The end of the year is approaching, and the affairs of Longlin Pictures are becoming more and more complicated. In terms of movies, the key to "The Battle of the Deer" has been postponed and continues to be released, and the total box office is still rising slightly.

"I Am Not the God of Medicine" was completed early, and the post-production is almost finished. It's just that the plot atmosphere is not very suitable for the Spring Festival, so I didn't rush to go online. "The Killing of the Gods of the Male Soldier Company" has also entered post-production, and it is still scheduled for the summer.

"Wolf Warrior 2" and "White Snake: Origin" are both in preparation, ready to start as soon as the Spring Festival passes.

In terms of TV series, "Yanxi Raiders" starring Zhao Liying and Nie Yuan is scheduled for the Spring Festival, and "Zhu Xian", which has been transferred to post-production, will not be able to meet the audience until the summer.

In terms of variety shows, the ace show "Running Man" is out season after season, making Longlin Pictures both fame and fortune, and in general, the situation is very good.

And the announcement of the Oscar shortlist has made Longlin Pictures and Lu Lin's fame go to a higher level.

On January 24, the shortlist for the 88th Oscars was announced. "The Three-Body Problem" was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film along with "The Embrace of the Serpent" (Colombia), "Son of Saul" (Hungary), "Hib" (Jordan) and "War" (Denmark).

Among them, the films selected by Chinese mainland, Xiangjiang and Baodao are "The Three-Body Problem", "Breaking the Wind" and "Assassin Nie Yinniang".

"Breaking the Wind" is not very famous, but "Assassin Nie Yinniang" is the biggest winner of the 52nd Treasure Island Golden Horse Awards, while "Three-Body Problem" only won three small awards: Best Sound Effects, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Visual Effects.

This made many Lu Lin's fans dissatisfied, feeling that "Assassin Nie Yinniang" was obscure, the plot was inexplicable, and the online evaluation was not very high. Compared with "The Three-Body Problem", the idea is even more different, and I have long had the idea of fighting unevenly.

Now that "The Three-Body Problem" has beaten "Assassin Nie Yinniang" to be shortlisted for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language, fans are excited.

Moreover, the "national teacher" Zhang Yimu has been unable to "rush to the Olympics" for many years, and the films he made have become more and more disliked by the Chinese people. Lu Lin was nominated for the first time in "Rushing to the Olympics", and he is very likely to win the award, which is simply ecstatic!

In Longlin Pictures, Lu Lin was in the boss's chair in the office, and then made congratulatory calls one by one. Of course, not everyone can make a call to his personal mobile phone, otherwise he won't have to do anything for a day!

"Thank you, thank you! It's hard to say, "The Three-Body Problem" is a commercial blockbuster, and I don't know if those American judges will like it!" Lu Lin said into the phone.

Yu Dong on the other end of the phone said: "The theme and idea of "The Three-Body Problem" is a continuation of human civilization at best, and it is also about the portrayal of human nature, which is a theme that the judges like, if you want me to say, at least eighty percent of the awards may be awarded!"

Lu Lin smiled, he also knew that "The Three-Body Problem" took advantage of the ideology of the original work. Although he usually doesn't care much about awards, if he really has an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, at least his identity will not be so embarrassing.

Although he is listed as one of the "top five directors" with Zhang Yimu and Chen Kaige, there are no heavyweight awards, which is an embarrassing thing after all.

"Then I'll thank you for your auspicious words, if you really win the award, let's have a good drink!"

Yu Dong said with a smile: "That's a must, your kid is going to win the award, but you have to invite everyone to have a good meal!"

Lu Lin said: "It must be!" After chatting for a while, Oscar asked about Bona's privatization.

In December 10, Bona Pictures landed on the NASDAQ and was the first Chinese film and television company to be listed in the United States, but Yu Dong has always believed that he was underestimated.

Actually, it's not underestimated. Especially in the first two years, Bo Na relied on the release of "The Return of the Great Sage" and cooperated with Longlin Pictures, with a high net profit every year and a good financial statement. But the Yankees just don't buy it, and the stock price is also falling more and rising less.

Especially when "Outwitting Tiger Mountain" was released, it received both box office and word-of-mouth, and also created a red classic theme. However, during the same period, Bona's stock price on the NASDAQ has been falling, which makes Yu Dong very uncomfortable and angry.

Since the Yankees are not optimistic about Bona, Yu Dong plans to privatize it, buy it back and queue up for an IPO to land on the A-share market.

On a trading day in June '15, he suddenly made the decision to privatize, which surprised all partners, including Fuxing and Sequoia Capital, but fortunately, the two venture capitalists were very supportive of Yu Dong. In the privatization and delisting announcement released on the same day, Yu Dong, Sequoia Capital and Renaissance International jointly offered to acquire Bona.

By 12 of '15, Ahri Pictures had joined the buyers' group, followed by Penguin. As Longlin Pictures, which has a good relationship with Yu Dong and has deep pockets, it is natural to participate in it.

First, to help Yu Dong complete the privatization as soon as possible, and secondly, after the re-listing of the A-shares, the shares bought by Bona's are all about to skyrocket, and they are basically guaranteed to make a profit.

In fact, in the future privatization process, there will be Huang Xiaoming, Zhang Ziyi, Zhang Hanyu, Chen Baowei, Han Han and others to raid the shares, but it is a means for the boss to win people's hearts. Others don't mention it, Zhang Hanyu, who was originally in the Beijing circle, is about to become the first brother of Bo Na in the past two years!

"Things are basically talked about, and in another month or two, the privatization can be completed!" Yu Dong suddenly sighed when he said this, "Hey, I have been tossing for so many years, and the market value is only more than 6 billion, and you have not yet been listed, and your assets will exceed 10 billion!"

Lu Lin smiled, didn't answer Yu Dong's words, and only said: "Don't be discouraged, if you weren't delayed by the NASDAQ, Bo Na would definitely have a market value of five or six billion now!"

Yu Dong was even more depressed when he heard this, and the gap between the securities markets of China and the United States was too big. "Hey, seriously, when will your Longlin be listed, it's really going to be listed, if you can't get it, you will break 100 billion, the absolute first share of domestic entertainment!"

Lu Lin said: "Last year's bull market has passed, and this fall is not sure how long it will take to rise back, anyway, the company is not short of money for a while, and we have to wait a little longer!"

Yu Dong was a little speechless when he heard this, he was not short of money, and he was really wealthy! Speaking of the stock market, he remembered something: "By the way, I heard rumors from the outside world, you made billions in the bull market last year, is it really fake?"

Lu Lin laughed, "You also said it was a rumor, of course it's fake." It's just to take out some idle funds and make some investments, just catching up with that wave of bull market, and making some pocket money!"

But he didn't say that the specific amount of money he earned was more than 2 billion, catching up with one-third of Bona's market value, and it was estimated that Yu Dong would have angina pectoris when he heard it.

"That's not easy, I really made a mistake when I went to the U.S. stock market! Look at them, they make a small amount of money from making movies, and the income from the stock market is the big one!" Yu Dong said with emotion.