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Chapter 832 An Unusual Thing Happened
"Tang Dong has high ambitions. The concept of heavy industry movies does not exist in China at present. Even the complete film industry system is not perfect."

At the banquet, the bosses of several major companies congratulated Tang An one by one, and they were also full of sighs.

Tang An said with a smile, "It's not that we can't do a complete film industry system now, it's just that none of us have done it.

After so many years of workshop-style production methods, the film is still being shot. Our directors and producers have long been used to it. Following the Hollywood industrial system may make the crew a little uncomfortable and thankless, so we have always Pay attention to it. "

The word "workshop" made the CEOs look a bit ugly. The companies we co-authored are all small workshops, and you Hantang is a regular factory.

Wang Zhongjun hehe said, "It's still Tang Dong who sees far away. He is ready to connect with Hollywood. Compared with this, we are really a small workshop."

When Wang Zhongjun said this, the others became even more upset, but they still smiled on the surface.

Tang An said, "Wang Dong is wrong. Although our current film industry system is not perfect, it is not a small workshop. Don't belittle Wang Dong."

"Chinese-language films are now at a turning point. A complete industrial system cannot be achieved by a few companies. In that case, Chinese-language films are still not formal enough. This requires the efforts of all filmmakers."

Tang An choked Wang Zhongjun back with a word, and Wang Zhongjun smiled calmly, without any embarrassment.

As for the film industry system, every country and region in the world has its own set of mechanisms and systems for making films. In comparison, Hollywood's film industry system is the most complete.

To put it bluntly, it means industrialization, standardization, and refinement.

It is very intuitive that there are far fewer behind-the-scenes positions in Chinese-language films than in Hollywood films. Most domestic films do not have subdivided jobs, especially in some transfer links and resource coordination positions.

The work in these positions must be done by someone, but it is not professional enough.

Hollywood has made movies into individual industrial products. Every job and every process has strict technical requirements, just like an assembly line.

Although some people say that this will kill the soul of the movie, it is only good for those non-first-line, top-level directors.

After all, letting them play freely will not make a good movie, and the big directors have enough authority, and this system has almost no restrictions on them, allowing them to let themselves go.

It could be a classic movie, or it could be a piece of shit.

It's the same in Hollywood, the mediocre people have to follow the rules, and the few others don't.

However, famous Hollywood directors also come from making films one by one according to this system. This system has penetrated into their hearts, so when they let themselves go, they will not fly too high, and they can recover.

However, some domestic directors didn't have a rope to hold them at the beginning, so they flew farther and farther away, and the distance from the audience became farther and farther.

That's what it means, why don't these senior filmmakers who have been in the industry for more than ten years know it.

They have also tried to put shackles on big directors, but the rules are useless. Most of them are looking for a supervisor and producer who has enough qualifications and ability to hold the scene.

When Yu Dong asked Chen Kexin to shoot "Certificate of Fame", he was also afraid that he would mess around, after all, the cost was [-] million.

So Yu Dong found Huang Jianxin, the top producer in the mainland, director of an import and export company, and also the Chinese producer of "The Mummy 3", which is enough.

Feng Xiaogang shot several comedies back then, and after the box office hit, he wanted to make a feature film "A World Without Thieves". Hua Yi recruited Chen Guofu to supervise it, and Liu Luoying also got the heroine, officially breaking into the mainland mainstream commercial film market .

After that, almost all of Huayi's important films were supervised by Chen Guofu, not the one with a name, and even participated in the editing of Feng Xiaogang's films.

There are many people who can suppress these famous directors, but most of them are not professional enough. If Wang Zhongjun is allowed to intervene in Feng Xiaogang's film by himself, he is afraid that he will screw up.

There are too few supervisors and producers who have sufficient weight and ability, and no one is in charge, so let's let ourselves go.

If there is a complete film industry system, although there is no obvious effect in the short term, it will definitely be a great thing for major companies in the long run.

However, when it came to heavy industry movies, they still didn't take it seriously.

"Tang Dong, the core of heavy industry films is special effects, which is our weakest point. It is not easy to keep up with Hollywood."

For many people, heavy industry movies are not just blockbuster special effects movies, they are similar, special effects are not just CG special effects.

From pre-facilitation, modeling, data collection, to post-production CG production, they are all considered as special effects, including the entire production process of the film, and CG is only one part of it. In this respect, it is an all-round disadvantage compared to Hollywood films.

Wang Changtian said, "I think the future of domestic films is still comedies. No matter what era or country, comedies will never fall behind."

There is another point that Wang Changtian didn't say, that is, the investment is relatively small, and there is no overseas market in the mainland, so low-budget comedies are logically the best choice, not one of them.

Tang An nodded, that's not wrong, comedies are indeed king these days.

Tang An went on to say, "Wang Dong is right, but the domestic screen currently exceeds 4 yuan, and this market size can already support the transformation of the film industry.

It was "Star Wars" that opened the era of heavy industrial special effects for Hollywood, and the gap between the United States and other film powers was quickly widened, because the existence of special effects made movies full of infinite possibilities. Only you can't think of it, and you can't do it without special effects . "

After all, it still depends on special effects.

