Chapter 198: The Arrogant Special Effects Company (Chapter 2)
After walking the red carpet, Wang Shang and the three leading actors began to enter the award ceremony.
It is estimated that hundreds of millions of movie fans and filmmakers around the world are watching the live broadcast here at this time. In China, every year the national television station will buy the broadcasting rights of the Oscars and broadcast it live to the whole country, and the number of viewers is quite large.
This is the benefit of this time and space, Chinese people can understand English, Europeans and Americans can also understand Chinese, there is basically no barrier to communication, which is very beneficial to the overseas distribution of films.
At 19 o'clock, the red carpet catwalk officially ended, and the awards ceremony officially began.
Everyone was seated, quiet, and in anticipation, the whole venue should be about 300 people.
The host of the awards ceremony is called Stewart, who is a very humorous and stirring host.
"The Oscars are the place where you can see the most stars, and you don't have to donate money to the Ming Cook Party."
"Don't pirate! Look at these stars, you're stealing from them! Look at those actresses, they are so poor that they can barely cover their boobs! β
When he heard these words, Wang Shang couldn't help laughing, and the audience burst into laughter.
In the next twenty minutes, three awards were presented in a row, none of which Wang Shang paid attention to, but looking at those funny guests, Wang Shang felt very interesting.
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The host finally announced: "Now, the award for the best soundtrack will begin, and the guest presenter Jennifer will be invited to present the awards. Aniston! β
Finally it was Wang Shang's turn to win the award, and Wang Shang and several others instantly became energetic!
The originally curved waist was also straightened......
The guest presenting the award for the Best Soundtrack Golden Man seemed very unusual, although the host kept teasing several stars, but they couldn't mobilize her emotions. I saw her wearing a disheveled hair, dressed plainly, and read the list of nominees with a blank face: "The films nominated for the 78th Academy Award for Best Score are "Munich", "The Gardener", "Brokeback Mountain", "Fast and Furious", "Memoirs of a Geisha", ......"
Then she flipped through the card without pause and read directly: "The winner of the 78th Best Soundtrack Award is "Brokeback Mountain"! β
Before everyone could react, she had already finished reading!!
Wang Shang and the others were immediately disappointed: "It's not "Fast and Furious", it's really an accompanying role!" β
It took four or five seconds for the voice engineer of "Brokeback Mountain" to wake up and jump up and rush to the podium excitedly.
Aniston continued to maintain her cold style, directly shoved the little golden man into the hands of the award-winning voice actor, and then stepped down directly.
On the other side, the host could only ridicule and shout, and at the same time cry out helplessly.
Subsequently, Wang Shang was in no mood to watch it, although the host and award presenters on the stage continued to play treasures, bringing a very active atmosphere to the scene.
However, when it came time to present the Best Editing Award, Wang Shang was shocked to find that Zhang Ziyi had become the guest of honor, which made Wang Shang have to admire her current influence.
Soon came the last award - Best Director.
Wang Shang finally became interested: "Can Ang Lee in this time and space also win the Best Director Award with the non-mainstream movie "Brokeback Mountain"?" β
"The winner of the 78th Best Score Award isβ"
There was a long pause in the presentation of the awards, which hung everyone's appetite to death, and everyone craned their necks in anticipation.
"It's - Brokeback Mountain!"
Everyone was angry, there was disappointment, and there was applause!
Ang Lee took the stage to accept the award and delivered an acceptance speech: "First of all, I would like to thank the many people who were present and those who were not, thank you for your support, thank you to my wife and son, I love you and I will always be with you." I would like to thank my mother at home, as well as my compatriots in Taiwan, Hong Kong and the mainland. Finally, thank you all for your concern! β
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Two days later.
Wang Shang stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass window and looked at the huge sign in the Hollywood Hills outside, "How is the special effects company investigating?" β
Secretary Li Shuiyue stood in the hall and reported to Wang Shang: "The other party has given some data, and there are currently four relatively high-quality special effects companies on the verge of bankruptcy, all of which are because of poorly managed companies, with considerable technical background, and also a lot of special effects talents." β
Wang Shang didn't look back and asked, "Which ones are there?" β
The secretary hurriedly read: "Dimensionality, Blu-ray, Shadow ......"
"Tell me about their current situation, as well as their assets." Wang Shang still didn't look back, his calm voice made the secretary feel pressured, and recently she found that Wang Shang's momentum was getting stronger and stronger.
"At present, Dimensional Special Effects has a high level of professional prop modeling and repair, and biological prop production, with 5 senior designers and 100 employees in-house. The Blu-ray special effects focus more on the processing of CG data, with 4 senior professionals and 120 employees; Shadow special effects, good at armor weapon production, miniature carving, large-scale scenes, sets and costumes and other large or micro props, 3 senior professionals, 112 employees...... "The secretary read out all the information one by one.
