China Entertainment 1997

January 6, Changping, Beijing

Another five-star cinema opened in Fanxing Cinema Chain. The person in charge of the cinema chain finally caught Cao Xuan who was idle and cut the ribbon for the opening of the new store.

Afterwards, Cao Xuan also accepted an interview with "China Movie Channel" as a shareholder of Fanxing Cinemas.

In December 2009, many movies staged Lunar New Year battles.

Xiao Zhou and Sister Zhiling + Chen Daoming and Zeng Zhiwei launch "Chilling".

The box office was unsatisfactory, with nearly 40 million in box office in the first week of release. However, the box office subsequently collapsed, and it may even be canceled ahead of schedule.

The reputation is even worse, with a rating of 3.6 on Time.com, almost breaking the lowest record of "The Promise".

Xiao Zhou's movie route was quite smooth before. "Initial D" became a blockbuster. "Slam Dunk" and "The Golden Jacket" may not have a high reputation, but they achieved good results, and they all benefited him a lot.

It's embarrassing to compare to Cao Xuan, but considering other singers of the same generation, the transformation is also remarkable.

Especially the film "The Untold Secret", which he directed and acted in, has an excellent reputation. Many people even think that he has the potential to become a director.

Until this "The Tomb", Xiao Zhou Zai suffered a huge setback, cutting the momentum of his originally good movie in half and making it impossible to continue.

Xiao Zhou is in trouble. Sister Zhiling and Zeng Zhiwei don't care. The former is just a flower vase and is nothing more than a resource setback. The latter has a lot of bad movies and doesn't care at all.

On the contrary, Chen Daoming was more or less affected.

Lao Chen is a well-known veteran actor, and is known for his aloofness. He still has a high status in the hearts of many movie fans, but he ended up making such a bad movie.

Prior to this, none of the films starring Lao Chen had a rating below 6 on Time.com, and most of the films had a rating of 7 or above.

I don't know how high the average score of "Chilling" this time was. What's worse is that it made many people think that you, Chen, would act in bad movies just for money, and your reputation would be tarnished.

I don’t know if Chen Daoming, who has always cherished feathers, regretted it afterwards.

Fanxing's other masterpiece this year is "Detective Dee: The Empire of Heaven" directed by Mr. Xu, starring Liu Tianwang + Fan Xiaopang + Hu Ge + Zeng Li + Liang Jiahui + Jiao Enjun and others.

In addition, there is also a guest appearance in the TV series "Detective Detective Dee".

Di Da Du Du Liang Guan Hua plays the victim officer, Yuan Fang is also a Qian Niu Guards general who has no name, but his surname is Li, and director Qian Guanqiu makes a guest appearance as a craftsman.

"Detective Detective Dee" is a popular TV series among stars. It has the same theme characters as "Detective Dee Renjie: The Empire of Heaven", and they are both produced by the same company.

The movie even has a bit of the popularity of the TV series, so the company specially invited Audio-Technica and the others to make a cameo, which can be regarded as an Easter egg.

With the accumulation of many movies, Mr. Xu's reputation is not inferior to that of Zhang Chenfeng. Artists like Fanxing may not have the same appeal in movies, but their popularity is really not low. Plus, they have Fanxing Cinemas to rely on.

The box office of "Detective Dee: The Empire of Heaven" is much better than that of "The Original Time and Space". Two weeks after its release, the box office data has exceeded 200 million. According to this trend, 300 million is very promising.

Fan Xiaopang has two blockbusters this year, "The Wind" and "Detective Dee: The Empire of Heaven," and he also won a Golden Horse Award for Best Actress. He is completely proud.

In particular, the International Chapter is currently involved in the "Triple Gate" incident and is in trouble. Mr. Zhou intends to separate from Huayi and set up his own business, which involves a lot of energy.

The two most prominent actresses in the entertainment industry today, one has fallen into a trough, and the other is in the process of transformation.

Fan Xiaopang silently took aim at the position of the number one actress in the mainland, and wanted to take advantage of the situation and enjoy the scenery on the top of the mountain...

"October Siege", which Fanxing also participated in, was also released during the Lunar New Year period, and its data is better than "Detective Dee: The Empire of Heaven".

However, this drama is a group drama with too many big names. Although Liu Tianxian's performance is not bad, the income he received is far less than that of Fan Xiaopang in the same period.

On the contrary, as the producer, Chen Kexin has another project in his hands that has exploded.

