Chapter 292: Iron Man 2 and Zhang Guo

Chapter 292: Iron Man 2 and Zhang Guo

Chapter 292: Iron Man 2 and Returning to China
The premiere of "Iron Man 2" was scheduled for May 2010, 05, the day before Wang Hao returned to China.

Wang Hao went to the premiere this time, mainly to see what plans Marvel had and what he intended to talk to him about.

As for Keita Miyamoto, as the current boss of Sony Pictures, he will definitely not go. Marvel Studios invited him more out of courtesy. What the other party really values ​​is Wang Hao, the chief planner of the "Spider-Man Cinematic Universe."

So when Wang Hao arrived at the premiere of "Iron Man 2" with Daddario, he was also warmly welcomed by Marvel executive Kevin Feige.

The other party's reaction surprised Daddario, who was accompanying Wang Hao.

The girl just starred in 20th Century Fox's "Percy Jackson & the Olympian Lightning Thief" last year. This movie, adapted from a well-known youth novel, has slightly improved her current status and broadened her horizons.

Therefore, she no longer feels that Wang Hao, her friend and director from China, is superior and charming as she did before.

However, now that she saw the top executives of Marvel Studios greeting Wang Hao so enthusiastically, she suddenly felt that the mysterious aura surrounding Wang Hao seemed to have added another layer.

What happened afterwards was actually quite simple. After meeting Wang Hao, Karen Feige first praised the Galaxy Cinematic Universe highly, praising his creativity, his directing talent, and his youth and potential, which made Wang Hao feel embarrassed.

After talking about "Galaxy Cinematic Universe", the other party took this opportunity to start talking to Wang Hao in a roundabout way about other movie universes.

For example, the Marvel Cinematic Universe or the Spider-Man Cinematic Universe.

As for these two things, Wang Hao had the memories of his past life and insights into the future, so he could talk about them eloquently and from a high vantage point, and he directly stunned Karen Feige, the helmsman of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Especially when many of their views tended to coincide and they shared the same opinions on the future development of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this man regarded Wang Hao as his confidant and wished he could talk with him all night long.

Of course, Wang Hao had no idea how much of this behavior was true and how much was false.

But through verbal communication, both sides have basically determined each other's future planning ideas for their respective film universes.

At least for the time being, they have no conflict.

In the next few stages, the Marvel Cinematic Universe will gradually expand the scope of the story, expand the story types, and focus on the entire earth and the universe.

As for the Spider-Man Cinematic Universe, it will focus more on the streets, consortiums, gangs, ordinary people and social issues.

This made Karen Fitch feel relieved.

It’s just that Wang Hao didn’t tell him about the subsequent “multiverse” plan of “Spider-Man Cinematic Universe”, otherwise this guy would probably not be able to sleep all night.

After talking about these things, the premiere event of "Iron Man 2" officially began.

Wang Hao and Daddario sat together in the screening room and relived the story again.

He had seen this movie in his previous life, and the content was not complicated. It was nothing more than that Iron Man Tony Stark was targeted by the government because of his iron armor, and at the same time, the miniature arc reactor in his chest was rapidly causing palladium metal poisoning in his blood.

Faced with internal and external difficulties, he began to give up on himself. However, with the help of his friends and the relics left by his father, he found himself again, defeated his enemies and resolved the crisis.

To be honest, this is actually the most standard "superhero" type among the top ten Hollywood feature film genres, and the template is very neat.

Superman finds himself in the mortal world and must deal with those who are jealous of his unique position and outstanding talents, while also solving problems and defusing crises for ordinary people.

Of course, there are also many highlights in the movie, such as Tony Stark's briefcase-shaped portable Iron Man suit, which caused cheers at the screening site when it appeared at the racetrack.

The appearance of Black Widow also made everyone excited.

As for the post-credits Easter egg at the end of the movie, when Thor's hammer appeared, it did not cause much reaction on the scene.

After the premiere of "Iron Man 2", Karen Feige planned to invite Wang Hao to attend the party tonight, but this time Wang Hao refused.

