Therefore, Xiao Rankong controlled a group worth one trillion Hong Kong dollars, but he still had no choice but to raise funds through sales. Although other subsidiaries have money, they must develop and cannot use it casually.
Regarding this point, Xiao Ran's meaning is very clear. If necessary, he is willing to sell one of the two oil fields controlled by Kinetic Energy in Russia to Sinopec. That transaction alone is believed to bring at least more than 8 billion US dollars to Phantom.
profit.
Wei Dongling pondered for a moment, calculating whether the money would be enough: "I think it should be almost the same. Most of the companies I am looking at this time are just starting up, so I believe that the money may not be fully spent yet!"
After saying that, he handed a piece of information to Xiao Ran, which contained the acquisition target. Of course, the so-called acquisition was not a comprehensive acquisition, nor was it for holding, but for profit. Because both Xiao Ran and Wei Dongling suddenly discovered that all the money from Phantom Company was
They have invested in very important places that cannot be sold, so they all think it is necessary to make other investments to turn around.
On this list, Xiao Ran only saw a few familiar names, including Motorola, Intel, and Siemens. Xiao Ran had never heard of the others. However, he believed in Wei Dongling's vision. In fact, Phantom's success over the years
This is enough to prove Wei Dongling's vision.
Xiao Ran is quite aware of Wei Dongling's acquisition ambitions. He wants to control some stocks of several companies such as Motorola and Siemens. If there is an opportunity in the future, he will launch a battle for control and include all these electronic companies.
Under Phantom, a powerful industrial chain has been formed.
Xiao Ran had no reason to object, especially after seeing two familiar companies, Motorola and Siemens. This list was entirely Wei Dongling's investment in high-tech industries such as information and communication technology. Xiao Ran was not involved at all. He did not have such a vision.
In the future, the companies on this list will make a lot of money for Phantom one after another, so I won’t mention it. The only mistake was the other two companies. Phantom held 20% of the shares in those two companies, but in the end things happened.
Suddenly, due to Wei Dongling's negligence, Phantom lost a billion dollars in investment.
However, Wei Dongling quickly became the largest shareholder of the two companies and sent people to take care of them. It took him three years to sell the two companies and earned Phantom more than 10 billion U.S. dollars. Of course, these are all
That's a story for another day.
Most of the people who appeared at the afternoon meeting were old ministers of Phantom, who are now famous figures in the business world. After greeting everyone and entering the conference room, and everyone sitting down, Xiao Ran began to make more specific targets for the entertainment media industry.
sexual decision-making.
After the reorganization of the group, Wei Dongling and Xiao Ran are now much more relaxed. Regarding the strategies of other flagship companies, especially network application technology and electronic technology, Xiao Ran and Wei Dongling only gave a few words as the development direction: cutting-edge, fashionable.
, packaging, promotion.
Now is the time for them to make decisions about the entertainment media industry. Wei Dongling sat next to Xiao Ran and turned the pen in his hand. He glanced at the group of old officials and smiled and said: "Since everyone is here, the meeting will begin. Now.
Everyone has seen that society’s technological progress is very rapid, and in terms of information technology, personal computers and networks, these will become the focus of the future!”
"Shuxiang Media is an entertainment media company, so it is necessary to introduce all of this. Bai Pengfei, you see, the company has invested less than a few hundred million Hong Kong dollars in Yahoo, and now Yahoo has made billions in profits for the company as soon as it went public.
." Wei Dongling smiled at Bai Pengfei who was calm on the side: "So, as the company's top priority, Shuxiang must develop this aspect. The Internet will become a new means of information circulation in the future, and the newspaper industry will be affected to a certain extent. This is what I want you to do.
Reason to sell some newspapers!”
"Is it really that powerful?" Bai Pengfei and the others were confused and couldn't help but retort: "But, Mr. Wei, according to the survey, it takes at least five to ten years for any technology to mature and be promoted. I believe that network information technology will become
One of the media information methods in the future, but it is unlikely to be so fast!"
"It's hard to describe this feeling..." Wei Dongling laughed and pointed at Xiao Ran, who was laughing and saying nothing: "When Mr. Xiao told me this judgment a few years ago, I didn't believe it. Even at the time of the acquisition
I objected to Dell's equity stake. But now you and I have to accept it. In Dell alone, our investment of less than 100 million U.S. dollars has now turned into several billion U.S. dollars."
