Entertainment, I just like making movies

""囧 series"?"

In a small conference room in the hotel, Fang Ziheng looked surprised and looked at Zhang Qiang and Zhao Yanzi sitting opposite.

"Yes, Director Fang."

"Both Alibaba Pictures and Ms. Zhao are very optimistic about the follow-up of "囧 Series" and hope to cooperate with Hengyu Media to develop the third "囧 Series" movie."

Zhang Qiang, who is over forty years old and has a slicked back hair, sat on the sofa and chatted about the past glories of the "囧 Series".

Zhao Yanzi on the side smiled and said nothing, looking like a famous lady.

In March this year, Alibaba Pictures was established, officially entering the field of first-line film production.

Zhang Qiang, who had just served as deputy general manager of China Film Group for half a year, was invited to serve as the CEO of this new company.

Through her husband's relationship, Zhao Yanzi obtained a lot of shares in Alibaba Pictures and became the first film and television star in Alibaba's big entertainment strategic plan.

After Alibaba went public, Zhao Yanzi and his wife became the second largest shareholders of Alibaba in one fell swoop. They were so awesome that they had no friends.

Father Ma loves swallows, which will be one of the internet jokes for years to come.

Fang Ziheng also knew that in less than two years, Jet Li would also join Alibaba and become an independent non-executive director of Alibaba Pictures.

After the establishment of Alibaba Pictures, it integrated all its entertainment, film and television resources through a series of mergers and acquisitions. In June 2014, it was upgraded to the Alibaba Entertainment Business Group and fully entered the film and television industry.

Since then, Internet hooligans have finally freed up their hands and extended their demons to all walks of life in the entertainment industry. In just two years, a three-giant structure has been formed, overwhelming traditional film and television companies.

The major film and television companies in the entertainment industry are either Tengxun or Alibaba. Only a few hard-core companies still maintain their independence.

"Are you going to start early?"

Fang Ziheng's eyes narrowed slightly, as if he saw the pattern of the entertainment industry in a few years, with big IP and big data, boosting traffic, boosting ratings, boosting box office, and making up for the box office.

As soon as a movie project was approved, the investment share changed hands several times, and it was operated into the stock market, becoming a hot spot pursued by investors.

As soon as the film came out, some people clamored for a guaranteed release price of 1 billion, 2 billion, or 3 billion.

Thousands of film and television companies and external capital are chasing each other and rushing in desperately.

The film market is experiencing unprecedented prosperity, like a raging fire.

The entire entertainment industry has completely become a feast for capital!

Greedy capital has refreshed people's moral bottom line time and time again, and its dazzling operations have turned the entire industry into a mess.

That is to say, from that time on, the film and television industry, which had a good ecological environment, entered a historical reversal and gradually embarked on a crooked path.

If it weren't for the emergence of the main theme movie, which broke the shackles of capital, the film and television industry would eventually enter a cold winter, and the industrial system that had been accumulated with great effort would be completely destroyed.

The source of all this starts with the three major hooligans on the Internet.

Fang Ziheng sighed!

He couldn't stop them and could only watch them enter.

The only thing he can do is to lead Hengyu Media and spare no effort to deliver quality works to Chinese-language films and set an example for some conscientious filmmakers.

Drive filmmakers to standardize industry standards and protect the ecological environment of the film and television industry.

Thinking of this, Fang Ziheng looked solemn and said in a faint tone: "Mr. Zhang, Alibaba has just been established, and it does not yet have the ability to operate a comedy blockbuster. "囧 Series" is one of Hengyu's key projects. There is no way I can take this project." Adventure in a gold mine."

He was not polite at all and directly pointed out that Alibaba was an empty shell company and did not have the ability to make a good "囧 Series" at all.

"Director Fang is overthinking. Alibaba will not intervene in the film production and will only provide money for investment, leaving Hengyu Media and Director Xu Zheng in charge."

"How much share does Ali want?"

"No less than 40%, and the co-distribution rights for the third film in the "囧 series"!"

Zhang Qiang smiled slightly, raised four fingers, and the lion opened his mouth.

40%!

