In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, we adopted the operating system of the former Soviet film industry, and adopted a series of planned economic business forms from production, distribution and screening.

By the early 1990s, this issuance model of "unified purchase and sales" + "hierarchical issuance".

Specifically, each province and city has established issuance agencies and formulated various systems for issuance and screening operation and management.

Once the film products are completed, they will be handed over to China Film Company to buy out the movies at one time at a specified price, and then China Film Company will issue them to various cinemas according to administrative distribution companies such as provinces, cities and counties...

This model is very dull, a bit like Netflix in later generations, only pursuing quantity and not paying much attention to quality...

The result is that the box office has fallen year by year!

There is a string of data: the total box office nationwide was 2.2 billion in 1990, 2.3 billion in 1991, 2 billion in 1992, and 1.3 billion in 1993...

At the same time, in terms of film production, about 150 films are still filmed every year...

It's obvious that the audience is no longer interested in the movie.

In order to get the audience back to the cinema to watch movies, the General Administration issued a document that allows the cinema to import about 10 films that basically reflect the world's excellent civilization achievements and basically express the achievements of contemporary film art and technology, namely Hollywood blockbusters, in the form of a share of accounts every year.

In fact, before that, we also imported foreign movies, but we only used a buyout method, with the maximum buyout price of each movie of 20,000 US dollars.

Such a price can't attract the interest of foreign film manufacturers at all. The ones I bought are some old movies of low quality, and few people are willing to watch...

The new document uses the share ratio: Foreign film manufacturers and China Film Group won 46% of the total box office, provincial and municipal film companies won between 8% and 10%, and the rest is all for theaters...

In this way, the higher the box office of a movie in China, the more money foreign filmmakers will get. In order to make more profits, they will bring high-quality foreign commercial blockbusters to China for release.

The first movie that entered the Chinese film market in the form of a share of accounts was called "The Desperate World", with a production cost of 44 million US dollars. At that time, the film had already achieved great success in the North American market - the local box office of North America was US$180 million!

The producer is Warner Bros. Hollywood believes that China is a huge market with a population of more than one billion, so there must be some trouble!

Then, the movie "Faith of Destiny" was released for a week and directly won a box office of 4 million in Beijing. At that time, the movie was released in six cities across the country. Songjiang and Yangcheng were both economically developed regions. Although there was no detailed statistics, the box office of "Faith of Destiny" may have exceeded 30 million in one week...

Of course, the truth is that "Faith of Destiny" was released for six days and then left off - people from the film industry united to ask "Faith of Destiny" to withdraw from the theater immediately...

The box office was frozen at 24 million...

Why protest?

Scared!

This is so scary!

30 million a week, won’t it take to exceed 100 million in a month?

There are records to check that the box office champion of domestic movies at that time was "July 7 Incident". At the request of the top, it achieved RMB 33 million...

Since then, everyone has understood that it turns out that the audience doesn’t want to watch movies, but they just don’t want to watch broken movies we produce!

Most domestic directors of that era made art films. They always regarded themselves as artists and felt that their films would bring spiritual touch to the audience. After watching them, the audience would be inspired and sublimated.

They face the audience with a lofty attitude, as if God preached.

Some directors even complained that the audience was of low quality and could not understand the movies he made...

As a result, a domestic abnormal movie environment will be formed.

Of course, this has a lot to do with the blind command of the film industry by the upper class during the planned economy period.

Then, China Film started a plan to introduce ten blockbusters every year. Originally, China Film introduced ten blockbusters every year to stimulate the market and let domestic filmmakers know what kind of movies the audience likes, and accelerate the construction of the domestic film industry. It's pretty good...

Then, in 2001, China joined the WTO and enjoyed a 15-year protection period. According to regulations, the protection of domestic films should end in 2015.

In other words, Hollywood movies can be directly deployed in China in 2015, and there is no need to follow the requirements of China Film...

Fortunately, the General Administration is not a vegetarian!

Decisively negotiate - in all countries in the world, everyone is afraid of Hollywood, and no one is as good as Hollywood.

Well, that's not right. Indian movies are not afraid of Hollywood. Their local box office accounts for more than 70%. Hollywood has not yet captured Bollywood...

So, there was a ‘Memorandum of Understanding between China and the United States on resolving WTO film-related issues’…

Tang Ningyu posted a phone call for him and asked him to return to China quickly. This thing is related to the way Yuehua will go!

What do you fear the most when making movies?

The policy is unclear!

For Mao, the rapid growth of domestic films has ushered in a downward trend in 2017?

In addition to the growth of audiences and the chaos in the film and television industry is corrected, the main reason is that the memorandum signed in 2012 has expired, and even the most powerful film manufacturers have to shrink their line, for fear that they will become the first to become the one who was shot by a massive invasion of Hollywood.

If as early as 2016, the General Administration told everyone that there are good projects and they should go directly. Don’t worry, I will help you with the thunder!

Then what? There is no subsequent text, and unclear policies are also one of the main reasons for the decline in films in 2017...

...

After getting off the plane, Zhang Junsheng went directly to the company and started chatting with Tang Ningyu, and he had to exchange opinions first.

Tang Ningyu said: "First of all, the account sharing will be increased to 25%, and the films introduced every year will be increased to 34..."

“…Speak something about us!”

"The co-production film is not within the quota range, but it is stipulated that Chinese actors must be one of the leading actors, and the Chinese investment must be at least one-third..."

After waiting for a long time, Tang Ningyu still did not continue to say that Zhang Junsheng was anxious: "This is gone? Is there no regulation on the number of Chinese staff members starting? At least one-third of them!"

"…No…"

"Then...what is the use of doing this for the Chinese film industry?"

"We will discuss this with relevant personnel of the General Administration later. There is another thing. I have received news that the Film Bureau may increase the chances of Chinese private enterprises publishing imported films... The country may issue the third license to introduce foreign films!"

Zhang Junsheng shook his head: "It's impossible!"

“…How could it be impossible?”

"Zhongying now expects to earn some money to pay wages for the share of imported films. Once the license is issued, what should we do if so many employees of Zhongying are? Do you maintain it?"

Tang Ningyu thought about it and it was right.

Since the year before yesterday, Zhongying has never produced a big domestic film, and can only get a share of the pie by participating in the production. Their biggest advantage is that they have monopoly on imported films!

"Then...we won't fight for it?"

"...I won't fight for it anymore," Zhang Junsheng took a sip after taking the tea handed over by his secretary, asked casually: "...Is there anything else?"

“Wanda acquires AMC!”

“…TV station?”

"No, it's a theater, the second largest theater in North America!"

"Oh, Lao Wang is quite courageous, how much did he spend?"

"US$2.6 billion! At the same time, it is promised that the operating capital after the merger will not be less than US$500 million!"
Chapter completed!