Beijing, Lufthansa Kempinski Hotel, Underground Screening Room.

"Report to the general, the map of Germany is really not found, so you can take the map of Nanjing and make it together!"

"Liangzi, since Mr. Zhang is here, let our mules, horses, and big animals rest! Come back, go, take Mr. Zhang to change his clothes, this is like work!"

"Oh, you're here. Boss You is about to turn into a weasel. At night, his eyes glowed green. ”

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"Hahaha, that's funny. Tang Miaomiao hugged Simba and smiled back and forth, the waves were turbulent.

Zhang Chen's eyes weren't on the screen at all, staring at the waves absentmindedly, "It's okay." ”

In later generations, this movie has been shown many times on the movie channel, and Zhang Chen is still quite touched when he sees so many familiar scenes.

Perhaps due to the butterfly effect, although the general framework has not changed much, some of the scenes and plots are still slightly different from the plots in Zhang Chen's memory, and this paradoxical feeling makes Zhang Chen feel a little trance.

Was the past life a dream, or is it a dream today?

"Eh, that's Lin Xiaoxia, right?" Tang Miaomiao suddenly pointed to the screen and said in surprise.

Zhang Chen looked at the screen and said "hmm" with a weak heart. I was just thinking about where the plot of the movie was different from my previous life, and there was such a place!

Lin Xiaoxia appeared in the last unit of the movie, in the original version, Yang Lixin's wife had liver cancer, and Uncle Ge and Liu Bei lent the newly renovated wedding room to Yang Lixin and his family to live in, fulfilling the couple's dream of a new house.

In this life, this plot has not changed in the general structure, but Lin Xiaoxia has added a cameo role to play Yang Lixin's daughter.

Although there are only a few shots, judging from the lens, they are all big close-ups, and Lin Xiaoxia is no worse than in reality.

Beautiful people in reality, on the big screen, may become an aunt, not everyone's face is suitable for the big screen.

Even if the face is advanced, it will not look good if it is not carefully polished and photographed by makeup artists and photographers.

This is why the audience doesn't know much about the film and television industry now, if it were in the future, they would have been picked up on the Internet long ago, what is the background of this little girl, and is there any unspoken rules.

Tang Miaomiao saw Zhang Chen's weak heart, snorted twice, and didn't say anything.

Feng Xiaogang, Zhang Guoli, Wu Ying and Lu Hongliang on the side did not squint, as if they didn't see anything.

After spending Christmas in Finland, Zhang Chen and Natalie returned to San Francisco, and then flew back to China after two days in the United States to deal with things.

When he returned home this time, he brought Simba back to China as well, otherwise it would not be a matter to rely on servants to take care of him for such a long time. That is, the domestic inspection and quarantine in this era is not so strict, otherwise it is really not easy to do.

With the gradual improvement of domestic network facilities, the Internet has really begun to spread in China, and almost all provincial capitals and municipalities directly under the central government east of the Hu Huanyong line have opened Internet services, and several municipalities directly under the central government have already had 128K-256K ISDN or DDN special lines, and the construction speed of infrastructure is extremely rapid.

The number of computers connected to the Internet in Huaxia has also officially exceeded 500,000, and Zhang Chen actually has a small part of the credit.

It is precisely because of the emergence of cheap computers by aliens that the average selling price of computers has been lowered and the popularity of computers has accelerated. Historically, the number of computers connected to the Internet was about 400,000 now, but now it has increased by 25 percent compared to the previous generation.

The number of netizens has reached 900,000, and the number of people exceeding one million is just around the corner.

With enough Internet users, various websites have also sprung up, and in the latest data obtained by Zhang Chen, there are 8,795 CN domain name websites, more than double the number half a year ago.

Although this figure is still not worth mentioning compared to the United States, it is already much more than many European countries. The development speed of the Internet in China is even faster, faster than all countries in the world!

The difference in late-mover advantage, population advantage, and mobilization ability has made it the first time that China has not been left too far behind by Western countries in this new technological revolution.

Huaxia's work also occupies a larger proportion of Zhang Chen's schedule.

This time when I returned to China, in addition to completing some of Huaxia's venture capital projects a year ago, the most important thing was to negotiate with Wu Ying, Lu Hongliang, and Son Zhengyi on the specific plan for Starcom's listing in the United States.

Wu Ying and Lu Hongliang flew from Lin'an to Beijing a day ago, Wu Ying was originally from Beijing, had a residence in Beijing, and was considered to be home, Lu Hongliang also bought a villa in Tianzhu for investment, and just came to see the progress of the decoration.

