After the Oscars, Li Qian flew back to Beijing the next day, declined all interviews and invitations from anyone, including CCTV, and rested at home for two days.
To be honest, I had been feeling nervous before, but now I can finally relax.
Once you win the award, it's over. The rest of the carnival belongs to Optoelectronics, the media, and the audience.
Eat three meals a day on time, watch TV, occasionally play games, go to bed early and get up early, and run five kilometers in the morning. This is a serious pace of life.
After three days of rest, it was already March 1st. I ran another five kilometers in the morning, took a hot bath, and slowly ate the breakfast prepared by Tong Liya.
After breakfast, I sat on the sofa and used the TV, computer, and mobile phone. While watching reruns of popular dramas and classic movies, I also took a look at the funny news on the Internet.
Tong Liya also leaned against Li Qian, holding a tablet and browsing the news, and suddenly became angry.
"This Professor Qinghua is so inhumane!"
"What's wrong?"
"Not that Li**, there is a Qinghua Law School professor who posted on Weibo, saying that raping drunken girls is less harmful than raping girls from good families!"
"Okay, don't be angry. Sooner or later, this kind of person will be submerged in the vast ocean of the people. In a day, netizens will spray him to death with their saliva."
Li Qian patted Tong Liya on the back to calm her down.
"But what's unlucky is that two of the four famous fathers have the surname Li."
In the Internet age, more and more things are exposed to the public's eyes, more and more in the past two years.
Dong Jie and Pan Yueming's marriage, which has been at odds since last year, was completely exposed to the public by paparazzi two days ago.
Wang Dazhi, who had been rumored to be the subject of a marriage change, was caught on camera kissing Dong Jie passionately.
Even Zhang Yimou is in the news again after just signing a contract with Lay's.
However, this time, some media broke the news that he had been reborn.
super life
Well, the media is getting more and more powerful.
However, the media also provide the public with a lot of after-dinner talk.
After watching the news for a while, Li Qian asked again, "By the way, when will you join the group again? I feel like you have gained a lot of weight during this period. I think you are almost there."
"It will take another half a month." Tong Liya touched her cheek twice in distress and sighed, "It will be uncomfortable to lose weight again."
Her name has been officially changed, and filming has started. She will film other scenes first. Tong Liya needs to make herself plumper, at least have some flesh on her face, and look like a pregnant person.
"This is good, just right."
Li Qian smiled and slowly rubbed his right hand on Tong Liya's slightly plump body, feeling a slightly softer touch than before.
I was really thin before. Although there were places on the front and back where there should be flesh, it was far from as thin as it looked, but the whole body was still a little bit shaky and didn't feel as good as it does now.
"You feel comfortable." Tong Liya rolled her eyes at Li Qian angrily and slapped away the big hand that was wandering around her body.
"By the way, I was asked about my thoughts on Teng Huatao's new film, but the schedule has collided with it. Do you want to coordinate it?"
"I'll talk to him in two days. It doesn't matter whether he takes the film or not," Li Qian said.
"Don't you like this movie?" Tong Liya asked curiously. This is the first time for her that Li Qian has an obvious negative attitude towards a film directed by one of his directors.
Li Qian shook his head, "This film is not something Teng Huatao can handle. After all, he is a TV drama director, and his script covers up his biggest weakness. To put it bluntly, without such a script with a strong story, he would
It’s really not suitable to be a commercial film director.”
Every other line is like a mountain. In movies and TV series, even if there is not a big mountain in the middle, there is at least a big river, or there is no bridge.
The probability of success for TV drama directors who switch careers to film is not much better than the probability of success for advertising directors who switch careers.
"I am a director with a box office of at least RMB 600 million, but you are not suitable to be a film director." Tong Liya complained.
"Actually, to put it bluntly, it is an atypical movie. This kind of movie with strong characteristics of a TV drama director cannot be called the director's work. To be precise, this should be Bao Jingjing's movie, Bao Jingjing's movie
In addition to being a writer, she is also a screenwriter who graduated from a film academy." Li Qian said.
"But this time it's Bao Jingjing's novel and her screenplay. How do you know it won't work well?"
"Have you read the novel? Tell me what story the novel tells?"
"It's a story about a food columnist and a rich second generation looking for happiness in Nepal." Of course Tong Liya read the novel.
"This is a travel note, the title of the book is called, but it doesn't have a strong story at all. The novel is like this, and the script is about the same. There is no ready-made, interesting, and complete story. I have already done what Teng Huatao has produced.
