Royal Beast: A Million Evolutions of Magic Pets

Yu Manling felt a little headache. She wanted to prove to Wang Chong that she had the potential to become a superstar. She wanted Wang Chong to make money from his investment in her, and make a lot of money.

But following Shen Zhiyin's merciless words, she felt that her idea seemed to fail.

If the movie really only has a box office of 300 million in the end and can barely breakeven, how should Wang Chong view himself? Even if Wang Chong doesn't mind, he can't pass his level!

It's so difficult to make a movie.

Yu Manling was a little troubled, but she didn't know what to do. When she left Shen Zhiyin's office, she felt like she had lost her soul.

As for what Shen Zhiyin said, everything must be the best, reach the ultimate in all aspects, and the box office can reach 600 million. Yu Manling just listened to it. How can it be possible to achieve the ultimate in making movies?

If nothing else, even if I work hard to improve my somewhat poor acting skills, where can I find the best director, the best male lead, the best camera operator, lighting engineer, and makeup artist?

Of those people, Wang Chong and the others paid four times the extremely high salary, but they couldn't recruit even one of them, let alone the best from all of them.

Even if they really want to come, there are all kinds of other problems.

You must know that the film industry is the most accident-prone. Take schedules as an example. Good schedules, such as New Year's Day, celebration days, etc., are big productions with big names gathered. Her small-budget movie was put in and she was used as cannon fodder. None of the qualifications.

If you carefully choose ordinary schedules at other times, it is not easy to encounter any powerful blockbusters.

But if there happens to be a dark horse hit, the theater front will definitely be willing to fully schedule the dark horse movies that the audience likes to watch more, and at the same time, it will also squeeze the broadcasting venues of other scheduled films to a small extent, or even directly squeeze them. lines are possible.

Even the strongest professionals cannot predict these things that depend on luck. There are many similar things. Therefore, in the film and television industry, in addition to professionalism, luck is really also a very important part.

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But it seemed that Wang Chong was very lucky. That afternoon, he suddenly received a call from Yan Zisheng. The other party actually came to Haicheng City and made an appointment with Wang Chong to meet at a hotel. The meaning of this is self-evident.

Yan Zisheng is quite tall, wears gold-rimmed glasses, is tall and thin, and always has a smile on his face, which makes people feel like spring breeze.

Seeing him, Wang Chong took the lead in extending his hand and said to Yan Zisheng, "Welcome, Mr. Yan, since you have come to Haicheng City, I must treat you well and spend a few days here."

Yan Zisheng smiled and shook hands with Wang Chong, and then said, "Thank you very much, but Mr. Wang, your time is precious, so I won't nag you too much. Let's sit down and talk first?"

"Okay." The two of them greeted each other politely, and then Yan Zisheng talked about the purpose of his visit in the restaurant.

Yan Zisheng is a high-end talent of the same level as Shen Zhiyin.

When cooperating with a headhunting company, the other party set two important targets for Wang Chong, one was Shen Zhiyin and the other was Yan Zisheng.

The reason why Yan Zisheng suddenly found Wang Chong a few days later was because he had been observing whether this new company was suitable for him and whether Wang Chong's actions were in line with his wishes.

Sometimes, for talents like Yan Zisheng, high salary alone can no longer attract them. The important factors that attract them are whether they can have a broad platform for them to show off their skills, an ideal working environment, etc.

So after secretly investigating for a period of time and feeling that Wang Chong's company was indeed suitable for him, he finally agreed to come and have a chat with Wang Chong.

Yan Zisheng asked directly, "Mr. Wang, you said before that as long as I can come to your company, you can do whatever it takes, right?"

Wang Chong said without any hesitation, "Yes, as long as you are willing to join us, no matter what the conditions are, I will try my best to satisfy you."

Yan Zisheng didn't nod and said, "Excuse me, are there any other positions in your company that are suitable for me?"

Yan Zisheng's words are not unreasonable. Wang Chong only has two companies in his hands, and Yu Manling is in name only. Everyone knows that Yu Manling has no management skills and does not want to take care of things. Su Tong is in charge of the studio.

Su Tong of Manling Film and Television Media Co., Ltd. is only the nominal president, and Shen Zhiyin is actually in charge. It may not be long before the word "deputy" in Shen Zhiyin's job title will be removed.

