Started as an independent producer in 1988

Chapter 311 Princess vs. Princess!
In the narrow alley, Chen Shiping skillfully turned the car around, turning the steering wheel back and forth in his hands.

However, just as he turned around and had not yet exited the alley, Tao Huimin's car drove in, blocking his way out.

The two cars were facing each other, and the two people's eyes met.

Tao Huimin had no expression on her face and reached out to press the horn.

Chen Shiping silently backed up alongside the car to let her in first.

Tao Huimin stepped on the accelerator without saying a word and almost crashed into Chen Shiping's car, which scared him so much that he quickly reversed.

I'm having a terrible day today. I'm going to be hung up and beaten.

Only after the car had reversed back to its original position did Chen Shiping stop the car, turn off the engine and get out.

Tao Huimin also parked the car and sat in it without moving.

Chen Shiping ran over, opened the car door, got in and asked, "What happened today? I was just about to go back to the company to get some documents."

Tao Huimin said in a muffled voice: "Going to Xizhimen?"

"Ah? Why am I going to Xizhimen?"

"Don't play dumb! Do you want to go back to the company?"

"Really? You know that Director Tong has been feeling very depressed recently! I am carrying out reforms, but the people below have strong opinions. I will be worried if I don't do it well. If I make any mistakes, that old guy will plot against me."

Tao Huimin turned her head and looked at him for a while before saying, "I went to Xizhimen today."

"Oh, shopping?"

"Still pretending?!"

Chen Shiping stopped talking. He couldn't hide the matter anymore. He had originally planned to talk about it after some time.

Ugh.
Chen Shiping really wants to smoke a cigarette now.

The atmosphere in the car was frozen, and Tao Huimin sat there without saying a word.

After a long time, she said, "It's okay, go to the company to get the documents."

"No, I'll go again tomorrow. Let's go home and eat."

"Ah."

On the other side, at Chen Hong’s home, she felt uncomfortable looking at the supplements in the house.

Tao Huimin's previous words were still ringing in her ears.

"You must pay attention to safety in the early stages of pregnancy and ensure adequate nutrition."

"I asked someone to bring these back from Hong Kong. They are very good for pregnant women."

"If you need anything, you can tell me. I will definitely help you if I can."

"Being pregnant before marriage is very stressful. You have to hold on and don't think too much, otherwise it will be bad for you and the baby."

"I'll come and see you when I have time."

Chen Hong let out a long sigh, then asked the nanny to take the things away and put them away.

Some things were completely different from what she thought.

She thought Tao Huimin would become hysterical, cause trouble for her, or even seek divorce from Chen Shiping.

I just didn't expect her to come to see me.

She didn't want to be as magnanimous or tolerant as Tao Huimin.

Why don't you make some noise!

Chen Hong held her chin in a daze, suddenly not knowing what to do.

After dinner in the evening, she suddenly looked at the nanny and said, "Auntie, pack up your things and go to Beidaihe in a few days. I want to take care of my baby there."

The nanny said "oh" and turned around to pack her things.

At around 10pm, Chen Shiping returned to his room after washing up and saw Tao Huimin had already gone to bed and was sleeping with her back to him.
Chen Shiping tiptoed onto the bed and hugged Tao Huimin from behind.

Tao Huimin did not resist, but she also did not turn around and hug him like she did in the past.

Chen Shiping's hands began to become naughty. It was useless to say anything at this point. All explanations in words were pale. As the old saying goes, a couple fights at the head of the bed but makes up at the foot of the bed.

Tao Huimin struggled a few times at first, but Chen Shiping's technique was so skillful that he easily made her lose her ability to resist.

This is the bad thing about old couples. Unless they have a real life-and-death quarrel, they will easily fall apart.

What I fear most is the kind of fierce confrontation, which is like a strong alkali. If you use force, you worry about getting hurt, and if you end it, the other party will not be happy.

After we reconciled, I still have to scold you, why didn't you just hold me down! Don't you know that when a woman says no, she means yes? !

The Chinese New Year pigs aren’t that hard to press!
Tao Huimin hummed and cursed under her breath.

"Don't touch me, you shameless bastard."

Chen Shiping let her scold him. He had been shameless for many years, so a few scoldings didn't matter.

Even if Tao Huimin stabbed him right now, Chen Shiping would still smile and say that it was a good move.

Chen Shiping moved his hands and feet for a few times and finally got in.

Tao Huimin kept silent now, put her hands behind her back and pinched Chen Shiping's waist hard.

Got it, this is turning the accelerator! Increase the horsepower!

Chen Shiping immediately accelerated!
Tao Huimin's little hands suddenly lost all strength, and she began to hum happily.

What women need at this time is happiness. Some things can't be changed even if you say them a hundred times.

Don't think about apologizing or swearing over and over again. Instead, use your time to try to make her happy.

