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Chapter 623 "Blossoming Heart"! (Second more please subscribe!)

There is no way to exchange money for opportunities, after all, it cannot compare with Fujixun, Ahli, and Baidu in terms of channels and funds.

However, this statement did not convince Xu Manyun, and Wu Feng and Wang Wei obviously had doubts.

Tang An can go his own way, since the company belongs to him anyway, he can completely ignore the opinions of his subordinates, as long as they follow suit.

But sometimes this is not a good sign. When your subordinates cannot agree with your strategic plan and cannot fully understand your intentions, then their efficiency in doing things will only get twice the result with half the effort, and their enthusiasm will not be as high as 100%.

People do things, not machines.

Tang An smiled, "Have you forgotten how the legalization of video websites came about? I can promote the legalization of video and video websites, and I can also promote the legalization of music platforms. Besides, this is the general trend. Now famous singers The album is almost sold out, so I can only rely on holding concerts, endorsements, appearing in variety shows and even making movies to maintain my popularity and make money, and the country will not let it go."

That's right.

Wu Feng may not have known it when he came late, but most of the company's executives and people in the film and television industry know how the largest pirated video player in China was dumped.

If Tang An hadn't persuaded several major video sites and film and television companies to jointly sue and create momentum, Kuaibo might survive for a few more years, and it would take some time for the video sites to become legalized.

It seemed that Tang An had also made up his mind, so Xu Manyun and the others didn't say anything.

Xu Manyun nodded, "That's fine, I will contact the top management of Tiantiandongting."

"Arrange two people to go to Tiantian Tingting, and don't interfere with their operations for the time being. In addition, Mr. Wu, please see if there is any suitable music company. Second- and third-tier ones are fine. It doesn't matter if there are famous artists or not. The structure must be perfect."

Movies, videos, songs, and variety shows are all available. Now that there is a music platform, resources cannot be wasted.

"Good chairman."

Wu Feng nodded. It's like theater companies want to participate in film and television production and distribution business. If legalization of digital music can be implemented, then the music platform will be equivalent to a terminal.

"In addition, let the local push team and the publicity department collect a large amount of data online and offline to judge users' views on the music platform and why they choose this player."

"It will be completed within half a year. We must also have the advantages of other music platforms. Everyday Ding Tingting cannot be just a music player. The construction of the website will start immediately, including playlists, interactions, communities of songs and celebrities, targeted pushes, and recommendations. Mechanisms and various charts are all made, I want an all-round music platform, and maybe Tiantiandongting will hold music festivals and award shows in the next few years!"

Tang An put forward a series of requests and asked Xu Manyun to pass them on to Tiantiandongting's top management.

With [-] million users, there is no shortage of funds for the time being, and the content must be done well.

Tang An didn't know much about music platforms, and didn't give many suggestions.

But we can learn from it. What are the advantages of QQ Music, Kugou Music, and NetEase Cloud Music? Do a large-scale questionnaire survey and learn from them.

Fujixun's usual method, what you have, I have what, but I have a lot of money and a wide range of channels, so I will kill you soon, Li Gui can also become Li Kui!
Then I heard Xu Manyun and Zhang Qiang report on the operation and financing progress of Toutiao, Didi and other companies, as well as their own companies that need financing.

Nuomi.com has not burned out the 1.5 million yuan before, and it is estimated that it will burn out the money by the end of the month. The market and users will come up, and the valuation will also rise gradually, and financing will be available.

"Boss Wu will continue to follow up on these projects, and take as much as he can," Tang An ordered.

It's about to start the B round or even the C round of financing. At this time, Hantang Media can't take all of them. It can follow the investment, and it's almost enough to keep the current shares.

Wu Feng remembered something and asked, "By the way, Chairman, Carlyle Capital seems to be planning to sell the shares of Hantang Literature. Do we want to continue?"

Tang An asked, "Are you sure?"

Wu Feng replied, "I don't know yet. It is said that the box office of "Tomb Raider Notes" is not satisfactory, and I plan to take advantage of the peak valuation to cash out."

"Go and ask, Carlyle Capital holds 17% of the shares as I remember, and if the price is right, we will take all of them."

