Chapter five hundred and seventy-ninth, the powerful man has no scruples
"Haha, I heard that Mr. Tang invested more than one billion in UC. Is he planning to develop into the Internet industry?"
At the premiere site, a while before the premiere ceremony, several bosses got together to chat. Wang Zhongjun asked Tang An about investing in UC again.
Although it has only been two days and UC is not a listed company, UC is the leader in the mobile browser industry after all, with a valuation of nearly 8 billion. Tang An also spent more than 1 billion in cash, so it would be difficult to hide it.
"Yes, after all, uc has the highest market share among mobile browsers. Whether it is used for promotion or publicity, it is very useful."
Tang An didn't hide anything, it wasn't a trade secret.
Yu Dong sighed, "Director Tang is really generous. This billion is enough to make 10 blockbusters."
These film and television companies, which have finally gone public and raised hundreds of millions or more, have to save some money. Film and television production, channel development, and cinema construction all cost money.
But Tang An was lucky. He spent more than 1.5 billion to buy shares in a mobile browser. They could only raise so much in the IPO.
At the same time, I'm also curious. If I don't invest so much money in theaters and film and television production, is it because I want to make a breakthrough in the Internet?
It's not impossible. The film and television industry is too small, but the Internet industry is different. Even after ten years of rapid development, it still has great potential. The two are not on the same level.
If Tang An really shifted his focus to the Internet, they would be relieved.
Unfortunately, Tang An had no such idea at all, he shook his head and said.
"That's not true. I'm just a filmmaker and I can't play in the Internet industry. UC only provides users for the company's other businesses. After all, most smartphones now have mobile browsers installed. If we can attract this part of the audience,
If all of it is diverted to Tudou, Han and Tang literature, it will be a big explosion."
Not only Xiaomi's channel, Tang An also asked Wu Wen and Zhou You to discuss cooperation with Yu Yongfu. The two keywords of uc homepage and video will be directly connected to Yunshang Chinese and Tudou Video in the future.
"Indeed, if the traffic diversion is successful, it will not be a problem for Tudou to surpass Youku."
"Then Mr. Tang has gained a user base that is comparable to QQ, Baidu, Alipay, and Weibo. It's amazing."
Tang An smiled and shook his head, "It's incomparable, but it should be okay to be in the second echelon. It just depends on whether it can be transformed."
In terms of number of users, the number of users of uc browser is not much less than that of others, but it is not comparable at all.
QQ, Alipay, and Weibo are currently irreplaceable. They all have their own functions. However, if you don’t use UC Browser, there are other browsers. There is no difference in using them and they cannot attract people.
Although Baidu is the same, you can also use 360 and Sogou, but Baidu's user stickiness is much higher than that of UC Browser.
There is also Tieba. After the death of Kuaibo, Baidu Netdisk and Xunlei have become the two largest distribution channels for small movies.
Later, Baidu gradually fell behind in the BAT market, and its market value fell again and again. However, as long as the Baidu search engine remains, Baidu will still be one of the three giants!
After chatting for a while, we talked about everything except the Lunar New Year movies.
It wasn't until six o'clock that the premiere ceremony officially started.
One hour earlier than the normal premiere, Huayi held a lot of programs, and basically all of its talented artists took the stage.
After singing and dancing for more than half an hour, we got to the main theme.
On the stage, Wang Zhongjun started bragging, saying that nearly 10,000 tickets for the previous premiere on the online ticketing platform were sold out in less than two minutes.
In fact, it's almost the same, the numbers are just a little exaggerated.
Online ticketing platforms have been around for a few years, but they have always been tepid. Later, Maoyan, Weipiaoer, Taopiaopiao, and Nuomi.com dominated the world.
But soon Nuomi.com also fell behind like Guevara, Douban, and Shiguang, forming a three-legged situation.
This was also the only time that Baidu was not involved in the Big Three. At that time, Maoyan was acquired by Guangxian.
But Guangxian couldn't afford the money, so Ahli directly spent one billion on Taopiaopiao, forcing Maoyan and Weipiaoer to merge.
Teng Xun can fight hard, but Guang Xian cannot.
If Weipiaoer does not merge with Maoyan, then Maoyan can only merge with Taopiaopiao.
What's more, Ahli was still the second largest shareholder of Guangxian at that time. Once Maoyan and Taopiaopiao merged, Tengxun completely lost, and Ma Huateng had no choice but to inject Weipiaoer into Maoyan.
