Chapter 206: People are not as good as heaven
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As soon as he returned to Xiangjiang, Li Qing felt the depression of Xiangjiang movies.
In the entire summer file, only Zhang Guorong, Yuan Yongyi, and Liu Jialing starred in "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves" The box office was okay, but it did not reach 30 million Hong Kong dollars, "Liang Zhu" 17 million, "Splendid Future" and "The Overlord of Western Chu" were 17 million and 15 million respectively, and the box office of other films was almost all below 4 million, so that the film companies couldn't even get back, and if it weren't for the videotape channel to give them back, they would all have to pay for death.
You must know that this is a summer file, and in previous years, there must be at least two or three summer files with three or four million or more than 20 million movies.
People in the Hong Kong film industry have begun to call on the government to set up a "Film Development Bureau" to save Hong Kong films from the crisis.
At the same time, a big event has also happened in the mainland regarding movies.
Against the backdrop of the tariff and trade agreement just signed, the imminent start of WTO negotiations, and the annual war between China and the United States over "most-favored-nation treatment", China Film Company, with the approval of a higher level, has completed long-lasting negotiations with American film companies, and opened the "import account-sharing blockbuster" model - China has opened up film imports (in fact, only the United States and Hong Kong have benefited).
This caused an uproar.
On the eve of the release of New China's first Hollywood account-sharing film "The End of the World", Han Maorui, who was then the general manager of the Haidian District Film Company in Kyoto City, drove his own Santana around the city with eight copies of the film to avoid the "pursuit" of the Kyoto Municipal Bureau of Culture and the Kyoto City Film Company- At the time, Chinese film practitioners were divided into two factions, one believing that the entry of American blockbusters would inevitably lead to the demise of local films, while the other side believed that only American blockbusters could save the market and save the Chinese film (screening) industry that had been crushed by television. These two opposing views, based on cultural and economic considerations, have been attached to Chinese cinema and filmmakers ever since. Since then, almost every change in the Chinese film industry has been inseparable from the pressure and impetus brought by American blockbusters.
As for the audience level, the arrival of American blockbusters also means a new era. Although thanks to the popularity of video recorders, VCDs and LD, ripped American movies Hong Kong movies have entered the lives of many Chinese people, but there are also Harrison Ford and Arnold Schwarzenegger in the cinema, the meaning is extraordinary after all, just like Ken Takakura and Alain Delon became popular all over the country in the early eighties, this time with the permission and encouragement of the official, the Chinese finally "integrated with the world" and began to gaze, fascinate and imitate the American (and Hong Kong) way of life.
Although the import quota is extremely limited, only 10 films per year, and the account sharing conditions are very strict, only 13 percent, this is still a huge victory for filmmakers who want to open up the mainland film market.
There is a big difference between account-sharing movies and buy-out movies, especially account-sharing movies and movies bought out by state-owned enterprises, the difference is even greater!
Before the reform and opening up, the nature of state-owned enterprises to ensure income during droughts and floods meant that they would not pay too much attention to the distribution of the films they bought.
And the producer has already sold the copyright of the film in the mainland at one time, will it care how it is at the box office?
Therefore, the box office of movies that have been bought out by state-owned enterprises is usually not very good.
Taking a step back, even if the box office of the movie sells well, it is still terrible on the books, as for why, anyone with a little experience can figure out why.
Account-sharing movies are different, it involves the interests of many parties, and naturally someone is behind it to push it to sell as much box office as possible.
This is undoubtedly a major win for Hollywood films, as they open up another market.
For Xiangjiang films, which have lost all foreign markets, even the local market, and have gone into decline, the mainland film market that has opened the door has given them a glimmer of vitality.
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The reason why Li Qing returned to Xiangjiang at this extremely important moment was because there was an extremely important thing for Li Qing - Liu Yan and Jiang Yu were about to give birth.
Liu Yan and Jiang Yu are already very sensible, they didn't let Li Qing, who was too busy and on the rise in his career, accompany them when they conceived in October, only Zhao Mingming and a group of servants took care of them.
Now that Liu Yan and Jiang Qi are about to give birth, it would be too wrong for Li Qing to come back and have children with them.
Speaking of which, many things are providential.
Liu Yan didn't want to give birth smoothly on the grounds that he was afraid of pain, and wanted to have a caesarean section, and he was ready to plane half a month in advance.
Jiang was ready to give birth because she had heard that children who gave birth naturally were healthier.
Liu Yan and Jiang Qi were pregnant almost at the same time, and it is likely that one day Li Qing was too brave and fired a double shot.
If both of them were born naturally, then these two children, maybe who will be Li Qing's eldest son - they have already been seen by someone when they were four months pregnant, and they are both pregnant with boys.
But Liu Dan planed half a month in advance, so if there is no accident, Liu Dan should give birth to the eldest son for Li Qing.
But it happened unexpectedly!
The day before Liu Yan was ready to plan, Li Qing rushed back from Los Angeles.
It may be that I am too happy to see Li Qing, who I haven't seen for several months, Jiang Yu has actually made a movable property!
This startled Li Qing, and then personally carried Jiang Yu to the hospital they had booked before.
Jiang Yu's birth went very smoothly, so smoothly that he almost gave birth to the child in the RV.
As a result, Jiang Xuan, who had no intention of fighting, gave birth to Li Qing's eldest son.
And Liu Yan, who originally wanted to give birth to the eldest son for Li Qing, smiled bitterly, "People are not as good as heaven!"
Liu Yan's careful thinking, everyone saw it, and Jiang Xu, who was also very smart, naturally saw it.
Jiang Yu didn't want to compete with Liu Yan, so he deliberately said that he wanted to give birth smoothly and was ready to give up the position of the eldest son to Liu Yan's son.
But Jiang Zhu is indisputable, but God is fighting for Jiang Xuan!
Jiang gave birth to a healthy son of six pounds and two taels for Li Qing.
It is said that at this time, there is no point in Liu Dan's re-planing.
But in order to make excuses for her before, Liu Yan still planed the next day and gave birth to a healthy son of six catties and four taels for Li Qing.
Li Qing didn't like her and her son because Liu Yan was a little careful, but treated these two pairs of mothers and sons equally-everyone is selfish, and it is normal for a mother to think carefully about herself and her children.
Because he has a son to inherit the family business, Li Qing specially invited several masters of Chinese culture to create a family tree for himself that can be passed down for thousands of years - of course, this is just Li Qing's personal good idea.
Li Qing's move inevitably aroused the dissatisfaction of Zhao Mingming, who gave birth to a daughter!
In order to appease Zhao Mingming, and because he hadn't touched Zhao Mingming for a long time, Li Qing spent most of the nights in Xiangjiang in Zhao Mingming's room.
As a result, I don't know if it's because Zhao Mingming's land is good, or because Li Qing and Zhao Mingming are too harmonious, after working hard for a few days, Zhao Mingming actually became pregnant again.
This made Xu Ruoxuan and her sister Xu Peiyu envious, and also made Li Xiuxiu anxious for her sister Li Baiyu, and even Cao Ying, Huo Wenxi and Huo Baoling, the two sisters, began to play their little abacus.
Of course, that's all for later......
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