Chapter 461: Traitor, He Will Never Change From Now On
"It's amazing! It's true and false, and the soldiers never tire of deceit. Is this playing "The Art of War"?"
Lin Nan was not the only one who had such exclamations in the circle.
The vast majority of people in the film and television industry, the media, and even netizens and fans are somewhat excited and exciting to watch.
First, the five China Film Companies announced the "Notice on the Progress of Negotiations on Box Office Account Sharing Ratios."
Frankly speaking, 28 theater chains, including China Film Star, China Film Southern Shinkansen, Poly, Liaobei, Hengdian, etc., have signed new distribution and screening contracts.
Hundreds of theaters have also contacted distributors, bypassing their respective theater chains, and expressed their willingness to accept the new bill sharing ratio.
The notice from China Film Group Five clearly stated that the market share of these theater chains and theaters has exceeded 70%, and the trend has been established!
Just when everyone thought that this time the publisher really won.
Twenty-seven cinema chain giants including Wanda, Jinyi, New Film Alliance, Magic City United Cinemas, and Dadi Cinemas held a press conference in the capital and released a paper version of the "Joint Declaration" with official seals:
"We will never accept the distributor's tough and unreasonable 'price increase' demands. The 27 mainstream theater chains refused to threaten and will never show the nine Chinese New Year movies."
This is what makes everyone excited and exciting, because the market share of these 27 cinema giants is greater than 80%.
There are a lot of discussions in the film and television circles, entertainment circles, media, and online.
"Here they say they have won 70% of the theaters, but there are 27 theater giants and 80% of the theaters are boycotting! What the hell?"
"Is the publisher bluffing? Or are there a lot of partisans and underdogs in the theater alliance? Or are there problems on both sides?"
Both sides firmly insist on their own opinions, and their increasingly tough stance has made the entire industry a little on tenterhooks.
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"The Film Special Fund Office has issued a notice. This year, for all theaters, as long as the box office revenue ratio of domestic films is greater than 45%.
All are eligible to get back the special film funds submitted by the theater chain as subsidies this year, starting from at least 80%. "
"Killing two birds with one stone? It not only supports domestic films, but also subsidizes theaters.
Do you want to use this temptation to make the theaters take a step back, accept the distributor's request to increase their revenue sharing, and screen domestic films during the Lunar New Year?
However, isn’t this a bit too taken for granted, like a joke! "
Lin Nan complained mercilessly.
It's better not to send this notice. It's just an insult to everyone's intelligence.
The revenue of domestic films in theaters is greater than 45%? What an international joke!
In the broader market, the total box office of domestic films accounts for less than 33%. This 45% pie is a bit too empty.
"It's indeed a joke. So the theaters don't pay attention to the leaders at all, hahaha..."
After Yue Jun and Lin Nan chatted for a while, they went out.
He has been called to meetings frequently in the past two days to represent Lin Nan Pictures.
Because of the splitting of accounts for domestic films, people in the industry are in panic and chaos.
If there is no document from above to set the tone, it will definitely not be suppressed.
But for such a major matter involving industry reform, documents cannot be issued just by saying it, especially in this domestic environment.
Therefore, the film bureau can only keep finding people to hold meetings and urge both parties to negotiate and resolve the matter.
But this time, for their own benefit, it was obvious that no one was listening.
In this case, imported films are very comfortable.
As long as the two sides remain firmly in a stalemate, in the end, whether it is overseas imported films, Hong Kong imported films, or domestic companies that have purchased batches of films, they will all win.
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Five days, 110 million box office.
"Chilling" has become the most dazzling movie in November with its high film schedule and good reputation.
Many mainland films have been reduced to foils and backgrounds.
Among them, "Tai Chi 2" actually has the highest box office in the background. It was released for half a month and the box office was 68.1 million, which is really a bit miserable!
Five companies, including China Film and Star Entertainment, are still confident and firmly believe that theaters will take the initiative to give in before the last moment.
Everyone agreed that if even Zhang Weiping could force him to withdraw from theaters, it would be even more unreasonable for a more powerful distributor to lose!
Therefore, the promotion of several movies was not neglected.
Lu Chuan's "The King's Feast" is a bit of a show-off, and he posted an "ultimate trailer", which is pretty cool.
"Preparation, filming, post-production, and release. After two and a half years of cooking, I hope everyone will like this 'feast' prepared by 'Chef Lu'!"
The draft of "1942" was not so fancy. Feng Xiaogang rarely said only a short paragraph:
"This is the most diligent movie I have ever made in the first half of my life. I think it must earn at least 1 billion yuan at the box office to be considered qualified!"
