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Chapter 691 Attacking Tang An! (4K chapters please subscribe!)

"According to the current arrangements of the major theaters, tomorrow the film schedule of "The Return of the Great Sage" will increase to 30%, our "Havoc in Heaven" film schedule will be reduced by 26%, Guangxian's "Where is Dad?" 18%, Bernard's "Omen" 15%, and the newly released "Frozen" has only 9% of the film schedule."

"The four theater lines of the Universal Distribution Alliance and the joint theater chain of the Moying Group have arranged nearly 35% of the film schedule for "The Return of the Great Sage". The giant screen is basically given to "The Return of the Great Sage", and the prime-time film schedule has reached 60% in these five theaters."

"In terms of the theaters in which the group holds shares and holdings, China Film Digital and Xingmei have given a little more than 30% of the film schedule, the South Shinkansen and the Liaoshen North have almost 20% of the film schedule, and the New Film Federation and Sichuan West Pacific 10% of the filming was given."

The director of the distribution department reported the current situation of the theaters one by one, which is definitely not good news for them.

Kang Pei's face was not very good-looking. Tangtang China Film Co., Ltd., which owns six of the top 30 theaters in the country, actually allowed the biggest competitor to get [-]% of the film schedule.

Among the six theater chains, only the New Film Federation is really on his side, and Western Sichuan Pacific is only targeting the Han and Tang Dynasties.

Originally, Pacific Cinemas and Chongqing Poly Wanhe Cinemas competed fiercely in Xichuan and Chongqing, and Hantang Cinemas stepped in again.

With the support of the two major real estate companies, Poly and Huarun, they have established a firm foothold in western Sichuan, and neither Sichuan Western Optoelectronics nor Emei Film Group can shake it.

The market of the home base camp is about to be eroded by the joint efforts of Hantang and Baoli, so it is reasonable for Pacific Cinemas to target Hantang Media.

The Southern Shinkansen and the Liaoshen Northern Cinemas did not increase the film schedule for "The Return of the Great Sage", but they did not respond to Kang Pei's request to reduce the film schedule.

As for the numbers of Xingmei and China Film, they are completely normal film schedules, which are similar to other theaters, and slowly add a little bit.

Kang Pei also knew that Tan Hong had always wanted to take back the control of Xingmei. He and Tang An had cooperated for many years before and had a good relationship.

And China Film Digital. Thinking of this Kang Pei gives me a headache.

At the beginning, China Film Group took out nearly 60 companies and jointly established China Film Group with 8 other units. China Film Group was too complicated internally.

There are various departments within China Film Corporation, but there are still a bunch of subsidiaries below. When Han Sanping was in office, it was just a struggle for power and profit between some of the subsidiaries and the subsidiaries, but now no one suppresses it, and the conflicts between the two sides have come to the fore.

The production sector of China Film Co., Ltd. is divided into two parts, one is the group production department, and the other is the film branch, TV drama branch, digital base, China Film Animation and other companies. Several subsidiaries want to control the project.

The distribution department also faces competition from several subsidiaries such as the distribution branch and China Film Digital.

Although China Film Group is the controlling shareholder of these cinemas, China Film Group still holds more than 90% of the shares of China Film Group, and the chairman of China Film Group still has no way to intervene in the operation of China Film Group.

But these are the assets of Optoelectronics. If Optoelectronics does not speak, people will ignore you.

Kang Pei now feels physically and mentally exhausted. He has only been in office for only a month, and this year has not been stable for a day.

When the box office of "Havoc in Heaven" was rising all the way before, nothing happened. The theater chains were very obedient. No matter what Kang Pei said, the people in charge of the theater chains all agreed.

But now, Han Sanping's power is still there, and the chairman of China Film Group, Jiao Luofen, doesn't want to make a show. If something goes wrong, no one will be restless.

All ghosts and monsters appeared, not only the [-] or [-] subsidiaries under the company, but also the people sitting in this conference room, what was going on in their hearts, Kang Pei didn't say everything clearly, but he could know the general idea.

"Mr. Zhang has to communicate with the theaters at any time about film scheduling. This is our most important thing at the moment."

Kang Pei didn't talk too much about the issue of filming. Talking too much would only show that he had no ability to control it, so he had to leave the issue to the distribution director.

Then he looked at Lin Sheng, the deputy general manager in charge of distribution, and said with a smile, "Mr. Theater communication."

"Good Director Kang, I will definitely talk to the theaters more." Lin Sheng smiled and nodded in response.

