Winners in life: starting from the street writer

Chapter 138
In this time and space, although Sunshine at Noon does not have those works that Shen Hao is familiar with, it still has a good reputation in the industry according to its historical track.

However, in the past few years, the days of sunshine at noon have not been easy, and we have encountered a Mercury retrograde period.

The scores of several dramas released in succession are generally lower than 6 points, and they have often been criticized by netizens.

Even the valuation, the outside world also dropped it to about 50 billion.

But you have to know that even an artist-bundling company like Yang Mi's studio can get a valuation of 50 billion.

For Noon Sunshine, which has a top production team, such a valuation is a bit too shabby.

In the bottom of their hearts, all the people in the midday sun are holding their breath and want to prove themselves well.

Because of this, Kong Sheng worked tirelessly to appear in web dramas like Jingjue Gucheng.

Sophisticated production, solid acting skills, and good special effects have also made this show rave reviews after it was broadcast, and the score of a certain episode has reached more than eight points.

But compared with today's massive Dream Realization Film and Television, Sunshine at Noon is nothing worth mentioning.

For just one squid game, the copyrights in Southeast Asia and domestically and abroad were sold for [-] million U.S. dollars.

This is simply the rhythm of stealing money!

Even Hou Hongliang, who has spent half his life in the film and television industry, couldn't help but click his tongue.

Now that the second part of Squid Game hasn't been filmed yet, the entire entertainment circle is almost pumping out their brains for the casting of this drama.

But in the face of Yuanmeng Film and Television, which has a complete industrial chain, other companies really have nothing to do.

In terms of film and television IP, Yuanmeng Film and Television and Yuanmeng Literature cooperate deeply. Any high-quality IP must be acquired by Yuanmeng Film and Television first.

In terms of the production team, there are Wang Ye and Wu Zheng for TV dramas, and Song Xiuzhu and Xu Jie for movies. These are the top group of people in the entertainment pyramid.

In terms of theaters, they still wear the same trousers as the star theaters, and the resources of hundreds of theaters are skewed. Who can bear it?

Even the publicity and distribution channel, Yuanmeng Film and Television is backed by Powehi, which has [-] million daily active users, and it has taken advantage of it.

What was placed in front of Hou Hongliang at this time was an acquisition invitation from Yuanmeng Film and Television.

Hou Hongliang did not expect that Yuanmeng Film and Television had such a big appetite, and with so many excellent directors, it was not enough.

The first round of quotations, 40 billion!
To put it bluntly, valuation is just a string of numbers.

When actually buying, it depends on the needs of both parties.

It's impossible for you to ask for prices, don't let me bargain here, right?

Faced with the acquisition of Yuanmeng Film and Television, even though Hou Hongliang is the head of Noon Sunshine, he still has to consult the opinions of Chinese Culture.

Although CMC doesn't care about anything, it just obtained the controlling shareholder status of Noon Sunshine as a financial investor.

As expected by Hou Hongliang, Chinese Culture did not resist the sale of the shares of Noon Sunshine, but was not satisfied with the quotation of Yuanmeng Film and Television.

After Hou Hongliang learned about the attitude of the Chinese culture, he naturally had a bottom line in his heart.

The task of negotiating prices naturally fell into his hands.

The first season of Squid Game became popular, which also made the outside world more sought after for Dream Realization Film and Television.

Moreover, judging from the battle report released by Yuanmeng Film and Television.

The number of VIP paying members in China alone has exceeded 3000 million, and Iflix, which is deployed in Southeast Asia, has also added 500 million paying users.

Coupled with the income from Netflix's purchases, as well as the copyright licensing fees of the surrounding products that sell well.

It can be said that the income generated by a squid game is no less than [-] million US dollars.

This is still limited to the influence of Yuanmeng Film and Television itself. If Netflix self-made this drama, the benefits will be even more amazing.

But even though it is a few days later than the launch in Southeast Asia and China, the response in Europe, America and other places is quite gratifying.

No, the second season hasn't been filmed yet.

Netflix, Disney, Time Warner and other top Hollywood giants have dispatched special personnel to discuss the copyright issues of the second season in Europe and America.

Seeing that Netflix's stock price has rebounded for a while because of this drama, how can we not make these giants greedy?

But when it comes to the meat in the bowl, it is even more impossible for Netflix to miss it.

After learning that the episodes of the second season had been extended to 15 episodes, Rigg directly offered a sky-high price of 3000 million U.S. dollars based on the purchase price of 4.5 million U.S. dollars.

Even Shen Hao can only sigh with emotion, being rich is self-willed.

Netflix spends tens of billions of dollars every year just on content production.

Four to five billion U.S. dollars may be an astronomical figure for Yuanmeng Film and Television.

But for Netflix, the money was definitely worth it.

It’s not just about stabilizing the stock price, it’s as simple as paying users to grow against the trend, and it also represents Netflix’s determination to defend its status as the king of streaming media giants.

