The sudden departure of Mr. Li, the boss of Xiaoma Pentium, did not cause much heat in the outside world.
After all, he is the boss of a company, and Da Gou is relatively low-key. Not many ordinary people who don’t know the entertainment industry know him, but he can be said to have caused a small earthquake in the circle.
Especially in the film industry, the sudden death of such a big shot caused a huge chain reaction. Wei Yang even heard that the relevant departments had held a meeting for this. There were countless rumors and conspiracy theories, and there were undercurrents in private.
The crew of "Joy of Life 3" was relatively quiet, and most people were just watching and feeling sorry.
Why did a big boss of Chigua suddenly disappear? Is there any trick behind it? It's a pity that he died young before he knew his destiny. He was worth billions, which can be said to be the end of life that countless people can only dream of, but he died young. No matter how much money he made, he couldn't enjoy happiness.
Liu Shishi even thought of Wei Yang because he was very tired and under a lot of pressure at work, so she urged him to go for a physical examination.
"Don't worry. I value my life more than you think. I have a routine comprehensive checkup every season of the year. I have a private medical team to provide long-term services and tailor-made health monitoring. I dare not mention minor illnesses, but I can detect major illnesses as soon as they show signs."
The body is the capital of everything!
Wei Yang knew very well why he made so much money. If he ruined his health, that would be putting the cart before the horse. He could have taken good care of his health instead.
Not only am I careful, but the people around me will also make detailed arrangements.
However, most other people are not as cautious as him, and are not willing to go to the hospital often. For example, Liu Shishi only goes to the hospital for a physical examination twice a year unless she is sick.
After all, they are still young, and two physical examinations a year are actually enough, and Wei Yang does not force them.
So Liu Shishi thought that Wei Yang was similar to herself, at most he did it more often, but she never expected that he would be so exaggerated in private.
Although she was a little dissatisfied, Wei Yang's behavior made people feel at ease. At least they didn't have to worry about any hidden dangers or acute illnesses.
Except that Wei Yang was in good health, Liu Shishi didn't pay much attention to it, and the same was true for everyone else.
Either they simply don't have this intention and don't care about the situation in this regard, or the level is too far away, and the future of Pony.com has nothing to do with them, so they are too lazy to care.
Even the few who might have had a connection with Galloping Pony were relatively calm.
There is no point in being upset. With their abilities and status, they are unable to turn the tide, so they can just go with the flow.
The earth will keep spinning without anyone. In this circle, it is very normal for projects or even companies to fail.
More than 90% of the first-line artists have at least one or two dramas on hand, not to mention the projects that have been interrupted or unfinished.
Besides, isn’t Pony.com still standing?
They don't know about the internal fighting in the future. For now, it's just that the boss is gone, and the failure of the bet is quite crisis-like, but it is not a desperate situation, so many people still have confidence in Xiaoma Pentium.
Wei Yang continued to carry out his publicity work with the crew of "Joy of Life 3".
However, information about Pony Galloping was continuously sent to him, and thanks to some insiders, he even knew much more than the outside world.
At present, Xiaoma Pentium has urgently appointed Li's widow as the leader, and the two sisters are temporarily in line with their younger siblings.
The biggest rival of the three is China Construction Bank Culture, which was the capital that was originally introduced to Xiaoma Pentium by Big Dog.
At that time, several capitals led by CCB Culture had a very high valuation on Xiaoma Pentium and invested 750 million yuan, setting a record for the highest financing in China's film and television industry at that time. Among them, CCB Culture invested 450 million yuan, accounting for 15% of the shares.
But such favorable financing conditions were not obtained for free. At that time, China Construction Bank Culture signed a supplementary agreement.
The general meaning is that if Xiaoma Pentium does not go public as scheduled, then China Construction Bank Culture has the right to require any one of the three siblings of the Li family, the actual controller of Xiaoma Pentium, to purchase all the shares in their hands at one time.
To put it bluntly, this is a bet agreement, which is quite common in the industry.
South Beauty, owned by Big S's mother-in-law Zhan Lan, fell into a passive position because of a similar contract, and eventually let a wolf into the house and was kicked out of the company she had built.
Pony.com was enjoying a very strong momentum at the time, and Big Dog had no objection to this and was very confident that the listing would be successful.
As a result, everyone knows that Pony.com failed to go public, and he died of an acute illness, which was most likely due to psychological pressure.
But even after a person dies, his debts remain. The high debt from the bet agreement fell on his widow and two sisters.
