Chapter 341 Zhang Yimou, Feng Xiaogang, Lu Chuan, Xu Zheng
In Beijing, at the Xinhuahe Film Company located on Anli Road, Chaoyang District, Zhang Yimou has edited the final film of "Three Guns", and the later dubbing, soundtrack, subtitles, etc. have been completed.
In Chairman Zhang Weiping's office, the two were chatting about the promotion and distribution of the movie.
"When will we invite theaters to try it out? There are more movies to celebrate the New Year this year than in previous years."
Zhang Weiping sighed. In previous years, there were only two blockbusters in the Lunar New Year holiday. Even when Zhang Yimou had a film to be released, no one dared to compete in the show. They were all squeezed into the summer holiday and National Day holidays.
In 2006, when "The Golden Armor" was scheduled to be released in December, Feng Xiaogang's night party was mentioned as a National Day slot, and he would rather compete with "Baby Project" for the National Day slot than come to celebrate the New Year.
That year, there were only "Ink Attack" and "Scar City" to celebrate the New Year at the same time. The former was released 20 days early, so there was only one decent opponent left.
In 2004, "House of Flying Daggers" was released in the summer. There was almost no decent domestic movie released in the entire summer. Feng Xiaogang took "A World Without Thieves" to celebrate the New Year with Zhou Xingchi.
But with Tang An in this summer's season, and Feng Xiaogang not participating in the New Year's Eve, everyone is targeting the Lunar New Year's Eve.
In December alone, there were four domestic blockbusters: "The Tomb Raider", "The Storm 2", "Three Guns" and "October Siege", and at the end of November there was "Mulan", which can be said to be the most competitive in recent years.
Happy New Year.
Zhang Yimou has not had a movie released in three years and has almost been forgotten.
"You arrange it."
Zhang Yimou nodded. In the past, whenever his films needed to be previewed, theaters would give him most of the films with their eyes closed until there were not enough copies.
The competition for this year's schedule is too fierce, and those few movies are quite threatening, so we still have to be cautious.
After "The Golden Armor" received 291 million at the box office, Zhang Yimou was ready to break the box office record of "Titanic" after finishing the Olympics. Unexpectedly, Tang An beat him to it.
"Then I will set a new record this time!" Zhang Yimou thought confidently.
After chatting about publicity for a while, Zhang Weiping said again, "Would you like to go to Huayi's celebration party tonight?"
"Go, of course!"
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Nanhu Ecological Scenic Area, Tangshan City, Northern Hebei Province, where the "Tangshan Earthquake" earthquake was filmed.
There is a scene at the beginning of the movie that shows a panoramic view of people's lives the day before the earthquake. For this scene, the crew specially built a temporary movie theater in the Central Wetland Park of Nanhu Ecological Scenic Area, the largest city in the north.
We are currently filming, with vendors setting up stalls, women hanging clothes to dry, and children chasing and playing, the strong atmosphere of life comes to our faces.
"Pass!"
Feng Xiaogang shouted in front of the monitor and then announced that today's shooting was over.
"We have worked hard today. Let's go to bed early and prepare for filming tomorrow."
It was only two o'clock in the afternoon, but Feng Xiaogang was going back to the capital to attend Tang An's celebration. This time Huayi had a big event, and he had to rush there with several Huayi artists from the crew.
With a box office of more than 400 million, and the box office champion in mainland film history, Tang An is once again ahead of Feng Xiaogang.
Previously, "Assembly" surpassed "The Wind" and "If You Are the One" surpassed "Now You See Me".
Feng Xiaogang is also confident that "Tangshan Earthquake" can once again surpass Tang An's "Chinese Partner"!
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Heung Kong, Hennessy Road, Wanchai, Yinghuang Entertainment Group.
Lu Chuan came over with the script in the morning and met with Yinghuang Chairman Yang Sicheng and a group of senior executives.
After half a month of running around, he has reached investment intentions with three companies including Beijing Tang Dynasty Media, Yunying Tiancheng Film and Television Media, and Huaying, and has settled a cost of 50 million.
After two hours of negotiation, Yinghuang was willing to pay the remaining 30 million and waited for several companies to meet and sign the contract.
"call!"
After walking out of the Yinghuang Building, Lu Chuan finally breathed a sigh of relief. With his performance of 150 million yuan per film and the costume blockbuster, he finally secured all the investments, and then he will start looking for actors.
