It's reasonable for me, a stuntman, to live a crazy life, right?

Chapter 923: Founding the 'Oscar' belonging to China!
As soon as he arrived at ByteDance, Chen Fei was warmly received by Zhang Yiming.

The main reason is that Longxiang Capital is currently the second largest shareholder in ByteDance's "dream sector" after Zhang Yiming himself!

As the behind-the-scenes boss of Longxiang Capital, although Chen Fei is a director on the surface, he is a top boss in the capital circle!
Arriving at the office, Zhang Yiming first arranged for his secretary to serve Chen Fei a cup of tea, and then they started chatting behind closed doors.

"In the current context, our upcoming Douyin app has many competitors. The largest one is naturally Kuaishou, followed by Miaopai, Xiaokaxiu, and several smaller short video apps.

Compared with other platforms, our advantages are also obvious, that is, relying on Toutiao's 7 million activated users and more than 8000 million daily active users..."

Chen Fei nodded as he listened: "7 million activated users, 8000 million daily active users, it's almost the same as Weibo."

"That's right!" Zhang Yiming proudly imagined the future: "After Douyin goes online, we will gradually start to attract traffic.

There is also a data model unique to the Douyin platform that can accurately analyze user preferences and push personalized content to users. This innovative move is bound to win the favor of the majority of users!"

Chen Fei echoed: "User experience must always be the first priority."

"Yes, that's right." Zhang Yiming said, looking at Fade Chen expectantly, and asked tentatively: "Since Mr. Chen came here specially today, I think he is quite optimistic about TikTok, right?"

"Yeah." Chen Fei said bluntly: "I mainly value the convenience of online promotion and marketing that short video platforms can bring to the film and television industry.

I have done some experiments on Kuaishou before, but unfortunately, the trend there has always been contrary to my ideas. "

Zhang Yiming said impatiently: "Tik Tok will be high-end and refined. We will prevent the emergence of situations like 'spirited young man'. The main expansion direction is online music, dance, popular science, fun, and recording life."

"Okay, then I'll wait and see."

Afterwards, the two chatted for a long time in the office.

As a "veteran", Chen Fei's experience is naturally much richer than Zhang Yiming's, so he gave him many feasible suggestions.

When TikTok was officially launched, with the help of Zhang Yiming's secretary, he successfully created his first TikTok account.

"Mr. Chen, from today on, you are the first user of Douyin, and your account number is the number '1'."

"Haha, I'll do my real-name authentication when I get back, but I can't let anyone else take my account away."

Although he has already applied for an account, Chen Fei is not planning to immediately call on celebrities from his platform to join Douyin on a large scale.

ByteDance has its own plans, and he is not going to interfere too much.

The first batch of major users of Tik Tok will still be mainly Internet celebrities, Internet musicians, dance enthusiasts, and that beautiful female college student with fair skin and long legs.

Different from Kuaishou’s “down-to-earth” approach, Douyin was positioned from the beginning as a “gathering place” for young people of the new era, with youth and vitality as its main focus.

At present, Tik Tok will not invite celebrities to join on a large scale. After all, the cost of doing so is too high.

Moreover, the ending of the current Xiaokaxiu is a lesson for us.

At the beginning, relying on the celebrity effect will indeed trigger an explosion in traffic, but the subsequent development is very weak, and it is also very likely to become a second Weibo, a gathering place for celebrity fans and black fans.

This is obviously very unfavorable for the development of Douyin.

Relying on the advantages of Toutiao, the number of downloads and registered users of Douyin exceeded 10 million in less than 100 minutes after its launch!
At noon, Chen Fei and Zhang Yiming attended the Douyin internal celebration banquet together.

Everyone can often see their own boss, but for Douyin employees, big directors and big stars in the entertainment industry like Chen Fei are really rare!
"Director Chen! I'm your fan! Can we take a photo together?"

"I want an autograph! I love your sci-fi movies!"

"Oh my god! I actually met a real celebrity!"

Everyone was very enthusiastic, and some even curiously asked whether Chen Fei would become the first celebrity user of Douyin?
In response to this, he said: "Who knows, I may become a high-quality content creator in the future. After all, I am a director and I am quite talented in this area, haha."

After the celebration banquet, new news came from the platform: the number of registered users has reached 300 million!
Seeing that everyone was very excited, Fade Chen smiled and reminded them:
“In fact, the golden age of short videos has not officially arrived yet. When the data charges are cheap enough to watch videos at will, it will be the real explosion period of short videos!
Therefore, please work hard, be serious, and be pragmatic, and don’t aim too high. The era of TikTok has not officially arrived yet, so please wait and see.”

His words left many TikTok employees confused.

After all, many people don’t actually know that the second largest shareholder behind ByteDance is Chen Fei, and most people have always thought that he came to visit the company.

However, now that he had said this, many people immediately had guesses in their minds.

Considering that Zhang Yiming next to him also looked like he was silently seeking advice, many people immediately confirmed their inner guess!

My own company actually has a "star" boss! ?
……

At around 1 p.m., Chen Fei left ByteDance.

At the same time, just as he got into the car, Zhou Shouzi called.

