Chapter 775: The reaction of domestic theaters (4200+ chapters~)
Lin'an Film Distribution Company!
A slightly dilapidated small building, but inside it is the headquarters of Lin'an Film Distribution Company, one of the largest ticket warehouses in China!
The original general manager Chen Yingjie resigned from his position as general manager at the beginning of the year, and now sitting in the general manager position is a middle-aged man named Hu Yuejin!
Sitting opposite Hu Yuejin was Huang Zhenwu, deputy general manager of Lin'an Film Distribution Company!
"Do you know when Wu Jianye's movie will be released?" Hu Yuejin asked uncertainly with a Yellow Crane Tower burning in his hand.
Huang Zhenwu preached: "September 30th, 8:30 pm!"
Hu Yuejin nodded and said: "How is the contact with the Shanghai Film Studio I asked you to contact?"
Huang Zhenwu smiled and said: "We took the initiative to contact Shanghai Film Studio, and they were naturally willing. They have already agreed to let Zhang Jianya's "Sanmao Joins the Army" be screened in our theater!"
Hu Yuejin nodded again with satisfaction and said: "We must find a way to defeat Wu Jianye this time, otherwise our publishing company's life will be even more difficult!"
Huang Zhenwu nodded sympathetically.
Who has been hit hardest by the establishment of Fengge Cinemas in China?
Naturally, it was these original distribution companies. Their own theaters were old and dilapidated, but the news they received was that the decoration of Fengfen Cinema was extremely luxurious. Such a comparison naturally filled their hearts with anxiety.
The establishment of the domestic Fengge Cinema Chain directly disrupted the pattern of domestic cinema chains!
Some are happy and some are sad.
For those ticket warehouse towns, the establishment of Fengge Cinemas is not a good thing. Although the domestic movie market is very bad now, as a ticket warehouse town, they can still sit back and relax, although there are fewer people watching movies.
, but they still make a lot of money.
As for those places where the box office is not good, some people hope to join the ranks of Fengge Cinema.
And this is only a small group of people. The overall situation is that few domestic distribution companies really want to join Fengge Cinema.
Even if the results are not good, in this three-thirds of an acre of land, you still have the final say. In addition, the superiors and subordinates of domestic distribution companies are not so clear.
Almost every city and county operates independently, and even provincial issuance companies do not have much power over the issuance companies at the city or county level below.
When Xi Film Studio set up its own distribution theater chain, it contacted the city and county-level distribution theaters without the approval of the provincial distribution company. In fact, when "New Dragon Inn" was released, Wu Jian
Ye has also played this trick before.
Having the final say yourself means that the company's two major powers, financial and personnel, are your own, and no one is willing to hand over their rights to others.
However, everything has exceptions, and there are still some people who have longer-term considerations, such as Chen Yingjie, the former general manager of Lin'an Film Distribution Company!
When he previously cooperated with Tangting Culture to release "New Dragon Inn", the three-party cooperation between Tangting Culture, Jinxiu Garments, and him made him the general manager of Lin'an Film Distribution Company.
After Chen Yingjie took office, he also thought about drastic reforms, but the pressure he endured made it difficult for him to move forward. Even the leader who supported him before learned about his plan and reprimanded him.
Chen Yingjie was a little disheartened.
Later, Fengge Cinema Line was established in China, which gave Chen Yingjie hope. However, because Lin'an is a major box office town in China, China Radio and Television and China Film did not want Lin'an Film Distribution Company to be directly acquired by Fengge Cinema Line, so they negotiated for Fengge Cinema Line.
At that time, Lin'an was picked out, which once again disappointed Chen Yingjie in his hopes.
Since it was unable to acquire Lin'an Film Distribution Company, Fengge Cinema Line had no choice but to build its own cinema in Lin'an. When Huang Jianxin came to Lin'an for inspection, he thought of Chen Yingjie, so he specifically found Chen Yingjie and the two had an in-depth talk.
The next day, Chen Yingjie resigned from his position as general manager of Lin'an Film Distribution Company.
Instead, he became the general manager of Lin'an Company of Fengge Cinema Line!
That's why Hu Yuejin became the general manager now.
The release of "The World of Chu Xing" has also become the first competition between Fengge Cinemas and domestic distribution companies. Now for domestic film distribution companies, Fengge Cinemas belongs to the Dragon Crossing the River, while domestic distribution companies
What the company wants to do is actually to shoot the dragon of Fengge Cinema Line to death on the beach!
