Huayu Zhihao

Chapter 762 Listing

Chapter 762 Listing
"Brother Dong, Poly Group is very determined?" Chen Hao asked.

"How should I say this? I just mentioned it, and the other party directly rejected it." Yu Dong replied, "It's not clear whether Poly is really unwilling to sell, or whether it is still up for grabs. After all, domestic theaters are developing rapidly. .

If you want to sell it for a price, it’s okay to say, just spend more money, if you are determined not to sell, then you can’t do anything, after all, Poly Group is so big, and they are not short of this money. "

Hearing this, Chen Hao frowned slightly. If he really can't win Poly Wanhe Cinemas, it will be a little troublesome.

The current situation is sailing against the current. If you don't develop, then others will definitely surpass you.

Moreover, Wanda Cinemas is developing too fast. I am afraid that it will not be a big problem to surpass Xingmei this year. It will be the strongest competitor of Universal Haotian.

At the same time, in Jiangsu Province, the base camp of Cosmopolitan Haotian, the second-ranked Oriental Cinemas and the third-ranked Prosperous Asia Cinemas are likely to merge into a new cinema.

This is undoubtedly a strong challenge to Sihai Haotian's dominance in Suzhou Province.

For the current theater market and Sihai Haotian Cinemas, mergers and acquisitions are undoubtedly the fastest way to develop.

Self-built is indeed more advantageous in management, operation and brand building, but no matter how fast Universal Haotian is, you can’t be faster than Wanda, who started from real estate.

The theater market in the mainland is still in a period of disorderly and blind expansion. Now every additional theater will definitely save tens of millions of dollars in future costs. When it goes public, the market value will also be higher.

Therefore, the scale of Sihai Haotian's theaters still needs to continue to expand, the bigger the better.

"I see, Brother Dong." Chen Hao said, "I will let Chen Xiangang and Hu Jin continue to follow up and see if this merger can be completed."

"Okay, unfortunately I can't help much." Yu Dong said.

"What did you say, Brother Dong, I still want to thank you!" Chen Hao said, and then changed the subject, "By the way, how is the Berna Group doing?"

"I have already repurchased the Bernard shares in Poly's hands." Yu Dongdao, "At the same time, I have also found Sequoia Capital and SIG Heiner Asia Venture Capital Fund, plus my brother's Haotian, and I am going to raise a fund. 5500 million, and I also took out a loan of [-] million.”

Chen Hao nodded when he heard the words, "Just tell me how much Haotian Film will invest."

Yu Dong smiled when he heard the words, "For the financing of 1 million, Haotian will pay 3000 million. How about giving you 1.2% of the shares?"

3000 million to 1.2% of the shares, that is, the new Bernard Group is considered to be worth 25 billion yuan.

"No problem!" Chen Hao nodded directly.

"I'm not going to hide it from my brother, the introduction of Sequoia Capital this time is actually for the purpose of going public in the United States." Yu Dong laughed.

"Going public in the US?" Chen Hao frowned slightly after hearing this.

"That's right, after the establishment of Berna Group with this financing, the company will raise funds again after a while, and then go public in the United States." Yu Dong said excitedly.

Chen Hao shook his head secretly, because he remembered that Bernard went public in the United States and encountered dissatisfaction, and then he was directly privatized and delisted.

Bearing the title of "the first film and television stock in mainland China", Berna Films went public in the United States, but fell below the issue price on the first day, with a drop of 22.6%. Since then, the stock price has been hovering at a low level.

When the market value was the highest, it was only 60 billion yuan, and it was in RMB. American investors did not seem to be optimistic about the development model of Bernard Films.

Listing in the United States did not bring much benefit to Berner. After five years of listing, it only raised 9250 million US dollars.

Yu Dong once disclosed to the outside world that the money is difficult to support the company's operations, and can only rely on other means other than the stock market for financing.

He also bluntly stated in CCTV's "Dialogue" column that he regretted letting the company list on the US stock market, because American investors only have Hollywood in their eyes, while Berner's audience and market are mainly in China.

At that time, with the vigorous development of the domestic film market, Huayi Brothers and Guangxian Media were flourishing in the capital market. In 2015, their market values ​​reached 800 billion yuan and 576 billion yuan, respectively.

When Bernard Films was delisted from the privatization of the United States, its market value was only 50 billion, which was more than ten times the difference between the two.

We must know that at the beginning of the listing, the performance of Bernard and Huayi can be said to be comparable, but after choosing different listing locations, the results are also completely opposite.

Later, it was the film "Taking Tiger Mountain Out of Wisdom" produced by Berna Pictures at the end of 2014 that really made Yu Dong determined to privatize the company.

