Chapter 917: The Pinnacle of the Century
Century Film has not yet officially opened, but a large number of film and television companies have been concentrated in the base. On the windows facing the street, you can see advertisements for group performances and equipment rentals, and advertisements for film and television companies are also pasted on the elevator doors. On the enterprise information query software enterprise check, use "Lin'an Film and Television" to do keyword query, and the results show that there are 5386 companies. More than 3,000 of them were incorporated after 2010, with 2,000 of them reaching the peak of new film and television companies last year.
Jianfeng Digital rented an office on the street of Century Movie Capital, and from the door, it was the studio of the Film City. Due to its striking location, most newcomers to the film capital will quickly discover the company. After inspecting the supporting facilities around the Century Film Metropolis, Xu Yongan walked into Jianfeng Digital.
Through conversation, Xu Yongan learned that Zhang Jianfeng, the boss of Jianfeng Digital, was originally a technician of Tiangong Chongcai, and after working in Tiangong Chongcai for four years, he established Jianfeng Digital to engage in film and television post-production. With the relationship and contacts at the peak of the century, Jianfeng Digital has developed well and accumulated a certain reputation in the industry. However, after Zhang Jianfeng heard the news of the launch of the Century Film Capital, he immediately decided to lay out this new market. In 2010, Jianfeng Digital completed the registration in Century Shadow Capital, and at the beginning of this year, it directly moved its headquarters from Huairou to Huairou.
Xu Yongan said with a little puzzlement: "No one knows what will happen to the Century Shadow Capital, don't you think it's very risky for you to move the headquarters directly?"
Zhang Jianfeng said confidently: "Anyway, as long as you are filming, you will definitely be inseparable from the post-production, and our post-production level is first-class, not afraid of no business!"
Xu Yongan said: "There are many domestic film and television bases, but 80% are losses, 15% are drawn, and only 5% are really profitable." Most film and television bases have four or five crews a year, if there are no crews to move in, then what will you do?"
Zhang Jianfeng glanced at Xu Yong'an, and said in a mocking tone: "There is the peak of the century, how can there be no crew in the Century Film Capital?
Xu Yongan didn't care about Zhang Jianfeng's ridicule, and said: "The film and television industry in Hengdian is very mature, with hundreds of crews moving in every year, but there is a lack of excellent post-production teams, why don't you try it in Hengdian?"
Hengdian Film and Television City has an incomparable advantage of many domestic film and television cities, that is, Hengdian has established a very complete industrial chain, and all the elements of film and television production can be found in Hengdian, such as props, costumes, power generation vehicles, transport vehicles, fireworks, makeup, extras, special actors, etc. The crew needs 100 pieces of palace maid's costumes at 10 o'clock tomorrow, and Hengdian can provide the cheapest and most professional costumes tomorrow. For the crew, filming in Hengdian saves money, worry, and effort, and they are naturally willing to film in Hengdian. In recent years, film and television cities have been built in China, and some places have higher investment and more beautiful film and television cities, but there are few crews living in them, and the fundamental reason is that there are no perfect supporting facilities, which is not attractive to the crew.
However, Hengdian is not without defects, the biggest problem is that the film and television post-production link seems to lag seriously, which is the biggest shortcoming of Hengdian and the biggest defect of Hengdian's entire film and television industry chain. At present, the film and television post-production in Hengdian only stays in the rough cutting stage, and after the crew is completed, the relevant materials will be sent to companies in Beiping, Modu and other places for real post-production. Film and television post-production is a knowledge-intensive and creative-intensive industry, which requires a large number of high-tech talents, while Hengdian is a small town located in the middle of the Zhijiang River, not a talent highland, resulting in a small number of film and television post-production companies and a shortage of talents. Xu Yongan also knows the shortcomings of Hengdian, and has begun to make efforts in the later stage in the past two years, but the effect is very average, and he very much hopes that an excellent post-production team like Jianfeng Digital can go to Hengdian.
Zhang Jianfeng sneered: "After the completion of the Century Film Metropolis, Mr. Zhang will bring the Hollywood crew over, and it will become a world-renowned film and television production center like Vancouver, where we participate in top blockbusters and have the opportunity to grow into an internationally renowned post-production company, and what else does Hengdian have besides Lei Opera?"
At this moment, a voice suddenly came from behind him: "Jianfeng, you can't say that, Hengdian has its own uniqueness, and it also has advantages that Century Shadow doesn't have!"
Zhang Jianfeng and Xu Yong'an turned around suddenly, and saw Zhang Ran walking towards this side with a smile. When Zhang Jianfeng saw Zhang Ran, he hurriedly greeted him with a smile and asked, "Mr. Zhang, why are you here?"
Zhang Ran chuckled and said, "I'm passing by here, come and take a look!"
While speaking, Zhang Ran's eyes fell on Xu Yong'an. He didn't expect to meet the boss of Hengdian Group here, many people know that Xu Wenrong, who is known as the emperor of Hengdian, is the one who created the Hengdian Film and Television City, which is known as "China's Hollywood". But in fact, Xu Wenrong retired as early as ten years ago, and his son Xu Yongan took over as chairman. After Xu Yong'an became the chairman, Hengdian broke through the single function of film and television shooting and broadened the road of combining film and television with tourism. In the past ten years, Hengdian has achieved leapfrog development. But Xu Yongan is extremely low-key to the outside world and refuses all interviews. There are many people who know Hengdian, and there are many people who know Xu Wenrong, but not many people know Xu Yongan.
Xu Yong'an will not appear in the Century Film Capital for no reason, I am afraid that after the introduction of the subsidy policy at the peak of the century, he came to explore the reality!