I casually picked up an entertainment newspaper from a roadside newsstand and flipped it open. A little bit in the corner of the second page actually reported the box office record of "The Chinese Partner".
Lu Chuan paid for the newspaper, took it away, walked a few steps forward and stuffed it into the trash can.
He has made up his mind that "The King's Feast" will be released next summer!
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Thailand, Hua Lamphong Railway Station, the station has a high dome, quite a bit of Italian Neo-Renaissance style, decorated with wooden roofs and stained glass windows, it looks very much like a European train station.
Xu Zheng is filming here with "A Journey to Thailand". In today's scene, Xu Lang and Wang Bao had no choice but to take the train to Chiang Mai because they did not have passports.
During the break between filming, Xu Zheng watched domestic news online and learned about the record-breaking record of "Partners in China". He called Tang An to congratulate him and reported on the progress of the filming.
Tao Xun came over and saw that he looked tired, and couldn't help complaining, "We all know that we will be filming a movie in the second half of the year. Why did you take on the TV series "Ouchi Xiaoshou" before? The time is so tight, and you stayed up for two months. night."
Xu Zheng put on a smile and comforted him, "Don't worry, I can hold on."
How could he not know? It’s just that the crew paid 3.6 million yuan for a 30-episode TV series, which is 120,000 yuan per episode, which is higher than the salary of ordinary first-line stars. Li Youbing and Zhang Guoli only paid 150,000 yuan per episode. That’s all!
Xu Zheng needs money. He will not be willing to be just a director. If "囧囧" becomes a box office hit, he will be qualified to ask for investment to join the team. As long as the share is reasonable, he believes that Tang An will not refuse.
If you can't come up with the money by then, you've missed a great opportunity.
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Beijing, Xu Manyun's home.
Tang An, who came back from overseas promotions, has been resting for three days in a row, and it is now the end of August.
I rested for three days to recuperate my energy and empty my brain.
But the matter is not over yet. In addition to tonight's celebration dinner, there will also be an exclusive interview with Xin Lang, a speech at Beijing Normal University, a personal feature on the movie channel, interviews with three newspaper media including Nandu, and special reports by two TV stations...
There are a lot of things waiting for me, which is why I have already put down more than half of the interviews. Otherwise, if I do one every two days, I will have no time for the next two or three months.
Tang An doesn't want to participate in any of them. He no longer needs to enhance his reputation in this way. Besides, the movie has been released and there is no need to continue promoting it.
It's just that they helped me a lot in publicity before, but they pushed me aside when I didn't need it. It's so disrespectful. How can we cooperate in the future?
After breakfast today, Xu Manyun did not go to the studio first and gave Tang An a tally of the studio's current assets.
"Currently, the studio has 4 million yuan in cash on its books. There are a total of 210 two-bedroom apartments of about 80 square meters in Chaoyang District and Haidian District of the Third Ring Road, and a quarter of them are in school districts."
"The average price in Chaoyang District is about 2,000 lower than that in Haidian District. Based on the current price of the second-hand housing market, the value of these 210 houses, plus the continuous rent, excluding intermediary fees, totals 392 million."
Speaking of this number, Xu Manyun's voice trembled.
This is nearly 400 million in cash, which can be cashed out at any time.
210 houses may seem like a lot, but in the capital, Beijing, it is nothing.
Moreover, there are rumors everywhere that Beijing will implement a purchase restriction policy next year. People who buy and speculate on houses are going crazy. Every morning when they open their eyes, there is another price.
In the second half of the year, the transaction volume of second-hand houses will become higher and higher, and a large number of local tycoons come to the capital with huge amounts of money to buy.
When the second-hand houses are gone, they buy new ones. People don't buy them one by one, but buy them directly by floor.
As long as they are sold at market prices, these 210 houses will not be eaten up by big real estate speculators in three days, and there is no need to worry about inflation.
With nearly 400 million in cash, no company in the entertainment industry has such a large amount of cash flow except Huayi, which has just gone public and made a lot of money.
Even Tang An was not as calm as he appeared on the surface, and he couldn't help but tremble in his heart.
Even if Huayina's 300 million worth of shares are not half as important as this, those 4 million shares will have to be reduced next year, which is of little use to him now.
PS: Please ask for monthly tickets. There are currently 930 monthly tickets this month, although it is pitiful.
The author has never voted for the game since it was put on the shelves. This time I hope to get a round number of 1,000 to make it look better. I urge everyone who still has votes to vote for one or two, thank you!