Huayu started as a substitute director

Chapter 658: Forming a Monopoly
It was already chilly in Beijing in early November. It was raining outside, and the raindrops fell on the floor-to-ceiling glass like countless crystal pearls, creating a blurry scene.

At the same time, ginkgo leaves fell one after another, making the capital city look like it was covered with a golden carpet.

The two were chatting happily, there was nothing special about it, just a normal chat, but Liu Tianxian suddenly started crying for no apparent reason.

Xu Liyun brought some cakes and saw Liu Tianxian crying. She hurried over and put the cakes on the coffee table, asking distressedly, "Why are you crying?"

After that, without waiting for a reply, he questioned his son: "Did you make her cry? Can't you just let her go?"

"I didn't!" Fang Hong felt very wronged.

"No, then why is she crying?" Xu Liyun was biased without any explanation.

This made Fang Hong very helpless. Ever since Liu Tianxian became pregnant, his status had declined infinitely. He was even worse than Heizi. Heizi turned a deaf ear to the world outside and was very leisurely.

"It's not like that, Mom. I just thought about bad things and wanted to cry." Liu Tianxian wiped her tears and returned to normal.

"If you have anything on your mind, just say it. Don't keep it in your heart." Xu Liyun put on a kind face again, sat on the other side of Liu Tianxian, and patted her back to comfort her.

"It's nothing. There's an award ceremony going on. It's for Fang Hong. He didn't win the award last time, so I thought, how aggrieved he must be if he still can't win the award. If he feels aggrieved, then I feel aggrieved too." Liu Tianxian explained the reason.

Anyway, she didn't know why she was crying. She just wanted to cry because she felt inexplicably wronged.

"That's it. Just let him get it." Xu Liyun said it easily, as if it were her own family.

No one asked what the award was.

"Well, that's true, but it's also difficult." Liu Tianxian said.

Xu Liyun looked at her son. "Son, you will get it, right?"

"I think so." Fang Hong didn't know whether it would happen or not.

"What should be done is definitely to make Xixi happy." Xu Liyun gave the order.

Fang Hong didn't want to argue and nodded "yes".

It’s no longer possible to communicate with them. One is sometimes brainless due to pregnancy, and the other’s brain is entirely focused on the pregnant woman.

Liu Tianxian glanced at Fang Hong and felt that her mother-in-law had become brainless because of her.

"Don't cry anymore. If you cry, the fetus in your belly will also be unhappy." Xu Liyun comforted Liu Tianxian.

"Yeah." Liu Tianxian thought it made sense.

"You should be more supportive of Xixi." Xu Liyun patted her son's hand, but she knew that Liu Tianxian was emotionally unstable.

Fang Hong said "OK" and decided to skip this topic as soon as possible.

Xu Liyun took a piece of cake from the coffee table and handed it to Liu Tianxian, saying, "Here, don't you like sweets? I made this cake especially for you."

"Thank you, Mom." Liu Tianxian took it and ate it, and her face returned to normal.

She just loves sweets during this time.

The three of them were chatting, usually Xu Liyun and Liu Tianxian, talking about parenting tips, and Fang Hong just listened from the side without being able to interrupt.

After Xu Liyun finished speaking and left, Liu Tianxian couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"You're crying and laughing at the same time, your mood is so unstable." Fang Hong teased.

"No, I just feel sad and funny. How come you can't stand it?" Liu Tianxian hugged his shoulders and got close to him.

"It's not that I can't stand it, it's just that your temperament is different from before." Fang Hong looked at her sideways.

"What was I like before?" Liu Tianxian asked.

"You used to be elegant, generous, dignified and dignified." Fang Hong said.

"So how am I now?" Liu Tianxian asked again with interest.

"Now you are elegant, generous, dignified and generous." Fang Hong acted like a good boy.

"Hey, you sly guy." Liu Tianxian patted his head and put a piece of cake into his mouth.

"My head is very slippery." Fang Hong said somewhat ambiguously.

"Goose, goose, goose!" Liu Tianxian smiled and hit him, then whispered in his ear, "Do you want me to touch it for you to see if it's really slippery?"

She looked at him with a seductive tone.

"Yes, we really need it." Fang Hong said immediately.

"Come closer to me." Liu Tianxian put her arm around him.

"This is not good. We might be discovered. How about we go inside?" Fang Hong moved closer, and the two of them got closer. He could only feel her soft body.

He turned his head and saw that there was no one around. His mother was no longer there. She had gone somewhere else.

"It's okay, mom's not here." Liu Tianxian was also very brave. After saying that, she said gently again: "Husband, aren't you lonely?"

"I'm lonely. Very lonely." Fang Hong said. He hasn't done it for two months.