Feng Xiaogang's "Party A and Party B" was released in China on Christmas Eve a week ago, Feng Xiaogang specially brought a copy over, Zhang Chen is the investor of this movie, Zhang Guoli's Spark Media is the distributor, how can I give investors an explanation.

The movie is nearing the end, Uncle Ge, He Bing, Feng Xiaogang Liu Bei and others on the screen sat around a small table on Chinese New Year's Eve to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Feng Xiaogang proposed to turn the company into a public welfare organization, everyone contributed advice, Feng Xiaogang proposed not to pay, Uncle Ge said to take care of the food, He Bing slapped the table, and said to Liu Bei next to him: "Then let's go out to solicit sponsorship, and Zana gang to engage in real estate and venture capital." ”

There is no such word venture capital in the original work, seeing this, everyone laughed, Zhang Chen glanced at Feng Xiaogang, Feng Xiaogang pretended not to know, and covered his stomach: "I'll go to the bathroom." "Urine escaped.

Zhang Chen, as an investor, did not put pressure on Feng Xiaogang, so Feng Xiaogang did not shoot the kitsch ending, and the camera was fixed on the silhouette of Yang Lixin's vision looking up in the snowstorm.

The close-up is a wine banquet with red lanterns, which is a good dream day trip, and the distant view is Yang Lixin standing in the snow in cotton clothes, which is life.

"1997 is behind and I miss it. After Uncle Ge's sudden sensationalism, "Party A and Party B" ended.

"It's a pretty good film. Wu Ying sighed, he grew up in the capital since he was a child, and of course his acceptance of Feng's humor is very high, although the sensationalism at the end is slightly deliberate, but it raises the height of the whole film, making this comedy movie a little more connotative.

Zhang Chen agreed: "It's not bad, there are really not many such films in China before, and there should be good results." ”

"You have an eye. Feng Xiaogang didn't know when he came back, and when he heard that Zhang Chen was quite satisfied, he smiled happily and stretched out his thumb: "It has been released for a week now, and the accurate box office has not yet come out, but it is estimated that there are at least 8 million. ”

He is now a contracted director of Xinghuo Media and will get a share of the box office.

The income distribution method of box office sharing is still a new thing today, and Feng Xiaogang also calculated it again, so he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and only then agreed to Xinghuo Media's conditions with the mentality of going out to gamble.

There are no theaters or anything yet, most of them are still single-hall theaters, and the box office data is not as timely and accurate as later generations (fake box office is another story). But even so, the box office of 8 million in the first week is already a miracle.

Theaters around the country have invariably lengthened the screening of "Party A and Party B", and it is expected that the screening cycle will also be postponed to before the Chinese New Year.

"Party A and Party B" can be regarded as a model of low opening and high walking, and under the effect of word-of-mouth, it can be expected that in the next few weeks, this movie will become more and more popular, and there is no problem at all with the box office doubling several times.

The higher the box office, the higher Feng Xiaogang's share, he has already begun to calculate in his heart that if the box office reaches 20 million, remove the share and distribution cost to the theater, then Xinghuo Media will be able to earn 6 million, and under this profit index, he can get 5% of the box office share, which is 300,000.

Although it is not much, but now that the film market is sluggish, it is already a good income to get this amount.

But if the box office reaches 30 million, he can get 7% of the profit, and he can get a share of 800,000 yuan, which is very considerable compared to the money at present.

And if the box office can reach 45 million, his share will increase to 10%, which means that he can get at least 1.7 million shares for this movie!

This money may not even be able to afford an eighteenth-tier small fresh meat in later generations, but in this era, there are only a handful of domestic directors who can earn 1.8 million yuan with a movie.

No, it should be said that there is none.

Including Zhang Yimou.

Thinking of this, Feng Xiaogang's heart became eager.

Feng Xiaogang has a very high emotional intelligence, and he is very good at praising people, if it weren't for Zhang Chen's efforts to remind himself not to be fooled, he would have been praised by him a long time ago.

Zhang Chen flipped through the box office data, frowning slightly, Zhang Guoli saw this, and thought that Zhang Chen was not satisfied with the box office share ratio, and explained: "The 40% share is indeed a bit low, but we are also responsible for the distribution of the film, in addition to the distribution cost of 3 million, there is also 8% of the share income." This is our first film, and after it became popular, we had the capital to negotiate a higher share ratio with the shower. ”

Zhang Chen shook his head slightly, this share ratio is not low, the producer takes 40% of the box office share, which is a treatment that can only be obtained by very strong blockbusters in the future, he frowned not because of this, but the current number of moviegoers and box office statistics.

There are now 1.3 billion people in China, and even if you only count the urban population, there is a market base of close to 400 million. But current box office statistics show that less than a million people have watched this movie, which has already created a certain topic among the people.

