This star’s style is wrong

"Boss, this is the revenue report of the "Pretender" TV station and video platform. Most of the money from the TV station has been settled. It will take about three months for the video platform to get its money back."

As the Ningyun Cultural Industrial Park Ark Cultural Headquarters Park project needs to be advanced, the company needs to have sufficient revenue to pass the approval of Ningyun District leaders.

Therefore, Fang Xing asked the finance department yesterday for the revenue report of "The Pretender".

Wang Yichao, the head of the finance department, worked an extra day with his subordinates yesterday to get the reports out, and handed them to Fang Xing this morning.

Fang Xing opened the revenue report of "The Pretender" and browsed.

This report details every expenditure and income, ranging from the money paid by the crew for promotional lunches to the money paid by the TV station.

There are so many entries that it will take a long time to read them all.

Wang Yichao picked up the key points and explained: "Boss, the main revenue of "The Pretender" has two parts. The first part is the broadcast copyright purchased by the TV station.

“Two rounds of ‘The Pretender’ have been aired and the third round has been signed and the payment will be settled within three months.

"The first round of premiere, two satellite TV, 2.2 million episodes, total price 105.6 million.

"The second round of follow-up broadcasts, two satellite TV and six terrestrial channels, cost 1.2 million per episode, with a total price of 57.6 million.

“The third round is 300,000 per episode, with a total price of 14.4 million.

"The total price of the three rounds of broadcasting is 177.6 million."

After summarizing the TV station’s broadcast revenue, Wang Yichao paused before continuing:

“Boss, the part on page 7 is the revenue of the video platform.

“Since the number of views on the video platform continues to grow, the current statistics are for the revenue in June and July.

"According to the webcast contract, "The Pretender" signed a 70% bill-sharing contract with Xiangguo Video and Penguin Video.

“This includes VIP membership accounts for the video platform, CPM advertising accounts and interstitial advertising accounts.

"The total revenue of the three items is expected to be around 213 million. This value is only the result of our preliminary calculation. The specific account data needs to wait for the settlement of the video platform."

Fang Xing nodded slowly and continued to scroll down.

After reading the accounting part, the next step is the payment part.

Wang Yichao continued to explain: "The cost of "The Pretender" mainly includes the actors' salary, shooting costs and post-production costs. The total of this part is 106 million.

"During the broadcast of "The Pretender", the company's publicity and promotion expenses were 13 million.

“The total cost of ‘The Pretender’ was 119 million.

"The total revenue of "The Pretender" was finally calculated to be around 270 million.

"In addition, "The Pretender" also has revenue from the Hong Kong region and some overseas markets, as well as subsequent revenue from the video platform.

"This part of the revenue is expected to be nearly 100 million, and it will not be included in the revenue statement for the time being."

After listening to Wang Yichao's report, Fang Xing nodded slowly and closed the report: "Very good, thank you for working overtime. This week, you organize your finance department to conduct team building and the company will reimburse you."

"I would like to thank the boss on behalf of the staff of the finance department." Wang Yichao agreed and exited the office.

…

The final revenue of "The Pretender" was around 270 million.

This income is already a very strong level in TV dramas.

There are only a handful of TV series that can earn two to three billion a year.

Moreover, "The Pretender" continues to be played on video platforms, and will be distributed on video platforms in the future.

Therefore, after deducting costs, "The Pretender" earned more than 300 million, which is very strong.

However, the Ningyun Cultural Industrial Park project plans to invest 2 billion.

There is still a long way to go to reach this goal.

Moreover, Nebula Animation continues to invest heavily.

Fang Xing plans to build Nebula Animation into a first-tier animation company, but animation is quite expensive.

So far, Nebula Animation is far from profitable and needs to continue investing money.

Moreover, Nebula Animation has recently encountered poaching by competitors.

Since Nebula Animation has been expanding the company's scale, it has contacted many people in the animation industry through headhunting companies.

When we first started, we recruited many excellent animators.

However, it has encountered great resistance recently.

There is another animation company that is also actively poaching people, it is "Shengtian Animation".

Shengtian Animation is an animation company invested by Pengcheng Capital and Dingsheng Capital. Some of its core teams are members of Liangjing Studio in its early days.

After Liangjing Studio produced "Spirited Away", the entire animation studio became famous overnight.

