Chapter 294: The Era of Co-Productions

After a night of human flesh search, a netizen with the ID name 'Sherlock Holmes Sugar Candy' finally posted an extra-long picture article on his Weibo.

In short, this article clearly confirms one thing.

That is a small publication under the "Southern Daily" - "Southern Half Moon Talk".

At the end of May this year, he suddenly and inexplicably received a sum of 15 million in advertising expenses.

You must know that the readership of this publication is pitiful, and even the locals of Guangdong Province know about this publication.

How can any business be willing to spend so much money to advertise on it?

Netizens continued to dig deeper, and sure enough, they found something strange in it.

It turned out that this enterprise was just a leather bag company, which was registered in Shenzhen by a person named Chen Jinqi at the beginning of this year.

And this Chen Jinqi turned out to be the deputy manager of the office set up by Hollywood Columbia Company in China.

Although Columbia's movie was not released in this summer file, as a foreign company, it was involved in such a strange relationship with "Southern Daily" during such a sensitive period, and all netizens could guess what was wrong with it just by making up their brains.

Obviously, Hollywood companies were in the Lunar New Year and summer holidays in the first two years, but they were fiercely blocked twice by Peng Yichen's movies.

In order to eliminate this stumbling block, they gathered together, wanting to kill "Journey to the West" in this despicable way, and at the same time make Peng Yichen's reputation stink.

And this Columbia's "Spider-Man" was also blocked by Peng Yichen's movie.

It makes netizens even more convinced that the mastermind behind this incident must be Hollywood Company.

In an instant, the entire Huaxia network was almost blown upside down, and the topic of "Hollywood movies conspiring to smear Chinese domestic films and want to dominate the Huaxia film market" immediately became the hottest topic on the Internet.

Even fans who liked to watch Hollywood blockbusters very much in the past were urged by national sentiment to defect one after another and support "Journey to the West" and Peng Yichen.

Even those 'cents' who knelt and licked the Star Flag Country didn't dare to jump out to refute this time, for fear that netizens would directly come out and beat them.

Even many netizens directly began to question the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, shouldn't foreign film companies take care of domestic film companies and filmmakers in China?

Of course, because there is no clear evidence of the whole incident, neither the Ministry of Culture nor the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has responded to this matter in the end.

just joined forces and posted a Weibo on the official Weibo in the way of side knocking.

"Huaxia welcomes all foreign businessmen who respect the Chinese culture and people to invest and start their businesses. However, all enterprises and individuals who are hostile and deliberately disrupt the market order will be severely dealt with in accordance with relevant laws and regulations. I hope that foreign companies interested in entering the vast market in China will not make a mistake about themselves!!"

Although it was not named or officially announced, everyone knew that it was a warning from the Chinese government to Hollywood studios.

You are honest in business, and you are welcome. But if you play these rule-breaking methods again, then get out of Huaxia.

Although netizens are not satisfied with this way of replying, everyone also knows that the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs both represent the image of the country, and it is already very powerful to be able to speak to this point.

Peng Yichen immediately appealed on his Weibo: "Thank you to all netizens for being able to uphold justice for me and find out who is behind the scenes." But that's the end of the matter, don't embarrass the country. After all, if Chinese films are strong, they still have to rely on the works of Chinese filmmakers to speak. I just hope that everyone can give domestic films a fair chance in the future, and don't look at Chinese domestic films with prejudice. Come to think of it, the movies of the Chinese people must be no worse than those made by any foreigners!!"

The following full replies are:

"Peng Yichen, we support you!!"

"You just act and film, and we will help you promote. ”

"Hollywood studios are so arrogant, we don't watch their movies anymore. ”

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Although I know, these people who say they don't watch Hollywood movies may forget all about their words after a few months and be attracted to Hollywood blockbusters into the cinema again.

But Peng Yichen knows that this is a good start, at least netizens have seen that domestic filmmakers have even been able to force Hollywood studios to use such despicable and insidious means to deal with them.

This will make Chinese fans slowly begin to realize that Hollywood movies are not invincible, and domestic movies are not useless.

That's enough!

Under Peng Yichen's simple arrangement, those once invincible enemies collapsed under the surging Internet public opinion.

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At the same time, Hollywood companies, which have not made any statement, have finally realized the power of Chinese netizens.

Looking at the report brought to him by his subordinates, Edward Dutt, the head of Asia at Columbia, was silent for a long time, looking at Wilson, the director of his publicity department, and did not know what to say.

Their "comprador friends" who claim to be media elites just let Peng Yichen, who has just debuted for more than 4 years, fall into the ground?

Edward Dutt really couldn't figure it out. How can the power of Chinese netizens be so great.

You must know that even the Star Banner Country, the country that first invented the Internet, no one can do these things that Chinese netizens have done in the past two days.

Such a secret thing is like a piece of papyrus that can be broken when stabbed in front of Chinese netizens.

