In the movie, Yang Ruoqian is not the only one who played a cameo role.
Cheng Fei also made a guest appearance.
Now it seems that the audience seems to be very interested in finding such interesting details, so interested that they are even willing to pay more money to watch the movie again...
If, on the other hand, the company takes the initiative to use this incident to organize a small event, can it attract more people to participate? If more people participate, the event will be bigger, and the money can be spent.
However, we must be wary of any situation that may result in profit and close all possible payment channels.
After a plan came to his mind, he picked up his phone and sent a WeChat message to Cheng Fei.
After all, this matter directly involves the partner himself, so no matter what, we must seek his consent before proceeding.
"Boss Cheng, have you seen the hot searches? The audience is very interested in the guest role played by the company's boss. I just came up with an idea. How about using this to organize an event?"
Ten seconds later, Cheng Fei sent a reply: "It's rare for you, Mr. Yang, to take the initiative to contact us... Sure, no problem, what kind of activities do you want to organize?"
Yang Ruoqian typed, "Give the audience a hint that in addition to me, there is another leader who plays a cameo role in the movie. If you can find this role, you can get a small gift from the company. How about that?"
Yang Ruoqian really took great pains to come up with a reason to spend the money.
Sometimes he himself couldn't figure out how he could come up with such bizarre excuses to spend money.
Sometimes people's creativity needs to be pushed to come out.
Cheng Fei asked: "Boss Yang, do you want to boost the box office with this kind of activity? To get the audience to watch the movie a second or third time?"
Yang Ruoqian immediately denied it: "That's too ugly, the audience may not buy it. I plan to hold this event after the movie is out of theaters."
If this kind of activity is held when a movie is released, and if in the end the total cost of the activity is less than the additional box office revenue, it would be somewhat of a loss.
After a movie is taken off the screen, it will appear on various online platforms and can still be watched, generating subsequent advertising and copyright revenues.
But compared to the stage of being released in theaters, the revenue will be obviously much less.
Cheng Fei readily agreed: "Okay, no problem, you make the decision. Just tell us how much money you need for the event, and we will sponsor it."
Yang Ruoqian refused straightforwardly: "No need for sponsorship, it's just that this event involves you personally, so I came over to say hello to you."
“In fact, we can really sponsor it…”
"Haha, President Cheng has given me so many gifts, and it's not a very expensive event, so we can just take care of it. That's all, there's a very important meeting at the company later, so I'll hang up now."
You've already made so many holes for me, I'm going to fill them up one by one now, please stop making trouble.
After exiting WeChat, Yang Ruoqian was just about to arrange his work when the company phone at hand suddenly rang.
Ding-a-ling…
"It's rare. There are actually people calling my office directly now?"
Yang Ruoqian was stunned for a moment.
In recent times, this phone in the president's office has actually been almost covered in dust.
After all, as the company grew bigger, Yang Ruoqian had less and less energy to directly take charge of the projects.
When a company that wants to cooperate with me calls, the call will basically no longer be transferred to me, but will be transferred to the person in charge of a specific project.
For example, if a business wants to spend money to sponsor the YTG e-sports club, they will call the company, and the person who will answer the phone will definitely be Weng Ziqin, who is in charge of operations.
Even the person in charge under Weng Ziqin can take full charge of this matter.
Those who really have urgent matters and need to discuss them directly with Yang Ruoqian himself are basically very familiar partners and have each other's personal contact information.
You can contact via mobile phone or WeChat, there is no need to call the office.
So... who is the person who wants to contact me this time?
Could it be that some terrifying big project is about to hit him? So big that only the chairman of the company can make the decision? No, this behavior must be firmly and resolutely rejected! Yang Ruoqian shuddered, reached out to answer the phone, and pretended to be calm: "Hello?"
The girl at the front desk said, "Mr. Yang, here's a call for you. It's from Jinwo Entertainment Weekly."
Jinwo Entertainment Weekly...
This name is not unfamiliar. It seems to be one of the top entertainment media in the country. It often gets first-hand insider information and has a very good influence.
The fact that they have taken the initiative to call the company now also illustrates a current situation - regardless of whether the Kuiguang Group itself has this intention or not, it has already forcibly seized a place in the very closed circle of the traditional entertainment industry.
Maybe other companies will disagree, maybe other competitors will come to squeeze us out, or maybe someone will sneer at us.
But…most people go into business to make money.
In the past, everyone viewed the Kuiguang Group as a monster that was out to steal their cake and they were all secretly plotting bad things and thinking of ways to suppress and exclude it.
