Chapter 202: Cinema Plan Launched, Looking Forward to Mobile Internet

Chapter 202 The theater chain plan is launched, looking forward to the mobile Internet era

"Director Wu, is Director Zhang's new movie so confirmed?"

In Li Xiaoping's office, Wu Yuan sat across from her and said calmly: "Yes, Leslie has gone back to write the script. In the end, I will help him check and revise it and sign our names.

"When the time comes, you can ask China Film Group if they want to participate in the investment. There are still some risks if we invest alone."

Wu Yuan didn't dare to guarantee that Zhang Guorong's "Good Guys, Bad Guys, Weird Guys" would definitely get a good response from the Chinese and Korean markets.

It can only be said that there is a high probability that it will be successful. After all, with him doing the final check on the script, it can at least restore 80% of the level of the Korean version.

As for how much the final box office will be, it has to be left to God's will.

From a local film to an overseas film, Wu Yuan has no idea how much box office "Good Guys, Bad Guys, and Weird Guys" can achieve in South Korea.

As for the mainland, a box office of 50 to 80 million is the limit. After all, mainland movie fans actually have no concept of "western movies".

However, we can look forward to the box office performance of this movie in Hong Kong Island.

Zhang Guorong himself is from Hong Kong Island and has a box office base in Hong Kong Island.

When "Painted Skin" originally starred Donnie Yen as Pang Yong, it only grossed over 10 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office in Hong Kong. However, it was replaced by Zhang Guorong, and the posters in Hong Kong mainly showed Zhang Guorong as the C position. The box office revenue was more than 40 million Hong Kong dollars.

Even among the nearly five million viewers of South Korea's "Painted Skin", half was attracted by Wu Yuan, and the remaining half was attributed to Zhang Guorong.

For the generation born between 1965 and 1975 in South Korea, the Asian superstars in their hearts must be Leslie Cheung, Chow Yun-hair, and Cheng Long as male actors, and Wang Zuxian, Lin Qingxia, and Zhang Manyu as female actors.

Hong Kong movies in the 1980s were much more popular in Korea than Hollywood movies are now. At that time, it could be said that everyone was chasing Hong Kong movie tapes!

Even now, middle-aged people in South Korea aged 35-40 are very familiar with actors from Hong Kong Island.

The appeal of Asian superstars is so terrifying!

Wu Yuan is quite confident that Zhang Guorong will explore the Korean market.

After describing his thoughts to Li Xiaoping, Li Xiaoping finally understood and stopped worrying about this issue and turned to talk about another important matter.

"Director Wu, the company has conducted on-site inspections in the four major cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen and selected several business districts suitable for opening movie theaters."

"Our "Light and Shadow Era Cinema" plan can be launched."

"According to your request, we hired a group of professional cinema practitioners from Hong Kong Island, the United States, and Singapore to set up the company's cinema department."

"The company's cinema chain brand is positioned as a fully digital cinema, using top-level projection equipment. In the first phase, ten cinemas are expected to open within a year, and all will be operational by May 2007 at the latest."

"Not bad." Wu Yuan nodded with satisfaction.

As long as you have money, it's easy to start a theater chain.

Most of the domestic private theater chains only started in 2004, and there is indeed a lack of talent. Everyone is on the same starting line.

Whether it is Wanda, Dadi or Jinyi, which will dominate the mainland cinema chain brands in the future, they are now poaching cinema chain practitioners from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia to build their own cinema chains.

On March 7, 2004, the first Wanda Cinema opened grandly in Tianjin.

Dadi Cinema’s first cinema just opened in Foshan this year.

It’s not too late to enter the era of light and shadow, and the time is just right.

Don't be too greedy. In the first year, start with ten theater chains. If you can have 30-50 screens, you can already establish yourself.

Based on the average cost of a cinema of 2 million, the investment for ten cinemas is only 20 million. This small amount of money is not much at all in the era of light and film.

The company account is really poor with only money left.

The profits from "Your Name" have not been spent yet, and the profits from "Painted Skin" are coming in one after another.

Even if there is an investment of 100 million for "Gravity" that needs to be prepared, Light and Shadow Era can still spare 100-200 million in working capital to deploy in other industries (not counting film investment).

“We will test the waters with ten theaters first, and then strive to expand the scale to thirty theaters next year, and strive to reach one hundred theaters by 2010.

Although Golden Harvest Film Company in Hong Kong Island will be put up for sale next year, and Golden Harvest has dozens of cinemas, Wu Yuan has no intention of spending money to buy Golden Harvest.

Whoever makes this transaction loses.

Buying Jiahe will cost at least more than 2 billion yuan, but most of the money will be used to buy Jiahe's film copyright library.

The Jiahe Cinema brand alone is not worth so much money, and most of these cinemas are in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia, and there are less than ten in the mainland.

It makes no sense at all to buy Jiahe from Guangying Times.

With this money, it will be enough for Light and Shadow Times to open one or two hundred cinemas in the mainland.

Even if you don't choose to rent a venue and directly buy the venue with full payment, you can open at least fifty or sixty stores.

"You should keep an eye on the development of the theater chain first. I will recruit a professional person in charge of the theater chain as soon as possible, and then make the theater chain independent." Wu Yuan ordered.

