Lin Yuquan didn't let Liu Yifei open his heart, Zhou Haimei and the others also couldn't, the slight change in the situation was that Yifei didn't deliberately avoid him, but he still seemed silent, the whole person was completely like a different person, and the previous vitality and sweet smile suddenly disappeared on her.

Looking at the girl who became silent for a while, Lin Yuquan couldn't say how distressed, he had always treated Liu Yifei as his sister, watching his sister worry and sadness, but he was the elder brother at all, this feeling was really uncomfortable.

He is not good at dealing with feelings, and he doesn't know what he should do or what he can do, in addition to letting Shi Shi and Qin Lan and others talk to her more, he also called Dandan and Yanzi and asked the two to relieve her, other than that, he can't do anything, he can only put all his mind into work, and his busy work makes him have no time to worry.

According to Lin Yuquan's decision, Salou in the United States. White immediately took action, first contacting three companies to express their intention to buy each other, among which Lakeshore Pictures refused to buy without thinking about it, because their investment system in recent years has been extremely successful.

"Tales of the Night" in 03 invested $23 million, and finally achieved a North American box office of $51.9 million, a global box office of $95 million, and "Tales of the Night 2", which was released on January 12 at the beginning of this year, invested $25 million, and finally a North American box office of $62.3 million, a global box office of $111 million, and "Million Dollar Baby" in 04 invested $18 million, and finally a North American box office of $100 million, a global box office of $217 million, before the release of "Angry Heart" on September 1 With an investment of 12 million US dollars, the final North American box office was 27.8 million US dollars, the global box office was 42.9 million US dollars, and the investment of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre Prequel" released on October 6 was less than 15 million US dollars, and the North American box office has exceeded 35 million US dollars so far.

Not only that, many of the films invested in Zuò have been nominated and awarded important awards at the Oscars, the most successful of which is "Million Dollar Baby", which won the best picture, best director, best actress and best supporting actor in one fell swoop with 7 nominations at the 77th Oscars last year, becoming the biggest winner of last year's Oscars.

How could Lakeshore Pictures, which is full of money and has infinite scenery at the Oscars, sell the company at this time, and they are ready to make persistent efforts to achieve better results!

Telescope Entertainment Company also refused after hesitating, over the years, although their investment has suffered losses like "Memoirs of the Art Ji", but on the whole it has made money, such as 1999 North America, the global double runner-up, the classic thriller "The Sixth Sense", the final North American box office of 294 million US dollars, 673 million US dollars worldwide, 03 years they and Universal Pictures co-invested in "The Fake God", the cost is only 81 million US dollars, In the end, they won $243 million at the North American box office and $475 million at the global box office, and the momentum is quite good, so they naturally do not plan to sell the company, but continue to go on.

Summit Entertainment's board of directors is more entangled, Summit Entertainment's development momentum is definitely at the forefront of a number of independent film companies, although they do not invest in many films, but the results are very good, whether it is the investment in "Vanilla Sky", "Operation Smith", "Dance Out of My Life", or the release of "Two Big Smoking Guns", "Memory Fragments" are all great successes, it stands to reason that such results should be satisfied anyway, but Patrick Watzberg, The founders of companies such as Bob Hayward and David Garrett are ambitious, and they have positioned Summit Entertainment as a top Hollywood player on an equal footing with the big six studios, rather than a petty film investment company.

However, the wish is good, but it is not so easy to achieve, in the past ten years, this positioning is more like a joke, and many independent film companies, their financial resources are very limited, it is impossible to make super blockbusters with top directors and top stars like Warner Bros. and Fox, and even the budget for making films every year is very limited, look at their successful films so far, "Two Big Smoking Guns", "Memory Fragments" were bought and distributed, "Vanilla Sky" is with Artison Entertainment, VinylFilms invested together, the global $400 million "Operation Smith" was filmed with 20th Century Fox, and the people are the big ones, and only this year's "Dance Out of My Life" is a sole proprietorship, making a lot of money, which is far from the ambition of the founders when they established the company.

Of course, the entanglement of Summit Entertainment is not that it is disheartened and does not make movies, but that the board of directors has a disagreement, whether it should sell the existing Summit Entertainment Company, and then start anew.

Therefore, some people in the board of directors proposed to simply sell the existing company and use the money from the sale of the company to make a big production zuò, although this will give up the company that has worked hard for many years, but in fact it will not have any impact on the future film production, at most, in half a year, with their years of experience in Hollywood, they can form another new film company.

However, some people who have deep feelings for the company and think that it will delay a lot of time are opposed to doing so, and of course they are aware of the company's lack of large funds, so they propose not to sell the company, but to let the other party buy shares, and use the funds to invest in the big system.

