Entertainment, I just like making movies

February 12th, the twenty-first day of the first lunar month.

"Xiu Chun Knife" was released for 28 days, and its total box office reached 530 million yuan, completing the sweep of the Spring Festival period.

Starting from the past two days, the film's follow-up has been weak, with the single-day box office falling below 1 million, and there is no hope of exceeding 600 million. The final total box office is around 540 to 550 million.

This week, the mainland market is dominated by "Mission: Impossible 4", with a box office of 132 million in a single week, taking the top spot next week.

Data released by China Film and Television shows that "Mission: Impossible 4" has a total box office of 460 million in the 16 days it was released, which is 20 million less than the previous one.

In addition to "Mission: Impossible 4", there are five more movies on the list from February 6 to February 12.

The second place "Journey to the Center of the Earth 2: The Mysterious Island" was released for 3 days, with a total box office of 95.8 million yuan.

The third place "I Do" was released for three days, with a total of 19.9 million soft sister coins.

The fourth place "High Altitude Love 2" was released for 4 days, with a total box office of 11.6 million yuan.

The fifth-placed film "The King" was released for 10 days, with a weekly box office of 10.5 million and a total box office of 24.8 million yuan.

"Xiu Chun Dao" ranked sixth. It was released for 28 days, with a weekly box office of 9.5 million and a total box office of 536 million yuan.

In the office of Chairman Hengyu.

Fang Ziheng finished browsing the movie data table and shook his head helplessly.

After the increase in imported films, the domestic protection period is shaky. At least one or two Hollywood films are released in the mainland every month.

Without policy protection, most domestic films seem to have lost a layer of gold, and will only be beaten when encountering Hollywood special effects blockbusters.

This kind of thing cannot be avoided. Only by rising up and resisting, and using high-quality movies one after another, can we stabilize the annual box office share of domestic movies and enhance the audience's confidence in domestic movies little by little.

After closing the computer, Fang Ziheng opened the drawer, took out a gold-plated invitation and put it on the table.

Sina Weibo held the first Weibo Night.

Sina CEO Cao Guowei made a special trip to Hengyu, handed the invitation letter to him, and asked him and his artists to appear.

Weibo Night, the previous event was called Sina Festival, which had little gold content and relied entirely on celebrity artists to support the scene.

There are a lot of various awards, and they will be given out as soon as you go. Everyone has a share.

Fang Ziheng vaguely remembered that there were more than a dozen pheasant festivals like this in the next year.

Media websites, TV stations, video websites, and all platforms related to the entertainment industry have held such activities.

For example, Lin Feifei and Andy, two beauties also wanted to hold a potato festival, and even had someone make a special plan to include it in Hengyu's major events in 2012.

Just wait for Tudou Video to be re-listed in April, and the plan for the festival will begin.

The euphemistic name is to boost Tudou's reputation, but in fact, Lin Feifei and the others want to further build the reputation of Hengyu Media.

To put it bluntly, I just want to build a huge mountain!

Hengyu is currently following the path of forming good relationships, not offending anyone, and cooperating with major film and television companies for win-win results.

This route is okay in the short term, but not in the long term. It lacks the power and domineering power to dominate the world.

Fang Zihengle's leisure was left to them to control.

In the past few years, he had become acquainted with this person and that person outside. He was used to being a good guy, so it was time to show off his muscles.

dong dong

There was a knock on the door.

"Come in."

Fang Ziheng raised his head, looked at it, and leaned back, looking like a boss.

The office door was pushed open, and Fang Rou stepped in with Liu Minghui, the director of strategic investment.

"Chairman, Director Liu has something important to report to you."

"I understand, make two cups of tea."

Fang Ziheng nodded, waved to Liu Minghui behind him, pointed to the guest sofa and said, "Minghui, has Sogou Browser been taken down?"

"Chairman, we got it!"

Liu Minghui looked excited, came to the sofa area, put a folder on the coffee table and said.

After a while, Fang Rou made two cups of hot tea and came over.

Fang Ziheng came to the sofa area, sat down, put the folder on his legs and opened it, and said with a smile: "Just take it and tell me the results of the acquisition."

"After four rounds of negotiations, the company finally acquired 45% of Sogou's shares from Sohu for 680 million softmei coins."

"What other conditions did Director Zhang put forward?"

"Just one thing to mention, Sohu takes a stake in Hengyu Games."

After Liu Minghui finished speaking, he moved his body and turned to the last page of the contract, which clearly marked the agreement between Hengyu and Sohu.

Hengyu Media acquired 45% of Sogou's shares for 680 million Sogou coins, becoming the second largest shareholder of this browser platform and having secondary rights to operate the browser.

Sohu invested 50 million soft sister coins in 5% of the shares of Hengyu Game Company and participated in the maintenance and profit sharing of the two major games "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" and "League of Legends".

In addition: Sohu has the responsibility to assist Hengyu in operating its games (including promotion, holding e-sports competitions), etc.

