China Entertainment Times 1999

Chapter 256 System upgrade, fifth level authority! (Please subscribe!)

On one side is the premiere of "The Blind Shaft" and on the other side is the filming of "The Dark Side".

The palms and backs of the hands were full of flesh, but Lin Xuan could only choose one.

The premiere of "The Blind Shaft" was in a hurry, so he could only come here first.

As for "The Dark Side", one month of filming is more than enough, so just hurry up when the time comes.

Both the director and the male lead are not on the crew, so everyone else can take a vacation.

Lin Xuan gave the entire crew a five-day holiday, and Fan Xiaopang and Gao Yuanyuan returned to the capital with him.

"Don't you like walking on the red carpet? This is a perfect opportunity."

In the master bedroom of the courtyard, Lin Xuan helped Fan Xiaopang choose a dress.

"It's not like you walked with me on the red carpet."

Fan Xiaopang crossed his slender legs and gnawed a cucumber in his mouth.

Although the weight loss task assigned to her by Lin Xuan was difficult, she finally completed it.

Fan Xiaopang, who has lost weight, is back to the peak of his appearance, with a charming face that can charm people to death.

But she has a physique that is prone to obesity. As long as she is not careful, her weight will increase slowly, so she still needs to pay attention to her daily diet.

If you are really hungry, just eat a few tomatoes or cucumbers.

These two vegetables are very low in calories and have a good feeling of satiety, making them very suitable for consumption during the weight loss period.

"There's nothing I can do. I'm an investor in "The Blind Shaft" and I must stand with the crew.

You can just attend with Gao Yuanyuan when the time comes. While waiting for media interviews, I took the opportunity to advertise "The Dark Side". "

Hearing this, Fan Xiaopang rolled his eyes.

Letting two love rivals walk on the red carpet together is something only Lin Xuan can do.

"It's March, and the weather in the capital isn't that cold. You can pick something good-looking for me."

"Believe me in my aesthetics, a dress doesn't only look good if you reveal a lot."

…………

On the last day of February, the movie "The Blind Shaft" premiered.

Lin Xuan got up, washed up, and went to the theater to meet the crew.

After saying hello, Lin Xuan looked at Wang Baoqiang and asked with a smile:

"Baoqiang, how do you feel? Are you nervous?"

"Kind of."

Wang Baoqiang smiled naively.

It's impossible not to be nervous in this situation.

Lin Xuan comforted him with a few words, then went to check the situation on site and confirm the premiere process with the host.

The publicity and distribution work of "Blind Shaft" is handled by 'Lin Xuan Studio'.

All the staff are our own, so the work efficiency is naturally very high

Lin Xuan checked around and found nothing wrong.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the premiere begins.

Lin Xuanxian led the crew and creators to deliver a speech in the square outside the theater.

Thousands of spectators gathered under the stage, and even the balcony of the opposite community was crowded with onlookers holding telescopes.

The red carpet starts at half past ten.

The main creator of the film crew received guests at the entrance of the theater, and Lin Xuan was already very familiar with this process.

"Director Han, thank you for your support."

"Director Yimou, welcome."

"Mr. Wang, please come inside."

…………

The invitation to the premiere of "The Blind Shaft" was very tense.

Especially in the main hall, there are department leaders, famous directors, actors, and film and television company bosses.

As for actors with lower status, even if they have a close relationship with Lin Xuan, they can only sit in other halls.

The entertainment industry is such a reality and no one is exempt from it.

The red carpet walk took almost an hour.

After everyone arrived, the staff put away the red carpet, and the crew and creators were interviewed in the theater.

Whenever it comes to movie topics, Lin Xuan gives the opportunity to Li Yang.

"The Blind Shaft" is his movie, and Lin Xuan doesn't want to overstep it.

After this period of baptism, Li Yang gradually developed the aura of a big-name director.

Speak clearly and clearly, not nervous at all.

After a brief chat and interaction with the audience, the movie officially started at 12 noon.

…………

In a mine with a crude and dilapidated environment, workers get up early to go to work accompanied by the sound of strong winds.

Tang Chaoyang, his younger brother, and fellow countryman Song Jinming received the tools and went down into the dark mine.

Taking advantage of their work break, the three of them sat together to eat and chat.

"Do you want to go home?"

"Why don't you want to go home?"

"Brother, I'll take you home today, what do you think?"

"Brother, what's the date today? I haven't paid yet."

"What did I do to you? Look!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Song Jinming raised a pickaxe and hit him on the head, and his brother Tang Chaoyang quickly hit him again.

The man didn't react and fell to the ground without saying a word.

The scene at the beginning of the film immediately frightened the entire audience.

The elder brother and a fellow villager actually murdered the younger brother. What kind of plot is this?

Whispers came from the theater.

