In April, when everything at hand was almost settled, Tang An began to retreat and devote himself to the post-production of "Interstellar".
There is nothing special about the editing of "Interstellar", except that it uses a lot of montage style and various cross-editing.
The advantage of this editing method is that it saves time and does not make the plot seem protracted. It gives people a much stronger feeling than a straightforward narrative, and the emotions are sublimated here.
The most intuitive thing is that when the protagonist drives away from home, it is combined with the dubbing of the countdown to the rocket launch.
Also at the end of the movie, after the old Murphy told the protagonist about the heroine, the scene had already cut to another planet before the protagonist left.
It's a very common technique, but if used well, the effect is very good.
"Interstellar" is the longest of these movies made by Tang An, exceeding 150 minutes, which definitely does not meet the requirements of a commercial movie.
The longer the movie, the harder it is to control the rhythm.
Generally, the rhythm of a movie is divided into three parts, and the time periods are similar. But this is more than half an hour, so how to allocate and adjust it is a big problem.
The editing alone lasted a full month and a half, and it took another week to complete the soundtrack, subtitles, etc., and also added some dubbing.
It took one and a half months, until mid-May, to complete the editing of this 155-minute long film.
But this is not over yet. There are still some special effects in the later stage. It will take about ten days before the film will be released by the end of May.
After being in seclusion for a month and a half, a lot of big things happened in the entertainment industry.
The romantic comedy movie "Beijing Meets Seattle" released at the end of March broke the box office record for romance movies, with a box office of 580 million.
Previously, the box office record for romance films was set by "If You Are the One", but "Beijing Meets Seattle" directly raised this record by 200 million.
At the same time, Xue Xiaolu also set a box office record for female directors!
The two leading actors, Wu Xiubo and Tang Wei, also benefited from this. The former became a national uncle, while the latter directly got rid of the negative influence caused by "Lust, Caution" and became a first-line actress.
However, this movie is similar to "Lust, Caution" in that it was also deleted, but only the scene of two people kissing passionately was deleted.
"Beijing Meets Seattle" has become the most popular movie after the Spring Festival.
Among other movies, the largest-scale police movie "Drug War" has a box office of 165 million in the mainland. The scale of the movie is unbelievable.
By the end of the performance, almost all the police officers were dead, and the trial was over.
But if you look at the investors, you will understand that one of the investors is the directly affiliated organization of Optoelectronics and the Film Satellite Channel Program Production Center.
The box office of the period blockbuster "Loyal Yang Family General" released by Huayi Investment was less than 70 million, which was a bad start to the year.
The youth nostalgia-themed film "To Our Fading Youth" invested and released by Ahli Pictures had a box office explosion. It was released for 40 days, with a total box office of 740 million, once again breaking the box office record for a single film directed by a female director.
"Special Force 2: Counterattack" has a box office of 380 million, "Star Trek Into Darkness" has a box office of 390 million, "The Croods" has a box office of 420 million, and "Iron Man 3" has a box office of 780 million.
Four Hollywood blockbusters have taken turns to bombard the domestic film market, which can be regarded as a warm-up for the upcoming summer season.
However, this year's summer domestic film festival has a movie with a 500 million yuan and a 700 million movie, which is not unstoppable.
The domestic film market is maturing step by step. More than one important film is released every month, and competition is becoming increasingly fierce.
After Tang An finished editing "Interstellar", he took a day's rest at home and immediately went back to work.
As usual, a group meeting was held in the morning, and all general managers of several branches were present.
Two months have passed and there are quite a lot of things going on. First of all, the box office share of "囧" has already been received.
With a domestic box office of RMB 1.24 billion, excluding Xu Zheng Studio’s 30% investment share, Xu Zheng’s personal 5% share, and Wang Baoqiang’s 4% investment share, Hantang Media can share the production share, publicity costs, and distribution share in total
It's a little over 300 million yuan.
Other post-advertisement, Internet, and TV copyrights were acquired for approximately RMB 26 million, with a total revenue of RMB 326 million.
The cost is 52 million production costs and 40 million publicity costs, with a net profit of 2.34.
There is also the distribution share of "101 Proposals", which earned 22 million.
The revenue from variety shows is not much for the time being, and several variety shows adapted from Southeast Asia will be broadcast one after another during the summer and the second half of the year.
In terms of TV dramas, some TV dramas invested by the group itself and cooperating with four other companies also have a revenue of 300 million.
The income of various movies is less than 700 million, which is not much. Movies such as "The Breakup Master", "Interstellar", and "Wolf Warrior" will be released one after another. Just the promotion fee and the operating expenses of Nuomi Film are a lot of money.
