Li Jiahang was forced by Wei Yang to take a photo of himself wearing a women's skirt and posted it on his Moments. After that, he was no longer ashamed to stay in Yunhua Mansion and ran away with Li Sheng.
Without Li Jiahang, Wei Yang no longer paid attention to the Spring Festival period, but instead focused on "Time Raiders" which was already finished.
This movie was released in mid-December last year, and the key was obtained afterwards. Although the box office was very little in the later period, it still made it to the Spring Festival.
Now that several major movies are released at the same time during the Spring Festival, the already meager box office of "Time Raiders" has almost been wiped out.
If nothing unexpected happens, after the New Year holiday in a few days, when the theaters resume work in full, I guess we will arrange to release the next film.
Therefore, the final box office of this movie can basically be calculated at the moment. Even if there is an error, it will be at most 100,000 or 200,000.
803 million! This is the box office of "Time Raiders", which has surpassed the 800 million mark in a thrilling way.
The final overall ranking was below "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", and it was the second place in the mainland box office in 2013.
It can be said that this data is very impressive.
It’s a pity that it was overshadowed by a movie called “Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons” which had a box office of over 1 billion yuan, which somewhat reduced its presence.
Moreover, the booming film market in the past two years and the skyrocketing box office data have also diluted the shocking nature of this result.
In addition, Wei Yang's "Celebrating Yu Nian" series broadcast at the same time was exceptionally brilliant, breaking countless records, and even ascended the throne of television, reaping crazy popularity.
As a result, this blockbuster movie, which could have easily ranked among the top Chinese-language film box office charts and broken Wei Yang's personal record, has received so little attention that it does not match its achievements at all.
The biggest topic is not the movie itself, but the "grudges and entanglements" between the movie and Feng Kuzi.
But having said that, after all, "Time Raiders" is the runner-up of the year, and no one will really underestimate this movie.
Especially for Wei Yang, he has only starred in two movies so far, and each one is better than the last.
Last year, his debut film "Fame and Fame" grossed 505 million yuan, making it into the top ten of the year's total box office, ranking seventh, and fourth among Chinese-language films.
If it weren't for the sudden emergence of "Lost in Thailand" and the disruption caused by Wuershan in "Painted Skin 2".
Wei Yang may very well become the most prominent filmmaker in 2012. After all, few people’s debut films can become so popular.
This year, many people are both optimistic and cautious about Wei Yang. After all, there are many examples of debut works being a huge hit, but second works failing miserably.
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As a result, Wei Yang's performance eliminated all doubts, and he broke the so-called rookie wall with one kick.
The runner-up of the annual box office!
Moreover, he took the position by stepping on two big movie stars, Feng Kuzi and Cheng Long. If the Lunar New Year period is included, Ning Hao, Liu Tianwang, Deng Chao and Liu Tianxian are also his defeated opponents. This runner-up position is of great value.
Some people even think that "Time Raiders" simply did not hit a good release date.
It was forced to compete with many films such as "Personal Customization", diverting part of the box office. If it had monopolized the Spring Festival period like "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", it might have broken 1 billion.
Wei Yang does not agree with this statement. It is true that competition in the same period will divert box office revenue, but it will also increase popularity and exposure, and expand the publicity effect.
He has a plan for the movie "Time Raiders".
The quality is not bad, but it is not excellent either, and its selling point itself is not enough to support a schedule on its own.
It can be said that its box office of 800 million yuan, the popularity of the Lunar New Year box office, the subsequent competition with "Private Customization", and even the public quarrel with Feng Kuzi, played an important role.
What made him even happier was that Feng Kuzi was also implicated because of this, and the box office of "Private Tailor" was tens of millions less than he remembered.
Huayi certainly did not lose money, but from the perspective of box office competition, it lagged behind "Time Raiders" by over 100 million yuan, so this battle can be said to be a complete failure.
The famous director who had been dominating for several years lost in a head-on confrontation to a "yellow-haired boy" who had only made two movies.
Even though few people can afford to mess with this "yellow-haired boy", there are still many people who make fun of Feng Kuazi because of his low popularity.
As for Wei Yang personally, he is very satisfied with the performance of "Time Raiders".
He is not as greedy as others, 800 million is already very good.
You have to know that the cost of "Time Raiders" is only around 60 million, including publicity and promotion.
The crew can earn 300 million from the share of the box office revenue alone, plus miscellaneous expenses such as product placement and copyright operations.
