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Huafei Film and Television, Chairman's Office.

Qin Wei held a just-printed report in his hand and looked at it carefully for a long time before raising his head. His dry face was expressionless, but his dark eyes were shining brightly. Thinking look.

After a while, he put the report on the coffee table in front of him, took out a cigarette, lit one, slowly exhaled the smoke, and then said, "It's amazing!"

Hu Fei sat on his side, nodded, and said nothing, just picked up the report again, and took a serious look at the data in the first row, with a complicated expression on his face, but in the end he just sighed. He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Xiaojing is much better than her as an actor, and the acting is much better than her, but being a director is..."

He didn't say the remaining half of the sentence, but as long as you look at this freshly released box office chart of the past week, you will immediately understand what he means.

In mid-May, Ming Xiaojing's second directorial work, which is also He Yingyu's first work after the peak of "Dragon Inn" and "The Matrix", was released.

"Beautiful Flowers, Full Moon and Small Sunny Day", a love drama in the Republic of China, tells a love story that happened in the south around 1920. However, Ming Xiaojing, who studied under Qin Wei, is obviously not satisfied with simply talking about the greasy and crooked point between a man and a woman. Little love, even more disdain to shoot any **** love triangle or the like, she tried to add family and country love and hatred, outline the big era, and tell the love tragedy in the turbulent years.

The whole film is well-designed and the costumes are exquisite. The total investment is as high as 60 million yuan, and almost every penny falls on the screen. Among them, the remuneration is as high as 10 million yuan, plus 1% of the box office. It's what made this drama much anticipated before its release.

However, today, a month after the film's release, its total box office is just over 50 million.

You really want to say that the film is not well done, and the reputation is very bad, but there is no such thing. Some fans even praised the film after watching it, thinking that it is very particular and careful in all aspects, although the story is slightly top-heavy. , the big era that Ming Xiaojing tried to show, the interspersed in the film was not successful, making the whole story seem a bit nondescript, but the overall reputation of the film is not too bad.

Just unusually dull.

In this play, He Yingyu was praised as "another wonderful performance after the transformation of "Dragon Inn", and was praised by many film critics. It's completely different, but even with her current appeal and fame, and such a wonderful performance, she still failed to hold the box office - 50 million at the box office, and I don't know if it will be more than six by the end of the show. Ten million, such a box office, compared to the production cost of up to 60 million, is already a loss.

You must know that DVD sales in China are affected by various piracy, and it is difficult to make as much money as in North America.

Of course, from Qin Wei to Ming Xiaojing, they are all in the same line, and they all have a little market in Europe. Coupled with the theme and style of "Beautiful Flowers, Full Moon and Little Sunny Sky", it is normal to get a certain amount of income in Europe. Things, but others may not know, as the boss, Hu Fei is very clear.

Although when I participated in this year's Cannes Film Festival, there were reports from domestic newspapers and the Internet, all kinds of "amazing Cannes", "amazing Europe" and so on, but in fact, the overall evaluation of this film at the film festival was not It’s not high, it didn’t win awards, and it didn’t sell well—although she claims to be Qin Wei’s disciple, Ming Xiaojing is not Qin Wei. The publishing companies in Europe reluctantly like her style, but they didn’t get it. The recognition of awards, before it became popular, her films could only be sold, but they were not valuable.

Therefore, using Qin Wei's contacts to sell all the countries and various copyrights that can be sold in Europe, the overseas only got back 8.6 million US dollars - of course, when promoting domestically, it must be called "" The box office of a certain country has exceeded 10 million US dollars.”

It's just that the domestic 60 million yuan may not be able to pass, and the foreign buyout is less than 20 million. This kind of box office performance is simply a miserable loss.

It can be said that even if Hu Fei's family has a great career, this compensation method will make him feel a lot of pain.

However, on the freshly released last week's box office rankings, the same female director, the same female director who turned into a movie star, and the same love-themed movie, "Autumn Fairy Tale", which was released in the first week, failed in one fell swoop. It won the box office of more than 146 million in the first week.

