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During Fang Jianhui's filming in the United States, his film and television company was also setting off a boom.

First up was Fox Network's Christmas show "Millionaire," which was a national storm with its unique lighting design, live music, futuristic setting, revolutionary game design, and the lure of huge prize money.

Presenter's signature "Are you sure?" "Is this your final answer?" For a while, it became a hot word in the United States. The first episode attracted 15 million viewers, and in the following episodes, the number of viewers continued to rise, and the latest episode reached a staggering 28 million viewers, and a ratings myth in the history of television was born.

At the same time, "Home Alone 2" produced by Angel Pictures (USA) is also being screened in North America and around the world.

With the foundation of "Home Alone" two years ago, "Home Alone 2" was hot before it was released, and after its release, it won the championship in North America for six consecutive weeks, and since then, it has continued to linger in the top five of the box office list for eight weeks. It was also a global box office of $410 million, a slight lower than the first installment, but still a huge success.

In 1981, Angel Pictures (USA) exported "Ghost Love" and "Home Alone 2" with a total box office of more than 900 million US dollars, and the share received was still as much as 290 million US dollars after deducting relevant taxes and fees! After paying off the $200 million debt due this year, increasing the capital of the Fox TV network by 30 million, and allowing the already profitable TV network to further expand its scale, Fang Jianhui still has more than $60 million in available funds.

For Twentieth Century Fox, 1981 was also a bumper year, and among the top ten films at the global box office that year, Fox occupied four of them, namely "Ghost Love" in first place, "Home Alone 2" in second place, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" in third place and "Cannonball Speed" in eighth place, with a net profit of more than $300 million for the year! However, this money will not be used, because Andy and William have teamed up and are planning another acquisition, that is, to acquire United Pictures, which is also one of the eight major Hollywood companies.

Founded in New York in 1919 as a small company, the company grew into one of the eight major companies in the American film industry in the mid-20s and mid-30s. In the 50s, founders such as Chaplin and Bikri sold their shares to financial capitalists. After that, Luen Mei changed hands several times.

The current boss of Luen Mei Pictures is more concerned about his real estate and hotels in Las Vegas, and lacks enthusiasm for the company's traditional production and distribution business, and the more fatal blow is the tragic failure of the film "Heaven's Gate" invested this year, which invested 50 million US dollars, but the box office was only a pitiful 3 million, so that the boss completely lost confidence in the production business and decided to dispose of the company's production and distribution department. After Andy learned the news, he suggested that Fang Jianhui start the acquisition, although the production and distribution of Luen Mei for the 20th century is of limited benefit, but the huge historical film library of Luen Mei is very valuable, and it also has the film rights of the "007 (James Bond)" series and the "Rocky" series, which will greatly enrich the film library of Twentieth Century Fox after the successful acquisition.

Fang Jianhui believed in Andy's judgment and instructed William to give his full support, and the two have cooperated many times, and the cooperation is progressing smoothly.

In addition to the industrial aspect, Fang Jianhui's investment is more successful, his heavy investment in WMT and LB companies have performed well in the past two years, WMT (Wal-Mart) company's annual share price increase in two years were 74.10% and 40.50%, respectively, LB company's annual stock price increase in two years was 71.15% and 28.09%, respectively, both achieved a doubling of the stock price. Cheung Kong Industrial, which invests in the Xiangjiang stock market, has seen its share price rise like a rocket year after year.

After Fang Jianhui returned to Xiangjiang, he took stock of the annual operations of his various companies in Xiangjiang.

The most outstanding performance this year is Angel Pictures, Fang Jianhui's self-written, directed and acted "My Sassy Girlfriend" and "Notting Hill" are the main profits, the box office of both films in Hong Kong exceeds 20 million, and has gained a lot in the overseas market, "My Sassy Girlfriend" has performed very well in Taiwan, Xingma, RB, with a total overseas box office of more than 90 million Hong Kong dollars, "Notting Hill" is a big hit overseas, and the overseas distribution of the film is after the hit screening of "Ghost Love", and the aftermath of the hit screening of "Ghost Love", Notting Hill Not only in the traditional Asian region, but also in the European and American markets. The total overseas box office reached 40 million US dollars, equivalent to more than 200 million Hong Kong dollars!

In addition to these two films, the rest such as "Chasing Girls", "Ghost Horse Zhiduo Star", "Reborn", etc., each box office ranges from millions to more than 10 million, and has gained in Taiwan Island and Xingma, cumulatively, Angel Pictures (Xiangjiang)'s annual net profit reached 150 million Hong Kong dollars.

