In the global film market, summer is the top priority of the year, and China is no exception.
The beginning of July was originally the beginning of the summer vacation, but apart from the upcoming release of "Tiny Times", the entire entertainment industry only had some tidbits of news.
In the entertainment industry, that is, love, breakup, details, etc., Li Chen and Zhang Xinyu's "Stone Love" has been popular for a while.
This year, there are actually no variety shows in the film and television industry. Jiangsu and Zhejiang Satellite TV launched two variety shows, "The Voice of China" and "Running Man", during the summer.
The two popular variety shows were aired in turn, immediately detonating the ratings and crushing all programs in the country at the same time.
"The Voice" aired two episodes. The first episode had a ratings of 1.5% and the second in the same period.
By the second episode, the ratings immediately soared to 2.8%, and the viewership share exceeded 7%.
Running Man also aired for two episodes. The first episode had a ratings of 3%, and the second episode also rose to the top of the ratings.
Two variety shows were broadcast at the same time, one Friday and one Saturday, making Jiangsu and Zhejiang TV a big hit.
The seven guests of Running Man include Deng Chao from Han and Tang Dynasties, Zhao Liying, Wang Kai, and Huayi from Li Chen, Yang Ying, Wang Kai, and Wang Baoqiang.
When the decision was made, Wang Baoqiang had not yet left Huayi.
There were four from Huayi and three from Han and Tang. These three people were finally able to come together, but no one wanted to go.
Deng Chao plans to develop in the direction of comedy, focusing on comedy and taking into account other genres. It just so happens that this is a comedy variety show, so he can find inspiration.
Zhao Liying is doing well under Zhou Shiwei now, but she is still far from the front line, and she is not picky.
Although Wang Kai is already on the front line in TV dramas, he is not picky when he has time. He played the role of a sissy in "The Invincible" for several seasons, so he accepted the job.
As for the top four, Yang Mi, Tang Yan, Sun Li, and Liu Ye, they don't like them at all.
Several studios have signed a lot of newcomers, at least the various film and television academies have signed up to forty or fifty newcomers, basically covering the classes from 2008 to 2011.
Anyway, there are more roles. The fifth and sixth roles in popular TV series are very rare for these newcomers. There is no need to worry about not being able to arrange the roles.
The two variety shows not only made Jiangsu and Zhejiang Satellite TV the most dazzling TV station this summer, but also benefited from the benefits of Tudou Group, which is an exclusive online broadcast platform.
In comparison, the market value of Youku, the largest domestic video website, has dropped to US$2.3 billion.
Although the gap between the two is still huge, Tudou's rise has just begun. After all, the variety show has only aired two episodes, and it will take a long time. Now the stock price changes every day.
Moreover, Tudou is stepping up its efforts to launch a large number of online dramas, including "Tomb Raiders Notes" and "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" TV series.
At the same time, after all departments of Tudou Pictures have completed preparations, the film, TV series, and variety show production departments have also prepared a large number of online dramas, online majors, and online variety shows.
The two variety shows almost suppressed the news that Tencent established Tencent Pictures, Baidu successively took back other shares of iQiyi, acquired PPS, and established iQiyi Pictures.
If the two major companies had not worked hard to promote it, they might not have even made a splash among the masses.
Tengxun once again announced a merger and acquisition, acquiring 100% of the shares of Shengda Literature for US$310 million, and formed a new Tengxun Literature with QQ Reading, and established a new website in Chinese!
Novel Reading Network, Under the Banyan Tree, Romance Novel Bar, Tianfang Tingshu.com, Yuedu.com, five major novel websites, plus two publishing houses, Zhongzhi Bowen and Jushi Wenhua.
Just this little property cost 310 million US dollars.
Tencent then began to contact SoftBank China, Carlyle Capital, IDG Capital, and Zhixin Capital, with the intention of acquiring 54.28% of the shares held by these shareholders.
Fortunately, Tang An reacted quickly and took the lead to acquire 5.71% of Zhixin Capital's shares at a premium of US$47 million. The total shares reached 48.57%. Together with the 2.86% held by Wu Wen's team, it has exceeded
50%.
Tang An has given the Wu Wen team the greatest freedom, and it is basically impossible for them to fall to Teng Xun.
Even if the worst happens, Tang An still has the right of first refusal.
In the conference room of Hantang Media, the three company leaders, Tang An, Chen Guobo, and Xu Manyun, as well as Wu Feng, deputy general manager of the investment and development department, and Yaning, deputy general manager of the development department, were having a meeting.
Also, the curtain showed the Shengda Literature Conference Room, where Wu Wen and his team were present.
Not long after Tengxun launched the acquisition project, Tang An received news from Wu Wen. After all, he had also worked at Shengda Literature for several years.
Originally, Tang An had planned to take down the remaining websites and publishing houses of Shengda Literature, but it was not necessary at this time. It would cost money everywhere, so he wanted to wait for half a year.
Unexpectedly, Tengxun took action, and Tang An could only send Wu Feng and Wu Wen to form a team to join in.
