Huayu: Director started with art films

Chapter 74 [The gradually declining film market] Please read
Among the many leaders of Emei Film Studio, the person Li Yishu is most familiar with, besides Deputy Director Chen, is Han Sanping.

Deputy Director Chen was his father’s old boss, and it was he who arranged for Li Yishu to join the factory in his previous life.

After working for him for a few years, I found that he was a good person overall, but his development prospects were poor. When the regional film studios were reformed in the millennium, Deputy Director Chen basically retreated to the second line.

Han Sanping was different. He took one step at a time and went to Beijing Film Studio to become its director. Later, he became the chairman of China Film Corporation.

It goes without saying who you can get along well with.

So Han Sanping invited Li Yishu to come back and have a visit, and he gladly agreed.

in the afternoon.

In Han Sanping's office.

"Not bad, not bad, Yishu, I was right about you!"

Han Sanping is extremely satisfied with Li Yishu. Not only did she win awards overseas, but a few days ago, Li Yishu also became a big star in Taiwan with this movie. Even CCTV organized an exclusive interview program for her.

During the interview, Li Yishu never forgot the people who dug the well and mentioned Emei Film Studio in particular.

Naturally, the higher-ups praised Emei Film Studio for its bold move to hire new directors.

Li Yishu smiled and said, "Third Uncle, you are too polite. It's just a small achievement, so don't praise me anymore. If you praise me again, I will become arrogant."

"Haha, it's okay to praise me, but you must remember not to be arrogant or impatient."

"I understand, Uncle San."

Seeing that Li Yishu was still as respectful as last year, Han Sanping was very satisfied and said, "I have read the script of "Red Ling". It is very well written. It is a key project for our factory to promote next year. Your father Li Jian is also an experienced director. If you give it to him, everyone in the factory will approve of it..."

Hearing this, Li Yishu raised his eyebrows. He didn't believe the words "approved by everyone in the factory".

Having worked at Emei Film Studio for a few years, Li Yishu is well aware of how sought-after the position of a film director is.

My father Li Jian’s qualifications are definitely sufficient, after all, he has been in the industry for more than 20 years. However, it was probably the factory director who made the final decision for him to successfully serve as the director of "Red Ling" and have the film selected as a key promotion project.

After all, the script belongs to Li Yishu, and he gave it to his father instead of to Emei Film Studio.

Han Sanping suddenly said, "By the way, Yishu, after Farewell My Concubine, do you have any new film production plans? No matter what production plans you have, the studio will fully support you!"

Li Yishu shook her head. "Uncle, I haven't thought about it that much yet. I'm thinking I'd better finish filming Farewell My Concubine first. Producer Xu Xu has been looking forward to this movie for several years. If I'm invited to film it, I will definitely work hard and I won't be indecisive."

The connections at Emei Film Studio must not be cut off, but Li Yishu really has no projects to cooperate with Emei Film Studio right now. Fortunately, she has the relationship with her father Li Jian. This time, "Red Ling" can be regarded as the first cooperation, and it was made into a co-production between China and Hong Kong. The interests can be guaranteed, and it also lays a foundation for the next cooperation.

"That's true." Han Sanping was a little disappointed, but he didn't say anything.

The two chatted for a while about the current domestic film market.

When Han Sanping heard Li Yishu say that the future will definitely be an era of commercial films, his eyes lit up.

Although there are still many art films in China, and it seems that they are flourishing, Han Sanping, as the deputy director of the film production company, is aware that the film market is becoming increasingly sluggish.

In the past few years, any good movie could earn hundreds of millions at the box office.

Moreover, because Han Sanping is a leader, he is able to obtain data that is unknown to the outside world. According to film data from the 70s and 80s, the annual number of moviegoers in China is close to 300 billion, and the average annual number of movies per person is about 30.

According to last year's data, the number of moviegoers was only 144 billion.

This is partly due to the increasing popularity of televisions, but more importantly, it is due to the rapid economic development and the increasing number of foreign things, which has had a huge impact on the domestic art film market.

Hong Kong movies, Hollywood movies, and exciting Category III movies...

This also led to a boom in video parlor business across the country, with more and more people opening video parlors.

Although the video room only had one color TV and the environment was extremely poor, many people still chose to go there as they could watch films of different themes for only 50 cents per person.

Not to mention that at night, for an additional fee, the boss will play some stimulating videos.

So if we want to bring people back to the cinema, we have to find a way. Seeing that Han Sanping seemed to be thinking about making a commercial film, Li Yishu said with a smile: "Uncle San, no one can predict what will happen in the future. I just said it casually."

"Yeah, no one can say what will happen in the future."

Han Sanping smiled. He was only the deputy director of Emei Film Studio and did not have the ability to take care of these matters.

New Year's Eve.

mountain city.

Jiang Qinqin was studying in the room. She had been studying hard for the past six months and had made remarkable progress.

The tutors all praised her for being smart.

This made Jiang Qinqin very happy.

As she watched, her mind was focused on the outside, and her ears perked up just to hear the footsteps outside the door.

Tread-

Just then, she heard dull footsteps outside. She quickly opened the window, ignoring the cold wind, and looked towards the yard outside.

"咚咚-"

The door is wide open.

Father Jiang came in pushing a bicycle, and following closely behind him was Li Yishu!

"Brother Yishu!" Seeing Li Yishu coming, Jiang Qinqin waved excitedly at the window.

"Qinqin."

Looking at Jiang Qinqin in the window, Li Yishu also smiled.

"Wait for me~"

As if she thought of something, Jiang Qinqin hurriedly closed the window, and there was another noise in the house.

Father Jiang saw this scene and didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Yishu, I'm sorry, I made you laugh. This girl knew you were coming, and she has been acting crazy these past few days."

"Haha, Uncle Jiang, how could that be? I think Qinqin is quite cute and interesting."

Li Yishu smiled and followed Jiang's father into the house.

He came here to pay New Year's greetings early, because around the third day of the New Year, he would have to fly back to Yanjing to start preparing for the crew.

The actors can come later, but he, as the director, must arrive at the crew early to coordinate the entire crew.

Moreover, the final finishing work of "Love Letter" had to be done by him before the person in charge in Japan could take it back.

In fact, it only took about half a month to edit this film, and the rest of the time was basically spent on post-production.

Toho has also given a specific screening time, which is February 2, the tenth day of the first lunar month. The next day, the 13th, happens to be Valentine's Day in the West.

No one in the mainland knows about it yet, and no one has ever passed it.

But Japan is more influenced by American culture, and Valentine's Day and Christmas are very popular there.

It is much more serious than in China decades later, and it can be said that it is a festival that is almost completely accepted by local Japanese people.

In the past, romantic films released during this period all had good box office results.

Not to mention that the director this time is Li Yishu, the Chinese director who was very popular at the end of last year, and the cast is all Japanese actors. Toho people estimate that there will be at least 800 million viewers.

(End of this chapter)