Started as an independent producer in 1988

Chapter 345 Joint pressure!

“Movies are visual arts, and also a combination of technology and art.”

"Of course, imagination and creativity are more important, and they rely on technology, but are not limited to high technology."

“Without digital effects, there are other ways to create.”

“The most important thing for filmmakers is to exert their subjective initiative and show their imagination!”

“Be flexible and bold in the creative process.”

“Real-life shooting and special effects are means, not ends.”

In the large conference room of Beijing Film Studio, Chen Shiping gave a summary of this visit and study activity.

The actual shooting effects I saw in the studio before were very good. If they were to be completed using digital special effects, it would cost at least tens of millions.

But if you want to shoot it for real, you don’t need that much, a million will do the trick, but the process will be more complicated and troublesome.

The cost of equipment simulating floods, one-to-one replicas of interior scenes, etc. is not high.

This kind of real shooting is suitable for the current situation in China.

Otherwise, how many factories can afford so much money to make digital special effects?

Combining real shooting and special effects can greatly reduce costs, so why not do it?

Chen Shiping also promised all the brother units that if they wanted to shoot similar movies but lacked funds and technology, they could seek cooperation with China Film.

If you need money, let me know!

If you can’t be a special effects fanatic, be a real shooting fanatic!

Chen Shiping has studied this for a long time and believes that the real-life shooting route is currently the best option in China.

As a roundabout way to save the country, give digital special effects some time, try real shooting for a few years first, and when digital special effects really develop, they can flourish in all aspects!

After the meeting, the members of the sister factories did not leave immediately. Many people chose to stay and work for the crew of The Day After Tomorrow for free.

It doesn’t cost any money, just follow us and learn!
The Beijing Film Studio was not stingy and directly asked the guesthouse to provide free food and accommodation.

Zhang Jianya has been watching what Chen Shiping is doing, and he feels very different when he sees him sincerely helping these brother factories.

China Film Group really has a great vision!

Perhaps Chen Shiping is right. It was not Chen Shiping's original intention to compete with Shanghai Film Group.

It's just a helpless choice.

The more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable Zhang Jianya felt.

Originally, I was holding back my ambition to compete with China Film Corporation, but now I have suddenly lost the motivation.

It’s like a kid who’s trying to make trouble and insists on fighting with an adult, and the adult can’t help but go along with the kid’s mischief.

Zhang Jianya no longer has any intention of competing with China Film.

Especially after watching the big scenes shot by the crew the day after tomorrow and the crew's operation status, I lost all my confidence.

How can we compare with others in terms of emergency landing?

In addition, he also felt that the competition between Shanghai Film Group and Shanghai Film Group was a meaningless internal friction.

This kind of competition is meaningless and will only drag down the shadow!
How wonderful it is to have win-win cooperation.

Zhang Jianya now just wants to make a good movie, but because of the competition with China Film Corporation, the movie cannot be released with better completion.

Zhang Jianya called the director of the production company, hoping to cooperate with China Film Group on the special effects for the emergency landing.

Director Zhang was helpless, he also wanted the movie to be better, but China Film Group had to make an emergency landing in front of the media, so he couldn't cooperate even if he wanted to.

Shanghai Film Studio also wants to save face.

You can lose, but you can’t be a coward.

Besides, the group is now negotiating with a Hollywood company. If all goes well, there will be external funds for additional emergency investment!

It is not necessary to cooperate with China Film Group!
Skipping China Film Group and connecting directly with the international community may be a good opportunity to overtake others!

Zhang Jianya hung up the phone in disappointment and prepared to return to Shanghai.

I gained a lot this time, but also had a lot of disappointments.

The only good news may be that the group may make additional investments.

Zhang Jianya felt a little hope in his heart.

As long as there is sufficient funding, combined with what he saw on the crew the day after tomorrow, Zhang Jianya is confident that he can make a better movie.

Maybe it will really come into contact with the day after tomorrow.

It was not until a day later that Chen Shiping learned that Zhang Jianya had returned to Shanghai.

I had wanted to go and talk to him again, but it seems I’ll have to wait until next time.

After Zhang Jianya returned to Shanghai, he found out where the sudden extra funds came from.

Sony Columbia and Shanghai Film Group officially reached a cooperation agreement, with Columbia participating in the investment of Emergency Landing.

The planned investment amount is 10 million.

Combined with the original funds, the cost of the emergency landing has reached more than 20 million.

This amount of money is enough for Zhang Jianya to squander.

Although it is not as good as super productions like The Day After Tomorrow, it is good enough to make the special effects of the plane emergency landing better.

The cooperation between Shanghai Film Group and Columbia was beyond Chen Shiping's expectations.

Damn Columbia, no wonder they haven’t had any contact with China Film in recent months.

