China Entertainment please answer! 1997

Chapter 144 Box Office Billion?

Not long after Cao Qing hung up the phone, probably less than an hour later, Jin Xiaoxiao called him back again.

"The transaction went smoothly. Since the ratings of our TV series "Fengyun" was almost the highest last year, Mango Channel's bid was quite sincere. Director Chen had almost no objection to some of my price requirements."

"The only requirement from Mango TV is that our TV series "Feng Yun" should not be sold to the fourth TV station other than Zhejiang Blue TV and CCTV which aired in the first round. 7300 million broadcast rights price."

"With these 7300 million, plus the 6900 million that CCTV gave us and the 7500 million that Zhejiang Blue TV premiered, although our "Fengyun" didn't get any advertising fees, our Tengda company invested a huge 1.27 million. The production cost of the TV series still earned us a full 9000 million investment income."

"Besides, the TV scripts of "Never Close My Eyes" and "Pink Girl" produced by our company have been highly trusted by major TV stations in the urban film segment. Now we have this ancient costume martial arts drama " "The Wind and Cloud", then our company's development in the field of TV dramas, costume dramas and martial arts films has been completely opened up, and this kind of reputation is even more important to our company than the 9000 million yuan in revenue."

As soon as the call was connected, before Cao Qing had time to say anything, Jin Xiaoxiao on the other end of the phone spoke a lot directly.

Hearing the long series of words that Jin Xiaoxiao said, Cao Qing couldn't help showing a gratified smile on his face after he was stunned.

After all, last year's "Feng Yun", which invested a full 1.27 million yuan, really squeezed the capital supply chain of Tenda Film and Television Entertainment Company too much.

If it weren't for the great reputation of Tengda Film and Television Entertainment Company in the industry and the willingness of the major banks to lend money to Tengda, otherwise, the film and television entertainment company would not have been able to shoot "Legend of Sword and Fairy" together with "Fengyun" last year , "Struggle" and other major investment TV series.

"Well, good, let's have dinner together tonight."

"For your reward, I decided to make it up to you at night."

"In addition, you know how many villas I have in Shanghai Hongqiao. As a reward for your outstanding performance in the past two years, I will give you two villas."

After speaking, Cao Qing looked at the phone screen with a smile on his face.

Although he knew that the mobile phone he was holding was not a smart phone of later generations, and the mobile phone had no video function at all, so he couldn't see the expression on Jin Xiaoxiao's face at this moment, but Cao Qing still had a very smug smile on his face at this moment.

"..."

"You got rich?"

"No, it's not right to say that you are rich. You are quite rich to begin with. After all, you not only own Tenda, a medium and large film and television entertainment company, but also own a large number of shares in Tencent, an upstart Internet company."

"I remember that you were ranked 89th on the Forbes rich list released last year. With assets of US$1.2 million, Zizhen~, Tencent CEO Ma Huateng is even richer than you."

"However, no matter how rich you are, today is not a holiday, why did you give me a villa for no reason?"

On the other end of the phone, Jin smiled with both surprise and joy on her face. She looked at the phone screen with a somewhat doubtful tone.

"Hahahaha, you know that I have a lot of villas in the Hongqiao area of ​​Shanghai, right? I also bought [-] or [-] houses in the capital. It is useless for me to have so many houses. Do I have so many houses alone? Can you stay here for the rest of your stay?"

"And after all, you have been with me for so long, and you are my woman, so it's not unusual to give you a villa."

"So, as for the gift, just keep it. It's just a villa, and it's nothing special. Could it be compared to the relationship we've had for so many years?"

"And the last time I was filming "Charlotte Annoyance", didn't I buy a villa as the residence of the protagonist Charlotte in the movie? At the same time, I also bought three sports cars and a medium-sized yacht with a length of more than 30 meters for the movie. Use, now the right to use these things belongs to our company."

"That villa among them was given to me by the investor behind the scenes who provided funds for our company's movies."

