Chapter 289 The Second Child and Company Development
"The Martian" had just finished filming, and soon the outside world knew about it.

One of the reasons why these media reporters agreed so readily was that they hoped to get some news about the movie first.

Now that "The Martian" has completed filming, the outside world will certainly be very interested in the news.

So as soon as the show was over, they announced the news.

Moreover, in the movie, this press conference was very important and definitely needed to be filmed. During the filming, Liu Zhou also agreed to turn on the camera they brought.

Anyway, there is no important information, so let them take the photos if they want to. It can also help with publicity.

So along with the news of the completion of "The Martian", the video of the film's press conference was also widely circulated on the Internet.

Although it was just a literary scene, the camera's focus was basically on Li Youbing on the stage, and a large section of the video was basically Li Youbing's speech.

But even so, it still caused widespread heated discussion online.

This is the first video footage of The Martian.

"Spread the flowers, The Martian has finally finished filming, I wonder when it will be released."

"It's probably too late for this year's summer season, and it will most likely be the Lunar New Year season."

"I'm looking forward to it. Li Youbing's speech is so passionate. It gives me goose bumps."

"The voice is deep and powerful. It makes me believe it. We can rescue people from Mars!"

"I really hope the movie comes out tomorrow, I've been waiting for it since last year!"

"Top secret, there aren't many special effects shots in The Martian."

"you die!"

"Get out!"

"Don't run away if you have the guts!"

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There was a lot of discussion on the Internet, and Liu Zhou took the entire crew to a luxurious wrap-up banquet, rested at home for three days, and then devoted himself to the post-production of the film.

There is still half a year until National Day, so there should be enough time.

In fact, the special effects of the film have already started since the film project was officially launched.

However, some special effects still need to be polished slowly, so Liu Zhou did the editing first.

It took a week to complete the rough cut and then the fine cut, and finally Liu Zhou found himself with some free time.

He didn't need to do the rest of the special effects production himself. He just needed to make a request and let the people in the special effects studio complete it, and then check it out occasionally.

At this time, a piece of news came from home.
Zeng Li is about to give birth!
Liu Zhou received a call from his mother and rushed to the hospital immediately.

Since the film was completed, although he is still busy with the post-production work of the film, he still spends more of his time and energy on accompanying Zeng Li.

Before, because he was busy filming a movie, he let Zhang Tong give birth to the child alone. This time, Liu Zhou would not let such a thing happen again.

When we arrived at the hospital, we found Zeng Li had already been pushed into the operating room.

His mother and Zeng Li's mother were standing outside the operating room. Liu Zhou couldn't do anything and could only stand outside and wait.

Liu Zhou never thought that time would be so unbearable. After more than three hours of hardship, the lights in the operating room were finally turned off.

After a while, the doctor came out holding a crying baby and said:
"Congratulations, it's a boy."

Liu Zhou took a look at his ugly second son, and without even bothering to hold him, he went straight into the operating room to visit Zeng Li.

At this time, his face was a little pale and his hair was wet with sweat.

Liu Zhou walked forward with some distress, held her hand and said:
"Pear, thank you for your hard work."

Zeng Li smiled on her haggard face and said:

"It's not hard, kid, did you see that?"

“I saw it, but it looked ugly.”

"He hasn't grown up yet. He will be good looking in a couple of days."

"He must be good-looking. His father is so handsome and his mother is so beautiful."

Liu Zhou and Zeng Li chatted for only a few words before they were kicked out by the doctor.

The next day, Liu Zhou's father and grandfather also rushed to the capital to see the next generation of the Liu family.

Seeing the two elders grinning from ear to ear, Liu Zhou and Zeng Li couldn't help but smile at each other.

After staying in the hospital for a week and making sure that both the child and the adults were fine, Liu Zhou took Zeng Li and the child home.

I thought I had a chance to be a stay-at-home dad, but it was not my turn to get involved in the child's affairs at all. Everything was taken care of by my mother and Zeng Li's mother.

Liu Zhou could only hug the child occasionally, and spent most of his time with Zeng Li.

Although Zeng Li became a little plumper after the confinement period, Liu Zhou gained a lot of weight and had a lot more fat on his face.

At this time, the child has grown up completely, with fair skin and delicate features, very cute.

However, Liu Zhou couldn't stay at home like Zeng Li did during her confinement. He had several companies under his control and thousands of people depended on him for their livelihood. So after Zeng Li finished her confinement, Liu Zhou also put his focus on work.

At present, Zhou Shan Wenxue does not need to worry about anything himself, as several websites are developing very well, especially Singularity, whose valuation now exceeds that of Rongshuxia.

The animation production department newly established by Zhou Shan Wenxue last year has already been integrated and its first animation, "Zhu Xian", should be available to everyone during the summer vacation.

