Entertainment, I just like making movies

"In 2012, the Forbes rich list was released, and the chairman of Wahaha ranked first, becoming the richest man in China!"

"The international director Fang Ziheng has a net worth of 17.5 billion. At the age of 25, he entered the top 20 on the list and became the youngest billionaire in China."

"17.5 billion! Fang Ziheng surpassed Wang Zhongjun, chairman of Huayi Brothers, to top the wealth list in the film and television industry."

“It only took Fang Ziheng four short years to go from being a Nortel graduate to an international director to China’s youngest billionaire!”

"The film and television industry has great potential. First, the Hua Yi brothers have a market value of 58 billion, and then director Fang Ziheng becomes a new billionaire!"

The Internet completely exploded.

Entertainment news, economic news, social news, business news...

Except for the two major categories of people's livelihood and politics, almost all news categories reported the news that Fang Ziheng became a billionaire.

When many people saw this news, they subconsciously did not want to believe it and thought that the Forbes list was wrong.

It's so outrageous.

How could a director, a 25-year-old director who had only made a few movies, earn so much wealth in four years?

impossible!

Absolutely incompetent!

The netizens on the Internet, Fang Ziheng’s fans, and colleagues from major film and television companies who have dealt with him for a long time all do not believe this report.

It’s okay not to believe it!

Forbes list will take action.

When the Forbes wealth list subsequently announced the careers of the new rich, examples were given of projects in which Hengyu Media participated.

You have to believe it even if you don’t believe it.

Tudou Video has a market value of 15 billion, and Hengyu Media holds 50.1% of the shares, which amounts to 7.5 billion soft sister coins.

The second is Sina Weibo. The latest valuation given by large investment banks is US$3.5 billion to US$4 billion.

Hengyu Media holds 15% of the shares, which is approximately US$500 million, equivalent to 3.7 billion Rongmei coins.

The shares of these two companies alone represent a wealth of over 10 billion, not to mention that Hengyu Media also holds Qidian Chinese Network, the source of creative IP.

Hengyu Game Company, Hengyu Cinema Company, Tiantian Dongting APP, and the recently invested UC Mobile Browser.

After careful calculation, Fang Ziheng's wealth is still a lot less.

The Forbes list mainly counts Tudou Video and several Internet platforms in which Hengyu has invested.

The main business of Hengyu Media is not included at all.

Only then did people realize that Fang Ziheng’s net worth was not worth the slightest bit.

………

Huayi Brothers Headquarters.

Wang Zhongjun looked through the Forbes list in his hand, feeling a little aggrieved that it was higher than the list.

He is also on the list this time.

Ranked 40th with a wealth of 12 billion, Shi Yuzhu, who manages health care products and online games, has successfully surpassed the established rich.

In addition to him, Wang Zhonglei is also on the list, ranking 97th on the wealth list with a wealth of 7 billion.

Originally, it was a great joy in life for the two brothers to be on the list together.

But Fang Ziheng happened to be there. In just a few years, he overtook the two brothers in a corner.

What a freak!

Wang Zhongjun cursed secretly, picked up the phone and called his brother Wang Zhonglei, asking him to come to his office.

After a while, Wang Zhonglei opened the door and walked in with a happy face.

"Brother, you are looking for me!"

"I was just about to ask you. I'm going to buy a big villa in Shanghai. Do you want us to buy it together as brothers? We can visit during the New Year and holidays."

As soon as he entered the door, Wang Zhonglei was stunned. With a net worth of 7 billion, he had to think carefully about how to spend it.

"We'll talk about it later in the villa. Sit down, I have something serious to talk to you about."

Wang Zhongjun twitched the corner of his mouth, pointed to the seat in front of the desk and said in a deep voice.

His younger brother is good at everything, but he loves to play too much.

Luxurious cars, villas, female celebrities, making friends and having dinner parties, there is nothing this guy doesn't like.

When will I mature?

Wang Zhongjun shook his head inwardly, opened the drawer and took out a stack of invitations, saying: "Zhonglei, it's time for the company to do something."

