Just after the celebration party for "Red Cliff", Xu Zheng also returned from Jiangcheng with the crew of "On the Road".
Post-production was also arranged at the China Film Digital Base, and the other party's editors were invited to do the editing.
It was both Xu Zheng's and Wu Jing's first time filming. It was impossible for Tang An to hand over the editing rights to them. Who knows what kind of film would be produced.
Although the total investment in the two movies is only 10 million, it cannot be wasted.
Moreover, it is actually not a good thing to delegate too much power to them. Give them as much power as you can.
After Tang An went to see it twice, he ignored it and continued to write the script either at home or in Huayi's office.
If there is a meeting, go to a meeting, attend any activities, and go to the award ceremony to join in the fun.
The Hundred Flowers Film Festival on the 13th came back empty-handed again. The Hundred Flowers Awards do not award technical awards, and "Now You See Me" didn't win a single award.
The three films "Assembly", "Yun Shui Yao" and "Invisible Wings" swept all the awards, while the other films did not win a single award.
Huayi can be said to have achieved a great victory.
Feng Xiaogang won the best director.
Zhang Hanyu won the best actor.
Li Binbin won the Best Actress.
Deng Chao won Best Supporting Actor.
Assemblage won best feature film.
"The Ballad of Clouds and Waters" and "Invisible Wings" won the Outstanding Feature Film Award.
There is so much competition every year, but last year’s Golden Rooster Awards gave out several technical awards, and "The Wind" won the Best Art and Best Recording awards.
However, the major awards were all taken away by some main-theme films. Who made "Assembly Number" appear on the news broadcast, but "The Wind" did not.
However, at the Golden Horse Awards, Li Binbin won the Best Actress Award, and also won two minor awards, so there are two Best Actress Awards.
In terms of awards and box office, Li Binbin now ranks in the middle and top among the four-dan double ice.
Tang An doesn't care whether he gets an award or not. He can't be like some people who think about winning awards just after the box office is enough. He doesn't need to win an award to prove himself.
A broken trophy, which was rare two years ago, is now worthless in terms of his reputation and has no real benefit at all.
If he didn't want to show that he looked down on the organizing committee, Tang An would really be too lazy to join in the fun.
Occasionally, Huayi has to participate in some conferences. For such a large company, there are a lot of conferences and small meetings.
A group meeting was held today, with senior executives from all subsidiaries participating. The heads of a group of four offices in the artist management department came to say hello to Tang An one by one.
"Hello, Mr. Tang!"
Li Xue, the head of the first studio, whose artists include Li Binbin, Ren Quan, Li Zhonghan, Chen Shicheng, Li Chen...
Fei Lin, the head of the second studio, whose artists include Luo Haiqiong, Deng Chao, Zhang Hanyu, Lin Xinru, Wang Baoqiang, Xu Fan, Su Youpeng, Hu Jing...
The head of the third studio, Zhou Shiwei, has artists including Wang Xiaoming, An Yixuan, Chen Zihan, Huo Shiyan...
Zhang Shiman, the head of the Fourth Studio, whose artists include Xuan Xuan, Xu Luoxuan, Liu Mei...
In the last working group, Huang Feng led Zhou Xun alone.
The five major agents, which are the current core of Huayi Artist Agency, each hold the title of vice president and co-general manager.
Originally, the First Studio was the strongest and the most important studio in Huayi. However, with the rise of Zhang Hanyu and Deng Chao, there was a tendency to catch up from behind.
However, the two of them are still not the "top names" of the studio, because they, Luo Haiqiong, are the girlfriend of studio leader Feilin, so they were only eligible to participate in the fund-raising meeting after last year's annual meeting.
The top star of Studio No. 4 was originally Fan Binbin, but after she left, there were only three or two kittens left.
As for Zou Xun's group, it was established specifically for Zou Xun two years ago to serve her alone.
Of course, the heads of several studios are generally only responsible for their "top names", while other people are assigned separate agents.
The studios are responsible for their own profits and losses, and the big agents are responsible for the company, for the profits, for the inputs and outputs, and for efficiency gains.
In this regard, Huayi can be said to be more than five years ahead of the entire entertainment industry.
The four-room group always fights with each other, but they are all in the same company and everything is kept secret.
In addition to the artist management department, several leaders from its Huayi Music Company also came.
More than 30 senior executives of the group gathered together and the seats were clearly arranged.
When Wang Zhongjun saw that everyone had arrived, he started to say a few words.
