China Film Conference Room.

More than a dozen senior executives of the company talked with each other, some pointed to the documents in their hands and talked endlessly, some people looked at the report in front of them to make high comments, and some people were holding their mobile phones to show the people next to them what fresh information, a lively and extraordinary scene!

Everyone looked different and did different things, but what was the same was that everyone had a smile on their face at the moment.

"From 2011 to 2013, the company's revenue in the past three years was 6.278 billion yuan, 8.403 billion yuan and 8.427 billion yuan respectively.

"In the past three years, the weighted return on net assets was 23.83%, 21.23% and 13.29% respectively, and after 2012, our China Film no longer obtained the income from the specific business entrusted to engage in the film import link, so the net profit attributable to the parent company will inevitably decline, which is actually not conducive to the company's listing plan."

"The production and cinema business have been hit more and more seriously by private capital, and from the perspective of the cinema business, our China Film has lagged behind Wanda Cinema Line a lot."

"There are a lot of people out there singing about us now!"

"The monopoly business has shrunk seriously due to policy reasons, but fortunately, the company has always maintained a very good cooperative relationship with Huashang Media in recent years."

That's right, looking at the development of China Film over the years, it does face a lot of severe challenges.

In 2012, Huaxia and the United States signed a "Memorandum of Understanding", doubling the proportion of Hollywood blockbusters in Huaxia, and the quota of imported films was also increased from 20 to 34, and China Film also gave up the income of specific links.

At the market level, China Film Co., Ltd. is facing the increasing impact of private companies.

In terms of cinemas, in recent years, China Film has not only lost to Wanda Cinema, but also been surpassed by Lianhe Cinema under Magic Shadow, and unfortunately retreated to the third place in the market.

The many challenges faced by China Film at the moment can be called internal and external troubles, but the company is still full of confidence at this time to seek to land on the magic certificate to raise funds, and a large part of its confidence is probably from the good relationship they have always maintained with Huashang Media.

This is also the reason why everyone in the conference room is currently discussing topics that the company is facing, but everyone is very abnormal and has a smile on their faces.

China Film participated in the investment, and the first box office of "Interstellar", which has a large share, is 432 million yuan, and the single-day box office in the mainland has been increased to 400 million in a historical record, and this kind of achievement is enough to make the faces of China Film participating in the investment happy, not to mention the critical moment when the company is seeking to go public? !

There is no doubt that the better "Interstellar" sells, the smoother the road to the listing of China Film will be!

After a while, a man of fifty-four or five years old walked into the conference room, and the conference room immediately fell silent.

"Now that everyone has arrived, let's have a meeting!"

The name of the person is Pei Kang, the new chairman of China Film Co., Ltd., and Chairman Han Sanping, who has reached the age of 60 years ago, has officially announced his retirement.

"Before discussing the company's listing plan, let's talk about the premiere performance of "Interstellar", have you seen this movie?" Pei Dong asked with a smile.

"Chairman, we have all seen it in advance, and before the film was reviewed, we were the first to see the film."

Everyone nodded when they heard this, and Pei Kang then smiled: "Watching inside the company and watching in the theater are completely two feelings. I went to the theater yesterday to see it in person, to be honest, I was shocked by the scene of the scene, the pre-sale box office of "Interstellar" is extremely high, which everyone knows, so before I went to the theater, I had expected that the attendance rate would be very high, and the flow of people in the theater would be very large, but I still didn't expect it to be so big, it can be said that the audience's enthusiasm for watching the movie has been completely stimulated. ”

At this time, a female vice president smiled and said: "My daughter sent me a video yesterday, the theater is indeed crowded, listen to my daughter, many people are not just running for the quality of the film, many people just want to take a good look at Li Mu and Liu Yifei in the theater, these two people just got their certificates a few days ago, and the process also caused a sensation throughout China, and now there is a blockbuster starring two people will be released, for many people, "Interstellar" is a movie they can't miss no matter what." ”

Then a somewhat fat male high-level man wearing glasses smiled and said: "The richest man in Xihong City in the Spring Festival file, "Space Rescue" on May Day, and now "Interstellar", with these films, our company's performance is a lot better." ”

The smile on Pei Kang's face became brighter and brighter, he had just taken over the company from Chairman Han Sanping, and as a result, the three films that the company had invested in before had achieved unfortunate results one after another. From the perspective of time, these three films are all projects invested by Han Sanping when he was the chairman, but from a practical point of view, Han Sanping has retired, and it is natural that most of the credit for these three films will fall on his head.

"At the beginning of the year, I was thinking, and I didn't know when the next movie with a box office of more than 3 billion would come out - it turned out that it would only take half a year." Pei Kang said with a smile.

