Chinese Entertainment

Chapter 703 The Dust Settles "Kung Fu 2"

State Administration of Radio, Film and Television.

It has been more than two months since he came here. The difference from the last time is that Gu Wei clearly feels that the person who came this time has changed.

Most celebrities in the entertainment industry did not come. Perhaps it was because when it came to making decisions, their words did not carry much weight. At least the attitude of the leaders of the General Administration towards them was: "We have discussed it and issued it directly, and they just need to follow it."

The temperature in late October is not low, but you can still feel a hint of chill early in the morning.

Gu Wei put on a thin coat over his T-shirt and went straight to the meeting room with Song Ge and others.

Before he reached the door, Wang Changtian jogged up from behind.

Looking at Big Wang, who was slightly out of breath after running a few steps, Gu Wei looked him up and down, thinking silently in his heart that this guy must be doing a lot of fun in private.

"Director Gu, how long will you stay at home this time?" Wang Changtian asked, panting, as soon as he came over.

Gu Wei glanced at the other party and said, "It's nothing serious and it won't be over for the time being. What's the matter, Director Wang?"

"Well, I plan to put "The Four 2" during the Spring Festival, and I wanted to ask if there are any vacancies for Running Man, haha!" Wang Changtian said with a smug smile.

Gu Wei glanced at Song Ge, the meaning was self-evident. In theory, these matters were not his business.

Song Ge rolled his eyes at Old Wang and said, "Boss Wang, you suddenly said that the movie will be released during the Spring Festival without informing me in advance..."

After hearing this, Gu Wei understood that the production of "The Four 2" had been delayed for too long, and Wang Changtian probably wanted to release it as soon as possible, and Running Man is one of the best promotional platforms now.

But each season of Running Man is filmed in advance, and the second season is almost over. The company plans to film the third season from the end of November to the end of January next year.

"Mr. Wang, how about you release it later and we can organize a special show for you when the third season starts recording?" Even though he was a little impatient, Song Ge had to say this after all as he was one of the partners.

"Mr. Song, stop joking. The schedule has been set, how can you delay it? Besides, even if you can delay it, you can't wait for a few months." Wang Changtian said with a smile.

Song Ge spread his hands to indicate that he was powerless. Wang Changtian had no choice but to look at Gu Wei, who shook his head to indicate that there was nothing he could do.

Running Man is broadcast for about three months every year. This year's show started in July and the last episode ended in early October. Even Gu Wei can't do anything about it.

Wang Changtian was just trying it out originally, but now seeing that Xingchen Film and Television really had no solution, he didn’t dwell on it any more and instead started talking about other topics.

The higher-ups have made up their minds, and there is a high probability that this meeting will announce a ban on artists with bad records.

Something like Huayi Company will not take the lead in opposing this time, and the big and small Wangs are scared.

Although Wang Changtian was full of gossip, his words still stunned Gu Wei, who silently felt that Wang Changtian was worthy of the title of "underground agent" in the entertainment industry. It seemed that there was no "gossip" that he didn't know.

A few people were sharing gossip when Jiang Wen and Zhang Yimou arrived one after another.

The two hadn't seen each other for a long time, so they were naturally happy to see each other again. Zhang Yimou took the lead in asking, "How are the preparations for the release of One Step Away going?"

“Haha, it’s not bad. With the support of Director Gu, the publicity is great.

By the way, have you finished filming Jurassic World? " Jiang Wen replied cheerfully.

"No, I will go there again after the New Year. I heard that One Step Away is good. Director Gu praised it to me several times. I will appreciate it when I have time."

"Oh, Director Gu also praises me sometimes, it's rare." Jiang Wen said to Gu Wei after hearing this. After seeing Gu Wei's expression, he continued to say to Zhang Yimou: "No problem, you can choose the time, I welcome you anytime. This version is really good, it's a masterpiece."

Perhaps he thought that he was boasting about his products, so Jiang Wen continued, "After all, it's still a Chinese film, not like Director Zhang's Hollywood blockbusters, which are made by international directors."

"Oh, just average, just average." Zhang Yimou waved his hand. He was tired of hearing compliments in the past few days since he came back. He had heard too many nice words.

"Okay, you two continue praising each other, I'll go in first." Gu Wei shook his head, intending to ignore these two people.

After saying that, he strode into the conference room. Then, Jiang Wen's voice came from behind, "Brother, brother, wait for me."

Ignoring Jiang Wen, Gu Wei went straight to his seat and sat down. Not long after, Jiang Wen came over happily, holding a brand-name item.

"You..." Looking at the name tag in Jiang Wen's hand, Gu Wei was speechless.

"Hey, Director Zhang and I just switched places. You two see each other every day, so it doesn't matter if you wait a little longer."

To be honest, Gu Wei is a little afraid of Jiang Wen now. This guy is really too much of a troublemaker. He keeps asking for publicity resources and refuses to spend more money, saying that all the money has been used to make the movie. Now he is so poor that he almost has to go to Gu Wei's house for meals.

