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Volume 2 1998 Chapter 228 Next year is crucial

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    Corporate restructuring is a big deal!

    This time, senior executives of Meihua Group, including Cao Guowei of Xinlang Chinese and Wang Yu of overseas companies, all rushed back from various places and gathered at the group headquarters.

    In the conference hall, everyone gathered together.

    As soon as the business was done, everyone's conversation involuntarily turned to Qin Tianzhu's new drama "The Legend of Two Dragons of the Tang Dynasty".

    As a media person, Xinlang Chinese CEO Cao Guowei said with regret: "Director Qin, why don't you announce our plan to form a new company and launch a super movie city to the media? This news is very explosive, and we at Xinlang  I really hope that we can report this news as soon as possible.¡±

    Qin Tianzhu waved his hand: "The right way is for us to get things done down-to-earth. If I throw out a super movie city plan to the public again, others will give me the nickname 'Qin Cannon'. Forget it.  It¡¯s better that we fire less cannons!¡±

    Xu Yongan said cheerfully: "Speaking of which, our Young Master Qin has been very popular these days. He should be considered to be the most famous person in the world, right?"

    Qin Tianzhu did not take his words as a compliment. He laughed at himself and said: "What a shameless international. I guess I have a silly and bold name on my head now. How many people are waiting to see my jokes!"

    Liu Dehua, as the director of the new company, is also at the Meihua headquarters today.  After listening to Qin Tianzhu's advice that day, he is currently looking for a place to live in Lingquan City, preparing to use this place as a long-term settlement.

    Qin Tianzhu's "Datang" has a huge investment scale, which Andy Lau had already anticipated before he was invited to participate.  But he never expected that the scale of investment would be so huge, and inviting Keanu Reeves to participate was something he had never expected before.  As a member of the company, he is now extremely concerned about the company's big move.

    "Xiao Zhu, how big is the investment scale of "Datang"?"

    When Liu Dehua asked, other executives in the conference hall immediately stopped talking and looked at Qin Tianzhu.  Obviously everyone is also concerned about this issue.

    Qin Tianzhu smiled: "Why, are you worried that my hammer will bring down the Meihua Group, hahaha!"

    Deputy Mayor Ma Xin, the representative of the municipal government, said: "If you want to say that the Meihua Group will be destroyed, it will definitely not happen. Everyone knows about Director Xiao Qin's net worth. Even if he loses hundreds of millions of dollars, he can't touch Xiao Qin.  Your fundamentals. The question everyone has right now is, is such a risk worth taking?"

    Many people couldn¡¯t help but nodded after hearing this. Mayor Ma meant exactly what they were thinking.

    These people here are either major shareholders of the company or managers of various subsidiaries of the company. With such a big move, Qin Tianzhu felt that it was necessary to let them have a detailed understanding of this project.

    "I calculated the investment in "The Legend of Two Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" based on the first-round single-episode revenue of "The Swordsman". Our share of single-episode advertising revenue for "The Swordsman" was 14 million, and "The Legend of Two Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" was 14 million yuan.  I set the investment intensity for a single episode of "The Legend of the Tang Dynasty" at 13 million yuan, and left a reserve of 14 million yuan. The final script of "The Tang Dynasty" was compressed to 90 episodes, so the initial investment budget was 1.17 billion yuan, or 140 million US dollars.  about."

    With a production cost of more than 1 billion yuan, even though everyone had certain expectations, they were still shocked by the high production cost.

    At this time, Qin Tianzhu acted like a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water, and continued without surprising: "In addition, we also have the purpose of using "Datang" to promote the construction of Sui and Tang Towns. If this cost is counted as "Datang"  "In terms of location fees, the total investment in "Datang" is about US$300 million."

    Liu Dehua asked a little strangely: "How do you spend such a large budget?"

    Qin Tianzhu settled their accounts one by one.

