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Chapter 279 Bernard's Independence
"Big news, 3 million directors are preparing for a new film, and they will shoot realistic blockbusters, telling the story of entrepreneurship!"

"Tang An's new film is confirmed, let me show you how to start a business in "The Chinese Partner"!"

"I got confirmation from Director Tang An today that the new film has been determined to be a film about entrepreneurship, named "Chinese Partner"!"

"Tang An, the champion of Chinese film history, will once again challenge unpopular themes and teach the audience how to start a business."

"Without brilliant stunts and exciting suspenseful stories, this time Tang An will return to the essence of the movie and tell a good story, the story of contemporary young people's entrepreneurship."

Right after the press conference ended, reporters from the on-site online media immediately released the news.

At this time, "Painted Skin" has exceeded [-] million, and it is impossible to exceed [-] million, which happens to be "outdated".

The news of Tang An's new film coincided with the relay, and "Painted Skin" took turns occupying the pages of major news websites.

Many people are skeptical about this entrepreneurial theme. After all, this type of film has no special effects, is not particularly funny, and has no thrilling stories. It is easy to make a lengthy and tasteless biographical film.

However, some big media did not sing bad news. After all, they only know a theme and a title, and there is still no conclusion on how it will be.

When filming "The Wind", many people said that there was a high probability that the spy war film would be a hit, but the box office and word-of-mouth were both successful.

At the beginning of "Now Now You See Me", no one guessed that Tang An could perfectly integrate magic into the movie. The whole movie is so exciting that you can't stop at all.

Who knows what elements will be added to this entrepreneurial movie.

What if it is about black technology entrepreneurship, and finally get you aliens.
If it does not involve state secrets, it will attract foreign spies and become a spy movie
Or something about biology that causes genetic mutations and turns into a disaster movie
Anyway, judging from Tang An's five previous films, they will definitely not be dull biographical films, nor will they be documentaries.

Of course, some very unscrupulous small gossip websites don't care so much, and write whatever can increase clicks.

The audience also immediately saw the news from the major websites, and there was nothing strange about Tang An's new film. Basically, preparations started at this time of the year, and then it was released in the summer.

It's just that this subject matter is very rare, and there aren't even many at all.

"A movie about entrepreneurship, I really didn't expect this. I thought it was one of comedy, adventure, and disaster movies!"

"In the future, everyone will call him: Don—do not take the usual path—Ann, what is so good about entrepreneurial movies? Is there a history of the struggle of a small person? Or is the protagonist developing smoothly into a business tycoon? I might as well lie in my garden and watch Bill Gates. The biographies of the characters are at least a little more reliable than the movies."

"Boss, the B outfit is 6, the back garden of my house is smaller, more than two acres."

"Does the upstairs live at the foot of the mountain?"

"Haha, it's your skin!"

"Can you still pretend to be happy!"

"Actually, movies are about storytelling and enjoyment, not about teaching you how to start a business. Why should you be so rigorous!"

"+1, if it is too rigorous, it will become a biographical movie or a documentary, and it can be exaggerated appropriately."

"I just don't know which industry's entrepreneurial history, it's better not to have too many loopholes."

"Eighty percent of it is the Internet, this kind of film is good, and it keeps up with the times."

Most of the discussion is on the movie, and most of them are looking forward to it, and they are not disappointed because of this entrepreneurial theme.

The past several different types of movies have made movie fans develop a big heart, which is still acceptable.

As soon as Yu Dong came back from the Berna Group, the heads of several departments came together.

"Yu Dong, what does Tang An mean by suddenly announcing a new film? What about the promotion of "Painted Skin" now?"

The director of the Propaganda Department had a big head. In just over two hours, half of the news on the entertainment pages of the major portal websites was taken up by Tang An's new film.

The original hot topic "Painted Skin", the comparison between Chen Kun and several college students in the same period, the conflict between the two heroines, etc. are not as good as Tang An's title.

