The entire film studio is currently on holiday, except for the night watchmen at each location, with two night watchmen at each location.
There were only two people in the huge venue. It was fine when there was a film crew, but now that there wasn't one, it didn't seem like much during the day, but at night it felt empty.
Although it's the second day of the Lunar New Year, the place is bustling with people. Children and young people from nearby villages are playing and strolling around, making it a lively spot.
Liang Liang was wearing a mask and glasses, and these people didn't recognize him, but they all looked at him with curiosity.
Liang Liang walked around each venue, wished the night watchmen a Happy New Year, and gave each of them a red envelope containing two hundred yuan.
During the Spring Festival, everyone wants to spend the holiday with their family, and these night watchmen are no exception.
Send a red envelope to comfort her.
Last year, the film and television city hosted ten film crews, more than twenty television crews, and nearly five thousand tourists.
Strictly speaking, the income from hosting these film crews and tourists is just enough to break even, and there is no real income.
But this is already a good start.
Pingshan Film and Television City has already gained some recognition in China, with greater recognition in the north and less so in the south.
The beginning is always the hardest, but Liang Liang is quite satisfied with the current state of the film and television city.
As the old saying goes, the road is made step by step; victory is beckoning you, and the dawn is ahead.
This year, there are more film crews coming to the film and television city. The number of film crews that have already signed up is almost the same as the total number for last year.
This is only the first half of the year; how much more will come in the second half remains to be seen.
It's safe to say that the number of film crews arriving this year will be twice that of last year.
I stayed there for more than an hour, and drove home when it was almost noon.
Over the next few days, Liang Liang put aside everything related to business, shed his facade as a singer and boss, and played mahjong and cards in the small shop. He even discussed mundane topics with his friends, such as whose daughter was pretty and whose wife was keeping a lover.
This made Xu Mei, who overheard their conversation, blush and yell at them for being shameless.
What's so shameless about that? Men who don't talk about women are just sick.
The Spring Festival of 1998 has come to an end.
The movie "Be There or Be Square" was released on the evening of the first day of the Lunar New Year and grossed more than two million yuan at the box office that day.
The box office also achieved similar results on the second day of the Lunar New Year.
On the third day, which was the third day of the Lunar New Year, the box office began to rise, reaching three million.
If this trend continues, it seems unlikely that this movie will reach the box office performance of last year's "The Dream Factory".
On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, Liang Liang returned to work. The movie "Be There or Be Square" had been in theaters for a full week, and its box office had only reached 20 million.
After the New Year, as usual, each department in the company reported to Liang Liang on the company's plans for the new year.
Normally, these plans are topics discussed before the end of the year or before New Year's Day.
But at that time, Liang Liang was in Beijing rehearsing for the Spring Festival Gala, and he couldn't be in two places at once, so how could he hear their reports?
Therefore, the reports for the past two years have been scheduled for after the New Year.
On the morning of the ninth day, the managers of each department reported to Liang Liang in the conference room of Haiyun Company on the plans of their respective departments.
After Yan Liangmu, Shui Hua, Tao Jin, and others finished their reports, Liu Wen began to report on Haiyun Audio-Visual's plans.
"First, let me talk about our music plans. This year, our company plans to release more than 30 self-produced albums, which is the most we've released since the company was founded. Among the important ones are Xu Wei's album, Zhao Lunjie's album, and the albums 'Northeast Rock 5' and 'Northeast Tiger 4'. Whether the newly joined bands Black Panther, Blue Shark, and Sea Waves will release albums this year is up to Mr. Liang to decide, so I won't offer any advice."
Blue Shark will definitely release one album a year, and Ocean Waves should also have an album this year. These are the company's two biggest cash cows, so they certainly won't be absent. As for Black Panther…
Liang Liang is unaware of how many new works Black Panther has released; if there are enough, they will naturally release an album.
They've only released two albums so far, which is far too few for an established band.
Those who work in the arts will be quickly forgotten if they don't leave something for their audience and fans to remember them by.
"Blue Shark, Black Panther, and Ocean Waves are all on the agenda; there will definitely be an album release this year."
Liu Wen's spirits lifted; with these three albums, his prize money for this year was basically guaranteed.
"After these albums are released to the market, we expect to sell 50 million copies and generate a profit of about 150 million yuan."
If this sales volume can be achieved, this profit figure should be the minimum guaranteed value.
"That's enough about music. Now let me talk about our film and television plans. This year, Haiyun Film and Television plans to shoot two movies and one TV series, with a planned investment of 15 million yuan. Filming will start in April. Then there's our plan to release movies on DVD. Last year, I had some free time and released 'The Dream Factory' on DVD. I didn't expect it to sell more than 500,000 copies. That was really unexpected. So after 'Be There or Be Square' is released, I also plan to release it on DVD. And Mr. Liang! I have another idea."
"What's the idea?"
“Hong Kong has produced countless films over the past 20 years. Once these films are released, they lose their value. We have a fairly good relationship with Hong Kong, so why don’t we buy all the copies of their old films and turn them into DVDs? We could make a profit that way!”
Liang Liang blinked, somewhat bewildered. "That makes a lot of sense."
Liang Liang remembered that in her previous life, the DVDs of these old movies were bought by those video websites, and eventually those unscrupulous video websites even priced an old movie at five yuan.
What's most infuriating is that he was watching Landmine Warfare on a video website that used to be a piracy site, and it was even a paid service.
From then on, like many others online, he sincerely hoped that the video website with the green border would go bankrupt as soon as possible.
Liu Wen's suggestion was very valuable. Those old movies were growing moldy in the warehouses of various audio-visual companies in Xianggang. He would be happy to sell them if he offered a reasonable price. There was no point in keeping them. Selling them would be like getting a freebie.
These copies can be bought and made into CDs for sale, then left there. Someday he'll build a video website and sell them for five yuan…
Pshaw! Wouldn't that make you a heartless boss too? I bet a lot of keyboard warriors would wish their own companies would go bankrupt every day.
If he doesn't build a video website, but if any website plays these movies, he'll go and demand money, and won't stop until he gets hundreds of thousands.
"Buy them! I'll contact Jin Hao right away and have him contact all the big and small companies, or even the dissolved companies in Xianggang, and buy all their old films."
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