This year, three consecutive films, including "The Letter of Merit", "October Siege" and "Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff", have been involved in three films with outstanding results. Chen Kexin is so famous that he has begun to be regarded as one of the two famous directors in Hong Kong with Xu Laoguai.

There is another blockbuster film in the Lunar New Year holiday today, Lao Mouzi's "Three Guns".

After the Beijing Olympics, Lao Mouzi took a break for half a year, and then asked Boss Zhang to make films half begging and half forcing him to do so.

The film "The Last Day" is a remake of the Coen brothers' "Blood Labyrinth", which is a suspense thriller film with strict logic, compact plot and interlocking plots.

No one knows whether it was Lao Mouzi or Boss Zhang who had the idea to recruit Xiao Shen Yang because he became famous last spring.

Coupled with Lao Zhao and his two apprentices, as well as Yan Ni, who has yet to successfully transform after "Wulin Gaiden", a suspense thriller movie was filmed into Liu Laogen's big stage gala.

Definitely the worst movie in Lao Mouzi's career, even "The Great Wall" is better than this one.

During this year's Lunar New Year holiday, the East and West Palaces went to see Lao Mouzi's new work, and then went home full of doubts about life and asked Cao Xuan.

"Did he take this photo? Could it have been outsourced?"

Time.com rated it 4.6, which also broke Lao Mouzi's lowest record. Cao Xuan even suspected that a lot of it was due to the favor points gained during the Beijing Olympics, otherwise he would have been able to compete with "Call of the Tomb".

However, the reputation is poor, and the box office of "Three Guns" is really not bad. 300 million is enough, but 250 million is still very promising.

It can only be said that Lao Mouzi's current signature is still one of the best in box office guarantee...

However, regardless of the reputation of these movies, the box office of the Lunar New Year period is indeed large enough. In December last year alone, the box office was almost 600 million+.

Throughout 2009, the total box office in the Mainland has reached 7.5 billion yuan. There are four movies with a box office of over 400 million yuan, and one with a box office of 500 million yuan, an increase of more than 2 billion yuan compared with last year.

During this period, Star Cinema has become the mainland's largest box office theater for the second consecutive year.

The cumulative annual box office is 1.234 billion, accounting for 16% of the box office share of the mainland film market, and becoming the first theater chain in China with an annual box office exceeding 1 billion.

According to the normal share ratio in the Mainland, for a theater movie, the theater party can get about 50% to 55%, and the maximum can reach 58%.

Fanxing Cinemas does not have franchised theaters, all are directly operated, and the accounts are very clear. The annual box office of 1.234 billion will be divided into dividends according to miscellaneous proportions, and the final account will be 650 million.

In addition, movie theaters also have some other income, such as advertising, popcorn, drinks and snacks, claw machines, peripheral souvenirs, etc., all of which can make money, and many of them are huge profits.

According to calculations, the revenue from each theater under Fanxing Cinemas ranges from hundreds of thousands to millions.

The combined income of dozens of theaters is also very considerable.

The most important thing is that Fanxing Cinema currently owns its own land and house, and has no rental expenses, saving a lot of money. Only accounting for labor costs, water, electricity, equipment, public relations and other chores and tax issues, the net profit can reach 60~80%.

Although the various industries under Cao Xuan are not yet considered the main force, the company with annual profits of hundreds of millions is definitely very capable in 2010.

At the same time, he is also one of the benchmark representatives in the film industry, so the head of the Six Princess program came to Cao Xuan to ask questions.

"The total box office in the mainland market this year is 7.5 billion. Do you think it is expected to reach 10 billion next year?"

"It's not that there is hope, but it can definitely exceed 10 billion."

Cao Xuan is very confident: "In the past few years, the mainland market has continued to prosper and has reached a higher level every year. Especially in the past two years, the average annual increase has exceeded 2 billion. I believe that next year will definitely not be lower than this range. 10 billion is just around the corner." "

In addition, Cao Xuan also boldly predicted that within 3 to 5 years, China will surpass Japan and become the second largest vote base in the world.

In the eyes of many people, this has become a consensus, and even Cao Xuan’s 3 to 5 years were just talking about it.

You know, the total annual box office in Japan this year is equivalent to RMB 16 billion+, which seems to be double the domestic box office. There is a huge gap.

But anyone who has studied the box office markets of the two countries since the new century will find that the distance between the two countries is rapidly shrinking.

In ten years, the gap from more than ten times at the beginning of the century has now been only about doubled.

And the most important thing is that Japan's film market has entered a saturation period. Although it continues to rise, the growth rate is very small.

