This time "Industrial Light and Magic" is indeed in vain Thunder Pictures found them to do post-production, and now the film has the visual effects of the first surname, and the comic martial arts holy realm described in the film is even more lifelike, which greatly shocks people's hearts.

Every day, Chen Xuanting's life switches between the hotel and the "industrial light and magic", which seems boring but fulfilling.

On the way to "Industrial Light and Magic", there is a private university, and Chen Xuanting has to pass by its gate every day.

The reason why Chen Xuanting paid attention to this private university was because a programmer in "Industrial Light & Magic" told him that he himself learned computer applications and software knowledge here and entered "Industrial Light & Magic". Seeing that Chen Xuanting was a little unconvinced, he put down the work in his hand and introduced the situation of the university to Chen Xuanting in detail: This is a school run by a wealthy American businessman, and it is a private university that belongs to the public welfare rather than for the purpose of profit, and it is completely dependent on personal funds and social donations to persist in it.

Through the understanding of this school, Chen Xuanting understood where the talent resources of Industrial Light & Magic came from.

Time was pressing, and Chen Xuanting no longer hid it, and invited Lucas straightforwardly, saying that there was something important to discuss with him.

Lucas was very busy, but he still met Chen Xuanting by appointment.

Chen Xuanting immediately said to him: "Mr. Lucas, I invite you here today for a very simple purpose, I want to discuss with you about the acquisition of Industrial Light and Magic. ”

Lucas looked at this already familiar friend and suddenly smiled, "Dear Chen, are you kidding?" Or did I hear it wrong? Are you buying my company? ”

Chen Xuanting said very firmly: "That's right, Mr. Lucas, I am very sincere, if you are willing to cut your love, I am willing to pay a huge amount of money to buy Light and Magic, of course, you can offer a price-"

"Chen, you've disappointed me!" Lucas's face turned ugly, "I thought you were a good filmmaker, but you said such things. ”

"It's because I'm a filmmaker that I know how valuable your ILM is!" Chen Xuanting said with a smile.

"I won't sell it to you, so you don't have to worry about it!" Lucas said.

"I'd love to know why—"

"The reason is very simple, I thought you were a good filmmaker at first, but I didn't expect you to beat my company's idea! So I'm disappointed in you! ”

"I'm afraid it's not because of that."

"What do you mean by that?"

"You should understand Mr. Lucas, I am a Chinese, I'm afraid this is your biggest concern, right?"

"God, how can you say that?"

"Isn't it?" Chen Xuanting asked rhetorically, "If I were an American, if I were a Hollywood filmmaker, maybe you wouldn't have such a big reaction!" ”

Chen Xuanting stared at Lucas, who was stared at by him a little unnaturally, and said loudly: "Yes, I admit that I am a little prejudiced against what you say!" But ILM is my brainchild, I won't sell it to anyone, don't talk about you, even other Hollywood studios can't do it! ”

"Also, dear Chen, I want you to know that in the United States there is a lot of secrecy about film technology, even if I agree to sell the company. The American political axe will not agree, do you know what I mean? Lucas looked at Chen Xuanting and said.

Chen Xuanting smiled and said: "Of course I understand what you mean, the American political axe has always regarded Hollywood movies as the most powerful weapon to promote their country and nation, and they will not easily give up the core technology of movies to foreigners like me." ”

"Now that you know, you're going to make an acquisition?" Lucas was surprised.

Chen Xuanting said unruly: "I used to think that there was nothing in this world that money couldn't buy, but now I know that money is not everything, so when I mentioned the acquisition to you, I didn't plan to succeed." ”

"Honey, you're pretty self-aware."

"Ironic, that's not what you Americans do."

Lucas shrugged: "It's rare to be ironic about a world's super-rich, isn't it?" ”

"You're taking revenge on me for lying to you?"

"Isn't it?"

"No, you're wrong." Chen Xuanting said, "I didn't deceive you! Learning from you about film technology is the biggest thing I learned from my visit to the United States, and as for me to buy your company, that's a completely different matter. The two have nothing to do with each other! ”

"Do you think I'll believe that?"

"Believe it or not!" Chen Xuanting will no longer fight a lawsuit with him. "Let's get to the point now. How can you accept the conditions I offered—"

"Hahaha, Chen, don't bother anymore, I said, I won't sell it!"

