Chapter Seventy-Eight: Price Increases
Zhou Jingyi watched the meeting from beginning to end. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
When they walked out of the door after the meeting, seeing that Sun Yuting and Huang Wenjuan were both staying in the conference room to discuss the follow-up with Ming Xiaojing and the two of them, Zhou Jingyi, who was already very familiar with Zhu Qiang, couldn't help but turn her head to look at Li Qian and said, "You are really generous." ”
Li Qian shrugged, "Yes, I dismantled this crew with my own hands!"
After finishing speaking, he turned his head to look at Zhu Qiang and Zhou Jingyi, and said with a smile: "Not only do you have to shoot a lot more shots, but it is estimated that you will have to wait until the second half of next year to get the last salary!"
Zhou Jingyi shrugged, Zhu Qiang smiled, and said, "It's okay, anyway, I haven't received any good books recently." ”
Walking to the staircase while speaking, Zhu Qiang suddenly asked again: "What about now...... Just disperse first?"
Li Qian stood still, sighed helplessly, and said: "What can I do if I don't disperse? The big adjustment that hurts the muscles and bones, the script must be moved, and the two lines must be carefully brushed from the beginning, and now they will not be dispersed, one is that the camera may not be used in the future, and the other is that the people who stay here eat and chew, and the expenses are not small!"
Zhu Qiang sighed, "Yes!"
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Kang Xiaolou, Ming Xiaojing, Huang Wenjuan, and Sun Yuting discussed for a full hour and a half behind closed doors, and roughly finalized the next shooting plan.
The crew announced the temporary disbandment in the afternoon of the same day, when will the filming continue, everyone will go back and wait for the news, the expected start time is July and August next year, and it should not exceed September at the latest.
At the same time, in order to avoid the circulation of all kinds of negative gossip, which will hit morale and affect future publicity, she also deliberately smiled and emphasized, "Attention, I didn't embezzle money, let's not stop filming, it was me and Li Qian who summed it up and decided to make certain changes to the script and story, so we have to carefully review the script again, and then, when filming starts again, Li Qian will become our second male lead, and it is not easy to invite him to join!"
"So, I have to make the story satisfying and exciting, and stopping filming for the time being is also a helpless move! But everyone rest assured, the salary and salary that should be paid will not be missing everyone, if anyone is not at ease, I can give you a word, I know that Xiaojing may be so poor that he can't afford to pay everyone's salary, but Li Qian is rich! Everyone knows that, right?"
"Of course, if you think that what I did was unreliable and you don't want to follow me, it doesn't matter, the part that has been filmed and the time that has been delayed, we can all convert it, and if you want to leave, you can go back and find Kang Producer and Huang Producer to settle your salary!
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That night, Li Qian took his administrative secretary Qin Nuo and flew back to Shuntian Mansion.
Sun Yuting stayed and accompanied Huang Wenjuan to do the aftermath and finishing work, and then, when the crew was completely disbanded, she and Ming Xiaojing and the two of them would return to Shuntianfu with the materials that had been filmed, and in the film and television department on the ninth floor of Minghu Culture, she and the two of them would also be responsible for taking stock of the materials that had been filmed, which ones would be suitable for use in the future, and which ones would be completely useless.
In short, because of Ming Xiaojing's willfulness, the work in the past few months has completely turned into a bad book, and Li Qian must send someone to work with the two of them to clear this bad account first, so as to continue the preparation of the new version.
In fact, to put it bluntly, it can basically be regarded as a new movie!
With the change of the investment share of both parties, Li Qian has decided to send Sun Yuting over as a producer from the beginning of the preparation period of the new version.
By that time, the film will have three producers, two of whom are sent by Minghu Culture.
Huang Wenjuan is responsible for the money bag, Sun Yuting is responsible for controlling the filming and waste of director Ming Xiaojing, and Kang Xiaolou, the producer, has to be reduced to the one who is only responsible for mediating the two sides.
There's no way, who let the two of them breathe out of one nostril, they will only make Ming Xiaojing's thinking more and more whimsical!