Let’s go find the film together!
It seems that Colombia is temporarily giving up on importing films and plans to go the co-production route.

Maybe they are waiting for China's accession to the WTO to expand the quota for imported films before turning to China Film.

However, Chen Shiping felt that the most likely possibility was that Shanghai Film Group was planning to take a different approach!
It is unrealistic to take away the right to import films from China Film Group Corporation, and it is also unrealistic to give it to Shanghai Film Group Corporation alone.

But what if we set up another company that specializes in distribution?

Since Chen Shiping wanted to suppress Shanghai Film Studio, Shanghai Film Studio would naturally not sit idly by.

Introduce foreign investment to increase strength and join forces with other brother manufacturers to exert pressure.

Thus competing against the booming China Film Group!

Chen Shiping's guess was soon confirmed. Xiying Group called him, and Han Laosan's hometown, Emei Studio, also tipped him off.

Shanghai Film Studio secretly contacted seven film studios, intending to jointly apply to establish a new film distribution company.

The goal is to obtain the film distribution rights!

Chen Shiping was so angry that he laughed. Shanghai Film Group really knows how to have fun!

So I pushed too hard and forced the China Film Distribution Company out ahead of time, right?

The General Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television cannot ignore the requests of so many film studios.

The companies united by Shanghai Film Group are some of the most powerful in China besides China Film Group.

Several other studios are gathering their forces to form their own film groups.

It is a good thing for sister manufacturers to form a group, but it is not necessarily a good thing to decentralize power.

Chen Shiping didn't want Shanghai Film's plan to succeed.

China Film Group is now in a monopoly position, and its external voice is so strong! Half of Chen Shiping's confidence in external power comes from this!

If Huaxia Distribution Company is established, China Film’s monopoly position will disappear.

Shanghai Film Group will certainly take this opportunity to gain more say in China's film distribution.

When this gap is opened, China Film Group’s advantage will disappear.

It will be very troublesome when talking to foreign companies.

To put it bluntly, maybe they will completely give up cooperation with China Film Group and turn to support Shanghai Film Group.

At that time, China Film Group and Shanghai Film Group were competing in China, and foreign companies took the opportunity to reap a lot of benefits.

Chen Shiping is tired.

The work is too hard!
But now Shanghai Film Group has already reached an agreement with several film studios.

The original big-name film studio, Changchun Film Studio, has already discussed the matter with Shanghai Film Group.

Because Xiying is currently cooperating with China Film and China Film is also its shareholder, it has not made a clear statement for the time being.

Several other studios, including Zhujiang, Emei, Tianjin and Xiaoxiang, have already agreed.

This is a force that cannot be ignored!
Before Chen Shiping could figure out what to do, Shanghai Film Studio sent someone to Tianshan again.

They felt that it was not safe enough now, and they wanted to involve Tianshan Film Studio as well!
Chen Shiping was stunned when he got the news!
Okay, okay, you guys are playing tricks, right?
Isn't it just about starting a new company?

Row!
Just come!
You go and code the people, I'll go and report it to the higher-ups myself!

By then, China Film Group will still be in the lead!
Let you know what it means to lose both the wife and the army!
Chen Shiping picked up the intercom and called Secretary Xiao Li, asking her to write an application form as he would need it in the afternoon.

In the secretariat, Xiao Li was stunned for a long time after hanging up the phone.

Why is Mr. Chen trying to poach my own people?

However, after the task was assigned, she had no chance to question it, she just had to do it!

Secretary Li pondered for a while and then began to write the document.

In Chen Shiping's office, he crossed his legs and thought for a while, then picked up the phone and asked the heads of the imported film department and the distribution department to come over.

Ten minutes later, people from the two departments arrived quickly.

As soon as we entered the door, the person in charge of imported films said, "Mr. Chen, Shanghai Film Group is causing trouble again. We really can't tolerate it this time."

Chen Shiping waved his hand to signal him to be quiet, then looked at the people in the distribution department and asked, "Give me statistics on the cinema chains in each province, and call the managers of the distribution companies in each province to come to China Film for a meeting within three days."

"Okay." The person from the distribution department paused and said, "Mr. Chen, are all the film screening companies from all provinces going to come?"

“As many as possible can come, but those from the key voting strongholds must come.”

After Chen Shiping finished speaking, he looked at the person in charge of imported films and said, "Prepare the current imported film data and come with me to the General Administration in the afternoon."

Hearing Chen Shiping's words, he immediately became excited. Shanghai Film Group was acting cowardly and doing small things behind the scenes. Now it was going to get a beating!
After the two men received the order and left, Chen Shiping called the president of the Beijing Film Company again.

