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Chapter 159 Company Assets Exceed Twenty-Six Million (Please Subscribe!)

"Congratulations to our director Chen Fusheng for winning the Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berlin International Film Festival for 'The Devotion of Suspect X', and congratulations to director Chen Huaikai for winning Best Film at the New Film Forum for 'The Broken Jade Family'. Congratulations to the above two films, along with director Ling Zi's 'The Cotton Robe,' for generating $1056 million in overseas rights revenue!"

"From the Golden Bear Award to multi-million dollar copyrights, director Chen Fusheng tells the story of Chinese cinema's international expression!"

"Golden Bears witness strength, copyrights demonstrate value..."

Jiang Wen, born in 1963, was a student in the 1980 acting class of the Central Academy of Drama. His classmates included Cong Shan, Liu Xiaoning, and Yue Hong.

Cong Shan is Li Xiuzhi in "The Herdsman". Of course, the movie has been filmed, but it has not been released yet.

Like Jiang Wen, Liu Xiaoning studied acting but later became a director. Her representative works include "Men on the Road", "Death Evidence" and "One Day Deal". She also acted in "Looking for a Gun", a film directed by Lu Chuan and starring Jiang Wen who was ruling from behind the scenes.

In 85, there was a very popular skit called "The Girl Who Buys Peanuts" on the Spring Festival Gala. The girl in the skit was Yue Hong, who became famous because of it. Even in 2025, she is still active on screen. However, although she has played many roles, there are not many roles that are truly remembered by the audience.

Just then, Jiang Wen walked into the classroom and heard the three of them seemingly having a heated discussion. Curious, he went over to listen.

"That's amazing! Director Chen's film actually won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. I heard from Teacher Wang that this award is very prestigious internationally."

"Of course! And awards also help with the overseas rights of films, which is why Director Chen's film sold for tens of millions of dollars overseas this time!"

"Didn't the newspaper say that the $1056 million overseas rights were sold for three films together? Director Chen's films must have made up the majority of the money, but I doubt that one of his films would have broken $10 million."

"Yes, Chen Huaikai's film 'The Broken Jade Gate' also won the Best Film Award at the New Film Forum. Although I had never heard of this award before, it seems quite impressive."

"Amazing my foot!" Jiang Wen retorted upon hearing this, "Come on, let me give you a little lesson..."

"Jiang Wen, are you asking for a beating? You're the youngest in our class, who do you think you are?"

"Fine, fine, I'm the young master, and you're the masters, okay?"

Everyone still felt that something was off about what he said.

However, Jiang Wen had already managed to fool them.

"The so-called awards of international film festivals are mainly divided into the main competition and other sub-competitions. The main competition is undoubtedly the most watched and the most recognized by the international community. However, in the other sub-competitions, apart from the short film category, the film festival may add or remove other awards based on the needs of the year. For example, the award for best film at the New Film Forum is something you may not have heard of because it was only established last year. It exists this year, but it may not exist next year. Therefore, it is not recognized by the international community at all and is just a consolation prize."

After Jiang Wen finished speaking, seeing that everyone was still skeptical, he suddenly realized what he meant, smiled slightly, and then repeated his conclusion: "Now, I can tell you that I'm absolutely right to say it's amazing."

"Jiang Wen, how do you know all this?" Liu Xiaoning asked.

"I'm going to take my movie to the Berlin Film Festival to win the Golden Bear someday, so how could I not ask around beforehand?"

"Tch, we're all classmates, why are you bragging in front of us?"

Cong Shan also laughed and said, "Yeah, you think you're Director Chen."

"Director Chen's level is too high. I know my own limitations and can't compare to him. But when I become a director in the future, just don't come begging me for roles."

"Don't worry, even if Shan has no acting jobs, she won't ask you for anything."

"Okay, okay, I'll remember what you said."

Yue Hong said, "If you ask me, instead of looking forward to when you, Jiang Wen, will become a director, I'd rather look forward to acting in Director Chen's films like my senior Chen Ining and the others."

Liu Xiaoning sighed and said, "Indeed, I heard that Director Chen came to the school to recruit people last winter. It's a pity that we were all on vacation at that time, otherwise we might have had a chance."

"Yes, what a pity!"

