Millennium director

Beijing.

Light and Shadow Times Headquarters Building.

After more than ten years of development, Light and Shadow Times has grown from a leather bag company to a large film and television company with more than 500 employees.

In the non-labor-intensive entertainment industry, it is rare for a company to have more than 500 people.

However, the current era of light and shadow is not busy at all.

Although the variety show department and the agency department are still very busy, the employees in the production department, the company's largest pillar, are very relaxed.

Without him, the only film project currently being promoted by Light and Shadow Times is "The Love of Glass".

The company does not have any movie shooting plans next year.

This makes the production department, which has more than 100 and nearly 200 people, particularly unsuitable.

Although Chinese people don’t have the Japanese mentality of feeling uncomfortable every day if they don’t work, fishing every day is not a problem.

However, the company's strategic plans are all formulated by upper-level leaders. If the leaders say that they will not make movies next year, they will not make movies. The small staff have no ability to control it.

Anyway, the money is still paid, the class photo is on, and it’s no problem even if I play Plants vs. Zombies at the workstation every day.

However, unlike the relaxation of the small staff, Li Xiaoping on the top floor is now very stressed.

After holding another meeting to appease the mentality of several middle- and high-level employees in the production department, Li Xiaoping returned to her office, frowning and massaging her temples, feeling only a headache.

Ever since Wu Yuan proposed that the market is overheated and it needs to calm down next year and not start new film production for the time being, Li Xiaoping has been implementing this plan.

If the leader opens his mouth, his subordinates will lose their legs.

In the era of light and shadow, it is no longer the leather company it used to be. Hundreds of mouths rely on the company to make a living.

How to properly appease the emotions of the production department and get them to understand and execute is not an easy task.

Even if Wu Yuan is the company's absolute controlling shareholder, he cannot come so casually.

Yes, in Li Xiaoping's opinion, Wu Yuan just came here casually.

Although the reasons he gave barely make sense, it is really ridiculous to arbitrarily stop the film production plan for the first half of next year just because of the so-called "market overheating bubble" that has not yet appeared.

Well, for the time being, Li Xiaoping has only completed the project of not filming a movie in the first half of next year. As for the second half of next year, there must be no further suspension of work.

This also cost her a lot of energy to prevent several key managers of the company's production department from resigning.

You know, employees and management who came from the Light and Shadow era are very popular outside, and other film companies are eager to poach them all.

If the company's production department really gets emotional and chooses to resign, other film companies will definitely welcome them with both hands.

The leading companies in the industry are so influential.

Fortunately, Wu Yuan also expressed his understanding and approved Li Xiaoping's decision to only stop for half a year and wait and see the market situation before making any further decisions.

Li Xiaoping doesn't know, but Wu Yuan knows very well that by the second half of next year, it's unlikely that any film company in the industry will dare to launch a new movie project, but TV series can still be filmed.

Wu Yuan is also thinking about whether to pick up TV series production again next year, and the company can't really be shut down for so long, otherwise he will feel bad about losing his salary in vain.

However, these specific matters still have to be discussed in detail after he returns from the United States.

"Dong dong dong..." At this time, the door of Li Xiaoping's office was suddenly pushed open, and her secretary walked in with a document.

"Mr. Li, the Golden Rooster Awards announced this year's shortlisted films. Our "Cai Wenji" was shortlisted for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Recording, Best Seven art awards!”

Li Xiaoping, who was rubbing her eyebrows, raised her head: "I have been busy with other things recently, and I have forgotten about the Golden Rooster."

"Bring me the shortlist."

Starting from this year, in order to keep up with the development of Chinese-language films, the Golden Rooster Awards will be held once every two years instead of once every two years. It will also be held at a fixed location instead of changing the venue every year.

However, it is not fixed forever, but held in one place for five times.

From 2019 to 2023, the Golden Rooster Awards will be held in Xiamen, Fujian Province.

Speaking of which, as the older batch of so-called "film seniors" have passed away or completely retired, the current Golden Rooster Awards is finally not as closed-minded and clique-y as before.

In other words, the so-called Beijing circle, now swept by big capital, is no longer a circle that can influence Chinese movies and no longer has the right to speak.

Today's Chinese movies are in an era where capital speaks for itself.

Just look at this year’s shortlist of films.

The films shortlisted for the best feature film include "Operation Red Sea", "I'm Not the God of Medicine", "The Wandering Earth", "The Next of Us", "Eternal Life" and "Cai Wenji".

The six movies are all made by big companies or with deep capital behind them. The old days of relying on so-called mentor relationships and seniority to be shortlisted have passed.

And because of that incident, after the Taiwan Golden Horse Award was blocked by the mainland, the Golden Rooster Award has also become the most important and authoritative film award in the country, which has also made this "old-fashioned and outdated" Golden Rooster Award no longer attract the attention of the audience. It has returned to the public eye and has become the most popular mainland film award.

After briefly reading this year's shortlist, Li Xiaoping said with satisfaction: "Yes, being shortlisted for so many awards is already a recognition of "Cai Wenji"."

"However, this year "Tsai Wenji" did not win the Berlin Best Picture, so there is a high probability that it will not win the Golden Rooster Best Picture."

"In terms of box office, it is not as good as "I'm Not a Medicine God" and "The Wandering Earth", and in terms of artistry, it is also slightly inferior to "Eternal Life"."

"It is estimated that the final Best Picture Award will fall to these two films. I don't know if there will be another double yolk egg this year."

"But it seems that the Golden Rooster has never given out double yolk eggs for the best picture. It has always given out double yolk eggs for the best actor and actress."

"It seems that this year's best film will still be very suspenseful!"

"Cai Wenji" was released in China in April, but it only made less than 200 million yuan at the box office.

There is no way, biographical films that take an artistic route are not inherently attractive at the box office, and they cannot arouse the resonance of the whole people like "Into the Dust" and achieve any miracle of box office counterattack.

It is already very good to have a box office of more than 100 million. Coupled with the overseas copyright income, it is not a loss but a small profit, which is already a very good result.

However, this year's Golden Rooster Best Film will be awarded to "The Wandering Earth", which has the highest box office and also has a "main theme" flavor, or to "Eternal Life", which won the Berlin Jury Prize and brought glory to the country in Europe. 》?

This suspense is really hard to explain~(End of chapter)