"I didn't say I had to buy it, I meant - buy shares!"

"Stake?"

"Yes, I invested money to increase the company's technological reform and research and development efforts, and the final effect was shared by everyone, isn't this in the film service? Dear Mr. Lucas, please tell me that you are a filmmaker with a conscience and will not refuse my kindness! For the sake of world cinema, for the development of cinema, and for the sake of world peace and international national unity, you will promise me, won't you? ”

Lucas was stunned, how can this be said to be related to world peace?!

"Chen, I'm not as great as you say, I appreciate your kindness in investing in Light and Magic, but I still have to refuse." Lucas said stubbornly.

Chen Xuanting sighed, "Mr. Lucas, do you really want to reject me?" ”

"Yes," Lucas reassured. "Now I realize that you are a terrible Chinese, if you are allowed to take a stake in Light Demon, I believe that it will not be long before it will still become your bag!"

"Oh, Mr. Lucas, you think too highly of me!" Chen Xuanting smiled self-deprecatingly.

"No, I believe in my own eyes to see people, Chen, your eyes are very deep, I can't see through you!"

"Yes, that's my honor to be so complimented by you!" Chen Xuanting smiled, "Okay, then I'll settle for the next best, since I can't buy your company, and I can't buy shares, then I want to establish a film company in Hollywood with movie special effects as the main body, I don't know if I can borrow some talents?" ”

"You're going to build a company?" Lucas was stunned.

"Yes, all roads lead to Rome, and the above two roads don't work, so I have to take this road!" Chen Xuanting said. "I'm going to recruit from a university near your company, and I hope you can help, and I also hope that you can help me from your own company!"

"Chen, do you think I'm going to do that?"

"You will!" Chen Xuanting said, took out a check, pushed it over, and said, "This is 100 million US dollars, and it should be my sponsorship of your company's R&D expenses." All you have to do is help me with the start-up of the company! ”

Lucas took a deep breath, "Don't you think I won't refuse?" ”

"Of course you won't!"

"Why?"

"Because of your obsession with special effects technology, it allows you to forget all your concerns!"

Lucas looked at Chen Xuanting blankly, paused, took the check with his hand and said, "Chen, you are the person who knows me best!" ”

"Hehe, then I wish us a happy cooperation!" Chen Xuanting stretched out his hand.

Lucas shook his hand

July 13, 1993.

Just when Hollywood in the United States is about to enter the summer vacation and start the chaos of major film companies, a news from within Hollywood has caused the entire United States to temporarily shift its attention from the promotion of summer vacation movies to this matter.

Supported by the Hong Kong International Thunder Foundation, the film company "Thunderbolt" was established, which integrates digital development, light media, computer special effects, film investment and shooting.

This news caused an uproar in the United States for a while.

People's focus is mainly on two points, one is that this film company actually has a well-known brand company like Industrial Light & Magic to do scientific and technological assistance, providing some start-up technology and human support.

As the saying goes, peers are enemies, but Industrial Light & Magic actually supports Thunderbolt in this way, which can't help but surprise people what the inside story is.

Everyone knows that as long as there is the support of Industrial Light & Magic, this film predator will grow quickly, and in the future, it will break the original balance between Hollywood's major film companies and fundamentally change the development track of Hollywood.

The second point of interest is the background of this new film company. From the very beginning of its establishment, Hollywood has been continuously accepting financial sponsorship from major consortia, but those financial sponsorships are only investments from consortia, often one movie at a time, and Hollywood's major film companies have never let the consortium control the shares, but this time the situation is completely different.

Raiden Horizontals Film Company is completely a subsidiary of the Thunder Consortium, and this Thunderbolt Consortium is controlled by the Chinese, which has made Raiden Horizontals Film Company the first new film company in Hollywood history to be controlled by a large Chinese consortium alone.

By this time, the scheming of the Hong Kong Thunder Consortium to attack Hollywood had been completely exposed to all Americans.

For a time, all major media newspapers and magazines in Hong Kong reported on the incident in detail.

The New York Times -- Here comes the wolf! The Chinese are once again impacting Hollywood! It has been about 20 years since Bruce Lee won Hollywood, and Mr. Chen Xuanting, the richest man in China today, has spent a huge amount of money to establish Thunderbolt, which is bound to cause a big shock in Hollywood!

