Chapter 622: The Curtain Opens (Part II)
"The Golden Princess Group is about to change hands!"
This news was suddenly exposed by the "Oriental Daily" when the stock price of the Golden Princess soared and plummeted, and the market was in a uproar, and then because it involved Hong Kong legends such as the former overlord of the Hong Kong film industry and the real estate prodigy Luo Zhaohui and the financial predator Liu Luanxiong, the news about the change of ownership of the Golden Princess Group quickly caused a huge sensation in Hong Kong.
“…… Lei Qizheng ruthlessly abandoned Princess Jin and wanted to sell his plate to make hundreds of millions of dollars and run away! ”
"Shuangluo showdown, real estate prodigy and Macau wealthy businessman at the same time in the golden princess, Luo Zhaohui said in an interview with the media that he is optimistic about the future of the Hong Kong film industry!"
"Lin Xiaozhi's prediction has brought a huge shock to the industry, the investment community has begun to favor Hong Kong films, the listed film company Golden Princess has fallen, and Golden Harvest may become a new prey in the eyes of Haoqiang!"
"Mecca was photographed going out to sea with Luo Zhaohui on a yacht, and the president of the Golden Princess may have expressed his position!"
"Roger admits that he knows movies better than his opponents, and promises that if he becomes the Golden Princess, he will spend a lot of money to shoot blockbusters and update its theaters!"
"Financial predator Liu Luanxiong invested one billion to help Luo Zhaohui compete for the golden princess, and it is reported that he is chasing the 'thirteenth aunt', and he may spend a lot of money to poach Guan Zhilin for filming in the future!"
"Huang Baiming was interviewed by the media and spoke up to support Luo Jiecheng, saying that 'real estate and movies are completely different industries', which is suspected of being at odds with Luo Zhaohui!"
Last year, Lin Xiaozhi and his Huanya, a "League of Assassins" once again swept away nearly 3 billion Hong Kong dollars at the global box office, and with the broadcast of this year's Academy Awards, it has become a well-known topic in Hong Kong.
In addition, his maverick acceptance speech when he won the 'Best Director' for the second time, during which he proudly said that the Hong Kong film industry is bravely moving towards a scale of 100 billion yuan, although it has aroused a lot of criticism, but with the increasing number of voices of discussion in the media, more and more people in the business community, especially in the financial and investment circles, have become interested in the film industry.
Among them is the 'real estate prodigy' Luo Zhaohui, a billionaire who had an unbeautiful relationship with Lin Xiaozhi in the past.
Luo Zhaohui came from a humble background, but he dared to fight and was full of courage, although he did not receive any higher education, but he came out to work hard when he was a teenager, and he was already famous in Hong Kong when he was in his twenties.
However, this may be a praised 'title' for others, but Luo Zhaohui is only unhappy.
He is from a humble background, but he became one of the super-rich people in Hong Kong at a young age, both mentally and arrogant, in the past, when Lin Xiaozhi had not yet made a career, he had not seen the appearance of the wealthy man who did not learn and did not know how to do it, so no matter how good he has done in recent years, he still looks down on him in his heart, let alone after being surpassed by a person he despises, and then he is praised by the media in his name!
However, if you are not happy, you are not happy, in the past few years, Luo Zhaohui has changed the second- and third-tier actresses in the entertainment industry, and he has been in contact with more, so he naturally can't help but pay attention to it.
If there was no Lin Xiaozhi a few years ago, then the entertainment industry is a place that produces beautiful women and stunners in his opinion, with his fun-loving nature, there is never a shortage of such women around him at parties.
But since the wealthy Shaolin Xiaozhi, who was despised by him before, turned to the entertainment industry and changed, in just a few years, he has not only become a popular figure in Hong Kong, but also far away from him in terms of net worth, financial resources or momentum.
This made Luo Zhaohui a little surprised, and he couldn't help but be interested in the entertainment industry, especially Hong Kong movies.