He came to the premiere to gather intelligence, and if he had too close contact with Marvel, Sony Pictures might become suspicious.

After leaving the premiere of "Iron Man", Wang Hao returned to the hotel and called Keita Miyamoto to tell him about Marvel's next plans for the film universe.

By the time he finished talking to the other party and hung up the phone, Daddario had finished showering and walked out of the bathroom in a black silk pajamas. His proud "S"-shaped curve outlined by the silk made people unable to help but salute.

Daddario looked down and saw this situation. He couldn't help but chuckle. He walked up to Wang Hao, then slowly knelt down, raised his head, and stared at him with a pair of big watery eyes, like a cute little deer.

hiss~
Wang Hao took a breath, raised his right hand, and subconsciously pressed down Daddario's head.

After that, he no longer had the heart to take a shower. The night in New York was different from the night in Beijing.

The high-end hotel where Wang Hao stayed has the famous New York Central Park behind it. Looking out from the window of the hotel room, all the beautiful scenery is in sight.

The bright moon in the sky was big and round, white as silver frost and pure as ice and snow.

The small river on the ground also has a gurgling flow and an endless supply of water.

Especially in this Central Park, it is said that there are many animals. Wang Hao heard the sound of deer calling from the park, sometimes high-pitched and sometimes low.

Wang Hao was so disturbed by the deer's calls that he finally fell asleep in the middle of the night. When he woke up the next day, it was already noon.

After saying goodbye to Daddario, who was feeling weak and tired and also didn't want to get up, and extending his room rate for one more day, Wang Hao rushed to the airport and boarded the flight back to Beijing.

This trip to New York was extremely rewarding.

As his career in Hollywood grows bigger and he has more work to do, he will have to travel back and forth between the two places in the future.

It seems that when the company makes money from the IPO, he will also buy a private jet to enjoy himself.

After returning to Beijing, Wang Hao first checked the post-production status of Wolf Warrior. Then he went to inspect the project site at the company headquarters with several leaders of the group's subsidiaries.

The Galaxy Group headquarters, which started construction in March, has now completed the construction of the pile foundation. All that is left is to wait for a while for the concrete to harden, and to complete the static load and pile foundation integrity tests before the building can begin. According to the construction unit's plan, the Galaxy Group headquarters is expected to be completed around August, followed by decoration and formaldehyde removal. It is estimated that they will be able to move into the new company headquarters building around the National Day.

At this speed, the construction unit is already working overtime.

Wang Hao did not urge them anymore. After all, the quality of the project and construction safety were equally important. There was no need to take risks just to speed up the progress of their own building.

After visiting his own construction site, Wang Hao also took a walk around the Xinghe community that Wanda had built for them next door. That large construction site had also just started construction and was currently pouring pile foundations. The site was a mess, but it was clear that the area was not small, and there would certainly be a lot of houses in the future, enough to meet the needs of the company's employees.

After inspecting the construction site, Wang Hao received Liu Yong and others from Gewara Life Network at the company.

Just as he expected, the 500 million in Series A financing was just a drop in the bucket for Gewara Life Network, which was in its expansion phase.

After all, their entire website currently has no means or direction for profitability, and they simply rely on spending money to acquire users and take over local cinemas in Shanghai.

"Boss Liu, at the speed you're burning money, if you don't have a way to make a profit, I'm afraid that if you want to expand nationwide, it won't be enough to raise tens of millions of dollars."

In the conference room, Wang Hao looked through the company's recent business report that Liu Yong and his team had brought over, and reminded them:

“And this is when you have no competitors. I can guarantee that there are definitely competitors with the same model as yours in other places now.

When there are more competitors in the market, what will you do? Just spend money to grab the market? What is the moat of your website? What features can make you beat your competitors in the competition? "

Faced with Wang Hao's questions, Liu Yong, an early entrepreneur, was obviously a little nervous.

