The three of them walked into the office. Xiao Yunhai sat in the boss' chair and said, "Raúl, speak."
Raúl nodded and said, "Boss, we released a total of 31 movies in January and February, including 6 literary films, 21 commercial films, and 4 animated films. We earned a total of US $78.3 billion at the box office and made a profit of US $31.2 billion, an increase of 18% compared to the same period last year."
"In addition, according to your instructions, we cooperated with many Hollywood star studios and invested in a total of 18 movies. We lost 10 movies and only earned US $1.2 billion."
Xiao Yunhai was amused and said, "The movies produced by star studios are really ordinary."
Raúl smiled bitterly and said, "Boss, more than 10 Hollywood star studios have declared bankruptcy. In order to reduce costs, there are indeed problems with the quality of the movies they shoot. Some of the good scripts would definitely sell well if they were in the hands of our company's directors. Unfortunately, many stars are unwilling to hire famous directors, and the directors we find are not very good. In addition, they often criticize the shooting of the movies, causing the box office to be terrible. Sigh, not to mention our big companies, even those small and medium-sized companies are much better than them. "
Xiao Yunhai asked, "How about the star studios under our company? Did they make a profit or a loss? "
Raúl said, "Director Bikven is shooting a large-scale Magic City film called Dreamland. He invested US $200 million and hired David Hartnett to play the male lead. David Hartnett saw that the script was really good, so he put his salary of US $60 million and his studio's US $4,000 to make a total of US $100 million and invested it. The rest of the funds were all covered by the company. I estimate that it will take another half a year before it can be released. "
"Almost all of the other movies were failures. Director Bikven invested US $20 million in a literary film, but it only made US $15 million at the box office before it was hurriedly stopped. David invested in two movies, one guaranteed, and the other lost US $8.6 million. "
"The worst is Sheila Lucia, the movie queen. She has a good relationship with the bosses of many film companies and has the most resources. He spent 360 million USD to invest in five movies, and even acted in one of them. In the end, he only got 130 million USD back, and the place he lived in changed from a big villa to a small one. "
"Sigh, the competition in Hollywood is too fierce. The huge success of a movie would often cause dozens of movies in the same period to lose everything. They're still considered alright. Some celebrities are too ambitious and take loans from the bank to film movies. Their lives have been directly sent from heaven to hell. They can only rely on crazy acting to repay the loans. "
Daniel smiled and said, "So, Boss, congratulations on becoming the public enemy of Hollywood artists."
Xiao Yunhai was stunned and asked in confusion, "What does their investment failure have to do with me?"
Daniel said, "Who asked you to be the founder of a celebrity studio? If you hadn't proposed such a concept, they wouldn't have set up a studio. If they didn't set up a studio, they wouldn't have lost money. "
Raúl nodded and said gloatingly, "A while ago, after the artists failed in their investments, they would say on the Internet that they shouldn't have listened to you and set up a studio. You caused them to be so miserable."
"F * ck." Xiao Yunhai cursed when he heard that. "Who are these people? They're too shameless. "
Raúl said, "Bikven, David, and Sheila seem to have said that."
Xiao Yunhai slapped his forehead, and he felt like crying but had no tears.
He couldn't do it well and blamed the founder. It was simply speechless.
The three of them chatted for a while, and Raúl suddenly said, "Boss, I heard that the major video websites in America are making mobile apps. Although none of them have appeared yet, it's only a matter of time. Our social network app is very popular in Europe and America and has countless members. Have you ever thought of adding a video website on it and broadcasting Marvel's cartoons, movies, TV series, variety shows and so on? "
Marvel Comics had filmed more than 100 movies last year, more than 30 animated movies and seven or eight cartoons. Yunqing TV Station wasn't far behind either. They had invested in more than 40 TV series and many variety shows. They had bought even more program copyrights.
After these movies and TV series were broadcast in theaters and on TV, they would be put on online video websites for download and online broadcast. This alone brought Xiao Yunhai more than 8 billion dollars last year, and this was after the website charged 50% of the platform fee.
If Marvel had its own platform to broadcast, the other 8 billion dollars would also be pocketed by Xiao Yunhai. This huge sum of money was almost equal to the annual salary of the employees of his company.
Previously, because the competition on online video websites was too fierce, even if Xiao Yunhai inserted himself, he might not be able to succeed, so he didn't even think about it.
But it was different now. On the computer network, I can't beat him. But on the mobile network, Xiao Yunhai was absolutely invincible. Just a Twitter app could beat all of them.
Thinking of this, Xiao Yunhai said, "Raúl, your suggestion is very good. I'll call Yunqing Network's software department to make a Marvel Film and Television Network and put it directly on our Twitter app, alongside the game. When the time comes, we'll set the price lower. I believe it will become popular soon. Hehe, if it weren't for the fact that there are no music companies, I would also want to make a music app. "
Raúl said happily, "That's great. However, I think that our own movies and television series are too few. I'll contact other film companies and buy their online movie copyrights. "
Xiao Yunhai nodded and said, "Contact them as soon as possible. But in this way, I'll be sorry for Xianyue Video Network. "
Previously, Xiao Yunhai had introduced many Hollywood film companies to Man Wenbin to help him compete with other websites. But now that he wanted to do mobile network video, he could only let him down.
Raúl said, "Business is like this. There's no other way. It's just that mobile network video and computer network video regulations haven't been introduced in various countries and regions. The previous network copyrights were only for computers. I don't know if it includes mobile apps now. "
Xiao Yunhai's eyes narrowed slightly. He knew that this matter was too important. If mobile network video copyrights were not included in the previous network copyrights, then Xiao Yunhai could cooperate with all the other companies to buy the broadcasting rights of those outstanding movies. In this way, Xiao Yunhai's Marvel Video App would become popular.
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