After all of them were reborn, who would still be an actor?

Chapter 451: Light's New Battlefield, Weather Remake

Wang Wei is a genius!

Even though they were defeated by Youku and Guangguang, Li Mingyang teamed up to beat them!

BAT's final backstab!
It only took Wang Wei half a year to recover.

Then, it focuses on "committing to providing the best content ecological environment for creators", with strong entertainment and creativity.

In less than two months, it regained the market share, surpassing Sohu and iQiyi and returning to the second place.

In 2011, affected by the European debt crisis and the confidence crisis in Chinese stocks on Wall Street, Xunlei and Shanda Literature, which were preparing to go public at the same time, postponed their plans.

But Tudou resolutely sought to go public on the U.S. stock market, and eventually succeeded, with a market value of US$700 million.

Although Tudou’s market value is far less than Youku’s.

However, the fact that Wang Wei and Tudou were able to successfully go public in the cold winter shows that their strength is still deeply favored by overseas investors.

The competition in the video website market has entered a white-hot stage.

In order to achieve the ultimate victory, big players have used various strategies such as spending money to buy copyrights, competing for advertisers, and quickly iterating products, causing the market to become a mess.

Wang Changtian said that this was the last chance to enter, and his judgment was absolutely correct.

The 'new king' of domestic entertainment has a really good eye.

But he doesn't understand how crazy the determination of BAT is. They have prepared hundreds of billions of dollars to seize the market and monopolize the market at all costs!
The copyright war is just the beginning...

Copyright barriers, channel barriers, traffic barriers, market barriers... are quietly forming!
Tudou was originally going to be sold to Sina.

Sina has traffic and background, and has always wanted to enter the long video track.

Accountant Cao was very confident, especially after he defeated Penguin and became the big winner in the Weibo war.

Rush into the long video track excitedly!
Then Penguin spent 5 million US dollars to snatch the exclusive copyright of NBA from Sina.

Accountant Cao was stunned and never thought of making any long videos since then.

Liujianfang was sold to Songcheng Performing Arts, Ku6 was sold to Shanda, 56.com was sold to Renren, PPTV was sold to Suning, and PPS was sold to iQiyi. They all used the same routine.

I really can’t do it…

Among the four major portals, only Accountant Cao, who turned a disaster into a blessing, and the shrewd Ding Sanshi have not made in-depth layouts in the video industry.

There is a saying in the Internet circle that starting a business is nothing more than copying to China.

That is to say, the American model is copied to China, including social networking, e-commerce, search, and group buying.

The benefits of doing so are obvious. Not only does it make sense from a business perspective, but it also provides a benchmark even if the company goes public in the United States.

When you say that you are the domestic version of eBay, the domestic version of Amazon, and the domestic version of Google, foreigners will understand immediately without any further explanation.

This trick doesn't work in the video industry.

There are generally only two types of video websites in the United States. One is the social short video represented by YouTube, which makes money through advertising.

The other is the legitimate long-video website represented by Hulu and Netflix, which relies on collecting rent from members. The wool comes from the sheep, which is simple and clear.

Especially YouTube, which was acquired by Google for a whopping $20 billion just 16.5 months after its establishment. It is still a miracle today.

Combining the models of Hulu and Netflix to achieve the scale of YouTube is the story that Youku and Tudou told Wall Street.

This is how domestic entrepreneurs are. As long as something is proven to be good, they will try their best to get in on the action. However, directly copying the American model to China is basically digging a hole for themselves.

There are many companies that want to make a domestic version of Hulu. This video website takes the legitimate route and pay-per-view model. However, most of the copyrights in the United States are in the hands of six film and television companies, which saves a lot of negotiation costs.

In China, the copyrights of film and television dramas are scattered among thousands of companies!

Before the Internet became popular, Americans watched movies and TV shows by renting discs, and Netflix provided DVD rentals.