Compared with the total cost of the film, which was less than 30 million, it was only one week and four days, and the film had already started to make a lot of profits.

Not to mention, it is said that because of the starring of Li Qian and Qin Jingjing, "Fairy Tale of Autumn" has already received more than 26 million various sponsorships and advertisements before the filming - that is to say, the film has not yet started, the fact The "Autumn Fairy Tale" has already been guaranteed.

What's more helpless is that the success of the box office will make Minghu Culture successfully pick up a big-name film director again - and this one is still a love movie!

At this time, after sneaking a glance at Qin Wei, Hu Fei couldn't help but sigh, "He Yingyu's appeal, it seems, is still a little off. Li Qian is still very good. It's hard to say anything else about this movie. The box office in this first week is very big. To a certain extent, he pulled it up..."

However, at this time, Qin Wei shook his head with a serious look on his face.

"When this movie first came out, I also watched it online. Isn't it popular to post movie reviews online now? I went to see it, and the movie has a good reputation. I went to see it yesterday, and it was well done. "

After a pause, he added, "Li Qian and Qin Jingjing also acted very well."

Hu Fei turned his head and glanced at him, but said nothing.

At this time, Qin Wei was still very serious: "Xiaojing blindly wants to do something grand, but now it seems that her ability is not enough for the time being. On the contrary, Li Qian wrote this script for Lu Lingxi, and there is not a single bit of it. It can be called something grand, but it's very delicate and stretched. It's beautiful. And she's done beautifully."

Hu Fei suddenly laughed.

Qin Wei looked at him and frowned slightly, "What's wrong? What am I saying?"

Hu Fei shook his head, "No, there's nothing wrong. I just... In the past year or so, your evaluation of Li Qian has really skyrocketed! Do you recognize him so much now?"

Qin Wei smiled self-deprecatingly, took a deep puff of cigarette, and then slowly said: "It is clear that other people's things can win awards and box office, and even sell to the second place in the global box office, just pretending to close your eyes. I can't see, what's the use? He did a really good job! After watching "The Matrix", I watched his films over the years from the beginning, and even watched "The Legend of the New White Snake". "

"His background over the years is very clear. His progress, you can clearly feel it when you look at his works one by one. Therefore, he can write such a story book for Lu Lingxi, and I have no idea at all. I don't think it's strange. Lu Lingxi also has a solid foundation."

Having said that, he suddenly stopped.

Hu Fei thought for a while, then suddenly reached out, patted his shoulder, and said with a smile, "Li Qian himself is good at patting, and also has the ability to see people, and is good at holding people. We all admit that, now, although Minghu culture is already very strong But it's not enough to cover the sky with one hand, isn't it still you!"

Qin Wei smiled but said nothing.

Of course, he knew that he was obviously another banner of the entire Chinese film industry besides Li Qian, but also a banner of Huafei Film and Television. Moreover, after reading all of Li Qian's works seriously and starting to face up to this opponent, let others take care of himself and look at himself, although he thinks that movies like "The Matrix" have that kind of brain hole, and he will definitely not be able to make them Yes, but when it comes to some grand themes that Li Qian has never dared to touch up to now, he, an old guy who has made art films all his life, still has a big advantage.

So, don't be arrogant, but don't be arrogant at all.

Just get what you do best.

No matter how powerful Minghu Culture is, no matter how powerful Li Qian is, the Chinese film market will inevitably have its own place - and it will not be too small!

At this time, seeing that Qin Wei didn't speak, Hu Fei wanted to say something else, but just in time there was a knock on the door.

Hu Fei shouted "Come in", the assistant pushed the door in and said, "Miss Liu is here!"

Then Liu Yan pushed open the door and walked in.

Seeing that Hu Fei and Qin Wei were both there, they both stood up at this time. Liu Yan greeted them politely, "Hello Dong Hu, hello Director Qin, long time no see!"

So everyone was smiling.

There are still 20 days left before the release of "The Great Wall". Liu Yan and Qin Wei both rushed over today to participate in the relevant publicity and distribution meetings organized by the company.

