China Entertainment Times

Chapter 715
Dongzhimen Baoli Building, Hantang Media Group.

Liu Debin, president of Hantang Films, came to report to Tang An early in the morning.

"Sit down and wait for me for 2 minutes."

After quickly reading the report in hand, put it aside.

"Mr. Liu, the 20 billion financing will be in place soon. Hantang Pictures will go public in two years. I don't need to say more about the importance of these two years."

Liu Debin immediately said, "Tang Dong, don't worry, the company is currently operating in good condition, and there is no problem in going public smoothly."

Tang An nodded, he had nothing to worry about in this regard.

With a sufficiently strong pipeline, failure is virtually impossible.

Look at these big companies, no matter how badly any blockbuster loses, they will never lose money throughout the year.

Even if the raccoon film industry loses about one billion a year every year, it's not the raccoon film industry's own loss.

If it's really one, Liying Films loses a billion dollars a year, those managements are the real idiots, and they are hopeless.

It is impossible to find a boss in any small and medium-sized company in the film and television industry to manage Li Film Industry, and it is impossible to lose money.

With enough strong channel resources, you can make money with your eyes closed.

The only loss for Ah Li is to buy tickets, more than one billion in ticket subsidies every year, and huge promotion costs.

Tang An, the manager of Hantang Films, is not worried at all. With the support of a new round of financing of 20 billion yuan, Nuomi Films can maintain or even expand its market share advantage.

There is nothing to say about this, it is just fighting for money and resources, and there is no way to cheat.

The original space-time bill ticket was launched two years later than Maoyan, but it took the number one market share in just three years, thanks to the traffic of Ah Li and the support of huge cash.

Hantang Films has nothing to worry about. It guarantees the share of Nuomi Films. There are no major mistakes in the business, and nothing else is important.

After briefly listening to Liu Debin's report, Tang An looked at the time and it was not too early.

"It's almost time, let's talk on the way, go see Zhou Xingchi."

Leaving the company, boarded the car and went to the hotel that Zhou Xingchi had made an appointment with.

"Mr. Liu, why do you think Zhou Xingchi didn't accept our investment?"

Liu Debin thought for a while and said, "Director Tang, I think he wants to compete with you, and he doesn't want his film to have anything to do with you."

"He is a proud man. I have met him a few times. He can't see anything on the surface, but he can feel it." He added.

Tang An shook his head and smiled, "That's the only explanation."

Everyone is different, and that can't be changed.

Liu Debin continued, "Ma Yun came to him in person yesterday. This is the first time Ma Yun has appeared in a movie. It seems that he and Zhou Xingchi had a good relationship before."

Ma Yun has a wide range of friends, as does the film and television industry, and has a good relationship with many big-name stars.

It is estimated that no one is unwilling to make friends with old horses.

Sing "Legend" with Li Jian, ask Huang Bo how he looks, and play Tai Chi with Zhou Xingchi.
As far as Ma Yun's eloquence, or the ability to fool around, people who are not at the same level can easily be overwhelmed.

Ten years ago, if Ma Yun had accepted Tang An as his younger brother, he might not have agreed.

But now, at least Tang An has surpassed Ma Yun in terms of personal wealth. Unlike before, he needs to look up to him, and he has no pressure in his heart.

The main issue is mentality. Now that Da Da stands in front of any ordinary person, the ordinary person will probably tremble with hands and feet.

But if this person just doesn't know Da Da.
The probability of Zhou Xingchi accepting Ma Yun's investment is extremely high, but Tang An also has to take time to make a trip.

"By the way, Director Tang, speaking of it, apart from last year's Spring Festival, we had some festivals with him." Liu Debin also said.

Tang An asked, "Oh, why did you offend him?"

Liu Debin explained, "He owns three cinema management companies, namely Modu Bigao, Chongqing Jiaying, and Chongqing Yuejie. There are more than 20 movie theaters in total. Several movie theaters of the Yuejie Cinema Management Company have joined Dadi, but Dadi was put together by us at the beginning, many franchised theaters were fined and rectified, and Jiaying Cinema was fined 20 yuan and closed for three months for rectification."

And there's this thing.

However, this should not be the main reason. Although nearly a hundred movie theaters were fined and rectified that time, it was just that some of them went too far and were treated as chickens for monkeys to watch.

Basically, there are not many franchised theaters in the major theaters that do not steal the box office, and there are even some direct-operated theaters. It is not so simple to investigate. Those movie theaters that were fined and rectified stole at least half of the box office a year.

Even if he was fined 20 yuan and rectified for three months, it would not be a loss.

However, if the stolen box office is corrupted by the theater manager below, then the movie theater will lose a lot.

In the appointed hotel, Tang An met Zhou Xingchi and his assistant Chen Zhenyu again.

