Chapter 558 Controversy over LEDs

On July 13, a reporter photographed Huang Xiaoming meeting Li Xiaowan at night; on July 14, some media broke the news that Lin Xinru visited Zhang Ran in the hospital, and the two chatted for a long time; on July 15, a reporter photographed Cai Yinong secretly meeting Zhang Jizhong......

A series of news colas have broken the major media, and various reports have been released for in-depth analysis, all speculating that Zhang Ran now has more than 1 billion US dollars in his hands, and he must be targeting Huayi for a new round of poaching operations, and many media are saying that Huayi is really going to end this time. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

The series of actions at the top of the world really put great pressure on Hua Yi, and the Wang brothers really couldn't sit still.

In Huayi's office, Wang Zhong's expression was very solemn, and he asked, "Brother, what should I do now?"

Wang Zhongjun pondered for a long time before he said: "Zhang Ran's recent actions are too fanfare, unlike his style of acting, I suspect that he is attacking the west, and the real target may be Feng Xiaogang!"

Wang Zhonglei was taken aback, then nodded slowly, and there was a joke in the circle, saying that Feng Xiaogang could shake Huayi if he sneezed. Huayi is inseparable from Feng Xiaogang, but Feng Xiaogang is not inseparable from Huayi.

In 03, Feng Xiaogang did not renew the contract with Huayi after the expiration of the contract, and chose to stand on his own, and joined hands with Zhang Guoli to establish a company called Taihe People's Commons, with both parties holding 50% of the shares. The two are ambitious, planning to make two movies a year for Feng Xiaogang and three TV series for Zhang Guoli a year.

It's just that after tossing for more than half a year, Feng Xiaogang felt that he was too tired to start a company, and he had to worry about everything, so he was still comfortable as a simple director and only took care of filming, so he returned to Huayi in 04 and signed a five-year contract.

Zhang Ran's company is more professional and richer than Hua Yi, if Zhang Ran smashes two or three hundred million yuan on Feng Xiaogang, will Hua Yi still be able to keep Feng Xiaogang? If Feng Xiaogang leaves, Hua Yi may be really dangerous!

Wang Zhonglei felt a huge crisis and asked, "What should we do now?"

Wang Zhongjun said in a deep voice: "Feng Xiaogang must be tied to Huayi's chariot, and he can't be allowed to go." Now Feng Xiaogang has 2.88 million shares in his hands, and we will transfer another 4 million shares to him, so that his shareholding ratio will reach 6%, so that when Huayi is listed, the shares in his hands can be worth hundreds of millions. Not only Feng Xiaogang, but also a large increase in shares in the future, so that the company's employees and celebrities can hold shares. Tell them that when Huayi goes public, they will all be multimillionaires, billionaires, and tie everyone to Huayi's chariot. If anyone wants to leave Huayi, then they must return their shares!"

Wang Zhonglei felt that this was a good way: "This is the only way to do it, as long as we can go public, we will have enough funds!"

In the next few days, Huayi began to increase its capital and shares on a large scale, and the investors were Huayi's employees and contracted stars. In addition to Feng Xiaogang, more than 50 people, including Huang Xiaoming and Zhang Hanyu, have received shares of Huayi, such as Huang Xiaoming's 1.8 million shares, and as few as Yuan Chun's 30,000 shares. Of course, Huayi also signed an agreement when selling shares, and the above-mentioned employees or celebrities need to clear their shares after leaving Huayi.

After hearing the news of Huayi's capital expansion and share transfer, Zhang Ran didn't say anything, just sneered, Huayi really began to plan to go public, and things were going in the direction he wanted.

Zhang Ran knows that no matter whether it is a film and television company or other companies, the performance before listing is the most important, because the performance before listing directly determines whether it can be listed and the issue price of the stock. There are many companies that do not hesitate to whitewash their performance by various means in order to go public, and Huayi will not be an exception, especially now that they are facing the pressure of Zhang Ran's funds, they must hope to make their performance beautiful, so that they can get enough money from the stock market.

If film and television companies want to make their performance bright enough, the only way is to shoot more film and television dramas. However, more funds are needed to shoot more films, and Huayi has limited funds in his hands, so Huayi will definitely raise funds. And this is the opportunity that Zhang Ran is waiting for, he plans to use Huayi Financing to make a game, just like CDH did South Beauty, so that Huayi will die on the threshold of listing.

Of course, it is not easy to achieve this game, it needs a strong helper, and it is necessary to constantly exert pressure on Huayi, and it may fail if there is a problem before Huayi enters the game. However, Zhang Ran is very confident in this, because Wang Zhongjun has always prided himself as a master of capital operation, and this time Zhang Ran wants him to die on capital operation, and those who drown are often water.

The next key point of this bureau is Huayi's two key films in the second half of the year, "Night Banquet" and "Ink Attack", the investment amount of the two films is 20 million US dollars and 16 million US dollars respectively, the cost is very high, as long as these two films can be successfully sniped, then Huayi will definitely raise funds on a large scale.

Now that there is still some time before the release of the movie, Zhang Ran is not in a hurry to do anything, and his current focus is on the creativity of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. On September 5, the creative team of the opening ceremony will report to the leaders of the Olympic Organizing Committee, so it is necessary to come up with a more detailed plan for the opening ceremony before September 5.

At this time, "Golden Armor" had completed the filming of Wulong and returned to Beiping. After Zhang Yimou made a simple arrangement for the post-production work of the film, he appeared in Zhang Ran's ward with the creative team. In the past week, Zhang Ran's ward has been turned into a temporary office for the creative team, and a group of people come to Zhang Ran's ward on time every day for meetings.

