That year Huayu

"In three months, the roadshow covered 50 cities, including some third- and fourth-tier small cities.

This mainly took into account the return home tide during the Spring Festival, the trend of box office decline, and the distribution of his film audience groups..."

Listening to the publicity plan that Guangguang had formulated for Wang Baoqiang and was already in progress, Lin Nan felt a little scared. In these three months, Wang Baoqiang must have been full of energy, right?

"Mr. Wang, the strings don't have to be so tight, right?" Lin Nan kindly reminded.

"There are three roadshow plans for him to choose from, and he asked to implement this most difficult and tiring plan. I guess he also wants to numb himself so that he can try not to think about other things."

Well, hearing this answer, Lin Nan was speechless immediately. This is indeed something that a ruthless person like Wang Baoqiang can't do, so that he doesn't think about the lawsuit and the children.

"But don't worry, he will be able to come back for the premiere of Operation Mekong."

"That's good. Hmm? I'll hang up if there's nothing else. I'm going to get busy." Seeing Yue Jun and the people from the screenwriter department come in, Lin Nan was about to hang up the phone immediately.

"Okay, you're really a busy man. See you on the 21st." Wang Changtian sighed and complained.

"Director Lin, the script for the first part of the Wandering Earth series has been finalized." Yue Jun sat there and announced the good news with a smile.

The people from the screenwriter department handed the script to Lin Nan:

"Director Lin, according to your previous instructions, let Mr. Liu see the final script first; his feedback was that he had no objections and was very satisfied, and there was no need to make any more changes."

"Actually, Mr. Liu's joke is quite right: he is just a novelist, and adapting it into a movie script requires a lot of expansion of the story plot. In this regard, he is really not as good as a professional screenwriter."

Yue Jun said with a smile. Lin Nan ignored them and opened the script to read it at a glance.

The project team had proposed two script creation plans, which were also shooting plans.

One was to write the script and shoot a movie according to the development of the story line; the other was to split the novel according to the number of science fiction elements and science fiction shots from few to many to create a series of scripts.

After discussion, Lin Nan "still" chose the second one.

Because of commercial attributes, it is best for a series of science fiction masterpieces to put bigger scenes, more and more magnificent science fiction shots, and more climaxes in the next one.

Such an arrangement is conducive to the gradual progression of the popularity of the series, with one climax after another. Therefore, the first part still starts with "wandering".

"Well, not bad, you can take it to the Film Bureau."

Lin Nan closed the unfinished script and looked up with a smile. Now, everything is completely ready.

More than half an hour later, when Director Lin was about to leave work early, the outside world and the Internet had already exploded like a drop of cold water dropped into a hot oil pan.

To be precise, it was the A-share circle and netizens who were speculating in stocks that were boiling, which caused a sensation on the entire network.

In the morning, listed companies Wanjia Culture and Longwei Media raised their placards to the China Securities Regulatory Commission and the Shanghai Stock Exchange and submitted an application for approval of a large-scale acquisition case...

A few days ago, Longwei Media, which was controlled by someone, expressed its intention to acquire Wanjia Culture: it planned to acquire 29.135% of Wanjia Culture's shares with 3.06 billion yuan. After the transaction was completed, the former would become the controlling shareholder of Wanjia Culture!

Wanjia Culture agreed to this acquisition invitation and submitted an application for approval to the competent authorities this morning. The result of this matter being announced was that countless shareholders became agitated directly.

Because of someone's record of winning repeatedly in the A-share market, as well as her identity and "nickname" in the financial world... In the eyes of countless stockholders, she is the weather vane of the stock market.

And the A-share market, which has been weak since the stock market crash last year, has added fuel to the flames at this moment... The consequences can be imagined. The Internet is completely in chaos at this moment, and netizens are crazy.

Anyone can foresee that as long as the competent authorities approve this acquisition, and then wait for Wanjia Culture to successfully suspend trading, reorganize, and resume trading, its stock price will definitely soar;

After the stock market crash, the stockholders who have been hungry for a year and a half will definitely buy up Wanjia Culture's stocks... You fight for it, and one after another!

The stockholder circle is reveling and waiting eagerly, while the capital circle remains silent, without any discussion;

Because everyone has their own mountain, and someone naturally has his own... In the same capital circle, everyone keeps to themselves, does not interfere with each other, does not affect each other, and does not offend each other.

