Chapter 322 Contribution and "Lurking"

The number of shares granted to them by Liu Zhou was not decided randomly but was made after careful consideration.

Zhong Lifang has been following him since 2001. She not only helped him start Zhoushan Capital, but also helped him when Liu Zhou later invested in three major portals and Penguin.

Later, he was transferred to the then Zhoushan Studio, leading this film and television studio originally established around Liu Zhou to become a comprehensive film and television company.

Although it was still called a studio at that time, who in the circle would treat Zhou Shan Studio as a small studio?
Later, when Liu Zhou acquired and reorganized Jiahe, most of the specific work was done by Zhong Lifang.

Therefore, the reason why Jiahe Group can reach its current scale is that Zhong Lifang laid a solid foundation.

Finally, because Liu Zhou was short of staff, she was transferred to Sina Group.

As for Liu Zhou's other trivial investments, Zhong Lifang usually helps him with the specific operations.

So Zhong Lifang is like Liu Zhou's housekeeper and also the person Liu Zhou trusts the most.

Liu Zhou would certainly not treat her unfairly. The 5% shares of Jiahe Group were all granted in full, without any options.

In other words, she can cash out this 5% stake at any time after the protection period expires after the listing.

In addition, Liu Zhou also grants her options in Sina Group every year.

Now, the value of the Sina Group options held by Zhong Lifang alone is over 100 million yuan, even though Sina’s stock price has almost been halved.

However, these options from Sina cannot be obtained so quickly. You must work at Sina for at least three years.

The reason why Zhang Zhao was able to get the same 5% of Jiahe shares as Zhong Lifang was, of course, also because of his contribution.

If Zhong Lifang laid the foundation for Golden Harvest Group, then Zhang Zhao developed and operated the Golden Harvest Group with a solid foundation into the current No. 1 private film and television company in China.

Not only did he coordinate the smooth and rapid development of the business of the group's subsidiaries, but Golden Harvest Films, the group's core subsidiary of which he also served as general manager, achieved better box office results year by year.

Last year in particular was the most glorious year for Golden Harvest Group in the industry, with the box office generated by Golden Harvest Group accounting for more than 20% of the total box office that year.

In 2007, the total box office in mainland China was 38.8 billion yuan, an increase of more than 33.27 million yuan over the historical record of billion yuan.

The total box office of "Swords of Passion 2", "Crazy Racing", "Room", "Assembly" and five or six other films produced by Golden Harvest Group is nearly million yuan.

If you really count it, the box office revenue of 900 million yuan accounted for about 23% of the total box office revenue that year.

This does not include "Curse of the Golden Flower", which had a box office of over 300 million yuan and was half invested by Golden Harvest.

However, this result is still not as good as the movie "Hero" that year.

In 2002, "Hero" earned 2.5 million yuan at the box office, accounting for a quarter of the annual box office that year. That was really impressive.

It is already difficult for a movie to account for 5% of the total annual box office now. With the rapid growth of the mainland film market, it will be even more difficult in the future.

The outstanding results achieved by Golden Harvest Group are all due to Zhang Zhao's overall management. It is also because of him that Liu Zhou can focus on making movies and doing other things.

Therefore, regardless of the value embodied by Zhang Zhao or the respect for his identity as the president of the group, the 5% stake is well deserved.

As for Gao Jun, it is also worthwhile to grant him 3% of the shares.

He is mainly responsible for the domestic and Southeast Asian cinema chains as well as the overseas distribution of films, which are not easy tasks.

Domestic cinema chains were built from scratch, and foreign cinema chains were also in a slump due to the decline of Golden Harvest, and distribution channels were almost abandoned.

But Gao Jun not only established the domestic cinema chain, but also restored the foreign cinema market.

He spent a lot of time and energy to rebuild the overseas distribution channels bit by bit. Now it has regained its former glory, and even surpassed it.

Currently, Golden Harvest Group is the mainland's strongest film company in terms of overseas distribution capabilities, even China Film Group is far inferior to it.

Now that Golden Harvest Group has acquired Summit Entertainment, it has also opened up direct distribution channels in North America, which is unparalleled in mainland China.

For example, even a strong company like Huayi, Wang Zhongjun only tried to open up distribution channels in Hong Kong and Taiwan through "The Forbidden Kingdom", and as for overseas distribution, don't even mention it.

