During my years at China Entertainment

Chapter 364: The industry earthquake is a hit right after the broadcast

Wei Jin was really surprised when he received Zhao Feng's call. He had never expected that Zhang Weiping would cause such a big fuss at the media screening of "Thirteen Hairpins".

Maybe there was really too much pressure to repay the money, so this guy complained at the movie party.

He said that the film industry is a high-risk industry, but the producers who have contributed the most are obviously vulnerable groups.

Not only did it cost money and effort to shoot, but it also took huge risks after the movie was released, but most of the box office profits were taken by the theaters.

Compared with European and American countries, domestic producers are really miserable.

Then Zhang Dapao changed the topic and strongly requested theaters across the country to increase the share ratio of "Thirteen Hairpins" from 43% to 45%, and also requested that the minimum ticket price be increased by 5 yuan.

What is the lowest fare?
Generally speaking, domestic theater chains designate Tuesday as half-price day, and the ticket price on this day is the lowest ticket price.

Zhang Weiping requested that low-price tickets be increased by 5 yuan, which means that full-price tickets will be increased by 10 yuan.

按照一线城市最低票价提高到40元、二线35元、三线30元，那么全票价就是80元、70元、60元。

Some theater chains will increase the price slightly based on their decoration level and geographical location, so the ticket price may be close to 100.

"Attention all units, prepare for the 30-second countdown."

As expected, major production companies such as Huayi, Fiber Optic, Chengtian, Bernard, Pony, and Yinghuang have expressed their stance on the official Weibo, and some small and medium-sized production companies have also issued announcements.

Wei Jin knew very well that there would be no results in this matter in a short time.

Perhaps it is precisely because he is a businessman that Zhang Weiping focuses on all the ways to make money, right?
Wei Jin did not approve of Zhang Weiping's approach.

"Mr. Wei, the Xin Hua Mian incident has become a big deal. All the production companies have come out to support Zhang Weiping. What should we say?"

The movie "Bottom Girl" has a lot of night scenes, so Wei Jin arranged to shoot together during these days.

After hanging up the phone, Wei Jin began to browse relevant information on the Internet.

In this case, not to mention that the theaters would not agree, even the General Administration would not be able to increase the box office share at this stage.

The entire industry seems to be facing a big battle. The warring parties are theater chains and production companies, including some big directors. Even the so-called super A-list celebrities are not qualified to speak.

The scene at this moment is that after the heroine took the mock exam, her results were not satisfactory and she had the idea of ​​giving up.

After recovering his thoughts, Wei Jin was about to start filming the next scene when the phone rang again.

Producers in European and American countries can get high box office shares because their theater chains have been well established.

The country is currently in the stage of vigorously developing theater chains. Without the infrastructure of theater chains, movie box office is just empty talk.

"Hello, Lao Chen?"

"action!"

"By the way, didn't you receive the news beforehand?"

Led by the eight major theater chains, a large number of theater chain representatives left the meeting angrily and reached a private agreement to boycott Xin Hua Mian and Zhang Weiping.

Other well-known mainland directors such as Chen Poetsi, Lao Mouzi and Jiang Wen, as well as Hong Kong directors such as Wu Baige, Chen Kexin, Yip Weixin, etc. have also followed suit.

Soon, Wei Jin saw that Shanhe Media's official Weibo also posted a message expressing its stance.

Wei Jin sat behind the monitor and took out the walkie-talkie.

Then Ning Hao, Lu Yang, and Wu Ershan also started to follow.

This is the first time that mainland and Hong Kong filmmakers have so uniformly supported the same thing.

Only when the theater chain construction is initially completed can it be possible to advance this matter from an overall perspective.

Wei Jin's words were extremely candid. Although Sunward Media has theaters under its umbrella, its core business has always been content production. Regardless of whether it is optimistic about this incident or not, it must have the proper stance.

The filming of the movie is not simply based on the plot, but the scenes are divided according to scene elements, character elements, climate and environment elements, etc.

What was being filmed at this time was the scene in the rain, and the sprinkler truck was already in place.

After hanging up the phone, Wei Jin fell into silence. He actually didn't have a good opinion of Zhang Weiping. Although he has been in the film industry for more than ten years, he is better said to be a businessman than a producer.

"We are the producer, so of course we support it."

I have to say that this guy really did everything he could to get his money back.

Frustrated, she left the cram school and went to the place where her mother worked, where she broke down emotionally in the rain.

However, Wei Jin was somewhat relieved to see that no director contracted by the company expressed his position.

