Chapter 112: Zheng Zong Turns Passive into Active?
Zheng Wentong and his entourage returned to Huixin Building in the eastern suburbs, and Zhong Lifang instructed the administration, "Notify all the CEOs of subsidiaries to come over for an emergency meeting, and let them put aside the matter at hand first." β
Zheng Wentong looked at the employees who were busy working in the office, and sighed in his heart, the people in the eastern suburbs are indeed powerful, and the aunt in the eastern suburbs is the trump card force among the masses.
The administration was a little hesitant, "Do you want to notify Mr. Jin Yan?" β
Zhong Lifang thought about it for a while, "It stands to reason that we should notify us, forget it, you notify the others, I'll call her here, and I'll talk about it if I don't come." β
Zhong Lifang called Jin Yan first, "Sister Jin, well, yes, I'm Li Fang, I have something to tell you about here in the companyββ"
"Yes, yes, Mr. Zheng has arrived in Yanjing, and we are preparing to have a meeting to discuss this matter, well, okay, okay, no problem."
After hanging up the phone, Zhong Lifang said to Zheng Wentong, "Jin Yan said that she won't come, if the company needs to issue a statement to the outside world, she can express her support, and she unconditionally agrees with the company's decision." β
After a while, Fu Yi, financial director of Pony Gallop, Guo Yan, general manager of Pony Pictures, Zong Shuai, general manager of Pony Pentium Performing Arts Agency, Li Ligong, general manager of Pony Pentium TV series, Cui Liwei, general manager of New Remington Advertising, plus Gao Han, secretary of the board of directors, in addition to Jin Yan, honorary chairman, the core management has arrived.
They already knew that Zeng Pengyu was taken away by the police in the eastern suburbs to assist in the investigation, and it was the company that took the initiative to call the police, with different expressions.
Some people who have just joined the company still don't know Zheng Wentong, and quietly asked their colleagues, who were surprised, "This is our big boss, but he rarely comes over, and he usually works in Puhai." β
Zheng Wentong clapped his hands, "Everyone is here, let's have a meeting first, Li Fang, you ask the administration to send an email first, make a simple briefing, and say that Zeng Pengyu has been dismissed, and everything will be subject to the police report." β
"The more silent we are, the easier it is to breed rumors, but it will make the company's employees panic, it is someone else's mistake, and it is not your problem."
"Before I came, I looked at the company's financial statements, aside from the two movies and two variety shows that are being produced, the company as a whole has turned a profit, and Liwei took over the new Remington advertising agency, which has contributed a lot of revenue as a whole, and has worked hard."
Cui Liwei was still humble, Zheng Wentong stopped her, "Merit will be rewarded, and guilt will be punished." Li Fang, you and Fu Yi will work together to draw up a year-end bonus party, and then send it to me by email. β
"Although we only took over the company in July, I have seen your performance and are also conscientious. This year's year-end bonus will be issued more, and you and the company will also share weal and woe. β
"Now it's hard to get on the right track, don't let this thriving good situation be ruined."
"Zeng Pengyu was personally recruited by me to invest in the slope, and then appointed him as the general manager of Pony Galloping New Media, and also nominated him as a director.
When Zhong Lifang heard this, she hurriedly explained, "You must not be blamed for this, I am the chairman and general manager of the company, and if I want to take responsibility for leadership, I will not be able to escape the blame." β
Xu Ru persuaded him, "Mr. Zhong and Mr. Zheng can't keep an eye on their employees all the time, they still have their own private lives after work, I think the top priority now is how to quickly eliminate the negative impact of this incident and enhance the confidence of external investors." β
Zhong Lifang nodded, "Secretary Xu is right, because Zeng Pengyu has not actually come into contact with our core production business, the two movies have been followed by me, and the two variety shows are personally responsible for Mr. Zheng, Liwei will run the new Remington advertisement very well, Zong Shuai's brokerage business development is also good, Zong Shuai has signed a potential newcomer here, named Gong Jun." β
Gong Jun? Zheng Wentong recalled, this one is also very popular in a few years, Zheng Wentong has watched his and Zhou Yutong's "Love from Marriage", Gong Jun plays a doctor, Zhou Yutong chaebol lady, the commercial drama is very naΓ―ve, but the love scene is very sweet.
His appearance is quite suitable for acting in costume idol dramas, and it is more suitable to star in "Fragrant Honey Sinks Like Frost" with Yang Zi.
When Gong Jun debuted, he was plagued by rumors about the White Horse Club, so much so that when he participated in "Longing for Life", he had to cut out all the shots of the duck lanterns.
"Zheng Wentong affirmed that in the future, the standard for our pony galloping to sign actors will be mainly professional actors, and at least it must be an acting training class."
"Those traffic stars who debuted in the draft, no matter how popular they are and how many fans they have, as long as they are film and television drama projects filmed solely by Pony Galloping, they are not allowed to be used!" Zheng Wentong's expression was serious.
Xu Ru was taking notes next to him, Zheng Wentong was preparing to issue a banning order to the kind of traffic stars who debuted in the entertainment industry.
"These so-called traffic stars offer sky-high salaries at every turn, accounting for more than half of the cost of the entire movie or TV series, what else do you use to do the post-production?"
"These people don't have acting skills, except for the kind of die-hard fans who will pay for the things they shoot, where will the general public watch them? Moreover, this kind of artist has a lot of black material on his body, in case he spends a huge amount of money on shooting, but it suddenly explodes, and the production cost of one or two hundred million yuan will be wasted all of a sudden, which hurts his muscles and bones. β
Zheng Wentong is counting on those film and television companies or brokerage companies with bad reputations to sign those bad artists who later exploded, and when they spend a lot of money to make a big project, thinking that they can rely on traffic stars to harvest fans, then the entertainment industry will be flat with a thunder, and the project will be yellow.
