Chapter 451 Breaking up with LeTV

Chapter 451 Breaking up with LeTV

Chapter 451 Breaking up with LeTV
The main selling point of the movie "Now You See Me" is the cool scene magic. As for the conflicts between police and criminals and conspiracies, they can only be regarded as embellishments.

Of course, the magic in movies still makes more use of the magic of light, shadow, editing and special effects. After all, there are still differences between movie shooting and real performances.

But when these factors are combined together, the charm of magic is still intact. In fact, this light and shadow magic is even cooler and more magical, which firmly attracted all the audience on the scene.

Of course, like all the works in the Galaxy Cinematic Universe, Now You See Me also has a post-credits Easter egg.

There are two easter eggs.

The first Easter egg is halfway through the film's end credits. In a room filled with various surveillance devices, a science and engineering man wearing black-framed glasses is typing on the keyboard in front of a big screen. Eddie, who has a super brain, stands behind him, issuing commands non-stop.

Soon, several different images appeared on the big screen in front of the two people.

In one of the most central scenes, Tang Ren and Qin Feng, played by Wang Baoqiang and Bai Jingting, are running panicked on the streets of New York's Chinatown.

As for their surroundings, in the upper left corner of the picture, a handsome middle-aged killer with a beard is raising his gun and shooting.

In the picture on the right, a group of young foreigners are engaging in the exciting extreme sport of wing suit flying.

Finally, in the lower left corner of the picture, Xiumei, played by Song Zue, looks up vigilantly at the surveillance camera. Her gaze seems to follow the network cable and sees the two people sitting in front of the computer, which is extremely creepy.

The first Easter egg ends here, followed by the second post-credits Easter egg.

This time, the senior FBI agent Dylan and the beautiful Interpol police officer Alma appeared on the screen.

Because they failed to stop the criminal activities of the "Four Horsemen" and bring them to justice, both of them were reprimanded and criticized by their superiors, and they also had to organize and submit the relevant case materials and report files.

However, the two of them didn't care much about it. They even smiled at each other while sorting out the information, creating an ambiguous atmosphere in the air.

However, as she was sorting out the information, Alma, an Interpol officer, suddenly froze and became serious.

"What's wrong?" FBI agent Dylan asked puzzledly.

Alma picked up a copy of the contract signed between the medical group and the insurance company. It was a very early document and they had originally planned to attach it to the work report.

However, when the document was picked up, as Alma pointed, Dylan discovered that there was a strange shadow mark in an inconspicuous corner of the contract.

That was the watermark on the contract paper. Dylan observed it carefully and read out the letters on the strange mark.

"E.T.O."

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"Now You See Me" is quite popular in mainland China. First of all, it is a series of the "Galaxy Cinematic Universe", and secondly, it is a Hollywood blockbuster.

So even though the actors in this movie are not very famous in China, its box office in the first week was still not low. It directly defeated the "Transformers 4", which was at the end of its strength, and became the box office champion of the day with a score of 8 million.

The film's good performance continued until mid-September, earning 9 million yuan in the Chinese market and breaking 9.4 million US dollars in the global box office.

Compared to the film's cost of 7000 million U.S. dollars, this result is of course a huge profit, so after the box office results came out, Columbia immediately began to contact Galaxy Group and Wang Hao, intending to put "Now You See Me 2" and even "Now You See Me 3" on the agenda.

After all, they knew that Wang Hao was not very keen on making a sequel to the series.

The "Taken" series, which had such a good reputation at the time, only filmed two movies and then ended.

However, the urgent mood on the Colombian side had to be put aside because Wang Hao had more important things to do.

After a series of events related to the release of "Wolf Warrior 2" were finally over, Wang Hao was not able to relax after a long period of work. Not only did he have to devote himself to various work affairs of the group company, but he also had to devote part of his energy to the preparation of the new movie.

Of course, he can also delegate many of these things to his subordinates, but there are still many things that require him to make decisions.

For example, after more than a year of research and development and incubation, Toutiao's user interest recommendation algorithm has become initially mature and can enter the next stage.

