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Chapter 566 Powerful people have no scruples (please subscribe for the first update! ask for a monthly pass!)
"Hehe, I heard that Director Tang invested more than one billion yuan in UC. Is he planning to develop into the Internet industry?"

At the premiere scene, there was still a while before the premiere ceremony. Several bosses got together to chat. Wang Zhongjun asked Tang An about investing in UC again.

Although only two days have passed and UC is not a listed company, UC is the leader in the mobile browser industry after all, with a valuation of nearly 80 billion. Tang An also spent more than one billion in cash, so it is difficult to hide it.

"Yes, after all, UC has the highest market share among mobile browsers, and it is very useful whether it is used for promotion or publicity."

Tang An didn't hide anything, and it wasn't a commercial secret.

Yu Dong sighed, "Tang Dong is really generous, the billions is enough to make 10 blockbuster movies."

These film and television companies have managed to go public and raise hundreds of millions to billions of dollars. They have to save some money, and film and television production, channel development, and movie theater construction all cost money.

But Tang An was lucky. He spent more than 15 billion to buy shares in a mobile browser. At most, they could raise so much in the last market.

At the same time, I am also curious, if so much money is not invested in theaters and film and television production, is it because I want to make a breakthrough in the Internet.

It’s not impossible. The film and television industry is too small, but the Internet industry is different. Although it has developed rapidly for ten years, it still has great potential. The two are not at the same level.

If Tang An really shifted his focus to the Internet, they would be relieved.

Unfortunately, Tang An didn't have this idea at all, he shook his head and said.

"That's not true. I'm just a filmmaker, and I can't play in the Internet industry. UC is just to provide users for the company's other businesses. After all, most smartphones are now equipped with mobile browsers. If we can make this part of the audience If it is all diverted to Tudou and Han and Tang literature, it will be a big explosion.”

Not only Xiaomi's channel, Tang An also asked Wu Wen, Zhou You to discuss cooperation with Yu Yongfu. The two keywords of novels and videos on the UC homepage will be directly connected to Cloud Chinese and Tudou videos in the future.

"Indeed, if the drainage is successful, it will not be a problem for Tudou to surpass Youku."

"Then Tang Dong got a user base comparable to QQ, Baidu, Alipay, and Weibo, which is amazing."

Tang An smiled and shook his head, "There's no way to compare, but it should be okay to be in the second echelon, it depends on whether it can be transformed."

In terms of numbers, the number of users of UC Browser is not much less than others, but there is no comparison at all.

QQ, Alipay, and Weibo are currently irreplaceable, and they all have their own functions, but UC Browser is no longer used, and there are other browsers, which are no different in use and cannot retain people.

Although Baidu is the same, you can also use 360 ​​and Sogou, but the user stickiness of Baidu is much higher than that of UC Browser.

And there is also a post bar. After the death of Kuaidao, Baidu Netdisk and Xunlei have become the two largest distribution channels for small movies.

Later, Baidu gradually fell behind in the BAT, and its market value fell again and again, but as long as the Baidu search engine is still there, Baidu will still be one of the three giants!

After chatting for a while, we talked about everything, but we didn't talk about the movies about the New Year's Eve.

Until six o'clock, the premiere ceremony officially began.

An hour earlier than the usual premiere, Huayi put on a lot of programs, and basically all of its artists with talent came on stage.

After singing and dancing for more than half an hour, it didn't enter the theme.

On stage, Wang Zhongjun began to brag, saying that nearly 2 tickets for the premiere on the online ticketing platform were sold out in less than [-] minutes.

In fact, it is almost the same, the number is slightly exaggerated.

Online ticketing platforms have been around for a few years, but they have been tepid. Later, Maoyan, Weipiaoer, Taopiaopiao, and Nuomi.com are four in the world.

But soon Nuomi.com also fell behind like Guevara, Douban, and Shiguang, forming a three-legged situation.

This is also the only time that the Big Three did not participate in Baidu, when Maoyan was acquired by Guangxian.

But Guangxian couldn't afford that money, so Ahli directly burned one billion yuan for Tao Piao Piao, forcing Maoyan and Wei Piaoer to merge.

Teng Xun can fight, but Guang Xian can't.

If Weipiaoer does not merge with Maoyan, then Maoyan can only merge with Taopiaopiao.

