You don't understand the happiness of the director

Chapter 638 ① Xigua Video ② Tomorrow's Son ③ The daily limit ④ The mother of the friend Zhao Yazhi

"You're still living with her after your divorce?" asked Liu Shishi.

Wang Quan: "Otherwise, we have to hide it from the child. I don't want little Xianmi to know that his parents are not getting along at such a young age."

"So you guys sleep in the same bed?"

"Usually the three of us sleep in one bed." Me, Mimi, and Xixi.

What Liu Shishi thinks is: power, sweetness, and immortality.

She breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that with the child there, everything should be fine.

So she tolerated Wang Quan's hand reaching into her pants.

However, this place is not as private as the underground garage, and the idea of ​​the two of them having sex here is not realistic.

After having a friendly interaction with Yang Mi's ex-husband in her territory, Liu Shishi left.

When Wang Quan got out of the car and turned back home, he saw Liu Yifei curled up on the sofa picking her feet.

"When did you come?"

Liu Yifei: "Three minutes after you got into the car, I didn't see anything. The car was covered with a privacy film."

Wang Quan chose to skip this topic and directly threw Liu Yifei to the ground, "You will know once you have tasted it, it doesn't taste like her."

Liu Yifei: "Believe it or not, I'm calling for help, Mimi, save me!"

"You can't even call your mother!" Wang Quan was determined to do it to her in the living room.

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The next day, Wangdao, Qiankun, Mishi and ByteDance issued a joint statement that they had taken ownership of LeTV and officially changed its name to "Xigua Video", and membership remained valid.

On the same day, LeTV changed its logo directly, and then changed its website address, moving the entire LeTV under Xigua.

This piece of news has triggered a massive discussion among netizens. Wangdao Group is going to enter the video website industry, which is a big deal!

Especially for the other three major video giants, iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Video, this is obviously aimed at them.

Even though Wangdao Group had the closest relationship with Tencent Video in the past, their TV series, movies, and variety shows almost covered several major video websites, with the main goal of benefiting everyone.

As the Wangdao Group that owns half of the film and television industry, if they fully support one video website, the others will probably be in trouble.

Xigua Video did not rashly go into war with the three major video websites, but chose to win over Tencent Video to target iQiyi and Youku.

Some less important works can be co-broadcast with Tencent Video, or even sold to Tencent Video for exclusive screening rights.

But at the critical moment, Tencent has to stand on its side.

Tencent also feels that China does not need four video giants. America only has one Netflix. If it can use the power of Xigua Video to destroy Youku and iQiyi, or cripple them, that would be perfect. Then they and Xigua Video will share the world.

The establishment of Xigua Video put Youku and iQiyi under great pressure, and they immediately applied to their parent company for more funds for the introduction and production of TV series and variety shows.

Youku mainly focuses on introducing Hong Kong and American dramas, while iQiyi firmly supports online movies.

As for netizens, they are naturally happy to see LeTV become Xigua Video.

After all, as a follower, if Xigua Video wants to gain a foothold in this streaming war, it must show enough sincerity and strength.

Just like the battle between Maoyan and Tao Piaopiao, the battle between Meituan and Ele.me, and the battle between Didi and Kuaidi, whenever there is a fight between giants in a certain industry, it is the consumers who benefit.

We are not afraid of them fighting, but we are afraid of them uniting. That is when consumers will suffer.

The first sincere gesture from Xigua Video was the exclusive premiere of the drama version of "Ghost Blows Out the Light: The Mystical Ancient City" three days later, and the entire series was released in one go. However, only the first few episodes could be watched, and the rest required VIP membership.

If users are not confident enough in Xigua Video, they can buy a weekly membership, which is enough time to watch the entire series.

Of course, weekly membership is definitely not as cost-effective as monthly membership, and even less so than annual membership.

Now is the period of attracting new users for Xigua Video, so the annual membership is the cheapest among the major video websites, only 100 yuan.

100 yuan won’t buy you a loss or a scam.

Yang Chaoyue watched the first four episodes of "Ghost Blows Out the Light" for free, but got stuck on a key plot and had no choice but to recharge for a 100 yuan membership.

The drama was produced by Noon Sunshine, co-directed by Kong Sheng, Zhou You and Sun Molong, and starred by Jin Dong and Zhang Junning.

Although there has been a movie version of King's Power, the content of the original novel was greatly cut due to length limitations, while the presentation of the drama version is complete enough and full of details.

