After discussing the relevant matters of cooperation with Chen Cunxian, Xu Wangchuan immediately returned to Rongcheng and talked to Xiuying Studio about the establishment of the company. Xu Wangqiu had a small meeting with Wu Zhiliu and asked them to prepare a new movie. Wu Zhiliu and the others have already proved their strength through "Bloody Demon Capture", but they can completely take charge of themselves, and they can make movies alone in the future.

Xu Wangqiu gave them the task of filming the sequel to "Falcon" and the sequel to "Bloody Demon", and asked them to send two people to make these two movies, and the rest of them made their own scripts. In the end, Liu Lin chose the sequel to "Falcon", Zhao Ban chose to shoot = the sequel to "Bloody Demon", and Wu Zhiliu and Xia Gang chose to write the script themselves.

On Monday morning, Xu Wangqiu boarded the bus and went to the film bureau for a meeting. He sat by the window, looking at the gray building outside the window, and his mind was quickly immersed in the content of the meeting. When attending the celebration banquet two days ago, Chen Xuzhi called him by name and asked him to attend today's meeting. At that time, Chen Xuzhi said that the main thing was to discuss how to solve the problem of TV stations rushing to broadcast and pirating movies.

Xu Wangqiu knows that this problem is difficult to solve, because there is no copyright law now, and there is no way for film studios to take TV stations, and TV stations belong to the radio and television system, and the Ministry of Culture cannot control them at all. In order to solve this problem, the Propaganda Department convened the two departments together and held many meetings, but never found a suitable solution, and finally the state transferred the film system from the Ministry of Culture to the Ministry of Radio and Television, forming the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television.

However, since the film system is the eldest son of the Ministry of Culture and an important source of income for the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Culture cannot accept the transfer of all film systems. In 1986, when film and television merged, the state only transferred the Film Bureau and the directly affiliated units, including Beijing Film Studio. Other provincial film studios, as well as provincial film companies, are still under the control of the Ministry of Culture.

This has brought about a problem: The film system is nominally under the control of the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television, but the provincial film factory and the provincial film company are still subordinate units of the Ministry of Culture.

Since 1993, the state has carried out a comprehensive reform of the distribution and screening mechanism, but the reform of the cinema chain has been slow to advance, and it was not until 2002 that the cinema system was truly established. The fundamental reason is that in order to ensure its own interests, the provincial film company does not listen to the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television at all. For example, in 1998, the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television asked Qinchuan Province to set up another cinema chain in addition to the provincial film company. However, the film system of Qinchuan Province resolutely resisted this and made this matter a mess.

Due to the difficulties in the implementation of the cinema system, in 2001, the state took the lead, and the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television and the Ministry of Culture jointly issued the "Implementation Rules on Reforming the Film Distribution and Screening Mechanism", and the cinema reform was truly implemented. After half a year of preparation, in 2002, 31 cinema lines were officially put into operation, with a total of 872 cinemas and 1,581 screens, of which 11 cinema lines were operated across provinces and cities. With the official establishment of the cinema system, Chinese films have gradually come out of the predicament.

If Chinese films want to avoid the predicament of the previous life, they must not follow the old road, and they cannot classify the film system to radio and television. If it must be crossed, then it must be all crossed, but this is obviously impossible, and the Ministry of Culture will not agree to it. But if it is not crossed, the problem of pirated movies by TV stations cannot be solved, and both China Film Company and the studio have suffered heavy losses.

It's really a dilemma.

Xu Wangqiu has been thinking about this problem for the past few days, but he has never been able to think of a particularly good solution.

Just thinking that the bus had arrived, Xu Wangqiu got out of the car and walked into the film bureau.

Today's meeting time is nine o'clock in the morning, and when Xu Wangqiu walked into the conference room, there were already twenty or thirty people sitting inside, all of whom were directors and deputy directors of various film studios, as well as relevant personnel.

Since the country's reform of distribution and screening in 79, the life of various film studios has been much more comfortable, medium-sized film studios like Western Film Studio have an annual profit of two or three million, and large factories like Magic Film Studio have an annual profit of more than 10 million. There is food in the hand, and there is no panic in the heart. The factory directors with bulging pockets were all red and talking, and the atmosphere was very warm.

When the factory director and deputy director saw Xu Wangqiu coming in, they greeted Xu Wangqiu very warmly. They are so enthusiastic, not only because Xu Wangqiu suggested that the settlement should be made by copy, which made the pockets of various film studios bulge, but more importantly, Xu Wangqiu is the director of the art center of the export company, and he can get a high box office share by cooperating with the export company.

Xu Wangqiu greeted everyone and found a remote place to sit down. However, as soon as he took out the notebook, Wu Tianmin, the director of the West Film Studio, who had just taken office, came over. Wu Tianmin sat down next to Xu Wangqiu, handed a cigarette to Xu Wangqiu, and asked with a smile, "Director Xu, do you remember me?"

