Chapter 17: Supporting Allies
In recent days, Zhou Yi has been accompanying his sister to train and prepare for the crew, and he must shoot this TV series well. The preparation of the crew is very smooth, and it is estimated that filming will start soon. It will be officially launched next week, which is not a problem. In fact, the framing and filming of some urban exterior scenes has already begun, and the assistant director of the crew is responsible for shooting these exterior shots, and there is no need for the actors to participate for the time being.
The work is progressing so smoothly, and everyone is looking forward to this TV series more and more.
On Friday, Zhuo Qinglian reported a piece of good news to Zhou Yi.
At present, the total box office of "Five Poisons" has officially exceeded 200 million yuan on weekdays this week, and the number of theaters still remains above 4,500, not only has not decreased, but also increased slightly, which has played a good role in escorting the box office growth this week.
Compared with the same period last week, the box office decline on weekdays this week is not obvious, which is normal. After all, 2,490 theaters were released on weekdays last week, and the number of theaters on weekdays this week has exceeded 4,500, which will naturally have an obvious supporting role in the box office of the film, which can effectively delay the overall trend of box office decline. This is equivalent to postponing the inertia of last weekend's box office trend to this week's week.
However, the average box office of a single museum has fallen, which is inevitable.
It is estimated that this week will be the final brilliant outbreak of "Five Poison Gates".
In order to maintain the overall box office trend of the film in the next two or three weeks, Zhengdong Pictures increased its publicity efforts, not only used the remaining advertising expenses in one go, but also added an additional amount of money to Zhuo Qinglian.
Since the current box office trend of "Five Poisons" is so good, there is no need to care about a little money. The box office of the film can be as high as possible, which can expand the company's influence in the industry, and various copyright fees can also be sold at a higher price in the future, and these advertising fees can always be earned, which is very beneficial to the company.
Gao Song and Zheng Zilong are not idle, although they have to prepare for a new play, they also have to find time to help publicize. When Zhou Yi took the college entrance examination, in addition to filming some endorsement advertisements, they also received invitations to several foreign TV programs and flew to participate. Manager Zheng was responsible for arranging this, and Zhuo Qinglian did not tell Zhou Yi, anyway, he couldn't go at that time, and he couldn't delay the college entrance examination.
With these promotions, the recent box office trend of "Five Poison Gates" has stabilized.
Even Huaxia Sichao also took some interest in Zhengdong and began to pay close attention.
Such an action movie highlights the hard power of the actors, but it is not by virtue of clever conception that occasionally explodes at the box office. This is completely different from the situation where some companies in the industry rely on luck to occasionally shoot the right low-budget film and explode the box office once.
Who doesn't eat dumplings once during the New Year, so what's so strange?
Just like if you happen to make a comedy like "The Hangover", or a horror film like "Soul Raiders", it may also hit the box office, but the industry is surprised at best, and a few words of praise may not think that your company really has any strength.
Many people may think that you just happened to choose the right script and were just lucky.
But if you make "Shaolin Temple", will others think that your company is just occasionally lucky? People will think that your company has a future because your company has the superstar seedlings of "sustainability", not the "addicted to death" kind of meteor. Next, you can shoot "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng", shoot "Huang Feihong", and make a lot of films, no problem at all.
With a future superstar, there is an infinite prospect, and there is a qiē.
That's just the way it goes.
So now many veterans in the industry have begun to pay attention to "Five Poisons", Zhengdong Pictures, and Zhou Yi, the screenwriter and starring. Although the number of Zhou Yi's fans is far from reaching the level of a superstar, that is, the level of a newcomer, not even a supernova, after all, he has only made one film for the time being, and he is not the absolute protagonist, but there are definitely many veterans in the industry who pay attention to him. As we all know, Zhao Yanqin, a first-line superstar in the industry, was deflated, and in front of the high school newcomers, he bumped his head and broke the bloodstream, can he not attract attention? This is the strongest high school student in the entertainment industry.
Even many film and television company executives and first-line directors in the industry are paying close attention to Zhou Yi.
The attention of these industry elites and veterans is much more important than that of ordinary movie fans.
In fact, everyone is not only focusing on "Five Poison Gates", but what kind of continuous performance Zhengdong Pictures will have after "Five Poison Gates". This is where the potential of a company comes in. Is it a flash in the pan, I have to watch the next film.
These industry veterans are thinking far ahead, and they are not given in vain.
According to Zhuo Qinglian, the Imperial Cinema Line recently sent a distribution manager over to discuss cooperation intentions with Zhengdong. The empire wants Zhengdong Pictures to give up some small and medium-sized theaters in the future and reach a secret cooperation agreement with them. They will give Zhengdong Pictures the treatment of the second-tier top companies, and they will give preferential treatment in the future cinema schedule. This is also optimistic about the film after Zhengdong's "Five Poison Gates".
The manager of the cinema line is naturally not an idiot, and what others can think of, he can also think of.
But in this way, it is estimated that even Taj will have to give up in Zhengdong.
This is precisely the condition that is absolutely unacceptable to the due east side.
Exclusive secret agreements should never be signed.
