During my years at China Entertainment

Chapter 448: Guo Fan's choice leads to conflict again
Shanhe Building, in the chairman's office.

Wei Jin looked at Guo Fan with a smile on his face.

"You kid, you finally rested long enough this time. I sent you a message about starting work, but you didn't reply to me?"

"Hey, Mr. Wei, I took the opportunity of graduation to go back to my hometown and will settle down in Beijing from now on."

Wei Jin nodded to show his understanding. Guo Fan is from Shandong. After joining the company, he has been busy with projects for two Spring Festivals. He has very little time to spend with his family. Now that he has a holiday, he shouldn't go back and walk around, right?
Then, without saying anything more, he took two scripts from the drawer and placed them on the table.

"Take a look first and choose one for yourself."

"it is good."

Guo Fan picked up the script and began to read it carefully.

Wei Jin also took this opportunity to pay attention to the film market.

Since "Pacific Rim" was taken off the screen, "Storm" has successfully become the most popular movie in the summer season.

As of now, 10 days after its release, the box office has exceeded 2 million, and the box office on weekdays remains around 1500 million.

However, the online reputation is only average, with the Impression.com score barely over 7 points, which is considered to be one of the worse scripts provided by Wei Jin in recent years.

Fortunately, there were no overly strong competitors during this period, otherwise it would be hard to say how good the box office results would be.

After crossing the 2.38 million mark, the box office of Fiber Optic's "The Four" has gradually declined, and has dropped to around million per day. It has been released for more than days and the box office has reached million.

However, there is still a full box office week left, so achieving the guaranteed target of 2.5 million should not be a problem.

However, the animated film "Ice Age 4" performed quite strongly. In the first three days of the weekend, it directly raked in 1.25 million yuan in box office revenue, breaking the animated film record set by "Kung Fu Panda 2" a few years ago.

Other movies that will be released in August, such as "The Whisperer", "Rampant", "Drug War", etc., have also entered the final sprint stage, and the publicity efforts have been maximized.

Among them, "The Whisperer" has held several premieres in succession in Beijing, Guangdong, Shanghai and other national box office cities since the past two days, with quite a grand momentum.

The publicity also focuses on the joining of award-winning actor and actress Zhou Xun and Liang Caowei and the spy novel "Dark War". It is known as the No. 1 spy drama in the Republic of China and is even more suspenseful than "The Whistleblower".

The film "People Mountain, People Sea" was promoted as winning the Silver Lion Award for Best Director in Venice, and it did attract a lot of attention.

"Drug War" produced by Golden Harvest did not use any of these fancy things, but just used traditional ground promotion and online publicity, as well as movie promotional videos.

The carefully edited promotional video was released early on and the effect was very good, especially the clips where the three male protagonists acted against each other, which really caught the audience's attention.

"Five years! Do you know how I spent these five years? Do you know?"

"."

The cold wind blew away the loneliness. Principal Gu and Citizen Liu both lowered their heads, with guilt all over their faces.

"Ah Wei."

Enthusiastic citizen Liu Yingdi stopped Zha Zha Hui who was about to leave.

"Ah Wei is already dead, you picked him, the idol!"

Zha Zha Hui was very angry and aggrieved. He gritted his teeth and looked ferocious. "I'm sure Duan Kun will be defeated. Even Jesus can't stop him. I say it!"

"You picked it, idol!"

This trailer is very short, but the brainwashing effect is unexpectedly good, especially the ferocious expression of Zha Zha Hui when he was shouting at the top of his lungs, which left a deep impression on netizens.

So many netizens cut out this clip and used it as an emoticon package, and the internet was full of Zha Zha Hui’s magical performance.

Looking at the data on Impression.com, which showed that there were already more than 100,000 people who wanted to watch it, Wei Jin nodded in satisfaction.

The play originally had some logical flaws and the dialogues were a bit lengthy, but he made some adjustments when transferring the script, and also put forward a lot of suggestions during the final editing, cutting out a lot of lengthy and lengthy parts, ultimately compressing the film to just over 90 minutes.

As a result, the rhythm of the play is much simpler and clearer, and the main focus is on the brotherhood between men and the exciting action scenes.

It now seems that the effect is quite good, and Wei Jin is beginning to look forward to the final box office.

Retracting his gaze, Wei Jin looked up at Guo Fan, only to see that the latter had already placed the script on the table and was sitting upright.