The production cost of the second season of Squid Game is also extremely astonishing, with a single episode costing as much as 1000 million US dollars.

The actors selected are all top celebrities who are familiar to the audience.

The production budget of 15 episodes has reached an unprecedented US$1.5 million, which is definitely the ceiling of domestic online dramas!
But just by selling the broadcast rights to Netflix, Yuanmeng Films has already earned 3 million US dollars in blood, and this is not counting the paid membership income driven by this drama.

With such a super IP of squid game in hand, all the VCs who entered the market before the A round were all happy from ear to ear.

In just a short time, many people have offered a valuation of 100 billion US dollars, and they are all well-known top venture capital institutions.

For this kind of top venture capital, they have a lot of money, but what they lack is such excellent projects.

Like those local tyrants who sell oil in the Middle East, they spend money on football every year to buy superstars, not for the sake of popularity and influence.

In contrast, the prospect of Yuanmeng Film and Television is still very promising.

Even Netflix was interested in investing in Yuanmeng Film and Television, but Shen Hao rejected it without the slightest hesitation.

If Netflix enters the board of directors, it will be difficult to sell their works at a high price in the future.

Just like now, Netflix wants to buy broadcasting rights?

No problem, but competing with giants like Disney.

This is the best development route for the current Dream Realm Film and Television.

When Yuanmeng Films grows stronger in the future, it can even continue to inject capital into Iflix, gradually eroding Netflix's market share in Southeast Asia.

Of course, that's just a long-term goal.

In the past two years, it is better to make a fortune from Netflix and other streaming media giants first.

Although the time away from the A round of financing is not too long, there are many venture capitalists queuing up to pursue it, and Shen Hao will not refuse any comers.

While discussing valuation with venture capitalists, he directed Chen Kai and Noon Sunshine to discuss acquisitions.

After a lot of rhetoric, the final negotiated purchase price was 45 billion, of which 15 billion was paid in cash, and the other 30 billion was the shares of Yuanmeng Film and Television.

These days, many companies take over in this way, but the premise is that the other party is willing to take your shares.

For Hou Hongliang and the others, being able to get on the aircraft carrier of Yuanmeng Film and Television is something they can only wish for, and naturally they will not reject this transaction model.

The 15 billion in cash was quickly transferred to the accounts of shareholders of Noon Sunshine.

All the shareholders of Noon Sunshine have made a fortune.

The rich and powerful Yuanmeng Film and Television has raised 5 million US dollars in the A round, which is more than 30 billion yuan when converted into RMB.

It is easy to take out 15 billion.

On Netflix's side, just the purchase deposit for the second season alone cost 1.5 million US dollars.

In terms of cash flow, Yuanmeng Film and Television will definitely not lose to many established listed companies.

With the box office income of "Looking for the Dragon", it is more than one billion US dollars.

The remaining 30 billion shares are converted according to the post-investment valuation of Yuanmeng Film and Television's B round of financing of 110 billion US dollars.

After being acquired, Noon Sunshine, as a separate studio under Yuanmeng Film and Television, will specialize in TV dramas.

It is necessary to produce 3-4 high-quality dramas a year. The online broadcast platform is naturally Dream Video, and the TV station is the one with the highest price.

In addition, Hou Hongliang took up the post of Vice President of Dream Realization Film and Television, but still focused on the business of Noon Sunshine.

When Noon Sunshine and Yuanmeng Film and Television jointly announced the news of the merger, the entertainment industry was even more like an earthquake.

The already strong Dream Realization Film and Television is now swallowing the noon sun in one gulp. Who will be the opponent in the TV drama field in the future?
And the lack of funds before Noon Sunshine, now with the golden thigh of Yuanmeng Film and Television, is so happy that I have no friends.

All the projects to be started can be filmed one after another.

For this deal, Yuanmeng Film and Television and Noon Sunshine can be regarded as a strong alliance.

But for other companies, in the field of TV dramas in the future, they are destined to only eat leftovers.

After taking down the noon sun, Shen Hao felt much relieved.

Relying on Wang Ye and Wu Zheng alone, the two of them are exhausted, and it is considered amazing to be able to produce two dramas a year.

However, after the acquisition of Sunshine at Noon, there will be at least seven or eight self-produced film and television dramas for Real Dream Film and Television in a year.

Coupled with some film and television dramas that participated in the investment, it is enough to meet the viewing needs of users on its own platform.

Adhere to self-control and be China's Netflix, this is the concept that Shen Hao has instilled in Chen Kai and the others since the establishment of Yuanmeng Film and Television.

Even though the acquisition of Noon Sunshine cost 15 billion in cash, Yuanmeng Film and Television started six shooting projects in a row after the financing money came in one after another.

Story of Yanxi Palace and Ode to Joy are all very good, Da Jiang Da He, the sons and daughters of the Qiao family, I am Yu Huanshui.