You can imagine it.”
This movie is almost an edited version of the original work. It relies too much on the original work and dialogue. Even talking on the phone takes a long time to talk back and forth. The most important part of the movie is not the pictures and sounds, but the dialogue.
The audience laughed a lot when the movie was shown, because there were indeed many lines that sounded very pleasant, such as "A thousand pieces of friendship is worth less than four taels of breasts" and so on.
Without these lines that make people laugh, it would be completely disastrous.
From a professional point of view, the movie is too thin, just like watching a PPT with animations and explanations.
However, the plot of the original work and the performances of the actors, especially Wen Zhang, cover up all the shortcomings and are enough to fool the audience.
"Okay, you are a great director and you have a reason." Tong Liya curled her lips. He could not speak to Li Qian on professional matters, but he still didn't think Teng Huatao was as unbearable as Li Qian said.
"Then I'll discuss it with Teng Huatao. If the schedule can be staggered, you can take it. Anyway, it's the director who gets scolded. It's okay to get a box office of 100 million. There's no harm in taking it. If you can't make a mistake,
, find another actor.”
I looked at the time and saw that it was already nine o'clock. I had to go back to the company after a few days of rest, so I got up and prepared to change clothes and go out.
"Wait."
Tong Liya hooked Li Qian's neck and slapped him hard on the mouth before waving her hand, "Let's go, let's go."
Li Qian came to the company and convened a meeting with the company's executives. Huayang Media's film business was directly eliminated by Li Qian. Starting from this year, his future film industry should begin to embark on a path of rapid expansion.
Already.
"Congratulations to Director Li!"
As soon as they met, Du Yang and the others expressed belated congratulations. Li Qian had been resting at home for the past few days after the Oscar, and they had not had time to congratulate their boss.
Li Qian smiled and said, "Okay, okay, everyone, sit down. The past is in the past, and we have to start new work. This year we will officially replace Huayang Media and become the largest private film company in the country. Regardless of the company headquarters,
Each of its publicity and marketing companies must expand, and those that need financing must also raise funds.”
When it comes to the company's expansion, everyone's eyes are slightly excited. They have been waiting for this day.
Expansion, financing, expansion, refinancing, and then listing, everyone can get a handsome return.
Getting to the point, Du Yang, as the general manager, reported on the current business at hand.
"In addition to the few movies that the company has controlled investment in, after the box office exceeded 1 billion, I also received many movies seeking cooperation and distribution."
Xu Zheng's sequel is already in preparation and will soon go to Thailand to shoot.
As a writer, Deng Chao joined the crew and started filming as soon as he came back from Hollywood.
, is still in preparation, and is about to start shooting. It is a new film by Lu Yang, the best new director at the Shanghai Film Festival, who was signed by Du Yang last year. It is in the early stages of preparation, and costume films are relatively troublesome.
These are all the projects the company currently has, but as the agency issuance exceeded 1 billion, it also received more issuance business.
Du Yang continued, "Directed by Mr. Paige Taihe himself, starring Liu Dehua, he intends to hand it over to us for distribution. Guan Hu's new film has a funding gap of 20 million, starring Liu Ye, Huang Bo, and Zhang Hanyu. Huang Bo will finish filming
Then this movie.
We also have Weike Media, starring Aaron Kwok and Sun Honglei. After Weike Media invested, the second part was kicked out by Huayang and Ningxia Film Group, and they also wanted to distribute it to us.
Universal Asia and Ying Huang co-invested in it, and it also stars Andy Lau. Although the director was very dissatisfied with us and Wu Siyuan for cutting off Hu, both Universal Asia and Ying Huang were interested in cooperating with us.
I just couldn’t win it. Although Uni Asia also wanted to hand it over to us for distribution, Yin Du and Bernard, the main investors, didn’t agree. In addition, this film was invested by Xi Mihua, so I didn’t force it.”
For a movie, Du Yang introduced the producer and starring actors, and became more and more excited as he talked about it.
Almost in the past month, four movies have come to seek distribution, and they are no ordinary movies.
Three of the movies have kings starring in them, and the only one that doesn't have kings starring in them also stars some of the best actors of the Mesozoic era.
Every movie has great box office potential and is worth looking forward to.
The fact that four films came to us for cooperation at the same time also means that Future Pictures will be the first choice for film distribution by other companies in the future.
Investing in movies is all about profit. These companies and investors prefer Future Pictures. It goes without saying that they believe that Future Pictures' distribution can make them profitable.
