At the celebration banquet, Li Qian met many people and talked a lot.

Of course, I didn't drink too much wine.

After the official relocation of the big news department of iFLYTEK Group, Wang Jinglu was already preparing for pregnancy very carefully, so in fact, during this period of time, although Wang Jinglu did not ask Li Qian to change and pay attention to anything for this, Li Qian still consciously stopped the cigar and rarely drank wine.

Then, near the end of the celebration banquet, Qi Jie distributed the prepared red envelopes totaling up to 3 million to the cast and crew of "Red Sorghum" one by one.

Jubilation!

You must know that the total investment of "Red Sorghum" is only 12 million, of which the part spent on the salaries and salaries of the cast and crew is only more than 3 million and less than 4 million, and Li Qian is even free to act.

Now these three million hairs vary according to each person's contribution to the crew, and the size of the red envelope varies, but for everyone, it is a considerable amount of income.

And so, everyone rejoiced.

Before the end of the show, a large group of people were still eating, drinking, and giggling, Li Qian had already gotten up and was ready to leave, as for the two children, they had already been carried home by their respective mothers.

Huang Ge came over and chatted for a long time, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, he didn't say anything, and Li Qian just smiled, patted him on the shoulder, and didn't ask anything.

Li Qian is a person who cherishes talents.

It may be a bit nonsense to say this, and it may even make people feel a little hypocritical and contrived, but I have to admit that with the huge advantages of a large number of music, TV series, movies, etc. in another time and space, he has been working hard to present the wonderful works in his mind to the Chinese people in this time and space in a perfect way as much as possible, and at the same time, he is interested in the musicians, singers, producers, directors, actors, and so on in this time and space. Photographers, etc., all those who are engaged in these art professions, do not have the slightest contempt, do not have the slightest competitive mentality, let alone have any intention of suppressing, but he is looking forward to the impact of those excellent works brought by himself as an outsider, these Chinese artists in this time and space can come up with better and more wonderful works - in his opinion, this should be a good interaction, and a good mutual stimulation.

This is what a good atmosphere should be for a great work of art.

With the excellent, there will be more excellent.

Therefore, in terms of mentality, he should be regarded as the person with the broadest vision and the most careless about temporary gains and losses among all the cultural and art industries in China in this time and space.

For example, Qin Wei, even if the other party repeatedly praised and belittled Qi Jie for a little domestic box office competition, which made Qi Jie angry, but in fact, for Li Qian, in addition to some sighs, some feelings that people in the current situation, even if they are masters, are inevitably blinded by many things, in fact, there is really not much resentment.

Without him, people's status has changed, their mentality has changed, and their vision and realm have naturally changed.

He doesn't care about this little thing at all - although, for the absolute classic "Huang Feihong" in his mind, he was actually stepped on by a commercial film like "The Gate of Life and Death", which is obviously immature enough, a film that is difficult to reach even half of the wonderful level of those literary films made by Qin Wei in the past, and Li Qian will really feel very uncomfortable. But as far as he is concerned, he is more willing to fight back with the next wonderful work and establish his position as a director, rather than stand up and fight with others for this little thing.

However, Feng Bicheng is different.

For Feng Bicheng's talent, Li Qian really appreciates it, and appreciates it from the bottom of his heart.

As early as when he had just finished filming "The Legend of the New White Lady", the Minghu Culture Film and Television Department was established at the beginning, and Li Qian wanted to pull Feng Yumin and Feng Ye, who were not satisfied with Huaxia TV, over, although he not only appreciated his personal ability, but also had a little bit of gratitude and favor, but there was also a part that had to be mentioned, that is, Li Qian also fully appreciated the directorial talent of Feng Yumin's son Feng Bicheng.

Therefore, Feng Ye refused to come over, and Li Qian tried to pull Feng Bicheng over at that time.

But unfortunately, Feng Bicheng was proud of the spring breeze at that time, so Li Qian failed.

