Hong Kong Stubborn - Chapter 134
Fengxue Giant Trust Investment Fund has set up a lot of offshore investment accounts. The trader team is also a professional trader hired from the United States. The army sister spent a month preparing for the blockade of the “South China Daily”.
If it were Kuang Meiyun, even if she divorced Luo Junyan, she would not agree with him.
On December 10th, the 42nd birthday of sister army, the Snowstorm Giants Trust and Investment Fund began to absorb the circulating stocks of the “South China Daily” in batches through multiple offshore accounts. This process of opening a position is relatively long. After the opening of a position reaches a certain size, forward Hang Seng Index futures will be sold in the Hong Kong stock market to hedge against the risk of stock decline.
Luo Junyan knows nothing about financial investment, but he knows that the higher the stock price of Nanhua Daily, the greater the loss it will cause to the Guo family. Therefore, he has already started to prepare the topic of hype in advance. The “South China Daily” has just launched its portal website this year. At that time, it will use Yingqu’s first-year performance and development prospects to hype the “South China Daily”.
At this time, Xinghui’s first film “The God of Cookery” has entered the pre-heating promotion period, and it is scheduled to be released on the Christmas stall. Brother Xing’s film has become the arrow of the hot shadow fun network, and the purpose behind it will not be revealed until then.
Yingqu.com gave all the best resources to “The God of Cookery” to promote it, which made Wang Xiaopang quite dissatisfied. “Hundred Percent Feeling 2”, which was exclusively voted by the best partner company, is also scheduled to be released on the Christmas file. The promotion on the website is much worse, and the friendship in the past has little effect.
This can only be said to be sorry. Luo Junyan persuaded Xingge to pay 2 million Hong Kong dollars to promote Yingqu.com and increase Yingqu’s annual revenue. The condition of the exchange is that the Snow Knight Distribution Company guarantees that “The God of Cookery” can be shown on the whole line in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, and this time no publicity service fee will be charged.
As for the box office after the release in other cities? Then the market has the final say.
On December 21st, “The God of Cookery” and “Hundred Percent Feeling 2” were released on the same day. The two films are not comparable, and they are not a heavyweight player at all. The gap between the two films was very obvious at the beginning of the show.
However, the production costs of the two films are also there. Wang Xiaopang will not shoot movies regardless of the cost, and the best partner company can also make a lot of money. Recently, Luo Junyan has often comforted Wang Xiaopang, and those who are content are always happy.
Luo Junyan’s vacation plan on “Qinghuan Island” this year did not come true, and the family spent two days on the yacht.
Both Luo Zhiqing and Luo Zhiyuan have gone to school. The longer the two little girls, the more beautiful they are. Their looks and figures are very similar, but their personalities are quite different. My elder sister became self-reliant very early, and my younger sister liked to behave like a baby. Luo Junyan felt that the two daughters had divided his personality in half.
Since the end of the year, Luo Junyan has asked Qian Shouyi to keep an eye on the political and business celebrities, and the other party hasn’t been doing anything. On the contrary, Luo Junyan was even more worried. The dog that bit people didn’t bark. After Xiangjiang’s return, he might not be charged with any crime.
If there is a slight disturbance here, Luo Junyan will have to move his family to the United States, and remote control will be very troublesome. Moreover, these people may live to affect his revenge plan. This is the focus of Qian Shouyi’s eyes. Once signs of intervention are found, the videotapes of bed yoga will be released immediately.
On New Year’s Day in 1997, Luo Junyan’s family spent time with the old sister’s family and Cheng Ge.
Brother Cheng drank a lot that night, and the return of Xiangjiang has little to do with him, but it is not a waste of life to be able to witness this grand event on the spot in this life.
After New Year’s Day, Luo Junyan did not arrange a summary meeting this year. Companies are undergoing transformation or dormant periods. They are all investing more and less money. It doesn’t make sense to open it. Besides, he doesn’t want to interfere too much in the decision-making of each person in charge, including trivial matters such as whether to pay dividends.
Only Hu Xin took the initiative to offer her flattery. In 1996, she was quite proud. All five Hollywood films have been finished. The box office of “The Devil-Earth Strikes Back” is 49.87 million Hong Kong dollars, the box office of “Mission Impossible” is 39 million Hong Kong dollars, the box office of “Tornado” is 28.3 million Hong Kong dollars, and the box office of “Evaporation Secret” is 27.5 million Hong Kong dollars. “Anti Fighter” box office 16.1 million Hong Kong dollars.
Snow Knight’s distribution company made 72.35 million Hong Kong dollars from these five foreign films, and its net profit after tax was more than 28 million. Hu Xin is currently lacking in interest in the distribution of Hong Kong’s local productions, and is focused on buying the rights to the Hong Kong filming of Hollywood films. Now he only earns hundreds of thousands of local productions when he releases a local production.
