bj, a conference room at the Jinshu Media headquarters.
A mess.
On the desk were some lunch boxes that had not yet been put away, and various cigarette boxes, wine bottles and other debris scattered around. The air was filled with smoke, and almost all of the men were holding cigarettes in their mouths. However, even the several female executives sitting in this conference room were not in the mood to care about this at this time.
It was past midnight.
Jinshu Media President Wu Shanlin threw the cigarette butt that almost burned his fingers into the ashtray and replaced it with a new one. Listening to the whispers of other people around him, he couldn't help but asked the person next to him about Jinshu Cinema's online business. The person in charge, Luo Qu, said: "How much do you think we can reach this time?"
Luo Que was also holding a cigarette in his mouth and said: "It is certain to break the Titanic's record. As for the specific number, I can't say for sure."
Two years ago, Titanic's total box office in the mainland was stuck at a clever 390 million yuan, but it was still far more than the second hero's 320 million yuan. Although it is almost natural in the minds of many Chinese people that the box office of American blockbusters exceeds that of Chinese movies in this era, not everyone hopes to break the record of Titanic.
Originally, the industry generally felt that the Chu-Han Trilogy being produced by Zhang Guoshi had such potential. After all, Zhang Guoshi's own box office appeal and the popularity accumulated from a series of award-winning box office films such as Red Sorghum and Heroes were there. No one expected that a Kung Fu movie, even on its first day of release, would give people a premonition that the Titanic record was about to be broken.
On the other side, Zheng Yi, the president of Jinshu Pictures, was joking with a female executive in charge of media and public relations next to him. At this time, he turned around and said: "According to today's news, we will also be ignored by theaters everywhere this time. Less box office.”
Everyone immediately remembered that today, just under their noses, a theater started selling "standing room tickets", which was also a pity.
Wu Shanlin said: "This is a small problem. The key is piracy. We must prevent it this time. Lao Zheng, you can make arrangements for this tomorrow morning."
Zheng Yi nodded.
Luo Que added at this time: "Actually, there is still a shortage of theaters in the country. Well, I mean qualified theaters. In the final analysis, the policy is not open enough."
Speaking of which, the film schedule that Kung Fu received this time is only 73% of the networked theaters that have been connected to the National Box Office Data Center under the Film Bureau after the reform of the theater chain system. In fact, a large number of theaters across the country, in many counties, cities and even towns, are basically in a semi-outdated state due to various reasons such as old equipment. Therefore, they can only play second-run movies or simply pirated copies.
Wu Shanlin took a puff of cigarette, raised his head slightly and stared at the ceiling of the conference room. Hearing this, he said: "It's already very good now. A few years ago, I almost thought that Chinese movies would be finished like this."
Zheng Yi agreed: "Yes."
After another sentence, he stopped talking and didn't say much.
Of course, they all thought of the real boss behind Jinshu, a young tycoon who strongly promoted the two key reforms of the Chinese film industry: theater network and opening up to foreign investment. Just these two things have put the shaky Chinese film market back together.
Then, there is direct support in content.
After all, with its huge population of 1.2 billion, the Chinese film industry naturally has huge market potential. It’s just that the market has been completely destroyed in the past few years, but the potential is still there.
Like a fertile field.
If you don't mess around and take good care of it, you will definitely get a good harvest.
Thinking like this, he unknowingly finished smoking another cigarette. Wu Shanlin raised his wrist and looked at his watch. Just as he was about to ask why the data hadn't arrived yet, his secretary walked in quickly on small high heels. She was beautiful. There was an uncontrollable joy on his face, and in his hand was a fax: "Mr. Wu, and everyone, the statistics are out, 46 million. On the first day of Kung Fu's release, the box office was 46 million, a single-day box office record!"
Everyone in the conference room stood up subconsciously, and with sighs, joy, excitement, and surprise, they all moved towards the female secretary holding the fax.
Although the Chinese film industry has implemented theater networking, and film festivals have also opened a special movie box office data website, it is far from being released in real time many years later. Usually the data of the previous day will be released after nine o'clock after work the next day. , the website will be updated, and then some other platforms can reprint the data.
Jin Shu was able to get the data immediately, and it was a special matter. The film bureau specially arranged for people to work overtime tonight.
