Chapter 525 Youku? Tudou? Why Are You in the Art Circle? I Am the Leader of the Art Circle!

After eating with San Ye in the canteen of China Film Academy, Chen Fei walked out on his own, and at the same time took out his mobile phone from his pocket and called Wang Changtian back.

Just now, when he was eating, Lao Wang called him, but because there were many people around, he didn't answer, but sent a text message.

Now that there was no one around, there was no need to be shy.

"Hello? Mr. Wang? What's the matter?"

"Mr. Chen, you guys have made a big noise without making any noise!"

Wang Changtian's tone was quite bitter.

"The Palace of the Bronze Bird" and "The Four 1" are both scheduled to be released after the middle of this year, but what makes Guangguang depressed is that they don't know which time slot to choose.

Looking around, the suitable time slots are almost all occupied by Feiyue Films' movies!

"Haha, why do you say that, Mr. Wang?" Chen Fei deliberately pretended to be confused.

"Alas!" Wang Changtian sighed again, and could only say bluntly: "Mr. Chen, "The Four" starring Yang Mi, and "The Palace of the Bronze Bird" invested by Guangguang are ready to be released.

You are more professional in this area, can you give me some advice?"

Chen Fei pondered for a moment, and stopped joking with him, and said bluntly: "July and September, the schedules in these two months may be a little easier."

Hearing this, Wang Changtian's eyes lit up.

This call was made right!

He asked tentatively: "Is "Pacific Rim" scheduled to be released in October?"

Chen Fei chuckled and said: "I can't make the decision on the release date of the co-production film. China Film will issue a notice in two days, and Mr. Wang will know it then."

As soon as this was said, it was almost a clear card.

Wang Changtian was in a complicated mood and wanted to complain about this mountain eagle, but after thinking about it, he gave up: "Okay, let's do it this way first. If there is any place where light is needed, please speak up, Mr. Chen."

"Okay."

After the call ended, Chen Fei drove back to the company.

On the other side, Wang Changtian didn't think much about it at all, and quickly determined the official release time of the two movies he invested in.

"The Four Famous Catchers" on July 1st, "The Palace of the Bronze Sparrow" on September 10th.

As for the love movie starring Liu Shishi, he has announced that he has given up. The whole movie made him angry!

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A piece of news that Chen Fei had been looking forward to for a long time appeared on the business news page.

"Youku acquires Tudou..."

This matter did not attract much attention in the film and television industry, because everyone's attention is more focused on offline rather than online.

However, the appearance of this news attracted Chen Fei's attention at the first time!

Speaking of which, Tudou.com is also miserable.

It should have been the industry leader, but now because of the divorce of the founder, the equity was frozen, which directly led to the failure of the IPO at the best time, resulting in the failure of the listing.

Now, Tudou's biggest competitor Youku has completed the listing first, and turned around to swallow up the former in one fell swoop.

It can be seen that marriage is really a huge grave!

The couple's divorce indirectly caused a loss of 3 billion US dollars, and all their efforts were wasted.

Chen Fei didn't know whether the couple of Tudou would regret it at this time, and he didn't want to know, because the opportunity he had been waiting for for a long time finally came.

Acquire Youku!

At this time, Youku was not like later, with all kinds of pop-up ads flying all over the sky.

After the two goals of listing on Nasdaq and acquiring Tudou were all successful, Youku was completely the only one in the online video field!

Chen Fei has been paying attention to Youku in recent months. It can be clearly found that there are a lot of self-media up masters on the platform, the video quality is also high, and there are all kinds of online dramas and Japanese comics. It is obviously becoming the trend of China's Youtube!

Acquiring it in advance can just achieve online and offline double profits.

Feiyue Film + Pan Asia Cinema + Youku = Closed loop of film and television industry chain!

"2012 is just a good opportunity."

Chen Fei murmured, but he thought of Mr. Ma in his mind.

The Alibaba system is like a bandit. No matter which industry it enters, it will always make a mess.

Youku in the previous life was so brilliant after swallowing Tudou, but it was ruined by Alibaba's messing around and changing its leader.

Otherwise, how could iQiyi and Tencent catch up?