This made him very hurt. He remembered that at the previous industry gatherings, he joked about the director of China Film's publicity department when "Transformers" and "Red Cliff" were released, facing the defeat of Tang An's new film in the publicity front.

I didn't expect it to be my turn now. Originally, I could get a box office of 5000 million in the follow-up, but now it is estimated that half of it is almost the same.

The heads of several other departments were also a little upset.

Director of Distribution Department Zhang Ziming said angrily, "Yu Dong, what does Tang An mean? Half of his investment is in "Painted Skin", and we are already interested in him. Don't forget that he still has two movies for us to release! "

Zhang Ziming's meaning is obvious. The release of the two films "Spike Fang" and "On the Journey" made him a little bit stumbling.

After hearing their complaints, Yu Dong still had that indifferent smile on his face.

He waved his hands and said, "It's none of Tang An's business. He won't get in trouble with money. It should be Wang Zhongjun who messed up. He doesn't want to see us show off."

They wanted to talk more, but Yu Dong stopped them.

"You all go to work, Mr. Zhang and Mr. Zheng stay here for a while."

The heads of the other departments could only leave the office, leaving Zhang Ziming, director of the distribution department, and Zheng Ye, director of the production department.

Yu Dong's face immediately became serious, and he said slowly.

"Let's start the plan. Before the end of this year, I will completely break away from Poly Huayi and turn Poly Berner into our Bernard Film Group!"

This.
Zhang Ziming and Zheng Ye glanced at each other. Yu Dong had been preparing this plan for a long time, and only a few cronies in the whole company knew about it, but he didn't expect that Yu Dong would complete the company reorganization by the end of the year.

"Yu Dong, have you thought about it yet?"

"I have decided that Huayi is useless to us in the film industry now, it is time." Yu Dong said firmly.

In 03, he brought Bona and Dongfang Shenlong to merge and became a subsidiary of Poly Huayi. Bona only had 49% of the shares, and the company name also added the prefix Poly.

For 6 years, Bernard has occupied more than 4% of the Chinese film box office market share for 20 consecutive years, becoming the largest film distribution company in China.

But last year, it was overtaken by Huayi, and Huayi didn't even produce a movie.

"I know what you are worried about. Tang An and I have already agreed that next year, after Wu Ershan and Chen Kun finish filming his movie, we will start the sequel of "Painted Skin"."

"And I plan to take advantage of the popularity of "Painted Skin" to create a movie starring Chen Kun and Zhao Wei, plus "October Besieged City", "Under the Red Cliff", and "The Founding of a Country" to invest in and release four blockbuster films next year .”

"Painted Skin 10 will be released in 2 years. With the bonus of the first film, the box office will definitely not be low. At least we have two years, which is enough!"

"However, Poly Wanhe Cinemas, once it leaves Poly Huayi, Poly Group will definitely not hand over the theaters to you for management."

In addition to looking at the production capabilities of Zhonghua Arts, the Poly Wanhe Cinemas under it may not be a big reason, and Yu Dong has also served as the president.

Although it barely ranks among the top ten mainland cinemas in terms of scale, there are still 50 cinemas with nearly 200 screens.

Nowadays, there are only 1600 movie theaters in the mainland with 4200 screens, accounting for one-twentieth of the number, which is objective.

China Film Xingmei, the largest theater chain in the mainland, only has 300 screens.

"I hope it can end peacefully!" Yu Dong shook his head and sighed.

He was still thinking about a sentence Tang An casually said at the banquet.

Yu Dong jokingly asked him if he had any entrepreneurial ideas for making entrepreneurial films.

"Who can tell for sure!" Tang An replied casually.

Yes, who is right? Isn’t it better to be in charge of your own business than to work for others!

"Painted Skin" is a big hit at the box office. As long as the box office of the next two low-budget films is objective and the success of investing in three films in a row, there is no guarantee that Tang An will not have other ideas.

"Mr. Zhang, "Spike Fang" and "Man on the Journey" must be fully released!" Yu Dong ordered immediately.

(End of this chapter)