Chapter 632: Entering a wealthy family, causing a sensation
The top South Korean director Bong Joon-ho has been in China for more than half a month.
Zhou Yutang is the investor and chief producer of "Broken Tomb". After the film was completed, the post-production and special effects work were all handled by Vision Media.
Bong Joon-ho is still busy working on the post-production period of the movie, and it seems that he may even spend the Spring Festival here.
Chen Xi just reported on the progress of "Mermaid". Zhou Xingxing's recent filming progress is going quite smoothly. The current progress is about 70%, and it is expected to be completed before the year.
Even Li Xiuman ran to heaven.
Lim Yoona, who was euphemistically called to visit the studio for filming, was soon revealed by Korean media to be involved in illegal foreign exchange transactions.
This is a rush to China to avoid the limelight.
By the way, I also took a stroll to Jiangdong Entertainment.
The two girls at the front desk recognized the old man wearing black-rimmed glasses and being unsmiling.
A giant in the South Korean entertainment industry, he has brought out top groups in Asia such as TVXQ and Girls' Generation, and Lao Li has also appeared in many domestic news reports.
“As expected of the leader in China’s entertainment industry.”
However, after seeing the honors and trophies all over the wall in Jiangdong’s honor room, Li Xiuman was stunned for several minutes.
What kind of monster is this?
I originally thought I had high enough regard for Zhou Yutang, but now I realize that I still underestimated his ability.
When I first thought about the cooperation between the two parties and a bite of the sweet and delicious cake from Tianchao Market, I didn't expect that even if I killed Li Xiuman, Zhou Yutang would develop to such a situation.
Thinking of this young man’s recent earth-shattering moves, he may soon become the owner of the Premier League giants Liverpool.
Li Xiuman was relieved.
Jiangdong Entertainment is already a terrifying behemoth, even he can only look up at it.
“I heard that Alibaba will invest in S&M soon?”
After all, he was the old man who brought Yoona to debut. Zhou Yutang was quite polite to Li Xiuman and asked Ni Ni to make him a cup of top-notch Tieguanyin:
"Teacher Li is blessed."
Jack Ma worked hard. , to build the entire Alibaba entertainment ecological chain.
Recently, there have been many moves, targeting S&M companies.
Jack Horse's playing method is actually very simple, it is to spend money to make you call daddy.
There are rumors in the industry that Alibaba is about to make a large-scale investment of 100 billion won (approximately 550 million yuan) in South Korea's S&M Entertainment Company after preliminary inspections.
This news sent S&M's stock price soaring like a rocket.
"I will never give up control of S&M."
Li Xiuman raised the tea cup and seemed to be admiring the blue and white porcelain tea cup, smiling like an old fox that became a spirit.
It seems that this old fox has not been fooled by Jack Ma’s Ali entertainment strategy.
The important puzzle of Alibaba Entertainment is sweeping across Asia and going global. It sounds powerful, but in fact it is mostly empty talk.
Lee Soo Man intends to expand the Chinese market, but he is not stupid either.
If Ali takes over S&M Company, it will be tantamount to inviting a wolf into the house.
When the power is lost, I am afraid that he will be kicked out immediately.
Where is it that the left hand is now the right hand, setting up a personal company outside, and using sky-high consulting and outsourcing album production fees to suck the blood of S&M companies?
"20 Again" was released for more than 20 days and finally passed the 400 million threshold at the end of January, with a total box office revenue of 423 million.
Although the single-day box office dropped to around two million, and it will be released in a few days, it has achieved its expected goal.
This movie is controlled by Xiao Ma. During the release period, press releases were issued frequently, and the company's stock price took off slightly.
In addition to Bay Province director Chen Zhengdao proving his ability, Zhang Ruojun has further accumulated box office performance, and Lu Han, who has just returned to China and entered the film industry, also has a good start in his big screen debut.
But in the final analysis, Reyizha got the most dividends.
Her superb acting skills in this movie were unanimously recognized by the industry and the audience.
The movie hasn’t even been released yet, but it has already received film offers from many film and television companies.
