Huayu started as a substitute director

Chapter 630 mutual confirmation
Recently, Fang Hong has been pushing forward the acquisition of mainland cinema assets under Orange Sky Golden Harvest.

Naturally, this matter could not be hidden from people in the industry and it soon spread out.

It was impossible for him not to know about such a large acquisition and such a big move. Fang Bin, who had just taken office as CEO of Dadi Cinemas, urgently asked Wu Kebo about the situation.

"How come you sold the cinema chain to Yutu in such a short time? Didn't we agree to wait?"

"They are straightforward and sincere. They won't lower the price like you do, lowering it again and again. Of course I will choose the one I like and the one with the highest bid." Wu Kebo said very directly.

When he talked to the principal, he was very straightforward and agreed to the deal at the price he asked. But when he talked to the people from Dadi, they kept lowering the price. 34 billion was not enough and they kept pushing it down.

This made Dadi very helpless. He had originally thought that acquiring Orange Sky Golden Harvest's cinema chain would expand his influence to first- and second-tier cities, but he did not expect to be snatched away by the principal.

Dadi started out by relying on the sinking market. Although they have many cinemas, their market share is only 7.8%, which is not as high as Wanda.

After all, there are still more people watching movies in first- and second-tier cities than in rural areas, much more.

Wanda holds 13.6% of the market share, 5% to 6% more than Dadi;

China Film Cinemas’ market share is only 8.1%, which cannot be compared with Wanda. Both of these companies have more cinemas than Wanda.

But Wanda is close to the plaza, so it has more people flowing into the city than theirs, and cinemas still rely on people flowing into the city.

This is also the reason why Fang Hong wants a cinema chain, so that he will not be controlled by others. The cinema is the last link in the entire film process, from production, distribution to screening.

With the cinema, Yutu has completed the layout of the entire industrial chain, and Chang'e can provide technical support as an aid to publicity and promotion.

Mr. Wang was a little uneasy when he saw that the principal had swallowed up Orange Sky Golden Harvest Cinemas in one go and also invested in theaters under Emperor Music.

I immediately called the CEO of Shimao Cinema Line and said, "We can discuss the matter of packaging the office building together as you mentioned."

If we acquire Shimao Cinema Line, we will have to acquire their office properties as well, and these properties are not doing well.

So not only did Wanda fail to reach an agreement, Fang Hong also failed to reach an agreement. He is not involved in real estate, so there is no point in acquiring an office building.

He doesn't have a lot of money, so he bought some dilapidated buildings.

The matter is still at a stalemate, and Shimao also wants to bet on both sides, to see who has better conditions and pays more money before selling to them.

Of course, Fang Hong is not only targeting Shimao, but also other cinema brands. Some are also building their own cinemas, including Bona.

He even spent 5 million to renovate his cinemas and upgrade all equipment to laser projection to create digital cinemas.

All the Orange Sky Golden Harvest signs also need to be changed to Crystal United Imaging brands. Tu Piaopiao is also involved in this process, helping to lay out the intelligent system.

The peak summer season has just passed, so we have about a month to do this, and the next one is the National Day season.

Of course, the upgrade will be carried out in batches. If there are too many, we may not be able to handle it and miss the good schedule. The second half of the year is the peak period for box office.

There are only a few periods a year when you can make money.

Spending 22 billion yuan in one go is still affordable considering Yutu's current strength. This year, many blockbusters, TV series, and variety shows have performed very well.

Not to mention the distant past, the movie "The Return of the Great Sage" grossed 13.6 billion yuan. Without counting the distribution of Tupiaopiao, Tian Xiaopeng would have received 5% of the total box office, which means he could have gotten 6800 million yuan.

One movie can make you financially free, but that's also someone else's ability.

There are really not many people who can really make good animated films. Apart from him, he is the only one, Jiaozi. He is very rare.

The Yutu animation is supervised by Fang Hong and the entire team collaborates, which is different from other people's serious creation.

