Chapter 767 is officially launched
The launching ceremony was carried out by Jin Wei, the host of the movie channel, and Chen Weihong, the host of CCTV's "Dialogue" program, the two were partners for the first time, but they were both veteran hosts who had been on the battlefield for a long time, and they were very familiar with each other.
Jin Wei smiled, held the microphone in his hand, and said in a coquettish voice: "Distinguished leaders, guests, friends, good afternoon! This is the scene of the launching ceremony of the Century Film and Television Industrial Park, the pinnacle of the century, and I am the host Jin Wei!"
Chen Weihong repeated it in English, and Jin Wei began to introduce the guests: "First of all, please allow me to introduce to you the leaders and guests attending this event, they are: Zhang Hongsen, deputy director of the General Administration, Li Baiming, secretary of the Lin'an Municipal Party Committee, ......"
After introducing the guests, I only heard Jin Wei raise his voice and say: "Next, I would like to invite Mr. Zhang Ran, chairman of Century Peak, to speak on stage!"
Zhang Ran straightened his suit and strode onto the stage. He is more familiar with Jin Wei, and after taking the stage, he ridiculed her and began to speak: "Dear Deputy Director Zhang Hongsen, Secretary Li Baiming, Mayor Zhang Xinqi, film and television stars and leaders of production companies: Today's wind and sun are beautiful, and the heavens fulfill people's wishes, we solemnly hold the launching ceremony of Lin'an Century Film and Television Industry Park......"
In the whole speech, Zhang Ran mainly talked about two things, the first is the main content of the Century Film Capital project, and the first phase of the base project will start at the beginning of next year, including 15 studios, 11 set workshops, film and television industrial park location service building, conference center, Asian Film Academy, international hospital and other projects, which will be officially put into use in 2014; the second is to hold the Lin'an Fantasy Film Festival.
After talking about these two points, Zhang Ran began to wrap up: "Here I would like to thank the General Administration for its support to this project, thank the Lin'an Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government for their support to the project, and thank all the guests present, thank you!"
After Zhang Ran stepped down, the representatives of the guests began to speak on stage, basically praising all of them, expressing optimism about the future of the Century Film Capital.
At Huayi headquarters, Wang Zhonglei and Wang Zhongjun are watching the live broadcast of the launching ceremony of the Century Film Capital. After listening to Zhang Ran's speech, Wang Zhonglei was stunned and said: "Zhang Ran is crazy, the initial investment is 80 billion, and the follow-up investment is 200 billion, he has a brain disease in such a project, right?"
Wang Zhongjun couldn't see through Zhang Ran's purpose, but he didn't care too much, in his opinion, Zhang Ran was doing this to cocoon himself: "All this money should be borrowed from the bank, so that the debt of the peak of the century will be higher." As long as we grasp this point and make a fuss, even if Zhang Ran doesn't die, he will have to peel off his skin!"
At the same time, in a villa in Beiping, Wang Jianlin, president of Wanda, and his friend Sun Shangxi were also watching the launching ceremony of the peak of the century. Sun Shangxi's name is unknown, but he is one of the key figures in Wan Da and Wang Jianlin to get to where they are today, and it can even be said that Wang Jianlin is the most important figure.
Sun Shangxi looked at Zhang Ran, who was proud of the spring breeze on the screen, and sighed in his heart, this young man was able to rise in such a short time, and he did have two brushes, and said softly: "Zhang Ran's name is good!"
Wang Jianlin was puzzled and asked, "Vote for the name?"
Sun Shangxi explained slowly: "The total assets of Century Summit are 50 billion US dollars, of which nearly 40 billion are foreign assets, that is to say, the main assets of Century Summit are abroad. In recent years, they have made many large-scale acquisitions, and together with their domestic investments, they should have borrowed tens of billions of dollars from banks, which is tantamount to using bank money to invest overseas. As soon as something happens, he pats his ass and leaves, leaving the bank with a bad debt. This is the people's money, what do you think the country will think of it, will it be reassuring of him?"
Wang Jianlin groaned slightly, and suddenly understood: "That's why Zhang Ran invested heavily in China, that is, to tell the government that although their company has a lot of assets overseas, their foundation is in China, and they will definitely not run!"
Sun Shangxi nodded slightly: "Theme parks have a large investment, the return on investment is very slow, and they don't make real estate money, so it is very difficult to return to the capital, but Zhang Ran announced that he will build about ten theme parks in China, why do you do this? It is to use the money in national construction, to submit a name, and to tell the country, I will not run, even if I do run, there are still hundreds of billions of projects in China, and the monk can't run the temple! He has built so many theme parks and invested hundreds of billions of yuan, I estimate that he will have a large amount of acquisitions overseas!"
Wang Jianlin nodded, but quickly shook his head again: "But in this way, their debts will be even more serious! I heard that many people have been secretly uniting recently, preparing to attack Zhang Ran, if they seize this point to attack, Zhang Ran will be in big trouble!"
Sun Shangxi showed a grim smile and said in a low voice: "The most valuable asset at the peak of the century is abroad, if we can add another fire behind him, it is entirely possible to force Zhang Ran to break his tail and escape, slap his ass and leave." If Zhang Ran really leaves, then he will definitely find someone to take over his projects in China, and we are the most suitable person!"
Wang Jianlin was shocked when he heard this, the industrial value of the peak of the century in China exceeds 10 billion, and it is a fairly complete industrial chain, if Wanda can take over at a low price, coupled with Wanda's own cinema line, then Wanda will become the unshakable king of the Chinese entertainment industry, and the goal of Wanda's transformation will be easily achieved, and he immediately asked: "Tell me in detail, what should we do?"
Sun Shangxi chuckled and said, "Let's do this......"
