Hollywood Hunter

bj, a meeting room in the headquarters of Jinshu Media.

A mess.

On the desk were some lunch boxes that hadn't been cleaned up yet, and various cigarette cases and wine bottles were scattered around. The air was even more smoggy, and almost all the men were smoking cigarettes. However, even the few female executives sitting in this conference room didn't care about it at this time.

It's past midnight.

Wu Shanlin, president of Jinshu Media, threw a cigarette butt that almost burned his fingers into the ashtray, and replaced it with a new one. Hearing the whispers of other people around him, he couldn't help it, and asked the Jinshu theater line business Luo Qian, the person in charge, said, "How far do you think you can go this time?"

Luo Qian also had one eye dangling in his mouth, and said: "It is certain that the record will be broken. As for the exact number, I can't say for sure."

Two years ago, the total box office in the mainland was finally stuck at a clever position of 390 million yuan, but it still far exceeded the 320 million yuan of the second place. Although it is almost a matter of course in the minds of many Chinese that American blockbuster films surpass Chinese films in box office in this era, it is not a record that no one hopes to break.

Originally, the industry generally felt that the trilogy that Zhang Guoshi was producing had such potential. After all, Zhang Guoshi’s own box office appeal and the popularity accumulated by a series of award-winning box office films such as , etc. are there. No one thought that the present one, even if it was only the first day of its release, would give people the premonition that the record would be broken soon.

On the other side, Zheng Yi, the president of Jinshu Films, was originally joking with a female executive who was in charge of media public relations. At this moment, he turned his head and said, "According to today's news, we will also be ignorant by movie theaters around the world this time." Less box office."

Everyone immediately remembered that there are theaters selling 'standing tickets' just under their noses today, which is also a pity.

Wu Shanlin said: "This is a small problem. The key is piracy. We must guard against it this time. Old Zheng, you can make arrangements for this tomorrow morning."

Zheng Yi nodded.

Luo Qian said again at this time: "Actually, there is still a shortage of theaters in China. Well, I mean qualified theaters. After all, the policy is not open enough."

Speaking of which, the screenings received this time are only 73% of the networked theaters connected to the National Box Office Data Center under the Film Bureau after the reform of the theater chain system. In fact, across the country, a large number of theaters in many counties, cities, and towns are basically in a semi-eliminated state due to various reasons such as outdated equipment, so they can only play second-round movies or simply pirated copies.

Wu Shanlin took a puff of cigarette, looked up at the ceiling of the conference room slightly, and said, "It's pretty good now. A few years ago, I almost thought that Chinese movies would be finished like this."

Zheng Yi echoed: "Yes..."

After a sentence, he hesitated to speak, but he didn't say much after all.

Of course, everyone thought of the real boss behind Jinshu, a young tycoon who strongly promoted the two key reforms of the Chinese film industry, the Internet of Cinemas and the opening of foreign investment. Just these two things brought the faltering Chinese film market back into order.

Then, it is the direct support of the content.

After all, with a huge population of 1.2 billion, the Chinese film industry naturally has a very large market potential. It's just that the market has been completely screwed up in the past few years, but the potential is still there.

Like a fertile field.

If you don't mess around and take good care of it, you will surely have a good harvest.

Thinking this way, before he knew it, he finished another cigarette. Wu Shanlin raised his wrist and looked at his watch. Just as he was about to ask why the data hadn't arrived yet, his secretary walked in quickly on small high heels. There was a look of joy on his face, and a fax in his hand: "Mr. Wu, and everyone, the statistics came out, 46 million. On the first day of release, the box office was 46 million!"

All the people in the conference room subconsciously stood up, and with admiration, joy, excitement, and astonishment, they approached the female secretary holding the fax.

Although the Chinese film industry has realized the Internet of theaters, and the film festival has also opened a special website for movie box office data, but it is far from being released in real time many years later. Usually, the data of the previous day will be released at nine o'clock after work the next day. Only then will the website be updated, and then some other platforms can reprint the data.

Jin Shu was able to get the data as soon as possible, and it was a special case. The Film Bureau specially arranged for someone to work overtime tonight.