In their opinion, the profit of "Dance Out of My Life" this year is very high, and next year they will shoot the second part of "Dance Out of My Life", and there will be the third part of "Dance Out of My Life" in the future, as long as these movies make money, in a few years, they will also have sufficient funds to invest in large-scale films. The opposition believes that this is too conservative, and the uncertainty of film investment is too great, the first part of "Dance Out of My Life" made money, it does not mean that the second part can, their shooting plan for next year is not only "Dance Out of My Life", but also "The Battle of Elira Valley", no one knows what the result of investment will be?

The three parties have their own reasons, and finally after voting, the decision to sell was reached, but the staunch supporters of the latter two parties demanded that the price should not be low, and at the same time, they needed to take away the copyright of "Dance Out of My Life", which was a gold mine they had just dug up this year, and they could not sell it anyway.

Although rejected by Lakeshore Films and Telescope Entertainment, Summit Entertainment's consent still filled Lin Yuquan's heart with joy, which was already a very good result, and immediately instructed Salou. White won Summit Entertainment at any cost, unlike Summit Entertainment, he is not short of funds, what he lacks is time, for him, time is money, the sooner he wins Summit Entertainment, the sooner he starts the shooting of a new movie, the benefits he gets are far greater than what he has now.

Afterwards, Salou. White led his team to negotiate with Summit Entertainment, and conducted a comprehensive asset appraisal of Summit Entertainment, of course, the acquisition price cannot be calculated according to the actual value of the assets, and more important things for a company like a film company are its own intangible value, such as the value of more than 100 employees of Summit Entertainment, such as the popularity of Summit Entertainment rooted in North America for more than ten years, such as Summit Entertainment's senior film and television production and distribution experience, and at the same time, you take the initiative to initiate an acquisition of someone else's well-run company, if the purchase price is low, others will not sell at all.

After a thorough assessment, Salou. White's first official offer to Summit Entertainment was $30 million, this price is not high, it is more of a temptation, of course, Summit Entertainment immediately refused, although this price is okay, but they have not reached the point of bankruptcy, how can they sell cheaply, not to mention that the purpose of selling the company is to get more funds for future large-scale production, of course, it can sell as much as it can sell, so the lion shouted 80 million US dollars, the normal negotiation is that you come and go, In the confrontation of verbs and swords, naturally no one will directly give the reserve price to the other party, and the kind of direct quotation of the reserve price is often that one party has the absolute upper hand, and it is not bought or sold to pull it down.

Salou, who is a professional. White couldn't be clearer about this, and raised the price by 10 million and quoted $40 million, in fact, if it wasn't for Lin Yuquan telling him to do his best to get the acquisition. He will grind slowly, with a price increase of 1 million or 1 million.

The confrontation between the two sides at the negotiating table was very fierce, and finally after a week of repeated negotiations, the two sides finally reached an agreement that the offshore company registered in the British Virgin Islands held by Lin Yuquan acquired all the copyrights of Summit Entertainment except for "Dance Out of My Life" and "Battle of Elah Valley" for $58 million, with 100% control of the company, and the founders of Summit Entertainment are not allowed to poach people in Summit Entertainment for three years after leaving Summit Entertainment. In order to ensure that the company can continue to operate normally after the acquisition of Lin Yuquan.

The $58 million acquisition of Summit Entertainment is naturally much higher, but Zhou Yu hit Huang Gai, one is willing to fight, and the other is willing to suffer, and the deal is reached.

At this point, Lin Yuquan finally breathed a sigh of relief, said hello to Huang Jianzhong, and immediately flew to Santa Monica, California, USA, he couldn't wait to own an American film company

Santa Monica is located on the Pacific coast, west of Los Angeles, and is one of the most attractive coastal cities in California, with its beaches famous for its coastal attractions, with a pier on the beach that stretches into the sea, along the coast, surrounded by a variety of hotels, restaurants, movie theaters and lovehouses.

Summit Entertainment's corporate location is located in a building on the Santa Monica coast, with floor-to-ceiling windows in the office offering fantastic beach views.

On the morning of October 27, Friday, Los Angeles time, in the office, the employees lazily leaned back on their chairs, without any working status, and chatted together in groups. White's secrecy has been done so well that no one knows the identity of the acquirer, so everyone is curious to speculate.

"Here, they're downstairs." Summit Entertainment's current president, Chris Brown. Anderson laughs and says that he is not a founder, but a professional manager.

"Then let's go out and meet the future boss of Summit Entertainment! To be honest, I'm curious about where he is. "Founder Patrick. Watzberg said.

Everyone then walked out of the conference room and towards the elevator door, and everyone's actions also made the office employees along the way understand something, and immediately stopped chatting, sitting at the desks one by one, stretching their necks to look outside.

"Boss, you're going to meet the founders and executives of Summit Entertainment in a moment, and when the contract is signed, you'll be the new owner of this great independent film company." Salou. White said.

