With luck, it's not impossible for a movie to suddenly become popular due to a certain factor.

I'm just unlucky. Let alone its release, it's very possible that the movie's plot may violate taboos and it may not even get approval for its release. It's also possible.

However, "Liu Changqing" is obviously lucky.

Although "Liu Changqing" has been successful at the box office, there are still many things that need to be summarized, but Yang Ming has left these matters to Liu Xinsheng to handle, and he is also busy finishing "The Fast and the Furious".

Before flying to the Lion City to return to the set, Yang Ming met Mr. Tao.

"Why do you have time to ask me out for tea?"

In the teahouse, Mr. Tao took a sip of tea and asked Yang Ming with a smile.

Before Yang Ming could answer, he raised his eyebrows and continued: "Is there something wrong?"

——They are all old foxes!

Yang Ming secretly cursed in his heart. When dealing with these old guys, it was obviously impossible to blind them. He took out a few documents he had brought over, handed them to Mr. Tao, and said straight to the point: "In recent times,

The staff of Maoyan Films found that the box office of some movies is seriously abnormal. This is their verified statistics. Take a look!"

"Oh? What's going on?" Mr. Tao looked questioning and glanced at Yang Ming.

"You take a look first!" Yang Ming did not answer directly, shrugged, and signaled Mr. Tao to read the document first before talking.

Mr. Tao took the document, then lowered his head to read it. After a while, his face became dissatisfied and angry. He looked up at Yang Ming and asked solemnly: "Are you sure these data are reliable?" Wucuo Novel Network does not jump.

Character.

"Yes!" Yang Ming nodded, "In order to prevent mistakes, I arranged for people to personally verify several theaters. It is indeed true!"

Hearing Yang Ming's affirmation, Mr. Tao's eyes flashed with a stern look. He threw the document on the table with a snap and coldly snorted: "These crooked ways!"

Yang Ming noticed that although Mr. Tao's expression was shocked, it was not intense. He was obviously no stranger to such things as box office fraud.

The documents he handed over to Mr. Tao were all statistics compiled by him during this period of time when he arranged for people to keep an eye on movies with weird ticket sales.

This needs to be discussed with Tao Laotong beforehand.

Although Mr. Tao is not a member of the official Radio and Television Administration, as the president of the Film Association and the chairman of the Golden Dragon Award jury, he has enough reasons to be the first to know about this matter.

This is to prevent things from getting too big and unending.

"Mr. Tao, what do you think we should do?" Yang Ming picked up the tea cup and took a leisurely sip of tea and asked softly. "Maoyan Movies is just an e-commerce platform, but it has no rights or obligations to prevent customers from buying movie tickets!"

This is also true.

As an e-commerce platform, Maoyan Movies only sells tickets online, and there is no way to monitor who buys them.

Even theater chains can't stop this kind of box office fraud. For theater chains, as long as the tickets are sold, they get a share.

As for whether anyone comes to see it, that's not their concern.

Therefore, box office fraud has always been banned in the film industry.

"It's difficult!" Mr. Tao sighed silently.

As a veteran of the film industry, what storms has he not experienced in the film industry?

He is certainly no stranger to box office fraud.

Although box office fraud is now conducted through e-commerce platforms, it is not much different from before.

Yang Ming said nothing, sitting aside, drinking tea silently, waiting for Mr. Tao's reaction. He didn't know that this kind of thing was not new in the film industry, but was too common.

Not to mention China, it is not uncommon even abroad.

However, there are some countries where the film market is doing well and has very strict control over box office fraud, but those systems are very rigid.

"Why did you suddenly think of telling me this? Don't tell me you have good intentions." Mr. Tao suddenly snorted and looked at Yang Ming with a strange look.

Hearing Mr. Tao's words, Yang Ming almost spit out a mouthful of tea and said, "I'm sorry that my image in your eyes is so unbearable!"

"I knew you had nothing to gain!" Mr. Tao pointed at Yang Ming and laughed.

Yang Ming rolled his eyes angrily when he heard this, then took out a document and handed it to Mr. Tao: "Look at this again!"

This document was an analysis he had originally written on the long-term harm that box office fraud would cause to the local film industry. He had not originally planned to take it out, but he thought about it and showed it to Mr. Tao first. After all, the other party was not a member of the officialdom.

As the president of the Film Association, it would be a good idea to talk to Tao Laotong first.

Mr. Tao casually took the document again. After a moment, his face became extremely serious and his hands trembled slightly.

"Is this really possible?"

After reading the document, he put it on the table, took out a cigarette, lit it, took a few puffs, patted the document, and spoke slowly.

"What do you think?" Yang Ming sighed slightly.

In fact, he has already seen the facts. These are all things that happened in the past life. He can be sure that if box office fraud is so rampant in this life, then all the misfortunes in the film industry in the past life will definitely happen in this life.