All kinds of capital poured in and began to poach the entrepreneurial team of Liangjing Studio.

The reason why this happens is simple.

"Spirited Away" earned Ark Culture 600 million.

One animated movie made 600 million.

What level is this?

The profits of investment companies that have worked hard for a year cannot reach this level.

An animated film with a revenue of 600 million would be the envy of the animation industry.

Therefore, after Liang Jing Studio became famous overnight, it would naturally attract countless capital pursuits.

In the end, after the original entrepreneurial team of Liangjing Studio received investment, they went their separate ways.

Although the five members of the entrepreneurial team are still friends, when they were having Sanhuo dinner, they still said that San was full of stars.

However, when you start a new company and receive new investment, you must each take charge.

"Shengtian Animation" is an animation company invested by Pengcheng Capital and Dingsheng Capital. It is poaching people everywhere, even at the expense of poaching people from Nebula Animation.

Not only those who were poaching Nebula Animation, but also many animators contacted by Nebula Animation through headhunting companies were also hired by Shengtian Animation first and signed on with higher salaries.

Because of this incident, Liang Jing visited Fang Xing several times.

However, this kind of behavior of Shengtian Animation is a normal business behavior, and there is no other way except to get angry.

For those in the animation industry who have not signed contracts with Nebula Animation, Shengtian Animation can just sign them first.

But recently, Shengtian Animation began to directly poach animators from Nebula Animation.

"Mr. Fang, this is too much. This time Shengtian Animation poached our entire team of colorists, and Shengtian Animation is willing to pay liquidated damages for them. Our "My Neighbor Totoro" project is already in progress. This group is also involved, and I am worried that our "My Neighbor Totoro" project may be at risk of leakage." Liang Jing sounded very angry.

After Fang Xing heard this, his brows suddenly furrowed.

The purpose of poaching current employees is too strong.

More importantly, this group of colorists participated in the "My Neighbor Totoro" project.

If the "My Neighbor Totoro" project is leaked and Shengtian Animation also produces a similar animated film, it will be more troublesome.

Fang Xing asked in a deep voice: "Have they got all the script, character settings, and original paintings of "My Neighbor Totoro"?"

Liang Jing shook his head and replied: "That's not true. The part that the coloring team is responsible for does not involve the script, but mainly the setting of the characters. They have all seen this part."

Even so, things are troublesome.

The core of an animation, the original painting of the character is very important.

The character's image setting directly determines the overall style of the animation.

The style of "My Neighbor Totoro" is warm, plain, and a little bit magical.

Fang Xing thought for a moment and said, "I will send someone over tomorrow to sign a supplementary agreement with all the employees of Nebula Animation. Don't worry too much about this matter. Just be responsible for your work."

"Okay." Liang Jing nodded quickly.

He's really not good at running a company.

He just likes to do animation quietly.

Fang Xing thought for a moment and then said: "One more thing, you must have heard about the Ark Culture Headquarters project in Ningyun Cultural Industrial Park, right?"

Ark Culture is preparing to build its headquarters in Ningyun Cultural Industrial Park and plans to invest 2 billion.

This news is no longer news in the investment industry.

Nebula Animation is a subsidiary of Ark Culture, so naturally they have heard about this project.

Liang Jing nodded and replied, "I've heard of it."

However, he never thought about what this project had to do with him.

After all, this project is to build the headquarters of Ark Culture, and it really has nothing to do with him.

Fang Xing continued: "I plan to move Nebula Animation to the Ark Culture headquarters after it is built. In the future, Nebula Animation will be an important part of Ark Culture."

Liang Jing's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard this.

If Ark Culture's headquarters park was planned to have a Nebula Animation office area from the beginning, it is enough to say that Nebula Animation has a high status in the group.

Liang Jing asked in surprise: "So, Nebula Animation will be able to have an office area in the headquarters building in the future? Can it occupy one floor?"

In his opinion, Ark Culture's headquarters building must be very majestic. If Nebula Animation could occupy a floor in it, it would be so majestic.

Fang Xing shook his head and smiled: "No, my plan is that Nebula Animation has a separate animation building."

"Alone..." Liang Jing once again showed a surprised expression.

"That's for sure. The Ark Cultural Headquarters planned from the beginning was not just a headquarters building, but a campus. Otherwise, one building would not cost 2 billion." Fang Xing answered in a positive tone.

