China Entertainment: I am a big boss in the industry

Chapter 202: Face it

[The Guest] grossed 45 million on its first day of release, breaking the record of 37 million set by the Tangshan Earthquake. Lin Gao was a little surprised. After all, the first-day box office record had a metaphysical component.

Taking into account factors such as fans' holidays, publicity, and the subject of the film, Lin Gao expected that it would be a film that would be accumulated over time and rely on word-of-mouth fermentation to drive the box office. Unexpectedly, it would just take off from the same place. Lin Gao had deeper expectations for the box office.

It turns out that the domestic box office of "The Guest" is only 100 million, but Lin Gao feels that the country and the director are dragging down the box office of "The Guest". The real box office must be more than 100 million.

Domestic audiences are not interested in films outside of Hollywood, and the director naturally has no box office appeal in China.

Now the situation has reversed. The box office of 45 million is inseparable from Lin Gao's box office appeal.

The media predicted that [Guest]’s prediction would result in a box office of several hundred million, and netizens started voting online.

23% of netizens voted for [guest] with a box office of million.

31% voted [guests] voted million.

41% voted million.

5% vote billion.

Lin Gao is very grateful to the 5% who voted for the movie. He is undoubtedly a big fan, but he is not confident that it will have a box office of billion.

The environment of the domestic film market in 2011 was not good. There was not a single movie with over 7 million yuan. Far from last year, there were Feng Xiaogang's "Tangshan Earthquake" with 10 million yuan, Jiang Wen's "Let the Bullets Fly" with million yuan, and Lin Gao's billion [Thai囧].

This year's summer season is completely dominated by Hollywood. "Pirates of the Caribbean" has a box office of 4.6 million, "Kung Fu Panda 2" has a box office of 6.1 million, and "Transformers" has a box office of 10 billion. There is not a single director who can hit the box office.

Seven days later, "The Guest" had a box office of 1.8 million, beating "Harry Potter"'s 1.1 million, and unsurprisingly became the weekly box office champion.

Entertainment media forwarded [Guest]'s box office record as quickly as possible, with Tencent News, NetEase Entertainment, and Sina Entertainment all major entertainment media forwarding the weekly box office champion.

Supporters of [Guest] are directly talking to supporters of [Harry Potter].

"Who's the weekly box office winner? Say his name out loud."

"You can always trust Lin Gao!"

"Lin Gao, awesome (his voice broke with excitement)!"

[Harry Potter] fans are pretending to be dead. In the face of cold data, resistance will only arouse the excitement of the [guest] supporters. They can just lie down and avoid humiliation.

Female stars Fan Liangdian, Liu Shishi, Yang Mi, Liu Yifei... posted on Weibo to congratulate Lin Gao on his good results. Male stars including Zhang Songwen, Deng Chao, Wang Baoqiang... also wrote on Weibo to congratulate Lin Gao on his box office success.

Some little-known celebrities are very envious of celebrities who can send congratulations to Lin Gao on Weibo, because they have all joined Lin Gao's crew, or may join Lin Gao's crew in the future.

Lin Gao posted on Weibo @star, thanking them for their publicity and help.

Zhang Chaoyang called Lin Gao to congratulate him.

"Mr. Lin's new movie is a hit again, and he's making money fast enough to catch up with me." Zhang Chaoyang's voice came from the microphone.

"Hurry up and catch up, but I haven't caught up yet. I should step up my pace to avoid being left behind by Mr. Zhang." Lin Gao replied self-deprecatingly.

"The opportunity has come. Let's see if you are interested." Zhang Chaoyang said with a smile. "what chance?"

"A venture capital company boss asked me to contact you. Are you interested in going public?" Zhang Chaoyang asked.

After the listing of Huayi Company, the stock price has soared. At the beginning of the listing, the stock price has doubled several times. Now the venture capital circle has set its sights on Forestry Entertainment. Although Forestry Entertainment has a shallow history and not deep foundation, every film and television drama has Reaping several times the profit is enough to convince the investment giants in the financial circle.

"Do they also like me, who is from a small family?" Lin Gao asked back. The financial circle has always focused on technology, commodities, futures, etc. The entertainment industry is too shallow for them and they have little interest.

"The profits of several of your film and television dramas are very high. They think that investors will be interested and want to make some extra money." Zhang Chaoyang did not hide anything and then asked, "Do you have any ideas?"

"Okay, when?"

"You agreed?" Zhang Chaoyang was shocked. He had just asked casually.

"Yes, I'm short of money! Why don't you agree?" Lin Gao said directly. Once the company is listed, he can obtain more financing methods and a large amount of low-interest funds, which is very attractive to Lin Gao. , he is too short of low-interest funds.

"Don't you have about 20 billion in cash on hand? You are still short of money." Zhang Chaoyang was even more surprised. Is the entertainment industry burning so much money?

"Yes, I want to buy a plane or a yacht, and I don't have to pay for it!" Lin Gao said nonsensically.

"You enjoy it more than I do. Do you go public to buy planes or yachts?" Zhang Chaoyang said speechlessly. In fact, there are many bosses who go public to buy planes and yachts.

"When are we going to pull the strings?" Lin Gao ignored Zhang Chaoyang's teasing.

"September twelfth."

Lin Gao nodded in agreement, and went to the company the next day to inform Wei Lianlian to free up his schedule on September 12th. Wei Lianlian blinked his big eyes and asked, why?

"On September 12th, I'm going to Kyoto to meet with a venture capital company. They contacted Zhang Chaoyang and said they wanted to invest in our company, capitalize on it, and go public." Lin Gao finished speaking in one breath and took a sip of tea.

Wei Lianlian's mind went blank, and there were only two words left in his mind: going public!

Is our company going public?

Are we a listed company?

Am I going to become an executive of a listed company? !

"Brother Lin, is our company going to be listed?" Wei Lianlian sounded excited. Working for a company is a completely different mentality than working for a listed company.

"Although it will take some time to operate, yes, our company is going to be listed." Lin Gao replied with a smile. He did not expect that he would become the boss of a listed company so quickly. Then with a straight face, he pretended to be serious and said: "You are now Be careful with your words and image. If the stock price drops due to your personal reasons, I will fire you."

Wei Lianlian flattened his mouth and cried: "It is said in the history books that the birds are gone and the bows are hidden, and the donkeys are killed. It turns out to be true! I have made so many contributions to the company, and I don't even have a boyfriend. Brother Lin, you But you did this to me!"

"Forget it, just think that I have misjudged the person, and you can throw all my sincerity into the wind!"

Lin Gao laughed loudly: "What contribution have you made to the company?"

"Uh..." Wei Lian was speechless for a long time. He was so soft that he just said unreasonably: "I don't care. Brother Lin, you can't leave me alone. I want to be a senior executive of a listed company."

"Why did you abandon Lianlian? You still have to pour me coffee." Lin Gao said jokingly.

"Hehe, I'm going to make some coffee for Brother Lin now." Wei Lian said with a wide smile, without any of the majesty of the "Witch Wei" as the company employees said.

Lin Gao watched Wei Lianlian's plump buttocks disappear around the corner of the door, the corners of his mouth raised, money is such a good thing!

(End of this chapter)