月度归档： 2024 年 7 月

1905 movie network news　On November 12, Wanda Cinemas’ annual film conference was held during the 35th China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival. At the scene, Wanda Cinemas general manager Yin Xiangjin released the latest developments of Wanda Cinemas’ 2022-2023 key films. Filmmakers appeared to support, and one of the main creators and stars of the film revealed the new poster and trailer of the film on the spot.

At the event site, the most concerned thing was the "Wanda Film List" released by Yin Xiangjin, which was based on the four cores of "power of a big country", "emotional power", "female power" and "youth power". Among them, the high-profile film was officially announced as the main creative lineup. The film was produced by the producer, directed by Li Dachao, and starred in, and starred in. It is reported that the film is expected to be released in 2023.

The Wanda reserve project also includes a masterpiece that focuses on the theme of the times, "Invite You in the Future," which will be an industrialized hard-core blockbuster. From "living up to mission" to "chasing dreams and sky", it will promote the strong spirit of gathering "Chinese power". It is reported that the film will be directed by a new director.

The scene was full of surprises. For the first time, Yin Xiangjin officially announced the film "Three Brigades" co-directed by the official. It is reported that the film was produced by Chen Sicheng, directed by the director, and starred. This is another collaboration between Chen Sicheng and Zhang Yiji after other films. The story is based on a true life and tells the story of chasing the murderer thousands of miles away. In addition, the mysterious film "Hey! Buddy" also revealed some signals that it will dig out the emotional core of human touch and serve the audience with a resonant and innovative script.

In the film list, "Looking for Her" and "Shen Jilan" focus on the power of oriental women, with a delicate female perspective as the entry point, triggering the audience’s empathy for women’s experiences; "I Don’t Want to Be Friends with You" and "Confessions on Earth" focus on the best years of youth, telling the pure and exciting life stories of the younger generation.

The movie "I Want to See You", which attracted the most attention from the outside world, also revealed the first surprise trailer during the event that day. In just 15 seconds, the "Fengnan Squad" gathered again, which will definitely cause many drama fans to remember. The scene also revealed that the movie will tell the story of Taipei and Shanghai in China. In addition to the original cast, there is also a mysterious actor joining.

As the star of Wanda Cinemas’ upcoming "Countdown to Say I Love You", Zhou also interpreted the emotional story of the film on the spot. She used the "duck rabbit" in the movie as a prop to annotate the emotions in the film.

It is reported that Zhou also played a cake maker in "Countdown to Say I Love You", while the character "Gu Yuxuan" is a trendy play designer. Zhou also introduced Chen Feiyu’s role at the press conference, "seemingly quiet and hot inside, very gentle and attentive," while the two’s professional settings are interpreted as: The cake represents the sweetness of two people, and the blind box represents the unknown after the two meet. The movie is scheduled to meet the audience in 2022.

On March 24, Meituan released the fourth quarter and full year results of 2022. The company’s various businesses continued to achieve steady growth, with annual revenue of 220 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), an increase of 23% year-on-year, and adjusted net profit of 2.80 billion yuan.

This year, Meituan deepened its "retail + technology" strategy and continued to increase investment in scientific research in key areas. The annual R & D expenditure increased by 24% year-on-year to 20.70 billion yuan, a record high.

At the same time, Meituan’s annual instant delivery orders increased by 14% year-on-year to 17.70 billion orders, of which the peak daily order volume of catering takeaway orders exceeded 60 million orders. The stickiness between users and the platform further increased, and the average annual transaction number of users reached 40.8, an increase of 14% year-on-year.

"In 2022, we will continue to provide hundreds of millions of consumers with assured goods and convenient services, and help millions of merchants use digital means to expand their online operations, which will drive more consumption and create more jobs," said Wang Xing, CEO of Meituan. "In the process of promoting the digital upgrading of life services and retail industries through technological innovation, we will continue to pay attention to the common interests and long-term development of platform participants such as merchants and riders, firmly fulfill platform responsibilities, increase investment in science and technology, continue to help the real economy, and make more contributions to the high-quality growth of China’s economy."

