On November 28, the box office of the week was released. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The costume blockbuster "Ink Attack" filmed by INFO Huayi and Japan and South Korea has been popular at the national box office since its release, achieving a box office of 23 million in the first week, ranking first, and China Film's main theme film "The Ballad of Yunshui" has performed well, ranking second with 12 million. In contrast, the last two blockbusters of the year, "Miami Vice" and "World Trade Center," were muted and insignificant at the box office.

"Ink Attack" invested $16 million, and the cost is still above "Night Banquet", but the box office in the first week is far from the 65 million in the first week of "Night Banquet". With the performance of the first week of "Ink Attack", as well as the quality of the movie, a huge loss is almost doomed.

On the morning of this day, the "Peking Morning Post" published an interview with Geng Pingping, the general manager of Xiying Huayi Film Distribution Company, the distributor of "Ink Attack". Geng Ping said in an interview: "The results of "Ink Attack" should have been better, but the film has been squeezed in the Golden Harvest Cinema Line, and other cinemas have more than 50% of the films, while they only rank 10%, which is really too much! "Ink Attack" is a Chinese-Japanese-South Korean co-production film, and it is an attempt for Chinese films to go global. We really don't want to be slapped to death by our own people before we leave our own country!"

The headline of the interview in the "Peking Morning Post" is somewhat sensational, "The peak of the century deliberately blocked Huayi's "Ink Attack", and China ushered in the Paramount crisis", the article wrote: "The "Ink Attack" released on the 23rd opened the curtain of the Chinese New Year file, but a more exciting dark war also quietly kicked off.

According to the data provided by Geng Pingping, general manager of West Film Huayi Film Distribution Company, the film schedule of No. 23 Huayi in Jiahe Cinema Line was 60%, but it dropped sharply to 9.9% on the 24th. Obviously, Golden Harvest Cinemas blocked "Ink Attack".

There is a precedent in Hollywood for studios to block rival films, most notably the Paramount case in 1948.

At the beginning of the 20th century, major Hollywood studios had their own or partner theater chains to show their own films, crowding out small studios and independent non-chain theaters, and it was difficult for small studios to enter the first round of theaters controlled by major studios, and non-chain theaters could not get the most popular films produced by major studios, and large studios and their theater chains formed a box office monopoly.

In 1942, an independent group of American filmmakers sued Paramount's theater chain in Detroit, the first major lawsuit in which a producer sued a projector.

In 1948, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Paramount under antitrust law, ruling that the big studios were monopolistic and requiring the studios to abandon the business of film distribution and cinema screening. Since then, it has become the law of Hollywood that production, distribution and theatrical chains have been separated from each other, and even if the phenomenon of producers entering distribution or theatrical chains has reappeared, these companies are still independent of each other in business rather than cooperating and supporting each other.

Today's China is repeating the history of the United States more than half a century ago. In the film industry, excellent films may gradually lose their screening channels, and bad films will instead rely on the advantages of film scheduling to prevail; in the long run, it should be a situation where big fish and small shrimp are well-off, but because of the invasion of great white sharks, the film ecology will be seriously damaged. The future of Chinese cinema should not be paid for the company's battles, which are too costly. ”

In fact, since the 25th, some people on the Internet have continued to break the news that Golden Harvest Cinema has banned Huayi's movies, and some media reports have reported that they have received news from people familiar with the matter that the peak of the century has indeed banned "Ink Attack", Huayi and the movies produced by it.

Many so-called film critics on the Internet are shouting that they are monopolizing at the peak of the century, and exclaiming that China's Paramount crisis is coming. It's just that both sides of the incident, Huayi and Century Peak, have not expressed their positions, and this matter has not completely broken out.

Now Geng Ping's words undoubtedly prove this, Hua Yi was indeed blocked by the peak of the century, and the whole incident was stabbed open at once.

After the article of "Peking Morning Post" was published, it was quickly forwarded by major forwarding media, causing heated discussions on the Internet. The starring role of "Ink Attack" is Liu Hua, and the number of fans of Liu Huahua is quite large. Now that they heard that their idol's movie was banned by the peak of the century, Chinese fans immediately became angry and set off a wave of scolding on the Internet.

"The peak of the century is disgusting, this is unfair competition, why doesn't the country care?"

"Hollywood film companies are all producers and distributors, and they don't have their own theaters, if they dare to do this at the peak of the century in the United States, it will be illegal!"

"Zhang Ran, the garbage who kneels and licks the stick, get out of China!"

"In many countries, you can't invest in movies if you have a theater, just to avoid this kind of thing, the peak of the century is too disgusting, it's just bullying and dominating the market!"

However, Zhang Ran also has a lot of fans, and Zhang Ran's fans have experienced many tears, and their combat effectiveness is quite strong.

"The movie theater is open at the peak of the century, whether to show the film or not, how much to show, people themselves have the final say, people are not willing to show your film, can you control it?"

"How many movie theaters are there at the peak of the century, and how many percentage points can they occupy? The film screening market is so big, and there are so many movie theaters, it can't reach a monopoly position at all!"

"It's a lot of bad films like "Ink Attack" with a ranking of 9.9%, does Hua Yi think that the peak of the century must give him face and give him a 90% ranking?"

"Huayi, you guys want to make face, when you want to ban Zhang Ran at the beginning of this year, why don't you talk about monopoly?"

Zhang Ran is busy with the filming of the film in the crew, so he naturally doesn't know about the article published by the "Peking Morning News". However, after finishing work in the afternoon, he received a call from Gao Jun. On the phone, Gao Jun told Zhang Ran that Wang Zhonglei jumped out and fired at the peak of the century.