It seems that Zhou Xingchi has no agent since Tian Qiwen and Wei Dashen, and only has an assistant by his side. Xinghui partner Chen Guohui is also because of the share dividends of "The God of Cookery", "The King of Comedy", and "Shaolin Soccer". He ran away due to internal strife and became a lonely family.

"Hello, Director Zhou."

"Tang Dong, Mr. Liu, hello."

The two parties greeted each other and sat down face to face.

Tang An stopped talking nonsense and got straight to the point, "Director Zhou, I hope you can think about our Han and Tang Dynasty. Looking at the entire Huaguo entertainment industry, no company can compare to Han and Tang in terms of post-marketing and publicity. No company can help The Mermaid as much as Hantang can."

Don't play virtual games, cooperation depends on hard power.

Tang An is not talking big. In the film and television industry, no matter whether it is Wanda, Ahli, Fujixun, or China Film, they are no opponents of Hantang.

Zhou Xingchi is rich, owns a billion dollar mansion, has many real estate properties under his name, speculates in real estate and land in Xiangjiang, and now has a net worth of billions of Hong Kong dollars.

But he still has to rely on big companies in the mainland, otherwise "Mermaid" will not give up two-thirds of the share.

Zhou Xingchi did not refute. He waited for Tang An to finish speaking, glanced at Liu Debin next to him, and then asked, "Is Director Tang planning to invest in the name of Hantang Media or Hantang Films?"

Tang An was a little surprised, but said truthfully, "Hantang Media is currently planning my two new films, as well as the hugely invested "Fengshen" series, and the investment of "Mermaid" is participated by Hantang Film Industry, but the group's resources can be mobilized .”

Zhou Xingchi said with a smile, "I heard that Hantang Films will go public in 2016. So, is the investment in "The Mermaid" just for the listing?"

Tang An nodded, "That's right."

Zhou Xingchi shook his head and said, "Sorry, my movie cannot be reduced to a tool for listing."

Tang An couldn't help but laugh, this excuse is really clumsy.

It's noble to say, but everyone is just a businessman.

In the next two years, he sold the shares of one of his companies to New Culture at a high price for 13 billion, and signed a four-year profit of one billion in gambling agreements.

So Zhou Xingchi, who has honed his sword for four years, after "The Mermaid", supervised the production of "Journey to the West" in 17, and filmed "The King of New Comedy" and "Mermaid 17" at the same time in 18 and 2.

The latter two films were released in time for 19, because 19 was the last year of the VAM agreement, and Zhou Xingchi would have to pay if the profit of less than one billion was reached.

Because of the hit of "The New King of Comedy", Zhou Xingchi also had to announce the start of filming "Kung Fu 2".

I have to thank New Culture for being able to watch Zhou Xingchi's movies continuously. Later, many movie fans said the same, and said that they would buy some shares of New Culture.

Money is really omnipotent, 13 billion to buy some worthless shares.

Even Zhou Xingchi eventually fell in front of the 13 billion and was eventually coerced by capital.

The same goes for Feng Xiaogang. All celebrities and directors who start a company have a lot of capital to follow.

Anyway, there is no loss of capital. If it reaches the goal, everyone is good for gambling. If it is not reached, the star and the director will pay the money. They just gave the money to the star in advance.

Tang An didn't bother too much, and offered to leave after a few polite words.

"The director Zhou interrupted me, let's go first, goodbye."

"Tang Dong, go slowly."

After Tang An left, the assistant Chen Zhenyu said to Zhou Xingchi, "Will there be any trouble if we reject him like this?"

Zhou Xingchi shook his head, "With China Film, Guangxian, and Ah Li investing, there will be no problem."

He doesn't know much about Tang An's personality, but it is said that he has a strong desire to control and is not too overbearing.

Zhou Xingchi was not afraid of Tang An's retaliation or anything. With the investment from three major companies, there would be no problem.

What's more, there are more than 20 investors in this film, and there are everyone in the open or in the dark. It is impossible for Tang An to offend so many people.

He didn't accept Han Tang's investment, and the most important thing was that he didn't want to get involved with Tang An.

After all, Tang An is so famous now, if any movie uses these two words, if it deliberately promotes it, it will easily be considered to be related to Tang An.

Zhou Xingchi is also a person with a strong desire to control, he will not allow his films to be related to others.

Tang An and Liu Debin left the hotel, got into the car, and ordered, "When they finalize the investment, make a formal quotation."

The main reason for participating in "The Mermaid" is to go public for Hantang Films. Even if it may not be able to win the film history championship from Tang An, it is still a phenomenon-level movie, and this one is better than the three billion-level movies.

It doesn't matter if you can't get the investment, but you can get the distribution right.

Liu Debin nodded, and had no objection to Tang An's insistence on winning the film.

