Chapter 426: New Year's Reopening
Chapter 426: New Year's Reopening
Before the Spring Festival, Wang Hao had already returned to the office of Galaxy Group and was busy with company affairs.
The first thing is naturally the performance of the movie "The Return of the Great Sage". The overall box office trend of this year's Spring Festival holiday is still very good.
Last year, thanks to Wang Hao's movie "Gravity", the box office during the Spring Festival exceeded 10 billion.
Although there is no new movie by Wang Hao this year, the popularity of last year has been continued and the public is very enthusiastic about watching the movie.
During the 2014 Spring Festival holiday, the national box office revenue exceeded 14 million every day. After seven days, the total revenue reached a staggering billion.
Among them, the one that ranked first in total box office is naturally the one with the highest investment, "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", followed by Wang Hao and others' "The Return of the Great Sage", followed by the variety show movie "Where Are We Going, Dad", and finally Wang Jing's "The Man from Macau" and the less famous "Ex-Files".
"You don't need to worry about "The Man from Macau" and "Where Are We Going, Dad?". The reputations of these two films are already terrible and they will not pose any threat to "The Return of the Great Sage."
In the chairman's office of Galaxy Building, Wang Hao looked at the report materials in his hands and made such analysis.
In front of him were several senior managers from the company's marketing, publicity and animation departments.
"As for 'Havoc in Heaven', I think its reputation is not as good as ours. If we take a long-term view, I think they will be surpassed by us in terms of total box office."
Several subordinates present nodded in unison, and the head of the distribution department also said:
"The chairman is right, and our department thinks so too."
“That’s what happened, but your distribution and publicity departments should continue to step up their efforts and put down the arrogance of ‘Havoc in Heaven’ as soon as possible!
The word-of-mouth advantage of "The Return of the Great Sage" must be fully utilized, especially in the Internet sector. Our company was the first to make arrangements in this regard.
Why didn’t I see any relevant results in this report? What did the publicity department do? No one was on duty during the Chinese New Year holiday? The overtime pay was not enough? Or do you not attach any importance to the animation film industry at all?”
Several senior managers couldn't help but tremble as Wang Hao's voice became louder and louder.
The animation department was not a core department in Galaxy Group before, and the project "The Return of the Great Sage" was hastily added in midway. It itself has not yet been fully integrated into the system of Galaxy Group. Naturally, the various departments were not so concerned when communicating and cooperating with it.
This kind of slackness in work and contemptuous attitude naturally led to the current performance of the film.
This is a common problem in large companies. Galaxy Group has so many projects every year and so many people under it. All departments cooperate with each other, so those with good interpersonal relationships will definitely have more advantages.
In other words, the quality of "The Return of the Great Sage" itself is quite good, and it performed well enough, which is why it has achieved the current box office of more than 7 million yuan, almost 8 million yuan.
“Things need to be done quickly, I don’t want to see this situation again in the future.
The company is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more projects. As managers, your primary task is to play a coordinating role and sort out and arrange things.
Go! "
After criticizing these executives and giving them a reminder, Wang Hao did not rest. This time he asked Feng Zhuang, the general manager of the [Asset Management Business Group], and Lin Le, the general manager of Xinghe Property Company, to come in together.
The reason why they were called here is that some businesses within the [Asset Management Business Group] need to be split, expanded, reorganized, and several new branches need to be established.
"boss!"
Feng Zhuang and Lin Le stood in front of Wang Hao and called out to him respectfully, then sat down at his invitation.
“I’m sure you all know why I called you here today.
As the company grows in size, the business content of the [Asset Management Business Group] is becoming more and more complicated, and I think it is necessary to sort it out. "
The two executives who were called in immediately took out their notebooks and pens and began to take notes carefully.
"At present, the main assets of our Galaxy Group are the two Galaxy Cinemas, one in the south and one in the north, and the employee communities around the Galaxy Cinemas.
In the future, the company will build a theme park similar to Disney next to Galaxy Film Metropolis in Shangjing. If the operation goes well, another one will be built in the south.