As for Mango TV, let alone, it is full of complaints!

Chen Fei is a very straightforward action-oriented person. Since he has an idea in his mind, he will implement it immediately.

He directly called Zhou Shouzi, the head of the Huaxia region of Longxiang Capital, and arranged for him to lead the acquisition.

Zhou Shouzi, 29 years old this year, has an excellent resume. Chen Fei spent a lot of effort to dig him out from DST and make him the head of Longxiang Capital's China region.

It is worth mentioning that before joining DST, he also interned at Facebook for a period of time.

After joining Longxiang Capital, he led the investment in many companies including Xiaomi, JD.com, Alibaba, Didi Taxi, BYD, CATL, etc.

To be honest, Chen Fei now doesn't even know how many companies he actually or indirectly controls.

He can now proudly declare to the outside world: "I never look at whether the other party has money when making friends, because none of them are as rich as me!"

When Zhou Shouzi received Chen Fei's call, he went to check some internal information.

Then, he gave Chen Fei a huge surprise!

"At the beginning of Youku's listing, Longxiang Capital has acquired 19% of Youku Tudou's shares through various investments and operations in recent years."

When he got this answer, Chen Fei subconsciously sat up straight.

"How much help will this provide for subsequent acquisitions?"

"That depends on what your purpose is, Mr. Chen? Control? Or full acquisition?"

"Of course it's full ownership."

Just like the acquisition of Jiahe and Pan Asia Cinema Line, Chen Fei's first requirement is stability to avoid any worries.

He can make wedding clothes for others.

On the other end of the phone, Zhou Shouzi thought for a moment and replied: "Okay, I understand, you wait for my good news."

"Well, it's up to you."

After hanging up the phone, Chen Fei directly put the matter behind his mind.

Professional people do professional things, he believes that Zhou Shouzi will definitely bring him more surprises!

...

The next day, in the Youku building, Gu Yongjiang, who was busy integrating the resources on the Tudou side, received a call from the company's shareholders.

"Gudong, Alibaba's Mr. Ma and Longxiang Capital's Mr. Zhou asked me to meet you."

"Alibaba? Longxiang Capital?"

Gu Yongjiang's face was slightly startled, and after thinking for a moment, he replied: "Okay, let's meet at Youku."

...

Guangguang moved quickly.

On the third day after talking to Chen Fei on the phone, the release posters of "The Four" and "The Palace of the Bronze Bird" were published on the official website.

That afternoon, China Film Group was unwilling to lag behind and directly published the first global release poster of "Pacific Rim" on the Internet.

Above the vast sea, between the dark clouds and lightning, there are several mecha giants standing, flying, or running. At first glance, they are full of deterrence!

Especially the fiery red Chinese-style mecha in the front, which looks very attractive and shocking!

The designers of China Film Group have put a lot of effort. All the Chinese-style mechas correspond to Chinese historical or mythological figures, and the main purpose is to promote culture!

At the bottom of the poster, there is a line of smaller text, which clearly reads: "In order to fight against the behemoths, we create giant warriors."

In addition, the bottom of the poster also marks the producer of the movie and the specific release time.

There is no need for China Film to specifically say hello, the media began to report:

"The co-production "Pacific Rim" is officially scheduled for October 1st!"

"China Mecha vs. Behemoth, let's wait and see!"

"China Film, Shanghai Film, Wanda, Feiyue Films, Lucasfilm, Walton Films, ingenious masterpieces, science fiction will fight again during the National Day."

As soon as the news came out, major production companies in the circle cursed at the same time.

Originally, there were only two or three months of good time in the second half of the year, but now it's good that the National Day time that many companies are paying attention to was snatched away by the co-production "Pacific Rim"!

In addition to the Lunar New Year period, they only have July and November left.

For a time, many movies began to schedule or adjust their schedules, and they crowded into these two months.

Of course, there are still many production companies ready to compete with Feiyue Film and Television.

"The Sword of Assassins 2" is just a martial arts movie, "Journey to the West: Hero is Back" is a rare animation movie in China, "Anti-Corruption Storm 2" is just a Hong Kong movie, and "Your Name" is a love movie...

