Early December.

After dealing with the follow-up affairs after the listing of Huanyu Newspaper, Huo Yaowen held a high-level meeting of the group at the headquarters of Huanyu Group, first affirming the efforts of Huanyu Newspaper in recent years, and then encouraging the senior management of other subsidiaries.

With the current market value of US$1.5 billion as the prospect, we encourage the employees of the subsidiary to work hard in the future, so that they can plan to go public as soon as possible and get the same treatment as the employees of the global newspaper, that is, to buy shares in advance and become millionaires after listing!

Under the encouragement, the enthusiasm of the employees was aroused.

There is a precedent for the world newspaper industry, and everyone hopes that their subsidiaries can go public smoothly and make dollars.

You must know that the listing of newspaper companies, in addition to the birth of two billionaires, also gave birth to four or five multimillionaires, dozens of millionaires!

Even some low-level employees made a lot of money by buying a small number of shares in advance and selling them after listing.

The current subsidiaries of Huanyu Group can be roughly divided into three, Huanyu Newspaper, Huanyu Film, and DreamWorks Animation.

The current development of the two subsidiaries of the film company and the animation company is naturally not comparable to that of the Huanyu newspaper industry, but the prospects are still very broad.

In recent years, animation companies have produced "Kyushu", "Journey to the West" and other long-form cartoons, not only in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Japan, Southeast Asia, Japanese animators led by Hayao Miyazaki, but also in cooperation with the Japanese DreamWorks branch to set up an animated film department, recently is producing an animation called "My Neighbor Totoro".

The main market for animated films is naturally in Japan, but in local markets such as Hong Kong and Taiwan, they still have considerations, and after the production of "My Neighbor Totoro", they will start to produce "Kyushu" animated films, with more gorgeous colors to build a blueprint for the mythical world of Kyushu.

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After the more than hour-long meeting ended and the executives of each subsidiary left the conference room one after another, Huo Yaowen left Wen Yingguang alone and called him to the chairman's office.

"Manager Wen, has the second part of "1999" been divided?" Huo Yaowen directly said the reason for keeping him.

Wen Yingguang shook his head and said, "Not yet, but I have already urged Fox before, and I think they will transfer the overseas box office revenue to our account in the United States within this month." ”

"Well, as soon as possible, I'll let the branch call when the division arrives. ”

At present, Hutchison's stock price is stable at about 32 yuan per share, and according to the number of shares issued, as long as about 30 million shares are acquired, Huo Yaowen can increase his personal shareholding ratio to 52%.

In this way, the board seat brought by half of the shares can make Hutchison Whampoa truly in the hands of Fok Yiuwen.

30 million shares, 32 yuan per share, almost 1 billion, equivalent to 200 million US dollars.

Huo Yaowen doesn't have so much cash in his personal account now, so he can't let Huanyu Group invest in the acquisition, so he can only wait for the share of "1999", so that he can get the part of the money that belongs to him, so that he can smoothly increase his equity in Hutchison.

"I know the chairman, I'll send a message to the U.S. branch later. Wen Yingguang nodded in agreement.

Huo Yaowen thought of another movie and asked curiously: "By the way, what is the final box office of that Antarctic Love?"

"It's not bad, the global box office is about 40 million US dollars, and I have already asked people to calculate that we can make about 5 million US dollars after deducting the cost of film investment and the share of theaters. ”

The movie "Antarctic Love" is a small investment film, even if it invited Olivia Newton John, a well-known singer and actress in the United States at this time, the cost was only more than six million US dollars.

All told, the film was able to sell $40 million at the global box office, and the film actress took the most credit, she was the best female singer at the 16th Grammy Awards in 1974, and won five No. 1 singles and 15 top 10 singles.

Olivia's fame in the United States is still very large, and the first electrocution film naturally attracted her fans to support.

Huo Yaowen is still very satisfied with the fact that a small-budget film can have a profit of five million US dollars, "Well, that's not bad." How's the dragon doing now?"

Wen Yingguang said with a smile: "With "Antarctic Love", Zunlong is a little famous in the United States, and recently the American branch arranged for him to play an important supporting role in "Raiders of the Lost Ark". ”

"Really, what's the progress of Raiders of the Lost Ark?"

For this Western adventure story, which also belongs to the same world view of the ghost blowing the lantern, Huo Yaowen still attaches great importance to it.

"I've been filming Egypt for half a month, and a few days ago I sent a message from there, saying that half of the plot has been filmed, and then I will go back to the United States to make up some of the American plots. ”

Speaking of this, Wen Yingguang glanced at the boss and said, "Chairman, is it time for "Raiders of the Lost Ark" to be released?"