"That will make you feel depressed." Liu Tianxian's other hand was like a cat that just wanted to steal some fish.

But they were still a little hesitant. This was the first time. It had never happened before and the two of them had always been relatively conservative.

Fang Hong was wearing loose casual trousers without a belt, so they were easily untied.

"Well! There's nothing I can do. It's inconvenient for you, so I can only bear it." Fang Hong said in a delicate voice.

"Then why didn't you tell me." Liu Tianxian hugged him tighter and adjusted her position to make it more convenient.

"You have always been afraid and unwilling, haven't you?" Fang Hong said.

In this regard, Liu Tianxian has always been more conservative between the two of them, only accepting the most traditional positions, never looking at it, and never touching it.

This is unprecedented, but they have been together for so long that Liu Tianxian is not as unable to accept it as she was at the beginning.

She is slowly adapting to the existence that is so terrifying in her eyes.

"Xixi, I brought you something." A familiar voice suddenly came from the distance at the door.

The voice frightened Fang Hong and Liu Tianxian, and their faces were filled with panic.

Liu Tianxian pulled her hand away instantly, took out a few tissues from the coffee table, wiped her hands, then put the tissues in her pocket and pretended nothing had happened.

Fang Hong was also very busy, tying his belt.

After the two of them finished their work, they turned their heads to look at the door in the distance. They were facing away from it, so their view was obstructed.

Liu Xiaoli was carrying a lot of bags and changing her shoes, so she didn't notice this side.

The two turned their heads and looked at each other. Liu Tianxian couldn't help but find it a little funny, but also a little thrilling with her heart beating faster, a thrill she had never experienced before.

It feels like an underground affair.

Fang Hong also felt very excited and found it difficult to calm down.

"Xiao Fang, come over and help." Liu Xiaoli called at the door.

"Okay, Mom, I'm coming." Fang Hong stood up.

"Hey, wait a minute." Liu Tianxian waved to signal him to stop.

Fang Hong asked in confusion: "What's wrong?"

Liu Tianxian didn't say anything, but just tucked his shirt into his waistband, which he had just taken out, and tidied it up.

"Go!" she said.

Fang Hong walked to the door and saw Liu Xiaoli coming over with a lot of things. He couldn't help but ask, "Why did you buy so many things?"

"They are all fruits and nutritional supplements. Pregnant women need to supplement more nutrition, which is good for the fetus in the belly." Liu Xiaoli was also taking care of her daughter.

She pointed to a pile of bags on the ground and said, "Take these in and put them in the refrigerator."

"Oh, okay!" Fang Hong started working.

"Xiao Fang, why is your face so red?" Liu Xiaoli then noticed him.

"I just did some exercise." Fang Hong explained casually and changed the subject: "You go in and rest. I'll take care of these."

"Okay!" Liu Xiaoli did not doubt him and went to see her daughter.

However, Liu Tianxian behaved very normally, without any difference, just the same as usual.

"Inside Out" has been released for four weeks. In its fourth week, it earned an additional $2180 million in North America, a drop of 30.4% from the previous week, when it earned $3130 million.

The total North American box office reached $2.38 million.

After the fourth week, the film still maintained weekly revenue of over 4 million US dollars, reflecting the continued attendance of family audiences and the continued robust box office.

However, the international market came from behind, adding $5000 million in the fourth week, with a cumulative international box office of $3.27 million and a total box office of $5.65 million.

Converted to RMB, it is about 40 billion. With such achievements, the People's Daily specially published a microblog to praise it: "A new breakthrough in the level of animation industry!"

Such an animated film that is very famous overseas was of course reported by the media, but the popularity was not high.

Since Yutu didn't release any news or promote anything, the popularity naturally wouldn't be too great.

On November 11, Yutu's movie "Ex-Files 6: The Backup Strikes Back" was released. The reason for this release date is that this movie has no competitiveness in the later Lunar New Year period. This movie still continues the bloody plot of the previous one and has been described as "the love story of the post-2s killer Matt"!
It's full of melodramatic and childish emotional elements!

The box office was also very stable, with nearly 30 million on the first day, soaring to more than 40 million on the second day, and then falling back.

Another movie, "Charlotte's Troubles", is still in theaters, with a daily box office of around one million.

Other movies like "Lost in Thailand" and "Saving Mr. Wu" that were released during the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival were basically taken off the screen early.

It has been more than a month, and there is no box office revenue if the movie is not taken off the screen, and the next step is to enter the promotion period for the Lunar New Year holiday.

This period is the biggest period of the year.

Nearly 36 movies are released during this period, and Guangguang, Bona, Yutu and Huayi have many movies released during this period.

Not only these old film and television companies, but also emerging film and television companies such as LeTV, Youku, and Huace also have many movies released during this period.

