Chapter 778

Zhou Jingyi watched the meeting from beginning to end.

After the meeting came out, seeing Sun Yuting and Huang Wenjuan staying in the meeting room discussing the follow-up matters with Ming Xiaojing and the others, Zhou Jingyi, who had already gotten to know Zhu Qiang very well, couldn't help turning her head to look at Li Qian , Said: "You are really generous."

Li Qian shrugged, "Yes, I personally dismantled the crew!"

After finishing speaking, he turned his head to look at Zhu Qiang and Zhou Jingyi, and said with a smile: "Not only do you have to shoot a lot of shots, but you probably have to get the final salary, and you have to wait until the second half of next year!"

Zhou Jingyi shrugged, Zhu Qiang smiled and said, "It's okay, anyway, I haven't received any good books recently."

Walking to the stairs while talking, Zhu Qiang suddenly asked again: "Then now... just leave?"

Li Qian stopped, sighed helplessly, and said, "What can I do if I don't want to break up? The big adjustment that hurts muscles and bones, the script must be greatly changed, and the two lines have to be carefully reviewed from the beginning. Now it's not going to break up. One is the camera. The filming may not be useful in the future, and the second is that staying here is expensive, and the expenses are not small!"

Zhu Qiang sighed, "Yes!"

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Kang Xiaolou, Ming Xiaojing, Huang Wenjuan, and Sun Yuting discussed behind closed doors for a full hour and a half, and roughly finalized the next shooting plan.

The crew announced the temporary disbandment that afternoon. When will filming continue, everyone will just go back and wait for the news. The estimated start time is July and August next year, and it should not exceed September at the latest.

The words were said by Ming Xiaojing in front of all the staff and actors of the whole crew. At the same time, in order to avoid the spread of all kinds of negative gossip, which would damage morale and affect future publicity, she also deliberately emphasized with a smile, "Attention, I did not Embezzlement of money, it’s not like we’re not going to stop filming, it’s Li Qian and I who made a plan and decided to make certain changes to the script and story, so we have to go through the script carefully, and then, when we start filming again, Li Qian will be ours. Male number two, it's not easy to invite him to join us!"

"So, I have to make the story satisfy him and move his heart. Temporarily suspending the filming is a helpless move! But everyone can rest assured that the wages and remuneration that should be paid will not be lost to everyone. If anyone Don’t worry, I can tell you something, I understand that Xiaojing may be too poor to pay everyone’s salary, but Li Qian is rich! Everyone knows that, right?”

"Of course, if you think I'm unreliable in this matter and don't want to follow me, it doesn't matter. We can convert the part that has been filmed and the time that everyone has wasted. If you want to leave, you can find it later. Producers Kang and Producer Huang settle their salaries! Anyway, I'm sorry everyone!"

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That night, Li Qian flew back to Shuntian Mansion with his administrative secretary, Qin Nuo.

Sun Yuting stayed behind and accompanied Huang Wenjuan to do the aftermath and finishing work. Then, when the crew was completely disbanded, she and Ming Xiaojing and his wife would return to Shuntian Mansion with the materials they had filmed. The Lou Film and Television Department, together with her and the couple, will be responsible for taking stock of the materials that have been filmed, which ones will be useful in the future, and which ones will be completely useless.

In short, because of Ming Xiaojing's waywardness, the work of the past few months has completely turned into a bad account. Li Qian must send someone to work with the couple to clear up the bad account before continuing with the new version. preparations.

In fact, to put it bluntly, it can basically be regarded as a new movie!

With the change of the investment share between the two parties, Li Qian has decided to send Sun Yuting as the producer from the preparatory period of the new version.

By that time, the film will have three producers, two of whom were sent by Minghu Culture.

Huang Wenjuan was in charge of holding the money bag, Sun Yuting was in charge of controlling the filming and waste of the director Ming Xiaojing, and the producer Kang Xiaolou had to be reduced to the one who was only in charge of mediating the two sides.

There's no way, whoever lets the two of them vent their anger through one nostril will only make Ming Xiaojing's thinking more and more unrestrained!

