Chapter 434

Chapter 434: This is an era of subversion!

Yang Feng found it funny after seeing their stunned expression.

These people worked in the entertainment industry for half their life but they were actually behind in concepts and ideas.

They were doing the basics of just getting a script, director, production teams and actors to shoot the film.

Whether a movie was good or not, they wouldn’t know before the box office and reviews came out or before the awards were given.

They didn’t know how to use technology to analyze the work of the entertainment industry.

Big data was based on comprehensive data from many projects and many factors before reaching a reasonable conclusion.

Human eyes could be lied to but data couldn’t.

Those analyses were very useful when most of the data was digitized so it allowed someone that wasn’t in the entertainment industry to understand the core of it quickly.

Yang Feng already used it.

He previously analyzed ‘Miracle in Cell No.7’ with big data and after multiple calculations and simulation to adjust various data, he knew it would blow up.

But he didn’t expect ‘Miracle in Cell No.7’ to be much more successful than what showed the big data.

That strengthened his determination to use big data in his movie making.

Yang Feng was very confident that he could bring significant change in the entertainment industry!

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have entered the industry in such a hurried way.

Yang Feng originally thought that he would wait a few more years to look at the situation before coming with an absolute advantage.

“But if this is the case…” Ke Anbang had no objection but he raised some problems, “The production cost will definitely be very high with so many stars! It may be more than 100 million! And if we add the publicity, 150 million yuan may not even be enough. Using so much money for a literary film, if…”

“You should stop thinking about the negative side. Why don’t you think about ‘Miracle in Cell No.7’?” Yang Feng waved his hands as he laughed, “Their production cost was higher and their publicity cost was even higher! ‘Our Era’ is quite worse than ‘Miracle in Cell No.7’ but wouldn’t our expenses also be reduced several times?”

After a moment of silence, Yang Feng said, “Director Zhu Mei is a director I appreciate a lot so it would be great we could have her to direct! For her team, we can agree to all conditions and delegate the decision making so we can make a great movie.”

Fuck!

You still want Zhu Mei!

This could increase the budget exponentially!

According to rumors, Zhu Mei and her team received 100 million in dividend.

Now they wanted her to come, would they even be able to without at least 30 million with her current status?

Moreover, this wasn’t simple as giving Zhu Mei’s team 30 million as according to her personality and work ethic, she certainly wouldn’t stand a situation where she only had a budget of 10 or 20 million left for the movie after receiving 30 million.

Like that, the cost would increase greatly!

It would be a problem if it increased beyond 200 million.

But Yang Feng was the boss and he wasn’t using his own money anyway but all the money from the investors so it wouldn’t hurt all that much.

Ke Anbang felt better after thinking of that.

“I’m going to contact Director Zhu Mei.” Ke Anbang received the order without problem.

“Alright, I have another plan for the action movie.” Yang Feng continued, “According to data, Chen Huan is the number one superstar in China. Sun Dahe and Jin Weijie form the top three. If we put the three of them in a single along with popular actresses such as Xu Rui and Ning Yiqiu, then this would have the chance to become the top movie in China!”

‘Miracle in Cell No.7’ was highly praised by Yang Feng when he was still not in the entertainment industry.

But now that Habao Entertainment was founded, Yang Feng found the record set by ‘Miracle in Cell No.7’ an eyesore.

“Then… what about the script?” Ke Anbang asked carefully.

“Getting a script is what you pros are good at, you can make a good plot based on those guys as protagonists.” Yang Feng spread his hands, “Do you expect me to find Chu Liuxiang for you?”

“It would be great if you can get Teacher Chu.” Ke Anbing couldn’t help but say, “’Miracle in Cell No.7’ has been nominated to the Golden Globe and it’s for five main prizes, it’s just amazing!”

Every task given by Yang Feng was a big move, which gave him a lot of pressure so when he heard that he may be able to get help from Chu Liuxiang, he obviously would ask for it.

Yang Feng frowned without saying a thing.

Upon seeing this, Zhou Shouzheng, the former president of Yuzi, hurriedly said, “Teacher Chu is too mysterious and only Director Zhu and Teacher Lu Xiaofeng could contact him, it’s very hard!”

He wanted to help Yang Feng but misunderstood the meaning behind his frown.

Yang Feng obviously knew who Chu Liuxiang was and was one of the few people who knew who Chu Liuxiang was.

But he didn’t want to go to Chu Liuxiang for the script.

Why?

Because if the movie succeeded, everyone would say it was because Chu Liuxiang was great that the script was well written so no credit for Yang Feng’s planning.

How could he let that happen?

