Cao Wenyu sighed and shook his head: "The current situation cannot be alleviated by just apologizing. In addition, if you think about it from another perspective, if you were Hu Shuo, would you just call it quits?"
“What’s the point of a business war? Just to make your opponent apologize??”
Cao Wenyu had a wry smile on his face: "Actually, I have an unshirkable responsibility for things to develop like this. I underestimated Hu Shuo and his Creation Entertainment. At the same time, I also..."
Speaking of this, Cao Wenyu glanced at his son sitting opposite and swallowed the rest of his words.
In fact, he overestimated his son. Before the war with Hu Shuo, the Wenyu Group under the leadership of Cao Zechu was developing smoothly. Cao Wenyu thought he could retire with peace of mind, and he was more confident about Cao Zechu's work ability.
affim.
But in fact, the reason why Wenyu Group has developed smoothly under the leadership of Cao Zechu is mainly because Cao Wenyu has laid a solid foundation for Wenyu Group and all the links have been connected. Cao Zechu only needs to lead the group on its inherent track.
Just run it.
Therefore, in this state, Cao Wenyu could not help but overestimate his son's working ability. Therefore, when he was about to start a battle with Hu Shuo, although Cao Wenyu was a little worried, he did not try his best to stop it, which led to the group getting deeper and deeper.
Deep, until it becomes what it is now.
"Apologizing doesn't work, so what should I do?"
When the group reached a critical moment of life and death, Cao Zechu seemed a little overwhelmed and had no idea at all.
"Break your arm to protect yourself!"
Cao Wenyu spat out these four words calmly.
Currently, Wenyu Group has two pillar industries, one is Wenyu Film and Television Base and the other is Wenyu Cinemas.
These two major industries can be said to be the right-hand man of Wenyu Group. Now that Cao Wenyu has said "to protect himself", he will undoubtedly sell off one of the pillar industries. Only in this way can Wenyu Group continue to survive.
However, after hearing the words "break your arm to protect yourself", Cao Zechu seemed to be struck by lightning. He knew well the importance of these two industries to Wenyu Group, and he also knew how much his father had sacrificed to build this country.
effort!
However, due to his pride and arrogance, the group was faced with a situation where it had to cut off its arms to protect itself. One can imagine Cao Zechu's mood at this time.
"From what happened last time you went to see Hu Shuo, it seems that Hu Shuo is interested in our theater chain. Therefore, if we want to make peace with him, we can only give up most of the theater chain's shares, or,
Sell him the entire theater chain." Cao Wenyu said again.
Cao Zechu didn't say anything. Last time he went to Hawaii to make peace with Hu Shuo, the latter made a request to acquire Wenyu Cinemas. However, at that time, Wenyu Group still had the strength to fight, far from what it is now, so,
Cao Zechu naturally refused decisively.
Judging from Hu Shuo's attitude at the time, Cao Wenyu's analysis should be correct. If he wanted to make peace with Hu Shuo, he would have to sell Wenyu Cinemas to him. This should be the basic bargaining chip for reconciliation.
"Is there really no other way?"
Cao Zechu looked unwilling.
"If we can also produce a movie with a box office and influence comparable to "I'm Not the God of Medicine", maybe there will be a turn for the better."
Cao Wenyu said.
"..."
Cao Zechu responded with a wry smile. The final box office of "I'm Not the God of Medicine" was 5.83 billion, ranking third in Chinese film history. However, its actual influence should be ranked first in Chinese film history. After all, due to the release of this movie,
Some of the country's drug policies have been changed, and the prices of drugs reflected in the movie have also been significantly reduced. This influence actually exceeds the top two box office "Heroes" and "Soul of China" in Chinese film history!
Such a result is something that can be met but cannot be sought. To achieve such a result requires all aspects of factors. Therefore, the success of "I'm Not the God of Medicine" cannot be replicated!
It is almost impossible to make another movie with the same influence. Even Hu Shuo himself cannot replicate another "Miracle of the God of Medicine", let alone their Wenyu Group.
In particular, since the revenue of Wenyu Group has shrunk significantly since the end of last year, the number of film projects controlled and invested by the company this year has also been greatly reduced, and there are no works with huge investments. Naturally, the possibility of box office explosions is greatly increased.
of reduction.
In fact, in the current Chinese film market, the only company with a higher output than Chuangshi Entertainment is Hu Shuo.
It’s not that there are no small things that make a big difference, but they are very few. Every one of them is something that can only be met but cannot be sought. And like Hu Shuo, the miracle of just investing 30 to 50 million to win billions in box office is a miracle.
This has never happened before.
"Now that the group wants to turn around, its only hope is to produce phenomenal works. If the film project fails, if an influential TV series like "Love Apartment" can appear, it can temporarily alleviate the group's situation."
Cao Wenyu said again.
"Oh, it's so difficult!"
Hearing this, Cao Zechu sighed again. The first and second seasons of "Love Apartment" continued to be popular, and it has become a big IP for domestic dramas. It can also be said to be one of the cash cows of Chuangshi Entertainment. At the beginning of the year, Forbes
The Copyright Value Agency has issued a list of the most valuable IPs in China.
At that time, the second season of "iPartment" had just finished airing and ranked first on this list. The valuation of this IP alone was as high as 5 billion!!
If Wenyu Group can produce such an influential IP drama series, it will certainly stop the bleeding.
But just like "I'm Not the God of Medicine", it's not easy to create a film and television drama as influential as "Love Apartment"!
"If movies and TV series don't work, if we can create a phenomenal variety show, we may be able to slightly reverse the current situation, just like "If You Are the One"!"
For a comprehensive entertainment company like Wenyu Group, movies, TV series, and variety shows are the three main sources of revenue. If movies and TV series fail, then they can only place their hopes on variety shows.
“Variety show??”
When it comes to variety shows, Cao Zechu's eyes light up, because Wenyu Group has always had good results in the field of variety shows, and it also holds the copyrights of two popular variety shows.
Moreover, there is currently a variety show in production with a large investment scale. Therefore, Cao Wenyu suddenly mentioned the variety show as a reminder to him.
"Perhaps there is something really good about variety shows!"
Cao Zechu, who originally had a sad face, finally showed a look of hope.
“Variety shows are okay??”
Cao Wenyu has not managed the company's specific business recently, so he is not very familiar with some of the projects the company is currently working on. His current focus is actually on the Wenyu Film and Television Base.
Because after Wenyu Group showed a huge decline, Cao Wenyu had already thought about the group's way out, which was to defend Wenyu Film and Television Base, which was Wenyu Group's trump card and one of the few physical projects owned by Wenyu Group.
.
"Wang Dade is currently producing a variety show. Half of the season should have been completed now. Perhaps, we can put the show he produced online as soon as possible. If it can really achieve the results he said when he submitted the project, it will be great for the group
It’s a shot in the arm!”
Wang Dade is the ace producer of Wenyu Group and has produced popular variety shows across the country. Therefore, Cao Zechu is quite confident in the variety show he is producing.