After that, Netflix followed a standard Western path, providing online on-demand services, user subscriptions, and then investing in content production to attract more paid subscriptions, thus creating a positive cycle.

In China, the user payment barrier was not a viable option until two or three years ago. People who were used to free lunches felt like they were being robbed when they paid a dollar.

Information is free, music is free, novels and books are all free. After Zhou Hongyi came, antivirus software also became free. Why do they dare to charge for videos?

In 2011, long video websites began to experiment with on-demand models.

Lao Gu's calculations are better than his Mandarin, 'We have 2 million users. It will be great if only 1% of them accept the paid model.'

He wanted to charge for the second season of Running Man, but he obviously overestimated netizens' determination to pay, and pirated copies were rampant... and he almost cut off his advertising revenue.

iQiyi started selling memberships in June. The KPI for this year was set at 6 members, but only 20% has been achieved so far...

Netflix, which survives on paid memberships, is just a fantasy for domestic video websites.

Although there is no Netflix in China, there are iQiyi, Tencent Video and Youku.

Although Alibaba is only a small shareholder of Youku now, it will soon become Youku’s godfather!

Otherwise, how can we fight against Penguin and Baidu’s own son?
Even though iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Video have been losing money for 10 years, the three video websites are still popular with the giants. So what if they cannot form a closed business loop? Being the traffic entrance for the giants' business is still sexy and attractive.

This has also become a new domestic model for Internet entrepreneurship: to BAT.

Li Mingyang originally wanted to sneak away, but after being discovered, he decisively gave up.

It’s not that he can’t beat iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Video, he has the confidence to beat them all!
But so what?
It cannot be defeated and is stuck in the copyright quagmire. iQiyi, Youku and Tencent don’t care because they can’t afford to spend that money.

Li Mingyang and Wang Changtian talked on the phone for more than half an hour and then video chatted for more than three hours.

Wang Xing and Wang Changtian invested in Tudou in the name of a joint venture.

Wang Wei convinced the two to join by using a set of advanced UCG, self-production and procurement combined with big data operations.

In addition to Wang Xing and Wang Changtian, Sina's accountant Cao also joined the game.

The four of them have been planning for a long time...

The four-member alliance has the resources, traffic, and funds. All they need is Li Mingyang to come in, and everything will be ready.

Li Mingyang was unable to persuade Wang Changtian to withdraw.

Once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back. Wang Changtian feels that he can fight with BAT.

Even if you lose, you will just be acquired, which is still a big profit.

"I'm not interested in video websites. I don't want to get involved. Give me $20 million and play whatever you want. Just don't bring me along."

Wang Changtian talked a lot but couldn't convince Li Mingyang. The lineup of Sina, Meituan, Tudou and Guangxian can definitely dominate the video website industry.

Winning or losing doesn’t matter, as long as we can become the number one in the industry, it will no longer be Youku swallowing Tudou, but Tudou swallowing Youku!

If he misses this opportunity, Wang Changtian will regret it for the rest of his life.

"If you don't want to come in, I won't force you. The money will be transferred to Huazhu's account in three days." Wang Changtian sighed, "We have offended too many people in the domestic entertainment industry. We must find a way to make ourselves a bigger capital so that we can have more initiative..."

Li Mingyang did not comment and turned off the video.

He took off his sunglasses and rubbed his face with his palms to calm himself down.

Wang Changtian wanted to become a bigger capital, so he entered the video website industry at the last minute, and he would inevitably be targeted.

Baidu, Penguin, Alibaba, Youku, Sohu, and LeTV will all take action...

It won't lead to a group fight, but just a copyright dispute is enough to cause trouble!

This is a protracted money-burning war.

Zhang Chaoyang, who owns three listed companies, is so frustrated by the pressure from BAT that he wants to give up.

Wang Changtian has always regarded Li Mingyang as his biggest trump card.

Li Mingyang too!
The 'new king' of domestic entertainment is no joke.

