Chapter 47: California Trip (Seeking Collection, Follow-up)
The next day, after processing the contracts of Wang Zuxian and Li Jiaxin.
Li Xingchen threw Li Jiaxin to the director of the company's performing arts department, and asked him to be responsible for training this "most beautiful Hong Kong sister in the future" who is full of swear words and lies.
As for Wang Zuxian, he did not continue to provoke the other party.
Just signed the contract very politely.
The disappointment in Wang Zuxian's eyes, he also pretended not to see it.
Sometimes there are too many peach blossoms, which is not a good thing.
After handing in a night's homework at Zou Huimin's place, he took the master tape of "A Chinese Ghost Story" and stepped on the plane to Citigroup.
Li Xingchen flew directly from Xiangjiang to San Francisco.
Because ILM's computer animation department is located in the satellite city of San Francisco, Emeryville.
After meeting up with the borscht who had been waiting there.
They soon signed a deal with ILM.
Li Xingchen made several copies of the master tapes he brought, and then handed over these replicas and the storyboard script he had drawn a long time ago to John. Lasseter.
The original master tape is then placed in a safe deposit box at the bank.
With the storyboard script of "A Chinese Ghost Story", the newly established Pixar Animation can preliminarily build a computer animation model of those stunt shots of "A Chinese Ghost Story" based on the storyboard script.
"You just threw "A Chinese Ghost Story" to this group of foreigners and let them do it themselves?"
Luo Song asked in surprise, "They know the ancient Chinese style of P, just that zombie, they can make a vampire Dracula!" ”
Li Xingchen turned his head and glanced at him: "Speaking of which, you are also a foreigner, right?" ”
Luo Song took a sip: "My body is a Citi body, and my heart is the heart of Huaguo, don't talk nonsense." ”
"This time back to Citi, in addition to the later stage of the production of "A Chinese Ghost Story", we also have to meet your parents, if you want to return to Hollywood from Xiangjiang as soon as possible, you have to find some Citigroup Capital as a partner."
Li Xingchen sighed, "Otherwise, no matter how capable we are, we won't be able to stop the jackals, tigers and leopards all over the world." ”
"As for the stunt shots of "A Chinese Ghost Story", let's wait for Pixar to model it first, and after we finish our work in Los Angeles, we will come back and finish it."
Borschton smiled and said, "Then aren't you going to be a bachelor for a month?" Would you like to introduce a few beautiful women to you? ”
"I still need your introduction? You forget, when I was on a high school graduation trip, I was the man who slept all the way from Salt Lake City to Las Vegas! ”
Luo Song was furious: "! The hotel money and the gas money are all paid by me! ”
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Los Angeles, California.
This place is known as the City of Angels.
Not only Hollywood, but also countless Citigroup tycoons.
It's not as good as New York City, but it's in the eighties before San Francisco's Silicon Valley took off.
The city is the economic and cultural center of Citigroup's west coast.
Of course, it's also full of greed, traps, gore, and deceit.
"Simon, I am deeply gratified by the achievements you have made in Xiangjiang, Romeo under your guidance, and no longer bring some messy women home every day, I am very happy that you can change from two scoundrels to useful talents in society."
The old man sitting on the beach chair took out his right hand from a young girl and took the best cigar handed by Li Xingchen.
This is an old American man with the distinctive features of a bald head and a red face.
The appearance is nine out of nine similar to borscht.
He was Romeo II, the father of the borscht. Stirlingslovsky.
The full name of the borscht is Romeo III. Surname. Strindrowski, simply borscht.
“MFK! This taste is pure enough, you two little Beechcraft, do you add some ingredients to it? ”
Romeo II. Stirlingslovsky (henceforth referred to as Ross) sat up sharply, pulled the young girl beside him, and took a hard sip of her peak, a look of satisfaction on his face.
"This is the top goods from South America, and the ingredients are also from South America."
Li Xingchen laughed, he knew this old villain too well.
When he was a child, he and Borscht became bad, and nine out of nine came from the teachings of this old man.
Ross is a senior executive at Columbia Pictures.
Living in the bizarre Citi entertainment industry, it is natural to have all five poisons.
However, the resources around him, such as Citi's capital, talents, theaters, etc., are what Li Xingchen needs most.
Xiangjiang and Citigroup are two different cultural regions.
Not to mention that he has not achieved earth-shattering success in Xiangjiang, even if he dominates the entertainment industry in Xiangjiang in the future, he will not have a great impact on Citi.
Wu Yusen, who dominated the Hong Kong film industry back then, came to Citi and had to start over.
Citi's capital is an indispensable key enabler in his future plans.
Like the history of Citigroup, the history of the Stirlingslovsky family is not very long, they emigrated from Eastern Europe, first as ironworkers, and later gradually became large farmers in the process of westward expansion.
Then, after several generations of hard work, he became a wealthy man in California.
For two hundred years, the Stirinrowsky family, who are of Jewish descent, have deep connections in the entertainment industry and financial circles.
