"Let you take advantage of it!"

"It's good to be young!"

A group of old colleagues' favorite characters were easily taken down by Zhu Xu, and each of them turned into lemon essence, fully demonstrating what it means to say that grapes are sour.

"Thank you! Thank you Comrade Chaoyang!"

Zhu Xu, who took down the role, was also very happy. He ignored the sour words of his old colleagues, held Lin Chaoyang's hand, and kept expressing his gratitude.

If Lin Chaoyang hadn't decided on the world with just one word, this character might not have been given to him. Those old guys could have made their heads a dog.

It took almost two hours for director Lin Zhaohua, screenwriter Lin Chaoyang, starring Zhu Xu, Feng Yuanzheng, Wu Gang and Song Dandan. The art committee finally confirmed the list of members of the crew of "Father". In terms of later generations, it has a very high star content.

But now, Song Dandan has gained wide popularity among the public with her Spring Festival Gala sketches, while the rest of the people are just more famous in the industry.

"Father" is a play personally captured by Liu Jinyun, the dean, and it is also the highlight of the People's Art Theater in 1997. After the crew was established, everything was unfolding in an orderly manner.

After the People's Art Theater Conference, Lin Chaoyang had just arrived home, and bodyguard Xiao Sun told him that there was a guest at home, which was Xie Jin and Zhang Yimou.

"Why are you two here?"

When they met, Lin Chaoyang asked the two of them with a smile.

"You are busy with noble people. Tomorrow is the film review meeting of "Opium War"." Xie Jin said.

Lin Chaoyang suddenly realized that this month had been so fulfilling that he even forgot such an important thing.

"How is it? Do you have confidence in passing the trial?"

Lin Chaoyang's words are jokes. "The Opium War" is a tribute film for the return of Xiangjiang. With the attention of the leaders, who dares to stop it from passing the trial?

Unless there is a serious ZZ tendency problem in the film, this is obviously impossible.

Several people talked about some things encountered in post-production of the movie. Xie Jin and Zhang Yimou left Xiaoliubukou Hutong the next day, and Lin Chaoyang appeared in the film review room of the Film Bureau as promised.

"Opium War" has a huge investment and a special nature, so the lineup of reviews is unprecedentedly powerful.

Important leaders from the publicity, culture, radio and television departments attended the film review meeting, and Liu Jianzhong, the director of the Film Bureau, was highlighted like a little Karami.

Compared with the later version of "Opium War", Lin Chaoyang's writing, reduced a considerable amount of literary dramas. In addition, Zhang Yimou's talent in visual presentation, greatly enhanced the viewing of the movie.

After the movie was screened, everyone gave the movie a high evaluation and passed the review unanimously.

Lin Chaoyang, based on his heart, this version of "Opium War" is not much stronger than that of later generations in terms of artistic composition, but it is indeed much more visible.

This is all due to Lin Chaoyang's contribution to the script changes and Zhang Yimou.

The film passed the review, but the two directors Xie Jin and Zhang Yimou did not express much happiness.

In the past year, "The Opium War" has always been the focus of national media attention as "a gift to the return of Xiangjiang" and "the first domestic film to invest over 100 million yuan."

Now that the movie has passed the review, it is less than three months before the return of Xiangjiang. This movie is about to face the test of the market. The closer it is to the release of the movie, Xie Jin and Zhang Yimou are naturally more nervous.

This is an investment of 100 million yuan!

Once they fail, neither Xie Jin nor Zhang Yimou knew how to face Lin Chaoyang, an investor.

Lin Chaoyang could guess what they were thinking with his expressions. He took the two to the restaurant for a meal.

"Don't worry. You have also seen the responses from everyone's review meeting today. The quality of the movie is fine, and it has been appreciated by both the elite and the masses. I dare not say that I can make a big deal, so it should not be a problem to recover the investment."

Retrieving investment is success. This is the goal set by Lin Chaoyang for "The Opium War". After all, this is a tragic movie.

Xie Jin asked Lin Chaoyang, "What do you think about the release date?"

Lin Chaoyang stood up and flipped through the calendar hanging on the hotel wall, "I will return on July 1st, and the movie must be launched in advance. June 27th is Friday, so I will set this day."

Now that the country has implemented double breaks, it is perfect to put the release of "Opium War" on Friday before the return date.

"The next publicity depends on you!" Lin Chaoyang said.

Xie Jin and Zhang Yimou nodded a little heavy.

"Opium War" claims to be invested 100 million yuan, but in fact, because of the early completion of Hengdian Film and Television City, the production cost of the crew was only 80 million yuan.

But Lin Chaoyang did not falsely report his investment, and he would spend the remaining 20 million yuan on publicity.

In his concept, the play "Opium War" should be targeted at the later generations of "The Founding of the Country", so we must not be stingy in publicity.

Anyway, it’s all 80 million, and it’s not bad for the 20 million.

Only by now can great strength produce miracles.

A few days after the review of "Opium War" ended, Lin Chaoyang appeared in the People's Art Theater again.

After the Human Arts conference that day, all the actors in the group got the script and spent a week getting familiar with the script. The actors gathered in the rehearsal hall for the first time today, and the screenwriter Lin Chaoyang, naturally had to be present.

In the rehearsal hall, Lin Chaoyang was surprised to find that most actors had left the script when talking about Taiwanese scripts.

