In April, with everything at hand almost done, Tang An began to retreat and devote himself to the post-production of "Interstellar".

There is nothing special about the editing of "Interstellar", but it uses a lot of montage style and various cross-cuts.

The advantage of this editing method is that it saves time, does not seem to drag on the plot, and brings people a much stronger feeling than the flat and direct narrative, and the feelings are also sublimated here.

The most intuitive is when the protagonist drives away from home, combined with the voice acting of the countdown to the rocket launch.

And at the end of the movie, after the elderly Murphy tells the protagonist about the heroine, the protagonist has not left, but the picture has already cut to another planet.

It's a very common technique, but it's used well, and the effect is very good.

"Interstellar" is the longest of these movies made by Tang An, exceeding 150 minutes, which definitely does not meet the requirements of commercial films.

The longer the movie, the more difficult it is to control the pacing.

Generally, the rhythm of the movie is only three parts, and the time period is also similar, but this is more than half an hour, and how to allocate and adjust it is a big problem.

The editing alone lasted a month and a half, and it took another week to complete the soundtrack, subtitles, and other post-production, and also supplemented some dubbing.

It took a month and a half until mid-May for the 155-minute film to be edited.

But this is not over, there are still some special effects in the later stage, and there are about ten days left, and the film will not come out until the end of May.

After a month and a half of retreat, a lot of big things have happened in the entertainment industry.

The romantic comedy film "Beijing Meets Seattle", which was released at the end of March, set a new box office record for romance films, with a box office of 580 million.

Previously, the box office record of romance films was still set by "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb", and "Beijing Meets Seattle" directly raised this record by 200 million.

At the same time, Xue Xiaolu also set a box office record for female directors!

The two leading actors Wu Xiubo and Tang Wei also benefited from this, the former became a national uncle, and the latter directly got rid of the negative impact of "Lust and Caution" and became a first-line actress.

However, this movie is a little bit like "Lust and Caution", it has also been cut, but only the scene where the two kiss passionately is deleted.

"Beijing Meets Seattle" has become the most popular movie after the Spring Festival.

Among other films, the largest-scale police movie "Drug War" reached 165 million at the mainland box office, which is unbelievably large.

At the end of the show, the police were basically dead, and they passed the trial.

However, if you look at the investors, you will understand that the direct agency of optoelectronics, the film satellite channel program production center is one of the investors.

The box office of the costume blockbuster "Loyal Yang Family General" invested and released by Huayi was less than 70 million, and the start of the year was unfavorable.

The youth nostalgic film "To Our Dying Youth" invested and distributed by Ahli Pictures exploded at the box office, with a total box office of 740 million in 40 days of release, once again setting a new box office record for a single film by a female director.

"Special Forces 2: Total Strikes Back" box office 380 million, "Star Trek: Dark Unbounded" box office 390 million, "Crazy Primitives" 420 million, "Iron Man 3" box office 780 million.

Four Hollywood blockbusters have bombarded the domestic film market in turn, which can be regarded as a warm-up for the upcoming summer season.

However, this year's summer domestic movies have a 500 million and a 700 million movie, which is not considered to be powerless.

The domestic film market is maturing step by step, with more than one important movie being released every month, and the competition is becoming more and more fierce.

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After Tang An finished editing "Interstellar", he took a day off at home and immediately devoted himself to work.

As usual, the group meeting was held in the morning, and the general managers of several branches were all present.

Two months have passed, and there are still a lot of things, first of all, the box office share of "Hong Kong" has long been in place.

The domestic box office of 1.24 billion yuan, excluding the 30% investment share of Xu Zheng Studio, Xu Zheng's personal 5% share, and Wang Baoqiang's 4% investment share, Hantang Media can get a total of a little more than 300 million yuan in production shares, publicity and distribution costs, and distribution shares.

The copyrights of other patch advertising, online and TV were about 26 million, with a total income of 326 million yuan.

The cost is 52 million production costs and 40 million publicity costs, with a net profit of 2.34.

There is also a distribution share of "101 Marriage Proposals", which earned 22 million.

The income from variety shows is not much for the time being, and several variety shows adapted from Southeast Asia will be broadcast in the summer and the second half of the year.

In terms of TV dramas, the group itself invested, as well as some TV dramas cooperated with four other companies, also had an income of 300 million.

With a total income of less than 700 million, it is not much, and movies such as "Breakup Master", "Interstellar", and "Wolf Warrior" will be released one after another, and the publicity and distribution fees alone and the operating expenses of glutinous rice movies are a lot of money.

