Chapter 580 On the road of capital, running farther and farther
Domestic media constantly reprints Hollywood movie information.
"Directed by director Lin Nan, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts, and Jessica Chastain.
The Oscar-winning film "The Invisible Guest," Within two weeks of its release in the North American market, the total box office revenue was US$162 million..."
Every time the box office data of "The Invisible Guest" is updated, the mainland film industry always sighs and curses.
Because in the past, when domestic blockbusters were released in North America, which producer didn’t try their best to cover up the box office results?
I am afraid that the domestic media will "talk nonsense" online and let the audience and netizens know.
Even when asked directly, the film studio responded with a general and vague answer: "The film was a box office hit in the North American market."
I never dare to disclose the data to the outside world because I can’t afford to embarrass that person and I am afraid of being ridiculed and ridiculed by people inside and outside the circle.
Moreover, this kind of operation has become the default unspoken rule in the industry.
But Lin Nan's foreign language film this time is not bound by this unspoken rule, because it cannot be bound by Hollywood.
But a very critical issue is that Lin Nan is a mainland director! Netizens unconsciously compare him with other domestic directors.
Now that’s good, it’s better not to compare, but once you compare, you will find the problem. Other directors and film companies are really incompetent and useless!
Soon, group ridicule mode naturally started on the Internet...
“The daily box office dropped very quickly, and we estimate that it may be cut in half in the third week, and then stabilize for a while. ”
Just after getting up at around nine in the morning, Lin Nan received a call from Tom. The public relations party in Hollywood has just begun.
"I will be satisfied as long as the box office exceeds 200 million US dollars in the first month. Let's talk about how much it will be after that. Keep an eye on it." Lin Nan said with a yawn.
"Well, don't worry, Lin, everything is OK. Then I won't disturb your rest."
"You don't want me to disturb your party time, do you? Tom."
“Hahaha, Lin, don’t say it.”
Tom's despicable laughter came from the phone, and a woman could be vaguely heard calling him. The sound made people's skin crawl.
"This guy is really hopeless..."
Lin Nan smiled and shook his head, preparing to wash up and go out.
Ten minutes later, he casually clicked on the entertainment news and found that the front page news in today's circle was quite lively.
It seems that there has been progress in the matter of the Capital Channel sending an official letter to the superior department, requesting a strong condemnation of the behavior of a crosstalk speaker who insulted the deceased.
There is really no way to describe this kind of thing.
Three years ago, Capital Channel reported that private villas illegally occupied public green space, triggering a series of "conflicts."
As a result, a certain cross talk club was named by major official media, closed down, and underwent rectification for a long time.
This feud, which lasted for more than three years, was supposed to end at the end of last month because the then director of the station died of a terminal illness.
But the other person involved obviously had no intention of letting go. The next day, he posted a Double Happiness on Weibo, wrote a limerick, and celebrated happily.
Anyone who is not a fool can see who he is targeting. Public opinion spread online all of a sudden, and the impact was extremely bad.
No, the Television Literature and Art Working Committee under the China Broadcasting Association officially issued an announcement this morning:
Strongly requesting crosstalk speakers to apologize to the deceased and his family, and calling on the country Nearly four hundred television stations "abandoned" attention to this person.
What does "giving up" attention mean? The subtext is soft blocking.
I have to say that ideals are very fulfilling, but reality is often about interests.
The China Broadcasting Association is just a public institution, not an administrative unit. I'm afraid not many TV stations will pay attention to it, especially those satellite TV channels.
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The promotion of "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom" has temporarily stopped.
Because Han Sanping, Guo Fan, Zhang Hanyu, Fan Bingbing and others have been promoting for more than half a month, it is time to take a rest.
Speaking of it, Mr. Han is really "duplicitous".
When he was asked to follow him for promotions before, he was quite reluctant and said he would only participate in a few shows "pretending to be reserved".
In the end, when the promotion started, he didn’t miss a beat and was more dedicated than anyone else.
Lin Nan can't rest. He has to come to the company when he should. There are a lot of chores at the end of the year.
But as soon as he arrived at the company, he heard that there was a slight problem with Feng Xiaogang's "Private Customization".
“The premiere time has been postponed from the 14th to the 17th. Wang Zhonglei said that he will do his best to ensure a normal release on the 19th.”
"Why is this?" Lin Nan was a little confused.
