That year Huayu

"It's amazing! It's true and false, and the soldiers never tire of deceit. Is this playing "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu?"

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, and Hengdian 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 demand for a 'price increase'. 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 movies 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 above at all, hahaha..."

Yue Jun and Lin Nan chatted for a while and then 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.

Attendees were 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 would last for two to three days, during which there would be many cocktail receptions and parties of various types, and the atmosphere would be very good. But this year, it's really hard to say..."

Jiang Yuerou knew more than Lin Nan, so she was giving him popular science at the moment.

"As long as we don't start a fight, there's nothing bad to say." Lin Nan joked.

Maybe the theaters really want to beat people up, but they should be able to do their job on the surface.

Lin Nan knows something.

China Film Distribution Company directly bypassed the theater chain and put pressure on the theaters below the theater chain, which is why the 70% figure was reached.

This is equivalent to an outsider bypassing Lin Nan Pictures and directly asking Shanhai Media and Tiangong Color to confuse him.

Moreover, many state-owned theater chains are now boycotting distributors headed by China Film and Television!

"However, I don't know if something will happen to this 'symposium'."

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 announced that "Love in Seattle" could be scheduled.

Originally, Lin Nan was going to arrange for someone to go to China Film Academy.

Finally, after thinking about it, I decided to take a trip myself and ask about the current situation. Han Sanping was the leader of the publisher.

Driving all the way to China Film Academy, Lin Nan saw Han Jianu, and Huo Wenxi was chatting and laughing with her.

"Director Lin."

"Why did Senior Brother Lin come here to see Lao Han when he had time?"

She is indeed an only child, how dare outsiders call her that.

"Let's talk about the schedule of "Love in Seattle". Director Huo, what about you?"

Lin Nan first answered Han Jianu's question, and then asked Huo Wenxi.

"Have you forgotten, Director Lin? Ying Huang voted for most of "The King's Feast"."

After hearing this answer, Lin Nan reacted. It had been so long that he had forgotten about it.

"Then I wish Yinghuang a big hit at the box office this time."

"Thank you, Director Lin. Since you are busy, I will go back to the company first." Huo Wenxi said with a smile, and then walked towards the parking place.

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, so a mainland director would be more reliable.

But it happened to be invested in Lu Chuan, so I have to say, maybe this is what fate is like?

"Brother Lin, let's go. Old Han is alone in the office right now." Han Jianu urged.

"By the way, are you here from school or from the crew?"

"Don't mention it, Lao Han said to find a movie for me to practice my skills on. I'm having a headache."

If Han Jia Nyeo's whiny tone were heard by those desperate directors, they would drown her in saliva!

"Cherish it, young lady. No matter how many people ask for it, I won't be able to get it."

Lin Nan joked with a smile.

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When they arrived at Han Sanping's office, the other party was on the phone and pointed to the sofa for Lin Nan to sit on.

"Senior Brother Lin, sit down. My dad has some new tea brought by others. Do you want 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, he should be on the phone with Qin Hong.

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"Valentine's Day? You seem to have some ideas in choosing this time. How sure are you of the box office?" Han Sanping likes to care about these things.

"I think Director Xue's film should be no worse than "Love Is Not Blind"."

"Doesn't that mean they are making money again?"

Han Sanping looked regretful because this movie had nothing to do with China Film.

"Director Han, how is the situation now? We don't have much time. I have to go to the Golden Horse in two days, and I don't have time to worry about "Thailand"."

"Of course the advantage is mine!"

"If there are no movies, what will they play? Are they showing old movies? We also have some theaters on hand!"

Hearing the words "I have the advantage", Lin Nan understood Han Sanping's mentality at the moment. He was definitely extremely confident.

"That's good."

What can Lin Nan say at this moment? That's all I can say.

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There is no need to wait for China Film to announce movie schedule information.

At noon, Lin Nan Pictures directly announced the schedule to the outside world.

"The love movie "Love in Seattle" produced by Lin Nan Pictures, written and directed by director Xue Xiaolu, starring Yang Mi and Yu Hewei, is scheduled to be released on Valentine's Day after the new year..."

