"Is this insurance still there?" Li Mo was surprised.

"What do you say?" said Brooke Tsundere arrogantly, she thought to herself, I heard that Orientals care about this very much, I wonder if this Li Gan is not interested?

"Alright, I'll have you dinner next time. ”

"Be sure to go to the appointment. Brooke Xiaosi also knew that Li Mo had a lot of entertainment tonight, so she didn't pester Li Mo anymore and left.

"Brother, what insurance?" asked Le Yijuan strangely.

"Insurance is insurance, don't ask......" Li Mo suddenly thought that Le Yijuan had also grown up, and she couldn't be treated as a child. These things can also be said, and by the way, they can also enlighten her heart knots.

Li Mo said this strange insurance.

There are many misunderstandings in Americans' understanding of China, and there are also many misunderstandings in Chinese's understanding of the United States.

Later, there was a beautiful girl in China who paid someone to break the Chu.

This one...... It's really a bit cheap, even if you want to break it, with her appearance, you don't need to spend money.

There are also some plots in many American movies, and many American girls will find a good boy to break Chu during their coming-of-age ceremony, and of course, they won't spend money.

In fact, there are indeed many non-mainstream girls who do this.

But we can't look at how bad the Americans are, in fact, in this regard, China after 10 years has gone further and is more "open" than the United States.

Judging from the two situations, one is chastity, there is no doubt that seventy percent of Americans will care about whether the other party is loyal to them. The second is the film, many Americans don't care, but there are also many Americans who care.

If you figure out this situation, you can understand Brooke's strange insurance.

Brooke Littles' mother was an extremely greedy woman, who could do anything for money, and when Brooke Smalls was less than a year old, she made her advertise for washing products, which was satirized by Americans as the first sexy baby in the United States.

Then there are the two "blockbusters" she made when she was a teenager, the two points are definitely clear, and the third point is vague, but what is Mao Mao is also on the big screen. In doing so, she must have aroused the disgust of many Americans. Well, even if we are an open country in the United States, your daughter will never reach adulthood.

So her mother did another shameless thing, saying, "My daughter is dedicated to art, but her style is very good, and she is still a virgin, and she bought millions of dollars of insurance for this film. Then he went about saying that my daughter was beautiful, versatile, and decent, and that by virtue of her virginity, only the richest and noblest men were worthy of her.

It was not until 97 that Brooke Shields married tennis giant Agassi, and the insurance company did not receive a claim form, so he breathed a sigh of relief and sealed the insurance policy.

However, few people believe it.

First of all, count on Brooke Thread's decent style...... Well, it's better to expect a bear to eat bamboo like a panda.

Secondly, staying in this circle, so young that she can take off almost the same, can she keep this membrane until she is thirty-two years old? Don't talk about her, she is an ordinary person, with her appearance, 10,000 Americans, and no American can do it.

Therefore, this insurance policy, for the sake of the film, is better said to be a means for her black-hearted mother to expand her daughter's reputation in order to make more money.

This money is really worth it, not to mention the money she earns elsewhere, it is to endorse Bessy, and a year's endorsement fee will earn her insurance fee back.

"Brother, Americans also care about this?"

"You haven't understood yet, just use me as an analogy, maybe one day I meet someone I like, maybe I may talk about marriage, what is what I like? First of all, you must have good morality, not to eat and be lazy, and to understand and care about people. ”

"Just listen to you like my second sister. ”

"Remember, you are my sister, and there can be no other relationship. It's not like Xiaojing, although I'm not perfect, but I'm okay at understanding people and caring about people. However, some people, no matter how good you are to her, she will not receive your love, I would have been to the bright moon, but the bright moon shines on the ditch, if such a wife marries back, the family relationship will not be good. This is the most important factor, followed by character, everyone has their own likes, in my eyes, I like a gentle woman. ”

That is, gentleness and virtuousness.

Le Yijuan didn't object, is it still a condition for a person as good as Brother Yi to be gentle and virtuous?

