Chapter 114: Vitality

Chapter 114—Vitality
"Don't say, I'm going to class." Natalie over there is about to hang up. Wang Yang yelled, looking at the several-story building on the street outside the car window, and said: "I will also go to class soon ; But now, I get the company to work, bye. (Read novel) "
Natalie hadn't closed the line yet, and said lightly: "As for" Sweetheart ", it's not your direct anyway." Then, she said in surprise, "Oh man, it's later than I thought. An hour? Hell, where did you talk so much? "Wang Yang smiled and turned to the parking lot, saying," I don't know, you tell me. "Several times he was about to end the call, but she said" About I still have a question about your script ", and then talked for a long time, he laughed:" Thank you for those ideas, I think it will be useful. "
The headquarters of the Flame Film Company is no longer the original place. At the end of last year, he moved home and came to the coastal city of Santa Monica.
In this building, there are more than 200 employees of Flame Movies and its subsidiary Flames-Man, and of course there are many positions that do not work in the office, especially the distribution department, overseas distribution department, public relations department and other departments, plus The employees who traveled all year round had only about 50 people in the flame movie, and now they have nearly 300 people. If we add the independent subsidiary of more than 200 people, Blue Sky Studio, the number of employees in the flame group has exceeded 500.
"Good morning, Mr. Wang." Everyone waiting for the elevator at the elevator door saw Wang Yang in windbreaker jeans coming and greeted him enthusiastically. Although he did not appear in the company often, it was one of the flame movies. No one knows that his boss is the "youngest billionaire". Even the company's cleaners can casually tell his history, how to change from 10,000 US dollars to hundreds of millions of net worth.
"Hi, everyone" Wang Yang nodded to them with a smile and walked into the opened elevator together. He could n’t recognize the names and positions of these people, but it ’d be a good idea for them to talk. A dark-haired white girl in a female suit holding a briefcase smiled and asked: "Mr. Wang, I ’m Ada, when can I see When you come to your next movie? "Wang Yang looked at her and replied with a smile:" Maybe it will be a while, Ada, but I have a film production plan, you can check out the Los Angeles Times. "
Another black man said seriously and jokingly: "Mr. Wang, I love this job, but you know that the current world is not very good, my child is about to be born again, when can I get a salary increase?" Laughing, they all knew that the young boss was a very easygoing and kind person, so several people also coaxed and said "I am getting married", "My mortgage pressure is too great ..."
Wang Yang smiled and hugged his head, and said to them: "Oh, this question, maybe you should ask Mark? I don't care about this aspect of the company." He suddenly remembered something and wondered: "Guys, how come I Remember last Christmas, the company raised the salary? "
Laughing and talking with the employees, the elevator opened and closed soon, and Wang Yang came to the office floor of the company's high-level. As soon as he walked out of the elevator, he saw Mark-Srante telling a female copywriter in the distance, he waved and shouted. : "Hey, Mark"
"Prepare these documents to the conference room ..." Mark Srant turned to look at the voice and smiled: "Hey, my boss, you came so early, which surprised me. You come 'on time' for every meeting. "Wang Yang smiled and walked over to the night, saying," If it wasn't for traffic jams, I came earlier. I like Santa Monica. "
After staying on this floor for a while, Wang Yang wandered around the company again, including the film storage room, equipment store and other places. When the time came at ten o'clock in the morning, the meeting officially began.
In the bright meeting room, the long conference table was filled with people on both sides. Wang Yang was sitting as the chairman of the board, and Mark Srant and other company executives sat on both sides.
In fact, the company ’s current board of directors has no one. Flame Movies is still a very independent private film company. It has no debt, no VC and other financing from Wall Street, and it has not been listed on the NASDAQ. Whether it is Mark Srant, who is proficient in business, or Wang Yang, which is not a half barrel of water, thinks that the company's listing time has not yet arrived.
The purpose of going public is to raise funds and get more cash to develop the company; but Flame Movies is not short of money now, enough to cope with the step-by-step development. Everything is proceeding in an orderly and fast manner. No matter how quickly, if you just spend money and expand, it is easy to suddenly lose control one day.
But now Wang Yang is not the sole owner of Flame Movies. In the company's equity, 95% of the shares belong to him; and the other 5% are distributed to the top executives of the companies such as Mark Srant.
The core reason why Flame Movie can have its current scale is that it has launched several super-selling movies such as "High School Musical" and "When Happiness Comes to Knock on the Door", although most of the credit can be attributed to him; but the operation behind the company It is not his achievements, such as the publicity of the distribution that has been implemented, and the sales around the later period, and the expansion of the channel. He ca n’t even figure out the specific situation.
