Chapter 461: An Opponent to Value
"Chu Qing, don't tell me, someone wants to poach you to change jobs!"
Before he could speak, when he heard Lu Deshuang's words, he suddenly made Chu Qing almost out of breath, but the worry in his eyes did subside because of this sentence, and he replied with a smile: "It turns out that you already know, I'll just say, I know everything, how can you not know!" "The reason why I called this time was to remind Lu Deshuang that someone was attacking the artists in the company. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Is someone really looking for you?"
Although Lu Deshuang's face was expressionless, but the green tendons on the back of the hand holding the microphone suddenly appeared, and it could be seen how angry Lu Deshuang's heart was, even if he knew that Liu Kai and others were going to change jobs, Lu Deshuang still didn't think so, but Chu Qing is different, he is the only artist in Lu De's hands who has the potential to become an international superstar, and a hundred Liu Kai are not as good as a single hair on Chu Qing's body.
"It's not me, it's Bingbing!"
Hearing Chu Qing's answer, Lu Deshuang finally breathed a deep sigh of relief, he was not afraid that Chu Qing would change jobs, but he didn't want others to disturb Chu Qing, you must know that Chu Qing is now at a critical moment, he starred in "Lost in Translation" has just been released, although the box office of this movie is not high, but Lu Deshuang knows that this movie was in the previous life, but Bill Murray, who played the leading actor, won the British Academy Film Award for Best Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical/Comedy, and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Actor.
Among them, he was also nominated for the Best Actor Award at the 76th Academy Awards, which is what Lu Deshuang pays the most attention to, because in Lu Deshuang's view, Chu Qing's performance in "Lost in Translation" is no worse than Sean Penn's performance in "Mysterious River", and Chu Qing has a chance to win the first Chinese Oscar Trophy.
"Who is looking for Bingbing?"
Lu Deshuang doesn't have to guess, but he also knows why these people find Fan Bingbing, there must be Chu Qing's influence in it, and in the past two years, Fan Bingbing has gradually transferred his career to industry, and rarely appears in the above works, such a situation, in the eyes of uninformed people, it is obvious that Fan Bingbing has fallen out of favor, and it is quite normal to find Fan Bingbing.
"It's a man named Wu Kebo, according to Bingbing, the owner of a magic entertainment company, and the name of the company seems to be Zhihong Entertainment."
Lu Deshuang was not surprised that Chu Qing did not know Wu Kebo, it can be said that during this period, ordinary people were still very unfamiliar with the name Wu Kebo, but it was different in Lu Deshuang's ears, others didn't know, Lu Deshuang didn't understand.
Since the 1990s, Wu has been engaged in the investment business of telecommunications and semiconductor technology in Japan, and has a wide network of contacts in the business and entertainment industries, and his other identity is the managing director of Convoy Investment Co., Ltd.
For Wu, the entertainment industry has always been his interest, and before founding Chengtian, he cooperated with the famous musician Tetsuya Komuro in Japan to set up the music company Rojam, which was listed on the Hong Kong Growth Enterprise Market in May 2001.
In 2004, Wu Kebo got acquainted with Zhuang Liqi, the general manager of Chengtian Entertainment Group, and decided to "do something together". At that time, Zhuang Liqi was the general manager of the Modu Branch of Huaxia International Television Corporation, and was already a well-known producer in the industry, responsible for the production of films such as "Pink Girl", "Deep Love and Rain", and "A River Flows Eastward". In Zhuang Liqi's view, Wu Kebo is a "forward-looking, intelligent person with a sense of business".
"From the beginning, we planned to be a comprehensive entertainment company, because there can be better interaction between various links, it will be more convenient to do things, and the copyright will remain in the company." Zhuang Liqi said.
At the end of 2005, Chengtian Entertainment Company was formally established, the first to be put into operation was "Chengtian Huayin Record Company" and "Chengtian Zhihong Film and Television Company", at the beginning of 2006, at the invitation of Wu Kebo and Zhuang Liqi, Huayi Brothers Gold Medal Agent Wang Jinghua took Cheng Daoming, Hu Jun, Xia Yu, Dong Dawei, Guan Zhilin, Liu Jialing, Liang Jiahui, Yuan Yongyi and other stars to join Chengtian, Chengtian Cultural Broker Company was formally established.
