Millennium director

Chapter 202 The theater chain plan is launched, looking forward to the mobile Internet era

"Director Wu, is Director Zhang's new movie so confirmed?"

In Li Xiaoping's office, Wu Yuan sat across from her and said calmly: "Yes, Leslie has gone back to write the script. In the end, I will help him check and revise it and sign our names.

"When the time comes, you can ask China Film Group if they want to participate in the investment. There are still some risks if we invest alone."

Wu Yuan didn't dare to guarantee that Zhang Guorong's "Good Guys, Bad Guys, Weird Guys" would definitely get a good response from the Chinese and Korean markets.

It can only be said that there is a high probability that it will be successful. After all, with him doing the final check on the script, it can at least restore 80% of the level of the Korean version.

As for how much the final box office will be, it has to be left to God's will.

From a local film to an overseas film, Wu Yuan has no idea how much box office "Good Guys, Bad Guys, and Weird Guys" can achieve in South Korea.

As for the mainland, a box office of 50 to 80 million is the limit. After all, mainland movie fans have no idea about "western movies".

However, we can look forward to the box office performance of this movie in Hong Kong Island.

Zhang Guorong himself is from Hong Kong Island and has a box office base in Hong Kong Island.

When "Painted Skin" originally starred Donnie Yen as Pang Yong, it only grossed over 10 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office in Hong Kong. However, it was replaced by Zhang Guorong, and the posters in Hong Kong mainly featured Zhang Guorong in the C position. The box office revenue was more than 40 million Hong Kong dollars.

Even among the nearly five million viewers of South Korea's "Painted Skin", half was attracted by Wu Yuan, and the remaining half was attributed to Zhang Guorong.

For the generation born between 1965 and 1975 in South Korea, the Asian superstars in their hearts must be Leslie Cheung, Chow Yun-hair, and Cheng Long as male actors, and Wang Zuxian, Lin Qingxia, and Zhang Manyu as female actors.

Hong Kong movies in the 1980s were much more popular in Korea than Hollywood movies are now. At that time, it could be said that everyone was chasing Hong Kong movie tapes!

Even now, middle-aged people in South Korea aged 35-40 are familiar with actors from Hong Kong Island.

The appeal of Asian superstars is so terrifying!

Wu Yuan is quite confident that Zhang Guorong will explore the Korean market.

After describing his thoughts to Li Xiaoping, Li Xiaoping finally understood and stopped worrying about this issue and turned to talk about another important matter.

"Director Wu, the company has conducted on-site inspections in the four major cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen and selected several business districts suitable for opening movie theaters."

"Our "Light and Shadow Era Cinema" plan can be launched."

"According to your request, we hired a group of professional cinema practitioners from Hong Kong Island, the United States, and Singapore to set up the company's cinema department."

"The company's cinema chain brand is positioned as a fully digital cinema, using top-level projection equipment. In the first phase, ten cinemas are expected to open within a year, and all will be operational by May 2007 at the latest."

"Not bad." Wu Yuan nodded with satisfaction.

As long as you have money, it's easy to start a theater chain.

Most of the domestic private theater chains only started in 2004, and there is indeed a lack of talent. Everyone is on the same starting line.

Whether it is Wanda, Dadi or Jinyi, which will dominate the mainland in the future, they are now poaching cinema industry practitioners from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia to build their own cinema chains.

On March 7, 2004, the first Wanda Cinema opened grandly in Tianjin.

Dadi Cinema’s first cinema just opened in Foshan this year.

It’s not too late to enter the era of light and shadow, and the time is just right.

Don't be too greedy. In the first year, start with ten theater chains. If you can have 30-50 screens, you can already establish yourself.

Based on the average cost of a cinema of 2 million, the investment for ten cinemas is only 20 million. This small amount of money is not much in the era of light and film.

The company account is really poor with only money left.

The profits from "Your Name" have not been spent yet, and the profits from "Painted Skin" are coming in one after another.

Even if there is an investment of 100 million for "Gravity" that needs to be prepared, Light and Shadow Era can still spare 100-200 million in working capital to deploy in other industries (not counting film investment).

“We will test the waters with ten theaters first, and then strive to expand the scale to thirty theaters next year, and strive to reach one hundred theaters by 2010.

Although Golden Harvest Film Company in Hong Kong Island will be put up for sale next year, and Golden Harvest has dozens of cinemas, Wu Yuan has no intention of spending money to buy Golden Harvest.

Whoever makes this deal loses.

Buying Jiahe will cost at least more than 2 billion yuan, but most of the money will be used to buy Jiahe's film copyright library.

The Jiahe Cinema brand alone is not worth so much money, and most of these cinemas are in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia, and there are less than ten in the mainland.

It makes no sense at all to buy Jiahe from Guangying Times.

With this money, it will be enough for Light and Shadow Times to open one or two hundred cinemas in the mainland.

Even if you don't choose to rent a venue and directly buy the venue with full payment, you can open at least fifty or sixty stores.

"You should keep an eye on the development of the theater chain first. I will hire a professional person in charge of the theater chain as soon as possible, and then we will make the theater chain independent." Wu Yuan ordered.

After all, Li Xiaoping is not a professional cinema operator. She can still keep an eye on a few cinemas in the early stage. However, in the later stage, the development of the cinema chain brand is not something she can handle.