Of course, the development of mobile short video software in this regard needs to be done, but they can also embed the recommendation algorithm into Bilibili acquired by Galaxy Group and the newly established Star Video Network to carry out preliminary trial operations.

This way, it can be launched to the public earlier, collect more operating data in advance, adapt to various situations, optimize and upgrade the algorithm, and eliminate certain bugs.

When talking about Star Video Network, we have to mention the separation of Galaxy Group and LeTV. This is another big news about Galaxy Group in the entertainment industry since the release of "Wolf Warrior 2".

The news was first revealed by an unknown entertainment reporter in the industry. Of course, in Wang Hao's opinion, this should be a rumor released by LeTV first to test the market's feedback and let the public be prepared to prevent LeTV's stock price from plummeting if the real news comes out.

Most people did not believe this rumor at first.

Because in 2014, LeTV Group was in a period of rapid growth.

Since LeTV was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in August 2010, its stock price has been soaring due to its unique theme and good "financial indicators". Its market value has risen from 8 million yuan to the 7.3 billion yuan club soon.

After that, Boss Jia invested in sports, movies, finance, sales, agriculture and other fields, and even set up an online wine website, leading LeTV to a "diversified" path.

Boss Jia gave his company's practice a "new" name - ecological counterattack.

In order to achieve this goal, in September 2012, LeTV held a press conference to announce its entry into the smart TV business.

Last year, on May 2013, 5, LeTV officially launched its own Super TV and held a grand product launch conference, launching "the world's first quad-core 7G and the world's fastest Super TV."

This TV can be connected to the Internet and is embedded with all of LeTV's film and television content. Boss Jia is trying to connect hardware and software and try a new business model called crowdfunding marketing, which can be said to be a huge lead.

According to the inside information Wang Hao got from his uncle, Boss Jia's new model of combining television and the Internet has caused some dissatisfaction in the radio and television circles. After all, the so-called subversion sometimes often means a reshuffle of power and damage to the interests of old players.

And that’s not all. This year, LeEco announced that the total revenue of its entire ecosystem business is close to 100 billion yuan, and Boss Jia once again dropped a big bomb, announcing that it will enter the automotive field and make a revolutionary LeEco super car. LeEco is also eyeing the smartphone field and plans to enter these two industries with an ecological model.

As soon as the news was announced, countless LeTV shareholders celebrated and were extremely happy about Boss Jia's "PPT" method. According to this statement, LeTV will soon become the only "super company" in China and even the world that covers three major functional hardware products.

At this time, Galaxy Group's decision to terminate its cooperation with LeTV is not a wise choice no matter how you look at it.

In this regard, LeTV and even Boss Jia have been communicating with Wang Hao, hoping to gain the continued support of Galaxy Group.

However, who is Wang Hao? He knows that the current booming development of LeTV is actually just a castle in the air, built on floating roots.

Whether it is financial issues, planning issues, or personnel management issues, they are only temporarily suppressed.

Next year, LeTV will reach its peak, with its market value soaring to 1700 billion Chinese yuan. A new technology company is rising, and the BAT structure seems to be rewritten.

And this will be LeTV’s last glory.

Knowing this, the film and television copyright broadcasting contract signed by Galaxy Group and LeTV stipulated that it would be renewed every four years. After the contract expired this year, Galaxy Group had no intention of renewing the contract and instead built its own Star Video Network.

Not only that, when they first started the cooperation, Galaxy Group and Wang Hao still had a lot of LeTV stocks that were half-sold and half-given away, which was also one of the contents of the cooperation.

Now that the two companies have terminated their partnership, these stocks naturally need to be delivered and sold.

However, after learning that Galaxy Group was extremely determined not to renew the contract, Boss Jia made another request. That is, LeTV is in a critical period of financing. If Galaxy Group sells a large number of stocks now, it will have a bad impact on LeTV.

Therefore, he also hoped that Galaxy Group could extend the time span of stock delivery a little bit, preferably until next year, that is, 2015, so as to spend a year to slowly sell out the stocks in hand.