Seeing that everyone was ignoring him, Jiang Wen didn't bother to make a fool of himself and instead picked up the newspaper in front of them to read.

Soon, two words came out of his mouth: "Awesome!"

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"Director Chen, everyone is here. We have two minutes left in the meeting."

"okay, I get it."

In Chen Fusheng's office at Dongfang Company, upon hearing Tong Jiang's reminder, he nodded to him, then put down today's newspaper, picked up his thermos, and walked into the conference room next door.

As soon as he entered, everyone's eyes were immediately drawn to him, and the previously noisy conference room fell silent.

Then, someone started it, and the next second, enthusiastic applause rang out in the conference room.

As the applause subsided, Chen Fusheng formally announced the meeting's agenda. "I called everyone here this morning to discuss three main things."

"The first thing is that our Oriental Film Export Company's trip to Berlin can be considered the first battle we have fought since its establishment."

"I won't go into too much detail about the process here; I'll just talk about the result: a brilliant victory that exceeded our expectations."

"So I propose we give a round of applause to celebrate our victory in the first phase."

"Director Chen, isn't it too perfunctory to just clap and celebrate such a great victory?"

"Yeah, at least add a chicken leg to lunch today."

"Don't worry, we've already instructed the cafeteria chef to provide extra meals for everyone, and it's not just for lunch today; from now on, our meal standards will be the highest in the industry."

"Bravo! Director Chen is awesome! Applause!"

Wow!
Wow!
A burst of enthusiastic applause once again resounded throughout the Oriental Company's conference room, loud enough for even the security guard to hear, whose face beamed with pride.

The second thing Chen Fusheng talked about was his work report.

Of course, he wasn't the one to give the work report, since he was the highest-ranking person there; instead, others would give the work reports to him.

For example, Han Sanping reported on the progress of the "Hachiko" project, Chen Kaige and his team reported on the progress of the "The Man from Earth" project, and the finance director reported on the company's revenue.

"Director Chen, China Film Group has sold 515 copies of your film 'The Devotion of Suspect X.' According to the revenue-sharing agreement, our Oriental Film Export Company will receive 257.5 million yuan..."

Has the money arrived in your account?

"Not yet. It's the end of the month now, and China Film Group said they'll settle the accounts at the beginning of next month."

"Well, how much foreign exchange did we earn this time?" Chen Fusheng asked, and everyone in the conference room looked at the finance director with curiosity.

Instead of answering, the finance director asked, "Is director Chen Huaikai's $23 income also considered company property?"

"No, that money doesn't belong to the company."

"If we deduct the $23, the foreign exchange is $1033 million. We have tax exemptions. Based on this year's official exchange rate of 1 US dollar to 1.8926 RMB, the company can record 1955.0558 RMB."

hiss~
Even though everyone knew it was a lot of money, they still couldn't help but gasp when they heard the figure.

Including the revenue from "The Cotton Robe", their company, which has only been established for one quarter, already has assets exceeding 26 million.

If the box office revenue of "The Devotion of Suspect X" in Hong Kong is distributed, it is estimated that it will not be far from 30 million.

However, once you earn money, you naturally have to spend it.

The third thing Chen Fusheng talked about was how to spend money.

First, they gave a bonus to everyone who went to the Berlin Film Festival, though it wasn't much; even he himself only received a thousand.

Yeah, I sent it to myself, but nobody objected.

Secondly, there's the film's budget.

The film budget for "Hachiko: A Dog's Tale," which Han Sanping was in charge of, was approved at 150 million yuan.

The film "The Man from Earth" received a budget of 70 yuan.

As for "Die Hard," the film budget was much higher, with 500 million approved in the early stages.

"Finally, I hope everyone can remain humble and prudent, continue their efforts, create new glories, and make the company bigger and stronger."

"Okay, let's break up the meeting!"

Chen Fusheng had just finished a meeting and originally wanted to brag to everyone a bit more.

Just then, Tong Jiang rushed in and whispered in his ear, "Director Chen, Hai Zi called and asked you to come and report. The car to pick you up is on its way."

"Me alone?" Chen Fusheng was suddenly taken aback.

"Yes."

　P.S.: This article does not consider taxes (although they do exist).
　　
　
(End of this chapter)