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Chapter 591: All the birds are hidden! (Second more please subscribe!)
In April, when the matters at hand were almost dealt with, Tang An began to retreat and devoted himself to the post-production of "Interstellar".

The editing of "Interstellar" is nothing special, but it uses a lot of montage styles and various cross-editing.

The advantage of this editing method is that it saves time and does not seem to procrastinate the plot. The feeling it brings is much stronger than the straightforward one, and the emotions are also sublimated here.

The most intuitive thing is that when the protagonist drives away from home, it is combined with the dubbing of the rocket launch countdown.

And at the end of the movie, after the old Murphy finished talking about the heroine to the protagonist, the protagonist hasn't left yet, but the scene has already cut to another planet.

It's a very common method, but it works well when used well.

"Interstellar Crossing" is the longest of these movies made by Tang An. It exceeds 150 minutes, which definitely does not meet the requirements of commercial movies.

The longer the movie, the harder it is to control the rhythm.

Generally, there are three parts to the rhythm of a movie, and the time periods are similar, but this is more than half an hour, how to allocate and adjust is a big problem.

The editing alone lasted a full month and a half, and it took another week to complete the soundtrack, subtitles, etc., and also added part of the dubbing.

It took one and a half months until mid-May before the editing of this 155-minute long film was completed.

But this is not over yet, there are still some special effects in the later stage, there are about ten days left, and the finished film will not be released until the end of May.

After retreating for a month and a half, many major events have happened in the entertainment industry.

The romantic comedy movie "Beijing Meets Seattle" released at the end of March broke the box office record of a romantic movie, with a box office of 5.8 million.

Previously, the box office record for romance films was set by "If You Are the One", and "Capital Meets Seattle" directly raised this record by [-] million.

At the same time, Xue Xiaolu also set a box office record for female directors!
The two leading actors, Wu Xiubo and Tang Wei, also benefited from this. The former became a national uncle, and the latter directly got rid of the negative influence brought by "Lust, Caution" and became a first-line actress.

However, this movie is the same as "Lust, Caution" in that it was also deleted, but only the scene of two people kissing passionately was deleted.

"Beijing Meets Seattle" has become the most popular movie after the Spring Festival.

Among other films, the box office of the largest police and gangster film "Drug Wars" reached 1.65 million in the mainland. The scale of the film is unbelievable.

At the end of the show, almost all the police were dead, so it passed the trial.

But look at the investors and you will understand that Optoelectronics is directly under the organization, and the Movie Satellite Channel Program Production Center is one of the investors.

The box office of the blockbuster "The Loyal Yang Family" released by Huayi Investment is less than 7000 million, which is a bad start to the year.

The youth nostalgic film "To Our Dying Youth" invested and released by Ahli Films exploded at the box office. It was released for 40 days, with a total box office of 7.4 million, which once again broke the box office record for a single film directed by a female director.

《特种部队2：全面反击》票房3.8亿，《星际迷航：暗黑无界》票房3.9亿，《疯狂原始人》4.2亿，《钢铁侠3》票房7.8亿。

Four Hollywood blockbusters have bombarded the domestic film market in turn, which can be regarded as a warm-up for the upcoming summer vacation.

However, this year's summer film domestically produced films are lucky to have one [-] million and one [-] million films, so it's not like they're powerless.

The domestic film market is maturing step by step. More than one important film is released every month, and the competition is becoming more and more fierce.

After Tang An finished editing "Interstellar", he rested at home for a day, and immediately returned to work.

As usual, a group meeting was held in the morning, and the general managers of several branches were all present.

Two months have passed, and there are quite a lot of things. First of all, the box office share of "囧囧 in Hong Kong" has already been in place.

The domestic box office is 12.4 billion RMB. Excluding Xu Zheng’s studio’s 30% investment share, Xu Zheng’s personal 5% share, and Wang Baoqiang’s 4% investment share, Hantang Media can share a total of production share, publicity cost, and distribution share. It is a little more than 3 million yuan.

Other pre-roll advertisements, Internet, and TV copyrights were about 2600 million yuan, with a total revenue of 3.26 million yuan.

The cost is 5200 million production costs and 4000 million publicity costs, with a net profit of 2.34.

There is also the distribution share of "101 Marriage Proposals", earning 2200 million.

The income from variety shows is not much for the time being, and several variety shows adapted from Southeast Asia will be broadcast one after another in the summer and the second half of the year.

In terms of TV dramas, some TV dramas invested by the group itself and cooperated with four other companies also have an income of [-] million yuan.

