Chapter 265 Missed the bidding, late night slot in the cinema?
Jinli saw the news while resting at night.
He didn't hear it from Sister Fang. Director Deng Zexu posted directly in the WeChat group to express his concerns about the film's schedule.
Deng Zexu: [How about we use our brains to discuss how to set a schedule as soon as possible? ]
Logically speaking, this is what investors and issuers do.
However, Deng Zexu and Ren Changtao accounted for the majority of the investment in this film, and Dawn Entertainment joined in as a minority shareholder. None of them had distribution channels.
This is why many films will choose to acquire shares of a certain film and television company before filming, just to get them online as soon as possible after passing the review.
As a community of interests, film and television companies will actively promote this matter. This is an unspoken rule.
The veteran actors are quite calm about the fact that the movie may not be released. They do not participate in the discussion and do not worry about it.
Only the young actors were voicing their opinions.
Jinli didn't say anything, but just looked at the suggestions, such as "stopping the car and giving him a five-minute chance", "pretending to meet the film and television rights owner by chance while eating", "stalking and door-to-door sales"... all came out.
emmm, there are methods, but they are a bit low-level.
Deng Zexu may have felt that the young actor's advice was unreliable, so he quietly chatted with Jinli and asked her if she was busy.
Jinli simply made a voice call to him.
Deng Zexu asked her: "Do you have any good ideas?"
Jinli: "No, I'm not very familiar with the major film and television copyright purchasers and distributors. If you ask me, you might as well ask my agent to see if Morningside Entertainment can give me some advice."
Deng Zexu scratched his head and felt a little embarrassed: "I haven't told your agent yet. It feels so embarrassing that no one buys it after it has passed the review. If possible, I want to solve it myself first."
Jinli reminded him tactfully: "Just treat it as if you are in the early stages of starting a business and need help at the beginning of your career."
Everyone dreams that they can solve everything, but reality is not a playground. You can solve everything just by thinking.
Jinli didn't know what was coming to his mind and asked again: "What did Ren Changtao say? When you brought him into the group, you should have thought about distribution resources, right?"
Deng Zexu said honestly: "I have thought about it, but I don't have high hopes. His father doesn't seem to want him to join this industry."
Jinli said "Yeah", "If it doesn't work, let him communicate with his father."
In Jinli's eyes, if you have resources, use them. Face is worth a few bucks.
Father and son just have different opinions, not enemies.
Of course, she is relatively calm and rational. If this happened to her, she might not be able to maintain a calm mind.
After hanging up the call, Jinli started the live broadcast and took two biology papers.
Recently, she studies different subjects every day. She studies science subjects in turn, and all subjects have reached the second year of high school.
In terms of study progress, she is not inferior to current students.
But I have been doing the papers provided by the teaching assistants, and I still have some doubts about my true level.
Jinli thought to herself that she had to find a way to get some school papers to work on.
After finishing the test paper and turning off the live broadcast, the ordinary night was about to pass. Before going to bed, Sui Lingfang suddenly called.
Sui Lingfang complained: "This is the first time that I have been approached by a director for help. I am an independent director who has not signed a company. It is so troublesome to shoot an independent film. I have to do everything myself, which wastes an unknown amount of time and energy."
"Independent director?" Jinli asked curiously.
Sui Lingfang: "It's not because of the so-called rich second generation status in the industry. After Deng Zexu became a famous director, he relied on his experience of working behind his father, without signing any film and television companies, and invested in his first movie. ”
Jinli opened the quilt and was already lying on the bed obediently.
"Is it troublesome to be an independent director?"
Sui Lingfang: "It's no trouble for established directors. They can control the crew and choose investors and distributors as they like. But for new directors, it's a dead end and they can't borrow any power."
Jinli chuckled: "You also said that after becoming a famous director, your father won't help you?"
Sui Lingfang: "His father wanted him to go for training and didn't want him to make the relationship public. Deng Zexu also had the same idea and wanted to prove everything by himself!"
Jinli could imagine Sui Lingfang rolling her eyes on the other side of the phone.
It is indeed troublesome enough.
How can it be so easy to break into the film and television industry from scratch?
There is one hurdle for investment, another hurdle for approval, another hurdle for release, and another hurdle for schedule.
Not to mention that it is comparable to the ninety-nine and eighty-one difficulties in seeking scriptures in the West, but there is nothing wrong with the seven or seventy-nine difficulties.
Young directors always seem to have high aspirations and believe that talent is greater than anything else.