    Actors¡¯ remuneration is the largest part, but Meihua Media¡¯s arrangements have reduced this cost to a minimum.  Most of the big-name actors play minor roles, so Meihua Media only needs to pay some food and travel expenses.  Of course, Meihua Media also owes them a favor.  Generally famous actors play supporting roles, and most of them charge a friendly price at half the price.  Most of the leading actors in this drama are artists under the company or simply newcomers, and their remuneration is almost negligible.

    Those who really need to pay larger salaries are the few big stars who play the leading roles.  The biggest item is of course Keanu Reeves' 100 million salary. In addition, Takako Tokiwa who plays Shi Fei Xuan, Li Lai who plays Li Shimin, and Chen Daomin who plays Shi Zhixuan also paid a certain price.  Sophie and Natalie are Westerners. Although they are also guest stars, they are not as particular about human relationships as big-name Chinese actors such as Cheng Long. Meihua Media also paid several million yuan in appearance fees for this.

    With this arrangement, although the total remuneration of the actors is kept to a minimum, because there are too many actors, "Datang" finally increased the actor's expenses, reaching 250 million yuan.

    In order to pursue the ultimate effect of the picture, "Datang" was shot on 35mm film, which was also a huge expense.

    In terms of background music, "Datang" has prepared a budget of 90 million yuan.  "Datang" is a dynastic hegemony drama with a large number of cold weapon war scenes.  Makeup, special effects, costumes, sets

    Based on this calculation, the pure production cost of US$140 million is not an exaggeration at all.

    "You don't need to be frightened by this figure. A few years ago, the cost for Americans to shoot about 10 episodes of "Band of Brothers" was as high as 125 million US dollars. Our "Datang" is 90 episodes long. In terms of pure production costs  , which is only about 140 million, which is far from "Band of Brothers"!"

    Vice President Wang Yu couldn't help but remind: "Director Qin, you should consider the gap in exchange rates and price levels between the two countries!"

    "I know, I know!" Qin Tianzhu nodded: "Let's just treat it as a tie. I say this just because I hope you don't think this is so outrageous."

    He stood up and spoke eloquently in front of everyone: "It is not easy to bring a historical and martial arts drama into the mainstream European and American markets. I don't want to achieve a level of hardware that will amaze Westerners. How can I attract them to watch the drama?"  Interested? Guanghua, since the news of Keanu Reeves joining "The Great Tang" was announced, various TV stations in the United States should have started to be interested, right?"

    Jin Guanghua nodded, "Yes, in the past few days, NBC, CBS, ABC, HBO and other TV stations have expressed their intention to cooperate with us, asking in detail about the specific situation of the "Datang" project. This should be the 100 million yuan we spent  , bring back the profits!¡±

    Wang Yu seemed to be here specifically to pour cold water on the show today. He couldn't help but attack: "It's useless, just like the domestic media said. This type of TV series basically can't even pass the pilot episode in the United States."

    "How do you know if you haven't tried it? In the past, our "Datang" didn't even have the ability to arouse the interest of American TV stations. Now, people take the initiative to contact us and ask for cooperation. At least we can win a chance to pilot it. This is progress!  "

    Qin Tianzhu seems to be determined to place a heavy bet on "Datang" and is not swayed by the difficulties that others say.

    He continued: "Even if we take a step back, our last gamble failed. At least recovering the cost in the domestic market should not be a big problem, right? Do you think that with such a huge cast, the final ratings will not be as good as ""  "Swordsman and Proud Jianghu"!"

    Zhou Jiapeng said: "Xiao Zhu, I think it is necessary to give you a warning. If your drama ends up just maintaining a break-even situation, the company will be very passive. Not to mention the loss of the company and your personal reputation, you  We also know that the company's capital chain will be relatively tight in the next few years. Not only are there pressures to repay principal and interest on infrastructure projects, but there are also requirements to pay nearly 800 million yuan in land transfer fees every year. As for Mr. Qin, your drama has always been about the company's profits.  The most important source, it will always bring hundreds of millions of revenue to the company in recent years. If this revenue is suddenly cut off"

    After he finished speaking, he looked at Qin Tianzhu. What he meant at the moment was that the current company was still very dependent on the TV series project directed by Qin Tianzhu.

