Almost at the same time as the movie on the plane ended, Qi Mu's phone lit up. She looked at the message, stood up and walked towards Yang Ruoqian.
Mr. Yang, who had not yet recovered from the shock of "The Wandering Blue Planet", immediately looked at the secretary with the most vigilant eyes.
"What's wrong?"
Qi Mu smiled and said, "Boss Yang, Liu Bi, the person in charge of Xiao Liu Film, just sent me a message saying that he wants to talk to you about "Wandering Blue Star". Are you free?"
Yang Ruoqian thought for a moment and nodded, "I'll talk to him using my device."
At this time, Mr. Yang still had a little bit of hope - he had worked so hard on it, and he held "The Wandering Blue Star" to the standards of "The Fortress of the Devil City", so he shouldn't be unable to find any flaws, right?
From Liu Bi's perspective as a professional film critic, he should be able to find some flaws, right?
As long as we seize this flaw and criticize it to death, we should be able to save the reputation of the movie, right? Although it is approaching the end of the month settlement date, there are still several days left.
If "The Wandering Blue Star" really takes off like "The Boys", the box office crash in the past few days will definitely be a big loss.
Naturally, we should push it to the lowest possible level.
After Qi Mu returned to his seat, Yang Ruoqian took out his phone and sent a message to Liu Bi: "You've seen the movie. Do you think there are any shortcomings?"
Liu Bi replied within a second: "Mr. Yang is awesome! At that time, everyone had such high expectations for this movie. To be honest, I was a little worried. Now it seems that I was just worrying too much."
Yang Ruoqian squeezed the empty cup in his hand and said, "...I asked you to point out the shortcomings. There's no need to flatter me. Point out some faults quickly."
He is too anxious now. "The Wandering Blue Star", which was highly anticipated and regarded as a loss-making giant, has unexpectedly failed!
But fortunately, there are only a few days left until the end of the quarter, and the movie has just been released, so there is plenty of time to react.
Even if it is inevitable that the film will become a hit, or even surpass the popularity of "The Boys", it will take a certain period of time to recover the funds for the film.
As for profits, they will basically be piled up into the next quarter.
To be on the safe side, Yang Ruoqian also used the excuse of a company business trip to use system funds to buy this plane, which is now worth hundreds of millions.
A movie with a cost of 200 million and a plane with a cost of 600 million, together, there is a huge gap of 900 million. Even if other industries are desperately trying to make money, even if the sales of YTG champion skins are maximized, the gap of 700 million can still be made up.
700 million...
The combined domestic and international box office revenue of "The Boys" was just over 1 billion yuan, and this period lasted for several months.
As long as he can stabilize the box office of "Wandering Blue Planet" a little, Yang Ruoqian can still achieve small financial freedom according to the current subsidy of one-tenth of the individual's losses.
The key to stabilizing the box office is publicity! Liu Bi quickly replied: "Mr. Yang, in fact, from a completely professional point of view, there are definitely some problems with "Wandering Blue Star"... But this is the first time I watch this movie, and I can't notice many details. I may need to watch it a few more times before I can give you the most objective evaluation."
Upon hearing this, Yang Ruoqian immediately looked up at Cheng Fei, who was walking towards him with a bottle of champagne in his hand, and said quickly: "Boss Cheng, do you have the original film of the movie? Give me a copy."
"Of course there is." Cheng Fei nodded and took a sip of the wine in the glass. "I'll have someone send you one later."
"Okay, as soon as possible, I need it urgently." Yang Ruoqian nodded, "I won't drink the wine."
"Boss Yang is really..." As the deputy producer of the film, Cheng Fei did not hide the smile on her face at all, "Before the movie was released, he was as steady as a rock and strolling in the garden. Now that the movie is released and the response is good, he is actually busy."
For her, being able to participate in the production and distribution of two successful films, "The Boys" and "Wandering Blue Planet", is enough to suppress all doubts.
Even if we consider the worst case scenario, even if the next few films fail to make a splash, the pioneering and commercial nature of these two films alone are enough for Chengyu Media to gain a firm foothold in the entertainment industry.
It can be said that the Kuiguang Group accounts for at least 90% of all the credit.