Just like in "High School Musical" in 1999, in addition to the sale and rental of original CDs, DVDs, and video tapes, other peripherals were not developed much. Not wanting to develop, but lacking channels and relationships, let alone overseas In the market, several peripheral copyrights such as toys and clothes have not earned much in order to establish a relationship network; and in "High School Musical 2", there have been more novels, comics, etc., in the cooperation of paid and free TV, specific public Places and other aspects have made achievements.
The company has been making progress, and it is precisely because of the efforts of these high-level talents. Otherwise, with his average one or two times in the month, the company will not be able to sell a lot of movies. In the meantime, it has developed into an independent film company with excellent distribution capabilities and rich distribution channels.
Although Wang Yang didn't understand business very much, he had only reluctantly nibbled some business and marketing books under the pressure of the blonde girl, and "worked hard" to go to Stanford. Of course, he finally chose South Increase, Stanford did not apply from beginning to end. But he did n’t know the business school. He knew that if he wanted to retain talents and encourage their work enthusiasm, in addition to shouting
working hard for the company ’s future
, there must be practical benefits.
Partnership is a very good system that can bind these talents to the company and give them a real "home" feeling. This is also their company. The better the company, the better they are.
5% does not seem to be much, but it is already very rich, because this is not the 5% of any subsidiary, but the parent company Flame Movies, which means all the children of FM Company, Blue Sky Studio and Future Flame Movies. Companies have their share. In the long-term contracts newly signed by senior management, as the company ’s performance improves each year in the future, under the reward system, they can gradually acquire more shares; before going public in the future, they can still be lower than half the issue price Yang bought a certain number of shares there, and the terms of the contract definitely made people feel full of energy.
Facts have proved that many times a person has no ability, how much ability, even he himself does not know, many people just lack an opportunity, and once the opportunity comes, coupled with hard work, his ability will burst out, I feel incredible.
Just like Mark Srant, if he didn't become a flame movie, maybe he is still an agent now, he may dig out some big stars and become a gold agent, or he may continue to be a rotten agent. But since getting that contract, his life has taken another path, and is now one of the "giants" of Flame Movies, becoming a rising star in the business world.
And the people who were originally depressed and mediocre in the era of Ax, Simon Willis, Sandy Pikes and others came to the flame film era. Under the correct development strategy, they also completed themselves very well. The role of the job has contributed a lot to the company.
Of course, the company is getting larger and larger, and it needs more talents to help, so Wang Yang put his idea on Lion Gate, because Lion Gate is the most successful independent film company in the future, and its operation and development methods are worth learning. , And its operating executives are more worthy of being invited.
When the FM company was formed last year, Wang Yang had called Jon Phil Timer and sincerely invited Jon to join Flame Movies. In that case, he could get 2% of the shares of the head office and take over the affairs of FM company. .
FM is more of a new brand, and it shares resources in distribution and production with FF. After it was created, Flame Movies transferred all the business of outsourcing films to it. In the future, FM will be specifically responsible for the implementation of the "Movie Library" program like Lions Gate, the distribution of outsourcing movies, and those involved in the production as investors. Independent films and commercial films, but the production cost of a single film is limited to 2-20 million budgets, and the distribution fee for large-scale releases does not exceed 10 million; while the FF brand only releases home-made films, it no longer cares about outsourcing movies. .
But Jon, who is also a partner of Lions Gate and a long-term contract for several years, declined Wang Yang's invitation without any consideration. But Flame Film is not without new talents. Michael Burns, the current president of FM; Peter Wilkes, the investment director of FM ...
Wang Yang looked at the financial statements on the conference table, which clearly stated the company ’s revenue and expenditure in 2000. Listening to Mark-Slante over there, he said with a smile: "In 2000, our company had a large Four movies were released on a large scale, and all of them made a profit. The amazing results let us give the chairman some applause. "Simon Willis, Michael Burns and others all laughed and applauded, and there was a sudden applause in the conference room. .
"Thank you all" Wang Yang also clapped his hands with a smile and said, "This is a joint effort of everyone this year and in the future, please continue this passion, thank you"
The encounter in life is really wonderful. Three years ago, he could n’t think of the present situation. He sat in the conference room and said this to a group of men and women in their thirties and forties; but now he ’s familiar with it, without any tension, Feeling helpless or excited. He feels that he is a bit old, unlike a 21-year-old, to know that he has received a "wine license" this month. He had imagined many times before, what to do after receiving the license, go to the bar to make a hot girl, Get drunk? But not now.