After getting the shocking box office data of 46 million on the first day, I didn't care about my attitude. I immediately contacted various portals I was familiar with, and released the news overnight. After all, this is also a kind of publicity.

46 million!

Even after midnight, the news spread quickly.

Because it was too shocking.

You know, two years ago, after the same full announcement, the box office of the four-day opening weekend was only 91 million, and the box office on the first day of Thursday was only 21 million, which was less than half of the 46 million box office at this time. .

As we all know, the total box office in mainland China is 320 million yuan.

So, now, on the first day, it has more than doubled the box office of 46 million on the first day. How much will this movie's final box office in mainland China be? !

It's an easy conversion.

Of course, no one with a little bit of industry knowledge would directly multiply the box office by two to get a figure of more than 600 million.

In the current mainland market, 600 million box office, I really dare not think about it, I dare not think about it.

However, to break through the previous record of 390 million and reach 400 million, based on the box office calculation on the first day, it must be more than enough. Even if it is higher, it is not impossible to hit 500 million.

possible.

If you can get 500 million box office, according to the current exchange rate, it is equivalent to 60 million US dollars.

The current share in the mainland is 40%, 60 million US dollars, and the 40% account is 24 million US dollars, which is basically close to the production cost of 25 million US dollars.

The problem is that everyone understands that, like China, it is not the Chinese mainland, but the global market.

It’s just that one ticket warehouse in mainland China is already close to paying back, and overseas... think about it, it’s a big profit.

The next day is Saturday.

The rest day, and the summer vacation, was already a highly anticipated event. With the release of the super high box office of 46 million on the first day, it fermented again, which further triggered the phenomenon of queuing up to buy tickets all over the country.

Another day is over in a blink of an eye.

In the evening, Chen Qing accompanied several executives of ICBC to play golf at the already open Xiangshan Golf Course, and Chen Qing drove to the urban area in the twilight.

The box office was a big hit on the first day, and Jinshu couldn't wait to celebrate.

Since Chen Qing was in the capital, of course she was invited.

Jiang Shanwu had already collected some relevant information about the film according to Chen Qing's instructions, box office data, media feedback, etc. Chen Qing was sitting in the car, flipping through the pages, while thinking about what just happened.

Playing with people this time is mainly to discuss the incident that my boss had a flash of inspiration last time.

good pal.

The whole thing went pretty well.

However, it seems that the name of this small-amount wealth management business must be changed, because even if the Internet has not yet risen, the word "good gay friend" still cannot deceive many well-informed people.

According to the original words of a big leader who attaches great importance to this new business that is being planned: too immodest.

I also communicated with my boss again in advance.

Anyway, change it.

At present, it has basically been determined. According to the naming rules of Yifubao, only one word is changed, Yilibao.

The current main obstacles to the project are two things, control rights and investment limits.

ICBC and some people at a higher level mean that ICBC itself needs to participate. After all, it involves the funds of the general public, which must be strictly supervised and no mistakes can be tolerated.

The meaning here is that it is precisely because of this that absolute control must be guaranteed.

As for the reason...

I don't expect someone here to mess around with this money, leaving a mess in the end, and letting the Yi Libao team take the blame.

Supervision is fine, any kind of supervision is fine, and this is what it should be.

but……

Being both a referee and a player, this kind of thing never has any good results.

Anyway, even if the project cannot be completed in the end, Chen Qing does not intend to make concessions in this regard.

Then there is the investment limit.

The project concept of absorbing the public's scattered savings for investment directly provoked the most sensitive nerve of all banks.

Grab business!

It's just that the domestic public has accumulated a large amount of savings funds, and many fields in the country are really short of funds. This is indeed a problem. If you can revitalize this part of the funds, you can really solve too many things.

This is also the reason why the project can get the attention of some high-level people and personally give it a try.

Otherwise, the sensitive nerves of many banks, even ICBC itself, would not allow it.

Now, since the higher-ups are going to try, after all, the reform can only be accepted, but since you said that this is a small amount of financial management, the amount must not be too large. For ICBC, the upper limit of the amount that ICBC is willing to agree to initially is 10,000 yuan.

That's too little.