Before "Wandering Blue Planet", the lessons of "Demon City Fortress" were still vivid in my mind.
In order to make the so-called hard science fiction movie, Yuefu Group looked for masterpieces by famous artists, invited popular stars, and carried out publicity. However, when the results came out, both the word-of-mouth and the box office were a failure, and the company got nothing but a complete loss of all its money.
You have to know that an old giant like Yuefu Group is stronger than Kui Guang and Cheng Yu in promoting new movies.
However, Yang Ruoqian dared to go against the trend and quickly started his own science fiction work after "The Fortress of the Demon City".
Trust your own judgment, don't be scared by market feedback, and focus on your own content creation... Stay calm before the movie is released, and then make quick adjustments after it's released based on what you see and market feedback.
This is why, despite having such good benefits and such short working hours, the Kuiguang Group can still burst out with such strong vitality.
The working environment on the plane was obviously so good, but Mr. Yang insisted on giving everyone a day off.
On the other hand, at Chengyu, everyone was clearly working against the clock and did not stop until the movie was released, but their efficiency was not as good as that of Kuiguang Group.
A year ago, Kuiguang Group was basically a tiny thing compared to Chengyu Media, and their scale, assets and cash flow were completely not on the same level.
Even in cooperation, Chengyu Media is in an absolute leading position.
Now, a year later, Kuiguang Group has long been on par with Chengyu Media, and is even showing signs of surpassing Chengyu Media.
Just as Kuiguang Group not only cooperates with Chengyu Media, Chengyu Media’s business cannot be limited to Kuiguang alone.
After the results were released, many film production companies approached Chengyu Media to do publicity and promotion.
But most of them failed to make a profit, and as the issuer, Chengyu Media only made a small profit.
Cooperation like that with Kuiguang Group, which has been a success over and over again, is rare in the industry.
What's more, both "The Black Robe Inspection Team" and "The Wandering Blue Star" have the potential to have a second part!
The subsequent development of these two huge IPs has countless potential values.
There are some things that I should learn from Kuiguang Group...
But partners are partners, and some business secrets cannot be shared...
For example, Cheng Fei could never find out why the Kuiguang Group was so creative and the company was so energetic.
The company's own team of analysts who specialize in analyzing the Kuiguang Group does not seem to have produced much useful information.
Perhaps we can get a glimpse of this group outing.
Shang Qianyu was very satisfied with his performance in the movie, and came over to agree, "That's why the boss is so successful!"
Yang Ruoqian had heard such heart-piercing words too many times. He responded with a few "hmm" and "ah" and continued to send messages to Liu Bi: "You don't have to go to the cinema to watch it. I will give you the original film later. Watch it and quickly find more shortcomings and summarize them. Got it?"
Seeing this message, Liu Bi couldn't believe his eyes: "Boss Yang, you said... you will give us the original film at this stage?!"
It’s no wonder that Liu Bi was shocked. The movie had only been released for a few hours, and countless film review bloggers were scrambling to buy tickets in advance to watch it in the cinema.
Not even just buying a ticket.
In order to make the best and fastest film review videos, many bloggers even bought several tickets, and some even secretly recorded videos with their mobile phones just to be able to watch the movie over and over again.
This is to prevent the film reviews from being too low in quality or having too many flaws, which would be caught by picky audiences.
And if you get caught by the audience, the most you'll get is a few scolds and lose some fans. As long as there's no problem of principle, you can get away with it by pretending to be dead for a while.
It's not a big problem.
The most terrifying thing is that if the evaluation of "The Wandering Blue Planet" is not objective enough, the Kuiguang Group may directly sue them in court and frame them with some random charges. Even if they cannot win the case in the end, it will be enough to make them suffer.
Jinhai Pizza Hut’s name is not for nothing.
Most of the last group of people who dared to make random comments about the films of Kuiguang Group have not yet recovered from the shock.
Even if someone gave them money to ask bloggers to criticize "The Wandering Blue Planet", they would still have the intention but not the courage to do so.
But Yang Ruoqian has now directly authorized the original film to Liu Bi in advance! This means that Liu Bi no longer needs to buy tickets and can go directly back to his studio to work on every detail of the film.
You can rewind it if you want, and watch it as many times as you want...