As for Wu Jianye's consideration of letting Fengge Cinema Line drive the domestic movie-watching craze, for most of the existing distribution companies, it is pure nonsense, and they would not have thought so much.
There are so many domestic moviegoers now. If you go to Fengge Cinema to watch movies, fewer people will come to watch movies there.
The number of people is fixed, but there are more people sharing the cake. This is what most domestic publishing companies are seeing now.
This is why Hu Yuejin contacted Shanghai Film Studio.
Among the works of domestic film directors this year, the only one that can compete with Wu Jianye is Zhang Jianya's "Sanmao Joins the Army"!
So Hu Yuejin immediately asked his deputy Huang Zhenwu to contact Shanghai Film Studio. Shanghai Film Studio was naturally happy when they heard that Lin'an Film Distribution Company took the initiative to find them, and immediately agreed to Lin'an Film Distribution Company's request.
After Zhang Jianya learned about this incident, he went to find the leader of Shanghai Film Studio. After all, he had reached an agreement with Wu Jianye and would contact Fengge Cinema to let "San Mao Join the Army" be released in Fengge Cinema.
"Lao Zhang, it would be great if "San Mao Joins the Army" can be released at Fengge Cinemas, but you also know that Fengge Cinemas will definitely go all out to release Wu Jianye's "Chu Xing's Love" in the near future.
"World", your movie will definitely be postponed. Now you also know the company's finances. If the movie is released in advance, it means that we can get the box office share in advance. This is a top priority for our company!
"
With the announcement of Document (3), the revenue from movies has now changed from copy sales in the previous two years to movie shares. This is definitely a timely blessing for the film studio, which has to pay back more than 100 yuan every year.
The same goes for Shanghai Film Studio, which earns tens of thousands of dollars.
Now that Xie Jin, the treasure of the Shanghai Film Studio, has established his own film company, there will naturally be fewer and fewer opportunities to make films for the Shanghai Film Studio in the future, and Zhang Jianya has also become a highly praised director by the Shanghai Film Studio.
His works are naturally very important to Shanghai Film Studio.
At this time, there was no such thing as a movie schedule in China. Basically, the movie was released immediately after filming and post-production.
No matter how powerful Zhang Jianya is, he is still just a director. Even as a director, he does not reach the status of Xie Jin, so he does not have much say in the release of the film. In the end, he still cannot hold his arms against his thighs.
For this matter, Zhang Jianya specially called Wu Jianye to express his apology.
"Haha, what's the point? Haven't you always wanted to have a head-on confrontation with me? Now, it's an absolute head-to-head confrontation!" Wu Jianye also laughed after receiving a call from Zhang Jianya.
At the same time, Wu Jianye also received news from Zhang Jianya that in order to counter the establishment of Fengge Cinemas, the film distribution companies in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai will jointly form a new film distribution company to form a unified theater chain.
Just like the martial arts alliance in martial arts novels!
In fact, Wu Jianye had already received the news about this matter from Huang Jianxin.
"It's okay, Lao Zhang. When we read martial arts novels, we were excited to watch the martial arts conference, but that was because every martial arts conference was a wrestling ground for various sects in the rivers and lakes. Movies from the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai regions
The publishing company has formed an alliance, so who will be the leader of the martial arts alliance?" Wu Jianye did not take this news to heart.
As Wu Jianye said, Hu Yuejin and others are actually facing this problem now.
The Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai regions have always been the most important vote bank towns in the country. Now that these companies have formed a new distribution theater chain, it is so easy to elect a boss.
Everyone wanted to be the boss, but others were not convinced, so they finally came up with a compromise method, which was to use the box office revenue of newly released movies as a share allocation for forming a new theater company.
And this lucky movie is actually "San Mao Joins the Army" produced by Shanghai Film Studio. This is one of the reasons why Shanghai Film Studio agreed to let them release this movie.
No matter how they compete underneath, Shanghai Film Studio will definitely be the beneficiary.
"Mr. Hu, should we take any measures to release "Sanmao's Army" this time? After all, we not only have to compete with Tangting Culture's "The World of Chu Xing", but also with other distribution companies!"
Huang Zhenwu made suggestions.
At this time, Hu Yuejin showed a smile, "You can rest assured about this. Although our Lin'an area is not as good as Shanghai and Hainan, it still has great advantages compared with other places. "San Mao's Army"
I have already watched the pornographic film, it is a very good movie and should attract a lot of viewers."
