During my years at China Entertainment

Chapter 520: Wei Jin's drop of kindness, Fan Bingbing repays with a spring of gratitude
Just as Wei Jin expected, as the first female director in China with a box office of 500 million yuan, Xue Xiaolu still has a strong appeal.

With the addition of Yang Mi, the film had a high screening schedule, and "Seattle" performed very well on the first day.

"Following Love Is Not Blind, director Xue Xiaolu has achieved another success with Beijing Meets Seattle, which grossed 33 million yuan on the first day. Yang Mi, Yu Hewei interpret the story of love and redemption."

"Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" grossed 5 million yuan in 4 days, Zhou Xingxing became a box office guarantee, and the value of the leading actor Wen Zhang doubled"

"Perfect Match 2, produced and starred by Zhang Ziyi and joined by Wang Lihong and Zheng Kai, closed at 788 million on the first day, which was lower than expected."

"The Spring Festival market hit a new high, approaching the 1.3 million mark!"

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At this point, all the movies scheduled for the Spring Festival have been released.

"Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" is undoubtedly the strongest, but the most envied one in the circle is "Seattle".

Because the production cost of this movie is the lowest among all the movies during the Spring Festival, even including publicity and promotion, it is only 40 million.

"Jia Jie, 3986 million, almost 4000 million!"

Yang Mi, the leading actor, couldn't help but shout excitedly in the nanny car after finishing a roadshow.

"Yes, Mimi, 3986 million, and the movie has a very good reputation, just as good as Love Is Not Blind. The daily box office will definitely go up.

Even if Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons takes the lion’s share, it won’t be too difficult for it to break through 5 million. The 6 million target is very likely to be achieved!”

At this point, Zeng Jia looked at Yang Mi with even more excitement, "Mi Mi, this will be another masterpiece of yours. Do you know what that means?"

"Masterpiece, two hit movies starring a female lead? Does that mean the commercial value has increased significantly?"

Yang Mi's eyes sparkled as he muttered to himself.

"Yes, two movies that are box office successes are rare in China. After this, we can offer you 1500 million yuan in external remuneration."

"1500 million? Isn't that as high as the four great actresses?"

"Mi Mi, don't underestimate yourself. Which of the four great actresses can pull in as much box office as you? Of course, this is not the most important thing.

The most important thing is that we can, like the big stars, use our personal influence to participate in the investment of production companies and film and television companies, and step by step turn the studio into a company, making it bigger and stronger! "

"Yes, Sister Jia, we want to become bigger and stronger!"

Yang Mi ate Zeng Jia's cake. At this moment, she even felt that without that man, she, Yang Mi, would also become a big investor.

Wei Jin had no way of achieving Yang Mi's dream, and at this moment he received a call from Xue Xiaolu announcing the good news.

After congratulating each other, Teacher Xue explained the purpose of his visit.

"Wei Jin, when I wrote the script, I had already planned for a sequel. I was a little nervous before the results came out, but now I finally have an idea. For the sequel, I hope you will continue to support me."

"No problem, Mr. Xue, I couldn't ask for more."

How could Wei Jin refuse? This was like giving money to himself.

To be frank, although "Seattle" has just been released, it is definitely making a lot of money based on its 7.5 Impression.com rating.

With two movies in hand, Xue Xiaolu can raise funds wherever he goes.
Of course, Wei Jin did not treat her unfairly. Even though Xue Xiaolu was not a contracted director of the company, the play still gave her a basic salary of 3 million and % of the box office dividends.

Don't underestimate these three points. Even if calculated based on the guaranteed box office of 3 million, the producers will only get nearly 5 million, and Xue Xiaolu will get 2 million in dividends alone.

Perhaps this is exactly why Xue Xiaolu is willing to continue the cooperation.

"By the way, Mr. Xue, do you have the script yet?"

“It’s just a rough draft for now. I’ll polish it after I finish my art exam work.”

"It's okay, Mr. Xue, just take your time. I'll come back to admire your masterpiece when I return to China."

"Okay, I wish you good luck with your Oscar."

"Thank you."

After hanging up the phone, Wei Jin was in a good mood and celebrated with his elder sister that night.

The Spring Festival holiday flies by.