Angel Cinemas has phenomenal films such as "Ghost Love", "My Sassy Girlfriend", "Notting Hill", "Home Alone 2", "Raiders of the Lost Ark" throughout the year, with a total annual box office of about 160 million (with a quarter of the total number of seats in Xiangjiang, 40% of the total box office of Xiangjiang) and a net profit of about 90 million. Fang Jianhui, the profit of the cinema chain, will not be used, under his instructions, Wu Diming has always invested funds in expanding the scale of the cinema chain, mainly acquiring and building new theaters. In the past two years, the number of core theaters of Angel Cinemas has increased from 4 to 7, and the number of seats has increased by 3%.

There are also more than 20 million net profits from Angel Distribution and 3 million from Angel Records, and Fang Jianhui, the profit of the two, will also use it for the rolling development of related companies.

The only big loss-maker is Asia Television, with a net loss of about 60 million last year, Fang Jianhui's declaration of 'two percent higher than wireless artificial', which has made Asia Television make considerable progress in poaching people, but it has also put Asia Television on its back. In order to fight back, wireless has increased the salary of related positions several times, and ATV has not shown weakness, and has carried out Fang Jianhui's instructions to the end, and has risen more every time. After several times, the wireless couldn't resist it first, and if it rose again, they couldn't stand it anymore, so they had to stop raising their salaries.

Fortunately, although the losses are huge, they are not without gains. Over the past year, with the blessing of Fang Jianhui's insight, Li's TV dramas have no false bullets, and the tricks are fatal, making wireless tired of coping, in recent months, the ratings ratio of ATV and wireless has stabilized at about four or five to five, compared with four to six at the beginning of the year, and the progress is obvious. I believe that in the new year, with a complete set of combination punches of ATV, the status quo of backwardness will be completely reversed.

At ATV's annual all-staff meeting, Fang Jianhui said that although the annual profit is negative, all employees still have a year-end bonus of two months' salary, and it is always happy to pay money, and this money is higher than the dominant wireless, which is undoubtedly a big boost for all employees. In addition, he promised that in the future, regardless of the company's profits, as long as the ratings increase, the bonuses of all employees will only increase, not decrease.

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At this time, it is the hottest Spring Festival of the year in the Xiangjiang Film Market, and several cinemas in Xiangjiang have launched heavyweight films to seize the market, Golden Harvest is Fang Long's "Young Master Long", Shaw Brothers is Fu Sheng's "Eighteen Martial Arts", Shuangnan is Li Jie's "Shaolin Temple", and Fang Jianhui's Angel Cinema is naturally "Best Partner".

"Best Partner" was first screened on January 16, when Fang Jianhui was still in the United States, according to Huang Baiming's description to him, the film was very commotional, on the first day of release, the Angel Cinema downstairs of Angel Pictures was crowded into a riot by the crowd, and the police needed to be called to maintain order. The queue for tickets is very exaggerated, starting from the entrance of the Angel Cinema, bypassing Saiyo Street to Bi Street, and then to Kaisheng Cinema, which is half a street.

Huang Baiming said it vividly, but Fang Jianhui knew that he was not lying, because he was standing in the upstairs office of Angel Pictures at the moment, looking down from the window, he saw a surging crowd, no less than the people at the time of the release, just because the police were present, it was more orderly.

In the end, when the film was released on February 18, the box office reached an astonishing 28 million, not only beating "Young Master Long" (18 million), "Shaolin Temple" (16 million), "Eighteen Martial Arts" (10 million) in the same schedule, but also surpassing Fang Jianhui's "People and Ghosts" (26 million), becoming the new champion of the Xiangjiang box office. Not only in the Xiangjiang market, "Best Partner" defeated competitors such as "Master Long", but also won "Best Partner" in Taidao, Xingma and other places.

For this reason, Mai Jia and others are very grateful to Fang Jianhui, because when the box office of the film reaches more than 24 million, the growth is already weak, and according to the convention, the film should be taken off the file at this time and let the new film be connected. But Fang Jianhui was the master and let the film be screened for an extra week, which made "The Final Partner" and an unprecedented box office record.

After this battle, Mai Jia and others officially established their status, and Lin Qingxia also made her already popular popularity even further because of the classic image of a 'man's wife'.