The film received a good reputation at the box office, but during the same period, Bernard's stock price on Nasdaq not only did not rise steadily, but "falls and falls", which made Yu Dong completely determined to delist.

With the help of Ari, Pain Xun, Sequoia Capital, Softbank SAIF, Fosun International and other capital parties, Bernard Pictures announced the completion of privatization in April 2016, and completed a 4 billion yuan A round of financing.

This round of financing was led by Alibaba Pictures and Pain Xun, and CITIC Securities Jinshi Fund, Zhongzhi Enterprise Group, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and other institutions participated in the investment. At that time, Bernard's valuation had exceeded 150 billion yuan. Sufficient forage was prepared.

If Bernard did not choose to go public in the United States, but landed on the A-shares in the mainland, it is really hard to say what will happen to the entertainment companies in the mainland.

"Brother Dong, let me say a few words, just listen to it." Chen Hao thought for a while.

"It's okay, tell me!" Yu Dong said.

"This is what I think. There has never been an entertainment company in the mainland that has been successfully listed, and our foundation has always been in the mainland. I think it is too risky for you to go directly to the United States for listing.

First of all, your basic base is not in the United States, and the United States owns Hollywood. I think Americans will still give priority to Hollywood between Hollywood companies and mainland companies.

After all, in their impression, the only movies in China are kung fu movies, and as the craze for kung fu movies has subsided in the past few years, Americans are even less optimistic about mainland movie companies.

Also, the U.S. stock market is easily affected by factors such as the financial crisis, and the risk is much higher than that in China, so I think you'd better reconsider whether you want to go public in the U.S. "Chen Hao thought about it.

After listening, Yu Dong smiled and said, "Brother, you are thinking too much, with the help of Sequoia Capital, and Berner's performance is the top in the mainland, this cannot be faked, capital is all about profit.

As long as Berner maintains this kind of development, the capital will definitely be optimistic about Berner. Yes, it may be safer to go public in the mainland, but the fact now is that the bold will starve to death the timid.

Only by going to the United States can we have greater development and look internationally, my brother! "

Chen Hao smacked his lips when he heard the words, friends and brothers can only say that, otherwise people will think you are hindering him from making money, and they will be jealous of him, "Okay, then I wish Dong Ge smooth sailing and a lot of money. "

"Hahaha, thank you brother, I can succeed because of your full support!" Yu Dong laughed and said, "By the way, the establishment of Berna International Film Group should hold a reception in Shanghai in June, and all directors will attend , do you want to come?"

"I'll forget it. I'm sure I'm still busy with film production. Let Mr. Zhuang Liqi Zhuang go, and he will be the director of the Bernard Group." Chen Hao said.

"Okay then!" Yu Dong said helplessly, "I said, brother, why do you always hide and hide? It's not good to show up aboveboard!"

"I'm really busy, Brother Dong!" Chen Hao laughed.

……

After hanging up the phone, Chen Hao sighed thinking about Bernard's going public in the US, but that was all he could do.

Afterwards, Chen Hao hurried into the crew.

At this time, everyone in the crew of "Edge of Tomorrow" was busy on a beach, which was the place where the battle scene of landing on the beach was filmed.

A total of 55000 square meters of beach are surrounded by huge curtains, completely isolated from the outside world.

These preparations were already prepared by the crew when Chen Hao went to perform a cameo, so there was no need to worry about it.

Now that the filming is about to start, Chen Hao is focusing on exchanging action scenes with action director Li Zhongzhi.

Li Zhongzhi was Wu Jing's director and martial arts instructor when he filmed "Spike Fang". He was nominated for Best Action Design at the Golden Horse Awards and the Golden Statue Awards. He is one of the best martial arts instructors of the new generation of Xiangjiang.

An action scene is not simply a few people fighting with each other, it also requires a special design, so that the action scene shot will make the audience's adrenaline surge, hearty, and even shocking.

However, it is extremely difficult to take a series of action scenes in one shot, most of them are disassembled, and then shot one by one, and each shot may only be a short one or two seconds!

It may be troublesome to decompose the action, but as long as the shooting is not messy, it is better to shoot, and the final editing effect will be very good.

Half an hour later, the crew was ready.

"Everyone be quiet, all departments get ready!"

"Edge of Tomorrow, Scene 23, Shot 1, Shot 1, pop!"

The first scene is that the army has just landed, and the heavy-armed mecha soldier played by Jin Song moves slowly and is directly crushed to death by the falling plane.

At present, the warships supported by the army have not yet arrived, only a few armored vehicles, tanks, and some fighter jets and armed helicopters.

