China Entertainment: I became a capital tycoon

Chapter 706 704. The entertainment industry is now dominated by Boss Cao
Because it is the New Year's Day holiday, Cao Yu did not go to the company today.

But he got up early as usual, ran a few laps in the garden, and did a set of boxing.

With so many women around you, how can you subdue those female enchantresses without a strong body?
After breakfast, he called the company: "Mr. Cai, how is the download status of Douyin?"

"Mr. Cao, as of now, Douyin has been downloaded more than 217.59 million times, and the number of video uploads has exceeded 150 million!"

Cai Chongxin worked overtime today and was shocked when he saw the data when he came to the company.

The boss once said that Douyin has a bright future, but I didn’t expect it to be so promising.

He continued excitedly: "Although today is a holiday, our phone is almost blown up by companies willing to cooperate with us on advertising!"

This was all within Cao Yu's expectations. "You can't accept all advertisements. Ask the marketing department to strictly screen these products. If there are quality issues, don't accept them no matter how much money you pay. Also, after the holiday, immediately arrange for people to go to the overseas branches. The overseas version of Douyin will be fully launched in a month!"

"Ok."

Cai Chongxin agreed and then asked, "Mr. Cao, we will definitely reach our goal of 200 million users. When will the live broadcast function be launched?"

Cao Yu said: "Let's wait until 4G is fully popularized."

In December last year, the three major telecom operators obtained 4G licenses and 4G networks have begun to be promoted.

But there is still some time before 4G is available to all people, so Cao Yu thinks that the live broadcast function will have to wait a little longer.

In addition, live streaming will have to wait until after the country’s Internet cleaning campaign this year.

Therefore, he urged: "Boss Cai, tell Douyin's backend technicians that those videos that touch upon pornography, gambling, or drugs should be banned directly and should not be tolerated! Also, limit the traffic of videos showing off wealth, and give more exposure to videos that promote positive energy!"

"Understood, Mr. Cao!"

Cai Chongxin agreed and hung up the phone, thinking to himself: "The boss is indeed very far-sighted."

Cao Yu was about to put down his phone when he saw the message sent by Ouyang Nana.

"You can only be considered an internet celebrity!"

Cao Yu chuckled. So what if he was only angry on Douyin?
He immediately sent a message back: "This doesn't count as being popular. You need to have a representative work. You need to practice your acting skills in the future. Do you understand?"

"I understand, but I still want to thank you. I will definitely work hard!"

After reading the message sent by Ouyang Nana, Cao Yu didn't know whether it was a good thing or not that this girl had become so popular.

When I came to the room, I found that Yang Shuxue had just finished a phone call and seemed a little angry.

Cao Yu went over and hugged her: "Shu Xue, what's wrong?"

"This group of people are so stupid!"

Yang Shuxue was still angry: "Since this morning, the Huanyu Cinema has been overcrowded. There have been several frictions and quarrels due to the queues for buying tickets. Those idiots in the company asked me how to deal with it? I am really convinced."

"Do not be angry."

Cao Yu coaxed her and said with a smile, "Han Hong sang a song from the episode of "Charlotte's Troubles" at the party last night. It would be strange if it didn't become popular."

"Today we have adjusted the screening capacity to 40%, but tickets are still hard to come by."

Yang Shuxue leaned on Cao Yu and finally calmed down a little: "I really want to take down "Pan Jinlian" and waste 8% of the screening time!"

The best-selling films during this Lunar New Year holiday were naturally "Transformers 4", "Avengers 2" and "Charlotte's Troubles", which were almost sold out in every show.

In addition, due to the popularity of "Transformers 4", Tesla has also become a well-known car brand, with global sales increasing rapidly. Tesla's stock price has also directly risen by nearly 15% during this period.

Compared with "Pan Jinlian", although the screening rate of this film is only 8% now, even with such a screening rate, the attendance rate of each show is less than 20%.

Cao Yu knew that Feng Xiaogang was doomed to fail this time, so he said with a smile, "Why not adjust the screening rate of this film to 5%?"

Yang Shuxue joked, "Be careful or he'll bombard you."

"Am I afraid of him?"

Although Feng Xiaogang blasted Wang Sicong a few days ago, Cao Yu is not afraid of this little cannon.

Even if Director Feng had ten times the courage, I guess he wouldn't dare to do it.

Cao Yu stood up and pulled Yang Shuxue up: "I'm not going to the company today, where do you want to go? I'll accompany you."

"I want to go shopping, but you're too conspicuous to me. I can't go shopping properly."

Yang Shuxue complained and suddenly suggested, "Why not go to Xiangjiang?"