"Then look at the parents, parents and siblings, this is not relatives and friends, if you can't get along, it's a big deal to break off the relationship, you can not get along with each other, but if the parents, brothers and sisters are not in trouble, they instigate in the middle, this family is still not good. Finally, there is the appearance, but as long as you can see it, you can see it. As for what you are worried about, in my eyes, it is almost ignored. Like Brooke Littles, she may be virgin and beautiful, but do I dare to marry her?"

Brooke Shields also has an ambiguous relationship with Michael Jackson, but Jackson does not dare to marry Brooke Shields.

As for the reasons, there may be many reasons, and there may also be factors such as her mother. A few years ago, including now, Brooke is not thirty-two years old, but in her twenties, and it is the time when she is in her prime, and the money has not yet been enough.

Later, Brooke Smalls' mother said that Jackson's father, Joe, was openly suspicious of whites and strongly opposed to his son marrying women of other races, so the family affair fell apart. But Limer didn't believe it at all, first of all, Jackson was a compromiser among blacks, so he bleached his skin again and again. Secondly, Jackson had a bad relationship with his father, and he did not forgive his father until his death, which was another reason for him to bleach. It's good that Joe doesn't object, but if he does, maybe it will arouse Jackson's rebellious mentality, and this family business will really be done.

Jackson is dead anyway, and Brooke's mom can say whatever she likes.

Li Mo didn't need to ask, and he couldn't ask.

"Who doesn't make mistakes? But you know wrong, on your terms, how many people don't deserve it. If he's still picking on you, just let him get out. ”

Li Mo is a person from the past, and he knows that in a few years, Le Yijuan will not be able to get out. But persuasion is better than no persuasion, and he said: "If I wasn't your brother, maybe I would chase after Miss Le." ”

"Nonsense. Le Yijuan took a sip.

"Brother, why did you ask her out?"

Li Mo asked: Is your insurance still there?

Brooke said, "You say, it's still there."

Li Mo invited her to dinner at this time, can you do it after eating?

Li Mo didn't know what he could do after eating, so he snorted and said, "Xiao Juan, I'm just talking about it casually." ”

"I'll call ......" Le Yijuan originally wanted to say, I called my second sister, but did Li Mo care about her second sister's feelings on this? ”

"Don't, can't I ask her out?" mentioned his mother, Li Mo was immediately scared.

"Retractor. ”

"Pull the hook, ......"

"Pull the hook!"

"Okay, I'm afraid of you," Li Mo pulled the hook in distress, thinking in his heart, it seems that Liu Wanruo and they must not let this cold girl know, he took Le Yijuan to talk to everyone one by one.

But tonight's topic is not focused on film, but on finance, business and some collaboration.

Especially in the financial sector.

The second oil futures arrived.

The various companies under Li Mo's name, Yili, Yi'an, Yibao, Yile, Yimei, CLP, New Oriental, Aiao, and Rong Deke do not need Li Mo's financial support. Among these companies, Yili has the largest asset scale, and it is also the one with the most loans, and it wants dividends more distantly. New Oriental is a miniature version of Yili, the difference is that the proportion of debt is not as high as Yili, one is comprehensive education, one is clothing, one is globalization, and the other is only developed in China, but the nature of the business is almost the same, hoarding a large number of land and houses, so it wants to dividends, and the same is far away.

Yibao also owes debts, but it is a reasonable debt, and even if Enix is acquired, it will be able to pay off the debt in about four years. Of course, there will be mergers and acquisitions in the future, such as Blizzard, but with the launch of the third-generation IP machine, that is, the disc player, Yibao is not much better than Nintendo, and it will not be difficult to acquire at that time, and it is impossible to merge and acquire every year. Then after four or five years, you will be able to see a large number of dividends.

Other companies can basically bring Li Mo a lot of returns every year, including Yimei, which is now doing integration, not growth.

But because of the meeting between Li Mo and Bush Sr., Ai O's acquisition of the cinema line, that is, this inconspicuous company, but brings a lot of returns to Li Mo every year, has also entered a long period of development. Why did Li Mo enter the cinema industry?

