Chapter 818: Kill the Chicken to Scare the Monkey, Make a Warning to the Mountain and Scare the Tiger, Abide by the Bottom Line and Correct Attitude!

To be honest, when Chen Fei saw the caller ID of La Peikang on the set, he was actually very disappointed.

The "ding-ling-ling" phone ringing sounded in his ears, but he did not answer it immediately. Instead, he began to miss the time when Han Sanping was in office.

Although San Ye has a bad temper and often does things that people can't understand, he handles things very well.

If Han Sanping is still the helmsman of China Film, then this matter will never develop to the current situation.

Once there is a sign, San Ye will definitely extinguish it immediately, instead of letting the incident develop and get out of control!

"Alas! China Film is still the same China Film, but the helmsman is no longer the helmsman who can distinguish right from wrong and act decisively."

Sighing, Chen Fei pressed the connect button.

"Hello, Mr. La?"

"Haha, Chen Fei, are you busy now?"

"I'm shooting now, what's up? Is there something wrong?"

"Here's the situation." La Peikang organized his words and said as tactfully as possible: "I've noticed the recent conflict between Feiyue Films and Enlight Films, and I went to find out the whole story today.

Now that I understand the situation, I think there's no point in you guys going on like this, how about we find some time to sit down and talk?

I know it's not convenient for you to return to China, how about this? , you pick a time and place, how about we rush over there? "

"Forget about sitting down and chatting, just talk on the phone," Chen Fei said coldly, and added: "Mr. La, to be honest, your call today was a little beyond my expectations."

La Peikang was startled when he heard this, and frowned subconsciously, and his tone was a little less polite:

"Chen Fei, you have to understand that China Film, as the cornerstone of the industry, has the right to lead, coordinate, and stabilize the development of the film industry...

The matter between you and Anle is now making a lot of noise, and I think I have the qualifications You are not going to stand up as the mediator, and you are not going to listen to Anle's conditions? Are you going to just go for it? "

"Oh?" Chen Fei laughed: "Then I am quite curious, how generous the conditions they can offer?"

La Peikang was confident that the next figure he said could convince Chen Fei, and immediately said: "As long as you withdraw the two announcements and let "Monster Hunt" be released in theaters again, Anle can give you 100 million yuan in compensation, how about it?

You have to give me this face, right? After all, China Film is the domestic co-distributor of "Monster Hunt". One of the parties, don't let such a small matter hurt everyone's harmony, right?"

"Hahaha!" Chen Fei laughed immediately: "Mr. La, you should know me, am I the kind of person who lacks that 100 million?

He stole the box office of my company's movies, and also made small moves behind the scenes to interfere with my theater chain, causing chaos within the Pan-Asia Theater Chain. This can be solved with a simple 100 million?

Still want me to withdraw the announcement? Is he sick or am I sick? Changing orders every day, do you want me to slap myself in the face? "

This is quite impolite.

On the China Film side, La Peikang turned on the hands-free and external speakers, so it can be clearly seen that Jiang Zhiqi's face turned green and white.

Eden Films also has theater chains and cinemas. He is used to stealing box office and has formed inertial thinking, so he is also very bold in other theater chains.

But I didn't expect that this time he would mention a piece of iron plate!

At this time, La Peikang's face was not very good.

When China Film Group enthusiastically invited Chen Fei to be the director of "The Great Wall", he directly refused.

That time, Chen Fei did not give La Peikang much face, which made him lose face in front of the producers of Universal Pictures.

When discussing the project of "Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back" a few days ago, Chen Fei also directly refused, which made La Peikang feel ashamed.

Now it's the same with Enlight Pictures!

He has already said that he hopes Chen Fei can give him a face, but the tone on the other end of the phone is still very tough, which is obviously not going to give him this face!

At this time, he is in a state of power and unlimited glory. He was repeatedly rejected by others, and he couldn't help but feel a little annoyed.

"What do you mean? Just keep fighting? Then both sides will lose? Both of you are well-known big companies in the industry. Is it necessary to get to this point? What is there that cannot be reconciled?"

