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After waiting for half an hour, Qiu Yuanxu entered the private room. The two of them each asked about the current situation, and then began to make shabu-shabu, and then talked about the movie.

After chatting for a while, Zhang Ran got to the point: ""Time and Space Warrior" will be released next week in many places abroad, and we can get some money. I thought so, and after getting the money, I was ready to register a company. ”

Qiu Yuanxu, who registered a company with Zhang Ran, was not surprised at all, what he was surprised was why he waited until now. With Zhang Ran's ability, if he opened a company, he would have been in the limelight. So many people can't understand Zhang Ran and don't know what he wants to do. Is it really like he said, just want to be a teacher quietly and live a peaceful life?

Qiu Yuanxu doesn't know if others believe it or not, anyway, he doesn't believe it. He knew that Zhang Ran had always had a plan to do things, and if he didn't move, the conditions should be immature, but now it seems that the conditions are ripe. He couldn't help laughing and said: "This is a good thing, everyone is waiting for you to open a film and television company and fight the world with you!"

Zhang Ran smiled and waved his hand: "What I want to do is not a film and television company, but a video company!" Zhang Ran saw Qiu Yuanxu's confused face and explained: "It is to build a website for everyone to watch TV series and movies on the Internet." This business model is very promising, and the two most important conditions for making a video website, bandwidth and lash, have matured, and it is time for us to show our talents. What TV media can do, video sites can do better!"

Qiu Yuanxu usually goes online, and he still knows a little about the Internet: "How do you make money on this website?

Zhang Ran nodded slightly: "Video websites are a money-burning industry, and they have to burn a lot of money, at least hundreds of millions, but if you follow my method, you can make money after four to five years, at least you don't have to burn hundreds of millions of dollars like at the beginning, it can support itself!"

Unlike satellite TV programs, satellite TV will not increase the number of viewers transmitting programs, and the number of viewers will increase from 10 million to 100 million, and satellite TV does not need to pay more costs. Video sites are different, 1 million people watching at the same time will not be paralyzed, 2 million is likely to be paralyzed, and servers and bandwidth must be increased, and this cost is astronomical.

Qiu Yuanxu said curiously: "What way?"

Zhang Ran said: "Hoarding TV dramas, especially high-quality film and television dramas. Now no one buys the Internet broadcast rights of film and television dramas, everyone downloads online film and television dramas for free, and film and television companies can't get a penny, if we buy it, we can get it at a very low price!"

Qiu Yuanxu doesn't think it's a good idea: "Watching film and television dramas on the Internet is free, you spend money to buy copyrights, and other video websites don't spend money, and you directly put TV dramas on the Internet, which will be a big loss." ”

This is not to blame Qiu Yuanxu, even the CEOs of Youku and Tudou had this view at the beginning, but they later regretted this misjudgment for the rest of their lives. Zhang Ran smiled and said, "It's okay, we buy ours, and they let theirs go." After four years, we have enough resources in our hands, the rights to thousands of movies, and the rights to 100,000 TV episodes. When the time comes, we will settle accounts with them, take them to court, and not allow them to play our TV series. As a video website, without movies and TV series, it will inevitably lose a large number of users. What can they do? They can only buy from us. We buy a TV series for about 10,000 yuan now, and when the time comes, we sell them 100,000 pieces, then we will earn ten times, and if we sell them 500,000 yuan for the popular TV series, then we will earn 50 times!"

Zhang Ran used to do pirated movies, and he has received summons from many video websites, and he is very clear about the history of video websites. In the early days of the establishment of video websites, most websites burned money on bandwidth, servers and online promotion, only traffic and advertising revenue in their eyes, and did not pay attention to content investment, only LETV was an exception. From the beginning, LeEco bought a large number of copyrighted content at the price of cabbage. In 2007, the average price of TV dramas was 17,400 yuan/unit, in 2008 it was 26,800 yuan/unit, and in 2009, the purchase volume was 7 times that of the previous two years combined, and the average price was only 14,700 yuan/unit. As of April 2010, LeTV owns 24 film copyrights and 43,100 TV series copyrights. At that time, Youku and Tudou were watching LeTV's jokes and thought their acquisition was a stupid move.

