Chapter 293: Grades, Meetings, and Invitations
The biggest formal importance of the two sessions in 2005 was that the boss was crowned chairman of the State Military Commission, and at the same time, the "Anti-Secession Law" was voted on and came into effect, and the current boss began to expound his governing philosophy -- "harmonious society", which can show that China's political situation has officially entered a new era.
It can be said that the future is the time for the development of windfall profits in the real estate and banking sectors, and it is because of this development that the mainland has the confidence to propose a large-scale stimulus plan of 4 trillion yuan after the 2008 crisis. However, this time will not be long, and soon the mainland itself will have to face an overproduction that it cannot digest, as well as a surplus of capital. However, the government is facing insufficient balances in pension accounts and medical insurance accounts, and local debt platforms are facing the danger of default. Sitting in the second position in the world, TG probably deeply understood what the pain of the so-called capitalist society is, as if a crow crows: crisis, crisis, once in seven or eight years, once in seven or eight years.
Shen Zhenghui saw the beginning of their solution in his previous life, but he didn't see this result, and in the end, he had no idea what the world would become. In the age of the Internet, not only has there been an abundance of information, but it has also become quite cumbersome, and without a holistic consideration and the capture of key information, one-sided information is enough to lead you to the point of no return. This is also the reason why the major forums, and even the small forums, are gradually becoming circles, and the guys who pursue the influence of information marketing are constantly trying to expand the influence of the information carriers they use, and sometimes they will meet the boundaries of IQ. The forum where Shen Zhenghui is mixed has been selling pills for a long time, which makes him, a guy who has begun to gradually become realistic, sometimes have no confidence in the future.
But just as the American Red Neck held a gun and acted according to his own philosophy in times of crisis, Shen Zhenghui decided to take the road of the entertainment industry very early on because of this idea. Now that he owns a television station, it's a weight on his safety. There is a way out.
After all, for a purely capitalist society, the capitalist class is the safest.
What made Shen Zhenghui feel even more rewarded from this meeting was that he met Wang Anran's big boss. The secretary of the provincial party committee, who also came to attend the two sessions, took the opportunity to chat with Shen Zhenghui. Shen Zhenghui's several companies are also considered star enterprises in Yuhang City, not because of the company's high output value and tax payment. Rather, the company is particularly famous because of the industry it is engaged in. In particular, with the adaptation of novels such as "The Legend of Wukong" and "The Magic Apprentice", the starting point Chinese network has the potential to become the first in the industry.
In Shen Zhenghui's impression, this leader likes to watch war movies very much, so he pulled Shen Zhenghui to talk about war movies, mentioning "Assembly" and "Puhai Fortress". However, he criticized that although "Puhai Fortress" is grand, it feels too unreal. Shen Zhenghui could only spread his hands helplessly, "I can't always shoot China and the United States fighting in the Pacific Ocean, right?" Although I think this subject matter is quite interesting. â
The leader also smiled and encouraged Shen Zhenghui to shoot more and better films, he said. "It's amazing that you're able to make this kind of film, make it so good, and be commercially successful at the same time. It's equivalent to helping us open up a new idea in this kind of film, but," he sighed slightly, "the old directors can't grasp this new idea anymore." As for the new director, his mind is not on this theme. Now it seems that the only thing we can hope for is that you will be able to make more of these kinds of films. â
It won't take too long to be able to talk to the secretary of the provincial party committee, and the two of them just said a few words, and after a while, Wang Anping walked over to Shen Zhenghui's side, "Good luck!" Wang Anping said. She looked at the secretary's back, "He's a leader who has publicly expressed his liking for your movie." â
"Is it still incorrect to say that you like my movie?" Shen Zhenghui pretended to be stunned.
"How is that possible?" Wang Anping snorted, "At least "Assembly" is impossible, how many awards has this movie won?" However, the controversy of "Puhai Fortress" is relatively big, and the officials are all human spirits. I won't take a position rashly. â
"So the film won some inconsequential technical awards?" Shen Zhenghui replied, "It doesn't matter, I don't care." â
"Your ideas are too unChinese, who of those people is not looking forward to winning an officially recognized award?" Wang Anping tilted her head, "But it doesn't matter, anyway, you are not mixed in this circle." However," Wang Anping continued to ask, "Do you still have plans for a new film?" â
"I'm still thinking about it." Shen Zhenghui replied, "Let's go back and look at the scripts collected by the company." â
"The results of "Kung Fu" are good, is Zhou Xingxing himself willing to launch "Kung Fu 2" while the iron is hot?" Wang Anping asked.
"It's hard to say this, the box office in Asia is very good, but it depends on the situation in Hollywood, this kind of big production can't be decided in a short period of time, Zhou Xingxing himself is very cautious in investing, and he is not willing to invest too much in making movies." Shen Zhenghui spread his hand and said.
Released in December, "Kung Fu" was unsurprisingly a huge success, with a simultaneous release in Asia setting off a wave of box office frenzy. Even Jack Cheng's "New Police Story" is far from comparable.
