Chapter 74 The End of February (4/4)
In recent years, the Internet has given many movies a second life!
Cinemas can’t make money, so more movies choose to open up a second battlefield - online playback.
Generally, the movie is about 30 days old, and many movies choose to be released in advance. For example, "The New King of Comedy", which was released for 28 days, directly transferring the battlefield to the Internet...
Although I don’t know the specific data, "Detective Pu Songling" must have achieved huge profits on the Internet, with a click volume of 140 million. Considering that the movie’s theater revenue is only 152 million yuan, the online revenue accounts for a large proportion of the total revenue of the movie—12 yuan per on-demand broadcast (6 yuan for VIP members)...
This money will not fall into the pockets of the film company, and the number of clicks also includes trial viewing, but the 140 million clicks will still generate considerable online revenue!
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On February 15th, Zhang Junsheng returned to China...
The first thing I do when I go home is to attend a cocktail party.
Dongyang Media held a cocktail party…
Perhaps to clear up the depression of last year, they invited many people.
Last year's end of the year, Dongyang Media ranked at the end of six major film and television companies, and was not even as good as the rising star Beijing Culture. The latter successively participated in the investment in popular films such as "I Am Not Pan Jinlian" and "Railway Flying Tiger", providing a guarantee for the growth of the company's main business.
Among the top 25 films in the mainland box office year, Dongyang Media has only one film called "Warcraft" that participated in the investment...
In terms of main business, although Dongyang Media has produced movies such as "I Am Not Pan Jinlian" and "The Death of Romantic", the box office of 3.1 billion yuan is by no means the top three in the industry...
This is not the first time!
Huang Zhongjun came out in person and announced the revocation of Huang Zhonglei's position as the head of the film business...
De-filmization directly transforms Dongyang Media from a market value of nearly 80 billion to less than 30 billion...
Of course, relying on their background, they are still opponents that cannot be underestimated. This year, there are "Xiao Ye" that continues the "Old Cannon" style, "Dragon Shake the World" ("British Duel"), and Ma Xiaokang Film Studio will launch three works: "Youth", "Mobile 2" and "Marriage Lab"...
In addition to the movie business, they are also preparing to regain the TV series business, "A Still a Couple", "Fantasy City", and "Late Night Cafeteria" have all been sold...
Of course, in addition to this time, they also want to pull out the newcomers they are promoting for everyone to meet...
Tang Yixin, the number one sister of Dongyang Media…
Celebrities who have done better these days have opened their own studios or even companies.
The remaining "No. 1 brothers" and "No. 1 sisters" in major companies are not all second- and third-tier companies. If you don't want to be cheaper outsiders, then you can just feed them resources.
Therefore, "Only the World", "The Tai Chi Master: Tai Chi Gate", "The Eight Hundred"...
Tang Yixin, when she was in "The Legend of Zhen Huan", Yuehua intended to sign her, which is known to everyone in the circle, but now she is under Dongyang Media's command, and the Huang brothers are extremely happy.
A group of artists attended...
There are not many artists anymore, only Xu Fan, Yang Lixin and Yao Dazui are the ones who can name them...
Of course, Virgin Yao has his own studio.
Zhang Junsheng didn't greet anyone much. He came here just to eat something, and by the way, he saw how Dongyang Media recovered the lost territory...
Now it seems that it is still the same thing, relying on big stars and big directors...
It does not consider market changes at all.
Now the mainstream human rights of movie viewing are already born in the 1990s...
Tang Ningyu walked over with a wine glass: "I have never understood why Dongyang Media wants to de-movie?"
"…It's probably because I feel that it's too tiring to make a movie, and the movie itself is full of uncertainty!"
"But they started out in movies!"
"Who knows what they think..."
While chatting, Liu Sisi led Lin Xinru over: "This one is Zhang Junsheng..."
Zhang Junsheng was quite polite: "Hello, Ms. Lin!"
"Call me Xinru!"
"Hehe... Hey, Zhonglei looks for me... I'll go there first!"
Without any idea to chat with her, Zhang Junsheng made an excuse and left directly...
He hates Ruby Lin very much. Although life is like a play and it all depends on acting skills, acting in life is the most disgusting thing.
"Don't he like me?"
"…I don't know, I'll ask for you!"
...
Huang Zhonglei looked grateful: "Junsheng, thank you for coming!"
“…You’re welcome, we’re all friends.”
Zhang Junsheng raised his wine glass, and the two of them took a sip, and the latter continued: "Dongyang is also preparing to transform into a heavy industry movie this year!"
“…really? That’s great!”
"We try to invest in Hollywood works, "Hurricane", "22 Miles", "A Little Bus" and "Minn"..."
"Literary and artistic?"
"There's no way, we're not as good as you in Hollywood..."
"Who do you work with?"
"Mainly cooperate with STX Entertainment!"
“…STX Entertainment? Which company did Lucbesson invest in?”
Zhang Junsheng was completely speechless...
STX Entertainment lost 1.5 billion yuan last year and then planned to go public in China. Tengxun and Li Zekai companies invested successively. STX Entertainment released 23 sets of movies, with a global box office revenue of US$1.3 billion. The average global box office of each movie was only more than US$5,600. In terms of business in China, the works they participated in were not very ideal.
By the way, "City of Thousand Stars" with a loss of more than $100 million is invested by STX Entertainment and Europa Film and Television...
According to the information in the prospectus, STX Entertainment is really not a good company. Not only does it lose over 100 million US dollars every year, the works it produces are not ideal in terms of reputation and commercial box office. Although its positioning is different from traditional Hollywood companies, it only produces medium-themed films of 20-80 million US dollars, it is a bit unreasonable to have not made any results for 5 years.
"Are you still angry at Lucbesson's actions? Didn't they return the eighty million euros to you later?"
"…That's because they lost the lawsuit..."
Zhang Junsheng shrugged and changed his tone: "You guys do whatever you want, but I don't think STX Entertainment is a good choice!"
“…We have no choice…”
Zhang Junsheng raised his glass and left...
If it was another company, Zhang Junsheng might have persuaded him, Dongyang Media would have to forget it...
Never forget to hit your competitors!
And even if you say it, it may not be useful. STX Entertainment has many resource tentacles in Hollywood, which caters to the internationalization needs of films in China since 2015. Chinese capital, which originally had no say in Hollywood, can only settle for the second best cooperation with STX Entertainment. As long as it is internationalized with Hollywood companies, it can meet the psychological needs of Chinese people.
Otherwise, why is Tengxun willing to invest?
Huang Zhonglei left, and Liu Sisi came over: "Don't you like Lin Xinru?"
"…Yes!"
Chapter completed!