    Seeing that most people in the company had reservations about the "Datang" project, Qin Tianzhu felt a little depressed.

    "Okay, okay. I promise, if the "Datang" project does not make money for the company, I will sell the shares of Global Village Technology and I will ensure that the company has ample cash flow!"

    He looked around. Among the company's senior executives with serious expressions, only Xu Yong'an was smiling. He seemed to have no idea about Qin Tianzhu's big adventure.

    Qin Tianzhu immediately became interested, "Brother Xu, your Hengdian* Group was still a little worried about the company merger a few days ago. I thought you would be even more frightened by my big gamble now, and there would be no hope for cooperation.  Yes. Now it seems that you are not too worried!"

    Xu Yongan said: "We had concerns a few days ago, and it was out of consideration for the company's autonomy. As for this little adventure of yours, Mr. Qin," he sneered and said, "With Mr. Qin, your super movie a few years ago  Compared to the city plan, this is nothing!"

    Seeing that his words aroused everyone's interest, Xu Yong'an also became interested in the conversation, "In 1998, what was the Heng*dian Group and Meihua Media at that time? But at that time, Qin Tianzhu dared to imagine  Most of Lingquan City has been built into a film and television city. How about the development over the past few years? The project of the Super Film and Television City has now been taken shape in front of you bit by bit. So, on the one hand, everyone must have a good attitude towards Mr. Qin.  Have absolute confidence! On the other hand,"

    He looked at Qin Tianzhu and said with an inscrutable expression: "I think Mr. Qin should still have a few trump cards in his hand. He is not a short seller.As a gunman, you all know these difficulties. He is such a smart person, wouldn¡¯t he know about it?  "

    Everyone immediately turned their attention to Qin Tianzhu, with doubts on their faces.

    Qin Tianzhu also had to admit that Xu Yongan's vision was really vicious.

    "Indeed, regarding the way to make money from "Datang", I have never thought about hanging myself in the European and American TV market. As for what my trump card is, the time is not ripe, so please forgive me for keeping it secret for the time being. Guanghua, Lao Wang  , you still have to work hard to tackle the European and American TV markets."

    After he finished speaking, he stopped talking about the topic of "Datang" and instead assigned tasks to several subordinates of the subsidiaries.

    "Next year is very critical for us at Meihua Media. I call you back from the outside because I want to explain it to you personally."

    He first said to Zhou Jiapeng: "Brother Zhou, in the next period of time, the group will be listed as a whole and raise sufficient funds for the film and television city plan. This is the company's top priority. I will leave this job to you."

    The second person to pay attention to was Cao Guowei of Xinlang Chinese, "Old Cao, you may not know that there is a Central Research Institute directly under the head office, which is responsible for cutting-edge innovative research on media and film and television technology. They now have several  It¡¯s a good project, and it¡¯s very suitable for Xinlang Chinese to operate. Xinlang Chinese needs to coordinate and communicate with Academia Sinica to run the project together.¡±

    A newly established unit under the Academia Sinica Group, formerly the company's equipment department.  Other departments of the company have been gradually transferred out over the years, but the equipment department has always been directly managed by the head office.  In the following time, Qin Tianzhu recruited a group of engineers for the equipment department one after another to realize the research and development of some new technology concepts in his mind.

    Although Cao Guowei was a little confused, he still nodded and decided to go to this research institute to see what happened after the meeting ended.

    "Brother Xu, my "Datang" will start filming early next year. The production cycle lasts for 2 years. During this period, the construction of Sui and Tang Towns must be in front of the crew. We must not hold back the crew."

    "Don't worry!"

