Huayu started as a substitute director

Chapter 662: Buying the entire entertainment industry

No matter how Huayi and Yutu fight in the entertainment industry, it will not hinder the normal operation of the entertainment industry.

The Golden Horse Awards ended at the end of November. This year's Golden Horse Awards was not as lively as last year because last year Liu Tianxian and Gong Huang publicly criticized the Golden Horse Awards, causing its credibility to plummet.

Many people complained that the Golden Horse Awards were just a water award and that there was serious regional discrimination.

Although "Gravity" was also nominated for awards at this year's Golden Horse Awards, Liu Tianxian was also nominated for Best Actress again.

But none of them went, simply because the chairman of the jury this time was Chen Guofu, the former director of Huayi, and even if he went he would just be a runner-up.

Because the Best Actor award was given to Feng Kuzi in the movie "Mr. Six" which has not been released yet.

Feng Kuazi was full of energy and fired back at the reporters: "I really want to slap some people in the face!"

Damn, this is the same sentence for thousands of years.

Some netizens shouted: "Go ahead and smoke if you can!"

Of course, he just shouted it verbally, but he didn't dare to go. When Yutu was opposite Huayi, he didn't dare to stand at the door of Yutu for fear of being beaten, because there were young people on the opposite side.

Feng Kuazi was so angry because the principal made him lose a lot of money. After all, he was also a shareholder of Huayi.

If Huayi is not doing well, he will not be doing well either.

While the two sides are fighting, other media and film and television entertainment companies are just watching the show. It would be best if both sides died and gave up the market.

Of course, whoever wins will be respected as the boss.

After all, whoever wins, whether it is defeating Chang'e and Jade Rabbit or defeating Alibaba behind Huayi, can already dominate this circle.

However, there is a company like Wanda that controls the cinema resources, which makes both sides feel uncomfortable.

December has entered the Lunar New Year holiday season, with the first films to be released being "Bad Guys Must Die" by Huayi, "The Bullet Vanishes" by LeTV, and "Nine-story Demon Tower" by Yutu.

And some other small workshop films.

These three movies all flopped after their release and became cannon fodder, with single-day box office revenues of less than 10 million. "Nine-story Demon Tower" was considered a bad movie because it was based on the previous "Tower of the Demons".

It was criticized crazily before it was even released, and the screening schedule was also restricted. Of course, it was Wanda who did that, but Yutu also has its own cinema chain and also restricted the screening schedules of Huayi and Wanda.

Anyway, they are all competing with each other and making each other unhappy. After all, they have already started doing it, and it is impossible not to get involved.

This is also the first loss-making movie of Yutu since its establishment several years ago, but Yutu can bear it.

Huayi can handle it and afford it. Their goal is to invest all their resources in "Mr. Six" on this movie.

The publicity was overwhelming, and almost all resources and publicity funds were poured into this film.

We will rely on this movie to break the deadlock and withstand the pressure on Huayi’s stock market.

The next movie to be released is Guangguang's "Fall in Love Like a Star", starring Yang Mi and Li Xiaocao.

Li Xiaocao now has a lot of resources.

Following that were LeTV's "A Child from Heaven" and Xinli's "God of War".

These movies all have one thing in common, which is that they are all starred by popular young actors. Nowadays, movies have begun to shift towards relying on traffic.

But the box office sales were not high, not a single movie had high box office sales, all of them were cannon fodder.

The next films to be released were Huace's "Incredible" and Youku's "Master". Now it's mid-December and it's Youku's "Never Expected"!
It seems that Youku has made great efforts this year. If they were asked to go back and check the accounts, it would be very painful.

However, it was also on this day that Yu Tu's "Mojin: The Lost Legend" was released. The release of this movie reversed the sluggish box office situation during the Lunar New Year holiday.

It earned 1.12 million yuan at the box office on the first day, but it was about 5 million yuan less than its previous life. It seems that the joint efforts of Alibaba and Wanda were still useful.