"Think again about what Cisco does. In the past few years, Cisco has developed rapidly, and the company has also made a lot of money!" Wei Dongling sighed. Last year, he persuaded Xiao Ran to sell off some of his Dell and
Equity shares of companies such as Cisco, but over the past year, those stocks are still soaring: "You and I have to admit that times have changed."
Xiao Ran coughed lightly, stood up, and came to the electronic screen behind him to scan for a week: "The times have indeed changed. Because of the rapid popularization of personal computers, the existence of the Internet will connect the world. If we can occupy the online entertainment media platform in advance
, you will be able to have your own place in the future, otherwise you will be eliminated by the times."
"In terms of cutting-edge technologies such as electronics and computers, the time for upgrading will become shorter and shorter. In terms of promotion, it will be further shortened because of the existence of the Internet." Xiao Ran smiled lightly: "For example, Nokia produces
I’m afraid you all have a mobile phone. But in the past two years, have you noticed that your mobile phone has become smaller and smaller?”
"This is the change of the times. As the circulation of information becomes larger and larger, the growth and maturity period of each product will become shorter and shorter, and the effects that can be achieved will not last for a long time." Xiao Ran chuckled,
He suddenly realized that he was off topic, but others did not notice this: "Of course, as long as we have the core technology, we can package it on the periphery to promote and sell it in different ways!"
"This is the theme of our meeting today, packaging!" Xiao Ran looked around, put his hands on the table and stared at Bai Pengfei: "Pengfei, if it were you, what would you do?"
"I..." Bai Pengfei was stunned for a moment, quickly thought about it in his mind, and quickly gave the answer: "If it was the TV industry, I would choose richer content and use various aspects to achieve the packaging effect!"
"What a big mistake..." Xiao Ran chuckled and waved his hand: "The packaging I am referring to is not packaging in the narrow sense, but in the broad sense. What is that? It is fashion. We don't need to be too advanced or avant-garde.
, but leading fashion, this is the core strategy of entertainment media."
Everyone was stunned. Wei Dongling signaled to Xiao Ran's new secretary Han Yun, and Han Yun started to operate it knowingly. The appearance of Ponyboy from "A Better Tomorrow" appeared on the electronic screen, Xiao Ran sat down, and Wei Dongling explained: "If
If your memory is not that bad, you should remember that sunglasses and windbreakers became popular after Fa Ge's film was released."
Bai Pengfei and the others, who were around thirty years old, all smiled. They were just as fascinated as before. They were all fully equipped with windbreakers, sunglasses and toothpicks. Suddenly, Bai Pengfei and the others understood what Xiao and Wei meant.
A sudden realization.
Seeing their expressions, Xiao Ran nodded to Wei Dongling with satisfaction: "I think everyone understands what I mean. This is fashion, and what this film does is lead fashion! When the information revolution comes, then,
We don’t need to blindly promote, we just need to use appropriate and clever means to quickly promote the product! This is the role of fashion!”
"What we need to do is to lead the fashion and let the whole world be silently influenced by us!" Xiao Ran stood up straight, glanced at everyone, and said slowly: "Phantom is the most complete cross-industry group in the world, with all kinds of seemingly different things.
Related industries will become an important part of this fashion-leading strategy, which is what we are trying to create."
"However, there are many types of fashion. What do we want? What do we want?" The cross talk between Wei Dongling and Xiao Ran was quite interesting. They looked around the crowd and focused on Liu Chun and Cheng Yawen, the new manager of the planning department.
: "Xiao Liu, Xiao Cheng, what do you think we should want?"
Liu Chun hesitated. As the general manager of the most famous film production company in Asia, he was certainly capable. However, Wei Dongling's question was too general. Cheng Yawen was Han Long's assistant. After Han Long went to Universal, he
As a manager, she thought about it for a long time, but still couldn't come up with an answer.
Xiao Ran smiled, and the rest would involve movies, and it would undoubtedly be more convincing for him to tell it. He stood up, walked around a few times, and came behind Liu Chun: "Liu Chun, what do you think of Hong Kong movies? I am
It refers to the advantages and disadvantages in a broad sense!”
"Mobile, flexible and free enough, I think this cannot be said in one moment!" Liu Chun answered almost without thinking: "As for the shortcomings, I think it should be the lack of a culture, a culture of one's own.
.”