"You want to reconcile? Fine!"

Chen Fei suddenly changed the subject: "Admit that you did steal the box office, hold a press conference to apologize to fans and the media, pay every penny you should pay, then go to the General Administration to admit the punishment, and take the initiative to remove the movie, isn't that the end of it?"

La Peikang glared: "Aren't you forcing others? Forgive others when you can!"

"Haha, I only know that when they messed with me, they never considered how I felt, and they made a mistake and acted condescending, saying that the theater chain wronged them, what? I owed him?"

La Peikang was speechless, and wanted to say something, but he always felt very panicked.

At this time, he finally realized that it seemed that he didn't make this call at the right time, and what he said just now was too ill-considered.

His tone now was completely from Jiang Zhiqiang's perspective, without considering Chen Fei's feelings at all.

However, if he was asked to apologize now and admit that he was indeed biased, he would not be able to open his mouth at all. After all, there are outsiders here.

However, he couldn't open his mouth, but Chen Fei could!

"La Dong, it's getting late. It's midnight in China, right? You'd better rest.

By the way, please help me tell Anle and Mr. Jiang to continue if you have the ability. Although I am young, I am not the kind of person who is afraid of getting into trouble!

If you don’t publicly apologize, admit your mistakes, or make compensation, then just wait, I have plenty of means to play with you! "

"Dududu..."

The phone was suddenly disconnected.

Looking at the darkened screen, La Pikang and Jiang Zhiru looked at each other, not knowing what to say for a moment.

After a long time, Jiang Zhihao was the first to speak up: "La Dong, I can understand being young and energetic, but there is no need for him to be so aggressive, right? I am already willing to pay the price..."

Before he could finish his words, La Pikang suddenly cast a cold look: "How many theaters have you touched?"

"Actually, it's not much." Jiang Zhihao continued to avoid the important and take the easy: "To be disrespectful, isn't this kind of thing an unspoken rule in the industry? It's very common for everyone to come and go. The problem now is to eliminate the impact, otherwise China Film’s face doesn’t look good either…”

This makes sense.

As the co-distributor of "Monster Hunt", once the box office theft is confirmed, China Film will also be implicated, and this will undoubtedly have an impact on La Sheikang's political performance.

A sentence of "inadequate supervision" or even "complicity" is enough to give him a headache for a while.

La Sheikang frowned slightly: "Although I got to know him later than Han Sanping, he still had a good temper at that time. He also knew the importance, what things could be done, and what things needed to be discussed. Why did he suddenly change now?" Are you so tough?"

"Why don't you give Han...sanye a try?" Jiang Zhiru began to make suggestions.

"Oh, it's not too early. Let's go tomorrow. I'll have a chat with Mr. Han tomorrow morning. We must reduce the impact."

"Yeah, okay, I believe Chen Fei is not the kind of unreasonable person. Let's sit down and talk, and there will definitely be a solution."

…

At this time, on the set of "Ready Player One".

After hanging up the phone, Chen Fei kept thinking about what La Sheikang had just said.

In particular, he completely disagreed with the phrase "give mercy to others if you have to give them mercy"!

Now that the incident has developed, it is actually no longer a question of "money" and "compensation", but a question of attitude and bottom line.

If Feiyue Pictures chooses to take the money this time and Pan-Asia Cinemas chooses to put "Monster Hunt" back on the shelves, then this kind of thing will only happen more frequently in the future!

Anyway, after this incident, everyone knows that the problem can be solved by just taking money, which is simply too easy for those powerful film producers.

And looking around, Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, Huayi... these people are all watching.

If we don't make our attitude clear now, and the film market will develop better and better in the future, and there will be more and more high-box office movies, won't it mean that other movies will "steal" the box office to death?

"Operation Mekong", "Kunlun Temple", "Ready Player One"... and even the upcoming "Wolf Warrior 2" and "The Wandering Earth" are all movies with high box office bookings.

If other movies steal the box office from these movies, wouldn't Feiyue Film and Television suffer a loss?

