When Chen Kexin was preparing, Xiao Ran was not idle, but brought Fang Xiaoqiang over. After explaining what he meant to him, Fang Xiaoqiang touched his head and asked incomprehensibly: "Brother Ran, why do you want to fry Yuan, I think there may not be much room for appreciation in Yuan!" Moreover, the Dell and Cisco performance you mean are good, but you don't see much potential, right? ”

Xiao Ran smiled slightly, walked to the window with his hands behind his back, and pointed to the high-rise buildings outside: "Thirty years ago, no one would have imagined that Hong Kong's development would be so rapid. However, Hong Kong has indeed stood up like a business miracle and has become one of the most famous financial cities in the world! ”

Fang Xiaoqiang nodded thoughtfully, but he still didn't quite understand what Xiao Ran meant, and only understood that Xiao Ran didn't want him to ask any more. So, he nodded and asked, "Brother Ran, what do you think of this order?" Is it still the same as buying Microsoft shares, at most only 10 percent? ”

Glancing at the investigative report on the two companies on the table. Xiao Ran smiled faintly, and looked at the building outside again: "The company now has 500 million liquidity, and the one that you can use is only 300 million, you rush to the United States to take down Dell first." Tang Yan calculated it and estimated that the 300 million could temporarily take 12% of Dell's equity. ”

"The company will transfer another 500 million to you after a while, of which 300 million is still to take Dell's equity. The other 200 million will be used to invest in Cisco, and you will get back at least 20% of the equity for me of the 200 million! "It's not that Xiao Ran doesn't want to make more money, it's just that everything has to be done in moderation, otherwise no one else will have to make money, how can he make money!

In fact, the current market value of Cisco and Dell is not high, and with Xiao Ran's full net worth, it is no problem to completely eat these two companies. However, he had to keep someone to help him make money.

A few days later, Fang Xiaoqiang rushed to the United States again to start work, and Xiao Ran and Wei Dongling were very busy here. In the end, he got a loan of 2.5 billion yuan from HSBC, and the original plan to buy a piece of land to build a movie city fell through for the time being.

In the busy and crazy time, the famous Hong Kong magazines "Asia Weekly" and "Film Fortnightly" both interviewed Xiao Ran, and took Xiao Ran as the cover character. The cover taken by the movie biweekly for Xiao Ran is very interesting, it is a cover of Xiao Ran's rooftop with open arms and moving in the wind.

Interestingly, this was originally a very floating and light picture, but for some reason, the effect was that there was a kind of domineering that looked down on the world. And the title of the cover of the biweekly magazine under the depression made this domineering loom even more: "The rise of a film dynasty!" ”

The reason why Asia Weekly interviewed Xiao Ran on a special page was the business investment of Phantom Company, and of course, because Xiao Ran was the richest diamond king under the age of thirty-five. The cover is just as interesting, it is Xiao Ran's five fingers slightly bent, as if he wants to control everything in his hands. That hand is extremely conspicuous, and the title is also very sharp: "My hand in the world!" ”

Of course, this is indeed an exaggeration, so now Xiao Ran is accepting Lin Qingxia's criticism at home: "Tsk, this cover is really ...... Don't you think that's too flamboyant? ”

"Zhang Yang?" Xiao Ran was slightly stunned, and then smiled: "This is not publicity, it is in line with my identity." Fang Ruohai is really flamboyant, appearing in newspapers and magazines every day! ”

"He has only appeared in the film biweekly magazine, and has never appeared on the cover of the Asian weekly at all, which shows that you are better than him!" Lin Qingxia couldn't stop laughing, obviously Xiao Ran was a very good target of ridicule: "By the way, it says that although you haven't entered the ranks of the top 100 richest people in Hong Kong yet, you think that you can enter the top 80 before the nineties, so you can afford to be counted." ”

Xiao Ran smiled, what's so great about the so-called 100 richest people, it's just some money games. For Xiao Ran, money is just a tool to help him build a film empire, and it will never become a tool for money.

Now he doesn't have too many things to think about, the impact of Hong Kong films is not very big, basically the films that can appear still appear, and those that shouldn't appear have also appeared. This shows that the thinking of Hong Kong screenwriters is gradually expanding, and more and more talents are emerging.