He could still praise Chu Liuxiang before he was in the industry but now that he was in the industry, he should put the emphasis on himself!

It would be alright to ask Chu Liuxiang to write a script after Habao Entertainment became more renowned.

But definitely not now!

“Hmm, we won’t get Teacher Chu this time. Does China have no good screenwriter besides Teacher Chu Liuxiang?” Yang Feng directly denied Ke Anbang’s plan and said, “It’s silly to put all our hope on a single person.”

“I understand.” Ke Anbang could only back down.

Again, the boss was him.

Ke Anbang really felt like Teacher Chu Liuxiang, who could write a script that was nominated in the Golden Globes, had really no equal in China but he wouldn’t push it since he could see Yang Feng’s cold attitude toward Chu Liuxiang.

Jiang Guangge, the former president of Xincheng Film, wanted to recommend ‘The Tale of Hachiko’ but he immediately shut his mouth and didn’t mention it.

Everyone could see Yang Feng’s attitude.

Yang Feng’s next words were for Jiang Guangge.

“Director Jiang, your TV series department also has to pay attention. I don’t know the specific stories but we have analyzed the data and Sang Cai can hand it to you after.” Yang Feng continued to issue orders, “The data don’t lie so you have to take account the data calculated when you make a TV series so we can rise higher with each work and get an explosive start.”

“I understand.” Jiang Guangge also didn’t refute.

He was curious about how big data did their analysis and he didn’t believe it at heart but he must follow his boss’ instructions.

Otherwise, his defiance would be taken into account even if it succeeded and he would be blamed even harder if it failed.

“Don’t worry about the funds, all we have right now is money.” Yang Feng said with a smile, “Now we have one or two billion in cash in hand, along with improving our own infrastructures, it would be enough for us to use for a long time!”

Today, Habao Entertainment sold 30% of its shares and those investment funds bought 20.4 billion yuan in shares.

He was naturally rich with that amount of money.

Yang Feng was also quite generous. Apart from putting some of the money in a Habao Pay account as saving to collect interest, the others were all used on Habao Entertainment.

He thought of it a lot.

Since he was entering the industry, he couldn’t do it slowly and must charge forward full power to tear out a piece of cake of the already saturated market.

They shouldn’t be like Shining Technology who took it slowly but then Shanhai Streaming explosive dash overtook them and now the newcomer was on top.

He really didn’t know how the cunning Gan Liangchen made such a mistake.

It was impossible for him, Yang Feng, to underestimate an enemy and act arrogantly like that.

“TV series production can usually be done in two months, right?” Yang Feng asked.

“If it was well prepared and everyone give their best, it should be quite fast to make a TV series with twenty to thirty episodes.” Jiang Guangge replied, “But two months it’s a bit too hasty, 3 months is more appropriate with the post-production.”

“That’s a shame, I wanted to compete against the two series made by Teacher Chu Liuxiang.” Yang Feng let out a sigh.

He was reminded of the recent scandal with ‘Love Through Different Times’ and ‘Princess Returning Pearl’.

With Yang Feng’s style, if it was possible, he would really want to fight for the top place against them.

But December was about to end now and the Spring Festival would follow after the New Year in January so it was basically impossible to shoot a TV series and broadcast it during the Spring Festival.

Although Yang Feng was in a hurry, he wasn’t reckless.

Especially in business as every decision he made was with reason and carefully analyzed by him and his think tank.

Jiang Guangge let out a sigh of relief when he heard Yang Feng.

Because if Yang Feng asked him to fight against the two scripts, he wouldn’t be able to beat them even if he gave his all.

Even if the script they used was good, they did no preparation and squeezed every shooting under one month so how could it be good?

Not to mention that the actors and the staff wouldn’t have their heart on the job.

It was just like war when the general wanted to win but the soldiers just wanted to go home, how could they even fight?

“As for variety shows, streaming, music…”

After letting out his sigh, Yang Feng turned toward Zhang Shouzheng and Fan Qijin, “We also used data analysis and you guys should also study it. This a brand new era now and everything is different, it’s just like how e-commerce subverted the traditional retail stores! You will easily fall behind if you adapt and learn!”

“Yes!”

Zhang Shouzheng and Fan Qijin quickly replied.

At the same time, some people felt unsettled inside.

Was it really the start of a new era?

Did what President Yang said really overthrow the rules of the entertainment industry that had been there from hundred years?

If that was the case, would their experience and leadership be enough for this new era?

Or would they slowly be pushed out as they failed to adapt?

When their thought went to that point, they resolved to study that big data and its analysis to use the data to make great things.

To show it to Yang Feng and everyone else that their spirit was still young!