"How can you do this~It's too bad~" When Sun Li heard this, she couldn't help but show a disappointed expression, she didn't expect Li Xiaole to say such a thing, and the little goodwill she had built up during that time was immediately gone.

"Good friend, you help me, I help you, I think it's fair." Li Xiaole shrugged his shoulders as a matter of course.

Sun Li looked at Rong Yingying and was so frightened that she couldn't speak, and then thought of her classmates who were deceived by the circus head and washed their faces with tears every day, her heart softened, and she could only look at Li Xiaole helplessly and frowned: "Okay...... Isn't it just filming? There are bed scenes, kiss scenes...... Need to undress? ”

"Absolutely not, produced by China Film Group, 100% positive Xiangshang theme." Li Xiaole said with a smile, thinking to himself, you want to be beautiful, and I am not Ang Lee, but I can't make the bed scene shortlisted for the Oscars.

"Platoon Commander Sun, you can't take the job~ You can sign an appointment with your company now......" Rong Yingying nervously persuaded Sun Li, but Sun Li shook her head: "It's okay, anyway, I'm just training now, and there's nothing to do." ”

Seeing Sun Li nodding happily, Li Xiaole got up and said, "You will come to the crew tomorrow to report." Dropping this sentence, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, and found that he had forgotten something, turned around halfway, picked up the bill on the table very chicly, shook it in front of them, and said: "Today is a blind date with two people, I invite you this time." ”

Leaving behind the two daughters who glared at him hatefully, he went to the checkout with satisfaction, and after so many blind dates, this fucking checkout was the most comfortable.

***

A week later, the weather in Chu and Zhejiang has gradually cooled, and Li Xiaole began to change into long sleeves, but when he and Ning Hao stepped into the Beiying Conference Building, they felt a chill outside of a share, Ning Hao couldn't help but shudder, they came to attend the first quarter film investment meeting of China Film Group Zuihou today.

"Is it cold? Director Xiao Li? Li Xiaole heard a deep and penetrating voice, felt that his shoulder was pinched by a powerful palm, and when he turned around, he saw Jiang Wen's rough face, and Wei Xiao next to him also greeted him with a solemn expression.

"Why is there a strange chill in this place?" Li Xiaole asked a little strangely.

"Of course it's cold." Jiang Wen said with a deep face: "Not only will you be cold, but all Chinese dry movies will be cold." ”

"Mr. Jiang, are you afraid of the cold?" Li Xiaole understood the meaning of these words, and also smiled and looked at Jiang Wen and asked.

"I'm afraid of the cold?" Jiang Wen looked at him with strange eyes, smiled, leaned over and lowered his voice: "I grew up in the cold, but I can bear it, it doesn't mean that others can bear it, today's meeting, you remember one thing, you have to be able to endure everything, don't say what you shouldn't say, and don't have any hope, there is yes, no is no." ”

"Well, I see." Li Xiaole understood the meaning of these words, and nodded: "Our second studio has no right to speak. ”

"Wrong~" Jiang Wen shook his head, hugged Li Xiaole, pointed to his mouth and said in a very penetrating voice: "It's the that the mouth of this speech doesn't grow on our face." ”

After saying this, both of them smiled knowingly, looking at the more and more production directors coming from various group branches at the door, Li Xiaole found that everyone had a low and depressed look on their faces.

Originally, it was a very exciting thing to pull up a project to apply for investment, but everyone seemed to have no hope in this matter, although no one talked about it on the surface, but the reason is actually clear to everyone.

As long as there is a script, every production director can become a project, but whether the shooting license can be approved and the group's investment is another matter.

Many people misunderstand one thing in their minds, everyone thinks that China Film Group has the power to share the accounts of imported blockbusters, so China Film can make a lot of movies with deep pockets, but in fact, it is very different from people's impressions.

It is a fact that China Film's biggest income comes from production and distribution, and the huge profits of hundreds of millions of dollars every year make other private film companies only salivate and envy, but the income of this part is a separate project, that is to say, the profits from China Film's production and distribution belong to the production and distribution department, and have nothing to do with the production department.

It's not that the money earned from production and distribution can be used to make movies, in fact, these are completely two concepts, and the profits from China Film distribution are mainly used to operate the normal operation of the entire China Film Group.