"This year's Lunar New Year and Spring Festival are particularly important. The three movies "1942", "Twelve Chinese Zodiac Signs" and "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" all have the potential to be huge hits. Can the company's stock price exceed the 60 billion mark? Just look at the last shiver at the end of the year!”

"This is the invitation letter for the premiere of "1942". You can personally go and deliver it to the guests."

These invitations were personally written by him, the chairman, and the invited guests were extremely important.

"Oh, so many!"

Wang Zhonglei looked surprised and took the invitation and counted it.

There are twelve pictures in total, representing twelve heavyweight guests.

"No problem, I'll leave tomorrow."

Wang Zhonglei nodded and agreed.

Although I don’t know why my brother suddenly accelerated the promotion of "1942", public relations is his specialty.

This kind of thing is a piece of cake, and it's great to be able to go out and make more friends.

At the same time, Wang Zhonglei also believes that Hua Yi should flex his muscles and cannot always let Hengyu Media take the lead.

Today this movie is released, and tomorrow that movie is a hit, stirring up restlessness in the entire entertainment industry.

For a long time, Huayi's leading position will not be guaranteed!

Since 2010, Huayi has invested and released fewer blockbusters, and none of the projects it has controlled has become a hit.

If it hadn't caught up with Hengyu Media and gained a share of blockbuster movie projects such as "The Secret of the Dragon", Huayi's stock price would never have soared so fast.

Of course, the booming film market has also benefited Huayi a lot.

With its reputation as the number one film and television stock in mainland China, Huayi is very famous outside the industry and is the film and television stock of choice for many investors in the secondary market.

Wang Zhonglei may not be as far-sighted as his brother Wang Zhongjun, and lacks the vigilance to prepare for a rainy day.

But he has been in the entertainment and film and television industries for many years, and he knows that Hua Yi is now at a critical moment.

This year, Huayi has three blockbusters.

Among them, Huayi controlled the distribution of "1942" and "Twelve Zodiac Signs", and participated in the investment of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons".

"Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" was released with a guaranteed guarantee by Hengyu Media. Huayi recovered its costs early and made a fortune.

But that's not how things work out.

Huayi is a listed company. Whether it controls distribution or participates in investment, as soon as a movie is released, the box office performance will be reflected in the company's stock price.

Each of the three blockbusters is the seed of a hit and is the cornerstone of Huayi's stock price growth. It is best if there are no problems with any one of them.

The two brothers here are trying to figure out how to make the premiere of "1942" impressive and successful.

On the other side, Alibaba headquarters.

In Hang Chengma's office, he was also a little distracted holding a copy of the Forbes list.

This year, he ranked 11th on the list with a wealth of 21.4 billion, only 4 billion yuan away from Xu Jiaying, who ranked 10th.

He believes that his ranking will increase next year, and he may even aspire to be the richest man in a few years.

He is not a shallow person, and the reason why he lost his mind was not because of his own wealth, but because he saw Fang Ziheng not far behind the list.

17.5 billion!

What a terrible future!

No wonder he didn’t accept investment from Ali!

No one who has such a huge family fortune at such a young age will condescend to others.

If it were him, Hang Chengma, who had earned tens of billions when he was only 20 years old, he would probably be even more arrogant than Fang Ziheng.

Almost instantly, Hang Chengma understood the reason why Hengyu continuously rejected Alibaba's investment.

He looked at Shao Xiaoli who was sitting on the sofa, raised the wealth list in his hand, and said with a helpless smile: "Xiao Li, please go back and inform the Strategic Investment Department to stop the plan to inject capital into Hengyu Media."

"Okay, Chairman!"

Shao Xiaoli came here today to report on linking Youku Video and establishing the Alibaba Entertainment Business Group.

He had already read the rich list, so he naturally understood the meaning of the Hangzhou horse dialect.

Alibaba cannot regain Fang Ziheng.

He, the secretary-general of Alibaba's board of directors and chairman of Alibaba Pictures Group, is several notches behind Fang Ziheng in terms of accumulated wealth.

But one thing is for sure!

The film and television industry and the entertainment industry have great potential, and Alibaba is on the right track in accelerating the establishment of a large entertainment business group.

