1979: The child's mother is a celestial being.

Chapter 141 (184 million words) (Please subscribe!)

"Hello, I'd like a copy of today's People's Daily."

"Here, one cent."

"Thank you!"

Chen Inamori switched the breakfast in his right hand to his left, then took out a steel canopy from his pocket and handed it over, while taking the newspaper that still smelled of ink from the salesperson's hand.

After buying the newspaper, Chen Inamin did not read it immediately, but went straight into the Central Academy of Drama across the street.

Born in April 1955, Chen Ining, who is 27 years old, is not a teacher or teaching assistant at this school; he is still a senior student.

However, he was not an undergraduate student. Instead, he was admitted to the performance training program at the Central Academy of Drama. However, unlike the performance training program at Beijing Film Academy, which was attended by Zhu Lin and others, he studied for four years and usually attended classes with undergraduate students. In essence, there was no difference between them.

"Old Li, I've put your breakfast on the table for you."

After entering the dormitory, Chen Inamori patted the bed above him, then sat down and ate breakfast while reading the newspaper he had just bought.

At this moment, Old Li, who was sleeping on the upper bunk, lifted the quilt, sat up, scratched his fluffy hair, and then quickly got out of bed.

He glanced at the newspaper in Chen Inamin's hand, saw it was today's People's Daily, and casually asked, "Any news?"

"Have."

Chen Riming subconsciously stopped chewing and stared at the newspaper in his hand, saying:

"Director Chen Fusheng's film export team was officially reorganized and established as Oriental Film Export Company yesterday, New Year's Day, and the company is still located at the old Beijing Film Academy address..."

Li Baotian, who was 11 years older than Chen Ining, put on his coat and leaned over when he heard something that interested him.

"Yesterday morning at 10:00 AM, Comrade Chen Fusheng, General Manager of Oriental Film Export Company, ignited the atmosphere with his impassioned opening remarks. His description of the company's goals was particularly memorable, and our reporter summarizes them as follows: First, to film compelling Chinese stories, making the patriotism and national character portrayed on screen a window for the world to see China..."

"At the ribbon-cutting ceremony, Secretary Ding from the Publicity Department and Director Shi from the Film Bureau attended the ribbon-cutting and offered their blessings to Oriental Company."

"At the end of the event, Director Chen Fusheng invited everyone to watch the first film produced by their Oriental Film Export Company, 'The Cotton Robe,' directed by Ling Zi, written and produced by Chen Fusheng, and starring Xu Xiangdong, Yu Ronggang, and Lin Qiuping."

After reading the newspaper report on the opening of Oriental Company yesterday, Chen Inamori and Li Baotian exchanged a glance and said in unison, "Let's go see a movie."

Five minutes later, the two went outside. Li Baotian had the newspaper in his hand. He read it again and then asked, "Inaaki, do you think I have a chance to join this Oriental Company?"

"Didn't you want to stay at the university as a teacher?"

Since Li Baotian is 11 years older than Chen Inamori, he is certainly not an ordinary undergraduate student.

In fact, before being admitted to the Central Academy of Drama, Li Baotian had already risen to the position of deputy head of the Xuzhou Regional Cultural Troupe.

After the college entrance examination was reinstated, he took the entrance exam for the directing cadre training program at the Central Academy of Drama on a whim, and unexpectedly, he was admitted.

However, he was born in 1946 and was already 35 before graduation. At that age, it would be awkward for him to work in any organization, so Li Baotian thought about staying at the university to teach after graduation.

However, since he chose to apply to the Central Academy of Drama three years ago, he naturally still had a dream of making movies.

Seeing director Chen Fusheng's grand goal of making Chinese films stand tall on the world stage in the newspaper rekindled his long-dormant dream of making movies, which is why he had the urge to join Oriental Film Company.

"I think I heard from our teacher a while ago that Director Chen Fusheng seems to have recruited several interns at the Beijing Film Academy. If you really want to go to Oriental Film Company, you can inquire about it," Chen Inamori suggested. At the same time, he himself was also a little tempted.

However, looking at the personnel composition of the Oriental Company, it seems that they did not have an acting troupe at all.

Li Baotian nodded, thinking he could inquire about it first, and then stopped discussing the topic and quickly walked out of the school.

They were worried that if they arrived too late, they wouldn't be able to buy tickets.

After all, the situation when "Andhadhun" was released last time is still fresh in our minds.

……

Meanwhile, in Xiaoxitian, Oriental Film Export Company.

At this time, the company was holding its first employee meeting since its establishment.

"I have some good news to announce."

The meeting was only halfway through when Chen Fusheng went out for a while after his secretary came in to announce his return. Now that he had returned, everyone's eyes were on him again.

"Director Chen, what good news?"

Chen Fusheng met everyone's curious gazes and, without keeping them in suspense, said directly, "Lingzi's 'The Cotton Robe' sold 368 film copies. According to the agreement, China Film Group should give us 5,000 yuan for each copy as our company's start-up capital. The total of 368 film copies should give us 184 million yuan, and this money has just been transferred to the company's account."

"It's actually 184 million! I remember that when China Film Group acquired other films before, the uniform price was 720,000. It seems that it went up a bit last year, to 990,000. Judging from this, if we split it 50/50, we'll actually make more money," Han Sanping said.

"The premise of the revenue sharing is that the more copies of the movie are sold, the more money can be made." Ling Zi continued, "I looked at last year's report. Last year, film studios across the country produced a total of 589 movies, but less than one-tenth of them sold more than 200 copies. If it were based on revenue sharing, domestic film studios would probably all go bankrupt."

Chen Fusheng nodded and said, "That's right, so China Film Group only agreed to the revenue sharing for 'The Cotton Robe' and 'The Devotion of Suspect X.' They will acquire our future films according to the same standards as other domestic films."

"However, since we are an export company, we shouldn't just focus on the pittance of selling copies. Our battlefield is overseas. If we're going to make money, we should make money from Americans, Europeans, and Japanese..."

As soon as Chen Fusheng said this, many people in the audience echoed his sentiments:

"That's right, it's more fulfilling to make money from foreigners!"

"Exporting and earning foreign exchange is the very reason for our company's existence."

"That's true. Even though Director Chan's 'Andhadhun' sold more than 500 copies in China, the revenue share was only a little over 2 million. However, the film grossed over 20 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong alone, not to mention the nearly 7 million US dollars in overseas rights. So the majority of our company's profits actually come from overseas, not from China!"

"..."

With that discussion concluded, the first employee meeting of the Eastern Company was almost over.

Chen Fusheng tapped the table to signal everyone to be quiet before speaking again:
"I'll say one last thing. Director Lingzi is going to Hong Kong next Monday to promote 'The Cotton Robe.' Is there anyone who wants to go with her?"

Hearing that they could go to Hong Kong, quite a few people in the meeting room were excited and raised their hands.
Even Han Sanping joined in the fun, but Chen Fusheng didn't even look at him, and directly called out the names of Zhao Baogang, He Qun, and Peng Xiaolian.

The three people he selected were all interns he had initially assigned to the "Cotton Robe" production team.

With that, the first employee meeting of Dongfang Company came to a successful conclusion.

(End of this chapter)