Since 1983

The next morning, a symposium on the Golden Rooster Awards was held.

In the evening, the 12th Golden Rooster Awards opened.

Not surprisingly, the best film was awarded to the "Armageddon" series, and the best director was won by the director team of "Armageddon" and Sun Zhou of "Heart Fragrance".

The male protagonist Wang Tiecheng and the female protagonist Song Xiaoying are credited with "Smile in Candlelight".

The male supporting role was vacant, and Ding Jiali took the female supporting role.

After the award ceremony, there were originally a series of activities, but these actors and directors left wherever they could, as if to make room for others.

This other person includes: representatives of China Film Group, representatives of various studios, representatives of distribution companies at the provincial, city, and county levels, representatives of laboratories, theater representatives, media representatives, and so on.

This year's Golden Rooster has become non-existent. Because everyone knows that tomorrow and even the next month or two will be the real smoke that will determine the fate.

…………

In the early morning, when Xu Fei came back from running, the air in Guilin was super good.

A batch of rooms in the guest house were vacant, and the rest were mostly faces. At the breakfast table, there was no desire to talk, or they quickly shut up after muttering a few words, and the atmosphere became inexplicably tense.

Teacher Xu knew Li Ning already, so he sat down at a table and said in a low voice, "Director Li, do you have any meetings in the future?"

"Yes, why?"

"Can I get a special interview right, so I can participate every time."

"What are you thinking? "News Network" doesn't have it either!"

Li Ning paused, and then said: "You can't do anything about the policy research meeting, maybe you can do something else, what do you want to do?"

"first issue."

"Audacity! Audacity!"

Li Ning knew that this product was restless, so he scanned the restaurant and lowered his voice, "Look, there are representatives from the five parties here, and the laboratory doesn't care, you have to pay them if you win or lose.

It doesn't matter to the cinema, as long as you don't touch the immediate interests, it's better to live than to die.

China Film Group is waiting for news from the top, and the top supports it. They have to reform even if they don't want to, and I heard that a new leadership team will be formed recently.

Publishing companies are thorns, they are not owned by the broadcasting system, but by the cultural department. The studio is the most urgent, but there is no bottom line, I don't know what it will look like after the modification...

Ouch, it's very complicated inside! If you really want to make a first issue, give me a copy first. "

Um?

Seeing Xu Fei's surprised gaze, Li Ning couldn't help laughing twice.

He is from Qingying Studio, stay out of the matter, and eat melons happily.

At about nine o'clock in the morning, a group of people walked into the large conference room. Xu Fei and Yu Jiajia sat in the media seats, and there was a new leader, the deputy director of the Film Bureau, surnamed Dou.

Like Leader Tian, ​​he is a staunch reformer.

"Okay, let's get started."

Leader Tian knocked on the table and said, "I won't talk about the thoughts of the meeting, everyone knows it well. Old Dou, please tell us about the general situation first."

"OK."

Director Dou held the manuscript and said: "For a long time, we have followed the Soviet film system. There are 16 studios in the country that can shoot feature films, 1 scientific and educational film studio, 1 newsreel studio, 1 art film studio, 1 The first translation and dubbing studio, and 12 provincial-run factories.

So far, we have more than 3,000 regular movie theaters, more than 30,000 auditoriums and clubs with projection functions, and more than 100,000 rural projection teams.

After the studio shoots the film, it will be handed over to China Film Group. China Film convened distribution companies in various provinces to hold viewing sessions, and the companies reported the number of copies after watching the film, and determined how much they needed in their provinces. China Film then places an order with the studio, which is then distributed from the provincial level to the municipal and county levels.

In such a vertical system, the recovery of funds is the same. The counties and cities report the box office to the province, and the provincial company hands it over to China Film Corporation, which distributes it.

Everyone has a lot of opinions on China Film, when a film is released, you directly take 70% of it..."

