544. Investment intentions of the United States
After all the shooting plans were discussed, the film began to shoot in earnest.
The starring roles are the two heroes and heroines of the Titanic, the male protagonist is Xiao Lizi, and the female protagonist is Kate's big sister, and the image of these two people is actually quite appropriate. Although Kate's eldest sister has a bit of a silly and sweet temperament, why wasn't Gianna a silly and sweet white in the early days? As the princess of Kul Tiras, one of the few royals in the Seven Kingdoms of mankind, and she has no energy to experience any huge setbacks, she will naturally behave more silly and sweet. The same is true for Xiao Lizi, handsome is handsome enough, if you only talk about the handsome side, it is indeed enough to play the young version of Alsace. However, in addition to being handsome and unexpected, Alsace also has a mature side, and he becomes cold and cruel in the later stage, which tests his acting skills very much.
However, since Cameron believes in Xiao Lizi, Zhou Fangyuan is also willing to give the other party this opportunity, and when he auditioned, he also asked the two to perform specifically for the future Alsace and Gianna. In the end, Xiao Lizi's performance was relatively good, and he showed quite well in the face of the pain of his people being infected by the plague and having to set fire to the city. Especially the kind of heartache, but had to give orders, with tears in his eyes, Xiao Lizi behaved vividly, the only deficiency is that after Arthas transformed into the Lich King in the later period, that kind of cold and outstanding appearance, Xiao Lizi is too handsome, but it makes people feel a little disobedient.
But the problem is not too big, anyway, when it comes to shooting, you still have to put on makeup, and a certain amount of CG special effects will be added, which is enough to make up for this shortcoming. The main reason is that Xiao Lizi's own acting skills are online, and for such a game adaptation IP, the acting requirements will be relatively low, so with Xiao Lizi's ability, he can be competent.
It's just that Kate's big sister is more troublesome, and she has no problem playing silly and sweet white, which can be said to be her true colors. But when Gianna experienced ups and downs in the later period and became mature, her acting skills were a little unable to keep up, but Cameron said that he would personally train Kate's big sister's acting skills, and with his directing level, even if it was on-the-spot guidance, it should be able to meet the requirements. And Kate's big sister's potential is still okay, since she participated in the first movie "Angel of Sin" in 94, Kate's big sister started her acting career. The following year, that is, in 95, she was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 68th Academy Awards and the 58th Golden Globe Awards for her participation in the movie "Sense and Sensibility" directed by Chinese director Ang Lee.
In 97, he starred in the movie "Titanic" and became famous, and was shortlisted for the Best Actress Award at the 70th Academy Awards and the 53rd Golden Globe Awards. In 09, she won the 81st Academy Award for Best Actress with the movie "Life and Death Reading". In 11, she won the Best Actress Award at the 63rd Emmy Awards for the TV series "Lust and Love". In 12 years, Kate's eldest sister was even awarded the title of "knight of the second class" by the Queen ******. On January 11, 16, she won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards for "Steve Jobs".
It can be said that in the original time and space, her acting skills are constantly improving, her potential is deep, her brain is easy to use, and she is soft when she wins awards, at least as an actress, she has achieved all the main achievements. So although she is still very jerky at the moment, then again, the character of Gianna was only brilliant in the later stage.
Attack your father from the united orcs and establish Theramore. Then Luo Ning died tragically, and Gianna became an avenging angel. Then to the invasion of the Burning Legion, Gianna hated the Horde, and ran away from the Dara because of her opposition to the tribe's entry into Dara, fighting the demons alone. Then she finally led the Alliance army back to Kurtiras, taking over the reins from her mother. Her psychological journey has gradually enriched over time, and her personality has changed again and again, and this change, at the earliest, began after the three wars of the orcs, and Theramore-related, which can be launched in the form of a TV series, which can also temper her acting skills.
It takes her to burst out of acting skills, and it will probably not start until the stage of the mystery of the panda man, whether the movie can be filmed to that extent is still uncertain, if it can be done, at least it will be more than ten years later, and then Kate should be enough to support the heroine of such a movie, after all, her talent is there, and Cameron himself has trained her acting skills, plus her own efforts...... Zhou Fangyuan is still willing to give her a certain amount of trust.
