Hollywood New Century - Chapter 404
Simon took the “Polaris” to the west along the Balearic coastline in the Mediterranean Sea and arrived at Barcelona, a famous tourist port city in Spain. The “Polaris” stopped at the port of Barcelona. As the fifth largest economy in Europe after Germany, Britain, France and Italy, Spain still has some weight in Simon’s heart.
As the second largest city in Spain, the capital of the Autonomous Region of Catalonia, the gateway to the Iberian Peninsula, with a typical Mediterranean climate, and the world’s top football giant Barcelona, it attracts countless tourists every year.
Came to Barcelona, because a Spanish film “Tsunami Miracle” invested by Venus Pictures is being filmed here, which is based on the 2004 Indonesian tsunami. With an investment of 30 million euros, the film is definitely not comparable to special effects blockbusters such as “2012” and “The Day After Tomorrow”, but it has a good consideration of human nature and nature.
Moreover, coupled with the earthquake and tsunami that just happened in the eastern part of RB this year, then perhaps this “Tsunami Miracle” will have unexpected effects and box office. It is also interesting to have “King Kong” girl Naomi Watts join.
In the Hilton Hotel in Barcelona’s financial district, Simon was sleeping soundly with his arms around Maria Vaward, who had finished filming “Game of Thrones” from the United States.
A burst of cell phone ringing woke Simon up. It turned out to be a call from Martha Cosby, and the shares of Alibaba had been acquired.
“Yahoo sold Alibaba shares to Phoenix China Capital and its joint investment company for $5.8 billion in cash. Phoenix China Capital owns 17.24% of Alibaba shares for $5 billion, and another Chinese investment bank owns 2.76%!” Martha Cosby on the phone reports.
“As for SoftBank, they didn’t give up their shares.”
“Very good!” It was finally done, and Simon was relieved now, “Softbank doesn’t need to worry about it, I will give it some color when I have a chance in the future!”
After hanging up the phone, Maria Wavward was also awakened by Simon’s voice, looking at Simon who seemed a little happy, and asked, “Did something good happen again, so happy?”
“It’s nothing, the company’s development is getting better and better, of course I’m happy,” Simon said, bowing his head and kissing the girl, and then got up.
As the leader of the early European era of navigation, Spain has colonized many countries and regions, and its influence in Latin America is still very large.
Moreover, Spanish is also the most widely circulated in Latin America. Therefore, Universal International Pictures still has a large proportion of its international production and distribution business in Spain. Miami serves as Xinghai Entertainment’s headquarters for Latin America, while Spain is Xinghai Entertainment’s business-focused content company in Spanish.
Spanish movies are still good in the suspense and thriller categories, and Hollywood has also purchased the rights to remake many Spanish movies.
After breakfast, Simon sat on the sofa and picked up the newspaper next to him to look through it. There are quite a lot of football news in Marca and World Sports.
“The football atmosphere in Spain is really different. FC Barcelona is basically the business card here,” Simon said with a smile to Maria Vaward, who was next to him while flipping through the newspaper.
“Barcelona culture permeates the city, football is the second life of Spaniards, Barcelona has another team, Real Espanyol, but they are basically forgotten names,” Maria Wavo De smiled and said that Barcelona City is basically talking about Barcelona.
“Real Madrid, Barcelona, are indeed different,” Simon also admitted, good results and great fame, not to mention global influence, and strong commercial promotion.
The membership club is so crazy and cool. Moreover, with the guarantees of various banks in the region and the official credit institutions of the kingdom, as long as the influence is large enough, there is no shortage of money, because there is no need for a boss to make a profit.
“Interesting!” Simon suddenly saw the report that Getafe officially announced that the club would be sold to the Royal Dubai Group from the United Arab Emirates.
Isn’t this the weird gang of liars in Dubai? Simon almost laughed out loud when he looked at the photos of Getafe club chairman Angel Torres and Dubai liars pointing the way at a grand press conference.
“The finances of many clubs in La Liga are not optimistic now,” Simon felt. If UEFA and FIFA had not stipulated that the same legal person could not own two teams in the same league, Jiutou Bird Sports and Entertainment Company would then acquire the five major leagues. The other teams are also available.
That is, if you can’t participate in the Champions League in the future, what’s the point of not participating in the Champions League?
“It’s not only the football club’s poor financial situation, but the whole of Spain’s economic situation is very bad now,” Maria Valward was originally a Spaniard, this kind of thing is still clear.
“By the way, this weekend is the 34th round of La Liga. Real Madrid is at home and Barcelona is away. Do you want to see it?” Maria Vaward looked at Simon with expectation.
Maria Waward wore a white men’s shirt casually, concealing her graceful physique.
Simon hugged the girl into his arms and said with a smile: “When I came to Spain, of course I asked to watch a game. Barcelona is going to visit Real Sociedad. In San Sebastian, let’s go to Madrid and see Real Sociedad. Madrid’s Bernabeu vibe!”
Barcelona is in the east, San Sebastian is in the north, and Madrid is in the middle. In fact, the distance between Barcelona and these two places is not much different.
However, Simon still has some ideas about Real Madrid, and the Bernabeu Stadium also wants to see it; as for the Camp Nou Stadium, which is in the Sants area of Barcelona, you can go at any time.
“Well, Real Madrid’s home atmosphere is very good, and there are many fans.” Maria Vaward heard that Simon agreed to go to Madrid to watch Real Madrid’s games together, and of course was happy.
And Maria Vaward lives in Madrid most of the time. She doesn’t come to Barcelona a lot. Of course, the team she supports is not Barcelona, but Real Madrid.
“I’m going back to Madrid tonight and I’ll be waiting for you,” Maria Valward added.
“Okay, this Wednesday, I’ll go to Madrid the day after tomorrow.” Simon is more fond of Barcelona than Madrid.
Besides, Simon has to go to the studio of “Tsunami Miracle” at night. The investment of 30 million euros is not small for a Spanish film.