Zhao Yanzi, Deng Chao and Xu Zheng were all brought up by him!
The means were so cruel and insidious that they were the best in the domestic entertainment industry.

Many of Li Mingyang’s publicity and promotion operations are directly copied from Wang Changtian.

Wang Changtian was hit by his superiors more than once.

He was the first to use many of the toxic practices in the film industry.

The most classic ones are "Lost in Hong Kong" and "Man Jiang Hong".

If it weren’t for Nezha: The Devil Child Comes into the World, he would have single-handedly driven the industrialization of the entire Chinese animation industry!

There is no way he can make peace.

Man Jiang Hong and The Wandering Earth 2 are competing against each other, and second- and third-tier cities are stealing box office revenue like crazy...

But Wu Jing and Guo Fan didn't dare to say anything.

The capital of the two films is intricately intertwined, you are in me and I am in you.

Both China Film Group and Maoyan participated.

But in Man Jiang Hong, the proportion of light is greater!
As the capital, Wu Jing and Guo Fan could only suffer this loss in silence and dared not say anything. Afterwards, they had to get close to Wang Changtian and ask him to show mercy next time...

Wang Changtian has the light and the cat's eye in his hands, and he really dares to think and act, it's really terrifying...

Wu Jing has been in the Hong Kong entertainment industry for many years. He has played many villains and suffered many beatings, but he is still a long way from becoming famous.

The biggest benefactor behind Wu Jing’s success after returning from the Hong Kong circle is his wife Xie Lan.

As a half-light person, Wu Jing has benefited a lot from the light.

Wang Changtian would vote whenever he could.

Wu Jing’s first film, Wolf Tooth, only grossed a pitiful 650 million.

Logically speaking, Wu Jing had no chance to be a director again, but Wang Changtian gave him the opportunity.

In the end, they felt that Wu Jing was not very reliable, so they withdrew their funds... causing Wu Jing and his wife to have to sell their wedding house for additional investment, which was quite unkind.

In Wolf Warrior 2, Wu Jing still turned to Wang Changtian for help.

Wang Changtian also invested in Wolf Warrior 2 and helped out, but he didn’t do anything bad…

At that time, Wang Changtian invested heavily in "Eternal Love", and then "Eternal Love" was beaten badly by Wolf Warrior 2...

"Wang Changtian has opened up a new battlefield...he wants to be the big crocodile."

"Who else can I rely on..."

People in and out of the circle say that China Film Group has offered him various good conditions in order to achieve a box office of 2 billion yuan.

It's completely false!
Zuoshandiao only helped him to get the script reviewed and gave him at least 50% guarantee for the first day screening schedule.

Nothing else.

Zuoshandiao never asked him to strive for a box office of 2 billion.

It was the Beijing, Hong Kong and Taiwan circles who deliberately made him disgusting.

Li Mingyang put down his hands and stared at the box office system in front of him that only he could see.

Witch!

Li Mingyang had a hunch that Weathering With You would be subjected to unprecedented sniping.

Whether it is solving human disasters or making movies, money is needed. His last trump card is the witch lottery!
"It's not the right time yet. Let the witch fly for a while..."

……

On September 9, a grand ribbon-cutting ceremony was held for the Mingyang Building.

Li Mingyang and Wang Changtian invited many business partners and friends.

In addition to the bosses of major film and television companies, the second-in-commands of China Film Group and Shanghai Film Group also came.

The helmsmen of the BAT Big Three are Ma's two and Li.

Wanda's Wang, Xiaomi's Lei Jun, Huanju's Li, the chairman of Hengdian Group...

Zhang Chaoyang from "Still a Boy When I Return" also made a rare appearance.

Almost all the leading figures in the entertainment, fashion and Internet circles were present.

Thousands of people participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

After the ribbon-cutting ceremony, Li Mingyang took everyone to visit the future Three-Body Pictures.

Everyone was quite curious about this strange circular building.

