Huayu started as a substitute director

Chapter 323 Towards the New Century

The conference hall is spacious and brightly lit. The floor is covered with red carpet, and the national flag and party flag are placed on both sides of the stage.

The whole atmosphere looks solemn and dignified!
Sitting in front of Fang Hong were the heads of the Propaganda Departments, Cultural Departments (Bureaus), Radio, Film and Television Departments (Bureaus), and state-owned film studios of the provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government.

He also saw Zhang Hongsen, and Zhang Hongsen turned around and saw him. The two looked at each other, and everything was said without words.

Now the Film Bureau is still a department under the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television and has not been separated out, so its level is not very high.

However, with the development of the times, more and more people will go to the movies, and the status of the Film Bureau will become more and more prominent. After all, its share of output value has skyrocketed year by year.

Movies themselves are an important part of culture!

Zhang Hongsen seemed to want to say something to Fang Hong, but it was obvious that the occasion was not appropriate and it was not the time to communicate.

This person will be promoted to director this year, and his position will become higher and higher.

Anyway, many people will be promoted this year, and when someone is promoted, someone will retire. For example, Zuoshandiao will retire after this year. This is a great change of the times.

In the future film market, it doesn’t matter whether China Film Group distributes the film or not. The market will decide.

"This is for you." Chen Zhixi handed Fang Hong a notebook and a gel pen.

"Uh? Is it necessary?" Fang Hong was surprised.

"Just for show. When the leader is speaking on the stage, you always have to move your pen. Otherwise, it would be so embarrassing if you do nothing when the leader looks at you." Chen Zhixi said.

Fang Hong understood what he meant. He looked around and found that most people had paper and pen, including Brother Song next to him.

Everyone is taking notes, and you are the only one who doesn't know what to do, which will make you look awkward.

Brother Song is the one who served as the chairman of BJ Culture and invested in "Wolf Warrior 2", causing the market value of BJ Culture to soar by hundreds of billions.

Then they frantically cashed out and committed financial fraud, which led to internal strife within the company, causing the company to suffer huge losses and owe huge debts.

However, BJ Culture has not yet been established, and this person is currently the general manager of Wanda Film and Television.

He has worked in many companies, including Perfect World and Wanda. He will leave this year, and later Ferris Wheel Culture also belonged to him.

He does have the ability, otherwise he wouldn't be able to become the boss or general manager of every company he goes to.

"Mr. Fang is young and promising, there is a chance for us to cooperate." Brother Song said with a smile.

"Well, we'll talk about it when we have a chance." Fang Hong replied perfunctorily.

He would not cooperate with people who play with film and television capital like this. Once the movie takes off, they cash out frantically and destroy a listed company with a market value of over 10 billion.

It enriches yourself but harms everyone else. Your ideological levels are different and you cannot play together.

The film market is like this. A movie takes at least several months from production to release, or even a year. No one wants to run the business properly, but Fang Hong is an exception.

Seeing his undisguised perfunctory attitude, Song Ge lost interest.

The leader hasn’t arrived yet and there is a buzzing sound of communication at the scene.

After the leader arrived, everyone in the audience fell silent and focused their attention.

The leaders walked out from the backstage and appeared on the stage in a queue. They all looked energetic and in high spirits.

As arranged, they walked to the back of their respective seats, then sat in their seats, facing the audience, with a casual posture.

If you care about national affairs and watch the news frequently, you will know that the level of the leaders coming this time is still very high.

They are all ministerial-level leaders.

This department of the General Administration of Press and Publication has not been abolished yet.

Each leader had a microphone in front of him. The leader of the Propaganda Department wore glasses and scanned the audience.

"I am pleased to see many young faces today, which proves that our country's film and television industry has successors and is thriving."

The leader of the Propaganda Department said something casually, and the audience was silent. They wanted to flatter the leaders because of their leadership, but it was not appropriate to speak at this time.

The leader glanced at other colleagues and saw that they were ready, so the meeting officially began.

The leaders took the manuscript and began their speeches at the conference.

The beginning is definitely a grand narrative: "In order to meet the people's growing spiritual and cultural needs, film workers must strengthen their sense of historical responsibility, work together, forge ahead, create more masterpieces that are worthy of the people and the times, and greet the new century with outstanding achievements."

After the grand narrative, the report began on last year’s film and television performance, including how many movies were released, how much box office revenue was earned, and how many theaters were added.

How many TV dramas have been completed, how many realistic themes, how many historical themes, how many major themes, etc.

The overall situation of creative production is stable, and the situation of oversupply has been initially reversed. In the future, demand will exceed supply.

Very good! Steady and improving!
The leaders above spoke slowly, and Fang Hong and the people below listened slowly. Some took notes, while others pretended to please the leaders.

Fang Hong just scribbled on the paper without actually writing anything. The same was true for Chen Zhixi and Song Ge beside him.

Only then did we get to the point and release several important signals.

The first is to merge the original General Administration of Press and Publication and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television to establish a new management department: the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television.

This adjustment is to strengthen functions, which will indicate that the protection of film and television intellectual property rights will be more stringent. Many film and television platforms that do not have copyrights will be cleared or removed from the shelves.

This is good for the prosperity of the film and television industry because copyrights will become more valuable. It will also end the era of chaos and the concentration of resources.

In other words, if you don’t have the strength of BAT, forget about setting up a film and television platform because you can’t afford the copyright.

Of course, the era when netizens want to watch movies and TV for free like before is slowly coming to an end, and they will have to buy memberships in the future.

