Facing Martin? Davis's refusal, Kang Jianfei asked rhetorically: "In that case, then Mr. Davis, why did you invite me to the United States?" ”

"Two purposes," Martin? Davis said, "The first is that I want you to be a member of Paramount's shareholder meeting, and the second is that Paramount wants to be part of your Oriental DreamWorks. ”

Kang Jianfei instantly understood Martin? Davis thought that the other party wanted Kang Jianfei to participate in Paramount's decision-making because he saw that DreamWorks was developing well and that Kang Jianfei was very skilled in making movies, and at the same time wanted to pay money to buy DreamWorks or obtain some equity in DreamWorks.

Haixi Industrial Company is very peculiar, obviously starting from a traditional industry, but it likes to invest in the entertainment industry, Kang Jianfei's dream factory is obviously favored by others.

Kang Jianfei felt very funny, he was obviously here to buy Paramount, and now Martin? Davis instead hit his dream factory with the idea.

"Mr. Davis, do you think I'm going to sell DreamWorks, which is already on track?" Kang Jianfei asked with a smile.

Martin? Davis pouted and said, "I wasn't sure before, so I wanted to talk to you." But from the moment you tamed the fiery horse of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, I was convinced that you would definitely not sell your company. ”

Kang Jianfei asked rhetorically: "Then what else do we have to talk about?" ”

Martin? "Equity exchange, an eight-for-one exchange of shares in Paramount and DreamWorks," Davis said. ”

In terms of market capitalization alone, Martin? The price proposed by Davis was not only very fair, but also allowed Kang Jianfei to take advantage of it. But don't forget. Paramount is a publicly traded company, and DreamWorks is Kang Jianfei's personal asset, based on DreamWorks' operating performance over the years. Once listed, the stock price has to roll up.

For Kang Jianfei, making movies is his main business, and for Martin? For Davis and the Hercynian company behind him, making movies is just a side hustle.

A company like DreamWorks that is on the right track is actually not the best investment choice, but now the development momentum of Hong Kong films is too strong, and the box office in East Asia is even full of Hollywood films. Even Martin? Davis is also impressed by the profits of this piece.

However, Hollywood movies began to have a bottleneck, and this bottleneck had to wait until the 90s to improve computer special effects and the emergence of the business mode of big entertainment groups, and this bottleneck was really broken. Eventually, Hollywood blockbusters took the world by storm.

And the U.S. economy has been in recession for several years in a row, Martin? Davis's Hercynian Industries Company suffered a lot of losses in this stock market crash, so it naturally wanted to rely on other investments to increase its profit points.

Taken together, these reasons make Martin? Davis decides to trade Paramount's stake for DreamWorks.

In other words, he is the boss of any Hong Kong film company. Will be ecstatic to agree to Martin? Davis proposed to build yì. But Kang Jianfei, a guy who even has a woman who has been on it, has to dominate it. His perverted desire for control has long regarded DreamWorks as his personal belonging, and it is better to say that he will not do anything if he exceeds 20% of the shares.

Follow Martin? Davis's statement that 20% of DreamWorks' equity can only be exchanged for less than 3% of Paramount's equity, how does Kang Jianfei accept it?

However, the people of the Haixi Company did not control Paramount in their personal capacity, and it was extremely difficult for Kang Jianfei to acquire the entire Haixi Company, the legal owner of Paramount. Now Kang Jianfei has bought 8% of Paramount's shares, which are not bought from the shareholders of Haixi Company.

And how do you want to buy it by throwing money at it. Kang Jianfei's money is really not as much as that of the Haixi consortium, and even if he buys it, he doesn't know how much money he will spend. The best proof of this is two years later. Japan's Sony spent money to buy Columbia Pictures from Coca-Cola, spending a huge amount of $6 billion.

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For half a day, Kang Jianfei didn't know how many fish he caught, and he threw them back to the lake anyway.

When he packed up his fishing gear and went back, Kang Jianfei walked towards Red Chili, and the fierce horse that was teasing the white rose immediately became quiet, and honestly asked Kang Jianfei to put the saddle on its back.

