Chapter Seventy-Nine
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At present, there are five cinema lines in Xiangjiang, namely Golden Harvest Cinema Line, Golden Princess Cinema Line, Xinbao Cinema Line, Yonggao Cinema Line, and Oriental Cinema Line.
In addition, Yindu also has half of the Shuangnan Cinema Line second only to the five major cinema chains, and the two brothers Jiang Zhiwen and Jiang Zhiqiang have a Broadway Cinema Line (formerly Anle Cinema Line) composed of four cinemas, and there are many independent cinemas and cinemas in Xiangjiang.
All in all, there are more than 200 cinemas and cinemas in Hong Kong, which is the largest number of cinemas and cinemas in history, and there will not be so many before and after that.
Golden Harvest Cinema Line.
Golden Harvest, which used to share the world equally with Shaw Brothers, has declined, and the downturn in the film market and the pressure of competitors have hit "Golden Harvest" hard, and its talents have withered, almost all of which are protected by Cheng Long and his best partners (Liu Weiqiang and Wen Jun).
Golden Harvest has now begun to shrink its production business, selling its films to Asia Satellite Television and Time Warner, respectively, and transforming from a film company into a distribution and theatrical company, mainly profiting from Southeast Asian film distribution.
Although it has declined, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, not to mention that Cheng Long and others use the Golden Harvest Cinema Line, and it also distributes Southeast Asian movies, so it is absolutely wishful thinking for Li Qing, an unknown little person, to get enough cinemas and cinemas in the Golden Harvest Cinema Line.
Golden Princess Cinemas.
If Jiahe can still survive, then the ten-year mythical new art city and the golden princess have completely declined.
Li Qing heard that because the income from the film field is far less than that of real estate, Princess Jin is preparing to end the production and theatrical distribution business, Chen Rongmei intends to take over and reorganize into Jinsheng Cinemas, and form a sister line with its previously established Xinbao Cinemas for joint screening.
Golden Princess Cinemas is currently in the process of changing owners, and it is not suitable for stable distribution.
Xinbao Cinema Line.
Xinbao Cinema shows many films invested by Taiwan people (many of which are films invested by Taiwan underworld forces), although it has just experienced a big anti-black, and the order of Xiangjiang has improved a little bit, but it is still a miasma, so the mixed Xinbao Cinema Line is not suitable for Li Qing.
Yonggao Cinema Line.
Yonggao Cinema Line is a good choice, Yonggao's boss Luo Jiecheng is a businessman who doesn't know how to make movies, he just parted ways with Huang Baiming, and he is lacking good movies to support his Yonggao Cinema Line.
However, Luo Jiecheng is a typical black-hearted businessman, and the reason why he broke with Huang Baiming was because he wanted to eat alone and kicked Huang Baiming out of the game.
If you work with this person, you have to be careful and careful.
Orient.
Oriental Cinema Line actually doesn't have to think about it- After Huang Baiming and Luo Jiecheng parted ways, Huang Baiming relied on his character and connections to form a cinema line in only five days, of course, there is also the general trend that these cinemas and cinemas have nothing to eat, this cinema line has just been established not long ago, and it is mainly for Huang Baiming's film company and the film company with Huang Baiming's participation, at present, Huang Baiming has several film companies in his hands, and there is no shortage of movies, so at this stage, Li Qing does not want to get enough cinema cinemas in the Oriental Cinema Line to release "Donkey Gets Water".
In fact, Li Qing's best choice should be the Shuangnan Cinema Line under Yindu Institution, but the number of cinemas and cinemas in Shuangnan Cinema is too small, and it is still declining sharply, and it will not be long before Shuangnan Cinema Line will become history, Shuangnan Cinema Line cannot release the box office potential of "Donkey Gets Water", and Yindu has no intention of operating a cinema chain (at present, Yindu is selling its cinema cinemas), and even "Farewell My Concubine" produced by Yindu itself was released in Oriental Cinemas, not in Shuangnan Cinemas.
As for the Broadway cinema chain, it is the future cinema overlord of Xiangjiang, and the number of cinemas and cinemas currently owned by it is too small, and the Broadway cinema chain is mainly showing Western films, so it is likely that he will not be able to watch his mainland films.
