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Chapter 565 I'm still the king of New Year's Eve! (The second update asks for a subscription! Ask for a monthly pass!)
At the end of the year, every company has a lot of things to do.

Several TV dramas produced by the company's TV drama business department will be broadcast on various David TVs successively, and several TV dramas jointly invested with several subsidiaries have also been filmed.

It's impossible to sell everything, and Tang An didn't pick it out.

However, the projects that have been carefully selected by professionals will not be too bad.

In the past few months of variety shows, apart from Dongfang Fengxing's original ones, the copyrights of several shows have been negotiated from South Korea.

Tang An's request was to win the remake copyright as much as possible at one time, even if he paid a little more copyright fee, instead of licensing season by season, and the annual licensing fee was higher every year.

As for the original program, Tang An also asked people to brainstorm to see if they had any good ideas.

Tang An himself rarely watches variety shows. Although most of them know about it, most of them haven't watched two episodes.

As a result, there were so many adapted variety shows that he himself didn't know which ones were adapted and which ones were original.

I just remember "Wonderful Talk" and "You Are Right", which are variety shows similar to talk shows, and "Star Detective".

After watching a few episodes, Tang An talked a little bit about the creativity and asked the Variety Show Business Department to make a plan and market research first.

Tang An is not a professional in this area. After the Group's Variety Show Division acquired Dongfang Fengxing, it has become the top variety show production team in China. The level of professional ability is absolutely reassuring. After all, Dongfang Fengxing is a domestic first-class variety show production company.

After some adjustments in the group, one-third of the employees were transferred to Tudou Films and other companies.

The preparations for Hantang film and television production have also been completed, and the middle and senior management are all transferred from the group.

Hantang Literature established Singularity Film and Television Company, invested in three animation production companies, and invested in two animation broadcasting platforms as an angel investor.

There are also film and television companies established by four studios, all of which have drawn staff from the group.

Originally, Hantang Media Group had more than 3000 employees and immediately dropped to 1800.

The 1200 employees and the middle management were all dispersed to six or seven other companies. In addition, some people were recruited, and Tudou Films, Singularity Films, Hantang Films and four studios took shape in an instant.

Originally, the group expanded to 3000 people in order to cope with the release of more than ten movies each year, as well as the production and distribution of a large number of TV dramas.

It is still the traditional distribution method, and it is time to slowly transition to Internet distribution.

Moreover, so many companies have been independent, and the film and television production business has been gradually shared. The group only accounts for a small part of the investment and does not participate in the production.

The huge and bloated group suddenly lost weight, but it did not affect the operation at all, but became smoother.

Several companies invested by the group are also following up, and it is estimated that they will follow up again in a few months.

Everything is operating normally, and Tang An also paid attention to the trends of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" and "Notes on Tomb Raiders".

On the 27th, Tang An brought a team composed of the group's legal department, finance department, and strategic investment department to the office building of China Resources Wucai City, Qinghe Middle Street, Haidian District, Beijing, and the headquarters of Xiaomi Technology Co., Ltd.

The Group's Strategic Investment Department has been talking with Xiaomi Technology about financing for more than half a month.

Rebs is known in later generations, he is the one who will suppress the four kings, and Tang An has been watching since Xiaomi's A round a year ago.

But he was rejected. Rebs started investing a few years ago and has invested in a lot of companies. He is a well-known angel investor in the industry and has plenty of money.

The previous rounds of Xiaomi were all domestically and internationally renowned large-scale venture capital firms such as DST, Goldman Sachs, Temasek, Qiming Venture Capital, and Morningstar Capital.

Most entrepreneurs ask people to invest and call their fathers, but some entrepreneurs have a lot of people waving checks and rushing to send money.

I missed the first few rounds, and finally participated in the C round.

At this time last year, Xiaomi was valued at US$10 billion and raised 9000 million. Now it is valued at US$40 billion and needs to raise US$2.16 million.

Four times a year, knowing that you can make money, but you can't help if you can't get in.

The financing this time also includes some cooperation clauses. In the next five years, all the mobile phone implants of the film and television dramas produced by the group and several film and television companies controlled by the group will use Xiaomi mobile phones, and the quantity, time of departure, ratings of TV dramas, The number of movie viewers and other terms.