He doesn't always have to decide the scenes that the company will shoot, basically the artists and filmmakers under the company have dramas. Of course, according to the effect of the company's training, the creation of filmmakers and artists is much more serious than in history, and Xiao Ran now has to control himself and decide whether to open or not to open some relatively important blockbusters. For example, Taiwan's "Mom Loves Me Again" is ready to start filming at any time with the investment of Phantom.

Of course, Liu Songbo is not a Phantom person, but a person from another production company. The production company is the company that is responsible for the actual shooting of the film, while the distribution company is mainly responsible for financing and investment. Under normal circumstances, the production company has no money to start its own drama, so when the production company came to find the Phantom to pull investment, Xiao Ran heard the title and immediately remembered the shocking scene when the film was released in the mainland, so he immediately agreed.

Of course, it's not that the distribution company doesn't do film production, and the production department of Phantom does just that. In general, if the distribution company does not participate in the investment, the distributor, the producer and the projector each take 30%.

However, this is only the price code of the local market, and if it is distributed to Southeast Asia, then the distributor will take 40% of the profit. It's a win-win situation, because the production company itself is not capable of doing the distribution work. Of course, if the producers are willing to sit down and wait for Southeast Asian filmmakers to take the initiative to talk, that's perfectly fine.

Therefore, in addition to the films that the Phantom Production Department is shooting, so far, the Phantom has invested in the production of nine films. In addition to the profit sharing, the copyright of the film belongs to the Phantom.

Xiao Ran is now hesitating whether to postpone the filming plan of "New Dragon Gate Inn", not because he is not sure that he will direct this film well, but because he really doesn't want to direct this kind of other people's works anymore. He wants to be a truly justifiable director and prove his strength.

After a moment's hesitation, he decided to postpone it for the time being, when he remembered that the film would have appeared four years later. But in this way, the summer file is vacant, and you have to choose at least one film to fill it.

The summer season is mainly for students! Thinking of this, Xiao Ran immediately made a decision and chose "Truant Weilong". The director of this film, Chen Jiashang, is coincidentally working as a producer in the Phantom Company, which is much easier.

asked An Yuxuan to find a producer and Chen Jia to come up, and Xiao Ran waited while working. The first thing he saw was a plan to invest in films, which was also a script, which was the book of "The Inside of the Law".

Xiao Ran roughly browsed it, and sure enough, it was the film in his memory. took a closer look at which production company wanted to open this play, and it was Siyuan Film Company, the production company founded by Wu Siyuan.

He made an investment instruction very simply, and it was a full investment, that is, how much the budget was, then how much he invested. Of course, in order not to let the production company waste the budget, the producer must be indispensable.

Then I saw the investment request of "The Legend of the Big Husband", Xiao Ran didn't even think about it, and immediately agreed. This film is very funny, and the cost is not high, only three million is enough. You can also take the opportunity to launch the company's artists to be the leading actors, why not.

Now Xiao Ran also understands why Liu Qingyun always acts in boring comedies after 20 years, because Liu Qingyun signed several drama contracts with Chinese stars, and he can shoot whatever he wants, and he has no choice at all.

After determining a few plays, Xiao Ran browsed the script. When he opened a script, he was surprised that it turned out to be the book of "People and Ghosts". Of course, this is just very similar in terms of story concept, both of them are in love with humans and ghosts, and in terms of details, they are very different.

Carefully browsing the script, in fact, the story is very interesting, and it is developing in the direction of comedy. After only reading a part, Xiao Ran was sure of this. He decided immediately almost without thinking about it, and let the screenwriter team, who is good at romantic love scenes, revise it, the important thing is the concept and creativity of the story. So, in Hollywood, often an idea can be sold for a very high price.

Who is looking for the director of this Hong Kong version of "People and Ghosts"? Xiao Ran hesitated, the current situation seems to be that only Zhang Wanyao, a female director, is better at love scenes. Another female director, Xu Anhua, is good at several themes, but she is not very good at love scenes.

