Chapter 454 Bazaar Charity Night and Copyright Distribution
Liu Zhou is no longer very concerned about the release of Golden Harvest's summer movies.

In fact, up to now, he seldom interferes in the specific corporate affairs of Jiahe Group, and usually leaves it to the group president Zhang Zhao to handle.

Now that the company is listed and he has firm control over the board of directors, Liu Zhou no longer worries about power falling into other people's hands.

Moreover, Liu Zhou’s prestige in Jiahe is unmatched, so he is relieved to hand over power to Zhang Zhao.

At the same time, Sina Group also has Zhong Lifang to help look after it, and she is also the company's largest single shareholder. None of the remaining shareholders holds more than 10% of the shares, and even those that do hold more than 5% are not many.

In addition, under Liu Zhou's leadership, Sina Group's stock price has been rising steadily, so Liu Zhou's current position in Sina Group can be considered as stable as a rock.

That is why Liu Zhou delegated power to the company management headed by Wang Yan and Cao Guowei.

This is also the reason why Liu Zhou still has so much time to make movies.

Now he is mainly responsible for grasping the general direction of the two listed companies he owns, and the specific work is left to the company's senior executives.

Of course, this does not mean that Liu Zhou will ignore the company. He will understand any decision made by the two companies and any capital flow exceeding 500,000.

He doesn't interfere in the specific affairs of the company, but he won't keep himself ignorant.

Therefore, Liu and Zhou did not ask about the two movies produced by Golden Harvest in this summer.

What Liu Zhou didn't expect was that Feng Kuzi actually scheduled the movie "1942" to be released during this summer vacation.

In the original time and space, Feng Kuzi fought in this year's summer movie "Aftershock", and then he used "If You Are the One 2" to rake nearly million yuan at the box office during the Lunar New Year movie.

Coupled with the box office of more than 700 million yuan for "Aftershock", Feng Kuzi's reputation reached its peak.

If it weren't for the fact that Jiang Wen's "Let the Bullets Fly" at the end of the year was a huge hit in both word-of-mouth and box office, and its box office surpassed "Aftershock" to win the annual box office championship, Feng Kuzi would have been even more arrogant.

It was because Feng Kuzi was extremely popular this year that made him inflate, and he made such arrogant remarks as "the audience is rubbish" after the failure of "1942".

Actually, it cannot be said that "1942" is bad. Feng Kuzi filmed that period of suffering history quite realistically, but he chose the wrong release date.

Such a sad movie was released during the Lunar New Year holiday. People originally came to see the movie happily, but felt more depressed after watching it. So the quality of the movie is not bad, but the box office was only more than 300 million.

A box office of more than 300 million is not bad, but compared with Feng Kuzi's expectations, there is a big gap.

After all, in his opinion, his casually shot "If You Are the One 2" was able to get a box office of more than million yuan, but his serious and hard-working "" had a lower box office. How could he not be disappointed?

Not only did the box office fail to meet expectations, but the word of mouth also failed to meet expectations. He compared this movie to Spielberg's classic film "Schindler's List".

But it is obvious that "1942" is not as good as "Schindler's List" or even "The Flowers of War", both in terms of box office and word of mouth.

Then some reporters came to tease him, causing him to say things like "the audience is rubbish" which would undermine his appeal.

Now because of Liu Zhou, the movie "Aftershock" is gone, but I didn't expect Feng Kuzi to release the movie "1942" ahead of schedule.

I just don’t know what kind of box office performance "1942" will achieve during this summer’s movie season.

I think it should be not as good as the original time and space. After all, Feng Kuzi had a strong box office appeal at that time, and even Zhang Yimou had to temporarily avoid his edge.

The current Feng Kuzi does not have the same box office appeal as in the original time and space. Although he is also one of the four major directors in mainland China, his influence is the least. His box office appeal is not much stronger than that of Chen Shishi who experienced "The Promise".

After all, Chen Shishi had "The Promise" and Feng Kuzi had "The Banquet", both of which were terrible movies, but the latter's only advantage is that his comedy signature is still very bright and well-received by the audience.

Therefore, Liu Zhou thinks that the box office of "Chinese Partners" and "Those Years" produced by Golden Harvest should not be lower than that of "1942".

In addition, there are no threatening Hollywood blockbusters this year, so there is a high probability that Golden Harvest will win the summer box office championship.

So Liu Zhou doesn't need to worry about it at all, and he puts most of his energy into the post-production of the two films.