"How's it going? Have you chosen?"

"Boss Wei, I've chosen this one."

Looking at the script that Guo Fan was pointing at, Wei Jin was a little curious, "Why did you choose this?"

"Mr. Wei, I am not a professional actor, so I am not good at controlling roles, emotions, and plots. I still hope to practice more in this area, so I chose this soft science fiction romance film."

Wei Jin nodded. This time he gave two scripts, one was hardcore science fiction and the other was soft science fiction.

The former relatively tests the director's coordination skills and technical support, that is, winning by visual effects; the latter pays more attention to the control of the plot, or to put it bluntly, it relies on the settings.

Wei Jin originally thought that after "Ex Machina", Guo Fan would choose a hardcore science fiction film, but he didn't expect that he was quite aware of his shortcomings.

"Okay, I was planning to give you this script last year. It's not too late now, so take advantage of it."

"Well, I'll go back and study the script thoroughly."

"Hey, don't worry, come with me, the finished film of Gravity has just come out, you, the assistant director, should come and watch it too."

Guo Fan, who loves science fiction, brightened up when he heard this, "Okay."

The two of them came all the way to Shanhe Shuimo. Wei Jin was not in a hurry, but went to see the post-production of "A Man's Martial Arts".

As expected, Lu Yang is really a lazy person. He was very slow in post-production editing. It was really a luxury that some shots of an action movie were even required to be rendered.

“When will it be ready?”

"Well, maybe another half a month."

"Okay, work hard and I'll find a good time slot for you next year."

Lu Yang rolled his eyes when he heard this, "Brother, you have said this several times, I can't eat your cake"

"Hey you kid"

After laughing and cursing, Wei Jin and Guo Fan headed towards the small screening room. Unexpectedly, Lu Yang followed them again. "Brother, I've been cutting for the whole morning. Let me change my head, hehe."

Wei Jin shook his head and ignored it. He walked into the theater and nodded to the staff. Soon the screen lit up.

The final length of "Gravity" is only over 90 minutes, which is relatively short among the films of the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

But Guo Fan and Lu Yang watched the movie with great interest, especially Guo Fan. He participated in almost the entire film and felt a little awkward during the filming, but he did not expect the finished film to be so shocking.

Especially the 13 minutes of uninterrupted footage, which is simply amazing.

Guo Fan had a hunch that this movie might become a new milestone in hard-core science fiction.

Wei Jin had no idea about Guo Fan's inner thoughts. He paid more attention to the sound effects, visuals, editing and other aspects. After all, in addition to regaining the box office record, he also wanted to win a few more Oscars.

Overall, he is very satisfied with the finished film, and now he is waiting for the opening screening of the Venice Film Festival to become a hit.

As the movie came to an end, Lu Yang started shouting.

"Brother, your movie is so amazing. If it were to be in 3D and IMAX, wouldn't it beat Pacific Rim in seconds? Guo Fan, you've made a fortune. As an assistant director, you might even go down in film history."

Listening to Lu Yang's babble, Guo Fan and Wei Jin looked at each other, feeling helpless about this funny guy.

"Okay, let's arrange for someone to send it for trial."

Following the boss's instructions, the two staff members in the screening room nodded.

"Okay, Mr. Wei."

Wei Jin is not worried at all about the approval of "Gravity". After all, his science fiction films have been given the green light since "The Martian".

But Wei Jin didn't expect that Huayi would actually join forces with several leading production companies to come up with something big.

"Today, Huayi, together with several other companies in the industry such as Bona and Star Media, proposed negotiations with the theater chain, intending to adopt the gambling method of Shanhe Media, and strive to get higher box office shares for films such as "The Chinese Zodiac", "1942", and "The Guillotines"

As soon as the news came out, people in the circle became restless and there was a lot of discussion on the Internet.

"Since last November, this is the third time the producers have started negotiations with the cinema chain. Will it be successful?"

"There was Zhang Dapao in the front, Wei and Jin in the back, and now Huayi is taking the lead. The film production industry has indeed been suppressed too badly."

"It feels difficult. The cinema chains are not stupid. They will give some support to the films that participate in the bet. I'm afraid it will be difficult for these people."

Wei Jin has to admit that Huayi’s choice of this timing did have some influence, after all, Pacific Rim had just been released and the 47.5% share of the box office was still fresh in people’s memory.

