Chapter 1106: Division of Labor and Role of Crystal Cinema Chain, More Say!

"At around nine o'clock in the morning, Huanxi Media released a film release announcement:

The fourth film in the *Lost* series, *Lost in Russia*, is officially scheduled for the Spring Festival release window in 2020, aiming at the first day of the Lunar New Year."

"It is reported that *Lost in Russia* is a film work directed by Xu Zheng, starring Xu Zheng, Huang Meiying, Yuan Quan, Jia Bing, Guo Jingfei, with guest appearances by Huang Bo, Shen Teng, Song Xiaobao, etc...

The total investment cost of the film is 200 million RMB, and more than 70% of the shooting locations are in Russia, so it is also known as *Lost in Russia*... The film officially wrapped up in Moscow yesterday afternoon."

"Reporters learned from relevant insiders of the Zhejiang Film Industry Association:

The Spring Festival family comedy film *Lost in Russia*, exclusively produced by Huanxi Media, has clearly chosen to cooperate with relevant distribution and theater chain joint parties in a box office guarantee mode;

The specific cooperation details of the box office guarantee distribution agreement between the two sides have been roughly finalized, leaving only the final supplementation and perfection; in addition, the two sides plan to officially announce it at the end of this year."

The official scheduling of an original big IP undoubtedly affects the nerves of the entire film industry.

Fans on the internet are also discussing enthusiastically, just hoping that this *Lost in Russia* will not be as disgusting as the last *Lost in Hong Kong*.

Of course, the vast majority of fans and netizens also have absolute confidence and expectations for *Lost in Russia*;

Because this cast is really very good, and the re-cooperation of Xu Zheng, Yuan Quan, Huang Bo, and Shen Teng has a feeling of dreaming back to *Breakup Buddies*.

Plus Guo Jingfei and Song Xiaobao are also funny talents on the screen, with so many highlights superimposed, the film is highly likely to be full of laughter, right?

Lin Nan didn't pay attention to the fans and netizens who tagged him on Weibo, didn't answer any of their questions about *Lost in Russia*, and also declined media phone interviews.

He only enjoys the right to share the box office and does not participate in all topics of this film, so as not to make the two people on the Huanxi side sensitive;

After all, Dong Ping has reminded him many times about the ownership of copyright, *Lost* now belongs to Huanxi.

"Director Ning and screenwriter Xing have already flown over this morning. The promotion of *The Father* will be fully carried out by Bad Monkey..."

"He is the chairman of the jury for the Asian New Talent unit module, and he also has to warm up for the film's release, so the two of them must have rushed to Shanghai more than ten days in advance."

In the office, Lin Nan replied to Yue Jun with low energy.

He really didn't sleep well last night, because Liu Qianqian woke up in the middle of the night and told him she was hungry; this was also the first time Liu Qianqian woke up hungry in the middle of the night since she was pregnant!

In the next few months, her body's demand for nutrition will only get bigger and bigger; she has to adjust the diet plan again, from four meals a day with less food and more meals to five to six meals.

That is, three main meals plus two to three small auxiliary meals, regular time and quantity, balanced nutrition, prioritizing high-protein, high-fiber, low-glycemic index foods... hmm, these are all doctor's instructions!

"Lin Dao, don't be distracted."

"Ah? Nothing, you continue."

Yue Jun smiled, obviously not believing Lin Nan's words; but he didn't get to the bottom of it, but continued to speak with a slightly serious expression:

"Next is the human relationship in the circle, Zhang Ruoyun sent a wedding invitation..."

"Then you represent the company to send a gift when the time comes, go or not as you like. Hmm? No! This is someone else's happy event, why are you this expression?" Lin Nan looked at Yue Jun, a little puzzled.

"It's not just this one thing, I heard gossip that around four or five o'clock this morning, Wang Baoqiang called an ambulance..."

Lin Nan's heart shook, and he instantly guessed the matter that Yue Jun was hesitant to say.

"I remember, the old lady seems to have been diagnosed with late stage not long after he finished filming *Buddies in India* and caught the affair?"

"Hmm, it's very difficult to be able to hold on for two years. And being able to pick her up to live at home, what this means, Lin Dao, you should understand."

"He must push off the Shanghai Film Festival itinerary. You also pay attention privately, and when the time comes, either you or Director Jiang will represent the company to attend the old lady's..."

"Understood."

In the three days from the 3rd to the 5th, Lin Nan's main energy was not at all on the remaining post-production of *Mulan*, he was learning new dishes at home.

