China Entertainment started from Nortel 2002

Chapter 706 Gold Mine Schadenfreude
"Maoyan Culture CEO Zheng Zhihao revealed this at an investor exchange meeting a few days ago.

In the first quarter, Maoyan Cinema's average monthly profit exceeded 5000 million yuan, with the lowest monthly profit exceeding 4000 million yuan. Among them, non-ticket revenue such as merchandise and advertising revenue increased by 1100%, and film investment and distribution revenue increased by 1450%.

"Maoyan Culture CEO Zheng Zhihao publicly invited Tao Piao Piao's president to discuss the future development of the ticketing platform at the exchange meeting."

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In just two or three days, Maoyan Culture has been releasing news frequently, and some pictures of the dinner parties have been leaked.

"Mr. Ma!"

Lin Ning looked very aggrieved at the moment, but he was helpless in facing Tencent, an important shareholder.

"Negotiations need to be accelerated, and Tencent will send people to participate."

Ma Huateng said without denying that he could certainly see that Maoyan Culture's move was a cover, but in the current era of ticketing platforms, only a merger with Maoyan would be most beneficial to Tencent.

Otherwise, why not go to Tao Piao Piao? I guess Ma Yunniao will ignore him.

As for Baidu Nuomi, he looks down on it. He has no idea what Robin Li is doing and he doesn't understand anything.

"It really makes me angry."

After Lin Ning returned to Microfilm Times, he was so angry that he couldn't express his anger. When did Microfilm Times fall to this point? It needs to be valued and incorporated. From the looks of it, it will continue to depreciate.

Moreover, after the merger, Weiying's position will be extremely embarrassing, and he will naturally become the most embarrassed person.

The executive seat is probably just a nominal one, with no real power. Once things become stable, I'm afraid they will be kicked out.

However, compared to Lin Ning's frustration, Maoyan was very excited.

The progress is going smoothly, Tencent has begun to increase its efforts to push forward, and the merger seems to be just around the corner.

At the same time, senior executives of Alibaba Pictures are also holding a meeting to discuss the merger of Maoyan and Weying Times.

"It looks like the two opponents are about to become one."

Zhang Qiang sighed and said that the structure of ticketing platforms might be completely changed.

“Tencent will not miss this opportunity to merge, but is there really no way for us to acquire Maoyan?
You've had dinner with Zheng Zhihao a few times these days, is there hope?"

Yu Yongfu, chairman of Alibaba Pictures, asked with a frown.

"Mr. Yu, he invited me to dinner just for show, it was all a cover, he just pretended to be in front of Tencent, we didn't even talk much about movies."

Fan Luyuan, the founder of Tao Piaopiao and current CEO of Alibaba Pictures, responded.

These days, he initially thought that Maoyan was intentionally leaning towards Tao Piaopiao, but after having a meal with them, he understood.

"Before they merge completely, let's find an opportunity to negotiate our terms. It doesn't matter if the premium is a bit higher."

Yu Yongfu said that as an Alibaba executive, the culture of acquiring other companies at high prices is ingrained in his bones.

Compared to these businesses that are worth tens of billions or even hundreds of billions, the film and television industry is obviously much smaller.

Huace Film & TV CEO Fu Meicheng has already received the news.

"Really? It is Mengying Media that wants to take over the adaptation?"

"Really? Some traces can't be erased."

After Fu Meicheng put down his phone, anyone with a discerning eye could see the joy on his face.

Mengying Media's film-making capabilities are well known in the industry, and the movies they choose can be bad.

Looking at the copyright agreement of "Assassination of Novelist" on the table, Fu Meicheng suddenly felt that this agreement was a gold mine. If he could reach a cooperation with Mengying Media, this agreement would generate tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.

"The rest depends on how we negotiate."

At this moment, Fu Meicheng is already thinking about how to reach a friendly cooperation with Mengying Media. Originally, even if Mengying Media started filming, it would usually be produced by other companies. Now there is nothing wrong with them switching to Huace.

Fu Meicheng believes that as long as the conditions are not too harsh, Mengying Media will not give up.

Coincidentally, just as Yin Xiaotian’s marriage fraud became a hot topic, Yang Ying was also suspected of being a surrogate mother.

It was not a big deal to be questioned about surrogacy, but after returning to Running Man, everyone in the Running Man team spoke out to prove that they did not have a surrogate pregnancy.

"I can prove this. When she was pregnant, we ate and she was still so thin. And I also touched her belly to feel it."

Li Chen spoke first.

Deng Chao also said: "I touched it too!"

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This operation really makes people feel like Huang Xiaoming is wearing a straw hat on his head.

"Hahahaha, this is so funny. There's no need to prove it this way."

"I touched it, I touched it too!"

"Fall in love with a wild horse and all you can see is grassland."

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Netizens joked that there is nothing wrong with friends touching each other, but it is a bit ridiculous to say such things in a public place like Running Man.

I don’t know if it’s because netizens have been having too much fun in the past two years, giving huge popularity and traffic to various shows like National Star Detective, Zhuo Wei, and Serious Gossip.