What's more, at that time, Ahli was still Guangxian's second largest shareholder. Once Maoyan and Taopiaopiao merged, Fujixun would lose completely. Ma Huateng had no choice but to inject Weipiaoer into Maoyan.

Nuomi.com’s exit was largely due to the lack of support for film projects, and the Weiying era was similar, with problems in project selection and publicity.

Otherwise, it's not that Weipiao is injected into Maoyan, but Maoyan is merged into Weipiao.

Guangxian, the new Maoyan Weiying company, is still the largest shareholder, and Fujixun is only the second largest shareholder, but at that time there was another company merged, the legal person is the COO of Fujixun Group, plus this part of shares, Fujixun has 3% more shares than Guangxian .

Maoyan was still Meituan Movies at this time, a service of Meituan.com. Last year, Meituan also rejected Hantang’s financing. Tang An invested in Nuomi and Ele.me.

There will be a Maoyan movie in more than two months. Tang An does not plan to intervene. In comparison, Renren, the parent company of Nuomi.com, has just suffered a devastating blow and is about to give up group buying and 56.com's video The website business is better won.

And two months is enough to do a lot of things. Weiying Times will also be established next year, with two major access ports, QQ and WeChat. Tao Piao Piao was launched in 14, and it also relies on the traffic of Alipay.

Grab the time, grab the market!
There is no problem with the team and operation of Nuomi.com. Until the first quarter of 16, Nuomi.com was still the second largest ticketing platform in terms of market share, only 2% lower than Maoyan, and surpassed Tao Piao Piao and Wei Piao Er.

It's just that Baidu stopped playing and gradually fell behind.

As for building a ticketing platform by yourself, it is so easy to start from scratch.

There are no users, no teams, no platform access traffic, and it is useless to create it.

Which ticketing platform itself does not have enough traffic? Time and Douban are professional movie forums, and Maoyan and Nuomi have the largest life service websites in the country.

Fujixun and Ahli have traffic!
Do it yourself rather than buy it!
When Tang An was thinking about the ticketing platform, Wang Changtian next to him said casually, "Tang Dong, do you think online ticket purchases are successful? Nowadays, young people are shopping online, buying train tickets online, and WeChat is even doing it. After ordering food online, you don’t have to go out to eat in the future.”

Tang An didn't expect Wang Changtian to have such advanced vision, and now he saw the potential of the ticketing platform.

But it’s not surprising that after thinking about it, among the major film and television giants, only Guangxian set foot in the ticketing platform to acquire Maoyan in one fell swoop.

It’s not that simple to become big. Wang Changtian worked as a ticketing platform, and Wang Zhongjun later united several companies to form Huaying Tianxia Distribution Company to deal with the competition in the film distribution industry of Ahli, Fujixun, Wuzhou Distribution, and Sihai Distribution.

Tang An smiled and said, "Does Director Wang have this idea? Currently, online ticket sales account for more than 20%, which is not a small amount. It just takes some time to surpass offline ticket sales."

Wang Changtian also laughed and said, "The ratio of more than 20% is not small. If we can monopolize it, we can even control the film schedule of theaters."

Tang An said, "The theater chain is not so easy to handle, it's not easy."

Wang Changtian is really daring, wanting to threaten the cinema.

Later, Maoyan, which he mastered, did this. Relying on the country's number one market share and the theater chain's challenge, he wanted to influence the theater's film schedule. As a result, the theater chain did not compromise, and Wang Changtian did not do anything.

After chatting a few words about the online ticketing platform and the upcoming launch of the special-funded business, I refocused on the stage.

Feng Xiaogang was still bragging for more than half an hour.

Some audience members asked him why he didn't choose to shoot such a shocking movie in 3D.

Feng Xiaogang replied, "3D movies have a strong sense of technology, but they are not suitable for such a heavy historical theme as "3". This is like going to the hospital to donate blood but the blood type is wrong, resulting in rejection, which will actually harm the movie. If you don’t become an anti-dog, I won’t do those things that shoot [-]D in order to raise ticket prices.”

Well, as expected of Feng Dapao, he secretly belittled a wave of 3D movies, saying that they were just trying to raise ticket prices.

Aren't the movies that will be released now and next are "Youth Pi" and "Longling Miku".

By the way, there is also "Zodiac", which is also in 3D. Tang An glanced at Cheng Long who was a few seats away in the same row, and there was nothing unusual about his face, he was still smiling.

