Chapter 403 Spring Festival File
In the Internet age, countless news appear every day, and the public's attention is being diverted at any time. The discussion about Meng Bai has been lively on the Internet for more than half a month, and the heat has gradually begun to dissipate, and has been slowly replaced by new hot events.
However, the attention of "The Wandering Earth" is still good. The "audience wants to watch" data on Maoyan Movie APP, one of the distributors, has exceeded 500,000, and finally Meng's "200,000 red envelope" has not been wasted.
However, the entertainment industry near the end of the year is not without fun. The two most eye-catching news during this period are Yang Mi's announcement of divorce and Zhao Liying's official announcement of pregnancy.
As the two people with the highest traffic in the "85 Flowers" in recent years, it is still very eye-catching to suddenly break out such a big melon.
It's just that it is not the same as the common public opinion in the past. The Weibo of Yang Mi, who is divorced, is full of fans cheering and celebrating, but Zhao Liying, who announced the happy event, is full of various controversies.
Compared with the previous reputation of the two on the Internet, it is somewhat black humor.
But whether it is praise or criticism, the disturbances in the entertainment industry are ultimately just adding some gossip to the daily lives of the public.
The New Year's Day holiday in 2019 was spent in these ordinary trivialities.
After the holiday, there is still a month before the Spring Festival, and all companies have begun to summarize and wrap up the year.
However, compared with the past, this year, whether it is large or small companies showing off high year-end bonuses, there are fewer news. The decline of the capital market has begun to spread to all aspects, and all walks of life are lamenting that this year may not be easy.
Arclight is still the same. In the past year, they are one of the few film and television companies whose performance has not declined, but has increased significantly.
With many hits such as "Detective Chinatown 2", "Psychological Crime: City Lights", and "Peace Hotel", as well as the blessing of new overseas markets, Arclight's annual revenue exceeded 3 billion.
Compared with the annual performance announced by other leading listed companies in the entire film and television industry, this data ranks fourth, second only to China Film, Wanda and Mango Super Media.
That is to say, Arc Light is not listed, otherwise this annual report will definitely bring out several daily limit boards.
Since he has made money, Meng Bai will naturally not reduce the year-end bonus like other companies, and even increase it a little on the basis of previous years.
Including the bonuses for the annual meeting, they have also been increased, and the special prize has doubled from the previous 100,000 to 200,000, which has caused cheers from top to bottom of Arc Light.
Speaking of which, Meng Bai, the big boss, is no less looking forward to the annual meeting every year than the employees below.
It's just that the employees are waiting for the lottery, while he is waiting to "open the blind box."
The special prize in the first year was Yang Chaoyue, and the second year was He Yihe. He really wants to know what surprises he will get this year.
"...The employee number who won the special prize of the annual meeting this year is-0358."
In the huge annual meeting banquet hall, a man with a happy face ran onto the stage holding his work badge high amid the envious cheers of the audience.
"Meng, Mr. Meng, hello." The man said to Meng Bai excitedly, "My name is Wei Zhilin, and I'm from the film and television department."
"You're lucky." Meng Bai looked at him with a smile, "Congratulations on winning the prize. Do you have any wishes?"
"My biggest wish is to win the prize, and now it has come true!"
"I mean, do you have any wishes after winning the prize?" Meng Bai inspired him, "You have seen the winners in the past two years. If you have any wishes you want to realize, the company can help you realize them."
"Wishes..." Wei Zhilin glanced at Meng Bai and asked cautiously, "Is it necessary to have them?"
"..." Meng Bai said with a smile, "No, it doesn't matter if you don't have them."
"Ah, then I don't have any other wishes. I just hope that I can make enough for the down payment with the bonus and buy a house in northern Beijing." Wei Zhilin scratched his hair and showed a somewhat honest and longing smile.
"Buy a house... OK, that's good too." Meng Bai took a deep breath and patted his shoulder, "I'll ask the finance department to transfer the bonus to you in the next two days. You can discuss with your family where to buy during the New Year."
