China Entertainment 2000

Chapter 31

Capital, Bona Corporation.

Jiang Liu habitually sat in front of the computer and struggled to pull up the Sina web page.

different from before.

Today, Sina has a brand new channel, and the link guide is Sina - Audio and Video Entertainment - Movie Treasure House.

When I clicked on the movie treasure house, I saw a whole row of news related to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

What makes people confused like Monk Zhanger is that the few news items in the front row are closely related to Jiangliu.

[The sadness of Chinese movies - "Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger"] - Peking Evening News

[In July 2000, how many movie lovers Zhang Guanli Dai mistakenly took "Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger" as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"] - Boutique Shopping Guide

[The unscrupulous producers, distributors and movie theaters of "Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger" teamed up to defraud movie lovers across the country] - Nanfang News
[Is the change from "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" to "Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger" a moral decline or a distortion of human nature] - Southern Metropolis Daily
[The return of the capitalists, Jiang Liu and his "Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger"] - Southern Entertainment

[Encountering the shameless Jiangliu, Li An cried]

[What can we do to save "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"]

[Industry and commerce of a certain place: After investigation, there are no safety hazards in such and such cinema]

[XXX Public Security Bureau: The person who called the police has admitted that he was out of breath because he bought the wrong movie ticket, so he made a false police report]

[General Administration: The procedures for "Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger" are legal, but the resulting problems are a warning]

[Jiang Liu, the director who makes young people more popular this summer]

Jiang Liu was dumbfounded in front of the computer. The news he heard was seriously inconsistent with what was said on the Internet.

"Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger" will be released in theaters on July 7.

On July 7, Jiang Liu went to the Central Cinema near Nortel to inspect the ticket sales, and he stopped going out in the scorching sun.

Until today, July 7, all the information Jiang Liu and Yu Dong had collected came from the Internet and the employees sent by Bona to keep an eye on the box office.

In the past two days, there was not much news about "Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger" on the Internet. If you don't put gold on it, it can be said that there is nothing.

Most media across the country are reporting on Ang Lee and talking about "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."

Therefore, Jiang Liu and Yu Dong only have one source of information - the employee's phone number.

However, what they heard from the employees was that "Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger has started filming."

"There are dozens of people sitting in the auditorium of such-and-such cinema."

Or some employees expressed their merit by saying, "I just yelled and led the dozen or so viewers behind me astray."

"I covered the poster of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" on top of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

In short, all Jiang Liu heard was good news. There was no such random insults and derogatory news as on the Internet.

"Today's media really have no quality at all. How dare they openly curse people!"

Green Tea, which is connected to the east by the river, said angrily.

Yu Dong wanted to laugh, but he held it back.

Although the young man in front of the computer is embarrassing, he is Bona's financial backer.

“The box office came out on the first day.”

Jiang Liu immediately put down the mouse, turned his chair and looked at Yu Dong: "Oh, how much?"

Yu Dong smiled and said: "It's about 183 million yuan, with an fluctuation of no more than 5 yuan."

"It fluctuates so much?"

Jiang Liu complained about the unreliability of the theater chain that only reported box office data for three days, and he was already happy.

This is not an era in which a movie can easily earn several billions in box office in later generations, and the box office on the first day may be in the hundreds of millions.

In 2000, a movie's first-day box office gross was 183 million yuan, which was enough for a director to become famous.

According to statistics, the number of large screens nationwide in 2000 was approximately 1200.

In 1999, the total box office for the whole year was 8.1 million yuan. In order to make ends meet, many local movie theaters once lowered movie ticket prices to four or five yuan.

In this era, regardless of the positive movies that the state requires enterprises and institutions to watch, the movie with the best box office is "Party A and Party B" directed by Feng Xiaogang in 1997, with a box office of 3000 million that year.Feng Xiaogang became famous in one fell swoop and was treated as a guest of honor by Huayi.

Therefore, Jiang Liu is proud and satisfied with the first-day box office performance of "Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger."

But it is obviously impossible to expect Jiang Liu to close the box office in time to satisfy the 183 million box office.

His requirements are not high. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Tiger" can just break the 1000 million box office mark by leveraging the fame and publicity of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and Ang Lee.

"It has been released for three days, so it should be fine for a few more days."

Jiang Liu muttered to himself. Yu Dong put down his mobile phone and said with a gloomy face: "The matter has become serious. The General Administration will let me go."

"Going to the headquarters? What are you going to do?"

"It is said that the producers of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" believe that we plagiarized and deliberately mislead the audience and undermined the market environment. The General Administration wants to ask about the relevant situation? In addition, a reporter asked for an interview."

"Indicate me?"

Jiang Liu wanted to try to struggle.

He has never eaten pork or seen a pig running?

I've heard a long time ago that a small clerk in the General Administration can bring down the people in the film and television industry. Aren't you looking for trouble there?

As for being interviewed?

He accepted a der, and the reporter was going to interview him right now, so it wasn’t a lice on a bald man’s head—it was obvious, but he went and scolded him again.

Taking the opportunity to hype it up again?
Jiang Liu thought about it and gave up. In this era, hype cannot be said to be in vain, it can only be said to be better than nothing.

It’s hard to make a phone call, not to mention the speed of communication through print media.

I hope that the media will use the media to make "Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger" popular, and the day lily will be cold.

Furthermore, the producer of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" spared no effort to scold him and "Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger".

The hype from the other side is almost enough.

Yu Dong saw Jiang Liu's hesitation and immediately said: "I've called your name and let you go."

"When?"

"Friday the 14th."

His arms couldn't twist his thighs, so Jiang Liu could only agree, nodded and said, "Fortunately, there are still two days left."

Yu Dong was puzzled: "What happened in two days? You are still preparing to draft."

Jiang Liu glanced at Yu Dong with disdain: "What kind of draft are you writing? I was thinking that "Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger" could be shown in the cinema for two more days, so I wouldn't be forced to finish it before going to the General Administration."

Yu Dong was speechless. Jiang Liu was really obsessed with money. He was still thinking about movies when it happened.

After leaving Bona, the sky was terrifyingly gloomy. Jiang Liu didn't dare to wait for the bus anymore, so he took a taxi and went straight to the rental house in Yanqi Town.

As soon as he arrived downstairs at Tongzi, a series of beeps came out from the pager: [Brother is back, where are you?]

Yan Liang?

There was no name prompt, so I could guess it just by looking at the information in Jiang Liu.

I made a call from the canteen downstairs. About 20 minutes later, Yan Liang's tall figure got out of the taxi not far away, and a heavy rain began to fall in the sky.

"Uncle You, I thought you were corrupted by the sugar-coated bullets of Western capitalists if you haven't come back for so long."

Jiang Liu pointed at Yan Liang who looked like a drowned rat and smiled.

"Nonsense, how can a little sugar-coated cannonball corrode my patriotic enthusiasm. Brothers, we finally met victoriously in the capital." Yan Liang hugged Jiang Liu and didn't let go until Jiang Liu was wet like rain.

"Let's go. I'm staying with Zhao Wenhong and the others now. Go back and tell me about your trip to the West."

Both of them were wet, and they no longer cared about being soaked in the rain for a while, so they walked straight towards the Tongzi Tower.

That night, the two talked a lot. Yan Liang changed greatly after his trip to the West.

Going west seemed to have made him find his life's goal, and he insisted on discussing documentary films with Jiang Liu, and categorically said that documentary films were the real movies.

Jiang Liu fell asleep without hesitation.

(End of this chapter)