However, in early July, Liu Zhou was suddenly invited to the Bazaar Charity Gala, which made him a little confused.

Because Liu Zhou had never participated in the Bazaar Charity Gala before. When it was first held in 03, although his status in the circle was not high, the charity gala was also relatively simple and rough, so he did not go.

Later, Liu Zhou acquired Golden Harvest and became a big shot in the circle. When the Bazaar Charity Gala became famous, he was invited many times, but he was too lazy to attend such a show-off charity gala.

After that, people understood Liu Zhou's attitude and stopped sending invitations. Unexpectedly, someone suddenly sent him one.

It was not until Liu Zhou saw the name of the organizer on the invitation letter that he realized that this charity gala no longer had support from above.

But even so, Liu Zhou didn't want to go in the first place, and now he has the right to refuse.

Moreover, he really felt that not much of the money donated at the Bazaar Charity Gala would be spent effectively, as some domestic charities were full of tricks.

However, that afternoon, Liu Zhou received a call from Han Shanping, who invited him to go with him, and also hinted that he wanted him to go to support the occasion.

It seems that the organizer may also understand that Liu Zhou will refuse, so he specially invited Han Shanping to be a lobbyist.

In this case, Liu Zhou had no choice but to agree to attend, otherwise it would be too much of a loss for the organizer. He could give no face to Bazaar magazine, but he had to give face to a certain ministry and Han Shanping.

And the scale of this Bazaar Charity Gala should be quite large.

July 5th, China World Hotel, Beijing.

This is the scene of the 8th Bazaar Star Charity Night. As Liu Zhou expected, this year's attendance list is star-studded.

There were more than one hundred stars present, including almost all first-line stars, which was definitely an unprecedented star lineup in the country.

The most eye-catching thing at the moment is of course the red carpet before the banquet begins.

A few years ago, the red carpet was just a job for celebrities and they didn’t take it too seriously.

Today, the red carpet has become a place of fame and fortune.

The finale has become a must-win for big-name stars. It seems that whoever is the finale on the red carpet has a higher status. Whether a big-name star will attend an event and whether he or she can be the finale are important indicators they consider.

However, almost all the people who came this time were big stars and directors, so there was nothing to fight for, so there was not so much open or secret fighting over the order of appearance on the red carpet.

Liu Zhou wouldn't care about these things at all. If it weren't for the organizer's strong pleading, he wouldn't even plan to walk the red carpet.

When he walked onto the red carpet, the media went crazy, the entire venue was ablaze with spotlights, and cheers from many fans rang out from the audience.

However, Liu Zhou did not stay for long. He waved to the reporters and fans, walked elegantly on the red carpet, wrote his name on the signature board, and then entered the venue. The banquet hall can accommodate about a thousand people. The floor is covered with thick red carpet. Under the shade of crystal lamps, it looks more magnificent and full of luxury.

The stage at the front of the hall has been set up, and the Chinese and English subtitles of "Harper's Bazaar Star Charity Night" keep flashing on the big screen.

Near the center of the stage, there are two particularly large round tables that can accommodate nearly twenty people. The height of the table tops is also higher than other tables. There is an especially tall flower basket on the table top to distinguish it from other tables in the entire venue.

These two tables are undoubtedly the main tables of the dinner and the tables for the important guests of the dinner.

Generally speaking, there is only one main table, but there were so many bigwigs attending the Bazaar Charity Dinner this time, so for the sake of balance, two main tables were set up.

When organizing a banquet, how to arrange the seats for the guests is always the most troublesome problem for the organizer.

People sitting at the same table must be of similar status, not too different in status, and their relationships cannot be bad. If they can't even arrange seats, it will appear that the organizer is very low-class, and others may not come next time.

There were indeed quite a few big shots who came today, and Liu Zhou also saw quite a few people he knew, including not only the bosses of film and television companies, but also quite a few CEOs of Internet companies.

Zhang Chaoyang would definitely not miss such a lively event. When Liu Zhouyi came in, he saw him chatting happily with a few people.

However, the noise Liu Zhou caused when he came in attracted Zhang Chaoyang's attention. When he saw that it was Liu Zhou, his eyes lit up and he immediately called him over.

"Mr. Liu, I didn't expect you to be here too."

"If you can come, why can't I?" Liu Zhou also replied with a smile.

"I'm not saying you can't come. Didn't you never attend such events before? I asked you to come but you didn't come."