After getting the shocking box office data of 46 million on the first day, I didn't care too much. I immediately contacted various portals that I was familiar with and released the news overnight. After all, this is also a kind of publicity.
46 million!
Even though it was already after midnight, the news spread quickly.
Because it was so shocking.
You know, Heroes two years ago, after it was also fully publicized, only had a box office of 91 million in the first four days of its opening weekend. The box office on Thursday on the first day was only 21 million. Less than that, it had a box office of 46 million. half.
As we all know, the total box office of Hero in Mainland China is 320 million yuan.
So, now, Kung Fu has earned 46 million at the box office on its first day, which is more than double the first day of Hero. How much will the final box office of this movie in mainland China be? !
It's an easy conversion.
Of course, no one with a little industry knowledge would directly multiply the box office of a hero by a few points or something to get a figure of more than 600 million.
In the current mainland market, a box office of 600 million is really unthinkable and unthinkable.
However, breaking Titanic's previous record of 390 million and reaching 400 million, it must be more than enough based on the first-day box office. Even higher, hitting 500 million is not impossible.
If it can get 500 million box office, according to the current exchange rate, it is equivalent to 60 million US dollars.
The current split in mainland China is 40%, which is US$60 million. A four-share split is US$24 million, which is basically close to the production cost of US$25 million.
The problem is, everyone understands that kung fu, like heroes, is not only interested in mainland China, but also the global market.
Just one ticket warehouse in mainland China is close to repaying its capital. If you think about it overseas, it is a big profit situation.
The next day is Saturday.
It was a holiday, and it was summer vacation. An event that was already attracting much attention was once again fermented with the release of the record-breaking box office of 46 million on the first day, triggering the phenomenon of queuing up to buy tickets across the country.
In the blink of an eye, another day is over.
In the evening, Chen Qing accompanied several senior executives from ICBC to play golf at the open Xiangshan Golf Course. Chen Qing drove to the city in the dusk.
The box office was a hit on the first day, and Jinshu couldn't wait to celebrate.
Since Chen Qing was in the capital, of course she was invited.
Jiangshan Wu had already collected some information about the film in advance according to Chen Qing's instructions, including box office data, media feedback, etc. Chen Qing was sitting in the car, flipping through it, while thinking about what had just happened.
This time I was playing ball with someone, mainly to discuss the incident where my boss had an idea last time.
good pal.
The whole thing went smoothly.
However, it seems that the name of this small financial management business must be changed, because even if the Internet has not yet emerged, the term "good gay friend" still cannot be hidden from many well-informed people.
According to the words of a big leader who attaches great importance to the new business being planned: It’s too ungrateful.
I also communicated with my boss again in advance.
Anyway, change it.
It has been basically determined now. According to the naming rules of Yifubao, only one word will be changed, Yilibao.
The main obstacles to the project right now are two things, control and investment limits.
What ICBC and some people at a higher level mean is that ICBC itself should get involved. After all, it involves the funds of the general public and must be strictly supervised without any room for error.
The meaning here is that it is precisely because of this that absolute control must be guaranteed.
As for the reason
We don’t want someone to mess around with this money and leave a mess in the end, leaving the Yilibao team to take the blame.
Supervision is possible, no matter what kind of supervision is required, this is what it should be.
but
Being a referee and a player at the same time never ends well. Even if the project fails in the end, Chen Qing has no intention of giving in on this aspect.
Then there are investment limits.
Just the concept of a project that absorbs the public's scattered savings for investment directly arouses the most sensitive nerve of all banks.
Grab business!
It's just that the domestic public has accumulated massive savings, and the country is really short of funds in many areas. This is indeed a problem. If this part of the funds can be put to use, too many things can be solved.
This is also the reason why the project can get the attention of some high-level people and give personal approval to give it a try.
Otherwise, due to the sensitive nerves of many banks, even ICBC itself would not allow it.
Now, since the above is trying to reform, after all, it can only accept it. However, since you said this is small-amount financial management, the amount must not be too large. As for ICBC, the upper limit of the amount they are willing to agree to initially is only 10,000 yuan.
That's too little.
Even in this era, a household worth ten thousand yuan is still a very popular term. However, the investment limit is only ten thousand yuan. According to the set annual interest range of 4% to 5%, users can get a maximum income of more than one yuan a day, which is inevitable. Some are not easy to arouse public enthusiasm for investment.