After all, this structure does not maximize office space and is wasteful.

Three-Body Pictures has six floors above ground and two floors underground, covering an area of ​​more than 50 acres.

The actual internal garden accounts for half of the area.

The Chinese-style garden built by Hengdian Group has a new scene at every step.

A combination of mountains and water, with small bridges, flowing water, pavilions and towers.

The garden is full of spring colors and greenery.

The combination of sci-fi circular buildings and classical and elegant oriental gardens exudes a sense of technological elegance.

After visiting the garden, everyone climbed the stairs in a mighty group. The interior of the stairs was very spacious, very high, and had excellent lighting.

All the doors are designed to be towering and majestic.

Imitation metal floor tiles, industrial-style walls, spiral staircases, capsule-design elevators, and neon-lit colors make people mistakenly think they have arrived at a mysterious base!
Full of cyberpunk feeling.

After touring the building, everyone went to the China World Trade Center for lunch.

Due to the large number of people, Li Mingyang booked an entire floor of the China World Trade Center.

Halfway through the banquet, the Internet giants left first.

Next came the real estate developers, and finally the bosses of major film and television companies.

After Li Mingyang sent the last group of people to the car, he talked with Wang Changtian, Wang Xing, Wang Wei, Accountant Cao, Boss Zhao and others until late at night.

Under the instigation and temptation of the Three Kings and Sina, Boss Zhao of Huace also joined Tudou and entered the video industry.

This lineup is really weird...

Except for Meituan, which is not a listed company, the others are all listed companies, and they complement each other’s strengths and have almost no weaknesses...

Several people wanted Li Mingyang to join the game, and the shares were ready...

Li Mingyang really couldn't understand how these people got Tudou stocks.

There are problems with Tudou's shareholding structure. In order to get the company listed, Wang Wei reduced his shares to less than 10%.

I don't know how these people managed to own 58% of Tudou's shares...

"Please forgive me. I just told Erma to focus on content, but you pushed me into the video industry... If you want to do it yourself, I will definitely not participate."

Li Mingyang didn't know how many times he had emphasized it.

But the crowd didn't listen at all, and took turns to deceive and bombard them.

It was past eleven o'clock in the evening. Li Mingyang felt that it was never going to end, so he made an excuse to go to the bathroom, and as soon as he got out of the door, he ran away at full speed.

the next day.

After solving the funding problem, we signed a cloud rendering contract with Alibaba.

More than 300 people from more than a dozen teams of Mingyang Entertainment resigned. Some joined Wanda, Huayi, Bona, Xiaoma, some went to Huace, and some received investment to set up companies to do something big.

Li Mingyang no longer had any worries and devoted himself to the filming.

The behind-the-scenes team of Weathering With You adopts the model of old leading new.

The elderly people include 31 people headed by Wu Zhikui.

Among them are Xiao Yang and Guo Fan.

Aaron is a Warhammer fan who is good at painting.

Gao Dajun is responsible for the management of extras.

Ye Xiangdong is responsible for coordination and communication.

These 31 people can be said to be the core team of Mingyang Entertainment and are very experienced.

Li Mingyang stayed here on purpose.

There were originally forty people, but ten of them left and one more, Xiao Yang, joined.

Ah Huo finally left...and went to Wanda.

The newcomers are the more than 300 newly recruited people. They are capable but have little practical experience.

Li Mingyang organized these people into groups, selected team leaders from within the group, and disciplined the team members.

Then, according to the Mingyang management system, these people are restrained.

Everyone has to report their work content every day.

Over ten days, Wu Zhikui fired more than twenty people.

These people either have poor communication skills, or cannot endure hardship, or are lazy, or bring their cell phones with them...

One warning, two dismissals.

Thanks to the strict management, the crew is no longer in such a mess as at the beginning. They now know what discipline is and what it means for everyone to do their job.

