Chapter 179: Film and Television Drama Investment
Wenlian Media Co., Ltd. is a company registered by Cao Ping in Beijing, although the registered capital has reached an astonishing 5 billion, but at present, the company plus Cao Ping is only five people. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info is not familiar with the industry, and he doesn't dare to recruit people for the time being. A few months of working in Xuan Yi only made him familiar with some things in the company's operation and management, but he still didn't have much experience in the media and entertainment industry, so he could only start slowly.
For the operation of the company, Wang Zhonglei's advice is not to rush to recruit and sign artists, if you have money, you can buy some cheap novels, comics, games and other IP resources, but it must be a complete copyright. The example of Marvel has shown the importance of IP, which is what most film and television companies are doing.
There are a lot of valuable IPs in China, but most film and television companies still only dare to heat up some leftovers such as the four famous novels, the film and television works with the theme of "Journey to the West" are basically one a year, and the TV series is also taken out every two years to shoot Jin Yong and Gu Long's novels again, and they are filmed over and over again, just because no one dares to test new themes for the time being, which is not a good phenomenon, and domestic films need the injection of fresh blood.
There are a lot of very good IP resources on the Internet, a considerable number of which are very suitable for making film and television dramas, industry bigwigs have long been concerned about this aspect of the market, secretly acquiring a large number of IPs, many IPs have a large fan base, but they have not yet been recognized by the public for their value, therefore, many IP prices want to be cheap.
In recent years, the more popular IP adaptations have been in the TV drama industry, from the very beginning of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", "The First Close Contact", etc., to the two years of "Palace" and "Step by Step", etc., are all successful examples of popular IP adaptations. The popularity of the film market in 13 years, especially the case of "Thai Embarrassment" breaking the box office of one billion yuan as a dark horse, provides a message to the industry giants, that is, the domestic film market has a basis for accepting diverse themes, and the movie audience is increasing rapidly, and the popularity of 3D movies has made the bigwigs find that the moviegoers no longer care much about the ticket price, but more about whether there will be excellent movies.
The market for popular IP adaptations is mature, but when to enter the market is a question, there is no precedent for success to follow, most people will not easily wade into this troubled water, at this time, someone needs to take the lead, and those who can take the lead are undoubtedly the top giants in the industry.
At the beginning of the month, China Film has announced the film adaptation plan of the famous IP "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" on the Internet, tentatively named "Ghost Blowing the Lantern: Nine-Story Demon Tower", and Wanda also announced the filming plan of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern: Searching for the Dragon", the two giants collided awkwardly together, and started the ring of needle-to-wheat mang.
This is also the reason why Wang Zhonglei told Cao Ping that it must be a complete copyright, the copyright of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" was originally sold to China Literature Group, and China Literature Group sold the first half to Dreamer Pictures and the second half to Wanda.
After China Film decided to enter the big IP adaptation market, it united with Dreamer Pictures and LeTV Pictures to make a nine-story demon tower, while Wanda united Huayi Brothers and Light Pictures to do a dragon hunt.
This incident has also caused considerable waves in the circle, on the one hand, it is a state-owned enterprise unit, with strong capital and background backstage support, and on the other hand, it is a strong combination of private enterprises, Huayi Brothers is the most famous entertainment group in the industry, with the king of commercial films Feng Xiaogang and many movie giants, and the two brothers Zhongjun and Zhonglei are the most well-connected in the industry. The box office exploded, and now the limelight is strong, and Wanda Pictures is a behemoth that has squeezed into the market in the past two years, after acquiring AMC in the United States in May 2012, it already has the largest cinema chain in the world.
Compared with these giants, the billions in Cao Ping's hands are indeed not enough to watch, and it is certainly enough to make two film and television dramas, but you can't watch them in theaters.
The company is not far from a building next to the third bureau, half a year has passed, Cao Ping points have not been spent, since they can not use themselves, Cao Ping will decorate the company's interior is very luxurious, four employees plus him a boss, with two floors, the office area is not too big, the leisure area occupies a large area, indoor basketball courts, tennis courts, swimming pools, gyms, movie screening halls and so on, there is no work at the beginning, the employees play in the company all day long, which makes them very unsteady, the first to recruit the financial girl even doubted whether the boss fancy herself, but also specially chartered two floors to play for herself。 Later, after the people from the marketing department and the technical department were recruited, she found out that she had met a local tyrant boss.
When I came to the company, the crisp noodles of the marketing department were playing basketball with the little white face of the sales department and the glasses brother of the technical department, and the financial Xiaozuo was making a cup of coffee in the lounge, holding a book and reading.
Xiao Zuo is a little girl who has just graduated, a graduate of the Beihang School of Economics and Management, with a shy personality, blushing first before speaking, according to her, she is socially phobic, and she spends most of her time alone. She came to Cao Ping's company to hear him say that it was a start-up, with fewer people and fewer jobs, but she didn't expect it to be so idle, every day was like playing, and she got a salary, which made her very nervous, and she was very weak when she paid her salary. The company's card is managed by her, and the billions of funds on the account make her very afraid, as a recent graduate, she has such a large amount of money in her hands, and in the first few days, she can't even sleep, and even runs back to the company in the middle of the night to see if she has locked the safe.