However, when she woke up the next morning, Tao Huimin returned to her old ways and ignored Chen Shiping, only busy taking care of her daughter.

It made Chen Shiping look like a stepfather.

Chen Shiping also knew that there was no way to stop her from being angry now, so he could only calm her down temporarily and then slowly make up for it later.

After breakfast, Chen Shiping went to work at the company. There were still a lot of things waiting for him at work.

Big Ship is about to be released today, and the box office has now reached 210 million US dollars.

The gap between the box office of Uncharted and the box office of The Last Jedi is more than 90 million. It is unlikely to surpass the box office of Uncharted.

However, this box office has already reached 20th Century Fox's lowest expectation. It is a pity that it failed to break the record, but it is not unacceptable.

The global box office of "Big Ship" has reached 1.735 billion, which is still more than 60 million US dollars away from 1.8 billion.

Compared with Chen Shiping's impression, the original box office of "Big Ship" was 1.89 billion US dollars, which was more than 100 million less!

The loss of the Asian market has had a huge impact on big ships. For some unknown reason, box office revenue in other regions has also dropped significantly compared to before.

However, 1.7 billion does not sound like a lot after all, and 20th Century Fox is planning to make up for it from other sources.

In this way, it can be announced to the public that the cumulative box office revenue is 1.8 billion!
The box office of 1.8 billion US dollars far exceeds the second place of 800 million. How comfortable does that sound!

Eight hundred million US dollars has already formed a cliff-like crushing. I don’t know how many years it will take for the world movie box office to break through the big ship’s $1.8 billion box office.

Chen Shiping never thought about breaking any records, nor did he have the opportunity.

The world's largest film markets are North America and Europe.

Neither of these two places is that receptive to Chinese-language films.

It’s okay for blockbusters, but it’s more difficult to accept feature films.

Uncharted can achieve its current performance thanks to the output of action blockbusters in recent years, which has formed a certain audience base.

Otherwise, it would probably be similar to Speed, which could only earn tens of millions of dollars at best. Uncharted has now earned more than 200 million dollars in the world's two largest markets, which is a huge stroke of luck.

It is almost impossible to get a box office of more than one billion US dollars in the European and American markets like a big ship, unless you abandon the Asian faces!

But that would go against Chen Shiping's original intention.

It doesn’t matter if you earn less, you can’t work for others for free!

No matter how great European and American movies are, they will not help the domestic film industry!
There are many Asian directors in Hollywood, and even more famous Chinese directors, but what help can they bring to Chinese films?

There are quite a few who come back to defraud you of your money, cheating you out of hundreds of millions of dollars, which has drawn a lot of criticism from the audience and has cast a pessimistic light on the Chinese film market.

So don’t even think about conquering the European and American markets; it’s too difficult!

It would be great if we could firmly grasp the Asian market!
China Film Group Corporation is facing many problems now, and Chen Shiping needs to stabilize the internal situation of China Film Group Corporation as soon as possible.

The merger of several branches is a small matter. After finishing these third-level subsidiaries, we will start with the second-level subsidiaries.

But we also need to keep an eye on the movies.

The key is to continue to produce good films!

We can start preparations for Uncharted 2, this year is 1998.

It was released at the end of 1999, just in time for the millennium!

But one Uncharted movie isn’t enough, we still need more blockbuster movies!
Both Mission: Impossible and The Bourne Supremacy have reached their third film, and this year is the fourth film of The Bourne Supremacy, which will soon be coming to an end.

The plan of building IP and acquiring IP is also on the agenda!
Disney has so many princesses, China can’t be worse!

Especially Mulan!

Disney is shameless!
Chen Shiping got angry just thinking about it!

You're going to make Mulan, right? Wait for me to come back and make a live-action movie! You pave the way for me, and I'll reap the box office!

We also have to film Frozen!
A tribal princess from the far north of ancient China!
Come on, Asian princesses! We can’t let those European and American princesses have the only beauty!
No matter how powerful the princesses in Europe and America are, they have to take a back seat in Asia!
Middle Eastern princesses, Japanese princesses, Korean princesses, pirate princesses and all kinds of other princesses are included!

But it is very difficult for these princesses to do well!

It needs to be based on fairy tales, and also have a large number of comics and animations as an aid.

Creating an IP is a difficult task, which requires a long period of promotion and exploration.

Disney also rose to prominence based on Andersen's fairy tales, which had been circulating for a hundred years.

If Chen Shiping wants to catch up with this gap, he can only look for prototypes in history!

Let’s write a fairy tale first!
If you want to write fairy tales, you have to find Zheng Yuanjie!

The King of Chinese Fairy Tales!
There is also the old factory director Song Heng. Over the past two years, the children's films made for him have not been very good.

The children's film was a bit old-fashioned and the box office response was not very good.

During this period, Chen Shiping arranged for me to learn how to make animated films from the Shanghai Animation Studio.