"Mr. Wang, we at Gewara.com have always been running this business with a sincere heart to serve the general public, constantly discovering and solving pain points, and constantly improving user experience. This is our moat.

During this time, we have been improving our website, providing users with tips on how to plan parking lots and transportation routes, reminding consumers to pick up tickets in advance, and reminding users to leave reviews…”

Wang Hao waved his hand, interrupted him, and asked a key question.

"I admit that you are a team with ideals, but in the early stages of starting a business, should you gain market share first? Or should you improve service quality first?"

Liu Yong hesitated for a moment and said, "I think both are important."

"But now you have to have a focus!" Wang Hao emphasized: "The amount of money your company can raise is limited, you can't have all of this.

And your competitors also have to make a choice. If they choose to occupy the market first, will you follow them or not?"

Liu Yong was speechless, but silence is sometimes a statement.

Wang Hao looked at this idealistic entrepreneur and couldn't help shaking his head, and advised earnestly:
"Mr. Liu, it is clear that you do not realize that both China's Internet market and film market are still in a stage of rapid development.

The market your company faces is exactly where these two markets overlap, which means that the online ticket purchase market will still have a large volume in the future, and your market share of Guevara only corresponds to a small piece of Shanghai.”

Wang Hao stretched out his hand and made a "small" gesture.

"If it were me competing with you, I would quickly expand the field and use the strategy of surrounding the cities from the countryside to first occupy the vast second-, third-, and fourth-tier cities.

Then, using this size advantage, we can negotiate joint distribution with those film and television companies and gain exclusive monopoly on film sources.

On one side is the vast market, and on the other side is the ticket-grabbing Shanghai. What do you think the film companies will choose?
If you don't have any tickets to buy, what's the point of having great service?"

Wang Hao's words made Liu Yong break out in a cold sweat, and his next words also directly hit the vital point of Guevara Life Network.

“As a practitioner in the film and television industry, Mr. Liu, I see things more clearly than you.

Online movie ticketing is closely related to the entire film industry. It is not a simple Internet business, it involves both online and offline.

And it has no industry barriers, what is this? This is a battleground!
Do you have patents for your so-called service experience? Can't I just copy it? Those functions are very easy for any large Internet company to imitate, right? "

Liu Yong was speechless. He also felt that what Wang Hao said made sense, but this went against his original intention of creating the website. He didn't know what to do for a moment.

"Boss Wang, what do you think we should do?"

Liu Yong looked at Wang Hao, and his words were no longer as confident as before.

But Wang Hao didn't want to face his question. He didn't give him advice as he did before. Instead, he looked at him and asked:
"This is your company. We invested in you, but you asked us investors why we invested in you. Why don't I just use this money to start my own business?"

Liu Yong was a little confused by Wang Hao's actions. If he didn't listen to him, he would be scolded, and if he asked him for advice, he would also be criticized.

The conference room instantly fell into an awkward silence because of this incident. Wang Hao sat in the chair, not caring at all, just watching Liu Yong's reaction.

As for Liu Yong, he was originally disturbed by Wang Hao's remarks, but after a moment of silence, he fell into deep thought, with a look of struggle in his eyes.

Everyone in the conference room was waiting for his answer, and they all knew that this answer would inevitably affect the success or failure of Guevara Life Network.

Finally, Liu Yong seemed to have finally made up his mind. He looked at Wang Hao and said seriously:
“I’m sorry, Mr. Wang, I still can’t convince myself that the Gewara Life Network is the embodiment of my philosophy and the dreams of all our colleagues.

Just like the name we gave to the website, there are some things we must insist on.

If you can’t accept it, Mr. Wang, I…I…”

He originally wanted to push the raised money to Wang Hao, but then he thought, other people have invested money in him, and now the money is almost spent. If he lets others withdraw at this time, he will have no money to pay back to Wang Hao.

Fortunately, when Wang Hao heard his words, he was not angry. Instead, he burst into laughter, clapped his hands with joy, and shouted out a word.

"it is good!"

(End of this chapter)