Chapter 60: The Premiere (4/5)
In business, do people play bundling, do they violate the law?
Nope!
It's too expensive, you can not buy it.
By the way, Douyin is currently the second largest app under ByteDance in terms of daily activity, second only to Toutiao, surpassing Watermelon Video and Volcano Small Video.
Now the king of the short video track is Kuaishou - the daily excess exceeds 80 million.
Douyin wants to overtake in corners, and the merger and acquisition of Y is a great opportunity!
Zhang Yiming said that what mergers and acquisitions can form a comprehensive content matrix based on live broadcasts, short videos and news information.
“... Do you think the $1 billion acquisition is worth it?"
"It's certainly not worth it!"
"How much does Kuaishou offer?"
Su Hua (Kuaishou boss) felt that it was not worth it and was ready to quit. Zhang Yiming added: "What I'm worried about is that Fuji Xun is involved!"
"Fujitsu... Oh, microvision short video..."
After thinking about it, he said: "Then it should be decided, isn't it just 1 billion US dollars, how much is the difference between us?"
In three days, Lu Xiaoran was already a little annoyed.
Business negotiations are disgusting.
Dead holding money...
Can't it be a win-win situation?
Let's make the cake bigger first...
Zhang Yiming shook his head: "The Internet field pays attention to 7:2:1, whoever gets seventy percent of users first is the industry leader, and the market value after listing will be different!"
“... It's cruel, it's like the film industry..."
Lu Xiaoran nodded and looked at the three missed calls on his phone: "I'll go first, whatever you do, I will support you..."
patted Zhang Yiming's shoulder, and Lu Xiaoran hurriedly called back...
It was Chen Zhixi, and contacting him by phone was to let him hurry - the Beijing premiere of "Wushuang" began immediately...
The promotion of "Mushuang"... The main ones are Liang Jiahui and Zhang Ziyi...
Lu Xiaoran was so busy that she didn't touch the ground, and she didn't have time to care about "Wushuang".
Zhong Lifang and the others expressed their understanding - ByteDance is valued at $40 billion, and they don't know how much Lu Xiaoran holds personally, but they must account for a lot of shares!
Not only is it not small, Lu Xiaoran personally holds more than 25% of the shares...
A ByteDance directly made him worth more than 10 billion US dollars!
However, Director Lu is still worried about "Wushuang"...
After all, since directing the first play, every work he directed has been painstakingly promoted, running variety shows, roadshows, smashing hard Guangzhou...
I'm used to worrying...
Even if the theater chain is optimistic, Liang Jiahui and Zhang Ziyi's weight is enough to run the publicity, he is still a little uneasy...
So, after receiving the call, I quickly drove to the North Exhibition.
The venue for the premiere of "Matchless"...
When I got backstage, I quickly asked the makeup artist to put on a simple makeup, and then went on stage.
......
premiere, much the same, a group of reporters asked relevant questions, and then Lu Xiaoran answered them one by one.
"I wrote in the play about a boss who makes counterfeit banknotes, who is the boss of a counterfeit banknote group, who can be literate and martial, and then his character is a combination of angels and devils. This character is written according to the Fa Ge in my memory, I believe the audience will also feel this way when watching it, if it is a young audience who has not felt the charm of Fa Ge before, I think they can re-recognize and feel the charm of Zhou Yanfa through this movie!"
"Why do you want to shoot "Wushuang"? Is it because of the love of Hong Kong films?"
"It's not about feelings, it's just interested, and I want to make a movie about counterfeit banknotes..."
"How much time did it take to create this play, can you briefly talk about the joys and pains in the process, and where did you spend most of your time?"
"This story outline should have come out in 12 years, because I had been thinking about simplifying this story, because it was a very complex story, and I was worried that the market might not be willing to accept it... In those years, I have grown a lot, to be honest, sometimes it's not that the audience can't understand it, it's that you don't tell the story well, the audience can't be so stupid, write a high-IQ play, it's your problem if you don't understand, it's you who make the audience not understand. ”
"Now I should have enough skills to tell a complex story that the audience will be interested in and understand!
"The subject matter of "Wushuang" is a rare counterfeit theme in the market, and the rarity means that there are not many references, how do you judge that this theme can arouse the interest of the market, and how have you chosen the theme all along?"
Lu Xiaoran frowned slightly: "Actually, I never think that the subject matter is a problem, for me, I can shoot any subject, the result is very simple, only good shooting and bad shooting." ”
"I wanted to have such a movie in Chinese cinema, so I made it myself. ”
"It's easy for us to fall into a lost space now, which is when we suddenly see the success of a movie, and then we swarm and say that he picked a good subject and that's why he can succeed, which is actually unfair to the movie. The reason why they are successful is because they handle the subject very well, so they will be successful, and we should be talking about how you go about a good subject, not what kind of subject you choose. ”
"Then will you still make sci-fi movies in the future? We looked at the list you announced, and it seems that there are no sci-fi plans?"
"I will definitely shoot, I have always been interested in "Three-Body Problem"..."
"What do you think of "Sky Hunting"? and "Wushuang" is scheduled for National Day, do you want to teach new directors a lesson?"
Lu Xiaoran took a look at the media that asked the question - "The Beijing News"...
"I've been busy dealing with personal matters these days, and I haven't even gone to the previously scheduled "Longing for Life", so how can I have time to care about other movies? Not to mention, "Wushuang" announced in November last year that it would be set for this year's National Day, and the Chinese film market is so big, it will not bury any good works!"
It's a little disgusting...
This is simply to create the so-called explosion point.
Lu Xiaoran suppressed new directors?
Is there something wrong with him?
Touching porcelain "Wolf Warrior 2" is not counted, and now it's touching porcelain "Wushuang"?
Wouldn't it be a bit too much?
"Are you worried that after watching "Wushuang", someone will imitate the details in the movie and make counterfeit money in reality?"
Lu Xiaoran smiled: "First of all, it is impossible to imitate the US dollar of the 2013 version!"
If you want to use the methods we talked about in the play to make counterfeit money, you can, but the cost is very high. First of all, you have to have a printing press, and if you have a printing press, you have a device that can be used to commit crimes, but that printing press weighs 6 tons, do you want to take it with you? How can you escape? It's impossible. ”
"And what about your box office expectations?"
“... I've always said that it's good if the box office can pay for itself, and as a director, that's all I want..."
"Haven't you ever wanted to break the record of Wolf Warrior 2?"
"No, the box office of "Wolf Warrior 2" is too high, almost touching the box office ceiling..."
The atmosphere at the scene was very good, in addition to asking questions about Lu Xiaoran, there were also questions about Zhou Yanfa, Liang Jiahui, including Zhang Ziyi...
"Wushuang" is really a gathering of big names...
But Lu Xiaoran said a lot, which is not as good as Yang Shoucheng's words: "We cooperate with the director, and he said that the artists we cooperate with must be patriotic artists, not the kind of actors who are two-faced and three-stabbed..."
And then, the reporters at the scene were excited ...