Chapter 220 The Road to Rise (Part 2)
France's Cerroux Cinema is located at the easternmost part of Cannes.
In the 1970s...
When the film industry was rising, Cerroux Cinema followed this wave of film trends and reaped the first wave of dividends.
Later...
Cerroux Cinema expanded to important French cities such as Paris, Strasbourg, Montpellier, and Lille, and enjoyed a period of glory.
Later...
After the death of Iska, the most capable founder of Cerroux Cinema, Cerroux Cinema began to decline again.
The alternation of times, the rapid development of technology, the increasing number of competitors, the incompetence and debauchery of the second successor, the intensification of internal conflicts...
Elaine has been listening to her mother talking about Cerroux since she was born.
When she was five or six years old, her mother said with pride on her face that after the [Cannes International Film Festival], many movies would be screened in their cinemas, and they, Cerroux, had an extremely close relationship with Cannes movies.
Probably from the age of nine...
My mother's face began to have more scars.
My father beat her.
My father is an alcoholic, but he is also the second heir of the Cerulean Cinema, and he has all the problems that the rich second generation should have.
My mother began to avoid my father.
They started to talk about how the Cerulean Cinema was getting worse day by day, and there was always sadness in their words.
Every year Elaine grew older, a Cerulean Cinema in France closed down.
During this period, every day, we could hear about various management conflicts in the cinema, and then the capital chain was cut off, and my father became addicted to gambling and started to lose everything.
The mother and daughter could only watch the decline of the Cerulean Cinema, but they were powerless!
At the age of 18, they became adults!
My father died of drunkenness...
The Cerulean Cinema was closed until the last one.
And the last heir became Elaine.
Elaine worked hard to run the last Cerulean Cinema, but...
They had no money to buy new equipment!
In the cinema, 3D has become more and more popular, and the old screen movies, hard chairs, dirty decoration...
It is completely out of date!
After failing to keep up with the times, there are fewer and fewer audiences, but the rent is getting more and more expensive. Everything makes the pressure grow!
She once followed her mother to witness the glory of the Cerulean Cinema. That year, there were endless guests, and even the now famous Cannes judges...
Now, there are no movies willing to be shown here. Only some old movies from the 1970s and 1980s can be shown. Inevitably, there are fewer and fewer guests...
Finally, no guests come to watch movies!
"Welcome!"
"That Summer is being shown. It is a very good Chinese movie!"
"Please come in, this way, we have cleaned the chairs!"
"..."
January 22.
Elaine stood at the door.
She smiled sweetly and invited every guest.
She has smooth blonde hair, her smile is sweet, her body is slender, and her curves are well-proportioned, especially her proud parts, which are particularly eye-catching.
With these appearance conditions, when she decided to use them, there were still many guests willing to come to watch a movie.
This is...
her last capital.
A week ago.
She received a call.
The call was from Avery Zaxi. She vaguely remembered that she had seen this fat uncle when she was a child.
She was very excited.
Then, Avery Zaxi told her that there was a Chinese movie that hoped to be shown in this movie theater and would give her a part of the remuneration.
Chinese movie!
Elaine herself did not feel much, but thinking that she had money and could keep the Cerulean Cinema for another day, she readily agreed.
Then...
This "That Summer" from China was released.
The first screening, of course, had few customers, and the second screening was the same.
Even her mother, who was cleaning the house, talked to her about closing the door tomorrow and advised her to plan for her future.
She graduated from the University of Paris Dauphine, which ranked 30th in the world and first in France in the 2009 QS World University Rankings!
After graduation, many French companies have offered her olive branches.
As long as she closes this cinema, she will have an excellent way out.
But...
It seems that the stubbornness deep in her heart never allowed her to do so.
Watching the glory, watching the collapse.
That sense of gap made her always believe that she could hold on until her last breath.
The turning point...
came from the third show.
At the third show, a dozen guests walked into the cinema and watched "That Summer".
They thought it was not bad. Indistinctly, they felt that they had known China from another perspective, and at the same time felt the deep "social cruelty".
Elaine didn't understand what these meant.
In short, after they recommended it, more and more people came.
January 22nd.
"That Summer" was shown all day, and there were more than ten viewers at each show.
There were still not many guests. After watching it, some guests shook their heads and thought it was a joke...
But some people watched it and found it interesting. They thought it was a unique youthful romance belonging to the East...
This Chinese movie didn't seem to be bad!
Although it is not a hope, and it is impossible for this "That Summer" to support a movie theater, it is also the last movie!
[I have to wait until the last guest leaves! 】
evening.
She stood at the door of the cinema, her throat was dry, but she still smiled, holding the movie ticket and smiling at every passerby.
