China Entertainment please answer! 1997

Chapter 94 China Film Group
On April [-]th, the day after he finished his friendship with Li Xiaoranchao, Cao Qing started to work hard again.

It's not that Cao Qing doesn't want to rest more, it's really difficult to shoot "The Grandmaster". Compared with the previous two comedies "Crazy Stone" and "The Hangover", wanting to shoot Wong Kar-wai's " A Generation of Grandmasters", the difficulty of crossing in the middle is not at the same level at all.

Here, it doesn't mean how much money was spent in the middle, mainly because of Wong Kar Wai, whose film style is too distinct.

As a well-known director, it is naturally impossible for Cao Qing to completely copy the content of Wong Kar-wai's original version of "The Grandmaster", but if he does not follow his style, Cao Qing, who has never made a literary film before, is really afraid that he will make this This film is made into a four-dimensional image.

Don't invest 1 million at that time, and then you don't get the box office box office, and you don't get the awards, then it will be cheating.

If such a thing really happens, it will undoubtedly have a great blow to Cao Qing's reputation. At that time, let alone wanting to use this movie to become a famous B-level director in one fell swoop, he will probably stay in the ranks of C-level well-known directors Gotta wobble.

It is precisely because of this consideration that Cao Qing has not only been working hard to adjust and change the script during this period, but also went to China Film Group several times without hesitation.

To be honest, Cao Qing is not familiar with China Film, although due to the help of the system, several production directors in China Film have a very good feeling for him, and they have helped him a lot every time Cao Qing's film is released busy.

Moreover, after becoming famous, Cao Qing gave a lot of feedback to these production directors, but this kind of feedback was usually done outside of China Film Corporation. During this period, Cao Qing hardly visited China Film Corporation a few times.

But this time, in order to work hard to make "The Grandmaster" well, Cao Qing had to go to the door five times, even though he didn't like to deal with official organizations like China Film Group.

No, April NO. 19, after finally confirming all the starring roles in the film "The Grandmaster", Cao Qing, who had just visited China Film Company three days ago, in order to invite the actors he dreamed of to join, At this time, I had to come to China Film Company again.

When he arrived at China Film, Cao Qing didn't go directly to Han Sanpin, but first went to find the directors who were familiar with him.

Why not go to Han Sanpin right away? It's not because Cao Qing's current level is not up to him, or because he is too embarrassed to go to him because he doesn't know him well, it's because there is no need for it.

You must know that China Film is an official unit. In China Film's system, the production director is a producer under China Film. His specific responsibility is to develop film and television projects and collect commissions.

Generally speaking, there are only three channels for China Film Development projects, and one of these three channels is that the entire film is fully invested by China Film Group. In this investment method, China Film Group owns the production and distribution of this investment film. full power.

It is very simple to go through this channel. Any director only needs to take the script and find the China Film Production Committee including Han Sanpin and get their approval, and then they can get all the funding.

However, this kind of funding share is generally very small. Due to the current sluggishness of the mainland film market, the investment amount that ordinary directors can get from China Film Group is only a few hundred thousand at most. And this amount of money is not only for the production of "Xiao Wu" and "17" Except for some minor films such as "The Bicycle", not even one "Crazy Stone" could be filmed.

However, this is not because the Bank of China Group is deliberately being harsh. For those directors, the domestic film market is really too sluggish these days. Last year in 1999, the total domestic film market totaled only about 20 billion, which is not even as good as Ten or twenty years from now, any movie will have a much higher box office.

Before time travel, Cao Qing, like many people who don't understand movies, had imagined that if he traveled back to the 90s and the beginning of the new millennium, he would film a movie like "Detective Chinatown" or "Charlotte" Wait for the super movie to get over [-] million box office in one fell swoop.

But after Cao Qing really traveled to this era, he realized that his thinking was completely nonsense. In this year, let alone filming "Detective Chinatown" or "Charlotte Annoyance", it is impossible to get over [-] million box office. , even if you bring the later generations of "Wolf Warrior" and "Mermaid" to the mainland, it is difficult to say that the box office of the movie will definitely exceed [-] million.