A good actor, no matter how good your performance is, the director can suppress your performance level in a range that is roughly on the same level as other characters and actors in the whole play during post-editing. It will cause a drama to be completely unbalanced at the performance level.

And a good director needs a good producer to stand behind her at all times and help her maintain a general balance between art and business, between creation and expenditure, so as not to let the entire crew completely lose control—— Seriously overspending to a certain extent, in fact, is already insane.

Movies are art.

But every second of filming costs money, so the film must also be commercial.

Obviously, as the husband of the director, the producer Kang Xiaolou has not been qualified in the past few months, at least it is hard to say that he is excellent.

So in fact, Li Qian needs someone like Sun Yuting who understands film, art, and artistic creation, but at the same time has been honing in Minghu Culture and Li Qian's side for a year or two, and has also done a lot of production work. Those who work in film and have already begun to understand some control methods have stood between the pure artistic creation school like Ming Xiaojing and the couple, and the pure money bag like Huang Wenjuan.

Because it is a pity that despite Huang Wenjuan's hard work, she has been highly valued in the past few years. She is responsible for many films of Minghu Culture and Li Qian as the executive producer, but her education and her starting foundation are still very important. As a producer, she has made little progress in controlling artistic creation.

As a producer, this is really a big flaw.

Therefore, Li Qian has already made a conclusion in his heart: she should follow him in the future and be responsible for managing the accounts of the crew he personally led. If you expect her to be sent out to watch a work from the beginning to the end with full authority... She is really not good enough! Because of her ignorance of artistic creation, she couldn't hold back the director at all!

Even a new director like Ming Xiaojing!

So once Ming Xiaojing overspends, she can't suppress and refute on the spot, she can only call Qi Jie, but whether she tells Qi Jie or herself, isn't she just an executive producer? Megaphone?

Moreover, once the question is passed on, do I have to come down to account in person every time I find out that the investment drama has exceeded the budget? Break up with the director?

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When Li Qian returned to Shuntian Mansion, he told Qi Jie, Cao Zhan, Zou Wenhuai, Jin Han, and Han Shunzhang about the matter and Ming Xiaojing's plan, but everyone was speechless.

But things are already like this, and it is also helpless.

Of course, the advantage of coming back after going there for a day is that Li Qian unexpectedly got to spend their first New Year's Day with his two sons and daughters.

It's just that during this period, he still has a few events to attend.

The first is to personally represent Minghu Culture to attend a meeting, initiated by the Ministry of Culture, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, the State Price Bureau, the National Film Industry Association, and the China Directors Association, and sponsored by major theaters and theater alliances across the country. discussion.

As a result of the discussion, everyone unanimously agreed to raise the fare.

The current domestic movie ticket price depends on the size of the screen, the level of hardware configuration, the size of the city, and the level of consumption. The pricing is roughly maintained at between 15 yuan per ticket and 20 yuan per ticket.

When the major theaters issue tickets, unless it is a particularly popular show that is hard to find, they will generally give a discount of about 20%. In the off-season, the shows that are not easy to sell, and some disadvantaged theaters , the highest even dare to give a 40% discount!

So in fact, watching a movie costs about 10 yuan.

At the end of the final discussion, most of the opinions agreed that the ticket price should be increased by 50% on the original basis!

As far as this is concerned, the relevant state departments are worried that the people will have great opinions, so they have repeatedly suppressed the result!

In other words, if you want to watch a movie after the new ticket price is implemented, the official price will be at least 22.5 yuan per ticket-of course, it is estimated that by that time, because with the increase in ticket prices, theaters will be in the market. The range of price fluctuations that can be controlled within the cost will increase accordingly, so for promotion, the discount rate they can give will also increase accordingly.

With this in mind, at this meeting, everyone unanimously discussed and passed the "Announcement on the Self-discipline of the Movie Box Office Market". In the past two years, there have been some false box office reports. Strict regulations have been made for competition and the like, and specific punishment measures have also been given!

When it comes to the ticket price, the major theater chain operators have unanimously agreed that in order to ensure fair competition, the minimum single movie ticket price of each major theater chain after discounts should not be lower than 12 yuan!