Xiao Ran nodded appreciatively. Being able to give such an answer quickly is indeed an outstanding talent. Hong Kong movies lack a cultural heritage, which is a fatal flaw and one of the hidden advantages of Hong Kong movies. Hong Kong has absorbed
Cultures from all over the world form something very unique.
And it is precisely because of this unique thing that Hong Kong films can be quite popular in other countries. Because it itself has such a meaning, which is irresistible. Of course, this does not mean that without this
If the taste is not attractive, it is secondary after all.
What Xiao Ran thinks about is that in terms of system, the Hong Kong film industry has embarked on a different path from Hollywood, that is, a director-centered system. Hollywood is a producer system, and all positions revolve around producers. Only Lao Si and
Only a super director like Lao Lu can avoid interference.
In the first two or three years, Xiao Ran was thinking about how to make film creations more free and more in line with the situation of Hong Kong films. When he finally believed that the director's freedom of creation trumps everything else, he basically formed a director-centered system.
core.
After the Phantom gradually became bigger, Xiao Ran began to see farther and broader places. He had to come up with a system that was more conducive to movies. The Hollywood method was not unworkable, but it strangled it to a large extent.
The director’s creative desires.
So, in 1990, Xiao Ran gradually conceived the director center system. The director, as well as the three major positions of planning and production, are the most important part of this system. The director is the core, and the producer is assigned as the planning department to do the preliminary work and manage money.
is responsible for miscellaneous tasks, and planning is a supervisory position.
Take the simplest example, such as Xiao Ran's "True Colors". This is a literary film, and the planner basically doesn't care about anything. If it is "The Legend of Car God", then the planner must supervise that the film will not be shot badly. If it is enough
Commercial directors will also discuss with the planner how to shoot the next scene to attract the audience.
Therefore, this system is undoubtedly very effective. At least it is much stronger than the producer-centered system in Hollywood that completely restrains the director's hands and feet. In this way, it can ensure that the director's creation has enough space to inspire inspiration and planning.
He is only responsible for supervising commercial films to prevent them from being made into art films, or being too boring, etc., and basically does not interfere with the director. Even if he interferes, the director has no need to adopt the planning suggestions.
So, in these years, Xiao Ran first embarked on this road unintentionally, and then began to prepare for such a system. Today, the supervision system of New Art City and Mai Danxiong Studio no longer exists, and only gradually
Toward a mature director-centered system.
It is this system that has attracted many directors from Japan and South Korea over the years. Coupled with the importance of other positions here, foreign filmmakers have come here one after another, including European directors.
, for example, Lou Besson has already founded a film production company in Hong Kong with investment from Phantom. This is why Xiao Ran is confident that he can transform Hong Kong films quickly after the mainland rejects them.
one.
Under such circumstances, the flavors of Hong Kong films can be said to be different. This made Xiao Ran have to think about the fact that Hollywood promotes the freedom and democracy of the American middle class and relies on this to gain status in the world.
Although Hollywood films are still unable to compete with Hong Kong overseas, this kind of similar culture and style is necessary. At least they must have similar core culture.
What is the core culture of Hong Kong movies? No one can give the answer, because no answer is correct. The only fast food culture that is even remotely close has been killed by Xiao Ran in its infancy. So what should Hong Kong movies have?
Core culture? This is what Xiao Ran is thinking about. In terms of culture and publishing, he has paved the way for the audience to accept Eastern culture. The only thing missing now is core culture.
What are the consequences of a region or a country's films without core culture? Just look at European films to get an idea. What will happen if a core culture that is not sufficiently influential, or rather infectious, is measured?
?Indian movies are definitely popular locally, and they follow the true Indian culture, but they have hardly made it out of the country.
This is very simple. This kind of core culture requires not only oneself to be able to adapt, but also people from other countries and regions to be able to adapt. If not, then everything Xiao Ran has done for Hong Kong films will be in vain, because everything is just
They are just promoting democracy and freedom.
However, the game of democracy and freedom is not necessarily something that only the United States can play. Everyone’s definitions are different, and the connotations are naturally different. Where is the essence of Chinese culture? Confucianism or something else?
Xiao Ran thought, it doesn't matter what it is, the key is that Chinese-language films must learn to package, package their own culture with democracy and freedom, and promote these. And when people accept it, it means acceptance.
everything.
After turning around countless thoughts in an instant, Xiao Ran looked at everyone with a smile and said calmly: "We will package Chinese culture with democracy and freedom and make it a fashion. Then, by then, the company will truly rule the world!