For example, "Never Expected", "Incredible", "The Vanishing Bullet", etc.

There is also "A Moment in Heaven" starring Shen Teng and Ma Li. This was filmed for others and was completed a long time ago.

It was just the right time to release them while the two of them were in a big fire.

This period can be said to be full of blockbusters, and the competition is more intense than in previous years. Yutu has prepared many films in this period, including "Nine-story Demon Tower", "Mojin: The Lost Tomb", "Detective Chinatown 3", etc.

There are also four other movies including "Lucy".

The purpose is to surround Huayi, and with the absolute quantity and quality, Huayi will have nowhere to escape. Even if he staggers the release schedule, there will always be several movies waiting for him.

The Lunar New Year box office is only that short, and you can’t escape it.

It doesn’t matter whether Yutu makes money or not. Fang Hong’s ultimate goal is to let Huayi fail here and let the market know that Huayi is a thing of the past.

If this is done, emerging companies such as Youku and LeTV may be squeezed out.

Back to a few years ago, Fang Hong was competing with Bona and Huayi in this Lunar New Year period, but there was not even a single film that earned over 1 billion yuan.

He was also called by Zhang Hongsen to be reprimanded, saying that they were fighting too fiercely.

As we enter mid-November, the Lunar New Year movies have entered the promotion period, and it is common for them to pull each other down and hire internet trolls to slander each other.

Including "Lucy", but Liu Tianxian is not convenient, so it is relatively low-key and there is no publicity strategy yet.

But this time it seems that the opponent has learned his lesson and is not playing by the rules. It has begun to stigmatize Yutu and the principal in society.

According to a reporter interviewing an extra, "Being an extra in Yutu's movies doesn't make 200 yuan a day, and less than yuan a month, it's much lower than that."

When this information appeared, public opinion reacted immediately and it directly became a hot topic on Weibo and Baidu, sparking a wave of public opinion.

#Yutu salary lie! #
The topic of "salary fraud" immediately exploded on the Internet like a shot of chicken blood. Netizens were a little confused, but as messengers of justice, they condemned the capitalists.

"200 a day is a rip off. The group leader gets a commission, which is not what you think. And there is not work every day. Half a month is good enough."

"The actual monthly income is only 50% off, it's so fake!"

"It turns out that all capitalists use the same tactics, exploiting their employees!"

"It's exploitation. I will never watch Yutu's movies again. Rubbish company! Rubbish principal!"

These are all highly praised comments, and netizens are also kind-hearted. As long as they see someone being exploited by capital, they will turn into knights of justice.

In fact, they are just taking the opportunity to vent their repressed emotions at work. They don't dare to curse in real life, but they dare to curse online.

This kind of scolding aroused the emotions of more people.

Of course, there are also rational people who express their dissatisfaction.

"Anonymous tips are not to be trusted. Go to Hengdian and take a look. A hundred is good enough. 200 will be given to the group leader. That's because they provide transportation and organize the transportation to the crews. Otherwise, whoever organizes it will drive the car to deliver the goods."

"That's right. We agreed at the beginning that 200 points would be given to the group leader, and they would organize the transportation. There's nothing wrong with that!"

"So what if the salary is a little low? You don't have to pay for transportation. As long as there is work to do, meals are provided. Sometimes you get more for overtime. It's much better than the average crew or working in a factory."

"Do you really have to force such a conscientious company to death?" someone shouted.

These voices were drowned out by criticism and faced overwhelming public condemnation for a while.

Yutu was also very clear and announced the remuneration received by each extra, the lowest being 180 yuan, which means 20 yuan was taken away.

For more complicated or special jobs, some people can even get three to five hundred, or even seven to eight hundred, for a day's work.

The names are hidden and crossed out. Of course, some people question the authenticity. There are always people who say anything about this kind of thing.

However, when Yutu just announced the salaries of extras, an investment institution called Xueqiu analyzed: "It is unrealistic to support salaries with the high risk of film and television. Small crews and small film and television companies cannot afford it and cannot recruit outstanding talents. Yutu's move has destroyed the market ecology."

This wave of discussion has triggered another level of discussion, which roughly means that Yutu pays too much money, squeezing the ecological environment of extras in other film and television bases.

Everyone ran to the crew that Yutu was working with. Other crews couldn’t recruit people. It was all your fault, Yutu.

“Large film and television companies use capital to crush small film and television companies, destroying the diversity of content!
If Yutu follows this path, the cost of making a TV series will rise infinitely, the threshold for filming will be raised, there will be no fresh blood to compete, and it will be easy to form a content monopoly. "A self-proclaimed senior filmmaker commented.

"Content only depends on how well you tell a story, not how great your special effects are. If the story is well told, people will naturally watch it and the market will naturally accept it. Can you blame Yutu for that?" someone retorted.

