I’m Almost Losing to a Muggle

For example, Xu Aihua, although she also knows that her movie may not be as good as it should be at the box office, but in the spirit of being responsible to the actors, she will still stick to the conventional process.

Is she going to release a new film? Lin Dong's eyes lit up.

This lady is also a master who can lose money. Throughout her decades of directing career, few films have made money.

This does not affect her status in the film industry, after all, she has won a lot of actresses.

There is a saying in the movie circle that, looking at the whole circle, there are two people who are the best actresses, one is Chen Kexin, and the other is Xu Aihua.

For example, Tang Wei, she first collaborated with Chen Kexin in Martial Arts in 2011, and was nominated for the Best Actress Award at the Academy Awards, and then immediately filmed Xu Aihua's Xiao Hong Biography in 2012, which was the one invested by Kleist. Received double nominations for the Golden Horse Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress.

She is preparing a new film, and she also asked us, but I rejected it, Du Qixi explained: Her new film has Zhou Xun as the female lead, and the rest of the main lineup is almost the same. Who can't fit in? , and can't make much money, we don't need to join in the fun.

The huge compensation of The Legend of Xiao Hong made Xu Aihua once again prove that he has no commercial value.

Even Du Qixi, who is as blind as this, can tell.

Dakasi and the like can't save Xu Aihua at all.

Brother Qixi, you are wrong. How could you miss such a money-losing business, Lin Dong hurriedly brainwashed Du Qixi: Didn't we agree to support literary films? Why can you support Roadside Picnic? Are Xu Aihua's movies rejected by you?

Although it is more difficult for Xu Aihua to attract investment, it is not as difficult as it is to finish the job. Those actors who are confirmed to play, which one has no capital behind them, if no one makes a move, they will still bite the bullet and take the money in the end. Du Qixi explained .

Lin Dong had a headache.

What Du Qixi said was not unreasonable.

Kleist can neither make money nor squeeze people in to win prizes, why should he be taken for a ride.

Favors are not enough as a bargaining chip in exchange.

To lose money?

Others want to make money, Lin Dong wants to lose money.

What other people think is a loss, in Lin Dong's view, it is a huge profit.

Losing 100 million is more comfortable for him than earning 1 billion.

But there is no way to say that.

It's actually quite simple, Pei Qianlong found out the solution easily, and said, There are so many projects in our company, and there is always room for them to contribute. If you want to invest, you can just help us with the work. ah.

Is it okay?

Both Lin Dong and Du Qixi were stunned, feeling incredible.

Whether or not a film can find investment is a matter for the producer and director, not for other actors, as long as they get paid to act in a play.

Each performs his duties.

But thinking about it carefully, I don't think it's impossible.

Xu Aihua's movies are different from other people's. The actors who participated in the film are not rushing for the salary, they are all for the prize, for the sake of being strong.

In this case, they are more concerned about whether they can attract investment.

But I've already rejected her. Du Qixi was worried.

That's your business. Neither Lin Dong nor Pei Qianlong intended to help him.

This guy is driven by vanity, and he wants to save face in everything he does. If he has the opportunity, he must be cured.

Du Qixi was dumbfounded.

However, this matter is not difficult to do.

As long as Xu Aihua receives a little wind, he will still sneak over.

After all, Kleist only needs a share of the box office in the mainland, and doesn't want any from other regions. In this case, he can make too much money.

Movies that lose money can also make money.

Who would have trouble with money?

Wang Kuo of Miaozhuo.com also reported the situation of Miaozhua.com.

At present, Miaozhuo.com is a comprehensive website, including life information and trading platform, consumer reviews, ticketing platform, electronic membership card, food delivery, online supermarket and other functions.

Wang Kuo's current job is to integrate resources.

Combined with Miaoya live broadcast and short videos, try to help merchants on Miaozhao.com to sell and promote.

And Miaoya live broadcast is also in the process of live broadcasting, constantly discovering high-quality merchants and products, and then putting them on the special area opened by Miaozhao.com for sale.

These goods are not expensive - after all, Kleist has no intention of making money from here.

And the quality is surprisingly good.

In addition, the live broadcast platform often attracts traffic, so the current monthly transaction volume has exceeded 30 million.

This number may seem like a lot, but it is actually insignificant.

According to last year's data,

The total transaction volume of Moubao is 2.3 trillion yuan, the total transaction volume of Moudong is 260.2 billion yuan, the total transaction volume of physical commodities on Suning online platform is 25.791 billion yuan, the net revenue of Vipshop is about 23.36 billion yuan, and Gome Online The transaction volume is about 18 billion to 20 billion yuan, Dangdang's transaction volume is 14.243 billion yuan, and the total net transaction volume of Jumei Youpin is about 6.634 billion yuan.