Immediately, Shao Xiaoli proposed to Hang Chengma to speed up the reorganization of Youku, speed up the acquisition of UC, Weibo shares and other matters.

While listening to the report, Hang Chengma pointed out the obstacles that would be encountered in acquiring several platforms.

Generally speaking, Hang Chengma will not personally intervene in projects less than 3 billion.

But the acquisition of UC Browser, Weibo, and the establishment of a large entertainment business are all extraordinary.

As the head of Alibaba, he must personally intervene.

After listening to the report, Hang Chengma's face completely calmed down and he said calmly: "I heard that last time Hengyu Media took the lead and took 20% of the shares of UC Browser."

"Yes, this is my fault. I didn't communicate with the strategic investment department in time, which led to the acquisition opportunity being taken away."

Shao Xiaoli nodded slowly, looking ashamed.

His heart was in a different situation, and he couldn't help but sigh at Fang Ziheng's vision.

Fang Ziheng’s move accurately calculated the importance of UC to Alibaba.

He first contacted He Xiaopeng, the founder of UC, and grabbed 20% of the shares, thus foiling Alibaba's plan to control UC.

In this way, if Alibaba wants to win UC, it must deal with He Xiaopeng and Hengyu Media at the same time.

As long as one of the two parties is unwilling to sell shares, or if it drags on for a year and a half, it will cause a strong obstacle to Ali's strategic goals.

Not to mention the establishment of a large entertainment business group, Ali's hidden plans to attract traffic will all come to nothing.

As an important figure connecting Alibaba headquarters and Alibaba Pictures Group, Shao Xiaoli sees this clearly.

He looked at Hangcheng Ma expectantly, hoping to hear encouraging words and news from this super swordsman's mouth.

really.

After Hangcheng Ma learned the details, he suddenly stood up from the boss's chair with a wild expression and immediately changed into a different person.

"Acquisition, continue to initiate acquisitions!"

"Let the strategic investment department negotiate with each other one by one. It's all about money. Businessmen value profits. What is UC's current valuation? Give me double it!"

I don’t believe it anymore. He Xiaopeng and UC’s shareholders won’t be moved when they see so much money! "

An extremely confident tone came out of Hangchengma's mouth.

It was as if he had returned to the time when he was doing ideological work with his subordinates. At this moment, Hangcheng Ma was like a god of war possessing him, and his energy and energy soared to the peak state.

This state will only appear in him when he encounters things that make him happy.

These few words touched Shao Xiaoli's heart and made him excited.

What a fuck!

It’s still fun to buy, buy, buy, UC’s valuation doubles, and you can make a lot of money!

Shao Xiaoli slapped his thigh fiercely, stood up with the Hangzhou horse, and said without thinking: "Chairman, last time UC was valued at 1.2 billion U.S. dollars. After bringing in Hengyu Media's 900 million in cash and content, I estimate it is only worth 2 billion U.S. dollars. knife!"

"If it doubles, it will cost up to US$5 billion!"

"Okay, you inform Lao Cai and ask him to personally lead a team to UC. Let's talk about it as $5 billion."

"I have only one request: to fully acquire all the shares of UC!"

Hang Chengma waved his hand and issued strategic instructions to Shao Xiaoli with great arrogance.

"Yes, I'll do it right away!"

Shao Xiaoli looked solemn, turned around and left without saying a word, preparing to contact Lao Cai as soon as possible.

Lao Cai's name is Cai Chong, the executive vice chairman of Alibaba's board of directors. He previously served as Alibaba's chief financial officer. In August this year, he was fully responsible for the strategic investment of Alibaba Group.

A rich list has indirectly caused Huayi and Alibaba Pictures Group to speed up their deployment in the film and television industry.

Not only that, Xiao Ma, the boss of Wanda Group, who is far away in Shenzhen, also turned his attention to the film and television industry again because of Fang Ziheng's rise.

In particular, Shencheng Ma has the same idea as Hangcheng Ma. They want to take advantage of the good opportunity to enter the film and television industry and carve out a pan-entertainment territory.

Tengxun headquarters.

Shencheng Ma met with Cheng Wu, the head of Tengxun Interactive Entertainment, Sun Zhong from Tengxun Video, and Liu Zhiping, CEO of Tengxun Group, in his office.