The real film production funds of China Film Group are allocated by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television every year.

There are two main types of films filmed by China Film, one is called "key film", this kind of film is mainly to complete the shooting task of promoting the main theme film married by the state, as well as some educational children's films, this kind of film funds are special funds, and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television will guarantee its investment, and the income is almost zero.

These two kinds of projects can only be set by the state, and no production director is willing to take over.

The second genre is called "for-profit films", which is in charge of Han Sanpin's second studio and Yan Fusheng's first studio.

In 2001, the mainland's annual production income was only 40 million yuan, and the total loss of the 23 films shot by the China Film Group with an investment of 45 million yuan alone reached more than 9 million.

So in 2002, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television issued a "profit-making film" fund for shooting only 34 million, but after the reorganization of China Film, there were hundreds of production directors, and everyone was staring at this piece of cake.

If "for-profit films" can make money, then all the money earned can be used to shoot films from the same studio, and the group will even subsidize some of it.

But under such a preferential policy, few of the hundreds of production directors under the entire China Film can make their own blood and shoot the second film.

It may be difficult for people in the future to imagine the difficulties of Chinese mainland films at that time, and mainland films have maintained an average annual audience of 20 billion people from the late 70s to the early 90s of the last century.

But in the mid-90s, when American Hollywood movies entered the Chinese market, with the popularity of DVD players and rampant piracy, the film industry in Chinese mainland encountered an unprecedented cold winter.

In 1998, the total national box office was only 14. 500 million, and in 1999, because the Yugoslav embassy was bombed by the United States, Hollywood movies were stopped for five months, and the box office for the whole year was only 8. 400 million, and by 2000, the number of moviegoers nationwide had dropped to a freezing point of just over 100 million.

Domestic films once only required a few hundred thousand commercial box office to enter the top ten mainland films in the country, and compared with an average investment of more than 1.2 million yuan per film, the film industry has become a field that all commercial investors are afraid of.

In this era, in the entire Chinese mainland film industry, which has been hit by Hollywood and piracy, only four directors can make money, and these four directors are also known as the three masters.

In the first place, is the leader of the fifth generation of directors Chen Kaige, and later generations give people the impression of frequent bad works, Chen Kaige not only filmed the fifth generation of directors "Yellow Earth", a sensation in the entire film industry, but also let Zhang Yimou, He Pin, these later directors willingly be their deputies, and then with "Farewell My Concubine", a masterpiece of mainland films, won eight awards at the Cannes Film Festival, including the Palme d'Or, which is unique in the mainland film calendar.

Whether artistically or commercially (overseas box office calculation), he is known as a banner figure in mainland films.

And the second is naturally the radiant master Zhang Yimou in later generations, in this period, Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige are the masters of art films for a while, whether it is "Alive" or "Red Sorghum", they are all masterpieces comparable to "Yellow Earth" and "Farewell My Concubine".

And Zhang Yimou due to his high output and Gong Li, the golden sign of the international film industry, has a reputation in the Shijie film industry that is even slightly higher than that of Chen Kaige, and the titles of the two masters are well deserved.

As for the remaining master, it is actually composed of two "half-masters", one of which is Feng Xiaogang, who made a Beijing-style comedy, in the cold winter of Chinese films, Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige were unable to reproduce the glory of 40 million yuan at the domestic box office, only this "wild road" New Year film to the director, provoked the banner of the cold winter period of domestic films.

But although Feng Xiaogang's film style is unique and very attractive to the general public, he can't get high praise from those picky filmmakers in the industry, so he has always been recognized by his "master" title and has not been recognized by the industry, but the people like it, and the industry is not highly evaluated, so he can only be regarded as a semi-master at most.

And most importantly, Director Feng's films are relatively localized, and foreigners can't understand them, so they have no international influence.

Zuihou's "half-master" is Jiang Wen next to Li Xiaole.

In addition to the above four, basically whoever makes a "profit-making" movie loses money, not to mention any hematopoietic function at all, the previous movies were all supported by the state, the studios invested in their own production, bought their own films, and broadcast them themselves, and the production director could get a fixed commission, as long as the project could be launched, he would not have to worry about having no food, and now, everyone is a mud bodhisattva crossing the river and it is difficult to protect himself.

This year's fixed pie of 34 million in China Film is the only desired goal in everyone's eyes.