What is there to be afraid of?

Just go for it!

...

At the same time, as the only two actors in China who participated in the co-production project "Pacific Rim", Wu Jing and Jing Tian once again became the focus of many people's attention.

The former is filming "Wolf Warrior" in the military area and has not appeared for the time being. The media are afraid of being arrested as a spy, so they naturally dare not disturb him.

The latter is naturally receiving great attention because he is filming the controversial "Special Identity".

"I have already secured the female lead for you in "The Man from Macau". "New Mom Loves Me Again" will be released in September, and then "Pacific Rim" will be released in October, followed by "The Rescue" in November.

You will be the focus of the film market for at least three months this year!

Next year, the three films "Special Identity", "New Police Story 2013" and "The Man from Macau" will also continue to be popular for at least three months..."

Listening to Lu Zheng's words, Jing Tian nodded silently, feeling a little excited.

Two years, six movies, especially with a Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster like "Pacific Rim", the popularity will definitely last for a long time!

After the movie was released, the first promotional video soon appeared on the Internet, attracting a lot of attention.

In the picture, Wu Jing and Jing Tian, ​​wearing red combat uniforms with Chinese style, walked towards the huge mecha and entered the combat cabin through the elevator.

At this time, the camera zoomed out slightly and turned to an upward angle, and the eyes of several towering mecha giants suddenly lit up, and they walked out of the giant ship's hatch step by step and ran towards the sea!

The background of the whole picture was already windy and rainy, with dark clouds, and lightning flashed from time to time in the sky.

The camera continued to zoom out, and suddenly there were bursts of roars in the deep, quiet and terrifying ocean!

The next second, the sea surface suddenly rose in several places, forming huge whirlpools and waves!

A hundred-meter-high monster broke through the sea, roared at several mechas, and rushed over frantically...

The last part of the screen was a notice: "Pacific Rim has been scheduled for October 1, 2012, and will be released in major theaters in 2D, 3D, and imax-3D versions. Box office pre-sales will officially start in August, so stay tuned!"

The two-minute trailer, plus the final notice, immediately attracted the attention of many viewers.

Especially the conspicuous Chinese-style mecha giant in it, which made many viewers excited.

"It has to be Director Chen! I told him that his trip to Hollywood was not in vain. Now, it's not just foreigners who can save the earth, we Chinese can do it, too!"

"What? Why does the pre-sale start in August? I want to buy it now! IMAX-3D! It will be awesome!"

"Don't worry, brothers. The main dishes are waiting. Let's eat dessert first. The pre-sale for "Blade of the Assassin 2" and "Journey to the West: Hero is Back" have started. Let's support them first!"

"I want to watch that domestic animated film. The promotional video looks pretty good."

"Uh, didn't Teacher Liu say that this animated film ruins the world view, ruins the classics, ruins the original work, etc.? Is it really good?"

"Good fellow! Brothers above are so naive that they actually believe Teacher Liu!"

...

The news on the Internet is mixed, but the film and television industry is in harmony at this time.

The heat of the "stabbing" incident has passed, the "Zhao Zhen dispute" has temporarily stopped, and the "Zhang Yimou's extra birth" has also been temporarily suppressed...

The hot "melon" is gone, and good people and good deeds have begun to emerge.

Jia Zhangke is a very authentic person.

On this day, he suddenly announced on his personal Weibo that he would build an art cinema in the capital at his own expense to play art films.

At the same time, he also promised: "In the future, all art films that are not favored by theaters and have no chance to be seen by the audience can be chosen to be shown in this art cinema built by him."

Lao Jia is not the kind of art film director who is short of money. Even if he loses money to gain publicity, he has nothing to lose.

No matter how people in the circle evaluate him, his name has been raised anyway!

After seeing this news, Chen Fei immediately had an idea.

Why not cooperate with Lao Jia?

Everyone is from Shanxi Province and is in the same circle, so they naturally have the conditions for cooperation.

Thinking of this, he immediately took out his mobile phone and called Jia Zhangke.

The two quickly agreed to meet in a teahouse in the afternoon.

