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Chapter 385 The Prototype of Bilibili, Director Chen: People cannot be so shameless!

In the last few days of 2005, two major events occurred.

The first thing is the incident regarding the Morning Glory Group and the Golden Rooster Awards which has been making a lot of noise in the country in the past two months.

In fact, this is the second time this year that the Morning Glory Group has come into conflict with other stakeholders.

The last time was Baidu.

The final outcome was that the Morning Glory Group won with an overwhelming advantage, and Baidu was also taken over by the Morning Glory Group.

This is the domestic search engine giant!

Now it is almost becoming a subsidiary of Chenguang Group.

Before the Chinese people could recover from the shock, Zhang Chen once again challenged the traditional forces in the film industry at the end of the year.

Just when everyone thought that Zhang Chen had hit a wall this time, after all, the other party was not a private enterprise like Baidu. The forces behind the Golden Rooster Awards were complicated and could not be simply measured by business logic.

The process was just as everyone expected. Many movies invested by Morning Light Entertainment were stuck in review for various reasons.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is a warning to Zhang Chen and a response to Zhang Chen’s previous announcement.

Many people believe that Zhang Chen did not show up afterwards not because he needed to deal with the company's listing in the United States, but more because he did not know how to deal with the ban on the movies he invested in, nor did he know how to respond to questions from domestic media.

When everyone thought that Zhang Chen would call a press conference to "clarify" that the announcement was not issued by him, and would find a way to ease the relationship with the other party.

The other party knelt down!

She kneels so gracefully!
They didn't know whether Zhang Chen put in any effort, but they knew that Zhang Chen won completely.

As soon as this news came out today, Zhang Chen directly became the top star in the film industry.

Who dares to go against Zhang Chen?
A few years ago, they unknowingly shifted their focus from China Film to Morning Glory Cinemas, or the Morning Glory Group. After all, the number of screens controlled by Morning Glory Cinemas is now approaching 50%.

I believe that when the data comes out at the end of the year, it will be a surprise to people in the industry.

With just one cinema chain controlling nearly half of the screens in the country, which director or producer would go to China Film to discuss release and scheduling?
Even if China Film Group gives you the film, it will be useless if Morning Light Cinemas does not approve it.

If they used to think that Morning Glory Cinemas would give face to China Film and allow it to schedule screenings for Chinese films.

After today's incident, they are more willing to believe that Morning Light Cinemas is the behind-the-scenes operator that will dominate every movie in the future.

The status of Chenguang Group was achieved through repeated struggles!
"Director Tong, why don't you go talk to Zhang Chen? If this continues, China Film Group will soon become a mere decoration."

Han Sanping cannot understand things that others can understand.

After today's news came out, China Film Group will probably have a harder time.

Now many directors and producers no longer take China Film Corporation seriously.

"Tell me how to talk to him. With that guy's personality, he can bring you topics to all sorts if you talk to him."

"I have no objection to other matters, but if this guy really arranges Hollywood movies during popular periods, what will happen if the domestic movie annual box office can't maintain half of it?"

Tong Gang was processing documents at first, but he put down his work after hearing this, looked at Han Sanping and said seriously: "If this is true, then it means that you, China Film Group, have not played a good leading role!"

"I want to take the lead, but now there's the Morning Light Group inexplicably above me. Director Tong, how can I still take the lead?!"

"On the contrary, I think it's good for Hollywood movies to be released during popular schedules." Tong Gang didn't care. "Zhang Chen complained about the Golden Rooster Awards, but is there no one complaining about those movie directors?"

Tong Gang did not wait for Han Sanping to refute, and turned the computer screen to show Han Sanping: "Look at what these domestic directors have shot with such good conditions?!"

Han Sanping looked at the computer in confusion.

He has seen all the movies that were released recently, but there is no movie that made Tong Gang so angry, right?

With doubt, he saw the Firefox wandering on the movie screen, and a video title of CGT player - "A murder caused by a steamed bun"

When he wanted to ask, Tong Gang pressed the play button.

"A small steamed bun led to a bloody murder.
They should be innocent children.

But because of a small thing, human nature was distorted.

