Started as an independent producer in 1988

Chapter 318: Pull until he is bald!

At night, Chen Shiping looked at the lights of thousands of homes and always felt a little irritated.

He just met with several leaders and achieved his goal.

Many of those companies' projects have been taken over by the head office, otherwise the head office would not be able to clean up the mess.

These are all small matters. Chunyu Investment used to be disobedient.

After the general direction of investment is decided, each person does his own thing and has a lot of autonomy!
But there will be no such opportunity in the future.

After Chunyu, every investment over five million must be signed by Chen Shiping before it can be approved.

Take away their autonomy and turn them into investment departments.

In this way, Chen Shiping's voice in Chunyu Investment was further strengthened, and Chunyu Investment's organizational structure became more rigorous.

But when he thought about the fact that the company lost so much money because of the movie tickets piled up by the audience, Chen Shiping couldn't help but want to give those idiots a fork!

I have never made a loss in all these years of work!
Shame on Jin-gil!
We lost so much money all of a sudden and we have to find a way to make it back.

Ugh.
Guan Zhilin came out of the bathroom wrapped in a bath towel, hugged him from behind and asked, "Are you still thinking about work?"

"No, I'm just waiting for you to take a shower." Chen Shiping said with a smile.

Guan Zhilin jumped lightly, jumped onto his back, bit his ear and said, "It's been twice this morning, can it be done in the evening?"

"You doubt me?!"

"You are already over thirty."

"What do you mean over thirty? It's only a little over nineteen!"

"Haha, have you measured it secretly yourself?"

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Which man hasn't measured it?
Only by measuring yourself can you feel confident!

Chen Shiping is a very confident man. When he has sex with every girl for the first time, he will ask her if it hurts instead of asking if she enjoys it.

Only men with low self-esteem will ask whether they feel good or not.

Only with confidence can you become powerful!

Chen Shiping and Guan Zhilin played all night and went to the company for a meeting the next day with full confidence.

They took over all of their loss-making and non-performing projects, but replaced them with their high-quality projects.

For example, shares in several TV stations in Southeast Asia and shares in several cinema companies in West Asia were all taken away by Chen Shiping.

It would be such a waste to leave it in their hands!
However, their non-performing assets are also quite troublesome, and Chen Shiping is also having a headache.

Some traditional print media that have been infiltrated by Chunyu Investment often have poor operating conditions. Not to mention making a profit, it is considered good if they do not lose money.

These newspapers and magazines need to be properly managed.

In the field of traditional paper media, the larger the reader base, the stronger the stickiness.

It’s not easy to break through!

Let’s start with some entertainment gossip tabloids and make some money before we do anything else!

The gimmick can attract traffic, but it is foreign media anyway. What is bad is the foreign public opinion environment. Chen Shiping doesn't care at all.

However, these can only be suggestions and requirements given to them by investors, and they still need to decide by themselves.

This kind of cash-strapped media is actually very easy to deal with. If they don’t obey, just cut off investment or withdraw capital directly.

They have just started to live a good life, so how could they be willing to go back to the way things were before?

Chen Shiping held meetings at Chunyu Investment for a week, mainly to deal with these issues.

However, after taking back the power, the efficiency of work has indeed increased a lot!
Chen Shiping almost felt like he was the director of the Beijing Film Studio.

cool!

If a general manager with decentralized power is still called a general manager, then he is just an investment consultant!
While Chen Shiping was busy planning and organizing Chunyu Investment's current assets, he was also having each subsidiary begin to focus on investing in cinema chains in various countries.

We must make the iron wall of the Asian market more solid!
Otherwise, how can we control this market!

Chunyu Investment and China Film Group complement each other!

While Chen Shiping was busy at Chunyu Investment, things were also going smoothly at China Film Group.

As the summer season entered the second half, the Disney version of Mulan was taken off the screen, having earned only $18 million in Asia, far below Disney's expectations.

Even Chen Shiping overestimated the box office of Mulan. He originally thought it would be just over 2,000.

Domestic audiences really don’t buy it!
To be precise, Chinese audiences don't buy it. Few people watch it in Taiwan, and its performance in Japan and South Korea is also very poor.

Disney's Mulan pleases Western audiences, but Eastern audiences don't like it.

Disney earned 320 million in box office revenue worldwide, all of which came from Europe and the United States.