Lao Jia is 42 years old this year. He graduated from the Department of Literature of Beijing Film Academy and is one of the representatives of the sixth generation of Chinese directors.

Since his debut, he has directed and produced many excellent works. In 2006, he won the Golden Lion Award at the 63rd Venice International Film Festival with "Still Life".

In the literary and artistic circles, Jia Zhangke is also a banner.

Of course, even though he has a high status in the circle, he is still friendly in front of Chen Fei, without any intention of being arrogant.

Not to mention the Chinese film and television circle, even in Hollywood, and even globally, Chen Fei's performance in the field of literary and artistic films is enough to be called a "natural talent"!

The 28-year-old winner of the European Film Festival's three gold grand slams, such an achievement must be regarded as a guest of honor no matter where it is placed.

After the two met in the teahouse, they first exchanged greetings with fellow villagers, and then officially got to the point.

"Since we are going to build an art cinema, why don't we build a big one at once, directly covering the whole country, or even the whole of Asia."

The first sentence Chen Fei said confused Jia Zhangke!

He is indeed not short of money, but building an art cinema in the capital is the best he can do within his ability.

As for covering the whole country, or even the whole of Asia, this is completely a fantasy for him!

Jia Zhangke was quite amused: "Director Chen, you think too highly of me."

"No, no, no!" Chen Fei shook his head and said seriously: "Director Jia, you may not understand what I mean. I just said us.

I will take care of the cinema and the release, and you are mainly responsible for selecting suitable art films and then handing them over to me to arrange the release."

Hearing this, Jia Zhangke frowned subconsciously.

He thought for a long time, but he could not guess Chen Fei's purpose.

It is very likely that such a big effort, consuming manpower and material resources, will be thankless in the end.

Jia Zhangke said tentatively: "Director Chen, I think I need to remind you that not all art films can be like yours, which are more popular than those commercial films."

"I know." Chen Fei smiled and simply said straight to the point: "You know my situation. I am almost at the end of the commercial film field, but in terms of art films, I am isolated from the entire circle."

"Do you want to re-enter this circle?"

Jia Zhangke was quite surprised.

He secretly guessed that Chen Fei wanted to please the old guys in the art circle and gain their recognition?

It shouldn't be the case. As a European three-gold Grand Slam director, he doesn't need to please those old guys and give them money and prestige!

Chen Fei suddenly grinned: "No, I don't want to enter that circle. My idea is to create a new art circle.

I hope we can form an alliance, you will be responsible for external work, and I will be mainly responsible for the rear.

You are a senior, and your prestige in the circle is higher than mine. I believe you can definitely attract a group of art film directors who are willing to approach us. Let's create a new art circle dominated by us. What do you think? "

Hearing this, Jia Zhangke's eyes suddenly lit up!

Being a younger brother to others is not as cool as being the boss!

"But..." A trace of worry flashed in his eyes: "Some major positions are still controlled by the 'old seniors' in the circle. They won't let go so easily."

"Hahaha!"

Chen Fei suddenly laughed, and gently shook the teacup while slowly saying: "The times are changing. The Yangtze River's back waves push the front waves. Those 'old seniors' will eventually get too old to move. "

As soon as the voice fell, he suddenly drank the tea in the cup.

The voice continued to ring, as if the devil's temptation lingered in Jia Zhangke's ears: "In fact, I have always wanted to make some contributions to my hometown, such as investing in the construction of a film academy.

Coincidentally, I think you can be the first dean of this academy. What do you think? Are you interested in trying it? "

As the saying goes, if you don't return home when you are rich, it's like walking in the night in brocade clothes!

Jia Zhangke was already very agitated by the multiple conditions offered by Chen Fei, and now after hearing the words "the first dean of the first film academy in Shanxi Province", he immediately made up his mind.

He also drank the tea in the teacup in one gulp and stretched out his hand to Chen Fei: "For art!"

"Haha, for art!"

Chen Fei stretched out his right hand and shook hands with him, thinking in his heart that he was one step closer to his goal!

What's the point of mixing in other people's circles?

If you want to mix, mix in the circle you have promoted!

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