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Chapter 484 Small Investment
"Ex Machina" was kept secret for a whole year, and it was released in North America in March.

The story told by this movie is simple: two male protagonists conduct a Turing test on an artificial intelligence robot.

The scene is very simple, just a room; the actors are also simple, there are only four people in the room.

Don't think about it.

The story of "Ex Machina" is basically driven by the dialogue between the characters.

The cost is well controlled, the actors' remuneration is low, and the filming cost is 1300 million US dollars, plus publicity, about 3000 million.

But now artificial intelligence is not popular in the field of science fiction, and now the stars, seas and space wars are popular.

If this was set in the 90s or early [-]s, artificial intelligence movies would get good box office without much publicity.

"Ex Machina" is the first film released by a major film company in North America. Cheng Lingfeng has been focusing on building distribution channels in North America for the past two years.

On the first day, 740 theaters were released, and the box office was 1176 million US dollars.

Not bad grades.

After the expanded release, the box office broke through 3000 million in the first three days, and the overseas distribution is Fox Searchlight, which also has a score of more than [-] million.

This result is not bad for a small-budget independent film, and Cheng Lingfeng is quite satisfied.

The movie "Ex Machina" has been kept secret for more than a year, and Kim Young Min and Lim Yoona stayed in the United States for more than half a year for this movie.

Now as soon as the movie was released, the four major Korean filmmakers realized that they had been remotely walked.

Cheng Lingfeng actually left herself and cooperated with SM!

Long-distance's business in South Korea has always been regarded by the Big Four as its own meat, and other filmmakers are absolutely not allowed to intervene.

Now SM stepped in out of thin air, and directly entered a Hollywood sci-fi movie.

And the grades are not bad.

The Big Four are simultaneously putting pressure on remote Korean studios and SM.

After all, YC Studio is located in South Korea, a little bit unable to withstand the pressure from CJ and the others, so they decisively kicked the ball to the headquarters.

Zhang Rui, president of Yuanyuan’s overseas business department, is superficially friendly, but adhering to Yuanyuan’s “check and balance” strategy in the Korean market, he responded to Lotte, saying that a big film company has nothing to do with Yuanyuan in terms of organization, and that “Ex Machina” has nothing to do with Yuanyuan and YC Studio , this movie is a collaboration between a big film company and SM, there is no power to intervene remotely.

The truth is, the Big Four can't fault anything remotely on paper.

But SM was unlucky.

Facing crazy revenge and interrogation from the Big Four in South Korea.

Kim Youngmin also knew that he had to pass this test, otherwise SM would really not be able to make a movie.

The major shareholders of SM worked together to protect the market, while holding on to SM's stock, and at the same time did not forget to hype the story of SM Pictures going overseas to Hollywood.

On the other hand, YC Studio stayed on hold, and temporarily pressed down several TV series and movies in their hands, and waited until the turmoil passed before watching them.

The box office of "Inner Beauty" in the first four days was 1.6 million, and the total box office is expected to be around 5 million.

The next week, "The Cook, The Actor, and the Ruffian" was released, but the audience questioned that this film was a set of the film.

It is despised in the industry that a TV series is set up to be a theatrical movie.

Guan Hu immediately responded: "Although the two dramas are both anti-Japanese themes and have the same starring roles, there is no connection in the storyline."

"When I was filming the drama, I felt that it would be difficult to assemble such a good lineup in the future, so I sought the opinions of the actors and wrote a brand new script."

But after the movie was released, the box office was not very good, only 1500 million. Huang Bo has shown his face too much in the past two years, and the audience is a little tired of watching it.

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At the end of the month, Zheng Yuan, the old man of Remote Technology, told Cheng Yu'an that he wanted to buy a game company.

Cheng Yu'an read the acquisition case and agreed to Zheng Qiao's operation.

In fact, strictly speaking, it is not called an acquisition.

This game company named Mihayou was originally incubated by Remote Technology when it supported college students’ entrepreneurship in 11. It has been relying on Remote Technology’s game announcement and distribution channels for two years. Last year, it made its first game "Hengkai Xue". garden".

Zheng Qiao saw that the company was developing well, so she planned to take it all under her banner.

"Yes." Cheng Yu'an agreed to the 1200 million acquisition, and then thought about it, "In this way, you will separate the game department this year, and the technology company will also operate as a conglomerate."

Zheng Qiao also had the same intention and said, "I just wanted to tell you that Penguin contacted me yesterday and wanted to cooperate with us in the game business."

The remote technology game department is small in scale, but its profitability is super strong. Several of its popular mobile games have sold very well overseas, and it is reasonable for Penguin to focus on it.

"Oh? How does he want to cooperate?"

"They also want us to split the game department. The two will cooperate to establish a new game company. Penguin is willing to invest 15 billion to take up 27.8% of the shares. The condition is that our overseas channels should be open to them. At the same time, their QQ and WeChat traffic Mouth will be used by us."

"The price is low, 15 billion cannot exceed 23%, and the IP of our game is not open to them." Remote games such as "Angry Birds", "Fruit Ninja" and "Plants vs. Zombies" are all popular game IPs. The high price of 15 million must be the game IP idea.

"I'm afraid it won't work, they just want to share our game copyright."

"It's okay to want the copyright, and they will trade it in exchange." The IP of "Angry Birds" alone is worth at least 5 million US dollars, and the annual peripheral sales are enough for remote technology to live comfortably. Penguin wants to get involved in the copyright. How about not paying a price.

Zheng Qiao said with a smile: "They probably don't want to."

"Then let's not talk about copyright, just cooperate on game development and distribution." In fact, remote games don't need Penguin's investment. The game department has been committed to the interactive development of mobile games and video games. It's enough to live well enough.

Of course, it would be better if it can be connected to the traffic port of Penguin.

"By the way, Mr. Cheng," Zheng Qiao took a report, "This is the company's investment last year." Remote Technology not only develops games and operates Weibo and Taopiaopiao, but as a technology company, it will also invest in various emerging industries in the industry. company.

After taking the report, Cheng Yu'an looked at the list. They were all small companies he had never heard of. They invested in angel rounds or seed rounds for a gamble.

You may make a small profit, but you don’t feel bad when you lose.

Cheng Yu'an said: "I heard about a website called Bilibili, why don't you vote?"

"This company has approached us before, but the company has been undecided. The target user group for their video business is too small, and some businesses conflict with our Tudou video."

"It's okay," Cheng Yu'an smiled, "If you ask Wang Wei to invest money in them in the name of Tudou, it will be considered as a trap. I am quite optimistic about the development of their website. Although their users are small, they are very sticky. Tudou They mainly make long videos, and they are naturally lacking in short videos, so I just use their platform to make up for it.”

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