Since Shanghai Film Studio is planning to join forces with the production studios to cause trouble, then Chen Shiping will contact the cinema chains in various provinces to stir up trouble!

Chen Shiping communicated with the Beijing New Film Association Cinema Chain Company on the phone for a while and then hung up.

The New Film Association is the vanguard of cinema chain reform. Cinema chains in various provinces and cities are now either under the jurisdiction of provincial film companies or invested by some film studios.

However, the cinema chain as a whole still belongs to the film company, and the reform of cinema chain and cinema brand has not yet begun.

Chen Shiping wants to take this opportunity to directly promote theater reform!

At the same time, we will also work hard on digital projectors and strive to officially promote them next year.

Even Asian countries are promoting their own digital projectors and forcing international cinema standards to be included when they are formulated!
Countries like Japan, South Korea and India may not pay attention to Chen Shiping, but the situation in other regions is not certain.

Do you really think that the investment over the past five or six years has been in vain?

Chen Shiping is now going to tie all the domestic cinema chains on board, make them the main body of China Film Company, and kick out all film studios like Shanghai Film Studio!

Even if they cannot be kicked out, these cinema chains and Shanghai Film Group have to fight against each other and at least own a majority of the shares.

Does Shanghai Film Studio want to get involved in imported films?

Have your spring and autumn dreams!
Chen Shiping wanted these cinema chains to fight with Shanghai Film Group, and then he would mediate as the big brother and let the bureau step in to designate China Film Group to lead the new company!

In this way, we can shut up those people in Shanghai Film Academy and prevent the power from being divided.

Those people from Shanghai Film Group and Changchun Film Group said that China Film Group had a monopoly. Now that a new company has been split out for you to participate, you have nothing to say about it, right?

But it is absolutely impossible to dominate the new company and get involved in imported films!
After reviewing the situation several times in his mind, Chen Shiping finally had a comprehensive plan in mind.

Shanghai Film Group and others have united to put pressure on China Film Group, and now we want them to have a taste of this too!

Damn it, if Chen Shiping doesn't cause trouble, have these people forgotten how he ruined Hong Kong films and how he dealt a heavy blow to Hollywood!
I really treat him as a clay figure and I can mold him however I want!
Chen Shiping is really fed up with being on the screen now!

There is never a moment of peace!
At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Chen Shiping went to the bureau with the person in charge of imported films and some documents.

When the leader saw Chen Shiping coming with his men, he guessed why he came.

He smiled and said, "I guessed you were coming over, but things are not going well right now."

Chen Shiping smiled and said, "I know you are in a difficult situation, I am here to cooperate with you."

The leader was a little surprised and said with a smile: "Do you have any new ideas?"

"I am very supportive of the establishment of a new company. I came here to express my support and to talk to you about giving back on my work."

"Okay, go ahead. I still have fifteen minutes and I have to go to a meeting later."

"Absolutely enough!"

Chen Shiping immediately asked the person in charge of imported films to start introducing some of the situations in which China Film Corporation has dominated imported films in the past few years.

Then we talked about the development of domestic cinemas.

Finally, he looked at the leader and said, "There are very few theaters that can meet the standards for screening imported films and blockbusters. Theaters need to develop and reform, especially in terms of projectors."

The leader took a sip from the teacup and said, "Do you want the cinema chain to compete with Shanghai Film Group?"

Chen Shiping immediately said, "I just want to promote the digital transformation of cinemas. I reported this to you last year."

The leader smiled and said, "The reform of cinema chains is indeed important. The bureau has also held a meeting to discuss it. In this case, you can try it first."

"Okay, thank you for your support!"

The leader glanced at his watch and said, "I have to go to a meeting. You take care of this matter first. We still need to discuss the distribution of imported films for a few days. I will let you know when I have news."

When Chen Shiping received the signal, he knew what was going on.

This incident has been going on for four or five years, and this time it has become so big that the bureau had to hold a meeting to discuss it directly. It is impossible to suppress it even if they want to.

But it can still be delayed for a few days. Now it depends on whether Chen Shiping can get things done.

After coming out of the bureau, Chen Shiping couldn't help rubbing his temples.

Shanghai Film Group is coming with such force this time that perhaps it has already reached some agreement with Colombia behind the scenes.

Chen Shiping was too overbearing towards Hollywood before, but he also held on tightly to the rights to distribute imported films, so if Hollywood wanted to make money, they could only turn to him.

Shanghai Film Group must have promised something, otherwise Columbia would not have been so supportive.

There is even more than one Columbia company behind it, there are other Hollywood companies as well.

This confrontation will be difficult to deal with, and theaters must unite!
I hope those bosses won’t be confused!
(There is one more chapter to come later. My ex-girlfriend came over unexpectedly today and disrupted my plan of updating twice a week.)

(End of this chapter)