After continuing to browse the script and finalizing a few plays, Xiao Ran began to look at the talent information sent by the Human Resources Department. Soon, the producer and Chen Jia came up, and Xiao Ran told the general story of "Truant Weilong", and asked the producer to immediately notify the planning department to prepare the script.

Chen Jiashang was a little confused, could it be that there was still a drama for him to prepare? But he's working on another film now. Just when he was confused, Xiao Ran smiled at him: "Jiashang, how long have you been in the company?" ”

"It's almost four months!" Chen Jia didn't need to count, so he replied casually.

"So, are you interested in this play?" Xiao Ran looked at Chen Jiashang, who is still quite thin, with great interest, and is really very polite and polite, no wonder he is known as one of the most bookish directors in Hong Kong.

Chen Jiashang joined the industry in 1980 and has been working at Shaw Brothers at first. Xiao Ran only knew after reading his resume that he had worked in the Shaw Brothers computer stunt team, such as "Interstellar Blunt Tire" and "Tribulation", "Demon" and other films have participated in the production of special effects.

He only started writing screenplays in 1983, and his first work was "Fate" by Huang Tailai. Because Shaw Brothers officially stopped production last year, it was transferred to the Phantom Company, which has always had a good relationship with wireless. However, he never expected that the creative rigor here was far stronger than that of Shaw Brothers. And the system is very flexible and changeable, leaving a lot of room for creators, which makes him gradually like it.

When he heard Xiao Ran's words, he almost couldn't believe his ears. You must know that he has only been in Phantom for a few months, and he can get the opportunity to direct so quickly, which really makes him unbelievable. After making sure that he was not an auditory hallucination, he couldn't help but secretly sigh: the company really likes to promote newcomers.

"Of course, of course I do!" Chen Jiashang nodded hurriedly, as if he was afraid that he would be one step too late.

"Good!" Xiao Ran smiled slightly, turned his eyes to look at the producer and said: "You cooperate in this film, the actor will find Xingzi to play it, and you can finalize the rest yourself." ”

After dealing with these things, Xiao Ran went straight to Wei Dongling's office. He wanted to talk to Wei Dongling about some very important things, Wei Dongling happened to have no guests there, and when he saw Xiao Ran coming, he just raised his head slightly and signaled.

"Adong, put down work, I want to talk to you about the future of the company!" Xiao Ran was a little depressed, when did this president become so identious. Seeing that Wei Dongling raised his head in astonishment, Xiao Ran hesitated for a moment: "I think, it's time for the company to be spun off!" ”

"Spin-off? Won't it be too fast now? Wei Dongling was slightly surprised, not long after all aspects of the company were put on track, Xiao Ran planned to spin off, so the risk was too great: "I personally think the time is not ripe enough!" ”

Xiao Ran didn't know much about business in the first place, so he was so hesitant before, and after listening to Wei Dongling's words, he was even more hesitant. Spin-offs are one of the best ways to expand, and he knows that. Moreover, since the Phantom Company intends to transform into a distribution company, it will have to be spun off sooner or later.

Xiao Ran also understands that the company's structure and system are gradually improving and maturing. It's really not appropriate to spin off now, because many departments still have old habits left, the most typical is the production department. If Xiao Ran didn't stare at it, I was afraid that it might turn into the shoddy work it was at the beginning.

"I mean, it's better to wait until after the IPO to do the spin-off." Wei Dongling looked at Xiao Ran intently, Xiao Ran's idea was really undesirable at the moment. Moreover, he found that Xiao Ran had gradually become irritable recently: "Ah Ran, don't you think you've been in too much of a hurry recently?" ”

Radical? Sort of. Xiao Ran smiled bitterly and rubbed his nose, how could he want to take such a risk, but if he wanted to expand at a high speed, he would have to take risks. It is undeniable that he also knows that he is in a hurry, but time waits for no one.

This matter can only be like this in the end, and after a long time, Xiao Ran thanked Wei Dongling more than once for stopping his risky idea in time, otherwise the company might not be able to go what it would be.

Seeing that Xiao Ran touched his nose and didn't speak, Wei Dongling laughed: "Forget it, I'm going to negotiate in Europe in a few days, what do you want to explain now?" ”

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