"Mr. Chen, Weibo's shareholders' meeting has ended."

"Oh? The results are out?"

Chen Fei was quite curious. He didn't know what kind of result Cao Guowei got after drinking so much tea during this period.
"Well, it's out." Zhou Shouzi said concisely: "A total of five shareholders were liquidated, three of whom were from Taiwan and one from Hong Kong Island who voluntarily sold all the shares they held.

As for Alibaba, it voluntarily reduced its holdings by 10%. Ma Yun did not come in person, but sent a deputy instead. "

"Haha, voluntary sale? Voluntary reduction of holdings? This is really interesting!"

Hearing the word "voluntary", Chen Fei just wanted to laugh.

Weibo is on the rise, with its market share growing larger and larger, and it has become a "money printing" machine.

More importantly, holding shares in Weibo means having the right to speak, which is the most important thing for practitioners in the film and television industry.

Unless you are a fool, no one will voluntarily sell or reduce their shares.

And now such a result has appeared. If nothing unexpected happens, it must be because a mandatory order was given from above!

With the help of this opportunity, all those parasites were cleared out, which is a good thing.

Alibaba, on the other hand, was still quite strong. I didn't expect that after making such a big mistake, it still retained some shares in the end and was only punished by a reduction of holdings.

I have to say that the influence of the "Ma Yun myth" is really amazing!

"Mr. Chen, do we still need to sell the extra shares?"

According to the original agreement, when shareholders transfer their shares, they need to give priority to the company.

The remaining original shareholders are eligible to increase their holdings and make acquisitions and can complete internal transactions to prevent these excess shares from flowing out of the market.

In this regard, Fade Chen made a decision without even thinking about it: "Continue to increase holdings."

He is not short of money anyway, and the most important thing is to have the right to speak to the greatest extent!

As for whether Weibo will suffer losses in the future due to poor management, that is a matter for the future. There is no need to consider it now.

……

"The low-budget comedy film "Mr. Donkey" co-produced by Feiyue Films and Happy Twist has appeared on the public list of the Film Bureau today."

"At 10 a.m., Happy Twist announced that the film will be released on October 10 and will compete in the November box office."

"A new work has appeared in the list of scripts approved by the Film Bureau. The comedy script "The Shameful Iron Fist" submitted by Happy Twist and written by Song Yang has passed the review and can be approved for filming with relevant certificates..."

"The large-scale ancient love myth drama "Ancient Love Song", produced by Huace Films and starring Huang Xiaoming, Song Qian, and Sheng Yilun, has been completed this morning."

"Flying Films released an announcement this morning saying that the 'Commercial Film Support Plan' implemented by Chen Fei and Ning Hao has currently confirmed two film projects, namely the musical comedy film "Youth: Music Ignites Dreams" and the comedy film "Lost in Hong Kong" directed, written and starring Wang Baoqiang!"

Chen Fei really looked down on the name "Flash Girl" proposed by Bao Jingjing.

Because he really couldn't tell what the selling point of this movie was from the four words "Flash Girl". The story in the script was clearly about the confrontation between "folk music" and "Western music", so why didn't they reveal the selling point of "music"?
So, at Chen Fei's request, "Flash Girl" was changed to "So Young: Music Ignites Dreams".

The investment in this movie is not that large. After all, the actors are almost all newcomers. The leading actress Xu Lu and the leading actor Peng Yuchang have only been in this circle for two or three years.

After the funds were in place, Chen Fei no longer cared about it and threw all the subsequent work to Ning Hao.

Including Wang Baoqiang's "Lost in Hong Kong", after the script was finalized, he became a hands-off boss and threw all the subsequent work to Ning Hao.

However, the outside world has already started discussing it at this moment.

Especially on Weibo, all you can see under Wang Baoqiang’s account are question marks!

"Bao Qiang? Are you kidding us? Are you going to be a director?"

"Lost in Hong Kong? Is this the sequel to Lost on Journey and Lost in Thailand? Wow! Baoqiang has gone from being the leading actor to being the director?"

"No? This is too magical, isn't it? Baoqiang actually works as a director and screenwriter? What's wrong with this world?"

"Can anyone tell me, is the name Wang Baoqiang published in the announcement the same as Wang Baoqiang in Detective Chinatown 2? Or is it just a coincidence that they have the same name?"

"I'm curious, am I too excited? Am I hallucinating?"

"So, this is the popular saying in the entertainment industry that good actors can become directors?"

As expected, Wang Changtian's call arrived late.

"You want to push Wang Baoqiang to be the director? And you want to give him the '囧' series? Are you kidding me? This joke is not funny!"

"Hey? Why did Director Wang say that? Are you not optimistic about Baoqiang?"

"It's not that I don't think he'll be successful, the point is that it's too magical, right? It's great that he's an extra who didn't come from a professional background and has come this far. Now he's suddenly transforming into a director. Isn't this too unrealistic?"

"Haha, then just wait and see, maybe there will be a surprise."

"I really don't understand your operation. The span is really too big!"

……

It was a new day, and when many summer movies were being promoted vigorously, a sudden piece of gossip suddenly spread on Weibo.

