Started as an independent producer in 1988

Chapter 229 Who dares to be unconvinced? !

The day Speed ​​premieres.

Several cinema lines in Xiangjiang are very popular, and audiences come to the cinemas in an endless stream.

Although I don’t know the two stars on the poster, I still want to take a look at the plane bombing.

Let’s see who is more powerful and dares to take pictures than Cheng Long.

Apart from Xiangjiang, theaters in Southeast Asia are much deserted.

After all, Hu Jun and Liu Bei are not famous, but they are better in Japan.

Chen Shiping's Farewell My Concubine and Love Letters have received very good responses in Japan and have a certain audience base.

As for the stick, well, forget it.

Everyone is worried.

Soon it was around eight o'clock in the evening. Chen Shiping was sitting at home eating, and Yu Hua was sitting opposite him.

The wine in the small glass wafted out with a strong aroma, and Hachiko moved forward with his tail wagging, as if he also wanted to have a drink.

Chen Shiping dipped some chopsticks into it and gave it a lick.

After Hachi finished licking, he stuck out his tongue crazily.

Chen Shiping laughed unscrupulously, causing Yu Hua to roll his eyes in disgust.

"The novel you wrote this time will probably cause a lot of trouble." Yu Hua said with concern.

Chen Shiping spread his hands and said, "It's written by Xiao Baicai. It has nothing to do with me."

"Who didn't know it was you who wrote it?" Yu Hua said speechlessly, "I just have no position, but I'm not stupid."

Chen Shiping chuckled and said, "Isn't that just stupid?"

Yu Hua also laughed when he heard this, saying that there was nothing wrong with it!
Drinking wine and eating peanuts, Chen Shiping felt that such a small life was really good.

I just don’t know how the premiere will fare at the box office.

It will take a few more hours to know the exact data.

In the early morning, Chen Shiping sat in the yard and kept swatting mosquitoes, looking at the starry sky and humming softly.

Tao Huimin opened the window in the room and shouted: "If you don't come in yet, you are really treating yourself as a breeder!"

After Tao Huimin finished speaking, he closed the window. The mosquitoes at night were too annoying.

The black mosquito bites a big bag and it itch very much.

But that’s just the way courtyards are. If there are trees and bonsai in the yard, it’s easy to attract mosquitoes.

Chen Shiping couldn't bear it anymore, so he simply stood up and went back to the house.

As soon as he entered the bedroom, Chen Shiping's big brother rang.

He picked up the call without looking, and Mei Juan's excited voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Director, the opening box office is 13 million! This is from the mainland, and the ones from other regions will not be released until tomorrow."

Chen Shiping immediately laughed when he heard this. He was very satisfied with this figure. The box office easily exceeded 100 million.

It would be a shame if the box office did not exceed 100 million!
Chen Shiping's goal is to get more than US$40 million in box office in Asia.

It is equivalent to more than 300 million yuan.

The exchange rate of the US dollar has grown too fast in the past two years, and the US dollar has become more and more valuable.

Chen Shiping and Mei Juan chatted for a few words before hanging up the phone.

Tao Huimin immediately came over and asked, "How much?!"

"One thousand and three, it's not very ideal." Chen Shiping said with a sigh.

Tao Huimin: "." One thousand and three is still less!
One of her TV series is sold for less than a fraction.

Chen Shiping laughed and said, "Don't compare you with me. My production cost was over 20 million. It's not normal for the box office to be higher."

The production cost was 25 million, and the actors' remuneration was less than 1%, so not all of that money was spent on the production.

If we invite big-name stars from Hong Kong, we can still have up to 10 million left in the production fee.

There is a huge difference between ten million and more than twenty million.

One movie by Chen Shiping is equivalent to a year's funding given to the film studio by the superiors.

The quality of the movie can't be bad.

The next day, Tao Huimin got up early, ran out and bought a bunch of newspapers and came back.

Chen Shiping was drinking porridge, and a pile of newspapers was placed in front of him.

"It's all praise!" After Tao Huimin finished speaking, he pulled out another newspaper and said, "There are also a few people who are scolding you. No, they are scolding me, saying that I have no literary character."

Tao Huimin snorted angrily and said, "I'm not a literate person, so where can I get my character?"

Chen Shiping gave her a thumbs up, there was nothing wrong with what he said!

"By the way, Renming Daily also reported on the premiere of Speed ​​of Life and Death."

Tao Huimin cleared her throat and read: "Speed ​​of Life is an action movie with Chinese characteristics. It displays many elements of Eastern culture. The characters and plot also reflect heroism that is different from the West. Director Chen Shiping's extremely imaginative setting It is far ahead among action movies in the world."