However, in 2009, a copyright war broke out between video websites, and Sohu and Youpeng sued Youku, Youku sued Ku6, Ku6 sued Tudou, Youpeng sued Xunlei, and Tudou asked the government to revoke Youku's qualifications. After this war, the price of copyright has soared.

LeTV, which was once considered stupid, laughed this time, and the film and television dramas they hoarded in their hands became a huge treasure. Youku、Tudou has no copyright of film and television dramas, so you can only pinch your nose and buy it from LETV,In 2011, LETV copyright distribution brought 350 million income!

It is precisely with this that LETV, which was silent at the beginning, has become bigger and bigger and has become a giant of the Internet, while Youku, Tudou, which used to be infinitely beautiful, has become more and more declining because it has never been able to make a profit.

Now LeTV is almost about to be established, Zhang Ran's video website will face the challenge of LeTV, but he believes that LeTV is not his opponent, because he has more contacts in the film and television industry, and he is richer.

Qiu Yuanxu laughed and said, "High, it's really high!" Then he looked at Zhang Ran and asked: "This is a good idea, but this can't be compared with making movies! You made hundreds of millions of dollars by filming "Time and Space Warrior", film and television are your strength, why don't you open a film and television company?"

Zhang Ran took a sip of tea and said, "Two years ago, I borrowed money from DMG's Zhou Zihan to shoot "Time and Space Warrior". He told me that film and television are particularly risky, and film and television companies are the food of giants. This is very reasonable, don't look at the current prosperity of Huayi and Bona, in the end it is just food in the mouths of giants. I don't want my hard work to become food for others, and I don't want to make my own film and have to go around to finance it, so I have to be strong. When I was a little ant, everyone could have trampled me to death, but I became a Tyrannosaurus rex, who would dare to step on me? I was going to take another path, and that road might be faster. But today I met Chen Ziwen and offended him to death, and that road was difficult to walk, so I could only take this road. ”

Qiu Yuanxu was a little puzzled and said: "Can a video website become a giant?"

Zhang Ran said with a smile: "You know Tencent, many Internet companies are particularly afraid of Tencent now, and as long as Tencent follows what they do, these companies will die." Why? Because Tencent has hundreds of millions of QQ users. The same is true for me to make a video website, as long as I do it well, I can have tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of users. That's an incalculable resource. As a simple example, recently due to the influence of "Time Warrior", many people on the street wear the T-shirt of Maple Blade City in the movie. If we have this platform and open a shopping mall to sell T-shirts in movies for 50 yuan, do you say that anyone will buy them? In the Internet era, people are the greatest resource, and with enough users, there are infinite possibilities!"

Qiu Yuanxu is willing to follow Zhang Ran, but the Internet company is too unfamiliar to him, and there are some things he must ask clearly: "We can buy TV series, and others can also buy them." We can do it with video sites, and so can others. You just said that what others do, as long as Tencent follows suit, this company will definitely die. If we make a video website, and Tencent does it too, then where are our advantages?"

There is no doubt about this question to the key, whether it is a business or a product, you must have core competitiveness. If you don't have core competitiveness, it's easy to be copied by others. Just like Qiu Yuanxu said, Teng will indeed do the video. If Tencent adopts the same model, how can it defeat it?

Zhang Ran nodded slightly: "Other video websites, including Tencent's video websites, they are all platforms, we not only want to make platforms, but also make content, we will make movies, make TV series, these do not need to increase the cost of putting them online." In addition, we have a lot of allies, they are all able to provide us with content, other video sites have to buy content, there is no ability to copy us at all, we are unique. ”

Qiu Yuanxu asked, "I don't know who the ally you are talking about?"

Zhang Ran smiled faintly: "You know how cruel the competition in the film and television industry is, how difficult it is for newcomers to get ahead, our domestic film and television talent delivery mechanism is too poor, and many outstanding newcomers can't get on the top." For example, Chen Kun, such as Liu Ye, if they were Xiangjiang actors, they would have played the starring roles in various blockbusters. But what about them? Now they can only match Xiangjiang actors, which is really unfair.