Mainly aimed at the problem of classmate Liu Qianqian wanting to eat in the middle of the night, this meal cannot be eaten too much, nor can it be eaten simply...

Lin Nan originally wanted to find two female nutritionists and chefs to live at home and hire them for half a year; but after discussing with Liu Xiaoli and Liu Qianqian, he finally gave up this idea.

Mainly because Liu Qianqian was a bit resistant and couldn't accept it, she was embarrassed to trouble outsiders to help her cook in the middle of the night, even if the other party was hired with money.

Well, this errand really can only be done by Lin Dao, and it is also fully enjoying the fun of his wife's pregnancy; hmm, anyway, he is this mentality!

So the final planning arrangement is that Liu Xiaoli and the nanny go to purchase various fresh raw fresh vegetables every day;

And Lin Nan is ready to get up in the middle of the night or in the middle of the night to go to the kitchen, in short, he cannot sleep too deeply. Don't say, his sense of participation and sense of ritual are simply full.

On the 6th, *The White Storm 2* and *Better Days* were released on the same day; the former had a screening rate of 27.7%, and the latter had a screening rate of 18.5%.

Sure enough, on the first day of the release of these two films, the theater chain was still more willing to believe *The White Storm 2* with the previous work as a base.

At the same time, *Godzilla: King of the Monsters*, which had been released for 5 days, also handed over a box office result of 610 million, and yesterday's daily income had plummeted to 45.87 million...

At this time, comparing its results with *Avengers: Endgame*, it is completely a world of difference, and it cannot be placed in the same magnitude at all.

"I don't care about the situation in the domestic film market right now. I really want to know how *The Wandering Earth* is doing outside, how is it?"

"Seems okay, it got 150 million US dollars in overseas box office in 5 days.

Must admit, the Hollywood stars and directors Lin Nan found did indeed play a very good promotional role.

Just the promotion of these people successfully called on a large number of audiences to walk into the cinema, or are about to walk into the cinema..."

In the office, facing the leader's inquiry, Ren Zhonglun answered with a smile.

This box office figure also made several peers in the conference room show envious eyes, including Chairman La.

"Indeed okay. In the current environment, don't ask for how high its box office is overseas; as long as it doesn't fail, it is quite successful. However, I think there should be quite a few deliberate boycotts and bad reviews outside, right?"

"This..." Ren Zhonglun smiled and didn't say it.

"You guessed it, there are indeed many bad reviews." Finally, Zhao Wentao opened his mouth. After all, it is a Chinese sci-fi blockbuster, and it is naturally difficult to survive outside.

Hearing this, a look of realization appeared on the leader's face. After shaking his head, he started the topic: "There should be quite a few crews and practitioners in the industry who still plan to go there, right?"

As soon as the sentence was asked, everyone was dumbfounded.

Seeing that everyone had this reaction, the leader at the head of the conference table understood.

"It was said before that we would consider issuing administrative notices at the right time.

When do you think this right time should be chosen? President Ren, you talk about it."

Hearing the leader ask Ren Zhonglun, the expressions of Han Sanping, La Peikang, Zhao Wentao, and others instantly became "complicated"; especially Han and La, their mouths even couldn't help twitching.

Because there were rumors in the small circle before that the suggestion to revoke the release license of *Youth* and take the film off the shelves before it was released was made by Ren Zhonglun.

That wave of beating operation directly wasted Huayi's tens of millions of promotion costs, and finally was forced to move the National Day film to the New Year's release window... re-edit the finished film, delete shots!

This time the leader took the initiative to ask Ren Zhonglun such a question? Well, he might be able to come up with some "good" idea again, and then pit a group of people to death.

Sure enough, the smile of schadenfreude appeared on the face of President Ren:

"Since you asked, then I will say what I have to say. Anyway, I will retire in the first half of next year, I am not afraid of anyone, haha..."

"If you have an idea, just say it." Even the leader couldn't help laughing.

"The registration time for both sides is from the 1st of next month to the 31st of next month. Then our administrative notice can be placed in early August!"

Hiss~~~ In an instant, Han Sanping and others only had two words in their hearts: poisonous enough!

Because if the notice is issued according to the time Old Ren said, then a large group of filmmakers and crews who signed up for that horse will undoubtedly be finished.

Even if you have signed up for that horse, now it is clearly issued that you are not allowed to go;

And because you didn't sign up for the Golden Rooster, the Chinese film awards this year are directly shielded for you crews, and there is no share for you.

And these films are not qualified to participate in the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers in the mainland next year, because the release time of your films has exceeded the time limit required by the registration rules of these two awards, and they have expired!