As a result, the Kuiguang Group didn't play with them at all. They didn't have the money to spend, and they didn't have the resources to build themselves. They just thrived and carved out a path for themselves, leaving a bunch of people staring at each other in amazement.
But after all, no one is against money. Seeing that the Kuiguang Group has completely established its foothold, the movies it has made are making huge profits, and the artists it has trained have become popular overnight, the attitudes of many traditional companies in the entertainment industry have gradually changed from fear to envy.
We have no hatred towards Kuiguang Group, so why do we have to be enemies with each other? It would be much better if we could cooperate with each other and make money together.
So, naturally, some companies will start to change their strategies and extend olive branches.
Even if there is a conflict with Yuefu, so what? Kuiguang Group has its own connections, its own resources, and is not listed. It is a perfect ecological closed loop. Even if others want to interfere, they can't find a loophole.
Although it seems a bit opportunistic to show goodwill to Kuiguang Group at this stage, at least the cooperation can still catch the last train now.
If we delay any longer, I'm afraid we won't have even the last chance.
After Yang Ruoqian figured it out, he relaxed a little and nodded slightly: "Take it."
"Okay, Mr. Yang, please wait a moment."
After a busy tone, the voice on the other end of the phone suddenly became clear.
"Hello, Mr. Yang. Hello, am I disturbing you? My name is Duan Run, and I'm the editor-in-chief of Golden Snail Weekly. You can just call me Xiao Duan."
"Hello, Editor-in-Chief Duan." It was impossible for Yang Ruoqian to really force himself to be promoted to a higher level and become a senior to someone who was a whole generation older than him.
Duan Run's voice was filled with smiles: "Congratulations, Mr. Yang, the movie is a huge success. We...um, would like to discuss cooperation with your company, is that ok?"
As expected, he is here to cause trouble!
They say it’s cooperation, but in fact they just want to come up with some vicious ways to make money.
Yang Ruoqian was on high alert, "Editor-in-Chief Duan wants to discuss cooperation with the company. He can just contact the leaders of the relevant departments directly. He doesn't need to call me."
After all, if you ask your subordinates to refuse a certain cooperation, you can directly use reasons such as "the leader's order" to forcibly refuse.
But if I were to talk to myself, I would have to make up some self-consistent excuses to refuse cooperation.
What's even more terrifying is that Yang Ruoqian needs to come up with this excuse on the spot. It looks simple, but it is actually a very difficult task.
If a loophole occurs accidentally and someone points it out, you have to make up 10 excuses to cover it up.
Duan Run quickly explained: "Mr. Yang, this matter is mainly related to you. We would like to conduct an exclusive interview with you and the artists under your company. What preparations do we need to make?"
Exclusive interview?
Interview me? It's OK to interview Shang Qianyu, but there's nothing to interview about the boss of my company. He doesn't make money by fame.
Yang Ruoqian was a little confused: "Uh, if I heard correctly, you want to interview me?"
"Yes, as the most outstanding young entrepreneur in Jinhai City, many people pay more attention to you than others." Duan Run said with a smile, "Everyone is curious about your mental journey of starting a business. It is not easy to start from scratch. What difficulties did you encounter along the way and how did you solve them..."
"Could you spare a moment of your precious time to help us solve this problem?"
Yang Ruoqian couldn't find the right words for a moment: "..."
My brother, we have no grudges against each other, why did you come up and stab me in the heart with a knife? Apply salt to my wound? What difficulties did you encounter? How did you solve them? Do you think it is possible that I have not encountered difficulties for a single day since I started my business?
Also a solution...
If I could solve all these difficulties, I would have traveled around the world and enjoyed life by now. Why do I still have to work hard every day?
No matter what you do, you will always be able to make money by chance. Why is it so difficult to fail once?
The most important thing is that after several coincidences, some projects that could obviously lose money, such as the industry surrounding the e-sports club, actually started to make money again after follow-up investments from other partners!
Yang Ruoqian could guess what the scene would be like when he was interviewed.
It is comparable to the ancient corpse whipping and execution scenes.
And you have to smile and act like you have made a lot of money.
This kind of torture is a bit too retro for modern society.
Yang Ruoqian was silent for a long time, and said with some resistance: "Well, I'm sorry, I have some important projects to deal with personally recently, and I may not be able to spare the time. How about this, you wait for my call later."
This is true.
Shelter's Titanic 2 is estimated to require an investment of 500 million yuan, isn't it a huge project? As for the phone call...
Anyone who has worked in the workplace knows that it means a polite refusal.
Duan Run was not stupid. He knew that it was insincere for him to come here empty-handed, and there was no way he would waste money on such a big boss who could make millions of dollars every minute.