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New York.
Zhou Fangyuan got up from the bed, and An Lin was still asleep.
Zhou Fangyuan spent a lot of effort to feed this woman last night, there is no affection between the two, An Lin followed him simply to gain money and status, the former, Zhou Fangyuan can give it to her very easily, as for the latter, it depends on her own efforts. If you want to return to China for development, it's not impossible, as long as you are willing to break away from Zhou Fangyuan, she can return to China for development. If she still wants to maintain a relationship with Zhou Fangyuan, she will never be able to escape the result of being lost in the United States. Of course, she herself has no opinion on this, which is obvious, and she seems to be quite happy to stay here in the United States.
Staying in the United States, Zhou Fangyuan hopes to be her eyes and ears, helping to monitor the situation on Blizzard's side while completing some of the things that Zhou Fangyuan asked her to do.
Facts have proved that she is doing a good job, and under Zhou Fangyuan's arrangement, two websites have been established one after another.
Twitter and YouTube, these are the two big guys in the Internet industry in the United States in the future, and Zhou Fangyuan will certainly not let it go. He also knew the development routes and respective characteristics of these two companies in the original time and space, so it was not difficult to replicate them at all. Today, these two companies have millions of users, becoming the second most user-owned website in the United States, and many investors have found An Lin and expressed their desire to invest in these two companies. But An Lin didn't have the right to decide, she could only call Zhou Fangyuan. But Zhou Fangyuan didn't let go, but asked her to drag it first, and wait for herself to come.
Twitter went through about eight rounds of financing before going public.
The amount of its first round of funding was not disclosed at the time, although it was said to be between $1 million and $5 million. The round of financing was completed in July 2007 by Union Square Investments (Heguang Investment), and investors included Charles River Ventures, Mark Anderson, Dick Costello, Ron Conway and Nawal Rawickent, although Twitter did not disclose the valuation of the company at the time.
The Series B financing was completed in May '08 with an estimated amount of $15 million, led by Spark Capital, and Heguang Investment also participated in this round of financing, which valued Twitter at about $80 million, which is already very good for an emerging Internet company.
The Series C round was completed in 2009 and is said to be worth more than $35 million, led by Benchmark and Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), which invested $21 million and $14 million, respectively, as well as other investors including Heguang Investment and Spark Capital.
When it came to the Series D funding round, it was completed in 2010, raising $100 million and valuing the company at $1 billion. Roe Price, IVP, Spark Capital, Benchmark and Morgan Stanley, among others.
The Series E round was completed in December 2010 with a funding round of $200 million, valuing the company at $3.7 billion and involving Kleiner Perkins.
The Series F round was completed in August 2011 with a funding round of $400 million, valuing the company at $8 billion and involving DST Global.
The Series G round closed in September 2011 with a funding round of $400 million and a valuation of approximately $8 billion for the company, with investors including DST, multiple institutional investors and T Roe Price, among others.
In addition, at the end of 2011, Twitter received a $300 million investment from the Saudi prince.
Now Twitter naturally does not have such a high valuation, but according to An Lin, Spark Capital and Heguang Investment, as in the original time and space, once again appeared in the list of investors, they plan to use 30 million US dollars to acquire 30% of the shares, the company is valued at 100 million, theoretically speaking, this is not a small amount. But Zhou Fangyuan disagrees with such an investment amount, not that he has great ambitions for this company, his focus must still be on the domestic, in the future, the development of the domestic market will be better than that of the United States, and this is true in all aspects, so the layout of the United States is just for the future. But even so, $30 million for 30% is still too little, according to his idea, the company's valuation will increase at least three times, and it is almost the same to receive the first round of financing at a valuation of 300 million.
Otherwise, he can afford the company's usual capital needs, so why accept their investment? As long as he can hold on and let the company continue to develop, wouldn't it be better to get a higher valuation and investment?
So after Zhou Fangyuan got the news, he bluntly refused.
