Chapter Eight hundred and forty-five No such arrogant existence is allowed!
"Operation Red Sea" has exceeded 4 billion, and filmmakers in the industry had foreseen this day as early as half a month ago.
Although they have been prepared for it for a long time, when this number is actually before their eyes, no one can remain calm.
No matter the CEO of any company, he cannot remain calm when faced with a box office of 4 billion per film.
"We can't go on like this!"
Ah Li Pictures, Fan Luyuan and several senior executives of the company discussed it all morning and finally made a decision.
The original intention of establishing Ahli Pictures was not only to supplement an important part of the entertainment division, but also to have the largest voice in the film and television industry, no matter how bad it is, it is still one of the largest.
Although there were three established giants such as Huayi, Bernard, and Guangxian before, as well as upstart Hantang in the entertainment industry, and Wanda, which entered the market in an all-round way, for Ah Li, this was not a problem.
We have money and resources, not to mention that the film and television industry has entered the Internet era.
As soon as he made the move, he acquired the listed company Culture China, its market value soon exceeded 10 billion, and he invested in several blockbusters in succession.
However, although the movement was huge, the response was mediocre.
Fan Luyuan's appointment was not much better, and the film "Pancake Man" was an unexpected hit.
When Fan Luyuan took office, he was full of confidence and confident that he would lead Li Pictures to the top of the industry within three years.
After all, several major state-owned banks and the China Banking Regulatory Commission were defeated by his radical methods, which directly laid the foundation for Ahli's financial business.
However, reality gave him a blow. Two years after taking office, the overall structure of the film and television industry has not changed much. Huayi, Bernard, and Guangxian are still the giants, and Wanda is also among the giants. However, the Han and Tang Dynasties have taken a step further.
And if Li Pictures didn’t have fare evasion now, it wouldn’t even be able to get into the first tier.
Ahli Pictures currently has strong capital, but major companies such as Huayi, Guangxian, Bernard, Wanda, and Hantang will not lose to Ahli Pictures in any aspect.
Hua Yi, Xu Jiayin, and Ping An Insurance are working together. In terms of capital, they can spend more than 2 billion to gamble with their directors and actors, so they will not be short of money.
In terms of resources, together with the Magic Film Group and the West Sichuan Film Group, we have two of the top ten theater chains in the country at our disposal.
Bernard and Wanda have joined forces, and their hard power is even stronger than Huayi.
Guangxian teamed up with Tengxun to acquire Maoyan, but it still occupies a dominant position and is much better than Ahli in terms of publicity.
It's okay for these companies, after all, the gap between them and Ahli is not that big.
But the Han and Tang Dynasties had completely widened the gap with them. Even if Huayi had the title of the first film and television company and a market value of nearly 80 billion, it could no longer claim to be the largest private film company.
Judging from the development of the Han and Tang Dynasties, as well as Tang An's personal box office, this gap will only slowly widen.
Ultimately, the structure of the film and television industry will be one with one super player and many strong players.
If you want to be at the top of the industry, you must unseat Hantang.
But Fan Luyuan, who had a high self-esteem, had to admit that it was impossible to pull Han and Tang off the throne by relying on Ah Li alone.
Especially "Operation Red Sea" which won 4 billion at the box office, how can this be fun!
You must know that no other Chinese-language movie has a box office of more than 2 billion, and none of the movies released by Ah Li in a year have a box office of 4 billion!
This year it is 4 billion, and in two years it will be 6 to 7 billion. The box office of one person will exceed the box office of a big company for the whole year!
Moreover, other companies need dozens of movies to get a box office of 3 to 4 billion a year, and the cost of these dozens of movies is at least a billion.
As for Tang An, a movie costs as much as 4 to 5 billion, which means the profit of a movie exceeds the annual profit of a giant. This is simply a world of difference.
What's more, he also has several actors and directors with huge box office appeal, which two or three giants cannot compare with.
With Ahli's backing, Fan Luyuan can't just be willing to be like this. This is not what Ahli's senior management needs. After all, Big Entertainment is already one of the important business divisions of Ahli Group.