For example, in 1998, the second year after Cao Qing came back from time travel, his movie "Crazy Stone" only made about 800 million at the domestic box office, but it would be regarded as just another bad movie in future generations. The box office record that can be surpassed in one day was still quite good in 1998. In the entire 98, all domestic films that could surpass Cao Qing's "Crazy Stone" at the box office could not surpass it. Ten parts.

And Cao Qing started the film in October 1998, and "The Hangover", which was released in August 10, even ranked eighth in the year with a domestic box office of 1999 million, which even surpassed that of the international superstar Cheng Long. "Glass Bottle" is only about three million less than the Hollywood blockbuster "Rush Hour 8" starring him and Chris Tucker.

Therefore, in such an era of extremely sluggish domestic films, except for "Titanic" which can continue to run unimpeded in the mainland and obtain an unrivaled box office of 3.6 million yuan in one fell swoop, any other film, whether it is a Hollywood blockbuster or the later "Chinatown" "Detective" is difficult to enjoy in the territory of Huaguo these days.

After all, no matter in any country, if a film wants to achieve a good box office, in addition to the film itself having to be good enough, it also depends on the maturity of the domestic movie audience market.

Without a good market atmosphere and not enough excellent movies to develop and cultivate audiences and let them develop the habit of going to the cinema, no matter how hard the filmmakers work themselves, it will be difficult to achieve a movie with a box office of over [-] million. This is an iron law that cannot be violated by the film industry in any country in the world.

According to the current level of the Huaguo film market, after the introduction of Hollywood blockbusters in 1993, in addition to Hollywood movies, the entire Huaguo film market has only top domestic directors like Zhang Yimou, Feng Xiaogang, and Chen Kaige who have mobilized audiences to enter the film market. capacity of the cinema.

In addition, the vast majority of directors in China can barely make a living by earning awards from abroad and selling copies.

It is no exaggeration to say that at this time, China's domestic movies have been completely conquered by Hollywood movies. Except for a few top directors, the Chinese people no longer believe that there can be any good movies in China. They think they are all idiots. , completely unworthy of the few dollars I spent on movie tickets.

Such a state could not be saved by Feng Xiaogang and Chen Kaige. It was not until the year after the following year, that is, in 2002, that the efforts of a generation of film master Zhang Yimou finally succeeded in shaking up the domestic film market and driving countless audiences to Going to the cinema to watch movies has truly cultivated the audience's habit of watching domestic blockbusters.

At this time, there were still two full years before the release of the domestic super blockbuster "Hero" that shook the entire mainland film industry. At this time, it was far from the golden age of rapid development of Chinese films.

And it is precisely because of seeing such a sluggish domestic film market that Han Sanpin and other film and television super bosses who will shine brightly in later generations are all stingy in allocating funds to domestic directors at this time.

Of course, it’s no wonder they are so stingy, just like China Film at this time, after its reorganization in the past few months, it can only manage about [-] million funds a year.

This amount of money sounds like a lot of money, but in fact it is more than enough.

For example, in the movie "Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin" released last year, Chen Kai, a top domestic director, directly persuaded foreign businessmen from four countries, and spent a total of 8000 million yuan in filming funds.

In other words, just the drama "Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin" filmed by Brother Chen Kai is enough to consume all the film shooting funds that Han Sanpin, the big boss of China Film Group, can mobilize within a year.

And the most important thing is that the "Jing Ke Assassination of the King of Qin" filmed by Chen Kai had such a large investment, but the final box office was only worth a little over 1000 million. This is definitely a blood loss among blood losses.

It can only be said that it is fortunate that Brother Chen Kai did not join China Film. Most of the 8000 to [-] million yuan in film production funds he used came from private companies such as Huayi and Foreign Investment, otherwise he had just been transferred from the director of Beijing Film Studio to become a newly formed company. Han Sanpin, the director of China Film Group, was able to shake his current status directly because of this movie, causing unrest among the directors and producers of the entire China Film Group.