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On the morning of the 14th, after Lin Nan woke up naturally from a nap, he discovered something interesting.

Outside, many media outlets were fanning the flames for someone's "feat" of acquiring Wanjia Culture and creating an atmosphere.

As for who is behind this? This is completely self-evident to people in a small circle, and those who understand will understand.

"Director Li An's "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" has been labeled a "failure" by the media. In three days, the box office was only 80 million, and today's screening rate was directly cut in half."

Liu Yifei came back from outside in a windbreaker, jeans, black boots, sunglasses, and a bag. As soon as she entered the door, she expressed her feelings to Lin Nan.

She got up early today and accompanied Liu Xiaoli to Hongxingwu; after all, many things in the company required the boss's signature, such as finance and taxation.

"That makes no sense. Who made Director Li think about using new technologies to make breakthroughs in movies? Isn't this kind of thing high-risk? Just like now, the audience doesn't buy it and it backfires!"

Lin Nan smiled helplessly, "The Donkey Gets Water" was also miserable. As of yesterday, it had been in theaters for 17 days, but the total box office had barely reached 200 million, with a revenue of 201 million.

The daily box office is less than RMB 30,000, which is a stark indication that this movie is dead!

But even so, Yan Fei just called and asked Lin Nan if he wanted to hold a celebration party? This question confused Lin Nan.

Although the cost of the movie was only 15 million, it did make more than four times the profit after splitting the accounts. But Director Lin was really embarrassed to attend the celebration party for a movie with a box office of 200 million, so he just let them enjoy themselves.

"Looking at it this way, before the Lunar New Year holiday, "Doctor Strange" should have the strongest box office. Well, I am now particularly looking forward to the release of "Operation Mekong" at the end of the month..."

Liu Yifei walked up the stairs to change clothes while laughing with Lin Nan.

"Wait, there are only two weeks left, we are the first shot of the Lunar New Year show!" Of course Lin Nan knew the meaning of Miss Liu's words, so she responded confidently. …

In the industry, the focus of most people in the industry is focused on the premiere of "I'm Not Pan Jinlian" tomorrow morning.

As the film that "certified" Feng Xiaogang's status as a major international director, Huayi's pomp and specifications for its premiere are undoubtedly top-notch; the number and seats of invited guests are also unquestionable.

"How is the situation in the distribution department, Mr. Ye?" Wang Zhongjun, who was sitting in the conference room, asked Ye Ning in a good mood and even joked.

But in the eyes of other executives, the chairman's smile was not so kind. In addition, everyone is also looking forward to hearing Ye Ning's answer to this question. After all, is it a new official taking office?

Ye Ning calmly opened the file in front of him and glanced at it: "Most of the theaters in the country have promised to give 45% of the film schedule on the day of the premiere..."

Hearing this number, all the executives in the conference room suddenly had smiles on their faces. This is great news.

But the next second, Wang Zhonglei's words instantly chilled the atmosphere on the court, even to the point of death: "Mr. Ye, what about Wanda Cinema?"

Faced with so many eyes, Ye Ning fell silent. He recalled his meeting with Liu Xiaobin the day before yesterday. The other person was completely businesslike, which was true. The old friendship had long since disappeared.

"I didn't give a clear promise. I just said that I would arrange the films according to the box office forecast of Wanda Cinema Marketing Department." Ye Ning's voice rang out in the conference room, extremely loud.

"Arrange the films according to the box office forecast of the marketing department?" Wang Zhongjun and Wang Zhonglei looked at each other, their smiles a little cold; the executives also had strange expressions, isn't this just perfunctory by Wanda?

"It seems that they still hold grudges over there, haha..."

"But we paid the liquidated damages, so this is a bit stingy!"

"Who says it's not?"

"Big Laowang is also the richest man after all, he doesn't look like a little chicken..."

…

With Wang Zhongjun and Wang Zhonglei taking the lead in teasing, chatter and arrangements suddenly began to erupt in the conference room;

They didn't mean to blame Ye Ning. After all, this result was expected early on, but this did not prevent them from making fun of Wanda and Big Lao Wang.