Therefore, we must not give in now. We must make them afraid and intimidated, so that we can truly usher in the ending of "hit with one punch, and avoid hundreds of punches"!

Thinking of this, Chen Fei immediately took out his mobile phone.

He didn't care about the time difference and made a phone call directly to Su Guohai, and then made a series of arrangements.

Half an hour later, looking at the hung up phone, Su Guohai's eyes flashed and he murmured: "The war has begun! The war has completely begun!"

…

The next morning, when domestic netizens were paying attention to the ranking of the voting results of "Three Lives Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossom", the box office results of many summer movies, and the series of confrontations between Anle Pictures and Feiyue Pictures over the box office theft incident, a piece of news Weibo suddenly ranked No. 1 on the hot search list!

That was from an article published by Feiyue Film and Television.

The content of the article is simply earth-shattering for the film and television industry!

“After our evidence collection, we found that there is large-scale box office piracy in theaters owned by Anle Pictures, and phenomena such as ghost theaters and ticket fraud are common.

These illegal operations have seriously damaged the fair competition environment in the film market, greatly infringed upon the rights and interests of consumers, disrupted the stability of the film market, and caused immeasurable harm to films and production companies in the same period. loss!

Therefore, in order to maintain the stability of the film market and the rights and interests of consumers, we are now mobilizing the efforts of the entire company to formally report to the General Administration that 29 cinemas owned by Anle Pictures in 17 cities are suspected of violating the law. We hope that the General Administration can severely punish them. Serve as a warning! "

For netizens, this clearly means that a bigger "melon" has appeared.

But for the entire film and television industry, this is a signal that Feiyue Film and Television unilaterally declares the official start of war, and it is going to fight to the death!

"This guy has a really hard head!"

"Is it necessary to be so relentless?"

"Fuck! He's crazy! This guy is a lunatic! Stay away from him in the future, be careful not to get scratched, it's too scary."

"When you do other things in the future, remember to stay away from Feiyue Films' movies to avoid angering them."

"Our people didn't do anything with Pan Asia Cinema Line, right? No? That's good... That's good!"

China Film.

"Sanping, he... this... is he trying to drag China Film Group into this fight!"

"Ah!" Listening to La Peikang's words on the other end of the phone, Han Sanping couldn't help but sigh: "You said you were the same, why did you get involved in this kind of thing?"

"Then what can I do? Enlight Films has come to our door, Jiang Zhiqiang... he is also a hero, and he is from Hong Kong, so he should enjoy preferential treatment."

"So this is the reason why he stole the box office?"

La Peikang: "..."

"Wrong is wrong, there is nothing to explain, either stop it from the beginning and don't do it, or go all the way to the end, and then take the initiative to bear the corresponding price, it's that simple."

Beep beep beep...

The phone was hung up again, and La Peikang's face changed for a while, and he had heard the meaning of Han Sanping's words.

He is indeed somewhat incompetent as the chairman of China Film Group. His partners are so bold to steal the box office on a large scale, but he actually knows nothing about it and pushes China Film Group into the fire pit.

He has to bear this price!

Just as he was thinking, the office door was suddenly pushed open, and the secretary walked in quickly, reminding him: "Boss La, Director Tong asked you to go to the bureau."

"Okay... I know."

...

Flying to the capital overnight yesterday, and returning to Hong Kong today, Jiang Zhiqiang was already exhausted.

But now he dared not rest at all, because he was afraid that as long as he closed his eyes and opened them again, the people from the General Administration would stand at the door of his company.

So, he had to return to the company quickly to discuss how to deal with the public report of Feiyue Film and Television!

If nothing unexpected happens, the General Administration will definitely accept this report, because the influence of the reporter in China and even the entire Chinese film industry is too great.

If there is no feedback, how can we maintain credibility?

Therefore, the top priority of Anle Films is to try to make the knife handed over by the General Administration cut less flesh, so as not to die tragically on the spot.

However, when people are anxious, they will inevitably ignore some things.

