Huayu Zhihao

Chapter 668 "Pacific Rim" released in North America

"You mean..." Xiaoying was a little excited and speechless, "You mean, the villa, I, you..."

Hearing this, Chen Hao hugged Xiao Ying and kissed, "Yes, I bought it for you, a little tigress."

Xiaoying couldn't control the smile on her face when she heard the words, and finally hugged Chen Hao and kissed him passionately.

After a while, after Xiaoying calmed down, she suddenly pinched Chen Hao again.

"Hiss... so what?" Chen Hao asked in confusion.

"You villain actually called me a tigress!" Xiaoying rolled her eyes and said to Chen Hao, "Am I that fierce?"

When Chen Hao heard the words, he looked down at Xiaoying's chest, "No, you don't have breasts!"

Xiaoying was taken aback when she saw this, "Hmph, do you only like Xiaohu? I can't compare to her?"

Hearing this, Chen Hao hugged Xiaoying quickly and said, "Of course not, you all have their own merits, and everyone is different. I like them all. By the way, what kind of decoration do you like in the villa?"

Xiaoying knew that Chen Hao was changing the subject, but she just rolled her eyes and said to Chen Hao, "I like... um... I don't know what kind, I can't tell."

"Well then, I'll ask them to send you the renderings of various decoration styles, and you can choose one yourself. Once you choose one, just let them decorate it accordingly." Chen Hao laughed.

Xiaoying nodded with a smile when she heard the words, rubbed herself in Chen Hao's arms, found a comfortable position, and embraced Chen Hao's arms, with an uncontrollable happiness and sweetness on her face.

"Well, Xiaohu..." Xiaoying suddenly thought of Xiaohu, feeling guilty and worried.

Xiaohu chose to forgive when he discovered the relationship between the two before, but at that time the two had not communicated with each other at a negative distance, but now that the two have tasted the forbidden fruit, I don't know how Xiaohu will react.

Chen Hao raised his brows when he heard this, kissed Xiaoying's forehead and said, "Don't worry, leave these to me, you don't have to worry."

Xiaoying nodded when she heard the words, but still frowned slightly, feeling uneasy.

For the next two days, Chen Hao stayed by Xiaoying's side all the time, and their identities were switched, and Chen Hao became Xiaoying's secretary and assistant.

This also allowed Xiaoying to experience the life of being a secretary when she has something to do, but when she has nothing to do...

Originally, Chen Hao felt sorry for Xiaoying and resisted touching her, but Xiaoying knew her taste and couldn't help teasing her, Chen Hao was easily hooked.

As a result, Xiaoying rested for two more days before they appeared in Liang Tian Chi Pictures.

"Hey, Chen, you're finally here." Smart looked relieved when he saw Chen Hao.

Xiaoying's face turned red when she heard the words, and then she stared at her own Chen Hao with a half-smile.

"There are some important things to deal with, and they are done now." Chen Hao said with a smile, "Is there anything urgent?"

"No, the most important thing for the company now is "Iron Man." Smart said, "This is the company's highlight this year, and it is the opening chapter of the Marvel superhero movie universe, and we all attach great importance to it."

Chen Hao was a little embarrassed when he heard the words, and he also took it very seriously, but he had to combine work and rest to do his job, "OK, I'll start editing the film now."

After speaking, Chen Hao nodded to Xiaoying, and then walked into the editing room.

With the full version of the reference from the previous life, Chen Hao can cut it with ease and at a very fast speed.

While Chen Hao was working on the post-production of "Iron Man", "Saw 5" also ended its second week of North American journey.

The result was very bad. The weekend box office of "Chain Saw 5" was only 974 million US dollars, a drop of 67.58% compared with last week's weekend box office. In addition, the IMDB score was only 5.8 points, and the stamina was not expected.

Two weeks later, the cumulative box office of "Chain Saw 5" reached 4546 million US dollars. Judging from the current weekend box office and word-of-mouth of the film, the film's final box office should stop at 6000 million US dollars!
But even so, the box office is 6 times the investment cost, and it is still profitable. Everyone knows that this series has not yet come to an end.

In the following time, Chen Hao spent the day editing movies at Tianchi Films, and returning to the villa at night to discuss and study the way of harmony between yin and yang with Xiaoying.

Until Monday, the fourth week of November 2007, a press conference shook the entire mainland.

