Chapter 501: Youzu Calls
The 2021 Spring Festival is relatively late, starting in mid-February, so the Spring Festival movies will not officially end until March.
The final box office performance of "Assassination of Novelist" was fixed at 1.428 billion. Not only did it successfully recover its costs, but it also made nearly 400 million in box office profits, which can be said to be a great success.
The success of three consecutive movies has allowed director Lu Yang to prove his commercial value and become another core director under Shuidi Brokerage after Guo Fan.
The male lead Lei Jiayin has also completely secured his position as a first-line middle-aged student, verifying his performance in movies.
Similarly, although the heroine played by Li Qin is a tool person, she is also counted as the second one in her personal performance. The cumulative box office of the two movies reached 2.3 billion, surpassing Zhou Dongyu to become the first among the "90 Flowers".
Li Qin's fans can be said to be very happy. During this period, various record posters were flying all over the sky to help their sister promote her achievements.
Naturally, this move also caused dissatisfaction among many fans of the rival brands, who said that this achievement was purely obtained by freeloading and had nothing to do with Li Qin herself.
[It's so funny. The audience of "Psychological Crime" watched Meng Bai and Qin Hao, and the audience of "Assassination of Novelist" watched Lu Yang and Lei Jiayin. What does it have to do with Li Qin? ]
["The leading roles within the third place are counted as personal achievements" is recognized by the global film industry. Our Qinqin has two movies with one third place female lead and one second place female lead. What's wrong with counting the achievements? ]
[Every day they talk about "the first little flower", I thought she was so powerful, but it turned out to be only more than 2 billion, which can only show off among the "90 flowers" who are so poor. I won't use the previous ones to bully you. Even the little little flowers of the "post-00s" have Zhao Jinmai with 5 billion and Zhang Zifeng with 3 billion. ]
[We were originally talking about "90 flowers", so don't make self-inferences every day. Our main characters are so obscure, don't drag Mai Mai and Zifeng's sister out to take the blame. ]
[Stupid brainless fans! 】
【Trash little black guy! 】
【……】
【……】
Fan circles always go on like this, from the sarcasm at the beginning, to the mutual slander later, and finally to the abuse of each other, in the Internet age, the course of human civilization is reversed over and over again.
But no matter how much they quarrel, these wars of words are ultimately confined to the fan circle. For most ordinary passers-by, the most impressive movie during this year's Spring Festival is "Hello, Li Huanying", which has been soaring all the way and finally won an astonishing box office of 5.5 billion.
Before this, no one would have thought that such a comedy film directed by a new director and without big special effects could show such a strong box office dominance, even surpassing last year's "The Wandering Earth" and "Nezha: The Devil Boy Comes to the World", topping the domestic film box office list.
Many filmmakers and film and television big Vs have given explanations for the reasons, such as the accumulation of audiences' enthusiasm for watching movies due to the flu, the general increase in movie ticket prices in theaters, the only comedy-themed film in this year's Spring Festival, the lack of competition from big-budget works in the same period, and the popularity of the combination of "Shen Teng + Jia Ling" has driven a strong appeal...
In the final analysis, the Spring Festival period is still dominated by family-friendly comedies.
The biggest beneficiaries of the movie are naturally the various production companies and distribution companies behind it. "Hello, Li Huanying" has a total of four producers, 19 co-producers, and eight distributors and co-distributors.
Among them, the core position is naturally the main producer Heng Teng. According to the total box office of 5.5 billion, after deducting the share and cost, the final income is about 500 million.
You know, the total gambling income set by Heng Teng Network's acquisition of Ruyi was only 1.5 billion, and it was divided into three years. Now that one movie has completed one-third, you can imagine how explosive the results this time are.
Previously, due to the influence of the "help letter incident" of Evergrande, the major shareholder, the stock price of Hengten Network fell slightly.
However, with the release of the box office results of the two movies "Hello, Li Huanying" and "Assassination of Novelist", the original downward momentum made a sharp turn, and it started to rise directly without even a buffer.
However, not all projects of Hengten are successful. They also participated in the investment of "The Crowd", which is also in the Spring Festival. Although the final box office reached 760 million, the production and publicity costs of this movie were 250 million, and after deducting various shares, it still lost a little.
In general, this Spring Festival is a big profit for Meng Bai and Chen Zhixi. And this is only the beginning of the year. There are still several movies waiting in line for release this year.
Although it is still hard to say what the results will be, judging from past results, the possibility of success is far greater than failure.
Unknowingly, Hengten, or Ruyi, has become the main force of the new generation in the film industry.
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"Tsk tsk, look at the title of this interview, 'From a professional actor to a billionaire beauty producer'."
Meng Bai looked at the interview report written in capital letters on the screen, and said to the phone in a teasing tone: "Sister Xi, I suspect you forced the reporter to add the word 'beauty', right?"