Li Dagou held a grand celebration banquet and invited him again and again. It was hard to refuse the invitation, so Zhou Yutang went over and showed his face,
"Congratulations, Brother Dagou."
"I I haven’t congratulated you yet. It’s such a generous move.”
Li Dagou knew the inside story of the acquisition. It was precisely because of this that he admired Zhou Yutang even more.
This guy is so awesome, he also has a lot of face.
The celebration banquet was quite lively with people drinking and drinking. Reyza took the initiative to come over with red wine in hand.
“We in Jiangdong don’t like this.” Zhou Yutang smiled.
“Boss, without you, I wouldn’t be where I am today.”
But this girl from northern Xinjiang was sincere from the bottom of her heart: "I have to toast you."
While speaking, the red wine in the glass was drained.
The two of them didn't have many opportunities to meet each other. Zhou Yutang chatted with Reyza for a few words, and suddenly remembered something: "By the way, I just have something I want to ask you for help with."
"Boss."
Reyiza agreed without thinking: "You said, I will try my best to do it."
"It's a specialty of your hometown."
"You said this, I'm ready for it."
Reyizha was stunned, and looked at Zhou Yutang again, who seemed a little unnatural, and hesitated to speak. An urge to persuade him to take care of his body.
On second thought, I didn’t seem to have the identity or position to say these words, so I had to give up.
“Don’t get me wrong, it’s my two friends who need it.”
Zhou Yutang saw that she had a misunderstanding and explained.
“Yes, I understand.”
Reyiza is also a person who repays kindness.
Within a few days, a New Year's greeting gift was given in advance. Two large boxes of Northern Wolfberry King wine were delivered directly to Zhou Yutang's private residence.
The little horse galloping in the spring breeze, LeTV Pictures can That's miserable.
As the main producer of "Peace Wheel", it has suffered a wave of heavy blows.
The crime comedy "Rogue Detective" planned by LeTV Pictures for the Lunar New Year this year has also completely missed the mark.
Logically speaking, with Er Dongsheng as producer, Fang Lingzheng as screenwriter, Luo Zhuoyao as director, plus Ruan Jingtian, Zhou Dongyu, Yang Zishan and Yang Yang as popular niche actors, it can be considered a luxurious lineup.
But the film's schedule is a mystery. It was previously scheduled to be released in mid-December, and it will dance on the same stage as Jiang Wen's "One Step Away".
Probably scared away by producer Marco's bold statement about testing the depth of China's ticket market, I fled to January.
Unexpectedly, January is not a good month either.
Gu Changwei's "Micro Love" is extremely strong, and Zhang Ruojun, Lu Han and Reyizha supported "Back to 20".
The imported blockbuster "Night at the Museum 3" exceeded 200 million yuan, and "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies" took in 300 million yuan in 3 days.
Surrounded by powerful enemies, "Rogue Detective" grossed 3.86 million on its first day and 14.43 million in its first three days.
Without any surprise, he became cannon fodder during the Lunar New Year festival.
The funniest thing is that this movie was released simultaneously in Hong Kong, and the box office on the first day was only HK$65.
In other words, only one audience went into the cinema to watch.
In terms of volume, the production and publicity costs of "Rogue Detective" are not as high as those of "The Wheel". 》.
Both of these two movies planned by LeTV for the Lunar New Year holiday may not exceed 220 million together - Boss Jia couldn’t sit still.
At the year-end conference held by LeTV, Zhang Zhao, the CEO of LeTV's film department, announced the ambitious goal of producing/distributing 20 films next year with a box office of 5 billion yuan.
Only a few days after Zhou Yutang returned to China, Boss Jia made more than a dozen phone calls. He was so persistent that he felt helpless.
As for Boss Jia, this person has a really good brain and his ideas are very advanced.
In the past few years, it has begun to lay out full industry chain services of "platform + content + terminal + application". The industry involves mobile phones, home appliances, new energy and other fields.
At this moment, we are all ready to build a unique magic car.
However, its own LeTV Pictures is holding back. The key project of the TV series department controlled by Xu Ming, "Tomb Raiders", will not be broadcast until at least the middle of the year.