Back at the hotel where the crew was located, Zhang Ran opened his laptop, clicked on Xinlang Entertainment, and found that the headline on the front page was the news that Wang Zhonglei fired at him.

This afternoon, Wang Zhonglei said in an exclusive interview with Xinlang: "The peak of the century blocked the film schedule of "Ink Attack" because of some contradictions with Huayi. At present, the average film scheduling rate of other cinemas in the country is more than 50%, but the scheduling rate in Golden Harvest cinemas is only 9.9%. This is completely a practice of bullying and dominating the market, and it is not the choice of the market and the audience at all, Golden Harvest Cinemas is monopolizing. On the surface, it is our film that is damaged, but this monopolistic behavior is actually harming the entire industry. ”

Wang Zhonglei continued: "In the United States, film and television companies cannot get involved in film production and cinemas at the same time, so none of the six major Hollywood companies are theaters, and what I am afraid of is that a certain film and television company will be squeezed with the advantage of channels." Century Peak has gone too far this time, which is not conducive to the development of the entire film and television industry, and the government should further improve the laws and regulations of the film and television industry!"

After reading Wang Zhonglei's interview, Zhang Ran smiled coldly, you Huayi still have the face to mention the entire industry, what have you done for Chinese films? In addition to buying water army, supporting Taiwan bends and Korean stars, and using Chinese money to support Korean special effects companies, what else have you done? Although Zhang Weiping has a bad mouth, he has at least opened the curtain on China's commercial blockbusters, and has also used Zhang Yimou's influence to increase the producer's share ratio several times, what about you?

However, Wang Zhongli jumped out, which shows that Hua Yi is really anxious!

Since Hua Yi is in a hurry, then he should put more pressure on them, so that he can completely force them into the game he has set up!

Zhang Ran took out his mobile phone and dialed Gao Jun's phone: "Lao Gao, when "Wounded City" premiered, the schedule of "Ink Attack" was cut to 1%, and all of them were scheduled for the morning!"

After Wang Zhonglei jumped out, Huayi began to make full efforts, experts from all walks of life jumped out, many media also started discussions, and overwhelming public opinion swept over.

Xinlang Entertainment replaced the headline of the entertainment edition with Chen Qingsong's article "The Peak of the Century Bans Huayi to Sit, and Chinese Films Will Reenact the Paramount Crisis", which reads: "Yesterday, Wang Zhonglei publicly accused the Century Summit of damaging the film industry, and the grievances between the two sides for many years were also made public in front of the public. Behind the scolding war, it is difficult to clarify which is right and wrong, but there are some issues worth thinking about.

Cinemas will take advantage of their dominant position to gradually participate in production and distribution, and producers will also be willing to join forces, which will create a monopoly suspicion. For example, a self-produced film or a self-released film will get an overwhelming schedule in its own theaters, impacting the scheduling of other films, and there is a suspicion of unfair competition. Taking Century Summit as an example, he has the fifth largest theater chain in the country and also has his own distribution company, so this will force many producers to cooperate with Century Peak's distribution company. This is bound to accelerate his growth and form a further vertical monopoly.

The Paramount verdict of 1948 led to the creation of independent production companies and the emergence of brokerage companies, which enriched the ecology of the entire film industry. The current trend of industrial monopoly in China has made many filmmakers uneasy and called on the regulatory authorities to change this status quo, which is not only the responsibility of maintaining fair competition in the market, but also the escort for the healthier growth of China's film industry.

"Xinjing Daily" has always taken black Zhang Ran as its own responsibility, how could it miss this opportunity: "Now the conflict between Huayi and the peak of the century is repeating the history of the United States more than half a century ago. Where will the end of the oligopoly lead? In the film industry, excellent films may gradually lose their screening channels, and bad films may instead rely on the advantages of film scheduling to prevail, and the film ecology may be seriously damaged. It's time to limit this kind of behavior at the peak of the century!"

"Nanfang Daily" used to like Zhang Ran very much, but since Zhang Ran became the chief director of the Olympic Games, they have changed their stance and mainly criticized: "Huayi is fighting with the peak of the century, exposing the hidden danger of industry monopoly!"

"Peking Youth Daily": "Wang Zhonglei bombarded Zhang Ran and criticized the outbreak of the Paramount crisis in China!"

"21st Century Business Herald": "The contradiction at the peak of Huayi Century has escalated again, and the monopoly puzzle of China's cinema chain has been opened!"

Time.com also did a special topic on the Paramount Act, "What is the Paramount Act, and what is the impact on the film industry?" However, the whole article only talks about the process of the Paramount verdict taking effect, and the benefits it brings, but does not talk about the fact that this bill was later repealed by the US government, and why the government should repeal it.

Newspapers, magazines, and online media are all questioning the behavior of Century Peak, and they are all exclaiming that Century Peak's monopoly will damage the entire film industry, and almost everyone is talking about the Paramount Agreement.

"How is it?" Zhang Ran said with a disdainful smile as he held his mobile phone in one hand and a mouse in the other, "I'll just say they'll talk about the Paramount Act!"

"If the film critics shouted like this, it would be fine, except for a few people in our country who are a little level, except for a few people such as Zhou Liming, most of the others are bastards, but many experts and professors engaged in film and television research in universities also say so, I am really a little surprised, I don't know whether to say that they are ignorant, or to say that they are shameless!" Wu Ruide said with emotion.

"Ignorant and shameless!" Zhang Ran shook his head helplessly, and then laughed, "Now that the weather is getting colder and colder, the location scene of the earthquake has not been filmed yet, and I have to speed up the progress." I won't attend the premiere of "Wounded City". When the time comes, you can educate them well!"