In February 2015, the Lunar New Year festival officially came to an end, and the entire 2014 movie market came to an end.
"Detective Chinatown 2" ended with a box office of 1.6 billion, ranking first in the Lunar New Year festival.
Hantang Media once again became the biggest winner in the film market and became the only company to dominate the four most important schedules throughout the year: Spring Festival, summer, National Day and Lunar New Year.
Counting back more than a decade, no company has been able to accomplish such a feat.
In 2014, the domestic market totaled 37 billion, of which 20 billion were domestic films, accounting for about 54%.
Hantang Media, which swept the film market throughout the year, finally delivered a perfect answer, with a box office of 8.1 billion for the year, of which nearly 300 million were bought out.
Last year, Hantang Media accounted for 39% of the share of domestic films. Counting imported films, it accounted for 21.89% of the overall market for the year.
In an unprecedented proportion, a private film company without the qualification to distribute imported films actually occupied 21.89% of the annual film market.
Although China Film still occupies the largest market share, its 27.8% share is more than a little higher than Han and Tang.
However, this is also the first time in more than ten years that China Film's market share has fallen below 30%. Even with a comprehensive collection of imported films and hairstyles, its market share has been gradually narrowed by a private enterprise. It is definitely a failure.
When taking stock at the end of the year, Kangpei could not swallow his breath when faced with this figure.
Last year, many Hollywood blockbusters such as "Transformers 4", "X-Men", "Captain America 21", "War for the Planet of the Apes" and "Guardians of the Galaxy" were huge hits, with six of them exceeding 500 million.
But if Tang An randomly picks up a movie, it will have a box office of more than 1 billion, and one movie can equal the sales of two Hollywood movies.
Moreover, it has so many subsidiaries and dozens of movies are released every year. Even if there are few of them that are big hits, the total is huge.
This year Hantang has swept the four important schedules throughout the year, and is only 6 points behind China Film in terms of market share. If it continues like this, sooner or later it will be overtaken by China Film Group.
If he holds the power to introduce imported films and is surpassed by a private company, then he as chairman will have completely failed.
However, in the face of the Han and Tang media that had grown up completely, Kang Pei had no choice.
Since the Spring Festival, he has been sparing no effort to attack the Han and Tang Dynasties.
Time and time again, I hope to win a game and dampen Tang An's spirit.
However, the Spring Festival film "Havoc in Heaven" failed when faced with an animated film "The Return of the Monkey King".
The summer film "Transformers 4" lost to Tang An, and the Autobots were defeated by Tang An for the third time in a row.
National Day has nothing to do with China Film and Television, as there are no important movies released.
In December, the great director Wu Yusen, who had high hopes, completely went to his grandma's house, becoming the worst-performing among the four blockbusters in the same period, even lower than several youth romance films at the box office.
I have tried imported blockbusters, famous directors, big IPs, and Kangpei, but they have no effect at all.
Kang Pei really couldn't think of any way to regain the game, even if it was a short victory, he couldn't meet again.
After taking stock, Kangpei looked through some of China Film's projects in the next two to three years, as well as projects being prepared by other companies, trying to find any clues.
However, after a few days, I still found nothing.
Among imported films, blockbusters such as "Transformers 4", whose predecessors broke over one billion, have all failed. Other films such as "Iron Man", "Spider-Man", "Captain America", "Star Wars", "Avengers" etc.
There is definitely no need to think about other blockbusters, unless James Cameron's new movie has a chance to defeat Tang An in the mainland.
Not to mention famous directors, Wu Yusen and Jiang Wen have just hit the market. Even if they don't hit the market, no matter how famous the director is, they can't compare to Tang An.
Who else can we count on? Xu Ke's "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom" didn't even reach a box office of 1 billion. Although we can look forward to Zhang Yimou's next movie, it will only have a box office of more than 1 billion at most. It is impossible to surpass Tang An.
The other one is big IPs and popular celebrities, which are useless. They are just dark horses at best.
Kang Pei pessimistically discovered that Tang An was now invincible in the country, and let alone defeating Tang An, even if he had Wu Ershan, Xu Zheng, and Ning Hao, he didn't have much confidence that he could win any of them.
Fortunately, there are no movies released during the Spring Festival period during the Han and Tang dynasties. There is only one film, "Wolf Totem", which was originally invested by China Film and Forbidden City Pictures. Now Forbidden City Pictures has been acquired by Han and Tang, and it has become a Han and Tang movie.
project.
However, during the acquisition, Hantang proposed to sell its investment share in the film to China Film.
It's ridiculous. Of course Kangpei doesn't want it. Do you think I'm stupid?
Only a ghost would want a feature film like this, which is similar to a documentary. The investment is not small, so don’t even think about making a profit. Tang An must be trying to trick him.
Moreover, the Han and Tang Dynasties did not require joint issuance, which surprised Kang Pei, but this is a good thing. No matter what, part of the investment can always be recovered through the distribution share.
The year is approaching and all companies have basically completed their year-end inventory.
Some are happy and some are sad. Guangxian and Bernard have all achieved good results this year, while Huayi, the leading film and television company, has not had any blockbuster movies released this year, and its market share has almost fallen out of the top five.
However, Wang Zhongjun is not worried at all. The film and television business is now only one of Huayi's three major businesses. Last year's net profit was more than 800 million.
After spending two billion on Feng Xiaogang and others, Huayi would still make money regardless of whether they completed the bet or not.
However, in mid-January, Chen He's affair broke out. At the end of the month, Chen He also admitted it and posted an apology on Weibo.
The character of a good man has collapsed.
As public figures in the Internet age become increasingly unable to hide themselves, and every move they make is exposed to the eyes of the audience and paparazzi, similar incidents have occurred one after another in the past two years.
Chen He was naturally scolded by netizens. Many netizens declared that they would boycott Chen He and asked him to quit Running Man.
In order to calm public opinion, Chen He also took the initiative to admit his mistakes and change his image, and also hinted that he would quit.
However, Hua Yigang and Chen He signed a gambling agreement. Without the runner, Chen He would have to spit out the profits. It would be strange to withdraw.
There are many cheating and divorces, and there are also many marriages. Wu Qilong and Liu Shishi held a wedding at the beginning of the year, Jay Chou also got married, and Wang Fei's proposal to Zhang Ziyi finally made the headlines.
Wang Xiaoming is also preparing for a wedding. When "The White-Haired Witch" was released last year, Fan Binbin said that if Wang Xiaoming gets married, she will disclose the identity of her boyfriend, which will add another couple.
All the lively things are packed together, and this year is quite lively.
Tang An returned to the capital, rested for two days, and took stock of the company's results last year.