Alibaba restricted the flow of this movie online, and at the same time threw mud at the principal and Jade Rabbit; Wanda restricted the screenings offline, only giving one-tenth of the screenings.

Most of the screenings were given to other movies.

However, it still cannot withstand the enthusiasm and strong influence of the fans of "Ghost Blows Out the Light", and this movie directed by Guo Fan is better than the one shot by Wuershan in terms of plot and special effects.

The opening score of 7.7 is very attractive.

However, on this day, December 12, Yutu suddenly announced that "Lucy" would be withdrawn from the schedule.

That is to say, "Lucy" starring Liu Tianxian will not participate in the Lunar New Year holiday.

This action shocked everyone, and Liu Tianxian's fans were the first to get restless and rushed to the official website of "Lucy" and Liu Tianxian's Weibo to inquire about the reason.

"Why? I've been waiting for this movie for a long time!"

"No! What's there to watch if it's been pulled from the schedule? The other movies are not good. I just want to watch Liu Tianxian's movie."

"What's the reason? Is it because Liu Tianxian is pregnant that it's inconvenient for her to promote the film, so they pulled the film out of the schedule?"

Liu Tianxian has not appeared in public to promote this movie, so many people, including her fans, suspect that she is pregnant.

The film was suddenly withdrawn from the schedule, and people were wondering if it was her fault.

However, Yutu quickly came out to clarify: "Due to technical reasons, we are afraid that it will bring a bad viewing experience to the audience. After discussion, we have withdrawn the film. But please rest assured that the problem will be solved soon."

This argument obviously cannot convince the public, but without explaining the reason, the audience can only complain.

However, film and television industry leaders have a different interpretation. Mr. Wang believes that "there are too many movies scheduled to be released during this period, which is like a crowd, and it is easy to cause a phenomenon of fighting each other. In addition, there are obstacles from us, so he pulled the schedule and changed it to a different time to reduce the risk."

Four movies were produced at once. The first one was a flop and the second one was not very ideal, after all, it was a special effects blockbuster.

If the third film is not withdrawn, it is estimated that the loss will be heavy. This is the view of most capital tycoons in the film and television industry. They believe that the principal is afraid of losses and cannot withstand Alibaba, so he retreated.

After all, Huayi's stock price has gone up again, and its market value has reached 590 billion. After all, with Alibaba's support, other capitals are optimistic about it.

Only the King was sensitive and asked, "Why was Lucy suddenly withdrawn? Is the principal planning something?"

They were afraid that the principal would plot against them again, especially when "Old Cannon" was about to be released.

“What conspiracy could there be in withdrawing the film? They’re just afraid of us. We have financial support from Jack Ma, and the principal must know about it. They’re just afraid that we’ll lose too much and suffer heavy losses.” Mr. Wang is very confident.

With Jack Ma helping them, Wanda is also teaching the principal how to behave, but of course Wanda is not on their side.

Sometimes Wanda even restricts their movies.

"You still have to be careful and always pay attention to the principal's movements. I always feel uneasy." The king always felt that something big was going to happen, but he couldn't tell for sure.

Just because the principal is so abnormal, there has been no movement for a month. I don’t know if it’s because he has strong strategic determination or if he really has no other options.

I hope it's the latter, there's really no other solution.

"I know. I've been asking someone to keep an eye on the principal's movements. Recently, he's been at Chang'e's company, focusing on games, and he hasn't behaved in an abnormal way." Although Mr. Wang is confident, he's also cautious.

The principal has not been to Yutu recently and has been staying at the Swan Castle of Chang'e Technology.

The reason is that after several months of testing, "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" launched a trial version on the Steam platform on December 12.

Sales in the first week exceeded 50 copies, becoming the global sales champion of the week. The price was $29.9 per copy, and it was a buyout. It has currently sold $1495 million, a sales volume of over million.

This price is mainly aimed at players in developed countries in Europe and the United States. Steam has little audience in the country this year.

