After leaving the company to buy lunch for Yue Yao at the hospital and accompanying her while she ate, Li Yan returned to the company's headquarters on the eighth floor of Heaven Mansion in the afternoon. The new company's office is located here. It's not the entire eighth floor, just part of it belongs to Heavenly Film's office space.

The new company has been established for a while. Besides the office renovation and hiring staff, initial tasks are being undertaken. So far, the company hasn't officially started external operations, nor has there been a high-profile announcement of its official opening. And Li Yan, as the general manager, has just officially taken up the position.

Zhang Yurong didn't appoint Li Yan to be a lone commander; as general manager, he still has a few staff members, but he only knows one, the financial manager Jiang Xueyin, who is the cousin he met once at Zhang Yurong's home. Before Li Yan officially joined, she was in charge of everything. Apart from her, there are a few other employees, each with a title like Creative Director, Marketing Director, Sales Director, and so on.

Of course, like his position as general manager, these positions are all within the internal structure of this new subsidiary of Heaven Film Investment Company. Whether they're called directors or executives, they don't correspond to the administrative levels at the headquarters.

Upon Li Yan's arrival, Jiang Xueyin held a meeting to introduce him as the general manager, allowing everyone to get to know each other and clarify their responsibilities. From then on, it would be up to Li Yan to arrange the work.

Looking at this small company, it's no wonder that, in terms of authority, it's not as significant as being the director of a planning department. They are just an investment company, responsible only for evaluating projects, conducting market research, determining investments, and overseeing processes, without needing to plan or produce films themselves, thus they don't need many people.

After the brief meeting, Li Yan was alone in the general manager's office. Everyone had submitted their results, which included a pile of reports on the domestic film market, genre films, investment cases, and evaluations of producers and directors…all piled in front of him.

Looking at this pile of reports, Li Yan quickly browsed through them. Since he often watches films during his free time, he has some understanding of common issues. When Wen Qianyi came to the company's business department, she started a project related to filmmaking with him as an assistant, although it was later discontinued due to Qianyi feeling the results were too slow. However, she instilled a lot of industry knowledge into Li Yan, whom he followed to learn and understand things.

Reading through these materials now, Li Yan didn't feel as out of place as in the planning department. While not an expert, he at least possesses basic industry knowledge. After spending two hours reading all the reports thoroughly, he combined them with some of Wen Qianyi's previous analyses.

After reading, he had an idea for a project in mind, which involves some projects Wen Qianyi had evaluated before. Since a few months have passed, they had given up on them at the time, and thus had declined contact with those producers. Thinking back now, the producers likely found other investors, as small productions might have already been funded, started pre-production, or even filming.

But the first project he encountered, led by a well-known producer named Qiao Pan, probably hasn't started yet. One reason is that Qiao Pan's project requires significant investment, and at that time, he only attracted a local partner, Chuyi Culture. Chuyi Culture is just a small company without much fame or big stars, only signing a few students. Without securing major investors, they probably couldn't start the project.

Even Wen Qianyi thought it was a promising project. Combining this with other people's various analysis reports, Li Yan believed there is still investment potential in that project.

Now he needed to confirm that Qiao Pan and Chuyi Culture haven't found new partners. Chuyi Culture might be small, but Qiao Pan, being a well-connected producer in the film industry, wouldn't have a hard time securing investment.

After confirming this, Li Yan searched online for the project, but found scant news, most of which were unrelated and shared the same name. He then searched for Qiao Pan's name.

As a fairly well-known producer, there are quite a few news articles and web pages about Qiao Pan. Li Yan selectively read some of them and realized one issue. Despite being a renowned producer, the films produced by Qiao Pan have consecutively failed at the box office!

For regular film fans, a movie's box office failure is usually perceived as a failure on part of the starring actors, leading to a lack of appeal because of their involvement in a bad film. More sophisticated fans might see more, such as poor acting by the cast, a director lacking control, or a shoddy script. Fans with a deeper interest in the film industry might gather various information, recognizing factors beyond quality and appeal, such as poor distribution, unsuitable release timing, insufficient promotion, or excessive investment.

However, even the last type of semi-professional analysis rarely focuses on the relatively low-profile aspect of production, unless it's a major production bearing a celebrity producer's or executive producer's name, which usually doesn't grab people's attention.

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