"Why, am I not worthy of this title?" Chen Zhixi's murderous voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Haha, how could it be. I just think that the word 'beauty' can't highlight your temperament, Sister Xi."
"Hehe, you should save this kind of words for your little girlfriends." Chen Zhixi said: "Besides, the magazine originally wanted to interview you, but you insisted on pushing this job to me."
"I'm a grown man, and I can't get as much publicity as you, a 'beautiful producer'." Meng Bai said with a smile: "Besides, as a behind-the-scenes worker, my popularity is already a bit too high, and I need your help to share the burden."
"Your popularity is too high? Your scandals are too high!" Chen Zhixi complained bluntly.
That being said, she didn't call just to complain.
"Lehua Entertainment started to seek a re-listing this year and is preparing to introduce new benchmark investors. They really hope to use our resources in film and television. Do you think we should participate?"
"Lehua Entertainment? It's not that I look down on them, but now except for Wang Yibo, they don't seem to have anything to show for it." Meng Bai said.
As one of the oldest entertainment companies in the domestic entertainment industry, Lehua Entertainment has not developed smoothly in recent years.
With the gradual decline of the influence of Korean idols in the domestic entertainment industry, the "export to domestic sales" model they relied on in the past can no longer continue.
As for the several artists on hand, Han Geng is basically out of fashion, and Meng Meiqi and Wu Xuanyi's popularity has gradually dissipated over time after leaving "Rocket Girls".
Cheng Xiao, who was previously given high hopes, first lost her original unique track by losing weight to attract female fans, and was criticized for her acting skills after she transformed into an actor.
As for new idols from talent shows such as "Lehua Seven", Wang Yiren, and Jin Zihan, they are basically limited to the small circle of their own fans.
However, Lehua cooperated with ByteDance at the end of last year and launched the virtual idol group A-SOUL, which has developed quite fast. However, the domestic two-dimensional industry itself is not large, and virtual idols are a niche among niches. It is still difficult to see how it will develop in the future.
At present, the only product that Lehua Entertainment can show off is Wang Yibo.
However, it must be said that this person's efficiency is indeed very good, and he alone supports nearly half of the company's revenue. It is precisely because of him that Lehua has the confidence to restart the IPO.
But they also understand that there is no singing and dancing market in the domestic entertainment industry, and idols will eventually develop into actors. Lehua does not have film and television resources, so it needs to introduce a backer.
It happened that it had cooperated with Hengten before, so Lehua took the opportunity to make an investment invitation.
"But you have to admit that with Wang Yibo here, Lehua should have no problem going public. It is indeed a good investment." Chen Zhixi said: "There is no rush for this matter. Let's talk about it in detail at the next board meeting."
"Okay, but I remember that Wang Yibo signed a contract with Lehua a long time ago. You have to pay attention to how many years are left in their contract. If you really want to invest, you have to include the guarantee of personnel stability in the agreement." "Indeed
, this is also a problem. I will communicate more with the other party here, and we will talk about it when you come back."
Putting down the phone, Meng Bai thought about it and felt that investing in Lehua seemed to be no big problem, as long as there was no problem with the contract period just mentioned.
"If we really want to invest, we can send Bai Lu over to fulfill her dream of becoming a singing and dancing idol. And Boss Li, who rejected the scouts from Korean entertainment back then, can also give it a try."
Thinking about the scene where Li Yitong danced for him, Meng Bai suddenly felt a little more interested in this investment. He
shook his head and smiled, shifting his attention from the small head to the big head, and continued to look at the information in front of him.
He was currently in Blue Island, sitting in the "Sweeping Black Storm" crew as the chief producer. Although he no longer needs to take care of specific affairs with his current position, the final stage of matters related to financial transactions and budgets still needs to be submitted to him for review and approval.
While looking at the financial documents submitted by the crew, the mobile phone on the side suddenly rang. Meng Bai glanced at the screen and saw that it was an unfamiliar number.
He frowned and thought about it, and still answered the call.
"Hello, is this Mr. Meng from Arc Light Film and Television?"
A familiar female voice came from the other side of the phone, sounding a little nervous and hesitant.
"Hello, I'm Meng Bai." Meng Bai said calmly.
"Hello, Mr. Meng." The woman on the phone paused and continued, "I am the lover of Lin Qi from Youzu Network. I have met you before at a research meeting."
"Ah, Mrs. Lin." Meng Bai recalled instantly, "Do you have something to talk to me about?" The
other party did not speak. After a few seconds, she seemed to have made up her mind and said, "Mr. Meng, I have something to trouble you about the cooperation between Youzu and ArcLight. I wonder if you have time convenient for me now?"
Meng Bai smiled and said, "Of course, just tell me."
(End of this chapter)
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