In the film market, the performance of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" is indeed more sharp than that of "Lost in Thailand".

Even in terms of daily revenue alone, "Pacific Rim" cannot catch up with it, and is second only to "Gravity".

In just 7 days, it earned a box office of 5.2 million yuan, far surpassing all other Spring Festival movies and easily taking the championship title.

Following closely behind is "Seattle", which, despite being a romance film, earned 1.33 million in three days thanks to its good reputation.

Looking at the data of these two films, countless production companies in the industry are envious.

Because in just these few days, both films produced by Shanhe Media have recovered their costs and even made a profit, which is too exaggerated.

Han Sanping was depressed again. In just two months, he missed out on three blockbuster works, "Lost in Thailand", "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" and "Seattle". He felt sad just thinking about it.

Old Han has made up his mind that he will be shameless from now on and will try his best to get some market share by begging for it.

In comparison, Fiber Optic King is in high spirits. Although "Journey to the West" has nothing to do with him, he has a 20% share in "Seattle" Fiber Optic.

"The 10 million back then was considered a big profit, hahahaha."

The 63rd Berlin Film Festival came to an end. The film "Promised Land" was not very lucky and only won the Special Nomination Award.

Wei Jin met Frances who had hurried back from the crew. He originally planned to comfort her, but the latter was much stronger than he had imagined and did not look disappointed at all.

Come to think of it, he has been in the industry for nearly 30 years, what kind of storms has he not seen?

While Francis was putting on makeup, Wei Jin browsed through the domestic news. Unexpectedly, he saw some strange news.

Perhaps out of jealousy or perhaps out of mental illness, some literary and artistic directors in the film industry fired criticism at "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons".

The reason is very simple. There are some thrilling and terrifying scenes in the movie, which scared many children who were watching the movie to tears.

For example: the shot of a horrible corpse hanging in the fireplace; the shot of a fish monster opening its bloody mouth and eating a human head; the shot of a witch eating human flesh with a knife and fork.
Lou Ye, Wang Xiaoshuai and others took advantage of this topic to bring up the previous classification issue again and took the opportunity to make trouble.

"When I was watching the movie, I heard many children crying. I blushed and didn't understand why the uncles didn't rate the movie. Are they afraid? What are they afraid of?" "A legal constraint mechanism, administrative supervision, and industry self-control and self-discipline of the film rating system should be established. Only in this way can we protect the next generation!"

Honestly speaking, Wei Jin felt that these people had gone insane. Blaming everything on the film rating system only proved their own incompetence.

If this continues, these people may end up destroying themselves.

Putting away his emotions, Wei Jin looked at the crew and saw that everything was ready.

Taking a deep breath, Wei Jin cleared his mind, picked up the loudspeaker and issued instructions.

"action!"

Just as Wei Jin had expected, after being provoked twice in a row, the General Administration held a meeting the next day, and Director Tong directly cursed at the meeting.

“Under the same censorship environment, why can some directors make hit movies? Why can others win awards at foreign film festivals?
Some other directors will simply blame everything on the system. They blame censorship for poor box office performance and censorship for not winning awards?
This can only prove one thing, that is incompetence! Or, these people's purpose from the beginning was not pure, just wanting to shoot some bad things to shape their own image? "

These words were very harsh, even murderous.

The next day, Wei Jin received a call from Ning Hao, who talked about the follow-up of the incident.

It is said that all the projects that Wang Xiaoshuai and others had previously finalized have fallen through.

There were also some directors who received support funds, but all of them were cut by the General Administration.

Including some projects with the participation of state-owned enterprises, they directly withdrew their investment, and the other investors could no longer sit still and decisively ran away.

My goodness, people without ability are really not worthy of respect. The higher-ups are too lazy to appease you and will just cut off your financial support. It’s your turn to play around or not!

As a listed company, Huayi released last year’s financial report after the Spring Festival.

Last year, Huayi had a bad year, with several of its films suffering losses. However, thanks to the development of the real estate industry, its net profit still reached 2.24 million yuan, a significant increase over the previous year.

But the stock price fell sharply, falling more than 6 points that day.

Because along with the financial report, changes in senior management are also announced.

Chen Guofu, the gold medal producer who worked hard at Huayi for 7 years, resigned a few years ago, and the next person to take over was Gu Changwei, who was only good at literary and artistic works.