Therefore, the proposal here is to increase the limit to 100,000.
Even if the current 100,000-level deposits cannot be considered as big customers, they are still a group of savings that many banks cannot ignore.
Therefore it was also rejected.
As a result of today's discussion, there is a high probability that there will be a compromise, with a limit of 50,000 yuan.
Chen Qing was still dissatisfied, but she also knew that this was the best result that the YiFubao team could get, and it was much better than the initial limit of 10,000 yuan.
The next thing that needs to be seen is control.
There's nothing to talk about.
Otherwise, we might even hand over the whole project and let ICBC go and play with it on your own while we quit. We can't give in anyway.
Thinking about how to solve this problem, the car parked outside a hotel in XC District.
The car door opened and Wu Shanlin personally came to greet him.
Chen Qing changed her smile and said to Wu Shanlin: "Congratulations, Mr. Wu, we are going to break the record this time."
Wu Shanlin smiled and said: "Mr. Chen, you are still the one planning the strategy, we little soldiers are just charging ahead."
This tone is full of Director Feng’s style.
Chen Qing almost made a bet with Wu Shanlin that Director Feng must be in the hotel at this time.
Indeed.
As before, Simon spoke personally this time, and Director Feng still made a guest appearance in Kung Fu, the Crocodile Gang boss who was killed at the beginning, and the classic filmmaker's self-deprecation: "I can't make movies at anything."
However, except for Director Feng, the other main creators of Kung Fu are currently conducting road shows in various places, and unfortunately none of them attended.
Therefore, only three tables were opened for tonight's celebration, mainly the top management of Jinshu and some of its core members. They just thought that everyone was too excited about the success of kung fu, so they gathered together. After all, Westerners are party creatures and have all kinds of parties 365 days a year. In China, we should be considered dinner people, and everyone also has various dinners 365 days a year.
Chen Qing and Wu Shanlin came to a private room, where they immediately greeted each other with compliments and congratulations.
Chen Qing sat down last, with Wu Shanlin on one side and Ren Jingxi who was also invited to join in the fun.
With Chen Qing's arrival, the dinner officially began.
After pushing cups and changing cups for a while, Ren Jingxi, who was sitting next to Chen Qing, mentioned something: "What's going on with that woman, the one with the same name as Bingbing?"
Chen Qing paused for a moment before remembering.
It should be the three sisters Da Bingbing and Ma Meiliang who were randomly selected from the disco team by their boss.
Because the girl had a chance to cry and there was no fair competition, Chen Qing was very dissatisfied. Therefore, after leaving Jin Shu there, she paid no attention to it.
Of course, I also said hello in advance.
All three have been tagged, so let Jinshu's side tilt a little, but of course the most important thing is not to mess around.
When Ren Jingxi mentioned it, Chen Qing was curious: "What's wrong?"
Ren Jingxi said: "Well, I competed with Xun Mei and the others for the movie produced by Director Zhang. Well, as night fell, I couldn't snatch it. This time, I came to my place again. I want the woman from that mountain, that man, that dog. The protagonist and the other two are not stopping either, so you'd better give them a beating."
Chen Qing recalled it and said with a smile: "That person in the mountain and that dog are the books that no one wants?"
Ren Jingxi felt helpless when he heard Chen Qing's teasing tone.
The script they talked about was actually adapted from a novel published in 1983, telling the story of a father and son, a postman in the mountains.
All in all, it should be a rural drama that was very popular in the West a few years ago.
However, compared with the various struggles and struggles of those rural dramas in the past, Na Shan Na Man Na Dog is very mainstream and warm. In short, at first glance, it is not the kind of subject that is expected to win awards. It is neither a mainstream commercial film nor can it win awards. Even though the director of the film is well-connected in the industry and the project budget is not high, it has never been able to get investment before.
Then we came to Metropark Media.
Ren Jingxi didn't like it either.
Unexpectedly, my father was very interested in it and even said that he would be named the producer himself.
In fact, it is easy to understand.
Talk about the love between father and son.
In addition, the director only had an investment of 2 million, which was not much, so Ren Jingxi agreed and is currently casting.