"Three of you, time waits for no one. The film and television industry is becoming more and more popular. Tengxun must speed up the pace to improve the layout of the industry chain."

In the office, Shen Chengma sat in the main seat in the sofa area and said to Cheng Wu, Sun Zhong and Liu Zhiping on both sides.

On the coffee table in front of him, there was a copy of the 2012 Forbes Rich List.

"Director Ma, our speed is already very fast. The major novel platforms we acquired recently have now been connected, and the newly established Chuangshi Chinese Network also occupies 30% of the market share!"

Among the three, Sun Zhong was the first to speak.

Only he, the person in charge of Tengxun Video, understands why Shencheng Ma wants to speed up its industrial layout.

As soon as the Forbes list came out, Fang Ziheng's net worth was exposed to the public and also appeared in the eyes of countless capitalists.

Tens of billionaires have appeared in the film and television industry!

Two people suddenly appeared.

What does this mean?

Naturally illustrates the prospects of this industry.

If there are two billionaires, there will be three, five, or even ten billionaires.

You can tell with just your fingers that the murky waters of the film and television industry will gather more and more capital predators.

Capital comes to compete for the huge cake of this rising industry.

Tengxun has entered the market in advance and has taken an advantage. The next goal is to seize this opportunity and even further seize more markets.

Sun Zhong understands Hangcheng Ma's thoughts very well, but understanding is understanding, and things must be done step by step.

Tengxun Interactive Entertainment, Tengxun Pictures, Tengxun Video, Tengxun Games, Tengxun Animation, and Tengxun Literature.

Several major entertainment companies have just been established, and except for games, none of them can carry the banner.

Even if you want to speed up the pace, you still have to have a project!

Alibaba Pictures has also produced two movies, one is "Qixing Lu Wang" and the other is "To Youth". What does Teng Xun have?

Make bricks without straw!

Sun Zhong said that I understood, but there was really nothing I could do.

As he finished speaking, the office suddenly fell silent.

Cheng Wu and Liu Zhiping also understood what Shencheng Ma was referring to and quickly thought of ways to accelerate.

After much deliberation, the two of them only came up with one solution!

That is to work on projects, film projects and TV series projects.

The two looked at each other, and Cheng Wu was the first to speak: "Director Ma, if you have to speed up, you can only invest in movies and TV series."

"Oh, tell me in detail." Hangcheng Ma smiled encouragingly, indicating that Cheng Wu should continue.

"Whether it is a movie or a TV series, a project has several major processes, from preparation, project establishment, filming, review, publicity, and release. Each level can drive the development of related businesses."

"For example, for a movie with an investment of over 100 million, from the preparation to the release of the movie, it can initially increase the visibility of Tengxun Interactive Entertainment, Tengxun Video, and Tengxun Pictures.

In the mid-term, the front-line production capabilities of Tengxun Pictures will be enhanced. In the later period, it can drive the development of Tengxun games and Tengxun literature, and drive user activity on the two platforms. "

Cheng Wu's words made Shencheng Ma's eyes light up.

It is a good idea to use projects to drive development.

As a top expert in the product field, Shencheng Ma immediately understood the benefits of this suggestion.

Investing in and controlling a blockbuster film will instantly revitalize Tengxun's entertainment business.

Dry!

Must do!

Thinking of this, he immediately made up his mind to continue learning from Alibaba Pictures Group.

"In this way, with Tengxun Pictures as the main company, Tengxun Interactive Entertainment, and Tengxun Video as the supplements, the three companies will jointly invest and control a movie!"

"The total investment is set at 200 million, no, at least 300 million soft sister coins!"

"We at Tengxun either don't make movies, or we have to make blockbusters. If you have any good ideas about the type of movie, everyone can speak freely."

"As for the starring role of the movie, I think we can invite Jet Li!"

When talking about making movies, Shencheng Ma also became energetic.

The more he talked, the more excited he became, as if he was talking about new products with the employees at Tencent's product research and development center. The title of the movie was not yet confirmed, so he was thinking of letting Brother Jie star.