On March 2, Century Summit and New Vision Pictures held a press conference to announce that the two sides had reached a strategic cooperation. Many reporters were a little stunned when they received the invitation, in the past, it was not a large domestic company or a large foreign company that reached strategic cooperation with the peak of the century, but everyone has never heard of this new vision film, where did this company come from?

The reporters were shocked when they checked New Vision Pictures, New Vision Pictures is a newly established company, but it is so big that it is scary to death, and it is jointly funded by Television and Radio Media, Media and Radio Group, and Southern Radio, Film and Television Media Group.

This result surprised the reporters, at the beginning of the Century Peak and Mango Satellite TV under the TV and Radio Media was a strategic partner, Mango Satellite TV's programs were broadcast on the Century Summit website, but later Mango Satellite TV itself set up a video website Mango TV, and no longer provided Mango Satellite TV programs to Century Peak, so the two parted ways. Last year, when the Lunar New Year stalls were in the dark between Century Summit and TV and Radio Media, they were about to fight, but they didn't expect the two sides to cooperate strategically again in a blink of an eye.

Sure enough, there are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests, and these businessmen are simply too unscrupulous!

At the press conference, Zhang Ran announced on the spot: "New Vision and Century Summit have reached a strategic cooperation agreement, and New Vision will invest 3 billion US dollars to invest in all the films of Century Summit in the next five years. Century Summit and New Vision are expected to cooperate on more than 150 films in five years, and the scope of cooperation mainly involves film production investment, film introduction and distribution. For films within the five-year partnership period, based on the amount of net production investment, Century Summit accounts for 55% and New Vision accounts for 45%. In addition, the two parties will also discuss the development of derivative products such as online videos and theme parks. ”

The reporters present were all stunned by this sudden news, investing 3 billion, or dollars!

3 billion US dollars is converted into RMB is more than 20 billion, and the box office of Chinese films last year was only 13 billion!

The peak of the century is a big deal every time!

Immediately afterwards, Century Summit announced the first batch of cooperative film lists, and these film lists also blinded the eyes of entertainment reporters. Among them are sequels to global blockbusters such as "Twilight 4" and "Iron Man 3", Marvel superhero movies such as "Thor" and "Ant-Man", and B-grade action movies starring Jason Statham. In addition to Ning Hao's "Three-Color World" and Ding Sheng's "Chasing and Killing K Star People", there are also new film plans for Asian film graduates such as Wu Ershan's "Zhu Xian" film version and Fei Xing's "All the People Witness".

After the content was introduced, Zhang Ran and the CEOs of the three radio and television groups began to be interviewed by the media.

A reporter asked: "I am a reporter from Wen Wei Po, I want to ask Mr. Li, what are your considerations for investing $1 billion in the film of the pinnacle of the century?"

Li Ruigang, president of the Media Group, said: "Recently, the state has introduced a series of policies to promote the development of the film industry, and we can feel the country's determination. ”

Last month, the State Council issued the "Guiding Opinions" to promote the development of films, and now the State Administration has launched a policy to pilot the review, and the two policies have sent a strong signal: "The film industry is developing very well, and it will be a very promising fertile ground for investment, and the state is also strongly supporting."

In addition, in January this year, Zhang Yimou's "Love" won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language and received four nominations at the Oscars, and Zhang Ran's "One Person's Lights" and Wang Quanan's "Reunion" won a silver bear in Berlin, so many people are shouting that the golden age of Chinese films is coming!

However, Zhang Ran is not so optimistic, in recent years, with the vigorous development of China's film industry, hot money has begun to run to the film industry, after the introduction of the country's two policies, now all kinds of hot money are even more crazy, squeezing into the film industry.

The entry of hot money is definitely good for the film industry, it can produce more films, and it can speed up the investment in the construction of theaters, which in turn promotes the marketization of the entire film industry and promotes the development of China's film industry;

According to the survey data of the peak of the century, from the release of the "Guiding Opinions" to the present, in less than two months, the Film Bureau has processed a total of 189 recorded feature films, of which 180 have agreed to be recorded, and the total annual film output of domestic films last year was only more than 400.

Zhang Ran was stupid when he saw this data, he knew that in the next few years, driven by hot money, Chinese films would be in a state of disorder, and the phenomena of small fresh meat + IP, gambling agreements, and ghost box office that were criticized by countless people in the previous life would all reappear, and the crazy influx of hot money would give birth to batches of bad movies.

But even so, Zhang Ran is full of confidence in the future of Chinese films, and now the peak of the century has established a distribution system all over the world, the first graduates of Asian Film have begun to produce commercial blockbusters, and the construction of industrial bases has also begun. What he wants to do now is to produce more high-quality movies with the peak of the century, and tell the audience with facts that Chinese filmmakers are not dead yet, at least there is still a group of people who are making movies seriously!

A reporter's question pulled Zhang Ran's thoughts back: "Mr. Zhang, what do you think of this cooperation?"

Zhang Ran said lightly: "Domestic companies cooperate with Hollywood, basically you just hand over the money to me, you don't care about the rest, and the settlement will be over when the time comes." Our cooperation is more in-depth, from the budget, to the producer, to the venue, all work closely together, according to the Hollywood operation model to promote a Chinese film. They all have their own film companies, and we hope that through cooperation, we can learn and master Hollywood's film production model together, and work together to do a good job in Chinese films. In addition to the cooperation of the film itself, such as the cooperation of theme parks, I think we have a lot of opportunities. ”

Another reporter stood up: "Mr. Lu, may I ask why TV and Radio Media chose to cooperate with the peak of the century?"