Jin Dong is Noon Sunshine's favorite actor. Zhang Junning had participated in Wang Quan's selection for Shirley Yang in Ghost Blows Out the Light. Although she was not selected, Wang Quan was still very satisfied with her image, so when preparing for the drama version, he mentioned Zhang Junning's name, which led to this collaboration.

As it turns out, the muscular Zhang Junning is indeed more suitable for this role than the naive Chen Qiaoen.

Her popularity grew rapidly after the drama was broadcast.

As her current boss, Lin Zhiling expressed her satisfaction.

Yang Mi was even more relieved.

She now goes to Xigua Building almost every day. Since the announcement of the exclusive broadcast of "Ghost Blows Out the Light", the VIP membership of Xigua Video has stopped falling and started to rebound.

By the first day of the broadcast, the number of VIP members had increased by 100 million compared to when he took over!
If these 100 million are all annual members, that would be a revenue of million. Of course, this is impossible. Most of them are monthly members, and annual and weekly members are a minority.

Of course, if this is the only result of attracting new users, Xigua Video is still losing money compared to the purchase price of the TV version of "Ghost Blows Out the Light".

But there is also advertising revenue, and the number of membership will definitely increase in the future, so not only will the company make money from this drama, but when Xigua Video resumes trading, it will make even more through the stock price.

In order to welcome the resumption of Xigua Video's listing in a week, Xigua also took out a second gift for users.

On the day of resumption of trading, the classic fantasy masterpiece "Legend of the Sun" will be exclusively broadcast on Xigua Video!
"Legend of the Sun" has only been released for a little over a month now, and it will only be less than a month and a half in a week.

Nowadays, the release period of Chinese blockbusters is basically two months.

Even if the box office will get lower and lower in the future, it will not be a problem for "Legend of the Sun" to get another 10 or 20 million in the next half month.

But Wang Dao said that he didn't need the box office revenue and would just let users watch the movie for free, and ordinary users could watch it for free.

However, the quality of the free videos is not high enough, and there are 180-second pre- and mid-roll ads.

VIP members can enjoy the highest level of 1080P clarity and Dolby sound effects that are said to be comparable to cinema level.

After taking over LeTV, the company began to upgrade LeTV.com. Otherwise, even if "Legend of the Sun" was launched, it would not be able to present such a good broadcast effect.

Sitting in her boss chair, Yang Mi has begun to look forward to the scene of LeTV's stock price soaring when it resumes trading after this series of combined efforts.

Then she asked the secretary, "How is the Magic Music Group doing now?"

Although it is a Wang Dao movie, the leading actress is their Xiao Tian Tian, ​​and Mi Shi also invested some money.

After several days of promotion in colleges and universities across the country, "Magic Sound Group" was released.

In order to avoid the two films "Wolverine" and "A Dog's Purpose", "The Magic Singers" chose to be released two days earlier, on March 1st.

The film earned 900 million on its first day on a weekday, and its average box office was matched by good word of mouth.

Next, Wangdao and Maoyan increased their promotional investment on Douyin, especially for several highlight clips in the film.

By the 2nd, the film's box office had grown to 1100 million, showing a trend of becoming a dark horse.

In recent days, Tian Xiwei has been following the crew to promote the drama, and the number of fans on her personal account has also been soaring.

Her sweet looks and excellent works have made her very popular. In Yang Chaoyue and Zhou Ye’s group, she excitedly said: Girls, I don’t need to sing and dance anymore!

When seeing Tian Xiwei's words, Yang Chaoyue stayed up for several nights and finally finished watching "The Lost Tomb". By the way, he reviewed the pirated version of "The Rise of Phoenixes" which he had watched before. He felt that it was better to watch it with barrage.

Zhou Ye was wearing a bath towel, holding a cell phone, and letting Wang Quan help her wipe her hair.

Anya Taylor-Joy's part was shot in three days. She did it five times in three days and was very satisfied.

After all, Director David is not just facing her. At least the heroine Chen Duling in the same crew should be the same as himself.

Wang Quan and Dudu were not idle in the crew either, they were busy and taking time out to make up for the others, so after work, he started to make up for the others.

It's Xiaoye's turn tonight.

After reading the message on WeChat, Xiao Ye suddenly turned on the camera of her mobile phone and pointed it at her and Wang Quan.