Do you really dare to think about it?

Fang Ziheng shook his head and laughed. He didn't know where this guy got his confidence.

Not to mention that Zhang Qiang is just the CEO of Alibaba Pictures. Even if Alibaba Chairman Hang Chengma comes in person, Laozhi may not sell his account.

Zhang Qiang seemed to have understood his sarcastic smile. He took a deep breath with focused eyes, slightly retracted his raised fingers, then grabbed them tightly in the air and said solemnly: "Director Fang, Ali has brought great sincerity! "

"Three hundred million!"

"Alibaba is willing to acquire 40% of the third film in the "囧 series" for 300 million soft girl coins!"

hiss..

There was a sound of sucking cold air in the conference room.

Zhao Yanzi's big eyes widened, her mouth opened slightly, and she stared blankly at Zhang Qiang, her eyes filled with disbelief.

300 million!

Mr. Zhang, when did Ali give you such a big authorization?

I do not know how!

Compared to the surprised Zhao Yanzi, Fang Ziheng remained motionless and did not even blink.

He believed that Zhang Qiang's quotation was real, and he also understood the reason why Ali gave 300 million.

More than a month later, Alibaba Pictures spent 6.244 billion soft sister coins in order to acquire Dong Ping's Wenhuaguo Company and meet the qualifications for a rapid listing.

After obtaining the qualification, Alibaba Pictures' first task is to control or distribute an influential and blockbuster movie.

As the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses are moved, food and grass go first!

The country of cultural China is there and cannot be escaped. With the connections between Hangcheng Ma, Zhao Yanzi’s husband Huang Youlong, and Dong Ping, this company has always been the meat of Alibaba Pictures.

Alibaba Pictures can select high-quality film investment projects in advance and work together to obtain listing qualifications and film distribution.

Fang Ziheng can think of Ali's sexy tricks with his toes, and he won the "囧 Series" to promote it, and everyone knew about it.

After the movie became a hit, the company took advantage of the company's success to go public in one fell swoop, then bought stock like crazy and made a lot of money.

hehe

With the Alibaba Group backing the company, even if investors are confused, they will know to give priority to buying Alibaba Pictures shares.

This is the terrible operation of the capital giants, which is linked together to avoid unreasonable points and integrate multiple resources to complete the restructuring and listing on time.

Fang Ziheng even suspected that of the 300 million soft sister coins offered by Alibaba Pictures, his company only had to pay a small amount of the principal, and most of them would be resold in the secondary market.

After all, Ali later launched a Yu'e Bao, using people's money to invest in movies. The profits were Ali's, and the losses were the people's.

That rascal!

A veritable face of a profiteer!

"Haha, Mr. Zhang, the box office revenue of the third movie in the "囧 Series" may not be 300 million."

"If Alibaba Pictures loses money, I will be embarrassed to say hello to Director Ma when I see him in the future."

Fang Ziheng leaned back and dropped the topic with a smile, while secretly accusing Alibaba Pictures of impure intentions.

Zhang Qiang's confident smile froze, and he picked up the cigarette on the coffee table and lit it to hide his inner embarrassment.

At this time, he felt helpless and angry!

Unfortunately, Fang Ziheng was too shrewd and saw through the true purpose of their trip at a glance.

He was angry because he received this stupid investment task. He was not a capital expert, but a serious filmmaker.

Long before joining China Film and Television, he served as the general manager of Forbidden City Film Company and is a veritable person in the film industry.

Coming to Tangcheng to find Fang Ziheng today was also a decision made by Ali, not his idea.

In Zhang Qiang's view, with a cash flow of 300 million, he can invest in the production of a blockbuster film in a serious way, and there is no need to join the franchise.

There is no need to acquire the "囧 Series" project at a sky-high price. Even if you are optimistic about Fang Ziheng, 300 million is too much.

But there is no other way. He has just joined Alibaba Pictures. In addition to him as the CEO, the company also has three vice presidents.

One is Zhao Yanzi next to him, and the other is Zhang Wei, the former vice president of Alibaba’s strategic investment department.

Another person is Gu Yong, the president of Youku Video.