The video continued to play, and only when they saw Tang Chaoyang crying for his mother did everyone understand.

It turns out that the person who was killed was not Tang Chaoyang's younger brother.

The two men made a fortune by tricking migrant workers and taking them to work in small mines as relatives.

After defrauding the trust of all parties, he killed him underground and faked it as a "safety incident."

All the safety procedures in the small mine were unqualified. In order to settle the matter, the mine manager could only give him a pension.

This time the two men repeated their old tricks. Tang Chaoyang lost his "relative" and cried until he broke down in front of the mine director.

As a fellow countryman, Song Jinming was responsible for the work of objectivity, rationality, and coordination.

After receiving the pension and signing the liability exemption agreement, the two left the mine and threw the ashes into the garbage.

After changing places, the two of them took a bus to another city, where they met Yuan Fengming, who had dropped out of school to work.

This kid is honest and has never seen the world, so he is a very suitable target.

Song Jinming didn't want to do anything to a child, but Tang Chaoyang only had money in his eyes.

The two argued for a while, but finally accepted him and took him to work in a nearby small mine.

Yuan Fengming's innocence, studiousness, simplicity and thoughtfulness reminded Song Jinming of his children who were studying, so he felt pity and refused to take action.

He also made up a lot of excuses, saying that the child had never touched a woman, so it was too embarrassing to die like this, and he wanted to give the child a farewell drink before he died.

This job required two people to work together, so Tang Chaoyang could only be patient and meet these conditions one by one.

Now Song Jinming could no longer find any reason.

"Feng Ming, are you homesick? How about I take you home today?"

It’s a familiar mine again, and it’s a familiar conversation.

Seeing that Yuan Fengming was about to be brutally murdered, the audience's hearts were in their throats.

However, after Tang Chaoyang finished his opening remarks, Song Jinming had no intention of taking action.

Just then, something terrible happened.

Tang Chaoyang hit Song Jinming on the head with a hammer, and then walked towards Yuan Fengming with eager eyes.

He doesn't care about any rules and is ruthless. As long as he can make money, he will do anything and kill anyone.

Fortunately, Song Jinming didn't get smashed to death with his head intact. He got up and knocked Tang Chaoyang down again, and Yuan Fengming took the opportunity to escape.

The worker who was guarding the door and setting off the cannon saw Yuan Fengming running out in a hurry and asked, "Has everyone come out yet?"

Yuan Fengming didn't answer. With a loud roar, he finally saw the light of day again.

The mine director paid 30,000 yuan to each person and had their bodies cremated.

At this time, the camera showed Song Jinming's shoes, which were the relics of the man named Yuan.

The camera switches back and forth between it and the confused Yuan Fengming's face.

With the black smoke coming out of the chimney and the subtitles of cracking down on black mines and dealing with related cases, the film officially ends.

......... After the movie ended, the audience felt very heavy, and the entire theater was silent.

It took a few minutes for the audience to come back to their senses and continue with the rest of the session.

"The Blind Shaft" is so real, as real as a documentary rather than a movie.

In addition to attacking reality and exploring human nature, the film's craftsmanship is very mature and its control of details is also in place.

There are not many characters in the film, but each character is three-dimensional, full-bodied and flesh-and-blood.

It is no exaggeration to say that there is not a single nonsense line in the entire film. One more line will be cumbersome, and one less line will lack the warmth.

This can be seen from the comments of the audience.

Apart from the movie itself, what everyone is most concerned about is the box office.

Literary films have a narrow audience, while realistic films are too depressing.

When people spend money to watch movies, most of them want to have fun, but few people are willing to spend money to buy pleasure.

Therefore, the box office of these two types of movies is almost pitiful.

However, "The Blind Shaft" is an exception.

Because of Lin Xuan's investment and the publicity and momentum during this period, the audience's expectations for the movie are very high.

But there is a question mark as to how many people are willing to pay for the tickets and how many people are just paying lip service.

"Director Lin, how much do you think the box office of the movie can be?"

Not surprisingly, a reporter raised this question.

"Um……"

Lin Xuan took the microphone, and everyone in the audience looked at him.

"The movie itself is very good, but reality-themed movies are not popular. I think... the minimum price is 5000 million!"

No one reacted to the first half of the sentence. After all, everyone knows this kind of thing.

But the second half of Lin Xuan's sentence really shocked everyone.

5000 million, guaranteed, Lin Xuan, you are so crazy, you dare to say such things.

In the mainland film market last year, there was only one movie with a box office of over 100 million, and that was Zhang Yimou's "Hero".

Movies with a box office of around 5000 million include "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," "Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones," and "Spider-Man."

The above four movies are all top European and American big productions. On the other hand, "The Blind Shaft" is just a low-budget movie.