"Kung Fu" was released in Hong Kong for 42 days, and Shun LĂŹ broke the box office record of 60 million Hong Kong films from "Shaolin Football", reaching more than 64 million, beating the original result of less than 61 million. And "New Police Story" was only more than 50 million in the end, and it has not surpassed the results of "Shaolin Football". Then in other places, "New Police Story" is also far inferior to "Kung Fu", in the mainland, because of the different times of the release in various places, overall, "Kung Fu" ran for two months and won more than 200 million yuan at the box office. At this moment, after Shen Zhenghui stimulated a domestic director in shock, Zhou Xingxing came up and slapped him in the face again. Director Zhang's "Ambush on All Sides" has a promotional box office of 153 million, "Night Banquet" has a promotional box office of 130 million, and "Wuji" has a promotional box office of more than 100 million, but the reputation of these three films is not good. At the same time, the word-of-mouth is bursting, and the three directors are set off by Zhou Xingxing, which seems to be extremely outdated.
Fortunately, the box office of "Kung Fu" was counted in 2005, and on the box office list in 2004, Director Zhang's "Ambush on All Sides" took the lead, and the movies of the four major directors were lined up. Shen Zhenghui's "New Police Story" actually ranked third, but it was better than "Wuji". However, the box office of Shen Zhenghui's movie is real, maybe some box office has been stolen, and other people's box office doesn't know how much moisture is in the numbers. Hollywood movies have unexpectedly had to fall behind. Together, the four blockbusters accounted for half of the 2004 box office. But the audience is not stupid, if the so-called blockbuster is only of this level, it will be more and more difficult to trick them into the cinema in the future, "Kung Fu" is the best proof that the most important thing at the box office of the movie is the quality of the movie itself.
And the release of "Kung Fu" in Japan, South Korea and other places is also very lively. Zhou Xingxing's current positioning is on par with Jack Cheng and Jet Lee. is a world-class movie star, and his influence has long been not limited to East Asia. Speaking of which, because of Sony's releases, they pay more attention to the Japanese and Korean markets, and of course, these two markets are also unsurprisingly pleasing to them.
The box office in Japan exceeded 5 billion yen, equivalent to more than 40 million US dollars, and the box office in South Korea also reached 10 million US dollars, plus 200 million yuan in the mainland. More than 60 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, and Southeast Asia have accumulated at the box office. "Kung Fu" easily surpassed $100 million, just like "New Police Story".
At the same time, North America and Europe are also being released. Colombia takes the film very seriously, and they have already tasted enough sweetness from "The Green Hornet", and they are also pinning their hopes on the box office of the film, and the box office of several countries in the European region combined. is about more than 20 million US dollars, and in North America, Zhou Xingxing's action movies have also given fans a new and different feeling. Thanks to the advantage of the cost of production and the level of post-production, "Kung Fu" received extremely high attention at once when it was released in North America. The American audience gained great satisfaction from Zhou Xingxing's exaggerated performance, and thanks to Sony's publicity, "Kung Fu" quickly opened the market in North America, with a box office of 36 million in the first three days, and a box office of 51 million in the second week.
At the same time, Zhou Xingxing himself also consolidated his position in the world film circle with this North American box office of 230 million and a global box office of 350 million. These two results are embarrassingly overwhelming the results of "Rush Hour 2", and the eldest brother himself should be in a complicated mood from now on. From another point of view, the investment in "Kung Fu" is only 20 million US dollars, and the total investment is only about 40 million US dollars, which is equivalent to Zhou Xingxing's own worth, and Columbia and Sony have doubled. Although Zhou Xingxing takes a share, but if he removes the theater split, and then removes the publicity and distribution costs, he will not be able to get more than 40 million, and the box office share ratio in regions outside North America is much lower, and at the same time, it is also a problem to collect the account, but he still has a large amount of follow-up DVD share income, and it is conservatively estimated that Zhou Xingxing himself will not be less than 100 million US dollars from this movie.
What a blushing this is! Hong Kong directors, movie stars, director Wu mixed into Hollywood, years of hard work, and finally killed MGM, although Jack Cheng and Jett Lee are famous enough, but in the Hollywood circle, racial discrimination is a kind of unspoken rule, look at the actors who play with them and the companies that invest in them, you can understand that their status here is quite embarrassing. It's the same with fairy hair. Now, Chow seems to have a tendency to break that apartheid, working with big studios (although Columbia is a subsidiary of Sony), directing and starring himself, with white actors. Now, his films that didn't use Hollywood actors unexpectedly won the box office charts. If according to history, this box office will be at the end of 2005, "Kung Fu" will also rank fifth in the annual box office list, below it is Peter Jackson's "King Kong", above it will be Paramount, Spielberg's "War of the Worlds", and above it is Warner's "Harry Potter 4", "Magic Kingdom of Narnia" and the number one "Star Wars Prequel 3: The Sith Strikes Back".