In addition, with the increase in the company's employees, the Galaxy Community is almost reaching its limit. A new employee community in Shangjing is currently under planning, and the company has acquired a piece of commercial land near the Galaxy Cinema on the Hangzhou Bay side, and will build an employee community there in the future.
In this way, if there are employees in Beijing whose hometowns are in the south and they want to be transferred to the branch company, they can settle down there without any worries.
In this way, the [Asset Management Business Group] has a lot of real estate businesses. I think Galaxy Property can be upgraded to Galaxy Real Estate to include related project construction work and subsequent building maintenance.
By the way, you can also go to Wanda to learn from them and ask them for advice. After all, the relationship between the two companies is pretty good."
Feng Zhuang and Lin Le nodded and took note of the matter regarding Xinghe Real Estate.
"The real estate and property management has been separated out. The management of Galaxy Film City will remain unchanged, but the cafeteria and small supermarket inside the film city will be separated out."
Hearing what Wang Hao said, Feng Zhuang and Lin Le couldn't help but raise their heads and looked at him with confusion.
What is the purpose of separating small businesses such as canteens and supermarkets?
“I think that food safety is a big deal and cannot be ignored. The cafeteria inside Oriental Movie Metropolis has always been run by us, and the central kitchen system we established has been running well, but the cafeteria is still under the management of Oriental Movie Metropolis itself, and it is inevitable that slackness will occur over time.
Now we will separate the canteen and the central kitchen into a new catering company, which will not be managed by Galaxy Film City but supervised by Galaxy Film City. If we add a third-party independent food safety testing company, the probability of problems will be smaller.
And since it is a catering company, it is definitely impossible for it to only manage a canteen.
I heard that in addition to our company's employees eating in the cafeteria during working hours, those company employees who live in the Xinghe community often do not choose to cook for themselves when they are not at work, but eat in the cafeteria.
In this case, we can open another canteen near the Xinghe Community. On the one hand, it can take care of the company's employees, and on the other hand, it can prevent them from always running to the Film City Park. The high turnover of personnel will affect the filming work of those crews.
In this way, we will have two canteens. And as I said just now, the company is planning to build a theme park next to Galaxy Film City. At that time, the catering within the park will definitely be handled by this newly established catering company.
Now we have to build the framework in this regard and make it mature, so there will be no problems with the catering management in the theme park in the future. "After Wang Hao said this, the two executives also felt that it made sense and quickly took note of the catering company's affairs.
"As for small supermarkets, the company gives a lot of benefits to employees during the holidays every year, but many people may not be able to use the rice, flour, grain, oil and other things. In addition, the employees who live in the community also have a lot of material purchase needs every day.
So I think it is necessary to open a shopping mall next to Xinhe Community. In the future, we can give shopping cards to employees during festivals and let them buy whatever they need. "
Feng Zhuang gestured and interrupted:
“Wanda is planning to build a commercial complex nearby, and it is estimated that they will also introduce large chain supermarkets. If we build a supermarket at this time, will it conflict with their plans?
Moreover, I think it is a waste of resources to build such a supermarket just to serve our own employees. The retail industry is not easy to do now. Instead of building it ourselves, we should let Wanda help introduce one.”
Wang Hao waved his hand at this time.
“There’s no rush for the supermarket issue right now, I’m just mentioning it.
There is a large supermarket called Pangdonglai in Xuchang, Henan. After the Chinese New Year, you can take your team there to investigate and learn.
Anyway, this is also the industry of your [Asset Management Business Group]. As the company grows bigger, its businesses will naturally develop in a diversified direction, but the core of your business group is still to better serve our employees.
You must remember that our Galaxy Group is not like most companies in the market. My goal is to emulate the state-owned enterprises of the past, so that employees can feel the warmth of home in the company. The company can even take into account the birth, aging, illness and death of employees, so that employees can work happily in our Galaxy until retirement."
Feng Zhuang and Lin Le did not expect that Wang Hao's ideas would be so "retro". This is really different from most corporate CEOs today.
Support employees for a lifetime!
How many years has it been since I last heard this sentence? Twenty years? Or thirty years?
Nowadays, apart from some state-owned enterprises, there are no other such enterprises.