It is not surprising that someone made a move. Today, the valuation of Han and Tang Literature is nearly 150 billion yuan, and it was only 23 billion yuan when it was taken from Shengda together.

It is also because the copyright development in the past two years has been very effective. Every year, several online novels are adapted. Games and animation have also benefited a lot, and they have stepped directly from the era of electronic copyright to the era of full copyright.

But the rise is too fast, and some people are worried. In addition to "Tomb Raiders Notes", this super IP, which is second only to "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", failed at the box office.

The failure of "Tomb Raider Notes" is not just a movie, but it represents the value and potential of the entire web text IP, and it is likely to affect the subsequent web text IP development.

It has already doubled nearly 7 times, and it is normal for a safe venture capital to cash out and leave the market.

17% of the shares, based on the valuation of 150 billion, is 25.5 billion, plus the original 45%, it is 62%, which is enough.

Tang An then said, "It's enough to get 17% of the money, and there are still many places to spend money. How is the discussion on Weibo?"

Wu Feng replied, "Ah Li wants more shares, at least 20%, Xinlang is only willing to give 10%, just promises that in the future, according to the pre-agreed pricing method, the fully diluted shares of Ah Li on Weibo will be fully diluted. The proportion of shares has been increased to 18%, and the specific proportion is still deadlocked."

"Then our acquisition, have you accepted it?"

"It talked about 7 points, and it also promised to increase to 12% in the future."

The history is surprisingly consistent, adding up to 17% and 30%. Originally, Ahli won 18% of the shares, and Xinlang promised to increase it to 30% according to the agreed price.

"Talk about it as much as possible, one more point is good."

After the meeting, Tang An looked at the report for more than a month in the office.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, the secretary knocked on the door and came in, saying that Bad Monkey Pictures CEO Wang Yibing and art director Ning Hao had arrived and were waiting in the conference room.

Tang An nodded, "I'll be right over."

After roughly scanning the report in his hand, Tang An got up and went to a small meeting room.

The two were already waiting, and there were several documents on the table. Seeing Tang An coming, they got up quickly, "Hi, Dong Dong."

Ning Hao is now a director worth a billion yuan, and "The Golden Heist" is not considered a success. Facing Tang An, no matter whether he is the chairman of a large group or a major director, he has to lower his profile.

"Ning Hao, Mr. Wang, welcome."

After shaking hands one by one, Tang An asked them to sit down.

The secretary poured a cup of tea and came in. Tang An took a sip and asked with a smile, "Ning Hao, have you finished your script yet?"

"After being reminded by Director Tang last time, I refined it again, please take a look." Ning Hao said and handed over a document.

The script has been worked on for half a year. Of course, Ning Hao is still wrangling with Xiao Ma.

Although the two parties have already broken up, "No Man's Land" has not yet been released, and the publisher and investor are all pony, so Ning Hao can't help it.

Ning Hao's "Crazy" series is very story-driven, with more details and foreshadowing than ordinary commercial movies.

Tang An has already read two versions of this script, and the overall change is not big, except that some foreshadowing and details have been modified.

The most important thing is the narrative technique. At the beginning, Ning Hao's first draft was a bit different, and Tang An reminded him appropriately.

The most successful point of the story should be the arrangement of the two story lines of the hero and heroine.

Geng Hao got divorced and drove with Hao Yi all the way to deliver props to the crew.

In order to find love, Yuan Quan followed Geng Hao's song and came to Dali. The general story arrangement should be that they meet and fall in love at the end.

But the arrangement of the film is so ingenious. The moment when they met on the wall in Dali, the time was staggered, and the audience realized that Yuan Quan was the early stage of Geng Hao's divorce, and the time when they met was before the whole film.

A chronological order, which raised this road movie to a higher level.

There are also a lot of foreshadowing and reversal, such as toy guns and oranges.

The various passers-by in the film are also portrayed well, and they all have explanations. Compared with another road film "The Future Will Never End", Wang Luoyu just dropped the sentence "I'm not a prostitute" and there is no ending. Below, there is a feeling of anticlimax.