Sui Lingfang sighed: "When I originally agreed to join Chenxi Entertainment, it was because of the backgrounds of Ren Changtao and Deng Zexu. I thought their family could help, but I didn't expect that they would not ask for help from their family because they wanted to save face. If I had known-"
She paused and said, "Forget it, it's useless to talk about this now. I'll ask Mr. Xiao here to see if we can solve it."
Jinli comforted her: "As long as it can be released, it doesn't matter if it's not a summer release."
"I know that."
Before falling asleep, Jinli had been searching for film and television distribution information, and the process of investment and introduction of films by major cinemas.
The more she searched, the more her heart sank.
Cinemas actually conduct public bidding for films to be released.
The bidding is aimed at movies that have no other channels to arrange to be released online. The cinema will send people to watch and inspect, and select outstanding movies to be released in its own cinemas.
If the films in the tender are not good enough, cinemas will not buy any of them.
It is a pity that none of the major movie theaters held tenders for summer movies this year.
It can be imagined how popular this year's summer movie is, and it has already been booked by major movies.
The review time for "No Survival" was too awkward. It was only reviewed in June, and the summer film schedule has almost been finalized.
If it passes the review three months in advance, Director Deng may be able to deal with it and use his connections.
After passing the review in June, he wanted to go online in July. Jinli thought that maybe even his father, the famous director, would have some difficulties.
This is not a simple film arrangement issue.
Every summer film involves tens of billions of funds and billions of views.
In the next few days, Jinli took promotional photos of popular jewelry items at the Tiangong headquarters during the day, and spent his free time collecting movie theater information and studying.
She had no experience, so she asked other pink girls and Qiu Qiwen, who was good at playing in the circle.
Remembering that Xu Wenwen had asked her about something before, Jinli also told her about the difficulties she had encountered recently to see if she had any good suggestions.
The members of Pink Girls failed to give any opinions. They are at most involved in the television industry and not much in the film and television industry.
Qiu Qiwen hadn't made many movies, so she didn't know, so she asked: "How about I ask my uncle?" 】
Jinli: [No, there's no news about his "Dream Builder", so don't bother him] Qiu Qiwen: [I'd have forgotten that he still had this movie if you didn't tell me-_-||Forget it , I’ll find someone to help you find out, maybe we can start with the schedule of small theaters]
Jinli: [Thanks! 】
Xu Wenwen took a day to reply to the message, but she did put forward some feasible suggestions.
Xu Wenwen: [Do you want to try the late night stall? 】
Jinli: [Late night stall? 】
Xu Wenwen: [Well, the late-night slots in major movie theaters are relatively free, and the broadcast time is from 0 to 9 o'clock]
Jinli's eyes flashed slightly, and she understood a little bit.
Jinli: [I thought the late-night slots were all taken over by popular movies]
Xu Wenwen: [In the first half month, netizens were unable to grab tickets, and the late-night slots were allocated to popular movies. After the gust of wind passed, tickets became easy to grab, and the ratings of the movies came out. There was enough supply during the day. .
Major cinemas will arrange other films in the late night slot to prevent audiences from aesthetic fatigue or special emotional requirements]
Jinli: [Some kind of special emotional requirement? 】
Xu Wenwen: [Couple]
Afraid that Jinli still didn't know clearly, Xu Wenwen posted another paragraph: [The late-night stall is suitable for couples to fall in love, and the couple booth will be very popular. "No Survival" may be suitable]
Jinli:......
She still felt a little inappropriate.
This film is neither a romance nor a horror film. Although it has some horror elements, the focus is on suspense.
It's just that in many people's minds, suspense and horror are equated.
But the suggestion was still very good, and Jinli took it down.
After finally waiting for the filming in Tiangong to end, Jinli flew back to Nancheng that day, and first went to Chenxi for a meeting.
I haven't been here for only half a month, and the company seems to have undergone some changes. There are more people coming and going, and the interior decoration has also changed a bit.
By chance, it was the company's cultural day when she came back.
Judging by his eyes, at least the game props are more refined than before.
Jinli couldn't help but sigh: "If you have money, even the props can be made more realistic!"
Pushing open the office door, Sui Lingfang saw her and said with a smile:
"I just confirmed with Tiangong. The popularity of the official spokesperson before has been very good, and the popularity of Meilezhu has also caught up. The sales volume of the natural pearls launched is also much higher than before.
They are very anxious and want to process your advertisement as soon as possible and put it online as soon as possible. Maybe it will only take a few days for your advertisement to come out. ”
Jinli couldn't help but smile, her eyes as moist as if they were soaked in water.
"It's quite a rush. I'm looking forward to it. After all, the ruby miracle necklace was also worn in that advertisement."
Sui Lingfang said playfully: "You don't know that on the day when Tiangong officially announced that you would become the spokesperson, Donghai also announced that it would launch a natural pearl series, and the two families were competing in the ring!