The country is in a period of rapid growth, with strong momentum and increasing growth rates. The doubling gap seems not small, and it may be wiped out in 2 to 3 years.

Both Asia and Hollywood are beginning to pay more and more attention to the rising Chinese market, and the good days of the film industry are about to begin.

Cao Xuan did not use any of the money Fanxing Cinemas made this year, and even allocated additional funds from other places. After paying off the upfront loan, he took out another loan so that he could continue to work hard with Wanda next year.

The latter is building theaters too fast. With Fanxing still preparing to enter the market, it will be difficult to beat the other party in terms of the number and scale of theaters.

But you can compare the box office performance.

After all, no matter how many screens there are in a theater, it is still empty without seats. Revenue and profit are the fundamental key.

Regarding this point, Fanxing, which is mostly built in second-tier cities and above and has established its own brand, has an absolute advantage.

At least if Wanda Cinema does not have a significant lead in scale, it will be difficult to surpass Fanxing.

While China Film Group and Shanghai Film Group are operating steadily, Wanda and Fanxing have become the leading theater chains, vaguely forming a two-player situation in the theater market. Each has its own advantages, and both want to be number one in the industry.

However, both parties are relatively restrained and it is a friendly business competition.

The main reason is that Lao Wang doesn't want to offend Cao Xuan, and Cao Xuan doesn't want to antagonize Wanda.

If the two sides break up and Fan Xingxing Movies does not enter Wanda Cinemas, it will be a huge loss for both parties.

The personal relationship between Cao Xuan and Lao Wang was quite good. They had two meals together. They were quite different in age, but they knew each other as equals.

This also led to his eldest nephew Wang Dashao posting on Weibo, and Cao Xuan specifically clicked on it, preparing to stay and eat.

The latter also lived up to his expectations. After opening Weibo for a month, he started to show signs of being an "Entertainment Circle Disciplinary Committee", complaining here and there.

However, he is not famous yet and has not enough fun. It should be better once he becomes known as Mr. Wanda.

The entertainment industry has been developing better and better in the past two years, and more and more people are involved. The so-called Four Young Masters in Beijing have become frequent guests on many entertainment headlines.

Especially at the Harper's Bazaar Charity Night last September, Wang Le, one of the four young masters in the capital, conducted the event remotely, and Cheng Long and his wife set up the stage and bought a red sandalwood architectural model of the palace palace for 3.88 million yuan and gave it to Mr. Zhou. It became a hot topic at the time. news.

Of course, many people do not recognize this name, and even ridicule it.

Indeed, in terms of wealth and status, it is indeed difficult for these people to be considered top-notch, especially Liu Tao's husband, who went bankrupt due to the financial crisis.

They called this name mostly because they were related to the entertainment industry and acted in a relatively high-profile manner. Moreover, the name was actually a bit semi-ridiculous at the beginning, but later it was slowly spread and became a neutral one. word.

Someone also wanted to include Cao Xuan, but Cao Xuan even made a clarification.

I come from a family with poor legs for several generations. My father is an out-and-out farmer, but he is not qualified to be called "younger".

Because of this clarification, several young masters seemed to be dissatisfied with Cao Xuan, but Cao Xuan ignored them. To be honest, except for the former errand boy in the family, he really didn't pay attention to the other three.

Not to mention them, even the fathers of a few people are still far away from Boss Cao...

The Spring Festival is approaching, and Cao Xuan has no other company arrangements for the time being, so he simply goes from company to company, taking stock and looking at the business.

Among them, box games are the focus. Although Cao Xuan is not too interested in this company, it is indeed his cash cow.

Even for [Sun Venture Capital], many of them are fixed assets, and the liquidity in hand is far less than that of box games.

Netizen games such as "World of Warcraft", "Cross Fire", and "Dungeon and Fighter" are also developed, as well as online IP games such as "Zhu Xian" and "Douluo Dalu", as well as some miscellaneous game web games.

The latter seems inconspicuous, and the income from a single project is not particularly large, but the accumulation is still very considerable. The key is that the production and maintenance costs are low, and there are penguins to attract traffic, which makes the profits huge.

Throughout 2009, the total revenue of box games reached 5.25 billion yuan.

This is because there are many games that have to be divided with Penguin, otherwise they can still turn over a few percent.

Among many Internet companies, cooperative games may not have the highest market value or the greatest influence, but in terms of profitability, not even Penguin dares to say it can win.