"Mr. Yang, you should be paying attention to the recent hot searches." Duan Run confidently played his first card, "The reason why your movie is so popular is that we also contributed to it."
"You can flip through those posts and articles that have exploded in readership and look at the signature column below. They are all our people!"
Yang Ruoqian opened his mouth again, but nothing came out.
Good man, I was wondering why this damn thing could be so hyped up, and the culprit actually came to me!
Are you contributing?
Aren't you pushing me into the fire?
Seeing the other party remain silent and start to waver and soften, Duan Run was overjoyed and quickly struck while the iron was hot, playing another trump card: "Also, have you seen the current trending searches on Weibo? You should know that to be in the top three of the trending searches, you need not only popularity, but also operating fees, right?"
"Hey, to be honest, we helped to do it. Look, the effect is so good!"
Yang Ruoqian wanted to go over the phone and beat up Duan Runhai, but he resisted the urge to collapse and laughed dryly, "Haha, so you guys did it. Thank you so much."
Before, I thought that this kind of publicity work was handled by Chengyu, so I didn’t think much about it.
It's normal to spend money on publicity and promotion.
Who would have known that the one who betrayed him this time was not his partner, but an entertainment weekly magazine with which he had no previous contact.
Can you please stop doing bad things behind my back? "Haha, Mr. Yang, you are joking. You and Kuiguang Group are very popular now. Without showing some sincerity, can you agree to cooperate with us? It's all right, all right." Duan Run felt a little proud in his heart.
How could there be so many good things in this world that you don't get what you want? Since you are jealous of others' popularity, you have to pay the money first and make Mr. Yang happy, so that you can talk about the rest.
Without the connections of the Kuiguang Group and relevant resources, you have to be willing to spend money and make concessions.
Now it seems that the effect has been achieved perfectly.
Mr. Yang, the boss of such a big group, also said thank you to us. It makes me feel very proud if I tell others about it.
Yang Ruoqian resisted the urge to hang up the phone and tried to remain calm: "Editor-in-Chief Duan, look at what you said. If I reject you, will you remove my hot search?"
When Duan Run heard that such a big boss was joking with him, he knew that the matter was settled, and he laughed out loud: "Boss Yang, you are such a humorous person! No way, how could it be possible?"
Wouldn’t it be…
So sad.
I originally thought that at least I could stop the loss.
Yang Ruoqian was thinking about how to make the other party stop hurting him.
Duan Run, who felt that the matter had been settled, said, "By the way, you should know that we give out some awards every year, right?"
"Although it is not as valuable as other international awards, it is still an award that is more or less recognized by the industry. You and your company should need it right now."
"Not only will there be an award ceremony with certificates and trophies, but there will also be a prize of 88,000 yuan for each winner! Of course, we know that this amount of money is nothing to you..."
No matter how much the bonus is, it’s just a good intention.
The most important thing is that this award method represents that the domestic entertainment industry has officially accepted the Kuiguang Group and officially recognized it as one of its own.
Even not recognizing it is not acceptable - if even the Kuiguang Group, which produced "The Boys", is not recognized, then the entertainment industry's already not-so-good reputation will be further damaged.
In other words, the value of "The Boys" does not need to be recognized by these companies, but these companies need to rush to recognize "The Boys" to prove their own value.
If such a good work is not awarded, it only proves that the award is not objective at all and has no value at all.
When Yang Ruoqian heard the number of 88,000, he agreed without thinking: "It's okay to interview. When can you come over? The company is always available."
So he is rich, so the misunderstanding is cleared up.
Interview when you want to, interview however you want.
I filled up my supercar with a tank of gas yesterday, and it almost left Mr. Yang with a psychological trauma.
Duan Run, who finally got the interview permission, was so happy that he couldn't stop smiling. He said, "It's okay, it's convenient for us from next Monday to Wednesday. How about you choose a less important day?"
Yang Ruoqian immediately confirmed the date: "Then let's go for Monday. I'll make an appointment for you with the front desk later, and you can just call when you come."
As if he felt that he was being too unreserved and impatient, Yang Ruoqian, who was very proud, added, "Mainly, the success of this movie is the result of the joint efforts of everyone in the company. The young men are all waiting to be recognized and praised."
Listening to Yang Ruoqian's words, Duan Run felt extremely honored.
Look, he is worthy of being an entrepreneur at such a young age, his speech is very classy!
"Oh, you're really making me hungry. This is really too much trouble..."
After the polite words, we can't neglect the business.
The so-called "it won't take much time" mentioned above are naturally polite remarks.