"When is your wedding date with Yifei?" Jiang Wen asked as soon as he sat down.

"Don't forget your share of the money on December 12th." Gu Wei glanced at the other person.

"No problem. This is a good time. It will be right after the release of One Step Away. The movie will be a big hit at the box office, which is more practical than any membership fee."

"Fuck you, you want to save this money?" Gu Wei complained.

"What are you saving? I'm planning to give you two a big red envelope, but eight figures is a bit hard to come up with, so seven figures is the minimum, hehe."

Jiang Wen felt a little embarrassed for having taken so much advantage of Xingchen Film and Television Company during this period, but as he said, the money was spent wisely. He had enough money to eat, but he lacked money to do things.

"hehe."

“By the way, you and Yifei can’t miss the movie premiere. There will be interviews and there will also be easter eggs about Yifei’s cameo appearance.” Jiang Wen said immediately when he saw Gu Wei’s smiling face.

When Gu Wei heard this, his smile immediately disappeared. It seems that you are not going to let my wife go even?

The two chatted for a while, and then the participants arrived one after another. Although there were not many people at this meeting, there were all the heavyweights, and almost all the big directors from Hong Kong were also present.

As soon as Zhou Xingchi took his seat, Gu Wei immediately greeted him through a few people.

"Director Gu, I'm sorry about The Mermaid!" Zhou Xingchi knew Gu Wei's status in the domestic entertainment industry and felt a little apologetic for not being able to reach a collaboration.

"It's okay. I was the one who made Song Ge give up." Gu Wei explained.

Hearing this, Zhou Xingchi understood instantly. No wonder the active Song Ge suddenly became silent. He thought that several other companies had joined forces to squeeze out Xingchen Film and Television Company.

Zhou Xingchi is not good at speaking. After knowing that the misunderstanding was resolved, he didn't know what to say and just remained silent.

"Director Zhou, do you have time to chat after the meeting?" Gu Wei was not very interested in "The Mermaid". More than a dozen companies including China Film Group and Light Media had joined in, and even if Star Films Company participated, it would not have much share. However, he was quite interested in the sequel to Zhou Xingchi's "Kung Fu".

"Um, okay." Zhou Xingchi thought for a while and decided to accept it.

The two of them were talking quite loudly. For a moment, Han Sanping, Wang Changtian, Yu Dong and others nearby were exchanging glances, obviously curious about what they were talking about when they met.
...

This meeting was again chaired by Director Tong, who went straight to the point, "Let's continue from the last time and try to finalize the content of the document so that everyone won't have to run back again." In an instant, the whole place fell silent; the time to decide fate had come.

"Regarding whether to ban bad artists, the General Administration has decided after several meetings..." Director Tong glanced around and finally emphasized the words, "Banned them all."

"Wow." Even though many people knew the result through rumors, when these words came out, some people still couldn't accept it.

But, can the people below change what is decided from above?

It's impossible, the best outcome is to accept it silently.

Just like the two Wangs with grim expressions, they did not dare to raise any objections this time, and the same was true for Ren Zhonglun of Shanghai Film Studio.

Wang Changtian took the opportunity to give Gu Wei a look, meaning that it was done.

Now that the ban on artists with bad records has been decided, everyone's attention has turned to another issue: how to deal with films, TV series and other film and television cultural works that have not yet been released or aired, as well as proposals on how to deal with those works that have already been released to the public.

Finally, under strong intervention from above, the leaders of the General Administration made the decision to remove all film and television works featuring drug-related actors that had already been released and broadcast.

But it is not a one-size-fits-all death. There is a way out for everyone, which is that they can modify or delete the shots and clips of bad artists, and then release them to the public after passing the review. However, before that, they are not allowed to log in to major video websites.

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Seeing that the General Administration was so strong this time, some people could no longer sit still.

When discussing how to deal with film and television works involving drug-related actors that have not been released or broadcast, Ren Zhonglun publicly expressed his opposition.

The reason is very lofty. A movie costs too much money and manpower. If the whole thing is denied because of one person's mistake, it will cause huge losses...

After hearing this, the head of the General Administration looked at La Peikang and Han Sanping, who then turned to look at Gu Wei and said, "These excuses cannot be grounds for opposition, and we cannot deny the principled issues because of the losses. If we want to ban the film, we must ban it to the end. We cannot release it after retouching the pictures, then take it down after a while."

La Peikang then also said a few words, directly expressing his support for Han Sanping, and then mentioned Gu Wei and asked him to express his opinion.

Hearing this, Gu Wei secretly complained, you two keep talking about how great it is, and you even want to drag me in to block the bullets, that's really cool.

"I agree with the proposal of President Han and President La. At the same time, all theaters and video websites under Xingchen Film and Television Company will refuse to screen film and television works containing shots of artists with bad records." Since he was going to say it, he might as well say it in a big way. Gu Wei went all in.

