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In the summer of 2009, Xu Fei was mostly talking about "Let the Bullets Fly".

Jiang Wen complained about him for being a producer, but the result was generous and shocking, and it cost more than 100 million in the blink of an eye.

When filming at the Huairou China Film Digital Film and Television Base, I also encountered a leader of the team. This big leader came accompanied by the leader of Liu, in his old age, he was full of energy.

That's right, that one.

There are rumors on the Internet in later generations, which are unclear, but they are actually true. A lot of news is gone, but I can find only a few words and a photo after searching.

Xu Yuling was also there, and she suddenly said, "Hello Grandpa!"

Huh!

Not only did he chat, but he also signed an autograph. Xu Yuling was very good.

Historically, "Let the Bullets Fly" box office was 661 million.

Now Mr. Xu is sitting in person, not asking for more, with a goal of 750 million. Next year, there will be a giant, "Avatar."

...

"Times Media announced the acquisition of a studio company under New Line Pictures."

"The Studio Company was established in 2005 and has produced masterpieces such as "Pan's Labyrinth", "Life of Roses", "Passion", "Fragments", and "My Grand Greek Wedding", but only 11 of the 21 films it released The box office exceeded one million dollars."

"In 2008, Warner acquired the new line of mergers and acquisitions. They wanted to close the Studio Company, but the appearance of Times Media delayed their decision. After more than a year of arduous negotiations, the Studio Company finally ushered in a new owner."

"Times Media announced another US$50 million strategic investment in US Netflix."

"Netflix is ​​an online DVD rental business. At present, Boss Xu wants to expand the North American audio-visual products channel..."

"Today, the only larger independent studios in Hollywood are Cactus, Lionsgate, and Weinstein Pictures.

The well-known magazine "Time" expressed its worries about the American independent film industry in a new issue, claiming that this was a flood that swept across.

The source of the flood is undoubtedly the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States, and large film companies that once spent a lot of money have also begun to live in a hurry.

Wall Street used to be the largest investor in independent films. From 2005 to 2007, they invested a total of US$2 billion. In the past two years, they have almost nothing.

A large number of independent production companies are closing down. Apart from A-level blockbusters, fans would rather sit at home and watch YouTube or MySpace, which has led to a decline in DVD sales.

Time Media chose to enter Hollywood at this stall. The author is not optimistic about its prospects, but after all, this is the first time a domestic filmmaker has taken the initiative to attack Hollywood. It is courageous..."

You know a baba!

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The cactus is slowly upgrading to the big factory, the industry myth, not a work loses money, this year even launched the big poisonous plant "Twilight" to poison the American people.

It is not limited to small-cost investment, and there are also many large-scale productions, such as "Inception" to be released next year.

Whether everyone knows it or not, the foundation of the cactus is not easy to make public. So he needs a Hollywood company that has been acquired honestly to share some operations and firepower.

Historically, Wanda acquired Legendary Pictures and AMC Cinemas in order to create a sweet universe.

Xu Fei is not too cold about the theaters, because American theaters are different from domestic ones. Domestically, I can't help but say that I get 50% of the box office first, but the American cinema is the side that is squeezed, and the big companies are the ones in control.

How to divide it has been explained several times before, so I won’t repeat it.

It is better to acquire the issuing company to acquire a theater chain. What's more, when the epidemic broke out, the US theaters collapsed and AMC was on the verge of bankruptcy.

Ok?

Xu Fei scratched his head, didn't I wear it in 19 years? Why did you know the epidemic?

Of course, if the cinema chain also adds real estate value, that is another matter.

As for Netflix, do you know about Netflix?

The stock price is now just over RMB 7 and the DVD rental business has not been split. After the first original drama series "House of Cards" was released in 2013, the market value began to take the rocket.

Netflix's model is a monthly subscription.

It needs continuous expansion to increase the number of members. By 2020, it will have 200 million members worldwide, with a market value of more than 200 billion US dollars.

It has entered the multi-country market by: Netflix invests money → gathers top local film and television talents → puts out high-quality products on the website → attracts members.

There is a drama "Kingdom" that killed zombies in ancient North Korea, which is a collaboration with South Korea.

However, only the mainland did not come in, because of policy supervision, it can only change the law to increase the sense of existence. For example, cooperating with Wanwan, filming a few street Chinese dramas, and looking for Zhou Jielun to do variety shows, etc., the effect was minimal.

Netflix spends $10 billion a year on self-produced dramas, most of which have little influence.

Xu Fei felt sorry for the money.

