When Chen Ping'an and Zhou Haimei were on the top floor, the renaming ceremony downstairs was underway.

Zhang Manyu as the master of ceremonies, all the directors and stars of Dark Horse International in Hong Kong attended, Shi Nansheng as the host and the CEO of Hongkong Land Group chatted and laughed, and invited many celebrity guests to officially announce the renaming of the Causeway Bay Convention Center to the World Trade Center and held a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

In the eyes of reporters, this is actually a scene, and what they want to know most is whether the World Trade Center was bought by Dark Horse International, why Hongkong Land agreed to sell the Causeway Bay Convention Center, and whether there is any inside story to dig up!

Hongkong Land did not want to sell the Causeway Bay Convention Centre at all, but the parent company, Jardine Matheson, decided to sell it, and the CEO of Hongkong Land had to attend the name change ceremony with a smile.

In response to the reporter's question, Shi Nansheng gave them a satisfactory answer, plus surprises.

The satisfactory answer is that Dark Horse International did acquire the World Trade Tower; The surprise is that Dark Horse International has spent a billion yuan to build the Dark Horse International Film and Television Base, the Dark Horse International Film and Television Building, the Dark Horse International Staff Dormitory Building and various supporting facilities in Tseung Kwan O.

For Jardine Matheson, Dark Horse International is definitely a VIP customer among VIPs, and this large-scale investment can be described as an all-round cooperation with Jardine Matheson.

The Tseung Kwan O plot and the Causeway Bay Convention Center were valued at a total of 250 million yuan, Chen Ping'an made a down payment of 50 million yuan, and the remaining 200 million yuan was a loan, and it was a loan from Jardine Matheson. As for the 300 million yuan investment in the first phase of the Dark Horse International Film and Television Base, it is all a loan from Jardine Matheson.

Dark Horse International invested 550 million yuan in the initial stage, and 500 million of them were borrowed from Jardine Matheson, such a loan ratio seems to be high, unreasonable and risky, but with the box office of "Ghost Love" as a guarantee, even if Chen Ping'an borrows a few hundred million more, Jardine Matheson will be full of promises.

At the beginning of March, the box office of "Ghost Love" has been counted in various places. In the end, the U.S. box office did not surpass Universal's "Back to the Future", and the box office was fixed at $198 million, comprehensively suppressing the competitor of the same period, the great director Spielberg's "The Color Purple", ranking second in the 85-year American movie box office list, becoming a well-deserved dark horse.

Coupled with an overseas box office of up to $276 million, this "Ghost Love" produced by Dark Horse International American Film Company has achieved a global box office of $474 million, shocking the global film industry.

The most noteworthy is Japan, with a box office performance of nearly 6 billion, setting a new high since the box office of "ET Alien" of 15 billion in 83. According to the exchange rate of about 1:200 between the yen and the US dollar at this time, Japan contributed 30 million US dollars to the box office of "Ghost Love", becoming the largest box office in Asia!

More importantly, this movie caused a sensation in Japan, not only completely opened the Japanese market for Dark Horse International, but also became big stars in the hearts of the Japanese as the male and female protagonists, although it is not as influential as Cheng Long in Japan, but it has become the best screen couple in the hearts of the Japanese. Posters of the two can be seen everywhere, especially those who make pottery and classic kisses, which are selling like crazy in Japan.

Li Xiaolin keenly grasped the business opportunities, and at the end of February, taking advantage of the temporary end of Zhong Chuhong's promotional activities in the United States, he arranged for Zhong Chuhong, who was filming "The True Color of Money", to fly from the United States to Japan at the invitation of Japan's Toei Company to attend a series of activities and meet Japanese fans.

The cooperation between Toei and Dark Horse International first began with the movie "Good Boy", and this time they strongly invited not only Zhong Chuhong, but also Chen Ping'an, hoping that this recognized Japanese screen couple can arrive in Japan together and meet Japanese fans, and at the same time, Toei also wants to discuss cooperation between the two companies with Chen Ping'an.

However, there are a lot of dark horse international affairs during this time, and Hong Kong is inseparable, Chen Ping'an can only comfort Zhong Chuhong over the phone, saying that he will go to the United States next month, and he will make up for her injured heart when the time comes.

Zhong Chuhong was ceremoniously courteously received in Japan, there are crazy fans everywhere, every day there will be fans to show his love, and then he is beaten by the fans next to him, in the eyes of more fans, "Sam" and "Molly" are a pair created by God, and no one can break them up.

However, the most popular among Japanese fans is Chen Ping'an, who did not attend. Toei Company told fans that Chen Ping'an was happy to come to Japan with Zhong Chuhong to meet fans, but Chen Ping'an's company was too busy to leave, so he could only ask Toei Company and Zhong Chuhong to bring the most sincere greetings to Japanese fans.

Japan is a patriarchal country. In Japan, it is natural for men to work to earn money to support their families, but this explanation makes the Japanese full of favor and admiration for Chen Ping'an, and a small-scale "Chen Ping'an does not marry a group" has emerged.

Zhong Chuhong's trip to Japan was not all smooth sailing, and some bad things still happened. During the event in Japan, some so-called successful people made unreasonable demands on Zhong Chuhong, and after Li Xiaolin and Zhong Chuhong refused, they actually threatened him. Toei has a vague attitude towards this, they think that they can't offend people with status and status in their country for a Hong Kong star, and in their eyes, these requirements are too normal for female stars.