Less than half an hour after the news was sent out, it had spread in circles and on the Internet.

The creative team reposted it on Weibo one after another and liked each other.

"Is it really Valentine's Day?"

During the crew's break, Yang Mi looked at Zeng Jia in surprise.

"Can we still have a vacation? I asked Director Yue about it, just one month before your contract expires!"

Zeng Jia's eyes glowed and she said with some expectation.

"At the box office, there is a high probability that it will not lose to "Love Is Not Blind", and you are the heroine.

Taking advantage of this trend, we announced that the contract will not be renewed when it expires. You will definitely become the focus of the industry and get the studio on the right track in a short time..."

Yang Mi couldn't help but nodded. What Zeng Jia said was very reasonable and she couldn't refute it.

"Okay, let's do it!"

She decided firmly.

…

Jiang Yuerou came back from attending the "seminar".

"Director Lin, something seems wrong."

"What happened?" Lin Nan asked.

He still didn't believe that anything could happen if he participated in an event similar to a cocktail party. Although this event lasts for two or three days.

Jiang Yuerou looked a little serious.

"Unlike other film producers, the boss of Yindu Agency was very friendly when speaking and frankly understood the difficulties faced by the theaters."

"Yindu Organization, "The Grandmaster"?" Lin Nan said subconsciously.

"Yes. The theater chain's speech was in a high-spirited and emotional tone. He directly scolded the distributor for bypassing the theater chain and contacting theaters, which violated Treaty No. 1519. If necessary, he will complain to the General Administration.

Today, as the producer of "The Grandmaster", Yindu Agency's attitude became very soft when speaking. Many people think that Yindu Organization may withdraw..."

As soon as Jiang Yanrou finished speaking, Lin Nan's cell phone rang, and he signaled Jiang Yanrou to wait for a while.

"Which one?"

"Director Lin? I am the person in charge of the New Film Alliance."

"It's me, what's wrong?"

"Director Lin, the cinema has held a small party and would like to invite you to attend it tonight. In addition, Mr. Wang from Huayi, Mr. Qin from Xingmei and others are also invited."

"I am not the publisher..."

"The invitation this time is from the production company, the production company of the Lunar New Year movie."

Hearing this, Lin Nan understood.

"Maybe I'm sorry. I've already made an appointment tonight. Besides, I've made an agreement with Ye Ning. You can ask him."

There was silence on the other end of the phone, and then a hearty laughter came, "That's such a shame. Next time I have a chance, Director Lin must come to support me..."

"I will, thank you."

After hanging up the phone, the smile on Lin Nan's face disappeared instantly, and she complained softly: "Something is really going wrong..."

"What does Director Lin mean?"

"Huayi and Star America are two of the five major distributors this time. The theater chain invited them to attend the party, and they went as production companies.

Isn't this a typical example of recruiting a few, isolating a few, and defeating them all? "

Lin Nan had a headache and simply stopped thinking about it. After today, there should be substantial progress.

"Director Lin, we don't want to go, is that okay?"

"No problem, Ye Ning and I have talked about it once before. I can't say anything, so let's leave it at that. Pay attention to tomorrow's news..."

Jiang Yanrou was stunned for a moment, "Huh? Okay."

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The promotion of several movies has reached a fever pitch.

"囧" focuses on comedy, while "1942" is known as an epic.

Lu Chuan was a bit pretentious, ""The King's Feast" made me re-understand the profession of director and learn it again. 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 to death. On Weibo, many netizens scolded him, and finally this guy turned off the comment function.

Li An's "Pi" didn't do much publicity. But a pure IMAX3D blockbuster, coupled with the Oscar for Best Director, is enough to be worth all the publicity methods.

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“We went to see that Chills movie, and it was great.”

Liu Yifei and Shu Chang, after finally dealing with the brand owners these days, started to have fun.

"Is everything okay before going to the Golden Horse?"

"Well, Sissi and I are going to have a lot of fun for a few days. After attending the film festival, I will start to get busy again."