In the past, if mainland films wanted to be distributed overseas, they could only turn to Columbia China or Edko Films, but now they generally turn to Golden Harvest.

Because Columbia Pictures China branch has been gradually withdrawing from the mainland market, and Emperor Entertainment Group's overseas distribution capabilities are far inferior to Golden Harvest, especially in South Korea, which is a major overseas box office for mainland films, and is far inferior to Golden Harvest Group.

This time, Jiahe Group was able to come up with 1 billion yuan of funds, but it certainly could not earn so much relying solely on the mainland market. The bulk of this money was contributed by Jiahe International.

Although Golden Harvest already has a solid foundation in overseas distribution capabilities, not everyone can make use of this foundation.

Gao Jun not only made full use of Jiahe's original foundation, but also developed it further.

The reason why Golden Harvest Group has such a high position in the industry, in addition to its strong production capabilities, is mainly due to its unique distribution capabilities.

Because competitors may never know when they will need to turn to Golden Harvest and ask it to help distribute their films overseas.

Although the domestic market is growing rapidly, for blockbuster films, overseas revenue accounts for the majority of the revenue.

As for Zou Chongyan, she got 2.5%. She did an excellent job in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong branch of Golden Harvest Films has produced many hit movies.

Such as "The Disciples", "Flash Point", the upcoming "Ip Man", and the "Overheard" which has already been approved for filming.

Of course, these alone are not enough, but her father is Zou Wenhuai.

Liu Zhou was able to successfully acquire Jiahe Group thanks to a great favor from Zou Wenhuai.

He now gives Zou Chongyan 2.5% of the shares, which is also a kind of return of favor.

As for Chen Guofu, he also made many contributions.

If Zhang Zhao was in charge of the overall situation and Gao Jun was responsible for distribution, then Chen Guofu was responsible for the production of the film.

It is precisely because of Golden Harvest Group's strong production and distribution capabilities that it has been able to develop so rapidly.

The main producer of many blockbuster films produced by Golden Harvest Group is Chen Guofu.

In addition, Chen Guofu also helped Golden Harvest establish relatively complete and reasonable project development standards and processes, and also recruited many outstanding talents in the industry.

The most typical example of Xu Ke was that Chen Guofu brought him into Golden Harvest among a group of competitors.

Two percent of the shares is also the greatest recognition of his ability.

The last one, Zeng Jia, may have made the smallest contribution, but she was the one who had followed him the longest except for Zhong Lifang, and was also his absolute confidant.

Liu Zhou would never treat his own people unfairly, especially the elderly who followed him.

Moreover, in a few years, with the arrival of the traffic era, Zeng Jiaye will be able to play a greater role.

The fan economy in the traffic era is a big piece of cake. …

Liu Zhou asked Zhong Lifang to hand a document to several people and said:
“This is the document for equity transaction and option granting. Once you sign it, the shares promised to you will be yours.

Of course, if you are worried, you can wait and see a lawyer before signing. "

However, as soon as Liu Zhou finished speaking, Gao Jun opened the document, signed his name, and handed it back to Zhong Lifang, saying with a smile:

"Why hire a lawyer? I believe Mr. Liu will not do anything messy with the contract."

Gao Jun was very grateful to Liu Zhou.

At the beginning, he was just the vice president of the New Film Association. Although he had some status in the industry, it was far less than it is now.

As the person in charge of Golden Harvest Cinemas and overseas distribution, which of the CEOs of major companies in the industry does not treat him with a smile?

Once Golden Harvest Cinemas’ cinema chain in the mainland is fully expanded, its position will become even more important.

Now not only does his salary increase, his status also rises, he has fame, fortune, money and power. And now he can get such a big red envelope as the original shares of Jiahe Group. How can he not be satisfied?

In fact, not only Gao Jun was grateful to Liu Zhou, but so were the others.
Before joining Golden Harvest, except for Chen Guofu and Zou Chongyan, the few of them were not considered big names in the circle.

It was also on the Golden Harvest platform that several of them became big names in the Chinese entertainment industry and were greeted with smiles wherever they went.

So they and Jiahe can be said to have achieved mutual success.

Therefore, each of them looked at the contract and signed their names.

After Zhong Lifang collected all the documents, Liu Zhou said seriously:

"Very good, now that the issue of shares has been resolved, let's get down to business.

Although the listing process has been initiated, everyone here still needs to do their job well. During this period, there must be no mistakes. "

Then, Liu Zhou looked at Zhang Zhao and said:

“Mr. Zhang, next you need to organize the company’s revenue, profits, and performance for the past three years.