There is a clear division of responsibilities between the two companies. Generally speaking, Hengyu Media suffered a small loss in the early stage.

Not only did he give the money, he also sold 5% of Hengyu Games' shares at a low price.

Fang Ziheng looked down for a few times, smiled with satisfaction, patted Liu Minghui on the shoulder and praised: "Not bad, well done!"

He knew in his heart that it seemed that Hengyu suffered a loss in the early stage, but in the long run, Hengyu Media made a lot of money.

The size of a browser alone may not cost a lot.

But if coupled with the large entertainment industry and a series of businesses such as novels, videos, games, and new media, it will instantly transform into a killer with extremely high user stickiness.

In 2014, UC founder He Xiaopengzi sold UC to Alibaba Group for 30 billion softmei coins, making a huge profit.

30 billion!

At that time, UC was only slightly higher than Sogou in terms of content and traffic, and it was already so profitable.

It is foreseeable that after Hengyu Media completes the link with Sogou and transfers its business, and 4G arrives in two years, the value of Sogou Browser will be higher than that of UC Browser.

At this time, Sogou's total market value was approximately 1.5 billion softmei coins. In addition to Hengyu's large-scale merger and acquisition, Sohu also repurchased 10% of its shares from Alibaba.

Of course.

The most important thing is that Zhang Chaoyang is not short of money, he is a fun-loving person.

After Sohu fell into the second echelon of the domestic Internet, Zhang Chaoyang entered the sage mode and started to win in life.

He wanted to play games, Fang Ziheng allowed him to do whatever he wanted, and it was only right to win Sogou.

In later generations, Sogou has been unable to develop. This is partly because Sohu does not want to make progress, but more importantly, Sohu's own traffic is insufficient and cannot drive Sogou forward.

In 2020, Sogou was jointly boycotted by major mobile phone manufacturers, and had no choice but to announce that it would cease services and go offline.

Haohao is a leading browser. As time goes by, it becomes weaker and weaker, and it is forced to stop serving and go offline. Lao Zhang is no longer there.

"Game life, Lao Zhang's life creed!"

Fang Ziheng muttered something softly, closed the folder, and leaned back on the sofa, looking comfortable and at ease.

After drinking tea, he signed a letter and handed it to Liu Minghui, asking him to forward it to Sogou founder Wang Xiaochuan.

In the letterhead, he racked his brains over the past two days and recalled the new functions and functions compiled by QQ and UC browsers in later generations.

Nine-level acceleration system.

[Start up acceleration]

[Prefetch engine acceleration]

[Dual-core acceleration]

【Flash acceleration】

[High-speed download technology]

[Education Network Acceleration]

【Internet speed protection】

【Perfect anti-suspended death】

Seven functional systems.

[Online Shopping to Fight Counterfeiting]

【Private Reading】

【Title Radar】

【Music Tag】

[Translation of delimited words]

【Live recording】

[Big data recommendation]

Jiuji acceleration, seven major functions.

Fang Ziheng didn't know much about the profession, so he just copied some terms from memory, hoping to help Sogou.

As for what Sogou does when it gets these terms, that's none of his business. He just needs to stop it in time when Sogou launches "Push to Talk Download" to avoid being boycotted by mobile phone manufacturers.

Number 13.

Fang Ziheng led the team and took Hengyu's artists to the second phase of the Imperial Capital International Trade Center to participate in the first Weibo Night.

After nearly two years of development, Weibo has more than 100 million registered users, 20 million people online every day, and its valuation continues to rise.

The scale of the event is not small and can support major events in the entertainment industry since the beginning of 2012.

The awards for the event are also determined by online voting by netizens, focusing on online and offline interaction and the theme of national entertainment.

February 15th.

Hengyu Media Group held a press conference.

At the meeting, Fang Ziheng announced Hengyu’s top ten film projects and top ten TV series projects this year.

In addition to six film projects in cooperation with major companies, four other independently produced films have also been launched at the same time.

Posters of ten movies were displayed on the big screen at the press conference.

"Famous Catchers 2" is directed by Hao Yi, screenwriter Fang Ziheng, and producer Lao Mouzi.

"Chinese Partner" director Lao Mouzi, screenwriter Fang Ziheng, producer Fang Ziheng,

"PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds 1" (movie version), directed by Wu Jing, screenwriter Fang Ziheng, and producer Fang Ziheng.

"National Security 1" (movie version), directed by Wen Muye, screenwriter Fang Ziheng, and producer Wu Jing.

"Blissful" is directed by Ning Hao, screenwriter Fang Ziheng, and producer Xu Zheng.

"The Hypnotist" is directed by Xu Zheng, screenwriter Fang Ziheng, and executive producer Ning Hao.

"Predecessor Raiders 1" is directed by Su Lun, screenwriter Fang Ziheng, and producer Wen Muye.

"Left Ear" is directed by Yu Feihong, screenwriter Fang Ziheng, and producer Fang Ziheng.

