Started as an independent producer in 1988

Chapter 347 The Real Storm is Coming

In the conference room during a recess, Chen Shiping drank tea and reached out to take the cigarette handed to him by a colleague from the bureau next to him.

Whether he smoked or not, he couldn't refuse. The key point was that Chen Shiping had smoked for a while before, so it was naturally difficult to refuse.

Several people from Shanghai Film Studio and Changchun Film Studio were sitting together discussing the issues that had just occurred in the meeting.

The meeting just now was just a simple discussion.

The afternoon meeting is the highlight.

By then, representatives from cinema chains in various provinces will attend the meeting, and that will be the time when they will feel uncomfortable.

Shanghai Film Vice President Lao Xu couldn't help but feel a headache and glanced at Chen Shiping who was sitting opposite him.

Chen Shiping raised his eyebrows, took a puff of cigarette calmly and exhaled, then smiled playfully at him in the midst of the smoke.

Too embarrassing!

Lao Xu shook his head and when he looked again, he saw him smiling and chatting with someone, as if he was dazzled.

No, this time we’re going to fail. Lao Xu immediately stood up and went out to make a phone call.

We must find a way to stop Chen Shiping as soon as possible!

Before the afternoon session begins!
The news was received in Shanghai soon, and people were instantly furious.

Didn’t Chen Shiping convene a meeting of cinema chain managers across the country to promote digital projectors?
How did it become about snatching the fruits of their victory!

Grandma’s legs!

Shanghai quickly contacted the local Shin Kong Cinema Line to inquire about the situation.

The people at New Light and Shadow are very confused. Didn’t you stop us from attending the meeting?

They didn’t tell us what it does specifically!
Vice President Xu waited for a long time but received no reply, so he returned to the conference room to discuss with the people from Changying how to deal with the afternoon meeting.

Chen Shiping must have been fully prepared this time!
But when he returned to the meeting room, he saw Chen Shiping, Xiying and Changying's people standing by the window smoking and chatting.

The first thought in Vice President Xu’s mind was that Shanghai Film Group was going to be kicked out completely!
At this time, Chen Shiping looked back at him and raised the cigarette in his hand.

It is unrealistic to completely kick out the studio's participation, but it is very easy to marginalize Shanghai Film Group.

Chen Shiping was really fed up with the situation in Shanghai.

He has received a lot of messages recently.

Shanghai Film Group and Shanghai Media Group are both frequently in contact with foreign capital, including Disney, Time Warner, Sony, BBC, Murdoch, Salomon Smith Barney, etc.

Chen Shiping wouldn't care if it was just some normal business activities.

But the news he received was that these people wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of joining the WTO to directly enter the domestic media industry!

If foreign capital enters domestic radio and television stations, or even overseas radio and television channels are directly landed in the country, it will be a disaster!
The dog's legs must be broken!
Even if they enter in a roundabout way in the future, it will still be much better than entering directly.

However, once China joins the WTO, the media industry will definitely be liberalized. Except for radio and television stations, which are not allowed to accept foreign investment, other industries will not be allowed.

They cannot own shares in radio and television stations, but they can own shares in companies that produce television programs.

These TV programs are then sold to TV stations.

There are many ways to get around these restrictions and regulations.

Later, SMG cooperated with many foreign capitals to produce many TV programs.

This was also the time when Korean Wave entered the market in a big way.

Murdoch has also bypassed these restrictions and entered the domestic market through the numerous television programs produced by Phoenix.
In addition, a series of entertainment products from companies such as BBC, Warner, and Disney have entered the mainland through joint ventures.

And it all started at the Shanghai Film Festival.

Foreign capital regards the country as a huge cake and all want to have a bite!
If it's just a bite, it's easy, that's the openness of the market, but for some people it's not as simple as just taking a bite.

How could they get in so easily if no one cooperated with them?

Chen Shiping is really exhausted now, and there is not much time left for him.

It is not long before we join the WTO. The domestic layout has not been completed and the foundation has not been laid. If foreign capital suddenly pours in, it will destroy many things.

Those film companies in Hollywood are not just film companies. Their parent companies are all media giants.

Chen Shiping can portray them in the movie, but he also has other things.

The cooperation of TV programs, the introduction of film and television, the infiltration of traditional paper media, and the impact of electronic games will all bring huge impacts.

Especially in electronic games, China has been beaten down for twenty years and has not been able to recover.