"Miss Numbers?"

Looking at the hot search topic that ranked first on the list, Chen Fei couldn't help but be speechless.

When these insiders reveal gossip, their statements are always vague and they don't mention names or surnames. They just say that a certain actress only read out numbers and not her lines on the set, which makes countless spectators feel itchy.

Chen Fei had also heard that some actors only read numbers and did not memorize words when filming on the crew, and relied entirely on post-production dubbing.

But so far, he has not encountered such a situation.

What's more, no one dared to do this in his crew. After all, this behavior was too disrespectful to the director, and even showed disrespect for other people in the crew!
If you meet someone with a bad temper, you have to start scolding him immediately!

Unfortunately, this piece of entertainment gossip did not remain on the Internet for long.

Before netizens could find out who this "Miss Number" was, the related hot searches and topics disappeared without a trace.

What replaced that hot search was a series of intimate stills from Yang Ying and Jing Boyan, as well as a large-scale promotional release for the upcoming movie "Love O2O".

Huace and Juku Culture played it quite well, directly scheduling the release dates of the drama and film versions in the same month, and they managed the promotion of both the movie and TV series with just the money for one promotion.

This wave of operations has made many investors excited and eager to try.

Especially at Alibaba Pictures, Zhang Qi has already organized people to discuss the publicity and promotion plan for "Eternal Love".

At the same time, after seeing the topic of "Miss Number" being removed, Chen Fei also withdrew his gaze and began to busy himself with some finishing work on "Operation Red Sea".

The Navy has already taken away several promotional videos and will officially launch the promotional plan for "Operation Red Sea" after the summer vacation.

……

On July 7st, under the attention of the public, the action movie "Skiptrace", starring Chen Long and Fan Bingbing and others, officially landed in major theaters with a high screening rate of 21% given by theaters!

At the same time, on the small screen, "Nine Regions Sky City" controlled by Tencent Film and Television was also launched.

However, what disappointed many viewers was that the previously highly promoted "Nine Continents: Sky City" failed to meet the expectations of many fans.

Only one day after the show started airing, all kinds of flaws were exposed.

The big handcuffs, obvious tattoos, the cage gaps that can squeeze through people and other bugs in the play, as well as the distracting appearance of the three members of TFBOYS in suits jumping and dancing at the end of the film, all made the audience feel very inconsistent and uncomfortable!
"My goodness, how much imagination does it take to handcuff these huge handcuffs?"

"I'm really confused. Where did the prop masters for this drama come from? The tattoos are too obvious, right? With such a large crew, can't they be more careful?"

"I have discovered that the previous publicity was all lies. The pictures in the drama do not achieve the realistic and beautiful effects that the crew said before the show started."

"The plot is terrible! Isn't the plot too template-like? I didn't see much originality at all. Almost all of them were copied from here and there..."

"The value of The Journey of Flower is still growing."

Chen Fei did not pay special attention to the situation on the small screen. His attention was mainly focused on the movies in theaters.

With the release of "Skiptrace", "Lu Yao Zhi Mali" and "The Quick and the Furious" were completely ruined.

Affected by Wanda and Huayi, the screening schedules of both films have dropped below 5%.

"Lu Yao Zhi Mali" is slightly better, with the total box office barely exceeding 100 million yuan.

But "The Quick and the Furious" is in a worse situation. Due to the early failures, the total box office of this movie has not yet exceeded 5000 million, and the daily new box office has dropped to 49. It's really too miserable!
The feud between Huayi and Wanda has been completely settled. If nothing unexpected happens, the fight between the two sides will become even more intense in the future!
At the same time, just as the summer vacation season is about to enter a white-hot stage, several departments including the Central Propaganda Department, the State Administration of Film, and the Ministry of Culture are holding seminars.

"This is the application document submitted by Chen Fei for the fifth international film festival in China. It is based on the Shanxi Film Academy and the latest film and television city base built in Shanxi Province. Everyone can take a look at it."

As documents were distributed one after another, the meeting room suddenly fell into silence.

After more than half an hour, a group of leaders from all sides slowly raised their heads.

If you look closely, you can see that the eyes of everyone participating in the meeting are filled with shock, disbelief and a little excitement!

"If anyone has objections or opinions on certain details, please raise them."

After he finished speaking, everyone looked at each other, but no one dared to say a word.

After all, this application document is too detailed, too bold, and too shocking!
Just the sentence in the document "Establishing the 'Oscar' belonging to China" is enough to make everyone excited and unable to hide their excitement!

After a few minutes, no one spoke in the meeting room.

Seeing this, the second-in-command of the Central Propaganda Department who was in charge of presiding over the meeting immediately announced: "Since everyone has no objection, then please cooperate and make the procedures of this document legal and compliant, is that ok?"

Hearing this, everyone, led by Tong Gang, nodded in response:
"There's no problem with the headquarters."

“There’s no problem with the culture either.”

"The publicity department will fully cooperate."

"The Shanxi Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism will fully cooperate with the organization and implementation of the film festival. Thank you for your support and affirmation..."

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