China Entertainment: I just want to give my child a home

Chapter 164 The boss and the second child fight in the ring, and the third child dies (please subscribe!)
  Although most of the popularity of "Transformers" was taken away by Liu Yifei's childbirth on the day it was released, the movie still made 2300 million at the box office on the first day.

On the second day, no, on the third and fourth days, the topics and traffic were snatched back.

The box office also increased day by day, 2500 million, 2600 million, 2700 million. Because the sixth and seventh days were weekends, the data skyrocketed, and the single-day box office directly exceeded million.

July is the summer season, and there are many domestic movies released at the same time, such as "Young Memory", "Twelve Moons", "The True Colors of a Daughter", "Rose Wish", etc.

However, in front of "Transformers", these movies were so squeezed that they couldn't even eat leftovers. It can't be said that they were completely destroyed, it can only be said that they were pressed to the ground and rubbed.

I was so frightened that a movie that had not yet been released had to be rescheduled overnight.

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In May, at the wedding banquet of Chen Dong and Liu Yifei, Fang Xinguo greeted the three companies and said that Sina Blog and Tengxun Blog would not sit back and watch their Weibo grow bigger, because blog sites have a characteristic called winner-take-all. This means that once Weibo becomes a trend, it will snowball and take away all the market. At that point, the second and third will only have one end, and that is to be slowly consumed to death.

If the other two companies, like Fang Xinguo before, were just fighting alone without a backing, they would be anxious but helpless in the face of this situation, but the real situation is that not only do they have a backing, but they are also very tough.

Especially Cao Guowei, backed by Sina, is itself a media website closely related to the entertainment industry. Its advantages are no less than those of the three traditional film and television companies behind Fang Xinguo.

No, seeing his old rival’s Weibo growing day by day, Cao Guowei finally launched Sina Microwave in July.

Although there is a strong smell of copycat, top-level business wars are often so simple and unpretentious.

In mid-July, Xu Jinglei, known as a talented woman in Beijing circles, was a guest on Sina Microwave. On that day, the number of visits to her website exceeded 100 million.

This woman also became the second female star to break out of the entertainment industry after Liu Yifei with over 100 million views.

Chen Dong has not returned to the company for a week since Liu Yifei gave birth to his son. He has been taking care of his wife and children at home. He is completely immersed in the happiness of a new dad, and he is quite happy to miss his childhood.

But this happiness was broken by a phone call today.

"Mr. Fang, what? Are you running out of money in your account so quickly?"

"Director Chen, the website traffic has increased significantly in recent months. We have invested a lot of money to maintain the system, and purchased our own server. We are really running out of money. The key is now that Cao Guowei has created another copycat version. Weibo came out, and Xu Jinglei was invited to do traffic management two days ago. This is a clear statement that we are going to compete with us. Unless we avoid the battle, the money in our account will not be enough to last until the end of the year."

"Avoiding the fight? Just avoid the fight and fight him."

"Yeah, I know I can't avoid it, but there's nothing in the account..."

"Okay, Mr. Fang, don't cry because you are poor. Let's talk for a while and sit down and discuss it."

On July 7, Chen Dong, Ye Ning, and Wang Changtian, representing three traditional film and television companies, walked into Weibo’s offline office building.

After some internal discussions, the three companies decided to raise another $600 million for Weibo.

After talking about financing, the four of them were not in a hurry to break up the meeting. Instead, they talked about it.

"Does Director Chen have any movie plans recently?" Ye Ning asked.

"There's no time."

Chen Dong shook his head.

"I heard that Wanda Film is submitting listing materials, is it true?" "Oh~"

Hearing Ye Ning sigh, the three people in the room laughed. Wang Changtian asked again: "Why is Mr. Ye still sighing?"

Ye Ning said: "Some time ago, the headquarters group issued a task, which really asked me to prepare the company's listing plan as soon as possible. Unfortunately, Wanda Film has insufficient background and many listing requirements are not up to standard. There is no hope for this year. It depends on next year... By the way, Director Chen, "Inception" is scheduled to be released in October, right?"

"Yes, October, National Day."

"Why not arrange it during the Lunar New Year period?" Fang Xinguo asked.

As the only layman in the room, he only knew that the Lunar New Year period was the best period for filmmakers.

But that is in China, not necessarily abroad.

The investment cost of "Inception" is as high as US$1.5 million. It focuses on the global box office, not just the Chinese market. Of course, there are trade-offs.

Wang Changtian's Guangguang has strong strength in variety shows, even if it cooperates with Mango, Zhejiang and other satellite TVs. According to him, in the past two years, due to the low threshold and high traffic of variety shows, many unhealthy views have emerged. , spread false advertisements, he has received wind of it. In response to this situation, the higher authorities must carry out vigorous rectification.

Speaking of variety shows, the most popular ones this year are "Fast Man" and "Good Man". Both of these variety shows ushered in the finals this month.

The finals of "Fast Man" are on July 7, which is still three days away.

The popularity is even higher than "A Good Man" which ended last weekend.

Chen Chusheng has the highest call for winning the championship, followed by Su Xing, Wei Cheng, and Xie Na's boyfriend Zhang Shi.

With support, Fang Xinguo let go and started a business war with Cao Guowei.

Today Weibo invited a certain celebrity to be a guest, and tomorrow Sina Microwave had an exclusive interview with a certain best-selling author.

The harder they fight, the more serious the traffic loss on Tengxun’s blog will be.

In fact, it’s not that Tengxun Blog has no money and can’t afford to fight this business war. The main reason is that Tengxun is not a penguin of later generations. It still has few connections and resources in the entertainment industry. If it can’t hire big-name celebrities to attract traffic to the website, it can only Watching Fang Xinguo and Cao Guowei compete in the ring back and forth, sucking away their own traffic.

In less than half a month, the traffic pool of Tencent Blog was sucked away by two companies, which is colder than cold water.

Brother Ma paid some attention to it at first, but later he simply turned his back on it and completely destroyed it.

Over there, Fang Xinguo and Cao Guowei have not yet decided the winner, but here, Teng Xun Blog is already on the verge of falling.

Back in the film industry, the famous director Yang Decang just passed away. Just two days later, bad news came from Europe. The Swedish-born film master Ingmar Bergman and the Italian Antonioni also went to see their God.

The departure of these three people may not have caused much reaction in the increasingly impetuous online media, but it has caused a lot of reaction in the print media that survived their era.

One newspaper commented: An era of idealism, criticism and creation has come to an end, ushering in an era of consumerism and sensual enjoyment.

Ever since Chen Dong saved Jay Chou's phone number in his address book, he has never called him once.

But today, the other party took the initiative to call him...

(End of this chapter)