If the Li family alone cannot bring down Hantang, then they should join forces with other companies. Fan Luyuan believes that no matter it is Huayi, Bernard, Wanda, Guangxian or Tengxun, they do not want to see a film and television company overpowering them. Above everyone else, dominate the entire industry!
After discussing with a group of senior executives, Fan Luyuan directly ordered, "Everyone, please contact other companies and make sure to promote these cooperations!"
"Don't worry, Mr. Fan, as long as there are enough benefits, no one will refuse, not to mention it is also a good thing for them!" President Zhang Wei said with a little joy.
Fan Luyuan's plan is to unite as many major film and television companies as possible to participate in each other's major projects. When these key projects are released, the major companies will work together to provide support in various aspects such as production, film arrangement, publicity, distribution, and ticket reimbursement. Full support.
To form an alliance, there must be a relationship of interest, otherwise even the most reliable allies will become enemies at any time.
If you don’t make any money, who can support yourself and work hard!
In just over a week, Fan Luyuan has learned about all the recent big projects of several major companies.
"The Great Wall", "Operation Mekong", "Journey to the West: Three Fighting Bone Demons", "Omen 3", "Escape", "Ip Man 3", "Beijing Meets Seattle 2", "Grand Trail", " Journey to the West 3", "Legend of the Gods", "Journey to the West: Demons", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of the Dark", "Havoc in Tianzhu", "Kung Fu Yoga", "The Legend of Wukong", "The Showdown between England", "Chasing the Dragon", "The Legend of the Demon Cat", "Blood in the Machine"
In the next two years, Fan Luyuan sent people to contact all the movies with non-Han and Tang dynasty participation that had the potential to be huge box office hits.
These films either have famous directors, stars, IPs, or series. Most people don't accept money from them.
But if enough resources can be provided, investment will become easier. After all, the resources they devote will be of great benefit to the box office.
If several major companies work together to participate in these potential films and arrange the film schedule reasonably so that every popular schedule is evenly distributed without conflict, it will be beneficial to everyone.
After all, you gave up a small share of your own project and also got a share of other people's films.
The idea is good. Once we can negotiate with several major companies, the future of the film industry will really be negotiated by them, cut a piece of the cake, and distribute it to each of them.
It even controls nearly half of the theater chains and the three major ticket purchase platforms, so it can say that any movie can get as much box office as it wants.
For those who don't want to play with them, then arrange for several movies to join forces and attack them in all directions in terms of scheduling and marketing.
Fan Luyuan's idea is too crazy. He wants to completely control the domestic film market with several major companies, which is even better than the six major Hollywood companies!
However, some people have raised questions.
"Director Fan, I don't think it's that easy. Yu Dong, Wang Changtian and Tang An have always had a good relationship. In addition to the Han Sanping line, Jiang Defu is also easing the relationship between Wanda and Han and Tang."
"No problem!"
Fan Luyuan waved his hand and said, "But it will cost a little. At worst, I will sell them half of the box office proceeds of "Incredible" released during the National Day season at a low price, and I will also give them a share of Wang Baoqiang's "Havoc in Tianzhu"."
"As long as there are enough benefits, don't talk about them, even brothers will turn against each other!"
Fan Luyuan then made another joke, "Believe it or not, as long as you give Wang Zhonglei enough benefits, he can betray his elder brother!"
Everyone smiled. Indeed, nowadays there are many scenes of fathers and sons turning against each other and brothers becoming enemies.
"What about Tang An? He is the core of the Han and Tang Dynasties. Judging from "Operation Red Sea", if his new film still gets 4 billion in box office next year, all our efforts will be meaningless!" coo Deng Kangming added.
Executive Director Liu Chunming nodded in agreement, "Yes, as long as Tang An breaks the record next year, even if we win two or three periods together, it will be in vain!"
Others also nodded. After all, a record-breaking phenomenal movie is enough to suppress the shine of all movies. When the time comes, people will only remember that Tang An broke the record again, not that their movie won a May Day. National Day box office champion.
As for arranging more than a dozen movies to snipe Tang An’s new film?