The specific method of conducting the interview and the size of the interview team all need to be discussed in detail and dealt with based on the facts.
If the Kuiguang Group really does not have much time, there will not be many visiting reporters, and the final manuscript will also be a text manuscript.
If I were to produce a video or even something like a documentary, the workload would be enormous.
The number of people needed will also increase accordingly.
Duan Run thought for a moment and said, "Boss Yang, could you please tell me how many people Kuiguang Group can accommodate at most?"
Although it is called a reception, in fact, the travel expenses are all borne by Jinwo Media, and it is impossible for Kuiguang Group to pay for it.
However, I still have to say some polite words.
But these words did not mean the same thing to Yang Ruoqian.
Reception?! There is actually a program for receiving interview teams?
I've already been given a bonus of 88,000 yuan, so why are there additional projects? It also gives me an excuse to spend more money. How embarrassing.
The slight unpleasantness of helping to promote the movie before was completely gone after this round of conversation. Yang Ruoqian suppressed his excitement and said, "Since Editor Duan is so kind, we can't be insincere. How about this, the number of visitors on your side should be based on the highest standard."
"The interview content should be as rich as possible."
"The longer the interview, the better."
Just think about it, a large number of people came to Jinhai from other places, including travel expenses, hotel fees, food expenses...
With so many people, how much money can each of them eat? Duan Run heard that the other party actually valued his interview so much, and he was more certain that he had chosen the right company and the right person.
"Then Mr. Yang, I'll let you know when I get here. I'm looking forward to our cooperation this time!"
Having said that, he was about to hang up the phone.
The more Yang Ruoqian listened, the more he felt something was wrong, so he quickly interrupted, "Wait!"
What the hell, didn't we just say that Kui Guang would come to receive us? Why did he hang up without asking for any information? He should have asked for the specific hotel address, how to check in, and what dietary restrictions the visiting team has? He didn't say anything, so how could he find someone to make arrangements?
Even if he was not responsible for handling these matters, he should have left a phone number for the person in charge, right? Why did he just hang up? Generally speaking, Yang Ruoqian would not need to worry about such a small matter. The problem was that it was already mid-June and the system was about to be settled.
It's rare to have something that can cost a lot of money, so we must take it absolutely seriously.
Duan Run asked curiously, "Mr. Yang, is there anything else?"
Yang Ruoqian also asked curiously: "Editor-in-Chief Duan, have you forgotten something? How did you consider the accommodation and meals here?"
Duan Run was confused: "Ah, this matter... I don't know either. In our company, the administrative department is usually responsible for these arrangements. Well, judging from the usual situation, we will probably stay in a three-star hotel, and the meals will be at the normal standard of 30 yuan per person."
"Uh, if Mr. Yang is really curious about the specific details, I'll ask later?"
Listening to Duan Run's words, Yang Ruoqian was completely speechless.
So you were just being polite when you said you were hosting me? In the end, you still had to make your own arrangements? I thought you were an honest person.
But how could Mr. Yang easily give up this opportunity to bleed heavily? He immediately pretended to be displeased and said, "How can this be possible!"
"You have come from afar, you have been exhausted by the journey, and you have been worrying about our company's affairs, but in the end we don't provide anything and let you pay for it yourself. If you tell others about this, you will be laughed at!"
"If this gets out, how will our group survive?"
"How about this, I'll give you a cell phone number and he'll contact you later. The number is 137xxxxxxxx."
"Okay, I'll hang up if there's nothing else. Bye."
After saying that, Yang Ruoqian hung up the phone without giving Duan Run even a second to react.
Isn’t it just that the movie is a big hit at the box office?
Isn’t it just a huge profit of 200 million?
As long as they quickly acquire the Shelter Company, quickly invest the money earned into "Titanic 2", and then try their best to exploit all the loopholes they can, they will definitely make a profit at the end of the quarter! Although doing so is likely to cause the movie to become popular again, causing Jinwo Media to increase its return to the company, which is a behavior of drinking poison to quench thirst, Yang Ruoqian can no longer care about so much at this time.
When settling accounts, there must be a loss!
…
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Monday, June 19th.
Guangzhou's Baiyun Airport is still as busy as usual.
But at the airport's business class/first class security checkpoint, there were a dozen people carrying backpacks and looking confused.
"Editor-in-Chief Duan... I have a question. Why do we have to send three separate flights to Jinhai when we have so few people?"
Duan Run was also at a loss: "The Kuiguang Group said that because there were not so many vacant business class seats on the plane, they had to arrange us separately. They also said that they hoped we would forgive them."
"..." (End of this chapter)
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