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Wang Qingxiang: Kuishan, you divided the newly recruited students into classes overnight.
Feng Yuanzheng: Okay.
Wang Qingxiang: Tie Nan, if the conditions allow, you organize a basketball team.
Wang Qianyuan: Okay.
Wang Qingxiang: School will start tomorrow, come, let's gather together!
Wang Qingxiang: We are Sanmin Primary School.
Wang Qingxiang, Feng Yuanzheng, Wang Qianyuan: Unity! Optimistic......
Wang Qingxiang: Hey, wait a minute, what about Yiman?
"Bang!"
A sudden gunshot!
Wang Qianyuan, Feng Yuanzheng, and Wang Qingxiang were stunned, and then after realizing something, they hurriedly ran out of the classroom!
Freeze the shot.
"Click!"
Li Qing carefully looked at the picture he had just taken.
After repeatedly confirming that there was no problem with the set of shots just taken, Li Qing announced with a smile: "I announce, "Donkey Gets Water" is finished!" - because Xu Jinglei is going to take this year's college entrance examination (the college entrance examination in the nineties is not in June, but in July. Therefore, the scenes about Xu Jinglei have already been filmed, including the real last scene of "Donkey Gets Water", that is, the scene where Sun Jia left in a donkey cart, so after this set of shots was filmed, the two-and-a-half-month "Donkey Gets Water" was finally completed!
In the past two and a half months, there have been too many hardships to communicate with outsiders!
In the same way, it also made these people who didn't know each other become familiar, and many people even regarded themselves as Li Jiaban, and they had the meaning of relying on Li Qing for this, the typical representatives of which were Huang Bo, Liu Hua, and Li Qingqing, the three difficult households who had no way to act, and even Zhou Xun, Zhang Hanyu and Feng Yuanzheng all had the intention of moving closer to Li Qing, and everyone else deliberately befriended Li Qing.
These people are like this not only because Li Qing is rich and connected, but also because Li Qing is talented, and the time they get along makes them all happy and convinced of Li Qing's directing ability, and some of them are more knowledgeable people who also think that Li Qing's directing ability is one of the few in the world, and even Feng Xiaogang thinks so.
"It's finished!"
"Wow~~ I can finally rest!"
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Hearing Li Qing's announcement of the finale, the actors and crew around Li Qing all cheered!
At the beginning, Li Qing's budget for "Donkey Gets Water" was four million (including the money to buy equipment).
However, since most of the people in the crew are newcomers, the final cost of filming was 4.58 million.
These production costs are naturally incomparable with the production costs of tens of millions of Xiangjiang films, but they can definitely be said to be very high in China at this time.
(Let me explain here that although the production cost of Xiangjiang films is high, there is not much really spent on production, most of the high production fees of Xiangjiang films are spent on actors, and the production fees of some movies are not even one-tenth of the actors' salaries, if this is not the case, Xiangjiang films will not decline, although the production cost of Li Qing's "Donkey Gets Water" is only more than 4 million, but it is all spent on production, and the actors' salaries are not even 200,000. )
The completion does not mean that "Donkey Gets Water" is finished - whether a movie can become a good movie or not, post-production is equally important.
In order to ensure the quality of "Donkey Gets Water", Li Qing invited Pei Xiaonan, the editor of "Farewell My Concubine", and Zhao Jiping, the soundtrack master, to assist him in completing the post-production of "Donkey Gets Water" - Li Qing is not unable to edit and score by himself, but Li Qing's expectations for "Donkey Gets Water" are very high, and "Donkey Gets Water" is of great significance to Li Qing, so Li Qing must win the strength of everyone to complete "Donkey Gets Water".
Li Qing, Pei Xiaonan, Zhao Jiping, Huo Tingxiao, as well as the sound effects team and the art team were busy for more than half a month, and "Donkey Gets Water" was fully produced.
Five copies of the master tapes were copied, four of which were separated into his own safe, and the last one was sent to the Venice island of Lido in Italy to participate in the annual Venice Film Festival.
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