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Chapter 709 The second conversation with Ma Yun!

Time has entered April, and after a month of off-season, the domestic film market has slowly begun to recover.

I am afraid that apart from September when the school season begins, the market is most depressed in March, unless the Spring Festival is celebrated at the end of February, so you can enjoy the glory of the Spring Festival.

In March, the average daily market was only more than 3000 million, and the box office for the whole month was less than one billion. In this era of the movie market explosion, this figure is extremely shabby.

In March, "Need for Speed" earned nearly 4000 million on the first day, and in the end it was less than [-] million at the box office.

And "Fireworks in the Day", which shined at the Berlin Film Festival, took advantage of the overseas awards, and its domestic box office was only 1300 million on the first day, and the total box office could exceed [-] million.

Now it is no different than ten years ago. Even if you win the Golden Bear and Silver Bear, there is not much bonus.

And now in the Internet age, any news can't be popular for two days, and there is not much heat.

It's also not enough in terms of marketing. If this film king is put on some little fresh meat, he can work hard for a month.

When it comes to Liao Fan, neither the issuer nor the brokerage company will spend a lot of money on marketing. They are not stupid.

But for Xiao Xianrou, even if it costs tens of millions to promote it, once its "popularity" rises, it will immediately earn back several times.

After all, the film and television industry is an industry that depends on appearances. If Liao Fan has a similar appearance to Wang Kai, he will use the name of this actor to stir up popularity, shoot two TV dramas and put them on the first-line TV stations, and they will become popular immediately.

It's really hard for an actor who isn't handsome to get ahead.

In April, the first shots of the North American summer vacation began. This year, it was the funny captain of the United States and the Winter Soldier who had no immortality, could not fly, and did not even understand black technology. prologue.

Simultaneously released in the mainland, 6500 million in a single day, the market is gradually showing signs of recovery. With the continuous release of Hollywood blockbusters, the domestic summer vacation will soon begin, and it will become lively again.

However, Tang An finished filming "Mysterious Superstar", and did not pay much attention to the film market after returning to the capital.

There is nothing to pay attention to, except for those Hollywood blockbusters, namely Donnie Yen and Wang Baoqiang's 3D sci-fi comedy love fantasy blockbuster "Frozen: The Gate of Rebirth", and the youth film "You Are at the Same Table".

Then Zhang Yimou's "Return" will be released in May.

The two months before the summer holiday, these two years have nothing to do with Tang An, except that occasionally some films of the company under his company need to be released by the group.

The upcoming summer vacation is the top priority, not only in terms of movies, but also in the ticketing platform.

For a summer vacation, three or four billion yuan in ticket supplements will be thrown in, and the numbers invested in Maoyan, Taopiaopiao, and WeChat tickets will not be less.

Wang Changtian and Teng Xun just invested 26 billion in Maoyan, and now there is no shortage of money in the Quartet.

Last year, each family paid about one billion yuan a year, and now there is not much left in the blank market. This year, the ticket supplement will be even greater, with each family at least 15 billion.

Because after this year, the market will almost be taken up, and it will definitely be much more difficult to grab the market from other companies than to occupy a blank market.

Three to four billion each, plus Guevara and Dianping, it is estimated that there will be 18 billion votes. The three months of June, July, and August are destined to create a series of box office records, even if there are no good movies. With so many votes left, it can pile up tens of billions of box office.

Although the proportion of tickets issued by the ticketing platform exceeds that of offline tickets, I am afraid that it will not start to stop gradually large-scale ticket subsidies until it occupies about 90% of the market and users. At that time, the issuer will pay The money is used to make up for tickets.

After returning to the capital, Tang An took a day off and immediately returned to work.

On April 4th, Tang An ate breakfast at home, took his secretary and a team of bodyguards to the Capital Airport, and went to Hainan to attend this year's Asian Boao Forum.

But this time Tang An went by his own plane. The private jet he ordered before had completed all the formalities, and the crew was ready for use.

At the Capital Airport, I saw my latest car, the Gulfstream G550, which is also the most popular private jet for domestic entrepreneurs, and there are more than 30 of them in China.

[-] million, if you don’t have to buy more expensive ones, it’s just ordinary, and it can seat [-] or [-] people, and you have everything you need.

The cars of Ma Yun, Wang Jianlin, and Li Jiacheng are also like this, which is 650 million cheaper than Liu Dongqiang's G[-].

Although not a top-notch private jet, it is still very good.

Like the Saudi prince’s 32 billion plane, and the modified version of the Boeing 65-767 of the Russian local tycoon Abramovich’s 300 billion, don’t think about it for the time being, there is not so much spare money, unless you sell the property.

65 billion private jets, there are only [-] rich people in China with so much net worth.

Although money is a number to Tang An nowadays, knowing the price of a private jet, he still clicked his tongue secretly.

In terms of luxury cars, Tang An's Les Royce is only more than 1000 million now, which is a little cheaper than Ma Yun's Maybach 62S, and it takes 600 cars to exchange for Abu's private jet.