Although I knew that memorizing lines was the basic skill of a Chinese People's Art Theater actor, I only spent a week to keep his or her lines from his or her opponents in mind, which gave him a new understanding of the professionalism of Chinese People's Art Theater actors.

Originally, everyone gathered in the rehearsal hall to read the script, but because the actors prepared in advance, it turned into rehearsals.

There is nothing wrong with this, but it greatly improves the crew's rehearsal efficiency.

The actors are working hard, and the staff behind the scenes are not idle either. Stage art design, sets, props,

All kinds of jobs such as clothing are busy with their own work.

Drama is different from movies and TV. No matter how good the script is, it must be tested by stage rehearsals.

The final scripts are often made by actors, screenwriters, and directors in the rehearsal hall, grinding out little by little and picking them out.

In the first half of the month of the crew's rehearsal, Lin Chaoyang appeared in the rehearsal hall of the People's Art Theater almost every day until the script was completely finalized.

The subsequent rehearsals, stage scheduling, and positioning became the focus, and Lin Chaoyang appeared in the rehearsal hall much less frequently.

Until late May, the crew of "Father" held its last regular rehearsal in the rehearsal hall and entered the Capital Theater for a week of stage rehearsals. This stage was to allow the actors and the behind-the-scenes team to quickly get in, so it is also called the Technical Week.

As the final sprint stage of rehearsal, there is basically no rule during this rehearsal. Staying up all night in a disagreement is a huge test for the actor's physical strength.

On that day, Lin Chaoyang had just returned from the People's Art Theater and received a call from Tao Yushu. She had worked very hard in the United States and Xiangjiang.

But there is no way. Since the development of Xiangjiang movies to this day, its upper limits and disadvantages have been revealed, and it fully proves the correctness of Tao Yushu's layout in overseas markets in the past few years.

Lin's Film has placed the United States as the top priority in its development overseas. After its initial boom, Lin's Film has achieved remarkable results in the American film industry and has also fallen into a bottleneck.

That's why Tao Yushu had to find another way, hoping to create a new world for Lin's Pictures.

Now it seems that her strategy has achieved even greater success than expected.

Netflix's website has been online for nearly a year and has continued to dominate the top ten popular websites selected by Point Communications, becoming one of the most popular websites in the US Internet industry since 1996.

But unlike most people who have not yet found their development direction and profit model, Netflix has had a clear and unique business model from the beginning.

In the past year, Netflix has established 15 storage centers in major cities in the United States, purchased 1.6 million DVD video tapes, and has employees of up to 240 people.

386,000 subscribers have been developed, of which nearly 90,000 are annual subscriptions, and the subscription revenue alone is as high as US$73 million.

In addition, in terms of videotape sales, Netflix also generated more than 45 million sales, with an annual revenue of an astonishing US$118 million.

For a company that has been established for only one year, it is incredible to achieve such results.

Of course, there is a very important reason for this, which is that Tao Yushu conducts promotional activities regardless of costs.

In addition to free subscription users in the first month, Netflix's annual subscription users' free DVD player event has become a model for the US Internet industry to "burn money to seize the market."

90,000 annual subscription users mean that Netflix has given away 90,000 DVD players for free, and the money Netflix burned out this year even exceeded their total revenue.

It is also because of this that Netflix has lost $62 million in nearly a year after its launch.

If you change to any startup company without background, this method of burning money would have been a thorough one, but what makes Netflix different is that it has a strong and grand boss.

Netflix's money-burning drives not only the user scale of its website itself, but also opens up the market for the new DVD standards to a considerable extent, players and videotapes are both popular.

You should know that in 1997, the first year of DVD players being launched in the United States was only 200,000 units.

According to Netflix's data statistics, in the past year, the sales data of major DVD player manufacturers have totaled 540,000 units, and this number is still increasing every month.

It can be said that Netflix's promotion has made great contributions to the promotion of DVD standards in the United States. Therefore, during the just-concluded Series B financing process, Netflix successfully introduced Sony, Scooper and Universal Pictures, one of the six major Hollywood companies.

Under the crazy ripening of the money-burning strategy, Netflix's Series B financing received an astonishing valuation.

$1.2 billion!

This figure has increased by nearly 7 times compared with Netflix's A round of financing half a year ago. In view of traditional industries,

It's simply unreasonable.

But who has made the Internet industry in the United States go through a period of going from hot to crazy? In 1995, Netscape went public and its market value soared to US$2 billion in one day.

Yahoo went public in 1996 and now has a market value of US$3 billion.

The Internet is writing the myth of wealth creation. The United States, which was born in the gold-digging dream, has never lacked risk-taking investors.

Any company, as long as it is involved in the concept of "Internet", its valuation may double overnight.

In contrast, Netflix's valuation rose to 7 times in half a year, but it has the strong industrial logic behind it.

Compared with the tens of millions of VHS players in the United States, the sales of DVD players last year were only 540,000, which looks very pitiful.

But it is worth noting that with only 540,000 DVD players sold across the United States, Netflix has as many as 386,000 subscribers.

Anyone with a little commercial sense understands what this means. DVD standards may not be able to replace VHS standards in a short period of time, but it is already a consensus in the industry that the two coexist, and DVD standards continue to erode the VHS standards market.
To be continued...