However, Tengxun really didn’t regard money as money, and the initial purchase price was 310 million U.S. dollars, more than 2 billion yuan.
When we first acquired Singularity, Jinjiang, Xiaoxiang Academy, Hongxiu Tianxiang and a publishing house, it was only US$350 million.
It can only be said that the big dogs are the big dogs and cannot compete with them at all.
Nowadays, with the success of several adapted movies, the term IP is gradually rising, and the value of online novels is also gradually rising. The film and television copyright of a phenomenal novel has reached tens of millions, which is nothing compared to top TV drama screenwriters.
Not inferior.
It doesn't matter how many novel websites there are, but Tengxun has QQ Reading after all, which is one of the top five most downloaded novel readers.
This app alone is enough to support a website that is not much weaker than Qidian.
Wu Wen from behind the scenes reported on the current situation. The impact of Founding Chinese, founded on QQ Reading, on the online novel circle is no less significant than the impact of the three giants on the film and television industry.
If a new company has enough traffic and readers, it will lack a large number of authors.
On all websites on the Internet, almost all authors with some achievements have been contacted by each other to recruit people, and editors in the Singularity Editorial Department have already resigned.
Tengxun, who was not short of money, offered an offer that was almost impossible to refuse.
It's the same as history, but everything is ahead of schedule.
Although the Singularity was not greatly affected later, Tang An still discussed a series of countermeasures with them.
It's not like I've never encountered this kind of thing before, and I still got through it.
In addition to increasing some benefits for authors and increasing editor salaries and benefits, Wu Wen decided to open a new website.
Over the past year, in addition to the original Singularity app, a Cloud Bookstore app has also been launched.
By giving away a large share of revenue to major operators, mobile phone manufacturers, and novel websites, plus spending huge amounts of advertising money, the users of Yunzhong Bookstore will already be ranked among the top ten of major reading apps.
This is mainly due to the decline of the mobile reading base and the diversion of a large number of users.
The audiences of Yunzhong Bookstore and Singularity are different. The former focuses more on wireless-style novels, just like the later Creation.
Yunzhong Bookstore has already raised users, and will build its own website next.
As for other details, I leave them to Wu Wen and his team.
Then there is the next question. Tengxun is not only interested in the field of online literature, he is also interested in potatoes.
Hantang Media only holds 34.7% of the shares of Tudou Group. Although it is a relative controlling shareholder, it only has 40% of the voting rights, which is usually enough.
But facing a boss like Teng Xun who is not short of money, it is not impossible to be ruthless.
Fortunately, the two variety shows only aired two episodes, causing Tudou's market value to skyrocket to US$1 billion.
It is foreseeable that when the two programs come to an end, which is still more than two months away, the market value will definitely rise to a new height.
Moreover, at this time Tudou is not far behind Youku's market share. Once the overtake is completed, the meaning will be different. There is absolutely no comparison between No. 1 and No. 2.
At that time, it was no longer a matter of billions.
It was precisely because of this that the shareholders stopped negotiating with Tengxun.
In addition, Han and Tang also announced in advance that two online dramas, "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" and "Tomb Raiders", will be broadcast exclusively on Tudou.com, which is also good news.
This is not an option, Tang An still has to find an opportunity to get the remaining 10% of the voting rights.
The meeting continues. Today’s meeting is mainly about variety shows.
The variety show division of Hantang Media has actually been established, but it still lacks a group of senior managers.
Tang An plans to directly acquire a variety show production company to save trouble.
Wu Feng reported the results of the inspection.
At present, there are no more than ten large-scale variety show production companies in China, namely Canxing Production, Blue Flame, Energy Film and Television, Oriental Popularity, Weizhong Media, Shixi Media...
Canxing Productions is the producer of "The Voice of China", a joint venture between the Chinese Cultural Fund and News Corporation.
Blue Flame is owned by Warner Bros., and the other companies don't have much corporate background.
Tang An looked through the information of these companies and found that they all have good qualifications.
"Mr. Wu, just go ahead and talk about these. If you win at least one company, you can retain part of their management."
It's already July, and "Interstellar" is about to start filming. Tang An has too many things to take into consideration, so he has to arrange them all one by one.
Whether it is the company's release of several movies in the second half of the year, preparations for Wuzhou's release, Tudou Pictures' business, Han and Tang literature, and the film and television dramas co-produced by Han and Tang Film and Television with several major studios, he can only ask about the general strategic direction.
As for variety shows, let the following people examine some of the variety shows in Southeast Asia that have been popular in China.
As mid-July approaches, another film released by the company, "Little Times," is released in China. Although there are snipers from Ali, due to the full release of Han and Tang Dynasties and the lack of competition from other popular films during the same period, the opening weekend was four days.
With a box office of RMB 291 million, it shocked the entire entertainment industry. No one expected that a movie directed by a writer could explode with such great energy.
"Wolf Warrior" has already started shooting, and "Interstellar" will also hold a press conference on the 13th. Tang An will put all his energy back into the movie.
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ps: I deviated a little from the main line. I almost lost my writing. My mind is also confused. I can’t write business well, so I’d better write a movie...