Zhang Ping, who was transferred from the secretary of the broadcasting group to the vice chairman of China Film Corporation in the new round of election, also smiled at Han Xiaoli, the general manager sitting opposite and sitting next to him, "Mr. Han once worked in Liaoshen North Film Holdings. There should be acquaintances over there, so we should walk around more."

The top leader of China Film Group is Kang Pei, and the remaining vice chairman and general manager are not at peace with each other.

Han Xiaoli said, "Northern Liaoshen is still under the jurisdiction of Liaoshen Optoelectronics. It is difficult for me to intervene in the specific operations, but I still have a few acquaintances who can talk about it."

Without waiting for Zhang Ping to say anything, Kang Pei nodded, "Then trouble Mr. Han."

He also knew that Han Xiaoli was not resigning. These six theater chains were nominally owned by China Film Holdings, but most of them were under the jurisdiction of local optoelectronics.

Liaoshen Northern Cinemas has always been in charge of Liaoshen Optoelectronics. Without the support of Liaoshen Optoelectronics, it is impossible for Northern Cinemas to develop into the largest movie theater company in Northeast China.

The same is true for the southern Shinkansen, under the jurisdiction of Yuedong Optoelectronics, and New Film Federation is better. Although Jingcheng Optoelectronics intervenes, it is still under the nose.

And even if there is no local photoelectric, it is not that simple.

There is also a general manager of a cinema investment company in the top management of China Film Group, who directly supervises more than ten large and small theater lines under China Film Group, a figure that even Kang Pei cannot ignore.

With [-] subsidiaries in China Film Group, Kang Pei now understands how difficult it is to be the chairman of such a large group.

Zhang Ping asked Han Xiaoli to talk to the North Cinema, not really because of Kang Pei.

As early as ten years ago, Zhang Ping was the deputy director of the Film Bureau. In 11 years, he went to many places before becoming the vice chairman of China Film Corporation.

And he, Kang Pei, was directly promoted from the deputy director of the Film Bureau to the chairman, and he also knew that Zhang Ping complained a lot in private.

A seemingly incongruous meeting ended in such a hurry, and everyone left with the same smiling faces, and got together in private or in twos and threes.

Kang Pei returned to the office, after thinking about it, he decided to contact the theater.

"Hello, Zhang Dong."

"Hello, Mr. Xing."

The chairman of the six theater chains and the general manager of the theater management company, Kang Pei, all made phone calls one by one.

The answers I got were almost the same, but some of them sounded nice, while others were more formulaic.

The chairman of Tangtang Group talked with the directors of its subsidiaries on an equal footing.

Kang Pei resisted the aggrieved, and finished the calls one by one.

After the last phone call, I smashed the microphone down hard, as if to vent.

The major theaters were doing their best, and he couldn't say anything. After all, no matter which theater it was, there was no problem with film scheduling, and he couldn't find any faults.

The two highest theaters only gave 30% of the film schedule to "The Return of the Great Sage", which was on par with the national average and lower than other theater chains, and there were not many films for "Havoc in Heaven".

Kang Pei regained his composure and called his old leader.

Although the leader must have known the current situation, Kang Pei still honestly made a detailed report.

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, and then there was no sound.

"You, this "Havoc in the Sky" is a project invested and controlled by Xinghao. China Film is only co-produced and co-published. The cost of investing in it will not lose money, so it is nothing."

The leader didn't say a few words, let him think about it, and hung up the phone.

Kang Pei didn't expect the old leader to intervene directly. After all, he just took office, so he seemed too incompetent.

Moreover, Tang An got on the line of the executive vice minister of the Ministry of Propaganda.

However, according to these words, the meaning is very obvious. "Havoc in Heaven" is Xinghao's project. From investment and distribution, it is Xinghao's main control.

Then China Film is only assisting from the sidelines. Judging from the current box office, profitability is definitely not a problem, and this investment can be regarded as a success in the final analysis.

Although this is rascal, there is nothing Kang Pei can do.

In order to get off to a good start for his release, it was a big start, and Kang Pei almost said that "Havoc in Heaven" was his film, and he relied on this film to sweep the Spring Festival stalls, with a box office of more than one billion, helping him to sit firmly this location.

But now the box office is estimated to be overtaken by "The Return of the Great Sage", a super big production, and an animated film to counterattack.

Instead of being a help, it became a burden.

But this burden can't be thrown away even if he wants to. Whoever made Kang Pei start to build momentum from the beginning, he can't get rid of it at all.

The most important thing right now is the reappearance of a movie with big selling potential. The key to recovering from this loss is that it is not too late.

Kang Pei asked the secretary to send all the projects of the group this year and next, and looked through them one by one.

There are too many movies invested and released, but not many movies with big sales potential.