He smiled and glanced down at these documents. In 2000, the Flame movie released "When Happiness Comes to Knock", "High School Musical 2", "Memory Fragment" and "Juneau", but in this report, Christmas was only released. The "Juno" is not included in the calculation.
The first is income. At the box office screening, "When Happiness Comes to Knock" North America 203 million, global 385 million, after-tax income is more than 140 million; "High School Musical 2" North America 101 million, global 221 million, after tax 0.835 100 million; "Memory Fragment" 55.31 million box office in North America, 84.11 million box office worldwide, after-tax income of 31 million. This adds up to a net profit of $ 254.5 million.
In 2000, the total box office in North America was 7.6 billion, and the box office of the four movies of the Flame Company was 450 million, accounting for nearly 6% of the market share, which is the largest among independent film companies; while the lion gate film is only 1%.
On soundtrack CDs and DVDs, "When Happiness Comes Knocking on the Door" has sold 800,000 sets of soundtrack CDs and 4 million sets of DVDs worldwide, with an after-tax income of 50 million yuan; "High School Musical 2" soundtrack CDs continue to sell and are now sold It reached 4 million sets, and 5 million sets were sold shortly after the release of the DVD, bringing in after-tax revenue of 80 million yuan; the original CD sales of "Memory Fragment" also had 120,000 copies, and the DVD has not yet been released, so it is here. Revenue is close to 1 million.
These two main surroundings added 131 million after-tax income to the company; at the same time, the three movies also had rentals and other various surrounding 60 million revenues, and the subsequent 10 million brought by "High School Musical", the company's film and television library's The copyright fees obtained by the re-distribution of the movies are 0.1 billion, and here there is another 201 million. Together with the box office profit, it is about 465.5 million.
465 million. This is the company's after-tax income after excluding Juno, which was almost exhausted in mid-2000.
But this is not the number on the company's account, because there are still expenses, the promotional cost of "Junuo" is 35 million, the production cost of "Mr. Hughes" that is about to start shooting is 65 million, and the production cost of "Music 3" is 35 million In addition, shareholder dividends, company employees' salary bonuses, and development of core business, etc., spent another 70 million US dollars; and allocated 50 million to FM.
Due to the nature of a private company, he withdrew 20 million of his own cash as a major shareholder, and donated 20 million a few days ago, so a total of 295 million was spent, and now the flame film has 170.5 million in cash.
If you add 50 million FM companies, 100 million blue sky studios, and two other movies in production, the flame group ’s market capital is 400 million; if you count the global box office tax of at least 100 million in Juneau After the income, and its considerable surroundings, the flame group's market capital has reached more than 500 million, and the number of available cash will soon be 300 million US dollars.
"Very good" Wang Yang put down the financial statements, looked at all the smiling seniors at the conference table, applauded and laughed: "It really surprised me, it's good" He looked at Mark-Srante and nodded: "Mark, start discussing the company's plan."
This year's Flame Movies (FF) has no movie plan except for "High School Musical 3" will be released in August in the summer vacation period. "Sweetheart" that has not yet been approved is obviously too late to launch in the summer vacation period, even if it is too late, and "High School Musical 3" collides with each other is also harmless, and the cruel Christmas schedule is not suitable for youth high-tech films, so if it goes well, "Sweetheart" is likely to be released in March and April 2002.
In 2002, FF Company also had "Ice Age" in the summer vacation file, and "Mr. Hughes" that was not scheduled to be released, but it was all in 2002. There is only one movie released on a large scale this year, and the new work of
Chairman for Money
seems to be far away, so this year, the focus of the Flame Group will be transferred to the FM company, and the funding will naturally be sufficient. Form a good and stable projection mode, and continue to develop its movie library.
"This year we will release a movie on a large scale and preview 20 movies, expanding the movie library to 2000 movies." Michael Burns stood in front of the projector and pointed at the image behind him, introducing: "Our goal By 2002, the number of large-scale issuances had increased to two, and since then has increased at an annual rate of two ... "
"We should start a TV business. I have contacted. Many TV stations are interested in booking our TV series. Let's start with a small-cost sitcom ..."
"We haven't developed enough overseas markets, and many countries and regions have not released them. This has cost us too much overseas box office ..."
Wang Yang sat quietly in the chief, turned his pen around, and occasionally made a few comments, but he would not have too many positives or negatives. He was not a professional, and he gave the company to these talents to take care of them, just to let them The decision is made; of course, if he knows how to do it better, he will say it and make an idea. There are some more important investment matters, and he needs to be asked.