Among the three vice presidents, two are direct descendants of Ali Airborne, while Zhao Yanzi is a concurrent shareholder and is a personal relationship with Chairman Ma.

None of these three people is easy to mess with.

Zhang Qiang had a vague hunch that his development path in Alibaba might not be smooth.

Not only is it not a smooth road, it is simply a difficult and dangerous road, okay!

If Fang Ziheng could see through Zhang Qiang's premonition, he would probably laugh like a pig. No one understands Ali's virtues better than him.

These two idioms are the best portrayal of meritorious personnel who joined Alibaba halfway.

Zhang Qiang was just one of them, and he would be kicked away by Ali sooner or later.

At this moment.

Zhao Yanzi, who had been silent for a long time and acted as a familiar face, smiled brightly and said to Fang Ziheng: "Director Fang, do you think this will work? We will continue to cooperate with "囧 Series" as usual. You will be given the share and the price will be quoted as you wish!"

"Alibaba Pictures has just been established, and it really needs an influential movie to open up the situation. Director Fang and Ma are acquaintances, and I hope you can lend a helping hand to Alibaba Pictures."

Lao Zhi and Hang Chengma are not acquaintances!

no!

Fang Ziheng screamed in his heart, wishing he could throw the words in Zhao Yanzi's face.

"The "囧 Series" just released one last year, so this year is not suitable for a sequel. In addition, Xu Zheng wants to film "The Master of Hypnosis" and cannot spare any extra time."

"Next year, next year when the "囧 Series" project is approved, if Alibaba Pictures still has the intention, we will discuss it then."

Fang Ziheng rejected the two of them again, raised his hand to look at the time, stood up and said, "That's almost it. Let's stop talking tonight. I'll ask the front desk to book a room. You two can stay here first. I'll take you to visit the set tomorrow."

"We have a labor director!"

Zhang Qiang breathed a sigh of relief, then stood up and stretched out his hand towards Fang Ziheng.

Zhao Yanzi took the initiative to step forward, opened her slender arms, and gave Fang Ziheng a farewell hug.

The two watched Fang Ziheng leave, looked at each other, and smiled helplessly.

This trip turned out to be in vain!

Three hundred million soft girl coins failed to impress this young international director. It was such a failure.

"Ms. Zhao, you go back to your room and rest first. I'll go meet a friend."

Zhang Qiang put on his coat, nodded to Zhao Yanzi, and followed Fang Ziheng out with quick strides.

Zhao Yanzi was the only one left in the conference room.

She looked at Zhang Qiang's back, took out her cell phone, and slowly dialed her husband Huang Youlong's number.

"Hey, Lao Huang!"

"The thing didn't work out. Fang Ziheng looked down on the small Alibaba Pictures."

"Okay, I understand. I'll make a trip to Xu Zheng's place in a few days."

call.

As soon as the call was made, Zhao Yanzi breathed a sigh of relief and showed a gentle smile.

No matter what, her husband always supported her career, and that was enough.

If we talk about the mainland movie market in April, it belongs to "Titanic 3D".

The movie market in May is dominated by another Hollywood blockbuster, "The Avengers."

130 million in two days of release and 220 million in seven days in the second week.

Most of the movie-viewing traffic brought by the May Day period was harvested by "Avengers", and other movies during the same period could only get a small share.

During this period, "The Great Wall" completed all the scenes in Xiangyang Tangcheng, moved to Mobei Dunhuang, and moved into Tianque City.

Starting from Tianque City, the scenes in "The Great Wall" are more difficult than the last, and there are very few dramas. They are almost all circus, fighting scenes, and war scenes.

The location of Tianque City is one hundred kilometers north of Dunhuang City, in a tourist attraction.

Hengyu Media, Wanda Group, and Dunhuang City Government jointly invested in the construction. The city is built with imitation blue bricks and large-scale timber.

Wanda Group is an expert in building houses. It started construction at the end of 2010, and the outer city walls were erected in just over a year.

The city wall was also purposely made old, making it look like it has endured thousands of years and endured endless fires of war, but remains strong.

