Chapter 176: The Light of the Chinese (Part 1)
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A calm mind does not stop the passage of time.
The screening of "Infernal Affairs" continues, and the publicity team of Matrix is operating efficiently to ensure that the film will be released worldwide without oversight. But this is only a matter for the publicity team, and for the increasingly sophisticated Matrix-Film-Studios, there is another matter of life and death waiting for them.
The long-planned "Fast &Furious" project officially launched on June 23, with an initial budget of more than $80 million. It is not certain whether it is an independent system, and it is possible that he is still looking for a possible partner, or it may be an independent system, because Chen Tiandu is not short of money now.
In the meantime, Chen Tiandu and Buffett have signed an investment agreement to accept shares in a low-key manner, and the negotiation team of the two sides has talked many times, and finally reached an agreement that satisfies both parties. At this time, Google has vaguely occupied the largest search market in North America, and if at this time, even if someone gives Larry and two a billion dollars, they will definitely not sell the company.
Chen Tiandu was reluctant to transfer more shares, which was the biggest reason for the stalemate in the negotiations. Warren Buffett is a predator, and perhaps in his eyes, Google, which is looking for investors, is a good cake, but that's about it. It is strange that Chen Tiandu is only willing to sell a maximum of 10% of the shares, and the price is not less than 100 million US dollars, which is simply a lion's mouth.
Such a persistent attitude also aroused Buffett's curiosity, and he sent another team to analyze the company.
The answer is that if the IT industry is the main direction of development in the future. Then the future development of this company as long as it does not appear fatally flawed. Now you get a lot more from investing than you give. "Build yƬ acquisition!"
So the problem arises, since the evaluation is so high, Buffett certainly wants to control more, even if it is just a toy for him. Chen Tiandu refused to give in, preferring to find other American investment groups.
He really wants to push Buffett away now, and cooperating with this capital predator will make people feel depressed. But it was easy to attract and wanted to push it away, but found that it was difficult to climb to the sky, and Chen Tiandu still took it for granted. Warren Buffett is a person who will make you come and go as soon as you are called.
Then there began to be a variety of unfavorable remarks and reports on Google.com, and there were some small twists and turns in the promotion of the website, although it does not affect the overall situation, but it will make it more difficult for you to develop.
When the news was transmitted back to Chen Tiandu, he suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.
āā¦ā¦ Damn it! ā
Indignation will punch him, and he doesn't have to guess to know who is doing the trick, this is the other party warning him. Chen Tiandu is not afraid of him, if he is professionally engaged in the financial industry, he will never be worse than him. But for a company that is not listed. If you don't want to sell, you can't buy it. It was not the other party's intention to bring down Google. So now it's just a warning.
In the end, everyone took a step back, and Chen Tian could sell 20% of the shares in his hands, which has doubled from the initial 10%, but the price that can be sold has skyrocketed several times. $100 million is the base, and Buffett's 3.2% Apple AAPL share transfer agreement is considered a share swap, Buffett injected another $20 million into the company's development funds, and Larry and Sergey's shares were diluted.
Chen Tiandu suffered a little, only he knew that Google would be very good in the future, but he had to change. Because Google needs development funds, he needs development funds too.
The $100 million is just to ease his financial pressure, and the most valuable thing is the 3.2% Apple shares, which are not scattered shares on the market but real original shares, and there is also a board seat, and there will be share dividends every year. Even if Apple's stock price plummeted this year due to the bubble period of technology stocks, it still has a market value of nearly 20 billion.
3.2% of 20 billion is also an astronomical figure, and Chen Tiandu immediately made headlines in the media.
But will Warren Buffett be the one who suffers, now Google's 20% stake can be directly increased by more than ten times in two years, which is simply astronomical. However, in Chen Tiandu's eyes, Apple's shares are even more rare, this is a channel problem, not something that can be bought with money, and it is difficult to say who will profit in the end.
Warren Buffett was very curious about Chen Tiandu's need for Apple stocks, and his huge analysis team conducted an analysis and came to the conclusion that the future of technology development stocks is too difficult to predict and the competition is too great, but according to the current technological development, Apple is unlikely to make more profits in at least five years.
"Five years is too long, there will be too much uncertainty." If it weren't for Chen Tiandu mentioning it, he would have almost forgotten about this stock, and he waved his hand for a moment: "Changed." ā
Chen Tiandu is really not a business genius, and his team is much worse than Warren Buffett's huge analysis team. Maybe letting Buffett go will make Google grow faster, and more importantly, he wants to get out of this economic quagmire as soon as possible.
The most critical period of Google's current development, if it is delayed for one day now, it will take two days to catch up in the future.
As for whether it will be bitten by this giant crocodile in the future, it doesn't matter anymore, who knows what will happen in the future. Maybe by then, he will no longer be a small character who can be crushed at will.
There is a good saying, money is not money when you hold it in your hand, it is money only when it is circulated.
After coming and going, he had at least $100 million more cash flow, plus the company's funds, and immediately had $170 million available, and he could make any blockbuster he wanted.
So there is no need to find a partner, Chen Tiandu waved his hand, and the "Fast &Furious" matrix invested independently.