After the millennium, foreign cultural and entertainment industries will flourish in China!
After joining the WTO, foreign capital will flow in and the era of public intellectuals running rampant will come.

Chen Shiping still remembers that in 2013 in the original time and space, Liu Jialing made a patriotic statement and was attacked by the entire network!

Some things are not as simple as they seem.

The prerequisite for cooperation is that you must have the strength to cooperate. Without the strength to cooperate, you are just delivering food!

It means opening the door and letting people in to destroy things at will.

This time, the distribution rights for imported films are not a simple struggle.

This is a test, and there will be more tests in the future.

If we don’t fight back this time, there will be even more severe shocks in the future!
Chen Shiping put out his cigarette, looked at the long shadow and said, "I will fight for you at the meeting this afternoon, but you should know my purpose."

The man from Changying nodded, and after a while he said, "But if you do this, you will completely break off relations with Shangying."

"They've already torn it apart." Chen Shiping said nonchalantly, "The situation over there is too complicated. Be careful not to fall into the ditch."

The situation in Changchun is not much better, Yilin... Never mind, let's not talk about it.

After Chen Shiping finished chatting with the people from Changchun Film Studio and Xi'an Film Studio, he was too lazy to say anything else.

Sometimes these things are not intentional but they just don't think about them at all.

To put it bluntly, many people in the domestic media industry have no idea what they are doing.

Without win-win cooperation on the international stage of culture and entertainment, win-win is really impossible.

Chen Shiping was too lazy to blame them. All he could do was to do his own thing.

Let’s get this new publishing company set up first.

Otherwise you will suffer in the future!
Soon the formal meeting was held in the afternoon, and representatives from many cinema companies also attended.

Vice President Xu of Shanghai Film Group could not help but sigh. It was too late to save the situation now as it was too late when they got the news.

There were also Xiying and Emeichang, two fence-sitters. Under Chen Shiping's counterattack, Changying was also seduced away.

Shanghai Film Group is now struggling alone and can only strive to gain greater benefits later.

Vice President Xu is really having a headache.

We have worked hard for so long and have finally managed to stop the monopoly on the distribution of imported films.

It’s not even harvest time yet, but Chen Shiping has already picked the peaches.

Soon the meeting officially began to discuss the decision to establish Huaxia Film Distribution Co., Ltd. The proposal was submitted by Chen Shiping, and the film was not on the list of investors for the new company.

Vice President Xu even wants to curse, isn’t that a bit too much!

No face at all?
The original intention was to gain greater benefits, but now it has become an effort to add myself to the list.

The gap is huge. If the goal is lowered, the final results will naturally be lowered as well.

After the proposal was made, Vice President Xu began to frequently emphasize Shanghai Film Group's advantages and ideas in an attempt to gain greater voice.

But now no one in the conference room paid much attention to him.

The benefits are small to begin with, what are you fighting for?
Take your share of the melon and share it with everyone!
There were a total of seventeen representatives in the conference room, sixteen of whom were dismantling the stage for the film.

The leaders in the bureau did not help, and Chen Shiping continued to emphasize that imported films should be decided by the market, that is, dominated by theaters.

Therefore, film groups should participate less and give more opportunities to theaters.

Cinema chain reform is imminent, and such interests are needed even more to support the reform.

Vice President Xu was almost furious. He really understood what it meant to be stabbed in the back and what it meant to be isolated and helpless.

The key point is that many of those who backstabbed him were deceived by him!
Good man, now he is betraying us!

You bastards!

The main topic of discussion at this meeting was the division of shares among the companies.

Needless to say, the bureau must be the largest shareholder, holding at least 20%.

The remaining eighty percent belongs to the other seventeen companies.

China Film Group naturally took the lead in acquiring 15% of the shares, and Changchun Film Studio and Xi'an Film Studio immediately followed suit and asked for 11% of the shares.

Other cinema chains also came forward to claim their shares.

As if they had discussed it in advance, all of them left less than 3% of the share for Shanghai Film Group.

Vice President Xu is about to cry.

Chen Shiping, you are shameless. Why don’t you give the theaters a chance?

China Film Group, Changchun Film Group and Xi'an Film Group took away 27 percent of the shares!
The regional cinema chains of the three film groups each take 3 to 5 percent, which means that you together take more than 40 percent!
But only less than 3% is left for the upper shadow!

Isn’t that a bit too much!

