Chapter 77 Knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, prefer to travel to the tiger mountains (two-in-one)
Looking back at Baidu’s layout in the entertainment field, the most prominent ones are iQiyi and Qimao.
The former allowed Baidu to gain a place in the video track, while the latter used web IP to leverage revenue and joined forces with iQiyi through the chain of web-based film and television.
In the future of the video industry, iQiyi will be the pioneer and innovator, leading the way, followed closely by Penguin Video, and finally Youku will focus on senior care dramas.
Laoyu is very powerful, but when iQiyi first entered the entertainment industry, tuition fees taught more than Youku...
The entertainment industry is a very deep one, and it’s not just about having money.
If you’re not far away, let’s talk about Tiancheng.
The total investment in "Red Cliff" is US$80 million, with Chengtian Entertainment and Aihui Group investing US$20 million, accounting for 40% of the total investment.
Tian Cheng suffered such a loss that his mother didn’t even recognize him, but Ai Hui gained a lot.
Because the screening rights of Little Days belong to Ai Hui, the domestic box office of both Red Cliff and Little Days was more than 500 million points, but Little Days made tens of billions of yen, equivalent to more than 600 million yuan.
This box office of more than 600 million yuan has nothing to do with the major domestic investors. It is all from a small life.
And Ai Hui is also the biggest winner in this epic money-losing game.
As the saying goes, eating a little will make you wiser. Tiancheng does not have a long memory. He also cooperated with the Hong Kong circle for Fengyun 2. Including publicity fees, the total investment reached hundreds of millions.
The combined box office of Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan is less than RMB 80 million. Tiancheng failed miserably. However, Hong Kong's profits are soaring...
As the saying goes, 'When a whale falls, everything rises', Tiancheng failed. It was not a good death, but it enriched Hong Kong and his small life.
In the entertainment industry, it’s not just about having money. How can you know what’s inside and out when you’re watching from afar? Internal benefits?
Li Mingyang is worth hundreds of millions but can’t make a movie.
Tianxian is worth billions, but he was rejected by the film industry and forced to make TV series.
Internal entertainment is complex, the future is crazy, and the present is no less so.
Li Mingyang did not explicitly reject Huace, only said that he would consider it.
He also wants to meet someone who can really help him establish himself in the film industry.
Director Tian!
......
Director Tian from Beijing Film Academy is in the same class as Brother Kaizi and Guoshi Zhang.
One filmed "Alive" and the other filmed "Farewell My Concubine".
But Director Tian was banned from directing for ten years because of one movie!
The most precious 10 years of prime time were just wasted.
The origin of the phrase ‘Beijing Film Studio produces a director’ is because Beijing Film Academy has a 78-level rating.
How awesome is this session?
Representatives of the fifth generation of film directors, Gu Changwei, Zhang Guoshi, Chen Kaige, Director Tian, and Li Shaohong are classmates!
And Director Tian's father is even more awesome...the first factory director of Nortel.
When he was making movies, Lao Mouzi was still his photographer.
In other words, he was banned from directing for ten years and missed the golden era when Chinese language was gaining popularity overseas.
Otherwise, you can just grab some prizes and there is no need to go back to Beijing Film Academy.
That is to say, the timing is unlucky. If we push it forward four or five years, both Huayi and Feng Pants will look at his face.
Maybe it's because he was banned from being a guide by his superiors, but he is obviously a mainstay in the Beijing circle.
Director Tian has the best relationship with Lao Mouzi from the Northwest Circle.
When Lao Mouzi was suppressed by Beijing circles, Director Tian was one of the few who helped deal with it.
When Lao Mouzi swept the three major European companies and entered Hollywood, Brother Kaizi was still resting on his laurels, and Feng Pants was still worried about money.
He and Li Yu can be called the two heroes of Chinese entertainment, and they are the number one directors in the mainland.
However, times have changed, and since Lao Mouzi returned to China, he has been targeted by Beijing circles and suppressed to the point where he does not dare to speak loudly.
Beijing circles can control more than 80% of domestic entertainment film and television resources by relying on "the same hatred and hatred".
Even Lao Mouzi has to put his tail between his legs and behave...
February 20, 2009.
Li Mingyang returned to Beijing Film Academy, but school hadn’t started yet.
Li Mingyang went to visit Director Tian's home, carrying a computer bag on his shoulder, Huazi in his left hand, and Maotai in his right hand.
After knocking on the door for a while, Director Tian opened the door.
"These must cost a lot of money." Director Tian said.
"They were all given by others. I borrowed the flowers to offer to Buddha."
Director Tian shook his head and smiled bitterly, motioning for Li Mingyang to enter the room.
Li Mingyang placed the gift at the entrance, and then followed Director Tian to the living room. After chatting for a while, Director Tian suddenly said: "You are very famous now! Everyone in Hong Kong knows you."
< br>"Why? Are you going against Huayi?" Li Mingyang asked knowingly.
"Half and half." Director Tian said halfway before asking: "How did it feel to make a movie with that little girl?"