Our platform can give newcomers some opportunities, and we will shoot some low-cost online dramas, and it is completely feasible for Nortel students to act. And we can select some outstanding students from the directing department to shoot an episode like an American drama, so as to exercise their abilities. Among them, we can give them more opportunities to make movies and TV series with greater cost!

But this is not enough, if possible, I hope to join forces with Shonan Radio, Film and Television Group, media groups such as the Media Group, and movie channels to form a film and television company. The advantage of this is that they can make money, and we can get the propaganda resources of TV stations and radio stations in the hands of these groups, and everyone is mutually beneficial.

In this way, we can build a large system, Bei Power continues to provide actors and directors, we continue to produce film and television dramas, and then put them on our own platform and the platforms of our allies to play, forming a complete chain.

We have a lot of outstanding students at Nortel, and it is difficult to get ahead because of the lack of opportunities and packaging, as long as this system can take shape, they can get more opportunities, new actors first act in online dramas, play small productions, and wait until they have popularity to start acting in big dramas, and then focus on movies. At that time, there is no need to worry about any Korean Wave, Japanese Wave, Hong Kong and Taiwan stars, and they can only become marginal deposits!"

Qiu Yuanxu was shocked by Zhang Ran's plan, if Zhang Ran's plan can be realized, it will be a much stronger storage than Huayi and Bona. Now he finally understands why Zhang Ran is guarding Nortel's one-third of an acre: "If such a system can really be established, it will be a great thing for Nortel's students!"

"It's just an assumption, I'm afraid it will take ten years to build this system, ten years is a long time, and no one knows what will happen. It may be a complete failure, or even a betrayal, but even if I fail, I will not regret it, at least I have tried. This life can be long, it can be short, but you have to do something, and that's what I want to do. But it's impossible to do such a big stall on my own, I need help!"

Speaking of this, Zhang Ran looked at Qiu Yuanxu and said seriously: "Director Qiu, are you willing to give up the position of director of Qingying Studio, start from scratch with me, and make a big world?"

Qiu Yuanxu didn't hesitate: "I'll do it with you!"

Zhang Ran has been cooperating with Qiu Yuanxu for more than two years, and he has been very happy, and he has a lot of trust in Qiu Yuanxu: "Next, I have to be busy with other things, I have to make money, and I have to make a lot of money." With the amount of money we have now, we are not qualified to talk to those media groups. So, the matter of forming a video website can only be left to you!"

Qiu Yuanxu didn't expect Zhang Ran to directly throw the matter of making a video website to himself, it was too irresponsible, and he hesitated: "I have no experience in doing the Internet, and I don't know how to start at all!"

"I'll get you a deputy who will be in charge of the construction of the website, and all you have to do is the content of the website. The most important thing at this stage is to acquire a large number of film and television dramas, you have many acquaintances in the film and television industry, and you are the most suitable candidate!" Zhang Ran said, and then began to talk about specific details.

After more than three hours of discussion, the two dispersed.

It was already two o'clock in the morning when Zhang Ran returned home, he didn't feel sleepy at all, his heart was extremely excited, looking at the bright lights outside the window, and he couldn't help but think about it.

In fact, what Zhang Ran told Qiu Yuanxu was only part of his plan, and he couldn't talk about many things, and Qiu Yuanxu couldn't understand it now. The future is a three-point world, Zhang Ran hopes to rewrite this pattern, hoping to divide the world. In that way, Zhang Ran can make the movie he wants to make willfully, even if he loses 100 million, he doesn't care, and he will increase by 200 million with a wave of his hand.

It's very difficult to become a giant like BAT, but it's not without opportunities. Just like the K that became at the beginning of this year, who would have thought that a few years later, it would become a giant with a market value of 100 billion?

In the age of the Internet, anything is possible, and now this qiē has begun. (To be continued.) )