Even state-owned enterprises may not be able to do this sometimes.
However, when they lamented Wang Hao's old-fashioned thinking, they couldn't help but feel moved, and a warm feeling surged up from the bottom of their hearts.
After all, although they both receive an annual salary, executives are still employees. Which worker doesn’t want to work for a good and humane boss?
Following such a boss, if they slack off at work, they would want to slap themselves in the face.
The company’s affairs are numerous and complicated, and the Spring Festival period and the new company’s affairs are just part of them.
Wang Hao sat in the office at the group headquarters for a month, and it was not until mid-February that he arranged most of the work on his desk.
Just as he and Han Sanping had said before, 2014 will be a year of explosive growth for Galaxy Pictures' works.
The first is the most important key project "Wolf Warrior 2". This work directed by Wang Hao has basically completed the post-production work and is being submitted to the relevant departments for review. At the same time, the early publicity and preheating has also begun.
Not only Galaxy Pictures, but the entire group company from top to bottom attaches great importance to this work.
Tao Piao.com calculated based on the audience attention data collected by the APP, and the box office estimate released by the industry is 20 billion yuan. It also announced early on that it would invest 2 million yuan to subsidize tickets for "Wolf Warrior ".
Xingyue Chinese website plans to launch a writing competition in May on military themes and "Wolf Warrior" fan fiction.
There are also toys licensed by Sembo for "Wolf Warrior 2", as well as shoes, clothing and outdoor products co-branded with major brands, which are also being prepared in a hurry, waiting to be launched when the movie is released and promoted simultaneously.
Of course, Galaxy Group has also prepared a more heavyweight promotional method, which is currently being stepped up in internal testing, just waiting to build up momentum before the release of "Wolf Warrior 2".
In addition to "Wolf Warrior 2", there are five other films belonging to the "Galaxy Cinematic Universe" that will be released by Galaxy Pictures this year.
The five films are "The Cosmic Exploration Team," "Now You See Me," "Detective Chinatown 2," "Cold War" and "Kingsman: The Golden Circle."
In addition, there are TV series related to the movie universe, including "Forensic Qin Ming" and an American TV series "Person of Interest".
As for those not related to the movie universe, the Galaxy Group participated in the investment and production. The movies currently to be broadcast include "One Man's Martial Arts",
"Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" and "Fleet of Time".
The TV series include "Naked Marriage", "Nirvana in Fire" and "Come on, My Love".
These are the works that Galaxy Group will be releasing to the public in 2014.
As for the works they will invest in and shoot in 2014, there are quite a few. Since the beginning of the year, Wang Hao has participated in the project establishment meetings for several projects, the most important of which is naturally his next new movie "Ball Lightning".
Wang Hao initially planned to release this film during the National Day holiday in 2015. Although it is still more than a year away, for a film with a production cost of 4 million yuan, the time from early preparation to later release is already very tight.
In other words, Galaxy Group’s film industrialization system is already mature, and Wang Hao only needs to supervise a lot of the preliminary work. Otherwise, if the film really wants to start formal preparations, it may have to wait until "Wolf Warrior 6" is released in June or July.
In addition to the project meeting of "Ball Lightning", Wang Hao also personally attended the project meeting of another film and put forward suggestions, that is "The Great Wall".
Yes, "The Great Wall", a movie that many movie fans consider to be a bad movie, after Wang Hao signed Zhang Yimou and cooperated with him, he still planned to invest and shoot it.
Of course, this movie "The Great Wall", which was invested and produced by Galaxy Group, is naturally very different from the original bad movie.
In this regard, the screenwriting department of Galaxy Group also integrated this film into the [Galaxy Cinematic Universe], making it a story in the ancient timeline of this movie universe.
This opens up another branch for the Galaxy Cinematic Universe, which can be regarded as an extension forward and expansion of the worldview of the cinematic universe, greatly enriching the possibilities of the cinematic universe.
If "The Great Wall" can be recognized by the majority of audiences, then Galaxy Group can continue to explore this aspect and shoot movies about the ancient history of the [Galaxy Cinematic Universe].
(End of this chapter)