The Washington Times -- Thunderbolt has recently been established, with high salaries and huge sums of money to recruit talents, and many Hollywood star directors and technicians have defected! Specifically, there are Hollywood actors who have worked with the company, such as Nicolas Cage, John Ta Wolf, Tom Cruise, etc. Their move profoundly illustrates a truth, what is called, having milk is a mother!

The Wall Street Newspaper -- Hollywood movies have always been a bellwether for Wall Street finance, and when Hollywood movies rise to science fiction films, the financial market will definitely blow out, because everyone has money and can shoot big productions; When Hollywood is on the rise of romance films, the financial market must be sluggish, because everyone is short of money and can only exchange love for cheap comfort. But now, the establishment of a new Hollywood film company has caused a shock in the stock market, which can't help but surprise us. After careful research, it turned out that the mastermind behind this company was actually Chinese! Thunder and lightning are about to introduce the Chinese dragon to Hollywood, but is it the evil dragon of Western legends? Or the hegemon of oriental legends? Let's all wait and see!

American newspapers are full of public opinion. And American television stations are not idle, almost all major radio stations broadcast comments from famous hosts, and some talk shows directly use this matter to talk about things. However, they linked the establishment of this Thunderbolt Horizontals with Sony's acquisition of Colombia, collectively known as the spread of Oriental film hegemony!

Just when the major media in the United States hyped up the Chinese dragon's attack on Hollywood in the United States, the big boss Chen Xuanting ignored these slanderous and worrying remarks. Because at the moment he is interviewing a Chinese, the future executive of Thunderbolt Horizontal!

For Chen Xuanting, what he attaches most importance to is the collection and cultivation of talents. Coming from a previous life, he has an almost fanatical pursuit of talent.

Therefore, as soon as the Thunderbolt Film Company was established this time, he directly recruited the company's local executive with a high salary of 30 million US dollars per year.

Li Jiaxin did not object to Chen Xuanting's approach, after all, she knew her own ability, so it was okay to let her engage in some real estate, big hotels, and financial currency, and so on.

At the moment, in the presidential suite of the hotel.

Chen Xuanting was sitting precariously, and across from him stood a young Chinese young man, twenty-year-old, wearing glasses, elegant and calm. He is Levi's who stood out from nearly 1,000 applicants for the chief executive officer this time.

Chen Xuanting carefully read his information.

Levi graduated from the Graduate School of the Arts at Columbia College with a master's degree in film and television directing. Senior Chinese-American cultural entrepreneur, producer, film and television director. He was the first president of a Chinese-language TV station in the United States; He has served as the producer, chief director, and producer of Sino-US co-produced TV series several times, and won the gold medal of 'Feitian', the highest honor for Chinese TV dramas; He has worked for a number of high-level political and non-profit organizations in China and the United States.

According to his own account, on his first night in the United States, he spent a pile of old newspapers on his body as a quilt.

In order to make up for the expensive tuition fees and keep a place to live, Levi walked the streets to find jobs, deliver takeaways, and practice stalls. There are many stories about part-time jobs, and most of them are very bleak. He later earned a master's degree in film and television directing from the graduate school of film and television at Columbia College of the Arts. This is Levi's initial capital as an international student to break into society. Levi's graduation film, Red Kite, enabled him to complete his studies. And this work led Levi to get in touch with film and television, and also led him to later single-handedly establish the famous Chicago Chinese TV station.

"Levi's, from a broken immigrant to a media tycoon," said the Chicago Tribune. From an ordinary international student and a dilapidated immigrant struggling all the way to founding communication organizations such as Chicago Chinese Television and American Dragon TV, Levi's, as a media tycoon, has become a role model for many people to pursue their dreams in the United States. Now, he has shifted his focus from television to film, and has come to apply for the CEO of Raiden Across Pictures.

"Can you tell me why you gave up such a lucrative position, gave up the TV foundation you created, and chose to come to our company?" Chen Xuanting put down the information in his hand and asked.

"If you say that I am for the 30 million annual salary, do you believe it?" Levi said humorously.

"Of course I don't believe it, as far as I know, the brand you once operated has created hundreds of millions of value, how can someone who can create such value bend over for just 30 million five buckets of rice?"

"That's all in the past, and now I want to start anew, after all, TV is different from movies, isn't it? The reason why I do this is just to give myself a new and magnificent starting point! ”

"Yes, I appreciate your character and spirit of unremitting struggle!" Chen Xuanting nodded.

