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"Big rich man, welcome back to the capital."

November.Wan Xiaohu returned to China from the United States, and after seeing Su Ya, Xiao Ni said with a smile.

"Then what should I call you, rich woman?" Wan Xiaohu wanted to give Su Ya a hug, but was dodged.I had to ask with a flat mouth.

"The mouth grows on you, I can't control it."

Wan Xiaohu laughed: "I still feel that calling you Su Ya is more satisfying, and it's easy to say. Wait, I'll give you something." Saying this, Wan Xiaohu reached out and fumbled in the pocket of his jacket, and then took out a small The box, no bigger than a palm, was handed to Su Ya.

"What?" Su Ya took the box curiously, not knowing how to open it.

"There is a hidden button on the side, press it down and open it."

Su Ya did as she did, opened the box, and immediately yelled, "It's Ah Bao, so beautiful."

Wan Xiaohu raised his eyebrows.

Su Ya has a very small puppet panda in her hand. It is the obese giant panda A Bao who can only know kung fu on the logo of A Bao Animation Studio. It is also the protagonist of the movie "Kung Fu Panda" directed by Wan Xiaohu. .The entire puppet is very delicate in workmanship, and the expressions on the panda's face are lifelike.

Almost as soon as they met each other, Su Ya couldn't put it down.

"How about it, do you like it?"

"I like it, where did it come from?"

Su Ya smiled happily, and Wan Xiaohu was also in a good mood, saying: "The experimental clip of "Kung Fu Panda" has been filmed, and a small-scale trial screening was held in Hollywood, and they all said it was good. DreamWorks intends to cooperate in the development of peripheral products, and has already begun to design dolls and toys based on movie animals, but it is still in the confidential stage, this Po was brought out from the manufacturer secretly by me, and it is specially given to you."

"Being so kind to me?" Su Ya held A Bao in her arms, and gave Wan Xiaohu a flirtatious wink, which was beyond description.

Wan Xiaohu's heart paused on the spot, and then began to pound.

"necessary."

0274 [Go all the way]

Wan Xiaohu returned to China this time, mainly to participate in the Centennial Celebration of Chinese Film and the 14th Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival. Starting from this year, the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival began to reform. In the past, two awards were awarded at one film festival, but this year it began to implement rotation system.

The Golden Rooster Awards and the Hundred Flowers Awards come in rotation, that is, the 25th National Film Golden Rooster Awards will be held this year, and the 28th Popular Film Hundred Flowers Awards will be held next year to reduce the duplication and length of the awards.

Because of some conflicts last year, Wan Xiaohu has no interest in the Golden Rooster Awards, and declined the invitation to be a judge and award presenter.Just come to the film festival to participate in the centennial celebration, as well as the National Film Forum and the International Film Forum.Then look forward to the principles promised by the organizers.

"This year's Golden Rooster Awards will not lay eggs with double yolks!"

Wan Xiaohu doesn't expect the Golden Rooster Award to become more prestigious and prestigious, at least it can change the shortcomings of the past, and this is a good start.

After a meeting and a meal, the film festival will arrive at the awards ceremony.

This year, Dandelion is mainly working on the Chinese-language new star director project. There is not much investment in domestic films. In the past two years, the Chinese film market has also declined seriously. Dandelion still focuses on TV programs.Therefore, this time the Golden Rooster Awards had nothing to do with Dandelion. Wan Xiaohu just sat in the audience with a group of old Nortel directors and watched the awards ceremony.

Unfortunately, things backfired. The Golden Rooster Award, which was agreed to have double yolk eggs, read out two names "Kekexil" and "On the Taihang Mountains" for the best feature film at the end.

"Does this mean that it is agreed not to lay eggs with double yolks?"

Wan Xiaohu shook his head speechlessly, and after the awards ceremony ended, he turned and left without saying a word.

"The Golden Rooster Awards are over." In a certain hotel at night, Wan Xiaohu had a drink with several first-generation directors, and said in a dispirited manner.

"In the beginning, everyone closed the door to entertain themselves, and put gold on their own faces." Zhang Yang also said angrily.

"Isn't that right? I've been busy holding film festivals in Sanya for the past few days, showing my new film, but m's cinema doesn't even have anyone. I showed three shows, and none of them saw more than half of the audience in the cinema. It's free. No money, no one came to see it. It made me think that my movie was so bad that no one would watch it, but this time the domestic new film exhibition, several other movies are worse than mine!" Zhang Yuan said, shaking his head.

