Chapter 843 Intersection
Regarding the third imported film license, it is actually stipulated in the "Memorandum of Understanding between China and the United States on Films".
The main contents include: first, China will add 14 3D or IMAX movies to the original annual quota of about 20 American movies; second, the US box office share will increase from the original 13% to 25%; third, increase Opportunities for Chinese private companies to release imported films break the dominance of state-owned companies in the past.
According to statistics, the total box office of imported films last year was close to 6 billion. The split last year was: 50% for theaters, 18% for overseas producers, and the rest belonged to imported companies.
That is to say, in the whole year of 2011, China Film and China Film and Television Corporation earned more than 1 billion yuan from the business of introducing imported movies alone.
Tianmei Media's net profit for the whole year of 2011 was only 953 million yuan.
This also includes profits from investing in overseas films!
There was no way, the main expenses were too high. Together with the Xiangshan government, we built a photography base with an investment of 6 billion, building two 6,000 square meter studios and five 3,000 square meter studios...
The "Ghost Blows Out the Lamp" series, the "Di Renjie" series including "The Strange Stories of the Tang Dynasty", etc. were all filmed here...
Back to the license plate.
Tianmei Media is the mainland's private film and television company with the highest revenue. Huayi Brothers, which ranks second, only had a profit of only 153 million yuan last year...
This shows how attractive the business of introducing imported films is to other companies in the entire industry.
With the number of imported films in the United States increasing again, and the WTO agreement providing for increased opportunities for private companies to distribute imported films, the film industry has become increasingly vocal about increasing the number of companies with the right to distribute imported films to three companies.
Tianmei Media, Bona Pictures, Huayi Brothers, Wangda Group, and even the Shanghai Film Group with a national-level background are all interested in obtaining this "license."
Among them, Wanda's willingness is the strongest - they themselves do not have strong content production capabilities.
As early as last year, Wang Jianlin "implicitly" stated that while Wanda Cinemas is growing bigger and stronger, he also hopes to obtain "the same foreign film import license as state-owned enterprises."
Now that he has acquired AMC Cinemas, his chips have greatly increased...
Of course, the so-called third license plate is just a rumor...
Shen Xudong knew very well that this thing was not issued at all, so he just submitted the application...
However, the company did acquire the rights to several non-English-language films, including two French films, "Following Masubirami" and "The Intouchables," the Russian film "Prince Ivan and the Wolf" and the Italian film "Sunshine". ferocious"…
If you approve the film, then release it if it can be released. If you can’t win on the Internet, just broadcast it exclusively on PPTV...
The total royalties for several movies are only US$800,000...
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The original name of "Search" was "Death of the Internet", and later it was changed to "Please Forgive Me". The author's intention was very good. At least when human flesh search just started to rise, the author calmly discovered human flesh. The disadvantages of search were very forward-thinking at the time.
There is also a problem. This proposition is too huge, but the author only uses such a small space, which makes the whole article rushed and bloated, just like a fat man squeezed into a tights. Of course, this does not mean that small space cannot To write a big proposition, it is obvious that the author is not skilled enough.
If the original work only focuses on social issues and only criticizes them, it would be mediocre and as boring as the female reporter in the movie.
And its brilliance lies precisely in the fact that it sublimates the theme and turns it into forgiveness, which is not only a higher level.
In the second half, after the heroine died, her boss and her ex-boyfriend avenged her, and the female reporter was forced to the rooftop by the Internet mob. It seemed like a revenge route, where cause and effect reciprocated, and the author left a suspense. Will the male protagonist of the truth come to rescue the female reporter? Will the ex-boyfriend be inspired by his wife's kindness and put down his butcher knife?
After it was adapted into a movie, Brother Chen Kai did not film the second half, and made a karmic retribution, putting all the blame on the female reporter...
But in the original work, the ugliest thing portrayed by the author was not the female reporter, but the Internet mob, which is also the bad nature of each of us viewers. Lao Chen weakened this point, which caused the whole movie to be much lower...
But it is already his only good movie after the new millennium!
For example, "Day Meteor"...
It's hard to imagine that "Day Meteor" in "My Motherland and Me" could be his work...
Think about it, among the seven directors, Guan Hu is a typical anti-dresser, Xue Xiaolu is a female director with a romance background, and Zhang Yibai can only shoot idol dramas...
Then, Guan Hu, who insisted on filming "The Eight Hundred" for 70 years, had no problems, Zhang Yibai, the bad movie maniac, had no problems, and even Xue Xiaolu didn't lose his chain. Director Chen Chen actually served a bowl of "White Porridge Meteor"...
It's really hard to understand. After all, this is the director who made "Growing Old in Ten Minutes". No matter how bad he is at long-form movies, he is good at short films!
"Day Meteor", above is the incredibly beautiful universe, below is rural poverty alleviation that turns the impossible into possible...
No matter which point you choose, it’s an awesome story!
The whole thing is to stay away from both sexes!
Those who are on horseback are separated from the masses, separated from work, and made up nonsense. In just 20 minutes, basically every minute is a bug and every minute is a shortcoming...
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After watching the movie, Shen Xudong chatted a few words with Cao Huayi:
"I know about the work "Death on the Internet". I once inquired about the adaptation rights and learned that it was taken away by Director Chen..."
"...You want to adapt it?"
Shen Xudong nodded: "I am also very interested in the subject of human flesh search..."
Cao Huayi was very happy, and then asked: "Do you think this movie can be a hit?"
"It's not a big problem to break 100 million, but it will be difficult for the next few Hollywood blockbusters to have a box office of 200 million!"
"...It doesn't matter, you can make money if you break over 100 million!"
Cao Huayi's wife Gai Lili is Chen Hong's classmate. Brother Chen Kai has known Cao Huayi for a long time. He is also one of Xinli's shareholders...
Therefore, "Search" is the work of Brother Chen Kai...
“How much does this play cost?”
Cao Huayi did not hide anything: "It didn't cost much, it was basically money given by the boss in Ningbo..."
"...I'm telling you..."
"Search" was shot entirely in Ningbo...
Cao Huayi glanced at Shen Xudong, and then said: "By the way, Director Chen and Producer Chen have always wanted to meet you..."
"Okay, where is it?"
"...just backstage..."
"Okay, let's go together later..."
I will definitely go there later. Now, of course, I want to talk about the movie-watching experience.
Shen Xudong stood up and said: "I have seen a comment before: She did something bad, let's scold her online. What's wrong with her? It's not like she lost a piece of flesh."
"I used to think there was nothing wrong with this statement, because I was often scolded and spread rumors, but I didn't think there was anything wrong with it. As a celebrity, half of my money is scolded!
But later, I felt something was wrong, because not everyone is as shameless as me, and not everyone wants to be a celebrity! Then... we need to reflect on whether we are doing harm to others under the guise of justice? "
"The movie "Search" is very good. I won't talk about the plot. The actors also performed very well. Every supporting role is quite well-characterized. These are the qualities that a good script, a good director, and a good movie should have. .”