Second, the film industry supervision system will further elevate the supervision of the film industry to the national legal level, which is only a draft. Third, the film review system will delegate the final review function of the film to the provincial film administrative department, but of course it still needs to be reported to the General Administration for approval and filing.

This is also the reason why film and television companies have sprung up everywhere, so that films can be reviewed locally.

It is no longer limited to the film review by the General Administration.

To complement this system, the film distribution business license system is decentralized, and film distribution units can apply to the provinces and cities where they are located.

If you cross provinces or municipalities, you need to apply to the higher-level bureau.

The responsibilities of old distribution companies such as Huayi, Guangguang, Bona, and China Film will be weakened and shifted to market-oriented competition.

In other words, as long as you have the ability and channels, you can apply for a license to distribute movies, whether they distribute it or not.

This is also another reason why capital entered the market and later there were more than a dozen companies distributing a movie.

Because as long as it is a qualified company, it can apply for an issuance license!
The fourth is the theater distribution system. This made Fang Hong straighten his back and concentrate his attention. This is the system he cares about most, that is, whether the theaters will open up to capital.

This means that other cinemas can be acquired in the future.

In the past, mergers were not allowed and you had to build it yourself, and there were strict requirements for mergers.

It says above that more than 8 cinemas and theaters can initiate the establishment of a cinema chain within a province; 10 cinemas and theaters can initiate the establishment of an inter-provincial cinema chain.

A cinema can only join one cinema chain and can make a new choice after the contract expires.

It is still the same. Cinemas within the province only need to apply for approval locally. If they cross provinces, they must report to the General Administration for approval.

It also said that domestic companies, enterprises and other economic organizations and individuals are encouraged to invest in the construction and renovation of cinemas and operate film screening businesses.

Of course, it is limited to domestic capital companies.

This was the beginning of the subsequent wave of cinema mergers, but it has not been announced yet, it is just a leak, otherwise the film and television stocks would not have risen so much this year.

Just because they are encouraged by their superiors to open cinemas, those restrictions are not a problem for capital.

Then we talked about the movie screening revenue sharing system, which was also the revenue sharing system we agreed on before the New Year, and I would like to make it clear again here.

Then he talked about the cultural industry revitalization plan, tax preferential policies, etc., all of which were positive factors.

Tax incentives, encouragement for cinemas, revitalization planning, decentralization of censorship, copyright regulations, etc., all the policies mentioned by the leaders are good for the film industry.

The higher-ups are aware of the need to develop the film industry, which is good for the entire film industry.

The bosses of those film and television companies all had varying degrees of joy on their faces, especially the two listed company CEOs of Guangxian's Wang Changtian and Huayi's Xiao Wang, who could not hide their joy at all.

Just because they are a film company and a listed company, this series of terms are all beneficial to the film market.

If this rumor gets out, their stock price will take off.

Other unlisted companies are quite depressed. It is good for them, but the benefits are limited because they cannot quickly accumulate funds, expand their scale, and expand their industry.

Fatty Yu was even more depressed. He regretted going public in the United States. He could not raise funds because the American people did not buy his company's stocks.

They have six big ones, where did Bona get the wild chicken?

There are only a few film and television companies listed on the A-share market, including Huayi, Guangxian, Ciwen, and Huace.

Ciwen and Huace are in the TV drama business, so the benefits to them are limited. The TV drama business will naturally develop, so there is no need to worry about it.

Other companies are not listed. There are advantages, such as more freedom in creating movies, but they cannot cash in quickly.

Wanda Pictures was only listed in 2015. Most famous film and television companies were listed in those one or two years, including China Film.

That is, the system was promulgated and continuously improved during those two years.

However, Fang Hong’s Yutu has no plans to be launched on the market, so he has no interest in it. He is only interested in cinemas.

Production, promotion and terminals can be connected together.

Yutu is used for production, Tupiaopiao and Chang'e Technology Video Platform are used for promotion and marketing, and cinemas are used as the terminal, forming a perfect closed loop.

After the movie is closed in theaters, Chang'e Technology's video platform can also be used as a mobile terminal, which is simply perfect.

Every step Fang Hong takes is to build his own self-circulating system. He does not intend to rely on others but only on his own industry.

He was mainly hurt by Tencent and Wanda. The employees who worked for him were bossy to him and didn't take him seriously at all.

This is what it means to not have your own industrial chain. Even if you have money, it’s useless. Money is useless. Others can borrow hundreds of billions from banks, but can he?
Loaning billions is a huge amount, we also need to check his repayment ability.

“.I hope that the majority of film workers will work together and unite to create more excellent films with Chinese style and style, and promote Chinese films to the world and into the new century.”

Finally, the leaders ended with this sentence, and there was warm applause from the audience.

The meeting lasted for an hour or two before the specific measures for the future were discussed.

Of course, many of them are drafts, which are just directions. The details still need to be improved based on the market.

For example, there will be no specific regulations for the supervision of online dramas, online variety shows, online movies, live broadcasts, short videos, etc. in the future.

Anyway, Fang Hong knew that it was okay for "ghosts" to appear in online dramas nowadays.

"Now, please raise your hands, front-line filmmakers, and tell us about your difficulties and needs," the radio and television leader said into the microphone.

After they finished speaking, it was the turn of the film workers below to speak. After all, they were on the front line and needed to listen to the opinions of those below them.

Of course, listening is one thing, but whether to adopt it or not is another matter.

(End of this chapter)