When Wei Jin saw this, he also edited a Weibo and posted it, then handed his phone to his assistant and stopped paying attention.

Despite the persuasion of her tutor, she still had no confidence in herself.

The other producers reacted too quickly, which made Wei Jin have to suspect that they had a tacit understanding with Xin Hua Mian.

"Haha, this guy underestimates me too much."

"No, looking at it like this, Zhang Weiping is probably guarding us because we have a theater chain."

Even directors and producers in the industry have come forward to express their opinions, with Feng Dapao being the first to speak out on Weibo.

After arriving at the monitor, Wei Jin calmed down, picked up the loudspeaker and shouted.

"Support Xin Hua Mian and Producer Zhang. The existing share ratio is indeed too unfriendly to the producers. Now it's time to change."

The result was not as expected. As the terminal of the film industry, how could a powerful theater chain agree to Zhang Weiping's request.

"The actors are in place."

"The lights are in place."

"Unit No. 1, Unit No. 2 is in position."

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After a series of signals, the floor attendant quickly came out to take action.

""The Bottom Girl" Scene 82, first shot, action!"

In the camera, Jing Tian, ​​who has short shoulder-length hair and is wearing a school uniform, is looking at Jiang Shan who is working the night shift in the rain, with mist in his eyes.

Jiang Shan put down what she was doing and hugged Jing Tian in her arms.

"Click."

Wei Jin checked the scene in the camera carefully, then raised his head and shouted.

"This one is over, get ready for the next one."

The battle between producers and theaters continues.

The theaters, which used to work on their own, united this time and held a joint meeting in the capital.

As the person in charge of the second largest theater chain in the country, Zhao Feng naturally participated in this meeting.

According to Zhao Feng’s report, at the meeting, several theater chains, led by the eight major theater chains, reached an agreement.

If Zhang Weiping insists on raising the ticket price and share, then the theaters will refuse to screen "Thirteen Hairpins".

However, a small number of theaters did not express their stance on the spot, and their attitude was relatively ambiguous.

Wei Jin could also understand this. Lao Mouzi's intimidation was too great, and theater chains were pointing to movies to make money. This was why Zhang Weiping dared to challenge theater chains many times.

In Zhang Weiping's words, this is called "With a plan in hand, I have the world!" To be honest, Wei Jin didn't take this conflict of interests between the theaters and the producers seriously.

At present, Sunward Cinemas has a market share of more than 16%, with more than 300 theaters and more than 1400 large screens, second only to Wanda Cinemas.

Last year, the domestic box office was 124 billion, and Sunward Cinema produced more than 20 billion in box office, with total revenue exceeding 35 billion.

Therefore, whether it is production business or theater business, Wei Jin can benefit.

Wei Jin's previous speech was just to express his position as a producer.

After telling Zhao Feng to make his own decision, Wei Jin started filming again
Just when the entire film industry is in chaos, in the TV drama market, "The Legend of Zhen Huan" produced by Shanhe Media is about to be simulcast on three channels.

Sunward Media’s official Weibo, including its artists and many participating celebrities, reposted it.

Fan Bingbing, Huang Xiaoming, Zhou Xun, Deng Chao and other top domestic celebrities have also called on their fans to support.

On the premise that the early publicity was already hot enough, I helped add the final spark.

Nowadays, the promotional power of the Internet cannot be ignored, especially when so many celebrities in the industry promote such a drama at the same time, which really attracts a lot of attention.

"The drama jointly created by Shanhe Media and Zheng Xiaolong is definitely worth watching!"

"If I remember correctly, according to the previous news, the price of a single episode of this drama is 260 million, which has seriously set a new price for a domestic TV series and is even higher than "In the Snow"."

"Large-scale costume dramas with an investment of hundreds of millions and a production cycle of more than a year are rare in China. Support them!"

"Although the pace is a bit slow, both the service and the pictures are really attractive."

The first episode of the TV series has just been aired, and it is already very popular online. Many viewers have begun to leave comments. Generally speaking, the majority of reviews are positive.

After all, over the years, Sunward Media has established a golden brand. Many casual viewers, as long as they see a TV series produced by Sunward Media, will give a positive review without saying a word and then follow the show.

Of course, no drama can satisfy all audiences, and some viewers thought that the pace of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" was too slow, or were not interested in Qing palace dramas, and gave negative reviews.

This made a group of experts extremely excited, jumping out to give advice and scolding Fang Qiu.