The scenic spots in the city, such as the city lord's palace, the general's palace, restaurants, inns and other scenic spots have been initially decorated and can be used for filming.

While Fang Ziheng was working hard and going all out to shoot the war scenes in "The Great Wall", Zhou Xingchi, who was far away in Hong Kong Island, left for the mainland.

With the work he has been honing for three years, "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" is ready to be released by a film and television company with weight and energy.

It stands to reason that one of the film's producers and investors is the Hua Yi brothers, and the distribution can also be handed over to Hua Yi.

But Mr. Xing is an insecure person. He feels that eggs cannot be put in the same basket.

By separating production and distribution, his interests can be maximized.

As soon as the news came out, major film and television companies took action.

Zhou Xingchi’s new film, find a distribution company!

This is a big business, it’s like sending money to your door.

Wanda Films was the first to take action. Song Ge picked up Zhou Xingchi at the Imperial Capital International Airport in a luxury Bentley in front of many media who came after hearing the news.

Starting from this year, Wanda’s theater chains have become more and more powerful, and have firmly entered the top three theater chains in the country.

Zhou Xingchi is ready to listen to Song Ge's quotation first. If the cooperation is successful, with the help of Wanda Cinemas, the film will receive more film schedules after it is released.

This is also the reason why he looks down on the Hua Yi brothers.

Although Wang Zhongjun gave up the movie town plan and increased the construction of Huayi Cinemas due to Fang Ziheng's intervention, it was difficult to see results in a short period of time.

Wang Zhongjun is not Fang Ziheng. He didn't know that the past few years were a critical moment for the construction of theater chains. He did not invest a lot of money in it, but took his time little by little.

The Huayi Cinema Line does not have Wanda Group to help build bridges. Not to mention the slow construction speed, except for a few storefronts in Imperial City and Magic City, the locations of other theaters are not very good.

Apart from its reputation as a leading company and the theater connections it had with the Wang brothers in its early years, Huayi has not made any breakthroughs in film distribution.

Since the listing of Guangxian and Bona, Huayi has rarely been able to outperform the two companies in terms of distribution. Most of them distribute film projects invested by themselves.

After Wang Zhongjun learned that Zhou Xingchi was looking for an outsider to distribute the movie, he immediately slammed the table angrily and cursed the other party for not being able to handle it clearly and falling into the eyes of money.

But anger is anger, the movie is Stephen Chow's project, and Wang Zhongjun can only stare.

Hua Yi is only one of the producers, not the main control. Zhou Xingchi is the director and investor and has the decision-making power on "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons".

Hengyu Media Group also received news that Lin Feifei really wanted to win the distribution of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons".

She called Fang Ziheng, and after discussion, the two finalized a guaranteed issuance quotation.

At the same time, Zhao Yanzi, who had just come out of Xu Zheng's crew, also took action and notified Zhang Qiang of Alibaba Pictures immediately.

Guangxian, Bona, Galloping Pony, Star America Group, famous film companies in the entertainment industry are all interested.

Everyone knows that releasing Zhou Xingchi's movies is definitely a profitable business.

The most important thing is that Zhou Xingchi wants a guaranteed release this time. He wants to recover the cost of the film in advance.

This plays into the plans of major film companies, which guarantee a minimum release. If the film sells well at the box office, it can earn more than a normal release.

Even Wang Zhonglei received a call from his brother Wang Zhongjun, asking him to find an opportunity to treat Zhou Xingchi to a meal to see if he could win the guaranteed release.

Wanda Reign Hotel, Zhaoyang District of the Imperial Capital, is Wanda's most luxurious hotel.

Penthouse luxury suite.

Song Ge opened a six-figure bottle of red wine, handed a glass to Zhou Xingchi, and asked straight to the point: "Director Zhou, can you please quote a price, how much is the guaranteed distribution required?"

"One price, 700 million soft girl coins from the mainland!"

Zhou Xingchi smiled slightly, shook his red wine glass and expressed his expected price!

Wrong, wrong! ! !

The last card that shouldn’t be played should be directly connected to the plot of Alibaba Pictures’ arrival. Xiaodao will pay attention to it in the future!