Becoming a Movie Star, System Only Finished Loading After Ten Years-Chapter 442 - 431: Grand Finale

The New Year's film slot was quite complicated.

Zhonghao Entertainment still hadn't encountered a worthy opponent. Only "No Man's Land," "Police Story 2013," and "Personal Tailor" could put up some competition.

While Zhonghao Entertainment's new film "Jiong 3" achieved a box office success of 1.68 billion yuan, once again breaking the box office record of "Jiong 2."

All I can say is that Ning Hao indeed made a brilliant move.

He inserted his "Breakup Buddies" into the Jiong series IP, borrowing the popularity of a hot IP and managed to hire Qi Hao at a low fee. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

Otherwise, with Qi Hao's current attitude towards accepting films, it would have been impossible to get him for a commercial film like this.

The film itself was of decent quality, with Qi Hao's performance, the IP's popularity, and Zhonghao Entertainment's promotion. All these advantages contributed to the film's explosive box office, creating a dominating scenario in the New Year's film slot.

To be honest, if we compare the quality of the films, "Jiong 3" is certainly not as good as "Jiong 2," maybe not even as good as "Jiong 1."

It's just that the market changed, and the audience changed.

The second strongest competitor, "Personal Tailor," barely broke 500 million at the box office.

The strongest opponent was "Detective Chinatown."

Chen Sicheng's first movie achieved 800 million at the box office, so it's no wonder he exceeded his targets so significantly.

It's no surprise a newcomer director casually reached 800 million in box office earnings.

However, Ning Hao's "No Man's Land" was also a good film.

It had more depth than "Jiong 3," "Detective Chinatown," and "Personal Tailor."

While "Personal Tailor" contained some Feng-style satire on current affairs, it was at most teasing, unrelated to real critique.

In contrast, the human nature issues discussed in "No Man's Land" could be elevated to a certain theoretical level — such as discussing whether human nature is fundamentally good or evil.

Ning Hao became the biggest winner of the year.

With two films surpassing 100 million at the box office, one of which reached 1.68 billion, his reputation was unparalleled for a time.

The main investor, Zhonghao Entertainment, along with several co-producers, made a fortune.

However, co-producer Little Horse Galloping fell into a huge crisis.

Ning Hao's boss, known within the circle as Big Dog Brother, the chairman of Little Horse Galloping, Li Ming, suddenly suffered a heart attack and entered the ICU.

It was quite shocking.

Qi Hao had drunk with this Big Dog Brother a few times, and given their cooperative relationship, he also visited him.

In fact, Little Horse Galloping had already lost the bet agreement signed with Zhonghao Entertainment.

According to their agreement, Little Horse Galloping received investments from Zhonghao Entertainment while continuing to operate independently. If it failed to go public by December 31, 2013, Zhonghao Entertainment would have the right to demand that the actual controller of Little Horse Galloping repurchase its shares in the company.

The purchase price was 500 million yuan of financing, plus an investment return of 100 million yuan.

Now it's already 2014.

And Little Horse Galloping hasn't managed to go public, nor is it possible in the short term.

Going public has become extremely strict now.

Many companies that used to be able to go public have lost the possibility of going public in the short term.

Li Ming even called Qi Hao to apologize.

If Little Horse Galloping were to fulfill the contract and buy back the shares held by Zhonghao Entertainment, Little Horse Galloping simply couldn't afford it.

Not to mention the premium buyback as per the agreement, even a buyback at the original price would be unaffordable.

Qi Hao immediately stated it was not a big deal and not to worry about it, the contract could be considered nonexistent.

It's not that he had an overflowing Mother Teresa complex.

It's just that Little Horse Galloping was indeed operating quite well. Although it faced downturns due to projects like "The Crossing," as a whole, the potential of this company was still visible.

Little Horse Galloping could also compensate for Zhonghao Entertainment's weakness in TV drama production.

Besides, with his current wealth, even if Little Horse Galloping went public, the wealth increase it would bring him wouldn't be significant.

Perhaps because he sold his shares in Xiaomi for 3.8 billion USD, on the new Forbes China Rich List, Qi Hao ranked tenth with a wealth of 45 billion RMB, placing him between He Xiangjian with 45.9 billion and Liu Qiangdong with 43.45 billion.

Among the top ten, besides the 33-year-old Qi Hao, all the others were over forty.

Lei Jun ranked eighth with 55.69 billion RMB.

But he knows better than anyone that this list is actually meaningless.

It can only track wealth that can be verified.

But Qi Hao's hidden wealth is more, for example, his West Hao Technology, Zhonghao Entertainment, West Hao Animation Film and Television, and Naughty Ghost Special Effects Company.

Even Donghao Venture Capital has a lot of hidden wealth.

For example, Donghao Venture Capital's investments in DJI, ByteDance, and others. Currently, these companies have not publicly raised funds, and Donghao Venture Capital injects development capital into these enterprises in an internal financing manner.

Having too much money is indeed willful.

If all these are included, Ma Huateng with a wealth of 88.13 billion, Li Yanhong with 89.96 billion, and Jack Ma with 119.34 billion might not be impressive compared to Qi Hao.

Moreover, now that Crystal Phone's monthly shipments have surpassed Xiaomi's.

After acquiring VAIO, Crystal Phone has achieved significant improvements in both design and quality.

Combined with both online and offline sales channels and a well-established after-sales service network, if Xiaomi has a valuation of 45 billion USD, what should be the valuation of Crystal Phone, and what about North Hao Technology?

Crystal Phone is merely a sub-business of North Hao Technology.

Even if Little Horse Galloping went public, its market value might top out at 10 billion, and after removing the water, what would come into Qi Hao's hands might be only a little over one billion at most.