What makes his psychological endurance so fragile?
XXX was ordered to arrest"

Han Sanping was puzzled at first, but when he saw that the content of the video was obviously a gun version of "The Promise", he frowned again.

When he saw that the video also included the content of the Spoon Channel news host, his brows furrowed even more.

When the commentary in the video mentioned "Ring within a Ring Entertainment City" and paired it with the city in "The Promise", the corners of my mouth twitched.

Then, after the video of "the main job is to put on and take off clothes" was added with Zhang Baizhi's repeated ghost videos of him repeatedly picking up clothes, Han Sanping finally couldn't help it.
"Director Tong, this is..."

“This is a video edited by a netizen after watching The Promise.”

"Isn't this an infringement of The Promise's copyright?"

"Can you tell me which browser and video player it is?"

Tong Gang pointed at the screen and asked Han Sanping to see the web page clearly.

"Firefox CGT player?!" Han Sanping was stunned at first, then he reacted, "Could it be that Brother Chen Kai has already given the digital copyright of the movie to CGT?"

"Don't you know the current situation? Before a movie is released, the digital copyright of the movie will be sold to CGT players. After all, a movie costs tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, which is not a small amount of money."

The price of digital movie rights is so low now.

When the Morning Glory Group went to Golden Harvest in Hong Kong Island to discuss digital copyrights, the package price was only 980 million RMB.

You should know that Golden Harvest’s copyright library contains nearly 200 movies, and the average price of the digital copyright of a movie is only about 5.

That is to say, as the Internet becomes more and more developed, prices have risen.

However, since CGT Player is the only video website in China, these directors and producers have no choice but to cooperate with CGT when selling the copyright, which is originally like waste.

However, I heard that other Internet companies have already started cooperating and want to develop in this direction. It is not clear what the future market situation will be like.

But for now, this is the only choice.

"But the digital copyright belongs to the CGT player, and the movie is still in theaters, which doesn't fit the cooperation between the directors and them." Han Sanping also sorted out his thoughts, "Also, it's not the author's turn to create a second work, he doesn't have the copyright."

“Didn’t you see the statement at the beginning of the video?”

"What?" Seeing that Han Sanping wasn't paying attention, Tong Gang rewound the video.

The subtitles at the beginning of the video read "This video has been authorized by the copyright owner and may not be reproduced without permission."

"What is Zhang Chen trying to do?!" Han Sanping got angry when he saw this.

As for the relationship between the CGT player and Zhang Chen, anyone who knows a little bit about it knows that there is an inexplicable relationship between the two.

After Morning Glory Music (USA) and Facebook went public, one of the companies on the list of shareholders was a company called CGT Technology, whose products included the CGT player.

And Zhang Chen has very close contacts with these companies.

So many people speculated that Zhang Chen wanted to use the video player to "monopolize" the Internet in the film and television industry, just like he did with Morning Glory Music.

But now Zhang Chen's behavior has clearly violated the interests of the film producers.

Although "The Promise" has been released for more than two weeks, the box office data has begun to weaken, and pirated resources have also begun to leak out. However, if the movie has not been taken off the screen for a certain period of time, the CGT player will not play the digital version of the resource.

This is also the agreement reached between film directors and CGT players.

Generally speaking, it takes more than half a year for a movie to be played on a CGT player after it is taken off the screen. This is also for market considerations.

If the release times of the two films are too close, movie fans will have an additional option of watching the films online.

People go to the cinema to watch movies not only because it provides the best viewing experience, but most importantly because of the communication between movie fans and the communication with colleagues and friends to keep up with the trend.

Topics such as gossip, new movies, new TV series, etc. are always one of the must-have options for starting conversations among friends and colleagues.

A sentence like "Hey, have you seen the latest XXX movie?"

If you answered "Yes."

Then you can communicate pleasantly for a long time, promote your mutual feelings, and bring you closer together. Especially for a boy who is pursuing the girl of his dreams, it is the simplest topic with little chance of making mistakes.

But if cinema movies can be quickly broadcast on CGT players, for people who are short of money and cannot afford movie tickets costing dozens or hundreds of yuan, it is really a good deal for CGT players to allow them to watch all the movies they own with a monthly membership fee of only a dozen yuan.

