Chapter 277: Legendary Pictures
The acquisition of Fingerorks, especially after this acquisition is related to Apple, is indeed a good publicity for the popular Silicon Valley Research Institute.
After the announcement of the recruitment, some excellent engineers from large companies such as IBM and Microsoft began to apply.
After a series of moves to acquire companies such as Andriod and Fingerorks, some engineers who are eager to change or interested in the project have begun to set their sights on the Chinese company's research institute in Silicon Valley.
Wang Hao, Zhang Jing and others also started their work with great interest.
Of course, this news also caused some trouble for Apple.
As a result, an Apple spokesperson came forward and publicly declared that Apple had no plans to develop a mobile phone, and expressed regret over the loss of Fingreorks, claiming that this was just a supplementary acquisition of the Tracrpad project, and wishing the company good luck in a high-profile manner.
In fact, for the leak of this news, Lao Qiao still made a fire internally......
However, these have nothing to do with Lin Feng for the time being.
At this time, he was standing at Santa Monica's home, helplessly letting Ye Weiyu help him sort out the bow tie on his neckline.
"Yezi, what's the point of this kind of dinner, I don't know anyone. ”
He straightened his neck and tugged at the neckline with his hand, it was a little uncomfortable that he hadn't worn such a formal bow tie in a long time.
"Don't you always say that Hollywood dinners are bad? Ye Weiyu lowered her body again and went to help him tidy up the corners of his clothes and trouser legs.
Looking at it from Lin Feng's sight, Ye Weiyu, who was wearing a dark blue slanted shoulder-length evening dress, from revealing her snow-white fragrant shoulders and beautiful back, to her tightened waistline and plump buttocks, she had dizzying curves half-bowed.
Thinking that this was his wife who had been with him for so many years to this day, Lin Feng couldn't help but feel a sense of pride in his heart.
As long as she's happy!
If it is said that in this life so far, Lin Feng has brought her a better life through rebirth and hard work, so that she can always be so happy and happy, Lin Feng feels that it is the best reward for his struggle over the years.
Ye Weiyu stood up, looked up and down, and smiled with satisfaction: "Okay, my husband is so handsome!"
Although Lin Feng usually dresses up in casual suits and jeans or slacks, he does have an indescribable handsomeness and charm when he occasionally wears such formal clothes.
Lin Feng is 180 tall, and he often runs, and he is quite strong, which is originally a clothes rack.
But the most impressive thing is the faint smile on his face and the rare maturity and calmness between his eyebrows.
In fact, the reason why he can be rated as a "male god" by many netizens in China is that Lin Feng's appearance plays a great role.
He is not handsome or handsome in the traditional sense, but a unique temperament from the inside out.
At first glance, people feel that he is different and attracts attention.
It is probably the feeling of Wu Xiubo's "uncle" and Wu Yifan's "little fresh meat", which are wonderfully combined.
It is precisely this appearance that although Lin Feng is only 26 years old, no matter where he goes, he is full of "rich", "tycoon" and "entrepreneur".
The experience of his previous life and the success of these years have made Lin Feng already have a taste of "big man".
"Oh, I regret it a little bit for dressing you up so handsome,...... , Lin Feng, Hollywood movie stars are not good things, tonight, you will keep me far away!" Ye Weiyu frowned slightly and said distressedly.
Lin Feng was amused by her and laughed: "Now you understand my feelings, girl, you will not attend this kind of dinner party in the future, it is enough to meet some new friends, you usually go shopping together, swim or something." ”
Ye Wei pouted: "Okay, I know." …… Anyway, I don't think it's interesting lately, things are almost over in the United States, and I'm going back to China with you this time. ”
While the two were talking, the villa's doorbell rang.
"Ah, it's supposed that Cotillard has arrived, and I asked her to go with me for the night. She just turned around and was about to run to the door, but was stopped by Lin Feng.
"What are you anxious about, Li Zhao will go to open the door. ”
Although Lin Feng's villa is not very big, it is enough for the bodyguards to live, including Li Zhao and Li Qiang, Sun Lin, Zhao Jing and others are all in the villa.
Especially when Lin Feng was there, the security of the villa was completely handed over to Li Zhao and Li Qiang, and there was no problem at all.
Not long after, a beautiful woman in a white lace evening dress with a typical French elegant and sexy temperament walked into the living room accompanied by Sun Lin.
"Cotillard, you're so beautiful tonight...... To introduce you, this is my husband, Richard. Ye Weiyu cheered and ran over to hold Cotillard's hand.
As soon as he saw him, Lin Feng immediately remembered who it was.
Marion Cotillard, Rose de France.
If nothing else, she will win an Oscar for "La Vie en Rose" in a few years, and many of the movies she has participated in are classic films that domestic fans are very familiar with, such as "Inception", "Batman The Dark Knight Rises", "Spy League" and so on.
