Chapter 158 "Round Table School" (5/6)
In fact, after ByteDance’s D round of financing came out, Lu Xiaoran became a hot search on Weibo…
ByteDance's valuation is 11 billion US dollars, and Lu Xiaoran's value has increased by nearly 20 billion...
What is an awesome investor?
This is the eyes of God. In comparison, Wang’s ex-husband is forgot!
After playing for 500 million for so long, it was only worth 5 billion...
Of course, as soon as the hot search came out, Lu Xiaoran's team was removed from him and he was not involved in the investment circle. There is no need to be too arrogant...
The most important thing is that it is not yet time to be proud of it now. Lao Wang is not yet time to cut his flesh!
Netflix's market value has risen to 120 billion. According to Big Golden Retriever, Netflix's market value will rise to 160 billion US dollars next year, and its stock price is close to $400 per share!
Lu Xiaoran spent 800 million US dollars back then, and bought it when Netflix’s market value was 7 billion US dollars!
Of course, Lu Xiaoran cashed out all at once, which may cause a stock price to plummet, so he is planning to resell it to Comcast's second largest telecom operator in North America...
It is equivalent to China Unicom...
Comcast has always been planning to enter Hollywood. The Big Golden Retriever said that Disney acquired Century Fox, and its biggest competitor is Comcast.
Comcast is definitely interested in high-quality companies like Netflix!
Lu Xiaoran is thinking about how much it is to sell his shares at a premium...
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Back to the movie market, No. 25, "Spy Shadows 5", "Ice Age 5" released...
Logically speaking, these two Hollywood blockbusters have the foundation of the previous work, so the box office results should be very good... right?
I thought too much. The former had 56 million on the first day, the latter had 46 million. On the 22nd day of the release of "Dear", it received 19 million on a single-day report, "Line Walker", with a single-day box office of 9.8 million, "Grave Robbers" 3.2 million, and 1.4 million from "A Smile Is Beautiful"...
The entire market is only 150 million...
It has already hit a new high!
The previous week, the market was so low that it was impossible to watch. "Dear" ranked first in the box office rankings for 19 consecutive days. How many cumulative box offices are there: 1.086 billion...
You should know that the box office of this movie has exceeded one billion in fifteen days after it was released!
In the next four days, he only won 86 million, and... he actually dominated the box office rankings?
So, a bunch of media began to discuss the "turning point theory"...
The so-called turning point means the market is downhill.
And it means a little noisy...
Many people are asking Lu Xiaoran because this is the argument he put forward at the Shanghai Film Festival!
It is necessary for Lu Xiaoran to explain to the outside world...
Then he chose "The Round Table".
"Round Table" is a video program that Youku and Ideal Country collaborated with, and it follows the style of cultural programs, similar to Liang Wendao's "One Thousand and One Nights", Ma Shifang's "Hearing" and Chen Danqing's "Partial"...
The third largest shareholder of Orange Image is Alibaba Venture Capital. After Ali acquired Youku, she has always wanted to cooperate with Orange.
Several suspense dramas starring Xiao Chengzi are about to be broadcast on Youku, such as "White Night Chasing the Murder", "Life on Mars", and "Cold Case"...
Of course, these are not the reasons why Lu Xiaoran chose "The Round Table" and he likes Dou Wentao very much!
In fact, every occupation has occupational diseases.
Those who engage in news have a lot of contact with negative news in society, which can easily make people think biased.
The same is true for literary people. If you write too normal people, no one may read it. Usually there will be artistic exaggeration. Long-term artistic exaggeration will lead to a certain distortion of their memory and understanding of the world. Once your values are different from them, you will be extreme left or extreme right, and then you will be labeled as a hat!
Dou Wentao’s values are very positive!
"The Round Table" heard that Lu Xiaoran was coming, so he quickly asked Liang Wendao and Ma Jiahui...
I originally wanted to hire Ma Weidu, but Lu Xiaoran has always had little relationship with those people, so I'd better forget it.
The recording location is in Beijing.
When Lu Xiaoran arrived in the backstage, he first talked to the host for a few words, and then talked about the manuscript...
"It's okay, just ask."
Lu Xiaoran is very casual...
He has nothing to say to others!
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The mist of the tea water made the house sweet and savor. In the bright tea room, Dou Wentao lit the fragrance of the pan, and then introduced: "Today I invited an amazing filmmaker, come, let's welcome Mr. Lu Xiaoran..."
"Don't, just call me Xiaoran, or call me director."
"…You are usually in the company, why do they call you?"
"Call me boss...but most people still call me director when they see me..."
Liang Wendao interrupted: "I don't even call my surname?"
"Yes...but when I am with Director Amou, I will still add my last name!"
"Director A Mou?"
"Zhang Yimou, I called Amu. We often gossip many directors in private. When I posted on Weibo, I didn't pay attention, so I wrote 'Congratulations Amu...', and then called it..."
Dou Wentao opened the topic: "You seem to publicly say that your favorite domestic director is Zhang Yimou, what do you like?"
"…His technique, when you look at his movies, there are new things in almost every movie. Except for "Hero" and "The Ten-Side Ambush", those two movies are repetitive..."
"Technique?"
Lu Xiaoran replied: "Composition, lighting, photography aesthetics... are very inspiring to the director. Other directors, especially Wang Xiaoshuai and Jia Zhangke, are always long shots and natural light, which is the initial introductory method!"
"But Wendao likes Jia Zhangke very much..."
"...I'm not Jia Zhangke's movies are not good. I have also watched "The Old Friends of Mountains and Rivers" and "The Good People of Three Gorges". I feel it, but... the movie techniques are indeed too single!"
After thinking about it, he added: "I didn't say this, it was said by Cannes film selector Kimyutani. He said that Wang Xiaoshuai and Jia Zhangke have not made any progress in more than ten years and still make a theme. Compared to them, the film festival would rather recommend Thai and Philippine movies..."
Liang Wendao was about to speak, but Dou Wentao interrupted him: "So everyone said that Lu Xiaoran was straightforward, and he said whatever he had!"
"This is not a live broadcast. If you can't say anything, you can just cut it off then!"
Ma Jiahui started a topic: "...You seem to be very resistant to making art films?"
Director Lu shook his head: "How is it possible? I have also made an art film myself, "The Fireworks in the Daylight", and I have won the award!"
"Then why are you so resistant to the Golden Horse Award?"
Waiting here...
Lu Xiaoran thought for a moment, and then replied: "...I think the movie awards should be commended by mainstream movies, for the progress of Chinese films. But now, it has become a venue for a group of people to add their own people, and the selection criteria are completely unsightly to commercial movies... I don't like it very much, so I'd rather not go!"
Of course, Lu Xiaoran could not go, but if he didn't go, it proves that the Golden Horse Award is not the biggest prize in the circle!
Those people were very anxious...
He jumped up and down, even wanted to put pressure on the film bureau, but Lu Xiaoran didn't buy it at all...
Of course, even if he participated in the Golden Rooster Awards, many people still think that the Golden Rooster is very low
Chapter completed!