Showing off and quarreling with each other, other people's revelations and disclosures, a combination of truth and falsehood, reality and fiction, have made the entire Internet seem to be a bit murky in recent years.

This time the General Administration finally took action.

"Whether it's the phenomenon or the consequences, or whether people with ulterior motives use the Internet to spread information, some people have gained eyeballs, some have gained traffic, and some have earned money, but the people have lost their 'spirit'.

In order to implement the relevant spirit, relevant companies must also cooperate, prohibit the widespread dissemination of these messages, and do a good job of self-supervision. The Internet Information Office will crack down on relevant personnel in accordance with the law, and the department platform must take responsibility! "In the meeting of the General Administration, Tong Gang reminded many people in the film and television industry.

After Li Mu returned, he told Liu Yifei about this matter.

"Really? Finally, you made a move. You don't know, some of the contents are quite outrageous. It's purely for traffic."

Liu Yifei clapped her hands in approval.

"As for self-media, we don't do it for traffic, we do it for anything else. We just write whatever can get more traffic. But we were too laissez-faire in the past, and we really need to take action to crack down on it."

Li Mu nodded. This indeed requires the relevant departments to take action, otherwise the platform will only condone it. After all, traffic is money.

Just a few days after the meeting, many netizens discovered that some of Chang Entertainment’s accounts had “disappeared.”

“Oh my god, how come the Weibo account I followed was lost?”

“Uh, it seems some people have also been blocked!”

“Some platforms seem to have said they were interviewed and spread false information!”

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Netizens talked about it a lot, but soon put it behind them. After all, even without this gossip, there was other information to fill the gap. In this day and age, the thing that is least lacking is information.

“Come back early after the casting.”

Liu Yifei kissed Li Mu on the face, and then taught the little boy word by word:
"Come on, baby, say bye to daddy!"

"Dad. Daddy!"

The little kid still didn’t know how to say bye, and finally went back to the familiar bytes.

"Hahaha, wave, come and wave."

Liu Yifei waved the little bun's hands, swaying them left and right.

"Be good at home!" Li Mu smiled and kissed the mother and daughter, then sat in the back seat and was taken to the airport by the driver who was sent.

This time he will go to Hollywood to conduct casting and other matters for "Aquaman", and then plans to start filming in mid-to-late July.

In Los Angeles, David was waiting at Los Angeles International Airport the day after Li Mu took off.

"boss!"

When he saw Li Mu, David gave him a tight hug.

"You are finally here. I have been so bored these days."

"Isn't it a bit of a horror movie?"

Li Mu smiled.

"Oh, that industrial thing that can be made in two or three weeks is also called a movie?" David said with disdain.

"You are wrong. All Hollywood movies are basically industrial products. They cannot be determined by the time they are shot."

Li Mu corrected David's thinking.

“For example, the upcoming film Aquaman, which I estimate will take about two to three months.

You have to know that I spent four months shooting a feature film some time ago, but the investment in Aquaman is probably more than ten times that of my film. "

"Okay, that's my problem."

David looked like he was willing to learn, but Li Mu just smiled and didn't continue the topic.

Warner's casting was scheduled for June 6, but Li Mu went to Warner on the morning of the 18th to handle some matters.

Li Mu saw that Jeff Bueckers seemed quite happy looking at the data of "Wonder Woman" and couldn't help but wonder, "Jeff, what are you happy about?"

Although "Wonder Woman" has a good reputation, its global box office is not really excellent.

It has now earned $2.7 million in North America, and it seems that $4 million is on the horizon, but the global box office is only $2.6 million. A billion dollars is definitely a luxury, and it is estimated that it will stop at $9 million at most.

For a film that costs $1.5 million to produce, this is only acceptable, after all, Marvel costs billions of dollars at a time.

"Oh, I'm watching Universal's The Mummy, it's a terrible movie!"

Jeff Bueckers showed a gloating smile on his face, which made Li Mu not know what to say.

My goodness, you're comparing the bad instead of the good, right? Universal's "The Mummy" has nothing to do with you.

"Wow, Lee, I bet you this crappy movie won't make over $100 million in North America!"

"Jeff, I think you're right."

Li Mu nodded, not wanting to make a bet with him.

Because this Tom Cruise movie, The Mummy, is just terrible.

For this film "The Mummy", Li Mu also guessed Universal's thoughts.

Perhaps because the Marvel Universe is booming and the DC Universe is also actively preparing, and seeing that superheroes have to be packaged into packages to be more popular, Universal naturally cannot fall behind and has begun to make things happen in a hurry.

It’s just that Marvel and Warner have superheroes, what does Universal have?
monster!

The Mummy, Dracula, the Vampire Baron, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Frankenstein, that's all Universal has.

Perhaps with this kind of imagination in mind, Universal created a unique dark universe that also scared the audience.

Even when Li Mu watched it before, he was also confused. He was really shocked that the female mummy in this movie would be jealous.
(End of this chapter)