"I heard that it was the result of a temporary review by the bureau. The specific reason seems to be that some of Fan Wei's lines were too naked and contained a lot of 'sensitive content.'"
"Sensitive content ? That’s urgent deletion!”
Lin Nan remembers that the character played by Fan Wei seems to be a driver who dreams of becoming an “upright official”?
That makes sense. After all, the screenwriter of the movie is Wang Shuo.
This guy must have alluded to too much of the real world of officialdom, his words were sharp, and he touched people or things he shouldn't have touched.
"By the way, Director Lin. I'm asking about the annual meeting again, haha..."
Yue Jun's laughter contained a lot of information, and Lin Nan couldn't help it. You can guess what these people want to do, and are they addicted?
"From "Love in Seattle" at the beginning of the year to "One Man's Martial Arts" to "Time and Space Traveler", the total box office alone is 1.66 billion..."
Said After saying that, Lin Nan looked at Yue Jun, smiled and nodded:
"Just like last year, let the employees on both sides put forward their own ideas and put them together to see which artists they want to perform this year."
"Haha, okay, Director Lin. I will do it later. Notify them.”
Not long after Yue Jun left the office, another call came.
Lin Nan is a little annoyed. Since returning to China a few days ago, he has received no less than 5 calls every day!
“Huh? This is really a rare visitor.”
Looking at the three words "Cao Guowei" on the phone screen, Lin Nan whispered softly, and then answered the phone.
“Hello, Director Cao?”
“Haha, Director Lin, calling me so rashly didn’t affect your work, right?”
“No, I just arrived too. The company hasn't been here for a long time, is there something wrong with Director Cao?"
Lin Nan asked directly.
Although he has shares in Weibo, to be precise, he and Cao Guowei do not belong to the same industry.
Of course, the two of them don't communicate much, except when they make additional investments.
Hearing Lin Nan’s question, Cao Guowei laughed heartily first, and then said:
“Thank you, Director Lin, for investing in Sina Weibo when it was first founded. Momentum. Now among the three families, it can be said that our family is the dominant one."
Lin Nan frowned unconsciously. He was a little confused. Is Cao Guowei here to recall the past?
"Director Lin, do you still remember the special terms when we signed the share transfer agreement?"
Lin Nan nodded subconsciously: "Remember, I authorized the voting rights to Director Cao, and I have the right to make additional investments so that the shares will not be Diluted rights..."
At this point, Lin Nan's voice stopped abruptly.
His eyes widened instantly, and he realized something!
"Director Cao, you, Weibo?" "Hahaha, Director Lin, you have made several additional rounds of investment before you reacted?"
Cao Guowei’s words made Lin Nan so excited that she didn’t know what to say.
“Do you want an IPO?”
“Yes, we plan to submit an IPO application in the first half of next year.”
Cao Guowei’s tone suddenly became more serious: “ Director Lin, I need you to supplement the agreement again.”
"What agreement?"
"The shares held by Director Lin are the original shares when Weibo was first established, and after we go public, we plan to use a dual-class share structure.
So I hope Lin The leader came over to improve the contract again, not to interfere with the company's operations, and to continue to authorize future voting rights to me. If the shares are to be sold in the future, they must be given priority to the founder team..."
Cao Guowei continued. It was his business, but Lin Nan couldn't listen to it anymore.
His mind was filled with the words "IPO", "original shares" and "dual-class share structure".
"Director Lin, how are you?"
Lin Nan was awakened from his distraction. He suppressed his excitement and said: "Okay, everything is fine. I will take time to take people there in the next few days."
"Okay, Director Lin, I'll greet you at the company. However, there is one more thing."
Hearing Lin Nan's affirmative reply, Cao Guowei's tone changed from serious to Be gentle.
“What?”
"This year's Weibo Night will be in the middle of next month. Director Lin and Producer Liu, please come over to support us this time, haha..."
Lin Nan nodded his head in an awkward manner and agreed decisively: "Okay, No problem.”
It wasn’t until twenty minutes after the two parties hung up the phone that Lin Nan recovered from her joy.
"It's not easy. It's worth it. From the time it was founded to now, my right to speak is basically stable!"
Suddenly, an idea came into Lin Nan's mind. It seems that I am running further and further down the road of capital.
"Big capital, it's good. At least it guarantees that Sissi and I don't have to look at anyone else's face in the industry! Even..."