"Boss, I suggest that the company build a studio." Mark Slant asked the secretary to hand a document to Wang Yang, who helped the black-framed glasses and said, "This is my plan. I have this plan. There are several reasons. First, the company's cash is sufficient and the financial situation permits. Second, whether it is "Mr. Hughes" or a film produced by the company in the future, you need to use a studio, which will save a lot of costs ... "
Wang Yang looked at the plan in his hand and nodded slightly. Although all the films he has shot so far have been shot in real life, they will one day be used in the studio, not to mention FM company plans to launch it by 2005. More than 6 homemade movies. After owning a studio, when the film crew of the Flame Group filmed, they would not need to rent the studios of other film companies, which would save a lot in the long run.
After watching it for a while, he nodded affirmatively and smiled: "I agree with this plan, it is time for us to have a studio."
"Wow" the meeting room was suddenly applauded, and everyone was happily applauding, which means that the company's scale has reached a new level. In addition to the box office market share, it has gradually become a large independent film company in terms of equipment.
Waiting for the applause to stop, the smiling Mark-Srrant continued: "Boss, look at the back, I suggest choosing the address of the studio in Vancouver, where there are many, many preferential tax-free policies, not only can save photography The cost of the shed is also very beneficial to its operation. You know, more and more crews are now going to Vancouver to film, in order to save money. "He laughed:" The America "meeting room sounded for a while laughter.
Wang Yang turned a few pages of the plan book, smiled at the content behind it, and quickly nodded: "OK, since there are so many discounts, I built it there."
In the plan, the total cost of the studio is 100 million US dollars, but it will be divided into several phases of completion. The first phase will invest 50 million first, including the construction of some conventional indoor scenes, offices, hospitals, homes, etc .; and later When the film of the Flame Group needs to be set, it will be done there as much as possible. After the filming, it will keep those that can be used continuously to achieve the goal of resource reuse.
Soon it came to noon. After Wang Yang had lunch at a restaurant next to the company, he enjoyed a sea breeze by the beach in Santa Monica. He came to the afternoon meeting to continue again, and discussed several decisions. He was not tired, but he was in a good mood, because he saw a sharp and thriving company
In the garage, Wang Yang looked at Jessica's car parked next to him. He threw the key in his hand and shouted, "Jessica, I'm back, are you at home?" As he walked out of the garage. There was a crisp voice from Jessica: "Well, I'm blowing hair to Danny, it's almost ready, it just finished taking a shower"
Wang Yang listened to each other with ears. Sure enough, there was a buzzer from the water blower. Although he thought about Danny buzzing while blowing hair, although the process was very short, he should not participate anymore. : "I go to the garden" He came to the garden without being lazy, but continued an unfinished job before, that is, tying a swing to the sycamore tree, this is not Jessica's idea, but his, when he was a child I dreamt of such a wooden swing.
Standing in front of the huge dense sycamore tree, he looked up at the tall branches above and muttered, "Man's work." After all, he stepped back a few steps and ran up and jumped on his legs. Standing at the foot, he quickly climbed the plane tree.
"Tweeting, tweeting ..." Wang Yang, who stood on the main branch and fork frowned in disbelief, hearing these sounds, bird? When is there a nest of birds in the tree? He crawled up again along the sound, looking towards a tree branch in the distance, and saw a bird's nest firmly built there, and several tan baby chicks poked out their heads, tweeting Squeaked.
"Oh, MAN is a nest of sparrows." Wang Yang looked at the ordinary and aura sparrows, took a few deep breaths, and suddenly shouted loudly: "Hey, Jessica Jessica came out." There was a long way over there There was the same shouting voice from Jessica: "Wait, what's wrong?" Wang Yang responded loudly: "A surprise" He smiled at the newly arrived little creatures, silently, and asked softly : "Hey, is your mother a minor girl?"
With that, he shook his head and smiled, and his heart was suddenly full of relief. It seemed that he had put down a big stone. He knew that he had completely put down the pregnancy of Juno. Do n’t worry about so much, life will find a way out. .
"What's wrong?" Jessica's voice was getting closer and closer. Wang Yang smiled and slowly climbed down the tree. He turned back and said: "There are more guests in our family, and there are a few sparrows in the tree." He was about to step on At the next foothold, he stepped into the air all of a sudden, and the whole person fell back from the height of two meters, exclaiming: "Oh my ..."
