During my years at China Entertainment

Chapter 728: Sending Warmth Across the World, New Era, New Project
Late at night, in the capital's Golden House No. 5, a thanksgiving game was taking place.

Wei Jin's big hands were firmly grasping her beautiful buttocks that were sticking out of the sky, and he was cheering her on.

During the National Day holiday, the online drama "The Darker Side" has come to an end, and the overall results are very impressive.

Since it was launched on Tudou.com in early September, it received over 24 million hits within 10 hours of its premiere; after more than a month online, it has achieved a single-network hit rate of over billion.

Although this data is not as good as the previous "Day and Night Chase", it is better than "Gu Jian Qi Tan" which also starred by Rouba and ended last month!
Especially since "The Darker Side" is broadcast on a single network, its value is quite high!

More importantly, the drama has a very good reputation, with an overall score of 8.4 on Impression.net, and has been dubbed by countless netizens as the originator of "comedy suspense crime films"!
You know, even though it's just a web drama, now is the Internet age, and the exposure and support for artists provided by "The Darker Side" is not necessarily worse than that of TV channels.

The main creative team of this play has received a lot of support. The most outstanding one among them is of course the leading male actor Guo Jinfei.

However, compared to his previous life, he has the blessing of "Running Man" in this life, and the popularity itself is not low. This drama also further proves his acting skills.

Also eye-catching is the leading female role, Li Xinru.

This girl joined the company after the incident in "The Flowers of War" and has been playing supporting roles in TV dramas and film projects. This time she finally has a representative work as the leading female role.

The psychologist he played, as a member of the task force, can be said to have "tortured" all the suspects. His sharp-tongued style with frequent golden sentences makes people love and hate him, and it is very memorable!

Rouba's role in the drama is equally important. Although she is only the "second female lead" in name, her number of scenes is actually not much different. Her quirky "dark loli" character is also quite popular.

In just over a month, the number of Rouba's Weibo followers has skyrocketed to more than three million.

The total number of her fans has exceeded 10 million, and she is on the verge of entering the ranks of quasi-first-line actresses.

Of course, this is not entirely the credit of "The Darker Side of the Dark", "Gu Jian Qi Tan" also played a big role.

Including the previous "Flowers and Youth", they also laid the foundation for her current explosion.

But for Rouba, weren't all these resources given to her by Wei Jin? Wasn't this enough for her to express her gratitude?

Therefore, after the end of "The Darker Side", she was busy with announcements for more than ten days. As soon as she had some free time, she went straight to the capital and performed a thank-you drama of sending warmth from a thousand miles away.

The beauty of the people and the scenery made Wei and Jin feel excited.
Facts have proved that the field of director is still highly professional, and not everyone is qualified to make the leap.

Cui Jian's "Blue Bones" did not receive a good response after its release, even though Jiang Wen, Gu Changwei and others attended the premiere and helped promote the film, and many music industry celebrities worked hard to promote it.

From its release last Friday to now, three days have passed, and the cumulative box office is less than three million.

It is easy to predict that in two or three days at most, this film will be completely abandoned by theaters.

After all, this little share of the box office isn't even enough to cover the theater's utilities and wages. Wouldn't it be better to give the screening time to other movies with high attendance rates?

However, this rock star failed in his first attempt to enter the film industry and did not make much splash in the circle. It can even be said that no one paid attention to him.

Because as we entered this Monday in late October, the mainland film industry has completely ushered in a new era.

“Directed by Wei Jin, produced by gold medal producer Chen Xi, shot by Oscar-winning cinematographer Dong Jinsong, starring Zhang Hanyu, Li Bingbing, Liao Fan, Song Yi and others.

The main theme commercial blockbuster "Operation Mekong" was released for 20 days, and the total box office exceeded 20 billion yuan, with a cumulative total of 20.08 billion yuan! "

"The Chinese-language film market has officially entered the 20 billion yuan box office era!"

"Director Wei Jin broke the domestic box office record held by Transformers 4 and became the first director in the Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong to join the 20 billion yuan box office club."

"There are still forty days until the end of the film's release. Can Operation Mekong create a 3 billion miracle?!"