A good actor, no matter how good you are, the director can suppress your performance level in the post-editing process to maintain a range that is roughly on the same level as other characters and other actors in the whole play, which will not lead to a complete imbalance in the performance level of a play.
And a good director needs a good producer to stand behind her at any time to help her maintain a general balance between art and business, between creation and expenditure, so as not to make the whole crew completely out of control - serious overspending to a certain extent is actually already going crazy.
Cinema is artistic.
But every second of making a movie costs money, so the film must also be commercial.
Obviously, as the director's husband, Kang Xiaolou, the producer, has not been very qualified in the past few months, at least it is difficult to say that he is excellent.
So in fact, Li Qian needs someone like Sun Yuting, who understands film, art, and artistic creation, but at the same time, he has been honed in Minghu Culture and Li Qian's side for a year or two, and has also done a lot of production work and has begun to know some control methods, standing between the pure artistic creation school of Ming Xiaojing and the two of them, and pure money bags like Huang Wenjuan.
Because it's a pity that although Huang Wenjuan has worked very hard, she has also been extremely used in recent years, and she is responsible for serving as the executive producer of many films of Minghu Culture and Li Qian, but her academic qualifications and her starting foundation still let her, as a producer, make little progress in controlling artistic creation.
As a producer, that's really a big flaw.
Therefore, Li Qian has already made up her mind in her heart: in the future, she will still follow herself and be responsible for helping the crew she personally leads to manage the accounts, otherwise, she can go out to be an executive producer for a restrained faction like Han Shunzhang, and expect to send her out to keep an eye on a work from beginning to end...... She is really not good enough! Because she doesn't understand artistic creation, she can't hold down the director at all!
Even if it's a new director like Ming Xiaojing!
So once Ming Xiaojing overspended, she couldn't suppress and refute on the spot, so she could only call Qi Jie, but whether she told Qi Jie or notified herself, wouldn't she, the executive producer, just a microphone?
Moreover, if you pass the problem upward, do you want to come down and take stock of the accounts in person every time you find that the investment is overrun?
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Li Qian returned to Shuntian Mansion and told Qi Jie, Cao Zhan, Zou Wenhuai, Jin Han, and Han Shunzhang about the matter and Ming Xiaojing's plan, and everyone was speechless.
But things are already like this, and it is helpless.
Of course, the advantage of coming back after going for a day is that Li Qian unexpectedly could spend their first New Year's Day with his children.
It's just that during this period, he still has a few events to attend.
The first is to personally represent Minghu Culture to hold a meeting, which was initiated by the Ministry of Culture, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, the State Price Bureau, the National Film Industry Association, and the China Directors Association, and hosted by the major cinema chains and cinema alliances across the country.
As a result of the discussions, everyone agreed to raise the fare.
At present, the domestic movie ticket price depends on the size of the screen, the level of hardware configuration, as well as the different sizes of cities and different consumption levels, and the pricing is about 15 yuan a ticket to 20 yuan a ticket.
When the major theaters issue tickets, unless it is a particularly hot screening that is difficult to find, they will generally give a discount of about 20% off, and in the off-season, the number of shows where the tickets are not good to sell and some weak theaters, the highest even dares to give a 6% discount!
So in fact, watching a movie is about 10 yuan.
At the end of the discussion, most of the opinions agreed that the ticket price should be increased by 50% on the original basis!
This is still the result of the relevant state departments worrying that the people will have great opinions, so they have repeatedly suppressed it!
That is to say, when the new ticket price is implemented, if you want to watch a movie in the future, the official price will be at least 22.5 yuan a ticket - of course, it is estimated that at that time, because with the increase in ticket prices, the price fluctuation that the theater can control within the cost will become larger, so for promotion, the discount range they can give will also increase.
With this in mind, at this meeting, everyone unanimously discussed and passed the "Film Box Office Market Self-Discipline Announcement", such as why there has been some false box office reporting in the past two years, special tickets are too fierce, disrupting normal competition, etc., strict regulations have been made, and specific punishment measures have been given!
Specific to the ticket price, the major theater operators unanimously agreed that in order to ensure the fairness of the competition, the minimum single movie ticket price of the major theaters after the discount shall not be less than 12 yuan!