There are also video websites, Ah Li completed the acquisition of Youku a few days ago, and the three giants of BAT are one by one, plus potatoes, the competition is becoming more and more fierce.

Several companies invested by the company, Didi Chuxing completed the B round of financing in early May, from a valuation of $20 million at the end of December last year to a valuation of $130 million at the end of May, an increase of 6.5 times in half a year.

The financing amount was US$15 million, with Hantang Media following the investment of US$3 million, and Tengxun leading the investment of US$12 million, obtaining 8.28% of the shares.

Hantang Media went from a 37.1% stake to 35.33%.

It is imperative to introduce giants, otherwise Han Tang would not be able to sit up at all.

As long as the follow-up financing can be divided into a piece, and there is a 20% stake after the E round, it is enough.

You know, five years later, when Didi was preparing for its IPO for the first time, the outside world gave a valuation of 500 billion yuan!

20% of the shares, at that time was 100 billion yuan, it was a blessing to be able to keep it, so many financial giants have to take a bite, there are government background of CIC, Life, CITIC, BAT, and Apple and other overseas capital.

Toutiao also carried out Series B financing in May, and the amount of financing reached 10 million US dollars, and Hantang Media and DST Capital shared the 10 million, half of each.

Hantang Media's stake also rose from 17% to 21.71%.

Ele.me launched a B round of investment in the first two months, led by Matrix Partners China, GSR Ventures, and Hantang Media, with Hantang contributing $3 million, and the total stake rose to 13.8%.

$11 million was used for financing, and the group now has 650 million cash on its books with the original funds.

100 million was allocated to Nuomi Films, which was used for operation and the next summer file war.

200 million cash was injected into Tudou Group, and 200 million was retained for the publicity and distribution of "Breakup Master", "Interstellar" and "Wolf Warrior".

There are also 150 million, injected into the glutinous rice net.

It was divided up all at once, and all the companies were burning money, and they couldn't help spending it at all.

After the meeting, Tang An called Wu Feng, deputy general manager of the investment and development department, to the office.

"Mr. Wu, you prepare the report of Nuomi.com, and after you are busy with the summer file, after burning the two hundred million yuan, start the B round of financing, and then burn it, it will be a bottomless pit, and we can't afford to burn it. Tang An commanded.

"Okay chairman, I'll go and prepare immediately. Wu Feng nodded in response.

After the acquisition of Nuomi.com, 100 million yuan was smashed, and now another 200 million yuan has been injected, and the speed of burning money is too fast.

This 200 million is nothing, but if you can't keep up with the speed of burning money, you will be left far away by Meituan and Dianping.

Even Eleme, which is far inferior to the glutinous rice net, is now catching up.

When others occupy the market share, it is useless for you to burn money.

"Then the chairman, how much money will be raised, and will the funds of several major Internet companies be accepted?" Wu Feng asked again.

Now Nuomi.com's valuation has soared from more than 900 million yuan when it was acquired more than half a year ago to 3.2 billion yuan, about 500 million US dollars.

It took half a year to burn 100 million yuan, which dragged its feet, and Meituan will have a valuation of 4 billion US dollars by this time next year.

"Raise 80 million US dollars, start preparing now, and strive to complete it before the end of the summer. Tang An thought for a moment.

With $80 million in financing, nearly 14% of the stake was ceded, bringing in more capital and greater flows.

At this time, it is time to burn money desperately, and the more you burn, the more you will return.

Wu Feng wrote them down one by one, and reported the progress of Ah Li's acquisition of UC.

"Chairman, Baidu has given up the acquisition of UC some time ago, acquiring 91 assistants at a price of $1.9 billion, and Ah Li directly acquired 34% of UC's shares from other shareholders at a price of 6 billion. ”

"Okay, I know, I'll contact Mr. Cai later. ”

Ah Li is really a big deal, it's Youku and UC, and now I'm still talking about Weibo's capital injection with Xinlang.

Wu Feng on Weibo is also talking, striving to inject capital with Ah Li.

Xinlang should not refuse, and they don't want Weibo to become an industry in Ah, and there is no harm in introducing other capital.

After a lot of things were handled, Tang An went to attend the premiere ceremony of "Blind Detective" in the evening, which is a film invested by Uniasia and Yinghuang, and distributed by Hantang Media.

The box office is good, 90 million in the first four days, 80 million in the second week, and 40 million in the third week, with good reputation and trend, and 210 million yuan in three weeks.

