You promised to make a bad movie, but your box office exceeded 10 billion?

Chapter 186 We have to help them

Not only PDD chief executive Liu Fei'er, but also top anchors such as Du Mei'er, who was led into a trap by Liu Fei'er, the entire live broadcast room was only discussing one thing today - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was nominated for an Oscar.

In the office building in Shanghai, Wang Huanyu nodded happily.

When he saw the news that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" had been nominated for an Oscar, he was as relieved as an old father who hopes his son will succeed.

When he mentioned it in the company before, everyone laughed at him, but now everyone who sees him can't help but compare him to Brother Dam and praise him for his vision!

The video that Chen Hui released before was originally criticized for being useless, but now the number of views has also begun to surge.

Other self-media editors also swarmed in like fish that smelled the fishy smell, which naturally led to the popularity of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" becoming even higher.

Cinemas are even more popular than ever before.

Even though many theaters have adjusted their film schedule to more than 50%, many audiences are still struggling to get a ticket, and the occupancy rate has directly reached 90%. Many poor seats where no one would buy tickets are now full.

In Beijing, in the Broadcasting Building, in the office, Chen Zhibai's face was full of joy.

This Xihong Decoration Film and Television is really his lucky general!

Not only did "Bright Sword" give him a big credit, but now he is nominated for an Oscar. This is a great opportunity to promote Chinese culture. It coincides with the rise of culture mentioned by the leaders.

Although this is all done well by oneself, with the results, he, the person in charge of Hua Radio and Television, can naturally get a share of the pie. After all, his job is to formulate policies for radio and television publicity and film and television creation, and to grasp the direction of public opinion.

The situation is very good now, isn’t it all due to him!
"Chenxing, how are they preparing for the Oscars?"

Chen Zhibai looked at the fat man opposite him with some worry.

"They don't seem to be prepared." Nie Chenxing answered truthfully. He came here today to say this.

"Ok?"

Chen Zhibai's face was filled with joy, "How can this be done?"

"Do they have insufficient understanding of the value of this award?"

"Chenxing, go there in person and make sure they understand the value of this award. No matter how much it costs, you must win this award!"

There is a huge difference between the value of a nomination and the final award. Of course he understands this truth. If he can finally win the award, the benefits are self-evident.

However, before Nie Chenxing could walk out of the office, Chen Zhibai raised his hand to stop him again, "They probably have little experience and don't understand the rules of the Oscars. I heard that they invested quite a lot this time, and I'm afraid they don't have much money." ”

"Qianda is also in a precarious state, so I'm afraid I won't be able to give them any help."

"We have to help them!"

"Let's do this. You personally lead the team to the beautiful country and use our resources to help them participate in the election."

"This award is not only an award for Xihong Film and Television, but also an award for our country, do you understand?"

"Only for success, not for failure!"

The Oscars have a special place to screen these nominated films, but that place has less than a thousand seats, and most of the time only a few hundred people go to see it.

The awards committee has more than 9000 members, which means that many of the judges may not have seen the movie at all. It is naturally impossible to get people to vote for you.

So at this time, a lobbying company needs to be used. They will show the film to these judges, and then tell them what is good about the film, so that they can vote for it in the final vote.

As for lobbying companies, you don’t just find one when you want to judge awards. They require long-term cooperation.

If you go to a lobbying company with money during the award evaluation, they will ignore you, and the award committee will not allow such a thing.

This is also the reason why Chen Zhibai finally changed his mind and asked Nie Chenxing to help Xihong Film and Television to judge the awards. He did not think that a small company like Xihong Film and Television, which had only been filming TV series in China for more than a year, could have any long-term lobbying company. .

This is how the Oscars award system works.

Utilize a large group of members to ensure that the final result is as fair as possible, and these members are all practitioners in the film industry and have a certain aesthetic appreciation for movies.

As for the lobbying mechanism, we can only say that it has advantages and disadvantages. After all, if you ask a lobbying company to show the film to the judges, they can't do it for free. You need to pay the lobbying company 5000 dollars for each session.

Only two judges can be canvassed at a time.

Nine thousand judges would require [-] games...