The profits from this movie alone can directly meet most of Blue Whale’s normal investment expenses this year.
Blue Whale can gather more funds and make a larger layout.
Video website development! To be honest, Wei Yang had never thought about becoming a platform before. It was not that he didn’t want to, but that he didn’t have the capital.
Video sites are too expensive...
The formation of the three major video websites in later generations was not natural, but was achieved through rounds of fighting and stepping on countless corpses.
The three major video websites each have top capital behind them. There is no need to say much about Penguin, Youku has joined forces with Alibaba, and iQiyi is backed by Baidu.
Later, as Baidu declined, iQiyi was also forced to transform.
It no longer spends money to expand, but instead prioritizes profitability. There have even been multiple reports of it being acquired. The reason for this is that Baidu's support has dropped significantly.
So Wei Yang didn’t think too much about it. He just wanted to honestly shoot TV series and variety shows, and then sell them to the platform.
But many things did not develop according to Wei Yang's ideas. As the scale of Blue Whale grew larger, more and more aspects and layouts were involved.
Wei Yang is faced with something that cannot be ignored!
That is Blue Whale’s main business, film and television production, artist management, and variety show production, and the market is almost unable to accommodate it.
For 2014 alone, Blue Whale plans to produce and invest in double-digit TV series, more than five movies, and several new variety shows.
And this is not a complete plan, there will probably be more increases in the second half of the year.
Of course, this is only a small part of the entire entertainment market, but the Blue Whale project is of high quality and high price.
In other words, these projects of Blue Whale are basically in the mid-to-high-end market, or even focus on the high-end market.
This makes the proportion of this number terrifying.
Blue Whale is not the only company in the entertainment industry. TV stations and websites also have their own outputs. The competition in the high-end market will become more and more fierce in the future.
Blue Whale can still maintain its stability now, but if it develops further in the future, its annual output will double.
This is not an unimaginable number for a fast-growing film and television company.
This is a problem. The market is so small and each company has its own private territory.
No matter how awesome Blue Whale is, it is impossible for all its projects to surpass those of other ace companies, so once the market can’t absorb Blue Whale’s projects.
That is the outcome: the good projects can be sold, while the inferior ones are forced to enter the inventory queue.
Film and television companies rely entirely on projects for recovery. If a project cannot be sold, it means that a sum of funds is tied up. No matter how profitable Blue Whale is, it would be a huge blow to it if it had to hold back a few projects.
At that time, you can either cut off your arms to survive, or reduce your size from big to small, give up the territory you have fought so hard to conquer, and survive by enclosing land.
Or you can continue to develop with gritted teeth and see if you can break out of the siege, but it is very likely that the more you shoot, the more pressure you will have, and you will eventually enter a vicious circle. One day, the capital chain will be broken and you will go bankrupt.
So if it continues like this, Blue Whale will be in danger, but it cannot stand still and must actively control its scale.
Not to mention that Boss Wei would not be so cowardly, other people would also force him to continue to develop.
Blue Whale is now on a strong momentum, and everyone is like a clockwork machine, moving forward without retreat, determined to become the industry leader. If the brakes are applied, there is no need to wait until the future, and the company may fall apart now.
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Not many talented people are willing to work for a company without ambition, especially those who are capable and ambitious.
Blue Whale has a lot of talented people, not just because of Boss Wei's personal charm, but because the company is developing rapidly, so people come to join it. Everyone works together to make the company bigger and stronger, and then rewards them according to their merits, gets promoted and gets salary increases, and becomes a well-known figure in the industry.
If Wei Yang doesn't develop, he will be blocking everyone's path to wealth and preventing them from getting ahead. No matter how handsome he is, he won't be able to keep people.
So at this point, things are very simple. Blue Whale must seek a breakthrough at a higher level.
Huayi actually did the same thing!
The concerns of the Wang brothers and Wei Yang are somewhat different. Boss Wei is confident in his own project, but is worried about restrictions on development after the market is saturated.
Huayi’s development was not as smooth as Blue Whale’s. They had made money and also lost money.
Therefore, the Wang brothers feel that the film-making business is too unstable. Not to mention the peak and off-seasons and good and bad years, the key is luck, and the uncertainty is too high.
To put it bluntly, these two brothers care about profits rather than the movie itself.
They don't care whether Huayi can support Chinese-language films, but they care more about how to make money in a stable and long-term manner.
