The entertainment industry shouldn't be like this

Chapter 245 Who kicked off the curtain of the 1994 film year
Eastern Films, General Manager's Office.

Hou Mai held the box office summary of the domestic film market for the previous week sorted out by the secretary in his hand, with a complex expression, a little surprised, a little sighed, and some inexplicable helplessness.

In the new week, Dunhuang's "Savage Senior Sister" was pulled down from the top of the box office chart by a Hollywood blockbuster and placed in second place, but its box office decline is still quite good.

This is also the characteristic of Dunhuang in this summer - stable!

"Crazy Stone" and "Savage Senior Sister" are not very dominant, but they are very stable!

For example, "Crazy Stone", even in the second month, still did not fall out of the top ten box office rankings. By the end of the weekend, the single-day box office returned to tens of millions, which is shockingly stable!
The cumulative box office of "Crazy Stone" has exceeded 6 million, and the box office of "Savage Senior Sister" is also approaching 5 million. What is this concept?
Compare it with Eastern Films, which belongs to the second tier. Eastern Films also has a medium-production film released this summer. In the cracks between blockbusters, it managed to earn more than 2 million box office. Yes, but only a fraction of Dunhuang's...?
This Nima is very shocking!
At this time, someone knocked on the door outside, Hou Mai answered, and then saw Song Zhicheng pushing the door and coming in.

Seeing that Hou Mai was reading the information, Song Zhicheng said, "Hey, do you still want to read it? Lianya Entertainment's wave is really embarrassing. I wanted to pick a soft persimmon, but I didn't expect to become a food delivery... "

While speaking, there was no shortage of gloating smiles.

Hou Mai is helpless.

He knew that Song Zhicheng didn't have a good impression of Dunhuang, but he was even less fond of the Big Five.

This is probably the rising star's natural aversion to monopolies.

Hou Mai waited for him to finish complaining, and suddenly said: "Dunhuang and Wang Wei are really fierce to have such a strong momentum under the joint suppression of the five major powers!"

Song Zhicheng curled his lips, waved his hands and said, "Come on, I don't believe you can't see it. It's not that Dunhuang is really so fierce, but that none of the five big ones are fighting with all their strength."

Speaking of this, he shrugged his shoulders and said contemptuously: "This is also the biggest flaw of all alliances - discord. Everyone wants others to do their best and let themselves take the biggest advantage..."

Hou Mai nodded slowly.

He knows it's true.

Looking at the top five films that compete directly with the two Dunhuang films, they are either sequels that start off like tigers but lack stamina, or “transformation works” with high risks—don’t doubt, the evaluation system of the top five is still somewhat predictable .

Therefore, rather than saying that they want to stamp out the films released in Dunhuang directly, it is better to say that they try their best to dilute the box office of the same period and prevent the box office of Dunhuang films from exploding.

After all, no one is stupid, and will not take the project that he is most sure to make money with Dunhuang head-on.

The most typical example is the champion of this summer, a fairy tale blockbuster released by Tang Yu Media, which chose to be released in mid-July, and then won the box office champion for three consecutive weeks!

"Is it true that the Big Five has no trump card that can directly crush all the films of the same period? It's just that no one is willing to use it to wrestle with Dunhuang."

Song Zhicheng's tone was very disdainful, and he really looked down on the Big Five - did he really think that he could bring down the aggressive Dunhuang directly by just getting together?Want to keep your own status, but don't want to bleed, how can there be such a cheap thing in the world?
"Well, Wang Wei should have noticed it, so his new film is also a big production - only by establishing equal deterrence can the Big Five continue to shrink."

Hou Mai continued to nod, and then sighed involuntarily.

He naturally hoped that the Big Five would fight Dunhuang to the death, so that Eastern Pictures would have a chance to fish in troubled waters.

However, as far as the current situation is concerned, the water is a bit "muddy", but the fish may not have a chance to touch it.

