Of course Shen Mengxi was joking...

He cooperated with Feng Xiaogang?

Is it possible?

The things in Feng Xiaogang's movies are no longer out of line with the times, his movies reflect his era, and the painstaking filming of "If Yun Knows" only makes people feel ridiculous...

I went back to the company and looked at the annual financial report.

The profit of the film is more than 6 billion, of which the peripheral licensing and sales are more than 500 million, and the overseas income is close to 3 billion...

The majority of overseas income is, of course, the investment in "The Hunger Games", "Fifty Shades of Grey", "Untouchable" and other Blenhouse and S Studio projects, with a total income of more than 280 million US dollars!

These are all counted as overseas investment income...

Purely Chinese-language films, "Walking with God", "One Shot to the End", and "Sherlock on the Plains" have earned nearly $160 million overseas...

It's still too little!

When the overseas income can reach 1:1 with the domestic income, it will be considered a major success...

But to be honest, with the expansive development of the domestic market, the domestic market is enough to feed a media company with a market value of more than 200 billion yuan!

This is also the reason why major companies in the mainland are becoming less and less aggressive...

On the premise that you can eat enough at home, there is no need to bother to develop any overseas markets - after all, it is thankless!

It's really thankless, the Italian branch, so far, has not had a work with a box office of more than 100,000 viewers, with a loss of more than 2 million euros...

Moreover, is the so-called opening up of overseas markets political or economic significance?

To put it bluntly, is it a political appeal, a cultural appeal, or a commercial appeal for a film to go overseas?

This question has never been answered or touched upon.

Strictly speaking, Chinese films are now going out, and the appeal is only official, but the official is staying in the conceptual stage, and there is no major policy arrangement for going out, and there are no financial arrangements, organizational arrangements, and personnel arrangements.

A few years ago, the domestic market had not yet risen, and Mengxi Media was of course willing to focus on overseas, but now that the domestic market is developing rapidly, does it still require Shen Mengxi to focus on overseas?

Even if he wanted to, would the whole company agree?

Here's the reality to consider!

I hope that after the release of "The Great Wall", this situation can be changed...

In terms of TV dramas, the profit exceeded 800 million - this number is a bit down, most of this year's projects are mainly investment-based, and its eight major production teams have participated in the investment...

Of course, the investment is also very scary, "Looking for the Dragon", "Walking with God 2, 3", the cost of the three films is more than 600 million...

"Outwitting Tiger Mountain" costs 160 million;

The eight movies being filmed, "Manslaughter", "Montage", "Sweeping Drugs", "Master of Hypnosis", "Witnessed by All", "Charlotte's Troubles", "Perfect Strangers", "The Gift of Room Seven", except for "Charlotte's Troubles", are all movies that cost more than 30 million...

Alas...

With great power comes great responsibility!

Drank a sip of water... Be mentally prepared and open the potato year-end financial report...

It's okay, the annual loss is only 1.8 billion...

Anyway, it's the investor's money that is burned!

First of all, Tudou Video is determined to lose money for a long time - the key to the profitability of the content industry lies in the fact that the content monetization is greater than the content cost.

With the development of the market, the cost of content will become higher and higher, and in the past few years, Shen Mengxi can still play self-made dramas with a cost of less than 30 million, what will happen after that?

Moreover, in addition to self-made dramas, common dramas on the market, potatoes also have to be bought!

It's impossible for iQiyi to have "Xuanyuan Sword" and "Parents' Love", but Tudou doesn't have it, right?

The cost of content is too high.

Why do you have to burn money to do it?

Channels, monetization, traffic...

Looking at the financial report, the annual revenue of Tudou game platform drainage exceeds 2.6 billion!

Waiting for the launch of "Flower Thousand Bone" and "Ghost Blowing the Lamp"...

By the way, "Flower Thousand Bone", Tudou decided to broadcast exclusively, and the copyright fee of 180 million - a new high!

I still have to hurry up to raise money, this time I will raise more money, 8 billion, last for three years, and then go to the Hong Kong stock market.

Why Hong Kong stocks?

Because of the A-share listing, there are hard conditions: it must be profitable!

And it's been profitable for three years in a row

If you step on a horse, you can make a profit, why should Lao Tzu go public?

......

"After a month of collecting wind, have you gained anything?"

"There's a fart harvest, the whole world is the same, and they are all raising the price!"

"What?"

“... Nothing..."

Shaanxi Weiju, Shen Mengxi, Ning Hao, Xu Zheng, Yang Qing and Wu Ershan...

This is a small gathering that Shen Mengxi prevented, Wu Ershan didn't want to come, but Shen Mengxi said, Lao Tzu will make you rich!

Rich?

That... Let's go for it.

"Is Scarlett Johansson good to work with?"

“... It's okay, but she's a little short, and she doesn't leave her cigarette..."

After a pause, Shen Mengxi added: "In fact, Hollywood commercial stars have a very high level of professionalism, and after receiving money, they must go to work and work on time..."

"Is it called "Super Body"?"

"Yes!"

"What's the story?"

"It tells the story of the development of the human brain, and finally the sanctification of the flesh... When the time comes, you can just go and watch it, this movie is very beautiful..."

"Xiangyan?"

"Well, the heroine Scarlett Johansson, the villain found Gong Li, and the two of them had a scene where they took a bath together..."

Xu Zheng's eyes lit up: "Take a bath together?"

"It was designed by the director... Duncan Jones, like Tsui Hark, has a lily plot!" Shen Mengxi complained.

"Gong Li also starred?"

"I originally wanted to find Cate Blanchett, but she was too expensive, so I replaced it with Gong Li..."

By the way, I added: "But when I was in Hungary, Gong Li was not in the crew, and her role was mainly concentrated in Hong Kong..."

To explain, the villain of "Super Body" originally wanted Liu Yifei to play, but she didn't have the right schedule, and she didn't like to play such a role...

"Mission Impossible 4" only played a female killer, and "Super Body" is the boss of the Black Club again...

Sooner or later, someone will protest and insult the Chinese!

When the meal was served, Shen Mengxi raised his glass: "First of all, congratulations to Lao Ning and Lao Xu on the box office sales of the two movies, and officially joining the Billion Directors Club!"

"Cheers!"

Everyone raised their glasses and took a sip...

It's red wine, Kang Mandi red wine, Shen Mengxi deliberately put it here.

Xu Zhengdao: "I personally feel that after the box office exceeds 500 million, it will be an event, and it has nothing to do with the movie itself!"

Yang Qing: "This is a private party, don't talk about such an exclusive interview!"

"Really, I didn't expect the box office to be so high... You've all watched movies before, and you expect it to be 1.2 billion?"

Ning Hao shook his head: "To be honest, I expect that "One Shot to the End" will be about 3~500 million, and it will reach 1.2 billion all of a sudden... I'm a little confused..."

This year is the box office champion again!"

"Painted Skin 3" won last year's domestic film box office champion, and "Walking with God" was the box office champion for 12 years...

Although "Painted Skin 3" is not directed by Wu Ershan himself, he is the producer!

Wu Ershan hesitated for a moment, and then said honestly: "To be honest, we made preliminary preparations for "Walking with God" according to the mainland box office of 800 million, and the production cost was reversed..."