Citigroup is also a humane society.
It was essential to have Ross' support and build his own network in Citigroup.
It's much more powerful than networking in Hong Kong.
Money is the greatest power in this world.
Citigroup's money is not comparable to that of Xiangjiang, a small land.
As for the five major film companies, he is not interested in contacting them yet, after all, he is still a small shrimp in the global entertainment industry.
If he wants to negotiate cooperation with the five major film companies, he must first grow into a towering tree before he has a bargaining chip.
Otherwise, you can only be reduced to a part-time job.
The kind of bridge where a small director wants to become a big capitalist by counterattacking his works can only be a beautiful dream.
And to become a big tree.
Then it has to be capital!
You have to rely on capital and talent to break into Hollywood!
"You want to go public in three years?"
After listening to Li Xingchen's narration, Rose's eyes widened and he looked at this godson he liked very much.
Within three years, let a small film company go public in Xiangjiang?
That's a joke.
Although the difficulty of listing in Xiangjiang is far lower than that of listing in Citigroup, it is not something that a small company like Yanhuang Film, which has only been established for a few months and has only made one hit movie, can do it.
And this kind of explosion is only an explosion in the Chinese cultural circle, and it does not have much influence in the world.
"Yes, in the past two years, the company plans to release five to ten films every year, and strive to squeeze into the box office charts of Hong Kong."
Facing the godfather's questioning, Li Xingchen did not panic, but smiled calmly, "Next year, I will apply for a hearing and strive to be listed the year after next, but I don't want Xiangjiang's capital, but Citigroup." ”
To become capital, it is necessary to go public.
Get the most resources and funding.
Relying on the money earned at the box office alone, you can only become a big director, not a capitalist.
After the success of "True Colors of Heroes".
Li Xingchen's ambitions are also getting bigger and bigger.
He is no longer satisfied with being a director, but wants to build an entertainment empire!
It has a number of listed companies.
The listing of the Yanhuang movie has naturally become his goal in the past three years.
"Do you want to pull capital at Citi?"
Rose laughed, then motioned for the young girl next to him to leave, leaving only the three of them.
"Little Simon, Citigroup's capital can indeed make all kinds of forces in Xiangjiang bow their heads, but they are not good men and women, but a prehistoric giant crocodile, if you want to get his money, he wants to get everything from you!"
In his heart, Li Xingchen, like Luo Song, is his son.
Children make mistakes, and as parents, point them out.
Instead of blindly praising and protecting.
These two little bastards, who went to Xiangjiang to start a business and become bigger, will naturally encounter many uncontrollable dangers, including various threats in black and white.
In Xiangjiang in the 80s, the entertainment industry was not only female stars!
There are also countless ferocious crocodiles.
The kind that eats people and doesn't spit out bones.
If you want to survive under the mouths of these crocodiles, you must find a more ferocious backer.
Looking at the world, who else can compare to the ferocity of Citigroup?
Compared with the prehistoric giant crocodiles such as Citigroup Capital, the crocodiles in Xiangjiang can only be regarded as small reptiles in their juveniles.
A mouthful of a crunchy kind.
"We're little crocodiles, too!"
Hearing his father's words, Luo Fatzi was not happy, he was the kind of invincible opponent in the world who deceived the world in Xiangjiang.
As long as there is enough money, he can't untie the belt of a little star!
Naturally, there is the self-consciousness of the little crocodile.
"You're a little crocodile?"
Rose glanced at Borscht disdainfully.
He is also a girl himself, but he can also become a giant in the Citi entertainment industry.
Women and careers are the right thing!
But what about this kid?
All day long, I only know how to use money to smash P, and I don't have any technical content at all, and I can't see the future of my career.
I really want to smash this kid back to where he was born with one punch!
"Personal, forget it, don't be angry!"
Ross could only meditate in his heart.
"If you want to be a little crocodile, you must win any of the influential international gold awards!"
Ross didn't bother to mess with these two little bastards, and for the sake of them sending a case of excellent cigars, he decided to tell them directly what a Citigroup admission ticket was.
"Within three years, if you can win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the Cannes Palme d'Or, the Venice Golden Lion and other awards, you will be eligible to talk to Citigroup!"
"Otherwise, you will only be eaten by them in one bite, no, they are too lazy to eat you."
Didn't he look down on these two boys, they were all little bastards who grew up under his nose, how many pounds and taels there were, didn't he know?
Except for money, these two little bastards, have nothing!
And it costs money to get the international gold award, hehe, the money on these two little bastards is far from enough!
Just as Rose wanted to lie back on the beach chair, he heard Li Xingchen's voice.
"Okay, then if I get the Venice Golden Lion this year, father, you will have to let at least five or more Citigroup Capital become cornerstone investors and anchor investors when Yanhuang Film submits for the listing hearing, and there will be at least more than twenty anchor investors!"
Li Xingchen said in a deep voice.