"Walk."

……

On the first day of 2014, the box office of "Charlotte's Troubles" hit a new high. Although it did not break the record of "Wolf Warrior 2", it also earned million yuan.

Despite this, people in the industry know that this is because "Wolf Warrior 2" accounted for more than 50% of the screenings at the time.

If "Charlotte" had such a high number of screenings, it would definitely not be bad.

Cao Yu and Yang Shuxue spent two days in Hong Kong. When he returned to the company on January 3, the box office of the movie just exceeded 10 billion.

At the same time, Marvel's "Avengers 2" also earned more than million US dollars worldwide.

"Knife of the Assassin 2" will be released on January th, following "I Am Not Madame Bovary".

Another big drama of Stephen Chow, "The Mermaid", will officially meet the audience on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month.

As for TV dramas, "A Servant of Two Masters" is scheduled to be broadcast during the Spring Festival, "Three Lives Three Worlds" is scheduled to be broadcast during May Day, and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is scheduled to be broadcast during the summer vacation.

Nirvana in Fire, the annual drama produced by Feiyu Entertainment, is expected to be released on New Year's Day 2014.

After finishing the New Year's meeting and arranging these things, Cao Yu just returned to the office and received a call from Lu Huateng.

"Brother, when did you create this Douyin? It's too brutal!"

"It's been more than two years. Of course, this kind of project must be kept secret."

"That's right."

Lao Lu nodded. Douyin was such a powerful weapon that it really couldn't be known to outsiders. He smiled and said, "You gave out a lot of red envelopes this time, right? Do you want me to help you bear some of the burden?"

"We are brothers, why are we so formal?"

Although Cao Yufeiyu directly gave out hundreds of millions of dollars in Douyin's red envelope activity, the future profits will definitely be far more than that.

Lu Huateng said, "Douyin's red envelope distribution this time has brought tens of millions of real-name users across the country. I want to express my appreciation. I will give you an extra 500 million yuan in dividends this year. Don't think it's too little."

"Then I won't be polite."

Since the other party said so, Cao Yu accepted the money with peace of mind, and then asked, "How is the King of Glory game going?"

"Everything is ready. It will be officially launched on December 10th, which is when the students are on vacation. You, Douyin, have to help me promote it then."

"No problem." Cao Yu said with a smile, "Come to Yanjing if you have time before the Spring Festival, and we brothers can get together."

"No problem. When 'King of Glory' comes online, I'll come find you and I won't come back until I'm drunk."

“Good food and good drinks”

Cao Yu joked, hung up the phone and leaned back in his chair.

He went to Hong Kong these days. With nothing to do, he thought of a good game: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds!
Originally, I wanted to make this game for Penguin.

But after much hesitation, he finally decided to give the game to Li Fuzhen's Fu Yu Group and let Penguin be the agent.

Since he had nothing to do, he immediately sorted out the game settings and many details bit by bit.

Hangcheng.

In the largest office at Ali headquarters, the boss Ma Yun was sitting in a chair in a daze.

In front of him was a mobile phone, with flickering light shining on his face, making the wrinkles on Ma Yun's tense forehead appear even deeper.

I don't know how long he sat there, but he suddenly said, "This Douyin is so scary."

After saying this, the office fell silent for a long time.

After a long time, the silence was broken by Ma Yun's sigh: "Why didn't I think of making short videos? Kuaishou was launched in July this year. If I had known that short videos could be played like this, I would have made one too."

But no matter how much I regret it, it's too late.

"Cao Yu, Cao Yu, your Douyin is even more advanced than Kuaishou. It looks like you've been preparing for at least a year or two. You've hidden it really well."

Ma Yun felt that she had underestimated Cao Yu.

He really couldn't understand why his vision was sharp enough, but Cao Yu was always ahead of him.

The group buying war was lost, the video websites were defeated, the food delivery industry survived in the cracks, and e-commerce was also ruthlessly suppressed.

There is no comparison in the entertainment field. Even his general Zhao Yanzi was completely banned.

Except for the Ali International Station B2B platform, it seems that all others are losing.

Moreover, the gap between himself and Cao Yu was getting bigger and bigger, and he couldn't catch up even if he flew a plane.

“Do you want to talk to Kuaishou and acquire this platform?”

He wanted to repeat his old tricks and carry forward the spirit of buying, buying, buying.

But he couldn't guarantee whether people would sell it.

He looked at Douyin again for a while and said, "If this platform is combined with e-commerce, it will be terrible."