Kang Jianfei patted the horse's head and said with a smile: "It seems that this is a smart horse that remembers." ”

Martin? Davis got on his horse and said with a smile, "I'll give it to you if you like it." ”

Kang Jianfei shook his head and said, "Actually, I don't have any preference for horses. ”

Martin? Davis said, "Kang, don't say no. No one but you would dare to ride the red peppers, and if I were twenty years younger, I would definitely tame it myself. ”

"In that case, thank you for the gift." Kang Jianfei didn't refuse, and sent him back to Hong Kong and threw it directly at the racecourse, where someone would help him feed and take care of him. If this horse's temper is better, he can still be pulled to film when filming costume TV and movies in the future.

Back to Martin? Davis's residence, where the servants had brought out the barbecue grill, and there were some ingredients for the barbecue next to it.

As night fell, the endless pasture was silent, a bonfire was lit in the clearing, a professional barbecue master was busy, and occasionally Kang Jianfei and the three of them would do it themselves.

Kang Jianfei ate two pieces of barbecue and couldn't help asking, "Forgive me, Mr. Davis, doesn't your family live here?" ”

"It's no presumption, my wife has been dead for many years, and my children are in the big city, and they are not used to living on the pastures in the country." Martin? Davis laughed.

Don't think Martin? Davis is content to be plain and live a hermit life, then you are very wrong.

This old guy is about to take a helicopter to work every once in a while, and he is almost ten years old, and as soon as the interest comes, someone will send him a beautiful young model and actor with a phone call.

Of course, this guy prefers to take care of the farm, and when the hunting season comes, he runs to the forest with a shotgun and calls for friends.

When eating barbecue, Kang Jianfei continued to talk to Martin? Davis talked about cooperation, but this guy was only willing to sell 10% of Paramount's shares held by Haixi Company, and was not willing to cooperate with Kang Jianfei in the fields of games and media.

Martin? The fact that Davis does not sell does not mean that the other shareholders of Haixi Company do not sell.

After three days on Martin's farm. Kang Jianfei took Lizhi to California to visit Lin Qingxia, of course, the two girls would not meet, and Lizhi was arranged by Kang Jianfei to deal with other things.

At this time. "Rain Man" has sold $160 million at the horror box office in North America, surpassing "Fatal Temptation" in 1987, which was the second grossing film in 1987, and is sprinting towards the box office champion "Three Daddy and One Baby".

Of the two films, "Fatal Temptation" was produced by Paramount, while "Three Nurses and One Baby" belonged to a film company owned by Universal Pictures.

Just when "Rain Man" was gaining fame and fortune, there were fierce disagreements at the shareholders' meeting of Haixi Industrial Company.

The acquisition team hired by Kang Jianfei has not stopped. In Kang Jianfei with Martin? When Davis met, they were also reaching out to other shareholders of Hercynian Industries.

Isn't everyone like Martin? Davis is so rich, and several shareholders lost a lot of money in the stock market crash two months ago. Coupled with Paramount's declining performance in the past two years, it has long wanted to sell its shares to raise money. These people not only want to sell shares in Paramount, but even shares in Sega Corporation of Japan, they are only interested in industrial investments. In the first place, it was against investing in the video game industry. Now that the profit has been made several times, it is time to make a move and exchange it for cash.

Looking at the bunch of noisy guys around you, Martin? Davis felt that the headache was extremely high, and the final decision could only be to compromise with each other.

Mr. Kang did not know what was going on internally, but he was told that he was willing to sell 18 percent of Paramount to DreamWorks for a total of $1 billion.

If it is changed to before the stock market crash, this price is still relatively reasonable. But now that the stock prices of Haixi and Paramount have plummeted, Haixi's quotation is clearly ripping money.

Kang Jianfei felt that Haixi had sold too little equity. And the price was so high that the acquisition team had to continue negotiating.

Los Angeles, Lin Qingxia's home.

Lin Qingxia, who had just come out of the bathroom, exuded an intoxicating fragrance, she shook her somewhat wet hair, walked to the dresser and sat down, and asked, "When will you go back to Hong Kong?" ”

Kang Jianfei combed Lin Qingxia's hair with his fingers, took the hair dryer and said, "I may have to stay for a week or two, and the affairs in Taiwan are a bit eyebrow-raising." ”

Lin Qingxia said: "I heard that Feng Jiao is helping you run this matter?" ”

Kang Jianfei was afraid that she would be jealous, and explained: "Most of the time, Yu Huanping is busy, and Feng Jiao stays at home with her parents, and sometimes goes to dinner with Yu Huanping. ”

For more than a year, Lin Qingxia occasionally took time to go back to Hong Kong to accompany Kang Jianfei, but it was inevitable that she would miss it a little when she got together and left more, she said: "Why don't I go back to Taipei with you this time?" I'm still a little noodle over there. ”

"Okay, let's go back together when things here are a bit clear." Kang Jianfei helped her blow her hair and said.