But he was not optimistic about the outcome.

The reason why Shanhe Media was able to obtain the tiered profit-sharing model is that it has established its golden signboard from the 3 million era to the 6 million era, and then to the 10 billion era, and even broke the domestic box office record many times.

In addition, with Shanhe Cinemas and Wanda Cinemas as insiders, after Zhang Dapao pried open a gap, they took advantage of the right time, place and people to set the rules.

Be it Jackie Chan, Feng Dapao, or Chen Kexin, none of them have been able to prove themselves in terms of commercial box office. At least the threshold of 5 million is still very high.

As for talking about Feng Dapao's "Earthquake", the achievement also needs to be recognized by the theater chain, right?

In addition, the fact that Zhao Feng did not call Wei Jin also indirectly confirmed that the theater chain’s attitude on this matter was almost unanimous.

As Wei Jin expected, the eight major cinema chains responded quickly and issued a unilateral joint announcement the next morning.

"After consultation, we all agreed that films such as 5 and Chinese Zodiac do not meet the conditions for signing a tiered profit-sharing agreement. According to the agreement, the box office must be higher than million yuan before the profit-sharing ratio will change substantially.

Looking at the past performance of several directors, we do not think it is necessary to adjust the revenue sharing ratio at present. We suggest that producers produce more high-quality films and negotiate again when the historical box office performance is better.

The wording of this announcement was relatively polite, and there was some room for maneuver at the end, which was considered to save some face for the producers, but Feng Dapao still felt extremely humiliated.

This clearly shows that the performance of his "Earthquake" was seriously inflated. Without administrative guidance, he, Feng Dapao, is really not a 5 million director.

"What the hell, these bastards always look down on others."

Looking at Feng Dapao who was furious in his office, Wang Zhonglei's face also looked unhappy. He thought that this request was not high, but he did not expect to be rejected. However, he could still control himself well.

"Forget it, Xiaogang. The theater chain won't give in. There's nothing we can do this time. But you have to work hard on the promotion this time. When the box office comes out, give them a good slap in the face and try to get over 10 billion. Then we'll see what they have to say."

Taking a deep breath, Feng Dapao suppressed his anger.

"I know. This time I will lead the team myself and travel all over the country. Isn't it just 10 billion? I don't believe it."

In fact, if only Wei Jin enjoyed this privilege, Feng Dapao might not be so angry. After all, the former has always held the box office record, he admits.

But what about Wu Ershan and Xu Laoguai? Didn’t they just get lucky and got a good script?
Feng Dapao believed that if he were to take over, he would be able to do the same.

"grass!"

It seemed that the theater chain rejected it, which was a bit embarrassing. In order to divert attention, Huayi announced a new news in the afternoon.

"Directed by rookie director Feng Delun and action director Hong Jinbao, the second film in the Tai Chi series, with a total investment of more than 2.2 million yuan, Tai Chi 2: Rise of the Heroes is scheduled to be released on November 11."

As soon as the news came out, people in the circle began to talk about it.

"Speaking of which, Huayi has quite a lot of movies in the second half of this year. Several movies have been scheduled from the National Day to the Lunar New Year, one after another, without a break. Only Shanhe Media has such a scale, right?"

"Hehe, that's normal. After all, it's a long-established private company. However, for a series like Tai Chi, it should be quite effective if it is released in this relay mode."

“It’s hard to say. Tai Chi 1 and The Bottom Girl are competing against each other. If the first one doesn’t perform well, the second one will be dragged down.”

Wei Jin agreed with this point of view very much. Liang Jiahui is indeed very capable, but it is absolutely impossible for him to lead Yang Ying.

After all, this is the woman who has left countless talented actors helpless!
Speaking of which, Yang Ying is a woman with real talent. She bewitched Huang Xiaoming. With the latter's unremitting efforts in matchmaking, an actress with no representative works was able to set up a studio and become one of Huayi's partners, and her status skyrocketed.

When the studio was established at the end of June, we sent a congratulatory letter to Shanhe Media, expressing the hope for the opportunity to cooperate in the future.

Wei Jin was amused at the time. You know, the studio owners who can deal with Shanhe Media are at least top artists in the circle. It felt very awkward to see Yang Ying suddenly appear.

I can only say that this woman is really smart. She really used all of Huang Xiaoming's connections.

I don't know if Huang Xiaoming will regret it in the future.
(End of this chapter)