During my years at China Entertainment

Chapter 558: What level are you? Compared with Wei Jin? Refusing investment

In the early morning, when Wei Jin opened his eyes, the sunlight outside the floor-to-ceiling window was already a little dazzling, which made him feel a little emotional.

As she gets older, Fuguihua's fighting power is getting stronger and stronger. Plus, they haven't seen each other for more than a month, so the two of them were really crazy last night, fighting from a little after 10 o'clock until almost two o'clock.

Gently moving away the snow-white arm of Fuguihua that was resting on him, Wei Jin picked up his cell phone and looked at it.

As expected, I have received countless text messages and WeChat messages.

From Han Sanping, Wang Changtian, Chen Zhiming, Ni Ni, and other acquaintances and friends in the circle.

They all express one meaning, the first day box office of "Shendu Dragon King" exploded!

There are also many related reports on major portals.

"The first day box office of "Shendu Dragon King" was amazing, closing in 6780 million!"

"After a year and a half, the great director Tsui Hark returns as the king and dominates the summer season!"

"Former actress Ni Ni is wearing ancient costume for the first time and looks stunning!"

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To be honest, Wei Jin was not surprised by the first-day performance of "Shendu Dragon King".

Relying on the energy of the three major producers and the appeal of Xu Ke and the main creative team, "Shendu Dragon King" has an average screening rate of 41%, making it the well-deserved number one in the summer season.

Coupled with the reputation created over the years, it is normal to achieve such results.

What he is more concerned about is the online reputation. After all, it is not uncommon for a movie to start off well but then fail miserably. "Tiny Times" is a textbook example.

However, perhaps because they had suffered from two terrible movies in a row, the audience was surprisingly tolerant of this mediocre work, "The Dragon King of the Gods", and its reputation on Impression.com was as high as 7.9 points.

Although this rating may be a bit high, it should come down as the number of viewers increases.

But in any case, this means that the film’s reviews are not low and its subsequent box office potential is quite considerable.

"Hmm~Brother, the box office is so high~~"

Jing Tian, ​​with sleepy eyes, hugged Wei Jin from behind, and her voice revealed a hint of laziness.

"Well, not bad."

Wei Jin turned around and held the beauty in his arms, caressing her smooth body, and asked softly, "Tiantian, why don't you sleep a little longer?"

"Brother, I'm a little hungry~~"

"Shall we get up and have breakfast?"

"But I don't want to move~~"

Looking at the girl rubbing against his chest and acting coquettishly, Wei Jin couldn't help laughing.

"Okay, I'll wash up and bring it up to you."

"Well~~ then you better hurry up, your little baby is almost starving to death"

"Haha, okay~~"

While Wei Jin and Jing Tian were enjoying their own world, Guo Xiaosi, who was in the Magic City, was very sad.

With the release of "The Mysterious Dragon King", the screening schedule of "Tiny Times" was greatly squeezed, and the already poor box office was made worse.

The single-day box office has plummeted to more than 5 million. Not to mention surpassing "So Young", it is still unknown whether it can pass the million mark or even surpass "The Left Ear".

Guo Xiaosi's monkey-like body was almost completely sunk into the wide leather seat.

After a long time, he picked up the phone and called Zhang Zhao of LeTV Pictures:
"Mr. Zhang, can you think of a way to increase the film schedule? As it is now, it's difficult to achieve a 5 million yuan performance."

"no way"

Zhang Zhao on the other end of the phone sighed, "Director Guo, you may not understand, the film market is like this, and theaters are also very realistic. Whoever can make money will have a higher screening schedule. The subsequent release of "Shendu Dragon King" is expected to be even higher."

Guo Xiaosi understood this principle. He just felt that with LeEco's financial strength, it could do something. So he asked tentatively:

"Mr. Zhang, can we spend money on the theater's PR? Or give it a share of the profits?"

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Zhang Zhao felt a little tired. What's wrong with your brain? Don't you have any idea of ​​your status? Compare with Wei and Jin?
Not to mention Shanhe Cinema Line and Golden Harvest Cinema Line, which are Wei Jin's private territories, and China Film Group's cinema lines have Han Sanping to say hello.

Even Wanda, who didn't participate this time, is a close ally. Even Ren Zhonglun will definitely give face to Shanghai New Film Association.

In other words, almost all of the top domestic cinema chains are allies of Wei Jin. Are you going to use your head for public relations?
Even if we take a step back, the daily box office of "Tiny Times" has dropped to this level. What's the point of doing your public relations?
However, considering that they are still friendly forces and will have further cooperation, Zhang Zhao's expression was still very tactful.

"Director Guo, the movie has already made a profit. We should proceed steadily and do a good job in promoting the second part."

"But."