That's impossible. Even if Fan Luyuan wanted to do it, other companies wouldn't agree.
This is an unsolvable problem. It can be said that the biggest reliance on the development of the Han and Tang Dynasties was Tang An.
Without any of these theater chains, ticket purchase platforms, and terrestrial distribution networks, the Han and Tang Dynasties would not be in trouble.
But without Tang An’s best-selling movies every year, Han and Tang would never have developed to such an extent in the cracks between several major companies.
It is precisely because Tang An has one hit movie a year that he can establish good relations with theaters all over the country. After all, movie theaters like movies that can sell money the most. This is how we can build a terrestrial distribution network all over the country. Otherwise, the theaters will be in trouble. I won’t let you down unless you go to one cinema after another and give away money, giving away a lot of money.
Without the relationship with theaters, the online ticket purchasing platform would not be able to connect to theaters across the country so quickly.
The importance of Tang An to the Han and Tang Dynasties is self-evident. It can be said that the Han and Tang Dynasties can be equated with Tang An. Once Tang An fails for the first time, it is not just a matter of a movie.
However, Fan Luyuan no longer expects to beat Tang An. That would be a box office of 4 billion, which is unthinkable.
Fan Luyuan smiled mysteriously and said, "As far as I know, Tang An's new movie is very complicated. Nearly a quarter of Tiangong Yicai's employees have been modeling various animals for three consecutive years. For such a complicated movie, I estimate that one or two It won’t be released in years, so this is our chance!”
What?
Is there any news about Tang An’s new movie?
"Director Fan, what is the theme of Tang An's next movie?"
Everyone quickly asked.
Usually, before Tang An finishes one movie, he will start another movie every two or three months. It's still early.
Fan Luyuan shook his head, "I don't know yet. The only news I got from Tiangong Yicai is about the modeling of animals. There are all kinds of animals. The specific estimates are only known to Xiao Yang and a few senior officials. Moreover, Optoelectronics has not filed any records. Lian Han Several producers within the Tang Dynasty were unable to get any information."
"If the information is kept strictly confidential, it must not be a simple movie!" Everyone said in awe.
The preliminary modeling alone took three years, and nearly a quarter of Tiangong Yicai’s employees were employed.
Today, Tiangong Yicai has taken on a large number of Hollywood businesses and has more than 2,500 employees.
Tang An's previous film cycle was only one and a half years and less than two years at most, but this time it seems like he is really making a big move!
Zhang Wei said, "No matter how good his new film is, if it's really that troublesome, it won't be released within two years. That's a good opportunity for us. Who else can resist us without Tang An's film in the past two years?"
The family joins forces!”
"I can't find out the specifics. I just heard a producer muttered a few words from Tang An, saying that it was for the world to watch and that it showed the Chinese film industry." Fan Luyuan said.
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Wei sneered, "Does China have a film industry?"
Fan Luyuan shook his head and smiled, "We can't guess what the great director is thinking, but taking advantage of Tang An's lack of new movie releases in the past two years is indeed our best opportunity."
Tang An has no new film released, so whether it is Xu Zheng or Wu Ershan, Fan Luyuan is more or less confident.
It is inevitable that the "Fengshen" series will be a hit, but with a production cost of up to 2 billion, Fan Luyuan does not believe that any other director except Tang An can make back the money at the box office.
Xu Zheng's "囧" series has no problem with a box office of more than one billion, but "Pancake Man" is almost over one billion. As a director who has become a monk in the process, Da Peng is no worse than him, and there is Wang Baoqiang.
As for the others, Wu Jing is filming "Wolf Warrior 2" and "The Founding of the Army" will be released at the same time. This is a political mission and has the support of the entire military. Compared with "Wolf Warrior 2", which only has the Nanjing Military Region behind it, it has a huge advantage.
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Deng Chao did have a lot of films, but he was still worse than Xu Zheng.
Immediately afterwards, several senior executives of Ahli Pictures went to contact several other major companies.
Fan Luyuan is full of confidence in this cooperation. He believes that none of the major companies will allow such awesome people as Tang An and Han Tang to exist.