It’s just that there are more active players in developed countries in Europe and the United States. The reason why this software was so popular in China in the past was because of “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds”.

in the country, Steam is known as the PUBG launcher, but Swan Castle will not let this platform take away domestic market share.

Instead, they will create their own platform, integrate the "Heroes of Glory" and "Honor of Kings" simulators and "Absolute Survival" into it, and also lower the selling price.

After all, when you sell on someone else's platform, you have to give them a share of the profits, and Steam adopts a tiered profit-sharing system.

For revenues between 25 million and 20 million USD, the share given to Steam is %, and for revenues exceeding million USD, it is %.

That is to say, out of the current 1495 million US dollars, about 373 million US dollars will be given to Steam, which is still very high.

This fee includes the handling fees of WeChat, Alipay, overseas PayPal and credit cards, which means you don’t have to pay any additional fees and you can handle the taxes yourself.

But if the player requests a refund, the developer will have to bear the handling fee, so if the game is rubbish, there is a possibility of losing money.

Currently it is just a trial version, which is equivalent to opening up the internal testing to overseas markets and making a profit by accumulating popularity. After all, there is no publicity and it will take some time to accumulate popularity.

Promotion depends on Steam's recommendation mechanism. If it sells well, it will naturally be exposed. If it doesn't sell well, it will be forgotten by the crowd.

In fact, there was no other reason why Fang Hong suddenly withdrew "Lucy". He just got the PC information about a certain school idol, so he didn't need to adopt the strategy of blocking "Mr. Six".

Instead, the film was prevented from being released.

His initial idea was to surround it if he couldn't get it, and withdraw one if he got it. Releasing the films in large numbers is indeed not good for Yutu.

"Principal, the target you chose is indeed correct. This is not the first time for this person. He is a repeat offender and is very cautious. He always comes to the door and uses cash. It took us a lot of effort to find out about this from a high-class prostitute." Although Lu Dabao was very excited.

But his words were very coherent, expressing the principal's wisdom, the enemy's caution, and his own difficulties.

It seems that he has grown up and is different from before.

"Well done." Fang Hong praised.

In his previous life, he had heard that this man had done this many times, not for the first time. It was only after he was arrested that year that his actions were exposed. After all, he was almost thirty years old, so how could he not have needs?

Lu Dabo was delighted, but then he said worriedly, "Although we know his situation, the problem is that we have no evidence. Should we expose it directly?"

Fang Hong heard this and lowered his head to think.

Now they only learned about the situation from the mouth of a high-level chicken, who was the person that Zhuo Wei was targeting.

But he didn't take any conclusive evidence. Entering and leaving someone else's house cannot be counted as evidence. No matter how powerful Zhuo Wei is, he can't go into someone else's bedroom to take pictures of the bed!
In other words, he only found the target, but did not find any relevant recordings, photos, etc., only verbal information.

"Don't expose it, don't do anything. What you need to do is to let this person surrender herself, or get caught and let her voluntarily give up the school hunk. Can you do it?" Fang Hong looked up and said.

"This is easy. Wait for my news." Lu Dabo thought this was too easy.

As long as the high-class prostitutes can live a worry-free life, they do that thing not just for money. If they have money and financial freedom, who would do that thing to be treated as a plaything by others and lose their dignity?

For people like this, the next stage of their life after they have money is to find an honest man to marry.

"return."

Seeing Lu Dabo was about to leave, Fang Hong called him back and said, "To be cautious, please make an anonymous report."

He was afraid that something unexpected would happen and that the investigation and evidence collection would take too long, so he first made a qualitative assessment and put pressure on himself. After all, the core goal was to prevent "Mr. Six" from being released.

"No problem." Lu Dabao said he understood.

"When the New Year comes, ask your sister-in-law to give you a red envelope." Fang Hong patted his shoulder.

"Thank you, Principal!" Lu Dabao understood what he meant.

(End of this chapter)