Chapter 554. Year-end summary and killing several birds with one stone [two-in-one]
"Now that everyone is here, let's start now."
On February 8th, Star Imaging held a 09-year summary meeting, including Yang Fan, Gao Xilan, Guo Ming, Liu Xiaowei and other high-level stars attended the meeting, among which Mike of Star Digital also attended at the same time, Sun Yi took the lead in announcing the start of the meeting.
"Meeting? Then you guys, I'll go first, and I'll talk to Sister Xun. โ
Liu Yifei, who was whispering to Gao Xilan, immediately wanted to run away when she heard that the meeting was about to start.
"Don't, Director Liu, don't you stay and listen."
Sun Yi knew that Xiao Nizi was going to escape, and she had participated in several such meetings during the period, and each time she participated with enthusiasm, but by the end of the meeting, it was as if she had lost half her life. The most ruthless one, I almost fell asleep.
"A bunch of you are definitely going to smoke, it's not good for the skin, I'm going to have to hide."
This time, Liu Yifei learned to be obedient, showed her face when she appeared, and then immediately found an excuse to run away, in her opinion, she really doesn't seem to call in this regard, it's better to find a chance to flash people, anyway, Sun Yi won't sell her.
He was reluctant.
Hehe, witty as me~
"What to see, it's just Ling, you don't smoke much, Sister Lan, help me watch him."
"Okay, good~" Gao Xilan nodded with a smile.
After Liu Yifei gave Sun Yi a look that wanted you to look good, she smeared oil under her feet. It's gone.
There was a chuckle in the room.
Sun Yi shook his head helplessly, originally his idea was to cultivate Xiao Nizi in the specific affairs of the company, after all, she is the future boss lady, how can she have an understanding of her own company in the future.
But it turns out that she is not very much of this material, just like the annual staff meeting held by the stars two days ago, she sang and danced, happy as if something, but this kind of boring summary meeting, she really can't stand it.
Sun Yi is lazy enough to be the shopkeeper, except for major decisions and this year-end summary, he doesn't care about the rest of the time, Liu Yifei is actually lazier than him.
He also thought about it, anyway, several people at the table are already old people in the company, and they have cooperated tacitly in the past few years, and there has been no mistake, and he can still handle it himself, so he simply let Liu Yifei go.
It's like every team has a wolf who is good at fighting and a tiger who is shaking the mountain. There must also be sticks for stirring and buckets for dry rice~
Fairies, let's eat less fireworks in the world.
If this is replaced by Yang Mi, I can't wait to participate every day.
Eh, how did I think of Yang Mi, sins, sins, thoughts have slipped.
Sun Yi reflected slightly.
When Yang Fan saw Liu Yifei leave the conference room, he immediately took out a cigarette and lit it, he was suffocated before.
Although the office has a fresh air system, it is certainly not not pumped.
As Liu Yifei said, things like cigarettes still hurt the skin quite a lot, and her current ability to absorb gold is the real No.1 in the entire starry sky.
"Sure enough, it's not a family, it's not a family."
Yang Fan was smoking a cigarette while joking happily with Sun Yi, and the gold ring on the ring finger of his right hand was particularly conspicuous.
In October last year, just before and after the listing of Star International, Yang Fan and her TV girlfriend ended their love for several years and ran into the marriage hall, and now they have been successfully promoted to a comatose person, and this small belly has also grown visibly with the naked eye.
Sun Yi laughed self-deprecatingly, and he couldn't refute Yang Fan's ridicule.
That's just the way it is.
"Alright, let's get started."
The participants made concluding speeches according to their own responsibilities.
Liu Xiaowei's public relations department rarely encountered critical handling incidents last year, except for the time when Zhang Weiping smeared Sun Yi, the rest of the time spent all its energy on platform development and publicity channel sinking.
He has made great contributions to the promotion of the company's films, TV series, music and a series of products.
