Chapter 167 Return to 31 Academy

Chapter 167 Return to 31 Academy

Chapter 167 Return to Trinity College
before.

Fan Wumian heard about it from friends in the circle.

It was said that some celebrities had invested in dozens of companies in total. At that time, he once thought that these people were crazy and how could they handle all the work.

Many celebrities made their first fortune by filming, singing, and hype. After becoming rich, they either set up their own studios, cooperate with other companies, or use their fame to find opportunities to do cross-border business.

For example, the actor who played Gongsun Ce in "Young Justice Bao" and Yang Mi, whom I met during the art exam, are both examples of how companies have grown big and strong through investment.

There are also stars who try to make money, but end up falling from grace. Although their fame and reputation plummet, they still make a lot of money.

When it was his turn to debut and become famous, Fan Wumian realized more clearly what it meant to "become a businessman if you are a good actor."

Many times, the opportunity is right in front of him, and it is really difficult to resist taking action. Besides, his chances of success are much higher than others.

It’s very busy to say that I’m busy, but it’s also very relaxing to say that I’m relaxing.

Fan Wumian didn't need to worry about financial management and real estate speculation. He borrowed a lot of money by leveraging the bank.

Mobile phone ringback tone business.

He only needs to record the ringtone and then hand it over to the telecommunications operator. The Chinese branch of Bandit King Media has recruited a total of seven employees to manage the ringtone business in an orderly manner.

According to Fan Wumian's arrangement, they also used a third-party team to produce some funny ringtones with potential.

Although it was not as popular as his own songs, he was still able to make some money in the sales process by asking telecommunications operators for resources and help with promotion.

For every ringtone sold at a price of RMB 3, Fan Wumian and the telecommunications operator split the revenue in half. The other party actually has to pay an additional RMB 5 per month for the ringtone service.

It is no exaggeration to say that the telecommunications operators may have earned hundreds of millions of RMB in gross profit from him in the past few months.

to be frank.

Sometimes Fan Wumian also found it difficult to understand why so many people would spend their own money to buy ringtones and call their relatives and friends to listen to songs.

Set a call reminder ringtone and enjoy yourself.

He is not sure how long the mobile phone ringtone boom will last, but currently he can still earn about 7 to 8 million RMB in dividends every month, and he estimates that he can continue to stay in the boom for a while.

The online video project has just been launched, but Tudou.com has been holding it back and is busy hoarding digital copyrights for TV dramas and movies. There is nothing much to say about it.

With Tudou's current server configuration, Fan Wumian was worried that the company would be overwhelmed by the huge volume of traffic as soon as it went online.

After all, it has its own traffic, so it would be a shame not to take the opportunity to hype it up when it goes online.

When signing the contract, Fan Wumian did not meet Wang Wei, the founder of Tudou.com, in person, but he waved his hand and gave an initial budget of 300 million Hong Kong dollars.

It is worth mentioning that.

Taking advantage of the acquisition opportunity, the accounting firm helped to move Tudou.com's registered address to the tax haven Cayman Islands.

The reason is that this company cannot make any money for the time being, and for the time being, Fan Wumian is the only one who can support it out of his own pocket.

If he doesn't pay more carefully with taxes, he's worried that his account will be drained by the website without using any Penguin stock.

This kind of draining method is definitely not what Fan Wumian likes.

The film and television projects of the Hong Kong headquarters of Shanzeiwang Media now include "You Are the Apple of My Eye", "Crazy Stone", "A Quiet Place 2", "My Love from the Star" and "City Hunter".

The first two were directed by Fan Wumian and Lu Hao respectively.

As for the last three projects, he invited a team of screenwriters to help discuss the creation, and he personally took care of the details of the script.

After a few months, my second solo album is about to start production, and the situation is unexpectedly good.

Several projects are progressing in an orderly manner, and Fan Wumian does not feel flustered.

One to two to go.

He already has sixty or seventy people under him, sharing the workload with him.

After inspecting the closed production plant in Shenzhen, he took his girlfriend Zuo Ziyan on a yacht for a trip around Lamma Island before the filming of "Those Years" started.

Trinity Anglican College.

Most of the Form 7 students have already left school.

There are also students who realize that they are doomed to fail right after the exam, so they come to Form 6 early to continue preparing for next year's exam.

Fan Wumian just left school.

