't sell a few servings in a day.

If you want to increase the share, you are forcing us to go bankrupt. "

"Mr. Zeng, I, Yu Dong, can't believe that these words can come out of your mouth.

We are all film makers, but Mr. Zeng, you actually treat us like amateurs.

Your rent is high, but your box office growth is not low either.

Mr. Zeng, you just said that there are now more than a dozen movies with a box office of [-] to [-] million yuan a year.

If you don’t know the situation in the past, Mr. Zeng, then I can tell you that in a year, there were only one or two movies with a box office of over [-] million.

As for not selling a few servings of popcorn at the end of the day, that's even more nonsense.

Now that the economy has improved, theater products are selling well. I know this situation very well!
As for movie peripherals, we make money, but theaters also make money from it.

You will get a share of every movie peripheral sold by the theater. "

The reason why the floating account was changed last time was that Yu Dong accounted for half of it, so this time, he acted as a front-runner and kept arguing with Zeng Maojun.

Zeng Maojun frowned and shouted, "You still have the nerve to talk about movie peripherals. Things that only cost a few yuan, but you price them in the dozens or hundreds."

It's so expensive, so it doesn't matter that few people buy it. Just because of the movie peripherals, the audience calls our theater a shady one.

Share, give a few dollars for each item, and you will make the majority of it, and accuse our theater of being blamed, so we might as well not give up these few dollars! "

Film and television companies and artists have begun to pay great attention to movie peripherals since Yang Mi sold 600 million yuan a day.

But what they focus on is how to increase sales.

Later, in addition to celebrity Weibo promotions, each theater will display peripheral products at the ticket office, and then when promoting the movie, the movie peripherals will also be brought along for promotion.

All these methods they came up with were to make quick money and cut leeks, so the prices of peripheral products were set very high.

In addition, if the product comes out late, pirated copies will come out.

Therefore, in order to save costs and rush for time, the product quality is just that.

As time goes by, naturally no one will buy it except some crazy fans.

Nowadays, movie peripherals, that is, "electric collections" are doing pretty well, with sales of [-] to [-] million yuan every month.

Before, Wang Zhongjun and others also thought about finding Dianji to make movie peripherals, but they were scared off when they heard that they would take 40% of the profits.

Zeng Maojun ignored Wan Qingshan and said loudly, "If I had known you were doing this with movie peripherals, our Wanda Cinemas should have signed an exclusive contract with 'Dianji' in the first place. We would only sell 'Dianji' stuff and not have to bear the infamy." .”

'Dianji' is run by Penguin, and Penguin is a bit overbearing. It may also be to prevent Alibaba and others from entering the movie peripheral market.

At the beginning, Wang Changtian had an agreement with major theater chains to put up peripheral products for sale at the theater box office.

But later, Ren Yuxin came up with an "exclusive" contract and signed this contract. Then the theaters under this theater chain could only sell "electric collection" movie peripherals.

At that time, the movie peripherals had not been available for a long time, and the celebrity fans were not yet afraid of being cut off. Those high-priced peripherals were selling well.

Therefore, no theater chain signed an 'exclusive' contract. Even Qingshan Theater Chain and Wanqingshan told Ye Nian not to sign.

If other theater chains don't sign, and only Qingshan Cinema Chain signs an 'exclusive' contract, it will offend all the film companies.

No one signed it, so Ren Yuxin specialized in online sales, and the theater channel was no longer needed.

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When Yu Dong was about to speak, Cai Fuchao came in.

This time, Cai Fuchao used the same method as last time, letting them argue and waiting until they were tired of arguing before talking.

But after their last experience, Wang Zhongjun and the others were not just arguing here.

Privately, they had already sent people across theater lines to talk to the theaters.

The theaters under the theater chain include directly operated theaters and franchised theaters.

Except for Wanda and Qingshan, which are mostly directly-operated theaters, most of the other theater chains are franchised theaters.

Talking to theaters across theater lines has yielded good results.