The total income of all kinds is less than 7 million, which is not much. Movies such as "The Breakup Master", "Interstellar", and "Wolf Warrior" are about to be released one after another.

In terms of video sites, Ahli completed the acquisition of Youku a few days ago. The three BAT giants have one person and one family. With the addition of Tudou, the competition is becoming more and more fierce.

Several companies invested by the company, Didi Travel completed the B round of financing in early May. From the valuation of US$2000 million at the end of December last year to the current valuation of US$1.3 million at the end of May, it has increased by 6.5 times in half a year.

The financing amount was 1500 million US dollars, Hantang Media followed up with 300 million US dollars, and Fujixun led the investment of 1200 million US dollars, obtaining 8.28% of the shares.

Hantang Media changed from 37.1% of the shares to 35.33%.

It is imperative to introduce giants, otherwise Han and Tang would not be able to sit up.

As long as the follow-up financing can be divided into one piece, and there is a 20% stake after the E round, that is enough.

You know, five years later, when Didi was preparing for an IPO for the first time, the outside world gave a valuation of 5000 billion yuan!

20% of the shares, at that time, was 1000 billion RMB, and it was lucky to be able to keep it. So many financial giants have to take a bite, such as CIC, Life Insurance, CITIC with government background, BAT, and Apple and other overseas capital .

Today’s Toutiao also conducted a B round of financing in May. This time, the financing amount reached 1000 million US dollars. Hantang Media and DST Capital divided up the 1000 million, each half.

Hantang Media's stake also rose from 17% to 21.71%.

Ele.me launched its B round of investment two months ago, led by Matrix Partners China, GSR Ventures, and Hantang Media. Hantang invested US$300 million, and its total shares rose to 13.8%.

1100 million US dollars was used for financing, and the group now has 6.5 million cash on the books with the original funds.

1 million was allocated to Nuomi Films for operations and the upcoming summer file war.

2 million cash will be injected into Tudou Group, and 2 million will be reserved for the publicity expenses of "The Breakup Master", "Interstellar" and "Wolf Warrior".

Another 1.5 million will be injected into Nuomi.com.

It was divided up all at once, and all companies were burning money, and they couldn't help spending it.

After the meeting, Tang An called Wu Feng, the deputy general manager of the investment development department, to the office.

"Mr. Wu, prepare the report of Nuomi.com. After you are busy with the summer vacation and burn the [-] million yuan, start the B round of financing. If the burning continues, it will be a bottomless pit, and we can't afford it." Tang An ordered.

"Okay Chairman, I'll prepare right away." Wu Feng nodded in response.

Nuomi invested 1 million after the acquisition, and now it has invested another [-] million. The speed of burning money is too fast.

One or two hundred million is nothing, but if you can’t keep up with the speed of burning money, you will immediately be left far behind by Meituan and Dianping.

Even Ele.me, which is far behind Nuomi, is catching up now.

When others have taken up all the market share, it will be useless for you to burn money.

"Chairman, roughly how much money will be raised, and will the funds of several major Internet companies be accepted?" Wu Feng asked again.

Nuomi’s valuation has now soared to 9 billion yuan, or about 32 million U.S. dollars, from more than 5 million yuan when it was acquired more than half a year ago.

It only burned 40 million yuan in half a year, which is a drag. Meituan will have a valuation of [-] billion US dollars by this time next year.

"Let's raise 8000 million U.S. dollars. Start preparing now and try to finish it before the end of the summer vacation. It's fine if Ah Li has invested in Meituan, and both Fujixun and Baidu will accept it." Tang An thought for a while.

The financing of 8000 million US dollars almost gave up nearly 14% of the shares, introduced more capital, and accessed more traffic.

At this time, it is time to burn money desperately. The more you burn, the more rewards you will get.

Wu Feng wrote down one by one, and then reported the progress of Ah Li's acquisition of UC.

"Chairman, Baidu has given up on the acquisition of UC some time ago, and bought 19 Assistant for 91 billion US dollars. Ah Li directly bought 60% of UC's shares from other shareholders at a price of 34 billion. Mr. Cai also Come to inquire about the shares in our hands."

"Okay, I see. I will contact Mr. Cai later."

Ah Li is really big, it's Youku and UC, and he's still talking with Xinlang about Weibo's capital injection.

Wu Feng on Weibo is also talking, trying to inject capital with Ah Li.

Xinlang should not refuse, and they don't want Weibo to become Ahli's industry. There is no harm in introducing other capital.

After dealing with a lot of things, Tang An went to the premiere ceremony of "Blind Detective" in the evening. This is a movie invested by Uniasia and Yinghuang, and released by Hantang Media.