Then, Feng Bicheng's new movie hit the street, to the extent that investors were eager to stab him to death, and Feng Bicheng stinked in the film industry all of a sudden. Feng Ye came forward and hoped that Li Qian would take in his son and give him a chance to make a comeback, and Li Qian agreed without the slightest hesitation.

On the one hand, he wanted to return the favor, and on the other hand, it was out of appreciation for his talent - even if his new movie was really ugly at that time, Li Qian believed that his talent was still there.

Then, he came to Minghu Culture, just looking at how he usually behaves and does things, he still follows the rules, and he seems to have a new posture, so Li Qian appreciates it even more.

From "Huang Feihong" to "Red Sorghum", he went through two films, touched his foundation, and then Li Qian quickly relieved, and turned out the script of "Big Names" early and refined it again, and handed over the project to him very reassuringly.

Outcome......

All I can say is a sigh.

For such a person, Li Qian is absolutely unwilling to continue to stay in Minghu Culture.

Even if his talent is heavenly!

Therefore, even if the final work of "Big Names" makes Li Qian, a person who has an absolute classic in his heart as a comparison, feel a little amazing, but from beginning to end, Li Qian did not look at Feng Bicheng as a director even once.

Therefore, at the celebration banquet of "Red Sorghum", almost everyone on the side of Minghu Culture, especially the film and television department, was invited, but Feng Bicheng did not.

Li Qian didn't want to see him.

owed Feng Ye a favor, he kept it and used it on Feng Bicheng's body, and Li Qian had to admit it. But after the filming of a "Big Shot", with an investment of nearly 20 million, it doesn't matter if the movie is popular or pounced, as a friend, Li Qian no longer owes Feng Yumin and Feng Bicheng anything.

Next, I have a friendship with you Feng Ye, so I will talk about our friendship.

As for Feng Bicheng...... Just because I don't know.

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The domestic film market in April was a bit dull.

But in the blandness, there are stronger and stronger expectations.

"Red Sorghum" is on a steady track, and in its fifth week of release, it still hasn't been challenged too much. When the weekly box office of "Bad Life" was only more than 20 million, "Red Sorghum" once again won a weekly box office of 51.23 million in one fell swoop, topping the weekly box office list for the fifth time!

At the same time, it also successfully pushed its domestic cumulative box office to a high of 453.7 million!

If nothing else, Zhang Zifang's "Promise" will be released next week, her films have always been not high at the box office, but surprisingly stable, that is to say, you don't expect her to give you a big hit, but you don't have to worry about her hitting the streets, so the release of "Promise" should be able to bring some impact to "Red Sorghum".

Whether it is in terms of film scheduling, or whether it is more attractive to the audience of literary films, no one can avoid this kind of impact - in fact, because "Red Sorghum" achieved a grand slam in Berlin, Zhang Zifang, who returned empty-handed at the Berlin Film Festival, has taken the initiative to avoid it for several weeks.

And now, in the first week of the release of "The Promise", it will still meet "Red Sorghum", which is just a "Red Sorghum" that is steadily harvesting the remaining box office and continuing to sprint to the record.

At this time, "Red Sorghum" is no longer as fierce as in previous weeks, but for a niche literary film director like Zhang Zifang, who has never had a movie with a box office of more than 100 million, and a niche and warm film like "Promise", it is still a giant-level existence.

So, in fact, next week's meeting will be a mutual impact.

As for who will have the higher box office in the end, it can only be touched.

But in fact, whether it is "Red Sorghum", which has come to the middle of the screening and has even begun to enter the final stage, or "Promise", which is about to be released, is not the real big part of the domestic film market in April.

"Big Names", which will be officially released nationwide on April 20, is even more not.

Even though the film has been promoted since the end of March, "Red Sorghum" also deliberately gave it a patch advertisement, and Li Qian personally dedicated himself to recommending it in the advertisement, but a movie of the level of "Big Shot", in terms of director, actor, and investment weight, cannot become a blockbuster movie at the box office.