Therefore, Huayi began to make various arrangements, hoping to achieve more stable and diversified development, including games, cinemas, film towns, and finance.
They even went so far as to shout out the slogan of "de-filming" and abandon their own foundation.
In contrast, although Wei Yang also chose diversified development, he clearly understood what the biggest advantage of Blue Whale was.
Stable and high-quality content! The weakness of Blue Whale is that it will be difficult to perfectly digest these contents in the future. Therefore, we must use this as a breakthrough to make up for this weakness, form an industrial chain, and increase the company's development ceiling.
Naturally, establishing its own platform became Blue Whale’s next strategic goal.
Once Blue Whale has its own platform, it will no longer be just a film and television company. Content digestion will no longer be a problem, and it will also connect and coordinate the various resources in Wei Yang's hands.
By then, the Blue Whale Group will not only be in the film and television field, but will also expand into the entire entertainment industry and even the Internet, becoming a truly large capital.
Of course, the prospects are bright, but the process is unsettling.
The expense of burning money alone is enough to give Wei Yang a headache. Other issues such as how to get traffic, retain users, gain exposure, and achieve profitability are all big problems.
Wei Yang knew what was going on and had no intention of competing with the three major video websites. He was very satisfied as long as he could reach the level of Mango TV.
Wei Yang even had a fallback plan in mind. If this website failed, he could find someone to take over.
Don't forget that he is also a major shareholder of Bilibili, and Wei Yang of Toutiao is also connected with it. Judging from the future strategies of these two companies, it is completely possible to sell it to them.
Of course, selling off is the worst option. In Wei Yang's mind, his real goal is to reach a cooperation with these two companies.
Especially Toutiao, video websites cannot do without traffic, and Toutiao is the only traffic pool that can rival Penguin in the future.
The two parties can form a strategic cooperation and even invest in each other, one developing short videos and the other developing video websites, forming strategic complementarity to fight against Penguin.
As for Bilibili, the two parties can also reach a cooperation. In fact, at the beginning, Wei Yang wanted to enter the game directly through Bilibili.
However, the development strategies of both parties are completely different. Chen Rui, who has already intervened in the management of Bilibili, has his own ideas and is impossible to accept the requirements of Blue Whale.
So Wei Yang had no choice but to work on his own. He is currently raising funds to acquire a video website.
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Blue Whale Building, Conference Room
Wei Yang is listening to the special acquisition team reporting to him about the video websites that can be acquired.
Blue Whale entered the market too late and started too slowly from scratch, so by the time it started to develop, it was too late.
Therefore, the simplest and most convenient way is to acquire a relatively mature video website, directly obtain its own resources, users and technology, and then change its appearance to achieve the situation Wei Yang needs as quickly as possible.
The acquisition team is not composed of Blue Whale alone. This time, Boss Wei has put in all his efforts, including the participation of investment funds and financial teams under his name.
Moreover, Wei Yang has already made arrangements, and if necessary, he can also borrow some other funds, or even private and bank loans.
First concentrate your efforts on taking over the website.
As for the funds and shares of each party, most of them will be transferred from one hand to the other. When the time comes, some agreements will be signed first, and then they will be slowly sorted out and adjusted.
"The website that has a chance of being taken over right now, the one with the best development and the largest scale is Sohu."
"In the past two years, Sohu.com has been hit by major websites and its traffic has been declining. Now it is completely supported by American TV series. There were rumors that Penguin was going to acquire it, but it was denied."
"Sohu Video is very large, and Mr. Zhang may not be willing to sell it. But if he doesn't buy it all but takes control, there may be hope, and getting support from Sohu.com will be good for the development of the website."
Wei Yang remained noncommittal. That Zhang Fox was not easy to deal with, and Sohu Video was too large. Although it had many advantages, it could easily be choked to death.
"In addition to Sohu Video, PPTV is also a good target. The latter is currently controlled by Suning. The other party does not attach much importance to it, but it will not let it go easily."
"Fengxing.com is more inclined towards the channel industry chain, and its online development is not strong. The advantage is that we can directly enter the PC, mobile, and TV channels. However, it is backed by Shanghai Radio and Television, which is also a tough nut to crack."
"56.com is a company with limited development and the people behind it have already intended to withdraw. It is the easiest target for acquisition, but it has many shortcomings and is small in scale. It needs a lot of transformation and investment."
"And there is also Qvod..."
(End of this chapter)