Chinese Entertainment Intelligence King

Chapter 177: Orange Sky’s plan, Yan Da’s production kills the chicken to scare the monkey

[Daily Intelligence ①: Wang Ou plans to win Yan Li's favor by bringing in a partner. Specific targets are: Wu Jiani from the "Investiture of the Gods" crew, and his best friend...]

Yan Li looked at the information and couldn't help but look down at Wang Ou who was cleaning up.

This girl is really bold!

But speaking of it, Wang Ou was indeed the one who tried the hardest to please him.

For some tricks, Yan Li has to coax and bluff others, and it may not be successful. Wang Ou not only satisfies him directly, but also takes the initiative to study some tricks. Occasionally, Yan Li will be scared by her and cannot accept it.

Thinking of this, Yan Lixin softened a little. He took the initiative to hold up the water cup and let Wang Ou rinse her mouth, then hugged her.

"I wronged you before."

Wang Ou's eyes lit up, and he wanted to take the opportunity to chat with Fan Xiaopang and flatter him, but he thought of something and did not speak. He just leaned in Yan Li's arms and said softly.

"I'm not wronged. I'm very happy that you haven't forgotten me."

Even so, Yan Li patted her butt unhappily and said, "Speak properly."

Wang Ou is fine in other aspects, but he has too many little thoughts.

Probably because of his family background and experience, he has a sensitive personality and often feels insecure. When she is cold, he is afraid of being abandoned by Yan Li, but when she is hot, he wants more and can't help but do some tricks.

Fortunately, Yan Li has an intelligence system and knows her very well. If it were someone else, it would be easy for her to trick her.

Wang Ou was slightly discouraged. As long as this man was willing, she could not hide anything from him.

This feeling made her frustrated and frightened, but she couldn't help but become obsessed and admired.

As mentioned before, Wang Ou has been living under the care of others since he was a child. He has no love or care from his parents and he both hates and longs for his family.

Wang Ou has a relatively good relationship with her mother, but it’s not particularly good. Because Wang Ou can make money, her mother gave up her job to let Wang Ou support the family, and she is also a little partial to Wang Ou’s half-sister.

Although he expressed all kinds of dissatisfaction, Wang Ou was still willing to pay for supporting his mother and sister.

Compared to the maternal love that at least he had, Wang Ou rarely saw his father since he was a child.

The system has personally verified that Wang Ou has a certain Oedipus complex because he grew up without his father's company and was forced to be independent since childhood.

Yan Li's domineering and strong attitude, as well as his care and help for her, to some extent meet her needs.

Let me put it this way, she usually likes to call Yan Li Teacher, but it’s not just for fun.

It took Yan Li a lot of effort to get Fan Xiaopang to call him dad, but when Wang Ou Yan Li said it, she would obey obediently and called him very happily.

Even now that it's over, she still calls me dad.

Hearing Wang Ou's straightforward address, Yan Li stroked her cheek in a strange way.

He had previously thought of giving Wang Ou a golden heart as a consolation, originally to encourage her ambition, but now it seems that a loving heart is more appropriate.

It is appropriate to praise her for her tolerance. Among Yan Li's many women, she was the first one who thought about recruiting one to join his gang.

Don't be afraid of being abandoned!
[Daily Intelligence ②: ...Wang Jinghua recommended Yan Li to Orange Sky Entertainment President Wu Kebo, suggesting that they bring Yan Li on board through a merger or share swap to complete Orange Sky's TV drama division...]

Yan Li perked up slightly. He knew that Wang Jinghua and Cheng Tian were in contact, but he didn't expect that they also had their eyes on him.

Boss Wu of Orange Sky is quite ambitious.

The film company is in contact with "Red Cliff" and is ready to surpass Huayi. The artist's agent is ready to contact Wang Jinghua to hollow out Huayi, and the TV series is also thinking about itself.

He is determined to become the leader of the entertainment industry.

Yan Li thought about the intelligence that had been triggered before and the information he knew, and listed Cheng Tian as a key target of attention.