The monthly transaction volume of Miaozhua Shopping is 30 million, and it will reach 1 billion by the end of the year, which is really not worth mentioning.

Therefore, Wang Kuo simply said a word and didn't continue to mention it. After all, he didn't earn a penny, and a lot of money was posted for product development, promotion and maintenance.

Besides, Pei Qianlong once said that the shopping platform was Mr. Lin's idea.

So Wang Kuo couldn't take this matter as his own credit.

Is there anything else? Lin Dong asked.

Everyone shook their heads, everything that needs to be said has been said, in fact, Lin Dong has only been away from the capital for two months, and it is impossible for too many things to happen.

It's just that he was always worried.

Even in his dreams, these guys helped him make a lot of money.

They all surrounded him and slapped him in the face with money.

It was a nightmare.

Who will take the lead in the game? Shi Shanshan asked.

Uh... Lin Dong really didn't think about this question.

He's just scared of the proxy game.

Because the proxy game must be carefully selected from a bunch of high-quality products, and use the fruits of other people's labor to make money for yourself.

That's why he temporarily decided to ask the people under him to develop the game himself.

He also fooled everyone by saying that he was going to be a high-quality game in Huaxia.

There is no plan for something improvised.

Do you want to push out the security guy at the door?

Do not make jokes.

Although Lin Dong made all kinds of blind assignments at the beginning, making the first batch of employees all become high-level executives, within the established framework, everyone was miraculously competent for their jobs.

A few of them did so well that Lin Dong's mentality exploded.

Under the well-established employment mechanism, it would be a humiliation to all employees of the entire company to push a security guard to be the general manager.

Although, when Tian Dazhuang was looking for a job, his resumes were for security guards and drivers.

No one spoke, even Pei Qianlong, who always liked to solve problems for Mr. Lin, remained silent.

Games are the big part, and when you come out, you will be on an equal footing with everyone.

Appointing a new boss of a business unit is the highest power in the company.

This kind of power is in the hands of the boss, and the act of exceeding his power is a taboo in various organizations in China.

By the way, President Pei, how about that Li Changwei? Lin Dong asked.

Li Changwei was the person Lin Dong met when he went to Shanghai not long ago, and he was a manager of Tian Dazhuang's Miaowei Theater.

It was the theater he was in charge of that was demolished, from 100 million to 550 million.

At that time, Lin Dong felt that this person was too good at the development of the theater chain, and this person was eyeing the head of the Miaowei theater chain in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, so he was transferred to Pei Qianlong.

Let Pei Qianlong evaluate this person's strength.

If he was really cowhide, he wouldn't expect to encounter a hair in the cinema in his life.

The so-called way of employing people is simply to know people and make good use of them.

If you want to owe money, just use it in reverse.

Manager Li, Pei Qianlong said after considering it for a while, Manager Li has a lot of experience in the theater industry and is a rare talent, but he is not so outstanding in other fields.

Li Changwei belongs to Tian Dazhuang, and Pei Qianlong doesn't want to offend Tian Dazhuang.

So the words used are more euphemistic.

If it were his subordinate, he would say bluntly that this person can also be a movie theater, and if I asked him to do other things, he would look like an idiot.

Tell me specifically. Lin Dong's eyes lit up.

This Li Changwei is very suitable for making games. Games and movie theaters are completely incompatible.

Pei Qianlong smiled apologetically at Tian Dazhuang, and said:

I asked him to participate in the short video of Miaoya, but he paid too much attention to the user's feelings and formulated several strategies, which caused confusion on the review side. I asked him to take charge of some things on Miaoya.com. As a result, he offended the merchants for the sake of users, which caused a big public relations crisis.”

You can't grasp the balance, right? Lin Dong summed it up.

That's almost what it means, and he has lived in cinemas since he was a child, and he is very familiar with the field of cinemas. He has not been involved in other fields deeply. I suggest that he return to the theaters, and he can be the general manager of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai.

Miaowei Theater Line is divided into four regions, namely the Northern Region, the Southern Region, the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai Regions, and the Central and Western Regions.

Of the four regions, the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai regions are the most important.

Manager Li is quite capable. Tian Dazhuang, who never asked himself a question and never spoke, said something for Li Changwei.

Tian Dazhuang didn't have any special abilities, and he didn't even know anything about cinema.

After he took on the heavy responsibility of the Miaowei theater chain, he recruited talents, and then fully delegated power, but there were no major mistakes.

Li Changwei is the strongest among all his disciples.

I don't know why Mr. Lin went crazy, so he directly assigned it to Pei Qianlong.