Disney's failure at the Asian box office has left many people unsure whether the Asian market is starting to boycott Hollywood films or whether it's because Disney didn't make good films.

Now we just have to wait and see the box office performance of the two apocalyptic science fiction films, "Armageddon" and "Dead Collision"!

The fourth installment of Jason Bourne was also released at the same time as these two Hollywood movies!
You must come and touch it!

How do you know who is better without trying it?

In an action blockbuster, Jason kills his way through East Asian countries; in a science fiction blockbuster, a meteorite falls from the sky and hits the earth!

Chen Shiping felt that The Bourne Supremacy had a greater chance of winning.

The Asian-localized Bourne Supremacy stars actors from many countries. This fourth installment in the series has a much better chance of success than doomsday sci-fi!

Hollywood is also paying attention to this showdown, hoping to determine the attributes of the Asian market through this competition.

If it is a problem with the movie, then Hollywood should pay attention to the tastes of the Asian market when filming. After all, this is a market that can generate hundreds of millions of dollars.

It would be a completely different story if the Asian market began to reject Hollywood films.

Hollywood has to find a way to take the market back!

Soon, on August 6, all three movies were released.

The Bourne Supremacy was released first and now it is the fifth day of its release. It has already earned 16 million in the Asian market.

This figure is not very high. According to the data, the final result should be around 50 million US dollars.

Although the overall market has grown in recent years, the economy has been bad in the past two years, and the ceiling of many movies still cannot be raised.

Japan was really powerful in the past few years. It was really rich and could earn tens of millions of dollars at the box office in Japan alone.

It’s a bit sluggish now, but it will recover in two years, as the Japanese market still has a solid foundation.

The performance of "Armageddon" after its release was so-so, earning $4 million in box office in two days.

After all, there were more blockbusters in the same period, and The Bourne Supremacy sucked away a lot of box office revenue.

The domestic statistics of "Armageddon" are pretty good. It earned 3 million RMB at the box office on the day of its release. It should eventually earn more than 50 million RMB in the mainland market.

However, "Eternal Tribulation" did not fare so well, earning only $1.8 million on its premiere day.

The first two films took up too much of the box office. Although Unrivaled has big-name actors, the market size is still there. The producers of Unrivaled want to curse, why put us at the end!
Chen Shiping smiled slightly, because you are a big threat!

How can you take advantage of me on my own turf?

Then all these years of his work would have been in vain!

However, the market performance of these two films was not bad, so Hollywood breathed a sigh of relief.

In such competition, the current data performance is already very good!

It seems that China Film's distribution is barely fair, and Asian audiences have not erected a wall to boycott Hollywood movies.

However, compared to The Bourne Supremacy, Hollywood has realized that Asian films have begun to become the first choice of Asian audiences.

If things continue to develop in the long run, their worries will become reality!

Calls from Asian filmmakers to boycott Hollywood films appear several times a year.

Protecting local culture and films has become a slogan often shouted by Asian filmmakers.

Chen Shiping was actually very pleased.

Without his interference, Hollywood would really be king!

Let me tell you an interesting thing. In the early 2000s, some people stood up and called for the protection of local films and the boycott of Hollywood. Then they were scolded by the media to the point of becoming autistic, and finally came out to apologize.

India was the first to start criticizing, and then the domestic sector started to fire fiercely, whitewashing Hollywood in various ways.

It is said that everyone is proud to cooperate and learn from Hollywood. Most film companies have developed in this way. The development of the Asian film market cannot be separated from Hollywood.

By that time, Hollywood had already completed brainwashing and controlling public opinion in the Asian market, and it was impossible to shake their position.

Public opinion is really important.

Otherwise, you’ll become the American Joey Wong!
Wang Zuxian, who was filming Go Fighting, suddenly rubbed her nose, wondering if that Kimura guy had said something bad about her.
Didn’t he just get screwed in the competition?
Japanese men really like to care about things!
Go Fighting has reached its third season. Each season is filmed in various countries. Although the production cost is high, the ratings are really explosive.

Asia's No.1 TV Show!

The sponsorship fees are so generous!
The filming method of traveling around various countries also makes the program more popular in various regions in Asia. If it is only filmed in one country, it can be broadcast to a few countries at most.

Diversified styles are the key to expanding into the entire Asian market.

Just like The Bourne Supremacy and Mission: Impossible, it was also filmed in various countries and regions in Asia.

