Started as an independent producer in 1988

Chapter 308 Come, call Mr. Chen!

Opportunities for the development of the times are often hidden in many invisible places.

While Chen Shiping was busy planning new programs for the movie channel, Uncharted was about to be taken off the screen.

It was originally scheduled to be released for a month, but due to its good box office performance, it was postponed.

The cumulative box office revenue over two months far exceeded the expectations of the Beijing Film Studio at the time.

It was originally estimated to be around 250 million US dollars, but now, after two months of release, the cumulative box office has reached 296 million US dollars.

Asian film box office records have been pushed to a new height!

Just four million short of breaking through $300 million!

The country has begun to interfere with box office records!
Three hundred million and two hundred and ninety million are completely different concepts!
It's just a difference of four million dollars! All units across the country should go to the movies!
Forget about primary and secondary schools, there are too many violent scenes.

Enterprises and institutions across the country began to organize private screenings of movies.

Cinema chains in various places have begun to proactively increase the number of screenings for those units.

Some are even ghost venues, and what’s worse is that they are not even ghost venues, there are no venues at all!

The theaters simply gave out blank tickets, which were not tickets for the movie Uncharted, but the box office revenue was counted towards Uncharted.

Enterprises and institutions did not distribute the tickets after receiving them, and waited to distribute them as welfare during the Chinese New Year.

Even with this intervention, Uncharted's domestic box office quickly hit $300 million!

The domestic box office also successfully reached 350 million RMB!
Uncharted breaks multiple box office records!

Some of the original negative reviews are now much smaller. It’s okay if the plot is a little weak, the special effects are good enough!
As long as the plot is not too melodramatic and has no logical loopholes, it is a qualified movie.

60% for the plot and 100% for the special effects!

Chen Shiping was not surprised by this, as this data was squeezed out!
While Uncharted is sweeping the Asian market, The Ship has already raked in $1.4 billion in box office revenue in Europe and the United States, breaking the global box office record!

Many regions in Asia are now in contact with large shipping companies to prepare to introduce films.

China Film Group is no exception, and its imported film department is also in contact with 20th Century Fox.

But they were all hanging the big ship, which was instructed by Chen Shiping.

Chunyu Investment has invested heavily in various regions in the past one or two years, so it does have some influence.

Chunyu Investment is present in the cultural, film and television industries of many countries and regions.

Probably what Chinese people are best at is interpersonal relationships.

In more than a year, with the support of heavy investment, the network of relationships has become very large.

Movie channels are also an important factor.

In the past, it was not possible to import too many foreign films into China because the film market did not allow it.

But now the movie channel can serve as a new channel.

In addition to offline film festivals, it provides an additional channel to introduce and promote films from other Asian countries.

Although the copyright fee is not too much, the quantity is large!

The most important thing is that the movie has gone abroad and can accumulate audiences!
Next time they make movies, they will be able to achieve good results in the Chinese market!

This is a long-term benefit, which is different from the short-term benefit of a large ship release.

What's more, given the situation in their country, even if the big ships go there, how much box office revenue can they get?

Hollywood is here to make money and will definitely not help them. They have no choice except Chen Shiping's willingness to lend a helping hand.

People from China Film Group and the Film Channel have already started purchasing the film samples they sent, preparing to select films to purchase the copyrights.

If you want to let the big ship be released, you have to show the sincerity and momentum of the big brother!
Let others know that there is meat to be had by following you!

Otherwise, how could everyone be convinced?

Movie copyright is one aspect, and Chen Shiping also promised on behalf of Chunyu Investment to increase the investment amount in the next few years!
However, this can only delay the release of the film. It is unrealistic to prevent the film from being released.

People also want big ships to come in and make some money. The market economy still has to follow market laws.

The reason why Chen Shiping insisted on releasing the film in Asia was to ensure that Uncharted could get the best distribution conditions in Europe and the United States.

You guys can come and make money, but you have to let us make some too!

This is the opportunity Chen Shiping has been waiting for!
Although Big Ship is just a movie, its meaning is definitely different!
It plays a vital role in the development of both world cinema and Hollywood!
The movie that truly opened up the global market for Hollywood movies! The movie that established Hollywood's global dominance!

Hollywood is going to create a myth!
So the Asian market is so stuck, which makes Hollywood very uncomfortable!
The Asian market has huge potential now. Uncharted has grossed $300 million!
With the momentum of the big ship, it can definitely earn 200 million in Asia!
The box office in other parts of Europe and the United States is still growing, so it should be able to reach another 200 million!
That’s over $1.5 billion!