"According to the market rules of TV dramas, most hit TV series have about 40 episodes. This "The Legend of Zhen Huan" has 76 episodes, which is not friendly to the audience's viewing experience."

"The first-day ratings for a TV series with a sky-high price of 260 million per episode are not optimistic."

"The king of domestic ratings may be about to encounter Waterloo."

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Unfortunately, the slap in the face came quickly. As soon as the ratings came out the next day, these experts quickly shut up.

At this point in 2011, if the TV series' ratings can exceed 1, it can be regarded as qualified, and if it can exceed 2, it is definitely considered a high-quality product.

The industry originally expected that the premiere level of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" would probably break 1.

Unexpectedly, the ratings for the premiere directly exceeded 2!

"Boss, 2.58!"

Taking advantage of the break in filming, Huang Mengying ran over excitedly and reported: "The premiere rating of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" is 2.58!"

"Oh? Not bad."

Wei Jin nodded and continued chatting with several actors about the upcoming scenes.

"Is it just good?"

"He is worthy of being the helmsman of Shanhe Media."

Xu Yajun, Jiang Shan, Zhou Yiwei and others looked at Wei Jinyun's calm appearance and secretly froze in their hearts.

If you know that the premiere ratings are 2.58, you can basically confirm that this is a hit work. But in Wei Jin's opinion, it's just not bad?

But when they thought of Shanhe Media's brilliant achievements, everyone quickly felt relieved.

After a conversation, Wei Jin was about to start a new shooting when the phone rang.

"Old Chen?"

"Mr. Wei, Xin Hua Mian has sent an invitation, asking all major production companies to come over and sign a joint agreement to advance and retreat together based on the theater chain's agreement. If any theater chain does not increase its share ratio, the future production companies will Fang’s movies were refused entry into that theater chain.”

Hearing this, Wei Jin laughed. Zhang Weiping really had a good plan. He not only wanted to "hijack the national teacher to order the theater chain", but also wanted to blackmail the entire production industry?

What a joke!
"Mr. Wei, do we want to follow him this time?"

"Follow? What are you following? You are already supporting him by stating your stance, and you want to drag us to the front line?"

Having said this, Wei Jin lit a cigarette, took a long drag and continued to add.

"Also, think about it, the official has not expressed its position on such a major matter related to the industry, so why are they rushing to be cannon fodder?"

Across the phone, Lao Chen smiled and agreed with Wei Jin's reasoning.

"Okay, Mr. Wei, I will refuse right now."

"Well, that's it, we already have our position, don't get involved with the rest."

After hanging up the phone, Wei Jin recovered his thoughts, came to the monitor, and picked up the loudspeaker.

"Attention all units, there is a 30-second countdown."

"action!"

I have to say that Zhang Weiping's ability to deceive is quite good.

Even though Sunward Media, Huayi, Fiber Optic and other major production companies did not participate, he actually managed to get many small and medium-sized production companies to sign joint agreements with him to put pressure on the theaters.

Under the leadership of Wanda, the industry leader, the theater chain will not give in.

If you say that I am "spending money", I will say that you are "greedy".

Both sides started bombarding each other openly.

This makes the media very excited. There is an inexhaustible supply of material every day, and they are too busy to handle it. It can be said to be painful and happy at the same time.

"Mr. Wei, Zhang Weiping is really ill-intentioned. Many of the films of the production companies that have signed agreements with him are used by him as bargaining chips with our theaters."

Zhao Feng participated in several negotiation meetings and called Wei Jin to report the situation.

"The results of it?"

"We talked about it many times, but they all ended on bad terms. The theater chain's attitude was very clear, and they would refuse to screen "Thirteen Hairpins" if they couldn't reach an agreement. But Zhang Weiping also insisted that if the share and ticket prices were not increased, he would not give it. Let’s show it.”

Wei Jin was smoking while listening to Zhao Feng's introduction.

"What do you think about the other small and medium-sized theater chains that have not signed the agreement?"

Zhao Feng felt helpless after hearing Wei Jin's words.

"Mr. Wei, these wallflowers have ambiguous attitudes. I'm afraid I won't be able to count on them this time."

Wei Jin was not surprised when he heard this. In any interest alliance, as long as there are more participants, there will always be a small number of people who are holding back, and there is no way to be united.

"Okay, don't worry too much about this matter. The two sides have been fighting until now, and the official side is probably coming to an end. Just wait for adjustments."

"Yes, I understand, Mr. Wei."

After hanging up the phone, Wei Jin started a new shooting
(End of this chapter)