Chapter 588: De-Simplification of Film, Selling Off

Lin Nan became the first mainland director to be nominated for four Oscars.

This news completely ignited the entire domestic film and television industry in just one day.

From the Film Bureau to ordinary netizens, everyone is discussing it. The film and television entertainment industry is the most agitated.

These days, Liu Yifei has been teased by many people, asking her to prepare her dress for the Oscar red carpet and "go out" with Lin Nan.

Even many of Liu's brands have taken the initiative to ask her, and the meaning is very clear that dresses, jewelry, accessories, etc. can be prepared in advance.

Lin Nan couldn't help but wonder if these brands should give him a reward?

In the end, he magically discovered that because of him, there are many more high-end brands that have recently approached Hongxingwu to discuss cooperation!

As New Year's Eve approaches, the atmosphere of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger.

Several highly anticipated domestic films have also ended one after another.

"Private Customization" ended with 713 million yuan, and "New Police Story 2013" had a total box office of 534 million yuan. These two movies are the top two in the Lunar New Year file.

So far, the Spring Festival file is about to begin.

"Is Director Lin going to the company's annual meeting tonight?"

Lin Nan hadn't been to the company for several days because there were many media reporters squatting downstairs.

It would be enough to stop him once, but these people still enjoy doing it again and again!

"Forget it, if I go, everyone will not have a good time. Have you contacted South Korea?"

Hearing Lin Nan's question, Yue Jun smiled and said:

"Everything is done, T-ara, KARA, AOA, Girls' Generation, f(x), SISTAR, these are all enough for a three-hour performance."

Perhaps thinking of something, Yue Jun continued to add:

"The Korean wave is too crazy now, and the New Year's Eve parties of major TV stations are all boy groups and girl groups. It was because of our company's invitation that the girl groups specially adjusted their schedules."

Lin Nan nodded, Yue Jun was right.

The girl groups and boy groups in South Korea almost swept the domestic market here, with countless fans, and many entertainment companies in the mainland have no power to fight back.

After confirming with Yue Jun that the premiere of "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" was fine, Lin Nan hung up the phone.

Outside, the news in the film and television industry was constantly updated.

Yu Zheng personally promoted the opening ceremony of the new drama, followed by a brilliant star, and the news quickly occupied the headlines.

"Produced jointly by CCTV, Dongyang Film and Television, etc., and produced by Yu Zheng Studio, the costume TV series "Legend of Ban Shu" officially started this morning at Hengdian Film and Television City."

"Jing Tian will play the role of the heroine Ban Shu for the first time on the big screen. I look forward to her wonderful performance."

Lin Nan was stunned when he saw the news. He actually thought of the role of Princess Nihuang in "Nirvana in Fire".

It seems that Jing Tian can also do it? After all, she played a female general in "Warring States"!

"What a pity."

"Legend of Ban Shu" was a project that was decided a few months ago. When Lin Nan was casting for "Nirvana in Fire", he naturally didn't think of her.

Thinking about it carefully now, Jing Tian can indeed be a candidate for Princess Nihuang, at least she is younger than Liu Tao!

"It's a pity."

...

At 11 o'clock in the morning, Liu Yifei ran to Lin Nan with a smile on her face and asked him:

"Do you want to go out for dinner with me? Someone is treating us."

Lin Nan was a little confused: "Who? Treat you or me?"

"Of course I'm being treated. You are at most a family member, so you can go with me to eat and drink."

Liu Yifei said with a smile.

Seeing that Lin Nan was still puzzled, Miss Liu smiled and explained: "Xie Nan got the marriage certificate, and she wants to treat everyone to a big meal."

Good guy, Wu Yi and Xie Nan got the marriage certificate quietly? There was no news outside!

"Who are they?" Lin Nan asked.

"It's Liu Yan and the others. Well, Xie Nan treated them alone, and the man doesn't know."

Liu Yifei blinked and looked at Lin Nan.

"Then I won't go. They are all women."

Lin Nan shook his head. What would it look like if he went? Do you really want to follow Liu Yifei to eat and drink for free?

"Really not going?"

Liu Yifei raised her chin slightly, pretending to be threatening.

"No." Lin Nan was very firm.

"Humph, forget it, I'll go by myself, you can starve."

After saying that, Liu Yifei led her army, turned around proudly, and prepared to go back to change clothes.

Lin Nan looked at her slender figure walking away, smiled and shook his head, "Wu Tian's action is quite fast."

...

In the afternoon, Wu Tian and Xie Nan announced the news of getting a marriage certificate on Weibo, making the film and television industry before New Year's Eve more lively.

But the most eye-catching ones are Zhang Yimou's "Coming Home" and Jiang Wen's "One Step Away", which also announced the completion of filming at the same time and entered post-production.

The film industry can foresee that the works of these two great directors will definitely be released this year.

Other companies have to consider carefully when setting the release date.