Guo Ming's artist agency has been fully rolled out in the film and television channels, and the task in the coming year will focus on deepening the fashion field, striving to package its artists and participate in the endorsement competition of major brands.
Next, Gao Xilan summarized the finances of Starry Sky for the entire 09 years.
"We produced and released 3 movies and 2 TV series last year, and in terms of films, "The Wind", "Untouchable", and "Wings of the Sky" achieved a total box office income of 1.3 billion, excluding production costs, including box office, copyright, peripherals and other films and their derived net profits reached 500 million RMB. At present, there are still "Hidden in the Dust" and "Pacific Rim" that have not yet been completed. โ
"Although there are only 2 TV series, they are all hits, in terms of ratings, "The Legend of Zhen Huan" ranks first this year, and "The Age of Naked Marriage" is sixth, and the total income in this area is not lower than that of movies, and the comprehensive calculation is also about 400 million yuan."
"The total income of artist brokerage is 200 million yuan, that is to say, the net profit of our company in the entire 09 years has reached 1.1 billion yuan."
Hearing this, everyone's faces were full of red light, this achievement was the result of everyone's joint efforts, but Gao Xilan suddenly looked at Sun Yi, and the words changed.
"Although the company made 1.1 billion last year, there was basically nothing left, all of them were invested again, acquired the digital field, and built two world-class studios.
Hearing this, everyone's eyes subconsciously turned to Sun Yi, and it was quite helpless to have a boss who could spend so much. The latter smiled awkwardly.
It's no wonder that Gao Xilan, who is in charge of finance, has a grudge against him.
I did spend a lot this year, tens of millions of dollars at every turn, and they were all dollars, but these investments have not seen returns for a while.
The main reason is that the domestic box office market is so big now, the profits of the film can't rise, and at the same time, all the surpluses of Star International are used for further expansion, otherwise it will look much better financially.
Wait for next year, the Chinese film market will usher in a big explosion in 10 years, and the box office and theater revenue will show an exponential growth, and that is when Star Imaging really begins to exert its strength.
In the conference room, Gao Xilan put down the report and took out another one.
"As for the listed companies, in the previous stage, because of the release of the "Wings of the Sky" movie, the market value soared by 60%, and now after the market cooling-off period, the company's total market value remains at about 14 billion yuan."
Star Imaging was established two years ago, rapid development, the overall financial situation is improving, Gao Xilan has been conscientious and has not had a trace of problems, with the company's business model gradually stabilized, her work at hand has also been reduced a lot, Sun Yi just arranged for her to serve as the executive president of Star International Listed Company, she only hangs the name of the chairman, and still acts as a shopkeeper.
Sun Yi nodded with satisfaction, according to the latest stock market situation, Star International is 2 billion ahead of Huayi as a whole, and has become a leading stock in China's film and television industry, but the gap with Huayi is not particularly obvious.
He clapped his hands and said to the crowd:
"Let's make persistent efforts next year, strive to widen the gap with Huayi, and become the first stock of Chinese film and television worthy of the name."
"Good~"
The higher the total market value of the company, the higher the net worth of everyone, of course, there is motivation.
Gao Xilan continued to report.
"The business of online ticket purchase is growing rapidly, and at present, Xingmei Cinema Line, a subsidiary of China Film, is negotiating with us to join the online ticket purchase platform."
"At present, the development momentum of Star International Cinema is good, and the total profit in 09 has reached 220 million yuan, and according to the company's decision, it is continuing to invest in cinemas."
"It is expected that the total profit of this year will double, becoming one of the six major cinema chains in the country."
"Sister Lan, wait a minute."
Sun Yi raised his hand and interrupted Gao Xilan.
He knows that Star International, as a listed company, must have an expected plan for future profits, but the goal of doubling is not too high.
Although 10 years is a year for capital to enter the film and television industry, the total box office revenue of the Chinese film market has indeed achieved great strides, but it seems that it is still a little short of doubling.
