Seeing Huang Qiu Sheng and Zhang Manyu who had just run away from a distance, they came back under the shouts of the assistant director. Xiao Ran walked forward with a smile, looked at the laughing actors and said: "Ah Yu, Ah Huang, are you drinking soup?"
Well, if I don’t perform this drama well, I’ll show it to you when the time comes!”
"Is it not worth it to pay such a price for just a little bit of your soup?" Zhang Manyu asked as if talking to herself, while Huang Qiusheng snickered on the side. Huang Qiusheng was among the first batch of graduates of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
One of them joined the Phantom last year, but Xiao Ran wanted him to hone his acting skills and become the Three Musketeers in the future, so he didn't deliberately praise him.
In fact, Huang Qiusheng's childhood was not very good. He was often locked up at home and could not go anywhere. Therefore, in such an environment, he often performed for himself to enjoy to pass the time. Perhaps it was for this reason that he
They established the path of three outstanding figures in the Hong Kong film industry in the future.
In the afternoon of the next day, An Yuxuan knocked on the office door and entered Xiao Ran's room. He handed over a piece of information and said, "Mr. Xiao, this is the information you want!"
Xiao Ran, who was writing a script, immediately raised his head and smiled at this beautiful woman, took the information and started browsing it. The other party was Hongwei Real Estate Company. This company has assets of 3.9 billion and its main business is real estate.
Xiao Ran stared at the man with a familiar face in the photo. This is Mo Huaien, the boss of Hongwei Real Estate. Who is Mo Huaien? He is the rich man who once tried to pursue Lin Qingxia.
But, is Mo Huaien here for him, or purely for business interests, or both? Xiao Ran couldn't give himself an answer for the time being. However, it didn't matter, Xiao Ran pursed his lips and smiled,
It's just a little cruel.
Hongwei Real Estate's assets are 3.9 billion, but half of them are investments from a Korean business consortium. The background of this consortium has been checked clearly, and it is just a pure commercial investment consortium. The only interesting thing is,
The consortium also invested in CJ, South Korea's largest film distribution company.
"Interesting, really interesting..." Xiao Ran's fingers lightly beat on his legs. It is said that this can easily put him into a thinking state. But now there are a few weird smiles on his face: "CJ Film Company!"
CJ controls most of the local theatrical distribution rights in South Korea, and the only company that can barely compete with it is the Film Services Company. The same company once made it difficult for Phantom to enter South Korea until "The Spy"
" was released, and it was only then that he successfully used this power to win the agency rights of a theater chain, and finally reached an acquisition.
CJ once contacted Phantom, hoping to participate in investing in Phantom's film production. Unfortunately, Xiao Ran firmly refused, because there are still huge profits in the industry. From this perspective, he obviously has no reason to give up profits.
Instructing Anyu to check the information of the Guoli Investment Group, Xiao Ran found out that this consortium had participated in many investments. However, in Xiao Ran's eyes, what was more interesting was that this consortium originally only invested in CJ
, but it was only in the first three months or so that we suddenly gained control of the company.
Korean movies are obviously not very good. From this point of view, Xiao Ran has no reason to actively increase investment and take control. But what is the purpose of this? Xiao Ran is very confused. Suddenly, he
Then he smiled with relief and didn't care what he was doing.
Why does Hongwei Real Estate have such a design to frame Mingxuan? Even if the peers are enemies, there is no need to do this. Unless Hongwei is trying to get some benefits from Mingxuan. What benefits can Mingxuan gain after Mingxuan's bankruptcy?
In fact, Xiao Ran didn't doubt that this was aimed at him. Based on his current net worth, such a design obviously couldn't hurt him. Besides, Xiao Shaohao didn't do business in Xiao Ran's name. Therefore, Mo Huaien made this move
It's most likely for business reasons, and maybe I want to prick myself.
Thinking of this, Xiao Ran's heart moved, and he picked up Mingxuan's information and browsed it. Mingxuan was a real estate company in name, but in fact it only had two pieces of land, and most of them were just speculating on real estate.
The two pieces of land in Mingxuan's hands are worth more than 400 million and more than 200 million respectively. The former is a piece of land that is appreciating in value, while the latter is a piece of land that was framed and taken. Its original value was about 600 to 700 million.