Well, they usually don’t lobby all the judges. These lobbying companies are very clear about the preferences of the judges. There are two types of people they will not lobby. One is if they like this type and will definitely vote, and the other is If you hate this type of thing, you will definitely not vote.

Only those in the middle are the ones they fight for.

But even so, it will require at least one thousand to two thousand screenings, which is a cost of 500 million to 1000 million knives!

Plus the usual costs of maintaining a lobbying company.

Not everyone can do this.

Therefore, some people also believe that the Oscars are a game of capital, and the Oscar awards are operated.

However, this lobbying system is not without its benefits. The judges only need to sit at home and listen to the lobbying of various lobbying companies to get a clear certification of the films nominated this time.

As the saying goes, if you listen to both, you will be enlightened, but if you believe only, you will be dark. Therefore, the quality of the films selected for each Oscar is not bad.

Otherwise, the golden brand of Oscar would have been destroyed long ago.

Xihong Decoration Film and Television, Sample Room.

"Ahhh!"

"PDD, you really deserve to die!"

When she saw PDD spending hundreds of thousands and drawing [-] movie tickets, Li Mingyue, who was watching the live broadcast, was helpless and furious.

These days were like a scene from a nightmare for her.

Ever since the news came back that Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was nominated for an Oscar, the box office data of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has begun to become abnormal. It has directly changed from a stable horizontal line to a vertical line that supports the sky!

That's all. This vertical line is getting taller day by day, and it's about to raise five fingers. And now, this box office data chart is pointing the middle finger at Li Mingyue.

After turning off the live broadcast with a snap, Li Mingyue sat on the sofa and began to calculate the profit and loss this time.

There is only one month left for the movie to be released, and there is only one month left for system settlement. Now there are only a few hours left before the final settlement. Although the box office has reached more than 7 million, there is still [-] million left to recover. a certain distance.

In the end, after excluding various taxes and handling fees, she was able to recover [-] million yuan, and she still had a net loss of tens of millions.

Although she was not able to lose hundreds of millions as she had initially imagined and gain a lot of weight, this was the biggest loss she had ever made, and it was still pretty good.

She was very grateful for her wisdom. If she hadn't piled up investments like crazy and was attacked by surprise like this, she might have gotten her money back.

Sure enough, Su You was just an idiot, stabbing her in the back like crazy.

Who would have thought that such a wonderful start would end up like this.

At this moment, a dazzling light once again lit up in the dim sample room.Someone opened the door and came in.

"What's the matter, sullen?"

Su You asked happily as he looked at Li Mingyue sitting cross-legged on the sofa with a sad face.

Of course, Li Mingyue would not give him a good look. The situation was originally very good, but he was about to lose hundreds of millions and become a billionaire in the blink of an eye. However, this guy forced himself to be well-off.

"Are you worried about losing money on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?"

Seeing the box office data of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" on the big screen in the sample room, Su You thought he had guessed what was going on, and a proud smile appeared on his face, "I have some good news for you!"

"what?"

Li Mingyue felt that her heartbeat slowed down a beat.

And good news?
Looking at the time, it was less than four hours before the final settlement.

My old swan, don’t give me any good news at this time!
She really wanted to shut Su You's mouth, but she knew that now that Su You was here, the good news had probably already happened.

God, please, leave some for me, can you lose 100 million?
Murphy's Law, the more you fear something, the more likely it will happen. Li Mingyue already had a very ominous premonition in her heart.

""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has exceeded 2 million US dollars in overseas box office!"

Su You was smiling all over his face, obviously he came here specifically to surprise Li Mingyue, "How about it, be excited!"

"We had a lot of fun making money!"

boom!
a bolt from the blue.

Li Mingyue froze in place, his mind a blur.

She then remembered that she had forgotten a very fatal thing - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, was also released in Beautiful Country!

At the beginning, everyone thought that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was just a toddler, and that it would be a joke if it was released in the beautiful country. It would not have any box office at all, so Li Mingyue did not include the box office of the beautiful country from the beginning.

Even when she got the news of being nominated for an Oscar later, she didn't expect it due to her habitual thinking.

It wasn't until now that she realized that she had already been nominated for an Oscar. Could the box office be bad?