After being surprised, everyone began to think seriously.

Is Lin Xuan's words a daydream, or is he confident in his heart?

Considering his fan appeal and the recent popularity of "Blind Shaft".

5000 million box office is really possible.

After thinking about this, the big guys in the hall were speechless.

Unconsciously, Lin Xuan's influence in the film industry has reached this level.

A small-budget movie can be pushed to the box office of 5000 million.

However, what everyone doesn't know is that the reason why Lin Xuan had the confidence to shout out the slogan of guaranteed 5000 million yuan was not because of tens of millions of fans, but because of the system.

Just when the overseas copyright fees for "Blind Shaft" arrived, the system was upgraded again.

[Host: Lin Xuan]

[Occupation: Actor, Investor]

[System level: Level 5]

[Level One Permission: Film and Television Course Library (Open)]

[Second level authority: Film and television script library (open)]

[Level 3 authority: Second occupation (investor)]

[Level 4 permission: data modification (open)]

[Level 5 authority: invisible hand (open)]

[Level 6 authority: not enabled]

[Current points: 9000W]

[Accumulated points: 1.2Y/10Y]

The name of the fifth level of authority is "Invisible Hand".

In short, this function can inject system points into movies or TV series.

1000 million points can increase the box office by an additional 1000 million, or the corresponding ratings.

Systematic trading, no one can be deceived.

With this feature, Lin Xuan no longer has to worry about box office and ratings.

As long as there are enough points, even a bad movie can win the box office championship.

What he needs to consider more is how many points to invest in each work to maximize the benefits.

Take "The Blind Shaft" as an example. He can get 9% of the movie's profit, so the bigger the investment, the better.

After comprehensive consideration, Lin Xuan decided to inject 5000 million points.

This means that even if this movie does not do any promotion, the box office can exceed 5000 million.

This is the source of his confidence.

After the premiere, Lin Xuan invited the cast and crew and friends in the industry to a restaurant for dinner.

When he returned to the courtyard after the dinner party, he did not sleep but waited for the movie's first-day box office results to be released.

At around two o'clock in the morning, the studio's distribution department called to report.

The box office of "The Blind Shaft" exceeded 5 million on its first day, and it has a chance to hit the 100 million mark.

After getting the news, Lin Xuan was finally relieved.

It seems that the system is still as powerful as ever.

…………

The next morning, the results of the first day of "Blind Shaft" were published in the newspaper, and the media immediately followed up and reported on it.

In this era of Hollywood blockbusters, box office results are only 5000 million.

For a small-budget literary film to achieve such good results is enough to shock the entire entertainment industry.

Some media previously ridiculed Lin Xuan for being whimsical.

As a result, we now know that the figure of 5000 million is already very low-key.

Today's media box office predictions are basically 80 million, or even more than 100 million.

"The Blind Shaft" exploded at the box office. In addition to system points, fans also made a lot of contributions.

These people not only support the movie, but also make money online.

[Idols have great vision. "The Blind Shaft" is a very good movie. No wonder it won the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival. 】

[The two actors performed so well, especially the scene where Old Tang kneels down to the mine director. If this scene had been placed at the beginning, I would have thought he was a good person. 】

[What a good thing. These two people are not good friends at first glance, especially Tang Chaoyang. His appearance is too scary. 】

[Wang Baoqiang was Lin Xuan’s original assistant. Unexpectedly, he also had a very good vision. 】

[The mine owners and miners also performed very well, as well as the MILF Sister Ma. 】

[Xiao Hong is so beautiful. If in real life, I would spend this hundred yuan on anything. 】

[Not only is she beautiful, she also looks very different. 】

【What! What! What! What is written here? 】

[What we are looking at is the mainland special version, and I have the resources to edit the overseas version. 】

[Asking for resources, good people will have peace in their lives. 】

[The Internet speed at home is too slow. Do you have physical CDs for sale? 】

[Of course there is, but there has to be a way. The crackdown on the uncut version is quite severe. 】

"The Blind Shaft" was a hit at the box office, but the most popular person in the whole drama was not the director or the actors, but Lin Xuan.

Li Yang didn't feel jealous at all about this.

Because he knows very well that Lin Xuan has the greatest contribution to the success of the movie.

The aroma of wine is also afraid of deep alleys.

Without him behind the scenes, it would be hard to say whether the movie would be released.

In addition, I hope those directors of artistic films will not get carried away.

"The Blind Shaft" is just a special case. Its popularity does not mean that mainland audiences have begun to accept literary films.

Whether now or in the foreseeable future, commercial films are the right direction of development.

Five days after its release, the box office of "The Blind Shaft" exceeded 3000 million.

Amid the praise from the media, Lin Xuan returned to the crew with satisfaction.

(End of this chapter)