"Very good. Compared with "Crazy Racing", the audience will be wider. After all, we have to adapt to the audience instead of waiting for the audience to accept us." Tang An handed him the script back.

Ning Hao also smiled wryly. The script of "Crazy Racing" came out at the end of 07. After a year of review, deletions, revisions, and revisions, the filming did not start until the end of 08. He himself was not very satisfied.

"No Man's Land" was even worse, it was directly banned, and it was finally released.

In comparison, "Crazy Racing" does not have a wide audience. In addition to Huang Bo's pain after losing love, "Crazy Racing" this time, he has no choice but to let go of his ex-wife. A friendship, the final rebirth of Huang Bo and Xu Zheng, Huang Bo came out of the shadows, and Xu Zheng entered into marriage.

In addition to these things that Ning Hao mainly talked about, a lot of comedy elements were added to make the movie more acceptable to ordinary audiences and have a wider audience.

After discussing the script for a while, Tang An didn't intervene too much. This is someone else's project.

In terms of investment, Tang An only needs 10% of the investment share, symbolically named as a producer, and it's Hantang Films, not Hantang Media, anyway, he doesn't need to participate in the production process.

3500 million investment, Ning Hao's Bad Monkey accounted for 30%, China Film 20%, Pony 15%, Beijing Culture 10%, Xu Zheng and Huang Bo shared 15%.

China Film and Xiao Ma had to give it, Xu Zheng and Huang Bo also had to give it, Song Ge got involved for some reason, and hooked up with Ning Hao.

Mainly in terms of distribution, Jingcheng Culture and China Film Group gave a guarantee of 5 million yuan.

For a director with a single-film box office of more than 1 million points, the guarantee of [-] million is high enough.

The cost was 3500 million, and the film earned more than 1 million before the filming started. It was completely risk-free and made a lot of money.

"The 6 million minimum guarantee, what about 35% of the excess?" Tang An gave his offer.

"Okay!" Wang Yibing, who had been silent all this time, nodded, but made another request.

"Tang Dong, you must provide at least 5000 million publicity fees."

Tang An smiled, "No problem."

The process was surprisingly smooth, and the guarantee of 6 million yuan was already a super high condition, and no one would be foolish enough to refuse it.

There are various ways to guarantee the bottom line. At present, the general way is to take 40% of the share beyond the bottom line guarantee, or even higher, like Bernard's bottom line "The Future Will Never End".

There will be no distribution share, and 40% of the box office proceeds will be taken directly.

Tang An took 35%. After all, the Iron Triangle combination of "The Heart Blossoms and the Road" is much more reliable than "The Future Will Be Unexpected", and he got 5 points less.

Later, some of the guarantees were based on the ladder distribution share, but now it has topped one billion box office, and the ladder share cannot be divided into several levels.

After the verbal discussion between the two parties, Ning Hao did not forget to say before leaving, "Director Tang, Director Han will trouble you."

"Don't worry, I will go and talk to Director Han."

Tang An motioned him to rest assured.

Ning Hao must have felt a little guilty when he gave up China Film and went to Hantang for distribution. After all, he was single-handedly promoted by Han Sanping.

Although Tang An felt a little sorry for grabbing food from Zhongying, it was all business.

Of course, as long as Han Sanping speaks, Tang An can guarantee the bottom line together, or even withdraw unconditionally.

It doesn't matter if it is given to China Film Group, after all, Han Sanping has always been the person who has helped him the most.

Tang An had already invited Han Sanping to dinner at night, so he happened to talk about next year's Spring Festival.

Now Han Sanping is also in the process of handing over, and he will basically be in a semi-retired state during the Spring Festival next year.

Moreover, China Film's investment is not much. After "Havoc in Heaven" replaced the special effects with overseas copyrights, most of the remaining investment was contracted by Xinghao and Dongfang Films.

Xinghao is the major shareholder of Ann Shina, the controlling publisher. China Film and Wanda jointly issue, which means that Xinghao takes the majority of investment and distribution.

PS: I'm sorry that there are only two updates today. It's rare to have a day off and be pulled out to get together. I'm not in the mood when I come back at night. I will continue with the third update tomorrow!

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