Zhang Yang sarcastically: "This morning, Wu Yigong patted the table, saying that the participation of the masses in Sanya is too poor. I don't want to say, it is because the participation of the masses is poor, or the Golden Rooster Award is not attractive. Double yolk eggs are laid every year. What a wonderful old hen to do this."

"This year, less than [-] domestically produced films have been screened in theaters. Isn't it nonsense that two best feature films can be selected?"

Hearing everyone's scolding, Wan Xiaohu took a sip of his wine.

As a Chinese, who doesn't have any patriotism, if it weren't for his love for Chinese movies, he would have devoted himself to Hollywood and made blockbuster movies for foreigners, and won the Golden Rooster Award.Who knows the golden rooster and silver rooster outside the country.Last year, he engaged in unspoken rules and wiped his "The Wind" down.Wan Xiaohu was very upset.

This year, I hope to be more formal, and I have a double-yolk egg.

Refresh the lower limit again and again, challenge the IQ of the audience, and also challenge the bottom line of Wan Xiaohu, a group of filmmakers.

This is not playing with fire, this is jumping into the fire pit alive.

Sighed.Wan Xiaohu picked up the cup and said, "Come on, let's toast the Golden Rooster Award, mourning its misfortune and angering it. Wish it a good journey."

Clang, clang when being touched.

The atmosphere at the table seemed a bit depressing, all the directors present were young directors, except for Wan Xiaohu, all of them looked confused.

The Golden Rooster Award may be a microcosm of Chinese movies.

At the award ceremony, praises were made, saying that China's domestic films broke through a record 2004 in 200, but the sad thing is that the audience saw less than 180 films that could be released in theaters.The remaining more than [-] films either died at the film festival or never saw the light at all.

Don't look at Wan Xiaohu can win the box office champion every time, and easily earn over 2004 million box office.This is because he made classic movies that have been proven by time.In fact, throughout 2000, there were only 15 films with a box office of over [-] million RMB, and only two of them were domestic films.

One is "Zhang Side", which sells government tickets as the main theme, and the other is "Crazy Racing", which was born ahead of schedule under the influence of Wan Xiaohu.

The remaining "Wanted", "House of Flying Daggers" and "A World Without Thieves" are all co-productions.

And this year is even worse. There are no domestic films on the box office list. The only thing worth looking forward to is Zhang Yimou's art film "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles", while Wan Xiaohu's "Source Code" and the upcoming "The Promise" belong to the co-production.

Up to now, there are only more than 36 screens in more than 1000 theaters in 2000 theater lines across the country, and an average movie theater has only two screens.The remaining more than 5000 cinemas are all single-hall cinemas.When a Hollywood blockbuster or co-produced blockbuster is released, domestic films are immediately squeezed out and hit the street!

In a big country with a population of more than one billion, there are 36 film studios and more than 100 large and small private production companies, but there are only more than 7000 screens.It's like sharing a bowl of rice among three hungry men. The stronger hungry man stretches out his hand, and the bowl of rice is gone, and the rest of the hungry men can only stare blankly.

Compared with the failure of the movie to be released, what is even more sad is that domestic piracy is rampant.

Dandelion is a private giant, and has good relationships with distributors from all over the world. These distributors also hope to rely on Dandelion’s movies to make a living. They will take the initiative to prevent piracy and keep the copies of movies secret. Basically, blockbuster movies and films by big directors have this treatment. .As for other movies, that is life and death.

It is often because the movie has not yet been shown in the cinema, and pirated CDs have filled the audio-visual stores in the streets and alleys.

From 198 to 9, the average ticket price in the mainland was 0.25 yuan. In 2004, the average ticket price in the mainland was 50 yuan. It has increased by 15 times in 200 years, but the income has not increased so much.Obviously, the 50 yuan ticket price is not competitive with the 5 yuan pirated disc.

Even today's small white-collar workers earn only a few thousand yuan a month, and they can't stand watching a few more movies.

Therefore, more movie tickets are collected on blockbuster movies.Viewers are saving money, just to watch blockbuster movies.

The market is relatively small, and it is squeezed by Hollywood blockbusters, co-production blockbusters, and piracy. It is not easy for Chinese movies to survive.

Naturally, the Golden Rooster Award, which is rooted in Chinese films, has become increasingly emaciated.

Every year, only a few blockbusters are well-known to the audience, and only a few stars are used in the few blockbusters.Tossing and turning, the country only had those few actors, making leftovers back and forth.You won't get tired of watching it for one or two years, and you will definitely get tired of watching it for three or five years.This is equivalent to a thin golden rooster without even a good-looking chicken feather.

You don't have good-looking chicken feathers, and you look thin. Anyway, you have more fighting power, like a fighting cock.