There is a set of data, the total box office in North America in 82-86 years, an average of more than 370 million US dollars per Chinese New Year's Eve, 87-90 years, an average of more than 4.6 billion points per year, Li Mo moved around, and reaped a lot of benefits for himself, but the impact on this total amount was not too great.

The average annual value of 91-96 is more than 5.2 billion points, and in 96-00 years, as Li Mo said, the "blockbuster era" began, with an average annual surge of nearly 7.1 billion, an average of more than 9.2 billion in 01-08, and 10 billion in 09.

Half of this will go to the theater chain.

Of course, the North American market alone is not enough, it is not the North American market, but the world is paying for Hollywood, which supports this blockbuster era. So in the future, China's noble circle is very unhealthy, but you can't completely complain about this "blockbuster", people can afford to play, but China really can't afford to play.

That is, in the first five years of the 90s, theaters could only take an average of more than $200 million in gross profits, and in the last five years, they could take more than $3 billion in gross profits, and in the first decade of the new century, they could take away more than $4 billion in gross profits every year, followed by more than $5 billion in gross profits.

Moreover, US President George H.W. Bush has spoken, and he always has to give an "explanation."

At the moment, North American housing prices are also at their lowest time, and the stock market is also sluggish, as for the box office, although it is good, but it is just like that, it is a good time to buy the bottom, at least the acquisition will not generate a premium.

As for the theater chain itself, in 15 years, there were more than 5,000 theaters in North America with 43,661 screens (North America includes Canada, and the number of screens in China in 2016 was 41,000), as for the theater chain, there are dozens of large and small.

At this time, there were more movie theaters, to be precise, the largest number of movie theaters in North America in the sixties, there were 21,000 in the United States alone, but for various reasons, the industry entered a period of mergers and acquisitions, including the emergence of multiple halls, the number of movie theaters is getting smaller and smaller, and now there are seven or eight thousand movie theaters, and the number of screens is more than 30,000.

The composition of the behind-the-scenes bosses of the cinema chain is also varied, including major film companies, various investment companies, and some family cinemas.

The means of doing business are also different, such as Michael M. Patrick and his father, Carl Patrick, founded Carmike Cinemas, caters to rural or suburban populations with populations of less than 200,000, and most of the old cinemas have 6-8 halls. The simple reason is that these regions are not very competitive, so they have developed rapidly. However, North America understands that in addition to major cities, the rest are vast and sparsely populated, and they are vigorously developing theaters in "towns", and finally they don't want to have a good end. 00 years later, I had to file for bankruptcy protection, and after a large-scale adjustment, it came back to life.

As for the second largest cinema in North America, AMC Cinema, which was acquired by the richest man in 12 kings, took the road of a big city, in addition, it also focused on innovation, and introduced multiplex cinemas as early as 63 years, and in 1995, AMC invented and built the first giant multiplex (Megaplex) AMC GRAND (24 halls).

So how much does it cost to acquire a cinema chain?

Wang spent $2.6 billion on the acquisition of AMC theaters in 12 years, snapping up 5,048 screens in 347 theaters in the United States and Canada (almost 12% of the total screens in North America, and the gold content is very high). Since then, AMC has acquired Starplex Cinemas, a cinema chain, for $175 million, Carmike Cinemas, Inc., for $1.2 billion, and UCI&Odeon Cinemas in Europe for $1.21 billion.

In '08, Regal Entertainment Group, the largest cinema chain in the United States, acquired 400 screens in 28 "prime location" theaters under the Consolidated Theatres chain for $210 million.

That's the price twenty years later, and in this trough period, the cost of acquiring theaters is only a quarter or a fifth of theirs. That is, Li Mo can take out more than 3 billion US dollars to win all the theaters in North America.

But this is impossible, and if it can reach the scale of the future Regal (more than 500 theaters, more than 6,000 screens), Li Mo will be satisfied.

This is the only goal that is easy to achieve.

Not to mention other income, even the dividends of several blockbusters every year, Io Studio will also get a lot of profits.