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There is a "Lunar New Year Cinema Movie Watching Seminar" every year in the industry.
The meeting was attended by representatives from major theater chains and producers of Lunar New Year movies.
However, this year’s “symposium” may change its nature and become a negotiation conference.
This is the first time that Lin Nan Pictures has a film in the Lunar New Year period, and it is also the first time that it has received an invitation to this "symposium".
Lin Nan looked at the invitation letter in his hand over and over again, with a slightly amused expression.
"Let Director Jiang go, she happened to be in charge of "囧" in the first place."
Lin Nan felt that this "symposium" was likely to be a place of right and wrong, and it was best for him not to go.
The assistant responded and went to contact Jiang Yuerou. Less than ten minutes later, the latter's phone call came.
"In previous years, this event lasted for two to three days, and there were many cocktail parties and parties of different names during the period, and the atmosphere was always very good. But this year, it's really hard to say..."
Jiang Xingrou knew more than Lin Nan, and was now giving him a general knowledge.
"As long as there is no fight, what can be wrong to say." Lin Nan joked.
Maybe the theater chain really wants to fight, but the surface work should be done well.
Lin Nan knows something.
China Film Distribution Company directly bypassed the theater chain and put pressure on the theaters under the theater chain, which is why there is a figure of 70%.
This is equivalent to an outsider bypassing Lin Nan Films and directly letting Shanhai Media and Tiangong Colors to get along with him.
In addition, many state-owned theaters are now boycotting the distributor headed by China Film!
"However, this "seminar" may really cause some trouble."
Lin Nan changed the subject and added.
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Calculating the time, there are only more than three months left.
Xue Xiaolu took the initiative to call, and "Love in Seattle" can be scheduled.
Originally, Lin Nan was going to arrange someone to go to China Film.
Finally, after thinking about it, he decided to go by himself and ask about the current specific situation. Han Sanping is the leader of the distributor.
Driving all the way to China Film, Lin Nan saw Han Jianu, and Huo Wenxi was laughing and chatting with him.
"Director Lin."
"How come Senior Brother Lin has time to come here and see Old Han?"
As expected of an only child, no outsider would dare to call her like that.
"Let's talk about the schedule of "Love in Seattle". Director Huo, what about you?"
Lin Nan answered Han Jianu's question first, and then asked Huo Wenxi.
"Director Lin, have you forgotten that Ying Huang has invested most of "The Banquet of the King"."
Hearing this answer, Lin Nan reacted. It has been too long, and he has forgotten about it.
"Then I wish Yinghuang a big box office success this time."
"Thank you, Director Lin. I'll go back to the company first if you're busy." Huo Wenxi said with a smile, and then walked towards the parking lot.
Looking at Huo Wenxi's back, Lin Nan suddenly felt a little sympathetic to Lao Yang.
Hong Kong directors are not good at making historical films. It's more reliable to replace them with mainland directors.
But the investment was given to Lu Chuan. This has to be said. Maybe it's fate?
"Brother Lin, let's go. Old Han is alone in the office now." Han Jianu urged.
"By the way, are you coming from school or from the crew?"
"Don't mention it. Old Han said to find me a movie to practice. I'm having a headache."
Han Jianu's complaining tone, if those directors who want to go nowhere hear it, they will drown her with saliva!
"Cherish it, Miss. Many people beg for it."
Lin Nan smiled and joked.
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When I arrived at Han Sanping's office, the other party was on the phone and pointed to the sofa for Lin Nan to sit on.
"Brother Lin, please sit down. My dad has some new tea that someone has just sent. Would you like to try it?"
Lin Nan smiled and nodded, not paying attention to Han Sanping's dark face at that moment.
From the content of Han Sanping's call, it should be a call with Qin Hong.
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"Valentine's Day? He chose this time. It seems that he has some ideas. How confident are you about the box office?" Han Sanping likes to care about these things.
"I think Director Xue's movie should not be worse than "33 Days of Broken Love."
"Doesn't that mean it will be another profitable movie?"
Han Sanping looked regretful, because this movie has nothing to do with China Film.
"Boss Han, what's the situation now? Time is running out. I have to go to the Golden Horse Awards in two days and I don't have time to care about "Lost in Thailand."
"Of course, the advantage is mine!"
"Without movies, what can they do? Show old movies? We also have some theaters!"
Hearing the four words "the advantage is mine", Lin Nan understood Han Sanping's mentality at the moment. He was definitely the kind of person who was extremely confident.