A listed company needs to have a good performance and a good reputation. For a film history company, a movie that hits the box office is definitely beneficial.

The group has quite a few good projects, but Xu Zheng's next film hasn't been filmed yet, and "Legend of the Gods" will be released after its release.

"Then open one billion first, and see their reaction?" Liu Debin asked.

"One billion is fine, just open 13 billion. During this period of time, you should focus on follow-up."

Tang An didn't care about this kind of thing, and he didn't have that much time to spare.

"No problem, what's the bottom line?"

"2025 billion, you decide within 25 billion, come to me after more than 25 billion."

After thinking about it, Tang An still gave a high bottom line. With the investment from three major companies, China Film, Guangxian, and Ah Li, it is impossible to grab the distribution rights without paying a high price.

Originally, it was supposed to be Guangxian, Hehe, and China Film who joined forces to guarantee a minimum of 18 billion. Now it is impossible for Hantang to win with this figure. After all, the distribution share is a large profit.

25 million?
Rao Liu Debin saw that Tang An attached so much importance to "The Mermaid", he knew it would definitely not be low, but the 25 billion really shocked him.

However, in the past five years, Tang An has not only broken one record after another by himself, but all the movies he watched have been a big success without exception. Compared with outsiders, Tang An's trust in Tang An within the group is 100%.

Even if they didn't believe it, there was nothing they could do. Numerous facts proved that they couldn't persuade Tang An to change his mind.

The entire group is owned by Tang An alone. Although Hantang Films has several other shareholders, Tang An alone accounts for 82% of the shares, which is a real dictatorship.

This matter was left to Liu Debin. Tang An dealt with the company's affairs again, and then devoted himself to the editing of "Mysterious Superstar".

On April 4th, just three days later, Xinghui signed a contract with Ahli and reached the final investment.

So far, the 3 million investment of "Mermaid" has been fully accounted for, excluding Zhou Xingchi's 6000 million film salary, the production cost is as high as 2.4 million.

But only one day later, Hantang Films officially reported a high guarantee of 13 billion to the investors!

The four major investors got together again, but Zhou Xingchi was already busy with film affairs, so he sent an assistant over. Anyway, Zhou Xingchi couldn't get the release piece, so he still had to hand it over to these three companies.

The four parties sat together and did not discuss for long. The 13 billion box office seemed high enough, but it was far from their expectations.

What's more, if they publish it themselves, they will earn more.

On the day he got the offer, Chen Zhenyu, Zhou Xingchi's assistant, replied to Hantang Films and refused.

However, after two days of consideration, Hantang Pictures increased the offer to 15 billion.

The four investors still did not discuss for a long time, but they still refused.

In two years, the market will increase by at least 50%. With the name of Zhou Xingchi, "The Mermaid" that took two years to craft, as long as the quality is decent, and Deng Chao, a big-name star with a huge box office appeal, 15 billion The box office is close at hand.

In a clubhouse, Lin Sheng, Fan Luyuan, and Wang Changtian representing the three main prosecutors, and Chen Zhenyu representing Zhou Xingchi gathered together.

Chen Zhenyu talked about the latest situation, "Three, Hantang Films has reached 18 billion."

"Reject!" Fan Luyuan said without thinking.

Lin Sheng also said. "Our estimate for the box office is around 16-18 billion."

Although 18 billion has reached their box office estimate, the distribution fee is also a considerable sum.

Wang Changtian said with a smile, "I don't think this is Tang Dong's highest offer. Since he dared to speak, I have a hunch that it will definitely surprise us."

Wang Changtian guessed right. Five days later, Liu Debin once again offered a guarantee of a sky-high price of 20 billion.

The 20 billion minimum guarantee is already a box office record in film history. Even if the market will rise by half in two years, this record is likely to pass away.

Even if there is a high distribution share, this data can definitely make anyone excited.

Don't forget, the money can be obtained now, even if the money received in the end is the same as the guarantee, but it will be two years later.

In two years, even if you buy a house and store it, you can make a lot of money!
The Quartet came together again.

"Three, what do you mean?"

Chen Zhenyu still asked them first, the issuance had nothing to do with him, although Zhou Xingchi didn't want Tang An to participate, but such a high price was accepted by other investors, and Zhou Xingchi couldn't refuse.

Wang Changtian was a little moved. He has always been in small businesses, and it cost a lot of money to buy Maoyan. It would be great to get back the funds immediately, not to mention making a lot of money.

However, "You at the Same Table" is a hit at the box office, and there are two small-budget youth films coming up, which have a high probability of making a profit.

He was about to refuse, but Fan Luyuan spoke up.

"On behalf of the raccoon film industry, I offered a guarantee of 21 billion."

PS: There will be another chapter later, so I will return yesterday's one, sorry.

(End of this chapter)