After all, Li Xiaoping is not a professional cinema operator. She can still keep an eye on a few cinemas in the early stage, but it is not something she can handle in the later stage when the cinema chain brand is to be developed.

Wu Yuan also had to find a professional to take charge of this area.

This is easy to solve.

Next year, Golden Harvest will be sold. There will always be some turmoil in the top management of Golden Harvest Cinema Line. Isn't there talent here?

Wu Yuan, who has a vision for the future, has a perspective in a sense when he is doing business, and can see through the fog of war.

But a person's energy is always limited. After deciding to continue to be a director and film and television, Wu Yuan had to focus all his energy on this.

"By the way, when did the Tudou.com IPO incident happen?"

Wu Yuan pondered in his heart that the company's layout seemed to lack some layout in the Internet era.

Online video platforms are the most important part of the Internet pan-entertainment industry.

Netflix in the United States later developed to the point where it could shake Hollywood, and the three giants of iQiyi, Tencent Video and Youku in China basically controlled the upstream of the TV series and variety show industry chain in the mainland.

These are Internet-based, especially mobile Internet-based film and television giants, and they even have a bit of a monopoly.

If they fight, they will definitely not be able to beat them.

But Wu Yuan couldn't stay out of it, otherwise, when the era of Internet giants comes, Guangying Times will have to flatter these Internet giants, which he can't stand.

So if you can't beat them, you have to join.

In the future, Guangying Times must also build its own Internet video platform, which can be weaker, like Mango TV and Sohu Video, but it must not be absent!

It is a very good choice to acquire Tudou before Youku.

If Wang Wei, the founder of Tudou, has a choice, he will never sell Tudou Video, which he created, to competitors.

And Wu Yuan still admires Wang Wei very much, Wang Wei really loves the film and television industry.

After Tudou was acquired, he began to enter the animation industry and produced excellent works such as "White Snake: Origin", "Little Door God" and "White Snake 2: Green Snake Tribulation".

From this point of view, Wang Wei himself is also a very visionary producer, with a strong film and television blood, suitable to join the big family of Guangying Times.

Still have to work hard to make money!

Wu Yuan secretly encouraged himself in his heart.

If you don't work hard to make money, where will you get the money to buy Tudou?

It will cost 350 million US dollars to buy Tudou!

Fortunately, there are still several years before the advent of the mobile Internet era, and there is enough time for Wu Yuan.

"Okay, let's do this for now." Wu Yuan stood up and waved to Li Xiaoping, "I'll go back upstairs to continue working on the concept design of "Gravity."

April 8, 2006, the weather was fine.

Wu Yuan's "retreat" will not affect the normal operation of Light and Shadow Times.

The company is still running smoothly.

The company is currently busy with the filming of the TV series "My Lucky Star".

On April 5, the main actors of this TV series gathered in Xiamen, a coastal tourist city.

The main plot of "My Lucky Star" will be filmed here.

Led by the four leading actors Lin Zhiying, Jinsha, Yan Kuan, and Chen Hao, the crew held a grand launch conference at the Hilton Hotel in Xiamen.

At the launch conference, the crew not only released the makeup photos, but also announced the roles and relationships played by the four leading actors.

Lin Zhiying plays the unruly, passionate and dedicated male protagonist Zhong Tianqi.

Jin Sha plays the smart, clever, inferior and confident fraudster female protagonist Xia Zhixing.

Yan Kuan plays the elegant, steady, gentle and amiable male second Zhong Tianjun who likes Yaruo.

Chen Hao plays Tianqi's ex-girlfriend, the female second Ou Yaruo.

Among the four leading actors, only the male protagonist Lin Zhiying is from Taiwan, the other three are mainland actors, and most of the other supporting roles in the crew are also mainland actors.

For example, the male protagonist's father Zhong Wei is played by Mr. Wen Xingyu. You may not know his name, but if you mention the roles he has played, it is very popular.

He played the grandfather of Liu Xing, Xia Yu and Xia Xue in "Home with Children" and the head of the family Fu Ming in "I Love My Family".

The actress who plays Zhong Wei's illegitimate son Li Wei is Yuan Hong, who is also a common actress in the era of light and shadow.

The remaining roles such as Xia Zhixing's uncle and Ou Yaruo's father were also found by veteran actors from the mainland.

As for the director of this TV series, Song Yang was invited. He is the director of "The Beauty of Man" and "The Beauty of Woman". He is the earliest director in the mainland to contact and shoot idol dramas.

When the idol drama "The Beauty of Man" was broadcast, it was directly broadcast on CCTV-8 prime time.

And the ratings ranked first among CCTV TV dramas in the same period, and ranked second in Taiwan, second only to "News X Broadcast".

Song Yang's directing level in idol dramas has also proven himself.

And he is also very young. He was born in 1978 and is only 28 years old this year. When he filmed "The Beauty of Man" that year, he was only 25 years old. He is a rare young talent in the TV director circle.

Wu Yuan was quite relieved to let him shoot "My Lucky Star". As long as he followed the script, the finished film would not be bad!

In this way, after the cast of "My Lucky Star" appeared together at the launch conference, the filming officially started the next day.

A little stuck, so it was released late.