Of course, the tax is paid by himself, whether it is a company or an individual, it is up to him.

The box office return of "Jade Rabbit" is about 3.6 million yuan, which is about 3 million yuan after deducting various production costs. The cost of this movie is million yuan, and the copyright is not counted.

Giving the copyright to Chang'e Technology can make another wave of money. At the beginning, many people watch the new movie, and there are many other distributions.

For example, CCTV movie channel, local satellite TV, other satellite TV, as well as international streaming media distribution in Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, etc., and various derivatives.

Although there are many pirated derivatives, there are still some authorized ones to get the genuine ones. The number is not much, only a few million.

After a rough calculation, a conservative estimate is that 4 million yuan can be earned.

Therefore, 23 billion is not a big pressure for Yutu at the moment, as its previous film "Gravity" earned more than billion.

Moreover, Chang'e Technology still owes Yutu a lot of money, because Yutu is a content provider. After giving the copyright to Chang'e Video or Bilibili, a lot of the money has not been returned.

The commentary on the small broken station also needs copyright. Even if others’ copyright is not given, Yutu’s copyright must be given, after all, it is a friendly competitor.

This is also for the sake of future copyright regulations. This is the only way to go. As long as you are a formal platform, you must have copyright regulations. But Fang Hong cannot do this now.

Because Bilibili needs to develop, and Tik Tok also needs to develop, and these all have slices of the pie. If we deal with copyright now, it will invisibly increase a lot of costs.

Of course, with the rise of the three major platforms and major film and television companies, there will inevitably be copyright wars.

No one wants Chang'e to use her film and television copyrights to slice and dice them, so that no one watches the entire film and everyone goes to watch the commentary.

Recently, Dragon TV sued Bilibili, saying that Bilibili had infringed upon "The Voice of China" by recreating their related content. This has become a landmark case that everyone is watching.

Chang'e is different from Jade Rabbit. As a content disseminator, these are things you must experience.

In fact, no one wanted to be proud of the content. They just copied each other's high-quality content. Only a few people developed in the early stages without copying each other.

Baidu crawlers don’t crawl everywhere, but later everyone built information cocoons and didn’t allow them to crawl, so Baidu became more and more difficult and the content became more and more garbage.

Later, Tencent copied Douyin's content, and Douyin copied Tencent's music. They fought thousands of lawsuits over copyright and were in a state of disharmony.

Not only TikTok, Alibaba and NetEase are also fighting with Tencent over music copyright.

Because Tencent controls 95% of the music copyrights in the industry, such a huge copyright library is equivalent to a monopoly on the music market.

After the fight became too intense, the higher-ups couldn't stand it anymore and demanded that Alibaba, NetEase, and Tencent authorize each other to use 99% of their music collections.

Originally, this would be a copyright attack on Tencent! However, the real core music is only 1%, which means that 99% of the music is basically not listened to by anyone, and only that 1% of the music has a lot of people listening to it.

Think about how much music there is on the market. Even for Chinese music, there are conservatively estimated to be millions of songs. Just this 1% would be 1 songs.

How many people have really listened to so many songs among the 1 songs? Aren’t they all good music that we listen to over and over again?

This does not include the number of overseas music. The exact amount of music is impossible to count, but Tencent controls 95% of it, which is simply terrifying.

Tencent is doing just that now, reporting rivals' music infringements everywhere, filing administrative complaints to higher authorities, and also joining forces with international record companies to protect their rights.

If we don't file a lawsuit, we can just file a complaint, hoping that the higher authorities will pay attention to this matter and establish copyright regulations.

Of course, Chang'e has also been complained about!

It’s just that Fang Hong has no money. If he had money, he would buy all the movies, TV shows and music and do the same as Tencent.

But he still has a lot of things to do. If he wants to do one of the other, he has to give up the other. You have to give up. Copyright is something that requires strength. Without strength, no one will pay attention to you.

