The Wind of China Entertainment 2005

Chapter 529: Web
Lu Yuan waited in the company for about ten minutes, and Song Ge arrived in a silver-gray Volvo.

Song Ge, the head of Wanda Film and Television, is incompatible with the film and television industry just from his temperament. He has a rigorous and boring face of a science student.

Coming from the investment industry, he founded Perfect World Network Technology Co., Ltd. with his junior fellow student Chi Yufeng in 2004.

In 2007, the company went public, rang the bell at NASDAQ and achieved financial freedom.

Because he knew Ma Zhongjun of Ciwen Film and Television, he invested in "Seven Swords" in 2005 and ended up betting on a "hit".

In 2005, the total national box office was only 6 million yuan, and "Seven Swords" alone took in more than 8000 million yuan, ranking third in the year.

Although he didn't make any money, he became interested in movies and felt that this industry had great development prospects in the next ten years. Perfect World began to develop its film and television industry, but his partner was timid and did not dare to invest in the films he liked.

So he accepted Wang Jianlin's invitation and joined Wanda Film and Television, which was still in preparation at the time, in 2010.

Lu Yuan recalled the information Wu Lang provided in his mind, stretched out his hand with a smile on his face, and shouted, "Mr. Song!"

Song Ge got out of the car and looked at the gentle young man in front of him. For a moment, he didn't know how to address him.

She looks too young and the aura around her is too dazzling.

Teacher Lu, Director Lu, President Lu?
It seemed like both were possible, and he did an excellent job in each capacity, so he was a little hesitant.

Before coming here, Song Ge specially studied Lu Yuan's growth trajectory and felt that every step of his acting career was very steady and accurate, as if he was stepping on the pulse of the times.

The pulse of the times, this description is not an exaggeration.

He dared to assert that in the future Chinese film and television industry, it would be impossible for an actor of the new generation, male or female, to be comparable to Lu Yuan, because the general environment did not allow it.

Since 2011, with the influx of capital, the quality of TV dramas has declined across the board, and traditional TV stations have declined, making it no longer possible for an actor to have such a high national popularity.

Lu Yuan was very steady. Before and after he became famous, a total of four sessions of the top four youngest students were selected.

There are fourteen people in total, namely Lu Yi, Huang Lei, Li Yapeng, Hu Bing, Ren Chen, Chen Kun, Huang Xiaoming, Tong Dawei, Yin Xiaotian, Nie Yuan, Du Zhun, Huo Yan, Zhang Junning and Cui Lin.

These fourteen people basically monopolized most of the top resources between 2000 and 2008.

But these people are now lagging behind Lu Yuan and are far behind.

Why? Because he has no representative works and because he despises TV dramas. Now that he has some fame, he wants to go to the big screen to make a name for himself.

The film industry before 2011 was not a good place. Mainland actors fought tooth and nail for a supporting role with few lines.

The television industry is precisely in its last "golden age".

It can be said that Lu Yuan is the biggest beneficiary of the overall decline in the average level of the TV drama industry.

Through a series of hit film and television dramas, the last dividends of the era have been fully reaped.

Not only that, at a time when TV dramas were in decline, the genre, with its terrifying popularity among the public, transformed itself without hesitation and established a firm foothold on the big screen.

And it is about to create a new box office record in mainland China.

Currently, the industry's box office estimate for this film is over 8 million yuan.

Just one movie, "Time Raiders", has made many directors who have worked hard in the film industry in the past decade, as well as the actors who have been heading towards the big screen, question their lives.

Looking across the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong, how many directors can have a total box office of 800 million? And how many actors can have a personal total box office of over 1 billion for their movies as the leading actors?
Song Ge felt that this person was like someone who used cheats in an online game, moving slowly forward on the waves of the times. It was so damn unreasonable.

The two entered the company, and Song Ge stood in front of the company logo for a while.

"This lion and this deer are really an eye-opener for us at the beginning of the year," he said jokingly.

"I dare not." Lu Yuan smiled and said politely. Song Ge came here to discuss the investment of "New World".

Unlike the time when he was filming "Time Raiders", the industry lacked confidence in his ability to direct and act in the film and made many demands.

Nowadays, the film and television companies that come to us are easier to deal with than each other.

First, explain your strengths and what you can do during the subsequent film releases. As for the choice of roles, etc., just mention it. It doesn't matter whether you agree or not.

The intention is obvious, which is to make money.

Lu Yuan did not turn the door away. The entire industry had a clear division of labor between upstream and downstream, and Yuanfang Media was only responsible for film and television production and promotion.

Others need to ask for external assistance and make concessions.

After all, no industry can go far if it tries to monopolize the market, unless it has a monopoly.

When filming the TV series, after "The Hidden" became a hit, he built a network with himself as the core.

When his interests are damaged, this network will spontaneously attack to protect his image and the interests of each node.

Now, he needs to weave a second web.

Wanda owns the number one cinema chain in China and is a good partner.

Arriving at the reception room, the assistant served tea. Song Ge blew the tea leaves on the water and said, "Actually, we had two opportunities to cooperate."

"Oh?" Lu Yuan looked at him puzzled.

Song Ge explained with a smile: "In 2010, Teng Huatao was going to shoot Love Is Not Blind. I read the script and wanted to invest, but my junior brother, who was also my partner in my previous company, disagreed, thinking that the risk was too great. When I convinced my junior brother and thought about contacting Teng Huatao, I was one step too late."

"Then do I have to give your junior brother a red envelope?" Lu Yuan joked.

"Just give it to me." Song Ge laughed and continued, "Later, Love Is Not Blind became a box office dark horse. We had a quarrel over this, and Wang Jianlin happened to invite me, so I went to Wanda Film and Television."

Having said that, he suddenly sighed.

"Last year, when I heard you were going to shoot Out of Time, I decided to invest right away. But one bad thing about Wanda is that the process is cumbersome and everything has to go through approval. After finally getting the approval done, I discovered that the amount I reported had been cut by more than half. Then there was constant wrangling. By the time I got everything done, I discovered that you had already started filming."

"That's really unfortunate." Lu Yuan looked regretful.

Song Ge glanced at him and muttered to himself, not only that, he also liked Xu Zheng's "Lost in Thailand", but unfortunately he didn't act fast enough and it was snatched away again.

Thinking of this, he felt that he and Lu Yuan were in conflict, and at the same time he couldn't help but resent Wang Jianlin.

He made it clear when he met Wang Jianlin for the first time that he wanted to monopolize the entire industry.

Because China does not have an Anti-Monopoly Law, and Wanda has the advantage of cinema chains, it can become a film and television company that integrates cinema chains, production, agency, and artist management.

In the past two years, he has been committed to the vertical integration of the industry, buying IPs, signing directors, and visiting the six major film studios to study the model of the American film industry before the Paramount Antitrust Act was introduced.

He also proposed the idea of ​​using 10 billion yuan to sign over the top domestic directors and agencies.

However, Wang Jianlin did not give him the support he wanted.

Wang Jianlin made a fortune from real estate, with a net profit of 200 billion yuan a year, and he didn't take film and television production seriously at all.

Someone said something in a meeting a few days ago: the annual profit of movies is only tens of millions, what is the point of such a company?
He had a feeling that he had given his heart to the wrong person.

(End of this chapter)