"That's good."
What can Lin Nan say at this moment? He can only say this.
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No need to wait for China Film Group to announce the film schedule.
At noon, Lin Nan Films directly announced the schedule to the outside world.
"The love movie "Love in Seattle" produced by Lin Nan Films, written and directed by Xue Xiaolu, and starring Yang Mi and Yu Hewei, is scheduled for Valentine's Day after the New Year..."
The news spread within the circle and on the Internet within less than half an hour.
The main creative team forwarded the Weibo and tagged each other.
"It's really Valentine's Day?"
During the crew's break, Yang Mi looked at Zeng Jia in surprise.
"How could it be false? I asked Director Yue, just one month before your contract expired!"
Zeng Jia's eyes sparkled, and she said with some expectation.
"The box office is likely to not lose to "Love Is Not Blind", and you are the heroine.
With this trend, we announced that the contract will not be renewed after the expiration. You will definitely become the focus of attention in the industry, and the studio will be able to get back on track in a short time..."
Yang Mi couldn't help but nod. What Zeng Jia said made a lot of sense and could not be refuted.
"Okay, let's do it!"
She decided firmly.
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Jiang Xingrou came back from the "seminar".
"Director Lin, something seems to be wrong."
"What happened?" Lin Nan asked.
He didn't believe it. What could go wrong in an event like a cocktail party? Although this event lasted for two or three days.
Jiang Xingrou looked a little serious.
"Unlike other film producers, the boss of Yindu was very friendly when he spoke, and said he understood the difficulties of the theater chain."
"Yindu, The Grandmaster?" Lin Nan said subconsciously.
"Yes. The theater chain spoke in an excited tone and was emotional. He directly rebuked the distributor for contacting the theaters without the theater chain, which violated Treaty No. 1519, and would complain to the General Administration if necessary.
Today, Yindu, as the producer of The Grandmaster, became very soft when speaking. Many people think that Yindu may withdraw..."
As soon as Jiang Xingrou finished speaking, Lin Nan's phone rang, and he motioned Jiang Xingrou to wait a moment.
"Who is this?"
"Director Lin? I'm the person in charge of the New Film Association."
"It's me. What can I do for you?"
"Director Lin, the cinema chain is holding a small party and would like to invite you to attend tonight. In addition, Mr. Wang from Huayi, Mr. Qin from Xingmei and others are all invited."
"I'm not the distributor..."
"This time, we are inviting the production company, the production company of the Lunar New Year movie."
Hearing this, Lin Nan understood.
"Maybe I have to say sorry, I've already made an appointment tonight. Besides, I've already made an appointment with Ye Ning, you can go ask him."
The other end of the phone was quiet for a while, and then there was a hearty laugh, "That's really a pity, Director Lin must come to support us next time if there is a chance..."
"Yes, thank you."
After hanging up the phone, the smile on Lin Nan's face disappeared instantly, and he whispered, "It's really wrong..."
"What does Director Lin mean?"
"Huayi and Xingmei are two of the five major distributors this time. The theater invited them to the party, and they went as production companies.
Isn't this a typical way of winning over a few, isolating a few, and defeating them one by one?"
Lin Nan had a headache, so he simply stopped thinking about it. After today, there should be substantial progress.
"Director Lin, we don't go, okay?"
"No problem, Ye Ning and I have talked about it once before. I can't express any attitude, so let's just leave it at that. Pay attention to the news tomorrow..."
Jiang Xingrou was stunned, "Hmm? Okay."
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The promotion of several movies has reached a white-hot stage.
Lost in Thailand is a comedy, and 1942 is an epic.
Lu Chuan was a bit pretentious, "The Banquet of Kings made me re-recognize the profession of director and re-learn it. It has experienced more hardships than Nanjing, and it must be greater than Nanjing..."
These words almost disgusted a group of people in the circle. There were many more netizens scolding him under Weibo, and finally this guy turned off the comment function.
Li An's Life of Pi was not promoted much. But a pure IMAX 3D blockbuster, plus the title of Oscar for Best Director, is enough to offset all the publicity methods.
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"We went to see that Cold War, it was wonderful."
Liu Yifei and Shu Chang, who had finally dealt with the brand these days, started to have fun.
"Are you all right before going to the Golden Horse Awards?"
"Well, Xixi and I are going to have fun for a few days. After attending the film festival, I will start to be busy again."
Shu Chang answered quickly. Judging from his meaning, he is probably going to stay with Liu Yifei until he goes to the Golden Horse Awards.