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"Infernal Affairs" is still brutally plundering the box office everywhere, with the box office of 13.58 million in the third week of North America and the third place in the opening weekend, accumulating $19.56 million in a week. The cumulative box office in North America is 90.22 million US dollars. In the fourth week, it collected another $11.8 million, and the North American box office accumulated $102,020,000 and officially exceeded 100 million.
This is also the best result of a Chinese-language film in the United States, plus the cumulative box office revenue of 280 million yuan, or about $38 million, in China. The mainland box office, which has been sluggish, became the biggest contributor to the $38 million. It also made many people see the huge box office potential of the mainland.
The number of moviegoers in South Korea was 1.55 million. The best Chinese movie in Korea is the best at the box office. The calculated ticket price is about $7 million. Japan 1.8 billion yen, or about $15 million. According to incomplete statistics, after "Infernal Affairs" was released in Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Brunei, South Asian island countries and other places, the total box office exceeded 4.1 million US dollars; Although Myanmar, Singapore, and Indonesia have earned more than $5.3 million in theaters, as of noon on February 10, the total overseas box office revenue in Southeast Asia has approached 10 million, and the final breakthrough is not a problem.
Across the Asia-Pacific region, nearly $70 million has been contributed. It became the largest box office outside of North America.
The global box office has exceeded $180 million, and there is a chance to break the $200 million mark under continued releases.
$200 million, a Chinese-language movie?! When the news reached China, the sensation it caused was completely predictable. This is the best-grossing Chinese movie, but it is Chen Tiandu's worst-grossing movie. In any case, Chen Tiandu's hat of "the light of the Chinese" is fixed.
While the box office is hot, the value of several leading actors is also skyrocketing, and for many people they are almost at the peak of their careers.
Among them, Huang Qiusheng felt the most.
In an exclusive interview with the media, Huang Qiusheng poured out his heart: "I used to be just an actor. If others ask me to evolve, I will evolve, and if I am asked to play the opposite, I will play the opposite. didn't have a choice, after the performance, everyone said, look at this Huang Qiusheng, it's really perverted. It's not that I want to be perverted, but I don't have a choice, I've made so many movies, won awards, and I've been nominated every year, but others treat you as a pervert, and they still look for you to play perverted scenes. ā
"I used to be just an actor, and after filming this. Now that you walk on the street, you look a little like a star, and suddenly people think that Huang Qiusheng has not changed, many girls like you, and the world is so strange. I stayed up for half my life, and finally got it running with the help of Infernal Affairs. ā
Another change is Huang Bo, a group of classmates in his dormitory didn't take him seriously before, but when he went back to Beiying to take classes again, he actually became a big star, and many directors came to find him, which was completely popular. makes a bunch of handsome guys and beauties jealous to death, "God really can't open his eyes...... No, director Chen Tiandu can't open his eyes, and he can be popular if he looks like this. ā
The popularity has also skyrocketed, as well as Andy Lau , Chen Huilin , Liang Jiahui , Wu Zhenyu , Zeng Jiang and others, especially the latter few drama bones, all of which are strong contenders for the best supporting role in next year's Academy Awards.
Chen Huilin got the most, a little red in the green bushes, it was difficult for her not to be popular. With the image of the perfect Yamato psychiatrist in "Infernal Affairs", she has won the favor of many big fashion brands and cosmetics giants, and she has made a lot of money only for endorsement fees. And for Andy, there are also unexpected things happening, it seems that there are already Hollywood movies inviting him, and he is still thinking carefully. Because in the second half of the year, he still has a number of movies to be released. "A Tiger", "Lonely Men and Widows", and "The Battle of the Top of the Forbidden City" are all movies with a lot of investment. The busiest Hong Kong filmmaker this year, except for Sammi Cheng, is him.
"Hey, it's Chen! Christmas Chan! "I love you, I'm your fan. "Can you sign for me?" Thank you. "Hello director, my name is Miria, interview for the role of Letty......"
Outside the Los Angeles Matrix, the main hall is bustling with young and handsome men and women, who are either sitting in chairs resting or standing in groups laughing and discussing, all waiting for the auditions to begin.
In addition to the limited three characters identified in this "Fast &Furious", the rest of the characters are in demand. Because there are racing cars, beautiful characters are naturally indispensable, and the demand for dragon roles is also very huge, requiring models to be tall, beautiful enough, and hot enough.
And the scene just now was that Chen Tiandu was found at work, which immediately caused a commotion. He greeted politely and signed a few names. A few small agents wanted to take the opportunity to come up and talk and hand over business cards, but they blocked his way and were stopped by the security guards.
Lin Yibin is already in place, the director team has been preliminarily set up, and various preliminary preparations for the film have been prepared one after another.
And for this kind of interview for supporting roles, Chen Tiandu naturally doesn't need to go out in person, what he has to do is to grasp the overall situation.
(As for economic issues, the old donkey is really not good at it, just take a look.) The first 173 chapters seem to mention the Oscar director of the Li case, the old donkey owes a mistake in writing, and the VIP is not easy to change, so inform everyone. (To be continued......)