A great director who grew up happily

Chapter 455: You asked for it and you got it, who can you blame?

This inexplicable conflict started as a single point and spread to the whole area. By the afternoon, it had already evolved into a Hundred Regiments War among the fan circle. The fighting was so fierce that even a passing dog had to be slapped twice before leaving.

Chen Jinnian and Wang Yidi naturally would not get involved. They didn't even dare to log into their own accounts. Instead, they used a small account to check the current trend.

To sum it up simply, there is no room for optimism.

Of course, this is for Huayi, because their withdrawal from the schedule this time clearly shows a tendency to go too far.

According to the information Chen Jinnian learned from the theater chain, this withdrawal is not in the literal sense of removing the movie from the theater, but rather redefines the meaning of the word "withdrawal".

According to Huayi's plan, this "withdrawal" only ends the large-scale public screening and adjusts it to a very small-scale preview, which is a state of withdrawal but not complete withdrawal.

The small-scale preview period will last for two months until the film is re-released on a large scale before Christmas in mid-to-late December.

In this way, after reaping the traffic dividend of the National Day period, we can reap the dividends of the Lunar New Year period to the greatest extent.

It can be said that the wishful thinking is going smoothly.

But the Radio, Film and Television Administration did not want to set such a precedent, and other film and television production companies jointly opposed it. The cinema market is not Huayi’s own toilet, where you can enter and exit as you please.

If Huayi is successful in its second release, then no one will be able to play.

After all, human greed is like a snake swallowing an elephant. If you can eat one fish twice, then you can also eat one fish five times.

By that time, theaters will only need to show five domestic blockbusters a year.

It will be shown for three days on New Year's Day, eight days on Spring Festival, three days on Qingming Festival, three days on Labor Day, three days on Dragon Boat Festival, one month on summer vacation, eight days on National Day, and one day on Christmas.

The premiere period is 30 days plus the extension key is 30 days, with a total of two months of release time throughout the year. The box office of the movie is definitely high, with each movie having a box office of at least 10 billion, which together is exactly the domestic annual box office.

Huayi defended itself by saying that it had never thought of dominating the entire year-round schedule, but other film and television production companies believed that there was such a possibility. It wouldn't even take many, just one or two movies a year that did this kind of outrageous thing, and the entire industry would be ruined.

It is very difficult to get the audience to develop the habit of going to the cinema. It requires a series of good films to attract them, but it is very easy to make the audience leave the cinema. A hyped marketing movie is enough.

When Chen Jinnian received the news, the president of a film and television investment company had already said that if movies could be released and withdrawn at will without any rules, then their group would withdraw from the film and television industry and quit.

And there are quite a few companies that have this tendency.

The bottom line is that the film industry is very different from other industries, and it is an industry whose fame far exceeds its current status.

Compared with other industries, the film industry is pitifully small. The annual market value of the industry is less than 17 billion yuan, and the gross profit margin is less than %.

If a few leading companies stop playing, domestic films will go back to the past ten years overnight, and it will have no impact on the domestic economy. The government will have no motivation to save it.

In other words, this kind of chicken ribs that are tasteless to eat and a pity to throw away has been operated in the market for twenty years, but it has not been able to operate independently so far and is still supported by the stock market, money laundering and commercial advertising.

On the other hand, the relationship between radio, television and major film and television companies is not a hierarchical relationship as generally understood, but rather a relationship similar to that of father and son.

It is this kind of relationship that gives Huayi the confidence to act recklessly.

Because the radio and television, as the father, is very caring towards the youngest in the film industry.

Afraid that the youngest child would grow up slowly, they left all the work done during the summer and Spring Festival seasons to him.

Because he was afraid that children from outside would bully the youngest child, he had to check every child entering the house several times.

Finally, they were afraid that schools outside would not teach well, so they simply built their own school to keep out the teachers who instilled market liberalization and capitalism. The eight American teachers were climbing over the wall every day and couldn't get in.

Even at this point, the Radio and Television Administration was still worried that the youngest child would learn slowly, so they paid a large sum of money to invite a former Hong Kong film student with excellent grades to sit next to him and provide one-on-one guidance.

That was explaining the questions after class and marking the key points before the exam. I had to make up for fifteen years of classes.

Those who had just entered elementary school at that time are all graduating from college, but the youngest one only managed to finish junior high school.

Even though he was not so ambitious, the youngest son still went out and boasted every day that he was researching the atomic bomb at home, and told others that as long as his father implemented the grading system, he would release the atomic bomb at home and give everyone a chance to survive.

Chen Jinnian tried to put himself into the role of Guangdian, but he failed because he wanted to strangle the youngest brother and really wanted to turn a blind eye.

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10 month 9 number

Just the day after Huayi withdrew the film from the schedule, all the preview screenings that could normally be purchased with tickets disappeared.

That’s right, the radio and television took action.

Huayi has previously raised issues with the scale of its marketing films many times, even going so far as to specify which plots and characters would not pass review. Now, they have finally gotten the hammer they asked for, and the film has been banned.

In fact, the title is a bit inaccurate. The correct name is Xiaying.

Huayi doesn’t want to withdraw the film? I’ll satisfy you, withdraw it, withdraw it completely, withdraw it completely.

Almost within an hour before noon, the movie could no longer be found on the ticket booking platform. All cinemas across the country were unable to play the movie and there were no screenings. All preview tickets that had been sold were refunded.

More importantly, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television did not give any explanation for the nationwide emergency withdrawal of the film. Even when Huayi asked, the answer it got was that it followed the normal procedures.

As for the request to release the film during the Lunar New Year holiday, it is not impossible. Just like "Titanic", it needs to go through the re-screening procedures and be re-approved.

The review process is a bit long, maybe a week, a month, or even a year. You can submit the procedures first and wait in line.

I don’t know what Huayi is thinking now.

Anyway, when Chen Jinnian got the inside information from Ning Hao, he was shocked. He didn't expect that the Radio and Television Bureau would really kill him.

As a feature film, "Youth", which has only been released for nine days, has not yet realized more than half of its box office potential. Looking at the daily box office trends of "Dangal" in the first half of the year, you can understand how terrifying the long-tail box office is for a high-quality feature film.

According to Chen Jinnian's estimation, there will be no problem for the film to obtain the extension key. In the remaining 50 days of screening period, even if there is unfavorable public pressure, with the support of female users, it will not be too difficult to continue to take in 500 to 600 million yuan at the box office.

With a little manipulation, there is still hope that the box office will exceed 1 billion. Now the box office has just exceeded 400 million, and it was taken off the screen just to recoup the cost. Huayi has lost at least 200 million in profits.

"Are you sure that the Radio and Television Administration doesn't want Huayi to be re-screened?"

"How can I lie to you? Don't you see what kind of relationship I have with China Film?" Ning Hao said happily on the other side of the phone. He was firmly against "killing two birds with one stone". Now seeing Huayi in trouble, of course he was very happy.

"Oh, and I have another important insider tip. Next year, the film review process will no longer be handled by the Radio, Film, and Television Bureau. A separate Film Bureau will be established. Both theatrical and online films will have to be reviewed by the Film Bureau."

"Is this true?" Chen Jinnian shouted in surprise.

At this moment, he had only one thought in his mind: the Radio and Television Bureau was going to get rid of the burden of being the youngest.