As for video websites, Ahli completed the acquisition of Youku a few days ago. The three giants of BAT are one by one, and with the addition of Tudou, competition has become increasingly fierce.
Among the companies the company has invested in, Didi Chuxing completed its Series B financing in early May. From a valuation of US$20 million at the end of December last year to a current valuation of US$130 million at the end of May, it has increased 6.5 times in half a year.
The financing amount was US$15 million, Hantang Media followed with an investment of US$3 million, and Tengxun led the investment of US$12 million, acquiring 8.28% of the shares.
Hantang Media’s shareholding increased from 37.1% to 35.33%.
It is imperative to introduce giants, otherwise the Han and Tang Dynasties would not be able to do Didi Sit Up.
As long as you get a share of all subsequent financing and a 20% stake after the e-round, that's enough.
You know, five years later, when Didi prepared for its first IPO, the outside world gave it a valuation of 500 billion yuan!
20% of the shares at that time was 100 billion yuan. I was lucky to be able to keep it. So many financial giants wanted to take a bite, including government-backed China Investment, Life Insurance, CITIC, BAT, and Apple and other overseas capitals.
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Toutiao also conducted a Series B round of financing in May. This time, the amount of financing reached 10 million US dollars. Hantang Media and dst Capital divided the 10 million, each with half.
Hantang Media’s shares also increased from 17% to .71%.
Ele.me launched its B-round investment two months ago, led by Matrix Partners China, Jinshajiang Venture Capital, and Hantang Media. Hantang invested US$3 million, with the total shares rising to 13.8%.
US$11 million was used for financing, and the group now has 650 million in cash on its books, including its original funds.
100 million was allocated to Nuomi Films for operations and the upcoming summer movie campaign.
200 million cash was injected into Tudou Group, leaving 200 million for the promotion expenses of "The Breakup Master", "Interstellar" and "Wolf Warrior".
Another 150 million will be injected into Nuomi.com.
It was all divided up in one fell swoop. All companies were burning money and couldn't help spending it.
After the meeting, Tang An called Wu Feng, deputy general manager of the Investment and Development Department, to the office.
"Mr. Wu, please prepare the report of Nuomi.com. After you have burned the two hundred million through the summer holiday, start the B round of financing. If you continue to burn it, it will be a bottomless pit, and we can't afford it."
Tang An ordered.
"Okay, Chairman, I'll get ready right away." Wu Feng nodded in agreement.
Nuomi.com invested 100 million after the acquisition, and now it has invested another 200 million. It is burning money too fast.
One or two hundred million is nothing, but if you can't keep up with the speed of burning money, you will be left far behind by Meituan and Dianping.
Even Ele.me, which is far inferior to Nuomi.com, is now catching up.
Once others have taken over all the market share, it will be useless for you to burn money.
"Chairman, how much money will you raise, and will you accept funds from major Internet companies?" Wu Feng asked again.
Now Nuomi.com’s valuation has soared to 3.2 billion yuan, about 500 million U.S. dollars, from more than 900 million when it was acquired more than half a year ago.
It only took half a year to burn through 100 million, which is a drag. Meituan will be valued at 4 billion US dollars by this time next year.
"Let's raise 80 million U.S. dollars. Start preparations now and try to complete it before the end of the summer. Even if Ali invests in Meituan, Tengxun and Baidu will accept it." Tang An thought for a moment.
The US$80 million in financing gave away nearly 14% of the shares, bringing in greater capital and accessing greater traffic.
This is the time to burn money as hard as you can. The more you burn, the greater the returns will be.
Wu Feng wrote them down one by one and reported on the progress of Ah Li's acquisition of UC.
"Chairman, Baidu gave up its acquisition of UC some time ago and acquired 91 Assistant for US$1.9 billion. Ali directly acquired 34% of UC's shares from other shareholders for US$6 billion. Mr. Cai also
Come and inquire about the shares in our hands."
"Okay, I understand. I will contact Mr. Cai later."
Ah Li is really generous, both Youku and UC, and he is still talking with Xinlang about the capital injection of Weibo.
On Weibo, Wu Feng is also talking about trying to inject capital together with Ah Li.
Xinlang probably won't refuse, and they don't want Weibo to become an industry in Ali. There's no harm in introducing other capital.
After finishing a lot of things, Tang An went to attend the premiere ceremony of "Blind Detective" in the evening. This is a movie invested by Huanya and Yinghuang and distributed by Hantang Media.