Capital is ruthless. Jianyin Culture did not relax its debt collection efforts despite Dagou's death. On the contrary, they realized that Xiaoma Pentium's prospects were unclear and were eager to recover their losses and get out, so they pursued the debts even more fiercely and even prepared to go to court for compulsory execution.
"Tsk tsk, that's cruel!"
The more Boss Wei understood this group of dirty capital, the more he felt that he was too kind-hearted and seemed a little out of place.
At most, I can just pick up some talents and suck some blood, and then I'm ready to spend money to buy the projects and companies I'm eyeing.
Their real capital is to dig up graves and bones, not only to eat up the extinct families, but also to force orphans and widows to death. Compared with them, I am just a small white flower.
What made him feel even more outrageous was that in the face of a powerful enemy pressing forward step by step, Da Gou's two sisters appeared to be united on the surface, but in fact they were scheming all kinds of things behind the scenes.
First, he promoted the widow to take on the debt under pressure, and then he contacted China Construction Bank privately, preparing to jointly kick out his brother and sister-in-law and take control of the company.
The executive who reported the news to Wei Yang couldn't help but say that he was heartbroken, and regardless of the reputation of "betraying his master in times of crisis", he prepared to run away.
“This is a common problem in family businesses.”
Da Gou is a chivalrous man who values relationships, which is his strength. He has great personal charm and is able to attract many talented people, but it also has a flaw, one of which is that he lets too many family members participate in the company.
This has resulted in unclear ownership of the company, with many of the company's senior executives being family insiders.
He can keep things under control while he is alive, but once an unexpected situation occurs, the real backbone of the company will be immediately excluded, and then the family will fight among themselves and fall apart.
Wei Yang believes that the actual benefits he has gained from the Pentium event this time are far more than the planned talents, projects, subsidiaries, etc.
What is truly most valuable are the various lessons he learned from this company, which served as a warning and a great learning and alert factor for him.
Boss Wei felt a little sad, but then again, the more chaos there was within Pony.com, the better it would be for him.
Whether it is talent or projects, he can get them more easily, and he doesn't even have to dig them out. People come to invest on their own initiative, which makes Boss Wei feel more complicated. He secretly sent someone to send elegiac couplets and wreaths.
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While Galloping Pony was in a mess, the 2014 New Year movie season officially kicked off.
On January 3, Wallace Chung's version of "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" was the first new drama to be aired this year, causing countless complaints.
To be frank, the biggest contribution of this drama is to prove the success of Zhang Da Huzi's 2003 version of "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils".
Originally, everyone just thought that Wu Jun, Liu Tianxian and others acted well, but as soon as this drama came out, they were immediately hailed as gods.
However, what everyone doesn’t know at this time is that this drama is far from the lowest score of “Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils”.
There will be a new "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" in the future, and Duan Yu will pee when he sees the Fairy Sister.
By the way, this drama was directed by Yu Rongguang. Wei Yang has always felt that he is a very good actor, but a bit of a weird director.
Not only Duan Yu urinates, Dou Qi transforms into a horse is also his masterpiece...
As a Jin Yong drama, "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" was also placed high hopes by the outside world, but its reputation was disappointing.
However, the ratings are not bad. After all, the influence of Jin Yong's dramas is there.
Even though the performance of Jin Yong's dramas has been declining in recent years, they still have a wide influence, and with the right cast and publicity, they are definitely a popular candidate of the same period.
The previous "Swordsman" starring Si Yatou broke through the siege with the novel setting of an oriental girl.
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Although "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" was known as a bad drama and many people complained and cursed it, it still had a large number of audience support and its peak ratings once exceeded 1.
However, after all, the criticism outweighs the praise, and it is still inferior to "Love Apartment 4".
The previous few episodes of the "Love Apartment" series have already pushed this drama to the position of the most popular sitcom in China, and it can even be said to be the most popular comedy. Even though it is controversial, it still has countless fans.
Rumor has it that the fourth season is the final episode of "Love Apartment" and it basically retains the original cast, so naturally there is a large number of fans and audiences supporting it.
This drama is also one of the best performing TV dramas at the beginning of the year, with a successful viewership rating of over 1, and once stabilized at around 1.2.
Don’t underestimate this number. It has been half a year since "Joy of Life 2" was broadcast in the summer, and the ratings data is now even more difficult.
Even at the beginning of the year, breaking 1 is still a top statistic.
The aforementioned "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" adopted a tiered broadcasting model and took various fancy actions, but in the end it only peaked at over 1 and is currently barely maintaining around 0.8.