If Sun Yi remembers correctly, it is about 60 percent. Although this growth ratio is already very terrifying in his opinion, there is still a certain distance from doubling.
"Sister Lan, is the profit target of the listed company too much, uh, a little more optimistic?"
Gao Xilan shook her head with a smile, as if she had known that Sun Yi would ask such a question, and raised a finger at him.
"Mr. Sun, 100 million, I am sure that the cinema chain will achieve a net profit of 100 million before the end of the Spring Festival holiday."
Sun Yi's eyes were slightly condensed, he couldn't believe it, and he calculated a little in his heart.
Before the end of the Spring Festival holiday, it will only be two months to be full, but there is no Spring Festival stall this year, you can earn 100 million in two months, your own theater, is this going to take off?
The other three people in the conference room also had the same expression, and looked at Gao Xilan together.
Gao Xilan smiled mysteriously, nodded firmly, raised the financial statements in her hand, and explained to everyone:
"Up to now, the net profit of the cinema chain has reached 74 million, and I believe that in the remaining 20 days, it is not difficult to get another 26 million and complete a profit of 100 million."
"It's really not very difficult, but how did these 74 million come about, so much?"
"Mr. Sun, when it comes to this, it still depends on your foresight."
"Me?"
Sun Yi was even more confused, he knew that the theater chain would be very profitable in the next ten years, but he didn't expect that it would be possible to have this speed in 10 years.
"Because of "Wings of the Sky", which exploded some time ago, and "Avatar", which was just released last month, and the 3D theater plan we made in advance."
When Gao Xilan said this, Sun Yi almost remembered.
When Star International Cinema was established, Sun Yi knew that 3D movies would be the next stage of the trend, so when the funds were not sufficient, he still required that the flagship store of Star International Cinema in each city must have an IMAX3D theater, while other theaters must use advanced digital screens and support 3D projection.
It is this decision that has made Star International a leader in 3D projection in China's cinema industry.
The 3D theater, which was once unattended and even made everyone a little incomprehensible, quickly exploded with the release of "Avatar".
At the end of December last year, the trucker's new 3D movie "Avatar" was finally released in North America after several years of painstaking shooting, and immediately caused an uproar in the global film market when it was launched.
Can a movie be made in 3D? I haven't seen it~
Fans were curious and bought tickets to watch.
it, really, it's just immersive!!
The movie's word-of-mouth exploded instantly, and fans throughout North America went crazy.
Major overseas box offices have also begun to keep up one after another, and then set off a movie-watching frenzy around the world, and domestic fans have also begun to look forward to this "Avatar".
Truck driver James Cameron can be said to be a well-known director in China, and the movie "Titanic" he directed back then has a super high reputation in China.
This time, the domestic media promoted "Avatar" with "The Director of "Titanic" Innovates the 3D Masterpiece of Film History", which instantly detonated the domestic movie-watching market, and a large number of fans are looking forward to this movie.
In mid-January, the movie officially landed in major theaters in China, and for a while, Luoyang paper was expensive, and it was difficult to find a ticket, especially the 3D screen and IMAX3D theater.
Although "Avatar" has a 2D version released, the film's publicity and the evaluation of foreign audiences say that 3D and IMAX3D have the best viewing experience, so many domestic audiences hope to watch the 3D and IMAX3D versions of "Avatar".
The audience is "crazy" in order to watch the 3D "Avatar" once! The most exaggerated thing is that some people even stayed at the door of the cinema all night in order to buy a 3D movie ticket, and in the cold wind, the ticket purchase queue was more than 1 kilometer!
Many theaters have taken measures to restrict purchases, and it is said that the highest number of scalper tickets in Beijing is 10,000, and the highest number of scalper tickets in Shanghai is more than 2,000!
And the dividends of this wave of 3D movies, the one who eats the most is Star International.
That's how the 74 million came about.
