Chapter 415: Cents Action
When China Film, Huayi, Cinema, and Shangying were thinking about how things would develop. [No pop-up novel network] @樂@文@小@说|
The black hand behind the scenes, which has been hidden, has finally acted.
Han Sanpin suddenly received a call from Columbia Pictures headquarters, and Ed Wharton, regional director of the Asia-Pacific region, was on the phone, smiling at him in half-baked Chinese:
"Mr. Han, I know you have a headache right now and need more screens, I can make "Darling" disappear from the market, but I need your cooperation."
After Han Sanpin received this call, his expression was frighteningly cold, he heard Ed Wharton's condescending tone, and he also vaguely guessed what the other party was going to do.
"What do you want?"
"Next June, we are going to co-release "Raiders of the Lost Ark 4" with Paramount and Lucasfilm, Mr. Han, do you know?" Ed Wharton smiled condescendingly:
"I hope that next year's summer season in China, we will have 1,000 screens, and you promise not to force our films, and I made a promise to Paramount that I will not suffer the unfair treatment that 'Transformers' suffered this year, so they agreed to let us co-distribute this film in China.
By the way~~ There is also Paramount's "Iron Man", they also want to release it in the summer, and they still need a lot of help from Mr. Han~"
"Okay, I'll think about it......" After Han Sanpin replied coldly, after hanging up the phone, he didn't speak for a long time, but just called Han Xiaoli to his office to discuss.
"What do they mean by that?" Han Xiaoli was a little angry when he heard this, and slapped the table and said:
"Do they want to do the disgusting thing about Ambush on All Sides again? This is an attempt to threaten us. ”
"We moved their cakes, they want to get them back......" Han Sanpin muttered with a cold face:
"This year, we not only released "Chinese Partner" to muddy up the summer schedule, but also forcibly pressed the schedule of "Transformers", these Yankees will not forget."
In the eyes of outsiders, the box office of "Transformers" in the summer of this year is already extremely amazing, but in fact, only industry insiders know that "Transformers" was forcibly released when the weekly box office was still 20 million, otherwise this movie would definitely break through the 300 million mark.
You must know that in 1998, "Titanic", which was not controlled by anyone, was released in China for half a year, and then it got a box office record of 360 million, which has been unmatched so far.
Han Sanpin, the "gatekeeper" of Chinese films, doesn't want Hollywood to have another 300 million box office movie in China, and has been secretly suppressing Hollywood's expansion in China.
And next year, China Film's "Red Cliff" has been set for the summer file, and the competitors have two of the strongest Hollywood blockbusters in the same period, one is "Iron Man" and the other is "Raiders of the Lost Ark 4".
Han Sanpin asked "Iron Man", which was scheduled to be released in April, to be released in the mainland in April, and for "Raiders of the Lost Ark 4", it was directly blocked internally based on the political position of director Spielberg, and he did not plan to introduce it at all.
These are all the means that he Han Sanpin painstakingly worked out to suppress Hollywood in the domestic market, and Americans naturally know it.
That's why Ed Wharton put forward such a condition.
Mr. Han ...... Are you going to promise them? Han Xiaoli listened to Han Sanpin's tone was wrong.
"En......" Han Sanpin rarely showed a somewhat difficult look:
"The lesser of two evils, I have an agreement with Director Shen, I can't let three domestic movies with more than 100 million yuan appear in the Chinese New Year file, otherwise we will open 14 more Hollywood movies next year......"
Compared with sacrificing Gu Xiaofan's "Dear", and part of the box office of "Red Cliff", the achievement of "Raiders of the Lost Ark 4", and "Iron Man", adding 14 imported films every year is more painful for domestic films.
"It's the same reason, but I don't know how these Americans will treat Gu Xiaofan and Shangying." Han Xiaoli listened and was stunned for a few seconds before sighing helplessly.
"Them?" Han Sanpin said with disdain on his face: "What do they dare not do as money-oriented businessmen? ”
Headquarters building in Columbia, USA.
In the brightly lit office, Ed Wharton, the director of Asia Pacific, looked at his communications minister and asked, "Kyle, is it all arranged?" ”
"It's all arranged." Kyle's brown eyes were full of smiles: "Three celebrities with more than 300,000 Weibo followers, 7 newspapers, 11 portals, 7 Chinese mainland most influential forums, and what is the 'Huaxia Child-Seeking Club'...... We can act together at any time. ”
Ed Wharton nodded with satisfaction, looked at Kyle with a smile and said, "What do the Chinese call these friends of ours?" What is the beauty? Ed struggled to pronounce a Chinese pronunciation.
"Cents~" Kyle said the Chinese noun and said with the same smile: "It's the one who took us cents and then spoke for us......"
"Okay~ Let's get our 'cent' friends moving now~" Ed Wharton snapped his fingers triumphantly.
On the morning of December 26th, when people opened newspapers and websites, many of the front-page headlines were "The Art of Human Blood Steamed Buns, "Dear" Celebrates the Shady Movie of Human Traffickers! "Distorted values, the evil of human nature in 'Darling'!" "Moral degradation, ****** 'art film'."
Although these sensational titles are different, the content is a reprinted online comment:
"After watching "Dear", people can't hate traffickers, but instead hate those public security, family planning cadres and welfare house directors, this is definitely a movie that misleads moral standards!"
In the article, the details of the "Dear" movie are refuted one by one.
"Obviously, Tian Wenjun, Lu Xiaojuan is the real victim. Traffickers are the most hateful people.
But the trafficker died, and his wife had no idea of the origin of the two children he was raising. In fact, how many traffickers abduct children for their own support? Aren't they all making money by abducting and selling children? So the story told in this film lacks representation. ”
"It is not wrong for the police not to file a case for the loss of a child for no more than 24 hours. If a child goes missing for two hours and asks the police to mobilize all the police to help him find the child, how many police officers do we need to have enough? ”
"Although it is a bit dogmatic for the family planning department to ask Hunnford to issue a death certificate for the child, there is nothing wrong with it. Your child is lost, but who can guarantee that one day it will not be recovered? At present, the state implements the one-child policy, and the family planning department can only do things according to the rules. Remember, this is in China, not abroad. ”
"Is the welfare director at fault? Yang Jifang was rescued from the trafficker's home by the police, and Li Hongqin, as the trafficker's wife, asked the welfare institute to return the child to her, can the welfare director agree? Yang Jifang can only be raised by a welfare home, and then wait for her biological parents to come to the door one day to take her away. The welfare director's words are correct: the conditions of the welfare home are better than Li Hongqin's family, and they are more conducive to the healthy growth of children. If you are Yang Jifang's biological parents, would you rather have your children in a welfare home or in a farmer's home? ”
Li Hongqin asked to return Yang Jifang to her, which is understandable from the perspective of family affection. But from a legal point of view, her demands are clearly unreasonable. ”
This series of vicious and sharp accusations, through the platforms of major media, came viciously towards the movie "Dear".