To a certain extent, the distribution of a movie is more important than shooting, editing and dubbing. After all, when people make movies, even the most literary films, they always go for money. The distribution of a movie is to take the movie to the cinema and find ways to sell the movie into money.

Well, there are really some less profit-intensive film companies, or these film companies don’t care about the specific income of the movie, but only care whether the person they want to make in the movie can become famous. Then the purpose of making a movie is at least to show it to others, right? At least the premise of having an actor become famous is that his or her movies can attract people, right? If a movie cannot be released in the cinema, or the scale of the release is very small, can this movie still be considered a movie? Then can their goal of making a newcomer famous? [.]

Or we can change to a more realistic statement, that is, if a movie cannot be released well, then even if it is unprecedented and has no future, it can go to the United States to compete for the Oscars, that is still just a joke.

There is no doubt that the commercial market is the life of movies, and how to expand the commercial market is distribution.

It is precisely because of this that Chen Ping has focused on distribution work. Even when the film was just beginning to start filming, Chen Ping had already started contacting the cinema with Li Jupeng.

Perhaps in foreign countries, it seems incredible to contact the theater for screening before the filming of a movie is finished. After all, the theater also needs to make money, and at least it must see sample films. But in China, where favors are greater than everything, everything is possible. In many cases, as long as you have enough relationships, a movie has not even been released and the actors have not found a good one, you can still contact the screening venue.

So, on the fifth day after the filming started, Chen Ping and Li Jupeng invited the owners of the three giant cinemas in Shanghai in the private room of the Bund Hotel in Shanghai. They were Fan Guisheng, general manager of Shanghai Zhengda Cinema, Xu Yawei, general manager of Shanghai Wanda Cinema, and Zhang Zhisheng, general manager of Shanghai Universal International Cinema.

According to incomplete statistics, these three cinemas alone account for more than 50% of the market share of Shanghai. Perhaps it doesn’t sound very good at first, but if you think about the consumption capacity of Shanghai, you will understand how amazing this 50% share is.

Of course, if Chen Ping and Li Jupeng were the only ones, they would definitely not be able to invite these three giants. This time they came forward, Le Qingyun's brother Le Feng.

In the private room of the Peace Hotel, Chen Ping and Li Jupeng also saw the pillar of the young generation of the Le family who abandoned their pens and entered politics for the first time. Now the director of the Research Department of the Propaganda Department of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, he is thin and tall, wearing a pair of gold-wired glasses, and looks very scholarly.

Seeing Le Feng, Chen Ping took the initiative to step forward and hold his hand and said, "Director Le, I am really sorry for the last incident. It was because I was not considering it carefully that I would implicate you."

Le Feng waved his hand helplessly and said, "This matter has nothing to do with you. I am not sure about the degree in it. Moreover, Qingyun came to me..."

Before Le Feng finished speaking, Chen Ping interrupted and said, "Director Le, I feel even more ashamed of this matter. Because I was not considerate at the beginning, I asked Qingyun to find you. She also advised me at that time, but I was too competitive at that time, so I couldn't listen. Now that I think about it, I really regret it!"

After hearing Chen Ping's words, Le Feng looked at Chen Ping for a while before saying, "Do you know? If you dare to say something that shirks responsibility to Qingyun just now, I will leave if I say it, but now you are a responsible person."

After saying that, Le Feng patted Chen Ping on the shoulder and continued, "Actually, I know Qingyun's personality better than you. She is definitely not the kind of person who can listen to others' orders, even if you are the same. So seeing that you can help her, I feel at ease with her. As for today's affairs, I will do as much as possible."

Chen Ping understood Le Feng's behavior very well, because if his sister found a boyfriend, she would definitely have to test it. Just like Le Feng, Chen Ping also helped Le Qingyun be glad that she could have an older brother who cares about her so much.

Then Chen Ping introduced Li Jupeng to Le Feng. Of course, even if Le Feng is Le Qingyun's brother, Chen Ping only briefly introduced Li Jupeng as the general manager of the company that invests in movies. As for Li Jupeng's background, everything was revealed with all his heart and soul, so he really had his head clamped by the big iron door.

Le Feng nodded to Li Jupeng and said, "I am very grateful to Manager Li for helping Qingyun realize this dream. I will definitely try my best to help Manager Li expand its distribution channels, but there are some things that Manager Li still needs to be mentally prepared."

Le Feng said it very tactfully, but the meaning in his words was obvious. The people who came to the cinema today are all cinema giants. With their eyes on big productions that they are used to investing tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of yuan and a bunch of big names, it is difficult to watch their small-cost three-no movies. To put it very realistic, that is, they may be able to see that this movie will definitely make money, but they are not short of this money, and there is no need to lower their identities to screen such a movie that has no highlights.

Maybe "Crazy Stone" was a small-cost dark horse, but you should also know that this dark horse is a movie produced by King Liu of Hong Kong. To a certain extent, this king is a golden sign that this movie can open up the cinema, not to mention "Crazy Stone" also has the famous actor Xu Zheng and future actor Huang Bo, but there is really nothing in Chen Ping. You should know that behind the dark horse is a huge risk, so Le Feng means that the three giants are just giving face and going through a formality. It is impossible to really make any promises, and they will even flatly refuse.

"I understand what Director Le said," said Li Jupeng. "Actually, I am already very satisfied if I can take such care of Director Le this time."

"Manager Li is so polite. It should be my behalf of Qingyun for your helping her realize her dream of real female lead in the movie," Le Feng said. "Although I know that you have a good relationship with Chen Ping, it is still not easy for you to give up such a large amount of money to support this movie. So contacting these theaters is just my brother's duty. Manager Li doesn't have to worry too much."

Li Jupeng smiled at this and said, "Director Le, you praised me too much. I am not that great. When I saw the script written by Chen Ping and the actor Qingyun, I knew that this movie would definitely be a big hit, so I was also trying to make money!"

"Then I wish Manager Li a financial fortune in advance!" Le Feng said with the flow.

The three of them chatted casually for a while, and not long after, the three giants from Shanghai Cinema walked into the private room. Although they could see that Chen Ping and Li Jupeng were the protagonists of today's dinner, a small boss who only invested in three million movies and a person who had never heard of the name before, could not take them seriously. Therefore, these three giants just greeted Le Feng, and did not even have the interest to look at Chen Ping and Li Jupeng.

Chen Ping and Li Jupeng also understood that even the He family can be closely related to the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government. In such a big Shanghai, who can say that there is only one He family? Who can say that these three theater giants that can occupy more than 50% of the Shanghai cinema market have nothing to do with the Shanghai government?

Chen Ping and Li Jupeng knew that they invited these three giants to dinner, but for the purpose of making money together, not to fight, so they wanted to be awesome.

Let them be awesome

It's all right away, and there's a lot of meat for myself.

Just as Chen Ping and Li Jupeng were thinking this in their hearts, Le Feng was introducing Chen Ping and Li Jupeng to the three people. The general managers of the three cinema groups then greeted Chen Ping and Li Jupeng with a look of sensation, but the enthusiasm on that face was obviously much colder than when they were when they were in Le Feng.

Although Chen Ping knew that with his current identity and status, it was normal to be despised or even ignored by these powerful people, but this feeling still made him very unhappy. He shouted in his heart: Wait, one day I will make everyone dare not treat me like this, wait and see!
Chapter completed!