Gao Xilan confidently introduced: "According to Mr. Sun's instructions, at present, Star International Cinemas has 8 urban flagship stores in first-tier cities across the country, each with an IMAX3D theater, and the remaining 13 standard cinemas, all of which are digital screens with 3D playback capabilities. โ
"Nationwide, there are only 20 IMAX3D theaters used for commercial screenings, and we Star International account for 40%."
"At present, there are more than 800 3D screens nationwide, and we have more than 150 Star International, accounting for 18%."
"Coupled with your upcoming 3D movie "Bad Pacific", Mr. Sun, Star International is very confident that it will double its profits this year."
After Gao Xilan's report, everyone's hearts finally settled down, and they all showed a relaxed smile.
Liu Xiaowei couldn't help but secretly glance at Sun Yi, who would have thought that the classmates who were doing 2B things together at the beginning would now become the leading director in China, not to mention, they are so strong in business sense.
He joined the starry sky, entered the film and television circle, and learned more.
In terms of cinemas, the 3D screen is not too tall at present, that is, a layer of metal screen is added to the original ordinary screen, and a dual-camera projection system is used for the left and right eyes, and fans use special glasses to receive stereoscopic images.
The cost is not much higher, and the fact that the theater line does not adopt it still lies in a conceptual problem.
And Sun Yi proposed a 3D plan as early as possible, and 3D movies and 3D screens were launched at the same time, and he directly ate this wave of dividends.
Unlike Liu Xiaowei, who was still shocked, Yang Fan had long been accustomed to Sun Yi's keen insight, and his focus was already one step ahead.
"Xiao Yi, Director Yu's "Beijing Meets Seattle" will be officially OK if he returns to China to make up some scenes after the year, how is our "Huantai", how long will it take to be released, this 3D movie east wind, we can't fall behind."
In other words, "Pacific Rim" was officially approved at the beginning of last year, and it was learning while building, and now a year has passed, and more than 55 million US dollars of project funds have been pressed, Yang Fan has wanted to cut this movie countless times, and finally gritted his teeth and persevered, and now he is anxious when he sees the madness of 3D movies.
Sun Yi returned to the capital this time, and he really didn't pay attention to "Huantai", but fortunately, Mike came back from vacation in his hometown in the United States, he is only the Spring Festival, and he has been following up this project in the digital field recently, and he knows it best.
Mike cleared his throat under Sun Yi's inquiring gaze and said to everyone in strange Chinese unique to foreigners:
"Ladies and gentlemen, the overall special effects of "Pacific Rim" have been completed, and there are still some finishing touches left, and after Mr. Sun has seen it, we can add background music and subtitles, and we are confident that we will get the finished film within 2 months."
"Oh, by the way, and there must be English dubbing, after all, we Yankees are usually lazy and don't like to cut subtitles."
Mike shrugged his shoulders comically, and called himself a Yankee very casually, causing everyone present to smile.
Yang Fan calculated in his heart, 2 months, it's okay, it can be released in the summer, and with the east wind of 3D movies, he will definitely be able to collect another one.
The future is bright, and everyone is happy.
At the end of the meeting, everyone relaxed and started chatting, and Liu Xiaowei pulled Mike with a wicked smile to teach him the latest online Chinese.
"You, give power, gods and horses are all floating clouds"
"Ghost power, kidney horse is a cloud"
Sun Yi looked at Liu Xiaowei, the 2nd goods, shook his head helplessly, he came to Gao Xilan's side, and asked in a low voice:
"Sister Lan, let me ask you something?"
"Mr. Sun wants to ask something, say it."
"How about buying a private jet for our listed company?"
"Ah!??h
Gao Xilan looked confused, it has only been on the market for less than half a year, and she is going to buy a private jet?
Sun Yi didn't blush when he lied, and analyzed Gao Xilan seriously.
"Sister Lan, I think so, you see if it's okay."
"We have to make the company bigger and bigger, first of all, in China, the movie release and promotion have to run everywhere, this time, it's artists, assistant teams, staff or something, right, and then, in the future, Sissi may also be more involved in Hollywood projects, I also have a film in the American branch, there is a private jet, isn't it more convenient."