As expected, the others immediately lost their composure.

"Director Gu, do you mean all the cinema chains and video websites under your company, including Tudou?" Wang Zhongjun asked.

"include."

As soon as he finished speaking, the corners of Wang Zhongjun's mouth twitched slightly, and he thought silently in his heart: "You are really willing to give it up."

After all, Tudou Video currently occupies 51.56% of the entire market share, and it has been actively acquiring film and television copyrights over the years. If it really does this, the losses can be imagined.

"All cinema chains and video websites under China Film also refuse to allow artists with bad records to appear on screen..." La Peikang stated.

"The light also refuses..."

"Wanda refuses..."

One voice after another sounded, representing the determination to purify the domestic entertainment environment...

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After the General Administration meeting, the matter was settled, but it would still take a few days to go through the process. Gu Wei estimated that the document would be issued by the end of the month at the latest.

At this time, the vigorous online debate attracted Gu Wei's attention.

"Produced by Xingchen Films and starring Chen Xiao, Zhao Liying, Jiang Xin and others, the large-scale ancient costume fairy tale drama "The Journey of Flower" has now completed more than half of its post-production and is expected to be broadcast on major satellite TV stations during the summer of next year..."

"Producer Jiang Xueluo said that the drama had a high investment amount and was well-made, with special effects shots produced by Tiangong Color. It will be far better than many of the currently airing Xianxia dramas."

"Xingchen Film and Television Company's TV drama production director Jiang Xueruo seems to be hinting at the 50-cent special effects of "Gu Jian Qi Tan"..."

"Director Jiang Xueruo said in an interview that "Gu Jian Qi Tan" is not worthy of being called a fairy tale drama. The plot is crudely made, the special effects are inferior, and the actors' acting is exaggerated..."

"Several star satellite TV stations, including Mango TV and Blueberry TV, have expressed their intention to purchase the film from Xingchen Films!"

With the popularity of the fantasy drama "Gu Jian Qi Tan", Jiang Xueruo, director of Xingchen Film and Television Company, started a conflict with the other party.

The reason is that since the broadcast of "Gu Jian Qi Tan" on July 7, the ratings have been astonishing.

The ratings on the first day of broadcast reached 1.57%, and remained the national network ratings champion for the next ten weeks, breaking the weekly drama ratings record. In the second week of broadcast, the ratings further increased to 2.02%, becoming the most popular fairy tale fantasy idol drama at the time.

In addition, "Gu Jian Qi Tan" was broadcast on Mango TV's "Diamond Exclusive Theater" with an average viewership rating of 1.314, showing its popularity at the time.

The series not only performed well in terms of TV ratings, but also had an astonishing number of online views. As of October 2014, the total number of online views of "Gu Jian Qi Tan" exceeded 10 billion, with a single episode reaching over 60 million times, and the highest number of views per day approaching 1.5 million.

These data show that "Gu Jian Qi Tan" attracted widespread attention and discussion at the time and became a phenomenal TV series.

Ever since Star Films, Light Media and Wanda Films jointly issued a statement to ban artists with bad records, the entire circle seemed to be secretly targeting them.

They can't compete with movies. Not to mention the record of "The Wandering Earth", even "Lost in Thailand" is enough for them to catch up.

So these people's attention is naturally focused on TV dramas, but even more than TV dramas, they still have to choose their targets. The "Ghost Blows Out the Light: The Cave of Dragon Ridge" aired in early August was more popular, with a peak viewership rating of nearly three points.

"The Journey of Flower", which has not yet been aired, has become the object of comparison. After all, according to their thinking, "Gu Jian Qi Tan" has all the advantages.

"Gu Jian Qi Tan" starring Yang Mi, Li Yifeng, Chen Weiting, Zhang Zhiyao and others is much more popular and well-known than Chen Xiao and Zhao Liying.

As a result, "The Journey of Flower" was taken out by some people with ulterior motives, and major media outlets praised "Gu Jian Qi Tan" and belittled "The Journey of Flower" in their reports.

The male lead Chen Xiao was even mocked by the internet trolls for being short-sighted. He gave up Yu Zheng's "The Return of the Condor Heroes" and chose "The Journey of Flower" produced by Xingchen Film and Television Company, which was undoubtedly self-destructive to his star career.

Seeing this scene, how could Jiang Xueruo swallow this humiliation? Influenced by other people in Xingchen Film and Television Company, Jiang Xueruo in this life was also extremely tough.

Just like that, when being interviewed by the media, Jiang Xueruo started to criticize.

But now "Gu Jian Qi Tan" can be said to be a phenomenal TV series, and its large number of crazy fans and the internet trolls behind it have directly launched attacks.

Just when Jiang Xueruo and her people were arguing with the internet trolls, Gu Wei waited for Zhou Xingchi to visit the company.

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(End of this chapter)