The Director of Music Department

"Are Director Yang and Director Wang Yifan familiar?" Zhao Dongming asked before the official premiere.

Yang Qing shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Director Wang usually sees the beginning and the end of the dragon, and I rarely see him."

Yang Qing can indeed be said to be the best director out of the New Star Director Program.

Now he is even more ambitious and wants to become the first big director of the New Star Director Project.

In fact, Wang Yifan really didn't pay much attention to job-hopping and the like.

Especially the directors of the Rising Star Director Program, because there are too many, the Rising Star Director Program, in Wang Yifan's opinion, is more about giving these new directors a chance, a chance to practice and test.

It is not up to Wang Yifan to decide how far the follow-up can go.

He couldn't possibly babysit them.

In fact, there are too many directors in the New Star Director Project, and it is impossible for Huaxin to have so many projects. Therefore, the outflow of directors from the New Star Director Project was expected.

The reason why Yang Qing switched jobs was that on the one hand, he was going to a higher place. After all, for Huaxin, Huaxin really has no shortage of directors, and Yang Qing is not that important to Huaxin.

For Ahri Media, Yang Qing is very important, after all, he is the seedling of a great director.

So when Ari Media offered an olive branch, he immediately took over.

"Director Wang Yifan has cooperated with Wansheng Huanyu, Times Light and Shadow, Shengtang Kyushu, etc. Do you think it is possible for him to cooperate with our Ahri Media once?" Zhao Dongming asked suddenly.

Yang Qing glanced at Zhao Dongming in surprise, and then asked: "What kind of cooperation is Mr. Zhao talking about? To what extent and in what form?"

Yang Qing naturally has his reasons for asking this question. Cooperation, in fact, Huaxin and Ahri Media also cooperate, but it depends on the degree of cooperation.

Zhao Dongming smiled and said, "For example, the two companies jointly lead and collaborate on a film project."

Yang Qing shook his head and said: "For the domestic market, I don't think it is very likely, because Director Wang Yifan has long since focused on the global market instead of the domestic market. That's the case with the Marvel Universe Project."

"What about foreign countries? Like cooperating on a Hollywood movie?" Zhao Dongming said with a smile.

Yang Qing pondered for a moment and said, "Mr. Zhao means, foreign films? Films aimed at the North American market?"

Zhao Dongming nodded, sighed and said: "Actually, Ahri Media's overseas strategy is not going very smoothly. What is most lacking right now is a blockbuster project..."

Yes, Ahri Media acquired the Empire Cinemas. In fact, this step cannot be said to have gone wrong, but the fact is that the influence of foreign theaters is obviously not as great as Ahri Media originally imagined.

For example, Empire Cinemas, in fact, has been operating at a loss since Ahri Media acquired it.

Yes, the major Hollywood tycoons were openly supportive of Ahri Media’s acquisition of Empire Cinemas, and even the shareholders of Empire Cinemas had shadows of several giants, but they did not hinder Ahri Media’s acquisition.

But in fact, it was only after the actual acquisition that Ahri Media discovered that domestic theaters and North American theaters are completely different things.

The domestic theater chains have a strong voice, but the North American theater chains, in fact, rely on the breath of several giants.

Because the operating costs of theater chains in North America are much higher than in China, but it is an asset-heavy industry.

The profits are very meager, so it's no wonder they don't object to Ari's acquisition, because it's really not that easy to find someone who will take over the deal.

And they have known for a long time that theater chains have never had much say in North America.

The degree of marketization in North America is obviously much higher than that in China.

And a higher degree of marketization means that it is not impossible to operate like domestically, but the price to be paid is higher.

You know, the domestic theater chain is very strong, which can be seen from the movie box office share.

The box office share of domestic movie theaters has always been the largest, while in North America, the box office share of theaters has been very, very low in the past few weeks.

Even the lowest, only 10%.

It can be said that it is appallingly low, but because they have many surrounding industrial chains, what is needed is the flow of people.

And what can bring traffic is naturally a blockbuster movie. It is content!

Hollywood's major media giants control the most upstream resource of the film industry chain, which is high-quality content!

Therefore, the major media giants in Hollywood can be said to have absolute control over this aspect.

When a blockbuster movie appears, once the distributor excludes you, no, it doesn’t even need to be excluded directly, it only needs to be delayed for a period of time, then it will be a huge blow to the theater’s revenue.

Therefore, a stable supply of high-quality content is the way for North American theaters to survive.

But this one is out of control.

Of course, if you hurt one thousand enemies, you will lose eight hundred. Once the Hollywood giants target the theaters controlled by Ahri Media, after all, Empire Cinemas also has a large scale, which will also make their films lose a lot of money. screen.

Therefore, what Ahri Media needs is to find high-quality content by itself, and then a balance can be formed.

Let the Empire Cinemas no longer be subject to the Hollywood film giants.

At the beginning, Ahri Media’s idea was to find opportunities from domestic and Hollywood independent films.

But as a result, in the domestic market, it is obvious that there are not many people who can really go abroad and conquer North American audiences.

Wang Yifan seemed to be the most powerful one.

And Hollywood independent movies, don’t look like they are separated from the big giants, but in fact, Hollywood independent movies, most of the time, it’s almost hard to see blockbusters, and even if there are, they are very early. The issuing company is in the bag.

Therefore, this path does not work.

In fact, there is no shortage of film sources, but what is lacking is good film sources!

Night falls!

For the premiere of "Glory of the Tang Dynasty", Ali Media also made a big deal and held it directly in the Great Hall of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

And although Ari is said to be a new giant, the Ari Group itself is a domestic Internet giant, so the face is quite impressive.

In terms of star lineup, the premiere of "Glory of the Tang Dynasty" is not even worse than any awards ceremony.

Of course, Ahri Media must have spent a lot of money to engage in such a big battle.

Not to mention anything else, just such a premiere ceremony, Ali Media has spent at least tens of millions of Chinese dollars.

Yes, there is no appearance fee for celebrities to join the show, but there are various other expenses, such as the giant screen of the grand prize. After all, it is impossible to provide you with this thing in the auditorium of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Secondly, the rental fee of the auditorium itself is not a small amount, plus the overall layout and so on.

These all cost money.

However, for the cast of "Glory of the Tang Dynasty" and the goal of Ahri Media, this money is really sprinkled.