"Their respective asset valuations are $830 million, $730 million, and $670 million, respectively."
"830 million, 730 million, 670 million ......" Wang Shang couldn't help but be shocked when he heard it, "How can it be so high?" β
"That's all the data valuation given by the other party."
Wang Shang waved his hand: "How much money do we have in our company now?" β
The secretary reported: "At present, there are 1.3 billion yuan of liquid funds, equivalent to 140 million US dollars......"
"1.3 billion yuan, "Biochemical Apocalypse" to leave 400 million, and other liquidity to leave 300 million, that is to say, I can only use 600 million, if it is a loan, the bank should be able to actively lend me 10-1.5 billion, really I should be about 2 billion yuan of funds can be used, the difference is too big, and the special effects are a bottomless pit, and the profit is not high."
"Still not enough money!!" Wang Shang originally thought that after making a lot of money, he would be able to run arrogantly. As a result, a small company in Hollywood can directly crush itself.
At this time, Wang Shang thought of a joke full of loopholes-
[A man opens an account in a Swiss bank, looks around carefully, and then says to the salesperson: "I want to deposit $100 million!"] β
As a result, the salesman said to him: "Sir, there is no shame in speaking out loud, there is no shortage of poor people here." βγγ
Wang Shang found himself like the person who saved money, thinking that he had a little money and came to Hollywood......
Embarrassment!!!
Wang Shang thought about it for a while and decided: "You go and contact these three companies, and if you can, inject capital into the ......."
As a result, the next day, Secretary Li Shuiyue reported to Wang Shang with an angry face: "After the dimensional special effects heard that we were Huaxia, they directly refused, and said, 'How can Huaxia people understand special effects!!' ββ
When Wang Shang heard this, he didn't care: "Ignore it, let the proud it fend for itself." What about the other two? β
"Blu-ray special effects and magic effects want us to invest, but their attitude doesn't want us to inject capital into the shares, but they have promised to meet ...... tomorrow morning and afternoon."
"Okay."
The next day, Wang Shang took his secretary straight to the Blu-ray special effects, because there is no office in the United States, so Wang Shang can only do these things himself.
Wang Shang was received by the person in charge of an administrative department, and I saw that he had a fat head and round ears, and his whole body was almost round. Although he behaved closely, his eyes flashed with a hint of arrogance from time to time.
"Where's your president?"
He said with a smile: "I'm sorry, Mr. Wang, our president has something to leave, so I specially asked me to receive you." β
"Didn't you make an appointment?"
"I'm sorry, the president is really in trouble!"
Wang Shang suppressed the anger in his heart and asked, "If I want to inject capital into the shares, can you be the master?" β
He hesitated for a moment, the president did not explain in detail, he could not make a claim, and finally replied: "I can communicate with the president by phone, but we currently only accept investment and do not accept capital injection." β
At this time, a tall professional woman walked through the side aisle with a folder in one hand, and was still on the phone: "Okay, okay, I'll take the document to the president now!" Rest assured, the president is just here. β
Wang Shang listened to it word for word in his heart, a wave of anger rose violently, his eyes gradually became cold, he looked at the dead fat man in front of him, and said, "Since the president is not here, forget it." β
"You just have to wait for bankruptcy. Satsuki, let's go! Wang Shang didn't look back, and left directly.
In the afternoon, Wang Shang and his secretary went to the office building where the last special effects company, the Shadow was located, and this time he finally met the chairman and CEO of the other party, Blunt.
"Mr. Wang wants to buy shares, right? I don't know how much Mr. Wang wants to inject capital? How many shares? Blunt asked directly after sinking into the couch.
"We want to invest $200 million and get a 35 percent stake and at the same time strengthen the partnership between my company and Shadow Effects, but we need some control."
β35οΌ noοΌ noοΌοΌ Mr. Wang, your asking price is too high, 200 million US dollars, we can only give 10 shares, and at the same time, the studio must maintain the surname of Reading Li, and cannot accept the command of a layman......"
Without control, Wang Shang naturally refused, and then argued with reason, and the two sides continued to negotiate, but as a result, this Blount still refused to give an inch, and refused to agree.
Half an hour later, Blount looked at his watch and said to Wang Shang: "Sorry, I need to go to a meeting, and this is the end of today, please Mr. Wang go back and think about our conditions." β
After saying that, he got up and left directly.
Wang Shang pinched his temples and scolded in his heart: "Are these Americans so proud and ignorant? Why do you feel as if I'm begging them again? β
"Satsuki, let's go!"
Wang Shang didn't have the heart to talk about it.
"The next time you go bankrupt, I'll come back and see if you still have that proud face!".