At the same time, the opponent’s Xiaomi mobile phone must have built-in cloud reading APP, and must not have built-in all novel readers including QQ reading.

The mobile bookstore, which monopolized mobile reading for the past two years, is on the verge of bankruptcy, and now the market for wireless terminals is fiercely contested.

Although Xiaomi is not yet in the forefront of sales, after two or three years, as long as it monopolizes Xiaomi's built-in, this channel alone will have at least a 10% share.

The contract was signed for five years. Within five years, all Xiaomi mobile phones will be shipped with Yunshang Bookstore, but Hantang Literature has to pay Xiaomi 20% of the channel fee.

In the era when channels are king, those who do content will never be as good as those who do channels.

This channel fee is not high, at least later Pingguo will charge 30% of the channel fee, and other readers built by other mobile phone manufacturers will charge about the same amount.

First raise the users and occupy the market, and then find a way to guide readers to the PC version website to download the APP, so that there is no need to pay channel fees.

After all, QQ reading is backed by the behemoth of QQ, which has a natural advantage in the audience.

But it's just an app for reading on the cloud. Singularity has already occupied 60% of the market share. It doesn't need to be built-in, and its audience is somewhat different from other wireless texts.

There is also the endorsement, and Hantang Media has the priority.

Win-win cooperation, otherwise you are of no use to others, and whoever wants your money will not give you money.

The specific financing figures and ratios have been negotiated before. DST Fund, Temasek, and Hantang Media Group from Russia exchanged 2.16% of the shares for 5.1233 million US dollars.

Hantang Media invested 6000 million US dollars and obtained 1.4232% of the shares.

The few are pitiful, and at most they are just drinking soup. The main thing is the cooperation between Han and Tang literature and Xiaomi.

At the same time, Tang An also spent 12.95 billion to get 16.6% of UC shares from Lei Jun, and Wu Feng negotiated the remaining 5% of Nokia shares, which cost 3.9 million.

Now Hantang Media holds a total of 29.6% of the shares of UC Youshi.

To this end, Tang An paid 16.49 billion yuan, plus the 3.9 million investment in Xiaomi, and spent a total of 20.39 billion yuan.

It was the first time to borrow from the bank with group shares, and the loan was 15 billion for 20% of the shares.

During this period, although the share of "The Stolen Five Years" and "Happy Home" has not come down, the ratings of the company's previous two TV series that sold the first round were not bad, and the second and third rounds The rights were also sold.

In addition, three more TV dramas successively sold the first-round broadcast rights and online copyrights, adding up to 2.8 million yuan.

The price is not high, and it is not a popular TV series.

After leaving Xiaomi Technology, Wu Feng, the deputy general manager of the strategic investment department, asked, "Chairman, are you planning to cash out the UC shares?"

Tang An asked curiously, "Oh, why would Mr. Wu think so?"

Wu Feng said, "Currently, the group has acquired 29.6% of UC's shares. You have not intervened in the operation of UC. You didn't even visit UC's headquarters, and you mortgaged the group's equity for the first time."

Including the previous loan, the bank owes a total of 38 billion at present. Even if "Longling Miku" and "Hong Kong Lost" are all sold well, they still cannot afford such a large amount of loan.

Judging from Tang An's previous behavior, the group has not accepted anyone's investment, so the mortgaged 15% shares will definitely not be easily given up.

It is impossible for two or three movies to make a net profit of 38 billion. The only explanation is to sell the shares in UC. Otherwise, Tang An has 29.6% of the shares but has not even been to UC, which is unreasonable.

Tang An nodded and said with a smile, "President Wu is right. I heard that Baidu is already preparing to acquire UC, and it is estimated that the acquisition will be launched in half a month. Fujixun has a QQ browser, and Ahli will definitely intervene. , it will be sold at a good price then!"

Wu Feng was stunned, "So that's the case, Chairman, you are so well informed, I didn't even hear anything about it."

As an investment manager from CITIC, not to mention his connections all over the financial circle, at least the news from major companies will not lag behind. Now that Tang An has received such accurate news, he has not even heard the wind.

No wonder the chairman has achieved such a scale in just three years, Wu Feng secretly admires it.

Many things can be equated with money, and advanced news is undoubtedly the most important thing. Sometimes news is worth more than money!