"Why do you say that? The organizer asked someone above to endorse it, so I have to come and show my support."

"Haha, I thought you were out of touch with the world now that you're the richest man, but it turns out you still understand the ways of the world."

Liu Zhou rolled his eyes and ignored him.

After making a joke, Zhang Chaoyang stopped smiling and sighed:

"I have to admire your vision. You acquired a large number of online copyrights for movies and TV series early on. Now that online copyrights are taken seriously, Sina Video can be said to be invincible."

"Why, do you have any ideas?"

"Hehe, you know me well. I thought Sina Video spent so much money to buy the copyright, so why not distribute the copyright to Sohu Video to recover some of the cost?"

Liu Zhou couldn't help but feel a little funny. He didn't expect Zhang Chaoyang to come up with such a lame excuse, but he still agreed:

"Okay, no problem."

"Really?" Zhang Chaoyang was a little suspicious. He didn't expect Liu Zhou to agree so readily.

"Are you still afraid that I won't lie to you?"

"No, why did you agree so easily?"

After listening to Liu Zhou's words and becoming interested in Sohu Video, he also understood how important the large number of online copyrights of film and television dramas held by Sina Video were, which retained a large number of users for Sina Video.

With the implementation of copyright laws, if Youku and Tudou had not been spending money, they might have been left behind by Sina Video.

Zhang Chaoyang actually wanted to give it a try, but he didn't expect Liu Zhou to actually agree.

"If there's anything you can't agree to, you can go to Sina to sign the contract tomorrow."

Seeing that Zhang Chaoyang still looked a little unconvinced, Liu Zhou said directly:

"Do you want it or not? If not, forget it."

"Yes, of course!"

Although he didn't know why Liu Zhou did this, Zhang Chaoyang stopped thinking about it and decided to take the benefits first.

In fact, there is not much reason. As Zhang Chaoyang said, copyright distribution can make huge profits.

You should know that LeTV was able to make a profit even when it was participating in the money-burning war among video websites by relying on copyright distribution. It was also the only profitable video website.

In addition to this, Liu Zhou is also worried that if he keeps holding the copyright, other websites will jointly target Sina Video and accuse it of monopolizing the platform, which will not be a good thing.

Why did Kbo die so quickly, and its founder was even put in jail? It was because it was brought down by the bosses behind the major video websites.

Although Sina Video will not reach this point, it will still become the public enemy of the industry. Being isolated when the current video website landscape is uncertain is not a good thing.

So in fact, Liu Zhou had already had a plan to distribute the copyright, but he didn't expect Zhang Chaoyang to think of this in advance. We can only say that he has a sharp vision.

In this case, Liu Zhou naturally agreed to it. It seems that there will be no need for Sina to promote it in the future, as other video websites will flock to it.

At this time, a woman in her forties came over and greeted the two with a smile:
"Mr. Liu, Mr. Zhang, my name is Zhao Xinyu, nice to meet you!"

Liu Zhou was slightly displeased with this person who seemed a bit too familiar and suddenly interrupted their conversation.

But it is not advisable to hit someone who is smiling at you, and Liu Zhou didn't want to give her the cold shoulder in public, especially since she was a woman.

Liu Zhou also knew about Zhao Xinyu, an investor of the Chang'an Club and the legendary number one socialite in Beijing.

It was she who was responsible for Zhang Ziyi's ink-throwing scandal. The ink-throwing scandal laid layer upon layer of foreshadowing and directly brought Zhang Ziyi's career down from its peak. She can be said to be a very resourceful woman.

The people behind Zhao Xinyu are also very powerful. Those who are engaged in real estate and come to Beijing to build connections all hope to meet her and get to know Honggui through her.

Although she is only a concubine, the pillow talk of a concubine is still pillow talk and it can be effective.

Therefore, Zhao Xinyu's business is to connect people. To put it bluntly, she is an intermediary. When the deal is done, she gets a few percentage points of commission.

However, she is a more powerful agent because she has to pay Zhao Xinyu a meeting fee regardless of whether the deal is done or not, so she lives a very comfortable life.

Liu Zhou definitely wouldn't have a favorable impression of someone like her, but this woman does have some power, so it's better not to offend her if possible. He smiled and said:
"I have also long heard of Ms. Zhao's name, but I have never been able to meet her. Today I am fulfilling my wish."

Liu Zhou didn't know why he suddenly came to find him. They had never had any contact with each other before, but he was too lazy to deal with him.

(End of this chapter)