Entertainment: Starting from joining Kugou Video

Chapter 158 The Vice President of Alibaba Pictures Apologizes with a Thorn on His Back!

Looking at the final box office figures, Mr. Zhang remained silent for a long time. If things continued like this, once Tang Lou was freed from Alibaba Literature, he would definitely have the capital and strength to enter the upper management of Alibaba Pictures. At that time, it would really be difficult for him to maintain his position.

After thinking it over, Zhang Wei decided to apologize to Tang Lou in advance and try to reach a settlement, in order to avoid being purged later.

"I'm really angry."

Zhang Wei had been working in the industry for twenty years, so who would have thought she would be so easily defeated by a tenement building?

"This Tang Lou is truly remarkable. He's only so young, yet he's already the vice president of Coolcat and now also serves as the vice president of Alibaba Literature, having created a huge market for free novels."

"The 'Sheep Without a Shepherd' series alone is enough to prove his unique production and investment capabilities in the film industry. Given the usual practices of the higher-ups, it's quite possible that someone with his talent would lead Alibaba Pictures' business."

"Such an all-around talent is very likely to become the leader of all business units in the future, and the future head of Alibaba's Digital Media and Entertainment Group."

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Zhang Wei has spent a lot of time and energy investigating and researching Tang Lou in order to deal with him.

She originally thought that "Sheep Without a Shepherd 2" would most likely fail. If the project lost money, it would mean that Tanglou was not yet ready for the film industry and it would be difficult for them to take over Alibaba Pictures.

Who would have thought that Tang Lou could be so successful at everything he does?

"Speaking of which, this guy has a pretty good eye for talent. Before 'The Coming One' even started airing, he signed the only musician, Mao Buyi, and made a fortune. Then, in 'The Rap of China,' he was able to sign GAI out of the two kings' situation and avoid another big pitfall."

After Zhang Wei changed her mindset and considered surrendering to Tang Lou, her previous rebelliousness and arrogance disappeared, and she increasingly realized Tang Lou's strength.

"Perhaps, if someone like Tang Lou really becomes the head of Alibaba Pictures, I can benefit from his success."

For a senior employee like Zhang Wei, climbing the corporate ladder may be hopeless in this lifetime, but securing her position as vice president of Alibaba Pictures is still a piece of cake.

"I've gambled it all, I admit defeat, I'll work for Tang Lou from now on."

Zhang Wei's ability to become a senior executive at Alibaba Pictures demonstrates her strong execution skills.

After deciding to fully surrender to Tang Lou, he immediately contacted Shen Yan as an intermediary and specially invited Tang Lou to apologize to him. At the same time, he expressed his admiration and appreciation for Tang Lou.

If Tang Lou joins Alibaba Pictures, Zhang Wei will absolutely support and cooperate.

Over the course of the meal, Shen Yan acted as the middleman, and Zhang Wei humbled herself and acted subserviently. Tang Lou was naturally happy to have such a senior veteran of Alibaba Pictures who had defected, which would indeed help Tang Lou later when he joined Alibaba Pictures.

Tanglou has now established a presence in Alibaba Literature and Shuqi Novels. For these IPs to be developed and monetized, the film industry is certainly an important outlet.

Therefore, Tanglou will definitely strive to join Alibaba Pictures and build its own comprehensive cultural and entertainment ecosystem.

After reconciling with Zhang Wei, Tang Lou began making new work arrangements.

Currently, everything is going according to plan for the development of Shuqi Novels. All that's left is to wait and see how profitable it will be in six months.

Having finished dealing with Shuqi Novels, Tang Lou's most important task now is the web series "Candle in the Tomb: The Lost City," the opening installment of the "Candle in the Tomb" series.

Because Tanglou had already bought out all the film and television development rights for the "Ghost Blows Out the Light" series, so far, no film or television works based on "Ghost Blows Out the Light" have been released, which is quite different from the previous one.

Currently, only "The Grave Robbers' Chronicles" is popular in the market.

Based on my past life experience, "Ghost Blows Out the Light" and "The Grave Robbers' Chronicles" are indeed twin stars in the tomb raiding genre, equally brilliant at the time.

Both IPs are top-tier.

However, the two IPs ultimately developed very differently.

In terms of online popularity and fan activity, "The Lost Tomb" is indeed slightly better. Its short-term commercial development momentum is indeed very strong, with a wide range of derivative fields and many commercial cases in games, comics, offline exhibitions, and co-branding.

However, there is a huge problem: the copyright is very chaotic, with multiple licenses and a mix of good and bad producers.

This has led to a large number of film and television works based on this IP, with varying quality and overall reputation being damaged.

Moreover, many works in this series have received extremely polarized reviews, with the overall reception being rather poor.

Of course, all of this is because this work is very difficult to adapt. The novel itself has many plot holes that cannot be filled, and there are also many loopholes in the plot, which affects the fidelity of the film and television adaptation.

In contrast, the "Ghost Blows Out the Light" series has had much more stable ratings, critical acclaim, and market longevity.

Basically, the reputation and overall quality of each installment are guaranteed, allowing the commercial value of this IP to remain stable in the long term.

In this lifetime, Tang Lou monopolized all the copyrights to "Ghost Blows Out the Light," which also ensured stability in subsequent development and allowed him to control the quality of the works.

This time, Tanglou is preparing to present "Candle in the Tomb: The Lost City," which is the first work in the series and is completely comparable to, or even surpasses, the "Tomb Raiders" series.

In order to bring this novel to life as faithfully as possible, Tanglou has invested a significant amount of money this time.

In addition to its own entertainment company, KuMiao Video co-invested in this project.

In addition to leading the investment in this series, Tanglou also invited some friends in the industry to invest together.

Yang Mi, Reba, Yang Chaoyue, Pan Yueming, Zhang Yuqi, and Zheng Shuang all invested some money.

This is not just the first TV series, but a gamble on the success of this series IP.

These celebrities investing in "Ghost Blows Out the Light" are, of course, entirely based on Tang Lou's capabilities and vision.

In particular, Yang Mi invested 20 million this time, which is considered a major move by her recently.

Previously, Yang Mi had made a fortune by investing in Xiaohongshu with Tang Lou, which led her to offer herself to him several times.

Yang Mi also has high hopes for this investment in "Ghost Blows Out the Light".

As a supporter, Yang Mi also made a cameo appearance.

At the project's investment meeting, Tang Lou began to introduce the entire project.

On the huge projection screen was the complete project plan for "Candle in the Tomb: The Lost City".

On the last page of the cost budget, the figure made everyone in the room hold their breath for a second:

Production budget: 1.2 million RMB.

This is an astronomical figure for a web series.

Especially with these high-quality short dramas, the investors and project team members were somewhat surprised by Tanglou's investment in this IP.

They value it.

It's worth noting that Tanglou's previous investments in the "Sheep Without a Shepherd" film series were only in the tens of millions.

A web series costing hundreds of millions is still somewhat frightening and alarming.