    Xu Yongan is very good at his old profession: "We already have construction experience in Qin Town and Minguo Town, and the architectural design work in Suitang Town has also been completed. Funds are not a problem, and neither is the construction period!"

    Vice Mayor Ma Xin also expressed his position on behalf of the municipal government that he will fully cooperate with the construction of Suitang Town of Meihua Group.  The municipal government is now also the major shareholder of Meihua Group. Driven by interests, the enthusiasm is also very high.

    Meihua Entertainment is the core enterprise of Meihua Group. Qin Tianzhu has high expectations for Meihua Entertainment: "Guanghua, your Meihua Entertainment system construction has been going on for several years. Next year will be the time to test the results of your Meihua Entertainment system construction. I hope you will not  it disappointed me!"

    Jin Guanghua raised his head, full of confidence, "We at Meihua Entertainment will definitely submit a satisfactory answer to the head office next year!"

    Finally, there is the work arrangement for the group¡¯s overseas companies.

    "Lao Wang, I am generally very satisfied with the past two years that you have been in charge of the overseas company. Although the overseas company has not made much money, it has not lost much. Through the accumulation of investment in a large number of small overseas projects, you have contributed to the company's global success.  Having managed a large number of personal relationships, it is not easy to maintain this situation. This year and next, your overseas companies will also face major exams."

    Qin Tianzhu stretched out his right finger, "The most important thing for you in the next two years is to do your best to develop "Datang" in overseas markets. You will never give up until you are at the end of your rope."

    "OK!"

    Although Wang Yu himself has reservations about the "Datang" project, now that the head office has made a decision, he will definitely complete it to the letter. This is his ethics as a professional manager.

    "Of course, the most important thing for your overseas company right now is the distribution of "The Lord of the Rings". How is it, is everything going well?"

    The movie "The Lord of the Rings", which took two years to be filmed, is finally about to reach its harvest period. Qin Tianzhu himself also feels a sense of relief.  Once the investment in "Lord of the Rings" is withdrawn, the company's financial pressure next year will be much easier.

    "The schedule is scheduled for New Year's Day next year, with a premiere in 2,800 theaters in North America! We originally wanted to strive for the Christmas prime time, but the power of major Hollywood companies is so huge that we can only settle for the next best thing. Fortunately, the theater managers are very fond of "The Lord of the Rings"  I am confident, I am very satisfied with the quality of this film, and the box office should satisfy us!"

    Qin Tianzhu patted Wang Yu on the shoulder: "This is already a very good result. To get the New Year's Day schedule is to pull a tooth out of the mouth of a major Hollywood company!"

    Qin Tianzhu is indeed very satisfied.  Although this schedule and the amount of films scheduled are somewhat different from New Line's distribution capabilities back then, they are stillThe difference seems to be.  Wang Yu's central work in the past two years has been for the distribution of "The Lord of the Rings". As a Chinese film distribution company, it should be said that Wang Yu and the overseas company he leads have put in a lot of effort to achieve this result.

    By the time Qin Tianzhu had arranged all these work matters, it was almost evening.  It is not easy for the company's top executives to reunite, so Qin Tianzhu is determined to reward everyone in the evening.

    When the meeting was about to end, Liu Dehua suddenly said: "Xiao Zhu, who is the leading actor in "The Legend of Two Dragons of the Tang Dynasty"? Many people want to know! You made the scene so big, and now many people outside are speculating that "The Legend of Two Dragons of the Tang Dynasty"  "The starring role is actually you, otherwise no one can hold you back! Xiaozhu, tell yourself, is this really the case?"

    This was a good question, and everyone started to gossip and listened to Qin Tianzhu's explanation.

    Qin Tianzhu laughed after hearing this: "I acted by myself, this is too unreliable! Brother Hua, you know me. I am a profiteer. How could I let this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make a star go to waste in my own hands?"  inside."

    Everyone seemed not to give up, Qin Tianzhu laughed and scolded: "Don't even guess! You will know in a few days." (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)
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