"Hahahaha, so I decided, since the investor behind the scenes can give me a big villa, then as the big boss of the company, I have to give you two small villas, the largest labor force in the company, to show generosity, right?"

"So, how are you feeling at the moment? My Director Jin?"

With her lips facing the receiver of the mobile phone, Cao Qing's eyes were full of smiles.

For Jin Xiaoxiao, a small shareholder and director of Tengda Film and Television Entertainment Company who has been working hard with him since 1998, and his close pillow, Cao Qing is very willing to give things.

"How are you feeling? I'm very excited. Well, I'm also very happy."

"At the moment, the price of the townhouses in the Hongqiao area of ​​the magical city is almost more than 13000 per square meter. The area of ​​a townhouse is close to 300 square meters. In total, it means that you have given me a total of nearly 700 million. Mr. Cao is really generous. "

"For Mr. Cao's bold move, I decided to work hard tonight to try to give you a child as compensation. What do you think, Mr. Cao?"

"Are you still satisfied with the beauty of the little girl?"

Cao Qing was a little frightened by Jin Xiaoshang's idea of ​​having a child for himself on the phone. For the time being, he already had a child through Lin Chiling, but he didn't actually think much about having a second child.

It's just that Jin Xiaoxiao has been with him for so long after all, and she has helped him a lot no matter in the company or in his personal life. Now that this meaning has been revealed in his words, Cao Qing can't pretend to ignore it.

After thinking about it for just a second or two, Cao Qing finally answered with a smile on the phone.

That night, a physical struggle between men and women was started by Jin Xiaoxiao and Cao Qing.

The next day, neither Cao Qing nor Jin Xiaoxiao had the energy to get up and go to work, so they had a rare day of rest in the villa.

On April 4, after a day's rest, Cao Qingjin smiled and the two workaholics continued to work hard.

Of course, this time it's not the kind between men and women, but a formal job.

In this way, the time passed by Cao Qing and Jin Xiaoren's hard work, and the time soon came to June 6th.

On this day, "Charlotte", which has been playing in theaters for two full months, was finally released.
The undisputed box office king of 2004 has officially come to an end.

At the same time, in addition to the outstanding results in the box office, in the past two months, "Charlotte Annoyance", the first rebirth movie that appeared in China, has directly set off a wave of rebirth in the whole world, especially in Southeast Asia. upsurge.

Since the appearance of the movie "Charlotte", various novels, animations, and movies with rebirth content have begun to appear one after another, truly driving a cultural trend of the rebirth type. This behavior has been widely discussed in major international news media. It has been defined as the "Charlotte" phenomenon.

As the originator of the "Charlotte" phenomenon, "Charlotte", a standard cool movie, has directly aroused Cao Qing's many fans and fans around the world. There is a war between movie critics, both sides are arguing about it, and the quarrels have not stopped even now that the movie "Charlotte" has been released.

Film critics from all over the world gave the movie "Charlotte" an average rating of less than 7 points, but in the eyes of fans of the movie, this super enjoyable drama can definitely reach a score of 9 or more.

In the end, amid the battle between many fans of the movie "Charlotte Troubles" and film critics from all over the world, the movie "Charlotte Troubles" finally scored 7.2 points on the international imdb, and the number of review users was close to 10.

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film's freshness rating reached 75%, with only 25% rating it as rotten.

As for China, the rating of the movie "Charlotte Annoyance" is 7.9 points, which is given by Doujia.com.

Of course, unlike the original Douban website that will appear next year in the original history, Doujia.com not only appeared earlier, but also is far more fair than Douban in terms of various professional ratings.

Even though the founder of this website is Cao Qing, Cao Qing still has no way to interfere too much with the comments on his movies on this website. He has only a few permissions on Doujia. Spam comments are reduced to a minimum, etc., and these permissions are open to all movies.

Why do you want to do this?Why would you rather see your film being criticized than operate in secret?