Now you are also a shareholder of the company, so you will also need to connect with the China Securities Regulatory Commission and the Shanghai Stock Exchange for the subsequent listing guidance and various documents and materials that need to be prepared. "

"Okay Mr. Liu."

"As for the others, each of them should perform their duties and cooperate with Mr. Zhang. Other matters next year must give way to the company's listing."

At this time, Chen Guofu said:

"Mr. Liu, in order to make the company's performance better and boost the company's stock price when it goes public, do we need to increase the scale of production next year?"

Liu Zhou looked at Zhang Zhao again and asked:

"Mr. Zhang, what movies will we be showing next year?"

"It has been confirmed that the Spring Festival schedule for next year will be Detective Dee: The Mystery of the Phantom Flame directed by Xu Ke, and the summer schedule will be The Message directed by Chen himself.

In addition, Ning Hao's "No Man's Land" and Xu Zheng's "Lost on Journey" have not yet confirmed their release dates, and "No Man's Land" has not yet passed the review."

“Don’t worry about the review of No Man’s Land. I have already gotten rid of President Han to sort it out. It shouldn’t take too long to lift the ban, and then No Man’s Land will be released during the summer.

As for Lost on Journey, since it is a film about the Spring Festival travel rush, let’s release it during the Lunar New Year holiday next year.”

"Mr. Liu, Lost on Journey is just a low-budget comedy after all. Will it become cannon fodder if it is put in the Lunar New Year holiday?"
“If this is possible, then just like Ip Man, try to get a Lunar New Year opening.

I don’t have high expectations for the box office of this movie, as long as it can make tens of millions.”

In fact, the quality of "Lost on Journey" is not bad and it is also very funny. Except for the somewhat inexplicable female teacher, the other plots are also very good.

But at that time, this movie was not taken seriously by Guang Guang, and the wrong release date was chosen, so it was released in the summer.

As a result, the box office of "Lost on Journey" was not high, only earning more than 30 million.

Liu Zhou feels that this movie, like "Crazy Stone", is a movie that was delayed by various factors. If their box office potential is fully released, they can also get a box office of 60 to 70 million.

Of course, the movie "Lost on Journey" is not very important. What is important is the "Lost" IP, and the following films are the most important.

Then, Liu Zhou looked at Chen Guofu and said:

“Since we already have these movies, and Golden Harvest Hong Kong also has movies showing, it should be OK.

And next year Summit Entertainment will have a Twilight movie in its hands, which I think will do very well at the box office. I will then ask President Han to get it screened in mainland China.

The combined performance of these films will not be bad. We can’t achieve the same good results as last year every year.”

Hearing Liu Zhou's last sentence, everyone couldn't help but smile.

"Besides movies, we can also develop TV series. We have accumulated a lot of novel copyrights, right? We can start producing them.

One or two popular TV series have a great influence. I remember there was a novel called "The Hidden One"? I think this novel is very good, and the ratings should not be low if it is made into a movie. "

Although Going West won the 2009 annual ratings championship in the original time and space, a big part of the reason was that it took advantage of the CCTV platform.

The real phenomenal TV series that year was "Live".

This TV series is not only very popular, but also very classic. It is recognized as the most classic spy war drama. After that, only Liu Yunlong's "Kite" can barely be compared with it.

"Mr. Liu, the novel "Lush" has been favored by Director Jiang Wei, an associate professor of the directing department of Beijing Film Academy. We are currently negotiating cooperation matters."

"If you agree to it, you can cooperate with Professor Jiang and let him be in charge of the script."

"Ok."

Zhang Zhao was a little surprised. He didn't understand why Liu Zhou suddenly attached so much importance to this Beijing Film Academy director. However, since Liu Zhou had spoken, he would just do as he was told. After all, it was just a TV series.

Jiang Weizheng is the screenwriter and director of the original "The Disguiser" and can be said to be the core figure of this classic spy war drama.

Now that he has come to his door, how could Liu Zhou let him go?

Among the TV series produced by Golden Harvest next year, "The Disguiser" alone will be enough to be a highlight, not to mention "Going West", a major drama on the history of the Republic of China, which is co-produced with Shanying.

By then, the impact of these two TV series, which rank in the top two in annual ratings, will be no less than that of a blockbuster movie.

(End of this chapter)