Wang Quan chuckled, disconnected the network on his phone, and then used it to record a video.

However, when Xiao Ye woke up the next day, the video was gone. She thought Wang Quan had deleted it, but in fact he had kept it properly.

The third day of the release of "Magic Sound Group" is also Friday.

However, two new films, "Logan" and "A Dog's Purpose", were released on this day.

Although "Wolf 3" has the best reputation in the series, it is also the most literary and the most tragic. After all, this chapter in the original comic is called "Return of the Dusk Wolf", and you can tell from the name that it is difficult to be happy.

"A Dog" has been marketing Wang Teng and his dog gold coins since the early stages. Anything related to Wang Quan will be very popular, not to mention that Wang Quan and Wang Teng's aunts also collectively cheered for his dog.

Many female and male stars including Yang Mi, Liu Yifei, Nazha, Liu Shishi, Tang Yan, Ni Ni, Fan Bingbing, Li Bingbing, Zhang Tianai and others supported the movie on Weibo, and some even held raffles and gave away tickets. In addition, Wang Teng also took his dog to participate in two variety shows, which made a big splash.

On that day, "Logan" earned 3 million yuan on its first day, while "A Dog" also earned 1.05 million yuan at the box office. "The Magic Singers" broke the 5000 million mark for the first time. It was also a thriving business and was not buried because of the lack of appeal of the actors.

To celebrate, Wang Quan and Xian Mi took Wang Teng and Wang Luoxian, brother and sister, to a banquet at Mei Mansion, and gold coins also came.

This was also a farewell party for her son, because Wang Quan still had to film and could not take care of his son wholeheartedly. Dorothy was worried, and she had already done the necessary publicity, so she urged her son to go home.

The important task of sending her son back to the United States was given to Mei Yanqiu. It just so happened that she also missed her eldest granddaughter, so she simply lived there for a while. Mei Fuyan now has a professional manager to manage it, so she can enjoy her grandchildren.

The next day was Saturday, and "Logan" still occupied the first place, with a box office of 3 million yuan and good reputation. However, "Dangal", which ranked second, actually broke the 1.3 million yuan box office in a single day!
Remember, this is the third weekend that this movie has been released!

In its third week of release, despite the pressure from so many strong new and old films, it was still able to create a new record. It can only be said that the power of word of mouth is too strong.

At the Three Stooges Company, Lao Wang, Lao Han and Lao Huang were drinking wine and speculating whether the Indian film they imported could break one billion.

A blockbuster film, and an Indian film at that, has grossed over 1 billion. I can’t even imagine it!
Even though this movie was a big hit in India, ranking fourth in film history, it was only equivalent to less than 5 million RMB. Now the box office in mainland China has exceeded that in India, which is expected to help this movie surpass "Baahubali Part II" and become the highest-grossing Indian movie in the world.

Consider the low import price of this movie. If the box office exceeds 1 billion, almost each of the three old men can earn 100 million, which is easier than making a movie by themselves.

However, Huang also has some concerns: "Indian companies are not stupid. Seeing how much money this movie makes, they will probably raise the buyout price later."

Old Han remained true to his heroic character and snorted, "Except for Aamir Khan's films, if other films dare to raise the price, we will not release them. Do you really think everyone has Aamir Khan's influence in the mainland? Other Indian films should be thankful if they can make over 100 million yuan."

The three cobblers here were almost ready to pop champagne to celebrate their success, but Chen Sicheng was a little depressed.

A while ago, Wanda increased the publicity and promotion of "Detective Chinatown 2" in order to break the record and surpass "Zhu Xian".

However, with the continued popularity and increasing discussion of "Dangal", no matter how hard they try, it seems that the box office growth is not improving.

If this trend continues, Zhu Xian will make 33.91 billion, and Detective Chinatown 2 will probably make 33.9, or maybe just that little bit short.

This is really hard!
If Wang Quan hadn't been watching over him, Chen Sicheng would have definitely added some extra juice to put himself at the top of the box office. Perhaps this is the closest he has ever been to that position. Once "Xiao Yao You" is released, he may not have any chance at all.

The good news is that our arch-rival "Legend of the Sun" which has been popular since the Spring Festival will soon be available on video websites, which will reduce some competition.

"Legend of the Sun" made some sacrifices for Xigua Video, but it also won a good reputation.

Xigua Video has developed a reservation function, and now 300 million users have made reservations for "Legend of the Sun", which will be aired in a few days.

