As the boss of a fairly large company, what is your daily life like?
Li Qian doesn't know it, but his job perfectly meets the expectations of college students for their future workplace life.
Free time, no overtime, 9 to 5, go to work and fish.
Well, that's probably the situation.
On the second day after returning to the capital, Li Qian continued to fish in the company.
A simple film and television production and distribution company actually doesn't have much to do, especially as the boss, Li Qian really doesn't have much to do.
However, senior executives from various departments came to Li Qian's office one after another to report on the situation, even though some seemed to have said it yesterday, and some didn't matter at all.
It seems that they are quite free and take time to hang out in front of me every day.
Basically, there is nothing to be busy with, the only thing is Grava’s Series C financing.
Although Liu Yong's development strategy has problems, Grava is still the largest box office platform, with a market share of more than 50%.
It took Zhang Yong a year and a half to burn through the 30 million Series B financing raised during the Spring Festival last year. In order to cope with the summer holiday and the upcoming Lunar New Year, he launched Series C financing.
Needless to say, this year’s Lunar New Year festival includes Ma Xiaogang, Li Qian, and maybe Cheng Long will also join. There are also a lot of big productions, which are not only important for major companies, but also for ticketing platforms.
The amount of Series C financing was also as high as 150 million. CDH Investment was still the lead investor in Series B, and Li Qian followed with an investment of 10 million.
Prior to this, Li Qian had already accounted for nearly 20% of the shares. Now that Grava has no shortage of investment, he will certainly not be allowed to invest more. Li Qian may not be included in the next round.
After this round of dilution, Li Qian's shares were only left at 17.7%, and Grava's valuation reached 1 billion.
In just over three years, the valuation of a website that was about to go bankrupt has soared to 1 billion. The Internet era is so crazy.
When I met Liu Yong again this time, he was confident and more assertive. He was no longer the same person who was begging Li Qian for investment in a low voice.
The teams from both sides confirmed that there was no problem with the contract, and after signing each other, Liu Yong smiled and extended his hand to Li Qian, "Thank you, Director Li, for your continued support of our Grava."
"Mr. Liu, you're welcome. Can we have dinner together later?" Li Qian also smiled.
"Sorry, I have to rush back to Modu to take care of things, maybe next time." Liu Yong smiled and left with his team.
After they left, Li Qian sighed, "People change so fast."
Before, I wanted Li Qian to take people to the Magic City, but Li Qian was so angry that he could change his attitude faster than turning the pages of a book.
If he was really so awesome, Li Qian would no longer wait a year to cut a wave of leeks, call Ren Zhonglun, and directly unplug Grava's business in the base camp of Magic City.
Zhong Lifang smiled and said, "Power makes people inflated. If it were someone else, they would have built a company with a valuation of one billion in three years, and it would be chased by so many venture capitals. It is not surprising that it would inflate."
Li Qian shook his head, "Forget it, after Grava burns all the money, after the summer, Lunar New Year, and Spring Festival, it is very likely that the valuation will rise to two billion, and I will harvest it then."
Several popular periods this year are definitely opportunities for box office explosions. Not to mention the nearly ten major productions in the Lunar New Year period, the 1.6 billion box office of "I'm Not the God of Medicine" alone last year has greatly stimulated the film market.
The development of the market will promote the expansion of the box office limit, and blockbuster movies will also accelerate the development of the film industry.
Last year, the average ticket price of "I'm Not the God of Medicine" was 33 yuan, and the number of moviegoers exceeded 50 million. What kind of concept is this!
On average, nearly 4 out of 100 people watched the movie.
Even though many people have watched it more than once, watched it twice, and watched it three times, according to statistics, the audience for "The God of Medicine" has greatly increased in the proportion of people over thirty years old, and even over forty years old.
The audience is also quite large.
This means that many viewers who did not watch movies in the past are also attracted to the cinema.
After the summer holiday, Lunar New Year holiday, and Spring Festival holiday, there should be no problem for Grava's valuation to exceed 2 billion. Internet companies are like this, especially leading companies. When they develop smoothly, they are like a heifer riding a rocket.
It's not surprising that it's soaring upwards, doubling in a year, or even several times.
"Then our ticketing platform will be officially launched after the year?" Zhong Lifang said with some worry, "Now Meituan Movies has become independent from Meituan. Meituan has just won the Qian Tuan Station and has the strongest local promoters in China.
The team will definitely be the biggest rival of the ticketing platform in the future. QQ has also launched QQ movie tickets, which has the largest user base. We don’t have any advantage. Is it better to go online before the Lunar New Year period? If we are preempted by these two companies
Without the market, we don’t have much competitiveness.”
Indeed, Meituan finally emerged victorious from the competition among group buying websites. Its local promotion team ranks first in any industry in terms of number and ability.
Needless to say, QQ movie tickets, Penguin has almost never lost when it comes to following the trend, so many users are there.
However, Li Qian is not worried, "Don't let this 100 million go to waste, and the future of the ticketing platform depends on the development of the mobile Internet. It doesn't come early. Waiting for another six months will make no difference. Besides, we still have a trump card in our hand, which is enough to
In the early stage, we attracted a large number of users.”