If it exceeds 1.5 billion, it will truly be a Hollywood movie myth!
Damn it, it’s so uncomfortable to be stuck like this!
Several Hollywood companies are also helpless at this time.

Chen Shiping started operating in the Asian market too early!

The situation in Japan and South Korea is okay, but other regions are not so good.

The current situation is that you either cooperate with Chen Shiping or invest heavily in operations without going through Chen Shiping.

The key point is that there are too many companies in Hollywood, and it is impossible to concentrate and invest in a unified manner like in China.

What’s more, the Asian region is unstable, so investing there is not cost-effective!

The largest voting bases in Asia are China, Japan and South Korea. In Hollywood's eyes, other regions are just pure rural areas, and only fools would invest in them!

So cooperation is the best choice!

China Film’s goal is to become Hollywood’s agent in the Asian market!
In the future, when Hollywood movies come to Asia, the distribution work will be handed over to China Film Group!

Find out about Asia General Agent!
Chen Shiping now controls the largest distribution network in Asia!

Anyone who comes here has to pay homage to the mountain!
What's wrong with Hollywood! You have to call me Mr. Chen when you come here!
China Film’s biggest advantage now is not that it owns the rights to import films, but that it has the largest distribution network in Asia!

This is the fatal thing!

Chen Shiping now controls the distribution network of China Film Group in one hand and Chunyu Investment in the other, controlling the cultural industry economy in most parts of Asia.

20th Century Fox now has no choice but to compromise and is forced to choose to cooperate with China Film.

Except for the distribution in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, all the distribution rights of Dachuan in Asia are handed over to China Film Distribution.

It is helpless that Chinese films cannot get the likes of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.

We can only slowly erode their market!

Japan and South Korea will soon be in trouble! The financial crisis will completely sweep them away!
Wall Street makes big money, and Chen Shiping follows behind to pick up the bargains!

The cinema chain is running out of business! Do you need investment to save your life?

Come on, come on, daddy has money!
The film market in Japan and South Korea is still good, but money is no longer valuable, so it's difficult to deal in.

After China Film and 20th Century Fox signed the distribution contract for the film, the two sides also signed a long-term strategic cooperation contract.

China Film will be the distributor of 20th Century Fox in Asia in the next three years, and will also import a large number of 20th Century Fox's film copyrights, mainly in terms of videotapes and television broadcasting rights, which cannot be guaranteed by the cinema chain, after all, there are only ten films a year.

While reaching a strategic cooperation with 20th Century Fox, Columbia also reached a cooperation with China Film!
Colombia has been coveting it for a long time!

With Columbia and 20th Century Fox taking the lead, it won't be long before other Hollywood film companies will take the initiative to cooperate.

But the priority right now is to get the release of Uncharted and Big Ship done!

There is nothing much to say about the distribution of Dachuan. China Film is familiar with the process and also hopes to earn some share of the distribution revenue.

As for the distribution of Uncharted, Columbia is striving hard for it, and so is 20th Century Fox.

20th Century Fox most wants to obtain the distribution rights.

Damn it, you earn the distribution fee from us, and we have to earn it back!

After comprehensive consideration, Chen Shiping decided to hand it over to 20th Century Fox.

The main thing is that the distribution of large ships is in our hands, so we don’t have to worry that they won’t do a good job in distributing Uncharted!
We don't need too many films in Europe and the United States, as long as we can get $300 million to $400 million at the box office.

It would be great if we could get 700 million!

The box office directly exceeded one billion!

But think about it, it's not very realistic. I estimate it would be at most 300 million US dollars.

If Europe and the United States can get $300 million, plus the $300 million from the Asian market, that would be $600 million, which would rank among the top ten in the global box office!

The Asian market is really awesome!

Fortunately, all these years of hard work have not been in vain!
However, this is just Chen Shiping’s optimistic estimate. In the end, how much he can get will be determined by the market!
I hope these special effects can also attract European and American audiences!
In fact, Chen Shiping has another worry, that is, Europe and the United States have just been harvested by big ships, reaping 1.4 billion US dollars! Will the audience still have money to watch movies?
Not everyone in Europe and America is rich!
There are also many people at the bottom of society who have a hard life!
Anyway, the Asian market has been drained by Chen Shiping once, and many audiences probably don’t have the money to go to the cinema.