Lin Qingxia asked, "How sure are you that you will buy Paramount?" ”

"Don't worry, the shareholders of Haixi Company are not stupid, as long as I can afford the price, they will not sell it," Kang Jianfei said with a smile, "The American ghosts have become more and more difficult to mix in recent years, and the Japanese are clamoring to buy the entire United States, and I can't lose to Little Japan." ”

"Talk big." Lin Qingxia scolded with a smile.

Kang Jianfei's words were only general, and there was a reason why he was so sure that he could join Paramount. Under the detailed investigation of the acquisition team, Kang Jianfei knew that the senior management of Haixi Company and Paramount were not monolithic, and there were many differences about Paramount's operation.

Martin? Davis wants Kang Jianfei to become Paramount's stock price, in addition to wanting to improve Paramount's operating conditions, in fact, he wants to take advantage of this good news to pull up Paramount's stock price.

Years of economic stagnation in the United States have caused Americans to lose confidence in their own economy and instead have confidence in Asian, especially Japanese companies. Once Kang Jianfei's achievements in recent years are deliberately publicized in the United States, Hong Kong funds will enter Paramount, which will definitely be good news for shareholders.

After staying in the United States for more than half a month, "Rain Man" has already been released, and Kang Jianfei finally waited for the feedback from Haixi Company again.

"Rain Man" eventually grossed more than $170 million in North America, jumping to the top of the 1987 North American box office and was nominated for multiple Golden Globe Awards.

The Hollywood Reporter gave "Rain Man" a very high evaluation: "The most touching film of the year, family affection can be transcended." Hoffman's interpretation of autistic people is very good, and we should pay more attention to the autistic community. ”

The American media has paid great attention to the autistic community, and with the popularity of "Rain Man" in the United States, the realistic prototype of the male protagonist is gold? Peake (autistic person) has also been reported by the media, and all walks of life have paid tribute to Jin? Peake sent out an invitation.

Gold? Pique's father then took him around to give lectures, communities, schools, welfare agencies, hospitals, ...... Do you see gold everywhere? The most touching thing about Pique's speech is that his speech is not collected.

Under the widespread attention of the society, many medical and scientific research institutions have increased their investment in research on autism. Hurd announced in a high-profile manner that in the name of Oriental Film Company, 5 million US dollars from the box office of "Rain Man" will be donated to scientific research institutions for research on autism.

This move brought a good reputation to Oriental Film Company, and a series of films such as "Terminator" and "Out of Africa" invested by Oriental Film Company in the United States were also mentioned by the media again, and Kang Jianfei, the behind-the-scenes boss, appeared in front of the public as a movie legend.

And then a news came that Kang Jianfei was about to take charge of Paramount Pictures, one of the eight major Hollywood movie giants in the United States and the second largest annual box office in North America, and acquired 29% of Paramount Pictures at a price of $1.5 billion.

Based on Paramount's current stock price, this is a very expensive purchase price, not far from Sony's acquisition of Columbia Pictures more than a year later, which was heavily knocked out by the Yankees.

But if you don't spend so much money, the other party won't sell it at all, and Kang Jianfei can only smile and grit his teeth to pay a large amount of money obediently.

The 8% of Paramount's shares acquired before are much cheaper, adding up to a total of 37% of Paramount's shares, making him the second largest shareholder of the Hollywood film giant (the largest shareholder is Haixi Industries, but in fact Kang Jianfei is the largest shareholder of individuals).

Previously, the momentum of the hit of "Rain Man" has not disappeared, and the media hype of Kang Jianfei is all Paramount's propaganda behavior. When the news that Kang Jianfei became the second largest shareholder of Paramount, the second wave of publicity companies became more violent, and the films that Kang Jianfei has invested in and directed over the years have been turned out and reported clearly.

Especially in the past less than two months of Christmas, the three films invested by Kang Jianfei actually sold well in East Asia, North America and Europe at the same time, and this news simply made the American people regard him as a "man of God".

On the day Kang Jianfei and Paramount officially signed the contract, Paramount's stock price rose by 6%. (To be continued......) RI