The box office was good, with 90 million in the first four days, 80 million in the second week, and 40 million in the third week. The reputation and trend were both good, and it earned 210 million yuan in three weeks.
In the third week, "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" was also released, which was also invested by Huanya. Liu Dehua's two movies were released in succession.
The reputation of "Blind Detective" can be regarded as having a positive impact on "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains". Originally, Uniasia planned to release "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" first because "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" is a blockbuster film with a stronger lineup and higher box office.
It will be higher, just in time to promote "Blind Detective".
Are you kidding me? If "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" is shown first, then no matter how good "Blind Detective" is, the audience won't watch it.
It's like feeding someone a bite of Xiang first, and then no matter what you feed them, they won't eat it.
As expected, the movie is terrible. The movie made by Paige Taihe and his boss is simply terrible to a certain extent.
However, the box office was good, with 550 million yuan in revenue on the first day.
There is no ticket subsidy for these two films. Nuomi Films needs to develop, but it cannot provide ticket subsidy for all films.
There are also some tickets priced at 20 to 30 yuan, but they are wholesaled in large quantities to theaters, just like other ticket sales platforms.
The first day's figure of 55 million did not match the one-sided negative reviews. In the following three days, it only received 140 million at the box office.
195 million in four days, at least it was a success at the box office.
However, starting from the second week, the box office began to plummet, with only 80 million in box office in seven days.
In the third week, there were only 20 million. Such a tragic drop is enough to show how bad the film is. No matter how strong the promotion is, it can't save it.
295 million in three weeks, Hantang Media has delivered another qualified answer with this release. This box office also refreshed Andy Lau's box office record in the mainland. The previous record was 290 million for "Detective Dee: The Empire of Heaven".
With two consecutive movies selling well, Hantang Media has finally handed over a qualified answer sheet.
On June 12, Hantang Media released a new film again.
Tonight, at the Xinao Store of Hantang International Cinema, the premiere ceremony of "The Breakup Master" will be held.
Having released two blockbuster movies in a row, Hantang Media stole the show in May, and there are quite a few media and industry peers at the moment.
Zhang Zhao, CEO of Ahli Pictures, and Zhao Wei, whose debut film "To Our Dying Youth" was a hit and also hit the limelight, also came.
During this meeting, Zhang Zhao and Zhao Wei were in high spirits, and they couldn't hide their pride in their eyes.
Tang An also smiled and said, "Haha, Mr. Zhang, Miss Zhao, welcome."
"Congratulations to Mr. Tang. The Spring Festival has just passed, and two consecutive movies have been hits. In addition, there was also "101 Proposals" with a box office of 200 million. So far this year, the box office of Han and Tang Dynasties has been close to 3 billion.
." Zhang Zhao smiled.
I really can’t accept it. Only halfway through this year, Hantang Media has already taken in nearly 3 billion yuan in box office, and Tang An’s movie hasn’t even been released yet.
"Three billion is not even close. It also depends on the expansion of the market. The youth nostalgia film directed by Ms. Zhao also received more than 700 million at the box office." Tang An said with a smile.
Speaking of "To Youth" which has received more than 700 million box office, Zhao Wei couldn't restrain her pride. She smiled and said, "Dr. Tang's movies are at least aiming for 1 billion. Of course I can't get into the box office of Mr. Tang with my achievements."
It’s amazing, compared to “The Breakup Master”, it’s over 700 million, it’s no big deal.”
Now she even regrets it. It would be very satisfying if it was released together with "The Breakup Master" and surpassed the movies invested by Tang An.
"Then let me lend you Miss Zhao's good words."
With such a mean face, Tang An didn't understand the meaning of her words.
After Zhao Wei walked away, Tang An congratulated Zhang Qiang.
"Congratulations to Mr. Zhang, "To Youth" is a success. Your right to speak in Ah Li has been further deepened."
But before Zhang Qiang could say anything polite, Tang An turned around and said, "But Mr. Zhang, do you really think this is a good thing?"
Zhang Qiang didn't know why, he narrowed his eyes slightly and asked, "Oh, what does Mr. Tang mean?"
Tang An said, "Since ancient times, when the cunning rabbit dies, the lackeys cook it; when the birds disappear, the good bow is hidden. I am afraid that as Ali Pictures slowly gets on the right track, your good bow should also be hidden."
ps: ...emmm, I accidentally wrote a lot in the last chapter, it’s my fault, I’m guilty.
Seeing as I typed until two o'clock, please forgive me this time o(╥﹏╥)o