Two hundred million yuan, according to the current exchange rate, is 14 billion soft sister coins, and then based on the share, because when it was released in the beautiful country, it cooperated with another distributor and needed to borrow other people's resources. The split ratio of Xihong Film and Television was only [-]% , of course, this is because the other party does not value "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" at all, otherwise the ratio would be even lower.

Coupled with various handling fees and taxes, only 2.5% can be allocated to Xihong Film and Television in the end, 14*0.25=3.5!

Ah!
Li Mingyue already screamed like a groundhog in her heart.

Just the box office split of Beautiful Country has already paid back its money.

She tried her best to lose money, but she was so vulnerable to reality.

Tears welled up in his eyes, and Li Mingyue felt extremely wronged.

She has never been so sure as this time. This is a one-month settlement cycle. She was happy for 29 days and more than ten hours, but was knocked back to her original shape in the last few hours.

She was really wronged.

"Hey, what's the matter?"

"Are you so happy that you cried?"

Seeing this, Su You quickly took out two pieces of paper and wiped Li Mingyue's tears.

Li Mingyue cried even harder when she heard this. It was obvious that all this was caused by the guy in front of her, but she couldn't say it. She couldn't blame him. After all, he was sincerely making money for himself and making good movies.

"There's nothing to cry about."

"There will be more of this kind of thing in the future!"

Su You said proudly, patting his chest loudly as he promised, "Don't worry, the movies I make will still make you lose money!"

"Strive to make more money with the next movie, let the company join the billion club, make the company bigger and stronger, and create greater glory!"

Boom!
Li Mingyue finally couldn't hold it back and punched Su You's chest hard, and then fists like raindrops swarmed in, or to put it another way, small fists hit Su You's chest.

Billion Club?
Without you, the sixth child, causing trouble, I would already be worth billions. Do I still have to wait for the next movie?
Bigger and stronger, create greater glories?
make money?

As soon as she heard these words, Li Mingyue couldn't help but grit her teeth. Look, are these human words?
I'm obviously still sad, but this guy is doing well, just adding salt to the wound, right?
I beat you, beat you, beat you...

Su You was also a little confused, but he felt that Li Mingyue's celebration was quite strange.

However, he did not get out of the way. With Li Mingyue's strength, it was still difficult to cause any substantial harm to him. What's more, Li Mingyue was not really willing to hit him hard...

She was just venting her emotions.

At this moment, the door of the sample room was pushed open again.

Zhang Keer stood dumbfounded at the door of the sample room, looking at the two people playing the game of punching your chest with a resentment on his face. Why does this kind of thing always happen to him?

She felt that even if she had nine lives, it would be difficult for her to end up well if she continued like this. After all, eating too much dog food would lead to malnutrition.

"Miss Ke'er!"

"We are celebrating that the North American box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has exceeded 2 million!"

Su You has a rough skin and thick flesh, just like a normal person.

Li Mingyue's beating movements froze in mid-air, her head lowered, and her ears were already red.

But after such a moment of catharsis, she felt much better.

She also figured it out. If it doesn't work once, she will try again. She won't believe it. She, Li Mingyue, can't lose money!
"Um, I'm here to see Mingyue. Someone from Huayue just called and wanted to see you."

The regret in Zhang Keer's heart was that the call was made to the front desk, and it was Xiaofang who should have informed her, but she met Xiaofang halfway and took the matter on herself. Now she really wants to give it to herself Two ear scrapers.

"Huaguangdian?"

Li Mingyue also recovered at this time.

When she heard the name, she immediately thought that they were the first to notify her of the Oscar nomination.

So when they called now, they undoubtedly wanted to let themselves compete for the statuette.

This is naturally impossible, don’t even think about it!

Although "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" failed to lose money, she will still make movies in the future. If there is an Oscar statuette as the foundation, the difficulty of losing money in the future will definitely increase a lot. Even if she, Li Mingyue, jumped from the 16th floor, she would still be in trouble. It’s impossible to compete for this little golden man!

No matter how Chen Zhibao talks about Lotus, no matter how much he talks about it, there is no way he can convince her!

(End of this chapter)