"Congratulations to Director Tang. The audience gave it good reviews. I just had a chat with several senior film critics and they also praised the film very much!"
Wang Zhongjun came over with his artists.
"Hello, Director Tang!"
Fan Binbin, Huang Xiaoming and others all said hello to Tang An.
"It's good that you didn't disappoint Mr. Wang. If you lose your share of the money then, I'll be sorry!" Tang An laughed.
"Director Tang was joking, I never worried about this!" Wang Zhongjun said proudly.
A few people chatted casually for a while, and Wang Zhongjun motioned for them to go elsewhere, looked both ways, and lowered his voice slightly.
"Director Tang, how did you think about the matter last time? Now that the movie is released, it's time to give me an answer!"
I urge you so urgently, is this to urge you to die?
Tang An originally thought that Wang Zhongjun was a man who did great things, but he didn't expect that he would be so uncontrollable about such a small thing.
But then I thought about it, I had gotten together with him twice in the past six months and nothing was out of the ordinary, so why was I so anxious all of a sudden?
Could it be that something happened to Huayi?
"Director Wang, have you encountered anything recently?" Tang An asked tentatively.
"It's nothing, it's just that our whole company is eagerly looking forward to Director Tang, and there are so many artists in the company who are waiting to film under Director Tang!" Wang Zhongjun said with a smile.
"Dr. Wang, you see, I still don't know the specific box office results. I really don't have the time to think about it. Let's talk about it some time later!" Tang An said after thinking for a while.
Wang Zhongjun has also been involved in trivial matters recently. Last month, he and Colombia had negotiated overseas distribution, and the full copyright package was worth 10 million US dollars.
It was originally a good thing. Two-thirds of the cost was recovered, and the film's profit was already certain. It was just a matter of making more or less.
But it happened that Feng Xiaogang came to him again with the script.
"The Banquet" hadn't been released yet, and Feng Xiaogang wanted to make a war movie again. When he learned that the contract had been negotiated, he immediately came to ask for money.
Feng Dapao felt that Lao Zhi has made so much money for you, why don't you use some of it to make new films for Lao Zhi!
Therefore, Wang Zhongjun now urgently needs to find a significant director to come to the company, at least to make Feng Xiaogang fearful.
Huayi doesn't rely on him alone!
He wanted to say something else, but when he saw Yu Dongzheng walking this way, he still didn't speak.
...
After dealing with one issue after another, as usual, we still build relationships and get close to each other.
The dinner lasted for more than an hour and did not end until almost 11 o'clock.
After sending them all away, Tang An sat directly on the table, took a plate and put a lot of things on it, and sat there and started eating without caring about his appearance.
I have been busy since the afternoon and now I can finally take a break.
Xu Manyun came back from seeing off the guests at the door. When he saw this, there was a trace of worry in his eyes, "You must be tired. I'll ask someone to bring a chair over!"
"No, I'll take two bites and leave!" Tang An waved his hand and said vaguely.
"Drink some water, don't choke!" Xu Manyun looked around, took a bottle of water, unscrewed the cap and handed it over.
"Um."
He took a big gulp of water, swallowed the food in his mouth, and burped.
"You should have something to eat too, you've been standing all afternoon!"
"I'm okay. I changed into flat shoes, so I'm not that tired!" Xu Manyun shook his head with a smile.
The two of them just sat at the dining table and finished their dinner, leaving the mess on the floor waiting for the staff to clean it up before leaving first.
After getting in the car, Tang An put down his chair, lay down and squinted for a while.
"Go to my place?"
"Um!"
After sighing, Tang An closed his eyes and slept for a while.
When they arrived at Xu Manyun's residence, the two of them took a comfortable bath and went to bed.
Tang An leaned against the bed, with Xu Manyun lying in his arms, his hands gently rubbing her smooth back through the silk pajamas.
"There are still nearly two hours before the zero o'clock show ends. Why don't you go to bed first and set the alarm clock? You can get up by then!"
Xu Manyun held Tang An's hand and looked at his tired face.
"I can't sleep until I can wait for the midnight ticket box office!" Tang An patted her back and shook his head.
"Then why don't you read the comments? It's been more than two hours since the premiere, and the news should have been out!"
"There is nothing to see. The reporters and film critics who attended the premiere all received red envelopes. No one dared to be so indifferent. Most of those viewers are my loyal fans. You don't have to think about it to know that most of the reviews are positive!"
"Then just wait, it's boring, and time passes slowly!"
"Why don't you watch a movie to kill time?"
Xu Manyun's eyes suddenly lit up and he suggested.
"Watch a horror movie, it's an exciting one, time flies!"
