The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 148

In the first round of financing, DreamWorks paid 15% of the equity and obtained 1.8 million funds, and Chen Jingxing planned to raise at least double the funds in this round.

Contrary to Xu Wenshen's concerns, several shareholders of DreamWorks were quite happy about Chen Jingxing's desire to raise funds again, but they also had some doubts.

Because according to the current momentum of DreamWorks, the funds should be relatively abundant. The 5000 million income from the North American copyright has already arrived, and the domestic box office is calculated based on the 10 billion landing point. DreamWorks can at least share 1.5 million in income, plus Shanghai In addition to the box office in other markets, DreamWorks' box office and distribution copyright income from the "Signal" film project can reach more than 2.5 million yuan.

And there are also online copyrights. Overseas online copyrights are not in a hurry to sell, because North American theaters have relatively high requirements for the window period, and their window period is as high as 90 days.

However, it is expected that overseas network copyrights will still have to be sold to Netflix. The main reason is that Netflix really has no strong competitors at the moment. Didn't catch up, D+ is relying on self-made comic TV series.

When the copyright reaches the eight-figure level, Netflix's bargaining power is quite high. After all, it is difficult to find other buyers for this level of copyright. It is estimated that the overseas network copyright price of "Signal" can reach about 1500 million US dollars. , if calculated according to this figure, DreamWorks can also get more than 4500 million yuan in revenue.

However, domestic online copyright income is somewhat complicated. For movies of the size of "Signal", the method of sharing accounts is generally adopted, and the income is calculated according to the number of paid effective clicks. The total income of this part may reach more than 1 million. Dream The factory can also get half of it.

Calculated in this way, DreamWorks' total income from the "Signal" film project may reach 3.5 million.

This amount of funds is simply too rich for a small and medium-sized film and television company like Dreamworks. Chen Jingxing must at least find a plausible reason to convince shareholders of the necessity of this round of financing.

After all, the four companies including Huanshi.com are shareholders of DreamWorks. If any of them does not follow suit in the second round of financing, the shares will be diluted. Even if Chen Jingxing is the absolute major shareholder, he still has to participate in the first round of financing with these companies. Investors can draw a big pie.

It is of course impossible to directly lift "Gravity" out, it will scare away investors directly, and investors are definitely not investing in your company to make you put all your eggs in one basket and invest hundreds of millions in a heavy industry film project with major risks funds.

Chen Jingxing's reason is that DreamWorks will carry out diversified operations, such as capital increase and holding in Mexico, some necessary investment in the upstream and downstream of the film and television industry chain, to snatch the copyright of text and comics, incubate big IP, and build sustainable development capabilities. There are also overseas acquisitions or establishment of distribution companies, the establishment of a comprehensive distribution network, and horizontal industries such as TV dramas and animations.

In addition to investing heavily in assets - which would make investors worry, Chen Jingxing almost reproduced the classic diversification expansion strategy of a film and television company, and asked employees to make a PPT for shareholders to read.

In fact, Huanshiwang and other companies of course want to continue to expand their investment in DreamWorks. They just asked the investors to draw a big pie for them before financing, just to make them feel at ease. After passing, they also went downhill along the donkey.

This round of financing was led by Penguin Video Network and Huanshi.com, followed by Tianrun and United Cinemas. DreamWorks received 3.7 million yuan of funds. Of course, the price was that Chen Jingxing's shares were diluted to 74%.

In fact, it’s not that DreamWorks couldn’t find other interested investors, it’s just that the four shareholders including Huanshi.com didn’t want other investors to enter the market, and Chen Jingxing didn’t urgently need to introduce other investors, so this round of financing was actually completely complete. It was a closed-door financing, and other film and television companies in the industry and even investors outside the industry who were interested in DreamWorks ended without even hearing the news.

After the news came out, not only the insiders were envious, but even the outsiders were shocked by it.

A film company with only two films released in theaters. The company has only one director, not two directors. It has no major assets, not even many tangible assets, and no signed artists. Such a company has only been established for one year Is it valued at more than 30 billion?
The most important thing is that he is not yet an Internet company.

Most people have seen a new channel to get rich through investment, and a small number of people are starting to worry about the bubble in the film and television industry.

In fact, Chen Jingxing is really the leader of the capital bubble in the film and television industry. Since the first financing with a valuation of 12 billion, more and more paper billionaires have emerged in the film and television industry. It's a shell company with no projects, so it claims to be valued at 10 billion.

The financing of DreamWorks this time has once again ignited the imagination of investors in the film and television industry, and the pace of hot money influx has further accelerated.

It seems to be to prove to the outside world that DreamWorks has great ambitions after receiving huge financing, and soon DreamWorks announced a new project, the "Signal" TV series.

Deng Chao and Sun Li joined forces to play the male and female protagonists of "Signal".

Theoretically speaking, the role of the old criminal policeman played by Deng Chao should be the second male lead, but since Deng Chao has decided to play the role, he will naturally be a good one. Come to this point, except for Luo Chen.

For ordinary audiences, this news is naturally more shocking than any financing. After all, the "Signal" movie is still in theaters. Suddenly, a TV series version is about to be released, and Deng Chao and Sun Li are also invited to play the leading role. This is definitely big news in the entertainment industry.

[Will Deng Chao and Sun Li play the leading roles?That's an exaggeration, when was the last time the two of them appeared in the same drama? ]
[...Upstairs, last time it was a wall painting]

[Oh, this is a big bad movie, but TV series should still be expected]
[Since it is the TV series version of "Signal", why not let the original actors continue to act?Lei Jiayin and Luo Chen played really well]

[Actors in drama and movie versions of many works are different]
[Even if it's different, it's basically the bigger movie version, why is it the other way around]

[Am I the only one who pays attention to what the TV series is about?I feel that the movie is already very complete, and if this story is expanded, it will not be expanded to dozens of episodes.]

[Who is the director?Or Chen Jingxing?As long as it is shot by Chen Jingxing, I will watch it]

[Probably not the director Chen Jingxing, both "Signal" and "Source Code" clearly stated that the director is Chen Jingxing, this TV series only mentions the actors, not the director, so there are nine out of ten that it is not directed by Chen Jingxing himself]

[Then I'm relieved, Chen Jingxing should continue to make movies, really don't cross boundaries easily, it's easy to fall into the trap]

(End of this chapter)