The box office is good, 9000 million in the first four days, 8000 million in the second week, and 4000 million in the third week. The word-of-mouth and trend are good, and it won 2.1 million yuan in three weeks.

In the third week, "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" was also released, which was also invested by Uniasia. Liu Dehua's two consecutive films were released one after another.

The word-of-mouth of "Blind Detective" can be regarded as having a positive impact on "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains". Originally, Uniasia planned to release "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" first. It will be higher, just to drive "Blind Detective".

What a joke, if "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" is shown first, then no matter how good "Blind Detective" is, the audience won't watch it.

It's like feeding someone a bite first, and then no matter what you feed, they won't eat it.

The movie was unsurprisingly bad, the movie made by Mr. Paige Taihe was so bad to a certain extent.

However, the box office was good, earning 55000 million RMB on the first day.

There is no subsidy for these two films. Nuomi Films needs to develop, but it cannot be subsidized for all films.

There are also some tickets for 30 to [-] yuan, but they are all wholesaled to theaters in large quantities, just like other ticketing platforms.

The data of 5500 million on the first day did not match the one-sided negative reviews at all, and in the next three days, it only got 1.4 million at the box office.

1.95 million in four days, at least the box office was a success.

However, from the second week onwards, the box office began to plunge on a large scale, and it only got 8000 million box office in seven days.

In the third week, it was only 2000 million. Such a tragic drop is enough to show how bad the film is, and no amount of powerful publicity can save it.

2.95 million in three weeks, and Han Tang Media released another qualified answer sheet for this release. This box office also broke Liu Dehua's box office record in the mainland. The previous record was 2.9 million for "Di Renjie: Tongtian Empire".

With two consecutive movies selling well, Han Tang Media has also handed over a qualified answer sheet.

On June 6, Han Tang Media released a new film again.

Tonight, at the Xin'ao store of Hantang International Cinema, the premiere ceremony of "The Breakup Master" will be held.

Two blockbuster movies were released in a row. In May, Hantang Media stole the limelight, and there are quite a few media and industry peers here.

Zhang Zhao, CEO of Ah Li Pictures, and Zhao Wei, director of the debut "To Our Dying Youth", which was a hit and also made a splash, also came.

This time they met, Zhang Zhao and Zhao Wei were in high spirits, the complacency couldn't be hidden deep in their eyes.

Tang An greeted him with a smile, "Hehe, Mr. Zhang, Ms. Zhao, welcome."

"Congratulations to Director Tang. The Chinese New Year has just passed, and two consecutive movies have sold well. In addition, there is another "101 Marriage Proposal" with a box office of 30 million. So far this year, the box office of the Han and Tang Dynasties has reached nearly [-] billion. .” Zhang Zhao laughed.

I really can't accept it. It's only halfway through this year, and Hantang Media has won nearly 30 billion yuan in box office, and Tang An's movie hasn't been released yet.

"30 billion is not close, and it also depends on the expansion of the market. It's not that the youth nostalgic film directed by Ms. Zhao has also earned more than 7 million at the box office." Tang An smiled and said.

Speaking of "To Youth" with a box office of more than 7 million yuan, Zhao Wei couldn't help being proud, she laughed, "Tang Dong's movie is at least aiming to go up to 10 billion, of course I can't get into Tang Dong's It's eye-catching, compared to "The Breakup Master" with more than [-] million, it's no problem."

Now she even regrets it a little, if it is released together with "The Breakup Master" and beats the movie invested by Tang An head-on, it will be very satisfying.

"Then I will borrow a good word from Miss Zhao."

Tang An didn't pay attention to the meaning of her words.

After Zhao Wei walked away, Tang An congratulated Zhang Qiang.

"Congratulations to Mr. Zhang, "To Youth" is a success, and your right to speak in Ah Li has been further strengthened."

But without waiting for Zhang Qiang to say something polite, Tang An turned and said, "But Mr. Zhang, do you really think this is a good thing?"

Zhang Qiang didn't understand, so he narrowed his eyes slightly and asked, "Oh, what does Director Tang mean?"

Tang An said, "Since ancient times, the cunning rabbit has died, and the lackeys have boiled it; the flying birds have died, and the good bow has been hidden; I am afraid that as Ah Li Pictures slowly gets on the right track, your good bow should also be hidden in the snow."

PS:. . . EMMM, I accidentally wrote a lot in the last chapter, my fault, I am guilty.

For the sake of my code word reaching two o'clock, please forgive me this time o(╥﹏╥)o
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