"Hmm, not bad, this idea is very good!" The leader nodded in approval.

Well, everyone present was happy, waiting to watch the excitement in early August.

Must say, jokes in the film market are sometimes very funny.

*The White Storm 2*, which brought together Tony Leung, Louis Koo, Gordon Lam, Ren Dahua, and others, had a film review reputation that was not as good as Chen Feiyu's youth film *Better Days*.

It's not that the quality of the latter is how good, but the former is really too rubbish.

First weekend box office, *The White Storm 2* was 48.54 million, 67.98 million, 44.8 million, while *Better Days* was 45.19 million, 56.04 million, 64.08 million... the latter was clearly rising step by step.

So, on the morning of the 9th, *The White Storm*, this Hong Kong film IP that was highly expected by several producers and aimed to be built into a boutique series, was officially determined by the mainland film circle and netizens: it died in the second part.

The total box office of the previous work was 570 million, as for this second part, looking at this reputation, I am afraid it can only barely reach half of the previous work?

Lin Nan lay lazily on the carpet in the living room, leaning against the sofa, his words with a smile, answering the phone:

"In another 6 months, Crystal and I will become a father and mother, so it is really inconvenient this year..."

The other end of the phone was stunned for a moment, and then a burst of congratulations came decisively, and also expressed understanding for the absence of Lin Nan and Liu Qianqian. After a while, the two sides hung up after chatting.

"Time passes so fast, this is another year." Putting down the phone, Lin Nan was quite emotional.

"I guess Xun Ge and Cao Dao will also decline, because *The Sea of Anger* is going to start filming at the beginning of next month, and they absolutely cannot stop the filming of the crew for the Venice invitation." On the side, Liu Qianqian was eating pine nuts while affirming confidently.

"Nothing wrong with that. This film of Cao Dao is still an award-winning film, and he will never be distracted by external things."

Lin Nan nodded and said. Not to mention Zhou Xun, just say Cao Baoping, after the Venice battle last year, his yearning for top awards is now even more crazy.

"I don't know how far the research of those three companies has progressed?" Liu Qianqian pouted, raised her head, and unexpectedly pulled the topic far away.

Lin Nan didn't react for a while, is classmate Liu Qianqian's thinking too wild?

"Are you thinking about your Crystal Cinema Chain?" Lin Nan teased with a laugh.

"Of course. You told me at the beginning that although Zhang Jingying Industry no longer belongs to us, you will let Zhang Jingying Industry continue to exist in the Chinese film market in another form. Still named 'Crystal', establishing Crystal Cinema Chain."

Liu Qianqian looked at Lin Nan and nodded with a smile; she had shown off this matter in front of Han Jia once.

"Don't worry, it will be there. As long as the Shanhai Cinema Chain takes shape, the Crystal Cinema Chain will naturally take shape.

After all, it is divided from the volume of the former, and before dividing it, we also have to get the license first."

That's right, Lin Nan's previous theater chain plan was like this; doing theater chains is an absolute need for the company's strategic development, with industrial closed loop as the primary purpose, and making money as auxiliary...

Under these circumstances, the division of labor between Shanhai Cinema Chain and Crystal Cinema Chain is abnormally clear:

The operational policy of the former is very pure and direct, that is, everything serves commercial films, serves interests;

While Crystal Cinema Chain serves art films, serves literary films, serves those films that are not very popular in the market...

This type of theater chain has never existed in the country, because it does not make money. Of course, this is also the reason why Lin Nan set the scale of Crystal Cinema Chain to only one-twentieth of Shanhai Cinema Chain.

It doesn't matter if you don't make money, it's fine if you can earn fame and prestige.

And Crystal Cinema Chain will absolutely become the "life-saving straw" in the eyes of those award-winning directors, literary directors, and realistic directors who are not popular in the market, and will always be the first choice.

And the number of this part of filmmakers in the circle and the human network energy they possess are undoubtedly quite considerable, and they will inevitably be "controlled" by Lin Nan because of this, which is more industry say!

On the morning of the 10th, the film and entertainment industry suddenly became suspicious and suspicious.

Even on Weibo, there are rarely any new gossip information brushing the screen, everything looks cautious, as if controlling traffic, controlling heat, controlling...

"The Shanghai Film Festival, which opens on the 15th, I'm afraid many Hong Kong circle artists will break their appointments!" Wang Changtian's phone disturbed Lin Nan's dream again.

"What's going on?" Lin Nan suppressed his getting-up anger and asked casually.

"Go search for the news, something big happened there."

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