Lin Nan Pictures, Tiangong Colors and Shanhai Media have held their annual meetings for two consecutive years, with the support of many popular first-line female groups.

This "grand occasion" has really attracted a lot of attention in the entertainment industry and on the Internet, and many media are stationed outside with long guns and short guns.

Weibo has become a real-time update platform.

"It's the time for Lin Nan Pictures to hold its annual meeting again. Last year, the screen was full of long legs, and this year is the same! Brothers, look at the pictures and videos..."

"T-ara is sexier than SNSD..."

"Fart, Yoona is the most beautiful!"

"f(x)'s captain Song Qian, her flexibility is unmatched!"

"I want to hit ten……"

"Am I the only one who wonders, why not hire a boy band? Super Junior, EXO... Lin Nan Pictures, they are not short of money."

"The boy band is too girly! Director Lin doesn't like it."

"What are you talking about upstairs? Don't insult our family..."

"Don't make any noise, don't make any noise, just focus on your legs and..."

…

Lin Nan glanced at the excitement in the media and Weibo, and stopped reading. They were all "perverts".

Most people in the industry are still lamenting how wealthy Lin Nan Pictures is, throwing away tens of millions again.

"Go to rest early, we have something else to do tomorrow."

After muttering something, Lin Nan decisively went to bed.

The next day.

Lin Nan was woken up by the alarm clock early in the morning.

Today's headlines in the film and television industry, you don't have to guess, it must be the 20th anniversary of the establishment of Huayi Group and the shareholders' meeting. The annual meeting is just incidental.

After all, Huayi is the first independently listed film and television company in the domestic film and television industry, and it is now the leader among private film and television companies.

Generally, company annual meetings are held in the evening, which is more appropriate and lively.

But obviously Huayi's focus this time is the company's 20th anniversary celebration and shareholders' meeting, so it has to be held in the morning, which has a better meaning.

At around nine o'clock, Lin Nan, who was dressed in casual clothes, did not bring an assistant, but drove directly to the destination - the five-star hotel chartered by Huayi.

Not to mention, Wang Zhongjun and Wang Zhonglei created quite a scene this time.

In addition to banners, there is a 20-meter red carpet outside the hotel, with hundreds of square meters of potted flowers on both sides.

A large number of hostesses and security personnel, as well as dozens of media, were busy outside the venue.

Filmmakers, producers, actors and stars in the industry who have relationships with, collaborated with or were invited to Huayi entered the venue one by one. Most of them were big names, including many stars from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Many people from the financial circle and Internet companies are also among them.

"Director Lin, congratulations. I must win the Oscar at the beginning of March."

"Thank you, Director Xu, you're welcome."

Lin Nan arrived with Xu Ke and walked the red carpet together.

The two followed the hostess until they arrived at the decorated banquet hall.

Looking around, there are probably two to three hundred seats in a neat and orderly manner, and a big screen and a podium have been prepared on the rostrum.

Many people turned around and noticed Lin Nan and Xu Ke.

Lin Nan also saw some people in the circle clearly and could only say that Hua Yi was worthy of being Hua Yi.

They stopped signing new artists a long time ago. The artists here all started at least in the third tier.

The hostess in the venue led Lin Nan and Xu Ke to the first row.

On the way, Lin Nan saw the Sword Sect, Feng Shaofeng, Chen He, Shu Qi, Liu Jialing, Fan Wei, Bai Baihe, Feng Yuanzang, Zhang Hanyu... there were no little stars.

In the first row, Lin Nan had Zhang Jizhong and Feng Xiaogang on his left, and Gu Changwei and Zhang Guoli on his right. He could only chat with Gu Changwei for a few words.

About half an hour later, the venue was filled with people, and Wang Zhongjun and Wang Zhonglei also stepped onto the podium at the invitation of the emcee.

"It's begun." Lin Nan muttered in his heart.

"Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to attend the 20th anniversary celebration of Huayi Company and the Huayi Group Shareholders' Meeting."

“As early as when Huayi was listed, we wanted to hold a conference to talk about the group’s development direction, but we couldn’t make up our minds.

To this day, taking advantage of the 20th anniversary, we have decided to talk about Huayi Group’s development plan with all shareholders, as well as colleagues in the industry and media..."

At this time, a line of words appeared on the big screen:

"Going away from a single development path for films."

…

There was a moment of noise on the field, and everyone had different reactions.

"De-simplification of movies..."

Lin Nan was also chanting these words, with a strange expression on his face.

To be honest, this route is really good and allows Hua Yi to walk on several more legs.

However, a very core problem is that the "de-simplification of film development route" can easily go astray in practice, leading to strong branches and weak trunks, and the loss of the foundation.

Sure enough, Wang Zhonglei above started to get to the point.

“Actually, we have been working on ‘de-simplification of movies’ since the company went public, but we only announced it publicly today.