"Well, thank you, President Meng!"
Looking at Wei Zhilin who left happily, Meng Bai sighed a little disappointed, but then he laughed to himself in his heart.
The special prize of the annual meeting was originally drawn randomly, and it was not a "best employee elimination system". How could there be surprises every year?
Yang Chaoyue's was a metaphysics, and He Yihe's family was not bad, but for most ordinary employees, it was much better to get the money directly than to gamble on a chance.
Forget it, just treat it as an "empty blind box" this year.
Thinking of this, Meng Bai no longer cares about this matter.
After the annual meeting, there is still half a month before the Spring Festival. Arc Light currently has only one major project left, which is the release of "The Wandering Earth".
January 28th, Little New Year.
The theater in Wanda Cinema in Beijing North CBD, which can accommodate hundreds of viewers, is almost full of people today. On the wide screen in the front, several promotional videos of the movie are being played in a loop.
"How many screenings have been arranged on the first day of the theater?"
"11%."
"It's a bit small..."
"There's no way, the competition for the Spring Festival this year is too fierce."
The time has not yet come, and the crew is temporarily in the lounge outside the theater. Meng Bai, Guo Fan, Wu Jing, and Gongger sat together and talked about the situation of the Spring Festival.
As one of the four most important periods every year, the Spring Festival has always been a must-fight place for box office blockbusters, and a wave of "fighting gods" is staged almost every year.
Take this year's Spring Festival as an example. In addition to "The Wandering Earth", there are at least three other blockbusters that are optimistic about it.
One is "Crazy Alien", which brings together Ning Hao, Huang Bo, and Shen Teng, the three top creators in the field of domestic comedy films.
One is Han Han's new work, "Flying Life", also starring Shen Teng.
Another one is "The New King of Comedy", the sequel to Zhou Xingchi's classic.
Both in terms of subject matter and lineup, it is more attractive than "The Wandering Earth". The theaters obviously have the same view, so these three movies alone have taken away 60% of the screening share.
In addition, there is the stable output of "Boonie Bears: The Original Age" every year, Jackie Chan's "Detective Pu Songling", and "Peppa Pig Celebrates the New Year", which was previously popular on the Internet with a "What is Peppa" promotional video.
So it is already good to be able to leave 11% of the screening for "The Wandering Earth".
"It's okay, it's just the first day's screening." Meng Bai said confidently, "I believe in the quality of our film. As long as the word of mouth spreads, the audience will naturally make a choice."
Gongger on the side also said, "Yes, and we are the only one that opened a midnight show, which gives them an extra night of evaluation and dissemination time. As long as the audience can recognize our quality, the screening will naturally get better."
At this point, the only thing everyone can do is to believe in their own work.
"Brother Meng Bai!"
As soon as the four people dispersed after encouraging each other, Meng Bai heard a familiar voice calling him. Turning around, it was Zhao Jinmai as expected.
"Maimai." Meng Bai smiled and greeted, then looked at her, "Your hair, is it designed like this on purpose?"
Compared with the last time they met, the girl's hair was much shorter. But it was not the common short hair, but about the part in the middle of the neck, which looked neither long nor short.
"Does it look bad?" Zhao Jinmai touched her hair and asked a little disappointedly.
"That's not the case." Meng Bai said, "The girl is pretty, no matter what hairstyle she has, it won't affect her."
Being praised so directly, Zhao Jinmai was both happy and a little embarrassed, but she still showed a smile that she couldn't hide: "I filmed a drama before the New Year, and the role required me to cut my hair short, and then I grew it long recently, so it's like this."
She filmed a TV series called "Life of Pi" some time ago, co-starring with Zhang Jiayi and Yan Ni. Her character is called "Lin Miaomiao", a high school girl who is a bit boyish.
"You play a high school student?" Meng Bai said, "Is there any need to act this out?"
Letting high school students play high school students, this is really called acting in their true colors.
(End of this chapter)
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