"Just go with Wanda Cinema. Even if it's a few points less, that's it. It won't affect anything." Wang Zhongjun smiled and shook his head, as if he had a much better plan than Big Lao Wang.

Only Ye Ning smacked his lips in a subtle way, with complicated eyes.

It has been almost 10 months since he joined Huayi. Although he holds a high position, has obtained a lot of shares, and has joined the board of directors, he really feels that Huayi is far less "regular" than Wanda's film, television and entertainment sector.

Some things here are so lawless. If this continues, big problems will occur sooner or later!

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In the afternoon, Liu Yifei accompanied Lin Nan to the company. Also coming to meet were Liu Xiaobin and Wang Changtian.

"Because this was an emergency after signing the gambling agreement and had nothing to do with "Operation Mekong", I didn't notify Golden Shield, Yinghuang, China Film and Shanghai Film." Yue Jun spread his hands and said helplessly. said.

"They have already signed the gambling contract between "Operation Mekong" and the theaters. After signing, are you still looking for trouble or what?" Wang Changtian flipped through several gambling agreements on the table, looked at Lin Nan, and asked doubtfully road.

Lin Nan felt speechless and helpless at the moment; Liu Yifei held his hand and gave him a comforting look. She felt the same as Lin Nan.

"Mr. Liu should tell Director Wang about it. After all, Enlight does not have a theater business, so Director Wang naturally doesn't know about it." Lin Nan looked at Liu Xiaobin.

When the latter heard this, he immediately explained with a smile:

"In fact, since Stephen Chow's "Mermaid" received a record-breaking box office of 3.39 billion, several major theater chains have sat together and discussed several times that Director Lin often signs box office betting agreements with theater chains on his own movies. matter;

The general meaning is that Director Lin's past overbearing behavior was partly a coercion; now that the market has fully taken off, Director Lin can no longer be allowed to continue to take advantage of the cinema chain, and everyone can firmly refuse..."

"Then why did you sign "Operation Mekong"? "Wang Changtian asked.

"Isn't it because it is the main theme commercial blockbuster of the Ministry of Public Security? It is destined to have many preferential treatments, and the cinema chain is unwilling to offend the Ministry!" Lin Nan laughed and interjected.

"What do they mean? What message did they ask you to convey?" Wang Changtian looked at Yue Jun belatedly.

"Except for Wanda, the other nine cinema chains with the top ten market share have directly "let" me know after signing the gambling contract this time.

They asked me to convey to Director Lin that they would not sign a total box office gambling agreement after "Operation Mekong". This time, the nine cinema chains should have formed an alliance, right? "At the end, Yue Jun looked at Liu Xiaobin inquiringly.

"Those companies have reached a consensus and have even signed a joint agreement. Director Lin, in this case, although Wanda is the cinema chain with the largest market share in China, it is definitely far less than the market share of the nine companies combined." Liu Xiaobin said with a hint of meaning. There is no other solution to this problem, so we can only accept it.

"To be honest, why do I feel a little aggrieved? I should be the first director in the industry to be forced by the cinema chain, right? The key is that I have no choice!

Because as Mr. Liu said, the market share of the nine companies combined is large enough! And the current film market is mature, there are profitable blockbusters, Hollywood imported films, domestic films in the mainland... There is no shortage of audiences, movies, and box office, so naturally there is no need to say "no" to my gambling agreement as before! "

Lin Nan admitted that at this moment, with the film market so hot, cinemas are indeed king!

Don't talk about distribution channels or anything like that. As long as the market share of cinemas is sufficient, they are irreplaceable!

"Director Lin, what about now?" Yue Jun asked. Liu Xiaobin, Wang Changtian, and Liu Yifei, who was sitting next to Lin Nan, all looked at him.

"Just admit it, what else can I do? I can't think of any other way to "resist" it?" Lin Nan was so angry that he laughed. What is there to ask?!

"This is a struggle for interests. They seize all the conditions that are favorable to them and force the other party to make concessions. If it were two years ago, they would not dare to say it so openly.

In this way, the profits of Director Lin's movies invested by Wanda in the future will also drop a lot. So this is the reason why they excluded Wanda when they formed the nine alliances, because Wanda naturally stands with Director Lin. "

Liu Xiaobin is quite good at expressing his position, but what he said is also true.

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