When there are more people, the ideas will be different!
There are naturally a lot of people in so many theaters who want to make more money during the Spring Festival. If there are no movies to show, how can they make money?

During this period, Wang Zhongjun and the others reached an agreement with hundreds of theaters and raised the producer's share of the account to 45%!

But on the second day of the mediation meeting, people in the theater also discovered what Wang Zhongjun and the others had done in private.

Snapped!
Liu Rong slammed the table and said angrily, "You can, go past us and contact the theater. This is against the rules.

If you do this, fine, everyone will break up.Our theaters produce and screen movies by themselves. "

“Okay, our self-operated theater chains here, plus the theaters that have signed contracts with us, together account for 70% of the theaters in the country.

We can completely handle the 70% share by ourselves. Wang Zhongjun said with a smile.

"Mr. Wang, haha, those theaters are still under our theater chain. If they violate the normal business operations of the theater chain, they will lose money.

When the time comes, will they pay for so much money, or will you help them pay for it! "

Zeng Maojun's words made Wang Zhongjun's eyes flash!
“We will pay this amount of money, just enough to make them completely defeat us.

Haha, when the time comes, I’ll see how many theater chains will close down! "

Jia Hui's words made Liu Rong and Liu Jun's eyes spit fire.

If we really do this, those theaters will become disengaged. Once the contract time is up, they will leave their theater chain, and then their theater chain will definitely go bankrupt!

Liu Rong was so angry that he wanted to curse his mother, but at this moment - "Ahem!"

Cai Fuchao can't sit still!
Knowing that Wang Zhongjun and the others went beyond the theater chain to sign a contract with the theater, he knew that this time it could not be solved like last time.

When Wang Zhongjun and Zeng Maojun were arguing just now, he kept signaling to Han Sanping, "Please stop the quarrel and let them talk!" '

But Han Sanping pretended not to see it and sat there like nothing happened!
Seeing that the quarrel became more and more angry, Han Sanping kept pretending not to notice, and Cai Fuchao had no choice but to speak on his own.

"If you have anything to say, please speak up. We all rely on movies. If you do this, you will be ruining your own jobs."

Cai Funchao spoke up, and everyone gave him face and stopped arguing.

But Cai Fuchao's face only goes so far. When Cai Fuchao asked them to state their conditions, they remained the same and refused to take a step back.

Then, they started arguing again.One day after the mediation (quarrel) meeting, Wan Qingshan had just returned to the hotel in the evening when Liu Rong called.

"Director Wan, I wonder if it would be convenient for us to talk?"

Wan Qingshan's eyes flashed and he said with a smile, "Mr. Liu, if you have any questions, let's wait until the mediation meeting is over."

"Okay, Director Wan, I won't disturb you anymore."

The next day, no one went to the mediation meeting because it was over.

Early this morning, Wang Zhongjun announced that "[-]" and "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" have been scheduled again!
News also spread in the circle that Liu Rong and the others had reached an agreement with Wang Zhongjun.

For Huayi's movies, 3%:43% is maintained within 57 million, 3%:45% for the portion exceeding 55 million, and 8%:47% for the portion exceeding 55 million!

Wang Zhongjun became a traitor, the producer alliance became a joke, and there was no mediation meeting.

After the mediation meeting was over, Wan Qingshan flew back to Shenzhen.

As soon as he arrived home, Wan Qingshan received the news.

"The King's Feast" is also scheduled to be released on the same day as "[-]", and a suicide split will be made.

"The King's Feast", 43% in the first week, 41% in the second week, and 39% in the third week.

In order to compete with "[-]" at the box office, "The King's Feast" is completely committing suicide. At the same time, this suicide knife also cuts into the main artery of the film producer!
"Jia Hui, you want to turn the film producer into a contractor. You are really capable."

The investor of "The King's Feast", Jia Hui, has come up with this kind of accounting. In terms of film scheduling rate, the theater chain will definitely give "The King's Feast" preferential treatment.

Nowadays, film competition is already fierce. In order to gain advantages in film scheduling, other producers will definitely follow suit and benefit the theater chain.