Miss Liu squeezed in, patted the sofa next to her, and looked at Lin Nan with a smile.
"Come and see, I bought a lot of things."
"All food, you two are really good, can you finish it?"
Lin Nan laughed softly, he was not blind with that big table of snacks.
"Yes, you are." Liu Yifei replied playfully.
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"How can you blame others? When I was filming "The Deer and the Cauldron", the person next to Brother Xiaoming was not the one now."
Just after putting a few broad beans into her mouth, Lin Nan heard Shu Chang muttering there, she was flipping through entertainment news on her mobile phone.
Yang Ying is really amazing. According to the media reports now, Li Fei'er is already the third party who competed with her for Huang Xiaozhu.
On this point, the leader is a little irresponsible, and he has not been seen publicly correcting it in front of the media.
At the beginning, he brought people to greet Lin Nan, Ning Hao, Xing Aina and others.
"Then mention it next time you see him."
Lin Nan teased Shu Chang, who actually tilted his head to think about it.
"Don't tease her. Don't get involved in this kind of thing."
Liu Yifei rolled her eyes at Lin Nan, and knocked Shu Chang on the head again, and the next second they started to play around.
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Sure enough, something happened.
The next morning, Yindu Agency officially announced on its official website:
"As a film company, we understand the difficulties of the theater chain. The Grandmaster is willing to maintain a 43%:57% distribution ratio. From now on, we will no longer respond to Bonar..."
A thousand-mile dam is destroyed by an ant hole!
The first Lunar New Year movie to withdraw from the box office distribution dispute has appeared.
The alliance of 27 cinema chains, led by Wanda, responded quickly:
"The cinema chains will give priority and guarantee to the screening schedule of "The Grandmaster" to achieve a win-win cooperation.
In addition, Wanda and other 27 cinema chains and their affiliated theaters will not host any activities of "1942" and "The Banquet of Kings" from now on."
There was an uproar in the circle, and the cinema chain once again made a strong statement, one soft and one hard, with a degree of tension and relaxation, forming a sharp contrast.
"What the hell? Qin Hong and Wang Zhonglei didn't go to the party, or did they say they went and had a quarrel? How come they were singled out and targeted?"
There must be many people in the circle who are as confused as Lin Nan.
Lin Nan had already made an agreement with Ye Ning, so she didn't go to the party and didn't want to get involved.
He is now curious about what is going on with Hua Yi and Xing Mei.
"Xingmei's Mr. Qin seemed to have refused directly. He had a tough attitude and asked for an increase in the share of accounts. He said there was no need to discuss it.
However, Huayi’s Wang Zhonglei seemed to have gone to the party, so I guess there must have been a problem at the party..."
When the first crack appears in an interest alliance, it means that the alliance is no longer strong.
On the other hand, the five major issuers are not only alliances, but also competitors in the industry. Relatively speaking, the theater camp is more closely united this time. One goes down and the other goes up...
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“Yesterday’s party, Ye Ning and the others promised that if Huayi withdraws from the five major issuer alliances.
They will return the favor and give us a movie, which will be settled in a tiered account settlement model. The specific grades and proportions will be discussed later.
I thought about it and didn't agree immediately. Who knew they would be so decisive today! "
Wang Zhonglei sat opposite Wang Zhongjun, his expression not very good.
"Quit?"
Wang Zhongjun muttered to himself.
"Brother, don't you think so?"
"It's only a few days, can we still hold the premiere? They are determined not to give up this time. Are we still inferior to Zhang Weiping?"
Wang Zhongjun's tone was gloomy and vaguely decisive.
"Brother?"
After looking at Wang Zhonglei, Wang Zhongjun sneered:
"Then what if you learn from Zhang Dapao? The benefits are yours only when you eat them."
"Brother, do you want me to agree to them?"
"Yes, you go to Ye Ning and promise them."
"Which movie should I choose?"
"Xiaogang's "1942", he is Huayi's man..."
"Okay, I'll do it right away,"
"Take Xiaogang with you."
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Lin Nan felt that Han Sanping was already furious because he was stabbed in the back by his subordinates!
The person in charge of Southern Shinkansen, a subsidiary of China Film Group Corporation, slapped Han Sanping in the face in front of the media.
He directly reprimanded Han Sanping for negotiating an agreement with theater chains privately without convening a board meeting, and decided without authorization to transfer 2% of the Shinkansen's interests to the five major distribution companies...
The state-owned film and television group is relatively large, but there is also competition between its subsidiaries.