Lu Qiuyun, chairman of TV and Radio Media, glanced at Zhang Ran beside him, and said with a faint smile: "There are many reasons, the biggest reason is Zhang Ran, I believe in Zhang Ran's ability, and I also believe in his personality." ”

As soon as these words came out, not only the CEOs of the Media Group and the Southern Radio, Film and Television Media Group smiled and nodded, but even the reporters present nodded, feeling that Zhang Ran was a trustworthy person.

The reporter continued to ask: "But I heard that the capital chain of Century Summit has been tight recently, facing a serious debt crisis, and some people even say that Century Summit has the risk of bankruptcy, don't you worry about living with Century Summit at this time?"

Lu Qiuyun turned his head to look at Zhang Ran and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang, it's better for you to answer this question!"

Zhang Ran held this press conference to build momentum, and the bigger the momentum, the better: "The debt of the peak of the century is indeed relatively high, but the high debt does not mean that the company has problems in operation, the most important thing is cash flow, whether your cash can support your income and expenses for a year, we have enough cash." Speaking of this, Zhang Ran paused, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and said: "I would like to give you a piece of news for free, two days ago we have reached an agreement with a syndicate of banks led by China Development Bank, and they jointly purchased stocks and bonds worth $2.5 billion at the peak of the century. It is difficult to disclose the specific content of the agreement, but what I want to say is that if there is really a problem in the operation of Century Peak, how can they buy our shares? ”

As soon as Zhang Ran's words came out, the scene was in an uproar.

China Development Bank is a state-owned capital, but I didn't expect the peak of the century to let the national team become a shareholder. Since the national team has a stake, the rumors of the bank's forced debt are naturally broken. After the national team became a shareholder, the peak of the century has a big backer, and the national team will come forward to do some things at a critical moment.

After the press conference, major domestic portals pushed the news in the form of headlines for the first time, and it sparked heated discussions on the Internet.

After Yu Dong saw the news, his pupils contracted suddenly, and his hand clenched tightly, almost crushing the mouse in his hand.

Half a minute later, Yu Dong picked up the phone and dialed Zhou Shixing, the general manager of TV and Radio Media Pictures, and when the phone was connected, he asked directly: "Mr. Zhou, what's going on? How can you cooperate with the peak of the century!"

Zhou Shixing said coldly: "Could it be that we are cooperating with you? We invested so much money in "October Siege" and spent so much effort on publicity, but in the end, we didn't make a penny, and we had to pay the operating fee backwards. ”

Yu Dong also has a bitterness for "October Siege", he has now parted ways with Chen Kexin, and sighed: "But you can't cooperate with the peak of the century!"

Zhou Shixing snorted coldly and said loudly: "Yu Dong, pay attention to your identity, it is not your turn to cooperate with anyone!"

After speaking, Zhou Shixing hung up the phone unceremoniously. To be honest, he didn't care much about the loss of millions in "October Siege", what really made him unbearable was being treated as a fool, which became a joke in the film industry!

Yu Dong heard the beep sound from the other end of the phone, sighed, hung up the phone, took out the lighter and lit a cigarette, and smoked it silently, the 3 billion of the three TV and radio media, plus the 2.5 billion of the China Development Bank, this is 5.5 billion, with these two funds, the peak of the century will definitely not die, and now things are in trouble!

Sure enough, more than 10 minutes later, Sequoia Capital's Shen Nanpeng called over and asked: "Yu Dong, what are you doing to eat? Don't you have a relationship? Don't you say that you can get rid of them? Now at this critical moment, the TV and radio media have not only turned against the water, but also sent three billion dollars to the peak of the century! Do you know that you are bad for our big things!"

Yu Dong sighed and said, "I didn't expect things to be like this, some time ago, Zhang Ran was hacked so badly by Telex Media, I didn't expect Zhang Ran to turn around and cooperate with them." ”

Shen Nanpeng roared angrily: "I don't want to listen to these explanations, if this time the pinnacle of the century fails, we will withdraw from Bona, and you don't want to think about listing on the NASDAQ!" After speaking, Shen Nanpeng clicked and hung up the phone.

Yu Dong was also furious, he was also the boss of Bona, so he was scolded as a grandson, where could he get it, he picked up the teacup on the table casually and threw it out.

The teacup shattered on the ground, and the sound was so loud that the PropNex employees outside the office trembled slightly.

At this moment, the mobile phone rang again, Yu Dong picked it up and saw that it was Wang Jianlin's number, thinking that Wang Jianlin was probably also here to question him, he didn't want to answer the call, but Wanda had a cinema in his hand, and he couldn't afford to offend, so he could only connect hard: "Mr. Wang, is there something wrong?"

Wang Jianlin didn't blame Yu Dong, and said with a smile: "I have something very important to talk to you about, let's make an appointment and talk about it when we meet, what do you think?"

Yu Dong breathed a sigh of relief, didn't ask anything to talk about, and said directly: "Okay, you say the time!"

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