Director Dou paused suddenly, as if skipping a question, and said, "In the end, with 30% distribution, the benefits of all parties cannot be guaranteed, leading to a vicious circle."

As mentioned earlier, the finance of China Film Group is connected with the Ministry of Finance.

The current box office split is appalling, with China Film Group taking seven, and the remaining three not going to theaters. 24% is reserved for the distribution units of the provinces for the construction of theaters, and 6% is turned over to the provincial finance.

(Document No. 198 in 1979, it took two hours to check this.)

As for China Film, 70% to 40% goes to finance, and the remaining 30% goes to distribution companies, photo labs, and copy purchases.

When it comes to this matter, they always say that China Film Group takes the lead, but actually, umm...

"As of the beginning of November this year, 20.54 million movies were screened across the country, with 9.58 billion audiences, 3.24 billion less than last year, and box office revenue of 1.82 billion, 340 million less.

Objectively speaking, the current entertainment life is becoming more and more abundant. Television, video, laser, karaoke, dance halls, and the infiltration of smuggled films have caused a serious diversion of movie audiences.

Subjectively, our work cannot keep up with the rapidly changing market situation, and the videos we provide lack viewing and entertainment. Relying on the charm of the film itself to attract audiences to pay to enter the cinema, from this perspective, our competitiveness is not enough..."

Director Dou went over it from the beginning, and Mr. Xu understood it, and the more he understood, the more he understood how awesome and difficult this reform is.

Then, Leader Tian said: "I have always adhered to a principle. Whenever I take over a new job, I will focus on investigation and research within three years; when I introduce an important new measure, it will usually be three years later.

In the past two years, I have inspected most of the studios, visited distribution companies in more than a dozen provinces, and hundreds of movie theaters. This plan will be implemented next year, but the central government's measures in the first half of the year gave me confidence.

Chinese films must speed up reform! "

A few words set the tone, and then said: "Today's symposium, don't be cramped, talk freely, who will talk first?"

"..."

"I'll come first!"

After a brief silence, an old man with a strong accent said first: "I don't want to say anything else, I just want to say that we don't pay enough attention to literary and art workers.

I have been working for 50 years. At that time, Zhuxi and Zongli loved the film industry so much. Zongli has gatherings with artists almost every month, but where do you work?

When did the leaders of your radio and television industry care about movies?

Alas, when I attended the party back then, Zongli held my hand, and my heart was boiling with tears..."

"..."

A crow quacked by, leaving a row of black spots. It's very embarrassing, but he has too many qualifications, so he can't say anything.

After finally waiting for the old man to finish his work, no one responded, and there was a moment of silence. The representative of Changying Studio said: "Let me talk about it."

He is also preparing a draft, which looks like it, "I was deeply touched when I talked about watching the film just now. I once participated in the Kyrgyzstan Distribution Company, which was an eye-opener. Everyone said that Suzhou Province is the most powerful, and no other company can do it. You have to keep an eye on Mr. Yang, if he thinks it's good, it must be good.

Hey, Mr. Yang is here? "

"I am over-flattered……"

Yang Qingfeng, the general manager of Suzhou Publishing Company, raised his hand with a reserved look.

Jiangsu Province is a big province of film consumption, accounting for 10% of the country. If they order one copy, it means that the whole country will order ten copies.

"But we're not bad either!"

The buddy changed his voice and came back again, "Changying Film Factory now produces 20-30 films a year, and each film can sell 150-200 copies on average.

Each 10500 is one or two million.

As for China Film, basically at the beginning of each year, we will first give us 700,000 yuan for a film as a reserve fund. Then settle the bill at the end of the year, refund more and make up less. "

Everyone frowned, what are you talking about? What about settling accounts?

"I have a list here. Uh, China Film Group has bought copies of 32 movies in the past two years, a total of 5,120 copies, and is in arrears of about 12 million..."

The representative of Changying Studio slapped the table and looked at the representative of China Film Studio, "When did you end it?"

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