In less than 2 days, they exposed all the methods used by Hollywood studios against Peng Yichen.

You must know that before, even Chinese film giants such as CCTV and Huimin Film and Television Group had nothing to do with them......

What makes Edward even more puzzling is that Peng Yichen is just an actor and director, even if he is very well-known, how can he mobilize so many netizens on the Internet to help him.

Even the president of the Star Flag Country doesn't have the ability to do that.

"Wilson, who is this Peng Yichen? Is he the son of ****, and why can so many Chinese netizens serve him?"

"No, he's just an ordinary person...... Just ......," Wilson said with a wry smile.

"Just what?" asked Edward.

Wilson took a deep breath and said: "Just because he has the most Weibo fans in Huaxia, and her girlfriend Yu Jing has the second largest number of Weibo fans, and he also knows a lot of Weibo influencers." The influence of each of them is comparable to that of a top Chinese media among young people......

The Chinese Internet appeared later than our country, but the speed of their development surpassed ours, because the Chinese people accepted such a new thing as the Internet self-media far faster than the Xingqi people. Now Huaxia's network is the key to controlling public opinion, and we have all miscalculated. ”

"Weibo big V, self-media ?......" Edward Dutt muttered to himself, not quite understanding the meaning of the word, it seems that there are no such influential figures on Twitter?

"There's good news. Wilson smiled suddenly.

"What's the good news?" Edward Dutt said with some irritation.

"The Chinese Department of Culture has officially issued a document to us that starting in January next year, our films can freely enter the Huaxia film market through co-production with Huaxia Film Company, without restrictions on the number of imported films. ”

"What? Our films are free to enter the Chinese market?" Edward Dutt couldn't help but be amused, he was not Han Sanpin, and he had long known about the new policies that the Chinese government was going to introduce.

Wilson shook his head with a wry smile and said, "How can you enter freely, the standard of co-production is very high."

First, at least 30% of the investment in co-produced films must be invested by film companies that have been registered and established for more than three years.

Second, among the other staff members of the co-production film shooting crew, excluding actors, 30% of them must be counted as 5 people (if it is an important position such as director or producer, one can be counted as 5 people), who are citizens of mainland China, and those who have foreign green cards and identity documents from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan are not counted.

Third, among the actors who appear in the co-production movie, 30% of the actors must be citizens of the mainland of China, and those who also have foreign green cards and identity documents from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan are not counted.

Fourth, the promotion and distribution of co-produced films in mainland China must be completed with the participation of at least one Chinese film company.

The Chinese Department of Culture calls this the '3+3+1 International Co-production Standard'. ”

When Edward heard this, he realized the idea of the Huaxia government, which wanted to borrow Hollywood's mature film industry to help Huaxia cultivate its own film investors, behind-the-scenes workers and actors.

But that's not much of a problem for Hollywood studios.

They worked with countless studios in Europe, and in the end, they bought or beat them.

Hollywood companies have big conglomerates behind them, and as long as the Chinese government lifts restrictions, they believe that Hollywood movies will definitely make a lot of money in China.

As for the restrictions on co-productions, they will not be an obstacle to making money, but will help them reduce the financial risk of filmmaking, so why not.

As for a few decades later, will Huaxia films be able to rely on this policy to rise?

Who cares?!

Decades from now, the top executives who now control Hollywood studios will probably be in the grave.

These high-level executives are just high-level workers hired by the company's shareholders, as long as they can make a lot of money in the short term, they will pay dividends to shareholders.

These shareholders will hold them up to the sky, and who will care about what happens in a few decades.

"Next year's film market in China will be interesting, and I think our friends must have started to act at this time. And among them, there must be many people who will treat Peng Yichen, whom everyone once hated to death, as a guest!" Edward Dutt immediately asked viciously.

Sure enough, Wilson replied with a wry smile, "You guessed right. I heard that 21st Century Foucis and Huana plan to cooperate with Peng Yichen. After all, at present, in the Chinese film market, the most box office appeal is this young man. You must know that just yesterday, that is, on July 5, the total box office of his new movie "Journey to the West" has reached an astonishing 770 million. Although from today, the single-day box office of this movie has dropped to more than 70 million. But it is expected that in the end, the box office of this film will at least exceed the 1 billion Chinese dollar mark. ”

"These bastards, let's do what offended Peng Yichen. Now that there is benefit, they will sell us and go to the enemy to cooperate. Edward slapped the table fiercely and said angrily:

"We and Peng Yichen have already torn our faces, and it is impossible to look for him again. But he and Peng Yichen are not the only ones in the Chinese film industry. Let's go to work with CCTV and Lido. I believe that Peng Yichen's "Journey to the West" has achieved such an amazing success this time, and we are definitely not the only ones who are uncomfortable. ”

At the same time, there was another sentence that Edward put in his heart and did not say.

Come on Peng Yichen, this time we will not hide behind the scenes and play these small tricks, but we will use the movie to compete in the summer file of Huaxia next year!!

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