With the gradual prosperity of the online literature industry, more and more investment institutions have noticed this field.

As the absolute overlord in the field of online literature, Zhoushan Literature has naturally become the focus of these capitals, and many people have come to ask whether they need investment.

However, all of these were rejected by Liu Zhou.

Compared with Jiahe, Zhoushan Wenxue has no intention of listing it so soon, and he will not even let Zhoushan Wenxue go public in the short term.

Next is Sina Group, whose stock price was nearly halved due to the financial crisis, from a peak market value of nearly 10 billion to less than 5 billion US dollars now.

However, despite this, Sina's market value can be said to have doubled compared to two years ago.

Although the financial crisis has had a significant impact on Sina's stock price, this is a general trend and has little impact on Sina's various businesses.

Although Liu Zhou did not spend too much energy on Sina Group over the past year, its various businesses have developed very well.

Not to mention portal news, it has always been the most visited among the four major portals, and has gradually formed a certain brand effect.

The same is true for Sina Video. Even when Youku and Tudou raised large amounts of funds and even started the process of going public, it did not fall behind.

Another company that should have been doing well at this time, LeTV, is much less popular than before because Liu Zhou bought out the copyrights of most of its movies, TV series and variety shows in advance.

However, LeTV has already begun competing with Liu Zhou for the copyright of the latest film and television dramas.

In addition to Sina Video, Liu Zhou's other key focus is also developing well in the gaming business.

In May last year, Sina Legu launched its first self-developed online game "Zhu Xian".

Once it was launched, it was not an instant hit, but it was quite popular for a while thanks to its huge number of fans and good quality.

Last year, Sina's "Zhu Xian" and Sohu Changyou's "Tian Long Ba Bu" became two of the latest popular online games, second only to NetEase's "World of Warcraft" and Penguin's "Dungeon & Fighter".

The game "Zhu Xian" also has a lot to do with the rapid growth of Sina's market value.

However, games are not the most eye-catching thing about Sina. What amazed the outside world the most was that at the end of last year, Sina launched Weibo at lightning speed.

When Weibo was first launched, several other companies in the industry were very confused about it.

Sina is already the dominant player in the blogging field, so why is it launching micro blogs?

While several other companies were still learning about Weibo, Sina had already begun to focus on driving traffic to this new app.

Soon after, Golden Harvest Group also quickly followed suit, calling on a large number of celebrities to start signing up for Weibo.

In just a few days, Weibo became a popular application.

When Penguin and Sohu saw how much Sina valued Weibo, they realized that this application must have some unique features that they could not see at the moment.

Since you can't figure it out, forget about it and just copy it from Sina Weibo.

So in a short period of time, several Weibo applications appeared, but when several other companies launched Weibo, Sina Weibo had already gained a huge advantage.

However, these companies are not small players, so they did not give up so easily and have been catching up.

But the Internet industry is often a winner-takes-all situation. Sina Weibo has gained an advantage, and Sina Blog has data interoperability.

Therefore, the gap between other Weibo accounts and Sina Weibo is getting bigger and bigger.

Liu Zhou's original vision of establishing Sina Weibo's absolute advantage in a short period of time has been realized. As long as everything goes according to plan, Sina Weibo will be able to dominate the Weibo market two years ahead of schedule.

Liu Zhou worked at Sina for a few days, and when he saw that there was not much he needed to worry about, he also came to Golden Harvest.

Jiahe will be Liu Zhou’s focus in the future. In the second half of the year, Jiahe will start financing.

However, even if he wants to raise funds, he will not introduce too many shareholders, just one or two at most.

If it weren't for the need to pay a toll, the company would have to give up some of its profits to those financial gluttons when it went public, and Liu Zhou wouldn't even want to raise funds.

Jiahe Group does not need to raise funds in the first place. Even if it wants to meet the requirement of the number of shareholders, it would be better to distribute the shares to people close to it and company employees.

But this is something to do in the second half of the year. It's a good opportunity to take advantage of the time now to think about what the main theme tribute film that Han Shanping asked Golden Harvest to produce should be about.

Golden Harvest does not have many projects this year. Apart from Liu Zhou's "The Martian", there is only "Detective Dee: The Mystery of the Phantom Flame" submitted by Xu Ke and a western film "No Man's Land" submitted by Ning Hao.

Although Ning Hao became famous for commercial films, he has always had an artistic heart.

This "No Man's Land" is a film he has been holding back on for several years.

The movie "No Man's Land" is undoubtedly a very great movie, but it was unlucky in history and some things happened in the country, which led to the ban of the movie.

It was revised again and again, and it was only after Han Shanping's strenuous efforts that it was finally released three or four years later.

But by then, Ning Hao's spirit had completely changed.

Now that the film has started shooting two years earlier, I wonder if it will still be banned.

(End of this chapter)