Li Mingyang is not afraid of having too many newcomers in the crew, but he is afraid of those who want to be promoted too much and are unwilling to be slaves.

Film shooting is very boring...Besides professional skills, the most important quality behind the scenes is to be obedient, hardworking, and to be a good tool.

Behind the scenes it is specially configured.

The actors were carefully selected by Li Mingyang based on the original film.

Although Hu Ge was chosen to be the male lead, there are many conflicts of interest involved.

But Li Mingyang chose Hu Ge because he really thought he was suitable to play Gao Fan.

Although Gao Yuanyuan is old, she looks a bit age-defying. When she was young, she looked a bit old-fashioned and her facial features were not easily recognizable.

Although she is older, she looks younger than ever, with a girl’s innocence in her eyes…it’s as if she has grown up and become more beautiful.

It's pretty outrageous.

"Now, reshoot from the first scene." Li Mingyang sat behind the monitor and shouted into a loudspeaker.

The whole audience was stunned...

We thought the interior shooting was over today, but we didn’t expect that we would have to reshoot it!
"Director Li, let me make it clear first! It's not that I don't want to reshoot! It's just that... is it too late to reshoot?" Hu Ge said with a silly smile
"What a crap you're acting! I'm too lazy to tell you anything. Just reshoot it and save it for the New Year!" Li Mingyang rolled his eyes and cursed.

Hu Ge and Li Mingyang have collaborated twice, Your Name and Love Under Heaven.

Your name is really just a joke and I finished the filming.

But He Yisheng Xiaomo had been scolded so badly that he was used to it. He nodded seriously and waited for the next words.

The best thing about Li Mingyang is that he can tell the actors how to act simply and clearly.

It feels like a sudden enlightenment, a wake-up call.

"You're a coward, understand? Don't giggle or look sullen. You should be a little more gloomy and cowardly. The more cowardly the better!"

Hugo nodded and went to prepare.

Seeing this, Gao Yuanyuan pointed at herself and said, "Director, what about me? How should I act?"

Li Mingyang took off his sunglasses, stared at Gao Yuanyuan for a while, and then put on his sunglasses again.

"I've seen your performance, and you fit the character very well, but you're not sincere enough. Your performance lacks empathy and is superficial. There's no good way to deal with it, just keep working on it."

When Gao Yuanyuan heard this, she pursed her lips and nodded vigorously.

Oh, it’s all one-man shows, with green screens, and I still need empathy. Do I empathize with the green screen?

Give me an opponent...

Your Name has a lot of green screen monologues, which requires a very high level of imagination from the actors.

Hu Ge and Gao Yuanyuan are both veteran actors. They have plenty of skills but lack empathy, and their performances are too obvious.

On the contrary, they are not as smart as the young actors and new actors.

Can only grind.

“Raise your hands and imagine the sun shining through your fingers and onto your face. That warm feeling is as warm as your mother’s hands.”

Li Mingyang said as he watched the original film.

Mother’s hands…primary school composition!

Gao Yuanyuan complained silently in her heart, raised her hand gently, imagined the sunlight shining through her fingers and hitting her eyes, she subconsciously closed one eye, and a satisfied expression appeared on her face.

"Ka! This isn't a commercial, don't be so exaggerated!"

Gao Yuanyuan nodded and did it again.

"Ka! Have you been in too many commercials? Why are you smiling so brightly? Are both your parents dead? Damn it!"

Gao Yuanyuan frowned slightly and did it again.

"It's too gloomy. It's not a horror movie. Don't make it like the evil Zhou Zhiruo."

Gao Yuanyuan exhaled heavily and ran to the corner to calm down.

The fourth time, the fifth time, the sixth time... the twenty-eighth time, I finally passed.

Gao Yuanyuan was driven crazy by this scene, and when she heard what Li Mingyang said, she fell to the ground.

It's not easy.

Hugo, who was standing by, was stunned...

"Prepare for the next game. Hugo, you go."

(End of this chapter)