Chen Shiping touched his chin and said, "Do you think CCTV will report it tonight? The newspaper doesn't feel like it."

Tao Huimin smiled and said, "I think I can. Let's read the newspaper first."

Chen Shiping and Tao Huimin gathered together and began to appreciate the reporter's praise of the speed of life and death.

From the reform of the film studio, to the transformation of Chen Shiping's own director style, to the beginning of the film industry, he praised it all.

Almost all of them were compliments. The only drawback was that there were also criticisms.

For example, Chen Shiping's guest role was criticized.

"The actors in the entire movie are very suitable. Only Chen Shiping's cameo role is distracting. Director Chen's acting skills are far inferior to his writing and directing abilities."

After listening to Tao Huimin read it, Chen Shiping also thought it was quite funny.

It's just a guest role to make the audience laugh, why are you still in the newspaper?

Excessive!

Now, people all over the country know that Chen Shiping's acting skills are poor!

Director Chen also wants to save face! These reporters are so disgusting!

But he liked the reports in the film newspapers best.

The speed of life and death marked the beginning of the Chinese film industry, and Chen Shiping personally laid the foundation of the film industry.

For the first time, Chinese films have clearly found the right direction for development. Western Film Studio has gone international through artistic films, and Shanghai Film Studio has pioneered commercial films through collective creation. In the face of the speed of life and death, they all seem one-sided and have no prospects.

Chen Shiping couldn't help but feel happy when he saw the author of this report.

Isn’t this Wang Ruitao? Teacher Wang is also a film scholar. I almost forgot.

When he first came to this world, Teacher Wang wanted to ask the factory director to fire him.

Chen Shiping thought about going back to meet Teacher Wang for a cup of tea.

After breakfast, Chen Shiping went to the factory. As soon as he arrived at the office, Mei Juan ran over to report the latest box office situation.

"Yesterday's box office was converted into RMB 37 million in total!"

Mei Juan was so excited, it was more than 30 million in one day!
This is awesome!

As time goes by, the box office will increase steadily in the next week, and it will not start to decline until at least two weeks later.

But it is foreseeable that the final box office will definitely reach the expected US$40 million! This is more than Cheng Long’s movies!
Police Story, which was released during the Lunar New Year last year, only grossed US$30 million at the box office in Asia.

This is far more powerful than Cheng Long!

Mei Juan found it a bit incredible, how could it have so many box office hits?
This time it was really profitable!

Mei Juan was not the only one who was shocked, word spread quickly about the box office of Life and Death.

Almost everyone in the industry knows this box office data.

Many people were dumbfounded. One day's box office directly killed other people's entire schedule!

Wang Jin, who was far away in Xiangjiang, wanted to fly to the mainland immediately after hearing the news.

Director, actually I can also make action movies!
Wang Jin didn't dare to calculate the exact share of the box office share of tens of millions of dollars, for fear that he would be jealous beyond recognition.

Zhou Xingxing was also numb at this time. He was the annual box office champion in Xiangjiang, but others made more than 3,000 yuan a day, and surpassed him in two days.

This gap is really huge!

But he can only be envious, he can't act in this kind of film.

Cheng Long, who was far away in New York, USA, filming the red zone, wanted to drive Li Shaohong back to China immediately after listening to Li Shaohong's sharing.

It’s Chen Shiping’s turn! Bring me Chen Shiping instead!
With his own box office appeal and Chen Shiping's ability, the box office in the red zone can reach at least 50 million US dollars!

Li Shaohong looked at Cheng Long's eyes, silently took a step back and said, "Don't look at me. The factory director is a genius, and I can't compare with him."

Cheng Long: "." So you know it too.

Yu Feihong couldn't help but nod. The man she fell in love with must be a genius!
If you are so good at writing novels, you are also super good at making movies!
I just regret that I went to shoot The Joy Luck Club and didn’t get to shoot Speed!
I regret it so much!

I must act in Chen Shiping’s next movie!
Cheng Long is now looking forward more and more to what Chen Shiping will tell him about the next movie.

You must cooperate with Chen Shiping once!
Come up with a super awesome movie!
Cheng Long himself didn't notice that Chen Shiping first used the red zone to make his lips curl up.

Now the red zone has filmed and used another movie to trick himself into a super perky mouth!
But the happiest person after knowing the box office news is Guan Zhilin.

"Amin, I'm going to get rich! Thirty million a day!"

Guan Zhilin grabbed Zhang Min's arm and shook it hard, laughing so hard that he couldn't close his mouth.

Originally, The Deer and the Cauldron made her a lot of money with a box office of over 100 million, but now she sees the box office of Life and Death.

