Volume 1 Chapter 361 New Movies and Going North (Part II)
Zhu Zhishan knocked on the door and walked in, seeing a room full of people, Yu Crisp whispered a few words in Lin Xiaozhi's ear, making him frown slightly, not caring about other people in his office, and asked urgently, "Are you sure?"
"Hmm"
After getting his affirmative reply, Lin Xiaozhi pondered for a moment before waving his hand, signaling that he already knew the truth, "Go and tell Mr. Chen about this matter, and let him speed up the few things I ordered, and improve the conditions a little."
"Yes"
was interrupted by Zhu Zhishan, and the atmosphere in his office suddenly cooled down. Whether it is Fa Ge, Zhang Guorong, or a big director like Wu Yusen, they are very curious about what Zhu Zhishan told him when he came just now.
Lin Xiaozhi naturally couldn't tell them, but he couldn't hide it, because just now his executive director suddenly came over and told him only one sentence, "We got the news that Zou Minhuai, the boss of Golden Harvest, has released rumors that he wants to sell several office buildings in his hands, and he seems to be ready to integrate the resources of a number of subsidiaries attached to Golden Harvest, including Cheng Long's Weihe and Sammo Hung's Baohe, Baoxiang and other companies."
In a short sentence, he tasted a lot of things.
Golden Harvest wants to integrate the resources of the satellite company under its name, which may be good news for the entire film industry. Because it means that after Media Asia, Golden Harvest, the veteran giant in the Hong Kong film industry, has also begun to integrate resources to prepare for listing. Listing means that you can get a lot of financing and the attention of the financial community, which is conducive to expanding the overall influence of Hong Kong's film industry, which is a good thing.
But for Media Asia Group and New Art City, it is not good news that Zou Minhuai has started to sell properties and integrate resources, especially for Lin Xiaozhi.
With the imminent return to the motherland, Hong Kong's British-funded consortiums are constantly withdrawing funds from Hong Kong's local manufacturing and property markets, which is not news in Hong Kong, because almost every month in the financial newspapers and magazines can see some British-funded consortiums selling real estate in the early years, which have skyrocketed several times or even dozens of times. The Governor's Government, as the British colonial administration in Hong Kong, apparently also tacitly cooperated with the withdrawal of British capital, and did not hesitate to introduce a series of policies that seemed to protect the real estate, but in fact created a high-flying bomb for the destruction of the Hong Kong real estate a few years later.
It's just that people who can see the future in a few years, looking at the whole of Hong Kong, there is only Lin Xiaozhi. No one could have predicted the ill-will between the Governor and the British, and as a result, Hong Kong now seems to have entered an era of property speculation, and the real estate industry has kidnapped the entire Hong Kong economy, just like the mainland in later generations. Under this craze, even the newspaper queen Hu Xian and Hong Kong film tycoon Zou Wenhuai couldn't hold back, and they did not hesitate to borrow money to invest in real estate. This kind of short-sightedness has not only led to the loss of a large amount of development funds in its fundamental industry, but also missed one development opportunity after another. Once the property market bubble explodes, it will be debt-indebted and ruined, and it will unfortunately go bankrupt
Zou Wenhuai's strategy is not in line with the overall situation, he was able to be obsessed with opening up overseas markets in the seventies and eighties, and realized that he could not be limited to the box office of Hong Kong and Taiwan, and he has always been praised by Lin Xiaozhi as "the first person in the Hong Kong film industry." In 890, when Golden Harvest reduced production for a year and a half, he also asked people to inquire, only to learn that Golden Harvest was not actually just because of a "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" with an investment of more than 100 million Hong Kong dollars, which caused the crisis of the capital chain. The deeper reason is actually because Zou Minhuai made a mistake and chose to draw money to speculate in real estate in the years when Golden Harvest needed development funds the most. For this reason, while he is sorry, he is still a little fortunate in his heart, because the resources that Jiahe has are too rich.
originally thought that Golden Harvest would be like before his rebirth, because of Zou Minhuai's strategic mistakes, and finally declined with the explosion of the property market bubble and the decline of Hong Kong films. Lin Xiaozhi never thought that the storm fanned by his little butterfly finally affected the Hong Kong film industry, Xu was stimulated by the soaring stock price of Media Asia, and Zou Minhuai actually began to sell properties and turn his energy back to the film industry.