Later, in "Vegetarian Chicken 7", there was a cool Lycan supercar worth 6600 million yuan, and it took 98 such supercars to be worth Abramovich's plane.

Traveling across more than half of China and flying to Boao Town in Guanhai City, Hainan Province, I have to work on the plane.

He took out his computer, looked at the reports of the group, Hantang Films, Tudou Films, Wuzhou Distribution and its subsidiaries, and processed some emails.

After two hours of work, Tang An took a sip of tea and looked at the secretary in front of him who was also clacking on the keyboard.

"Zhou Li, bring my manuscript here."

"Okay Tang Dong."

The secretary immediately got up and took out the manuscripts that had been prepared, and said at the same time, "Chairman, one is for the main venue tomorrow, and the other is for the cultural sub-venue the day after tomorrow."

"I see, go get busy."

Tang An nodded and read it twice.

It is impossible to write off the manuscript, whether you read it or not, at least you must be prepared and know what you should say.

After all, we still have to speak at the main venue, and the chief executive is also coming.

After reviewing the manuscript, after about four hours of flying, the plane traveled through most of China, and the plane landed at the Haiboo Airport.

A dozen or so private jets of various types have parked on the surrounding apron, and many of them have already arrived.

When I got off the plane with my entourage, there was already a car from the organizing committee waiting at the airport.

This year, the pick-up car of the organizing committee is finally no longer a Buick. It was a Buick for the past five years, but this year it was replaced by a Cadillac.

Just as he was about to get in the car, someone from behind suddenly stopped him.

"Hello Tang Dong."

Tang An turned his head, it was Yuanda's Zhang brothers, and there were three or four others he didn't know.

Although I have never met before, I still greeted politely.

"Mr. Zhang, everyone, hello."

They shook hands one by one, and originally wanted to chat casually, but Zhang Yue spoke first.

"Tang Dong, just now I saw that you came by private plane, did you just buy the plane?"

"That's right, I just completed the formalities, but I can't compare to Mr. Zhang. Mr. Zhang is the first in China to own a private jet."

Back when Ma Yun and Ma Huateng were still starting their own businesses, Zhang Yue, who was an air conditioner, had already succeeded. At most, he owned seven or eight private jets, which was also the first in China.

Originally a polite sentence, unexpectedly Zhang Yue said earnestly, "Tang Dong, the environment is getting worse and worse nowadays, every time you take a plane, it will cause serious air pollution, and it will consume eight trees, and these eight trees need After 20 years of growth, these eight trees are polluted once we take a plane.”

Rory babbled a lot, with the tone of an elder, and seeing that Tang An didn't respond, he became even more excited.

Tang An was also speechless. Zhang Yue's theory of the Eight Trees has been said by everyone in the past two years, and in the face of interviews, he also said that domestic entrepreneurs are not recommended to buy private jets, and he scolded everyone he saw.

Back then I bought several private jets, but now I have turned around and become an environmental ambassador, scolding others for buying private jets.

But he never scolded Wang Jianlin, Zong Qinghou, Ma Huateng, and Ma Yun.

Such hypocrisy makes Tang An feel a little disgusted. Isn't he just making a non-electric air conditioner in the name of environmental protection? Recently, he also made a life mobile phone that detects PM2.5 at any time.

In the past few years, I have been promoting my environmental protection concept in public every day, which is nothing more than publicity.

Seeing that he came to provoke him for no reason and talked more and more vigorously, Tang An interrupted him impatiently.

"Mr. Zhang, you only allow the state officials to set fires, but not the common people to light the lamps. Did you smash or sell your own private jet?"

It doesn't mean to be polite, to be polite is to divide people, this kind of person who only improves himself by stepping on others, Tang An doesn't bother to save face.

A trace of embarrassment flashed in Zhang Yue's eyes, but he said, "My private jets have been sealed for several years, and I just realized it."

"One flight will pollute eight trees. How many times has Mr. Zhang flown over the years, how many trees have been polluted? How many trees have he planted to make up for his mistakes?"

Tang An interrupted him again, regardless of whether he set up such an image for himself for publicity, even if he really loves the environment and protects the environment.

But the two sides are not familiar with each other, so they speak in an educational tone when they meet, which is naturally disgusting.

Why don't you talk about so many cars on the street, scold the car manufacturers, let them all do new energy.

Say no more, get in the car and leave.

Originally, this trip to Hainan was regarded as a tourist trip, but the good mood was ruined all of a sudden.

To put it bluntly, this kind of person is a moral bitch, like a dog association or something.

So why doesn't fraternity love pigs, chickens and ducks? Are dogs more noble than pigs, chickens and ducks?
If a person from the Dog Love Association and a dog live on a deserted island without any food, see if he will stew the dog without a trace of shame.

Came to the Golden Coast Hot Spring Hotel where the meeting was held, a five-star luxury business resort hotel.

Although there are villas for rent by the sea, but this hotel is booked by the organizer, and many politicians, including the chief executive, live there, so it is not easy to rent another seaside villa for yourself.

I wanted to lie down and squint for a while, but Ma Yun's secretary came to the door and invited Tang An to have lunch.