Luo Zhaohui is a high-profile person, once he is interested in making movies, he can't keep that mouth from leaking.
To say that Mecca is not the first to contact Luo Zhaohui, in fact, Lei Qizheng has already met with him before him. After all, the Hong Kong circle is not big, although the Lei family relied on Kowloon Bus in the early years, but since Lei Qizheng began to get involved in the Lei family's operation, he gradually shifted his business focus to real estate, and the two have also had some dealings in recent years.
With Luo Zhaohui's strength, it is very difficult to take over the Golden Princess, but he is not alone, since he met the financial predator Liu Luanxiong a few years ago, the two soon came together because of the same preferences. In addition, Luo Zhaohui himself has revealed his interest in making movies in front of the media, so it is not difficult to explain why Mecca and Lei Qizheng both want him to take over Princess Jin, they actually fell in love with Liu Luanxiong's strong financial resources.
However, in terms of the selection of the pick-up man, Huang Baiming very much does not want Luo Liu to become the master, but he hopes that his old friend Luo Jiecheng can eat the golden princess.
As a wealthy businessman in Macau, Luo Jiecheng's financial resources may be much worse than that of Liu Luanxiong and Luo Zhaohui, but his personal relationship with Huang Baiming is very good, and he has always been interested in making movies. A few years ago, when the three giants of the new art city were not in agreement, he poached Huang Baiming, wanted to invest in him to set up a new film company, and promised to build a separate cinema chain for him.
And the reason why Huang Baiming wants Roger to become the princess of Jujin is that there is another careful thought in it, that is, he wants to match him with Chen Jialing.
Chen Jialing is one of the members of the Happy Girl Group, and Huang Baiming single-handedly discovered her debut, but unfortunately since she became famous in the "Happy Ghost" series, she has been popular but not popular, and her career has gone downhill in the past two years.
Fortunately, in a previous party, Roger Cheng fell in love with Chen Jialing at first sight after meeting her, and launched a fierce pursuit offensive against her. Huang Baiming takes good care of the girls in the happy girl group that he discovered, and he also knows that if he can marry into a wealthy family, it is not a beautiful thing for them who have no hope of career and are about to lose their youth, but they also have the heart to match.
As a result, at the same time, Luo Zhaohui and Luo Jiecheng, two pick-up heroes who are interested in the golden princess, appeared at the same time, and both parties are bound to win the golden princess, but it is beautiful Lei Qizheng, the person who is ready to throw off the plate and run away, but this is by no means a good thing for the golden princess!
“…… In order to acquire Princess Jin, Roger Cheng prepared 900 million funds, and turned over 4 or 500 million from familiar Australian businessmen. After several months of slow absorption, it has acquired about 35% of the shares of Golden Princess. However, the 'real estate prodigy' Luo Zhaohui teamed up with the 'financial predator' Liu Luanxiong, and the two ate a total of more than 41. 7% of the Golden Princess's shares, even without the support of Mecca, have formed a controlling stake in the Golden Princess, and now it can basically be concluded that Luo Zhaohui's entry into the Golden Princess is a foregone conclusion! The reason for the skyrocketing trading in a single day should be that there are major shareholders selling at high prices, and we suspect that the person who left may be Huang Baiming, of course, it cannot be ruled out that Roger admits that he was angry......"
Chen Qiang took the latest news that had just been sent below and came to Lin Xiaozhi's office.
"Princess Jin has changed owners after all!" Lin Xiaozhi smiled slightly, a little emotional.
Kowloon tycoon Lui Kokwan is still in the hospital, and has not been able to come out since he suddenly fainted and was admitted to the hospital a few years ago to recuperate. After waking up from a coma, he first lost the ability to walk in the past few years, and then slowly lost the ability to eat, drink and lazar, if it weren't for the fact that the Lei family was worth billions, and some expensive supplements hung his life, I was afraid that he would have died a long time ago.