The main reason why Nuomi.com was eliminated was the lack of support for film projects. It was similar in the micro-film era, and there were problems with project selection and publicity.
Otherwise, it would not be Weipiaoer that was injected into Maoyan, but Maoyan merged into Weipiaoer.
The new Maoyan Microfilm company Guangxian is still the largest shareholder, and Tengxun is only the second largest shareholder. However, there was another company that was merged at that time, and the legal person was the coo of Tengxun Group. With these shares, Tengxun has 3% more shares than Guangxian.
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At this time, Maoyan was still Meituan Movies, a service of Meituan.com. Last year, Meituan also rejected financing from Han and Tang, and Tang An then invested in Nuomi.com and Ele.me.
There will be no Maoyan movies in more than two months, and Tang An is not going to get involved. In comparison, Renren, the parent company of Nuomi.com, has just suffered a devastating blow and is preparing to give up group buying and 56.com’s videos.
Website business is better won.
And two months is enough to do a lot of things. Next year Weiying Era will be established, and QQ and Nian Taopiao will be launched, also relying on the traffic of Alipay.
Seize time and seize the market!
There are no problems with the team and operation of Nuomi.com. Until the first quarter of 2016, Nuomi.com was still the second-largest ticketing platform in market share, only 2% lower than Maoyan, and even more than Taopiaopiao and Weipiaoer.
It’s just that Baidu stopped playing and gradually fell behind.
As for building a ticketing platform on your own, it’s not that easy to start from scratch.
There are no users, no team, and no platform access traffic, so it is useless to build it.
Which ticketing platform itself does not have enough traffic? Time and Douban are professional movie forums. Maoyan and Nuomi have the largest life service websites in the country.
Tengxun and Ahli have traffic!
It’s better to just buy it than make it yourself!
When Tang An was thinking about the ticketing platform, Wang Changtian beside him casually said, "Dr. Tang, do you think online ticket purchasing has taken off? Nowadays, young people are shopping online, buying train tickets online, and WeChat is also doing it.
Order food online and you won’t have to go out to eat anymore.”
Tang An did not expect that Wang Changtian also had such a forward-looking vision, and now he has taken a fancy to the potential of the ticketing platform.
But it’s not surprising when you think about it. Among the major film and television giants, only Guangxian set foot in the ticketing platform and acquired Maoyan in one fell swoop.
It’s not that easy for anyone to become big. Wang Changtian started a ticketing platform, and Wang Zhongjun later joined forces with several companies to form China Film World Distribution Company to cope with the competition from Ali, Tengxun, Wuzhou Distribution, and Sihai Distribution in the film distribution industry.
Tang An smiled and said, "Does Mr. Wang have this idea? Currently, the online ticket purchasing business accounts for more than 20%, which is not a small amount. It just takes some time to surpass the offline ticket purchasing business."
Wang Changtian also laughed and said, "A proportion of more than 20% is not small. If we can monopolize it, we can even influence the film arrangement of theaters."
Tang An said, "The theater chain is not so easy to control, it's not easy."
Wang Changtian is really brave and wants to threaten the theater chain.
Later, he did this with Maoyan, which he controlled. Taking advantage of the country's number one market share and challenging the theater chains, he wanted to influence the theater chains' film schedules. However, the theater chains refused to compromise, and Wang Changtian had no choice.
After chatting a bit about the online ticketing platform and the upcoming launch of the dedicated office, I returned my attention to the stage.
Feng Xiaogang was still bragging for more than half an hour.
An audience member asked him why he didn't choose to shoot such a shocking movie in 3D.
Feng Xiaogang replied, "3D movies have a strong sense of technology, but they are not suitable for heavy historical themes like "1942". It is like going to the hospital to donate blood but having the wrong blood type, causing rejection, which will harm the movie. Huahu
If I’m not an anti-type dog, I won’t do things like shooting 3D movies to increase ticket prices.”
Well, as expected of Feng Dapao, he secretly belittled a wave of 3D movies, saying they were just to increase ticket prices.
Aren't the movies that will be released now and next are "Pi" and "The Mystery of Longling"?
By the way, there is also "Twelve Zodiac Signs", which is also 3D. Tang An glanced at Cheng Long, who was a few seats away in the same row. There was nothing unusual about his face, he was still smiling.
