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Analysis on the New Models of Chinese Cinema Movie Intellectual Property Operation Under the Epidemic Situation Xiaoyan Yuan1,* Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 469 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2020) Analysis on the New Models of Chinese Cinema Movie Intellectual Property Operation Under the Epidemic Situation Xiaoyan Yuan1,* 1School of Film and Cinematic Arts, Communication University of China, Beijing, China *Corresponding author. Email: [email protected] ABSTRACT Affected by the new coronavirus epidemic in 2020, the Chinese economy has generally suffered setbacks and the cultural industry has been hit hard. As the epidemic continues, the screening and creation of Chinese cinema films has entered a "sleep period", and industry self-help is extremely urgent. During the epidemic, movie theaters struggled to cope with difficulties and tried a variety of new IP (Intellectual Property) operation models under the pressure of huge risks. Keywords: epidemic situation, cinema movie, IP operation, new models characteristics of decentralized and multi-media I. INTRODUCTION integration gradually emerged. 1 The 2020 Chinese New Year prime time slot films Seven films "Legend of Deification", "The Wild were broken due to the epidemic situation, which Life", "Lost in Russia", "Winner", "Detective seriously affected the IP operation of the cinema film. Chinatown 3", "Vanguard", "The Rescue" are expected Although the " Lost in Russia" style breakthrough to be released during the Spring Festival prime time occurred during this period, it is still difficult to mark slot. In the epidemic, they all withdrew from the cinema the success of the operation of Chinese cinema films chain. The data shows that before the epidemic, the and the overall improvement of content quality in a total box office revenue of this year's Spring Festival special period. How to improve the ability of the offline film is expected to be about 7 billion yuan. Under the film industry chain to withstand risks and expand the epidemic, the national box office revenue on New living space of domestic films, with a view to Year's Day is only 1.81 million yuan. Subsequently, on incubating new content-productive new projects and January 31, the "Notice on the Stopping of Film and new models co-woven with multiple media after the Television Filming During the New Crown Epidemic" epidemic, is the need for the entire film industry to was released. The Beijing Center for Disease Control reflect on the current. and Prevention and the Beijing Film Bureau issued the “Guidelines for the Resumption of Epidemic Prevention II. EXPLORING A NEW WAY OF CROSS-MEDIA in the Beijing Film Industry during the New Coronary INTEGRATION OF CINEMA MOVIES Pneumonia Epidemic (Version 1.0)” on February 26, which clearly stipulates the specificity of the movie Cinema films have become a relatively traditional screening place as an enclosed space, such as regular media form today, relying mainly on the box office strict disinfection, ticket sales by row and block, real- income of new films as the main source of income. In name registration of ticket purchases, etc. The theaters recent years, the IP-based operation model of cinema throughout the country were shut down on a large scale movies has become a trend. Compared with the during the epidemic. The box office totaled no more unstoppable new media film and television industry, than 10 million yuan during the Spring Festival, and the cinema movies have higher operating costs, longer industry was stalled. Compared with the same period of production cycles and a more typed audience. This has last year, on the new media platform, the statistics show caused the cinema space to shrink on a large scale that in January 2020, Youku, iQiyi and Tencent have during the special period of epidemic outbreaks. At this launched 64 movies on their three major video time, in the entire film and television industry, the websites. This is the highest number of online movies 1 Tang Xujun, Blue Book of New Media: Annual Report on the Development of New Media in China (2019) [M]. Social Sciences Academic Press, June, 2019. Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL. This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license -http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. 