Among them, piracy is the most important reason. As some domestic brands enter the VCD projector market, the price of VCD projectors has fallen to less than 1,000 yuan, which objectively expands the number of pirated moviegoers. A new movie, within three days of its release, there will be pirated discs on the market, although the price of 30 yuan a piece is not expensive, but it can be watched by the family, and you can also change discs with others to watch, of course, the sales of Changhong.

This is only the stage when VCDs are just being popularized, and in another year or two, the entire piracy industry will form a complete industrial chain. Before a new movie is released, pirated discs have already been released on the market, and the damage to the box office can be imagined.

But this is not something that Zhang Chen can solve at all, he can only rely on the awakening of the people's copyright awareness and the country's severe crackdown, no matter how great Zhang Chen is, he can't eradicate piracy.

In ten years, that's all there will be to it.

Zhang Chen sighed secretly.

However, although piracy cannot be eradicated at present, there are still ways to increase the number of moviegoers and expand the box office.

"Mr. Zhang, when I was in the United States, I once went to AMC's movie theater to watch a movie, and found that the movie theater in the United States is very different from ours. Most of them are divided into small halls in a hall where different or identical movies are shown, and in this way the attendance of the cinema is increased. But we seem to be single-hall theaters now, and if AMC's multi-hall model is introduced into Huaxia, it may greatly promote the box office. Zhang Chen pondered for a while and said to Zhang Guoli.

Zhang Guoli hurriedly waved his hand: "You can call me Lao Zhang, don't be polite." When I went to Los Angeles, I also saw AMC's movie theater and watched it, and it was really scientific. In fact, our country has already built some multiplex theaters ten years ago, such as the Heping Two-Hall Cinema in Shanghai, which is divided into two halls on two floors, the Gusu Changzhou Asia Cinema, which opened in 91, has four screening halls, and the Shanghai Cinema, where the first Shanghai International Film Festival was held, and now has nine screening halls. However, the investment in this model is too large, and if domestic theaters want to be renovated according to this model, the cost is too high, and no one wants to do it. A year ago, there were several single-hall cinemas in Guangdong that wanted to take the medicine according to the prescription, but found that the investment would range from at least one million to three million, and if some advanced equipment such as DST was installed, the investment would be even higher. The local government can't spend so much money on a movie theater renovation, so it can only be shelved. ”

Zhang Chen nodded, sure enough, there is no shortage of smart people at any time, especially in a city like Guangdong, which is on the front line of reform and opening up, there are many capable people, and it is not surprising to think of this.

When you think about it, whether you can do it is another matter. Nowadays, the cinemas are all state-run, and there are very few privately contracted cinemas. There may be some movie theaters that have been restructured, but most of them are for the land, and there are almost no movie theaters that really want to do movie theater lines.

For state-run theaters, the income belongs to the state, and the investment also depends on the state. There are so many places where money needs to be spent, and the state, of course, will not use the money to do any cinema.

"Lao Zhang, it seems that the state now allows private enterprises to build theaters, right?" Zhang Chen suddenly asked.

Zhang Guoli was stunned for a moment, did Zhang Chen want to build a movie theater? He didn't think this was a good idea, in terms of the current domestic film environment, it was okay to make some movies at a small cost, and the profit mainly depended on TV dramas and building theaters?

"Yes, this year, ah, no, it should be said that last year, the Planning Commission just approved private enterprises to invest in cinemas. If you want to build a cinema in the capital, it is not easy to find a place unless you look for those old cinemas to renovate. Zhang Guoli shook his head.

Zhang Chen smiled slightly: "The renovation of the old theater? This is indeed a road, but I am not ready to do it." ”

Zhang Guoli didn't know why.

Zhang Chen's eyes moved slightly: "What do you think, what do you think of the idea of opening a movie theater in a shopping mall?"

Hu Huanyong's line is a line proposed by geographer Hu Huanyong to divide the population density of China, originally called "Aihui-Tengchong line", referring to a diagonal line from Heihe to Tengchong, the east side of this diagonal line occupies 40% of the area of China, but more than 90% of the population is concentrated.

In the late 90s and early 21st century, cinemas were very depressed, and it wasn't until around 03-05 that the cinemas we saw in the malls were really known to the public, and when you think about it, there weren't many years.

I remember the first time I went to Wanda Cinema to watch a movie in 05, and I was still wondering why this cinema was so small, the cinema used to be in the auditorium, which could seat thousands of people, and then I learned that it was called a multiplex theater, and there were several halls.

Shame, shame, shame.

(End of chapter)