This feeling seems to be playing werewolf killing with his eyes open, not to mention, it's quite exciting, Zheng Wentong feels that he will become a prophet in the entertainment industry in the future.
"We will hold a shareholders' meeting first to elect new directors, and there is no need to rush to issue the semi-annual financial report, I will stay in Yanjing for a few more days to see if I can talk about a cooperation and reverse the negative impact of the company on the media first."
"If a reporter asks for an interview in the past two days, he will dismiss it first, saying that the eucalyptus is currently under investigation, and the specific situation is subject to the police report." Zheng Wentong commanded.
"Okay, Mr. Zheng." Zhong Lifang knew in her heart that since Li Ming's death, the high-level relationship network of Yanjing Pony Galloping has been broken, and after Slope Investment re-entered Pony Galloping, she gradually re-established the previous network circle.
In the next few days, Zheng Wentong took Zhong Lifang and Xu Ru around Yanjing and visited Huaying Group, because "Mermaid" is a land-port co-production, and Huaying Group is a co-producer.
Then Zheng Wentong went to visit Zeng Maojun, chairman of Wuzhou Film Distribution Company, who is also a Wanda veteran, and Wang Shoufu values him very much.
During his tenure, he completed two major events, the first was to lead Wanda Cinemas to be listed on the A-share market at the beginning of 15 years, with a market value of more than 100 billion, and Slope Investment also bought a small number of shares of Wanda Cinemas at that time.
The second is to unite Dadi Times, Jinyi Film and Television and Hengdian Cinema to form Wuzhou Film Distribution Co., Ltd.
He opened up the whole industrial chain of "content + distribution + cinema + IP derivative value", but this asset-heavy model also caused Wanda to fall into heavy losses.
Starting next year, Wanda will start to buy and buy overseas, merging and merging AMC, the second largest cinema chain in the United States, and acquiring Legendary Pictures.
Because overseas mergers and acquisitions are basically bank loans, Wanda and Puhai's Guanghai Group have both begun to sell assets to survive, while the other two consortia that have been engaged in overseas mergers and acquisitions have gone bankrupt.
Zheng Wentong and Zeng Maojun talked for a long time behind closed doors, Zeng Maojun knew that Zheng Wentong and Principal Wang now had a good personal relationship, and the two had begun to do business together in Puhai, so they naturally wanted to give Zheng Wentong a little thin noodles.
On December 14, Wanda Cinema Film Co., Ltd., Yanjing Pony Pentium Culture Media Co., Ltd., and Puhai Guotou held a signing ceremony in Beijing.
Wanda Cinemas announced that it has become the second largest shareholder of Yanjing Pony Gallop, buying a 10% stake in Yanjing Pony Pentium for 400 million yuan.
Slope Investment and Puhai Guotou each transferred 5% of the shares of Pony Gallop to Wanda Cinema Line, and from now on, Wanda Cinema Line, the largest cinema company in China, became the second largest shareholder of Yanjing Pony Pentium Culture Media Co., Ltd., and Puhai Guotou retired to the third largest shareholder.
Yanjing Pony Galloping held a new shareholders' meeting, and the meeting elected a new board of directors, Zhong Lifang continued to serve as the chairman of Pony Galloping, and Guo Yan, general manager of Pony Pictures, served as the general manager of Pony Gallop.
The meeting elected the new board of directors, and elected Zhong Lifang, Zheng Wentong, Gao Han, Guo Yan, Fu Yi, Zeng Maojun, president of Wanda Cinema Line, and Wang Bin, chairman of Puhai Guotou, as new directors, and Zheng Wentong continued to serve as executive director.
Zeng Maojun, Wang Bin, Zhong Lifang, and Zheng Wentong attended the press conference together, and Zeng Maojun and Wang Bin expressed their optimism about the strong cooperation between Yanjing Pony Galloping and Wanda Cinema Line.
This is good news for Yanjing Pony Galloping's three film projects next year, "Mermaid", "Passing by Your World" and "Crazy Aliens".
A reporter asked Zheng Wentong about Zeng Pengyu's news, and Zheng Wentong replied that he could not perform his duties due to personal reasons, and had resigned as a director of the board of directors and the general manager of Pony Galloping New Media.
Slope Investment continues to hold all the copyrights of the previously purchased series of IPs such as "Three-Body Problem", "Know", "Dajiang Dahe", "Ode to Joy" and "Fragrant Honey Sinks Like Frost", which will not affect the company's shooting plan next year.
"Tucao Conference" and "Talk Show" will be broadcast on Puhai Satellite TV and Penguin Video in the first and second quarters of 16 years, and these two variety shows are expected to bring 300 million to 400 million revenue to Yanjing Pony Galloping, which is subject to next year's financial report.
Investors who bought the private equity funds of Slope No. 1 before are very happy, and according to the price of Wanda Cinema Line purchase, Yanjing Pony Galloping is currently valued at about 4 billion.
They previously bought 15% of the equity of CCB International at a price of 3.4 billion yuan, together with Slope Investment, and the floating profit of this part of the equity has exceeded 90 million.
So far, Zeng Pengyu's negative impact has been minimized by Zheng Wentong, turning passive into active, and he can go to the second World Internet Conference in Wuzhen with peace of mind.