This already means that in the eyes of many peers in the film industry, Future Pictures is already number one in the industry.
Li Qian searched for these movies in his mind and had seen most of them. Although there were some big bad movies, they were just released.
With Andy Lau in charge, even if it only sells 100 million at the box office, as a distributor, you can still make money with your eyes closed.
"Then take them all. Be careful not to conflict with schedules. As for forget it, don't associate with that kind of person." Li Qian said.
Ximeihua, a new "king of jam" that has emerged in recent years, is the largest Junket Operator in Omen.
If you change rice into money, you will understand what it means. As the old saying goes, there is only the wrong name, not the wrong nickname. It is better not to interact with such people.
"Well, they are all in the capital and can sign a distribution contract at any time. How about arranging a large-scale press conference in two days to announce the plan for these eleven movies and create a big scene?" Du Yang suggested.
"That's okay. Since we're going to expand, there's no need to keep a low profile." Li Qian had no objection.
The company and the others are busy with film and television production, promotion and distribution, so Li Qian doesn't have to do anything else.
However, it is still up to Li Qian to make the decision and them to do the concrete work.
This film other than Li Qian's has exceeded 1 billion. The company's distribution strength has been recognized, and there are more and more projects to come.
Following this, the distribution, publicity and marketing departments will also expand.
Li Qian's goal for Zhang Hao and Huang Yan was to increase the distribution staff, including Diwang, by half, and to double the publicity and marketing team.
More and more news of all kinds are exposed by the media, including Zhang Yimou's rebirth. Online publicity and marketing on the Internet, even a blind person can see, will become more and more important. It will soon surpass traditional TV and newspapers.
Everything has been finalized, including theater chains and new online ticket purchases. The latter has entered the testing stage and will be launched soon.
Of course, there is the most important financing. Most companies need financing. It is not just a matter of raising more funds.
The company's management incentives can be replaced by year-end dividends instead of shares, but a company's resources are ultimately limited.
Future Pictures is not short of money at all now. It has hundreds of millions on its books. Even if it gives up 30% of the investment share to several major optoelectronics, the remaining 70%, plus Li Qian's own director's share, as well as TV and Internet copyrights
, the share of pre-roll advertising is 600 million.
There is no cost, the cost is earned by placing ads, and more.
The North American box office has reached 140 million US dollars, and it has also begun to be released overseas. If the box office in other overseas regions is also satisfactory, the box office share alone will earn at least 300 million.
After winning the Best Foreign Language Film, overseas TV, DVD, and online rights were also packaged and sold to Warner for US$25 million.
A national sensation, highly entertaining, and $25 million is not much.
This is another 150 million. Added together, it brings Li Qian a net profit of more than one billion!
There is no shortage of money at all. Most listed companies with a market value of tens of billions do not have even one billion in liquidity.
What's more important is the support of various hidden resources from various shareholders in financing.
This aspect is left to Zhong Lifang, who is a professional in investment and financing. He first estimates the company's value, tries his best to estimate it, and then selects some capital that can help the company.
Internet giants such as well-known venture capital, banks, fund insurance, Penguin, and Ahli at home and abroad are all there, all waving checks, waiting for Li Qian to choose.
After the meeting, Du Yang also signed distribution contracts with the producers of several other films that needed to be distributed, and held a grand press conference to announce Future Pictures' film list for the next year.
Eleven movies, all of them promising movies. Such a big move shocked the reporters present.
Although Li Qian did not appear, and the directors and actors of several movies did not appear, the reporters present were horrified when they looked at the lineup of this movie.
"This business scale far exceeds that of any company in the country. Even Huayang Media at its peak couldn't do it," a reporter in the audience murmured.
"Huayang Media?"
A young reporter next to him sneered, "Huayang Media won't be able to release a single movie this year."
"Isn't it Ma Xiaogang's? It's said to be a comedy and he's back to his old profession."
"Ma Xiaogang? That's not enough for Li Qian. These are eleven movies. Li Qian's own movie hasn't been released yet. This year, Future Pictures will definitely be a giant!"
When Future Pictures announced its 11-movie slate, the entire film industry was shocked. The quantity and quality of this business are greater than those of Huayang, Bernard, and Guangxian combined.
The bosses of several major companies were left with a sense of powerlessness. These four films had all been negotiated with them for distribution before, but after exceeding one billion, they all turned around and threw themselves into the arms of Future Pictures without hesitation.
It is foreseeable that right before their eyes, Future Pictures, a rising giant in the film industry, has reached a point where they need to look up to them.