In the third week, "Fuchun Mountain Residence" was also released, which was also invested by Uniasia, and Liu Dehua's two consecutive movies were released one after another.

The reputation of "Blind Detective" can also be regarded as having a positive impact on "Fuchun Mountain Residence", originally Huanya planned to be on "Fuchun Mountain Residence" first, on the grounds that "Fuchun Mountain Residence" is a blockbuster, the lineup is stronger, and the box office will be higher, which just drives "Blind Detective".

What are you kidding, if you go to "Fuchun Mountain Residence Map" first, then no matter how good "Blind Detective" is, the audience will not watch it.

It's like feeding people a bite of Xiang first, and then no matter what you feed, they won't eat it.

The movie is unexpectedly rotten, and the movie made by Pai Ge Taihe's boss is simply rotten to a degree.

However, the box office was good, with 550 million yuan on the first day.

There is no ticket compensation for these two films, and glutinous rice movies have to be developed, but they can't be supplemented for all films.

There are also some tickets for twenty or thirty yuan, but they are all wholesaled to theaters in large quantities, just like other ticketing platforms.

The data of 55 million on the first day did not match the one-sided bad reviews at all, and in the next three days, it only got 140 million box office.

195 million in four days, at least the box office was a success.

However, from the second week, the box office began to dive massively, and only 80 million box office was obtained in seven days.

In the third week, there were only 20 million, and such a tragic drop is enough to show how bad the film is, and no matter how powerful the publicity is, it can't be saved.

295 million in three weeks, Hantang Media handed over a qualified answer sheet for this release, and this box office also refreshed Liu Dehua's box office record in the mainland, which was previously 290 million for "Di Renjie's Tongtian Empire".

Two movies have been sold in a row, and Hantang Media can be regarded as handing over a qualified answer sheet.

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On June 12, Hantang Media released a new film again.

Tonight, at the Xinao store of Hantang International Cinema, the premiere ceremony of "Breakup Master" was held.

has released two blockbuster movies in a row, and Hantang Media has been out of the limelight in May, and there are many media and industry peers at the moment.

Zhang Zhao, CEO of Ahri Pictures, and director Virgo "To Our Dying Youth" was a big hit, and Zhao Wei, who was also in the limelight, also came.

At this meeting, Zhang Zhao and Zhao Wei can be described as high-spirited, and the smugness can't be hidden in the depths of their eyes.

Tang An also greeted him with a smile, "Hehe, Mr. Zhang, Miss Zhao, welcome." ”

"Congratulations to Tang Dong, just after the Spring Festival, it has been two consecutive blockbuster movies, plus there was a "101 Marriage Proposal" with a box office of 200 million before, and the box office of Han and Tang has been nearly 3 billion so far this year. Zhang Zhao said with a smile.

It's really unconvincing, it's only halfway through this year, and Hantang Media has won nearly 3 billion yuan at the box office, and Tang An's movie hasn't been released yet.

"3 billion is still almost, and it also depends on the expansion of the market, and the youth nostalgic film directed by Miss Zhao has also won more than 700 million box office. Tang An smiled.

Speaking of "To Youth" got more than 700 million box office, Zhao Wei couldn't hold back her pride, she smiled, "Tang Dong's movie is at least going up to 1 billion, of course my achievements can't get into Tang Dong's eyes, compared to "The Breakup Master" more than 700 million. ”

Now she even regrets it a little, if it is released with "The Breakup Master", it will be very happy if it is released together and overwhelms the movie invested by Tang An.

"Then borrow Miss Zhao's auspicious words. ”

The villain's face, Tang An didn't pay attention to the meaning of her words.

After Zhao Wei walked away, Tang An said hello to Zhang Wall.

"Congratulations to Mr. Zhang, "To Youth" has been successful, and your voice in Ah has deepened one step further. ”

But without waiting for Zhang Wall to say a few polite words, Tang An turned to say, "But Mr. Zhang, do you really think this is a good thing?"

Zhang Wall didn't know why, narrowed his eyes slightly, and asked, "Oh, what does Tang Dong mean?"

Tang An said, "Since ancient times, the cunning rabbit has died, and the lackeys have cooked, and the birds are exhausted, and the good bow is hidden. ”

PS：。。。 EMMM, THE LAST CHAPTER ACCIDENTALLY WROTE A WHOLE BUNCH OF MY FAULT, I'M GUILTY.

For the sake of me to two o'clock, forgive me this time(╥_╥)