So, regardless of the high grade and weight of Han San in the future, in these years, the position under his buttocks is completely a chore, and it is not as valuable and popular as the later generations.

Of course, to put it this way, in fact, it is unlikely that a single investment failure will destabilize Han Sanpin's position in real life, because the system of China Film Group will not provide for such a thing at all. soil where it occurs.

Any director who has not dealt with China Film Group and received filming funds, no matter how famous he is, even Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou, will never get more than 1000 million yuan in investment funds from the current China Film Group.

The reason for this is because there is a clear rule within China Film Group that "return equals investment."

In this "return equals investment" strategy, China Film Group directly divides internal directors into three levels. Among these three levels, the first-level directors can only obtain investment funds of 6 to 80 from China Film Group based on their scripts, and They can only apply for this opportunity once a year.

Then they need to rely on the 6 to 80 investment funds to shoot small-scale movies. Only after a movie is successful at the box office can they upgrade their director level within the China Film Group, and thus become a second-level director within the China Film Group. director.

At this level, the amount of investment they can get from China Film Group has increased by three or four times. At this time, they have been able to get 200 to 250 million investment from the Bank of China Group based on the script to shoot movies. It is released and screened within the affiliated and familiar TV stations and theaters of China Film Group.

Then, even at this point, you still have to look at the box office results of the movie. Only when the box office is outstanding can these second-level directors of China Film Group continue to fight monsters and upgrade, and become the highest-level third-level directors in the Bank of China Group. The script can get 600-1000 million investment funds from within the China Film Group as benefits.

At this point, even the director Feng Xiaogang, who was already well-known all over the world, was paired with a big-name actor like Ge You, but he still only received 600 million yuan in investment funds from China Film Group, while he received 600 million yuan in investment funds. This movie of the fund is the movie that completely made him popular in one fell swoop-"Party A and Party B".

At this point, since Feng Xiaogang was like this back then, even if Brother Chen Kai currently has a higher status than Feng Xiaogang in the country, how can China Film Group make an exception for him?

Therefore, although the idea that Han Sanping's position in China Film Group was unstable with one movie before, although it sounds right, it is actually completely impossible to happen.

However, unlike ordinary directors like Feng Xiaogang and Chen Kai who still need to find filming funds everywhere even after becoming famous, Cao Qing has no worries about how to obtain filming funds, even in terms of distribution. , he doesn't need to worry about anyone getting stuck with him.

Anyway, no matter what level Cao Qing is in the system panel, he will definitely be able to get the distribution resources and theater treatment of that level. On this point, it is common no matter whether it is domestic or foreign.

It is precisely because of this that Cao Qing still seldom interacts with China Film Group even though he has filmed two blockbuster movies and also filmed a phenomenal TV series "Meteor Garden" that has spread throughout Southeast Asia. , He handed over all these matters to Jin Xiaoxiao.

Until this time, because the system could not provide him with help in casting, Cao Qing, who did not have a deep foundation in the film and television industry, needed to use the relationship of China Film Group to lure and convince some people who could only rely on Cao Qing himself. It is also very difficult for the actors and behind the scenes.

For example, Mr. Benshan, who played the role of senior brother Gong Yutian in the original book, and some top photographers, lighting engineers, editors, etc., who are not well-known in the film and television industry, but have many years of behind-the-scenes experience.

For this reason, Cao Qing not only had to talk to the production directors, but also finally had to deal with Han Sanpin.

However, Cao Qing did not object to dealing with Han Sanpin. After all, for him who had been reborn from later generations, the name Han Sanpin was already well known.

It could even be said that Cao Qing was vaguely looking forward to meeting Han Sanpin.

　Chapter 25 Everyone go find it yourself. Anyway, I have blocked 5 times after posting once, and I have been blocked from last night to today.

　　
　
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