China Entertainment: Director’s happiness is so simple

On the 26th, Lu safely landed in Beijing.

When leaving customs, Lu Pingan was surrounded by a group of foreigners.

This scene looks like a large-scale star chasing scene.

In fact, it is indeed a star chasing scene.

"Kung Fu Panda" is a hit in North America, and Lu Ping'an and Cheng Long have shouted "Go to Chengdu to see pandas" many times in the past two weeks.

So today these foreigners are quite lucky to be able to take the same plane to China as Lu Pingan, the director of Kung Fu Panda.

Movie fans in the world are all the same when it comes to chasing stars.

But from the perspective of Chinese people at the airport, this scene is very unusual.

We often see Chinese people surrounding foreigners, or Chinese people surrounding Chinese celebrities. How can foreigners surround Chinese people, and it's still within China.

So at first, when people at the airport saw this scene, they thought it was some Hollywood superstar coming.

When I looked at the result, I saw, oh, it’s a safe road, no wonder.

Now with the popularity of "Kung Fu Panda", Lu Ping'an has become one of the ten directors with the highest cumulative box office in the world.

The first is Spielberg, and Lu Ping'an is ranked 8th or somewhere else. In short, he is in the top ten.

The only Chinese among the ten.

Then many people felt as if they were meeting Lu Ping An for the first time.

I knew he was awesome, but I didn't expect him to be so awesome.

Lu Ping An's status in the hearts of Chinese people is rising again invisibly.

So at that moment, many people gathered around him, wanting to see the great director's grace.

Of course, more people go to join in the fun.

Everyone wanted to see what was going on and why there were so many foreigners.

So soon, the scene once formed a layer of yellow people in the inner layer, white people in the middle layer, and yellow people in the outer layer, a slowly moving sandwich Swiss roll.

"Thank you and wish you a pleasant journey"

"Bye bye, be careful everyone"

"Okay, bye"

In the end, Lu Ping'an spent a lot of effort to get rid of everyone and get into the car.

After the car was far away, Lu Ping'an put down his waving arms and breathed a sigh of relief.

Then he started to sigh: "I've never seen anything like this before, why is it so lively today?"

"You're just trying to win glory out there." Wu Guohua laughed as he picked him up at the airport.

This was indeed rarely the case before.

The main reason is that Lu Ping'an is a behind-the-scenes worker rather than a star in public.

In fact, if there weren't so many foreigners surrounding us today, the rest of us probably wouldn't be able to recognize the way to safety.

But who makes giant pandas so popular now?

As 2008 approaches, domestic visa requirements for foreign tourists have been adjusted to some extent.

Coupled with the current global popularity of "Kung Fu Panda", the number of foreigners coming to China to see giant pandas has suddenly increased.

CCTV said yesterday that the number of foreigners coming to China has increased by 230% year-on-year in recent times!

So strictly speaking, this situation was caused by Lu Ping'an himself.

Lu Pingan also shook his head and laughed. At the same time, he also decided that it seemed that it was time to buy a plane. It was too much to keep doing this.

I don’t know if Xiang Guoqiang has found a suitable one.

Back at the company, Lu Ping'an took a short break and started the meeting directly.

The first is to welcome Wu Guohua back to the company.

Some time ago, Wu Guohua was arranged by Lu Ping'an to go to Little Target for further study. It's not over yet, but he came back with a mission.

The main task is to cooperate with Xiang Guoqiang to conduct an in-depth review of the company from top to bottom, strictly check all accounts, and plow through all aspects to eliminate hidden dangers and prepare for listing.

It also involves the shareholding structure, which is also the part that employees are most willing to hear because it involves small amounts of money.

The in-depth review of this matter happened to be during the period when Lu Ping'an joined the directing team, so overall the timing is excellent.

There isn't much going on in the company during this period, so we can just cooperate well.

When the Olympics are over and Lu Pingan returns to start new projects, it will be time to sprint.

After the meeting, it was already dinner time. Lu Pingan continued to chat with Xiang Guoqiang over his work meal.

In fact, strictly speaking, there is no need for Xingchen to go public because there is no shortage of money.

But from a long-term perspective, listing is indeed necessary.

Listing is all about financing.

In the future, Xingchen will need to expand in theaters, video websites, TV series, and its peripheral businesses and live entertainment.

The golden window for expansion is before 2014.

This kind of thing is about speed. The sooner it is completed, the better. The existing money can support it, but it is far less stable than listing financing.

Therefore, the overall listing is necessary.

After the listing, Xingchen will continue to spin off. Xingchen animation, theaters, peripheral businesses, video websites, etc. that can be spun off and listed will be spun off. If necessary, the theme of Xingchen Film and Television can be retained and delisted to ensure independence. sex.

This is the plan for the future.

If it could be done, Xingchen would definitely be a giant.

To achieve this step, all in all, the work must be excellent.

Huayi was extremely popular before 2015, and its market value once reached more than 90 billion.

This has attracted Ali Lao Ma, who says he doesn't care about money, to invest in the company many times.

But Huayi later went crazy and started to act haphazardly. It bought all kinds of things, buying whatever was expensive. It bought hundreds of millions of famous paintings without blinking an eye. It didn’t manage the company very well, and it didn’t engage in a diversified strategy. , engaged in everything from comics to music, but in the end, none of them could do well. In the end, the market value plummeted and the glory was gone.

This is to make way for peace.

Lu Ping An himself doesn’t know what the final market value will reach.

After all, the most important thing is actually the work.

As for the work, the most important thing is the people.

Therefore, Lu Ping An will directly launch the talent plan.

In this regard, of course he wants to bring Ning Hao in.

Ning Hao of the original time and space will destroy Monkey Films in the future and come up with the "72 Transformation Film Project". Later, many new generation directors benefited from this.

For example, Lu Yang's "Xiuchundao Shura Battlefield", Wen Muye's "I'm Not the God of Medicine", "The Beneficiary" directed by the Olympic bidder, etc. Ning Hao is the producer of these films.

So Lu Ping An can do the same now.

A company is specially set up, just like "Bad Monkey", or more like the "A24" film company in Hollywood later, a company that specializes in supporting new directors and making some more unique films.

"A24" is the film company that produced "The Universe".

Later, it was praised as "the coolest film company" by many foreign movie fans.

The main reason is that their approach is different from Hollywood.

Hollywood movies have to be distributed globally, so many sensitive things in the movies will not appear.

Such as race, religion, bloody violence, etc.

Although there are still private goods mixed in, the overall situation is actually synonymous with "template" and "rigid".

Hollywood has the same routine, and sometimes you get tired of it.

The A24 does not have this restriction.