Give me back Changwei!

Ahem, how about this, let Li Changwei be in charge of the game first, Mr. Pei, please help him, and we will talk about it later when there is a suitable candidate. Lin Dong ignored Tian Dazhuang and quickly made a decision.

Although everyone was shocked, no one raised any objections.

Even Tian Dazhuang didn't say anything. His brother skipped from being a theater manager to a regional manager, and directly became the general manager of the new business department. He was on an equal footing with him, the general manager of the Miaowei theater chain. Of course, he couldn't stand in the way of his brother's future. .

Although Pei Qianlong felt that Li Changwei was not qualified, he didn't have a suitable candidate for a while.

He even felt that Lin Dong's arrangement was tantamount to handing over the game business department to him, otherwise he wouldn't know that Li Changwei couldn't do it, and he had to be appointed.

You are allowed to use all the existing funds of the company. If it is not enough, then tell me. Lin Dong gave the maximum authority.

His system account originally had 640 million, and Xin Shushan has spent more than 200 million so far. If there is no accident, it may spend more than 200 million in the future.

In this case, there are still about 200 million funds that can be used.

Xu Aihua's When Will the Moon Come will probably use up 100 million of them, so there will be 100 million left.

Lin Dong hopes that the game can help him spend it.

In this way, he could lose money and earn Galleons again.

In addition, there is also a lot of money in the company's account. Miaozhuo.com may make more than 100 million yuan in profit this year, and the distribution has made a promise of 400 to 500 million yuan in profit, and Miaoya's live broadcast is also very profitable.

Adding, subtracting, and subtracting, although it may be less than a billion, it is not much worse.

As for what if the game business department is out of play and all the money is poured in, what should I do?

Also simple.

We must persevere in selling iron, and contribute light and heat to China's domestic games.

It's not a violation of business principles.

As for what to sell, it's easy.

Which one makes money I sell which one!

If the live broadcast is sold to Prince Yida, he will definitely not refuse.

Prince Yida is now frantically spending money on his own black and white live broadcast. It seems that the momentum is strong, but it is not easy.

Everyone seems to have sensed the huge market potential of live broadcasting. Several Internet giants either left the market in person or entered with financing, setting off the prelude climax of the Thousand Broadcasting War.

If you sell Miaoya Live at this time, there must be a lot of people waiting to take over.

The only thing Boss Lin is more worried about is how much it will cost if he sells it. One billion is unlikely, five billion, or ten billion?

In August 2014, Amazon acquired the game live streaming platform Twitch for US$970 million. In July this year, Penguin abandoned its own son Dragon Ball Live and completed the B round of investment in Douyu TV. The valuation of this round exceeded US$1 billion.

Think about it this way, Miaoya’s current market share is as high as that of Douyu, why not $2 billion...

God, just hopeless.

After eating and drinking enough to rest for the night, Lin Dong returned to the Hengdian New Shushan set. When he came, the crew was still in full swing for filming.

Jiang Xiaojun holds the mirror.

Zhou Longxing and Wen Muye were discussing the previous edit.

While Xu Guai was arguing with Hu Hailang about the special effects, Kleist's meow-eyed general manager of visual effects was sweating profusely from embarrassment.

Seeing Lin Dong he was relieved.

Before he could speak, Lin Dong said, Try to do what the master said. If you can't do it, you can also ask for foreign aid. Remember to pay them enough.

Hu Hailang was immediately dumbfounded.

It's such a hard life to do special effects. Party A has all kinds of whimsical ideas, but they really can't do it.

The boss who doesn't know how to do it is still on the side of others.

Lin Dong walked to the side, and someone immediately came over to make up for him. He is the number one male, so he doesn't have to worry about not being able to shoot.

Wen Muye came over to report to him what happened to the crew recently.

Sum it up in one sentence.

That is, it can be fine with you or without you, and the crew has nothing to do.

This made Boss Lin, who is the chief director, a little disappointed, and made up his mind that he would never find any producer again for the next film.

The filming progressed very quickly.

Several directors take turns to work, and there are enough other people to replace the work of the shift, which is no slower than several studios working together.

If there are no accidents, I can shoot seven or seven eighty-eight at the end of August, and it won't be delayed until October at the latest.

At that time, Lin Dong will star in The Mekong River and follow up the later stage of New Shushan.

During this period, he will also cooperate with the promotional activities of the two dramas The Strongest Showdown and Charlotte Distress. He has participated in both dramas. On behalf of the little murloc.

It's impossible to be busy.

Fortunately, these plays were all invested by Kleist, even if he didn't work hard enough, no one dared to criticize him.