Different from other film companies, Golden Harvest in the early years in order to fight against the Shaw Brothers and the Golden Princess, has invested and participated in the establishment of many satellite companies, once Zou Wenhuai has made up his mind to integrate these resources, coupled with the Golden Harvest itself that has been standing for 20 years, he has seen a strong opponent who is not weaker than Media Asia revived.
Golden Harvest has begun to regain its strength, so what about Princess Jin and Xinyicheng?
Lin Xiaozhi still remembers that the new art city, which has been infighting, should have announced the suspension of production in 1990 and officially closed the following year. But now that 1990 has passed, although you can still see photos and news of Huang Baiming and Mecca fighting in the newspaper from time to time, but there is no news of the suspension of production in Xinyicheng, will there be any changes?
Maybe it's a big problem
Yes, big trouble. Lin Xiaozhi quickly realized this, because the actions of Golden Harvest and Golden Princess are really not small, and the impact of the recent surge in the stock price of Media Asia is still fermenting, so that many Hong Kong media and financial circles are still focused on the film industry.
"Unwilling to lose the leading throne of the film industry, Golden Harvest joined hands with five film companies including Weihe, Baohe and Baoxiang to merge, and the new Golden Harvest Group was born."
It was the first time that "Oriental Daily" exposed the news, and the speed was very fast. Almost on the front foot of Jiahe, an internal meeting was held to set the merger charter, and soon the "Oriental Daily" poked out the news. It is no wonder that there are often suspicions in the industry that the Ma brothers have planted a lot of 'eyeliner' in the entertainment industry, and from the perspective of its efficiency, this suspicion may be true.
“…… Affected by the listing of Media Asia, Golden Harvest, which passed by with the honor of Hong Kong's first listed film group, is obviously unwilling to be challenged its leading position, and in recent days, this newspaper has obtained a number of whistleblowers revealed that Golden Harvest boss Zou Minhuai not only began to integrate the resources of Golden Harvest, but also released rumors that he wanted to sell several office buildings under his name in exchange for development funds for Golden Harvest. As one of the oldest film companies in Hong Kong, Golden Harvest not only has a considerable influence in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, but also has a long-term release channel in Japan. In the past 1990, the movie "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" invested under his name swept away more than U million US dollars (about 1.3 billion Hong Kong dollars) at the box office in North America and Europe, making a lot of profits. In the past, Golden Harvest has always had a listing plan, and this time there are more achievements of Media Asia in the front, this newspaper boldly predicts that Zou Wenhuai may be influenced by the junior Lin Xiaozhi to speed up the pace of Golden Harvest's listing......"
"Cheng Long laughed and said that the conditions offered by Tycoon E were good, and said that he was very satisfied with becoming a shareholder of Golden Harvest"
"Sammo Hung has become a director of Golden Harvest, and he has postponed his immigration plan or fought again"
"New Golden Harvest exposed the filming plan for the coming year, and Zou Wenhuai proudly invested 200 million Hong Kong dollars to make a film"
Affected by the news that Golden Harvest integrated resources to prepare for listing, the new week broke through 7 yuan after the opening, and the share price of Media Asia, which once reached the yuan, began to fall. The industry can also distinguish the difference between the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" invested by Golden Harvest and "Red Alert of Cosmopolitan", on the surface, it is indeed Golden Harvest's movies that make far more money than Cosmonaria. But in fact, although "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is invested by Golden Harvest, from the actors to the crew to the post-production and distribution, it is all done by American companies. The Red Alert of Media Asia is different, from the actors to the crew to the director, all of them are film companies from Hong Kong, and Media Asia relies on this film, and the Asia Film Company under its name has a certain reputation in Europe, and this popularity is beneficial to the future development of Media Asia in Europe. In contrast, Golden Harvest also needs to rely on the channels and influence of the American New Line Film Company.
Unfortunately, investors obviously don't understand the difference. After learning that another Golden Harvest, which seemed to be performing better than Media Asia, had reported that it was going public, many shareholders who had made a fortune holding Media Asia shares began to worry that their stocks would fall with the listing of Golden Harvest, so Yu Crisp sold them at a high price. As a result, it caused a selling market, so that only 10 days after its release, the share price of Media Asia fell to the U dollar line and began to fluctuate. It wasn't until the Hong Kong Economic Times broke the news that the last of the new three giants of the Hong Kong film industry, New Arts City, stopped the decline in Media Asia's stock price.