"Hey, Director Guo, I have something else to do here, so I won't talk about it for now."

"toot toot"

Hearing the busy tone on the phone, Guo Xiaosi became furious and it took him a long time to calm down.

After some thought, he called in his good-looking male assistant.

"We will continue to send out announcements, calling on fans of the book and the film to watch the movie twice or three times. We must reach 5 million."

"Understood, Mr. Guo."

It turns out that sometimes we cannot underestimate the fanaticism of fans, or in other words, their stupidity.

As soon as Guo Xiaosi's polished and packaged "Initiative" came out, a large number of fans really responded.

On that day, the box office of "Tiny Times" began to recover and reached 20 million.

This result shocked the industry. They always talked about fan movies before, but now they really saw it.

He can be so straightforward. I don’t know how long he can last.

At the same time, the filming of "The Crossing", which Han Sanping had been dreaming of, started.

This should be the most anticipated film project in the entire film industry in the second half of 2013.

It was a simple opening ceremony, and the lineup was comparable to that of an awards ceremony.

Han Sanping of China Film Group, Wang Zhonglei of Huayi, Zhang Zhao of LeTV, Li Ming of Xiaoma and other production managers all attended the event in person.

Facing the media, Wu Baige said frankly:

“The Crossing is divided into two parts, with a total investment of 4 million yuan. It also has top-tier actors such as Zhang Ziyi, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Huang Xiaoming, and Song Hye Kyo. It will definitely become the Eastern version of Titanic, an epic disaster romance.”

The industry was in an uproar, with most of the actors and artists in the film and television circles posting articles online to promote "The Crossing".

It's funny that it seems like this movie has already won the box office championship.

Watching the news online, Wei Jin was thinking that when the next chairman of China Film Group takes office, he will probably be badly screwed by Old Han.
After the weekend, Wei Jin returned to the company and continued to work on the post-production of the film.

The post-production of the drama "Star Luck" is not complicated, and there are very few parts that require special effects. Wei Jin estimates that it will take at most another week to complete the rough editing.

At that time, the remaining polishing work can be handed over to the editors.

During the lunch break, he took some time to pay attention to the film market.

Relying on good word of mouth, "The Dragon King of the Capital of Gods" is advancing rapidly, with the daily box office approaching the 2.08 million mark. In the first three days of the weekend, it raked in 6 million. According to this data, it may be unlikely to break Xu's personal record, but the goal of guaranteeing a minimum of 8 million is within reach, and even million box office may not be stopped.

Even with a production cost of 1.8 million; even with today's increasingly better box office results, projects with such results are definitely rare in the industry.

In this wave, China Film and Fiber Optic can be said to have won without any effort.

But the summer season is not as good as the Lunar New Year season after all, and the market potential is limited. "The Dragon King" can get the most out of it, but the rest of the movies will suffer.

"No Man's Land" was relatively lucky. It didn't have many screenings left, and after reaping the benefits of the last weekend, it chose to be taken off the screen. The final box office report was 3.72 million.

Although it is not a very impressive achievement in today's era, it has allowed Ning Hao to take a step further and enter the 300 million directors club.

The ones that suffered the most damage were "The Detective" and "Blind Detective".

The former's single-day box office dropped directly from nearly 1000 million to around 17 million. It has been released for 3.41 days and the box office has closed at million.

The latter is even worse!
Normally, a movie's first weekend box office should be much better than its first day performance.

However, this movie was affected by both King Andy Lau and "The Mystic Dragon". Even during the weekend, the single-day box office remained around 1500 million.

It has been released for 4 days and the box office has only reached 6880 million. Compared with the production cost of 1.2 million, there is no hope of making a profit.

In comparison, the box office of "Tiny Times" has miraculously remained stable thanks to the continued support of its crazy fans.

It has been released for 11 days and the box office is almost approaching the 4 million mark, which seems outrageous.

In the afternoon, Wei Jin received a call from Ning Hao, saying that he was not planning to hold a big celebration party for "No Man's Land".

Firstly, they had already celebrated when it passed the review earlier; secondly, the leading actors Xu Zheng and Yu Nan were still filming on the set, so there was no need to do so.

But I did make an appointment with Wei Jin and Huang Bai to have a drink in the evening to celebrate.

After leaving the company, Wei Jin went straight to the appointment. When he arrived, he saw Huang Bai and Ning Hao already sitting in the private room.

"I say, isn't it too boring for just the three of us widows? How about inviting a few junior girls from the Central Academy of Drama and the Beijing Dance Academy to liven up the atmosphere?"

"Old Wei, of course I have no objection, but I don't know if Haozi has the courage to do it, hahahaha."

