Entertainment: God-level director

“You can consider building your own office building.”

After listening to Lin Ran’s words, Wang Ziwen thought it was feasible.

Currently, the company has nearly a thousand employees, and it spends a large amount of money on renting office buildings every year.

“Ziwen, how much liquidity does the company have on its books now? Lin Ran then asked again

“There are currently 4.7 billion in total.”

Wang Ziwen reported in detail:”Almost 1.3 billion of it is the VIP membership fee income of Ranmeng Video.”

“4.7 billion?

Lin Ran couldn’t help but nodded.

The liquidity of 4.7 billion is a bit shabby compared to the tens of billions or hundreds of billions of liquidity of Internet giants.

For a super giant like Apple, which has a cash reserve of up to US$250 billion, it is a drop in the bucket.

But for a film and television company, its liquidity of 4.7 billion is no longer a small number.

Huayi Brothers, a long-established film and television giant, has been operating poorly in recent years. It was revealed some time ago that its liquidity is only two to three billion, and the capital chain may break at any time.

So I quickly went to find the two giants Alibaba and Penguin, and raised 2.3 billion in targeted financing to save my life.

Most of the leading film and television companies such as Ray and Bernard have only one to two billion in liquidity.

Even the state-owned film giant China Film Group has only more than 3 billion in liquidity.

However, for Ranmeng Pictures, although 4.7 billion is not a small number, it is not particularly large either.

You know, the investment for a”Jurassic World” movie is as high as 150 million US dollars, which is almost 1 billion yuan.

4.7 billion, it can only launch five blockbusters like”Jurassic World” at the same time.

Of course, no film and television company would be stupid enough to launch five mega-projects at the same time.

Ranmeng Pictures is naturally no exception.

Although Ranmeng Pictures currently has a total of seven or eight film and television projects launched, most of its investments are less than 200 million.

Moreover, it is a staggered investment. It is not a rush to launch so many projects at the same time. Some have already been produced and are waiting to be released, some are already in the post-production system, and some are in the process of filming. This can reduce financial pressure.

“Then spend 500 million to build your own office building. Lin

Ran thought for a while and said:”We are a film and television company. Even if we expand in the future, we will not be able to have tens of thousands of employees like those Internet companies. We will plan according to the number of 3,000 employees.”

500 million should be enough to buy land and construction costs. Ziwen, please make a preliminary plan first. The specific amount will be determined later.”

“good.”Wang Ziwen agreed.

“You just said that the membership revenue of Ranmeng Video has reached 1.3 billion. How big is the membership scale? Lin Ran asked again

“The total number of users has reached 36 million, VIP users have exceeded 20 million, and VIP members account for about 56%.

Because during this period, we worked with several Alibaba Jingdong companies to develop co-branded cards, the number of annual membership users increased a lot, so membership income only reached 1.3 billion.

However, in terms of advertising revenue, we are far behind several other video websites.”

Wang Ziwen said

“The model of Ranmeng Video is based on membership income. Advertising income is only supplementary and cannot be misplaced.

If we have few resources and add a lot of advertising, there will be fewer and fewer users. Lin

Ran waved his hand and emphasized again.

“Yeah. I know.”Wang Ziwen nodded.

After the two of them finished talking, Lin Ran called the management for a meeting.

《With an investment of US$150 million, Jurassic World is the company’s most important project in the next year and requires the joint efforts and division of labor of all departments.

After the meeting, Lin Ran processed some more documents and went back in the afternoon.

Now that he has just finished writing the script, he still needs to do storyboarding, prop design and other work.

In the following period, after Lin Ran finished finishing the storyboards, more than half a month passed.

《The national discussion triggered by”Explosive Drummer” has long since settled, and netizens’ attention has been attracted by new entertainment gossip topics.

One month after its release,”Cracking Drummer” had a domestic box office of 1.84 billion.

At present, it can still get two to three million at the box office every day, and it can even get seven to eight million on weekends.

Mosquito legs are also meat. If it is released for another month, it can still earn tens of millions at the box office.

Therefore,”Breaking Drummer” applied for a one-month extension and will not be released until April 22.

Overseas, thanks to Lin Ran’s overseas popularity and Oscar popularity, the total overseas box office of”Breaking Drummer” has reached 93 million U.S. dollars. There are still some countries where it has not been released, and it is expected to eventually exceed 100 million U.S. dollars.

Compared with the US$48 million in the previous life, it has almost doubled.

On March 26, Lin Ran came to the China Directors Association to participate in the new election meeting of the new Directors Association.

When he arrived, many people had already arrived, including Feng Dapao, Li Shaohong, Section Chief Jia, Guan Hu, Zhao Yanzi, Kai Zige, Wang Xiaoshuai, Zhang Baibai, Ning Hao, Lu Yang, Xu Zheng and so on.

It can be said that almost all the most famous directors in China are here.

Lin Ran looked carefully and found that there was still no sign of Lao Mouzi.

I don’t know why, but before Lin Ran’s rise, Lao Mouzi, as the number one figure in the Chinese directing world, had already had an estranged relationship with the Directors Association.

Lao Mouzi hardly participated in the activities of the Directors Guild, nor did he run for office in the Directors Guild.

Not to mention the president or vice-president, not even an executive member. It’s quite strange. I don’t know what’s going on.

“Director Lin”

“Lin Ran is here.”

Seeing Lin Ran arrive, people who had a good relationship with Lin Ran came forward to say hello. Some people glanced at Lin Ran and turned away without giving a good look at all, such as Feng Dapao. At nine o’clock in the morning, the conference officially started.

The first step was to elect the candidate for the president. The nominees were Chief Jia and Feng Dapao.

In the end, Chief Jia was successfully elected as the new president. He was the vice president before, so it was a matter of course. Lin Ran originally just wanted to make a splash. Unexpectedly, something unexpected happened in the next vice president election.

The secretary general of the association announced:”The five nominees for the new vice president of the Directors Association are Xu Zheng, Zhang Yang, and Lin Ran.……” what?

Am I nominated as a vice president candidate?

Lin Ran looked confused. He had not applied to become the vice president at all.

Titles such as President and Vice President of the China Directors Association may sound nice, but in fact they have no effect at all. They are not as powerful as the American Directors Association MPAA.

After thinking about it carefully, Lin Ran felt that maybe it was because he won the Oscar that the higher-ups nominated him as vice president.

In fact, this is indeed the case. Because Lin Ran is too young, in organizations such as the Directors Guild, seniority and connections are more important.

So although Lin Ran was particularly good at the box office before, he didn’t even get an executive committee nomination.

Not only him, but also Wu Jing.

But Zhang Baibai, who is far inferior to them, is Liu Yiwei.

Xu Zheng is well-rounded and has sufficient qualifications. He was just elected as an executive member instead of vice president.

In the final voting results, Lin Ran was successfully elected as the new vice president of the Directors Association, which made him dumbfounded.

I didn’t do anything, so I just picked up the vice president Dangdang.