On November 11, Hurray and Guangxian Media announced the completion of the merger of the two companies through a share swap and the establishment of a new company, Guangxian Huayou.

According to the agreement, Guangxian Media holds 42% of the shares of the new company. If the new company’s stock gradually rises to the target price within two years, Guangxian Huayou will continue to issue new shares to Guangxian Media, so that the equity of Guangxian Media will continue to rise.

Until each share reaches $8.5 or above, Bright Media will own up to 65% of the equity.

The two sides have also made major adjustments to the management team.

Wang Changtian, the former president of Bright Media, will serve as the chairman and CEO of the new company, Wang Shaojian, the former president of Hurray, will serve as the co-president and CFO, and Li Xiaoping, the former vice president of Bright Media, will serve as the co-president.

The former Hurray Chairman Wang Qindai will withdraw from the new company.

For this cooperation, Hurray has already made internal adjustments, and the new company will not undergo major changes in personnel structure, nor will it lead to layoffs.

The new company will set up 11 major business divisions, including TV entertainment center, advertising operation department, digital business department and TV network business department, including the Internet business department, which is not doing well, and the wireless value-added business department, which Huayou is the most troublesome.

This should not be a too surprising result.

There have long been rumors about Hurray's high-level executives actively seeking external cooperation in order to withdraw from the company's operations as soon as possible.

Affected by the general environment, the SP concept stocks that were once prosperous have fallen to the bottom.

自2005年2月在美国纳斯达克上市以来，华友世纪的总营收在2006年第二季度达到峰值1830万美元，之后开始逐年递减，2007年第二季度跌至1459万美元。

Net profit fell from $2005 million in the first quarter of 560 to $2007 million in the second quarter of 20.

Transformation is imperative for this company.

Turning to entertainment media seems logical.

2005年华友世纪开始签下歌手，2006年收购飞乐唱片60%股份、华艺兄弟音乐公司51%股权，2007年收购鸟人唱片30%股权。

It also acquired the mobile game publisher Magma Digital, and established a joint venture with Imperial Television to establish Jingshi Media.

A series of actions laid the foundation for Huayou Century to transform into an entertainment media company in the future, but the effectiveness of digital entertainment content is difficult to be realized in a short period of time. At this time, the cooperation with Bright Media seems to be just right.

At the same time, with the help of Hurray's Nasdaq shell, Bright Media can also achieve a de facto listing.

In 2003, when Guangxian Media’s business reached its peak, it once wanted to go public for financing, and tried to go public in the mainland and Xiangjiang successively, but then targeted NASDAQ.

Now, for Wang Changtian, he has successfully avoided the various uncertainties of going public, and he can also raise a lot of money with the help of the Nashida shell.

Founded in 1998, Bright Media is the largest TV program producer and distributor in China. Its programs are broadcast on 600 TV channels in China, and it operates a national digital pay TV channel. However, it is difficult for private TV organizations to make their own TV channels to the real ground.

What Wang Changtian likes is nothing more than Hurray's value-added business platform and channel distribution experience.

This can be regarded as a cooperation between channels and content, but there are also hidden dangers.

Because the SP business has declined sharply year by year, and the current share price of Hurray in Nasdaq is approaching the lowest price of 52 US dollars in 3.32 weeks.

It is difficult to say that the change of the head of the new company Huayou will have a positive effect on the stock market performance in the short term.

Some analysts believe that both Hurray's wireless value-added services and Bright Media's TV channels are constrained by policy restrictions, and the complementary significance of cooperation is obvious. However, it is difficult to say to what extent they can solve the original problems in terms of actual development in the future.

However, although there are certain risks in this alliance between Guangliang and Hurray, the combination of content providers and channel providers undoubtedly seems to have a bright future.

More importantly, if the merger is really completed, Guangxian will be able to successfully go public through a backdoor, surpassing Huayi, Haotian and Chengtian, and becoming the first entertainment company in the mainland to be successfully listed.

The circle was already restless because of Huayi and Chengtian's actions, but now Guangliang has thrown such a blockbuster, the media are overjoyed during this time.

Even the general public who pay attention to the entertainment industry are overwhelmed with all kinds of information.

Chen Hao smiled when he heard the news. If he remembered correctly, Guangliang was still too early to go public, so this vigorous merger should have failed in the end.