The performance of the film department led by Zhang Zhao was not up to par, and a lot of money was spent. The masterpiece turned out to be Guo Xiaosi's "Little Times" trilogy
Boss Jia's patience was limited, so he decided to find another way and find an agent.
After failing to invest in Zhou Yutang and Zhang Yimou, he set his sights on Brother Chen Kai, and the two parties hit it off.
LeTV Pictures established a subsidiary in Los Angeles with a strategic fund of US$200 million in the second half of last year. The strong strength it demonstrated shocked Legend and Universal.
This also helped Chen Kaige win the "Great Wall" project to some extent.
Having Brother Chen Kai alone is not enough. Just yesterday, Boss Jia had a new idea and came up with the genius idea of buying out Jiangdong's share of the film and television production at a premium.
To put it simply, for Jiangdong Entertainment’s investment share of 10 million, he can make up to 50 million, or even higher.
There is a gambling agreement in the film industry. Wanda bet a billion for "One Step Away". Boss Jia was also betting, but he was just betting that Zhou Yutang could continue his undefeated record!
“Boss, Boss Jia has offered a big price this time, aren’t you tempted?” Ni Ni asked curiously.
She has seen Boss Jia’s PPT magic skills, and he is very proficient in it. However, even though he said it was smoking, she still failed to impress her boss.
"I don't make money beyond what I know."
Having just finished the video conference with the foreign business negotiation team, Zhou Yutang closed his laptop.
It doesn’t matter whether LeTV’s projects make money or lose money. As long as he nods, Boss Jia will let him lay eggs.
It is estimated that he will dare to raise his own banner that day without waiting for tomorrow, to attract those celebrities and investors to join in, and suffocate for his dream together.
The Spring Festival of the Year of the Sheep saw only There are about twenty days left.
The streets and alleys in Beijing are decorated with lights and colorful decorations, and the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year is getting stronger.
The star lineups of major TV Spring Festival Galas have been revealed one after another, and the CCTV Spring Festival Gala is also under intense preparation.
Zhou Yutang declined Havin’s direct invitation because of her busy schedule. However, Jiangdong Entertainment’s Chen Xiao made her debut on the Spring Festival Gala stage this year.
Gulinazha also received the invitation and arranged the Northern Xinjiang Dance.
The Happy Mahua of the Jiangdong Department originally prepared two programs.
As a result, one of them was killed. Shen Teng and Ma Li's sketches also encountered setbacks and required rectification.
"Mr. Zhou, it's so difficult for me."
When Shen Teng came to Jiangdong Entertainment Building, he came to Zhou Yutang to complain.
“The anti-corruption subject is certainly controversial. If you communicate more with Director Harbin, there shouldn’t be much of a problem.”
Zhou Yutang read the copy of "Following His Own Favorites" and decided that it was still Yan Fei , Peng Damo, the golden pair of screenwriters.
Just by looking at the name, you can tell that the subject matter is a bit sensitive, and some of the lines are a little over the line. It is normal for the Spring Festival Gala program crew to have concerns.
Be cautious in situations like this. If something goes wrong, no one can bear the responsibility.
The time has entered February. Zhou Yutang flew to the UK again.
Negotiations to advance the acquisition have finally settled.
After the club changes ownership, the focus is on future operations.
"Zhou, I'm curious, what are your plans?"
After signing the contract, John Henry, whose net worth had greatly increased, was glowing. At the dinner party, he happily raised this question.
Fenway Group has shares in another Serie A giant, the Red Wolves, and is also preparing to buy an NBA team.
Attendants including King Dalglish, sports director Edwards, and many senior officials of Liverpool Club are also very curious.
"In the future, I will equip Liverpool with a complete big data team."
"Walter!?"
Old Henry and the senior management of the Liverpool Club looked confused.
The team's meritorious veteran Dalglish said: "Sir, I don't quite understand what this means."
"Liverpool's transfers in recent years have always resulted in losses. .”
Zhou Yutang chuckled and said: "In order to change this bad situation, I have prepared a big data team for Liverpool. They will build a unique algorithm model to collect, process and screen player and team data, and conduct detailed analysis..."
Raise an army for a thousand days and use it for a while.