Next is how difficult it was to shoot the movie. In order to restore the real scene, it was shot in the Republic of China Street somewhere. It took more than two years of hard work.
I also want to praise the actors, starting with the screenwriter, who said that he had wanted to film this subject many years ago.
And how well the actors fit the characters and how well they acted. Feng Xiaogang also said that when he wanted to make this movie 20 years ago, Xu Ban was the perfect choice for Hua Zhi.
After everything collapsed one by one, the slow-moving movie was finally about to begin.
This movie is called Feng Xiaogang's best movie by some people.
To some extent, this statement is correct.
The opening is Chang Kaishen's wartime New Year's speech, in which words such as human civilization are resounding, and they really complement the subsequent plot.
The Shaodong family used grain as bait to seduce Xu Fan, who came to borrow grain, but Xu Fan refused.
But later, for the sake of her children, she took the initiative to sleep with Shuanzhu for two biscuits. Although she was just a great mother, it also made people feel depressed.
Farmers and hungry people were in chaos, but they all had the same goal, to grab food. The young master who tried to stop him was stabbed to death with a fork.
Under the threat of hunger, rural sentiments are bullshit.
The landowner lady saves her own food to feed the cat. How loving and kind. This paragraph should be compared with the lady later who openly eats cat meat. It tells us that caring for animals is bullshit when human rights are not protected.
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The cat killed, tore up the book and cooked cat soup, telling us that knowledge is bullshit in the face of hunger.
Judge Fan Wei argued with the soldiers because his carriage was robbed. It was very similar to the scene that happened to Chairman Liu back then. Sometimes the law is bullshit.
A reporter from Time Magazine complained: Before going to southern Henan, it was easy to meet senior government officials. After going to Henan, people avoided him like the plague. Didn’t he know this was ***? What is more terrifying than the plague is the truth.
After finally arriving in Luoyang, I was told that Luoyang was not considered a disaster area and could not enjoy the benefits of being a disaster victim. This meant that I could not be treated as a disaster victim.
The brothel owner selects a prostitute, and everyone rushes to sign up. In order to survive, it is impossible to become a prostitute.
They are all similar plots, real enough to show the despair and dark side.
As for warmth, it does exist in subtle ways, but it is too little and lacks hope.
The entire film is full of blood, cruelty, and cruelty, and it more realistically reflects the situation of that era, from Chang Kaishen and the conquest of the country, to the situation of ordinary people.
The Japanese bombing and final bayonet insertion were bloody and cruel.
The inaction of the country's conquest can even be called perverse and cruel. Under such external oppression, human nature has also become cruel.
This is the manifestation of the Great Famine.
Like the earthquake performance in "Tangshan Earthquake", this is done very well.
But this kind of disaster movie must have warmth and add a glimmer of light to the desperate plot.
Feng Xiaogang did not do this, and everyone had a bad ending. Only the chef starring Fan Wei was able to start well and end well. In the end, he took a bite of the fish fillet on the tip of the knife and said it was spicy, which represented the choice of ordinary people like them.
The rhythm is also a little unclear, and Chang Kaishen's sub-line is a bit overshadowed.
In the past few years, "Tangshan Earthquake" was criticized by film critics for being overly sensational. This time, Feng Xiaogang listened to one and stopped being sensational at all.
Disaster movies want to sell at the box office, but they won't sell for a cent if they're not sensational.
Feng Xiaogang, who pursues art, is in trouble again this time!
However, after the movie was screened, the applause in the entire stadium was no less than that of "Tangshan Earthquake". Feng Xiaogang came on stage to thank the audience and shouted out the 1 billion box office goal!
When leaving the show, Tang An was also asked by reporters about his views on the movie and his box office expectations.
After thinking about it, Tang An expressed his thoughts, "Director Feng restored the background of that era very well, and also portrayed the performance of various social strata facing the Great Famine very well. I couldn't help but get wet just now.
, this is unimaginable to people of our generation.”
"However, the movie is too tragic and whether the audience can accept it is a question. I think the final box office will be around 500 million."
Five hundred million is still an overestimation, and just over four hundred million would be good.
Ordinary commercial directors may not comment on Feng Xiaogang's movies casually. If they say so, they are just compliments.
But Tang An said it bluntly, powerful people have no scruples!