There are only five domestic animated feature films, namely, Journey to the West: Conquering the Dragon King, Nezha Conquers the Dragon King, The Monkey King Conquers the Demons, Tales from the Magic Book, and The Lotus Lantern.

Each of the five animated feature films is a classic, with Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons and the Demon King having the highest reputation and The Lotus Lantern having the largest investment.

The Lotus Lantern cost 12 million yuan! It is difficult for such a movie to make a profit!

After that, there were no animated films made in China for many years.

The reason is that the development is not very good.

However, Chen Shiping must strongly support the development of animated films!
At the same time, we must also promote the development of 3D animation, which is closely related to digital special effects technology.

Now that digital special effects have been developed, there’s no reason to give up on animated films!

Take your time, take your time, don't be impatient! Don't be like Han Laosan, who is eager to make a big splash and then shoot a few big films.

After a busy week or so, Chen Shiping sorted out the affairs of those subsidiaries, injected new capital through Chunyu Investment, and comprehensively upgraded those companies.

The rest will develop slowly. With Chunyu Investment helping to build relationships, trading companies like the one above can already do import and export business.

Just do a small thing and put some foreign goods in the mall!

Chunyu Investments can also add some Chinese characteristics to the cinema chains it invests in overseas.

Serve with spiced melon seeds and peanuts!
What popcorn? Eat peanuts!
Come on, develop slowly, maybe we can make it a big company in the future.

After Chen Shiping finished dealing with these things, he prepared to visit the Beijing Film Studio and the Children's Studio first.

There is no rush to deal with the equipment company, the printing factory and Zhonghe for the time being.

In the Beijing Film Studio, Chen Shiping watched Feng Kuzi talking and couldn't help but drink a sip of tea to calm his nerves.

This old guy is trying to curry favor with Han Lao San.

Quite capable!

In the past two years, Tao Huimin had a lot of contact with him when she was making a TV series, but later Chen Shiping did not allow her to have any contact with that group, so they lost contact.

Feng Kuzi didn't expect that Chen Shiping would come today. In the past two years, he wanted to get in touch with Tao Huimin and become Chen's running dog, but unfortunately the other party was unwilling to accept him.

Otherwise he wouldn't have come to curry favor with Han Lao San!
It’s difficult for the little people at the bottom to climb up!

Chen Shiping didn't like people like Feng Kuzi, who were two-faced and arrogant.

And it's easy to get carried away.

But the film market in the valley also needs such people. Let’s let him out for fun first, and then if he really dares to jump in two years, suppress him!
Speaking of which, the relationship between Han Laosan and Feng Kuazi is quite interesting.

He single-handedly helped Feng Kuzi to become a big commercial director, and later Feng Kuzi really became a big commercial director. People outside always called Han Laosan by his name.

It’s nothing like today when we call the factory director affectionately and respectfully!
Feng Kuzi is a very problematic person, and Xiao Cui has been almost devastated by him.

They were obviously friends, but in order to help Feng Kuzi make a movie, he was very loyal and told him a lot about the hosts and CCTV TV programs.

Feng Kuazi turned around and hinted at Xiao Cui!
Damn it, I’m so unlucky!

Anyone who has such a friend is unlucky!
Chen Shiping sat there and listened to him finish his script idea. He couldn't help but cough and said, "Aren't you just copying Party A and Party B?"

Feng Kuazi smiled and said, "I really like your movies. I have watched them dozens of times and I want to learn from you! Good Dreams is a tribute to you!"

Chen Shiping curled his lips and said, he copied Wang Shuo, so Feng Kuazi came to copy him, right?

The closed loop belongs to yes!

Chen Shiping turned his head to look at Han Lao San and asked, "What do you think?"

Han Lao San knew Chen Shiping's personality, so he smiled and said, "I think there should be a certain market for this. There have been many action movies in recent years, but comedy is lacking a bit. This movie should be good."

Chen Shiping nodded and said, "Okay, let's use it. Change the name. Don't call it Good Dreams for You. Let's call it Personal Customization."

"Good! This is a good name!" Feng Kuazi immediately flattered him, saying, "Your name is so appropriate! It immediately takes the movie to the next level!"

Chen Shiping: “.” I don’t want to pay attention to him!
Chen Shiping is not used to this kind of flattery, so he just flatters me!

Han Lao San smiled and said, "I think this name is good too. Haha, that's it!"

Chen Shiping looked at Feng Kuazi and said, "Work hard and strive to make achievements in comedy."

"Don't worry! I promise to work hard!"

Chen Shiping nodded, looked at Han Laosan and said, "I'll leave the factory to you. My development focus for the second half of the year will be on the Children's Factory. Don't let others overtake you by then."

Han Lao San said confidently: "I will never lose your people!"

It’s a children’s factory, what can it produce?

Not afraid at all!

(End of this chapter)