She just felt that she was too worthless before!
Zhang Min looked at the angry Guan Zhilin and couldn't help but said: "The company's major shareholder is Tao Huimin."

Guan Zhilin froze, snorted and said: "Then I have 20%!"

"Tao Huimin is still Chen Shiping's wife!" Zhang Min said quietly.

She was also very jealous. She didn't even have a clue about her business, but Guan Zhilin had already made a fortune!

"Um"

Chen Hong asked Chen Shiping while holding a hat.

Chen Shiping looked at the green flowers on the hat and said, "Why is the hat still green? It doesn't look good!"

Chen Hong put down his hat with a cry and couldn't help but muttered: "It's not you who wears it, and you wear it for me every day."

Chen Shiping rolled his eyes at her, it was obviously you who cuckolded Xiao Baicai, okay?
We were still sisters before.

Chen Shiping unbuttoned his shirt hotly, revealing the vest underneath and said to Chen Hong, "When are you going to eat? I didn't eat at noon and came here. Don't say you didn't do it."

"It's all done a long time ago. I'll go downstairs." Chen Hong ran to the kitchen.

After a while, the mixed noodles were brought out and looked very appetizing.

Chen Shiping took a bite and immediately gasped from the spicy food.

How come this old man from Jiangxi can eat spicy food so well?

Chen Shiping sipped the mixed powder and asked, "Why are you in such a hurry to come to me?"

Cheng Hong pursed her lips and put an egg into Chen Shiping's bowl before saying, "Su Qier has been filming for a long time. I have no filming. I heard that you have two more films this year."

Chen Shiping bit the egg and said: "Three films, but I will only shoot two. I will find someone else to film the other one. A series of films is too troublesome."

Chen Hong's eyes lit up slightly and asked curiously: "Which three?"

"One adaptation of Yu Hua's novel and two commercial movies."

Chen Shiping ate the spicy rice noodles and took a sip of water before continuing: "I have a role for you. I will let you know when the time comes."

After hearing Chen Shiping's words, Chen Hong smiled happily and said, "Spicy or not, I cut the fruit and bring it to you now."

Chen Shiping: "." Why did you go there earlier!
Impressed!

After Chen Shiping finished his meal, he took a shower at Chen Hong and went to work in the factory.

I still have to go to the bureau for a meeting.

Mr. Li is about to go to Yindu to take up his post, and the matter of co-production has not yet been decided.

As soon as Chen Shiping arrived at the bureau, he was named and praised by the leader.

But it’s not about how good the movie is at the box office, but it’s about the Beijing Film Studio’s reform pilot being very successful!

Chen Shiping was urged to perfect this model as soon as possible, and then form advanced experience and promote it to other film studios.

In the past, Chen Shiping must have wanted to widen the gap with other film studios.

But I don’t think so now.

The qualifications are sufficient, and future promotion is inevitable.

Then you have to consider other factories to develop well, and then work for yourself!
There needs to be a leadership structure!
After discussing the reform of Beijing Film Studio, the meeting officially began to discuss whether the film market should be open to co-productions.

Chen Shiping still insists on opening up the market to co-productions.

The output of commercial films in the Mainland is still too small, and co-productions cannot be restricted.

The key is that the market is now big enough, and other film studios are not yet starving to death.

In fact, restricting co-productions will not allow mainland film studios to survive.

In the original timeline, when co-production films were restricted from entering the mainland market, the eight major film studios would not be able to do as well as before.

At the very least, co-production will provide them with the opportunity to make money.

However, another consideration in restricting co-production is to allow filmmakers from Hong Kong to go north.

So the question discussed at the end of the meeting became what kind of co-production films can enter the mainland market.

After an afternoon of discussion, a few rules were finally decided.

Films co-produced by Hong Kong directors from the Directors Guild can enter the mainland market as long as they meet the review standards in principle.

Secondly, the mainland accounts for more than 60% of the investment ratio in co-productions.

The remuneration standards for staff in the Mainland and Hong Kong must be the same, and it is not allowed for the remuneration of staff in Hong Kong to be higher than that of staff in the Mainland.

Finally, there is the issue of crew ratio. Mainland people account for more than 70%!
These requirements are more stringent than the original requirements.

But who gives the right to speak in the mainland?

Xiangjiang can only passively wait for the results. If you are not convinced, that's fine. Just don't come. No one is forcing you.

But how can anyone see that there is no money to be made?

People in Xiangjiang used to make money from mainlanders, not by standing up, but by lying down.

Now it's just about asking them to stand up and not being allowed to be the boss.

Who the hell dares to be unconvinced!
(End of this chapter)