Of course Huang Bai could tell that this was a teasing, and he looked at Ning Hao with a playful look, while the latter had a sullen look on his face.

"Hiroko, you're just being stubborn. Do you dare to say that you weren't beaten by Xiaoou last time?"

"Hey, man, my family status is different, Xiao Ou trusts me 100%"

At this point, Huang Bai raised his head slightly and said, "Of course, it's mainly because of my good health, hahahaha"

"Hahaha"

Huang Bai's words were so hurtful that Wei Jin couldn't help but laugh along.

After some bragging and chatting, the dishes were served on the table. The three of them chatted, drank and ate, and the atmosphere was quite lively.

But Wei Jin didn't expect that during the conversation, Ning Hao actually talked about Huayi's acquisition of Xiaoma.

Huayi has made great strides this year, launching a series of mergers and acquisitions in the first half of the year, and the company's stock price has soared rapidly.

The big and small kings, who hold large sums of money, turned their attention to the small horse.

After all, Xiao Ma has good production capabilities in the field of TV dramas, and it also has the digital field, which are all sectors that can effectively enhance Huayi's core competitiveness.

In addition, Huayi’s new film director Gu Changwei is not very capable, and Zhong Lifang is also within the target of the big and small Wang.

It has to be said that Huayi Brothers chose the right time, because according to the gambling agreement signed between Xiaoma and the bank, December 12 this year is the final deadline for listing.

If the bet cannot be completed, the company will have to repurchase the shares originally subscribed by the bank at a premium of about 50%, with a total price of more than 10 billion.

To be honest, this part is not that much, and Xiao Ma can afford it if he grits his teeth. The key is that the amount of financing they have raised is too large, far more than the money from the banks, and more than the total amount of financing from Berna and Huayi before they went public.

If the listing goal cannot be achieved, no matter how optimistic these people were about Xiaoma in the beginning, they will abandon Xiaoma without hesitation.

This is all too common in the capital market.

"Has Xiao Ma made a decision now?"

"Well, they still plan to go public independently, but the news has not been announced yet."

Wei Jin did not comment on Xiao Ma's decision.

Compared to being acquired, getting money and shares, and becoming the second largest shareholder in Huayi, the benefits of an independent listing and exercising autonomy will certainly be greater.

But correspondingly, the risks also increase exponentially. It can only be said that Xiao Ma’s gambling nature is too strong.

But he was a little confused, "Brother, what do you mean by suddenly bringing up this matter?"

Ning Hao picked up the wine glass and took a sip. "Hey, Junior Brother, you are a famous angel investor. You have money and don't interfere with the management. What do you think?"

Wei Jin suddenly realized, "Good fellow, Senior Brother, are you here to lobby for Xiao Ma?"

Ning Hao waved his hands and explained quickly: "That's not the case, it's just that Xiao Ma and the others can't come forward directly."

Hearing this, Wei Jin quickly understood what Ning Hao meant.

Just like Buffett is willing to invest in a small company, no matter how much the investment is, it is a huge benefit.

What's more, compared to Buffett, he has the title of great director, which is a professional match for him.

If you really invest in Xiaoma, it will definitely be of great help in boosting market confidence, just like holding Huayi’s shares in the past.

But if the negotiations fail and the news leaks out, the backlash will be huge.

Therefore, it would be most appropriate to let Ning Hao, who has a good relationship with both parties, act as a middleman to pass on the message.

"Junior brother, if you are willing to invest, Xiao Ma can coordinate the shares, not less than this number, and the price and other things are negotiable."

Looking at the number Ning Hao showed on his hand, Wei Jin was really a little shocked, but after thinking about it, he shook his head.

"Forget it, Brother, Xiao Ma's situation is different from Hua Yi's."

Before Huayi went public, it was already a mature entertainment company in the industry with a very wide range of business operations.

But Xiao Ma's situation is too complicated. Although he has some advantages in the field of TV dramas, the internal power struggle is too fierce, and even the chairman cannot make the final decision.

It is difficult to expand such a business, and Wei Jin is unwilling to get involved in muddy waters.

What's more, there is less than half a year left before the final listing deadline, and Wei Jin does not think that his joining will be able to turn the tide.

"Also, don't listen to their nonsense and buy original shares."

Wei and Jin took precautions in advance. The listing of Huayi, Fiber Optic and Shanhe Cinemas in recent years has created many millionaires, tens of millions of yuan and even hundreds of millions of yuan.

He was also afraid that Ning Hao would get carried away and throw away the money he had worked so hard to earn.

"No, your sister Na controls the family's finances, and she is a very conservative person."

Huang Bai smacked his lips and said, "Tsk tsk, Haozi, your family status is really worrying. How about some black wolfberry?"

"Hahaha"

"roll"

(End of this chapter)