Vice President Xu knew that if he didn't flip the table at this point, there would be no hope at all, so he slammed the table and shouted, "Shanghai Film Group doesn't agree with this plan. I want to increase it to 11%!"

Chen Shiping looked at him strangely and said, "This is the bureau's business. What do you mean by disagreeing? The bureau is already taking good care of you by allowing you to go."

"Chen Shiping!" Vice President Xu looked at him and said, "Shanghai Film Group's funds and strength can definitely win more, and it can also promote the new company's affairs."

"This year's Shanghai Film Festival will have participation from more than 20 countries, 80 overseas producers and 15 overseas media giants. The influence of Shanghai Film Group will help the new company take a step forward!"

Chen Shiping scratched his chin as if he didn't hear it. Is this data amazing?
He was too lazy to show off his achievements at the Asian International Film Festival.

And don’t you know what those so-called overseas media giants are doing here? !

The theme of this year's Shanghai Film Festival forum is probably related to the entertainment economy and film industry.

The emphasis is on connecting with the international community and exchanging ideas.

There is nothing wrong with engaging in this kind of forum communication.

The Asian International Film Festival led by Chen Shiping will also have such a forum theme.

It’s just that although China occupies a dominant position in the Asian film market, it is in a passive position in the international market that the Shanghai Film Festival faces.

The markets are different, the opponents are different, and the situations encountered are naturally different.

This is also the difference between Shanghai Film Group and China Film Group. Their goals are bigger, and they differentiate themselves from China Film Group’s strategy and then overtake it.

But they forgot that they were not strong enough and could only passively wait to be defeated by others.

The distribution rights of imported films have been divided. In order to develop, Shanghai Film Group will inevitably be less assertive and its strength will be unequal.

What we could do at that time was to open up the market and let others in.

Vice President Xu was still stating the advantages of Shanghai Film Group at this time, but if he wanted more shares, he had to snatch them from others.

Who among these representatives in the conference room would give up their own interests?

Chen Shiping was too lazy to refute him now, as there were plenty of people arguing with him.

Those cinema companies are well aware that Shanghai Film Group wants more profits and can only snatch them from them.

Everyone was loudly refuting the film.

They say that if you are a producer, you should just do your job well. Imported films are a welfare policy to support the reform of cinema chains. Why are you trying to steal their money?

You said that Central Film Studio, Changchun Film Studio and Xi'an Film Studio got a lot, so you want the same?
China Film Group is the strongest in distribution and also leads the reform of cinema chains. What's wrong with getting more?
Changchun Film Studio and Xi'an Film Studio are not as well developed as you. What's wrong with them getting a little more and developing well?
You said Shanghai Film Academy is awesome, why are you still competing with the poor for food?!

Pooh!
I won’t give it!
If you keep talking nonsense, we, the cinema chains, will punish you from now on!
Vice President Xu was besieged by more than a dozen theater chain representatives and was almost scolded silly.

He really doesn't have the ability to debate with a group of scholars!

This discussion lasted until after seven in the evening. In the end, the leader of the bureau ended the topic and started voting directly.

Vice President Xu tugged at his tie and gave up completely.

What the hell are you talking about!

Destroy it!
Ten minutes later, the voting ended and China Film was officially established, with a total of eighteen units participating.

The bureau is the major shareholder, followed by China Film Group, and then various other units.

The establishment of the new company will be led by China Film Group, and will be completed by the end of this year, and will be officially listed in January next year.

After the meeting, Chen Shiping smiled and looked at Vice President Xu and said to him, "Shanghai Film Group's appeal for many years has finally been responded to. Are you satisfied with this answer?"

Vice President Xu had a complicated expression on his face. From a policy perspective, the monopoly of China Film Group Corporation was indeed broken.

But what has actually changed?!

Instead, it gave Chen Shiping the opportunity to tie up with more theater chains, isolating Shanghai Film Group!

This is not the result they want!
Chen Heizi is really full of bad intentions!

Chen Shiping walked up to Vice President Xu and said politely:

"Mr. Xu, that's all for the imported films. See you at the Shanghai Film Festival. I'm very interested in the foreign investment you've attracted this year."

Vice President Xu's expression changed.

Little bastard! Do you still want to cut off Shanghai Film’s overseas funds?

Chen Shiping smiled on the surface, but he was extremely serious inside.

The real storm is coming!
(Alas, I was dragged away again when I was halfway through writing. Damn, I am about to die suddenly. Can someone save me?)

(End of this chapter)