For example, China Film Distribution Company and China Film Theater Company are at war this time!
And Han Sanping was on the side of China Film Distribution Company, so China Film's theater companies rebelled!
"This time, Director Han is quite famous. He will probably be teased by his colleagues at Shanghai Film and Television Film and Television, haha..."
Lin Nan remembered that Han Sanping had said to him a few days ago: The advantage is mine. As a result, today, his subordinates turned against him and were so laughing that they died.
House seemingly endless rain.
Suddenly, a piece of news woke up the entire film industry.
Hua Yi made a fool of himself!
A total of 30 theater chains, including 27 mainstream theater chains including Wanda, New Film Alliance, Metropolis Alliance, and Dadi Cinemas, as well as 3 newly affiliated theaters including China Film Group and Shinkansen, jointly issued an announcement:
"After equal negotiations between representatives of 30 theaters and Huayi, Huayi withdrew from the distributor alliance, and its films will be released normally. "1942" enjoys a three-stage account sharing model..."
Huayi’s official website issued an announcement at the same time:
"Appropriate compromise is for the healthy development of the industry. Congratulations to director Feng Xiaogang for "1942" and signing a stepped incremental account sharing agreement..."
"Within the box office of 300 million, Huayi takes 43%; for the part over 300 million and below 800 million, Huayi takes 45%; for the part over 800 million, Huayi takes 47%."
The first company to withdraw from the issuer alliance has appeared.
At this point, the alliance of the five major issuers completely collapsed.
The entire film industry did not expect this result. The Wang brothers became traitors and traitors.
For the production industry, this scene seems familiar. Isn’t this what Zhang Weiping did last year?
The film industry is full of criticism towards Hua Yi; people on the Internet are also ridiculing Hua Yi for being too selfless for profit...
China Film Group is having a meeting and Han Sanping is rectifying the internal situation.
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"Is this the only one account sharing model?"
Xingmei is also very angry and wants to flip the table!
"Then stop playing..."
Qin Hong looked at the vice president and said:
"Contact Ye Ning and the others. "The King's Feast" requires a decreasing account sharing model.
43% in the first week, 41% in the second week, and 39% in the second week until the release. I only have one request, to increase the amount of films arranged. "
"Okay, Director Qin."
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Lin Nan was answering Wang Changtian's call.
"The two grandsons surnamed Wang are absolutely nothing. People like them would have been shot in the revolutionary era..."
Lin Nan just listened to Wang Changtian's curse and couldn't help but remind him: "Director Wang, your surname is also Wang."
"I, I, fuck..."
After a few more minutes of cursing, Wang Changtian calmed down.
"The bill-sharing ratio of "1942" is obviously aimed at the later stage. Although it cannot be compared with the total box office betting model of "The Genius Gunfighter", it is also a rare bill-sharing model currently.
"The Banquet of Kings went the other way, giving up the profit-sharing point in exchange for more screenings. As for Lost in Thailand, I'm sorry, brother."
Lin Nan chuckled, "There's nothing to be sorry about, it's still 43% of the profit-sharing.
The director is Xu Zheng, not me, and Ye Ning and the others won't change the profit-sharing model. But this is a movie produced by my company, so there shouldn't be a problem with the number of screenings."
"That's good, that's good."
Lin Nan originally thought that Wang Changtian had nothing else to do, but when he was about to hang up the phone, he said a few more words.
"That's the movie Love in Seattle?"
"Boss Wang, I'm impressed by you, haha..."
Lin Nan couldn't help laughing, complained, and finally nodded.
"Let Guangguang distribute the film, and sign the contract as soon as possible, otherwise when Boss Han reacts, he will probably ask, after all, Director Xue is also a director with a box office of 300 million."
"Okay, I'll send someone to you later."
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Back at the villa, seeing Liu Yifei and Shu Chang walking the dog, Lin Nan instantly relaxed a lot.
"Now, we're all waiting to go to the Golden Horse Awards."
"Has the revenue sharing ratio been decided?"
Liu Yifei is a producer and occasionally pays attention to these things.
"It's decided. It's decided in the future." Lin Nan sighed.
"It's decided in the future?"
"Yes. This time, it was a big deal, but it didn't succeed. I guess there won't be another chance in the future.
There are probably only three revenue sharing models, and they won't change from now on."
"Which three?" Shu Chang interrupted curiously.
"The original 43%:57%, the tiered revenue sharing, and my total box office bet, there are only these three!"
Lin Nan explained. He also contributed a revenue sharing model.
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