Du Weiyun's martial arts masterpiece "Lonely Smoke in the Desert" is.

Since the beginning of April, the publicity of "Lonely Smoke in the Desert" has begun to be fully rolled out!

Before Li Qian came to this point step by step with three movies, in the Chinese film industry, there was basically no one else who was qualified to compare with Qin Wei and compete with him.

There is only one Du Weiyun.

Qin Wei has been an art film director for many years, and in previous years, when the market itself was not large, in fact, the box office of his films was not low, coupled with the fact that the reputation has always been very high, and with the blessing of the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, he has naturally become the number one big name among domestic film directors.

Compared with him, Du Weiyun does not play art films, does not think about life, and rarely criticizes social phenomena, he plays martial arts and history, and he is extremely good at showing specific historical figures under specific historical conditions through magnificent historical pictures, especially historical figures at the end of heroes.

He especially likes to photograph the Tang Dynasty.

Yang Guifei, Tang Xuanzong, An Lushan, Yang Guozhong, Li Linfu, in his three-hour "Song of Long Hatred", which had to be divided into upper and lower parts at the time of release, every character stood wonderful!

A "Fish Mystery" has created a talented woman who dares to love and hate!

Of course, this is only the historical aspect, he has achieved more in martial arts.

He photographed the small bridges and flowing water in the south of the Yangtze River, and also photographed the desert wind and sand outside the plug, and the word chivalry, or the spirit of Ren Xia and the temperament of Ren Xia in the bones of the Chinese nation, were interpreted by him with pride.

Guo Yulong filmed three martial arts films in a row under him, and established the status of the number one martial arts male coffee in China in one fell swoop.

Moreover, I have to say that in addition to being not afraid of realistic themes and not winning awards, Du Weiyun's achievements and attainments in photography, scenery, art, performance and other angles are among the top in China.

So much so that the domestic film circle recognized that in addition to the recognition of an international award, Du Weiyun is actually no worse than Qin Wei - he has won the grand prize of the domestic Yangcheng Film Festival and the Tokyo Film Festival, but it is useless, and the forced quality of these two film festivals is not very good compared with the three major European film festivals.

His last work "Thorn Qin" was released in the summer of 2001, with a large investment, and the box office also got more than 240 million yuan, which was very high at the time, but that time he combined history and martial arts, and he seemed to be playing a little off the line - the story, art, photography, and performance are still first-class standards, there is no need to question this, but there is one point, the pace is relatively slow.

At that time, the evaluation of "Thorn Qin" was generally good and praised, but there were also a lot of bad reviews.

However, even those who gave bad reviews have to admit that today's domestic people who have the ability to shoot such a majestic and beautifully detailed martial arts masterpiece are probably not the second person to think about it.

The movie of "Liu Chengzhang" has always been a strange idea, but the evaluation of the majestic spirit is not touched, Li Qian's "Huang Feihong" named himself "Kung Fu Movie", to put it bluntly, it sells personal heroism, and it can't reach the category of heroic spirit, as for Qin Wei - "The Gate of Life and Death" has not yet been offline, everyone has complained, begging Qin Wei not to make martial arts in his next movie!

In fact, after a month of rest, his new film plan has been put on the agenda, preparations have begun in the autumn of that year, and filming has officially started in the spring of 2002 - it is said that this drama was filmed for a full nine months just in the filming stage!

Obviously, the decline in the reputation of the last movie made Du Weiyun very vigilant.

So he came to the new movie, only from the perspective of time cost, he should have done more carefully than the previous movie.

And there is no doubt that the great director Du Weiyun has returned after a two-year absence, and the new movie is the best martial arts theme, the name "Lonely Smoke in the Desert" made many of his die-hard fans feel that there is a drama just by listening to it, so with the large-scale publicity of this movie before its release, the expectations of domestic movie audiences for this movie were quickly pulled up and kept high.