Half of the country in Cao Xuan's hands depends on the continuous blood transfusion of box games.

Cao Xuan is not stingy after making a huge fortune this year.

In addition to normal performance, year-end bonuses, and dividends for all employees of Box Games, he also allocated an additional 35 million for additional bonuses.

The money was not small, but Cao Xuan felt it was well spent.

It’s not that everyone can’t see that the company makes so much money. If it treats its employees badly, people will lose heart. On the contrary, if they spend more money, the employees will taste the benefits, their morale will be high, and they will earn more next year.

Cao Xuan is sometimes as stingy as an old farmer in the field, but when he should be generous, he is also a well-known extravagant person...

In addition to box games, Cao Xuan also prepared generous bonuses for many companies controlled by Cao Xuan, such as Fanxing Group and Jiaoyang Venture Capital, and started a crazy coin-spending mode a year ago.

The additional bonuses alone are expected to reach hundreds of millions, and if you include other lottery draws, gifts and other miscellaneous items, it will be tens of millions less.

Sometimes Cao Xuan also felt that Huang Silang's line made sense. Every time he opened his eyes, he was the breadwinner of thousands of people. It was really stressful.

There are so many employees, and if the bonuses and gifts are a little more expensive and decent, the money will go up rapidly.

Watching the celebrities on the Internet hand out press releases, buy bags and mobile phones for the assistant staff around them, and give out year-end bonuses worth tens of thousands of yuan, the comments section was full of applause.

Cao Xuan took a look at the list in his hand. He originally planned to post it on Weibo to show off to these people, but later he felt it was a bit suspicious of showing off his wealth.

So Cao Xuan switched his trumpet account, became a staff member, and "accidentally" posted it.

All the money has been spent, why don’t you just listen to a few words of praise, be happy...

Soon, the screenshot of the bill went viral on the Internet, causing widespread discussion.

[Hey, this picture is real or fake]

[It should be true. I am from the BMW 4S store in Beijing. Cao Xuan did pick up 4 cars from us. He is our spokesperson. He gets discounts when buying cars. It is easy to tell]

[Annual meeting prizes: a seven-day luxury family trip to Europe, 4 BMWs, 20 laptops, 50 sets of L'Oreal cosmetics, 200 iPhones...Mom, I want to go to the stars]

[Oh my God, why are the prizes at our company’s annual meeting all towels, washing powder, and soybean oil]

[Box Game, Cao Xuan still doesn’t admit it, maybe it’s exposed this time]

[The outside world has long found out, but they haven’t found out how many shares there are, but now it seems that Cao Xuan is definitely the major shareholder, and he will be rewarded if he is told]

[There is a box game next door to our company. I think there are less than 2,000 people. The bonus is 35 million yuan, which is an average of 20,000 yuan per person.]

[And it’s an additional bonus, which is equivalent to getting it for free]

[Envy, our company doesn’t even have a year-end bonus]

[Be content, we not only don’t get bonuses, we don’t even get annual leave]

[A certain point, Fox Animation, Time Network...it turns out that these companies are all owned by Cao Xuan]

[Haha, I work at Boxbox, and I got a bonus of 8,000 last year. It should be a lot more this year]

[This thief pretends to be poor every day, and his employee bonuses alone are hundreds of millions. He must have been extremely rich already]

[What happened to Forbes? He was not included in the list]

[I heard that Cao Xuan was suppressed, otherwise it would not be Xiao Ma's turn to become the richest man. Who doesn't know that he works for Cao Xuan]

[However, Cao Xuan is indeed very generous. After graduating next year, I want to try Stars and Boxes]

【I want to go too】

[If you want to change jobs, look back and see if there is a suitable company]

【……】

The purpose of working is to make money, and a generous boss and generous remuneration are undoubtedly the biggest plus points.

Although Cao Xuan wanted to satisfy his own vanity, he still had the idea of ​​advertising for several companies to attract talents.

As for exposing the connections between several companies, to be honest, there is no way to hide it.

Box Games, in particular, is now the number one game company in the industry and can be ranked among the top five among many Internet companies. It is just relatively low-key, and with Penguin blocking it, it is not out of the circle.

But no matter what, it is difficult for such a giant to pretend to be transparent. Unless Cao Xuan, the boss, completely lets go and cuts off the relationship, he will not be able to avoid being involved.

Nowadays, let alone a third-rate businessman, Cao Xuan claims to be worth tens of billions, but some people don’t believe him because they think the money is too little...

If it's a little bit missing, I'll make it up later.