"Mr. Ma, please wait a moment."

Ma Yun also came here, but Fujixun and Baidu only sent the president and vice president.

They are all very busy people. After CCTV's annual financial figure, I haven't met Ma Yun a few times.

Since he came to invite lunch as soon as he arrived, it must not be as simple as eating.

Tang An took a shower to refresh himself, and then went to the banquet.

Ma Yun is already waiting for an ordinary box in the hotel.

"Hi Mr. Ma, long time no see."

Ma Yun smiled and asked Tang An to sit down, "Chairman Tang, please sit down. I heard that you just arrived, so you probably didn't have lunch, but I didn't either, so you don't mind having lunch together."

"It's my honor to invite Mr. Ma so kindly."

Tang An looked at the dishes on the table, including sake abalone baby, brine hot spring goose, wasabi salad shrimp, Hele crab, honey-baked silver cod. Most of them were seafood and local specialties, and there were some desserts and tropical fruit platters.

The dishes were quite rich. Tang An just drank a bowl of porridge in the morning. Seeing the dishes on the table, he also had an appetite.

Even if it's a Hongmen banquet, you have to eat what you have to eat, and you can't let your stomach down no matter what.

"Before I came, I said that I wanted to taste the four famous dishes of Hainan and the three delicacies. I didn't expect that all the dishes were prepared, so that I could have a good time." Tang An laughed.

“They are all local specialties, and the seafood here is really good.”

After Ma Yun finished speaking, he made a gesture of please.

Tang An was also polite, picked up a piece of sea snake meat with his chopsticks and put it in his mouth.

"Not bad, the meat is delicate, and it is most suitable to be stewed with chicken."

Eating other people's food, of course, is a compliment, but you can't patronize it.

Chinese people can never just eat at the dinner table. After eating a few mouthfuls to fill their stomachs, they start talking about things.

It is impossible for Ma Yun to invite Tang An to eat, he said first, "I still remember a year and a half ago, Tang Dong said that the scale of the domestic cultural and entertainment industry could reach 5000 billion, and the domestic box office could exceed 5000 billion in the next few years. I was a little conservative at first, but the market is still developing rapidly, and there is no end in sight, and this [-] billion market is not impossible.”

Tang Andao, "5000 billion is inevitable. Compared with the North American market, what the country lacks is only time."

"Then, is Tang Dong interested, let's work together to eat this 5000 billion market?"

This time Ma Yun didn't beat around the bush and pour chicken soup. That set didn't work when they met last time, but Tang An took the initiative in the conversation.

And now that Tang An is fully qualified to stand on an equal footing with him, it is more appropriate for the two parties to discuss business directly.

There are not too many skills in this level of cooperation, and the only thing that works is hard power.

Ma Yun has not given up on cooperating with Tang An. Compared with Teng Xun, although Ah Li Films started earlier, it is currently behind Teng Xun.

On the surface, it seems that Liying Industry has successfully listed through the back door, and has continued to make big moves. It has just announced six projects this year, which is not comparable to that of Fujixun.

However, Fujixun has already reached a cooperation with Guangxian. Fujixun also has the promotional resources and ticketing platform that Ahli Films has, and Guangxian also has a complete ground distribution team, which Ahli does not have.

Not to mention that Guangxian has mastered Maoyan, and with Weipinger, even Tang An's Nuomi movie is no match.

Once Fujixun and Guangxian join forces to acquire a large theater chain, it will truly complete the entire industrial chain and become another Hantang Group.

The cooperation between Berna and Wanda has absorbed hundreds of high-quality movie theaters in Berna, and it has also allowed Wanda to further expand its potential in theaters, not to mention the Universal Distribution Alliance, except that there is no ticketing platform. , has been quite perfect.

Even though raccoon film industry has Tao Piao Piao, it will be difficult to surpass these two alliances in three to five years, unless it can find a large number of high-quality films.

When Ma Yun first entered the film and television industry, he only regarded it as a small piece of the puzzle of the whole Ahli, but now the development of the film and television industry has surpassed his expectations. The newly established large cultural and entertainment strategic group is enough to prove that he and the management have great importance to the film and television industry. valued.

But he would not accept being an ordinary big company in the film and television industry, and he had to be the leader of the industry.

Cooperating with Hantang is the simplest and most effective way. Once the cooperation is reached, they will occupy half the sky in the film and television industry, far surpassing any company in any period, and it may not be impossible to dominate the entire industry.

Ma Yun came to talk about cooperation, which was completely expected by Tang An. Apart from cooperation, he couldn't think of any reason to come to this meal.

Tang An put down his chopsticks and said with a smile, "Mr. Ma, once the two of us cooperate, the structure of the film and television industry will be completely settled. It will be difficult to shake the situation of one super and many powers within ten years."

"However, Guang Xian did not seek cooperation with me. Instead, he found Fuji Xun. Bernard did not find me. Instead, he found Wanda. My relationship with Yu Dong and Wang Dong is definitely deeper than the two of them. Ma Dong Should understand."

(End of this chapter)