So we have to wait a little longer for Big Ship and Uncharted, and only release them after a few months when the audience has saved up enough money!
Soon, China Film Group and 20th Century Fox worked out a distribution plan for the two films.

The large ships will land simultaneously in various regions of Asia in April.

Uh..Except Iran, they don't look at big ships.

Uncharted will be released in Europe and the United States at the end of April!

The two ships clashed with each other at different times, but the final outcome was already determined.

Uncharted waters can't possibly outrun a large ship.

1.8 billion US dollars!

This was in 1998!

A little scary!

20th Century Fox made a net profit of $400 million from this wave!
A movie made $400 million!
How many companies would be envious!

Anyway, Chen Shiping was very envious. Uncharted only made less than 100 million US dollars in Asia, and if it went well in Europe and the United States, it would probably make more than 100 million.

A profit of two hundred million US dollars. Hmm, it seems that the rate of return is higher than that of a big ship.

After all, the ship cost 200 million dollars to invest, and the issuance cost tens of millions of dollars.

Chen Shiping didn't spend that much money.

After all these things were arranged, the Spring Festival had passed.

After the Spring Festival, Uncharted's box office share in Asia has gradually been received.

They were all smiling.

One movie brought in more than 200 million in foreign exchange!

Chen Shiping is a good comrade!
It's a shame that they didn't make a movie! Keep up the good work with the second Uncharted movie!

Foreign exchange is a very intuitive source of income and achievement, and another issue is cultural influence.

This kind of cultural promotion is something the department has been unable to achieve despite years of efforts.

A movie does that easily!

There were also several previous TV series that helped to promote Chinese food and some traditional festivals.

The leaders above are not blind, they can naturally see the potential of film and television works!

Highbrow culture is not enough! We still need to be down-to-earth!
At this time in Beijing after the spring, Chen Shiping was busy planning for the movie channel.

"We can do programs on movie reviews, movie recommendations, and movie stories. The first two can help promote movies and earn promotion fees, while the latter can attract more TV viewers to become movie lovers. Secondly."

Mei Juan supported her chin and listened to Chen Shiping chattering away, and a complete idea already came into her mind.

"Master, why don't we organize a world film tour and visit film studios all over the world? Just like Go Fighting, it will definitely bring in a lot of ratings! We'll make a lot of money from advertising!"

Chen Shiping was not angry when he was interrupted. He took a sip of tea and said, "This is a good idea, but you should go to the Asian version first and go with the Extreme Challenge team to save money."

Mei Juan nodded and said, "Okay, Master, how about calling the programs you just mentioned Movie Times, Best Movies, and Movie World? I'll go to CCTV and borrow a few hosts!"

"No problem." Chen Shiping paused and said, "In the future, when you are working, if someone hears you, it will have a bad influence."

"Old Plants"

Chen Shiping's face turned dark and he raised his hand to give Mei Juan a fried chestnut.

Mei Juan smiled and said, "Master, are you free tonight? I'll treat you to dinner."

"No time, go find your boyfriend."

"I'm just bringing my boyfriend to meet you. Check it out for me!"

Chen Shiping said angrily, "Why should I care about it? You're in love with someone else, why should I care?"

"Give you a chance to be a wise man after the fact!"

"Let's have some fun!"

Chen Shiping angrily drove Mei Juan away, stroking his chin and wondering who to ask to film the next Uncharted!
Xu Ke is okay, but his shortcomings are also obvious and he is not very good at plotting.

The plot of the first Uncharted movie was not well developed, and if the second movie was in the hands of Xu Ke, it would probably suffer from the same old problems.

Chen Shiping thought for a long time and decided to let Zhang Yimou give it a try.

Zhang Yimou is still good at telling stories.

If Chen Shiping is the producer and Xu Ke is the executive producer, the second part will definitely be better than the first!
By then, maybe the second film can earn one billion dollars worldwide!
People still have to have dreams!
Otherwise, what’s the difference between him and Mr. Tong!
This old guy has been much more well-behaved recently, and I wonder if he is planning something bad behind the scenes!

Forget it, let’s not think about it for now, let’s start the preparations for the second part!

A month later, Big Ship was released in Asia and it immediately exploded the Asian film market on the day of its release!

Who wouldn’t be curious about the movie that ranks first at the global box office?
The audience crowded into the cinema!
The female audience came out crying after watching the show, and the male audience wanted to buy another ticket to go in and see Rousi!
This big white girl is really pretty! It's really white and big!
China Film Group is really awesome, not a single cut was made!

(End of this chapter)