"Alas!" Mr. Tao exhaled a puff of smoke and sighed heavily. "This kind of thing has been forbidden for many years!"

"Haven't you ever thought about formulating some perfect system restrictions?" Wucuo Novel Network did not skip words. Yang Ming frowned and asked suddenly.

The atmosphere of the film industry in this world is not better than that of previous generations, but this is only in terms of technology. All kinds of shady scenes will still exist, or even in other countries.

"Yes!" Mr. Tao nodded.

When Yang Ming heard this, he couldn't help but look stunned and asked curiously: "Then why didn't you continue?"

After all, he is too young and does not know much about old events in the film industry. It is estimated that only seniors like Mr. Tao know everything about the past events in the film industry.

"In the past, we have advocated using heavy taxes to limit box office fraud and increase their costs of fraud, but this method is of no use at all. Instead, it invisibly increases the production cost of the film, which almost seriously hurts the vitality of the local film industry, and then

Let's just let it go." Tao Laowei said.

Yang Ming nodded when he heard this. Heavy tax is a double-edged sword. Although it limits box office fraud, it damages the foundation of the film industry.

Even he himself does not want to use taxes as a means to limit box office fraud, which would also be very detrimental to Oriental DreamWorks.

For a moment, the atmosphere in the teahouse's private room couldn't help but become silent.

Yang Ming also frowned and thought about how to limit box office fraud. Although he wanted to make an appointment with Mr. Tao today to talk to him first, it would also be a good thing if box office fraud could be completely eliminated.

He tried hard to recall any perfect system in his previous life.

In terms of box office fraud, it seems that Hollywood, Japan, France and other countries are doing well.

However, the practices of Japan and France are not suitable for China.

Japan's approach is to count votes by independent agencies, and the cost of fraud is extremely high; once discovered, they will not publicly apologize, but will also have to bear huge fines, which are high enough to cause some companies to go bankrupt; banks not only refuse to provide loans to the companies involved, but also terminate their loans.

It is related to loans and business cooperation with upstream and downstream enterprises. In addition to government penalties, social penalties are also quite severe. If the industry has a bad reputation, it will be difficult for counterfeiters to continue working in the previous industry.

In France, votes are calculated based on head count, and the box office has nothing to do with the film studio's income. In France, movie box office is calculated based on the number of movie viewers, not sales revenue. The number of movie viewers can only reflect whether a movie is popular among French audiences.

To attract more people to go to the cinema, major theater chains in France have launched a "monthly subscription system".

Both of these approaches are not suitable for China. The Japanese approach can be used as a reference. As for the French approach, it is not suitable for China at all.

How many people are there in France? How many people are there in China?

If we really count them on a head-to-head basis, the workload would probably frighten the French staff to death.

Now it seems that only Hollywood's approach can be used as a reference, but even so, it will take a long time to maintain!

After Yang Ming recalled the practices of Hollywood in his previous life, he couldn't help but asked Mr. Tao: "It seems that the various associations in the film industry in our country are not very good? They simply cannot afford to protect the interests of their members!"

"Are you slapping my old face?" Wucuo Novel Network did not skip the words. After hearing Yang Ming's words, Mr. Tao pretended to be cold and said.

"Uh!" Yang Ming suddenly remembered that the other party seemed to be the honorary president of the Actors Guild in addition to being the president of the Film Association. He suddenly felt extremely embarrassed. He coughed a few times, but still said: "Facts are facts. In our country,

The various associations in the film and television industry are really poor compared to Hollywood!"

The influence of various labor unions in Hollywood, whether in the past or present, cannot be matched by various domestic associations.

In Hollywood, as long as the contract is signed with the witness of the union, even if the other party is powerful, as long as there is a delay in wages, the union will stand up for justice for the actor or director; even if the other party is a film industry giant, as long as the contract is signed,

Then the trade union will resolutely seek justice for you.

They even did not hesitate to mobilize all Hollywood artists to go on strike in support.

It's simply impossible in China.

Even though the various trade union systems in China in this world are quite complete compared to those in previous generations, they are still far from the Hollywood trade unions in terms of implementation.

China is a humane society.

"I have been working hard to maintain the authority of the Screen Actors Guild over the years, but it is still far behind Hollywood." Mr. Tao said with a sense of disappointment.

Yang Ming opened his mouth to say something, but did not speak.

In fact, the real gap in China's film industry, whether in the past or in this life, is not in the so-called talent, technology and funds, but in the system!

China lacks everything but talents, and this is still the case in this world. As for technology, let alone this world, even in previous lives, as long as you were willing to spend money, you could shoot special effects shots comparable to Hollywood blockbusters.

Funding is not a problem at all!

To be honest, Yang Ming believes that the most valuable thing for the domestic film industry to learn from Hollywood is not special effects shots, star lineups, or publicity methods, but various complete systems.

In the previous life, due to the system, these ideas could only exist in fantasy.

But this life is different.
To be continued...