What a huge advantage this is! It's good to have someone close to you!
It was worth it that he was visited by children in the zoo, scared out of his wits in the haunted house, and brainwashed by bad movies in the private cinema.
It was not enough to get a high-paying contract, he could also get the original film in advance! And judging from the current situation, as long as Liu Bi did not commit suicide and deliberately angered Kuiguang Group, he would be able to get the original film of all Kuiguang's movies in the future.
No need to get up early to squeeze into the movie theater! "Yes, remember to find more flaws in the movie." Yang Ruoqian kept repeating this extremely important thing, "Don't let me down."
Liu Bi was a little surprised when he heard this: "Boss Yang, should I help you summarize these flaws and then give them to you, or should I edit these flaws into a video and post it online?"
Seeing Liu Bi being so cautious, Yang Ruoqian tapped away at the keyboard, "Why did you send it to me? Of course, I'm going to make a video and post it online! You'd better contact those bloggers who also do film reviews and ask them to follow your content and write some reviews criticizing "The Wandering Blue Planet"!"
It seems that this person's understanding is still a little insufficient. Next time, I have to invite him to Jinhai and let him feel the hospitality of Kuiguang Group.
How come you can't figure out such a small thing by yourself?
Liu Bi was silent for several seconds. "Mr. Yang... are you sure? The movie has a great reputation now, so it's the right time to promote it! From now on, the reason why Wandering Blue Planet has such a good reputation is actually due to factors other than the movie."
Yang Ruoqian keenly sensed the meaning of Liu Bi's words: "Can you speak more clearly? Have you found any problems?"
"I only watched the movie once. I need to watch it a few more times to find the flaws." Liu Bi replied, "But the fact that Wandering Blue Planet has received such good reputation right after its release is more importantly its milestone significance."
"You did a very good job in the film release strategy - many audiences have not yet recovered from their anger over "Fortress of Devil City", but you immediately released "The Wandering Blue Planet", which is of better quality... In comparison, perhaps the movie that originally only scored 8 points can get 9 points in the eyes of the audience."
"Moreover, the special effects and sci-fi content of Wandering Blue Planet are very attractive. There have been no comparable films in China before. As long as the quality is up to standard and not ugly, the reviews will naturally be very high."
Speaking of this, Liu Bi secretly admired Yang Ruoqian's strength.
Not only in strength, but also in strategy.
Perhaps many people backed off after seeing the failure of "Fortress of Devil City", thinking that it is too early for domestic entertainment to shoot science fiction blockbusters and they don't want to repeat the same mistakes.
But Mr. Yang was different from others. He keenly sensed the tiny opportunity and bet heavily on it.
In the end, it worked! This is the vision of a top investor.
Now, after the initial success of the movie, Yang Ruoqian went against common sense and even gave away the original film so that he could quickly make a video pointing out the shortcomings of the movie...
Is this also a marketing trick?
Liu Bi immediately realized that he seemed to be meddling in other people's business.
Since Mr. Yang asked me to do this, he must have his own considerations and must have thought it over carefully.
This may even involve the commercial secrets of the Kuiguang Group.
Although I have signed a contract with Kuiguang Group, I am still an outsider after all, so it is normal that I cannot discuss some things in detail.
"The other party withdrew a message."
"Mr. Yang, I'm sorry for being so nosy. I'll make a video for you right now, and it will definitely be out before tomorrow, okay?"
Yang Ruoqian was just thinking of making up an excuse, but when he saw the other party being so understanding, he immediately nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, not bad, I'll give you a bonus after the video is finished!"
After urgently assigning the task to the propaganda department, Yang Ruoqian finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Judging from the current situation, although it is impossible to achieve the goal of huge losses this quarter, medium losses are still achievable.
As long as the smearing video is released, it will more or less affect the box office, or at least make some people wait and see.
Even if this part of the box office revenue will eventually go into my pocket, as long as I can delay it for a few days and not put it into this quarter, it will be fine.
“It’s time to think about next quarter’s business.”
Yang Ruoqian thought about it, took out his cell phone and sent a message to his secretary: "Qi Mu, is there any industry in Europe that can be invested in?" (End of this chapter)
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