Audiences will be very excited to see their own country or city and their own actors in a movie.

Hollywood often does this, for example, in movies like Transformers, Batman, Pacific Rim, etc.

The audience will have heated discussions and expectations, and will feel inexplicably proud
Asian filmmakers are all learning this model. They all admire Chen Shiping for adhering to this principle to develop and for taking the entire Asian market into his pocket.

The Godfather of Asian Cinema, Chen Shiping!
Chen Shiping's photos have appeared on the covers of magazines in many countries. A director appears in magazines more frequently than actors.

Many viewers feel sorry that Chen Shiping no longer makes movies.

Many movie fans are calling for Chen Shiping to come out and make a few more movies.

Chen Shiping is as busy as a dog now. He doesn't have time to make a movie.

I have to manage two big companies and oversee the filming of several movies. I'm really busy.

In addition, many film festivals have asked him to be the jury chairman or to be a guest.

India, Japan, South Korea, Shanghai, Iran.
Film festivals in almost all countries put Chen Shiping first when drawing up their lists.

Chen Shiping is now having a headache looking at the invitation letters for the Busan International Film Festival and the Tokyo International Film Festival.

One is in September and the other is in October. If you attend both, you will waste at least a week.

Fortunately, these two places are not far away, otherwise I would have to waste a few more days.

Chen Shiping still planned to attend.

The markets in Japan and South Korea are still more influenced by Hollywood. He must go there more often to increase his influence on the Japanese and Korean markets!
Personal fame can have a great impact on the film.

Nowadays, many movies are said to be produced by Chen Shiping's original team, and Chen Shiping's personal title of producer and supervisor can still attract many audiences to the cinema.

The audience may not have seen Chen Shiping’s movies, but they have more or less heard of his name and know that he is a very awesome filmmaker and the holder of Asian box office records.

This is a personal branding effect.

Cameron and Spielberg often do this kind of thing to support other movies.

Sometimes it’s not just a platform, they also invest their own money.

It’s about standing up for yourself.

Chen Shiping also needs to use his fame to advertise Mulan. It is useless to rely solely on Cheng Kaige's words.

Without the Palme d’Or, Cheng Kaige would not have such a great influence.

Cheng Kaige is in a miserable situation now. He has been in the industry for so long but has never won a gold medal at a Class A film festival!
He was a director who used to be mentioned on par with Chen Shiping and Zhang Yimou, but now he has been pulled down a level by movie fans.

You don’t have any major awards, and you don’t have any box office success. What can Cheng Kaige use to compare with others?

Cheng Kaige has now accepted this reality, but he has accepted that he cannot catch up with Chen Shiping. After all, this old guy retired at the peak of his career!

Isn’t this the dead white moonlight in the hearts of movie fans? Who can beat him?

Cheng Kaige wants to catch up with Zhang Yimou now!
He used to be my photographer, how could he be better than me!

It is not surprising that Cheng Kaige thinks this way, but Chen Shiping and Zhang Yimou do not think so.

Zhang Yimou always felt that Cheng Kaige was inferior to himself and never recognized him from the bottom of his heart.

You were able to make your first movie thanks to your father. What makes you better than me is your background!

In the preparatory office of Mysterious Sea, Zhang Yimou had an untidy beard and dozens of various drawings in front of him.

There were a few special effects engineers wearing glasses nearby who also looked listless.

Zhang Yimou is even more torturous than Chen Shiping!

One idea every three days!
These engineers felt that it was easy to work with Chen Shiping because he knew what he wanted before shooting and they just had to do it according to his requirements.

These engineers finally understand how important a good client is!
When Chen Shiping came to the office with a smile on his face, the engineers were almost crying.

"Director Chen, please come back soon! Come shoot!"

"The 185th day of remembering Director Chen."

Chen Shiping thought these engineers were cute and said with a smile, "Don't be so cheesy. Director Zhang is also very good."

Zhang Yimou looked up from a pile of manuscripts at this time, looked at Chen Shiping and said, "I think what they said is very right."

"Ah?" Chen Shiping was stunned.

Zhang Yimou scratched his hair and said, "You come and take the photo. I'm going to be tortured to death."

Chen Shiping looked at his thick hair and laughed out loud. This was just the beginning!
"It's okay. You're not bald yet. Wait until you're bald."

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(End of this chapter)