The film "The Great Wall" was jointly invested and filmed by Huafei Film and Television and Liu Yan Studio, which is affiliated to Huafei Film and Television. Of the total investment of 200 million Chinese yuan, Liu Yan's personal studio accounted for 20 million. As the heroine, and also served as a producer. On the contrary, Qin Wei is still honest, he has neither opened a personal studio nor made personal investment, but only plays the role of director and producer to control the film.

Now, the three producers have gathered, exchanged a few words and greeted the current situation, and then Hu Fei called his assistant in and asked him to inform the various departments and prepare for the meeting.

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As Qin Wei's comeback work after his first failure in the history of his personal film, Huafei Film and Television is extremely important to this film.

If we talk about a movie like "Beautiful Flowers and a Full Moon and a Small Sunny Day", although it also invested 60 million yuan in investment, it is really not small in scale. For Huafei Film and Television, it is still just a test of the water, it is a new director. If it is discovered, then the investment of "The Great Wall" is as high as 200 million yuan, and it is the investment of the introduction of Liu Yan's studio, and it is also a lot of money to invite Hollywood superstars to join, and it is also a huge investment in the United States to do special effects, and so on. One does not reveal Huafei Film and Television's ardent expectations for this film.

Even if it costs tens of millions for a movie like "Beautiful Flowers and a Full Moon", at best it will reduce the company's profits to enrich the film source library, but if "The Great Wall" loses...

Simply losing money, it is good to say that although the investment is huge, the publicity and distribution expenses are also amazing, but Huafei Film and Television is not unable to afford to lose money. More importantly, Huafei Film and Television needs to re-establish Qin Wei's this. Pole the banner - only if this banner does not fall, Huafei Film's position in the industry, its appeal, and the confidence to negotiate with the theater chain will be there, and it will be sufficient.

Of course, Qin Wei's films are selling well. For Huafei Film and Television, which can be regarded as relying heavily on Qin Wei up to now, it naturally means that there is a lot of money to be made.

Therefore, for the promotion and distribution of "The Great Wall", Hu Fei even did a lot of things himself, so as not to make any mistakes, so that the whole film would go directly into the right track from the promotion before its release.

The publicity and distribution meeting before the release, of course, went well.

In May, Hu Fei and Qin Wei traveled to the United States together to secure Paramount, and signed a contract for Paramount Pictures to distribute and show in North America on behalf of Paramount Pictures. The opening scale will be no less than 2,000 canvases - so far, except for Li Qian, this is the highest opening scale that a Chinese-language film director can get in North America.

Moreover, Hu Fei knew in his heart that at least half or even half of it was due to the Hollywood superstar Daniel Jackman, the leading actor of the movie who was invited with a lot of money.

To put it simply, a salary of up to 10 million US dollars was something that Daniel Jackman could not get in Hollywood before. This money must not be taken for nothing. Huafei Film and Television will never let it go out in vain.

In China, the movie is under the names of Qin Wei, Daniel Jackman, Liu Yan, Zheng Zhongyuan, etc. It is conceivable that the theater party will definitely flock to it - although Qin Wei has already missed it once, even though Liu Yan has never proved his strength on the big screen before, but who dares to say Qin Wei can't do it? Who dares to say that the audience will not buy tickets for "Little Swallow"? Besides~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Isn't there Daniel Jackman!

China's first international co-production blockbuster!

It tells the story of the Great Wall!

Although the internal film viewing meeting has not yet opened, the major domestic cinema chains have not hesitated to give the highest standard screening scale. .

Even the two cinema chains controlled by Minghu Culture have promised to give at least 40% of the screening scale to support the first week of the film.

To put it bluntly, in the face of commercial interests, what happened to Liu Yan? If there is money to be made, Minghu Culture will not fail to make money!

So, at the end of the meeting, Hu Fei set a very high-pitched tone for this internal publicity preparatory meeting, he said: "200 million investment, 150 million publicity and distribution funds, our expectations for this film The box office is guaranteed to be 800 million yuan, and one billion is a victory!"

"At least in China, Qin Wei won't be worse than Li Qian's box office!"