Byte has been hiring senior software engineers from all over the world at high prices for several consecutive years. Now is the time to put them to use.
Under Zhou Yutang's instruction, Byte has established a professional department to open up the database of European gaming consulting companies and establish a global big data system scouting team.
Listening to Zhou Yutang's eloquent words, Old Henry fell into deep thought, and then looked at his wife Linda beside him, feeling extremely shocked.
Liverpool's top brass were in an uproar, and everyone was confused.
Water messes with Falk!
What is the transfer system and tactical analysis based on big data analysis
The wild ideas of this rich Oriental man make them feel as if they are living in the primitive era
“Of course, after the end of the season, I will bring a new coach to Liverpool, and the previously promised transfer fee of 150 million pounds will not change.”
Zhou Yutang even prepared the list of coaches and players selected by big data in the early stage.
"Klopp, Ancelotti."
"Southampton winger Mane."
"Chelsea winger Salah."
< br>"Palermo attacking midfielder Dybala."
"Monaco's young talented player Kylian Mbappe."
"Ligue 1 Caen's potential midfielder Kante."
"..."
Dalglish is pretending Glanced.
Then he nodded slightly.
He found that many of the names on this list had been inspected by Liverpool.
It’s a good thing that the boss understands football, and it’s even better if he’s willing to spend money.
“I think the fans will feel happy because they have a generous boss like you. Excited."
Kenny Dalglish also said something to old Henry: "That's the way football is. Without investment, there will be no results."
Henry is a businessman. , his purpose of investing in Liverpool is for long-term benefits, not for the team's revival and championship that fans want to see.
In the past few years, the team has been self-sufficient, and he has probably invested a net investment of about 80 million pounds.
With this investment, how can we win the championship?
So not only the fans were unhappy with him, but also the club's top brass scolded him for being stingy behind his back.
Old antiques have limited ability to accept new things, and Zhou Yutang did not give them strong medicine without even coming up.
A big data system is enough for them to digest for a long time.
At the moment, comfort comes first.
The key figure is Dalglish.
"Boss, you leave me alone, do you have anything to say?" The old man looked at his new boss with a puzzled look.
“Kenny, you are the symbol of the spirit and soul of the Red Army.”
Zhou Yutang’s shameless moral kidnapping: “I grew up watching you play football, and now Anfield During this critical period for our big family, I cannot take control of the situation without your help.”
The boss was so heartfelt. The old man had just drank a few more glasses of red wine. He was a little drunk and his hands were shaking. "Sir, whether as a player or a coach, the time I spend at the club is longer than the time I spend with my wife and children." It will take a long time. I promise you, as long as Anfield needs me, I can do anything. "
Very well, I just need you to take the blame.
Zhou Yutang patted the old man on the shoulder and began to discuss the team plan with him in detail.
The winter window is closed, and the team has little room to operate. This season has completely sucked.
Liverpool Football Club player Tom Warner is from the Fenway Group and he followed old Henry.
Zhou Yutang had already made plans to let Dalglish, the team's meritorious king, take over as the club's official seat to stabilize the situation for him.
This is the first star in Liverpool's history, and he is very influential in English football.
Playing football is also about human nature.
Connections are important.
Zhou Yutang's team has a special statistic that shows that with Kenny Dalglish around, even the referee paid special attention to the club.
Zhou Yu hit Huang Gai and easily defeated this old man who wanted to burn everything for the club.
By the way, let coach Rogers take the blame, wait until the summer window, and let him pack up and leave.
Carry out drastic reforms again.
That's when.
The clarion call for the rise of the Red Army will be sounded.
"Reuters: Chinese investors bought shares in Liverpool!"
"Daily Mail: Liverpool owner Henry sold the club for 675 million pounds, five years ago (2010) he paid only 300 million pounds Buy the entire club. "
"The Independent: Oriental entertainment tycoon takes over, Fenway Group makes a profit!"
The Red Army changed hands and the dust finally settled.
Liverpool immediately issued an announcement on its official website: "Fenway Group has reached an acquisition agreement with Tongji Fund. Tongji Fund will complete the acquisition at a price of 675 million pounds. This acquisition will clear Liverpool's previous liabilities. , the club’s annual debt repayment is only one-tenth of what it was before.”