Xu Wangqiu waved his hand to signal that he would not smoke: "I immediately remember that in 78, a few of us went to your factory to peek at the internal reference film, but we were caught by the security department, or you helped us speak, and the security department released us." ”

Wu Tianmin sighed with emotion in his heart, in just a few years, that childish young man not only won the international award for the film, but also became the director of the art center of the export company. He is a sincere person who doesn't like to be sloppy, but he is now the director of the West Film Studio, and he has to force himself for the West Film Studio, complimenting: "At that time, I saw that Director Xu was not an ordinary person, and he became the director of the art center in a few years." ”

Xu Wangqiu could guess why Wu Tianmin was looking for him, and said directly: "Director Wu, if you have anything, just say it, if you can help, I will definitely help." ”

Wu Tianmin does have something to ask for, but now there are many people here, and it is not a place to talk about things, so he said: "There is indeed something to ask for, but this is not a place to talk, can we find a time to talk alone." ”

Xu Wangqiu nodded and said, "You helped us at the beginning, but I haven't had a chance to thank you." Since we met today, I'll be the host, and we'll have a meal together in the evening. What do you think, what do you think?"

Wu Tianmin hurriedly said: "Then how can it be done, I will invite you." ”

Xu Wangqiu waved his hand and said: "You are a guest from afar, if you are invited, others will laugh at me if you say it." ”

As the meeting time approached, people from various film studios and leaders came one after another, and the conference room was slowly full.

Xie Jin is ready to put the story of "Qiu Jin" on the screen, and Qiu Jin once studied in Dongying and needed to go to Dongying to film. It costs a lot of money to go to Dongying to shoot the scene, and the cost of the film will be very high, so the Magic Shadow Studio hopes to pull in the export company and Tokuma Yasukuai.

Xu Wangqiu knew that "Qiu Jin" was a medium grade in Xie Jin's works, and it did not cause much repercussions after its release. However, Xu Wangqiu still agreed to cooperate with the Magic Film Studio, and an excellent director like Xie Jin can help, and he is still willing to help.

After Chen Xuzhi arrived, Chen Bo, who presided over the meeting, glanced around the scene and said, "Comrades, have a meeting!"

In addition to summarizing last year's work and making arrangements for this year's work, this meeting will also discuss some issues that need to be dealt with urgently. The following meeting officially begins. Chen Bo made two opening remarks, turned his head to look at Chen Xuzhi and said, "Next, we will invite Minister Chen Xuzhi to speak, everyone is welcome." ”

Everyone at the scene began to applaud, and Xu Wangqiu also applauded vigorously.

Chen Xuzhi flipped through the draft and said with a smile: "Film is a very important front in China's socialist literary and artistic undertakings, and it is a very meaningful thing for the directors of feature film studios across the country to hold a meeting together. Your meeting is also an important meeting on our literary and artistic front. This is of great significance for progressively implementing the spirit of the Central Committee and guiding practical work......"

Chen Xuzhi fully affirmed the achievements of the film system last year, specially praised Xu Wangqiu and the export company, and asked everyone to learn from Xu Wangqiu and pay close attention to the quality of the script. Chen Xuzhi believes that the most important thing about the export companies that have been able to release so many excellent works in the past two years is that they have paid close attention to the scripts and the quality of the scripts.

Subsequently, the deputy director of the Film Bureau began to summarize last year's film work: "In 1982, a total of 98 feature films were produced in the country, and 18 were added on the basis of last year. With the approval of the State Development Planning Commission, the total output of feature films this year is 100. Last year, a large number of excellent films emerged, among which "A Game of Chess That Didn't End" and "Bloody Demon" also won international awards, but the number of low-quality films is still considerable......"

After the summary of the Film Bureau, each film studio summarized last year's work one by one. All film studios have achieved good results last year, except for export companies, other film studios have basically completed the production targets issued by the state, and have achieved good economic benefits. At the time of the summary, the directors of each film studio were full of confidence, and the atmosphere was very warm.

However, the summary of China Film Company was like a basin of cold water, which extinguished the fiery atmosphere of the scene.

China Film Company released two data in the summary, first, the number of moviegoers last year fell by 12, and second, China Film Company released these 98 domestic feature films, paying a distribution cost of 349 million yuan, a loss of 38.76 million, while the loss amount of the previous year was only 9.64 million. Since the distribution reform in 79, China Film Company's distribution of domestic films has turned into a loss, and the loss is increasing year by year. China Film Company can only make up for its losses by re-screening old films and distributing imported foreign films and Xiangjiang films.

In recent years, the number of moviegoers has been declining year by year, and the downward trend is accelerating; at the same time, the domestic films distributed by the China Film Company are also losing money year by year, and the trend of loss is gradually increasing. In order to ensure its own interests, China Film Company may reduce the number of copies it distributes. In this way, the studio's good days may come to an end.

The meeting lasted until 12 o'clock. After the meeting, Xu Wangqiu and the participants went to the cafeteria for lunch, and then returned to the conference room. Xu Shangchu was very uneasy about the data revealed by China Film Company, and asked Xu Wangqiu's opinion. Xu Wangqiu told them that in four or five years, I am afraid that most film studios will fall into losses.

The afternoon meeting was mainly to lay out the work of the year and solve the problems that arose in the work. The first is to publish a production target, which is approved by the State Development Planning Commission at 100 feature films. The Film Bureau divided these 100 indicators according to the strength of each film studio, of which 20 were assigned to the export company.

After the release of the production indicators, Chen Bo picked up the cup and took a sip of water, then put down the cup and looked at the meeting process, and said: "The following problem requires us to brainstorm, and Minister Chen came here to solve this problem, which is the problem of TV stations rushing to broadcast and pirating movies." He turned his head to look at Ding Jianming and said, "Old Ding, you know this question best, you can talk about it." ”