It is estimated that this is a means for the empire to suppress the Taj. After all, the rapid development of Taj Cinemas has aroused the vigilance of Huaxia Sichao, and it is inevitable to use some competitive means, and now it is even implicated in Zhengdong Pictures.
However, since the beginning of the cooperation of "Five Poisons", Taj Cinemas has become a strategic ally of Zhengdong Pictures. For Zhengdong, Taj is the most important among all partners, and it should be ranked first.
If Huaxia Sichao wants to suppress Taj Cinemas, even if Zhengdong sacrifices some of its own interests, it will fully support and maintain Taj, which is the inevitable result. After all, the Taj Cinema Line has enough theaters to support the screening of small-budget films in Zhengdong, and Zhengdong is not afraid at all.
For small-budget films, Taj Cinemas plus some small and medium-sized cinemas is enough to provide more than 2,000 theaters for Zhengdong, which is enough to basically achieve nationwide screenings. What's more, the four supers of Huaxia are not monolithic, and the four will not act in unison.
As long as there is one company that supports Zhengdong Pictures and maintains the scale of 3,000 theaters, it will not be a problem.
The number of such theaters is more than enough.
Zhengdong Pictures will not shoot blockbusters for the time being, and there is no need for the number of five or six thousand theaters to open at every turn, which is completely unnecessary.
In this way, the threat of the empire is nothing at all.
What's more, the empire is only proposing intentions now, and there is no threat to the east, and that kind of means will not be used lightly.
"Five Poison Gates" is still being screened as usual, and it has not been suppressed at all.
The due east side is not very concerned about this matter for the time being.
In fact, the high-level management of Zhengdong wants to support Taj and never break the cooperative relationship, also because Huaxia Sichao did not have a deep relationship with Zhengdong's predecessor Aurora Pictures before, and even cooperated with the Great Wall, which set a bad precedent for the former Aurora Company, and was completely untrustworthy. What if people later regret it and don't recognize the secret agreement? What if we follow the old practice and put it right east again?
Can you still bite people in a small company?
In this case, Zhengdong must stand up for its allies, there is no doubt about it.
For Zhengdong, the Taj Cinema Line is too important, and with such quasi-first-line support, at least the film will not be a problem in the future. In any case, such a cooperative relationship must be maintained, and it must not be given up lightly.
Zhou Yi naturally agreed with the unanimous decision of the company's top management and thought it was right.
None of these company executives are fools who will not be blinded by immediate interests at all, and generally do not make bad decisions. Besides, it's enough to be fooled once before, can you be fooled again? How stupid is that? If you eat a trench, you must grow wiser. These company executives really didn't give it for nothing. If the same mistake is made again, it is time to commit suicide.
However, the empire is one of the four superpowers in China, and Zhengdong is now weak and weak, so it is naturally not good to refuse directly in person, so he uses the excuse that the boss is not at home and drags it out for the time being. At present, the boss has something to do and has no intention of managing the company's affairs, and this kind of major event must be consulted by the boss, what else can you do? Of course, Manager Zheng will definitely notify the Taj side to appease the allies and make sure nothing goes wrong.
With these company executives handling this matter properly, Zhou Yi was relieved.
In fact, this matter is not that the Imperial Cinema Line deliberately embarrassed Zhengdong Pictures. The due east side did not understand the truth of the matter and misread the original intention of the empire. No matter how strong and domineering the empire is, it will not suddenly come up with this kind of face-tearing cinema competition.
Mainly, the distribution manager is competing for the position of general manager of the theater chain. Originally, the last time we had a meeting, he was supported by Cao Peide, the president of the Imperial Group, and he had a slight upper hand in the competition with the manager of the operation department.
It's a pity that "Five Poison Gate" later sprung up, and the box office was extremely strong.
After all, the distribution department of the Imperial Cinemas made a miscalculation. In order to make up for this mistake, the empire allocated 700 theaters at one time to support the screening of "Five Poisons". But since there is a mistake, someone must be responsible for taking the blame. That's the rule of a big company.
Could this kind of thing be the fault of the president of the empire? The president of the empire has a lot of opportunities, and he usually only cares about this little thing? Then this matter can only be the fault of the distribution manager, and he should be the one to blame. As a result, he was at a disadvantage in the competition with the operations manager. If the manager of the operation department is in power, with the old feud between the two of them, how can he have good fruit to eat?
In order not to be driven out of the empire, he must reverse the inferiority. With this kind of thought, he went to Zhengdong in person, wanting to get the support of Zhengdong. As long as he wins Zhengdong Pictures and suppresses Taj Cinemas, he will make meritorious contributions to the empire, and he will definitely be able to regain a favorable position in the competition for the general manager of the theater chain. But Zhengdong must support his allies, and he must not be allowed to get his wish.
The Zhengdong side did not know what was going on, but the decision made was not wrong.
And the distribution manager of the empire also underestimated the relationship between Jeongdong and Taj, and was destined to not get the desired result. He thought that Zhengdong was just a small company with no background, and in the face of the olive branch extended by Huaxia Sichao, why don't you catch it quickly? How can it be possible not to cooperate with large theaters for the sake of some small and medium-sized theaters? This kind of thinking is too self-righteous and completely ignorant of the actual situation.