And on the Galaxy Group side, it would be best if Wang Hao could issue a statement saying that he is still optimistic about LeTV's situation, and that the reason for separating from LeTV and selling its shares is only based on the company's development needs.

Wang Hao and Galaxy Group would certainly not agree to the latter condition, and LeTV's boss Jia would not have the face to let Wang Hao endorse it.

The reason why Wang Hao did not add insult to injury was because he made a fortune from LeTV's stocks.

However, Wang Hao and Galaxy Group agreed to the first condition. After all, LeTV's market value will reach its peak of 1700 billion next year. In terms of returns, they are not in a hurry to sell the LeTV shares on hand.

Anyway, Galaxy Group and LeTV have reached an agreement in private and it is a peaceful "breakup".

But even so, it caused quite a stir in the film and television entertainment circles and the Internet circles, because the establishment of Star Video Network undoubtedly marked the beginning of Galaxy Group's official counterattack from the film and television industry to the Internet industry.

Since you, Tencent, Baidu, and Alibaba are expanding into the film and television entertainment industry and gradually swallowing up and eroding it, my Galaxy Group can also develop and grow in the downstream Internet industry.

If the previous Taopiao.com, Haozhipian.com and Xingyue.com had made those Internet giants wary, then the arrival of Galaxy Group with Xingkong Video.com is enough to sound the alarm for them.

The public just felt that there was finally something fun to watch, and it seemed that a young person had arrived in the domestic Internet market.

What no one noticed was that in the right hand behind the back of the Galaxy Group, there was a sharp knife called "Tik Tok".

"Next year, maybe. Next year this sharp knife should be unsheathed."

Wang Hao sat in his spacious chairman's office, looking at the summarized information and company industry reports in front of him, and couldn't help but speak.

As long as "Tik Tok" is born and grows smoothly, his entertainment empire will have the most solid moat. At that time, the domestic Internet capital market will no longer be a threat to Galaxy Group.

Even when it comes to expanding his influence overseas, he will have the most useful weapon.

Of course, these are just one leg of Galaxy Group's strides forward. Channels and content have always been complementary to each other, and he also has to take into account the other leg of the entertainment empire.

In this regard, the [Galaxy Cinematic Universe] is of course the top priority.

Currently, the second phase of the Galaxy Cinematic Universe, Age of War, is gradually coming to an end. There are only two films left for Wang Hao to direct at this stage. According to the company's internal plan, they will be completed around 2017.

And the most important thing for him now, of course, is his new movie - "Ball Lightning".

This movie is adapted from the science fiction novel of the same name published by Liu Cixin in 2005.

After Wang Hao purchased the development rights to all of Liu Cixin's works, he asked Liu to incorporate this story into the "Galaxy Cinematic Universe".

The integration process was quite smooth, because one of the important characters in "Ball Lightning" is Dr. Ding Yi, which can be regarded as a foreshadowing in Liu Cixin's novel creation process.

You should know that Professor Ding Yi appears in novels such as "Cosmic Collapse", "The End of the Microcosm", "Hearing the Truth in the Morning", "The Three-Body Problem", "The Three-Body Problem: The Dark Forest" and "Ball Lightning".

Moreover, the "macro-atoms" and "quantum states" derived from ball lightning are exactly the underlying principles of the "quantum fleet" in "The Three-Body Problem: The Dark Forest".

It can be said that "Ball Lightning" is extremely important in the [Galaxy Cinematic Universe]. So in early 2014, when "Wolf Warrior 2" was still busy with post-production, this project had already been put on the agenda and entered the early stage of dynamic story production and special effects design.

As for the script, it has naturally been finalized long ago. In this regard, the screenwriting department of Galaxy Group with more than 100 people is still very powerful.

After all, the filming and production cycle of a movie is relatively long, so they can do all the work in advance.

Not to mention the script of "Ball Lightning", the screenwriter department has also completed the first draft of the script of "The Three-Body Problem 1".

Now they are working with Liu Cixin and several novel authors to perfect the general outline of the third phase of the Galaxy Cinematic Universe.

(End of this chapter)