Rao is so, inferring from the news reported by the media from time to time, he may not have a few days to live. No, just after the New Year this year, he suddenly suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and passed out in a coma, and he has not been able to wake up again. I heard that the hospital has issued a critical illness notice to the Lei family, and this Lei tycoon, who has been in Hong Kong for half a century, may not even survive the first half of this year.
However, if he is still here, it will not be the turn of his eldest son Lei Qizheng to sell the golden princess, and Lei Tycoon had personally admitted a few years ago that in his mind, the status of the golden princess is far more important than the more profitable Kowloon Bus.
Feeling emotional, Lin Xiaozhi's face immediately turned straight and asked: "Luo Liu and Mai joined forces to join the princess of the main gold, Huang Baiming is afraid that he is really going to run away." Although Lei Qizheng eased the contradiction between him and Mecca before, the disagreement between the three giants of Xinyicheng for several years has left too many contradictions, especially he and Huang Baiming are both great talents in management and operation, but there is only one company, and the battle between priority and priority has emerged before. ”
Among Hong Kong's well-known film companies, the only one who has broken out in the management power struggle is Princess Jin.
Shao Yifu's Shaw Brothers Film Company has never made trouble, because the boss Shao Yifu is too strong. Yongsheng and Media Asia are the same, both have strong bosses, and then hire professional managers to manage the company.
Although this is not the case with Jiahe, the division of labor is clear, and Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang have had a decades-long friendship between the two in the era, and they have a tacit understanding with each other. So much so that when He Guanchang wanted to retire because of his health in recent years, he also selected Sammo Hung for Zou Wenhuai to take over his class, so that he could continue to cooperate with Zou Wenhuai to manage Golden Harvest.
There is only the Golden Princess's family, because of the seeds of discord planted in the Lei Juekun era, which led to the discord of the three giants of the New Art City, and then after his son Lei Qizheng reconciled, Huang Baiming became the president of the New Art City, and Mecca pressed him half to become the president of the Golden Princess.
Chen Qiang nodded, and was just about to speak, when he heard Lin Xiaozhifu say again: "Huang Baiming shouldn't have decided on his next home now, looking at the Hong Kong film industry, he is also a first-class management wizard, Mr. Chen, you take a time to meet him, if he is willing to join us Media Asia, I will at least allow him a position as president!" ”
As soon as the words fell, he felt that something was wrong. looked up at Chen Qiang's face and found that he had indeed changed color slightly. In order to avoid thinking too much about this subordinate who has been with him for many years, he had to add: "In two days, you will accompany me to London to sign a contract with Polygram, and UCT Cinemas needs a new president!" ”
The implication is that even if Huang Baiming really joins Media Asia, it will not affect his presidentship, and Lin Xiaozhi is ready to let him go to London to manage UCT Cinemas.
Chen Qiang breathed a sigh of relief, and his eyes were filled with joy again.
In addition to Lin Xiaozhi being personally responsible for the negotiation with PolyGram at the beginning, he was handling it later, and the two took a while, after all, the record giant, whose profits have declined seriously in recent years, failed to withstand the temptation of Media Asia, and reached a final consensus with Chen Qiang five days ago, Polygram is willing to take 3. 25.7 billion pounds (about 38. HK$100 million) to sell UCT Cinemas, which owns a quarter of the screen in the UK, to Media Asia Film Group!
Inevitably delayed for too long, Lin Xiaozhi planned to leave for London to sign a contract in a few days, and then fly to Egypt to continue filming. His willingness to take Chen Qiang with him to sign the contract also shows that he is an affirmation of his work, at least when media reports in the future, when mentioning Hong Kong's largest overseas acquisition in recent years, it is impossible to take credit for his work. This is undoubtedly a gold-plated opportunity for a professional manager like Chen Qiang.
As for Huang Baiming, Lin Xiaozhi admits that he does admire one of the three giants of the former New Arts City, but he himself knows that Huang Baiming's talent is more suitable for making movies, and it is a bit of a mistake to let him manage a theater chain.