Directed by Xu Anhua and starring Tang Wei, "The Golden Age" should not be bad at the box office. After all, "The Capital Meets Seattle" has exploded at the box office.

However, Kang Pei didn't have much confidence in Xu Anhua's literary films.

Jiang Wen's "One Step Away" is a good choice, but China Film is only one of the co-producers, and Wanda offered a sky-high price guarantee. China Film did not participate unless it bought a part of the proceeds from Wanda.

But the one-billion guarantee is too risky, and even Wanda had no choice but to increase it to one billion just because Ah Li, who is not short of money, kept bidding.

Zhang Yimou's films are also literary films, and it is too difficult to touch the one billion threshold.

It seems that only Wu Yusen's "Taiping Wheel" is left. Xiaoma is the largest investor in this movie, China Film is the second, Lay's is the third largest investor, and Huayi and Huace have a small part. invest.

Lay's, which is in charge of the distribution, offered a guarantee of [-] million yuan, and China Film and Xiaoma are the joint publishers.

For so many years, there are not many ugly directors who have lost in front of Tang An. Wu Yusen's "Red Cliff" was not much less box office than "You Now You See Me", and they both broke [-] million. In which era, it is definitely considered Big bang.

This time, it is borrowed from the super blockbuster "Titanic" that was popular all over the world. Known as the Titanic of the East, it is also an all-star lineup.

Moreover, "Titanic 3D" was re-screened once before, and it still broke one billion. This time, the Oriental Titanic can't be worse than the box office of the re-screening.

Kang Pei carefully read the project evaluation and analysis, as well as the reports sent back by the producers sent by China Film over the past two years.

According to the record sent back by the producer, "Taiping Wheel" is obviously also a disaster romance film. Like "Titanic", it also has family affection, love, and friendship.

Although I don't know the specifics of the movie, but Wu Yusen is famous enough, "Titanic" is probably known to everyone in China, and it is bundled and sold under the banner of the Oriental Titanic, even if the quality of the movie is not satisfactory, The box office will never be bad.

The filming of the film has ended, and the expected release time is the Lunar New Year file, which is not too late.

There is a "Transformers 4" among the imported films of this summer, which has the basis of the third one breaking billions, and the fourth one is stable, and it may not be invincible against Tang An's "Mysterious Superstar" .

Moreover, the two genres of comedy and action are most dependent on actors. It is understood that none of the actors in "Mystery Superstar" has comedy talent, and the comedy "Golden Heist" starring Lei Jiayin also has a mediocre box office.

Moreover, "Transformers 4" also has 3D advantages, which "Mystery Superstar" does not have. Nowadays, there are more and more 3D screens in China, which is a big advantage.

This summer "Transformers 4" faced "Mysterious Superstar", which was the biggest win against Tang An in recent years.

Thinking of this time, Kang Pei felt a little more at ease. If he were to end Tang An's undefeated myth, the effect would be no worse than "Havoc in Heaven" dominating the spring season.

Looking back at "Taiping Wheel", although the filming has been finished, post-production still needs to be done.

It's a pity that it will be released during the Lunar New Year. If it is released at the end of July, and "Transformers 4" will be flanked by "Mystery Superstar", it will be really satisfying!

The Spring Festival stalls are still going on. Several films were released on the sixth day, and on the fifth day of the first lunar month, the single-day box office of "The Return of the Great Sage" rose again, earning 1.28 million.

Although it failed to break "Interstellar"'s single-day box office record of 1.33 million in mainland film history, it also broke the single-day box office record of the Spring Festival.

And "The Return of the Great Sage" was released for six days, and the total box office reached 6.01 million!
The single-day box office of "Havoc in Heaven" fell to 5200 million, which is not a big drop. It seems that this first Journey to the West movie is still very attractive to the audience. No matter how bad the word of mouth is, people will always go to the cinema.

However, the total box office of "Havoc in Heaven" in six days is only 6.16 million, which is only 1500 million behind "The Return of the Great Sage". Tomorrow, the box office champion of the Spring Festival will be handed over.

The total box office overtake is imminent, and "The Return of the Great Sage" still maintained a high degree of attention and exposure at the end of the Spring Festival holiday, and fully enjoyed the treatment of "Havoc in Heaven" a few days ago.

What is the revival of Guoman, comparable to Japan and Hollywood, anyway, it is just trying to blow it up.

It's even more ruthless than when "Havoc in Heaven" was played at the beginning, at least with the momentum of "Havoc in Heaven", everyone thought it was going to explode.

However, "The Return of the Great Sage" came from behind, with little investment, and it was still an animated film with such a good reputation. This series of factors made the audience and the media praise more and more.

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