"The listing of Media Asia affects the whole Hong Kong film industry, and the golden princess held an internal meeting to stabilize internal contradictions, or to lay out the listing"
"Hong Kong Economic Times" unexpectedly obtained a news, "Recently, an insider broke the news to this newspaper that just a few days ago, Lei Qizheng, acting chairman of the Golden Princess Company, held an internal meeting and personally came forward to mediate the conflict between the three giants of its Xinyicheng Film Company. In the early years, when Kowloon tycoon Lei Juekun took a stake in New Arts City, he distributed different shares to the three giants such as Mecca, Shi Tian and Huang Baiming, which laid the root cause of the continuous infighting among the three giants of New Arts City in the past few years. According to the whistleblower, in order to calm the contradictions between the three giants, Lei Qizheng personally paid to buy the shares of Xinyicheng held by Shi Tian, who had obvious intentions, and then sold them to Huang Baiming at a loss to pay for his father's mistakes in his early years. ”
“…… We have to admit that Lei Qizheng may have made the most correct decision since he became the Golden Princess. The departure of Shi Tian, one of the Big Three, weakened the strength of Xinyicheng in the short term, but according to this newspaper's inquiry, Shitian has gradually faded out of the management of Xinyicheng in the past few years, and he has invested in the films that have been filmed, all of which have lost money or barely maintained their capital. At this time, Shi Tian's departure did not have much impact on Xinyicheng. Unlike it, whether it is Mecca or Huang Baiming, there has been no shortage of acclaimed and acclaimed classics in the past two or three years. Lei Qizheng's move of abandoning small fortune to buy people's hearts undoubtedly temporarily calmed down the contradictions in Xinyicheng, which may be detonated at any time. Moreover, according to this newspaper's inquiry, in exchange for Lei Qizheng's sale of shares in Xinyicheng to Huang Baiming at a low price, Princess Jin was able to inject capital into the 'Gao Zhisen Film Co., Ltd.,' which he and Gao Zhisen jointly invested. ”
"It can be seen that in recent days, with the listing of Media Asia and the pursuit of capital, its impact has stimulated the major film companies with strength and ambition in Hong Kong, especially Golden Harvest and Golden Princess, two film companies and groups that are also qualified for listing, and they are gearing up to follow Media Asia, while integrating internal resources, increasing the strength of the company and the group, and on the other hand, they have begun to speed up the pace of listing, intending to share the listing dividend ...... now that Hong Kong's entertainment concept stocks are popular."
I have to admit that in the early years, the new art city that once pressed Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers to join forces to fight against it has completely declined. In the past few years, the continuous infighting in Xinyi City has been exposed by the media again and again, and many people in Hong Kong have seen relevant reports. Therefore, as soon as this report from the "Hong Kong Economic Times" came out, many shareholders began to calm down and reflect, only to realize that even the Japanese and South Korean markets have not been able to open the new art city, and has already gained a firm foothold in Europe, Japan and South Korea and is trying to open up the North American market has actually distanced itself.
As a result, the share price of Media Asia was no longer affected by it and slowly began to climb again.
In the face of the challenges of Golden Harvest and New Art City, Media Asia and Lin Xiaozhi did not have the means to fight back. The successful listing raised nearly one billion Hong Kong dollars, coupled with the billions of Hong Kong dollars that Lin Xiaozhi still held in his hands, Lin Xiaozhi, who had the view that money is not spent and shamefully wasted, was planning how to spend the money early on. Therefore, on the day of the successful listing of Media Asia on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, several acquisitions were launched in a low-key manner.
Full of sincerity and deep pockets, this acquisition did not take much of his time. In just half a month, one acquisition negotiation has come to an end, and the other two have been completed quickly. As the stock price of Media Asia stabilized, Lin Xiaozhi also shook out of the hand of "Cheng Pao" at this time.