However, he was a little unsure whether the other party could succeed.

After all, from all the future intelligence he has triggered so far, he has not seen any trace of Orange Sky.

But it's hard to say. After all, a lot of his information is rather one-sided, and maybe it hasn't been triggered yet. At least from the current situation, this is not a shell company. It has considerable strength and capital support behind it.

Yan Li doesn’t care who is the boss between Orange Sky and Huayi. Anyway, he can’t compete for the first place now.

What he cared more about were the bits and pieces of information related to Orange Sky.

Golden Harvest!

Orange Sky intends to acquire Golden Harvest and enter the cinema market.

This may lead to conflict and competition with Yan Li's future development direction.

If Yan Li remembered correctly, Golden Harvest Cinemas was very powerful, especially in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia and other regions.

When he was looking into information related to cinema chains, he saw that Golden Harvest had nearly 200 cinemas, with a market share of more than 15% in Hong Kong and more than 30% in Taiwan.

Singapore and Malaysia, two countries with a large Chinese-speaking influence, account for more than 50% of the market share. Thailand, Myanmar and the Philippines also have a small number of cinemas or shareholdings.

The most important thing is that in the past two years, Golden Harvest has been preparing to enter the mainland market, with the Shenzhen Stock Exchange as its first stop. It is expected to capture more than 2005% of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange's market share in 50.

Orange Sky has made a large-scale layout in the mainland film and television industry. It has sufficient funds and is full of determination, coupled with the experience and team of Golden Harvest.

The two parties are expected to make a big splash in the mainland cinema market by joining forces.

The competition pressure from China Film, Star Media, Wanda and United Cinemas was already great enough, and now with the addition of Orange Sky + Golden Harvest, Yan Li is having a headache.

He is not afraid of fierce competition, but in this situation, it is easy to dissuade some investors and it will also affect the early layout of theaters.

Cinemas will definitely lose money in the early stages, as their goal is to spend money to grab market share.

However, the losses cannot be too great, otherwise it will easily shake the confidence of investors, causing them to withdraw funds or give up subsequent investments, and other messy things, which may cause a series of chain reactions and cause the entire company to collapse.

This situation is too common. Countless companies have failed because of it. Even some large companies have encountered similar crises.

Fortunately, Yan Li has a system that allows him to understand the situation in advance and make corresponding adjustments based on Orange Sky’s layout.

Some things are both crises and opportunities, it all depends on how you handle them.

At least Yan Li felt that Cheng Tian's appearance would bring him more benefits than disadvantages.

Yi'an developed rapidly. He poached Fan Xiaopang and later invested heavily in the cinema market and participated in film distribution, which inevitably aroused the vigilance and targeting of companies such as Huayi.

Although Yan Li is not afraid, he does not want to waste the period of rapid development on these things.

The appearance of Chengtian just happened to attract most of the firepower for him, giving him relatively sufficient time to develop.

When Yan Li grows up, no matter whether the winner is Huayi, Chengtian, or any other company, he will have enough strength to compete with the other party.

Daily Intelligence ③: Production Director XX of "The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng" calculated the crew's lunch and transportation expenses, estimating a profit of 28.6 yuan... Assistant Director XXX threatened to use extras in a scene, forcing a female extra to have sex with him... Lighting crew members XXX, XX... were consistently late and left early, perfunctory at work, and bullied their colleagues...

Yan Li: “…”

He said that the crew of "The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng" had more people and was larger in scale than the previous "The Seven Fairies", but it did not trigger any internal corruption information.

It’s good that the emotions are reported in a centralized manner, so we can deal with them all at once to save trouble.

【…】

...

The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng crew

Yang Xue and Jiang Xin were putting on makeup in the dressing room when they heard a commotion outside and quickly got up to ask what was going on.

"What happened?"

A passing production manager couldn't hide his excitement: "That idiot production director got dealt with by Boss Yan."