"It's quite arrogant."
“Actually, I have always wanted to ask you, do you understand what Beijing Circle is?”
Got it! Of course I understand, I feel it so deeply!
“I don’t understand, please tell me, Director Tian, by the way, do you want to drink something?”
Director Tian blinked his mouth and said, “Drink something.”
Li Mingyang dismantled the Maotai he brought, and Director Tian brought two small wine cups.
After drinking three drinks in a row, Director Tian breathed out a comfortable breath and told Li Mingyang about the Beijing Circle.
In fact, Li Mingyang knows these things better than Director Tian.
The division of various circles in the entertainment circle is relatively complicated. Generally speaking, it is divided into six circles: Beijing Circle, Shanghai Circle, Northwest Circle, Northeast Circle, Hong Kong Circle, and Bay Circle. There are countless circles in the six circles. Forks.
Beijing circle generally refers to Yanbei entertainment circle.
At first, it was just some big boys from some troops in the capital who gathered together to play in the literary and art circles.
They relied on their information gap to focus on TV dramas and quickly achieved success.
Later, these insiders who often got together to help each other gradually became known as the "Beijing Circle" to the outside world. Since it is a circle, we cannot rest on our laurels and need to constantly add new blood.
There are generally people who guide people when entering Beijing.
For example, Wang Shuo brought in Feng Pengtong, Xu Cainü, Jiang Wen, and Wang Ziwen.
Feng Pants brought in Xu Fan and Big and Little Wang.
Xu Cainv brought in Li Gengxi.
Jiang Wen brought in Zhang Yibai.
Yingda brought in Guan Xiaotong and Lu Han.
This unites them like never before.
With the development of time, the Beijing circle has become a strong force and a cloud of experts, including film and television company tycoons, as well as famous directors, screenwriters, and first-line stars.
Before the millennium, 90% of the artists who became popular in Beijing circles were promoted by them.
Whoever they praise becomes popular and whoever they promote becomes popular!
During this period, the big guys in the Beijing circle had resources at their disposal and were arrogant.
In their opinion, Beijing Film Academy and China Theater Academy are not Beijing-based films.
After the millennium, the Hong Kong and Taiwan circles moved northward in order to consolidate the status of the Beijing circle.
The regional Beijing Circle emerged, including Renyi, Nortel, the two major film and television academies, and the original Beijing Circle, forming a more powerful Beijing Circle.
The biggest characteristic of the Beijing Circle is that it sticks together. No matter how chaotic it is internally, once outsiders touch the interests of the Beijing Circle, they will act unanimously.
Now the most powerful force in Beijing is Huayi.
Having half of the domestic entertainment industry in hand, we need money and people. Even the higher authorities are supporting Huayi.
Many of Huayi’s film investments were not made with its own money at all.
For example, China Merchants Bank launched the "Jiuqianhao", the first of its kind in China, and received an unsecured credit of RMB 50 million.
For example, many of Huayi's big-budget films have China Film and Shanghai Film as partners.
Even the Hundred Flowers Award has become the Huayi Annual Meeting.
This not only has the purpose of exciting the film industry and attracting capital, but also involves the friendship between the big guys in the Beijing circle.
Human society is complicated.
After finishing a bottle of Moutai, Director Tian also finished speaking and asked: "So do you understand what you are facing?"
"Understood."
"For Is it worth it to offend so many people with a script? "
"It's worth it!" Li Mingyang slapped his thigh and said without hesitation.
Director Tian was suddenly speechless. He said so much to let Li Mingyang understand the stakes and stop messing around. Then when it was time to bow his head, he could deal with it.
But Li Mingyang's attitude disappointed him.
"Director Tian, I know you are doing it for my own good, but where is the opportunity for me to belong to this circle? How many years do I have to wait? How much price do I have to pay? How many times do I have to bow my head?"
< br>Li Mingyang took out a cigarette from his pocket, handed one to Director Tian, lit it, and lit another one for himself, "I think now is my opportunity, a rare opportunity, a chance for me to become famous! "
"You! It's good to be young and frivolous, but you can't pick on Feng Pants and Huayi! Do you know how much capital they have behind them?" Director Tian shook his head.
"Capital doesn't care so much. What they care about is profit. Even in the Beijing circle, there are not many people who fall out for women for profit?" Li Mingyang said with a pointed smile.
Director Tian pointed his finger at Li Mingyang and said angrily: "You brat, you are planning on me."
Director Tian and Feng Pants couldn't deal with each other.
And the cause is women.
On the set of "The Great Eunuch Li Lianying", Director Tian and Xu Fan had a relationship, and then the two broke up quickly. Xu Fan opened his mouth and asked for a huge breakup fee as compensation.
At that time, the owner of the land did not have that much money, so it was his ‘confidante’ Li Shaohong who helped to collect the amount Xu Fan asked for. In the end, Li Shaohong handed it over on his behalf...
Because of this incident, Xu Fan never had any contact with Tian Zhuangzhuang or the fifth generation directors, and was collectively banned by the big directors.