In my heart, I think about this belief!
…………………………
night.
Deep.
Zhang Sheng opened the email sent to him by Bi Feiyu.
Then he saw that the total box office at the Serou Cinema was seven thousand six hundred francs.
The equivalent of RMB is one thousand RMB.
The box office on the second day was twice as high as the first day.
Zhang Sheng looked at this data and felt a little surprised.
It was an unintentional move before, but I didn't expect to gain some additional data.
Although this data is very small, it can be regarded as a set of world premiere achievements.
In addition to the French data for "That Summer" in the mailbox, there is also Bi Feiyu's plan to premiere "The Dog Over the Mountain" again.
Here in China...
After "The Dog Over the Mountain" was shortlisted in Berlin, some theaters planned to purchase the screening rights for "The Dog Over the Mountain"!
"The Dog Over the Mountain" was released in China for the first time. It only relied on the relationship with some theaters to schedule a few screenings. There was no systematic promotion, and it was not even a regular release.
Therefore, failure seems inevitable.
But this time it’s released…
no the same!
The "gimmick" of a film shortlisted for the Berlin International Film Festival is very useful in today's era. Multi-party capital seems to have taken a fancy to this gimmick and wants to use its reputation to get a share of the pie.
Zhang Sheng looked at the release plan of "The Dog Over the Mountain" in his mailbox.
The plan was well written.
Zhang Sheng couldn't find anything wrong with him.
He pushed up his glasses and turned to the next page. The next page contained the copyright information for "The Dog Over the Mountain".
Thanks to Avery Tashi's strong recommendation, "The Dog Over the Mountain" was sold in more than ten countries and probably earned close to 1.18 million US dollars!
Bi Feiyu didn't hide anything, and even wrote it down to the decimal point.
Zhang Sheng rubbed his eyes.
He originally held the [Southern California International Film Awards] just to make some money.
But he didn't expect that he would actually find gold?
After reading the data...
Zhang Sheng browsed Weibo.
Then, inadvertently, he saw Tom's figure.
Tom accepted an ad for "milk powder" and then another for shampoo.
In the interview video, Tom is full of style and immersed in the huge benefits that fame brings.
He has forgotten that his real name is Dawa...
Fame and fortune!
It's really easy to get lost.
But how long can you last with this kind of fame and fortune?
You can go from Dawa to Tom, and from Tom to Dawa very easily!
After staring at him for a long time, Zhang Sheng narrowed his eyes.
Not angry, not angry, nor did he do anything to Tom.
He just opened Li Yanhong's Weibo.
I read the Weibo posts one by one very carefully.
After reading it, he closed his eyes and leaned on the old sofa in the office. While resting, he sketched all the relationships around Li Yanhong...
Then……
In his mind, he synthesized a series of information Zhang Panpan provided to her.
Li Yanhong’s general entrepreneurial journey, some of what Li Yanhong did in [Shengshi Entertainment], and what Zhang Panpan knows.
besides……
Li Yanhong's recent change in attitude towards Zhang Panpan even made Zhang Panpan feel that Li Yanhong was not that annoying after all.
Data after data, information analyzed from meetings with Li Yanhong again and again, are constantly converging in Zhang Sheng's mind.
The layers of the network of relationships finally began to become clearer.
Time passed little by little.
It was four o'clock in the morning in a blink of an eye.
Zhang Sheng finally opened his eyes.
He did not feel tired, but felt that his mind was very active and his mental state was very good.
He turned on the computer and found information on "Wing Chun", Gao Yuan in "Thunder", and Gao Yuan's nephew Gao Hui...
Although the information is not detailed and is only some public information that everyone knows, Li Yanhong is definitely related to Cui Hao, the director of "Wing Chun"!
"Wing Chun".
Li Yanhong seems to have put out a lot of resources!
He stared at Gao Hui's Weibo.
Ever since the Southern California International Film Awards, Gao Hui has been talking about the artistry of his "Paging 1988" everywhere and showing off his awards...
He narrowed his eyes.
Then, Gao Hui's phone number was dialed.
On the phone.
Gao Hui seems to be sleeping.
But after hearing the proficient English and the self-introduction of the Southern California International Film Awards, Gao Hui instantly became energetic.
"Hello, Mr. Gao Hui! Don't you want "Paging 1988" to be released in China again?"
"It seems that "The Dog Over the Mountain" is about to be released!"
“Don’t you [Shengshi Entertainment] have any ideas?”
"I know that [Shengshi Entertainment] is currently promoting "Wing Chun", but maybe "Paging 1988" can also become the main hit of [Shengshi Entertainment]?"
"..."