When he walked out of the airport, Jiang Zhiqi's face changed drastically when he saw the media, reporters, and paparazzi surrounding him crazily!

He wanted to run, but he couldn't run away at all.

"Mr. Jiang, what do you think about Feiyue Films publicly reporting to the General Administration that the theaters under Enlightenment Pictures broke the law knowingly?"

"Mr. Jiang, is Enlightenment Cinema really suspected of breaking the law?"

"The box office of the movie "Monster Hunt" is getting worse and worse. Does this mean that the previous box office theft incident is true?"

"Please face our problem!"

"Mr. Jiang, one minute ago, the General Administration issued an announcement on its official website, saying that it will respond to the report and immediately conduct an investigation and collect evidence... What do you think about this?"

A series of questions made Jiang Zhiqi's face change drastically.

But as a mature filmmaker, he still responded to all this calmly and calmly, rushing out under the protection of bodyguards while making vague remarks.

Finally, under the gaze of everyone, he got into the car with his tail between his legs like a stray dog ​​and drove away all the way.

There was a burst of discussion among the crowd:

"Catching eagles all day, but today you get pecked by an eagle. How interesting."

"It's really embarrassing for the Hong Kong film industry that they were caught by a young man!"

"Just wait and see. If nothing unexpected happens, this time, Enlightenment will be in big trouble!"

...

Enlightenment.

The air in the conference room was filled with tension, as if a storm was coming.

Jiang Zhiqiang, who was exhausted, summoned the backbone and senior management of the company to discuss countermeasures.

He spoke directly and set the tone: "Reconciliation is impossible. Now let's think of a way to minimize the impact."

A senior executive asked: "When will the investigators from the General Administration come? What are the possible results?"

"The lightest is a fine and a travel penalty. The heaviest is to lose the theater and distribution qualifications, which will completely cut off one of our arms!"

"Distribution qualifications and theater qualifications cannot be in trouble!" A shareholder shouted loudly, and his voice echoed in the conference room.

Everyone understands that these two qualifications are crucial to Enlightenment Pictures. After all, some shady money has to be cleaned through these "two basins of water".

"If one hundred million is not enough, then two hundred million. I don't believe he won't be tempted. As long as the movie can continue to be released, we can easily make back the money."

"But Feiyue Films... is not short of money!" Jiang Zhiqi's eyes were sharp: "He is preparing to use us as a scapegoat, to kill the chicken to scare the monkey, to knock the mountain to scare the tiger."

Everyone present was not stupid, and they reacted quickly.

Discussions suddenly arose:

"What should we do now?"

"The other party is unyielding. Are we just waiting like this and can't do anything?"

"I have a solution here! Why don't we take the initiative... Although there may be losses, as long as we survive this disaster, there are plenty of ways to go later..."

In front of the conference table, Jiang Zhiqi gradually widened his eyes, emitting a light called "smart".

After the man finished his plan, he murmured, "Emel Films is a 'hero' and has made outstanding contributions to the development of Chinese-language commercial films. Even if we have no merit, we have worked hard. The higher-ups will never kill us with one blow..."

After he finished speaking, he looked around and finally landed on the company executive in charge of the distribution business.

"Xu Wei, you have been in the company for more than 20 years. It's almost time for you to retire, right? I heard that your son is also in the distribution department and is still the department manager, right? Then... you can go with peace of mind. He will take over your job next."

Hearing this, the face of the man called Xu Wei suddenly changed.

Finally, he gritted his teeth, stomped his feet, and said in a deep voice: "Boss Jiang, don't worry, I won't implicate the company. This is all because I am old and confused. I did something wrong for the sake of performance..."

"Very good, go."

Jiang Zhiqi waved his hand, and a lot of ghost ideas came up in his mind.

The movie must not be taken off the shelves, and the box office must be stolen, otherwise how can it drive the stock market and the surrounding areas?

But I have to keep a low profile from now on.

His original goal was 2 billion+, or even 3 billion+, but now... I can only focus on 1.5 billion+.

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