"Hasn't it been released yet?" Huo Yaowen was stunned for a few seconds, he handed over the first part of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" to Yao Wenjie a long time ago, and even gave him the tens of thousands of words outline story he wrote in the follow-up, and asked him to arrange a few people to improve the details of the outline story.

"Not yet. Wen Yingguang shook his head.

Huo Yaowen frowned, thought for a while, and said, "Well, I know about this, I will tell Manager Yao later, and ask him to contact the publishing house in the United States as soon as possible to release "Raiders of the Lost Ark". Okay, there's nothing to do, you go back to the company first, I've been reading the newspaper lately, it seems that the company has several movies to be released?"

"Yes, the company has a lot of movies to be released recently, "Zombie Dao Chang 3" directed by Lin Zhengying, "Happy Girl Group 2" by new director Huang Baiming, "Under the Lion Rock: A Visitor from Vietnam" by Xu Anhua, "Xiao Shiyi Lang" and "Heroes Without Tears" directed by Chu Yuan, and "Harrow, Returning at Night" by John Woo. ”

With the construction of its own cinema line by Huanyu Film Company, after no longer relying on Golden Harvest Cinemas, the company's production output has also expanded accordingly, and more than a dozen films have been made in the past six months alone, and the cost is mostly maintained within 500,000 Hong Kong dollars.

The highest investment is Lin Zhengying's "Zombie Taoist 3", which has a total investment of more than one million Hong Kong dollars, and deliberately went to Thailand to film, telling the story of a head descender from Nanyang who harmed one side.

Huang Baiming?

When Huo Yaowen heard this name, he was slightly stunned, and couldn't help but squint at Wen Yingguang: "Who is Huang Baiming?

"I recently joined the company from Phoenix Terrace. ”

Wen Yingguang replied: "Since the establishment of the theater, the company's output has expanded, and the previous directors were not enough, so I poached several serial directors and screenwriters from Phoenix Channel, among which this Huang Baiming and a person named Tsui Hark are very good." ”

Old Monster Xu is also here!

Huo Yaowen raised his eyebrows, Huang Baiming and Tsui Hark are here, plus Shi Nansheng, who is engaged in production and administration on Phoenix Terrace, and Shi Tian, who was recruited by the film company a long time ago, there are four fewer people in the Seven Monsters of Xinyi City, and it seems that it is unknown whether this film company that was brilliant in the 80s can be established in the future.

Thinking of this, Huo Yaowen shook his head slightly, it doesn't matter to him whether the new city is established or not, now that Shaw Brothers is down, Golden Harvest has one-third of his shares, plus half of the shares of Universal Cinemas and Golden Harvest Cinemas, even if a new second city pops up at this time, it will not be able to shake the status of Universal Cinema in the Hong Kong film industry.

"You can just decide the things on the company's side, and now that you are the general manager of Huanyu Film, you don't have to report everything to me. ”

"Then how to do it, chairman, what should be reported still has to be reported to you, the company's development has so far relied on the wise decision of the chairman. ”

Wen Yingguang patted his fart, licked his face and smiled: "Then the chairman won't bother you, I'll go back to deal with the company's affairs first." ”

"Well, go ahead. ”

Huo Yaowen waved his hand and signaled that Wen Yingguang could go out first.

When he left on the front foot, Huo Yaowen made a phone call to the secretary outside and asked her to contact the editor-in-chief Yao of the Book Publishing House downstairs.

Not much.

Yao Wenjie hurried up from downstairs.

The floor of the building leased by Yaowen Book Publishing Company expired, and it was directly moved to the current building of Huanyu Headquarters.

Yao Wenjie knocked on the office door, and when he walked in, he saw Huo Yaowen reading the documents there, walked over and asked, "Chairman, are you looking for me?"

"Well, Editor-in-Chief Yao sat down and said. ”

Huo Yaowen beckoned Yao Wenjie to sit down, closed the file, looked up at him, and said, "I just heard from Manager Wen that "Raiders of the Lost Ark" has not yet been released?"

"Yes. Yao Wenjie nodded in response.

"Why? Didn't I send you the manuscript and outline earlier? It's been almost four months, and the movie is almost halfway through. ”

"It's such a chairman's ......"

Yao Wenjie sorted out his thoughts and explained: "Actually, at the beginning, I was going to contact Bantan Book Publishing Company to publish it, but then I heard from the chairman that our Huanyu Newspaper was about to be listed in the United States, and I had a thought at that time, thinking that after the newspaper was listed in the United States, we would buy an American publishing house and publish it by ourselves or in cooperation with Bantan. ”

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