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A series of media reports made "Operation Mekong" and Wei Jin directly become hot searches, and all other entertainment information was suppressed!
The entire film industry suddenly felt like it had become a different world.

This is really too fast, it’s hard to believe. In just twenty days, we have entered the 2 billion box office era?
According to the media, there are only about 40 days left for the film's release. With the current daily revenue of around 40 million, what total box office will this film generate?
In fact, this is completely overthinking by people in the industry. How could the box office collection period of a movie be so long?

"Operation Mekong" can maintain its current daily revenue only thanks to the strong support of relevant departments. The subsequent box office situation is not optimistic and will most likely show a cliff-like decline.

Anyway, Wei Jin felt that there was no chance of getting 3 billion.

But even so, for the major producers, "Operation Mekong" can be regarded as the most outstanding achievement in history.

Even though China Film Group was busy with work related to "The Great Wall", it still issued three announcements in one day.

He highly praised the Group's brilliant achievements in "Operation Mekong" and the great contributions made by the two chairmen of China Film, La Peikang and Han Sanping.

This somewhat self-boasting style of behavior irritated Shanghai Film Group and Xi'an Film Group, both of which are state-owned enterprises.

We are all just hitchhiking, what contribution have you made?

However, despite the complaints, the two companies were not willing to be outdone and immediately published similar content after China Film’s first announcement.

Even the Film Bureau sent a rare congratulatory letter to celebrate the new era of domestic films.

Of course, the most exaggerated thing is that Golden Shield applied for a 15-second report in the evening broadcast, which can be said to be the full extent of its cards.

But it’s no wonder that for these state-owned enterprises and public institutions, how much money they earn may not be the most important thing.

The key is "Operation Mekong", which is a mainstream movie!
For China Film Group, the Film Bureau, Golden Shield, and even the ministry, this is the greatest political achievement!

It’s the kind that can be written in reports for several years in a row!

However, the film industry doesn’t care about political achievements. Everyone only cares about and envies the profit-sharing situation of the seven producers including Shanhe Media.

According to the previous gambling agreement between Wei Jin and the theater chain, the producer and distributor can get 47.5% of the shareable box office.

Based on the current box office of 20 billion, minus the film special fund and special business tax, the four companies can get 8.71 million from the shareable box office alone!
In addition, such high-grossing films also enjoy rewards and subsidies from this year's "Film Special Fund", a policy introduced in 2012.

According to the policy interpretation, if the box office exceeds 15 billion, the corresponding reward funds are as high as 1500 million. Add to that 8400 million from patch ads, 1860 million US dollars from copyright transactions, and there are still 40 days of the release period. It is conservatively estimated that the box office revenue will be to million.
Counting all the revenue, minus the 2.5 million production cost and 1 million publicity cost, the industry came to a conclusion:

The net profit of "Operation Mekong" will definitely exceed 9 million yuan, or even reach around 10 billion yuan.

hiss~~~
Countless colleagues in the industry are getting more and more sad the more they think about it. This is equivalent to one or two years of hard work of several listed companies combined!

As expected, my alma mater, Beijing Film Academy, would definitely not miss such a limelight event.

When Wei Jin returned to school, he saw the familiar banner again:
【Warmly congratulate our outstanding graduate and professor of directing department Wei Jin for his new film and his great success! 】

The extra-long red banner hanging at the school gate is so dazzling!
But perhaps because he has experienced a lot, Wei Jin is now calmer and no longer feels so ashamed.

So much so that when passing by the rehearsal hall, Wei Jin had time to stop and admire the school girls, oh no, the students' morning exercises.

Through a whole transparent glass wall, you can see the female students wearing tight training clothes. Their curvy figures and long legs are quite eye-catching.

To be honest, the art examinations of the three major universities are now paying more and more attention to appearance.

As long as it involves performance-related professions, exquisite facial features and body shape are absolutely essential standards.

If Yang Mi's classmate Zhang Xiaofei had taken the entrance exam for Beijing Film Academy in the past few years, he would definitely have been rejected.

Even vocational colleges have already embarked on this path, and we will never see such strange products like Huang Bo again.