No, his offer to director Liang Guanyi was rejected again!

Even though he directly gave her a production budget of 4000 to [-] million and promised her to shoot whatever she wanted, he still failed to attract her.

It would be fine if one of the five big companies wooed them over, but the other party would rather cling to Dunhuang, which was suppressed by the five big alliances, than choose Eastern Films, which is rich and has no pressure, which makes Hou Mai sour...and envious!

——To be honest, Hou Mai is so envious of the "loyalty" of directors from the Dunhuang series that his mouth is watering.

For a long time, for second- and third-tier film companies like them, if the Big Five with strong brands and strong capital want to poach people, they dare not say all of them, but it is not a big problem to poach half of them out of ten.

The so-called as long as the hoe is well swung, there is no corner that cannot be dug!
In a sense, just like most countries in the world, the second and third tier film companies are just the talent training and delivery vehicles for the top five.

Dunhuang broke this convention, well, at least so far.

"Normally, before Dunhuang gave them a chance, they were all unknown; even if they were famous, they were only famous in some small circles in the industry. However, because of Dunhuang, they all succeeded, even emotionally. Just go away."

Song Zhicheng, as the director, expressed his understanding of this.

Hou Mai pursed his lips and remained silent.

Can he say "talking about the feelings of fart, who is not talking about interests"?

——Song Zhicheng is not the only choice of Dongfang Films.

Of course, Song Zhicheng also saw the depression of the other party, so he changed the subject and raised the outline of the script in his hand: "By the way, I have some ideas for the new film, do you want to listen to it?"

"You are finally going to release a new film?!" Hou Mai's voice suddenly became high-pitched, and he couldn't help but patted the table excitedly, "Great! I'm just waiting for you to have an idea!"

Since the disastrous defeat to Wang Wei in the Tianma Awards at the beginning of the year, Song Zhicheng took a break for a while before recovering from this.

Hou Mai waited and waited. Knowing that Wang Wei released a new film, he hoped that Song Zhicheng would be stimulated and have some ideas.

After all, Song Zhicheng is the trump card of Eastern Film Industry!

——Which film company does not have its own trump card in its hands. Only with the trump card in hand, and a wave of small and medium-sized directors underneath, can it be regarded as forming its own system.

Hou Mai can also guess that the reason why Dunhuang directors can maintain their loyalty is largely due to the banner of Wang Wei-the banner points to everything, and who doesn't support it?
Song Zhicheng said with a displeased face, "It's not that I was stimulated by someone, but next year is the eve of the [-]th birthday of world cinema, which filmmaker doesn't want to leave his own footprint at this critical moment?"

From the "father of modern film" Lumiere brothers invented the film film in 1895, to 1995 is just a hundred years, and most of the 95 awards are awarded to the 94 film, so next year is destined to be all Filmmakers are gearing up for the year.

Hou Mai was taken aback for a moment, but his first reaction was, "Then Dunhuang will definitely have a hard time next year. No film is weak, and the top five will continue to suppress it. The pressure, tsk tsk..."

Song Zhicheng shook his head solemnly: "Who dares to say that Dunhuang can't come up with more classic works? And, to be honest, Dunhuang, who has been suppressed for a year, may be more adaptable to this situation surrounded by powerful enemies... ..."

Hou Mai was speechless, and after a while, he smiled wryly: "You're right, I'm still lucky."

"Next year will be an unprecedented melee. No one can relax. Now we will see who will open the curtain of this melee first!"

At this time, the secretary knocked on the door and walked in, telling them the latest news——

Wang Wei will hold a new film conference and accept public interviews at the conference!

Hou Mai and Song Zhicheng were shocked, and felt at the same time——

The person who kicked off the curtain of the 1994 film year, wouldn't it be this fellow? !
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　Alas, with the scumbag author's code word efficiency, how can I save enough manuscripts for the Chinese New Year years ago? It's a headache~~~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)