No matter what, it is impossible for Wang Chong to replace the two of them without special circumstances. Therefore, it is true that there is no suitable position for Yan Zisheng in Wang Chong's existing company system.

And Yan Zisheng, in terms of his original qualifications and position, was more senior to Shen Zhiyin. When he came to Wang Chong's side, he not only wanted to be higher up than Shen Zhiyin, but at least he had to be on an equal footing with Shen Zhiyin, lowering his status and qualifications to serve as Shen Zhiyin's deputy. That is absolutely impossible.

Wang Chong had naturally made arrangements for this, and said slowly, "Of course there is a position."

"Although I already have two companies in the entertainment industry, judging from the current situation, Yu Manling cannot cooperate too much with other companies. Many things need to be coordinated and fought for by ourselves."

"The film and television industry itself is an industry that requires collaboration, so I need to set up a new company to be responsible for work such as advertising negotiations, film and television promotion, etc."

"This is a huge company with great potential. Although it is just one company, it will eventually spawn several, or even a dozen, sizable subsidiaries. And you will be the first president of this large company."

Speaking of this, Wang Chong looked at Yan Zisheng and said, "How is it?"

Yan Zisheng smiled and said bluntly, "Mr. Wang, the company you are talking about now doesn't even have a shadow. Are you just trying to spread the pie?"

Wang Chong did not deny it and said, "The big pie we painted may not be realized. If we have the capital and ability to realize it, we can also call it an ideal."

Yan Zisheng took a deep look at Wang Chong and said, "Mr. Wang's ideal is indeed good, but I have another idea..."

"Other ideas? Let's talk about it." Wang Chong nodded slightly. When negotiating conditions, it is natural for both parties to negotiate, rather than unilaterally raising conditions.

Yan Zisheng nodded, took out a piece of information from the document bag he carried with him, and handed it to Wang Chong.

It seems that Yan Zisheng came prepared.

Wang Chong understood in his heart, took the information handed to him by Yan Zisheng, opened it and read it slowly.

While Wang Chong was browsing the materials, Yan Zisheng leaned back on his seat and ate his refreshments.

After reading the information, Wang Chong was a little surprised. Because in this information, Yan Zisheng did not mention his salary, benefits, or even his job or position.

He put forward another condition, hoping to cooperate with Wang Chong to open a film and television distribution company.

Wang Chong provided the majority of the capital, and he himself contributed a small part of the capital and technology to become a shareholder.

Many of the so-called technical shares are actually the connections and favors that Yan Zisheng has accumulated over many years of working in television stations.

However, these connections and favors that others did not have were enough for him to easily conquer a world in the film and television distribution industry.

In this plan, Yan Zisheng expressed his thoughts very bluntly. Before, he worked in other people's companies. Even though he became the president of the company step by step, he only had a few shares and options in his hands.

This time, he wants to start his own business and become his own boss.

However, starting a business always requires capital. Some time ago, he encountered something, and he only had more than 10 million yuan left in his hand, which was far from enough to support a company.

Although he can borrow a lot of money through his extensive network, doing business is risky. If he loses, his vitality will be severely damaged, and it will be difficult for him to even have a chance to make a comeback.

So last time when Wang Chong came to his house to visit the thatched cottage, he said that he could ask for any conditions. He came up with the idea of ​​borrowing chickens to lay eggs. He thought about investing in his own technology and using Wang Chong's money to start a business.

Of course, if he dared to put forward such conditions, he would be sure to convince Wang Chong.

In this newly established film and television distribution company, Wang Chong invested 200 million as initial operating capital, accounting for 80% of the shares. His 'technology' and capabilities were calculated based on 50 million, accounting for 2% of the shares.

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He planned to sign a betting agreement with Wang Chong, betting on different equity and dividends based on the completed mission goals.

For example, if Yan Zisheng can bring more than 300 million in profits to the company within two years, then he will receive an additional 5% of the company's shares and corresponding dividends.

If he can bring more than 600 million in profits to the company within two years, then he will receive an additional 12% of the shares and corresponding dividends.

If he can achieve a profit of one billion, he can get 31% of the shares and corresponding dividends.

Where did the extra shares come from? Naturally, they came from Wang Chong. On the contrary, if he failed to achieve his goal, the equity and dividends in his hands would fall into Wang Chong's hands.