Even in this era, 10,000 yuan household is still a popular term, but the upper limit of investment is only 10,000 yuan. According to the set annual interest range of 4% to 5%, users can get at most one yuan of income per day, which is inevitable. Some are not easy to arouse the investment enthusiasm of the public.

Therefore, the proposal here is to increase the limit to 100,000.

The current 100,000-level deposits, even if they are not considered major customers, are still a group of savings groups that many banks cannot ignore.

Therefore it was also rejected.

The result of today's discussion is likely to be a compromise, with a limit of 50,000 yuan.

Chen Qing was still dissatisfied, but she also knew that this was the best result the Yifubao team could achieve, much better than the initial limit of 10,000 yuan.

The next thing that needs to be seen is control.

That's nothing to talk about.

Otherwise, this side may even simply hand over the entire project, and you ICBC can play on your own, and this side simply quits. In short, there is no way to back down.

Thinking about how to solve this problem, the car parked outside a hotel in the xc area.

The car door opened, and Wu Shanlin greeted him personally.

Chen Qing changed her smile and said to Wu Shanlin, "Congratulations, Mr. Wu, this time the record is about to be broken."

Wu Shanlin smiled and said, "It's still Mr. Chen who strategizes, we little soldiers are just charging forward."

This tone is full of Director Feng's style.

Chen Qing almost made a bet with Wu Shanlin, Director Feng must be at the hotel at this time.

Indeed.

As before, Simon spoke in person this time, and Director Feng still made a guest appearance, the boss of the Crocodile Gang who was killed at the beginning, and the classic filmmaker's self-deprecating sentence: "I can't make movies at all."

However, apart from Director Feng, the other main creators are currently conducting roadshows in various places, and regrettably none of them are present.

So tonight's celebration

Zhu only opened three tables, mainly Jinshu's top management and some of its core, as if everyone was too excited about the success, so they got together. After all, Westerners are party creatures, with all kinds of parties 365 days a year. In China, they should be regarded as dinner creatures, and everyone also has various dinners 365 days a year.

When Chen Qing and Wu Shanlin came to a private room, they immediately greeted each other and complimented each other.

Chen Qing finally landed, on one side was Wu Shanlin, and on the other was Ren Jingxi who was also invited to join in the fun.

With Chen Qing's arrival, the dinner officially began.

After pushing and changing glasses for a while, Ren Jingxi, who was sitting next to Chen Qing, made one thing in advance: "What's the matter with that woman, the one with the same name as Bingbing?"

Chen Qing paused before remembering.

It should be the big Bingbing sisters and Ma Meili who were randomly selected by the boss from the disco team.

Because the girl had a chance to cry at the beginning, and Chen Qing was very dissatisfied because there was no fair competition. Therefore, she didn't pay much attention to it after she left it with Jin Shu.

Of course, I also said hello in advance.

All three of them have been labeled, so let Jinshu lean a little bit, but of course the most important thing is, don't mess around.

At this moment, when Ren Jingxi mentioned it, Chen Qing was curious: "What's wrong?"

Ren Jingxi said: "Well, I robbed Director Zhang's movie with Xun Mei and the others before, um, I didn't, but this time I came here again, the heroine I want, and the other two , don’t stop, just hit it.”

Chen Qing recalled it, and said with a smile: "It's that notebook that everyone doesn't want?"

Ren Jingxi listened to Chen Qing's teasing, but I was helpless.

The script they talked about was actually a novel published very early in 1983. It tells the story of a father and son postman in the mountains.

Calculated, it should be a rural drama that had a great market in the West a few years ago.

However, compared to the various entanglements and struggles of those rural daughter-in-laws in the past, they are very mainstream and warm. In short, at first glance, it is not the kind of subject that is expected to win awards. It is neither a mainstream commercial film nor won an award. Even though the director of the film is well-connected in the industry and the project budget is not high, it has not been able to get investment before.

Then came to Metropark Media.

Ren Jingxi didn't like it either.

Unexpectedly, my father was very fancy.

In fact, it is also very easy to understand.

Talk about father-son relationship.

In addition, the director only needs 2 million investment, so Ren Jingxi quickly agreed and is currently casting.