Wang Jinghua's joining is the first blockbuster dropped by Chengtian in the industry, and the rich artist resources in his hands have helped Chengtian quickly gain a firm foothold in the performing arts brokerage industry, and grow into an entertainment company with the largest number of signed actors in China, including Hong Kong and Taiwan, within one year. Another result of Wang Jinghua's job change this time is that he has almost hollowed out the brokerage department of rival Huayi Brothers.
At the same time, Cheng Kaige's publicity director Yi Jian Mei was also invited, after the end of the "Wuji" promotion, Yi Jian Mei joined Chengtian and served as the general manager of Chengtian Bohong Advertising Co., Ltd.
In addition, the former general manager of Warner Music Copyright Company in the Asia-Pacific region, Huo Shaowen, independent producer Wang Wei and others have joined one after another, so that Chengtian has quickly established a golden team composed of many "big names" in the industry in just one year.
At the same time as the core team was formed, Wu Kebo began to look for the most valuable "money" for Chengtian.
In September 2006, AVEX Group, the world's largest independent record company, and two other American and British consortiums purchased 20% of the shares of Chengtian Entertainment Group for nearly 400 million yuan and became strategic investors of Chengtian. This capital injection is the largest amount of international funding received by the mainland entertainment industry so far.
In Japan, AVEX shares the market equally with Sony, and its artists include Namie Amuro, Ayumi Hamasaki, TRF, Tetsuya Komuro and other Japanese pop music A-listers, and it is also an independent major shareholder of South Korea's SM company.
After receiving financial support, Chengtian began the plan of "becoming a comprehensive entertainment company through acquisition and opening up the industrial chain".
On November 1, 2007, Chengtian Entertainment announced that it had fully acquired 24.78% of the shares of Jiahe held by Zou Wenhuai and his daughter Zou Chongheng. So far, Chengtian Entertainment has become the largest single shareholder of Jiahe, and Li Jiacheng is the second largest shareholder. With the gradual decline of Hong Kong's film production business, in recent years, Jiahe's focus has shifted to film distribution and cinema management.
According to the 2007 report of Genho, the company currently has a total of 30 cinemas with a total of 242 cinemas, in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Baodao and Shenzhen. Shenzhen, which occupies 13%, 50%, 28%, 31% and 44% of the cinema market, respectively.
It can be said that the value of the brand and its influence in overseas markets are the most important to Chengtian, and its film distribution and theater resources are also very important. Jiahe's cinema resources can help Chengtian open up the Southeast Asian market, which is an important guarantee for its upcoming series of blockbusters such as "Red Cliff".
After joining Jiahe, Chengtian Entertainment will cooperate with Jiahe in all aspects of film production, distribution, and cinema development. Wu Kebo has said that Genor plans to produce 15-20 films within a year, and will continue to vigorously expand the cinema business.
Through poaching and acquisition, the comprehensive entertainment platform that Chengtian plans to build has taken shape.
Film and television companies, stage drama companies, advertising companies, artist training schools, online music companies and a number of agent companies are all in place, and how to come up with a report card that matches the resources is the focus of Chengtian's next development.
In 2007, Chengtian invested in the filming of more than 10 movies and about 170 episodes of TV series.
While continuously launching small-budget productions such as "My Name is Liu Yuejin" and "Stick Tiger Chicken", Chengtian began to set its sights on large-scale productions of "high cost + big names".
In "Casting Names" and "The Ballad of Yunshui", Chengtian has investments. In the large-scale production "Red Cliff" directed by Wu Yusen with a cost of 80 million US dollars, Chengtian Entertainment and AVEX Group jointly made a joint investment, with an investment ratio of up to 40%.
Wu Kebo is such a powerful opponent, naturally worthy of Lu Deshuang's attention!
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