The legends about him, Zhuang Muxi, Zuo Ziyan and others are still talked about by his younger classmates.

Of course.

Compared to how much the overseas distribution rights of "A Quiet Place" sold for, or how many Penguin shares they held, what surprised them the most was that Fan Wumian bought a mansion at No. 18 Repulse Bay when he was only years old.

Many times, a house is the face of the residents of the port city, and this concept is deeply rooted.

Many students grew up in subdivided flats or public housing, where four or five people sometimes had to live in an area of ​​more than ten or twenty square meters. Over time, of course, they dreamed of a big house.

July 4nd.

Fan Wumian brought the crew of "Those Years" back to Trinity College again and stood at the gate and said with emotion:
"My dad asked a master to calculate for me, and today is a good day to start filming. It's a good day for opening a business, seeking wealth, and offering sacrifices to pray for blessings. I hope those junior students will give you, the former leader, some face and don't come to disrupt the filming, and don't go back and complain to my parents, saying that the filming of the crew affects their studies."

Zuo Ziyan stood beside him, glanced sideways, and said:

"If they cause trouble, it means you don't have enough face. What does it have to do with me? When we return to school next month to hold the graduation ceremony, haven't we arranged for you to speak as a student representative?"

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Fan Wumian shook his head and smiled:
"I really don't understand the mentality of you good students. You have to write a script before you can speak on stage. It's obviously a very troublesome thing. I don't think it's so glorious."

Zuo Ziyan told:

"That year when I was admitted to the university, I was on stage to give a speech. You were like a fool at that time. You stopped me and asked me to be your girlfriend."

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I have to take the blame for this.

I almost subconsciously wanted to hug Zuo Ziyan, but fortunately I stopped in time.

Fan Wumian smiled and said:

"What does this mean? We still have to have dreams. Even a toad can eat swan meat."

Miss Zuo retorted:

"If you are a toad, then we should just stop living. If you make a few more movies like A Quiet Place that are popular all over the world, you may be richer than my family. My great-grandfather's generation worked hard to take on projects and build houses to save money, and my family has become what it is today." Fan Wumian replied half-jokingly and half-seriously:
"Don't compare yourself to me, I'm afraid you'll get depressed."

Li Jiagui, who became the principal, had already informed the security guards in advance and a red cloth was laid in the stadium, on which offerings, incense burners, etc. were placed.

It's a rare opportunity to show your face.

Of course, Principal Li would not keep the reporters out.

Before Fan Wumian arrived, his principal had already started chatting with reporters, proudly telling them that he had also gotten a guest role, playing the school's discipline director.

Principal Li received special care and had more than ten lines in total, which was more than that of Fan Wumian's father.

Silly Old Fan also wore a suit today and came to the opening ceremony. He originally wanted to shave off his mustache to look younger and more energetic.

However, Fan Wumian felt that his dress was also a striking feature, so he advised his father to keep it so that he would be remembered by the audience.

He followed the procedure step by step and briefly accepted interviews from reporters.

The most important significance of holding a start-up ceremony is actually to promote it in advance and tell the outside world through the media that a new drama has started filming.

Make some noise during the filming, and then make some noise after the filming. This will help save marketing and promotion costs and avoid the rush before the release.

Whether a movie is successful at the box office depends not only on the quality of the work, but more importantly on how it is promoted.

Otherwise, how could "The Promise", with its confusing plot, have achieved such a high box office in the mainland in its previous life, causing many people to walk into the cinema with great interest, but walk out confused, frowning and wondering what on earth they had watched?

Investors like to spend money to hire well-known big-name actors, mainly because they have the box office appeal to attract audiences to watch the show.

Fan Wumian obviously also has this kind of box office appeal.

Looking at the hundreds of reporters at the scene holding microphones with Japanese, Simplified Chinese, English and Korean written on them, you can tell that he has successfully stood out in the film industry since "A Quiet Place" grossed more than 3 million US dollars worldwide.

Unfortunately.

The bulk of the revenue went to Miramax Films and cinema chains, and Fan Wumian just got a small share of the profits.

As for the Huiwen Daily, which commissioned him to publish the novel "Emperor of the Wilderness", he has been making a lot of money in the past few months by providing articles to peers and taking advertisements.

I was really worried that Fan Wumian would suddenly quit and look down on the trivial work of writing novels, so I even took the initiative to increase the price per word by 2 Hong Kong dollars.