Among them, Story of Yanxi Palace was filmed by Wang Ye, and actors and actresses were given priority to digging from within the company.

Dajiang Dahe is directed by Li Xue, one of the troikas here at noon, whose strength is not inferior to Kong Sheng.

This is also the person who has won the Fei Tian Award for Best Director, but he has not won as many times as Kong Sheng.

However, Li Xue has filmed a total of eight works, with an average score of 8.3 for one episode, which ranks among the top five among all domestic TV drama directors.

As for Kong Sheng, this time he was in charge of filming Ode to Joy.

It's All Good, and it's independently directed by Jian Chuanhe, a rising star at noon.

The Children of the Qiao Family is directed by Zhang Kaizhou, who is also a very talented director.

The last one is Yu Huanshui, and Sun Molong is in charge of filming.

The biggest gain from the acquisition of Noon is the Iron Triangle combination of Hou Hongliang, Kong Sheng and Li Xue.

Jian Chuanhe, Zhang Kaizhou, and Sun Molong are also very important.

Li Xue is fine, still in the prime of life.

But Kong Sheng's age is somewhat too old, so it's not a big problem to shoot some projects with urban themes.

Last time in the Jingjue Ancient City, Kong Sheng was so exhausted that he died during the filming.

And like Jian Chuanhe, they were almost all cultivated by Li Xue and Kong Sheng's little precepts and deeds.

Now that they have acquired Noon, they are naturally also affiliated to Yuanmeng Film and Television, and many artists in the company are all excited to tell each other.

Just the six dramas filmed at the same time made everyone scream with excitement.

And this time, the casting will also start from within the company first.

What makes them even more excited is that these are all S-level projects, with a single-episode production budget capped at 400 million.

For an ordinary company, it is enough to be proud to have such a big move a year.

But what about Dream Realization Film and Television?

At the same time, six projects were launched, and the production budget alone was close to one billion yuan, which was simply bullish.

In addition to the already completed Qing Yu Nian, the Langya Bang that is close to completion.

In one year, Yuanmeng Films will produce eight film and television dramas.

According to the rhythm of one drama a month, if you subscribe to the annual membership of Dream Realization Video, you can follow the same drama every month.

These scripts are all S-level, and the six scripts alone cost Shen Hao a full [-] million.

Counting the production budget, one billion is gone.

Netflix's model is really not something that any company can try.

In terms of movies, Song Xiuzhu finished filming the second season of Squid Game, and is still working on filming Dragon Hunting 2, which is a collection of the previous four stories.

The scripts are all ready-made, SS-level scripts, absolutely super high standard.

The budget of Xunlong Jue 2 will almost increase a little, but taking into account the cost of publicity and distribution, it is not a big problem to control it within 5 million.

With the foundation of the first season, the box office of the second season should still rise a bit, and 40 billion is not hopeless.

As for Xu Jie, it was arranged by Shen Hao to film Wolf Warriors, and the male protagonist found Wu Jing.

With such a dangerous script, Shen Hao didn't plan to take part in it himself.

Why go to Africa to film when you can lie behind the scenes and count money.

Xu Jie himself is good at shooting war-themed movies, and giving him the script of Wolf Warriors can be regarded as making the best use of everything.

When Xu Jie saw the script, Wu Jing popped up in his mind immediately.

He even had a premonition that this drama was tailor-made for Wu Jing.

And after sending out the invitation, Wu Jing didn't hesitate, and readily accepted the play.

However, Wu Jing hoped that the film salary could be exchanged for the box office share. He himself was very optimistic about this movie, so he made a request with some trepidation.

According to Wu Jing's current coffee position, the salary is only 1000 million yuan.

But the filming of this drama will take place in Africa.

For at least ten months, the hard work of filming is definitely not something that young meat can hold.

After Xu Jie reported to Shen Hao, he also got a reply from the boss that he could give Wu Jing a share, but only 5% of the net profit.

Wu Jing didn't report too much hope, even if Yuanmeng Film and Television disagreed, he was still willing to make this movie.

A good script does not have to worry about not having actors to make it.

Many actors are popular because of a drama. Maybe the salary of this movie is only a few million, and the next movie will directly jump to tens of millions.

What's more, it's really rare to see a movie script that suits him so well.

But now, Yuanmeng Film and Television agreed to his request, which made him uncontrollably ecstatic.

If Wolf Warrior's box office can reach 20 billion, he can get 2600 million, which is much more attractive than getting a fixed salary.

Although the filming of this movie was a bit dangerous, it was for money.

Wu Jing gritted her teeth, done it!
If the box office can reach 40 billion in the end, Wu Jing counted and scared himself enough, he can get more than 6000 million!

But the question is, can the box office of Wolf Warrior be so high?
　Going for a walk in the city today, there are really a lot of girls in summer, haha, I hope every book friend can one day meet the courage and strength to pursue the girl he likes, let's work together!
　　
　
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