Ma Yun felt that Cao Yu was making his next big move. If he succeeded, this business empire would be no less powerful than Microsoft in the United States.

However, he suddenly had an Ah Q mentality: "Fortunately, Evergrande won the championship this year, so I also beat you once in this regard!" But soon, he became a little discouraged: "But his Atletico Madrid won the La Liga championship"

Compared this way, I still lose.

"dong dong dong"

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, which finally cheered up the depressed Ma Yun: "Come in!"

A subordinate came in and said, "Boss Ma, Didi has received another 50 million US dollars in funding from Penguin and started to subsidize online ride-hailing and taxis. How should we respond? Should we also increase subsidies?"

"Make up! Of course I have to make up!"

Ma Yun said angrily, "Announce this. We will spend another 80 million US dollars to support the development of Kuaidi Taxi!"

After the subordinates left the office, Ma Yun said helplessly: "I just forgot that you, Cao Yu, have not been involved in the online car-hailing business. It seems that I can definitely beat you once in this field!"

But remember that we have invested nearly 100 million US dollars in the subsidy war with Penguin in this area...

It hurts.

Although all this money comes from foreign capital, Ali's current revenue is really ugly.

Originally, he wanted to follow Cao Yu's example and develop a batch of shared bicycles, but later he felt that the investment was too large and the profit was too small, so he finally gave up.

"The state has refused to let go of lending to individuals. Now it only lends to businesses, but the profits are too small."

Ma Yun was sighing when she suddenly received a call from Zhao Yanzi, who had been banned and retreated behind the scenes.

"Mr. Ma, I found a very good script that is definitely worth investing in."

"What script?"

"It's called The Ferryman. The screenwriter spent three years revising the script more than a hundred times before completing it. Director Wang Jiawei also liked the script and planned to direct it himself."

"Wang Jiawei?"

Hearing this name, Ma Yun became interested. Wang Jiawei is a famous director, and the movies he directed have good reputation and box office.

He immediately arranged with full confidence: "Okay, tell them that I am willing to invest. When our Ali Pictures is ready, we will announce this project and give a solid boost to the development of Ali Pictures!"

"it is good."

Hearing Ma Yun's agreement, Zhao Yanzi regained her confidence.

During this period, Yunfeng Media has been acquired by Ali. At the same time, Ali also acquired another listed film and television company and prepared to officially establish Ali Pictures. Zhao Yanzi and her husband also invested hundreds of millions.

Now I just have to wait for Ali Pictures to have a good movie to become famous, and then wait for the stock price to rise, so that I can make a fortune.

After the call, Ma Yun felt that if she wanted to gain a firm foothold in the entertainment industry, it was far from enough to just make films in China.

"I have to go out and learn from Cao Yu and invest in some Hollywood blockbusters."

He felt that he had some connections in the United States, so he planned to go there after the Chinese New Year to try to cooperate with foreign film and television companies.

……

Cao Yu spent three days to complete the information for the game "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds", and then began to visit those leaders who needed to establish connections.

Of course, among them is Han Sanping.

"Director Han, Ling'e has sent me the script of Operation Mekong. It's very well written and can be launched after some revisions. How about you be the producer?"

This movie involves some sensitive topics, so Cao Yu naturally has to involve Han Sanping in it.

Han Sanping agreed immediately: "Okay, I will retire in March this year, and your proposal will allow me to make use of my remaining energy in the film industry."

Cao Yu also praised: "With your daughter as the screenwriter and Director Han as the producer, it will definitely be a good story in the film industry, but Director Han may have to work hard for a while."

"Haha, I'm not afraid of hard work, I'm just afraid of having nothing to do."

Although Han Sanping is about to retire, he has collaborated with Feiyu in recent years, shooting and releasing many good works, and also won an Oscar for China Film.

This is real political achievement, and for this reason, he is very grateful to Cao Yu.

After finalizing the "Operation Mekong" project and completing all the connections, there was only a little over a week left until the Spring Festival.

"I Am Not Madame Bovary" was finally taken off the screen one month after its release, and its final box office was 383 million.

Despite Feng Xiaogang's continuous promotion in the later stages and his best efforts, the box office still did not exceed 400 million.

On the other hand, "Charlotte's Troubles" has grossed 2.4 billion yuan in 20 days since its release, leaving Feng Xiaogang in tears.

At first I thought the name of this movie was weird, but now it seems that I was the fool.

"Could it be that he knew that 'Pan Jinlian' would not do well at the box office and deliberately made a bet with me? In order to make me lose the bet, he even let 'Avengers 2' and 'Transformers 4' be released at the same time!"