Wang Zhongjun twitched his lips and said pointedly, "When it comes to special effects, Tiangong Yicai under Tang Dong is the largest special effects company in China, and it has also acquired the digital field. It is also a first-class special effects company in the world."

Why did Wang Zhongjun suddenly start finding fault today?

Tang An was a little puzzled. He said this, as if he advocated the development of heavy industry movies to let them make blockbuster special effects movies and let his special effects company make money from them.

Not to mention, Wang Changtian, Yu Dong and the others also came up with this idea.

Because of Fan Luyuan's series connection, several giants are a little moved, but they haven't really made a decision yet.

But after having a clear will, he began to regard Tang An as an imaginary enemy, and guess Tang An's actions from the perspective of an enemy.

"Then if we start making heavy industry movies and ask Tiangong Yicai for special effects, Director Tang will give us a discount."

Wang Changtian chuckled, probably not without the intention of probing.

Tang An said, "That's for sure, for the development of the film industry, but this is not the business of the special effects company alone. The crew must also control the quality of every detail in an all-round way."

When it's time for everyone to shoot heavy industrial blockbusters together, the demand for special effects personnel will be huge.

Hollywood special effects companies are dying, and almost all film and television projects are losing money. The real money is selling software and advertising. Only these businesses can make up for the shortfall in the film business.

The company that did the special effects for "Life of Pi" closed down half a month before the film won the Oscar for best visual effects. It was an old special effects company with a 25-year history.

Hollywood does not pay enough attention to special effects companies. When the special effects team accepted the award, they talked about the bankruptcy of their special effects company and wanted to appeal to Hollywood to support the special effects company.

But as soon as the words were spoken, the award ceremony immediately released the soundtrack of "Jaws".

It was a thriller, rated as the sixth soundtrack in Hollywood film history, full of broken and sharp dissonant scales, which roughly interrupted the speech of the special effects company, and even the microphone was turned off.

Li Press did not thank the special effects company when accepting the award.

Hollywood special effects companies are bad debts in the entire United States. After all, even film production is monopolized by the Big Six, not to mention the branch of special effects.

This is a good thing for domestic special effects companies. Relying on a large number of orders from Hollywood, plus some games and advertising businesses, there is no big problem in making profits.

In the following chat, Tang An could vaguely feel that Wang Zhongjun was deliberately replying to his own words, and very frequently.

Tang An knew Wang Zhongjun very well, even though he hated him to the core, but in the past few years, as he became more successful and the Han and Tang Dynasties developed faster, his superficial skills became better and better.

After all, without that confidence, Huayi has really not done well in the film business in the past few years.

So why did Wang Zhongjun have the confidence to ridicule him so many times today?
Could it be that he is going to make some big moves, blockbuster movies?

Although Tang An didn't take it seriously no matter what project he was working on, he still wanted to attract attention.

When the banquet was coming to an end, Tang An was about to leave, but at this moment, Zhang Zhao, who was happy, came to him again, and wanted to give Tang An a part of the business that was sure to make money.

Tang An smiled, "Mr. Zhang, "Grand Trail" is your key project for next year, so you just let it go to me?"

Leshi lost a lot on "Taiping Wheel", and "Little Times" is not as good as expected. Next year, it will rely on "The Great Wall" and "Grand Trail" to regain blood.

Although "Little Times" has a bad reputation and the box office has been affected by Ke Zhendong, the industry is still very optimistic about the box office of "Grand Trail".

After all, the four "Little Times" can still make a lot of money even when word of mouth is about to rot.

Such a good project should be given to himself. Tang An didn't even have to think about what Zhang Zhao wanted to do.

At the premiere of "Operation Red Sea" before, Zhang Zhao expressed his intention to continue to cooperate. Now he just wants to give himself a benefit in exchange for the next cooperation.

Sure enough, as Tang An expected, Zhang Zhao directly expressed his desire to cooperate with Han and Tang in depth, and at the same time pushed the reason why he could not continue to cooperate after the first part of "Little Times" to Guo Jinming and Cai Zhiping.

However, although "Grand Trail" is a trump card in Zhang Zhao's mind, it will be the high-quality project of Lay's next year next to "The Great Wall".

But don't say that this big bad movie can't make money, even if there is a distribution fee to make a little money, I won't ask for it.

Leshi definitely wants to release it in a popular time slot, there are only four in a year, Han Tang's own films are not enough, how can we allocate a popular time slot for this film.

What's more, it wasn't for free, Zhang Zhao also wanted to get some benefits from Han Tang.

Tang An said happily, "Mr. Zhang, of course we can cooperate, but next year's several important schedules are full, so we can only give some support during Qingming Festival and May Day."

Zhang Zhao's face was a bit ugly. Giving a copy of such an important project as "Grand Trail" to Han Tang was not only to show a favor so that we can continue to cooperate in the future, but also because of Han Tang's resources.