Tencent has the ability to do so openly after obtaining copyright authorization.

Recently, "King of Glory" has been dying step by step, and "Honor of Kings" has no competitors. The daily turnover is very considerable, which can not only maintain operations.

Preparing to restart the data center construction plan, there are already 1.1 sets of servers. Fang Hong plans to invest 5 billion to build another sets of servers, making a huge stride forward.

This year's Chang'e Technology was supposed to develop radically, even if it had to borrow money.

In this case, there will be 6.1 groups of servers, and the theoretical concurrent data will increase to 3 million, which will greatly alleviate data pressure.

A group of servers includes computing, storage, networking, monitoring modules, security modules, power supply and cooling, as well as software, which is a very complex thing.

I have always rented external servers, which is not safe. It would be better to have my own.

At least the stored user data is in your own hands.

And if we have our own technology, we will be able to develop faster and pave the way for the later TikTok.

The number of Tik Tok users is growing very fast now. After all, it has been promoted for the past six months. However, many people say that this app copied Musical.ly.

For example, the South China Morning Post reported: "Technology analysts criticized TikTok for imitating Musical.ly, especially in its operation of young users and music content ecology."

Including Weibo, overseas Twitter users also said that the two software are similar.

This cannot be refuted and is indeed worth learning from.

At Chang'e Technology, Gao Zhun saw Fang Hong's construction plan and asked, "Mr. Fang, isn't an investment of 5 billion too much?"

"It's not a one-time payment." Fang Hong said.

Building a data center takes time, and this process must be done in stages.

"No, I'm worried about unexpected revenue growth for Honor of Kings. The revenue for this game has slowed down recently and is tending toward balance." Gao Zhun meant that it was a bit risky.

This year was supposed to be a year of aggressive development, with money being spent like water.

The sales of skins for the game "Honor of Kings" were hot for about a month, when there was an event, but the sales dropped after the event.

I have bought everything I should buy, and I won’t buy anything I shouldn’t buy.

MOBA games are different from online games. Many skins are one-time purchases, and you can own them all for a maximum of 10,000 or 20,000 yuan. Now there are not so many skins, and you don’t need that much money. The rich have no place to spend their money.

It’s not like online games, where one person would want to recharge 1 million and there is no upper limit.

"It's okay, just invest as needed, I know what I'm doing!" Fang Hong said.

The finals of "Heroes of Glory" are coming soon, and the popularity of this game will reach a new level.

In addition, "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" has been in development for more than half a year, and the core gameplay mechanism, map, and multiplayer online have been almost developed.

Testing will begin in a month or two.

In fact, Bluehole did not complete this game in four months. That is a rumor. The development, testing and performance optimization took more than a year.

Of course, Chang'e's technical strength is definitely stronger than Bluehole, and there is not much room for verification.

If there are any problems, Fang Hong can just ask for changes. He can develop it according to the gameplay and impression he remembers, and then copy and restore it.

The movie is not easy to restore, but the game is very easy to restore. The gameplay is just copy, copy, copy.

Online games have been copying World of Warcraft for so many years, and competitive games have been copying 3C games for so many years.

Domestic manufacturers are not good at copying because they want to make money quickly and have no patience.

He knows the future, so he is not panicked at all. The only thing he is worried about is external competition, such as Tencent and NetEase.

I’m afraid that a hot-selling product will suddenly come out and squeeze me out.

Fang Hong asked, "I asked you to acquire Moonton Technology before. Is there any progress now?"

"We've already negotiated it. The price is 1 million. The company is short of money now. They have only developed a card game and no other products." Gao Zhun has been following this matter. It's not difficult.

Now MuTong is just a small company to Yutu.

"Okay, buy it as soon as possible." Fang Hong nodded.

With this company, Chang'e has basically occupied the MOBA market in various fields at home and abroad.

They can also verify each other, copy each other, and sue Tencent for infringement. Tencent will definitely continue to produce MOBA games.

(End of this chapter)