Luo Junyan did not refute her. Hu Xin can get the global market box office analysis report of those film companies or distribution companies in the United States, so she can talk about the buyout price near the bottom line of the other party, anyway, she can give full play to it. Luo Junyan only asked her to fulfill the agency work of “The God of Cookery”. After the announcement, it is also an important means to tie these share-holding companies together, and only a few classic cases can be made.
The Korean Throne Independent Studios has officially opened before Christmas, and Huo Wenxi will not be able to return to Xiangjiang until the end of the Spring Festival. Luo Junyan discussed in advance with sister army, brother Cheng and Luo Meizi about setting up a brokerage company. This job is not easy to do. Managing an artist is the most difficult, especially after an artist becomes famous.
In the end, Luo Junyan made the decision and put out a start-up capital of 50 million Hong Kong dollars for Huo Wenxi to try. There are personal feelings in it. His followers have obtained their due rights. Huo Wenxi deserves the same preferential treatment, and he will lose all 50 million.
This year, the heads of the subsidiaries have decided not to pay dividends, and XJ International Entertainment Media does not have a cent in its account. In order to gather the initial capital of the brokerage company, each shareholder increased the capital in proportion to the shareholding ratio, which also happened to be used to upgrade XJ International Entertainment Media to a group company.
Luo Junyan and his wife paid 42.5 million Hong Kong dollars, Cheng Ge paid 5 million Hong Kong dollars, and Luo Meizi paid 2.5 million Hong Kong dollars. XJ International Entertainment Media Group invested 50 million Hong Kong dollars to establish a sixth subsidiary in Xiangjiang, Yingxue Royal Family Entertainment Brokers Co., Ltd., with Huo Wenxi as president and holding 5% of the shares.
There were only more than 80 million cash left in the private account of Luo Junyan and his wife. At the end of last year, only 10 million Hong Kong dollars were transferred to the United States.
Brother Cheng is the most helpless one, Luo Meizi is a rich woman with several hundred million in assets, let alone Luo Junyan and his wife. Only when I traveled back to my well-informed self, I felt distressed for a while when I spent 5 million. If I could not get all those antiques and treasures, Luo Junyan would be cheaper.
The Ruixue Asian Partner Support Fund is jointly managed and operated by sister army and Lomez. In 1997, Xiangjiang had only three share-holding entertainment companies, Xinghui Overseas, Tianmu Film Production, and Galaxy Imaging. Only Tianmu did not apply for support quotas, and the other two companies received support funds. There are 8 places left, Lujia Entertainment Company in South Korea and 2 entertainment companies in Japan.
South Korea’s Silver Snow Throne Entertainment Company has expanded its tentacles into Japan, but the pace of its shareholding companies has slowed down, and liquidity has been spent seven or eighty eight, and Luo Junyan will no longer make up for it.
Jin Zhehe needs self-blood formation, and the coverage of the Silver Snow Throne Asian Star Training Academy needs to be expanded. After the return of Xiangjiang, the mainland is also an important business market.
The Silver Snow Throne Asian Star Training Academy was personally awarded by the Korean Cultural Department. Luo Junyan has contributed too much to Korean cultural undertakings. He must show his full support on the bright side. This is also a good opportunity for him. The Korean entertainment industry needs to establish a typical character.
On February 7, “The God of Cookery” was released in Xiangjiang, and the final box office was 40.86 million Hong Kong dollars. Luo Junyan breathed a sigh of relief. The better Xiangjiang’s box office performance, the easier it will be to release to the overseas market. Star Brother did not disappoint this time.
Before this, there is good news that HSBC’s fixed deposits have expired. Luo Junyan received 435 million Hong Kong dollars, and the cash in his private account rose to 520 million. Luo Junyan asked Army sister to transfer 500 million Hong Kong dollars to Wind Snow Giant Asset Management’s account.
This time he took the “South China Daily” operation, the more the reserve funds, the more the better, and he held an attitude of going all out.
In mid-February, Huo Wenxi finally returned to the long-lost Xiangjiang.
Luo Junyan prepared all Yingxue Royal Entertainment Brokerage Company for her. The brokerage company had a lot of manpower, took up a large area, and had to have cards. Luo Junyan especially rented a half-storey office building near Central. As for the layout? When will it open? Let Huo Wenxi decide for himself.
After the Spring Festival, Luo Zhaohui noticed that there was capital slowly absorbing the “South China Daily”, but the method of opening a position was very professional, and it did not cause a large fluctuation in the stock price.