As a result, after the news spread, it quickly declined.
Mingxuan said that only these two pieces of land were of some value. The former was obtained with the financing of Tianxia Fund, and the loan was made at that time. This made Xiao Ran feel funny. Although he was not a
Conspirator, but you can still see this trick.
Mo Huaien's target must be one of the two pieces of land, so he deliberately raised the price of the land to make Mingxuan on the verge of bankruptcy and be chased by the bank. If he still can't pay back the money within one month, he will be seized and the bank will
It will be put up for auction, and Mo Huaien may not even need to wait for the bank auction to take action.
However, which piece of land is the target? Or both? Xiao Ran is a little confused. He flicks his fingers lightly, as if he is practicing the magical skill of finger snapping. Thinking hard, according to the power analysis report, 400 million of that land is the target.
One piece of land has the potential to rise to more than 600 million, while the other piece of land is hard to predict.
If it were you, how would you choose? Xiao Ran smiled softly. Such a choice does not seem to be very difficult. If there are no financial difficulties, there is obviously no problem in acquiring these two pieces of land. The state-owned
With Lee’s financing, may Hongwei have financial problems?
Wait a minute, Guoli is not completely wholly-owned, but has a lot of directors and bank financing. And that bank happens to be South Korea's Liyou Bank, so it becomes interesting.
Liyou? Guoli? Xijie? Hongwei? Xiao Ran tried to straighten out the relationship. He always had a vague feeling that these three were coming for him. To be precise, it is better to call them coming for Hong Kong movies.
But what is their purpose? Don’t they know that the registration of film companies in Hong Kong is very strict at present?
Back to the question just now! Xiao Ran found that his thinking was really wild. Of course, this is a good way of saying it. If you put it another way, it is actually easy to get distracted and think of other things. The 400 million piece of land will definitely appreciate in value.
But what about the 200 million yuan? There must be some reason for this to increase in value.
When Xiao Ran thought of this, he seemed to have caught some inspiration. Suddenly, he dug out the map and searched for it, and he finally understood. The 200 million piece of land was right next door to the piece of land controlled by Hongwei.
The land under control is much larger than what was announced. It can be built into a shopping mall or a luxury residential area, and it can still be sold for a lot of money.
This means that as long as Hongwei takes over Mingxuan's land, Mingxuan will pay for it for Hongwei. It's really amazing. Xiao Ran smiled lightly. But, Mo Huaien might look down on him.
.
"Of course I don't underestimate him. After all, his assets are more than ours combined. Now it's just a small effort to make him bleed a little. In the future, it will be even more unbearable for him!" Mo Huaien laughed.
, his calm look surprised the guys next to him.
In particular, Jin Zhiyou, the chairman of the board of directors of Guoli, was quite interesting. He felt that Mo Huaien was very capable and could actually let Xiao Ran fall into the trap. The most important thing was that with just such a turn, Mo Huaien made money.
At least 500 million, but he still looks motionless, which is a bit scary.
"Mr. Mo, actually I don't quite understand why you want to design Xiao Ran?" Jin Zhiyou chuckled, but there was confusion in his eyes. In fact, their cooperation will not only be this time, he thought it was necessary for him to figure it out.
This point.
"Because..." Mo Huaien's expression immediately froze, and his heart beat violently. Now he knew why he couldn't pursue Lin Qingxia in the first place. Perhaps it would be better to say that he was self-righteous and thought that Xiao Ran was hindering him. He felt that Xiao Ran was hindering him.
He used his identity as godbrother to get close to Lin Qingxia. Of course, the most important thing is to make money.
Mo Huaien couldn't help but get excited when he thought of Xiao Ran. He and Xiao Ran actually had no hatred. To be honest, Mo Huaien didn't hate Xiao Ran. It's not that he didn't understand the meaning of success and defeat, even if he didn't understand,
He should have understood this all the time in the mall that he was just jealous that Xiao Ran got Lin Qingxia.
The most important thing is that Jin Zhiyou from Guoli told him how much Xiao Ran earned from movies last year. That was a huge number. The money he earned in one year was more than his net worth. As a businessman, he
Said, this is obviously a very good way to make money.