"Media Asia spent HK$710,000 to acquire Hong Kong Color Film Printing Co., Ltd., which provides color printing services for more than 100 Hong Kong films every year, accounting for more than half of Hong Kong's film printing market share
"44.5 billion holdings 'Tanghuang Advertising Co., Ltd.,Media Asia makes up for another market shortcoming, Lin Xiaozhi is ambitious to compete for the Hong Kong advertising market with an annual scale of nearly 20 billion Hong Kong dollars"
Among the two companies that were acquired, Hong Kong Color Film Printing Co., Ltd. is no more. Although the fame is not small, it is only limited to the film industry, it is the largest film printing company in Hong Kong, and many of the film printing before New Asia are also handed over to it to deal with, Lin Xiaozhi proposed to acquire it just to make up for the lack of outsourcing of the huge Media Asia Group's film printing, but the shock caused by the holding of Tanghuang Advertising in Hong Kong is really not small.
Just like Media Asia is to the film industry, Tang Huang Advertising, founded in 1973, is also the number one star company in Hong Kong's advertising industry. In the past 17 years, the company has won four "Golden Sail Awards" and one creative award in Hong Kong, and has won more than 200 international and Hong Kong awards. Even Hong Kong advertising genius Chu Jiading has spent several years in Tanghuang Advertising, which has a reputation as the most creative advertising company in the early years of Hong Kong's advertising industry. Lin Xiaozhi originally wanted to wholly acquire Tanghuang Advertising, but was rejected by Tanghuang's senior management. In the end, he only obtained a stake in Tanghuang Advertising 5 with 44.5 billion Hong Kong dollars in cash. This is also because in recent years, European and American advertising groups have begun to pay attention to the Asian advertising market, which has increased the competitive pressure of Tanghuang advertising and lost a lot of market, otherwise Tanghuang's senior management is not ready to give up the controlling stake at all.
As soon as the two acquisitions were released, the share price of Media Asia sailed again, and the upward momentum was fierce and soon recovered the lost ground of 7 yuan, and two days after returning to the 7 yuan line, the stock price successfully broke through 8 yuan, until the upward rush to around 43, it began to fluctuate steadily.
"The two acquisitions have boosted the share price of Media Asia, and the market value of Media Asia has exceeded 5 billion Hong Kong dollars, standing at more than 8 yuan"
"Smack"
Song Nianhui threw the newspaper on the table in front of him, he smiled and quipped, "Now the whole Hong Kong is talking about you, how is it, isn't it a great mood?" ”
"How can there be" Lin Xiaozhi covered his right cheek in distress, "In the past few days, the fire has caused a toothache, and I can't sleep well all night after tossing, don't you feel that my smoke rings are swollen?" ”
He has been on fire in the last few days, which has caused trigeminal neuralgia. As a result, he didn't toss him to death in the past few days, and the entire right half of his cheek was swollen for a few days, and he couldn't see a little swelling until today.
"Happy troubles" Song Nianhui pulled a bench and sat across from him, looking at him gloatingly.
He has always had a good personal relationship with Lin Xiaozhi, and in the middle of last year, he helped Lin Xiaozhi to operate long oil futures, and he also made a small amount of money. Before the listing of Media Asia this year, he also bought a batch of Media Asia shares from Lin Xiaozhi at a low price, and he earned nearly 10 million Hong Kong dollars in less than a month after being listed. After having a relationship of interest, the relationship between the two became closer.
Without reading the newspaper, Lin Xiaozhi also guessed what was written in the newspaper. In recent days, there have been too many such news, and at first I thought it was good, but after watching too much, I felt bored and lost interest in reading it.
"How do you have time to come to me, you busy man, don't you just come to tease and see what my face looks like by the way?"
Fingers tapped on the newspaper, Song Nianhui raised his eyebrows, and was about to tease him a few more words, seeing that he was not very interested in being tormented by toothache, he could only give up this rare opportunity to ridicule, and replied seriously: "Boring people...... No one answered your phone from the Bank of China, so I called me and invited you to a private party for the BOC executives tomorrow night. How about it, do you want to go to ......?"
It's really a coincidence, he forgot his mobile phone that he never left when he came to the company today, but he didn't expect someone to contact him today, and one of the contacts was the Bank of China that he had been waiting for for almost a month
"The efficiency is really slow" he said dissatisfiedly, but his originally bitter face suddenly glowed, because he had waited too long for this contact number.