Chen Ping'an was furious when he learned of this incident and warned Toei that if Toei still maintained a first-class attitude and could not guarantee Zhong Chuhong's safety, then Dark Horse International would terminate its cooperation with Toei.

At first, Toei Company was still annoyed that Chen Ping'an was rude, but the next day, several large Japanese companies made efforts at the same time, and those who had made unreasonable demands on Zhong Chuhong and offended Zhong Chuhong lined up to apologize, kneeling on the ground and asking for Zhong Chuhong's forgiveness. This made Toei Company shocked, and after some understanding, it was learned that Chen Ping'an had a deep background.

In the 80s, the triads of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan, Hong Kong was still in the primitive stage of slashing and chopping; Taiwan has long entered the period of thermal weapons, taking the Bamboo Union Gang as an example, at the end of the 70s, it had its own armed force - the Bamboo Union Commando; However, the development of Japanese associations is more mature, and they have elected their own group's interest spokespersons to enter the political arena as their own mouthpiece, and are the first to realize the combination of black gold and politics.

The associations in Taiwan and Japan are very close, especially the Bamboo Union Gang and the Four Seas Gang, which are the three major gangs in Taiwan. Chen Ping'an asked them to come forward to find someone to settle the trouble that Zhong Chuhong encountered this time.

After learning about this qiē, Toei Company's attitude towards Zhong Chuhong and Li Xiaolin changed 180 degrees, sincerely apologized to Zhong Chuhong and Li Xiaolin, and sent generous gifts, promising that similar things would never happen in the future.

Zhong Chuhong learned that Chen Ping'an was behind the scenes, needless to say, he had a phone porridge with Chen Ping'an for more than an hour that night, and there were countless tender and sweet words, but he couldn't fly back to Hong Kong immediately and fly to Chen Ping'an's side.

Li Xiaolin finally realized the meaning of Chen Ping'an's original words, the artists under Dark Horse International will never be coerced by the underworld forces, let him do it, as long as he is reasonable, he doesn't have to be afraid of anything. After discussing the matter with Zhang Guozhong over the phone, the two completely settled down and helped Chen Ping'an to help themselves and take care of the soon-to-be-established brokerage company.

Back to the topic, the high box office achieved by "People and Ghosts" in the world is the reason why Jardine Matheson dares to lend so much money, and it is conservatively estimated that Dark Horse International can share hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars at the box office, and Dark Horse International is not dead if you do one vote, plus the sales revenue of peripheral products such as videotapes, posters, and wall calendars, Dark Horse International is fully capable of repaying all the payments.

In fact, Chen Ping'an can get more box office than they expected, and now he has two or three hundred million funds in his hand, because the box office in Asia has already arrived. However, Jardine Matheson is willing to take out more loans, and he doesn't need to refuse, there are too many places to use money.

paid the final payment of nearly 50 million for Shaw Brothers, got eight theaters, acquired several theaters such as Taiping Theater and Gem Theater, and used up tens of millions. Then it is to set up a brokerage company, a distribution company, inject capital, purchase equipment, decorate, recruit employees, and renovate the theater in batches, invest in making movies, everything costs money, two or three hundred million looks like more, and it really doesn't cost it.

At today's renaming ceremony, the 38-storey Causeway Bay Convention Center changed hands and was renamed Dark Horse International World Trade Tower. The top two floors have become the headquarters of Dark Horse International (Hong Kong) Film Company, and the Dark Horse International Investment Company in charge of Ye Zhiming is also in the building, as well as the Dark Horse International (Hong Kong) Broker Company that is about to open by Zhang Guozhong, and the Dark Horse International Film Distribution Company in charge of Jiang Zhiqiang will all settle in the World Trade Building, and the prototype of the Dark Horse International Empire will be officially formed!

As Shi Nansheng announced these blockbuster news one by one, the reporters were completely boiling! No wonder the editor-in-chief personally came forward to get us here, it turned out to be such a big deal!

1986 became the most commemorative year in the Hong Kong film industry, and in March of this year, there were too many major events in the film industry that shook Hong Kong.

Shaw Brothers liquidated, Debao self-organized cinema chain, and Dark Horse International began to emerge.

Two days ago, Debao Company announced that it would organize its own theater and accept a large number of Shaw Brothers laid off employees, which has caused a sensation in Hong Kong and is in the limelight; However, the dark horse international super-large move announced by Shi Nansheng today has completely changed the limelight of Debao Company.

Compared with the self-made Chen Ping'an, Pan Disheng, who was born in the second generation and has a lot of wealth, has a bit of a sense of petty fighting, whether it is domineering or courageous, whether it is in the eyes of reporters or citizens, Pan Disheng was thrown out of more than a dozen streets by Chen Ping'an.

He's a gambler, a crazy gambler! In an interview the next day, Pan Disheng gave a truthful evaluation of Chen Ping'an.

The next day, Chen Ping'an and his Dark Horse International once again appeared on the headlines of the entertainment pages of various newspapers as usual, and at the same time appeared on the headlines of the financial news pages for the first time, as well as the advertising and recruitment pages - Dark Horse International Film Company, Dark Horse International Investment Company, Dark Horse International Brokerage Company and Dark Horse International Film Distribution Company released full-page recruitment advertisements at the same time to recruit employees on a large scale! RS