The entertainment industry shouldn't be like this

Chapter 245 Who kicked off the 1994 movie year?

Eastern Pictures, General Manager's Office.

Houmai was holding in his hand a summary of the box office performance of the domestic film market for the previous week compiled by his secretary. His expression was complicated, a little surprised, a little sighing, and some inexplicable helplessness.

In the new week, Dunhuang's "Savage Sister" was knocked off the top of the box office list by a Hollywood blockbuster and ranked second, but its box office decline has still maintained quite nicely.

This is also the characteristic of Dunhuang in this summer season - stability!

"Crazy Stone" and "Savage Sister" are one after the other. They can't be said to be very dominant, but they are very stable!

For example, "Crazy Stone", even in its second month, still did not fall out of the top ten in the box office rankings. On weekends, the single-day box office revenue returned to 10 million, which is shockingly stable!

The cumulative box office of "Crazy Stone" has exceeded 600 million, and the box office of "Savage Sister" is also approaching 500 million. What is this concept?

Just compare it with Eastern Pictures, which also belongs to the second tier. Eastern Pictures also had a medium-production movie released this summer. Between the blockbusters, it barely made more than 200 million at the box office. It was quite profitable.

Yes, but it’s only a fraction of Dunhuang’s...?

This is so shocking!

At this time, there was a knock on the door outside. Hou Mai answered, and then Song Zhicheng opened the door and walked in.

Seeing that Hou Mai was reading the information, Song Zhicheng said: "Hey, are you still reading? This wave of Lianya Entertainment is really embarrassing. I wanted to pick a weak persimmon, but I didn't expect that I would become a food delivery person...

"

As he spoke, there was a smile that was filled with schadenfreude.

Hou Mai was helpless.

He knew that Song Zhicheng had no good impression of Dunhuang, but he was even less fond of the Five Greats.

Houmai waited and waited. After learning that Wang Wei was making a new film, he hoped that Song Zhicheng would be stimulated and have some ideas.

After losing to Wang Wei in the Tianma Award at the beginning of the year, Song Zhicheng took a long break to catch his breath.

At this point, he shrugged and said contemptuously: "This is also the biggest flaw of all alliances - inconsistent hearts. Everyone wants others to do their best so that they can take the biggest advantage..."

Hou Mai was stunned, but his first reaction was, "Then Dunhuang will definitely have a hard time next year. No film is weak, and being suppressed by the big five, the pressure will be overwhelming..."

"Next year will be an unprecedented melee. No one can take it easy. Now it depends on who can start this melee first!"

Dunhuang just broke this convention, well, at least for now.

Houmai was speechless for a while, then smiled bitterly: "You're right, I'm still lucky."

As the saying goes, as long as the hoe is wielded well, there is no corner that cannot be dug down!

In a sense, like most countries in the world, second- and third-tier film companies are nothing more than talent cultivation and conveyors for the top five.

Even though he directly gave her a production budget of 30 to 40 million yuan and promised her to film whatever she wanted, he still couldn't get anyone to come over.

The most typical example is the summer champion, a Xianxia blockbuster released by Tang Yu Media, which was released in mid-July and won the box office championship for three consecutive weeks!

Houmai can also guess that the reason why the Dunhuang directors can remain loyal is largely because of Wang Wei's banner - the banner points to all directions and is unfavorable. Who doesn't support it?

Song Zhicheng looked displeased and said, "I'm not being stimulated by anyone, but next year is the eve of the 100th birthday of world cinema. Which filmmaker doesn't want to leave his own footprints at this critical juncture?"

He naturally hoped that the Big Five would fight to the death with Dunhuang, so that Eastern Pictures would have a chance to fish in troubled waters.

"You are finally going to make a new movie?!" Houmai's voice suddenly became high-pitched, and he couldn't help but slap the table with excitement, "Great! I'm just waiting for you to have ideas!"

This is probably the natural aversion of rising stars to monopolies.