In fact, this is not a big deal for the empire. This is just the result of their internal distribution manager and operation manager competing for the general manager of the cinema department. This kind of thing is so disgusting, but in the end, it's not a big deal.
It's just that both Jeongdong and Taj were shaken, but fortunately, it's fine. After all, the empire is one of the four superpowers in China, and occasionally sneezing, the industry will shake. But this is not a decision made by the top management of the empire, it is just a small trick played by the department managers below, which will naturally not have much impact, let alone the release of "Five Poisons". If the other party messes around, the top of the empire will not agree.
It's just that these secret internal information, Zhengdong is not clear, there is no undercover agent in Zhengdong within the empire, how can Zhengdong know?
The military commanders do not specifically investigate such commercial disputes.
That's a waste of resources.
But either way, things worked out quite well.
This incident will not have any bad effects, and in a sense, it also deepens the relationship between Zhengdong Pictures and Taj Cinemas. The alliance between the two sides has withstood a severe test and is more unbreakable, which is a good thing.
How can a friendship that has not been tested be considered a true friendship?
In addition to this incident, her sister Tang Yan also told Zhou Yi an interesting thing.
Usually when the girls were training dance, Tang Yan chatted with Qiu Cao and learned about it by chance. According to Qiu Cao, now Lang Jun is planning the film project "Yangmen Female General", which is about to be approved. Isn't this the project that Zhou Yi fooled Lang Jun last time?
I didn't expect Lang Jun to really do a lot of work.
Qiu Cao was very proud, saying that she was going to play the heroine of the commercial production zuò this time, and she was no longer a trick, no longer a vase! Little sister envy it!
Tang Yan thought that Qiu Cao was definitely showing off in front of her.
This is probably an elegant way for girls to tear up.
But I'm really depressed, so good-hearted, Tang Yan came back to complain to her brother. The little girl is so careful.
Zhou Yi really wanted to laugh when he heard it: Is that what people mean? Don't get me wrong: Miss Qiu Cao's kindness! Don't people know the relationship between Tang Yan and Zhou Yi? Is that for Tang Yan? That's for Zhou Yi!
He could only comfort his sister and promised to let her act in a movie as much as possible.
Tang Yan was naturally satisfied, in fact, she just complained a little, it was purely coquettish, and she was not in a hurry.
This matter has passed for the time being.
However, Zhou Yi was really surprised when he got this news.
What surprised him was that Lang Jun was going to shoot "The Female General of Yangmen", which was expected, he had a bad idea! To his surprise, Qiu Cao actually revealed his boss's business plan to competitors and rivals, are you an undercover agent sent by Zhengdong?
My sister can still inquire about this kind of thing, and she really has the potential to be a little spy!
But this is someone who deliberately sued her!
After thinking about it, in fact, this was really not Qiu Cao's deliberate leak.
It was originally Zhou Yi's idea, what did he keep secret?
What's more, whether Lang Jun deliberately asked her to leak secrets and declare war in the air, it may not be known!
According to Tang Yan's analysis of Qiu Cao's words, this time "Five Poison Gate" bloodbathed "Nie Yinniang", and the boss of Da Qinlang said that he was very unconvinced, quite unconvinced, extremely unconvinced! What kind of ability does your commercial film win my literary film? Now he doesn't care about the big and small costs. Now to make the commercial blockbuster "Yangmen Female General", it is naturally natural and logical.
This time, Lang Jun did not take the initiative to provoke, but revealed the news through Guò Qiu Cao, probably holding back a ruthless energy and wanting to fight with Zhou Yi again.
This is the rhythm of Daqin's counterattack!
Boss Lang is angry, and her daughter should be self-reliant!
According to Qiu Cao, Boss Lang is preparing to help her create a complete set of large-scale commercial costume series, such as "The Daughter of the Yang Female General Should Be Self-Improvement", "The Yang Female General's Mu Guiying is in Command", "The Military Order of the Yang Female General is Like a Mountain", "The Yang Female General's Great Breaking Heaven Array" and so on, it is simply infinitely delicate. It is said that Boss Lang is hiring a well-known screenwriter in the industry to create a commercial script with a high salary, and he is really rich enough to make a donkey grind.
No wonder Tang Yan thinks that Qiu Cao is showing off, engaging in so many female generals of the Yang Sect, this is not Hongguoguo's showing off, what is it?
Is this really the rhythm of "Chongxiao Tower" rushing to "Yangmen Female General"?
You won't be in the dark, and you won't give up!
However, Boss Lang just finished filming "Assassin Nie Yinniang", and then filmed "The Female General of Yangmen", always filming women's scenes! It's just ashamed of the company name "Daqin". This is just the opposite of Zhengdong Pictures' crazy shooting of macho dramas.
Then take a look at the fierce male and female generals, who can be better!
Zhou Yi VS Lang Jun, in the second round, officially sounded the gong to start the war.
Thinking about this funny situation, Zhou Yi is really sweating!
Boss Lang, I hope you can give some strength this time!
Don't let Miss Qiu Cao feel disappointed!
I can't get my own woman, but it's very tragic!
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