As for Facebook, he also received investment intentions, but Zhou Fangyuan also glanced at it and directly denied it. Of course, the investment project he received this time was much better than the original Facebook page.
The first financing of Facebook in the original time and space was an angel investment in 04, when Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman angel invested 500,000 US dollars, accounting for 10% of the equity, and Facebook's total valuation at that time was only 5 million US dollars. What a ridiculous number, Zhou Fangyuan is a fool and can't accept this kind of number. This time it was much better, and the two investors were willing to pay $3 million for a 10% stake, a sixfold increase in price. But Zhou Fangyuan refused without saying a word, don't be kidding, okay? I gave up 30 million US dollars, you can give me 3 million directly, is it funny? Zhou Fangyuan has already told An Lin that financing is okay, and these two companies are not unacceptable to investment, but do not avoid financing, the company's valuation is less than 300 million yuan in the first round of investment, they are not uncommon.
If these two companies want to raise money, the goal is to greatly increase their valuations, and if they can't do this, financing is not to be discussed. He is not Zach, so poor that he can only sell shares cheaply in order to move the company down. Zhou Fangyuan has already completed the accumulation of the first pot of gold now, and he has the money to make the company lose money, so if the company's valuation cannot be guaranteed, financing is meaningless. Millions and tens of millions of dollars can't help him do much.
After the news got out, the investment community was a little shocked. Investment firms, large and small, have set their sights on these two companies and the people behind them. For these investment companies, the Zhou Fangyuan and Yuanfang Group behind them are not any information that cannot be found, as long as they are willing, it is still very simple to figure out the relationship between the two. In fact, Yuanfang Group is also one of the goals of these investment companies, and its importance is far above Twitter and Facebook.
Everyone knows that this emerging business genius in China is not ordinarily ambitious, and it is very difficult to speak.
They didn't know that Twitter and Facebook were related to this person, but now that they knew, many people immediately started to retreat. But more people are bright-eyed and begin to ponder the prospects of these two companies, and by the way, think about how much money is appropriate for them to invest in the company. After all, the development speed of Yuanfang Group is too fast and the momentum is too fierce, and everyone sees the hope of making money from Zhou Fangyuan. Now that it is known that these two small companies are actually Zhou Fangyuan's, many investors who were originally full of doubts about the future of Twitter and Facebook have begun to have confidence in these two companies.
As long as investors have confidence, they will naturally be willing to spend money.
30 million or 3 million, it's not a problem for them, it's not that they can't afford to make more money, but they have their own considerations, and they need to determine whether the company they invest in is worth investing in, and whether it has this value and potential. Before, everyone was still skeptical, but now with Zhou Fangyuan's endorsement, many investors' doubts have begun to reduce, and they have more confidence, then, along with it, everyone is more willing to invest with more money.
Of course, even if you re-evaluate the value, it can't be done in a day or two.
Zhou Fangyuan came to New York this time for another purpose, which is to acquire Marvel.
But don't get me wrong, he doesn't want to directly package Marvel as a whole, he doesn't have the ability to do so now, in fact, even the current Disney may not be able to package Marvel. What Zhou Fangyuan wants to do is only to buy shares, and in his plan in the United States, in addition to Twitter and Facebook in the Internet industry, in the media industry, he wants to eat Disney. But Disney is a big guy and doesn't have to think about it anytime soon. But he has that ambition, and he expects to buy Disney in a few years, when it falls to its lowest point in recent years. When the time comes, relying on Disney, it will completely eat Marvel.
But in line with the idea that eggs can't be put in one basket, he himself has to divide a part of the shares and fall on himself. This is his plan this time, and for this plan, he once again opened his mouth to ICBC. However, this time his target was the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in Beijing, with Yuanfang Media and Yuanfang Technology as collateral, S1 mobile phones and a large amount of technology accumulation, as well as the copyrights of many movies, TV series and variety shows, etc., and mortgaged 1.5 billion soft girl coins, equivalent to more than 200 million US dollars, for this acquisition, as well as some film investments. After all, the Warcraft movie is a big project, and it needs to be continuously injected into it, and it is estimated that the investment will be about 200 million US dollars, and he personally must account for at least 30% of it.