At the end of the meeting, after discussion and decision, the par price and various regulations formulated at this meeting will be officially implemented from January 5, 2002!

Considering that this is actually a price-setting meeting, basically speaking, the major cinema operators are the ones with the most say. The major film companies, production companies and directors, in fact, just participate in the past and give their opinions and suggestions. That's all, it may not be adopted, after all, this is a very pure commercial behavior!

In the end, since the new fare has even been approved by the State Price Bureau, it can be regarded as being reviewed on behalf of the government. Once it is released, even if there will be great opposition from the public, there is nothing to do.

You can protest, you can choose not to watch movies from now on!

In fact, although he didn't say a word at the meeting, it is said that after returning, Zhao Meicheng literally cursed - his movie will be released soon, and he is on the verge of death!

To be honest, it is estimated that he would rather not enjoy the surge in the box office brought about by the 50% increase in ticket prices for the time being, and he is not willing to rush to this stall to bear the anger of thousands of viewers-and the reason why theater operators can't wait so much The new ticket price should be implemented immediately after the meeting. To put it bluntly, Zhao Meicheng is here during the New Year's schedule!

That is bound to be a big seller!

It couldn't be more perfect to establish a new ticket price through one of his movies!

If Zhao Meicheng is allowed to make the choice, he is probably more willing to push the date of ticket price increase to March and April. Taking advantage of the sluggish box office market, the price will be raised quietly without interest, and the opposition will be smaller. When the summer holidays arrive, everyone returns to the theater and finds that the price has increased, but it has been increased for a few months, so there will be no big trouble-but it is a pity that even a big name like Zhao Meicheng, in the When huge interests are involved, it's still a fart for the theater operators!

Just at this juncture, the theater dealers who usually praised him to the sky suddenly turned against him and turned him into a knife in their hands--Zhao Meicheng's new movie, but the ticket price has risen, whether you like it or not!

Of course, the New Year's file, or the Lunar New Year file, was gradually established in the past few years because of Zhao Meicheng's main focus on this period. It is not yet comparable to the summer file, but after all, there is already some market enthusiasm and box office. It is also getting bigger and bigger every year, so although Zhao Meicheng dominates the world in this schedule, the number of movies that want to come over to get a piece of the action is also gradually increasing.

For example, "Scar"!

This is Bai Yujing's big screen debut in recent years, which has made a strong comeback thanks to the hit "Legend of the New White Snake". There was no start-up for half a year, and in the end, the project failed because of the three investors arguing with each other!

Of course, it’s only temporary. The director is still holding the script and begging his grandpa to sue his grandma for investment. It is said that Zhou Yanghua’s oriental culture has been persuaded recently, so whether he can start filming in the future is still uncertain. But because of the delay for so long, the film contract that Bai Yujing signed at the beginning has expired.

So, um, big-screen debut after serious comeback.

Director Yuan Dacheng's first film work, the leading actor Cheng Yifan, a student of the 97th grade of Songjiang Theater Academy's Acting Department, and Zhou Zhiyu's serious junior, in January 2000, with his wonderful performance in "Rogue", won the domestic film and television drama Great Wall Award for Best Newcomer in Film Category.

Well, it was Zhu Qiang who was in the same period as him and won the best newcomer in the TV series.

And the next Great Wall Awards will be held soon. Zhou Zhiyu and He Yingyu are both hot favorites in the film category. As for the TV series... this year is not over yet, and it has already been hailed as the "Year of Returning the Pearl". , so, as you can imagine!

On December 29, Zhao Meicheng's new film "My Name is Jixiang" was released in a pinch.

Li Qian attended with Liao Liao's fancy dress, cheering for this northern school film master.

In the new year, on Monday, January 4, 2002, Yuan Dacheng's "Scar" was released.

Although the investment is small, with Bai Yujing and Cheng Yifan as the leading actors, there is no shortage of publicity points, so the producer still paid for it, and held a premiere in Shuntian Mansion. Li Qian even brought A large number of artists of Minghu culture used to be the Baiyujing platform collectively.

Although he has no hope for the box office of this movie.