The next thing is how difficult it is to shoot the movie. In order to restore the real scene, where and where the Minguo Street was shot, it took more than two years of hard work.

I also want to praise the actors, starting from the screenwriter, saying that I wanted to shoot this subject many years ago.

Then how well the actors fit the characters and how well they acted. Feng Xiaogang also said that when he wanted to make this movie 20 years ago, Xu Fan was the best candidate for Huazhi.

One by one collapsed over and over again, the dilly-dallying movie is finally about to start.

This movie is called Feng Xiaogang's best movie by some people.

In a way, this statement is also true.

The opening scene is Chang Kaishen's wartime New Year's speech, in which words such as human civilization resound in people's hearts, and it really complements the following plot.

The young owner's family used grain as bait to lure Xu Fan, who came to borrow grain, but Xu Fan resolutely refused.

But later, for the sake of the child, she took the initiative to sleep with Shuanzhu for two biscuits. Although it was just a great mother, it also made people feel very depressed.

Farmers and hungry people were in a mess, but they all had the same goal, grabbing food, and the young owner who stopped him was stabbed to death with a fork.

Under the threat of starvation, country love is shit.

Miss Landlord saves her own food to feed cats, how loving and kind, this passage should be compared with the later lady who eats cat meat calmly, telling us that under the premise that human rights are not guaranteed, caring for animals is shit .

Killed the cat, tore up the books and made cat soup, telling us that knowledge is shit in the face of hunger.

Judge Fan Wei was arguing with the big gunmen because the carriage was robbed. It was very similar to the scene that happened to the Communist Party. Sometimes the law is shit.

Time magazine reporter’s complaint: Before going to Henan, it was easy to meet senior government officials. After going to Henan, people avoided him like the plague.Doesn't he know it's ***?Worse than the plague is the truth.

After finally arriving in Luoyang, I was told that Luoyang is not considered a disaster area and cannot enjoy the treatment of disaster victims. This is called being a disaster victim but not available.

The boss of the brothel is picking people, and everyone is scrambling to sign up. In order to survive, they are fighting to become prostitutes, but they can't get it.

All are similar plots, real enough to show the desperate, dark side.

As for warmth, there is indeed in the subtleties, but it is too little and lacks hope.

The whole film is full of blood, cruelty, and cruelty, and it truly reflects the situation of ordinary people in that era, from Chang Kaishen and the country's conquest of the country.

The Japanese bombardment and final bayonet intervention were bloody and brutal.

The inaction of conquering the country can even be said to be perversely cruel.Under all kinds of external suppression, human nature has also become cruel.

This is the manifestation of the Great Famine.

Like the performance of the earthquake in "Tangshan Earthquake", this is done very well.

But this kind of disaster movie must have warmth and give a glimmer of light to the desperate plot.

Feng Xiaogang did not do this, and everyone had a happy ending. Only the chef starring Fan Wei was able to start well and end well. Finally, he ate a fish fillet on the tip of a knife and said something spicy, which represented the choice of ordinary people like them.

The rhythm is also a little unclear, and Chang Kaishen's sub-line is a bit overwhelming.

A few years ago, "Tangshan Earthquake" was criticized by film critics for being too sensational, but this time Feng Xiaogang listened to one and stopped playing sensationalism at all.

Disaster movies want to sell at the box office, not sensational.

Feng Xiaogang, who pursues art, is going to be tricked again this time!

However, after the screening of the film, the applause in the stadium was no less than that of "Tangshan Earthquake". Feng Xiaogang took the stage to thank the audience, and shouted the goal of 10 billion box office!

When exiting, Tang An was also asked by the reporter about his opinion on the movie and the box office expectations.

After thinking about it, Tang An expressed his thoughts, "Director Feng restored the background of that era very well, and he also portrayed the performance of all social classes in the face of the Great Famine very well. I couldn't help but get wet just now. , This is unimaginable to people of our age.”

"However, the movie is too tragic, and whether the audience can accept it is a problem. I think the final box office will be around [-] million."

[-] million is still overestimated, [-] million is not bad.

Ordinary commercial directors may not comment on Feng Xiaogang's movies at will, and they are all praises.

But Tang An said it bluntly, a powerful person has no scruples!

(End of this chapter)