The Oriental Pearl Tower, the landmark building in the East China Sea, only costs more than 800 million.

If Ark Culture just builds a headquarters building, it doesn’t need 2 billion.

Therefore, the initial 2 billion project planned to build the group headquarters of Ark Culture.

The first phase of the project is the headquarters building, and there will be subsequent construction plans for music, film and television dramas, animation, special effects, etc.

Liang Jing's eyes gleamed when he heard this plan.

Fang Xing reminded: "You can disclose this news to the employees of Nebula Animation to stabilize the company's employees as much as possible."

To put it bluntly, this is painting a cake.

If employees of Nebula Animation heard that Nebula Animation would have a separate animation building in Ningyun Cultural Industrial Park in the future, they would naturally be aroused with infinite yearning in their hearts.

In essence, this way of winning over employees is indeed pie-in-the-sky.

However, Fang Xing is not just painting, the animation building is indeed planned, and he will find the best architect to design the animation building to highlight the concept of "animation".

In the future, the Ark Cultural Headquarters Park will become the landmark of the Cultural Industrial Park.

only.

All these plans have a premise.

That is, the 2 billion project in the Ark Culture Headquarters Park can pass the approval of Ningyun District.

The 2 billion project is indeed one of the top three major projects among all the projects in Ningyun Cultural Industrial Park.

Therefore, the leaders of Ningyun District were very cautious in approving this project.

After all, if something goes wrong in such a big project, it will be a big problem.

Prior to this, the strength shown by Ark Culture was not enough to support such a large project.

However, after "The Pretender", things will change.

…

After the summer vacation ended, the national cultural department commended a number of film and television dramas by name.

Among them, "The Pretender" is on the list.

But "The Invisible Spy" is also on the list of praises.

Although the ratings and online broadcasts of "Invisible Spy" collapsed in the later period, the show did not have major problems in terms of its main theme.

Besides, Wu Zhikang, the Golden Peng Emperor, still has a certain influence.

Before Wu Zhikang's role was taken off the production line, this drama was indeed watchable.

Therefore, when the cultural department praised the film and television dramas that won the anti-aggression war, "Invisible Spy" was also on the list.

Although they were praised, Red Film, Pengcheng Capital and Dingsheng Capital did not make a profit on this drama.

Not only that, but the ratings of the two satellite TV stations that purchased "Invisible Spy" were not as good as expected.

If you look at the ratings alone, the average ratings are not too bad.

However, combined with the price of 2.4 million per episode of "Invisible Spy", the two TV stations are relatively miserable.

Donghai Satellite TV and Xiangjiang Satellite TV spent 2.2 million an episode to purchase the first-round premiere rights of "The Pretender", and the ratings both broke through.

Kyoto Satellite TV and Gangnam Satellite TV spent 2.4 million an episode to buy "Invisible Spy". As a result, the ratings of the finale fell below the average ratings of the Golden Theater.

Comparing the two, Kyoto Satellite TV and Jiangnan Satellite TV suffered a bit miserably.

However, Jiangnan Satellite TV was lucky. Before the broadcast of "Invisible Spy" was finished, it decisively signed the second round of broadcast of "The Pretender". As a result, together with several other TV stations, they spent 1.2 million to have Got good ratings.

…

After "The Pretender" was praised by the cultural department, it also had a great influence on the leadership of Ningyun District.

At the end of August, Liu Jian'an, the top leader of Ningyun District, and the person in charge of the cultural industrial park planning office came to visit Ark Culture.

When Fang Xing received the news that Liu Jian'an was coming to the company to visit and study, he knew that the progress of the 2 billion project would be accelerated.

Liu Jian'an came to visit Ark Culture in person, just to see what kind of company Ark Culture is and whether it has the ability to support a 2 billion project.

After the visit, Fang Xing and Liu Jianan talked for a long time in the company.

Liu Jian'an talked about his vision and goals for Ningyun Cultural Industrial Park, and also expressed his appreciation for companies like Ark Culture.

besides.

Liu Jian'an also hopes that Fang Xing can perform at this year's Ningyun Local Cultural Festival.

Being able to perform at the Ningyun Local Cultural Festival is an opportunity to get closer to the Ningyun District Cultural Industrial Park, and Fang Xing will naturally not refuse.

According to this progress, if nothing unexpected happens, the approval of the 2 billion project should be passed soon.