"You don't seem to care about it!" Xiaoying looked at Chen Hao's expression and asked, "Aren't you worried that Guangxian will be the first to go public?"

Chen Hao smiled when he heard the words, "What's the use of worrying? It's not up to me. I don't think it's important to do my own thing well."

"What's on your mind?" Xiaoying asked curiously.

Although she knew that Chen Hao was not short of money, the tri-power struggle between Haotian, Huayi and Chengtian was a foregone conclusion, and there were companies such as Pony Feiteng, Polyburner and so on.

Although it doesn't mean that being the first to go public will definitely be able to stand forever and become the most successful private entertainment company, but it is a step ahead step by step.

The first person to eat crabs undoubtedly has many advantages. Fame, influence, and status will all come one after another, allowing him to seize the first opportunity in the increasingly competitive entertainment industry.

Although Chen Hao shouted the slogan to launch Haotian Films years ago, there was a 3-year period, and he didn't make any moves after that.

But now, watching the various actions of Huayi, Chengtian, Guangxian and other companies are vigorous, whether it is the acquisition of the old film empire, or the financing of tens of millions of dollars, or the opening of various channels for strong alliances, all of which are big moves and big news .

Moreover, they are all aiming at overseas listings, landing on Nasdaq, which seems to be full of ambitions.

On the contrary, Haotian didn't seem to do anything after shouting the slogan, and seemed a little silent.

But Xiaoying knows that Chen Hao is definitely not doing nothing, and he still attaches great importance to becoming the first entertainment company listed in the mainland.

"I plan to go public in Pengcheng within three years, haven't I already said that?" Chen Hao laughed.

But Xiaoying said, "You must have something to say, otherwise you wouldn't be so calm."

"Hahaha...Xiaoying is the one who knows me." Chen Hao smiled, and immediately hugged Xiaoying and said, "It's time for study, let the teacher teach you well."

……

When Chen Hao was immersed in the post-production of "Iron Man", the time passed quickly, and it was early December in a blink of an eye.

And on December 12th, Chen Hao finally completed the editing of "Iron Man" in less than a month, and now the rest is the post-production special effects.

For "Iron Man", the entire Tianchi Pictures and Marvel Entertainment attach great importance to it. After all, the investment cost and its influence on the Marvel superhero movie universe plan are there.

Therefore, the post-production is not in a hurry, because the company plans to cooperate with Sony Columbia to release it in the summer of next year, and the time is very ample.

At the same time, "Pacific Rim" directed by Chen Hao will officially land in North America on December 12.

For this mecha monster movie, Sony Columbia showed full confidence, because the special effects level of this movie has not lost much to Hollywood blockbusters.

Moreover, the whole process of the battle between mechs and monsters made even the head of the distribution department of Sony Columbia, who is used to watching Hollywood special effects blockbusters, excited and pleasantly surprised.

In addition, this is a purely commercial special effects film, so there is no complicated plot. It is enough for everyone to watch mechs vs. monsters and feel the hearty battle.

Also, Chen Hao's influence in North America is getting bigger and bigger, so everyone is still very interested in Chen Hao's new sci-fi film, whether it's Chen Hao's fans or film critics.

Therefore, Sony Columbia is also very careful in publicity, including Coca-Cola in the diet camp, Wal-Mart in chain retail, Sega in the video game camp, WWF in the public welfare camp, and Baldurs Barnes & Noble in the book camp.

Amazon in the Internet camp, scholar publishing companies in the publishing camp, as well as the toy camp, digital camp, etc. all joined the battle.

As the release date approaches, the publicity is getting bigger and bigger.

At the same time, another film New Line's "The Golden Compass of Dark Matter", with the support of the parent company Time Warner Media empire, has more publicity than "Pacific Rim".

Among the five new films released in the North American film market this week, three films "Atonement", "Juno" and "Happiness Is Gone" were released on a small scale, and the battle for Oscar nominations has already started.

Both "Pacific Rim" and "Golden Compass" have opened on a large scale, and they have given high hopes for the box office results.

The industry and the media also believe that this week's North American weekend champion must be between the two. As for who can win the list, there are still some disputes.

But most of them obviously still support "The Golden Compass". After all, Magic, New Line, and a production cost of 1.83 million, it seems that everyone has seen another "Lord of the Rings" series.

The weekend is over soon, and the North American weekend box office rankings are freshly released!

(End of this chapter)