The future president of UCT Cinemas is very important, and in his mind, there are actually two more suitable candidates, no matter who will agree to join in the end, it will be profitable for Media Asia.
The golden princess's change of ownership drama did not last long, because the gap between the two sides was not small, and the protracted tug-of-war expected by the media did not appear in the golden princess, and soon with the golden princess board of directors Lei Qizheng was interviewed by the media with a smile, revealing that the last '7%' of the shares under his name had been sold to Luo Liu, announcing that this lively acquisition battle for a long time had come to an end.
"Lei Qizheng is selling Luo Zhaohui, and he laughs and says that he is optimistic about the talent of the 'real estate prodigy'!"
"Roger admitted that he rarely gave a face to the media, and scolded, 'He came to ask me what I was doing after he finished speaking'!"
"Dig deep into the inside story of the Golden Princess's change of ownership, a source revealed that Luo Liu was invited by Mecca, Huang Baiming strongly supported Roger to admit failure, and has submitted his resignation to the board of directors!"
Insiders pointed out that he had planned to acquire the Golden Princess at the end of last year, but in the final fight for Lei Qizheng's shares, the offer was one percent lower than that of the opponent, and he lost the opportunity to become the owner!
"Luo Zhaohui was interviewed by the winner, saying that he accepted Huang Baiming's resignation and would find a more competent new president for Xinyicheng!"
"Gao Zhisen, Gu Dezhao and more than a dozen other people resigned collectively, and Huang wanted to leave all of them, which provoked Mecca to be angry, 'Don't think about leaving anyone who hasn't expired'!"
The change came so quickly that people really didn't expect that, thanks to the development of Hong Kong's media industry, the Golden Princess Group had just exposed the change of shareholders, and it was confirmed that Huang Baiming submitted his resignation to the new board of directors, resigned from his position as president of Xinyicheng, and sold his shares in Golden Princess.
Two days later, it was exposed that Gao Zhisen, Gu Dezhao and other Huang Baiming's subordinates wanted to resign collectively. If Princess Jin really wants to approve it, they will lose half of the directors, screenwriters and middle- and upper-class artists at once, and their vitality will be greatly damaged. Fortunately, many of them have not expired their contracts with Princess Jin, so Mecca has a very strong attitude to suppress the resignation of most of them, but he did not offend people to death, and finally made the decision to let go of some of the Huang cadres whose contracts had expired and were about to end, which could be regarded as pulling the former brother Huang Baiming.
The news of the change of ownership on the side of Princess Jin is boiling in Hong Kong, and the "Oriental Daily", which has not been so beautiful for nearly a year by Lin Xiaozhi's newspapers, took advantage of the victory to pursue it, and soon shook out another news - Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Songlin's scholar company spent NT$100 million (about 32 million Hong Kong dollars) respectively to invest in Andy Lau's Tianmu and Zeng Zhiwei and other cutting-edge filmmakers' UFO film company, and the report also said that scholars may be in contact with Tsui Hark's film studio, if the two sides reach a consensus, Taiwanese film dealer tycoon Tsai Songlin, who claims to have 7 billion yuan, may be happy to take out several times the amount of money he has invested in Tianmu and UFOs to invest in Tsui Hark Studio.
Although Cai Songlin's handwriting is far less than the Golden Princess's change of ownership, as Taiwan's largest private cinema giant, he once claimed to be a giant filmmaker with 7 billion Taiwanese capital in Hong Kong, and his fame and background in the entertainment industry are far higher than Luo Zhaohui and Luo Jiecheng, so as soon as this news was poked out, it immediately seemed to overthrow a domino, and immediately caused a chain reaction.