Another vice president also smiled: "The first-day box office of "The Richest Man in Xihong City" is far inferior to the current "Interstellar", "The Richest Man in Xihong City" has a box office of 3.3 billion, I think "Interstellar" is very likely to create a new history again!" ”

"A whole new history? What do you mean? ”

"You don't know what I mean? You Lao Li is a human spirit! ”

"You're not talking about 3.5 billion, are you? At present, it is indeed very possible, more than 400 million on the first day, and it should not be a big problem to break 1 billion in three days on the first weekend, and it is entirely possible that the final box office will be about 3.5 billion. ”

"Lao Zhang, you're pretending to be confused for me, aren't you? Is the number I'm talking about 3.5 billion, can you count it in your heart? ”

"Me? There are numbers, there are numbers, I just think - that number is a bit hot, can it really break 4 billion? ”

"You said that "Interstellar" can get 4 billion, in fact, I don't think it's possible, but if you look at the first-day box office, according to the previous formula, this is a very high possibility to reach a new history of 4 billion."

"The final box office of "Interstellar", even if there is no 400,000, 37 or 38 will definitely be there!"

Chairman Pei Kang said with a red face: "When Li Mu and his family return to China, we will invite him to come to our China Film to talk about the project, and then find a little more media, of course it is important whether "Interstellar" takes 3.5 billion or 4 billion, but these are not as important as the market thinks that our China Film and Li Mu's Huashang are highly bound, but we must make it clear to Chairman Li Mu in advance, don't make him uncomfortable because of this matter, then it is called losing the watermelon and picking up sesame seeds." ”

"Chairman, don't worry, when Chairman Li Mu arrives, if he wants to fish, I will dive to his hook to hang fish!"

"Hahaha......"

One sentence made everyone in the conference room laugh.

……

In the next few days, the performance of "Interstellar" in the mainland market can be called a great show.

After winning the box office of 432 million yuan on the first day, it won the box office of 471 million yuan and 445 million yuan on the second and third days respectively.

The day after the release of the film happened to be Saturday, and the box office on this day also rose sharply without any suspense, with a single-day box office of 471 million yuan, which not only refreshed the single-day box office record again, but also made people feel shocked!

Is the box office going for 500 million in a single day this day?!

When the final figure was fixed at 471 million yuan, many peers even took a deep breath.

Everyone is really afraid that "Interstellar" will really break the record of 500 million regardless of it, but it's not that Li Mu and Huashang Media are not pleasing to the eye, the most important thing is that the shock caused by the number of 500 million in a single day is too serious for everyone.

"Is this the real world? The real world has reached the level of 500 million in a single day? I can't be dreaming, am I? ”

That's probably the mentality above.

Fortunately, on the third day, the single-day box office of "Interstellar" did not continue to rise, but dropped slightly to 445 million yuan.

From the 11th to the 13th, in three days, the cumulative box office was 1.346 billion yuan! For a while, the news media reported wildly.

"Three days, 1.346 billion, the next may be the moment to witness the miracle!"

"Three months before the release of "Interstellar", netizens were saying that it was difficult for "Interstellar" to break the record set by "The Richest Man in Xihong City", so what about watching it now?"

"Interstellar" is really not a film of the same level as "The Richest Man in Xihong City", the overseas box office of "The Richest Man in Xihong City" is negligible, and "Interstellar" is destined to sweep the world!"

……

Berner & Co., Office of the Chairman.

"Hahaha......"

There was a hearty laugh from Chairman Yu Dong in the office, which meant that he was talking about a business with a very important customer, during which it was naturally necessary to talk about daily life and set off the atmosphere.

Outside the office, Bernard employees are also whispering about the gradual change in the chairman's speaking style in recent years.

"Eh, what did you say the chairman just talked to someone, and he was so happy?"

"I don't know, but I heard that the chairman has become more and more fond of talking to people about some interesting things that happened when he came into contact with Li Mu in recent years."

"This is true, in the past, Chairman Yu Dong's favorite thing to talk about was that he brought a copy of the movie and drank the film cup after cup, and the current chairman really likes to mention the things that he cooperated with Li Mu."

"Not only our chairman, but also Wang Changtian of Guangguang, Wang Zhongjun of Huayi, and Yan Yiyun of Xiying - which of these bigwigs is not talking about the iron relationship with Li Mu? With Li Mu's current status, if it is rumored that anyone has a bad relationship with him, it is no exaggeration to say that the company's valuation will be affected! ”

"Eh, Li Mu and the Huayi brothers used to have a close relationship, why have they collaborated on fewer and fewer films in the past two years? Isn't there some rift? ”

"I don't know if there is a crack, but I know that the stock price of Huayi Brothers has been greatly affected in the past two years."

"This wave of "Interstellar" won 1.346 billion in three days, needless to say, our company's performance this year must not be wrong!"