"What's the trump card?" Zhong Lifang was surprised. She started preparing the ticketing platform half a year ago and is familiar with this aspect.
"We have a monopoly on film sources. Tickets for the movies I make can only be purchased on our platform, and no tickets can be sold on other platforms. Is this considered a trump card?" Li Qian said with a smile.
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After a two-day break, on the 27th, "Painted Skin 2" held a grand world premiere celebration in China, officially igniting the summer war.
The box office for the midnight show was as high as 6 million, setting a box office record for the midnight show in film history.
On the afternoon of the 28th, Li Qian and Tong Liya also secretly went to UME Huaxing Cinemas, which has joined Future Cinemas, to watch a movie.
Two hours later, Li Qian rubbed his eyes and came to the theater general manager's office, asked about the attendance rate, and left again.
The attendance rate is quite good. It's now past nine o'clock. From 6 p.m. to now, it is basically full. It is estimated that it will be full throughout the night and during prime time. The attendance rate throughout the day is estimated to be 50%.
However, the quality of the movie is a bit unsatisfactory. The key is that Tong Liya insists on watching it in 3D. The converted pseudo-3D effect is really terrible. Only the subtitles are three-dimensional, which makes the eyes tired of watching it.
Online audience reviews are also relatively average, mainly because it is not as good as the first part and the sense of expectation is completely gone.
The story is probably about Zhao Wei, a princess who has lost her charming appearance, and falls in love with her childhood sweetheart, guard Chen Kun, who they grew up with, but Chen Kun just doesn't want to face this relationship.
The fox demon Zhou Xun, who had suffered from being frozen for 500 years for love, returned to the world with a crazy desire to become a human being. What she needed was a heart that was willing to sacrifice, so she used magic to enchant Chen Kun.
And persuaded Zhao Wei with the sentence "In the eyes of men, only the skin of a woman", Zhao Wei carefully changed Zhou Xun's skin. After Chen Kun knew the truth, he blinded himself...
At the end of the story, although Chen Kun was blind, he got a woman who was beautiful both inside and outside.
This story, how should I put it, seems to be about the dilemma of marriage and love faced by contemporary audiences: Can love withstand temptation and testing? Does a man love a woman’s appearance or her soul?
In terms of theme, it seems to be stronger than the first one. Wu Ershan had previously mocked "Painted Skin" in an interview, saying that it was too much like a family ethics drama.
But this story is not as good as the first family ethics drama. At least the story is well told and the characters are established.
In addition, the villain died inexplicably, and his appearance was neither Chinese nor Western, and his appearance was exactly the same as Voldemort in "Harry Potter".
The whole movie has little to do with painting, and the 3D effects are of inferior quality, and the content is far below expectations.
There are various complaints on the Internet, and some extreme viewers even say that this is not "Painted Skin 2", but should be called "The Promise 2".
The film itself is actually okay, especially the graphics are quite good, but after all, the expectations are high. It is normal for sequels to be criticized, and there are very few sequels that have not been criticized.
One day passed, and the box office on the first day finally shocked the entire film industry.
70 million on the first day, breaking the single-day box office record in mainland film history!
Domestic movies, which have been in the doldrums for half a year, have ushered in the biggest movie-watching craze this year.
Yu Dong, Wang Changtian and others sighed secretly, this year Huayang Media is about to explode again.
There is Li Qian and Huayang. The film market in the second half of this year is basically contracted by both of them, which is something no other company wants to see.
As the main prosecutor, Huang Zhongjun is also in high spirits. After all, "I'm Not the God of Medicine" only made 68 million on the first day!
It surpassed "The God of Medicine", even if it was just the box office on the first day, it was enough to make Huang Zhongjun excited.
Although it is not arrogant enough to surpass the box office record of "The God of Medicine", it was a phenomenon-level movie that attracted national attention, and its box office performance was incredible.
However, based on this first-day figure, there is great potential for a one-billion-dollar box office.
However, four days after the first weekend, Huang Zhongjun was disappointed at the box office.
280 million for four days, which is high enough for any movie. Last year's three blockbusters during the Lunar New Year were not enough to watch in the face of this figure.
However, compared to the 70 million on the first day, this figure is still low.
On Monday, the polarized word-of-mouth made the movie's performance not good. It fell below 50% on the first working day, with only 30 million in a single day.
It was a perfect start, but it turned out that his hips stretched out later, and Huang Zhongjun was a little disappointed.
But it's just a bit disappointing. Although there is not much hope for One Billion, it will at least be the highest-grossing movie since the establishment of Huayang Media. It is not a big problem to surpass "Tangshan Earthquake".
As for the upcoming "Jaws 3", Huang Zhongjun doesn't care.
This is already the third movie. This is the pattern of sequels being worse than the last. The second movie is already much worse than the first movie. The third movie is even slightly worse than the second movie, which is not enough to compare with "Painted Skin 2".
pose a threat.
The first battle to encircle and suppress Li Qian is already a solid one!