Enabling entities and core local businesses to thrive

As a technology retail enterprise, Meituan is continuing to leverage the advantages of rich application scenarios to fully meet user consumption needs through instant retail and high-quality online and offline supply. In 2022, Meituan’s core local business operating profit reached 29.50 billion yuan, an increase of 57% year-on-year.

Among them, the takeaway business insists on pursuing high-quality development, and consumers’ user stickiness has continued to increase in the past few quarters. Driven by this, the peak daily order volume of Meituan catering takeaway in 2022 exceeded 60 million orders.

The instant retail format using digital technology has further stimulated the potential of local consumption. In addition to food and beverage takeaway, the demand for instant retail such as medicines, flowers, daily groceries, branded cosmetics and mobile phones has grown rapidly. In the fourth quarter, the peak daily order volume of Meituan flash sale exceeded 11 million. Instant retail has also driven more local entities to embrace digital business methods. In 2022, there were nearly 300,000 convenience stores and small supermarkets related to instant retail on the Meituan platform, more than twice the number in 2019. The sales volume of merchants increased by more than 400% compared with 2019, and the variety of goods was three times that of 2019.

In terms of store-to-store business, Meituan has a rich and diverse range of life service categories and product matrices, as well as a strong consumer mind. To further stimulate the vitality of local merchants, Meituan has specially launched measures such as merchant traffic support and joint marketing programs, such as providing tailor-made tools for "time-honored" merchants to help them expand customer acquisition channels. In 2022, Meituan’s annual active merchants in stores maintained healthy growth, of which small store merchants increased by nearly 500,000 compared with 2021.

Meituan also gave full play to its supply-side advantages, launching a series of themed activities around key consumption nodes such as New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, and Spring Festival, to help local catering entities produce more "food". Taking Changsha as an example, from November 18 to November 30, 2022, Meituan joined tens of thousands of catering merchants to launch special activities to promote consumption and special night snacks, and selected more than 20,000 high-quality winter special packages, which stimulated the consumption vitality of the "night economy". Data show that the number of stores providing night catering services on the platform increased by 20% year-on-year in November.

In terms of new business, the efficiency of commodity retail business has been greatly improved. In 2022, the revenue rose to 59.20 billion yuan, and the quarterly operating loss narrowed by 32% year-on-year to 6.40 billion yuan. Meituan market and Meituan Preferred have ensured the stable supply of users’ daily necessities during the special period, and have also played a positive role in promoting the digital transformation of the agricultural industry.

Take multiple measures to jointly promote consumption recovery

In addition to mining user requests and providing a series of accurate and high-quality marketing activities to greatly boost consumer confidence, Meituan also undertook more than 80 government consumption coupon projects in dozens of provinces and cities such as Beijing, Tianjin, Hubei, and Shenzhen in 2022, and assisted the local government in issuing nearly 1 billion yuan of electronic consumption coupons, covering consumers’ all-round needs for "food, housing, travel, shopping and entertainment". Meituan data shows that among many consumption scenarios, the leverage effect of consumption coupons on in-store catering is the most obvious. During the event, the average daily transaction volume of participating merchants increased by 55% compared with the week before the event, and the average daily transaction volume of small and medium-sized merchants in Tianjin, Wuhan, Enshi, Yinchuan, Foshan and other cities increased by more than 100%.

Instant retail, characterized by minute-to-minute delivery, is a new trend in the retail industry, which makes technological innovation represented by drones expected to become the infrastructure for new business models in modern society. By the end of 2022, Meituan drone has been launched in Shenzhen and Shanghai, with routes covering 18 communities and office buildings, serving nearly 20,000 households. In the two years of normal trial operation, Meituan drone has completed more than 120,000 single delivery tasks, of which more than 100,000 orders will be completed in 2022.

"Meituan’s ability to effectively cope with external challenges and maintain growth momentum in 2022 is due to the strong resilience of the Chinese economy, the industry experience we have accumulated over the years, and the strong execution ability to adjust business strategies in a timely manner," said Chen Shaohui, Meituan CFO. "In the future, we will continue to consolidate the core capabilities of our main business and focus on new areas with growth and long-term returns. At the same time, we will insist on technological innovation to help the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, so as to help everyone eat better and live better."