Of course, these under-the-table standards will naturally not be applied to the second and third generations.

Otherwise, wouldn’t the relationship that has been built up over many years by one or two generations be wasted?
However, just as Wei Jin was daydreaming, his appearance caused a commotion in the training room, and many female students lost their concentration in practicing.

After all, if Wei Jin could fall in love with me, why would I need to practice martial arts? Wouldn't it be nice to be supported and supported by someone?

He smiled and nodded to the female teacher inside. Under the burning gazes of the female students, Wei Jin could only leave quickly. He couldn't disturb other people's classes, right?

However, as the biggest star of Beijing Film Academy, Wei Jin was always greeted with various respectful greetings and hellos wherever he went.

Nodding and responding all the way, Wei Jin arrived at the Department of Literature. Compared with the Department of Performance, it was much quieter here.

"Teacher Cao, why are you alone today? Where are the others?"

Having cooperated with Cao Baoping many times and the relationship between the two sides was very harmonious, Wei Jin did not be overly polite and asked directly.

Because he noticed that several offices on the way here were empty.

"They are either in class or in a meeting. By the way, your teacher Xue doesn't have class today, but he is busy with the post-production of Seattle 2 at the editing center."

At this point, Cao Baoping raised his head and smiled, "I heard from her that the post-production time for the first film was too long, so this time we will try to get the finished film out earlier so that we can grab a good schedule next year."

"Okay, Mr. Xue is really ambitious now. It seems that he wants to move up from the 6 million director club."

Wei Jin smiled and joked, then looked at Cao Baoping and continued to tease: "But it's true, Mr. Cao is a member of the 7 million directors club, and Mr. Xue and you see each other all the time, so don't you have a competitive spirit? Hahahaha"

"Hey, I'm a director worth 7 million thanks to your script. I can't compare with Xiao Xue, his scriptwriting skills are really strong."

"You can't say that. Didn't the chief designer say that it doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice, it's a good cat?"

"Hahaha, that's true."

After laughing, Teacher Cao's face straightened up, "I called you earlier because I wanted to tell you something. I thought you were going to come to class, so I thought it would be better to talk to you in person."

"Well, Mr. Cao, just go ahead."

"Bernard has confirmed that Burning Sun will be withdrawn from the Lunar New Year schedule. The exact release date is still unclear, but I think it will be a long time. I want to prepare for my new movie during this period."

Wei Jin nodded, and he understood. Is Mr. Cao looking for him to invest? So he smiled and joked:
"Teacher Cao, your husband and wife team is really efficient. Teacher Xue can't compare to you in this respect. Hahahaha"

"Well, that's true."

Cao Baoping nodded, obviously appreciating his wife's efficiency, but then he gave another explanation.

"I accepted investment from Bona last year. Although I am very satisfied with the finished film, how should I put it? The cooperation experience was not very good. The production and casting were interfered with to a certain extent, otherwise this would not have happened."

When talking about this, Cao Baoping had a hint of regret on his face. He had chosen the role of Xu Zhu because of Bernard, but he never expected that he was a drug addict.

However, Wei Jin was not very good at responding to this, otherwise it would be suspected of self-promotion, so he asked instead: "Teacher Cao, what type of script is the new project?"

"Oh, it's a black comedy crime thriller. Here, take a look at the script."

As he spoke, Cao Baoping took out a bound A4 document from the drawer. Wei Jin took it and had a look. There were four big words on the cover - "The Murderer".

Wei Jin never doubted Cao Baoping's ability. After all, he was a filmmaker, screenwriter and director.

Sure enough, after a quick glance, Wei Jin nodded with satisfaction and praised it generously.

“Teacher Cao, the script is very good. Through the segmented structure, it combines stories from different perspectives to form a complex narrative structure.

The whole film is full of black humor and absurd elements, which is similar to "Nobody". If it is handled well, it will have a promising future! "

"Hahaha, you think so too, I really think this story is good."

Cao Baoping was obviously very happy to be praised by Wei Jin, but he immediately asked: "So let's just settle it like this?"

"No problem. After Mr. Cao has prepared the budget details, please come directly to the company to sign the contract."

"it is good."

(End of this chapter)