Of course, Mo Huaien had doubts at first. He was not Xiao Ran, and he had never owned a phantom. Not many people knew how Fang Ruohai was completely knocked down by Xiao Ran, but the fact was right in front of him, so he couldn't help but be afraid. Besides,
, he also knows very well how much power Xiao Ran has in the entertainment industry. As the only person selected as one of the top ten most powerful people in Hong Kong last year as a person in the entertainment industry, it is definitely not a joke.
However, sometimes profits are still very tempting. Phantom's profits from movies can make everyone excited. Of course, this only refers to businessmen of his level. He has to admit that if he can do what Phantom does,
Big, the profits are really scary.
Just as Xiao Ran had judged before, he was a very cautious person, so cautious that everything required precise calculation before taking action. This time was no exception. The reason why he agreed was because he already had several advantages.
Advantages come from all aspects. Without this advantage, he thought that under Xiao Ran's power, they might not even be able to register a film company. With these advantages, the situation is of course different. He even thinks that he has already
won.
Of course, there are two other reasons. The first is because Guoli made concessions to his own interests in this real estate war. Second, Mo Huaien was very jealous that Xiao Ran got Lin Qingxia. He always felt that Xiao Ran was like this
It is impossible for this young boy to give Lin Qingxia happiness.
Xiao Ran is completely unaware of all this, at least not yet. Although he has some premonitions, premonitions are unpredictable. He has completely put this matter aside now and is writing a script, which is completely his own.
.
He wanted to write a script similar to "Spider-Man", with an urban martial arts theme. This is obviously not difficult, but the difficulty is that he is trying to use this film to make Westerners accept martial arts films, just like science fiction films.
The story is actually very simple, that is, a man with martial arts skills performs chivalry in the city. Of course, this will also facilitate the filming of a sequel. He has been thinking about this idea for a long time. If he wants the West to completely accept Chinese-language movies, he must first go through it.
Passed the level of martial arts.
Of course, in terms of culture, he has asked Shuxiang to pay a large price to acquire a publishing house in the UK. In a sense, this is definitely a big-money loss. But Xiao Ran's strategy has always been that no matter how much the loss is,
We must do whatever needs to be done, and we must let the market come out.
That's why Xiao Ran bought the stocks of Dell and Microsoft. What he wanted to do was not to make himself a rich man, but to use the money to make up for the losses in the film industry. Just like last year, last year's movie theater chain
French theaters are forced to pay for their films at a loss, and some films are even paid for by distributors.
On the surface, it seems that because Phantom has done well in Southeast Asia, it has covered up its losses in the West. In the past two years, Phantom has had at least one movie that was a big hit in the West to make up for it, so it is not very obvious.
.But Xiao Ran is not sure about the future.
It seems that this year has just passed a month, and Phantom has already invested a full 500 million in the computer department to add various equipment, and has invested 300 million in several companies such as Pixar. A deal like this is
Fools all know that they are losing money. These highly technical departments may not be able to earn so much money for Phantom. Fortunately, Xiao Ran controls the main shares of the company, and both Fang Xiaoqiang and Wei Dongling have no objections to Xiao Ran's decision. This makes this person
The losses continue.
Going back to the script, Xiao Ran has been thinking hard about how to make Western audiences accept something that is completely unbelievable to them. Xiao Ran knows very well that the first point is to cultivate the audience's viewing habits.
Western audiences have become accustomed to this type of film and have gradually become less resistant to it.
This requires Phantom to strengthen its production in this area and export as much to the West as possible. In fact, "The Swordsman" is already in preparation. This time Xiao Ran invited director Hu Jinquan to be the producer, and Xu Ke
Come to direct, completely contrary to history, this can avoid Xu Ke and Master Hu from falling out.
We can’t let Hu Jinquan direct, and then Xu Ke jumps in and tells us what’s wrong here and what’s wrong there. But don’t forget that Xu is a very lonely person, which means he doesn’t have many friends in the circle. Everyone who has worked with him basically
In the end, they stopped cooperating with each other. The most typical example is Li Lianjie. Xiao Li's second career as an actor was promoted by Xu Ke, but in the end he stopped cooperating with him because he couldn't stand Xu Ke's temper.