Under the chain reaction, other companies will have to follow suit, otherwise the film schedule will not be guaranteed.

In the future, theater chains have a higher status in the film industry chain, and film producers have become contractors who work for theater chains.

After Wan Qingshan sighed, he didn't bother to take care of it. He couldn't take care of this kind of thing. It would be good if he could only guard his own three-thirds of an acre.

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"Qingshan, do you think it can be sold?"

In the evening, when Wan Qingshan and Chen Yumo were having dinner, Chen Yumo asked Wan Qingshan somewhat tangledly.

The film peripheral matters that Wan Qingshan has to deal with when he returns to China have something to do with Chen Yumo.

Some time ago, Chen Yumo called him and told him that Penguin proposed to her and Feng Zhi to acquire the e-commerce company they created, with a bid of 30 billion!
In just a few months, Ali's previous quotation of 20 billion has been raised to 30 billion. This is completely a super premium.

The price is super premium, so Penguin will certainly make big moves!

Wan Qingshan instantly thought of a possibility: Penguin is not giving up on e-commerce!

Penguin wants to integrate the e-commerce company owned by Chen Yumo and 'Dianji! ', now there is a lot of customer traffic in 'Dianji', and Chen Yumo's company has a stable number of customers. After integrating them, they will develop into selling other products!
If it really develops, let alone compete with Taobao, it will definitely change the current pattern of the online shopping industry!

If Penguin wanted to integrate like this, Wan Qingshan was going to withdraw from the 'Electric Collection', so he rushed back from Los Angeles.

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"Sell it for 30 billion. If you keep doing it for another year, it will probably be at this price."

Chen Yumo frowned, "The second brother also said that we can sell it for 30 billion, but I am still a little unwilling.

Developing the company with my own hands is like raising a son. Now that I want to sell the company, I feel like selling my son. "

Wan Qingshan rolled his eyes, "Sell it quickly and treat the company as your son now. If you don't stay in the company every day, you won't come back."

Chen Yumo wrinkled his nose and snorted coldly, "Okay, okay, sell it.

I contacted my second brother and asked him to go to Penguin Company to discuss it, but I didn’t go. I was afraid that if I did, I would be reluctant to part with him in the end. "

Before Chen Yumo contacted Feng Zhi, Wan Qingshan made an appointment with Ren Yuxin first.

"Mr. Ren, what do you think of the future development of 'Dianji'?"

Ren Yuxin was obviously stunned for a moment. He thought Wan Qingshan had asked him to meet for something, but he didn't expect it to be like this.

"Director Wan, Alibaba has joined forces with Huayi and is also preparing to engage in movie peripheral operations, so I will try to win more movie peripheral copyrights as soon as possible to seize the market.

I am ready to reduce the profit share of "Dianji" to other film production companies, and let more film companies hand over the film peripheral rights to us.

At the same time, I will also contact Hollywood film companies and try to let them hand over the Chinese peripherals of popular movies to us for operation. If possible, I will buy them directly. "

"Mr. Ren, maybe I didn't express my meaning clearly enough. I just wanted to ask Penguin if it plans to expand the products sold by 'Dianji'."

Ren Yuxin's eyes flashed and he said, "Director Wan, I was planning to tell you this question next year, but since you asked it now, I'll tell you now.

I have considered selling other products after 'Dianji' reaches a certain stage of development.

After all, there is a ceiling in the movie peripheral market, and if 'Dianji' wants to develop and grow, it must break this ceiling. "

"If 'Dianji' is going to develop like this, then I will sell my shares."

When Ren Yuxin was surprised, Wan Qingshan continued, "Mr. Ren, I know that people don't have that much energy, and I don't know much about other industries, so almost everything I do is around movies.

If 'Dianji' sells other products, it goes against my original intention and I will definitely quit. "

"Wan Dao, 'Dianji' sells other products, which will not reduce the operation of movie peripherals and have no impact at all." Ren Yuxin said with a frown.

“It won’t be reduced, but the focus will be different.