Let's be honest. Kasuga and Shen Zhenghui's income from the movie "Kung Fu" is very limited, and because the distribution in Japan is not done by Kasuga, their dividends are even less than those of Zhou Xingxing himself. But that doesn't stop people from recognizing the huge role they play in this film â especially the people in the film industry. Jack Cheng's senior brother is now repentant, although his name is listed as a martial arts instructor in the subtitles of "Kung Fu", but in fact, everyone knows that he fell out with Zhou Xingxing during the filming of the movie. In the end, he tore up the contract and left no regard for the follow-up work, and had to let the spring urgently send Yuan Xiangren to save the scene, and now "Kung Fu" has achieved a box office that shocked the world, and the red fat man had to come out very embarrassed to congratulate Zhou Xingxing on his success, and said that this is the glory of Hong Kong films. I forgot that he scolded Zhou Xingxing for being a dog and was too difficult to do martial arts.
These things were already settled when Shen Zhenghui went to Pingjing for the two sessions, and although Shen Zhenghui didn't care much about this number in the mainland, he still couldn't stand being asked about the details by his counterparts in the mainland. Especially the bosses of several major film and television companies. After seeing this box office result, my eyes were green. But they don't have Shen Zhenghui in their hands, and they don't have a director like Zhou Xingxing. But in other words, even if they have such a director in their hands, they don't know how to do it, and the bosses of Chinese mainland still have little experience in how to distribute films to the outside world (except for the art film distribution of the sixth generation of directors, of course), Director Zhang is a pioneer in using his fame to promote commercial overseas distribution, and several major directors and major film companies are also quickly following on this point. The Chinese film market is sluggish, and blockbusters must hope for overseas markets. But compared with other people's overseas releases, these bigwigs are as anxious as monkeys. Even in Hong Kong, which is ahead of them in experience. Now it is also facing an unfavorable distribution situation, and it is difficult to say that it is because of the unfavorable distribution of the director's film standards, or just the other way around. In short, Shen Zhenghui, a person with overseas distribution channels, is very popular among his mainland counterparts. Many people want to be able to build a partnership through cooperation, and Shen Zhenghui really doesn't know how to deal with so much kindness, but he can be happy. At that time, there will probably be no obstacles to the distribution of his films in the mainland, and many bosses have expressed their willingness to help him in this regard. In fact, he probably won't be hindered by anything, after all, he is too famous, and the review of his works is nothing more than a huge public event. Moreover, his current relationship with the Film Bureau can also be said to be good.
When Shen Zhenghui had a headache about how to deal with his peers and fled quickly when the meeting was over, the two sessions had already come to an end. These bosses handed a lot of books to Shen Zhenghui, hoping to become the basis for cooperation, but Shen Zhenghui could only accept the script and prepare to go back to the screenwriters of ATV to see, which was regarded as cultivating the market. On this day, after attending the end of the meeting, I finally listened to the leader's speech, stood up and applauded, and then left.
Shen Zhenghui stood up and walked out with the flow of people, thinking that he could go straight to the airport after saying hello to Wang Anping, at this time, he felt the gaze of a middle-aged man standing in the corridor, who looked much younger than his actual age, maybe only in his forties, but Shen Zhenghui knew that the age of officials sometimes couldn't look at their faces. He stood beside him; The aura of the two secretaries with the same role is a big man at first glance.
Shen Zhenghui was about to look away, but the other party smiled at Shen Zhenghui and even beckoned.
So Shen Zhenghui had to walk over, "Hello, may I ask who you are." â
"Hello, Shen Zhenghui, is it?" The other party said with a smile, but he looked approachable, "I am Li Rui's father, and my name is Li Yun." â
"Ah, hello Minister Li." Although he was a little uneasy by Li Rui's father's identity, in the face of a ministerial-level official, Shen Zhenghui still tried his best to be polite enough, "Is there anything wrong with me?" â
Don't say you're here to slap your son. Shen Zhenghui muttered in his heart.
"Come and see you," the other party smiled, "Li Rui is also your classmate, you are a young talent, he should learn from you." â
"It's been awarded, it's been awarded." Shen Zhenghui hurriedly expressed his modesty, but muttered in his heart: What's going on?
As if he had seen through Shen Zhenghui's thoughts, Li Yun said very calmly, "Your proposal is very interesting, and it happens to be related to my department, so I came to talk to you." He spoke very cordially, as if Shen Zhenghui was really a good classmate of his son, "And in recent years, you have made very good achievements, and we are talking about an idea in the transformation of foreign export trade, that is, the export of cultural works, and you alone are worthy of everyone else in the film industry." â
"You've won the prize," Shen Zhenghui looked embarrassed, "I've already booked a ticket for this." â
"When is the plane, I'll help you say hello and change the ticket." Li Yun said in a tone that could not be questioned, and he even patted Shen Zhenghui on the shoulder, "Li Rui was ignorant before, and there was some misunderstanding with you, I think you young people, just say it." Saying that, Li Yun even beckoned and waved at Wang Anping who was not far away.
"It just so happens that the girl from the Wang family is also there, she is your partner, right? Let's talk. â
Wang Anping walked over suspiciously and called Uncle Li to Li Yun.
Li Yun smiled, "Xiao Anping, you came just in time, I want to invite Director Shen to dinner, you can accompany you." â
Wang Anping was also quite surprised, glanced at Shen Zhenghui, and nodded, "Okay, but he has to catch a plane." â
"It's changed." Li Yun said as a matter of course. (To be continued......)