Armored vehicles and tanks are all the most domineering in appearance, and a little modification has been made to the appearance, which looks much more advanced than this era.

The entire beach ground was rearranged by a military expert specially invited by the crew, and many places were even blown up with explosives, because it would look more like a battlefield.

Even the advance formation of the army is arranged and commanded by military experts. After all, it must conform to the combat method of the Chinese army and be closer to reality.

At this time, dozens of soldiers wearing exoskeleton mechs appeared in front of the camera, striding forward.

Exoskeletons make their run look clumsy, but they're not slow at all, and several armored vehicles and tanks are also pushing forward.

Cannonballs spewed out continuously behind him and flew into the distance with a long flame.

In the distance, there are also tongues of flames constantly spraying towards this direction.

Jin Song played the role of a soldier with heavy weapons and landed safely. He raised his hands excitedly and shouted, "We succeeded, we landed successfully! Go ahead."

"Okay, pass!" Chen Hao shouted.

There is nothing wrong with this shot, there is a sense of joy, and then the next shot.

A large transport plane that was hit and crashed hit Jin Song just when he shouted "Chong ah", kicked up flying sand all over the sky, and buried Liu Ye in it.

But this shot was shot separately, first the transport plane crashes, and then the huge impact shakes up a lot of sand and dust.

This is the most tragic way for Jin Song to die. He just landed safely, but was smashed to death by his own transport plane.

……

In mid-March, the filming of "Edge of Tomorrow" continued.

It's all scattered short shots, and there are hardly many shots longer than 5 seconds.

It is often when Chen Hao shouts and the action director team pulls the wire rope, the actors are suddenly swept away or blown out.

Sometimes one, sometimes two or three, sometimes seven or eight people were swept away one after another.

Fragmented shots, the main thing is not to be messy, so the shooting is smoother.

After some scenes are shot, Chen Hao will immediately ask someone to send a copy of the film to Haotian Special Effects, so that post-production can be carried out as soon as possible.

Doing special effects while filming has become the norm for Chen Hao's crew.

Haotian's special effects have also adapted to Chen Hao's rhythm, and the special effects work is working overtime but in an orderly manner.

In order to speed up the production of special effects for "Edge of Tomorrow", Haotian Special Effects arranged for 5 teams to produce special effects. Obviously, Haotian Special Effects has recruited many people.

Fortunately, "Edge of Tomorrow" is all real shots, which can save a lot of time when making special effects in the later stage.

Moreover, "Edge of Tomorrow" is not like "Transformers". The most time-consuming scene takes 288 hours to render a frame, nearly 12 days.

There are generally 24 frames per second, which means that a one-second scene takes up to 298 days. One computer takes 298 days to complete a one-second scene, and 300 computers can jointly complete a one-second scene in one day.

Moreover, "Transformers" takes more than 20 hours of rendering time every day, which is equivalent to 24 years of rendering time in 22.8 hours.

This is still a rendering farm consisting of thousands of workstations rented with 64 cores and 64G memory.

"Edge of Tomorrow" doesn't need such trouble at all. This film only needs CG for aliens, and the total appearance time is only a few minutes.

In addition, Chen Hao opened up, and he didn't shoot many shots that would not be used in the final film. Haotian special effects didn't need to be time-consuming to produce, and they had to be cut in the end, which saved a lot of time.

The filming of the film is proceeding in an orderly manner. Most of the short shots of the beach battlefield have been shot, especially the action scenes involving aliens, which have already begun in the post-production stage.

Today's filming is the rival scene between Liu Ye and Kate Beckinsale, their second encounter.

After laying out the ground, getting some scorched earth, and lighting a model airplane, the blasting team buried the explosives in advance.

10 minutes later, filming began.

"Edge of Tomorrow, Scene 32, Shot 1, Shot 1, pop!"

In the fiery battlefield, Kate Beckinsale's transport plane was also hit and crashed, and one side of the fuselage caught fire.

Just after repelling an alien, Kate Beckinsale pulled out a chopping knife, clenched it with one hand, and looked ahead vigilantly.

The camera moved slowly from bottom to top, giving her a close-up of nearly two seconds.

There are some bloodstains on his face, his face is full of dust, and his hair is also a little messy, but his face is more serious, and his eyes are still cold.

The facial expressions in the whole film haven't changed much. Kate Beckinsale has done a good job of filming the scene for more than a month. This is actually similar to her filming "Underworld", which is not too difficult.

"Okay, it's over!" Chen Hao looked at Kate Beckinsale in the monitor and said.

(End of this chapter)

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