Chapter 881 Ignorance of Promotion (Part 1) (34)
"Confucius" is a TV series produced by the Shanying team in the 1990s. The plot is based on "Historical Records: The Family of Confucius" and "The Analects of Confucius". This drama does a good job of researching etiquette in the pre-Qin era.
To what extent is it in place?
Nowadays, many costume dramas flaunt their emphasis on faithfully reproducing life scenes in the classical era, but few dramas can achieve this.
The palace, clothing, etiquette, food and other scenes in "Confucius" did it!
There are no colorful and fancy clothes, no strange hairstyles and crowns, no fake and fancy palaces and lawns, and no food, fruits and utensils from time-travelling. Even the etiquette when eating, taking off clothes when entering the hall, and the style of swords are all displayed. The meticulousness makes the era atmosphere of the whole play simple and real, which is fascinating.
Textbook average!
In fact, whether from the perspective of film and television dramas or from the perspective of ideology, pointing the camera at a saint is an extremely dangerous behavior.
Is the saint shown in the camera a pious reappearance of the incarnate Word? Or is it ridiculous to set up tablets or idols?
The same is true for Confucius.
Even within Confucianism, there are completely different attitudes towards whether Confucius was a great teacher or a king without a scepter, not to mention the various "reductions" and "deconstructions" of Confucius in the modern ideological circles.
Zhang Xinjian's version of "Confucius" is indeed well shot!
Shanying team, Shen Xudong has worked with most of them...
Directly contacted Hou Hongliang of Shanying, and also invested in Noon Sunshine...
In fact, at the beginning, Noon Sunshine was just a post-production company established to facilitate the post-production of the film by directors Kong Sheng, Li Xue, and Sun Molong.
Later, Shanying was reorganized and listed on the market. On the eve of the listing, Hou Hongliang resigned and joined Noon Sunshine!
Anyway, Shen Xudong slipped away on the second day of the originally planned three-day trip...
Really a little scared.
He is still a child, at the age of playfulness, there is no need...
The worst possible thing is not to take pictures anymore!
This sentence is a joke. Gong Li has already agreed to star. All that's left is to bargain with the agency.
After "Carol", she signed a contract with CAA and joined the Screen Actors Guild of North America. It was very troublesome to get the role and she had to go through the agency.
And it’s a TV series…
In North America, film actors and television actors are usually divided. Before Netflix, almost no top actors would film TV series.
Therefore, when Kevin Spacey was filming "House of Cards", many people described it as if the Oscar-winning actor went down to earth to film a TV series...
This time of descending to earth lasted until Zhang Ziyi's "Shangyang Fu" was broadcast...
No, it should be "Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace" (Zhou Xun), "The Ming Dynasty" (Tang Wei), "Tiansheng Changge" (Ni Ni), "Shangyang Fu" (Zhang Ziyi), these dramas are all All kinds of publicity before the filming started, a great pie, and then the broadcast was scrawled, turning it into an ineffective drama, leaving nothing but chicken feathers...
The word "down to earth" has also become a derogatory connotation...
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Guevara did not initially sell tickets online. Founder Liu Yong’s ambition was to make it a movie theater scheduling website with excellent user experience...
Then, in 2007 and 2008, Liu Yong was selling it everywhere, but no investor took a fancy to it.
This is not surprising. The original website was built by Liu Yong and others in their spare time. The page was rough and there were very few videos.
Or Chen Tianqiao's angel round.
In 2009, Guevara received 2 million yuan in angel investment...
What should I do now that I have money? Liu Yong doesn’t want to sell tickets. He thinks this is something only scalpers can do, and he doesn’t look down on it at all.
However, he gradually discovered that after watching the film schedule, users would want to buy tickets. Even if he doesn't do it himself, others will do it, and Guevara was born to improve the user experience. After some struggle, he started his career as a "scalper".
People in the theater couldn't understand it at all, and thought buying tickets online was nonsense. It was a difficult experience of opening up new territories.
In 2010, "Avatar" landed in China, and Chinese people watched the movie in droves. There was only one theater in Shanghai that could play the IMAX version of "Avatar", so there was a line of 100 meters long at the door. Scalpers also raised the ticket price, making it difficult to get a ticket.
This was the time when Guevara was in the limelight. Guevara sold tickets at the original price and sold more than 300 tickets at once!
On the day of the movie's release, Liu Yong personally went to the cinema to hand out tickets. He was worried that people might be crushed by the crowds, so he temporarily changed the ticket collection point.
It was this small experience that changed Guevara and the entire online ticketing website market.
Because of the advantages of online ticketing and the difficulty of distributing tickets, Liu Yongshun launched online reservation services and terminal ticket machines, and a complete closed business loop was formally formed.
In June of the same year, Guevara won the online ticket purchase business of the Shanghai Film Festival and became an instant success.
In 2011, CDH Investment took the initiative to find Liu Yong Investment and asked him to make any price. Before the contract between the two parties was signed, CDH invested tens of millions of yuan, accounting for 1/3 of the investment, into Guevara's account. This was the most glorious moment in the early days of Guevara's business.
Guevara has thus entered the expressway. As of now, Guevara has captured 75% of the national online seat selection market and is unparalleled in the limelight.
Shen Xudong wants to start online ticket sales...
He knows that online ticket sales will become the main way for theaters to sell tickets in the future.
——Online ticketing accounts for more than 98% of the movie ticketing market~
He has a good impression of Guevara and has used it several times - prompting users to plan parking lots and transportation routes, and reminding consumers to pick up tickets in advance...
Therefore, he wanted to invest directly in Guevara, and then asked Chen Xi to talk to Liu Yong...
Then Chen Xi went...
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On August 31, two movies, "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" and "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" were released, directly occupying more than 90% of the market...
At this time, "Wolong" has been in theaters for 19 days, with a cumulative box office of 1.003 billion. It has already completed its task, so the company is not in a hurry.
It's just that "Chill" is a bit embarrassing - "Chill" has a good reputation, and the main promotion is "the best Hong Kong film after Infernal Affairs!" ', which was released on August 23 (Chinese Valentine's Day), had a box office of 28.95 million on the first day, and 27.6 million on the next day. Then came the opening weekend, with a box office of 89 million in three days, and a cumulative box office of 145 million in the first five days...
Very impressive results and a good reputation, with a Douban score of 7.6 - the most popular Hong Kong film in recent years...
Then I encountered two Hollywood blockbusters...
Not only that, "Prometheus" will be released on September 3rd, and "The Expendables 2" will be released on September 5th!
To be honest, after watching "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" and "The Dark Knight Rises" were released, the single-day box office of "Chilling" immediately dropped from close to 10 million to 1.5 million...
It’s still quite uncomfortable!