"Do you have any questions?"

"Absolutely!" Chen Xuanting would not hire someone so easily. And such an important position.

He then asked a series of difficult questions.

"Who do you admire the most?"

"Deng Xiaoping. The ideological emancipation movement he launched in '78 changed the fate of China as well as my own destiny. ”

"Who was the person who influenced you the most when you were growing up?"

"During secondary school: Mr. Liu Jin, my secondary school homeroom teacher and math teacher. His lectures, humor, and dedication have always benefited me. ”

"What do you think are your strengths and weaknesses?"

"My greatest strength is passion, and people who are not passionate and crazy about their careers cannot achieve great things. The biggest disadvantage is also passion, and you can't be emotional when you do business. ”

"What's the proudest thing you've ever done?"

"Set up Chicago Chinese TV to let those ghosts know that we Chinese can also do media, and we can do it well!"

Chen Xuanting smiled and continued to ask, "Then what is your favorite subordinate like?" ”

"Take the initiative and do our duty to share worries and solve difficulties for leaders. Such a subordinate will soon become a boss. ”

"What's the way to relieve stress?"

"Through writing, we analyze and examine our own psychological and stress conditions, and finally achieve relaxation and relief."

"The book that has had the greatest impact on you is—"

Lu Xun's Anthology. When I didn't know Lu Xun when I was a child, I saw several collections of Lu Xun's novels and essays, and I was deeply fascinated at that time, and later I learned who Lu Xun was. ”

"What's your favorite car?"

"Tricycle!"

"What?" Chen Xuanting thought he hadn't heard clearly.

"Because the reason why I was able to come to the United States and live so well was because my parents pushed a tricycle to sell vegetables!" Levi's eyes were a little moist.

Chen Xuanting coughed and said, "Let's continue, what is your motto or life creed?" ”

"Ideas change the world. So I try to be a thinker. ”

Asked this, Chen Xuanting felt that there was no need to ask any more. Smiled: "Yes, Levi, to be honest, I like you very much, but it seems a little inappropriate for you to give up that Chicago Chinese TV station-"

"Mr. Chen, what do you mean by that?" Levi was a little stunned, thinking that the other party was rejecting him.

"Don't get me wrong," Chen Xuanting hurriedly said, "I mean not only do I want to keep you, but I also want to buy the Chinese TV station you founded!" ”

Levi was really surprised. His face was a little red and he said: "Chen Xuanting, there is one thing I have to make clear to you, the TV station I founded was doing well just now, but now, being squeezed out by other TV stations in Chicago, and the business situation is gradually decreasing, I don't think you will be interested." ”

Chen Xuanting smiled: "I have found another advantage in you - you are still very honest." As he spoke, he threw a copy of the investigation in front of Levi's and said, "It's all about you, including all the things about that TV station!" You didn't want to leave the TV station you found, did you? It's a pity that you were ostracized by those ghosts, and you didn't control the biggest stake in the first place, that's why you ran away - am I right? ”

Levi was dumbfounded.

Chicago Chinese Television was the only Chinese-language television station in the central United States at the time to broadcast programs in both Chinese Chinese and Cantonese on the public television antenna broadcast network, and as the president of the station, Levi once devoted all his energy. He organized karaoke competitions and catering competitions with the participation of local Chinese, which were very popular with Chinese people. During the Spring Festival of 1992, the Chicago Chinese TV broadcast the "Greater Chicago Spring Festival Gala" live, and more than 1,000 Chinese artists made the venue lively. Tickets for $50-$100 were sold out.

However, such a TV station was looked down upon by foreign stations, and even used its abundant funds to squeeze out its development, so that it was reduced to its current half-crippled appearance.

"You're right. But I don't know what to say, I have already sold my stake in that station! ”

Chen Xuanting pushed another thing in front of him, "The person who bought your shares is me!" Also, I bought the whole TV station! From now on, you'll continue to be the president of this station, as well as the executive of Raiden Horizontals! ”

Levi couldn't believe his ears and finally asked, "Why are you doing this?" ”

"It's very simple," Chen Xuanting got up and tidied up the placket of his suit, "My ambition in the United States is not only for movies, but also for TV stations!" Then he turned and left.

Looking at Chen Xuanting's unruly back, Levi only felt his blood boiling.

(To be continued)