Gao Xilan nodded hesitantly, it seems that this second half of the sentence is the real thought in your heart, my director Sun Da.
"Mr. Sun, this reason is also explained to the shareholders in the past, with the company's reputation to buy, it can also be reasonably deducted, but private jets, no, is it a business jet, is this price a little expensive, Star International is developing in the critical period, will the funds occupied to buy the aircraft be too much?"
"Yes, yes, business jets, not private jets." Sun Yi laughed for a while.
In the end, it is a professional financial officer, that is, rigorous.
"Sister Lan, I have also considered this occupation of the company's funds, you see if it is okay to do this, the company will come forward to buy it, and then, I will personally pay for it, and then"
"And then lease it to the company?" Gao Xilan immediately took the next sentence.
"Ahaha, yes."
Gao Xilan looked at Sun Yi with a look of astonishment, nodded slowly, and after a while, she exclaimed with some relief:
"Mr. Sun, you have matured."
Right~
For private jets, after listening to Mr. Zhao Benshan's mention once in the rehearsal backstage of the Spring Festival Gala that day, Sun Yi was interested, not to mention that his daughter-in-law also likes it very much, so you can buy one.
Money is not a problem, when Star International was listed before, the 300 million yuan of the 15% shares acquired by IDG was paid to Sun Yi personally, and this money was more than enough to buy an airplane.
Sun Yi originally considered keeping a low profile, but after thinking about it, now that the company is listed, as the first shareholder, he has a net worth of billions, and this strength is really not allowed.
Besides, the reasons he just said are all true, his daughter-in-law has properly stabilized the front line, and her popularity is so high, there will definitely be many opportunities for international cooperation in the future, and he will also take care of the American branch, and the two will have more and more opportunities to go abroad in the future.
Having a private jet of your own will be a lot more convenient in terms of time and itinerary.
Anyway, Sun Yi would never say that he could still take Xiao Nizi to travel abroad.
As for buying it in the name of the company and then reselling it to himself, this trick was learned from Ma's father.
Not to mention that people are the real masters.
The company pays for a business plane, buys it back at the same price, and then leases it to the company, and the company pays him the corresponding rent every year and is responsible for the maintenance of the aircraft, which can not only avoid taxes, but also cash out from the company, and the aircraft is still used as much as you want.
The most important thing is that the assets of this aircraft are always in his name, and even if the company goes bankrupt in the end, this aircraft cannot be liquidated as the company's assets.
This set of operations is reasonable, legal and compliant.
Kill several birds with one stone!
In the last week of the year, Sun Yi put down all the work at hand, like a little follower, and stayed by his daughter-in-law's side, and Zhang Xin, the little assistant, was a little weak and always wanted to ask.
Director Sun, are you trying to rob me of my job~
When Liu Yifei was shooting the New Year cover for "Fashion Basha", he also made a temporary cameo appearance as a photographer and took a set of photos for her, which was beautiful for Xiao Nizi.
After that, I also took her to visit Liu Xiaoli together, and I wanted to kidnap the little cabbage that had been raised by others for more than ten years during the Chinese New Year, and I had to say hello in advance.
Liu Xiaoli has now seen it, and treats Sun Yi as her own son-in-law, especially when she heard that when Star International was listed, he gave Liu Yifei 20% of the shares, and now the value has exceeded 1 billion RMB.
On the contrary, it was for Liu Yifei, who couldn't look down on it at first, and couldn't look down on it.
One will say that she is lazy, another will say that she has a jumpy temperament, and another will say that she is a picky eater, or she sees delicious food, and she doesn't eat enough, anyway, how to look at it is an eyesore.
Sun Yi couldn't hold back his laughter, he found out for the first time that Aunt Liu could be so cute.
On the day I went home, I had a dinner, and I was so angry that I couldn't eat the meal, in her words, that is:
"I've never been so angry since I was a child!!"
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