Leshi Films has been merged into the listed company Leshi.com, and its performance is more important than ever. With the support of Hantang in exchange for some share, the originally expected box office of [-] to [-] million can be increased to [-] million or [-] million, which is not harmful.

But Tang An meant that the four popular schedules would not be able to enter, and if they were changed to Qingming Festival and May Day, the box office would definitely have to be discounted.

No matter how good a movie is, it depends on the schedule. Tomb-sweeping Day and May Day are the times when Hollywood blockbusters are released together, and the time is still short. It is mainly a small long holiday. If it is changed to the National Day seven-day long holiday, it will be the same.

Zhang Zhao wanted to persuade him again, but Tang An didn't give him what he expected.

Looking at the back of Tang An leaving, Zhang Zhao thought of the connection between Ah Li and made a hard-hearted decision.

Originally, Zhang Zhao didn't want to join Ahli and the others, and even planned to fall to Tang An in advance.

After all, no matter how the Han and Tang Dynasties are, it has nothing to do with Leshi, and only a few giants are affected.

Even if they succeed, Hantang is still a giant, but it is not far beyond any company now, and Lay's is still a second-tier echelon.

On the other hand, if Hantang wins, the giants will definitely be greatly affected, and they may be seriously injured. Leshi hopes to replace them with the support of Hantang and become a new giant.

But Tang An directly rejected his cooperation, and Zhang Zhao couldn't hug his thigh even if he wanted to.

The tandem of Ahli is still going on behind the scenes. The giant giant and Lay’s, the leader of the second-tier echelon, have basically reached a consensus, and they just wait for the specific cooperation plan to be determined.

The cross-cooperation between them has not yet been confirmed, and there are only a few people in each company who know about it, and the outside world has not revealed the slightest rumor.

Tang An asked people to pay attention to Huayi's movements, but he didn't ask for anything, he just asked people to follow up.

This summer vacation is over, Tang An still has other things to do.

Near the end of August, Tang An went to Beijing TV station.

The guest performers for the 2016 Spring Festival Gala are basically confirmed, and the program is almost finished. Tang An, the chief director, has to show his face.

After a shabby meeting with some leaders of the TV station, he followed the deputy director in charge of next year's Spring Festival Gala to the studio.

"Director Tang, we are currently rehearsing in the studio, and we will go to the Water Cube to rehearse on site in two months."

Along the way, Deputy Director Hu introduced the situation to Tang An.

"Holding the Spring Festival Gala at a venue like the Water Cube, Director Hu's support for this year's Spring Festival Gala is extraordinary." Tang An laughed.

"With Director Tang personally serving as the chief director, everyone on stage is looking forward to this Spring Festival Gala.

Master Hu nodded with a smile, but was speechless in his heart.

It is not the first time that Beijing TV Station has held the Spring Festival Gala at the Water Cube.

But he didn't care, all he wanted was Tang An's fame, under Tang An's name, no matter how famous the star was, he had to take the initiative to rush to participate.

In Studio No. [-], guests, hosts, and the entire program group were all present.

Tang An had already obtained the guests and program list, and this lineup was definitely unprecedentedly strong.

Tan Jing, Han Hong, Jay Chou, Wang Feng, Li Jian, Xiao Jingteng
Tang An didn't know more than half of the other cross talks, skits, and musicals.

There are a total of [-] songs in the song program. In addition to these singers, Lu Han and Wu Fan sang a chorus, and Guan Xiaotong, who was later dubbed "Beijing Circle Gege" by netizens.

Beijing Satellite TV arranged it by itself, and Tang An had no objection, remembering that he also had this girl in the Beijing Spring Festival Gala in 16.

Two days ago, after listening to Mr. Hu, I wanted Jay Chou and Yilin Cai to sing a duet. It was just for the sake of a gimmick, and everyone else had children.

There are so many Spring Festival Gala in provinces and cities every year, Tang An basically doesn’t remember it, but in 16, Mr. Liu’s "Golden Monkey Raising Spring" on Liaoshen Satellite TV received a lot of response on the Internet, and many netizens even scolded CCTV Spring Festival Gala for not letting him go. .

That show was really good, Teacher Six was not only on the Liaoshen Spring Festival Gala, but also on the Beijing Spring Festival Gala, so Tang An came to watch it at that time.

This time, Beijing Satellite TV also invited Mr. Six. After all, it is the Year of the Monkey. How can it be called the Year of the Monkey without monkeys.

There are national team singers, pop kings, and new generation singers, and the staffing is very well organized.

Tang An specifically asked not to find actors to sing, after all, he is not a professional, so he is not interested in hearing amateur actors sing.

"Sister Jing, Teacher Han Hong, Sixth Teacher, Jielun. Welcome to next year's Spring Festival Gala for the Year of the Monkey." Tang An greeted the guests.

"Hello Director Tang, I'm very glad to work with you."

"Director Tang is too polite."

"Hi, Director Tang."

As soon as Tang An came, everyone waiting at the scene, whether it was the invited guests, their entourage, or the program crew, all focused their eyes on Tang An, and their steps naturally moved towards Tang An.

(End of this chapter)