Shu Chang answered quickly. Judging from this, he probably planned to stay with Liu Yifei until it was time to go to the Golden Horse.

Miss Liu squeezed in, patted the sofa next to her, and looked at Lin Nan with a smile.

"Come and take a look, I bought a lot of things."

"It's all food. You two are really good at it. Have you finished eating?"

Lin Nan chuckled softly, he was not blind with that large table of snacks.

"Yes, with you." Liu Yifei replied playfully.

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"How can I beat him up? When I was filming "The Deer and the Cauldron", the person next to Xiao Ming was not the person he is now."

As soon as she put a few broad beans into her mouth, Lin Nan heard Shu Chang talking about it while flipping through entertainment news on her phone.

Yang Ying is indeed powerful, and according to current media reports, Li Feier is already the third person who competed with her to compete for the Yellow Cult Leader.

In this regard, the leader has become somewhat irresponsible and has not publicly corrected himself in front of the media.

At the beginning, he even brought people with him to greet Lin Nan, Ning Hao, Xing Aina and others.

"Then next time you see him, mention a few words."

Lin Nan teased Shu Chang, who actually tilted his head and started thinking about it.

"Stop teasing her. Don't get involved in this kind of thing."

Liu Yifei rolled her eyes at Lin Nan, then hit Shu Chang on the head, and the fight started in the next second.

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Sure enough, something happened.

Yindu Organization officially announced on its official website the next morning:

"As a film producer, we understand the difficulties faced by theaters. "The Grandmaster" is willing to maintain a bill-sharing ratio of 43%:57%. From now on, we will no longer respond to Bona..."

A thousand-mile embankment was destroyed by an ant nest!

The first Lunar New Year movie to withdraw from the box office division battle has appeared.

A 27-theater alliance led by Wanda quickly responded:

"The theater chain will give priority and guarantees to the screening schedule of "The Grandmaster" to make the cooperation a win-win situation.

In addition, Wanda and other 27 cinemas and their theaters will not host any activities of "1942" and "The King's Feast" from now on. "

There was an uproar in the circle, and the theaters once again took a tough stance, one soft and one hard, with a degree of 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.

Because Lin Nan had already made an agreement with Ye Ning, 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 reciprocate and give us a movie, which will be settled on a laddered account basis. 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 negotiation 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 so self-interested...

China Film Group is having a meeting and Han Sanping is rectifying the internal situation.

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"Is this the only one share of this 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 named 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 King's Feast" did the opposite, dividing the accounts and giving profits in exchange for more filming scenes. As for "囧", I'm sorry for you, brother."

Lin Nan chuckled, "Nothing to apologize for, it's still 43%.

The director is Xu Zheng and not me. Ye Ning and the others will not change the accounting model. But this is a movie produced by our company, so there should be no problem with the film schedule. "

"That's good, that's good."

Lin Nan originally thought that Wang Changtian had nothing else to do, but he was about to hang up the phone when he said a few more words.

"That movie "Love in Seattle"?"

"Director Wang, I am convinced by you, haha..."

Lin Nan couldn't help but laugh, complained, and finally nodded.

"The distribution should be given to Enlight. Sign the contract as soon as possible, otherwise when Director Han reacts, he will probably ask. After all, Director Xue is also a director with a box office of 300 million."

"Okay, I will send someone to your place later."

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When he returned to the villa, he saw Liu Yifei and Shu Chang walking their dogs, and Lin Nan instantly relaxed a lot.

"Now, the rest of us are waiting to go to the Golden Horse."

"Have you decided on the ratio of sharing accounts outside?"

Liu Yifei is a producer and occasionally pays attention to these things.

"It's settled, everything is settled from now on." Lin Nan sighed with emotion.

"Is everything settled in the future?"

"Yes. This time, despite all the efforts, we failed, and I probably won't have another chance in the future.

There are probably only three types of account sharing modes, and they will not change from now on. "

"What three are they?" Shu Chang interjected curiously.

"Original 43%: 57%, ladder split, and my total box office bet, these are the three types!"

Lin Nan explained. I also contributed to an account sharing model.

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