She is reading a book, in fact, she doesn't pay attention to the books at all, just to cover up her distraction, it's been almost half a year, but she hasn't done any serious work, is this really good? Although the company's funds are more, but the expenditure is not much, the accounts are very simple, sometimes you don't need to turn on the computer for several days, even if you come over every day to read books, play with mobile phones, and pass the time, but the salary of more than 8,000 per month is still paid, which makes her very weak, and a strong sense of crisis makes her a little anxious recently.
My job treatment is very generous in Beijing, and I am also among the top among my classmates, and there are even some students who graduate together who can't find a job and go back to their hometown to develop. But she has never dared to tell her classmates about her work, and when she usually plays, everyone asks her what she does, as if she is very idle, and she always has a vague past. When asked by her family, she also said that she was working in a small company, and she didn't want her family to know, but she was afraid that Cao would open herself one day, after all, even the children who graduated from junior high school would do the work she did, and there was really no irreplaceability, she even had a nightmare yesterday, dreaming that she was fired, and her classmates knew about herself, and laughed that she couldn't even do such a good job. So, she came to the company early in the morning, checked the accounts again, and cleaned several offices, but she couldn't find a job, so she went to the lounge to think about it for a while.
Suddenly, the door of the lounge was pushed open, Xiao Zuo looked up, but it was Mr. Cao who pushed the door in, so frightened that she quickly stood up and said incoherently: "Mr. Cao, I'm ...... I'm busy...... No, I just rested for a while......" For a while, I was so nervous that I couldn't even speak, and the little girl was so anxious that she was about to cry.
Cao Ping was a little inexplicable, could it be that he pushed the door too hard? Or did he look too scary? He touched his face, since he practiced qi into his heart, he didn't know if it was the relationship between endocrine and what, his skin became more and more delicate, his lips and teeth were more and more red, if it weren't for his neat short hair and straight suit, some people would believe him if he was a delicate beauty, which made Xiaobaiyan very unconvinced, and shouted that he wanted to give up this nickname to the boss.
Seeing that Xiao Zuo was about to cry, Cao Ping quickly changed his smile and said, "What's wrong? Xiao Zuo is bullying you again?"
"It's not...... I...... I ......" Xiao Zuo was still incoherent, and his face was flushed.
This made Cao Ping even more puzzled, and after coming over and pulling her to sit down, Cao Ping sat aside and asked, "What's going on?" You seem to be afraid of me?"
Xiao Zuo hesitated for a long time, and said in a small voice like a mosquito: "I dreamed yesterday that you fired me. ”
Cao Ping couldn't laugh or cry, and said, "What do you want? How could I fire you?"
Xiao Zuo started his head, and simply continued: "Crispy noodles, little white face and glasses brother are all elites that Mr. Cao dug through the headhunting company, only I am a fresh graduate, I don't know anything, when Mr. Cao you find better finance, you will replace me!" Xiao Zuo said very sadly, and even wiped tears from his eyes.
Cao Ping is very big, it turns out that this little girl has a sense of crisis! This is a good thing, only with a sense of crisis can she have the motivation to work, but for the time being, it is necessary to calm her emotions first. Scratching his head, he made a reason to comfort her, and said, "Who said you don't know anything? ”
Xiao Zuo sobbed and said: "I didn't do well, my grades in the class were only in the middle, and there were many people who did better than me......"
Cao Ping smiled helplessly, this stupid girl, two years older than herself, why is her psychological quality so poor? patted her on the shoulder, Cao Ping said seriously: "Xiao Zuo, you are not bad at all, you are a professional accountant, you are from a professional class, you are much stronger than many people, and, in the past few months, I think you are a good employee, do you know why?"
Xiao Zuo stopped crying, wiped his tears and asked, "Why?"
Cao Ping said: " You are a good employee who works hard and earnestly, these few months, although I said that as long as you do a good job, you can arrange your time freely, but only you insist on working in accordance with the statutory commuting time every day, and you are very serious, every time you give me the accounts, there is no mistake, which means that you must have checked several times before showing me, this is a very rigorous good habit, very important for financial personnel, and the company has so much cash placed in your place, you are not greedy, which shows that you are a kind and honest employee, so, I will not fire you, you don't think nonsense。 ”
Xiao Zuo said a little anxiously: "No, no, Mr. Cao, I won't be greedy, you pay me a salary every month, it's enough for me, and it's the company's money, I don't dare to have the slightest thought." ”
Cao Ping said with a smile: "Of course I know, so you can rest assured that you will work hard, and you will be busy soon." In fact, even if she has an idea, she can't get a penny if she has three games, so Cao Ping is not worried at all.
Xiao Zuo was relieved at this time, and she asked, "Does the company have any new projects?"
Cao Ping shook his head and said, "Not yet, let's finish "Flower Thousand Bone" first, by the way, did the crew send you the recent accounts?"