Damn it, last time he went on a business trip with another person, he took the invoice but didn’t get reimbursed. I knew there was something fishy going on, and he got caught.

This stage manager is considered an old hand. The crew had seen Yan Li's ability to catch termites last time during the production of "The Seven Fairies", and this time he was enlightened again.

Jiang Xin and Yang Xue looked at each other, and without even bothering to put on makeup, they went to watch the fun with their costumes in hand.

There were quite a few crew members like them, and they seemed to be trying to make a big fuss, but no one tried to stop them.

When we arrived at the crew's logistics area, several young men stopped us from approaching. Someone seemed to be rummaging through something in the production director's office. Two people were guarding the door to another tea room, which was also closed. We had no idea what was going on.

Those who arrived early described in vivid detail how more than a dozen people rushed over, held down the production director, searched him for something, and beat him up.

Afterwards, Mr. Yan came over and the production director was dragged in like a dead dog by several people, while the rest of the people were still in the office checking the accounts.

Jiang Xin was eager to go and see, but was stopped by Yang Xue and could only watch from the outside.

After a while, two people came to the tea room with something from the office, and some scolding and screams could be heard faintly from inside.

Pantry

Yan Li sat in a chair, flipping through the notes he had just found, and sneered, "You remember it quite clearly. You can't say I wronged you this time."

The production director was beaten black and blue. He knelt on the ground with tears in his eyes and kowtowed repeatedly.

"Boss Yan, Boss Yan, I was wrong. Please forgive me. I will spit out all the money. Please don't call the police."

He embezzled more than 5 yuan. If the evidence is conclusive, he will be prosecuted for occupational tampering and other crimes. If he is sent to prison, he will be sentenced to at least 10 years, and more than years is not impossible.

“Damn it, now you know you’re wrong. What were you thinking when you were embezzling money?”

A brother of Yan Li from his hometown couldn't help but kick him.

Yan Li had previously arranged for a few of them to be in the crew, and one of their important tasks was to supervise and deter. However, someone was corrupt under their noses without them noticing, and was discovered by Yan Li himself. How could they explain this to Brother Li?

"okay."

Yan Li waved his hand and glanced at producer Wang Decai: "Producer Wang, you recommended this person, what do you think we should do?"

When Wang Decai heard Yan Li change his address from Old Wang to Producer Wang, his heart trembled, cold sweat broke out, and his tone was firm.

"Bring him to justice. He must be brought to justice."

The production director was so scared that he cried loudly and hugged Wang Decai to beg for mercy. It was even revealed that he had given Wang a red envelope to ask him to be the production director.

Wang Decai was furious. You fucking got yourself into trouble and you dragged me into it.

I let you be the production director, and I let you make so much money.

The production director is in charge of logistics, and there is plenty of money to be made, so it is impossible for him not to be involved in meat and fish. This is something everyone agrees on.

Yan Li also knew this. To be honest, if he wanted to make a few thousand or tens of thousands, Yan Li would not touch him unless he wanted to make an example of him.

There are too many gray areas in the crew, and I am too serious about it, so I really can't lead the team well.

But this guy's appetite is a bit too big. The crew has only started filming for a short time, and the damn guy has already embezzled nearly 30 yuan. If the whole drama is finished, the money will be at least seven figures, which is enough to buy two ordinary houses in Beijing.

The total investment for "The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng" was only 3000 million!

Yan Li originally wanted to make an example of someone to scare the monkeys and set some rules to make the dishonest people in the crew behave themselves.

This guy is so greedy that he has walked into trouble, so he made such a big deal.

"okay."

Yan Li stopped Wang Decai who had already started to take action and looked at the production director.

"You can't take a cent of the 50 yuan you embezzled. Write a letter of certification and record a video, then get out."

"...Thank you, Mr. Yan. Thank you, Mr. Yan."

Although there was some bloodshed, at least he did not go to jail. Compared with hundreds of thousands of dollars and a 5 to 10 year sentence, the production director made the choice easily.

Two people dragged the man out, recorded a video and wrote a confession to prevent the old man from overturning the verdict.