On Monday, "Legend of the Sun" was officially launched on Xigua Video, and the number of members soared by 100 million on the same day!
At the same time, LeTV changed its name and re-listed under the name Xigua Video.

Previously, LeTV's stock price had been on a straight downward trend, and if it had not been suspended, it would have fallen further.

After the resumption of trading, the stock price directly formed a "√" trend and reached the daily limit before noon.

And in the next few days, the stock price hit the daily limit for five consecutive days, which means a 10% increase every day!
Anyone who understands math knows that the market value did not simply increase by 50%.

Then Xigua Video released the news about "The Next Generation of Stars" and announced that Yang Mi will be the mentor.

Although Yang Mi's musical talent was singled out for ridicule.

Someone said on Weibo: "It would be better to have Liu Yifei as a mentor than Yang Mi. Although she is a children's song queen, at least she has won the first place on the Billboard singles chart."

Soon, Yang Mi responded: "How do you know she's not there~"

Even a fool knows that the new Xigua Video is about to take off. I’m afraid that after the weekend, this stock will continue to hit the daily limit. It hasn’t even doubled yet, so it still has great potential.

Some speculators even mortgaged their houses in preparation for going all in on this stock.

Wang Weijia is a shy young man from Northeast China. He works in a profession that few men are engaged in - nursing.

He graduated from the Nursing Department of Hangzhou Normal University and is an alumnus of Ma Yun.

Last year he entered a local hospital in Hangzhou for an internship and began writing his own songs. He now has several unknown works.

He likes to write songs and sing, but he has never been famous because he knows his shortcomings. Nowadays, music talent shows require either a good voice or a good look, and he actually lacks both.

His strength lies in creation, especially lyrics.

This time Xigua Video is going to launch the "Son of Tomorrow" program, and it seems that it has prepared two tracks, "Beautiful Face" and "Magic Sound", specifically for those with good voices and pretty faces. In addition, it has also reserved a "Unique Show" track for individual contestants.

So he decided to sign up and give it a try.

After waiting for a long time, just when he thought he had no chance, the production team called him and said, "Mao Buyi, congratulations on entering the preliminary round. Please come to Beijing on time to participate in the program."

Mao Buyi is the stage name Wang Weijia gave himself as he felt his real name was too ordinary.

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In mid-March, after "Dangal" regained the single-day box office championship, the single-day box office of "A Dog" actually surpassed "Logan", and the total box office also has the hope of a comeback. Currently, the mainland has become the world's highest-grossing market for "A Dog", surpassing North America.

Wang Quan specifically conveyed to Alex the Chinese audience's love for the movie.

My son was relatively calm, but my dog ​​was a little bit arrogant, jumping around in the living room.

"Where are you now?" Dorothy asked, looking at the background behind Wang Quan.

"Oh, I'm in Hong Kong, attending the Asian Film Awards."

"Is this kind of award worth your personal participation?"

Wang Quan: "They are very sincere, and I came to Hong Kong for other things."

After saying that, Wang Quan hung up the phone and gently stroked Son Ye-jin's head.

Although her "Train to Busan" last year was the most influential work of Korea in Asia and broke the box office record of Asian films in Hong Kong, this time she was nominated for the Best Actress for "The Princess Deokhye".

But unfortunately, the Best Actress award went to Fan Bingbing from "Parasite", and the highlight performance clip was the scene between Wang Quan's stand-in Li Ming and Pang Bing on the sofa, which made Pang Bing feel itchy.

In addition, "Parasite" also won five major awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Art Direction.

In the Asian film industry, people have always attached great importance to the balance in the number of awards won by films from China, Japan and South Korea. This is the first time that a film has been given so many awards at one time, but no one has any objections. Please, that's Wang Quan's "Parasite".

When the news came out, fans of "Three Kingdoms" were still dissatisfied that Liang Jiahui did not win the Best Actor award.

Even the Best Actor Award winner at the Cannes Film Festival cannot win the Best Actor Award at your Asian Film Festival. Is your threshold so high?
After the award ceremony, Wang Quan immediately took Son Ye-jin and Pang Bing back to the Big Wave Bay Villa.

However, this was not his main purpose for coming to Hong Kong.

Early the next morning, Wang Quan called Huang Kaijie, "Ajie, your mother is at home, right? You and your uncle went out fishing. I'll go over now..."

(End of this chapter)