It has been more than three years since the listing. We have let go of more than 70 artists who had direct management contracts with Huayi. All of them are second-tier or above. In the future, we will no longer engage in artist management business, but will work together with artists. room pattern.

Movies and TV series have limited profits, and production and artist operating costs have increased significantly. The artist management business will be abolished from the group's core business. In the future, we will intensify our efforts to ‘de-simplify the development of films’.

Cultural towns, theme parks, tourism, games, Internet, finance, electronic products...these will become the new and main direction of the group's development..."

Wang Zhonglei spoke excitedly from above, and countless people below applauded equally excitedly.

Lin Nan heard something from Wang Zhonglei's words. "Strengthening branches and weakening trunks" and "weakening the film and television industry sector" may not be Huayi's final results.

It is very likely that when they are taking the "de-movie-oriented development route", as time goes by, it will become a "de-film-oriented development route", and the word "single" will disappear.

Although he had been mentally prepared, Lin Nan still felt a little dazed when he heard Wang Zhongjun and Wang Zhonglei's "passionate speeches" in person.

Huayi was listed in the name of a film and television company. How much praise and expectations did the officials give it!

But now they are actually going to fields such as real estate, finance, the Internet, and games.

And it seems that Wang Zhongjun and Wang Zhonglei want to regard the film and television industry as the "mother body" and support other "businesses" vigorously, but they do not want to continue to invest too many resources in the "mother body" or even weaken it!

"That's right. Industries such as real estate, the Internet, finance, and games are all great. You can earn far more and faster than doing film and television!" Lin Nan said in his heart, speechless.

After a full hour and a half, the most important point of "de-simplification of movies" was finished.

Then, the annual shareholder dividend session officially begins.

Almost everyone knows that Lin Nan holds a large number of Huayi shares, far more than Feng Xiaogang, Zhang Jizhong, Zhang Guoli and others, and has not sold them in these years.

But when he once again received an additional stock dividend of 1.2 million shares, everyone was still a little shocked and had a question:

"How many stocks does Lin Nan have to pay such a large dividend at once?"

But this also shows another thing. Huayi has really made money in other fields, and it is indeed right to "de-simplify movies"!

The last part is Huayi's annual meeting, which is also the most grand and lively banquet part.

Lin Nan didn't stay long. After chatting with Li Bingbing and Zhang Hanyu for a while, he found an excuse and left.

…………

The reaction speed of financial markets is really fast.

The morning before yesterday, after the 20th anniversary celebration and shareholders' meeting of Huayi, the "de-simplification of film development route" was also spread.

As a result, Huayi's stock price jumped up in response, and it has soared for two consecutive days.

Liu Yifei rubbed her fat orange and looked at Lin Nan, who was sitting on the sofa opposite, sometimes frowning and sometimes thinking, feeling a little confused.

"What's wrong with you today? The premiere of "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom" is coming in a few days. Are you worried about the box office?"

As she spoke, Liu Yifei ran to Lin Nan in two or three steps on the carpet with her bare feet.

She touched Lin Nan's forehead with her white and warm hands, and then touched her own, feeling relieved.

"It's not burning?" Liu Yifei muttered.

Lin Nan raised his head and smiled at the girl:

"Why should I worry about the box office? Even if it fails, so what? I was thinking about something just now, but now I have made a decision."

"What are you thinking about?" Liu Yifei sat down next to Lin Nan.

Lin Nan did not answer directly, but asked instead: "How about I give you a car? As a New Year's gift."

Liu Yifei smiled sweetly: "Yeah, sure. Why did you suddenly have this idea? I happen to have a space in my garage, no, you have more space here, haha..."

Lin Nan didn't answer, but took out his mobile phone and dialed a number. A few seconds later.

"Director Lin?"

“What is the stock price today, at this moment?”

"Huayi's stock price has hit the limit for two days in a row. It is now 41.65 cents. You have 14.86 million shares in hand... Do you want to trade?"

"trade."

Liu Yifei's eyes widened and she looked at Lin Nan, are you really buying a car?

Lin Nan raised an eyebrow at her, and Miss Liu winked with her right eye, giving her a playful wink.

"Are you planning to transfer it or go to the secondary market?"

"Secondary market, 3.86 million shares."

"Okay, Director Lin. Because the stock price is still rising, it is not ruled out that the increase or the stock price will fall during the sell-off, so the final transaction volume will be slightly higher than what is currently expected.

But Huayi’s market is very good, the selling time should be very fast, and the final transaction volume will only be higher..."

"Well, throw it away."

Lin Nan hung up the phone, looked at Liu Yifei, and said with a smile:

"Fortunately, I don't hold 5% of Huayi's shares, otherwise I would have to make it public."

"I said I would give you a car, right? Tomorrow, let's go take a look."

"Uh-huh……"

Liu Yifei rested her elbows on her legs and held her chin in her hands. She just looked at Lin Nan and nodded, with stars twinkling in her eyes and smiling like a fool.

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