Jessica, who came to the garden over there, saw this scene. Her heart was tight, and she rushed conditionedly over the night, screaming and yelling: "Yang"
With a thud, Wang Yang fell heavily on the lawn. He felt a pain all over his body. He didn't want to move at all. He was air-conditioned and gritted his teeth and said: "Crazy ... Oh, is dead." Jessica His face came to him in a panic, he squatted down hurriedly, looked at him, and asked with a trembling voice, "Gosh, are you okay? Calm down, calm down, I will call 911, yes ..."
"No, no," Wang Yang barely smiled at her, took a few deep breaths, the pain was almost over, he shook his head and smiled: "No, I'm fine, there is no abnormality in the muscles and joints, nothing but just the buttocks Some pain ... "He laughed a few times, lying on the lawn with his hands and feet, smiling:" It's nothing, I tried jumping off a three-meter high roof when I was a kid. Do you know what happened? " Wow, nothing happened. "
Jessica frowned tightly, stroking his arm and said: "Really okay? No, we still have to go to the hospital to check it." Wang Yang still shook his head: "Trust me, call me if something goes wrong It ’s going to hold on, I ’m not a fool.
Seeing that he seemed really intact, Jessica stood up and kicked him angrily, and said,
You scared me, this is your surprise? I have said that I will use a ladder, why do n’t you listen to me, you are not Taishan "
Wang Yang couldn't help but thump the lawn with a smile: "I don't want to quarrel, but you are right, scold me ... Haha" Jessica rolled her eyes with a helpless smile, looked at the plane tree, the sparrows were where? She looked at him again and said, "Shall I help you get up?"
"Wait a minute." Through the lush foliage of the plane tree, Wang Yang looked at the sky covered with sunset clouds and the clouds that fluttered with the wind. He sighed softly: "Now, it is very beautiful. Women's winter coat m ... "
The director's art cell came again and Jessica sat down on the lawn next to him smilingly, looking up at the sky with her knees up, but it was really beautiful.
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Claire opened her mailbox with her lips pursed. These days she was upset. She thought that group pregnancy would be a cool and interesting thing, but now it seems that it is not so fun. She took out the letter in the mailbox and looked at one of them with doubt, which stated that the address of the recipient was their school, and then forwarded it here again.
Who sent it, Los Angeles, Wang Yang? Claire blinked, stayed for a few seconds before reacting, and said to herself: "Wang Yang? How is Magic Yang possible?" She hurriedly opened the letter, took out the letter paper and scanned it a few times. In her own handwriting, she first looked at the final signature of the letter, which turned out to be the same as the magic handwriting on the Internet. She couldn't help but exclaim: "Oh, my God, this is true ..."
Because of collective pregnancy? She frowned, and what did he write? Want to teach me?
I saw the letter read: "Hello, I am Wang Yang, maybe you like me, maybe you don't like me, but I have to say that your approach is very heartbreaking ... Girl, I am not commenting that you are right Or wrong, you will make this judgment yourself in the future. You will encounter many and many difficulties in the future, more difficult than Juno, maybe one day, you will scold the 'magic Yang of hell, Juno of hell, let them go to hell'……"
Claire looked at the words on the stationery silently, without preaching and lessons, she was sincere, and she didn't know why, and she felt warm in her heart.
She smiled and continued to read: "I hope that during this pregnancy, you can recognize yourself clearly and understand yourself like Juno ... so whether it is to raise your own baby ~ EbookFREE.me ~ or like Juno looks for adoption like that, and you will all deal with it ... Anyway, good luck and good luck to my babies. These words are not cool at all? Yes, but do you know what is cool? Actually, I do n’t know. , I'm waiting for a day, you can tell me. Wang Yang. "
What is cool? Claire lost her mind, thinking about the shocked and disappointed face of her parents. Looking at the letter, she suddenly choked, like Juno's side murmured: "I don't know what kind of girl I am ..." she was silent After a while, he suddenly took the letter and ran to the other side of the town.
"Jenny, I received a letter from Miracle Yang ..." Claire panted to the lawn in front of the good sister Janet's house. I saw Janet sitting on the lawn with a letter in his hand. Claire gasped and asked: "You also received it?"
Jenny over there nodded her head, wiped tears from the corners of her eyes, and looked at her: "Claire, we are a bit too capricious." Claire exhaled expressionlessly, "I know, but now what can we do Do? "Janet waved the stationery in her hand and smiled:" I already have an idea, I will be like Juno, this baby, I will find a good adoptive family for him, he will be happy and happy. "
"Well ..." Claire responded silently, and she suddenly laughed: "Me, you, Herty ... everyone will."