Wu Yuan also had to find a professional to take charge of this area.

This matter is easy to solve.

Jiahe will be sold next year, and there will always be some turmoil among the top management of Jiahe Cinema Line. The talent will be there.

Wu Yuan, who has a vision for the future, was able to see through the fog of war in a sense when he was doing business.

But a person's energy is always limited. After deciding to continue to pursue the path of directing, film and television, Wu Yuan had to put all his energy on this.

"By the way, when did the Tudou.com incident start?"

Wu Yuan thought in his mind that the company's layout seemed to lack some of the layout of the Internet era.

Online video platforms are the most important part of the online entertainment industry.

Netflix in the United States later developed to the point where it can shake up Hollywood, and the three domestic giants Acton have basically controlled the upstream of the mainland's TV series and variety show industry chain.

These are all film and television giants on the Internet side, especially the mobile Internet side, and they even have a bit of a monopoly.

If you fight, you will definitely not be able to defeat him.

But Wu Yuan couldn't stay out of the matter, otherwise in the era of Internet giants, in the era of light and shadow, he would have to make a fool of these Internet giants, which he couldn't stand.

So if you can't beat it, you have to join.

In the future, the era of light and shadow must also build its own Internet video platform. It can be weaker, like Mango TV and Sohu Video, but it must not be without it!

It was a very good choice to acquire Tudou before Youku.

If Wang Wei, the founder of Tudou, had a choice, he would never sell the Tudou video he created to his competitors.

And Wu Yuan still admires Wang Wei very much. Wang Wei really loves the film and television industry.

After Tudou was acquired, he began to enter the animation industry and produced outstanding works such as "White Snake: Origin", "Little Door God", and "White Snake 2: The Rise of the Green Snake".

From this perspective, Wang Wei himself is also a very discerning producer with strong film and television blood, and is suitable to join the big family of Light and Shadow Era.

You still have to work hard to make money!

Wu Yuan encouraged himself secretly in his heart.

If you don't work hard to make money, where will you get the money to buy potatoes?

It will cost US$350 million to acquire potatoes!

Fortunately, there are still several years before the advent of the mobile Internet era, which leaves enough time for Wu Yuan.

"Okay, that's it for now." Wu Yuan stood up and waved to Li Xiaoping, "I'll go back upstairs and continue working on the concept design of "Gravity"."

On April 8, 2006, the weather was sunny.

Wu Yuan's "retreat" will not affect the normal operation of the Light and Shadow Era.

The company is still running smoothly.

The company is currently mainly busy with the filming of the TV series "Sheep Herding Stars".

On April 5, the main actors of this TV series gathered in Xiamen, a coastal tourist city.

The main plot of "The Sheep-Herding Star" will be filmed here.

Led by the four leading actors Lin Zhiying, Jin Sha, Yan Kuan and Chen Hao, the crew held a grand launch conference at the Xiamen Hilton Hotel.

At the launch conference, the crew not only announced the final makeup photos, but also announced the roles and relationships of the four leading actors.

Lin Zhiying plays the rebellious, passionate and dedicated male protagonist Zhong Tianqi.

Jin Sha plays the heroine Xia Zhixing, a fraudster who is smart, clever, has low self-esteem and is confident.

Yan Kuan plays the elegant and steady, gentle and approachable male lead Zhong Tianjun who likes Ya Ruo.

Chen Hao plays Tianqi's ex-girlfriend, the second female lead Ou Yaruo.

Among the four leading actors, only the male lead Lin Chi-ying is from Taiwan. The other three are all mainland actors. Most of the other supporting actors in the crew are also mainland actors.

For example, the actor who plays the hero's father, Zhong Wei, is Mr. Wen Xingyu. You may not know his name, but when you mention the roles he has played, it is very popular.

He played the grandfathers of Liu Xing, Xia Yu and Xia Xue in "Family with Children" and the head of the family Fu Ming in "I Love My Family".

The person who plays Zhong Wei's illegitimate son Li Wei is Yuan Hong. Yuan Hong is also a commonly used actor in the era of light and shadow.

The rest of the characters, such as Xia Zhixing's uncle and Ou Yaruo's father, were all recruited from mainland dramas.

As for the director of this TV series, Song Yang was hired. He is the director of "Men with Talented Women and Appearances" and "Girls with Talents and Men's Appearances". He is considered to be the first director in the mainland to come into contact with and shoot idol dramas.

When the idol drama "Talent and Beauty" first aired, it was directly broadcast on CCTV's eight prime time slots.

And the ratings ranked first among CCTV TV dramas in the same period, and ranked second in Taiwan, second only to "News X Broadcast".

Song Yang has proven his ability as a director in idol dramas.

And he is also very young. He was born in 1978, so he is only 28 years old this year. He was only 25 years old when he filmed "Men and Women". He is a rare young talent in the TV drama director circle.

Wu Yuan was relatively relieved when he was given the task of filming "The Sheep-Herding Star". As long as he followed the script, the finished film would definitely not be too bad!

In this way, after the cast and crew of "Sheep Herding Stars" appeared at the launch conference, filming officially started the next day.

There is a bit of glitches and it was posted late.