……

In the blink of an eye, it is July 15th, which happens to be the day when this week's North American box office list is newly released.

At the top of the list is Twentieth Century Fox's "Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2: Dawn of War", which grossed $57.34 million over the weekend.

In second place is "Interstellar" produced by Huashang Media, which earned a total of $57.32 million at the box office over three days over the weekend.

In third place is Paramount's "Transformers 4", which costs $16.5 million over three days over the weekend.

It's a pity that "Interstellar" is a little bit lower than "Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2: Dawn of War", and it is just a little short of winning this week's weekend title.

In 2011, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes 1" won $176 million in the North American market alone with a production cost of $93 million, which greatly exceeded market expectations.

Now "Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2: Dawn of War" has landed in North America again with a score of 170 million US dollars, and the first weekend result of 57.34 million US dollars is not very good, but the feat of beating director Li Mu's new work "Interstellar" head-on is still talked about by countless American audiences.

"American Hollywood blockbusters have finally beaten Director Li Mu to be talked about? It shows that in the hearts of the old American audience, it is very rare to be able to defeat Li Mu.

In fact, the box office of the original space-time "Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2" was as high as more than $70 million in the first weekend, but "Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2" at that time did not have a strong opponent like "Interstellar".

……

Xijing, the conference room of the West Film Studio.

Xiying Studio was originally not Li Mu's maiden family, but in the early days, Li Mu wanted to find a backer for himself, and Xiying also wanted to get a little bit of the aura of Li Mu's young talent, so the two sides were together, yes, Li Mu's maiden family was tacitly acquiesced, and now it has been called down for so many years, even if it was not at the beginning, it is really called her mother's family now.

Isn't it true that a pro is a pro?

As the head of Li Mu's mother's family, Director Yan Yiyun has supported Li Mu for free all the year round, and Li Mu reciprocated Li by naturally giving the other party an investment share.

So until today, most of the films invested by Huashang have a little share of Western Film Studio, and the difference is nothing more than the size of the share.

The "Interstellar" project, which is currently being screened, naturally also has a share of Western Film Studio, so the leadership of Western Film is still very concerned about the box office performance of this film.

"Interstellar is undoubtedly a masterpiece, and it only cost more than $57 million in the first weekend, which feels seriously underestimated."

"Yes, the key is that "Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2" has a higher box office than "Interstellar", do you say that the movie with a group of apes as the protagonists is really that good? Anyway, no matter how I look at it, Interstellar is better. ”

"It's a shame that it's just a little bit short, just $20,000 short of winning the first weekend!"

"Back then, "Gravity" won the weekend box office championship for 5 weeks in a row, and now "Interstellar" has not even won a championship for a masterpiece like "Interstellar", where do you make sense?"

At this time, Director Yan Yiyun finally spoke:

"Okay, okay, don't regret it, the weekend champion in North America is just like that, the key is to look at the final box office, this is the most important, the weekend box office of more than 10 million US dollars has won the championship, is this kind of 10 million US dollar champion stronger than the 57 million runner-up of "Interstellar"?"

In the conference room, the senior executives of Xiying nodded one after another when they heard this, and then at this time, a relatively young man shook his mobile phone and said:

"The latest news, the box office data of the North American market from the 11th to the 13th has been corrected, of which "Interstellar" has increased by 50,000 US dollars, and the final figure is 57.37 million US dollars, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2" remains unchanged, and the final data shows that "Interstellar" is the real box office champion this weekend, and the data of "Interstellar" is about 30,000 US dollars higher than that of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2"!"

"Data corrections?" Yan Yiyun was stunned for a moment, and then walked directly behind the relatively young high-level executive, "Where's the news?" It can't be a mistake, right? ”

As a result, when he saw that this was the case, the smile on Yan Yiyun's face became significantly brighter.

"I'll just say, if a movie as good as "Interstellar" can't even win a weekend box office, it would be a pity."

Several of the other high-level officials below couldn't help but pout.

Who just said that the North American weekend box office champion doesn't mean anything?

The result?

After listening to the data correction, "Interstellar" can win the championship again, and it will turn its face faster than anyone else? In an instant, the North American weekend box office champion makes sense again?

……

North America.

Li Mu helped Liu Yifei wash her hair and handed her the towel.

"Looks like we're going to fly to South Korea."

"What's wrong?" Liu Yifei asked while taking the towel to wipe his hair.

Li Mu said with a smile: "Who would have thought that South Korea has such a small population, only more than 50 million, but our "Interstellar" has only been released for three days, and it has attracted more than 2 million Korean audiences into the theater, and now South Korea is the third largest market for "Interstellar" in addition to the mainland and North America. ”

Li Mu is still quite comfortable in South Korea.

(End of chapter)