　　Andy Lau once joked that the ideal lover should be a mix of Guan Zhilin, Wang Zuxian, Lin Qingxia and Zhong Chuhong.

　　He felt that the girl with Lin Qingxia’s face, Zhong Chuhong’s lips, Wang Zuxian’s eyebrows, and Guan Zhilin’s nose was the dream lover.

　　He added: "The longer the hair, the more beautiful it is. Wang Zuxian is the most beautiful without perming his hair; Guan Zhilin is also very good, but unfortunately it is a little dry."

　　"Zhong Chuhong is a natural beauty. When she doesn’t wear makeup, she is more beautiful than when she wears makeup."

　　This joking discussion immediately aroused people’s interest in these female artists.

　　However, it was impossible to tell which of them Andy Lau was closer to.

　　Andy Lau has repeatedly explained that "maybe he has been in this circle for too long and always feels out of place with the girls in the circle."

　　But that doesn’t eliminate people’s speculation and discussion about it.

　　And there are also many women in the circle who have feelings for Andy Lau.

　　In the early years, Ye Qianwen had made it clear to his friends that Andy Lau was an ideal marriage partner.

　　Although she and Lin Zixiang were already in love at that time.

　　Ye Qianwen received a Western education and was avant-garde in thought. She did not hide anything in her heart.

　　She thought that this person was good, so she would never hide it, and would definitely tell her true thoughts.

　　Therefore, it is not surprising that she said this.

　　In 1993, before the Spring Festival, commercial radio held a "lover’s soulmate concert".

　　Ye Qianwen and Andy Lau were both invited to attend.

　　At the scene, the host invited them to participate in a psychological test game, and the result was surprising: Andy Lau hated Ye Qianwen for meeting late, and if he could "spark a spark", he was willing to give up everything for her.

　　The joke did create an atmosphere for the scene at the time, but it caused a chain reaction from the good guys.

　　Did this game make Andy Lau and Ye Qianwen feel embarrassed or secretly happy?

　　Did the results speak for themselves, or were they irrelevant?

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　　In short, after the broadcast of the program, people speculated for several days, guessing and guessing, and finally came to an end.

　　Wang Zuxian is also a star who explicitly shows his love for Andy Lau.

　　Wang Zuxian and Qi Qin once had a vigorous love affair, which ended in a breakup. Later, the scandal between Wang Zuxian and Lin Jianyue became uproar, and Lin Jianyue completed divorce procedures with his wife Xie Lingling for her.

　　But soon Lin Jianyue left her to find another love, which is old news today.

　　But all of this shows Wang Zuxian’s personality – dare to love and hate.

　　It was this Wang Zuxian, who dared to love and hate, who once publicly admitted that Andy Lau was the type of man she liked very much, but that Andy Lau already had a "rumored girlfriend" by his side, so he had to "retreat".

　　She sighed with self-pity: Andy Lau was the only man she wanted to chase but didn’t catch up with.

　　Another actress who made Andy Lau into a scandal was Zhong Chuhong.

　　In 1985, Andy Lau collaborated with Zhong Chuhong on the filming of "The Falcon Project", and they became good friends during the filming process.

　　Zhong Chuhong has a gentle personality and is very feminine.

　　He is Andy Lau’s ideal wife candidate.

　　Andy Lau once said: "She always gives people a very sweet, comfortable and gentle feeling, beautiful but not arrogant, not domineering, and her eyes smile like she can talk."

　　Zhong Chuhong has a taste of a family woman. When she is not filming, she is willing to do some housework and likes plants and flowers. Once, because Zhong Chuhong likes flower arrangement, women in the entire entertainment industry regard flower arrangement as a fashion. In order to become a standard little woman after marriage, she often asks some women who are considered good wives and mothers for advice when she is not married, and explores their way of life and the tacit cooperation between husband and wife.

　　The shared life philosophy has made her and Chow Yun-fat’s wife best friends.

　　Although Andy Lau believed that Zhong Chuhong was the top choice for his wife, at that time, Zhong Chuhong was already famous, and her love with her boyfriend Zhu Jiading had matured. He retired after getting married in 1991.

Editor in charge: Sun Jie