All this is because Cao Qing is still very clear-headed. He knows very well that Doujia.com, which he founded, is currently a blank in the domestic industry. However, Doujia.com, a rating website, will soon usher in many strong competitors. In this strong Among the fierce competition, the only thing that can really keep Doujia.com undefeated is the true fairness and professionalism.

In addition, all the black-box operations and unfair permissions will completely destroy the future of Doujia. Only when Doujia is accepted by the vast majority of audiences in the country, can Doujia, a rating website, truly become the number one in the industry, thus confirming that Huaguo. The leader in rating sites.

In this matter, the Doubanjiang website of later generations is enough to be a warning.

In the future 2022, the Doubanjiang website, which was once a gathering place for niche young people and a must-have place for viewers to find excellent movies and TV series, has triggered more and more topics and complaints.

For example, in December 2016 in the future, "People's Daily" had an article titled "Douban and Maoyan Movie Scores Facing Credit Crisis, Bad Reviews Hurt the Film Industry", through "The Great Wall", "The Ferryman" and "Railway "Flying Tiger" and other film reviews and ratings, the objectivity of the rating system of Douban movies, and the right to speak of "one sentence is worth ten thousand sentences" of Maoyan professional film critics.

At that time, this topic about the fairness of the film rating mechanism on the Internet even became a hot topic on the Internet for a while, and even after several years after this topic ended, domestic audiences and directors also criticized and complained about the movie ratings on Doubanjiang website. There has been no interruption.

Almost every once in a while, there will be one or two film and television works or a certain director or producer using the "unfair rating" as an excuse to defend their rights and take the opportunity to hype.

Although these things may not all be blamed on the unfairness of the Doubanjiang website, some of the information here reveals how many flaws and loopholes there are in the single-system scoring mechanism of the Doubanjiang website.

For this reason, Cao Qing, who came from a later generation, thoroughly absorbed the lessons of the Doubanjiang website. The Douban.com he founded not only directly abandoned the simple weighted scoring mechanism like the future Doubanjiang website, but also seriously adopted the Rotten Tomatoes from abroad. , Metacritic and many other professional scoring websites, the complex scoring mechanism that is commonly used on many professional rating websites directly sets the evaluation of a movie into two options: professional ratings and general audience ratings.

The professional film reviews of each movie on Doujia.com are reprinted from influential newspapers and broadcast media, while the general audience ratings come from every basic user of the website, and the Doujia.com founded by Cao Qing It also refers to the red and green tomatoes system of the foreign Rotten Tomatoes website, but the pattern is replaced by green and black pods, in a proper Penguin style.

The reason why Cao Qing developed Doujia.com in 2004 was not to make money, at least not to make money now. After all, the chances of making money in the first few years of the rating website's establishment were obviously slim.

The reason why Cao Qing still insists on establishing this website even though he is not making any money is that as time goes by and closer to the future Internet era, the control of professional rating websites like Doujia.com will become stronger.

As long as Doujia.com is established well, every film produced by Tenda Film and Television Entertainment in the future will benefit from this and be directly manipulated and affected by the comments on Doujia.com and the box office.

After all, in more than ten years, the vast majority of viewers will use various rating websites to find out whether the content of a movie is good or bad. There will be many such examples in the future.

In the future, there will be many dark horse movies that did not perform well at the box office because they did not receive much publicity resources at the beginning or were not favored by the industry. However, in the end, due to their victory in the audience's word-of-mouth ratings, the results were directly reversed in the later stages of the film's release. , achieving a double harvest of box office and word-of-mouth success in one fell swoop.

And there are also many movies, because of the actors joining in the early stage and advertising promotion, the box office performance of the movie was very good a few days before the release, but after the movie viewing craze passed, the word of mouth of the movie could not keep up. It directly led to the collapse of the movie box office across the board, and the investors lost their money.

This huge box office influence is the fundamental reason why Cao Qing founded Pod Pod.

For this reason, he would even rather watch his movie being insulted on the website, even slightly affecting some of the movie's box office, than use his authority to change the audience's wishes and the final score of his sixth film "Charlotte".

(End of this chapter)