And as word of mouth declines and other dramas are broadcast one after another, this data will continue to decrease.
The data of "A Generation of Heroes", starring Sun Honglei and Chen Shu, is similar to that of "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils", or even slightly lower.
After "The Disguiser", Sun hasn't taken on any TV dramas for several years, except for "Men Gang" directed by his mentor Zhao Baogang.
This is his comeback work in TV series. It is said that the production company offered a sky-high price. According to industry reports, this is the second highest salary among male TV actors after Wei Yang.
The exact amount is not very clear, some say it is 650,000 per episode, some say it is 800,000 per episode, but it is definitely not too low.
Because Sun took on another TV series at the same time, "The Artilleryman" directed by the famous director Kang Honglei, it was rumored that Sun's salary was a package price of 23 million. Except for Wei Yang and those movie stars, no male actor could get this price.
Unfortunately, the box office reputation of "A Generation of Heroes" is not outstanding, and I don’t know whether the film company will feel that the money was lost.
In addition, there is another drama called "Beauty of War" which also performed well, starring Hong Kong actors Sammul Chan and Shu Chang, and can barely compete with the previous dramas.
Apart from this, there is not much to say about other dramas. There may be some highlights, but they are not enough to affect the situation of the entire schedule.
Since the broadcasts of "Mu Mansion Fengyun" and "Joy of Life 3" on January 6 and January 8 respectively, the opening season of the new year has become a two-person opera.
To be more precise, there is one schedule for "Joy of Life 3", one schedule for "Mu Mansion Storm", and one schedule for all other dramas.
Of the two dramas, "Mu Mansion Fengyun" was broadcast first, and the broadcast platform was CCTV Channel 8, which is a mainstream drama and cannot be easily snatched away.
As mentioned before, the drama "Mu Mansion Fengyun" has many highlights. One of them is that it revolves around the theme of chieftains in the Ming Dynasty, which is a rare ancient minority theme.
At the same time, this is also an independent drama with a female lead, which involves many elements such as love, revenge, and power struggle.
Therefore, a lot of highlights of the whole drama are on the heroine played by Liu Shishi, and the TV series starts with her as the main perspective, slowly leading to the whole plot.
The plot is still very exciting, with Wang Juan's typical suspense and tension, putting the heroine in danger again and again, and then resolving the situation successfully.
Although there are inevitably some Mary Sue auras, it does make people feel tense and comfortable at the same time.
What is more worth mentioning is that, as mentioned earlier, the director of "Mu Mansion Fengyun" is Yu Rongguang.
Not only can this person transform his fighting spirit into a horse, he can also produce classic works such as "Mu Mansion" and "Legend of Dance and Music". His upper and lower limits are unpredictable.
Considering his several mediocre masterpieces, it is hard not to doubt this director, who relies heavily on screenwriter skills. The production team from Yunnan Province who collaborated with him in dramas such as "Mu Mansion" and "Legend of Dance and Music" also made great contributions.
With the help of Liu Shishi’s super high popularity and the added bonus of CCTV’s own platform.
The first broadcast of "Mu Mansion Fengyun" had excellent ratings, with an average rating of 1.49, ranking first on the same day.
The most important thing is that in addition to the very impressive ratings, the reputation of "Mu Mansion" is also very outstanding, and it can even be said to be the best drama in the opening season of the year.
Previously, after the broadcast of "Startling by Each Step", Liu Shishi's performances in several dramas were mixed.
Needless to say, the "Joy of Life" series may get some help, but people will not attribute the credit for the success of the show to her.
The data of "Xuan-Yuan Sword" itself is not bad, but the reviews are mixed. For Liu Shishi, it can be regarded as a work that has stabilized popularity and exposure, and it is average.
The worst one was "Startling by Each Step", especially the defeat in the head-on confrontation with Xiao Zhao, which made her feel embarrassed for a while.
At that time, it was also rumored that Liu Shishi's success was somewhat accidental, and that she became so famous purely because she was lucky, and she did not have the confidence to carry a project alone.
This statement is definitely biased, and it is even obviously a distortion of the story, but there are still people who believe it.
This time, "Mu Mansion Fengyun" not only made Liu Shishi's heroine route take a solid and successful step, but also shattered these doubts.
CCTV's leading lady! The big drama of the new year! The first broadcast ratings were about 1.5!
These words were enough to silence everyone, and the subsequent broadcast of "Celebrating Yu Nian 3" made Liu Shishi soar to the top and dominate the industry...
(End of this chapter)