The pornographic films Hu Yuejin refers to are naturally not the kind of pornographic films found on the Internet in later generations, but films that have just been edited without technical support such as soundtracks.
As for the measures, Hu Yuejin doesn’t think they are necessary. For many years, cinemas have shown movies and audiences have bought tickets to watch them. Hasn’t it always been like this?
At this time, Hu Yuejin was still thinking about things now with the same thoughts he had ten years ago.
"Moreover, I also found out through my connections that movie tickets at Fengge Cinema are more expensive than those at our theaters. People nowadays are not willing to watch movies. Who would be stupid enough to buy expensive movie tickets?
!" Although Hu Yuejin was worried that Fengge Cinema would have an impact on the existing distribution network.
But after knowing a series of operations of Fengge Cinema, I still have a lot of confidence.
The confidence here comes from Lin'an's previous film market. No matter whether the domestic film market is good or bad, Lin'an has always been a major box office town in China. This is Hu Yuejin's confidence.
At the same time, there is the current domestic situation. Although domestic prices have skyrocketed in the past two years, the wages of ordinary people have not changed much.
To put it simply, the money in the hands of ordinary people is worthless. Now a piece of money is still money. No matter how good a movie is, it is impossible for them to spend several more yuan to watch another movie.
Huang Zhenwu laughed at the side and said: "It's true. It's true when you talk about Wu Jianye. He was doing well making movies in Hollywood. He had to come back. He really thought he was the savior, even if he was the most awesome in the country.
What about film directors?”
"People are always concerned about their own food basket. A movie ticket is several yuan more expensive, so who will go to see it?"
Hu Yuejin nodded. To be honest, people are like this. If they fall into their own routine of comforting themselves, even if they were a little worried before, many people will think that what they think is all right under the influence of self-suggestion.
is right.
This is like some friends in later generations who obviously don’t even have three-digit savings in their pockets, but they think that hundreds of thousands of dollars is not money and is very easy to earn.
"But we still can't underestimate this matter. As you said, Wu Jianye, as the most powerful director in the country, must have a group of loyal audiences, and the box office provided by these audiences is also very impressive!"
Naturally, Huang Zhenwu would not refute Hu Yuejin's words, and said: "Manager, you still have a long-term perspective!"
The proud expression on Hu Yuejin's face became more and more intense, and he smiled and said: "Actually, in my opinion, Wu Jianye's directorial work does not have the greatest impact on us. The biggest impact is the subsequent operation of Style Cinema."
Huang Zhenwu looked at Hu Yuejin curiously and asked at the right time: "What operation!"
"Fengge Cinemas, as a cinema chain company in Xiangjiang, will definitely release Xiangjiang movies in the future. This is what we should pay most attention to!" Hu Yuejin said.
Huang Zhenwu nodded repeatedly. He agreed with this. With the introduction of Document (3), some cinemas have now launched Xiangjiang Movies, which have also achieved higher box office than domestic movies. Hu Yuejin and Huang Zhenwu were released as Lin'an Movies
The boss and second son of the company naturally knew about this matter.
"Mr. Hu, should we also contact one or two film companies in Hong Kong? I mean just in case, just in case Zhang Jianya's movie "San Mao Joins the Army" is not a rival to Wu Jianye's "The World of Chu Xing",
We also have second-hand preparations, don't we?" Huang Zhenwu suggested.
Hu Yuejin smiled and said: "Yes, your proposal is very good. In fact, I also have such an idea. Now since you also have such an idea, then I will leave this matter to you!"
Huang Zhenwu said with some embarrassment: "Mr. Hu, if we want to contact the film company in Xiangjiang, then we have to send people to Xiangjiang to fund this activity!"
Hu Yuejin glanced at Huang Zhenwu and said with a smile: "Don't worry, the company will not treat you badly!"
Huang Zhenwu then smiled and thanked him again and again.
He has long wanted to visit the colorful world in Xiangjiang!
"With these two moves this time, it will be much more difficult for Fengge Cinema to open the door to domestic theaters with Wu Jianye's "The World of Chu Xing"!" Huang Zhenwu said with a smile.
"Let's go back to Hollywood and make movies. The domestic film market is not something he can do well if he wants to!" Hu Yuejin also felt like he was going to win at this time!
"Mr. Hu, Mr. Huang, something happened. This is the announcement just excerpted at the door of Lin'an Fengge Cinema!" At this time, someone suddenly broke in, holding a piece of white paper full of words in his hand.
Hu Yuejin vaguely saw the words: Movie viewing lottery!