546 Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 469 in statistics since the summer vacation of 2019. During made the film industry usher in a new development the epidemic, online platforms such as iQiyi gained pattern after the disaster. It is expected that the more than a tenfold increase in the number of registered popularity of Chinese cinema movies this year will viewers, providing a rich menu of choices for audiences rebound after the epidemic. The demand of Chinese who stayed at home. The "Statistical Report on Internet audiences for the content of cinema movies is still Development in China" in 2019 shows that the number there. Especially the classic IP of cinema movies still of online video users in China is as high as 759 million. has huge market potential. The 2019 New Media Blue Book has an in-depth interpretation of the basic situation of China's new To promote the benign development of cinema media development — "With the emergence of a new films, the production of high-quality content remains its round of scientific and technological revolution and fundamental motivation. In recent years, Chinese industrial transformation, artificial intelligence, big cinema films have continuously explored the types of data, cloud computing, blockchain and other new art and business content, such as the science fiction technologies have developed rapidly, and new movies "The Wandering Earth", the new main melody applications and formats such as mobile applications, movies "My Country and I", "The Captain", "Wolf social media, live webcasts, and short videos are Warriors Ⅱ", "Operation Mekong"; youth films "Better constantly emerging, reshaping the media landscape Days", "Us and Them", "Soulmate"; comedy films and public opinion ecology." Cinema movies have "Hello Mr. Billionaire", "Goodbye Mr. Loser"; taken a new path of cross-media integration and will animated film "NE ZHA"; realistic movies "Dying to become a new trend in the future. Survive" and so on. These films have won high reputation from the audience for their innovative Directed by Xu Zheng, the popular IP "Lost" series, content and excellent production. In addition, under the under the pressure of the box office at the Spring pressure of survival, the cinema line has tightened the Festival stalls this year, abandoned the theater line and schedule of non-commercial films, making it difficult entered the streaming internet platform due to the for many excellent content films to enter the public objective reasons of the epidemic. Although the movie view, such as "Song of the Phoenix", "You Must Not "Lost in Russia" has a certain degree of viewing and Miss". These films excavate and express excellent word-of-mouth declining, it is still the first successful cultural themes, but they are hard to beat the box office commercial attempt to convert the IP of the cinema line pressure. This is also the objective difficulty of the in the Spring Festival this year to the Internet mobile Chinese cinema. terminal. Although the other six films of the Spring Festival Golden File have not been premiered on the Therefore, after the epidemic, Chinese film should Internet, they are all similar to the promotion methods reflect on the industry, including how to improve the of "Lost in Russia", such as registering the official productivity of cinema IP content, try various types of account of Douyin, expanding the fan audience by exploration, and improve market competitiveness. means of short videos, live broadcast, etc., and During the epidemic, script production should be the integrating with the online platform. "Detective least affected in the production, creation and Chinatown" once produced its IP into an online drama, distribution of the film and television industry. which produced a joint effect of online and video. Excavating outstanding stories with connotation and These cases show that cinema movies have fully meaning in the stage of the play, and relying on realized the high market value and strong materials that can resonate with the audience for in- communication power of the new Internet media depth creation, people can continue to produce high- platform. Exploring a new path for cross-media quality content and create influential original IP. For integration of cinema films and seeking a variety of example, in the course of the Chinese people's fight online and offline cooperation models is the only way against the novel coronavirus, there are many medical for the healthy development of the cinema film staff, guardians of city builders, and ordinary people industry. who are committed to the public, helping the poor, charging forward, and silently dedicating. These touching and touching stories can be used as good III. INCREASING THE IP CONTENT materials for cinema movie creation in the future. PRODUCTIVITY OF CINEMA CONTENT Although the film and television industry is temporarily suspended due to the impact of the epidemic in 2020, the difficulties are temporary, and the development momentum of the Chinese film industry is still rapid. The Chinese cultural industry was also hit by SARS in 2003, but the compensatory consumption after the epidemic and the overall steady development trend 547 Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 469 IV. ACCELERATING THE STRUCTURAL development goal of the cultural industry in 2020 is ADJUSTMENT OF CHINA'S CINEMA INDUSTRY "insisting on the priority principle of original IP of creativity, innovation and creation, adhering to the Rethinking the structure of China's cinema industry, 2 overall situation of market-oriented development, and innovation is the only way to survive. In every major adhering to the two-wheel drive model of the technological revolution of human-beings, any medium integration of high technology and culture...".
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