Huayu Zhihao

Chapter 708 The Smoke of the Summer Vacation

"Chen Hao's sci-fi disaster masterpiece "2012" is officially completed, and it is transferred to post-production!"--Douyan.com

""2012" is officially completed, and the goal is directly aimed at the summer vacation!" --- Sohu Entertainment Report
""2012" VS "On the Red Cliff", Chen Hao VS Wu Baige, the strongest summer showdown in history!" --- New Wolf Entertainment
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The news of "2012" wrapping up soon appeared in the newspapers. As one of the most anticipated blockbusters in 2008, it is not surprising that it attracted such attention.

Moreover, "2012" itself is also deliberately promoting the film. After all, it is not easy to compete with Wu Baige's "On the Red Cliff"!

The media is also deliberately hyping up this summer file dispute.

What the mainland vs. Xiangjiang, upstarts vs. old brands, new and old rivalries, etc., plus Chen Hao broke Wu Baige's various North American and global box office records.

In the previous discussion on the annual championship, Wu Baige also showed his self-confidence, expressing that Chen Hao is still young.

Coupled with the media's embellished reports, Chen Hao and Wu Baige have now become new enemies and old enemies. This time, they will have a decisive battle against the top of the Forbidden City in the summer vacation, and the winner will be decided!
Although the media is intentionally confronting each other, just like Chen Hao did to Feng Dapao.

But in any case, "2012" and "On the Red Cliff" have become more widely known, and countless movie fans are looking forward to it!

What makes this atmosphere even more fueling is that Wu Baige, who has already started the promotion of "On the Red Cliff", gave a direct positive reply in an interview.

"I have confidence in "On the Red Cliff". The highest investment in Asian history + the support of superstars and big names + me, there is no reason not to succeed." Wu Baige said proudly.

This passage directly became the headlines of many entertainment media. Obviously, Wu Baige has already declared war!

So, everyone was waiting for Chen Hao's response.

Of course Chen Hao is right, but he is busy editing "2012" right now, so he didn't reply directly, nor accept media interviews.

Instead, they directly asked Haotian Films' official website and its own Weibo to update a news at the same time: "2012" is scheduled to be released on July 2008, 7!
boom!
The media climaxed!

Although Haotian and Chen Hao didn't give a positive reply, they directly gave the release date, which is obviously an answer.

The release date of "2012" is one week earlier than "On the Red Cliff", this is to seize the opportunity!
Originally, Chen Hao's movies are usually released in early August, but this year, because the Olympic Games in the imperial capital will officially open on August 8, it will definitely affect the box office of the movie.

Therefore, Chen Hao had to advance.

In addition, if "On the Red Cliff" is released on the same day as "On the Red Cliff", even if "2012" has a slightly better box office in the end, both sides will suffer.

No one will have trouble with the box office, so Chen Hao decided to release it a week in advance to seize the opportunity and at the same time hope to use the good reputation of the movie to sustain the box office in the future!
Chen Hao clearly remembered the battle between Yu Dong and Zhang Weiping in Huangcheng. Originally, "Scarred City" might not suffer a big defeat, but it was because Zhang Weiping suddenly moved up the release date to seize the opportunity.

Coupled with Yu Dong's misguided response, he actually withdrew the file and postponed the release, which led to "The Golden Armor in the City" directly eating the box office for the 10-day Lunar New Year slot, and formed an unstoppable trend, which directly pushed "Scarred City" into seven scattered.

As a result, Yu Dong and "Scarred City" were defeated together.

Chen Hao does not expect that Yu Wu Baige will withdraw and postpone the release of "On the Red Cliff", but there may be a greater chance of winning if he seizes the opportunity!

After all, winning "On the Red Cliff" is not the ultimate goal. Chen Hao's ultimate goal is to break the 3.6 ​​million box office of "Titanic"!
If the military order hadn't been issued, Chen Hao could directly set the date of "On the Red Cliff" on July 7th.

But now the goal is different, and there is a huge threat of "On the Red Cliff", Chen Hao can only do this!
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After the release date of "2012" was announced, Chen Hao stopped paying attention to any news from the outside world, and started his own editing with all his heart.

At the same time, Chen Hao also had to keep an eye on the post-production special effects of the film.

After all, it is less than 7 months away from its release on July 3.

But after the final estimate of the progress, Chen Hao felt that the time was still a bit tight. Chen Hao, who had no choice, directly asked Haotian Special Effects to stop the production of "Kung Fu Panda 2" and "Journey to the West: The Great Sage Returns".

Let the two project teams directly join the post-production special effects team of "2012" to shorten the special effects production time.

With the blessing of the finished film, Chen Hao completed the editing in only one week, and of course the special effects part has not been completed yet.

After editing, Chen Hao relaxed a little, and then he had time to go home early for dinner.

However, during this period of time, Chen Hao had been stared at by Chen's father and Chen's mother, because he told about Fan Yaojing's pregnancy.

The second elder was very angry at that time, thinking that his son was not a good person, and messed up the relationship between men and women.

At the same time, she has been complaining about Yaya.

Chen Hao was severely taught a lesson, and then the elders began to care about their future grandchildren, which allowed Chen Hao to escape.

As for the three girls, Chen Hao didn't dare to say, and decided to wait for a while to talk about it. If they can't find out, that's the best!

Now it can be delayed for a while!
"Have you negotiated with Tudou.com?" Chen Hao looked at Hu Jin and asked.

"It's all done!" Hu Jin nodded.

"Tell me!" Chen Hao said.

Tudou.com completed its third round of financing in April this year after completing its second round of financing last year.

In the past two years, Tudou.com has developed very rapidly. As the first video website in the mainland, it is quite favored by venture capitalists.

Some of this should be influenced by YouTube in the United States, coupled with China's huge population base, it is inevitable that venture capitalists are optimistic about Tudou.

However, Tudou.com is also facing the pursuit of many competitors. Video sites such as Youku and Mango TV are also developing rapidly, especially Youku.

Therefore, Tudou.com had to raise funds for its leading position and commercial value.

“Tudou.com has received a total of US$5680 million in financing this time.” Hu Jin said, “Among them, we and Singapore’s Kaixin Asia each contributed US$1500 million to lead the round.

Venrock, a venture capital firm owned by the Rockefeller family in the United States, and five other VCs jointly invested US$5 million. Previously, IDG and GGV Capital also continued to invest.

This time we got another 4.28% stake in Tudou.com. Now Haotian Holdings already owns 49.28% of Tudou.com and is the largest shareholder. "

Chen Hao nodded when he heard the words. He got 1500% of the shares for 4.28 million. Thinking about how he got 500% of the shares directly for 40 million US dollars at the beginning, it was really a big deal.

"Does Tudou.com have a listing plan?" Chen Hao asked.

"Not yet!" Hu Jin said, "I guess it will take two years, and there will definitely be another round of financing before listing."

Chen Hao nodded upon hearing this.

After discussing Tudou.com, Chen Hao continued to immerse himself in company affairs, and had to fly to the United States to promote "Iron Man" during the period.

When the time came to April 4th, this day was the world premiere of "Iron Man", the opening chapter of the Marvel superhero movie universe.

The premiere date in the United States and other countries and regions around the world is scheduled for Friday, May 5, while the mainland is 2 days earlier.

Therefore, the mainland is the first region in the world where "Iron Man" was released.

(End of this chapter)