It doesn't matter if these are any of this, what Lin Feng appreciates more is that there are few Hollywood messy scandals on her.
is a relatively pure actor.
"Hello, Richard, I've been hearing Vivinan talk about you, and I've always wondered what kind of gentleman it would be to marry someone as beautiful as Vivian. Cotillard walked over, stretched out his hand elegantly, round deer eyes, and inadvertently looked forward to it, it was a thousand styles.
Unlike Sophie Marceau, who is also a French beauty, is cold, Cotillard is full of enthusiasm and even a little hot.
"Hope didn't disappoint you, it's a pleasure to meet you, Cotillard, Vivian said, you're the best friend she's known since coming to Los Angeles, thank you for your company, while I'm not here. Lin Feng gently shook her hand and said with a smile.
Ye Weiyu smiled: "Don't be polite here, it's almost time, Cotillard, let's go together." ”
Outside the door, Li Zhao had already prepared a luxury version of the extended Lincoln.
In the U.S., this is basically the norm for the rich to attend events such as dinner parties.
Tonight's dinner was hosted by Warner Bros. Pictures executive, Jeff Robinov, in his Beverly Hills mansion to celebrate the success of Warner Bros.' first film with Legendary Pictures, "Batman at War." (The Mystery of the Movie).
The film, which was jointly financed and filmed in the United States on June 15, has so far earned $200 million at the North American box office and is expected to exceed $300 million worldwide.
Cotillard was very excited to be invited to such a high-profile dinner.
In the car, she kept talking to Ye Wei about the Hollywood big names that would appear tonight, and seemed both expectant and nervous about the opportunity to star in a certain film at such a dinner.
Ye Weiyu was muttering to her, but Lin Feng fell into deep thought after hearing the words of Legendary Pictures.
For most domestic movie fans, in addition to the traditional six giants of Hollywood: Warner Bros. Pictures, Disney Pictures, Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox Pictures, and Paramount Pictures, the most familiar is probably Legendary Pictures.
In Lin Feng's previous life, Wanda wholly acquired Legendary Pictures in 2016 with $3.5 billion in cash, and for a time Wanda had the potential to become a predator in the international film industry.
Founded in 2004 by Thomas Tull, Legendary Pictures is an independent American film production company, best known for its productions of the "Length Man" series, the "The Hangover" series, "Inception", "Pacific Rim" and other famous films.
Because of Wanda's acquisition, Lin Feng once had a very careful understanding of the development history of Legendary Pictures.
It's a very interesting film company.
Thomas Toll, the founder of Legendary Pictures, was not a professional filmmaker, and in fact, Toure didn't think he had anything to do with the film industry at first.
Prior to founding Legendary Pictures, Tours also served as president of Convex Group, an Atlanta-based investment and media company.
At the time, he was still not targeting movies as an investment, but focused on high-yielding high-tech companies.
Wall Street, which has just stepped into the new century, is showing signs of moving to the West Coast. As a result, Toole also met some Hollywood filmmakers by chance, and at this time, the film seeds buried deep in Tour's heart began to move.
He had an idea: to use Wall Street's capital to revitalize the film industry.
Because the Hollywood film industry at that time had always had difficulties in financing.
In 2000, with the help of Wall Street investment, Tal came to Hollywood with $500 million in capital raised from private equity firms and founded Legendary Pictures.
But the development of Legendary Pictures did not go smoothly at first, and it was precisely because of the funds raised from Wall Street that investors were not optimistic about investing in films, and for a long time, Tours fell into a process of constant games with investors.
It wasn't until 2005 that Tours raised $600 million in investment, and with that investment, he successfully married Warner Bros. Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. have reached an agreement to co-finance and produce 40 films, including the "Batman" and "Superman" film series.
In this way, Legendary Pictures became the first group of companies to use Wall Street capital to cooperate with film giants.
A self-proclaimed "movie geek," Tour's choice of films is unique. Working with director Nolan on the "Batman" series was his first action.
The success of Nolan's "Batman: The Mystery of the Shadows" in 2005 laid a solid foundation for Legendary Pictures and Tours' film career.
It can be said that at this time, Legendary Pictures is beginning to enter the starting point of glory.
Compared with Wanda's Lao Wang, who bought Legendary Pictures for $3.5 billion ten years later, Lin Feng feels that at this time, if he can invest in Legendary Pictures, it is obviously a very cost-effective business.
And his advantage is that he will not point fingers at Tours like those Wall Street investors!
Lin Feng believes that Tours will prefer long-term investors like him to those who value short-term investment returns.
It just so happens that the $7.5 billion cashed out from Myspace has just arrived, and Lin Feng hasn't figured out how to spend it, if he has the opportunity to invest in Legendary Pictures, whether it is for the return on investment, or the influence of himself and Ye Weiyu in the United States, it will be a good improvement.
After all, Hollywood, as the dream factory of the American dream, has a profound influence on the entire American society.
Being an invisible film tycoon seems like a very interesting idea......