Previously, they said that Yutu paid a lot and that the salary was fake, but when they saw that the situation was not right, they immediately turned to Yutu’s suspected monopoly and hindered the rise of small film and television companies.

They don’t know how many small and medium-sized film and television companies Fang Hong has supported.

The number of online dramas launched in 2016 soared to 349. This was all the result of his "foreign restriction" law and his unremitting efforts to promote the development of online dramas.

Who knows how hard he worked?

Most people don’t know, but even if the capitalists know, so what? All they want is for the principal to disappear.

Who told him to hinder the box office of film and television; hinder other Internet film and television platforms; hinder the agency of celebrity artists.

As public opinion fermented, 13 film and television companies in Hengdian united to sue Yutu for monopoly, but their lawsuit was directly rejected.

I guess there is no reason at all, and they just found a random reason to sue Yutu, just to push Yutu to the forefront.

Since I can't mess with your movie, I'll just mess with your essence and get to the heart of it.

Fang Hong was really disgusted by these people and couldn't help but sigh: "It seems that the two brothers, Big Wang and Little Wang, have learned their lesson."

"Will there be some expert who can give us some advice?" Chen Zhixi asked.

"Of course there is. Based on the IQ of those two brothers, they simply can't do such a thing." Fang Hong looked down on the two brothers at all.

"It seems that those capitalists are going to declare all-out war on you." Chen Zhixi was melancholy.

"What is coming will eventually come. They have expanded for a year or two, invested what should be invested, and integrated what should be integrated. However, they found that in the film and television market, whether it is production and distribution or Internet content, Chang'e and Jade Rabbit are the big mountain." Fang Hong knew that it was inevitable.

Huayi is just a pawn in the front.

Even Panda TV has recently gone against his tune. Other platforms have refused to invite artists such as Dabaobei and Dahei Niu who have been banned, knowing that these people are in the vortex and will wait until the storm has passed before making any further moves.

Xiao Wang invited these people to do the live broadcast promotion.

Panda Live is very popular now, and has invited many celebrities and famous anchors, but the main games it broadcasts are still "Heroes of Glory" and "Honor of Kings"!
These two models are very popular and worth watching.

"So what should we do next?" Chen Zhixi asked.

"Has Bona been delisted?" Fang Hong asked back.

"I withdrew." Chen Zhixi didn't understand: "What does this have to do with this incident?"

"Since they are playing this way, let's play something big and play with them." Fang Hong said.

He was afraid that he was playing too big, and that the higher-ups would start regulating the entertainment industry in advance, which would make it difficult for Bona to go public.

However, as long as there is a struggle, there will be sacrifices. It is impossible to have no sacrifices. It is better to sacrifice Bona than to sacrifice Yutu.

Chen Zhixi looked serious and asked, "How do you do it?"

"Let's wait for this, let's get Huayi done first. Our target right now is Huayi, and we can't be distracted. No matter how many ways they come, we will fight them all. The first thing we have to do is to prevent "Old Cannon" from being released." Fang Hong said.

"Can't be shown in the theaters?" Chen Zhixi was surprised. It would take a lot of power to have such power.

No one can say that a movie cannot be released. Even if Alibaba, Wanda and Tencent join forces, they can’t do it, because the final say on whether a movie is released or not lies with the upper hands, not the people.

"Yes, if this movie cannot be released, Huayi will never recover." Fang Hong originally just wanted to block the attack, but now he changed his plan.

In the previous life, Huayi collapsed because “Cell Phone 2” could not be shown in theaters. This life will be even worse because Huayi has multiple gambles to make.

If the bet fails, it will inevitably lead to a series of financial problems such as goodwill impairment, related-party transactions, and accounts receivable.

Even if the stars who made the bet were compensated, it would be difficult to fill Huayi's hole. Huayi's debt has increased to more than 6 billion yuan and is still increasing. The interest alone is not small.

Because they need money to continuously invest in film and television projects, invest in film towns, invest in the Internet, invest in games, etc., and the returns cannot be that quick.

There will be basically no return within three to five years. If you think you can invest now and expect a return in a few months, you are dreaming. Even a reborn person like Fang Hong can't do that.

Unless you acquire a company that is already profitable, the price will be very high, just like when Tencent acquired the company that made Clash of Clans, it spent 86 billion US dollars, which is terrifying.

No business can be completed from establishment to profitability in a few months; all require a long period of development.

Again, investment is not what people imagine. It is impossible to invest in an emerging company now and wait for a few months to get a return, unless you speculate in the stock market.

As long as Huayi's market value collapses, stock divestitures and competitive bidding transactions will not be able to fill the hole, and the market value will not be that price after a sharp drop.

(End of this chapter)