He invested in Netflix, naturally, not to bring Netflix's dramas to China, but to get his own dramas abroad. This is also a channel for Chinese-speaking actors to go abroad.

Later generations of Netflix always wanted to integrate oriental elements, but it had a virtue with Hollywood: I don't want to know you at all, I just cover your shell and show it to our audience.

Like "Marco Polo" and "Five Elements Assassin."

Especially "Marco Polo", which cost 60 million US dollars in one season! What a bad job!

But Mr. Xu understands, he understands the pan-Asian market and the North American market. Netflix is ​​a very good platform...

No one understands these things except for him who has the advantage of predicting.

In the impetuous entertainment circle, everyone sees it even more shallowly: Mr. Xu has acquired a Hollywood company!

And don't hold big sweets!

…………

In 2011, the end of January.

Fatty has been busy all afternoon, so that Nazha, who wanted to sleep in, also panicked and worked with him.

They will go to the annual Chinese-speaking entertainment industry annual meeting in the evening.

After signing Song Tie and others, they harvested new leeks last year and signed Xinjiang Shuangmei, Xiaohuangya, Ni Ni, Jin Chen, Li Yitong and others in one go.

It's not that Mr. Xu doesn't want to sign a man, really not!

Only one Dong Zijian was drawn, but Wang Jinghua actively recommended it. For the rest, does he sign Lu, Zhang, Huang, Wu, Xiao, and Yang? Or sign the dung boy?

From beginning to end, he liked Peng Yuchang, who is still young.

Speaking of which, Fatty is a student in the theater, and Nazha is a model. She was supposed to take the Nortel exam this year, but she became a freshman at Nortel last year under the company's arrangement.

It's winter vacation, and Fatty rushed over from the magic city. This will be in the artist's dormitory.

The two were busy at the dinner until the agent arrived with the stylist.

Each prepared a suit, not too formal or casual. They are all slender waists, long legs and big breasts.

It was cold, and the one-person down jacket was shaking in the car.

When I arrived at a five-star hotel owned by Ronda, the stars were already shining at the door, and many reporters took photos.

"Look, it's Zhou Xun's car. All female stars except the other three big stars have to give way."

"That's Liu Tianxian, that's Shu Chang. Shu Chang doesn't have Liu Tianxian fire, but the two can go together if they have a good relationship."

"That's Liya Tong, your fellow, remember to say hello when you go in."

"It doesn't matter if you see a newcomer. If you see Senior Fan smile three points in advance, be polite and take a good measure. If you think you can talk, you can go up and try it. If you have a friendship, then you will be used..."

"Well, it's up to us."

The agent gave a face-to-face instruction, caught the gap and led the two into the venue.

The reporter clicked and patted, and communicated with each other: "These two are good, they are born to eat this bowl of rice."

"Mr Xu has the ability to always find good seedlings."

"Let's watch it again in a few years, now it's too fast to update!"

It was also a small red carpet, and the two of them arrived in the main hall nervously and excitedly, wow, becoming more and more dazzled.

It seems that the entire entertainment circle is here. Big guys and popular stars have the ability to form a circle. The crew of "Let the Bullets Fly" led by Jiang Wen is undoubtedly the core of the core.

As we all know, the annual meeting is also a celebration banquet, to celebrate the annual blockbuster film of the world.

The film market has been turbulent for 10 years.

At the beginning of the year, "Avatar" hit 1.328 billion, directly pushing the record to 1 billion+, allowing the world to see the potential of the mainland market. Since then, Hollywood has begun aggressively offensive.

In the middle of the year, there was "Inception", which was in the early half of 500 million years; and the "Tangshan Earthquake" was in the early years of 700 million.

With the blessing of Teacher Xu, it is a little higher than the historical performance.

At the end of the year is "Let the Bullets Fly", which has surpassed a major earthquake in more than a month, and there is still more.

Fatty and Nazha sat down, naturally the same rookies at the same table, very reserved. The little yellow duck is also there, has performed "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" and is the most famous.

Being dull, a certain agent appeared: "Oh, why are you sitting stupidly? Say hello?"

"We, we..."

"Get up, I will take you there."

The girls who had just entered the industry were very young, and they followed their agent to another table. It was the last group of Mao Xiaotong, Zhao Liying and others.

Knowing each other, everyone raised the same question: A good girl named Song Tie is weird!

Then another agent suggested: "Let's take a picture and post it on Weibo."

"Yeah!"

Ever since, Xiao Huang Ya took out the iPhone 4 that was just launched in China, took a group photo, and posted it on his Weibo.

"..."

In an instant, the girls felt fierce competition!

