China Entertainment: I have been a director since 05

Chapter 407: Gunshots in 2011 AD

After hanging up the call with Nazha, Guan Ling called Gong Yu.

"Mr. Gong, I think we need to sit down and talk together."

"What does Director Guan mean?"

"Although the current environment is not optimistic, there are some things that I think we need to prepare for now."

Guan Ling's words made Gong Yu narrow his eyes.

Gong Yu and Guan Ling had already finalized the cooperation. In order to avoid burning money, Guan Ling did not ask for many shares in the early stage of investment.

But Guan Ling also knew very well that if he did not hurry up to get in this year, it would be very easy for his shares to be kicked out in the next one or two years.

Gong Yu is the CEO of iQiyi and its own boss, but he was previously single from Sohu. Sohu's boss Zhang trained three disciples who all became his own disciples. One founded Ku56, one founded .com, and one founded iQiyi.

In fact, there is not much connection between Guan Ling and them, just like the connection between a cinema chain and a director. iQiyi's goal has always been just a platform, or it can be called a downstream cinema chain on the Internet.

However, when Guan Ling brought up this topic, Gong Yu felt a chill in his heart.

"Director Guan is in Hollywood now, right? I just heard that he won an award two days ago. We can meet anytime, but I hope that what Director Guan wants to talk about is not a dud."

"I never fire a dud."

After hanging up the phone, Guan Ling pondered for a long time.

At this stage, it is time to go to the video website.

From Tudou.com in 05 to now, the video website has been very popular. It has the player that has the largest market share in the country and became popular all over the Internet thanks to Abin's unsatisfactory college entrance examination results.

Before K-Play was founded in 2007, the video industry already had a number of players such as Baofeng, Tudou, and LeTV.

As a professional cinema that integrates TV series, movies, animation and MVs, KTV’s market value has reached nearly 100 billion yuan.

Guan Ling certainly knew his history, and was eventually besieged by several professional genuine software on Guangmingding, thus turning into nothing.

Genuine products are a rolling torrent that cannot be stopped in the course of history.

As for the means of video websites, although entering the video website at this time is not as advanced as Tudou, LeTV and others, it is the best time to buy at the bottom.

It’s not that Guan Ling is timid, but it’s impossible to access the video website in the early stages.

Zhu Xiaohu is a professional gambler who places big bets, but this guy dare not bet on video websites at all, because video websites require bandwidth, and it is only now that bandwidth has been popularized to more than 100 million households.

2008 was supposed to be a big year for news, with various major events happening in that year. PPTV spent a huge sum of more than million to buy the broadcasting rights for the Olympics, intending to raise funds, but it ultimately led to a major famine in the video industry that year.

After more than 2008 video websites went online, a large number of them starved to death in the winter of .

In 2009, after Ku raised funds, it wanted to go authentic, so Tudou also purchased authentic copyrighted content, and Youku followed suit.

The topic of genuine products has just been ignited, but the copyright disputes they had before have become the original sin of these websites.

All of a sudden, the entire industry was caught up in a copyright war.

Last year, 2010, was the beginning of the copyright war.

The rush to buy copyrights has caused the price of cabbage to rise directly to the price of white powder.

This is also Guan Ling’s greatest confidence.

What he has now, or even what he doesn't have, can make him sit as steady as a rock at this poker table.

IQiyi, on the other hand, is a company that has just started business and has no original sin. By cooperating with it, Guan Ling does not have to worry about the big boss style that Penguin has not yet come to the table, and he can also acquire some shares of iQiyi before Baidu enters the market.

Before going public, he was already a capital, but it was nothing compared to the Internet giants.

And he is too lazy to play business.

How can business be as fun as being a female star? Although making money is the best beauty for men, it is enough to be able to do it on one side. Guan Ling is too lazy to go to the Internet to engage in intrigue.

But he has to get on the video website's table. He will not allow his content to be targeted in the future, just like when he first cooperated to establish Dadi Cinemas.

And now, the time has come.

It would be time-consuming and laborious for Guan Ling to focus on working on the video website of Lingyun Media. It would be better for him to choose a successful partner now.

In exchange for more shares, iQiyi can follow the path of LeTV in its previous life and purchase copyrights with real money. Then, his own content can be exclusively broadcast on iQiyi to attract a large number of legitimate viewers. In this way, he can get ashore early.

After all, last year, major video websites had begun to test paid services, becoming the starting point of China's paid video market.

A large number of exclusive copyrights, self-made content, online content and shared-revenue dramas have gradually begun to become important labels for the development of the industry.

If the development of video websites is a bullet that develops rapidly along with the Internet,

Guan Ling believed that the deafening gunshot naturally occurred in 2011.

Maybe this gunshot,
Without his content, it wouldn't be so loud.

……

Communication between Guan Ling and Gong Yu must require offline meetings, and Gong Yu did not mention coming to the United States.

Naturally, this matter will have to wait until I return home.

Guan Ling believes that the launch of the drama "The Beginning" on iQiyi may not necessarily attract a large number of genuine viewers.

But his appeal, coupled with the promotion of the TV version of "Source Code", may make it a masterpiece at the beginning of online dramas, just like "Mao Pian".

In the next few days, the filming of "Scarlet Witch" will resume.

The preparation work for "The Vanishing Lover" has also begun.

When Zhang Ziyi came to the crew to thank Guan Ling, he saw Liu Yifei and Fan Bingbing. While he was envious of them, he also felt a sense of pain for no reason.

Guan Ling spurred thousands of people.

But he refused to use her.

Although she got the role in the new movie written by Guan Ling, she felt quite unhappy about the gap in her heart.

“Director Guan, I have to go back to China first. The Grandmaster still needs some finishing work. But if Director David Fincher contacts me to prepare for filming, I will come to Hollywood immediately.”

"In your free time, don't forget your English lines." Guan Ling reminded him again.

There is no problem with simple daily communication and sign language.

Although the lines are not that difficult for Zhang Ziyi, he still needs to get into the rhythm first.

"Thank you Director Guan for your concern. I will not delay the filming, and I will not let you down for your support."

She leaned close to Guan Ling's ear and said, "If Director Guan needs me at any time, I will cooperate at any time."

Guan Ling smiled awkwardly.

She had expressed her lack of interest in Zhang Ziyi many times, but when she saw the other party's eager attitude, she not only did not feel absolutely disgusted, but instead found it a little ridiculous.

to him,

Now even Zhang Ziyi, a symbol of the international film industry,

As long as he is willing,
The other party can only wag his tail and beg for mercy under the crotch.

(End of this chapter)