At the end of the meeting, after discussion, it was decided that the par price and various regulations formulated by this meeting will be officially implemented from January 5, 2002!
Considering that this is actually a pricing meeting, basically, the major cinema companies are the most vocal, and the major film companies, production companies and directors are actually just participating in the past and putting forward opinions and suggestions, and they may not be adopted, in the final analysis, this is a very pure commercial behavior!
In the end, since this new fare has even been approved by the State Price Bureau, it can be regarded as a review on behalf of the government, once it is released, even if there will be great opposition from the public, there is nothing to be done.
You can protest and choose not to watch a movie from now on!
In fact, although he didn't say a word at the meeting, it is said that after going back, Zhao Meicheng simply scolded - his movie is about to be released, and he is on the knife edge!
To be honest, it is estimated that he would rather not enjoy the box office surge brought about by the 50% increase in ticket prices for the time being, rather than rush to this stall and bear the anger of thousands of audiences - and the reason why the theater operators are so eager to implement the new ticket prices immediately after the meeting is over, to put it bluntly, there is Zhao Meicheng in the New Year's schedule!
That's bound to be a big hit!
With one of his films, the new ticket price was established, which is simply perfect!
If Zhao Meicheng is allowed to make a choice, it is estimated that he would prefer to postpone the date of ticket price increase to March and April, taking advantage of the downturn in the box office market, the price will be raised quietly, and the opposition will be smaller. When the summer season arrives, everyone returns to the theater and finds that the price has risen, but it has been rising for a few months, and it won't cause any big mess - but it's a pity that even a big name like Zhao Meicheng is a big name when huge interests are involved, in the theater companies, it's still a fart!
At this moment, the theater operators who usually hold him to the sky suddenly turned their faces collectively and turned him into a knife in their hands - Zhao Meicheng's new movie, but the ticket price has risen, and I don't like to watch it!
Of course, the New Year's file, or the Lunar New Year file, although it was only gradually established a few years ago because of Zhao Meicheng's main focus on this period of time, and it is not easy to compare with the summer file, but after all, there is already some market heat, and the box office scale is getting bigger and bigger year by year, so although this schedule is Zhao Meicheng's domination of the world, but the number of movies that want to come over and get a piece of the pie is gradually increasing.
For example, "Scars"!
This is Bai Yujing's big screen debut in recent years with the hit of "The Legend of the New White Lady", which has made a strong comeback - she also took over a movie last year, and the deposit was received, but the crew delayed for half a year and did not start the film, and finally because the three investors fought each other, the project finally turned yellow!
Of course, it's only temporarily yellow, the director is still holding the script everywhere to beg grandpa to sue grandma for investment, it is said that Zhou Yanghua's oriental culture has been touched recently, so whether filming can start in the future is still between the two, but because of the delay for so long, the film contract signed by Bai Yujing has expired.
So, well, the big screen debut after a serious comeback.
Director Yuan Dacheng's first film work, the actor Cheng Yifan, a 97-level student of the Performance Department of Songjiang Drama Academy, and the younger brother of Zhou Zhiyu, in January 2000, won the Best Newcomer in the Film Category of the Great Wall Award for Domestic Film and TV Drama with his wonderful performance in "Hooligan".
Well, at the same time as him, it was Zhu Qiang who won the best newcomer in the TV drama category.
And the new Great Wall Awards, which will be held soon, Zhou Zhiyu and He Yingyu are both popular in the film category, as for the TV series...... This year is not over yet, and it has been hailed as the "Year of Returning Pearls", so you can imagine!
On December 29, Zhao Meicheng's new film "My Name is Jixiang" was released.
Li Qian took Liao Liao to attend in full costume to cheer for this northern film master.
In the past year, on Monday, January 4, 2002, Yuan Dacheng's "Scars" was released.
Although the investment is small, there are two starring people, Bai Yujing and Cheng Yifan, and there is no lack of publicity points, so the producer still paid for it, and a premiere was also held in Shuntianfu.
Although he didn't have much hope for the box office of the movie.