Fenway Group retains only a small stake and gives up its management seat.
Zhou Yutang came to Anfield and said when accepting the local media in Liverpool: "I am honored to be the owner of such a historic club. The purpose of my coming here is to win the championship. Please wait and see next. I What will it bring to this great club?"
It's dawn!
Liverpool fans rushed to tell each other.
The photo of Anderson, the governor of Liverpool, shaking hands with the Chinese consul general and Zhou Yutang made headlines in major media at home and abroad,
"I am very happy to see Zhou becoming the owner of Liverpool. The expansion plan for Anfield Stadium has been approved. This will not only benefit Liverpool, but also bring great benefits to the local economy."
Official Announcement has been published, naturally there are economists racking their brains to argue for Zhou Yutang.
The impact of this major event is not limited to the country. Media around the world have reported on it.
As a self-made entertainment tycoon, Zhou Yutang is not even 30 years old this year, which adds a bit of legend to him.
He even received news from Zou Zhongyan, saying that a well-known Hollywood screenwriter was preparing to put the legendary story of his fortune on the big screen.
Even NBA basketball superstar James posted a photo of him and Zhou Yutang on Instagram, "HappyChineseNewYear.
Zhou is an incredible guy and I am his fan!
He will Talent is brought to Liverpool. If the miracle has a color, it must be red!”
The little emperor, the star who dominates the NBA, is also a small shareholder of Liverpool.
The acquisition was completed and on the day the contract was signed, he attended the club's high-level meeting, took a photo with Zhou Yutang afterwards, and invited him to watch the NBA.
In that photo, he grinned with big white teeth, like a human Tai Sui god, which made many netizens joke:
"It feels a bit weird to see James in a football club, but he is quite business-minded."< br>
“Beside LBJ, Zhou Yutang’s handsomeness is on another level.”
“The key is that he is extremely rich, spending 6 to 7 billion to buy the team. How much is the net worth of the governor? How much?”
“The road has turned, the thirty-year-old Red Army supports the Governor!”
"Boss Zhou, can you tell Rogers to get out of here quickly? He doesn't have the ability to lead Liverpool, you know?"
"..."
Netizens are excited.
Since January, Zhou Yutang has been firmly dominating the hot search headlines.
Now that the acquisition has been settled, after seeing his strong financial resources, domestic fans are all excited.
The original Rockets attracted countless fans just because of Yao Ming, and became the home team of many Chinese people.
Now that Zhou Yutang is in charge, Liverpool is inevitably labeled as one of China’s own people, making it a bit more cordial.
The fans have already celebrated the New Year in advance.
Today we celebrate Fenway Group getting out, tomorrow we ask coach Rodgers to go home and screw the screws, and the day after tomorrow we shout that even Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi are packed together.
That’s really daring to think.
He is the star of Barcelona and Real Madrid. How could the two unparalleled talents in today's football come to such a down-and-out wealthy club?
Zhou Yutang introduced big data to operate future transfers because player transfers also have great benefits.
In the previous acquisition of Infront Sports with Wanda, Wanda took the majority, acquiring 48.6% of the shares, while Zhou Yutang only took about 20% of the shares.
Infront is the world's second largest sports marketing company and one of the world's largest sports media production and broadcast companies.
Its business covers media copyright sales, television signal production, event operations, brand promotion, etc. It is a profitable company in itself and has good future expectations.
The current acquisition of Liverpool includes public relations expenses, installment debt, and subsequent sports data team, installment of team debt, and subsequent investment.
The total cost of the Tongque Fund controlled by Zhou Yutang will not be less than 8 billion.
Most of them were spent on bank money to do their own things, and a small amount of money was spent on funds from Tian Ming and other institutions.
It would not empty out the small treasury of Jiangdong Cash King, but Zhou Yutang was not used to owing money, and felt strange psychologically.
“Still too poor.”
Zhou Yutang glanced at the schedule compiled by Ni Ni and muttered: "It looks like I have to go to North America after the year."
He received an invitation letter from this year's Oscars.
That's when.
There is one more urgent thing to do
(End of this chapter)