He sent people to stare at Luo Junyan every day, only to find that Luo Junyan was either at home with his children or went to a company in the entertainment circle to sit and chat. Luo Zhaohui really couldn’t be sure that Luo Junyan was scanning the goods, mainly because Luo Junyan was notoriously valued about money, so why wouldn’t such a large investment go to the town himself?
It wasn’t until mid-March that the stock price of the “South China Daily” got higher and higher as the market rose, and Luo Zhaohui made up his mind to borrow leveraged funds to build a position. Now he is suffering from internal and external troubles, and has begun to secretly sell his assets under his name. If he wins this bet, all problems can be solved.
This year, the Oriental Cinema Line has reduced its scale and the number of its own theaters has been reduced to 13. The Snowman Times Building has been demolishing and rebuilding an office building with more than 40 floors. Three other properties have been replaced by new owners. The rents have risen too ridiculously, and the four theaters have closed their operations.
The 1997 Spring Festival stalls still belonged to Brother Long and Brother Star. Brother Long’s “A Good Man” had a box office of 45.5 million Hong Kong dollars, and “97 Happy Events” had a box office of 40.2 million Hong Kong dollars. The other was “The God of Cookery” produced by Xinghui Overseas. “Huang Feihong: Lion of the Western Regions” starring Jet Li was also considered good, with a box office of 30.3 million Hong Kong dollars.
These few highlights cannot conceal the overall weakness of the Xiangjiang film market, and the box office of new films produced in the city is further declining. Such a start made Luo Junyan feel that the market of the Hong Kong film market this year might be worse than last year. He can only hope that there will be a few more popular films in the middle of the year.
But the less the box office can sell, the better the business of Yingqu.com. It can save a lot of money, and the effect is not bad. More and more production companies choose this low-cost publicity method.
Since Hua Ge lost tens of millions last time, this time he learned the way of Luo Junyan, to reduce costs as much as possible, and the main actors used new talents. Tianmu didn’t apply for a support fund place, because it was temporarily exploring the prospects of this road, and now I don’t know how to use the money.
The cost of the first film invested by Tianmu Films this time was only 500,000 Hong Kong dollars, and the name was “Made in Xiangjiang”. Hua Ge also borrowed from Luo Junyan’s habit of hyping with historical background. In 1997, when Xiangjiang returned, films that reflected the local cultural characteristics of Xiangjiang would most likely resonate with the citizens of Xiangjiang, and the shooting of “Made in Xiangjiang” was initiated.
At this time, Jiahe was planning to shoot a new film “The Wind and Cloud Dominates the World”, and a lot of computer special effects were used during the filming process. Jiahe went to Xiantao Digital to discuss cooperation. After Luo Junyan got the news, he took the initiative to visit Zou Wenhuai and grabbed the contract with samples made by Gemini Digital.
The overall production level of Gemini Digital is much higher than that of Centro Digital. Zhu Jiaxin has still been in the stage of taking his own money in the past two years. The special effects produced are still so fake, so it makes people jump off the show. But the quotation is definitely cheaper than Gemini Digital, as for how much cheaper? That would have to be confirmed after Will was called over to communicate.
Zou Wenhuai gave Luo Junyan a week to confirm the final offer. Under Luo Junyan’s urgent call, Will rushed to Xiangjiang with his assistant, and gave a rough quotation in five days, which was exactly three times that of Centro Digital.
Luo Junyan can choose to enter the Hong Kong market at a low price, but he decided not to change the purpose of Gemini digital special effects for short-term benefits, and only serve those customers who know the true value of special effects. Needless to say, Will took a trip at public expense, and Jiahe chose to cooperate with Centro Digital.
After sending Will away, Luo Junyan couldn’t help but remember that he was like Zou Wenhuai at the beginning, because he chose a local special effects company because of the price. And in this short period of time, Hollywood films have used computer special effects to occupy the world. Maybe Master is right. Xiangjiang is just a small pond, even if you put a dragon in it, it won’t grow up.
The price of Gemini digital special effects service is only half of that of the American special effects company, and the overall level can definitely reach the top of the middle. This is not a single order in Asia, but orders from Europe and the United States are coming in one after another.
Is it abnormal? Actually it’s normal. People live in reality, not because of the gap between vision, mind, and imagination, but because you have to compromise with reality.
Brother Long always wants to be a director by himself. His directing level is more than enough, but he will always be blocked by a strong force. Because he pursues perfection too much as a director, the production cost is astonishingly high. This year’s “A Good Man” production cost is close to 200 million Hong Kong dollars. Coupled with the high publicity costs in other cities, how much box office do you want to sell to earn back?
Luo Junyan felt that it was not easy for Zou Wenhuai, regardless of Jiahe’s big air, but the money he made in the past two years may not be as much as he earned in the previous two years. Otherwise, Zou Wenhuai would not have to go to the speculators that buy low and sell high.