Of course Song Zhicheng also noticed the other party's depression, so he changed the subject and raised the script outline in his hand: "By the way, I have some ideas for a new film. Do you want to hear it?"

After all, Song Zhicheng is the trump card of Eastern Pictures!

Therefore, rather than saying that they want to directly suppress the movies released in Dunhuang, it is better to say that they are trying their best to dilute the box office during the same period and prevent the box office of Dunhuang movies from booming.

——Which film company doesn’t have its own trump card in hand? Only with the trump card and a wave of small and medium-sized directors underneath can it form its own system.

Song Zhicheng curled his lips and waved his hand and said: "Young Master, I don't believe you can't see that it's not that Dunhuang is really that powerful, but that none of the five major powers can fight against it with all its strength."

However, as of now, the water is a bit "muddy" and the fish may not have a chance to touch it.

——To be honest, Houmai was so envious of the "loyalty" of Dunhuang directors that he was drooling with envy.

He knows this is true.

After all, no one is stupid and would not go head-to-head with Dunhuang on the project that he is most certain to make money on.

As a director, Song Zhicheng said he could understand this.

Song Zhicheng's tone was very disdainful, and he really looked down on the five major forces - really thought that just by putting together a casual effort, he could defeat the aggressive Dunhuang? He wanted to keep his position, but he didn't want to bleed a lot, how could he do it in the world?

Such a cheap thing?

"Well, Wang Wei should have noticed that, so his new film is also a big production - only by establishing reciprocal deterrence can the Big Five continue to shrink."

Song Zhicheng shook his head solemnly: "Who dares to say that Dunhuang can't produce more classic works? And, to be honest, Dunhuang, which has been suppressed for a year, may be more adaptable to this situation of being surrounded by powerful enemies...

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It would be fine if one of the five major companies wooed him, but the other party would rather cling to Dunhuang, which is jointly suppressed by the five major companies, than choose Dongfang Pictures, which has money and no pressure, which makes Houmai feel bitter...and envious!

Houmai continued to nod, and then couldn't help but sigh.

No, his solicitation for director Liang Guanyi was rejected again!

Hou Mai nodded slowly.

"Normally, before they were given the opportunity in Dunhuang, they were all unknown; even if they were somewhat famous, they were just famous in some small circles within the industry. However, because of Dunhuang, they all succeeded, even emotionally they were not famous.

Just leave as soon as you say."

"Do you really think that the top five don't have a trump card that can crush all the films of the same period? It's just that no one is willing to use it to compete with Dunhuang."

Houmai pursed his lips and became silent.

——Song Zhicheng is not the only choice of Eastern Pictures.

Since the Lumiere brothers, the "fathers of modern cinema", invented film shot on film in 1895, 1995 happens to be the centenary, and most of the 95 awards are awarded to films in 1994, so next year is destined to be all

It’s been a year of hard work for filmmakers.

Looking at the top five films that directly compete with the two Dunhuang films, they are either sequels that start off with a strong start but lack sufficient stamina, or they are "transitional films" with high risks - don't doubt that the evaluation system of the top five is still a bit predictable.

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For a long time, for second- and third-tier film companies like them, if the big five with strong brands and strong capital want to poach people, they dare not say all of them, but if they poach half of them out of ten, it won't be a big problem.

Hou Mai waited for him to finish complaining, and suddenly said: "Under the joint suppression of the five major forces, it can still have such a strong momentum. Dunhuang and Wang Wei are really fierce!"

Can he say, "It's just a matter of talking about feelings, but it's not about interests"?

At this time, the secretary knocked on the door and walked in, telling the two of them the latest news——

Wang Wei will hold a press conference for his new film and accept public interviews at the conference!

Hou Mai and Song Zhicheng were shocked and felt something at the same time——

The person who kicked off the 1994 movie year couldn’t be this guy, right?!

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Alas, with such a lousy coding efficiency of a scumbag author, how could he save enough manuscripts for the Chinese New Year? It’s a headache~~~

(End of chapter)