The Crown Prince of Huayu!

Chapter 23 Making a Lot of Money

"Jia Dong, you have a senior brother who has graduated and is currently working on a film. If you have time, you can learn from him."

After class, after answering Han Jiadong's questions, Wang Weihong suddenly said something before leaving.

Han Jiadong said calmly, "I still want to learn more in school."

“No matter how good you are at talking about war on paper, it’s useless.”

Wang Weihong pulled off a piece of paper, wrote a name and a phone number, and handed it to Han Jiadong: "He just graduated last year. He won many awards at home and abroad just after graduation. It will be good for you to exercise more with him." .”

Han Jiadong took it, looked at it, and accepted it.

"Well, I understand, thank you teacher."

After Wang Weihong left.

"Brother Dong, that Golden Bear Award-winning movie is released today. Let's go watch it together after school in the afternoon!"

Liu Chang extended the invitation.

Qi Tianyang also said: "Yes! This movie will definitely be shown in the film appreciation class in the future. If we don't prepare in advance, I'm afraid it will be difficult to fully understand this kind of movie that can win the Golden Bear Award."

"You go ahead, I have something to do."

"What you said is unsociable! If you have something to do, the worst thing we can do is wait until you are okay before we go together! Anyway, we are not in a hurry for this day."

……

After school in the afternoon.

Han Jiadong, Liu Chang and others separated. As soon as they left school, they received a call from Wang Zhonglei.

"Xiaodong, are you coming to the movie conference?"

"I don't plan to show my face in public for the time being."

"Haha! I knew it. That's fine. When you want to make a movie again, come to me anytime."

After hanging up the phone, Han Jiadong took out the piece of paper Wang Weihong gave him and dialed the number on it.

"Hey, is this Senior Brother Ning Hao? I was introduced by Teacher Wang Weihong..."

Han Jiadong met Ning Hao in a bar.

Contrary to expectations of being depressed, this future great director already looked high-spirited at this time.

He has a baby face and wears a big gold chain around his neck. He is calling friends and is full of confidence.

In fact, Ning Hao had indeed fallen into despair.

When he was filming "Incense", which won him an award, he couldn't find anyone to invest in it. In the end, he had to use his own money and put all his savings of 40,000 yuan into it.

After filming, I couldn't find a way to distribute it, so I kept it at home for more than a year. After I gained some fame by shooting the MV, someone was finally willing to help me take it to an exhibition.

Unexpectedly, this exhibition was out of control and I won several awards in a row.

At this time, several big bosses took the initiative to come to the new movie that no one was willing to invest in, and the highest one had already offered more than one million yuan.

He finally had the opportunity to try making movies on film.

When they met for the first time, Han Jiadong didn't talk much, and left after a brief acquaintance.

At this time, Ning Hao was still focused on literary films.

Hearing Han Jiadong's name, he even took the initiative to talk about the Berlin Film Festival.

There is a lot of envy and yearning in the words.

It's a pity that Han Jiadong...or in other words, what Chinese movies need at this time is not Ning Hao, who makes literary films.

There are enough directors from the fifth and sixth generations making literary films, but instead of making Chinese films better, they are becoming more and more in decline.

However, Han Jiadong did not directly throw the crazy rocks to Ning Hao and let him take pictures.

Ning Hao's contribution to the development of Chinese films can be said to not be ignored.

But would Ning Hao still be the same Ning Hao without going through hardships?

"Let him continue to develop on his original track!"

"When he wants to make a commercial film, I can provide him with some help."

A month later.

Shoplifters is in theaters. The mainland received more than 10 million yuan, which is almost the limit for this type of film.

What’s even more surprising is that the box office of this movie in Hong Kong and Taipei combined actually exceeded that in the mainland!
This is the first time among many mainland movies.

Other movies, at best, can only get a fraction of the box office in the mainland in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Even movies like Hero starring Hong Kong and Taiwan stars are no exception.

Mainland 2.5 million.

Xiangjiang has more than 20 million.

Taipei has more than 30 million.

Far less than the box office in the Mainland.

In addition to good box office success, Shoplifters has also gained an excellent reputation.

The mainland film rating platform is close to nine points, more than two points higher than Hero at this time.

The Hong Kong media even bombarded the upcoming Hong Kong Film Awards next month for Shoplifters.

"This kind of excellent film that cares about the people at the bottom of our society cannot be shortlisted. The Academy Awards should simply be cancelled!"

"Look at the movies on that list, they are either police or gangsters. Are these two the only ones in Hong Kong?"

"Without the masses of the people, no wonder Xiangjiang Cinema will decline!"

……

Even Xiangjiang movie fans, who have always been harsh or even repulsive towards mainland movies, were full of praise for Shoplifters.

"I cried when I watched it! It was such a plain and heartwarming plot, but it made me cry."

"The director is so great. He only relies on a family that is not related by blood to fully demonstrate the pressure of life for ordinary people in Hong Kong."

"To be offensive, before watching this movie, my view on mainland movies has always been: the mainland can also make movies? After watching it, this thought came to me for the first time: it turns out that the mainland can also make movies! Look at us again With regard to movies now, my thought is: Will you still make movies?”

"It's either the police, the gang, or both. This is the current Hong Kong movie!"

"No! There are still rich people, and there are still girls to pick up! Anyway, there are no ordinary people."

"Does anyone know what other movies this director has made?"

……

Wang Zhonglei was very happy and sad during this time.

Happily, the thieves family made money.

The worry is that the Thief Family makes too much money!
The foreign copyright alone sold for more than 30 million.

This is despite the fact that copyrights in Europe are sold cheaply.

And this part of the income does not need to be divided with the theater, it is pure profit.

Including box office share, Shoplifters' income has exceeded 40 million!

A return rate of more than ten times!

What is this concept?
Huayi's most profitable movie since its establishment, Mobile Phone, which was released during the Lunar New Year last year, had an investment of around 10 million, but the profit was less than 20 million!
If the investment share had not been divided up at that time...

He thought about it in his mind more than once.

Especially every time he saw people from Guangguang, Xiaoma, Rongxingda and other companies, and heard them telling him to bring them with him next time such a good thing happened, he smiled with a smile on his face, and his teeth were almost broken behind his back. .

"Does Xiaodong have any new movie plans?"

When Wang Zhongjun saw the thief family's income statement, he couldn't help but ask about Wang Zhonglei.

Wang Zhonglei smiled bitterly: "I don't know how many times I've asked him during this period, but every time he shirks it by saying that he has to go to school and doesn't have time."

Wang Zhongjun was also helpless.

You can win the Golden Bear Award, so why go to school?
At this time on the Nortel campus.

Han Jiadong is on the phone with Xu Qin.

"According to your promotion plan, The Ghost Story has been shown very well in the past few days. It will open in more than 3,000 theaters at the same time tomorrow, ranking second among all movies in the same period!"

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