Lin Yuquan smiled heartily when he heard this: "I've been waiting for this day for a long time. ”

"Smack." When the elevator arrived, as the elevator door opened, Lin Yuquan immediately saw everyone one meter away from the elevator door, and the people outside the elevator door also saw him, and some people showed shocked looks in their eyes.

Lin Yuquan and Salo. White gets out of the elevator, Salou. White immediately introduced: "Everyone, this must be no stranger to you, he is the kung fu forest that has set off a kung fu storm in the United States, and he is also the new owner of Summit Entertainment. Watzberg, the founder of the company, is Bob. Hayward, the founder of the company, is David Hayward. Garrett"

With Salou. White's introduction, Lin Yuquan smiled and walked inside with everyone.

"Lin, I really didn't expect you to be the acquirer, it seems that you are ready to come to Hollywood to develop." Patrick Watzberg laughed, in fact, he was very shocked in his heart, but as a superior for many years, he had a good control over his feelings.

"Hollywood is the center of the world of cinema, and of course I want to break into it." Lin Yuquan said.

The two of them chatted and walked inside, and the employees in the office couldn't control their feelings like Patrick Watzberg and others, and immediately burst into exclamations, and every office became lively.

"Oh my God, it was Kung Fu Lin who bought our company."

"yes, it's incredible, but Lin is my idol, and I'm so happy to work under him."

"Ha, Kung Fu Lin himself is an all-round director, screenwriter, actor, and he is a billionaire with a net worth of billions, I think our Summit Entertainment will soon have a big move, I really look forward to it, just part of the investment or small cost investment system, I have already acquired it."

"Who says it's not, just the existence of Kung Fu Lin makes the future peak entertainment full of expectations, originally I was still thinking about changing jobs, but now, hehe, I won't leave if I am killed."

"Lin, it seems that your arrival is very popular with the staff! Hey, it is said that people go to tea and cool, and it is true. "Patrick. Watzberg had a smile in his eyes, and there was no sadness in the slightest, because he was a staunch supporter of selling Pinnacle Entertainment, who didn't want better development, and so did the employees, and so did he.

"Hehe, maybe they think they can appreciate my kung fu performance, so they are so happy, but it's not because I have management talent or keen eyes, Jiang is still old and spicy in this regard." Lin Yuquan waved his hand.

Everyone entered the conference room, because everything had already been negotiated, and there were not too many greetings or procedures, and the contract was quickly signed.

"Lin, Summit Entertainment is our hard work for more than ten years, I think we dreamed of becoming a new film force that competes with the six major film companies, but after so many years, we are ashamed that we are not capable of doing it, I hope you can achieve this, thank you!" Patrick. Watzberg said in a deep voice, bowing deeply.

"Hehe, in fact, every filmmaker wants to be the best they can be, and since I'm in Hollywood, I'll naturally do my best." Lin Yuquan smiled.

"Then we'll leave first, Lin, let's go meet your staff!" Patrick. Watzberg said.

"Don't worry, Mr. Watzberg, I'll have a treat at noon, let's sit down for a while, I'll go to meet you and set off together, Mr. Anderson, please introduce me to me."

"No problem, boss." As a professional manager, Chris. Anderson's role transitioned quickly.

Several other executives walked with Lin towards the outside of the conference room, and one executive quickly gathered all the employees in one of Summit Entertainment's largest offices.

Chris. Anderson clapped his hands and smiled: "Everyone, the one standing next to me, I think everyone knows his identity, and I invite our new boss to speak." ”

All the employees immediately applauded enthusiastically, with indescribable excitement on their faces.

Now Lin Yuquan is not as nervous and excited as he was when he acquired Shuguang Film Company, of course, there is a little excitement, he is a Chinese director, and now he has his own film company in Hollywood, about to start a new journey, glanced around the office, his eyes swept over the faces of each employee, and the corners of his mouth outlined a bright smile: "Everyone, do you really know my identity?" ”

"Of course." All employees smiled.

"Oh, it seems that my awareness is still very high? It's a pleasure to meet you, we will work together in the future, to be honest, it will be a bit hard to work with me, and soon everyone will be stuck in an extremely busy work, you know, I'm not here to be the boss of Summit Entertainment, I'm here to make a movie, I haven't decided on the specific movie plan yet, but I have to say, it's going to be a big production, don't ask me how big it will be, I don't know, 100 million, 200 million, who knows? Anyway, I can be as big as I need, and I have the financial resources. ”

"Wow." The huge office was in a state of extreme shock, and no one questioned Lin Yuquan's domineering words, as Lin Yuquan said, he did have the financial resources to sell YouTobe, the world's No. 1 video website.

"Don't be so strict, don't look at me like that, isn't it just a big production? This is actually just the beginning, and you will find out later that the big system is nothing, and our peak entertainment has a big system, okay, smiled, in order to celebrate all of us have a new beginning, I have a treat at noon. ”

"Wow." "Oh." "Long live the boss." The whole office suddenly came alive. R1152