Yan Zisheng believed that there was a high probability that Wang Chong would agree to his conditions. After all, it was very tempting to earn profits several times more than his investment in two years.

Regarding Yan Zisheng's conditions, Wang Chong did not answer, but fell into thinking.

In the film market, distribution companies are a very special existence. Compared with foreign countries, this is a unique product of the alliance.

A good distribution company is an important link between theaters and production companies. It helps good films to be recognized and scheduled in theaters, and then has the opportunity to find its audience. This makes the film a huge box office success.

Some relatively well-known distribution companies, such as Zhongqian Company, have relied on their flexible publicity and distribution strategies to achieve many successful box office films since their establishment. For example, last year, they helped a horror film produced by a small-cost alliance to gain popularity among horror films of the same type.

The movie earned nearly 600 million at the box office.

These film and television distribution companies rely on their rich offline resources to undertake the work of local promotion. Through their own publicity and distribution strategies, they can maximize and accurately find the audience for the film, thereby covering the incremental population and achieving ideal and expected box office results.

In addition to theater chains, online distribution is also a distribution company, which needs more of a big piece of the pie. And the proportion is not small.

Yan Zisheng's goal is of course not to become the CEO of a simple film promotion and distribution company, but to become the CEO of a giant company like Zhang's Film and Television Group. He plans to use this distribution company jointly established with Wang Chong as the basis.

, constantly extending to the upstream content side, eventually making this company a giant in the entertainment industry.

However, there is no need to talk to Wang Chong about these ambitions.

In fact, in the entertainment industry, there are many cases where distribution companies have grown into top companies in the entertainment industry.

Because distribution companies have long been dealing with theaters and Internet film and television broadcast platforms and have close contact with audiences, they are among the most sensitive to changes in audience tastes and user consumption.

They know what the audience wants and have a deep understanding of what the audience likes. At the same time, they have accumulated rich experience in publicity and distribution, and can guide the works to achieve great success, develop and strengthen themselves.

Coincidentally, if the movie "Breathing Pain" wants to achieve higher box office, finding a good film distribution company will also have a great improvement effect. This is what Shen Zhiyin mentioned.

However, what Wang Chong wants more is a stable, own-owned film distribution company that can help Yu Manling promote and distribute her various films regardless of cost.

Because other distributors want to make money, control costs, and consider whether it is worth sacrificing their own face and connections for other companies' movies. But a distribution company established by itself does not need to worry about this at all.

According to Yan Zisheng's ability, the newly established film and television distribution company is expected to be able to help the movie "Breathing Pain" get a large number of screenings in major theaters and various cooperation on various online platforms. So there is still hope for the movie

Breaking 1 billion in box office.

If Yan Zisheng always thinks about going solo and cares about the company's profits and costs, without considering making Yu Manling more successful, then he is putting the cart before the horse by setting up this so-called film and television distribution company.

But if a person already wants to be his own boss and forces him to work for him, it would be even worse. This would not only turn the two parties against each other, but also seriously affect Yu Manling's plan to become a superstar.

After thinking for a while, Wang Chong made a decision, "I think this plan is okay, but there are a lot of things that need to be improved."

Yan Zisheng nodded when he heard this. It is normal to make improvements. After all, this is just his unilateral idea: "Well, Wang Zhong, what aspects do you think should be modified?"

Wang Chong found a pen and scribbled on Yan Zisheng's information for a while, then handed it to Yan Zisheng.

Yan Zisheng took the document and looked at it curiously. At first glance, he was a little confused because the plan was a bit beyond his expectation.

This plan positions this distribution company first as a company that specializes in distributing movies starring Yu Manling, and the second is the requirement for a company to make profits.

The conditions of the equity gambling plan also included requirements for the promotion of Yu Manling's film. However, the shares and corresponding dividends were greatly increased.

For example, if Yan Zisheng can increase the box office of Yu Manling's films by 50% within three years (according to the box office that can be achieved by ordinary distribution companies) and bring more than 300 million profits to the company, then he will get more money from the company

Ten percent of the shares and corresponding dividends.

This is just one of the modifications, and there will be a bunch of equity incentive and dividend incentive plans listed later.

For example, the company has specially set up a distribution team for Yu Manling's movies. The higher the box office of Yu Manling's movies, the higher the dividends the distribution team will receive.

What surprised Yan Zisheng the most was that Wang Chong supported Yu Manling almost regardless of the cost.

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