As he said that, he was about to get out of bed and flip through the DVD.
Tang An quickly grabbed him and said in a dumbfounded voice, "You don't want to sleep anymore?"
"That's right!" Only then did Xu Manyun realize that it was almost early in the morning.
"How about "Shark Beach"? I haven't really watched this movie from the perspective of an audience. Now let's see if there are any shortcomings!" Tang An thought for a while and said.
"OK!"
Xu Manyun immediately went to the opposite TV cabinet with bare feet to flip through the DVDs.
It's summer, and silk pajamas are originally transparent and so short.
This bend, that tight and seductive arc...
Fortunately, the Great Sage of the Tang Dynasty was not such a vulgar person.
Unmoving as a mountain!
"Okay!" Xu Manyun smiled and ran back to the bed, lay down, and leaned into Tang An's arms.
Press the remote control and the movie starts playing.
After a year, watching my own movie again, I really don’t feel that much.
Except for some areas beyond his control, the overall rhythm is still lacking.
Moreover, the angles used to capture Yang Mi's figure were not adequate, and many shots did not perform very well.
Halfway through the movie, Xu Manyun suddenly said, "I remember that Yang Mi and Long Xinda's contract still has more than three years. Will you sign her over by then?"
"What are you talking about?"
"It's nothing. It's just that Columbia's overseas copyright fees have been paid. Excluding China Film and Huayi's share, the company still has 20 million in its account. There will also be a large amount of cash deposited after "Super Body" is finished. I
I’m thinking about expanding the company’s size!”
Xu Manyun quickly explained.
"No, use the money to buy some houses around the third ring road, especially in the school district!"
"Will the studio always maintain this scale?" Xu Manyun asked puzzledly.
"Of course not. There is no use in expanding the scale now. The most we can do is find a few directors and sign a few stars. We don't have any human resources, and we can't even build a company framework!"
"Keep the money, I'll probably use it around 2009."
"Do you want to acquire it directly?"
"Which company?"
"Poly Huayi!" Tang An didn't hide anything from her and said truthfully.
"..."
Xu Manyun was stunned. She never expected that Tang An's target would be this giant.
It's such a fantasy, she wouldn't be so surprised even if Tang An's target is Huayi.
Hurray only spent 35 million to acquire 51% of Huayi's shares last year. Even though it has recovered most of the cost due to "The Night Banquet" overseas, the market value is only 150 million.
However, in February last year, Youli Holdings in Xiangjiang spent HK$550 million to acquire a 50% stake in Poly Huayi. The two are not of the same size at all.
Tang An didn't pay attention to Xu Manyun's surprise. He said, "I know what you mean, but in two years Poly Bernard will separate from Poly Huayi. By then, Poly Huayi's market value will be only one-third.
That’s pretty good!”
"Last year's merger and acquisition case was just Dong Ping's trick. He repeated several mergers and acquisitions and reorganized to cash out!"
Dong Ping is also an outstanding person. He is the chairman of Cultural China, which was acquired by Jack Ma. In 10 years, with only 100 million Hong Kong dollars in cash reserves, he actually acquired 50% of MSN Huaguo's shares. At that time, this 50% was worth 1 billion Hong Kong dollars.
Later, after a series of fancy operations, 60% of the shares of Cultural China were sold to Jack Ma for 6.2 billion.
Then 21 Holdings, which paid 150 million to buy Xu Zheng's "Hong Kong" box office share, is also owned by Dong Ping.
However, Xu Zheng himself is the second largest shareholder of 21 Holdings...
Capital knows how to play, and a series of outrageous operations can dazzle people.
Poly Huayi is a company reorganized by Poly Culture and Peking University Huayi. When the time comes, Tang An will see if he can bite off a piece of meat. After all, this is a mature media group and there is also a Poly Wanhe cinema chain.
Its subsidiary Oriental Dragon is also an established film company. Everything is ready-made and you only need to spend money.
However, Poly Group was also unlucky enough. It was played by Dong Ping and kicked away by Yu Dong after taking advantage of it...
In the end, when Poly Culture sold the remaining 50% of Poly Huayi's shares, the listing price was only 80 million.
After chatting for a while, at two o'clock in the morning, the laptop on the bedside was ready to receive an email.
The box office for the on-demand screening is out.
820 copies, 820 screenings in the early morning, fully double the number of screenings of "Terror Cruise".
Tang An finally breathed a sigh of relief at the box office performance.
Although there is still a long way to go before the box office record set by "The Promise", it is enough to satisfy him!
3.2 million!
That’s almost three installments of “Terror Cruise”!
PS: I don’t understand this thing about capital, so just take a look. It’s too complicated, but Dong Ping is really awesome!