That's why Han Sanping was so angry. This is a clear act of disrupting the market.

"Then take a look at the latest announcement released by CGT player." Tong Gang pulled out another announcement.

The announcement was placed at the top of the video player.

However, only after clicking on it can you see the numerous terms and conditions, and most people will not study them carefully.

【This player now opens the following functions to all members:
1. Recruit video creators nationwide. CGT Player (China) will reward video creators based on the video completion rate, video playback volume, number of likes, number of comments, and number of coins (the coin acquisition method is that members get 1 coin for every hour of video watched, with a maximum of 1 coins per day.)
2. When the video creator completes the certification, he or she can obtain digital copyright authorization for movies, TV series, etc. from this player to facilitate the creators to carry out secondary creation of movies and TV series.

3. In order to enrich the promotional content of each film and television drama, the two creators can sign a promotion agreement with the parties of each film and television drama. The content of the agreement can be negotiated by themselves or handed over to CGT for negotiation. For details of various benefits, please refer to the second and third items of the attached terms.

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"This..." Han Sanping read all the contents carefully, rubbed his temples and began to digest the contents.

"This kid is still so prepared when doing things. Do you have anything to say now?"

"In other words, before The Promise was released, it was possible that it had signed a publicity agreement with this author?"

"It should be, otherwise there wouldn't be this video."

"But." Han Sanping's expression was very strange, "Is this publicity or smearing?"

"Then I don't know." Tong Gang spread his hands, "But you can't deny that this video is very popular. It has more than three million comments and likes. You can tell me whether it is popular or not, right?"

"Besides, the author who created the secondary works for The Promise is not just this person named Hu Ge. There are other accounts as well, but the number of views is not high."

"High! It's really high!" Han Sanping's mouth twitched, and it was unclear whether he was really praising or speaking sarcastically.

But since CGT is doing everything within the rules, he has nothing to say.

"I originally thought that Zhang Chen had long forgotten about the incident with Director Chen." Tong Gang sighed, "I didn't expect him to be waiting here?"

"This is also the reason why this guy is loved and hated."

"Yes, although he is overbearing, he always does things within the rules. You can't find any fault with him. He really doesn't give his opponents any chance to fight back."

"Sometimes I really wonder what's wrong with this guy's brain. He doesn't look like a teenager at all."

"It doesn't matter whether he is a young man or not, because no matter how old Zhang Chen is, he has already made our director Chen furious."

Tong Gang also took the rare opportunity to surf the Internet and read melons during his break today.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to produce so much evidence when Han Sanping came.

As a frontline spectator of today's "The Promise" gossip, he showed Han Sanping a Weibo post that Director Chen had just posted.

Melons taste good when eaten together.

@陈凯哥: People can’t be so shameless!!! I paid you to promote the movie, so that you can edit some wonderful scenes for fans to have a glimpse, not for you to maliciously edit my work!!!

There are multiple exclamation marks in one sentence, which shows how angry Director Chen was at that moment.

This is just the post with the highest number of likes.

Shortly after the video was released, Director Chen sent more than 20 Weibo posts, accusing CGTup host Hu Ge of despicable behavior and demanding that CGT player remove the video.

Obviously, he has hit a wall with CGT Player, otherwise he would not have gone to Weibo to ask CGT Player to remove his videos.

"Director Chen," Han Sanping didn't know how to comment, but he was still a little worried, "Will he be sent to the hospital because of the anger?"

"It's hard to say." Tong Gang shook his head and turned the computer back to his side.

After thinking for a moment, he said to Han Sanping: "What you said at the beginning is not without reason. As the influence of Chenguang Group in the mainland entertainment industry becomes stronger and stronger, its helmsman should also have a suitable position to exert his due energy."

"You mean"

"Aren't there two people who are going to retire?"

"That also requires Zhang Chen's consent, right?"

"Then I'll talk to him tomorrow!"

　I won’t post the video of “A Murder Case Caused by a Steamed Bun”, you can search for related content, it’s quite interesting.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)