"The first half of the year has passed. Let's make a summary first and see what results we have achieved in the past half of this year."
As soon as Wang Zhongjun finished speaking, a financial statement was projected on the screen opposite, and a vice president of the finance department was responsible for explaining it.
Huayi's main film projects in the first half of the year were "Now You See Me" and "The King of Kung Fu". These two movies brought Huayi hundreds of millions of yuan in cash income.
The mainland distribution fee of "Now You See Me" is divided into 8%, which is 25 million.
The box office share is 70%, totaling 76.4 million.
The overseas copyright of 100 million yuan has used 60 million in promotional fees, and the remaining 40 million should be divided into 28 million by China.
In addition, we received a total of 12 million yuan from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan box office share, as well as mainland TV, Internet, and video copyright rights share.
In total, the total revenue is 141.4 million.
Huayi's investment is 7000*75%, which is 52.5 million.
The net profit is 88.9 million yuan. Even if the issuance fee is deducted, the revenue ratio exceeds 200%.
Tang An invested 17.5 million and earned back 49.88 million, nearly three times the profit.
Tang An took advantage of the box office share, with 25% of the investment getting 30% of the income, and the distribution fee was also reduced to 8%.
Win-win!
A movie makes a net profit of 90 million, not counting the exposure of its artists and the invisible connections between theaters, media, and TV stations.
"The King of Kung Fu" did not make Huayi less profitable either. The huge sales of overseas copyrights and the box office of more than 50 million US dollars in North America allowed Wang Zhongjun to make a lot of money in the European market. The overseas copyrights alone almost recouped the cost of 300 million.
The meeting continued, and then came the TV series business. TV series such as "Soldier Assault" and "The Deer and the Cauldron" that were aired last year had good ratings, and subsequent broadcast rights were sold for a considerable amount.
It is expected that there will be 19 TV series launched next year, including the TV series "Proof of Identity" which was born out of the movie "Assembly Number", and the TV series with the same name as the movie "Mei Lanfang".
"My Movie, My Regiment" created by the original crew of "Soldier Assault", the new version of "The Legend of Heaven and Dragon Sword", etc.
Then the recording business and artist management business in the first half of the year were also described one by one.
The record business is considered Huayi's weakness, but last year it signed a group called BOBO, consisting of Fu Xinbai and Jing Boran.
The first album released in May this year sold 100,000 copies in the first month, which is pretty good.
Tang An would just sit there and listen quietly, letting them talk about things that had nothing to do with TV or movies.
The general manager of Huayi Music has a good idea.
"Director Wang, Xiangnan TV has begun to enter the film and television production business. The movie "Nine Beauties" produced by Mango Pictures in the summer received nearly 50 million at the box office."
"I think we can cooperate with Jiangning Satellite TV and Jiangsu and Zhejiang Satellite TV, follow the example of Tianyu Media established by Hunan Satellite TV, set up two subsidiaries, and rely on the other party's TV station to organize some talent shows..."
This is a good idea. Jiangning Satellite TV is now the domestic TV station with the highest ratings second only to Hunan Satellite TV, and it has had similar cooperation with Huayi before.
"Absolutely Singing" was jointly organized by Huayi and Jiangning Satellite TV. Unfortunately, this program did not achieve half the influence of "Super Girl", and there were not many artists worth cultivating.
After some discussion, Wang Zhongjun handed over the matter to the general manager of Huayi Music and asked him to talk to the two TV stations first to see if they had any intention to cooperate.
This later became Blue Star Huayi and Blue Ocean Huayi, but they seemed to have gone out of business.
Mango Pictures, a company jointly invested by Xiangnan Satellite TV and Li Xiang, has been in the same situation for two years and has been silent.
On the other hand, Shonan Satellite TV's own Mango Economic Culture is doing well. Later, it also invested in TV series, such as "Beautiful Li Huizhen", "Tornado Girl", and "Palace Lock" series, all of which received good ratings.
There are too many things to do in such a large company, and it took more than three hours for the meeting to end.
But in the end Wang Zhongjun asked Tang An about his new film.
Wang Zhongjun looked at Tang An with a smile, "Mr. Tang, do you have any ideas for next year's film? What actors are needed so that they can free up their schedule?"
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone present looked at Tang An.
Especially for the five people in charge of a group of four rooms, the most important thing for the company every year is the film of Tang An and Feng Xiaogang. However, "Tangshan Earthquake" that Feng Xiaogang is preparing will probably take another year to prepare. The most important thing right now is Tang An.