At the scene of the launching ceremony of the Century Film Capital, after a song and dance performance, a rectangular launching pad rose in the center of the stage. On the front of the launchpad is a picture of a film with the words "Century Shadow Capital" written on it, and on top of the launchpad are seven circular touch balls, which look like crystal balls that glow when you put your hand on them.
The host Jin Wei smiled and said loudly: "The launching ceremony begins!" After Chen Weihong repeated in English, Jin Wei announced the list of guests who participated in the launch: "Zhang Hongsen, deputy director of the General Administration, Li Baiming, secretary of the Lin'an Municipal Party Committee, and Zhang Ran, chairman of the Century Peak, are invited to ......"
Amid the passionate music, Zhang Ran and six other guests walked onto the stage and stood in front of a touch ball. With the host's countdown: "5!4!3!2!1!start!", Zhang Ran and they each stretched out a hand and pressed it on the touch ball.
Just when Zhang Ran touched the touch ball, the touch ball produced a photoelectric reaction and lit up with colorful light. When the seven touch balls were lit up, nine fireworks erupted in front of the stage, and at the same time, the large screen behind it was triggered, and after an extremely bright light, a line of big words appeared on the big screen: "Century Shadow Capital is officially launched".
Zhang Ran smiled and shook hands with the other six guests, and the whole scene was full of jubilation.
This is the end of the launching ceremony.
In the evening, the pinnacle of the century held a cocktail party called "Century Movie Capital - Starry Night", and the stars changed their clothes and walked the red carpet again. During the launching ceremony in the afternoon, due to the fierce sunshine, many Chinese stars appeared with sunglasses; Hollywood stars were much more dedicated, none of them wore sunglasses, and they interacted with fans to shake hands, which seemed quite close to the people; in the evening, Chinese stars were also much more cordial, shaking hands with the audience, and the original two-hour red carpet lasted nearly three hours.
Zhang Ran held this reception in the hope of building a platform for Chinese film companies to communicate with Hollywood film companies, and even work together. After all, Chinese films can't be supported by one person, and it can't be supported by one company, only when everyone works together can we really make this cake.
Hollywood has a very mature production system, and this is what Chinese films are most lacking now, through cooperation with Hollywood, and then master Hollywood's technology and methods, there is no doubt that it can accelerate the process of Chinese film industrialization, and ultimately achieve the purpose of prospering the domestic market.
Therefore, in addition to Huayi, the heads of the domestic film companies that can be named are basically present, whether it is a state-owned enterprise such as China Film and Shanghai Film, or a private enterprise such as Pony Galloping and Guangguang.
Chinese companies need Hollywood's technology, and Hollywood wants to get money from Chinese companies, and the two sides quickly hooked up with Ximen Qing as if they met Pan Jinlian, especially Ren Zhonglun of Shanghai Film Group directly discussed with Paramount the possibility of shooting a movie that took place in China during World War II.
At this moment, Zhang Ran was standing in the corner of the hall with a glass of champagne, chatting with Yu Dong, the boss of Bona.
In the first half of this year, PropNex accepted shares from overseas funds such as Sequoia Capital, and with the promotion of Sequoia Capital, PropNex obtained the qualification to be listed on the NASDAQ in the United States and launched the third round of financing. As long as nothing else, it will be able to list on the NASDAQ next year.
It's just that as a reborn, Zhang Ran knows very well that going to the NASDAQ listing is a big hole for Bona. In 2010, the market value of PropNex and Huayi was about the same, but in 2014, the market value of PropNex listed in the United States was only more than 4 billion, while the market value of Huayi, which was listed in China, was close to 80 billion, which was 16 times that of PropNex.
There is so much difference in the market value of the two companies, is it because of Bona's poor performance? Actually, no, in China, Bona has always been firmly in the top three in film performance, but the company's market value is seriously underestimated.
In the past four years, due to its low market capitalization, PropNex has not been able to effectively raise funds from NASDAQ, and the company has hardly developed effectively, while Huayi, which is listed in China, has been fully developed and has become an existence that PropNex needs to look up to, and even the original small companies such as Guangguang have left PropNex behind.
Yu Dong has a lot of problems, such as being too popular with Hong Kong and Taiwan stars, but Bona is one of the few companies in China that focuses on making movies, just by virtue of this, Zhang Ran feels that he should be pulled!
Zhang Ran looked at Yu Dong and said seriously: "I really recommend that you not list in the United States." In the United States, the film industry is a sunset industry, and if the stock price of film companies does not go up, and if the stock price does not go up, it will be difficult for you to raise more funds, and you will not have enough money to make movies and build movie theaters, and you will miss the golden period of the rapid development of Chinese films!"
Yu Dong stared at Zhang Ran for several seconds, but he couldn't see through Zhang Ran's intentions, and said slowly: "There are more problems in the domestic stock market, and the United States is more formal, and the supervision is also in place.
Zhang Ran explained: "In the first two years, Netflix has been making money, but the stock price just can't go up, and it wasn't until the last two years that the stock price began to soar after the transformation into streaming media and the complete Internet, because DVD is the sunset industry, and the Internet is the future! The same is true for movies, not many people will be optimistic about Bona! In the United States, the box office itself does not make money, what makes money is derivatives, and Bona obviously does not have this ability, and the stock price will definitely not go up!"
Yu Dong definitely believed it, and felt that there would definitely be no problem with Sequoia Capital matchmaking, and chuckled: "Listing in the United States has been my dream for many years, and PropNex wants to internationalize, and listing in the United States is better for subsequent development." ”
Zhang Ran can't say it anymore, people have said that the listing in the United States is a dream, what else can he say? He sighed secretly in his heart, good words are difficult to persuade damn ghosts, don't blame me for not persuading you when the time comes, he raised his glass and said: "I hope Bona goes well in the United States!"