Because the person who proposed is the agent of Little Yellow Duck.

A large group of people attracted attention from elsewhere and turned their eyes on them. The well-established post-70s smiled and didn't care, but the post-80s underwent doubled pressure.

Again, the current entertainment industry is different from the past, it is too fast to update!

Eating and drinking, the dinner was going on, guessing whether Xu Zong would show up.

Fortunately, Xu Fei still gave Lao Jiang face, appeared at the end, and broke the "720000000" ice sculpture together.

"Wow!"

"Wow!"

The atmosphere of the audience is in place and the stars are envious. Movie cafes are better than TV drama cafes, and they all want to make blockbuster movies.

Old Jiang gave a talk first, and Xu Fei took the microphone.

"I remember the ice sculpture of "A World Without Thieves" is 140 million. Then 170 million, 200 million, 200 million, and "Earth Cannon" is more than 600 million.

Maybe everyone is thinking that the next one is 800 million, 900 million... As a result, "Avatar" was pushed to 1.3 billion, only 4 years later.

What I want to say is that 1 billion+ is by no means upset, but will become a habit. The potential of the mainland market is not only that, it will soon reach 2 billion, 3 billion, or even 5 billion.

In the last stage, we launched five blockbusters.

Today, we continue to introduce development plans for the new era. "

brush!

At this moment, everyone's attention is on the stage.

"Starting this year, we have been working on at least one domestic blockbuster every year. The difference is that after "Earth Cannon", I made an undisclosed training plan and sent people to the United States to learn special effects production.

Now that there are little results, Time Media’s own special effects company will soon be established. "

"Secondly, at least one blockbuster with in-depth cooperation with Hollywood every two years. I hereby guarantee that it is definitely not a special Chinese version of soy sauce."

"Finally, we will strengthen the operation and promotion of streaming media. There will be a large number of online TV series and online movies in the future. Don't underestimate this model. They will become new growth points for the entertainment industry."

"..."

The reporter was in a daze for a while, and asked questions together, pointing straight to the core.

"Mr. Xu, do you mean that more and more Chinese elements will be exported overseas?"

"Correct!"

"Will more and more Chinese-speaking actors participate in international productions?"

"Not bad!"

"You said blockbusters, can you give me an example of the type?"

""The Wandering Earth", "Three-Body", "Supernova Era", "Shanhaijing", "Journey to the West", "Fengshen"!"

"Are you going to fight Hollywood?"

"This is not a war, but a common competition to promote development!

With the advent of the film and television industry, those who stick to the rules will soon be eliminated. If we don't even have the courage to fight against it and the determination to rise to power, what Chinese-speaking filmmakers are still talking about? "

Xu Fei turned his head and smiled: "Master, how do you say that sentence?"

Feng Pants, the first flatterer under his command, hurried over, eating hot pot and singing, full of spirit:

"The wind is blowing and the clouds are flying!!!"

…………

"Let the Bullets Fly" was released on December 16, and it has been more than a month.

Just the day before the Spring Festival, a girl came to China Film Times Studios.

Without buying a ticket, I went into the bookstore first.

The clerk who has been promoted to store manager curiously asked, "Why are you here so late?"

"Ugh……"

"No boyfriend this time?"

"Don't mention it!"

The girl waved her hand, her face was overwhelmed: "The car is overturned, the car is overturned. Is there a puzzle in "Let the Bullets Fly"?"

"No, the event is over long ago."

"I am used to jigsaw puzzles, and my heart is empty when I am empty."

"But I heard that there is a new blockbuster plan, maybe there will be puzzle activities."

"Really? Then I'll wait and see."

The girl came with a little interest, and turned around and left the bookstore casually.

When I passed the wall of celebrity handprints, there was another thing next to it. It was a camera made up of five pieces of puzzles from "A World Without Thieves", "October Besieged", "Heroes", "Kung Fu" and "Earth Cannon".

Framed and embedded on the wall, to show that a loyal movie fan's infatuation has not changed.

The girl stopped and looked for a while, vaguely saw her youthful years, and then walked to the front desk and took out the unique VIP card!

Only one card will be issued.

Even if you write movie history in the future, you will be given an important position.

She asked for a ticket for the latest show "Let the Bullets Fly". Although it is free forever, the ticket has to be printed out, which is equivalent to the studio asking her to watch a movie.

Entering the theater, the heat has faded a lot, and dozens of people are seated.

The girl was sitting in the middle of the second-to-last row, the best in the audience, with unobstructed views, but the left and right sides were empty and the side was deserted, she couldn't help sighing:

"Hey, the king is always lonely..."