Zhang Ran stretched out his hand to Xu Yong'an and said enthusiastically: "I have long wanted to meet with Xu Dong, but unfortunately I have never found a suitable opportunity, I didn't expect to meet here today!"
Xu Yong'an noticed that the accent of Zhang Ran's sentence was on "coincidence", which meant something, and after shaking hands with Zhang Ran, he directly made his words clear: "In addition to inspecting the Century Film Capital, I also came here to meet with Mr. Zhang to see if there is any possibility of cooperation." ”
Zhang Ran was stunned, he originally planned to meet Xu Yong'an after the Lin'an Fantasy Film Festival to discuss the possibility of cooperation, but he didn't expect the other party to take the initiative to propose, so he said: "This is not a place to talk, let's find a place to sit down and talk slowly, how about it?"
Xu Yongan smiled and nodded: "Listen to Mr. Zhang's arrangement!"
Zhang Ran did not take Xu Yong'an to the famous teahouse in the city, but directly to the tearoom of a hotel in the Century Movie Capital.
In a private room, after sitting down casually, Zhang Ran personally poured a cup of tea for Xu Yong'an, and asked seemingly casually: "Did Mr. Xu gain anything after the inspection of the Century Shadow Capital?"
Xu Yongan said very seriously: "At the beginning, I was relieved to see that you would build several five-star and four-star hotels around the Century Film Capital, if you put your competitiveness on hardware, it would not be too much of a threat to Hengdian." Hengdian receives more than 100 crews every year, and has dealt with the crew for more than ten years. If the hotels built by Century Film Capital are all four-star and five-star, which will greatly increase the cost of the crew, then how many crews are willing to go to Century Film Capital to film? But then I found out that in addition to four-star and five-star hotels, you are also building one-star and two-star hotels on a large scale, and I know that you really know too much about the film and television industry and the crew!"
The film and television industry is a hierarchical industry, and the crew often only has first-line stars who are arranged to live in four-star and five-star hotels, while the artists and other backstage personnel of the crew live in three-star hotels, and other personnel such as star assistants often live in one-star and two-star hotels. If Century Film Capital only builds a four-star and five-star hotel, even if there is a subsidy, the cost is still very high, then many crews will definitely not want to come here. But now the practice of the peak of the century is to build several four- and five-star hotels, and build one-star, two-star, and three-star hotels on a large scale, so that who lives in which hotel can be distinguished, plus subsidies, the accommodation fee may be cheaper than Hengdian, and the crew will definitely be willing to come to the Century Film Capital to film.
However, what really frightened Xu Yongan was that during his visit to the Century Film Capital, he found that Century Film had not yet officially opened, but it had established a very complete industrial chain, and even the post-production link that Hengdian dreamed of was extremely complete. Xu Yongan has always thought that Zhang Ran is a very powerful person, and now he finds that Zhang Ran is even more powerful than he imagined. Zhang Ran has been deeply involved in the film and television industry for ten years, not only building a huge film and television industry chain by himself, but also establishing an extremely large system centered on the peak of the century. Take post-production companies as an example, whether it is a special effects company or a post-production company, at least one-third of the top ones in China have the pedigree of the peak of the century. These companies are all developed by managers or technicians who have come out to start a business, and these companies have very close business ties with Century Peak. When the peak of the century was engaged in the Century Film Capital in Lin'an, these later companies all moved their headquarters to Lin'an, at least opened branches in Lin'an. Therefore, before the Century Film Capital opened, the construction of the industrial chain was already quite complete.
Zhang Ran has gathered thousands of enterprises with the peak of the century as the center, including subsidiaries such as Golden Harvest, Guevara and Dingfeng Entertainment, as well as companies such as creative advertising and Qingyang Zhengyu, in addition, there are thousands of semi-compact and loose enterprises like Jianfeng Digital, the entire peak of the century involves all aspects of the entire film and television industry, accounting for more than one-third of the film and television industry!
Xu Yong'an came to a conclusion that he and the peak of the century cannot be enemies, but can only become friendly partners, otherwise Hengdian will die without a place to be buried!
Zhang Ran chuckled: "We are a film company, if we didn't even know the needs of the crew, then we would have closed our doors long ago." Zhang Ran looked at Xu Yongan and said slowly: "Century Peak and Hengdian are not rivals, they can become partners." There are two centers in the entire film industry in the United States, Los Angeles and New York, the Chinese population is four times that of the United States, and the area is about the same, I believe that China's film and television resources will inevitably be integrated in the future, and two centers will be formed, one centered on Beiping and the other will appear in the Yangtze River Delta region. I think Peking will become an independent film center like New York, where the films produced will be more artistic and academic, and the center of the Yangtze River Delta will be more commercial and become the new Oriental Hollywood. Hollywood was not built by one person, and it is impossible for Oriental Hollywood to be completed by any one company. Century Summit has a relatively complete industrial chain and has a certain strength, but it is impossible to achieve all links in the industrial chain. I think the entire film and television group in the Yangtze River Delta should unite and do this together. If we can unite, there is a real opportunity to build the Yangtze River Delta into the Hollywood of the East. If we can create Oriental Hollywood, then the film and television resources of the whole country and even the world will be concentrated here, and our film and television companies will also achieve better development. As long as we stand in the tuyere, pigs can fly, but we are people, not pigs, we can't stay where we are and wait for the wind to come, if there is a chance to build an outlet, why don't we build one ourselves?"
Xu Yong'an's heart moved when he heard this, before he went to Lin'an for inspection, he discussed this issue with his father Xu Wenrong, and they all thought that Zhang Ran's introduction of subsidies was not to grab business from Hengdian, but the real purpose was to integrate the film and television resources of the Yangtze River Delta, and now it seems that it is really right. He said quietly: "I don't know what kind of joint law?"