Chapter 870: Grabbing the Schedule
"Okay, this one's passed! You've worked hard, take a break for half an hour, and then continue filming the next scene."
After Lin Fan finished watching the footage replayed on the surveillance screen, he finally wiped off the cold sweat and put his heart, which had risen to his throat, back into his stomach.
It’s so exciting, really so exciting.
Chen Yuan accompanied Xia Yan to the dressing room again and changed her clothes and jewelry. After changing, she collapsed on the recliner in the lounge and couldn't get up.
Lin Fan also politely sent the group of people in black suits to the insurance car, and watched the back of their car completely disappear from his sight, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
The staff on the set still didn't know where these people came from, and Lin Fan and Xia Yan had no intention of explaining.
Chen Yuan, the only one who might know something, was so weak in the hands and feet and pale in the face that people really couldn't bear to question her.
In addition, the shooting schedule was very tight this time. Even if everyone wanted to gossip, they were exhausted every day due to the heavy shooting task. They didn't have the energy to gossip even if they wanted to. So this doubt remained in everyone's mind and was temporarily put aside.
However, Liang Wen took advantage of his free time to search a few keywords on the Internet, and read the popular science information that popped up on the web page for a full three minutes without blinking.
Then he slowly put his phone back into his pocket, as if nothing had happened, walked to the smoking area, took out a cigarette, put it in his mouth, and took out a lighter to light it.
But I don’t know if it’s because I’m too tired today, or I didn’t sleep well last night, or I didn’t have breakfast and have low blood sugar, but the flame of the lighter and the cigarette in my mouth just don’t match.
Liang Wen tried several times, but finally gave up and stuffed the cigarette and lighter back into his pocket. His brain seemed to twitch, and he suddenly cursed: "Fuck! This is too exciting!"
Then, I don’t know what he thought of, he took out his mobile phone again, opened Chaobo, found Chen Yuan’s account, and clicked a big “like” under Chen Yuan’s latest post!
[Lovely Yuan: Today is really exciting! No! This is definitely the most exciting moment in my life, no doubt about it! ]
【Liang Wen: +1! 】
This inexplicable dynamic and sudden interaction made the fans who followed Lin Fan closely feel confused.
One is Xia Yan's assistant, and the other is Lin Fan's personal assistant director. How do these two interact with each other?
Could it be that Earthman Studio is working on some secret project and is preparing to give everyone a surprise after the Chinese New Year? It has to be said that the imagination of netizens this year is very strong, and they can easily guess the truth.
However, the filming of the new movie was kept completely secret from the outside world. People in the circle learned from various channels that Lin Fan and Xia Yan had returned to China and were filming a new movie, but no other details were available.
But this does not affect the curiosity of people in the industry about Lin Fan's new movie.
Especially the Shengxia Cinema Chain, they have already taken the initiative to come to Yang Hongxia to discuss the scheduling of the film's release, and they are so proactive that they don't have any of the reserve that a cinema chain boss should have.
Yang Hongxia originally wanted to discuss the screening schedule with the theater chain. Since the other party had taken the initiative to come to her, there was no reason not to entertain them well.
"Valentine's Day?" Tao Zheng was a little surprised. "Boss Yang, is this date too tight? Or is it Valentine's Day the year after next?"
"Mr. Tao, you heard me right. I was talking about the Valentine's Day schedule next year." Yang Hongxia said calmly.
Tao Zheng was a little embarrassed.
Because it’s not long before the Chinese New Year, the screening schedule for the Spring Festival has already been arranged. Although the Valentine’s Day schedule is called Valentine’s Day, it is actually included in the Spring Festival schedule, but it is considered to be the end of the Spring Festival schedule.
Basically, the Valentine's Day period also marks the end of the Spring Festival period and is the last carnival of the Spring Festival period.
Of course, this situation will also be adjusted according to the specific time of the Chinese New Year each year. After all, the time of the Chinese New Year is not fixed. Sometimes it is in January and sometimes in February.
If it is in February, the Valentine's Day period will naturally be included in the Spring Festival period. If it is in January, then it cannot be counted this way.
This year, the Chinese Spring Festival is in February, and the Valentine's Day schedule is completely included in the Spring Festival schedule, which means that the screening schedule has already been arranged.
It is not impossible for Lin Fan's new movie to be included. After all, at this time, the theaters already know which movies are popular and which movies are not popular with the audience, and can flexibly adjust the screening rate.
But: "There is absolutely no guarantee of the screening rate."
Tao Zheng said frankly: "Although I can adjust the schedule and cut out some of the films that did not perform well at the box office, this is subject to certain conditions. What if there are no particularly bad films in this year's Spring Festival schedule and everyone's performance is average?"
It is not up to Tao Zheng alone to decide who to chop off and who not to chop off.
If there is a film with very bad performance, Tao Zheng will just cancel it, no matter what other film is replaced with it, it is a timely loss cut. Tao Zheng is not afraid of facing the board of directors.
But if everyone's performance is similar, with no particularly popular ones and no very poor ones, Tao Zheng really can't just cut them off.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
"If President Yang can accept this, then I have no objection. After all, it won't be a loss for our theater chain."
Yang Hongxia certainly knew that if she squeezed a film into the already scheduled schedule, she would face all kinds of problems: "But Mr. Tao, can't you take care of our relationship? You took the initiative to come to see me today, isn't it because you are interested in Lin Fan's new work and are optimistic about Lin Fan?"
If there really was no room for compromise, why would Tao Zheng have to take the initiative? Wouldn't it be better for him to just pretend he didn't know about it and wait for Yang Hongxia to come to him to discuss the film scheduling?
Now that you're here, there must be something to discuss.
Tao Zheng smiled: "It's a pleasure to do business with a smart person like Mr. Yang. Shengxia can free up 5% of the screening schedule. I particularly like Director Lin's movies and we had a very pleasant cooperation before, so I can personally fill another 1% of the screening schedule."
"Too little." Yang Hongxia frowned.
6% of the screenings were really too little, especially since Lin Fan’s previous two films performed so well. Yang Hongxia thought that the theaters could at least get 10% of the screenings by cobbling together some stuff.
This number is exactly what Yang Hongxia wants.
As for scheduling 20% more screenings as before, Yang Hongxia understood that it was impossible, at least not before the new movie exploded at the box office.
Because the new movie was originally a queue-jumping film, it was a low-budget production, and the subject matter was an ordinary romance film. 10% of the screenings were arranged because the theaters were optimistic about Lin Fan and wanted to do favors to achieve this. Yang Hongxia was not greedy.
But 6% is really too little.
Tao Zheng smiled and took out a plan and handed it to Yang Hongxia: "This screening rate is indeed a bit low for Director Lin, but we have another plan to increase the screening rate. I wonder if you are interested, Mr. Yang?"
(End of this chapter)