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Previous La Accompanying Kang's phone call to Lin Nan was officially announced, and the media forwarded and reported it.
"Disney's 3D animated movie "Frozen" starring Liu Yifei's voice has been confirmed to be released on the Chinese New Year schedule on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year!"
"Disney stated that Liu Yifei The dubbing performance is very exciting, and we will continue to cooperate in the future..."
As a starring performer, Ms. Liu was the first to forward the recommendation on Weibo:
“I am very happy to be the dubbing star of "Frozen". I would like to thank Lin Nan and Disney.
I hope you will like my dubbing performance when you go to the theater to watch "Frozen" during the Spring Festival.
Also let me tell you: there are both Chinese and English dubbing, so you can choose according to your own preferences. Thank you for your choice.”
Within a moment after Liu Yifei’s Weibo was posted, a large number of actors, artists or companies in the industry began to repost, like and leave comments. It was extremely lively for a while.
However, the news that "Frozen" is scheduled to be released on February 5 was also used by many friends in the industry and netizens to make fun of Lin Nan and Liu Yifei.
“I found something interesting. “Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom” was released on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and “Frozen” was released on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, so it’s the same time!”
"Good guy, Lin Nan's main theme movie is going to clash head-on with Yifei's animated movie, stealing the audience! Is this the first time?"
"Lao Zhu, can you speak? What do you mean? A head-on conflict? That's love and death, haha..."
"As one of the leading actors, I should have supported "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom", but I was even more offended by Producer Liu. Sorry.”
"Xiao Ming, you are such a thief. Yi Fei, although Lin Nan is indeed strong and perverted, sister, I still support you, fuck him!"
"I would rather offend the director than his wife, this is not Multiple choices, this is the single choice - Huang Xiaoming!" Fan Bingbing commented, and added the name of Leader Huang.
"Come on, Producer Liu, defeat Director Lin."
"On behalf of "Wolf Warrior", I support the producer and Producer Liu!"
"Sissi , beat Lin Nan." Shu Chang jumped a little again.
...
Lin Nan looked at the comments on Weibo and really wanted to laugh but couldn’t. He was speechless!
Liu Yifei was full of encouragement and "flattering" words, and there were even a lot of "hurt" words for him.
But why is it that Lin Nan's side is so inconsistent?
What: "Choose between durian and keyboard?", "Do you want a box office or a girlfriend?", "I advise Director Lin to take care of yourself!"...
"Who are these people!" Lin Nan complained with a chuckle.
I believe many producers in the industry have opinions.
This Spring Festival, there is another big-budget animated movie, and it is from Hollywood Disney.
The most important thing is that with the influence of Liu Yifei and Lin Nan, "Frozen" rides on the popularity of "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom", and the publicity effect takes off instantly, which is completely unreasonable.
On the other hand, films such as "Journey to the West: Upheaval in Heaven", "Macau", "The Great Liar" and other films are also forced to prepare to increase their publicity efforts.
In the afternoon, Lin Nan drove home, humming a tuneless ditty the whole time, and was in a very good mood.
After all, I learned the news from Cao Guowei today that Weibo is going to IPO. How could I not be excited?
Liu Yifei was wearing a pink down jacket and sitting on a cradle in the garden, basking in the warm sunshine and chatting happily with her tablet in her arms.
Seeing Lin Nan's figure, she immediately showed a sweet smile on her face, stretched out her hand and patted the place next to her, "Come quickly."
"Sissi, wait a moment. ”
Lin Nan shook her cell phone, and Miss Liu instantly understood that there was a call.
It’s Hu Ge’s phone number.
"Call me, are you okay?"
"Director Lin, I won the male lead in "Nirvana in Fire"."
For this result, Lin Nan was not surprised at all.
That "Nirvana in Fire" is about a period drama about power and strategy, but it's more like an ancient puppet drama. It has all the elements, and it's also a bit of a revenge novel.
As for the actors in costume TV dramas who are capable, there are only a few in the industry, and Hu Ge is the only one among them who is familiar with Lin Nan.
“Are you sure?”
“Producer Hou said that Lin Nan still needs to make a final decision on the casting list.” Hu Ge said with a smile.
"Yes, I will read it again. But since it is you, it is no problem. Congratulations."
“Haha, thank you, Director Lin.”
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I can’t write anymore, there is only one chapter today.
I wrote 190,000 words this month. On average, that’s enough for 6,000 words per day.
(End of this chapter)