"Donkey Gets Water" is directed by Guo Fan, screenwriter Fang Ziheng, and producer Su Lun.

"Drug War" is directed by Lin Chao, screenwriter Fang Ziheng, and executive producer Wu Jing.

Ten films, ten directors.

There are six directors signed by Hengyu, and each of them has two jobs. They have to be a director and help others produce another movie.

Fang Ziheng is very proud. He has supervised the production of three movies by himself, four if you include "The Great Wall".

But he is not as busy as last year. Last year he supervised the production of six movies.

Although each film only requires his participation in fine editing, it also consumes a lot of brain cells.

The generosity of Hengyu Media Group also shocked the media reporters present.

Starting from one movie in 2009, Hengyu's development has reached a new level every year, and the projects under its control have doubled.

This is to catch all major movie schedules in one go!

Fang Ziheng answered a few questions from reporters, handed the press conference to Mo Xiang, secretary of the board of directors, and led ten directors to the hotel conference hall.

As soon as he came up, he set the tone for everyone.

"Everyone, starting from today, the movie you directed will be officially approved."

"Hengyu Media will fully support your filming. I have only one request: release it on time!"

“Three movies will be released in June, July and August, one in September, one in October and one in November.

"Two in December and two in January."

When the ten people heard this, they all fell silent, each thinking about when the movie he directed would be released.

From a common sense point of view, movies with higher production costs will definitely choose better schedules, such as being released in the summer and Lunar New Year movies.

For the rest of the movies, depending on the genre, choose the National Autumn Festival, Spring Festival or normal schedules.

Just because Fang Ziheng didn't say it doesn't mean they can't miss it. Everyone hopes that their movie will be a hit.

After a while.

Lao Mouzi raised a question: "Director Fang, is it too much to rush ten movies to be released in one year?"

"Yes, I always feel like one of our own is beating us up."

Fumino murmured and thought it would be inappropriate to release it all this year.

Wu Jing, Su Lun, and Hao Yi also nodded, with worried looks on their faces.

Guo Fan wanted to speak but hesitated. He wanted to say but dared not.

As a new director in the company, he has yet to prove his strength, and his status and voice cannot be compared with Fumino and others.

Ning Hao, Xu Zheng, Yu Feihong, and Lin Chaoxian looked calm. They were Hengyu's co-directors and were more concerned about when their movie would be released.

They don't need to worry about Hengyu's internal problems.

Only Yu Feihong's eyes flickered and she cast a vaguely concerned look at Fang Ziheng. She was calm on the surface but secretly worried in her heart.

Sister Yu was worried that Fang Ziheng was young and energetic and would be on the road to success.

"Don't worry about the release time. I will coordinate with China Film and major film and television companies."

Fang Ziheng smiled and waved his hands, exercising the rights of the big boss.

Afterwards, he dispersed a circle of smoke and explained to several close generals.

"What you don't know is that in the next two years, more capital will crowd into the film industry. Barbaric capital does not care about the quality and standard of films. What they want is to make money and the benefits brought by the influence of films. "

“When a large amount of capital flows in, the film market will expand rapidly and annual production will skyrocket.

As a result, there will inevitably be a lot of bad movies, and the audience will criticize them, lose their trust in domestic movies, and eventually all go to watch foreign movies. "

"Director, are you too worried?"

Hao Yi blinked and asked a pig-brained question.

In his view, it is a good thing that a large amount of capital comes into the market, allowing more filmmakers to create more excellent works.

It's better than in previous years when there was no other capital in the film market, so let the coal boss be the boss and steal the show.

Lao Mouzi shook his head slowly and said in a concentrated voice: "No, what Director Fang said is very possible. Too much uncontrollable capital will indeed bring a disaster to the film market!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone's expressions changed.

Lao Mouzi uses the word disaster, which shows that he is very afraid of uncontrollable capital.

Barbaric capital is far more complex and destructive than they imagined.

At this time, Yu Feihong's beautiful eyes lit up and she pursed her lips and smiled: "Director Fang, what you mean is that I want to use the high-quality projects created by Hengyu to stabilize the film market."

"The one who knows me is Sister Yu!"

Fang Ziheng gave her a thumbs up, his eyes focused, and he said confidently and firmly: "Hengyu Media will use each high-quality film to set benchmarks and standards for the entire industry, and declare to all Chinese filmmakers that the only way to make movies well is to That's the right path.

We want to tell the capital pouring in from the outside world that having money is no big deal, and the bad movies they invest in are their fate!

At the same time, we also want to let hundreds of millions of viewers know that domestic movies will never be defeated by Hollywood blockbusters because of Hengyu Media, never! "

Fang Ziheng's words were resounding, and they went straight into the hearts of everyone with a courageous momentum to move forward and pave the way for Chinese-language films.

Wen Muye, Hao Yi, and Guo Fan felt their scalps numb and their blood boiling after hearing this. They wished they could take the movie they shot and compete with a Hollywood blockbuster right now.