Fortunately, Tiangong acted quickly and made the official announcement first, otherwise netizens would definitely have accused Donghai of copying Donghai’s advertising and marketing. ”
Jinli was happy: "But I remember that Tiangong has produced several natural pearl series. This is the first one in Donghai, right?"
Sui Lingfang waved her hand, "Netizens don't care about this. They just want to see the two companies fighting. It's best to have a bidding promotion to drive down the price."
Because of its natural properties, jewelry is inherently a luxury product.
It is still very difficult to get down, at least more difficult than selling clothes, bags and shoes.
What's more, because the latter want to protect the price, they will use all kinds of precious diamond jewelry and the skins of rare animals to make them.
At the end of the day, no one could tell whether to buy jewelry or something for use, and they basically left it on the cabinet.
Sui Lingfang: "Then there was "No Survival". Director Deng couldn't resist the pressure and contacted his father to see if he could use his father's connections to arrange a schedule."
She paused and sighed: "It's a pity that the reputation of a famous director is not easy to use in front of the summer festival!"
The summer season is one of the few prime time slots in the year, with dense crowds and greater power than the winter vacation season.
Famous directors are very powerful, but in the face of interests, they have to accept defeat.
If the schedule was so well arranged, there wouldn't be some unpopular films in the past. In order to gain promotion for the schedule, the director would kneel down in public on social platforms and beg the cinema to give him a chance.
Jinli said hesitantly: "I have thought of some ways, but I don't know if they will work."
Sui Lingfang waved her hand and said: "Forget it, the crew will have a meeting to discuss it tomorrow. We'll talk about it then. There's no point in rushing.
As for the film "Dream Builders", there is too much uncertainty and it has not yet been reviewed. We are always ready. ”
"What preparations?" Jinli asked.
Sui Lingfang: "Either it will be suppressed for two years, or it will be released quickly as soon as it passes the review. You have less notice now. I will see how to arrange it for you when the time comes. I have to reserve some time for "Dream Builder"."
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Jinli: "Okay."
In the afternoon, Jinli started the live learning broadcast.
This time she finally has more time!
[I have a bad feeling about starting the live broadcast at this point...]
[Is King Juan coming back again? ]
[Jinli is such an inspirational representative. I can see from her what kind of energy will burst out when a person makes up his mind to do something! ]
[Thoughts on rural education issues in the process of urbanization...]
[Research on the economic vitality of Kuanzhai Alley...]
[Research on fixation of putrefactive Shewanella by nanomaterials to treat lead pollution in water...]
Suddenly, a large number of words that were understandable, but combined with words that were incomprehensible appeared, crowding out the barrage in the live broadcast room.
This storm was mixed with some questions on politics, literature, history, and science. The netizens who made jokes in the live broadcast room were trembling and did not dare to speak.
After the storm of questions passed, the chatting netizens let out a weak cry in the live broadcast room.
[It’s June, summer vacation is about to come, are those research experts also active? ]
[I actually saw my tutor’s research topic in the barrage...]
[Another way, the fewer words, the bigger the problem? ]
[Uh uh uh, thank you for the invitation, we are conducting research on the transformation between online study rooms and real-life learning! ]
[Thank you, we are conducting research on the impact of mobile games on human activities! ]
[Thank you, we are conducting research on changes in the quality of life of singles and non-singles! ]
The topic gradually became distorted, and only Jinli's figure studying was the same as before.
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Jinli didn't do it until the show started, but he studied all afternoon once it started.
Looking at this posture, I will continue to study at night.
Seeing that she had more free time, Gu Cheng made a video call to her after dinner in the evening.
Originally Jinli thought he wanted to study with her, but Gu Cheng turned the camera around and put it on many computers.
Jinli saw the picture on the computer and said in surprise: "'Assassination'? Are you in the editing room? Are you with Director Yan?"
The camera flipped, and Gu Qing's clear and clean eyebrows appeared in front of her, with a smile in his eyes.
"Yes, I rarely have free time at night, so I took the time to come to the editing room."
Yan Jianqiao greeted Jinli and said weakly: "Jinli, hello!"
Jinli noticed that Yan Jianqiao's face was very pale, with black eyes under his eyes, and couldn't help but said, "Director, why do you look more tired than filming?"
Gu Cheng explained: "Are you not tired from editing in the editing room every day? I'll come over to visit the class and give him some food. If there's an accident, someone can call 120."
Jinli chuckled.
The two started chatting, and Gu Cheng went to the lounge next door.
Yan Jianqiao rolled his eyes at him who valued sex over friends.