Combined with the huge profits from producing and wholesale albums, it is clear that working for others is far inferior to building your own platform.

The interview session is just about to end.

A mainland reporter skipped the movie "Those Years" and suddenly asked:

"As far as I know, your company has been acquiring online digital copyrights for TV series and movies recently. What are your plans next, Mr. Fan?"

When addressing other celebrities, people often use "Mr." or "Ms.", or "Teacher" to be more polite.

When he got to Fan Wumian, he just called him "Mr. Fan".

His current status in the industry is clear at a glance. Since he has hundreds of millions of assets in his hands, the outside world can no longer completely treat him as a simple star.

Fan Wumian was hoping to attract more film and television companies to sell digital copyrights to him, so he stopped and replied in Mandarin:
"I recently invested in a video website called YouTube in the United States. I plan to edit some interesting clips and share them with the audience online. I am afraid of lawsuits due to copyright disputes, so I have to spend money to purchase the copyright."

In this year 2005.

When playing long videos online, the lag can be so severe that it makes you question your life.

Occasionally, someone in an Internet cafe would download short videos of love actions, which would always cause a lot of scolding and affect the Internet speed when they were playing games.

Even if Fan Wumian jumped out now and said that he wanted to create an Internet drama viewing platform, most people would just treat it as a joke and feel that it has no future.

Take LeTV, which was established last year, for example. It claimed to be an online video platform, but in fact it followed the telecommunications operators and did some interactive live broadcast business, which is equivalent to moving traditional TV stations to the Internet. The user experience is hard to describe.

Fan Wumian said that he wanted to edit some short videos, which did not arouse the suspicion of the reporters. At the end of last year, online videos had just become popular and attracted the attention of some people. Sohu also set up a "Souhu Broadband" specifically for this purpose.

The reporter who had just asked him the question was in awe after hearing this, and gave him a thumbs up and praised him:
"I admire you! Others just use it, but you are the only one who truly knows how to respect copyright."

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Since last month, Fan Wumian has been resting for a long time in preparation for the Hong Kong City DSE college entrance examination.

Going to the Berlin Film Festival was in early February, and now it’s the end of April.

After the opening ceremony.

A group of staff members immediately began to prepare. There were many people on the road at this time, so they would shoot the scenes on campus first and there was no rush for the outdoor scenes for the time being.

After Zuo Ziyan changed into her school uniform, she said contemptuously:
"You are a man who knows how to be thrifty. You actually let me wear my own school uniform. To be honest, I have always felt that the uniforms of Trinity College are not pretty enough, so every time I distribute new uniforms, I will privately find someone to alter them."

"We can't help it. If we ask you to change your school uniform, the other students in the extras will have to change too, and the cost will go up. No wonder I thought your skirt was too short. Did you ask someone to alter it?"

Fan Wumian finished speaking.

Zuo Ziyan immediately said proudly:

"The skirt was not altered because I have long legs. I even met a talent scout on the street who asked me if I wanted to be a model."

Fan Wumian began to work, staring at her again and again, touching his chin and saying:

"Your feeling is a little off. In the script, you and I are not familiar with each other, so the way you look at me should be unfamiliar. Bring out the temperament of the eldest lady that rejected me before. Be three parts arrogant, three parts academic master, and four parts goddess."

".You are making things difficult for me."

Zuo Ziyan was speechless and said, "What kind of a request is this? If you have the guts, can you show me one?"

Pretending not to hear, Fan Wumian continued:

"You have to try to figure out the psychological state of the character in the script. At first, he was disgusted and repulsed, then he slowly realized that I wasn't that bad, and then he gradually began to like me."

Zuo Ziyan made an OK gesture and replied:

"A proud young lady, huh? I'm the best at this. I raise my chin slightly, show my full aura, straighten my chest and head, and show my long neck and collarbone. How do you feel now?"

Fan Wumian nodded and said in a low voice:

"Now I feel like taking you back to the apartment and then conquering you hard."

She is not so restrained now.

He looked up and down at Fan Wumian's school uniform, hooked his finger and said:
"Come on, it's better to finish the filming as soon as possible and wait for me in my apartment downstairs."

　There is no one to help take care of the baby these days. The baby is teething and it is a bit of a headache. I will only write this chapter today. |(￣3￣)|
　　
　
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