Compared with Du Weiyun's blockbuster "Lonely Smoke in the Desert", although "Big Names" produced by Minghu Culture also threw a lot of money into it and carried out various planning and publicity, but in terms of overall momentum, it is not on the same heavyweight level as "Lonely Smoke in the Desert".

On the contrary, the finalization of "Lonely Smoke in the Desert" is stepping on the tail of "Big Names".

"Big Names" is scheduled for Friday, April 20, and this date was set in mid-March, but when the time came to the end of March, "Lonely Smoke in the Desert", which had not given an accurate schedule, suddenly announced that it would be set for April 24 - between the two, the difference is only three days!

In other words, "Big Names" has just been released this Friday, and "Lonely Smoke in the Desert" will come next Tuesday!

I have to admit that the choice of Oriental Media Group, the terrifying momentum of Du Weiyun and "Lonely Smoke in the Desert", have brought great pressure to the Propaganda Department and Distribution Department of Minghu Culture.

But the schedule has already been set, and the publicity work of "Big Names" has already been launched, and the temporary adjustment of the schedule will not only lead to a lot of publicity expenditures in the early stage, but also be suspected of showing weakness.

So, the managers of the two departments even went to Qi Jie's office together, hoping that Qi Jie could negotiate with Zong Chengze or Zhou Yanghua from Oriental Media, so that everyone didn't have to lose both.

The best outcome is, of course, for both parties to negotiate, each take a step back, and everyone makes money.

But Qi Jie refused without hesitation.

Because she knows very well why the other party is doing this.

But, the mall!

With the growing and rising of Minghu culture, such a collision with the traditional big forces in the film industry is inevitable - no matter how you win or lose, you have to touch it to know.

The quality of the last "Once Upon a Time" movie was so good, but in the end, it lost at the box office to "The Door of Life and Death", which was obviously inferior to itself.

The reason for this, of course, can be understood from Qin Wei's huge appeal, and it is definitely valid. But thinking about it from another angle, it is actually not unreasonable - when "The Door of Life and Death" was released, among the three major domestic film companies that have been fighting in recent years, Zhou Yanghua's Oriental Media Group, and Yuan Ke's Jinghua Film, actually tacitly did not make trouble for Hu Fei and Qin Wei!

Although at that time, Oriental Cinema finally chose to support "Huang Feihong", signed an agreement with Minghu Culture for more screenings and copies, and also gave "Huang Feihong" more film schedules, but for "The Gate of Life and Death", they were not treated lightly at all, and the film schedule given was not low.

Therefore, the victory of "The Door of Life and Death" and the birth of "Huang Feihong" were trampled under the feet of "The Gate of Life and Death" at an untimely time, you have to understand it as a tacit joint suppression of the rising Minghu culture by the original domestic film forces, in fact, it is not impossible.

Therefore, Zhou Yanghua did not hesitate to pull down his face and personally call Qi Jie to copy it, and he had already despised Qi Jie more than once in his heart - before various domestic theaters had tacitly suppressed the film schedule of "Red Sorghum", Qi Jie immediately felt that something was wrong, and he could guess that someone should be making small moves behind it, and this person was likely to be one of Zhou Yanghua or Hu Fei! So when Zhou Yanghua's phone called, she immediately felt that Zhou Yanghua, for a little benefit, would easily lose his identity and position, and he would not be a big deal at all.

Now that it was her turn to be embarrassed, of course she didn't bother to do such a thing as calling someone to ask for help.

What are you afraid of?

Since you're here, rolling up your sleeves is a "dry" word!

It's good to win, but what if you lose!

It's not a movie that determines the whole thing!

Minghu culture should be sharpened in such box office battles again and again, and can really establish its position and voice in the Chinese film market step by step.

So, don't say anything, do it!

So, on April 20, 2003, "Big Names" was released on time.

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