Although Huayi held an emergency press conference and stated that it would continue to invite Chen Guofu to serve as producer for subsequent projects and that there would be no shortage of future collaborations, shareholders still refused to buy it.

To be honest, people in the industry had already anticipated Chen Guofu's resignation. After all, everyone knows how cruel the entertainment industry is.

The two "Tai Chi" series he led were a complete failure, and he had no choice but to resign to maintain his dignity.

What surprised Wei Jin was that after considering it for a month, Chen Guofu actually refused the olive branch thrown by Shanhe Media.

"Old Chen, has he joined Wanda?"

"Boss Wei, he also rejected Wanda. As far as I know, Chen Guofu reached an agreement with the capital from Taiwan and started a company together."

Wei Jin felt a little regretful when he heard this.

He has always been dissatisfied with the company's film production department because there is no one who can take charge.

He had contacted Zhong Lifang many times before, just wanting to find a tool, but this woman stayed in Xiao Ma's car and didn't want to get out.

Therefore, Chen Zhiming was arranged to contact Chen Guofu in advance. After all, this person has been in the industry for many years and has some ability.

I didn't expect that the other person doesn't want to work anymore, what can I do?
"Forget it, let's leave it like this for now."

After hanging up the phone, Wei Jin didn't think much about it and continued to shoot a new film.
The shooting time passed quickly and late February arrived quietly.

In the film market, "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" is still making great strides and is unstoppable.

After 11 days of release, the box office reached a high of 8 million.

However, as work gradually resumed after the Spring Festival, the market inevitably weakened, and the single-day box office of "Journey to the West" fell back to around 4000 million.

Seattle is still ranked second after a week of release, with a box office of 2.52 million yuan and a daily box office of around 2500 million yuan.

"101 Marriage Proposals", starring Huang Bo, also grossed 1.2 million yuan.

However, Zhang Ziyi's "Perfect Match 2" did not make much waves. It took nearly 10 days for the box office to barely exceed 6000 million.

Of course, the most amazing one is Zhen Zidan’s “Together”.

After nearly 10 days in release, the box office was less than one million, and the film was directly abandoned by the theaters, and almost all screenings were cut.

The leading actors, who had been so affectionate with each other at the premiere, have now started to quarrel with each other, and no one wants to take the blame.

After all, once it becomes box office poison, it will have a great impact on its own status and resources.

At this time, Huayi announced a piece of news to the public.

"The comedy film "Personal Tailor", written by Wang Shuo and directed by Feng Xiaogang, with participation from many big stars such as Ge You, Fan Wei, Song Dandan, Bai Baihe, Li Xiaolu, and Zheng Kai, will start shooting next month."

Immediately afterwards, Feng Dapao further confirmed this fact on Weibo.

"Last year's 1942 caused a lot of trouble for the audience who went to the theater. Today, I will use Weibo to wish you all a happy new year. We will see you at the end of the year, during the Lunar New Year holiday!"

As soon as the news came out, Huayi's stock price soared immediately, which can really be described as magical.

Before the Oscars ceremony, Wei Jin completed the location shooting in Nantakota and had just returned to Los Angeles when he received a call from Fan Bingbing.

Wei Jin couldn't help himself when he thought of this charming woman's charm in bed.

However, Fan Bingbing is indeed very capable and can grasp Wei Jin's preferences very well.

She was wearing a bright red slim dress, paired with 5D ultra-thin translucent black stockings, a pair of black high heels with red edges, and a pair of long beautiful legs stretched straight. Wei Jin didn't even take a bath and had sex with her on the spot.

At this time, Fan Bingbing was supporting herself with her hands on the opaque floor-to-ceiling glass, her legs slightly bent, her knees inward, and her feet in high heels were trembling a little.

Looking at the blushing charming face and the enchanting classical phoenix eyes reflected in the glass, Wei Jin stood behind her, pinching the round and perky buttocks wrapped in black stockings with both hands, and frantically testing the crotch of the black stockings.

At a certain moment, Wei Jin noticed the woman in the reflection, biting her red lips and frowning, with her nose making humming sounds from time to time, knowing that the critical moment was approaching.

(End of this chapter)