Soon, "Ming Pao" broke the news that the Xiang brothers reached a consensus and invested a total of 500 million Hong Kong dollars in Yongsheng and China Star film companies for equipment upgrades, artist signings, training and new film production. China Star is a film company established by Xiang Sheng, who ran away, after two brothers, Xiang Qiang and Xiang Sheng, had a dispute over business philosophy last year. Unlike Yongsheng Film Company, which used some shady means at the beginning of its entry into the industry, and therefore still carries the black label on its back, China Star has been in line with the rules of the industry since its establishment, whether it is investing or inviting stars and directors, although there are still voices criticizing it as a film company established by Xiang Jia in order to launder funds, it is undeniable that the industry's acceptance of it is much higher than that of Yongsheng, and many artists are happy to cooperate with it.
Soon after "Next Magazine" pulled out Jackie Chan's invitation to participate in the cocktail party of Macau gambling king Ho Hongshen's company, all the members of the family class that was on the verge of disbanding last year because of the continuous reduction of production all got a big red envelope, and Jackie Chan, known as the big mouth, then proudly admitted in an interview with "Cheng Pao" that the gambling king had invested in his Weihe Film Company.
Not long after, "Oriental Daily" once again broke the news that gambling king He Hongshen had tried to invest in Media Asia and Golden Harvest without success, and chose to invest 100 million yuan in Jackie Chan's Weihe, and at the same time, his most favored daughter He Chaoqiong finally got her wish and entered the entertainment industry as the investment supervisor of the He family. It is worth mentioning that this strong woman, who married Xu Jinheng, a wealthy second generation in Hong Kong in 91, and angrily chose to divorce because of his chaotic private life in the second year, is now openly pursuing the king of the music world, Chen Baiqiang, although the He family is very opposed to this......
At the end of March, the Hong Kong entertainment industry was disturbed for a while, and it was full of hot news. While provoking many media in Hong Kong and Taiwan to run around looking for more explosive news, it also stirred the hearts of the Hong Kong film and television circle.
Just after entering April, I thought that a light rain in late spring could extinguish the hot air flow over Victoria Harbour, but suddenly two other major newspapers in Hong Kong, "South China Morning Post" and "Hong Kong Economic Journal", respectively shook out two revelations, "Media Asia Group and Kowloon Bank have exchanged more than 7 billion Hong Kong dollars of foreign exchange to the Hong Kong Exchange Management Fund". Inviting stars and directors is all in accordance with the rules of the industry, although there are still voices criticizing it as a film company established by Xiang Jia to launder funds, it is undeniable that the industry's acceptance of it is much higher than that of Yongsheng, and many artists are happy to cooperate with it.
Soon after "Next Magazine" pulled out Jackie Chan's invitation to participate in the cocktail party of Macau gambling king Ho Hongshen's company, all the members of the family class that was on the verge of disbanding last year because of the continuous reduction of production all got a big red envelope, and Jackie Chan, known as the big mouth, then proudly admitted in an interview with "Cheng Pao" that the gambling king had invested in his Weihe Film Company.
Not long after, "Oriental Daily" once again broke the news that gambling king He Hongshen had tried to invest in Media Asia and Golden Harvest without success, and chose to invest 100 million yuan in Jackie Chan's Weihe, and at the same time, his most favored daughter He Chaoqiong finally got her wish and entered the entertainment industry as the investment supervisor of the He family. It is worth mentioning that this strong woman, who married Xu Jinheng, a wealthy second generation in Hong Kong in 91, and angrily chose to divorce because of his chaotic private life in the second year, is now openly pursuing the king of the music world, Chen Baiqiang, although the He family is very opposed to this......
At the end of March, the Hong Kong entertainment industry was disturbed for a while, and it was full of hot news. While provoking many media in Hong Kong and Taiwan to run around looking for more explosive news, it also stirred the hearts of the Hong Kong film and television circle.
Just after entering April, I thought that a light rain in late spring could extinguish the hot air flow over Victoria Harbour, but suddenly two other major newspapers in Hong Kong, "South China Morning Post" and "Hong Kong Economic Journal", respectively shook out two revelations, "Media Asia Group and Kowloon Bank have exchanged more than 7 billion Hong Kong dollars of foreign exchange to the Hong Kong Exchange Management Fund".