In the office, Feng Xiaogang analyzed the reasons for his loss to Cao Yu, and finally felt that he was being tricked.

"All capitalists are bad people! Especially Cao Yu, he is the worst one!"

Feng Xiaogang gritted his teeth, but he could only curse secretly and had no way to do anything to Cao Yu.

Just after he finished cursing, his phone suddenly rang. When Feng Xiaogang saw the number displayed on the phone, he was shocked, because the person calling was Cao Yu.

"Director Feng, are you free during this period? Can we sit together?"

"Mr. Cao, I've been too busy lately. How about we wait until after the Spring Festival?"

Feng Xiaogang is now most afraid of hearing Boss Cao's voice, and is busy looking for excuses to shirk responsibility.

According to the bet, he had to give almost all the money he earned in the past few years to Cao Yu, and it might not even be enough.

Cao Yu smiled and said, "Okay, I was also talking about investing in your company, so let's talk about it after the New Year."

"invest."

When Feng Xiaogang heard this, he wanted to say that he had time, but he had already said that he was too busy, so he could only say, "After the New Year, I need to discuss the new script with a few people recently."

"Director Feng is really busy."

Cao Yu didn't say anything, and he wasn't afraid that the other party would default on his debt, unless he didn't want to stay in the entertainment industry anymore.

Is he willing to do so?

After the release of "I Am Not Madame Bovary", Feiyu's other film "Knife of the Assassin 2" was officially released on January th.

At this time, the box office of "Charlotte", "Transformers 4" and "Avengers 2" has begun to decline.

The first part of "The Blade of the Assassin" had good box office performance, and the second part has been promoted for a month.

In addition, after the emergence of Douyin, Xin Zhilei's shocking knife scene received countless likes on Douyin, so after the release of this movie, the box office was even better than "Charlotte's Troubles".

"Xin Zhilei's sword strike was so handsome!"

The audience felt that this one cut was worth the price of the ticket.

Besides, the movie is really well made.

The crew put a lot of effort into the production and the fighting scenes. Boss Cao’s action movies are still so good to watch.

Without the impact of Hollywood blockbusters, the box office of "Knife of the Assassin 2" on the first day actually exceeded million again, becoming the fourth film of Feiyu Entertainment this year with a daily box office of over million.

The entertainment industry has gone crazy.

Is Douyin’s promotion so powerful?

Boss Cao is really good at making money.

On January 20th, another blockbuster that had been promoted for a long time, "Journey to the West: Havoc in Heaven", was also released.

They all know that Stephen Chow's "The Mermaid" will be released on the first day of the Lunar New Year. If they want to grab some box office revenue, they have to rely on the ten days before the Spring Festival.

The movie "Journey to the West: Havoc in Heaven" has invested huge amounts of money in publicity and has a luxurious cast.

Chow Yun-fat, Zhen Zidan, Aaron Kwok, and Chan Kiu-yan are all big stars.

On the first day of the movie's release, it actually took away a lot of box office revenue from "Knife of the Assassin 2".

But the audience almost vomited after watching this movie.

Not only were the 3D special effects poor and perfunctory, the plot was also very idiotic, and the lines were extremely bad. Many viewers only watched half of it, felt that their IQ was insulted, and couldn't continue.

That night, some people cursed online, asking what the hell had been changed.
He also said that this movie recruited so many stars, but ended up being a piece of gorgeous shit.

People also jokingly said that the worst movie of 2013 was "Dwelling in the Fuchuan Mountains". Are they trying to compare "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" to see which one is worse?
The audience also realized once again that a good movie cannot be made just by inviting big-name stars.

Just that one knife move by Xin Zhilei is better looking than your entire movie.

Do you want to take advantage of Feiyu's popularity of "The Return of the Great Sage"?
Also, Chow Yun Fat, if you keep making bad movies like this, you’ll lose your popularity among the public.

Amidst such criticism, the box office of "Knife Identity 2" actually increased a lot compared to another bad movie.

Even on Douyin, netizens made all kinds of jokes about "Journey to the West: Havoc in Heaven" and spread them wildly, which made the film's reputation even worse.

On the first day, the box office was more than 100 million, but on the third day, the box office of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" was only more than 9 million.

When other companies in the entertainment industry saw this situation, they didn’t know what to say.

From now on, do you dare to offend Boss Cao?

In the future, the promotion of movies will not only rely on Weibo, but it seems that it will also rely on Douyin, which Boss Cao just launched.

The entertainment industry is now Boss Cao’s world.

Looking at the prosperous Feiyu Entertainment, many people sighed helplessly.
(End of this chapter)