Chapter 202: Face-off
[Guest] earned 45 million on the first day of release, breaking the record of 37 million set by the Tangshan Earthquake. Lin Gao was a little surprised. After all, the first-day box office record has a metaphysical component.
Taking into account factors such as the fans’ holidays, publicity, and film themes, Lin Gao expected to accumulate more and rely on word-of-mouth fermentation to drive the box office. Unexpectedly, he took off directly from the spot. Lin Gao had a deeper understanding of the box office. expect.
It turns out that the domestic box office of [Guest] is only 100 million, but Lin Gao feels that the country and the director are dragging down [Guest]'s box office. The real box office must be more than 100 million.
Domestic audiences are not interested in films outside of Hollywood, and the director naturally has no box office appeal in China.
Now the situation has reversed. The box office of 45 million is inseparable from Lin Gao's box office appeal.
The media predicted that the final box office predicted by [Guest] would be set at several hundred million, and netizens initiated voting on the Internet.
23% of netizens voted for [Guest] with a box office of 200 million.
31% voted [guests] voted 400 million.
41% voted 500 million.
5% vote billion.
Lin Gao is very grateful to the 5% who voted for the film. He is undoubtedly a big fan. He is not even confident that it will have a box office of one billion.
The environment of the domestic film market in 2011 was not good. There was not a single movie with a price of more than 500 million yuan. It was far from last year, when there were Feng Xiaogang's "Tangshan Earthquake" with 700 million yuan, and Jiang Wen's "Let's Go" with 700 million yuan. Bullets Fly], and Lin Gao’s 1 billion [Thai囧].
This year’s summer season is completely dominated by Hollywood. [Pirates of the Caribbean] has a box office of 460 million, [Kung Fu Panda 2] has a box office of 610 million, and [Transformers] has a box office of 1 billion. A director who can hit the box office None.
Seven days later, [The Guest] had a box office of 180 million, beating [Harry Potter]'s 110 million, and unsurprisingly became the weekly box office champion.
The entertainment media forwarded [Guest]'s box office record as quickly as possible. Tencent News, NetEase Entertainment, and Sina Entertainment all major entertainment media forwarded the weekly box office champion.
The supporters of [Guest] are directly talking to the supporters of [Harry Potter].
“Who is the weekly box office champion? Read his name out loud.”
“You can always trust Lin Gao!”
“Lin Gao, awesome ( So excited that I broke my voice)!”
[Harry Potter] fans are pretending to be dead. In the face of cold data, resistance will only arouse the excitement of the [guest] supporters. They can just lie down and avoid humiliation.
Female stars Fan Liangdian, Liu Shishi, Yang Mi, Liu Yifei... posted on Weibo to congratulate Lin Gao on his good results. Male stars include Zhang Songwen, Deng Chao, Wang Baoqiang... also wrote on Weibo to congratulate Lin Gao on his box office performance. Big sale.
Some little famous celebrities are very envious of celebrities who can post on Weibo to congratulate Lin Gao, because they have all joined Lin Gao's crew, or may join Lin Gao's crew in the future.
Lin Gao’s Weibo@star who posted the post, thanks them for their publicity and help.
Zhang Chaoyang called Lin Gao to congratulate him.
"Mr. Lin's new movie is a hit again, and he's making money fast enough to catch up with me." Zhang Chaoyang's voice came from the microphone.
"Catch up quickly, but I haven't caught up yet. I should step up my pace to avoid being left behind by Mr. Zhang." Lin Gao answered self-deprecatingly.
“The opportunity has come, let’s see if you are interested.” Zhang Chaoyang said with a smile. "What opportunity?"
"A venture capital company boss asked me to contact you. Are you interested in going public?" Zhang Chaoyang asked.
After the listing of Huayi Company, the stock price has soared. At the beginning of the listing, the stock price has doubled several times. Now the venture capital circle has set its sights on Forestry Entertainment. Although Forestry Entertainment has a shallow history and not deep foundation, every film and television drama has Reaping several times the profit is enough to convince the investment giants in the financial circle.
“Do they also like me from a small family?” Lin Gao asked, the financial circle has always focused on technology, commodities, futures and the like, and the entertainment industry is too shallow for them. Yes, not very interested.
"The profits of several of your film and television dramas have been very high. They think that stock investors will be interested and want to make extra money." Zhang Chaoyang did not hide anything, and then asked, "Do you have any ideas?"
"Okay, when?"
"You agreed?" Zhang Chaoyang was shocked. He had just asked casually.
"Yes, I'm short of money! Why don't you agree?" Lin Gao said directly. Once the company is listed, he can obtain more financing methods and a large amount of low-interest funds, which is very attractive to Lin Gao. , he is too short of low-interest funds.
"Don't you have about 2 billion in cash on hand? You are still short of money." Zhang Chaoyang was even more surprised. Is the entertainment industry burning so much money?
"Yes, I want to buy a plane or a yacht, and I don't have to pay for it!" Lin Gao said nonsense.
"You enjoy it more than I do. Are you going public to buy an airplane or a yacht?" Zhang Chaoyang said speechlessly. In fact, there are many bosses who are going public to buy airplanes and yachts.
“When will we pull the strings?” Lin Gao ignored Zhang Chaoyang’s teasing.
"September 12th."
Lin Gao nodded in agreement. He went to the company the next day and informed Wei Lianlian to free up the schedule for September 12th. Wei Lianlian blinked his big eyes and asked, why?
"On September 12th, I am going to Kyoto to meet with a venture capital company. They contacted Zhang Chaoyang and said they wanted to invest in our company, capitalize on it, and go public." Lin Gao finished speaking in one breath and took a sip of tea.
Wei Lianlian’s mind went blank, and there were only two words left in his mind, go public!
Is our company going public?
Are we a listed company?
Am I going to become an executive of a listed company? !
"Brother Lin, is our company going to be listed?" Wei Lianlian sounded excited. Working for a company is a completely different mentality than working for a listed company.
"Although it will take some time to operate, yes, our company is going to be listed." Lin Gao replied with a smile. He did not expect that he would become the boss of a listed company so quickly. Then he looked serious and pretended to be serious. He said: "You should pay attention to your words and image now. If the stock price drops due to your personal reasons, I will fire you." Hidden, it turns out it’s true! I have made so many contributions to the company, and I haven’t even talked about my boyfriend, but you treat me like this!”
"Forget it, just think that I have misjudged the person, and you can throw my sincerity into the wind!"
Lin Gao laughed loudly: "What contribution have you made to the company?"
"Uh..." Wei Lian was speechless for a long time. He was so soft that he just said unreasonably: "I don't care. Brother Lin, you can't leave me alone. I want to be a senior executive of a listed company."
"Why did you abandon Lianlian? You still have to pour me coffee." Lin Gao said jokingly.
"Hee hee, I'm going to make coffee for Brother Lin now." Wei Lian said with a cheerful smile, without any of the majesty of the "Witch Guard" as the company employees said.
Lin Gao watched Wei Lianlian's plump buttocks disappear around the corner of the door, the corners of his mouth raised, money is such a good thing!
(End of this chapter)