In the past month or so, the creative team has also thought of a lot of good ideas, among which Zhang Yimou's smiling face has been unanimously praised. Zhang Ran also likes this idea very much, children represent the future, thousands of smiling faces of children of different skin colors are like thousands of flowers, narrowing the distance between the world, and also conveying the same world and the same dream, sharing peace and common development!

However, there was a very big problem before the creative team, and that was whether to use large LEDs for the floor. Zhang Ran definitely wanted to use LEDs, but the opposition was very violent, two-thirds of them were against the use of LEDs, and the creative team held several meetings to settle the matter.

Chen Weiya is a staunch opponent of LEDs: "I have never been optimistic about LEDs, I think they are just neon lights flashing on the ground, and we have not seen the scene well several times." We all whispered that it looked like neon signs, like a bar!"

Lu Jiankang is also a staunch opponent: "These LED screens have to withstand the repeated trampling of more than 30,000 people, as well as all kinds of large props, can you guarantee that the LED screen will not have problems? What if the screen goes black at that time? When the whole world knows that your screen is black!"

Other opponents of LED also spoke: "The disadvantages of LED, its safety is too problematic, his long-term stampede, vibration, rain, etc., last year we had an event in Xi'an, we are going to start the show, and there is a big piece of not lit! This thing, when the whole world knows that your screen is black!"

"Why is the ground paving LED not done in the previous Olympic Games, at most it is used in a small area. Is it because there is no money? There must be a lot of problems with LEDs!"

Zhang Yimou's team is a supporter of LED, and Wang Chaoge has used LED: "Our impression series, more than 100 square meters underwater, and it is also a lifting LED, which is used every day, and there is no problem." Everybody can see it, and the visual effect is not at all comparable to traditional observation performances!"

Zhang Ran expressed his support for Wang Chaoge's words: "If there is no video interaction, then our whole performance is a traditional group exercise mode, which is old-fashioned, it is difficult to satisfy the audience, and we lose the feeling of entering the big landscape of the digital age." There is indeed a big risk in using LEDs, but the visual impact it brings is definitely not comparable to traditional performances, and I think this risk is worth taking!"

Chen Weiya retorted: "That's right, but if the screen goes black at that time, how can you explain it to the people of the whole country? You can't explain it! This is the Olympic Games, not other performances, it doesn't matter if you don't perform well this time, there will be no chance to correct this problem! Who dares to pat his chest and say, there will be no problems when the time comes!"

Zhang Ran wanted to pat his chest and say that the screen would never go black, but he couldn't play this package ticket. The floor of nearly 20,000 square meters can be opened and closed, and it can carry 60,000 LED screens, which have to withstand the repeated trampling of more than 30,000 people.

In fact, the opening ceremony of the Peking Olympics does have a black screen, and there is a black screen in the upper right corner of the LED when the stars and Tai Chi perform in two sections. However, because it was not very obvious and disappeared quickly, most viewers did not notice. But what if there is a large area of black screen? How to explain it to the national audience?

Zhang Yimou also knew that the risk was high, but he still insisted: "No one can guarantee that the first three and a half hours of mat performance will not cut off the signal." When the first show is pulled up, the signal is broken, who will go to overhaul it? It is impossible to overhaul it! This performance has been carried out under the eyelids of the audience, how do you overhaul it? After three and a half hours of performance in the front, the signal can be continuously picked up, what kind of LED is this? This thing is a nightmare when you think about it carefully, but I think it should still be LED. The whole world has such an opportunity to do this in a large square, and then other countries will go in the direction of the king, and he will bump into our arms if he goes in this direction, and it will be difficult to surpass us, we are unique in the world!"

Chen Weiya immediately raised a new question: "In addition to the risk, there is also a budget problem, our total budget is 800 million, and I am afraid that it will take tens of millions to use LEDs in a large area." Is it worth the money, have you considered the budget?"

Yu Jianping is the leader of the technical team, and in the past few days, he inquired about the relevant data, and said: "According to our concept, the LED will be paved at least more than 8,000 square meters, and the price will be 30 million, so the budget must be exceeded." There is a bigger problem, there are very few domestic LED screens that can be produced, and the production capacity is low, it takes almost 6 months to produce 5000 square meters, and if it is 8000 square meters, it will take 10 months. It's almost August, and it's only two years before the opening ceremony. If we use LEDs, we have to open the bidding, and then we have to do all kinds of stampede, rain-soaked tests, and then count the ten months of production, as well as installation and commissioning, how much time do we have to practice with the actors?"

The whole scene was silent, the problem with LEDs was too much, and the risks were too great.

However, Zhang Ran was unwilling to give up, and now the LED in everyone's imagination is more than 200 meters long, which is larger than the LED of the opening ceremony in his memory, so he suggested: "You can change the LED to 5,000 square meters, which can save money and time." ”

Changing the LED to a smaller size can indeed reduce the cost and production cycle, but the risk problem has not been solved, and the opposition to the LED is still fierce. In the days that followed, the creative team had several more discussions, but the issue was never resolved.

Zhang Ran really hurts, knowing that he has to use LEDs, but he just can't convince everyone. The most important thing is that he and Zhang Yimou have not yet decided who will direct the opening ceremony, otherwise he will directly clap the LED. Just when Zhang Ran was really running out of tricks, a phone call from Anna Wintour gave him inspiration.