"Brother, is he really that cheap?"

Some people think that Yan Li’s punishment is too light, and that the old man should be put in jail for a few years to learn his lesson.

"Let's be merciful. Besides, you've made such a serious mistake. Everyone on the crew will be in danger from now on."

As I said, there are too many gray areas in the crew. Yan Li's purpose is to kill the chicken to scare the monkey, to clean up the termites, and let people know that he, Yan Li, is not someone who can be fooled. They should work honestly and not think crookedly.

But if it goes too far, it will cause grief to the others and affect morale. Moreover, if the reputation gets out, many people will not dare to cooperate with Yan Li in the future, which will be counterproductive.

The film crew is also a world of its own, with its own unspoken rules. If not necessary, try not to meet with the officials.

"understood."

A few people nodded, but some were still unwilling to give in: "How about another beating?"

"All I know is violence and murder. I'm a legitimate businessman, not a gangster. This old man has something on me, but he doesn't dare to call the police. If someone else does, all of you will go to jail."

Yan Li scolded them, saying that these brothers were here to keep the situation under control, not to bully others, and that they should not put the cart before the horse.

Afterwards, Yan Li comforted Wang Decai again.

Although Lao Wang and several of his brothers are involved in this matter, we cannot blame them entirely. After all, they are not professional corruption investigators, so it is normal for them to have omissions.

As for taking red envelopes, that's even more normal. He even gave some to Lao Wang when he was filming.

Just give him a few words of reminder. Lao Wang is quite loyal to him and they are old friends, so Yan Li is quite understanding.

Wang Decai felt very ashamed. Yan Li handed over a large crew worth tens of millions to him, and when something went wrong, the problem was with his people.

"Boss Yan, don't worry, I will definitely let you manage the team from now on."

Yan Li patted Wang Decai, and the two of them left the tea room. Looking at the crew members of "The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng" who were surrounding them, Yan Li spoke loudly.

"I think everyone knows what happened just now. The specific situation will be announced to the crew later."

"A word of advice. I, Yan Li, will not treat you unfairly. I also hope you will control your hands and not make things too ugly."

After saying that, Yan Li walked away, and Wang Decai and a dozen other young men followed him. After they had gone far away, the rest of the crew members immediately started discussing.

"I'll tell you, his last name is Yan... No, even though Mr. Yan isn't on set, he has spies deep inside. Nothing can be hidden from him."

"You really think he's just a freeloader. He built such a big business from scratch. He's quite capable."

"It wasn't just this bastard. I heard the lighting crew also kicked out a few people, and an assistant director was also taken away. It's said that someone outside was involved."

"Isn't it just XXX? He can't control his pants. He should have been punished long ago. He ruined the reputation of our crew."

"Do you care about your crotch? Who are you implying?"

"Don't talk nonsense! I didn't mean Mr. Yan. He's a handsome, young, wealthy man with no worries about beautiful women. This guy is a swindler, a complete rip-off. They're two different people."

"Who mentioned Mr. Yan? Why did you mention Mr. Yan?"

"..."

Yang Xue and Jiang Xin left silently. On the way back, Jiang Xin could not hide her excitement.

"Mr. Yan looks so handsome today, a bit like Chen Haonan."

"Don't use Young and Dangerous to insult Mr. Yan. This is completely different from a fight between hooligans."

Yang Xue was walking and fiddling with her phone. Jiang Xin was curious: "What are you doing?"

"I just saw An Yixuan. The woman's eyes lit up when she saw Mr. Yan. I have to remind Dong Xuan."

Jiang Xin tutted her words: "You really acted as an undercover agent for her."

Yang Xue stopped typing and looked at Jiang Xin: "What else can I do? Our company only has so few resources for me. I have a ready-made thigh, why not hug it?"

Jiang Xin's voice was vague: "The thickest thigh is not hers."

Yang Xue looked at her silently and shook her head: "You can't hold her."

Jiang Xin: “…”

(End of this chapter)