It wasn't until he met Feng Pants that Xu Fan was finally able to make a movie with a great director.
There was no gap between Tian Zhuangzhuang and Feng Pants, and Li Mingyang wouldn’t believe it even to death.
So the person he trusts most now is Director Tian.
"Director Tian, I want to see a mountain eagle."
"Impossible, he won't see you." Director Tian looked up at the ceiling, as if thinking about something. After a long time, he said: "He loves talents very much, but the burden on his shoulders is very heavy. It is impossible to harm him because of someone." You may not understand the whole thing if I talk too much about it. Let’s put it this way: he took a fancy to your book first and liked it very much. Then he recommended it to Feng Pants. Feng Pants took a look at it and thought it was good, so he wanted to give it a try. "< br>
Li Mingyang was stunned, this is different from what Yang Mi said!
Yang Mi said that it was not China Film that fell in love with his script, but Director Feng who fell in love with his script.
The order is wrong!
Finish the calf!
"Holy crap! Then I'm not offending a mountain eagle!"
"He only cares about the big picture and doesn't care about such trivial matters. Well, let's watch your movie."
Li Mingyang felt a little relieved. While scolding Yang Mi in his mind, he took out his notebook from his computer bag and played "Love Like a Bouquet" to Director Tian.
At present, the power of domestic films is in the hands of the older generation.
They cannot empathize with young people’s love movies and cannot capture their pain points.
But they can still tell whether a romantic movie is good or bad. After all, the older generation loves literary films.
After watching it for more than ten minutes, Director Tian suddenly frowned. It was not because the movie was too bad, but because the movie had a good rhythm and worked hard on color aesthetics, especially in terms of details.
"The acting skills of you two are a bit disappointing for this movie..." Director Tian said with a smile.
"There is no way... I have offended too many people."
"A good work that was competing for awards was ruined by you."
Li Mingyang smiled, and then mentioned the matter of going through trial again.
"Have you ever thought about reshooting it and giving it a better polish?" Director Tian said slowly.
Li Mingyang was stunned, lit another cigarette for himself, and took a deep breath, "I never thought about it."
......
Director Tian's The meaning is the same as Manager Zhou of Huace.
That is, we won’t give it this year and will have to wait until next year.
As for the reason, the domestic film and television market!
The success of Huayi's listing is related to the confidence and investment of big capital in domestic entertainment.
If you want to build a large market, you must get excited in order to attract capital.
China Film has been losing money for many years and invested money in large-scale productions. Why? It is to drive the movie market and thus the entire domestic entertainment market.
Just like real estate.
At present, the largest capital in China is in the Internet circle.
They are too lazy to get involved in the high debt of real estate.
Isn’t it good to cheat students out of money?
As domestic entertainment is closely related to the Internet, they have been eyeing it for a long time, just waiting for the opportunity.
The responsibility of China Film Group is to let them come in as soon as possible...
The big guys above all have unique feelings towards movies.
When Jiang Wenpai let the bullets fly, he was 83 years old and was still accompanied by the leaders of the General Administration to inspect the China Film Digital Production Base in Huairou.
Why can’t the Three-Body movie be released? It’s because it’s so poorly made and the boss doesn’t like it very much.
For many war movies in China, whether they can pass or not is not decided by the General Administration.
"You're still young, don't act on impulse. You've only had one year, so you have nothing to lose." Director Tian sighed: "I was impulsive and the most important ten years were wasted."
"One year? You I know how important this year is to me. You missed the most important ten years, and I don’t want to miss it!”
Director Tian opened his mouth and had something to say, but didn’t say it.
“The listing of Huayi is to heat up the film market and attract capital. The overall situation is the most important thing. I understand.” Li Mingyang stubbed out the cigarette butt in the ashtray and said word by word: “I can at best It’s just a student. This market can’t even accommodate one student. It’s better to wash the market again.”
Director Tian was stunned and looked at Li Mingyang deeply.
This student is not afraid of tigers as a newborn calf, but he knows that there are tigers in the mountains and prefers to go to the tiger mountains!
"Feng Pants said that you are not from the circle. Although he said it angrily, he seems to be right." Director Tian shook his head and said: "I will talk to the school. As for whether it can be passed in one go, just It depends on your destiny, by the way, there is no pornography, gambling, drugs, ghosts, feudal superstition or the like in your movie, right?”
A director who dares to film Wen Ge is indeed crazier than him!
“No, I have considered everything, even the kissing scene was cut out.” Li Mingyang said with great joy.
Director Tian waved his hands helplessly, not wanting to see Li Mingyang again.
"Thank you, teacher." Li Mingyang stood up and packed up his computer while saying, "Teacher, I heard that the directing department has stopped recruiting students this year. When I become more developed, everyone in the Nortel directing department will have something to eat. "
"You kid... remember what you said. If you don't fulfill it, I will cause trouble for you."
"Teacher, don't worry!"< br>
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(End of this chapter)