Chapter 261: The General Trend

In 1995, if you did an interview on the streets of Beijing and asked the pedestrians on the road who James Cameron and Schwarzenegger were, most people would shake their heads blankly, who knows what these two foreigners do. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At this time, there was neither the Internet nor the overwhelming publicity.

Only a handful of enthusiasts who follow Hollywood movies, as well as those who have seen American movies in magazines and videos, have the impression that these two men are the big directors and big stars of Hollywood.

That will soon change, as the second Hollywood blockbuster, True Lies, is set to be released domestically.

The ticket price in Beijing is set at 20 yuan.

Lin Zixuan asked someone to get a movie ticket and would take Mu Shanshan to the theater to watch Hollywood action blockbusters.

This time, the voice of boycott in the domestic film industry is still strong, but Huaying Company has made up its mind that the film must be released nationwide, and no one can stop it.

In the face of huge interests, they will not back down again.

Taking "True Lies" as an example, according to the account-sharing agreement reached between China Film Company and Hollywood Film Company, if the domestic box office of this film is 100 million, then Hollywood Film Company can take 17 million, that is, 17%.

China Film Company got 29 million, provincial and municipal film companies got 10 million, and the remaining 44 million went to theaters.

China Film Company and provincial and municipal film companies are the competent units and are responsible for coordinating the work, and the theater is the final working unit.

The theater has to pay rent, pay business tax, pay the special fund for films, as well as water and electricity, property, labor, etc., and the net profit that really gets is less than 8 million.

The 8 million is distributed to major theaters across the country, and each theater actually doesn't get much.

This is a breakdown of the box office account of a Hollywood blockbuster, from which it can be seen that Huaying Company got the lion's share.

Of course, the China Film Company shoulders many tasks, such as subsidizing theaters that screen domestic films at a loss, providing fund subsidies for major national film themes, organizing various voluntary film screening activities in rural areas, and so on.

These all need money, and the introduction of Hollywood blockbusters is a piece of fat, and they can't give it up.

For the game between state-owned studios and Huaying companies, Lin Zixuan will not be stupid to participate in it, private film and television companies are too small to withstand tossing.

No matter which side you offend, you won't have a good time in the future.

However, the tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, and it is difficult to avoid these rights and wrongs in this circle to make a living.

In the past, Haomeng Company was not taken seriously, but now "Party A and Party B" is a big hit at the box office, and Lin Zixuan is also well-known in the film circle, so someone came to ask his opinion.

I want him to rush to the front and boycott Hollywood blockbusters.

"Do they think I'm so stupid?" Lin Zixuan said angrily, "This is obviously the meaning of the General Bureau, Huaying Company is just implementing the above documents, there are too many interests involved in it, they want me to be the first bird, I really don't know what these people think." ”

After sending off a group of seniors in the film industry, Lin Zixuan complained.

"Maybe you're too young and they think you're impulsive. Mu Shanshan said with a smile, "I heard them say quite intensely, as if there is no way to live, Hollywood blockbusters really have such a big impact on domestic films?"

Mu Shanshan is not a person in the film circle after all, and she can't see it very clearly when she watches the fire from the other side.

"The impact on state-owned studios is quite large, and there may be benefits to private film and television companies. Lin Zixuan replied.

The state-owned studios have an outdated system, insufficient investment, backward technology, lack of funds, and declining output, and Hollywood blockbusters have had a strong impact on the state-owned studios.

It's just that reform is not easy to talk about, and the reform of state-owned enterprises has always been a long-standing and difficult problem.

The first thing they have to do is to put down the shelves, bring in funds from the society, adjust their creative ideas, and shoot a number of films that the people like to see, so that they can be competitive.

For private film and television companies, there is no burden and they can respond flexibly.

Hollywood blockbusters have stimulated the domestic film market, so that domestic audiences have the interest of going to the cinema to watch movies, and the number of moviegoers has gradually increased, which is to cultivate the market.

The cinema chain saw that it was profitable to show Hollywood blockbusters, and in order to show as many Hollywood blockbusters as possible, they would renovate theaters and even build new movie theaters.

Moreover, seeing a Hollywood blockbuster will touch domestic filmmakers and have reference significance.

These are all aspects that bring benefits to the domestic film industry, and they are not blindly only bad.

As long as Lin Zixuan's movies are sincere, interesting, and not shoddy, they can attract the audience and get a high box office.

"Then what are you going to do?" Mu Shanshan said worriedly.

These people came to Lin Zixuan for a purpose, that is, to jointly write a letter to the General Administration, on the grounds that Hollywood blockbusters have an impact on the attendance rate of domestic feature films, thinking that in the long run, it will bring disaster to national films.

They also attacked the general manager of Huaying Company for having a strong habit of focusing only on profits and ignoring the future of domestic films.

It even insinuated that the policy of the General Administration was problematic and questioned the direction of domestic film reform.

How could Lin Zixuan follow them around, this is not a joke, there is no way, it can only offend these people.

"This is the general trend, and it can't be stopped. Lin Zixuan shook his head and said.

These people may be thinking about domestic films, or maybe they are considering their own interests, but the introduction of Hollywood blockbusters is not something they can boycott if they want to, this is the trend of the times.

China is about to join the World Trade Organization, and as an open market, it is difficult to deny entry to films from other countries.

This is a matter of time, in this context, if you can't face it positively, then there is really no hope for domestic films.

No matter how the outside world argues, Good Dreams is preparing for the second movie in an orderly manner.

This time, the crew is mainly composed of personnel from the art center, who once followed Lin Zixuan to the United States to shoot "Beijing People in New York", and have experience in filming abroad, so they will not be in a hurry.

At the same time, he hired well-known names in the industry, such as photographers and prop masters, for key positions.

With such a big investment in "See You or Leave", we must strive for excellence, and we must ensure that the films produced by the company are sincere and do not fool the audience, and the audience will buy it.

They chose Los Angeles, the epicenter of American cinema compared to New York.

New York is rich in art films, Los Angeles makes commercial films, and it is quite convenient to rent equipment and find locations and extras to make movies in Los Angeles.

Hollywood blockbusters enter the country, but they want to march towards Hollywood. (To be continued.) )