But Li Mo's goal is far more than this, he also takes the AMC route, mainly in big cities, in addition, many theaters are not bought, but rented. Rental is also available, and at least eighty percent of the shops on American Main Street are leased.

However, the future trend of the theater is 3D, digital 3D, IMAX giant hall, even without these, Li Mo plans to renovate, such as the stadium stepped seats into the theater, so as to ensure that the view of each seat is unobstructed, the armrest is set to be adjustable, the armrest can be raised to form a couple's seat, and a cup holder is set on the armrest to facilitate the audience to place drinks.

In fact, this was also invented by AMC, and later spread to China.

Now that housing prices in the United States are relatively cheap, Li Mo plans to buy all the rental theater houses, of course, doing so increases the acquisition cost and increases the pressure of negotiation. But in the future, you can transform how you want. After all, Io is his own company, and these things are easy to rip off.

plus the cost of renovation, so Io Studio will also take out a loan, but there are still five or six years before the blockbuster era that Li Mo said, and there is no hurry to take down the theater, the house is all his own, at least part of the rent will be saved, and the theater will also bring more income, although the loan is on the back, the loan pressure will not be too great.

Even Li Mo also proposed that if there are many people in the surrounding area and few theaters, you can also buy the surrounding houses to prepare for future expansion. Once it is as Li Mo wishes, it is equivalent to Li Mo owning one-seventh of the North American theater chain. The expenses of the theater chain, taxes, utility bills, and the price of water and electricity in the United States are actually really fair...... Staff salaries, maintenance costs, but rent also occupies a large part, saving rent, Li Mo is equivalent to more than 40% of the theater chain to his own pocket, not to mention Coca-Cola, popcorn and the surrounding shares.

And without Li Mo taking a penny, all he does is take a reasonable loan, and then he can wait for the arrival of the blockbuster era. Then 10 years later, even if Li Mo's "inspiration gradually dried up", Io Studio can still bring at least more than 400 million US dollars in net income a year, or cash flow......

However, at present, it has increased the embarrassment of Li Mo's funds, at least 96 years ago, don't count on the dividends of Io Studio, 00 years ago, Io Studio could only take out a small dividend, and it was impossible for the theater chain to make a profit before 05. Of course, after 05 years, Io's studio's profits will become considerable again, and it will also give Li Mo more say in Hollywood.

Other companies still need the support of Li Mo's funds.

Domestic, Fuyao, Yifu and orphanages, needless to say, there are also schools in several counties, but this can be used with a loan from the Bank of China, at most for Yifu to buy some instruments, seeds, seedlings from abroad, and some leakage.

The construction of the development zone is also mainly based on loans from the Bank of China, but it also needs to use some foreign exchange.

ASUS wants to purchase a direct sales store, at present, mainly in the Asia-Pacific region, this region does not have too high requirements for computer quality, what is important is the function and price, and so on until the technology is further mature, next year will gradually enter the European and American markets, and the current profits will continue to be placed on independent research and development as much as possible, so it also needs Li Mo to support a lot of funds, and it will continue to support for two to three years.

Qualcomm is a big guy coming soon, but it will have to be supported until at least next summer.

Yihua will launch a mobile phone next year, but there are other products that will have to be developed until at least the spring of the following year.

TSMC is similar to Yihua.

In a few months, BAUER's investment ......

The stalls are very large, but before they grow up, it doesn't take much, one IBM is enough to crush all of Li Mo's assets, including stocks, together, and they don't have any loans, let alone compare with the later Samsung.

Therefore, the money that Li Mo got from the second oil futures was quickly disbursed.

But he barely accounts for half of this income.

For the remaining half, he didn't continue to invest with these customers, so he paid all of them dividends.

This money has just reached the hands of three fund customers, of course, no one will think that it is less, because the amount of money invested in it is less, which is already more than twice the return.

So many people surrounded Li Mo, not only businessmen, but also these celebrities, asking Li Mo for his views on finance and the future economy.

In fact, it doesn't take much, as long as you grasp a clue, you can make a big deal in the future......