By then, 'Dianji' will no longer be a company specializing in movie peripherals, but an e-commerce company that sells everything. "

Wan Qingshan said that he would not engage in other industries, but if it was a stable and profitable business, he would definitely still do it.

But let's not talk about how many shares of the e-commerce company his 30% shares can be exchanged for after Penguin integrates 'Dianji'.

Whether e-commerce can develop in the future is a question. Even if it can develop, it will definitely not be profitable within a few years and will burn a lot of money.

Pinxixi was so popular, the customer flow was so large, and it was such a scam, but it took several years to make a profit.

This kind of risk is too great. If it succeeds, his profit will be only a little bit of business, and he has no interest in participating in it.

Ren Yuxin was silent for a moment and said helplessly,

"Director Wan, since you insist on quitting, I won't stop you.

Let's do this, Director Wan, give me some time, Mr. Ma and I will report this matter, and we will discuss a result as soon as possible.

I hope Wan Dao, you can not sell your shares to others first. "

"No problem. I also hope that 'Dianji' can develop smoothly. If Penguin can acquire the shares in my hand, I will be happy to sell it."

After talking to Ren Yuxin, Wan Qingshan flew to Los Angeles and continued to focus on the later stages of "Green Book".

A few days later, the Golden Globe Awards announced this year’s shortlist.

Those academics have praised Wanqingshan in the past, and with the operation of Columbia, "Ati" was shortlisted for five awards, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Original Screenplay !
As soon as the list was announced, everyone in Hollywood was a little dumbfounded.

Although "Ati" is not like a commercial blockbuster, it is not a pure literary film after all. How can it be shortlisted for five awards!

Is Colombia crazy, or is Wanqingshan crazy? How much did they pay for this Golden Globe Award?
Everyone in Hollywood was dumbfounded, but many people in China were excited!

Especially fans of Liu Yifei. In the past, the media said that Liu Yifei surpassed Fan Bayi at the Fourth Double Ice Festival. There were always many netizens who argued that Liu Yifei did not win any major film festival awards. She was only a guest star in "The Burst Drummer" and it cannot be counted as a refutation of her resume. This statement.

But now, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress nomination can stop everything!
The other three, who were in the same four-year-old Xiaohuadan class as Liu Yifei, looked sad.

After Liu Yifei got involved in Wan Qingshan, the movie "Fire" made her an international actress. Many people said that they were not worthy of being ranked alongside Liu Yifei as one of the four major actresses. Now that she is nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, I am afraid that some people will say that they are not worthy of Liu Yifei. It’s not even suitable for carrying shoes!

Therefore, these people were in sync with each other and decided to find someone to hype up the scandal between Wan Qingshan and Liu Yifei without any discussion!

Now I can only hope that this scandal can discredit Liu Yifei, otherwise Liu Yifei will really be several heads above them!

Looking for someone to hype up the scandal between Wan Qingshan and Liu Yifei, one of them was Zhao Liying from Fanfan Company.

After Zhao Liying entered Fanfan Company, it was a little difficult to get along in the first year. Later, the resources of Qingshan Media Company allowed her to skyrocket and became one of the four little actresses!

Now, for her own benefit, she doesn't care whether Wan Qingshan is still one of her bosses.

The news that "Arti" was shortlisted for five Golden Globe Awards and the news that Liu Yifei was being taken care of by Wan Qingshan appeared one after another.

The scandal hype has had an impact on Liu Yifei's reputation.

But the movie "Ati" has benefited. It was almost time to release, but the box office has been unable to move, and the daily box office is less than 200 million.

The news about the Golden Globe Awards and the scandal hype boosted the box office to more than 500 million!
This made Wang Zhongjun and Jia Hui so angry that they wanted to curse!
"[-]" and "The King's Feast" have only been released for a few days, and their box office performance was not as expected. Now, the box office is being overtaken by the upcoming "Ati".

Looking at this situation, I'm afraid it will be exciting for several days, and the box office of their movie will be millions less!

If Wan Qingshan hadn't been so powerful, they would have wanted to steal the box office! (End of chapter)