As for the accuracy of the news, Wu Feng did not doubt it. After all, it involved the group's equity and more than 30 billion funds. Tang An didn't seem like a reckless person.

Wu Feng was right. Tang An himself had advanced news, and he was the only one who knew it. It was worth more than money.

Baidu was supposed to initiate an acquisition of UC before the Spring Festival, but was rejected by Yu Yongfu. Then within a year and a half, Ahli made two consecutive acquisitions, acquiring all the shares of UC at a valuation of 300 billion yuan.

It’s really 666. The big dog is not short of money. Now the valuation of UC is less than 80 billion. After one and a half years, Ah Li directly gave a valuation of 300 billion. It has almost doubled, and it is almost comparable to the past year. Xiaomi's growth rate has increased.

Although Ahli’s investment failed on paper, it actually made a profit considering the traffic that UC brought to Ahli’s other businesses.

Yu Yongfu had already turned to Jack Ma, and UC was also the most important part of Ahli's entertainment business group. Ahli was bound to win, and Tang An didn't have the money to hold the shares, so he couldn't grab him.

At that time, if it is estimated to be 300 billion, selling half of about 15% of the shares will cost 45 billion, which is a big profit.

Next year, Xinlang Weibo is about to encounter the biggest dilemma in the past few years, and it will be deeply vacillating between social and media, resulting in a sharp drop in valuation.

The Optoelectronics Special Funding Office has been able to achieve real-time data statistics for 90% of movie theaters across the country, and the online ticketing platform will usher in the best time.

With this money, there are many things that can be done!

The news is that money can be exchanged. If the super giants such as Ma Yun and Ma Huateng are at the helm and control hundreds of billions of funds, it will be easy to become the world's richest man based on these news.

It was difficult for Tang An, who didn't even like investing in a millet.

I know a lot about unicorn companies, but they may not be able to win them all. Just like Meituan financing before, both he and Ah Li wanted to invest.

Leaving Xiaomi Technology and getting into the business car, Tang An took advantage of the time on the road to ask Wu Feng about the situation of companies such as Didi, Toutiao, and Nuomi.com, and told him to participate in the next round of financing.

On the afternoon of November 11, Tang An came to the National Stadium to participate in Feng Xiaogang's epic production "28", which had been honed for two years.

Huayi has always been the company that is most keen on holding premieres in China, and it can be in a different place every time to create a fresh feeling.

It is said that the world's largest movie screen of 600 square meters, the Barco DP2K-32B projector, which has won the Guinness World Record for the "brightest projector in the world", and Dolby Atmos, the latest audio technology from Dolby Laboratories, were also specially brought in.

When I arrived at the National Stadium, it was already late because of the traffic jam. There were hundreds of movie fans and dozens of reporters surrounding the stadium, and people kept walking past it on the red carpet.

Tang An also simply walked off the red carpet, and was asked what he expected from Feng Xiaogang's film, as well as his views on the Lunar New Year show, Golden Horse Best Director, and other questions.

Entering the infield of the stadium, Wang Zhongjun, Feng Xiaogang and the CEOs of major companies all came. After all, it is Feng Xiaogang's masterpiece, and the success of "Tangshan Earthquake" is still vivid in my mind.

"Wang Dong, Director Feng, I'm sorry for being late." Tang An walked over to say hello.

"Tang Dong is very polite. It's a way to save face for me." Wang Zhongjun shook Tang An's hand with a smile on his face.

Feng Xiaogang also responded, "Tang Dong, it's a pity that you didn't participate in the New Year's Eve this year. We will have to wait until next summer to see your masterpiece."

Feng Dapao said he was waiting for Tang An's masterpiece, but his tone was not modest at all.

It had been two years since "If You Are the One 2" failed miserably in "Edge of Tomorrow", he was undoubtedly completely suppressed by Tang An. The title of King of Lunar New Year Files that he originally wore on his head was gone, and Dai Tang An took it.

If it was a green hat, he would give it to Tang An, but he wanted to get back the title of King of Lunar New Year.

In terms of awards and art, he thought he was worse than Zhang Yimou, but he was completely suppressed by others in the commercial box office that he was proud of, and he was not Kobe at all.

This made him hold a breath in his heart all the time, just waiting to let it out.

Tell everyone that he, Feng Xiaogang, is still the king of New Year's Eve! ! !

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