America's Road to Fame

Chapter 254 Tianshu Fund
"Since Huang Baihao retired, Jin Medal Gale's current management is very chaotic. Our investigators went to their Yangcheng headquarters and found that there are three teams of people working in the same office building area."

Chen Weilian listened to Li Ying talking to himself about the investigation results of Gold Medal Gale, a music company, and asked a little puzzled: "Three teams?"

"Yes, they have just established a new HK company, and they are also working in the headquarters of Jinpai Dajin. At present, it seems that the business of HK is managed by this company, and the headquarters of Jinpai Gale is only responsible for the Bay Bay and the mainland of Huaguo. Business."

"Then there is another group of people?"

"Uh, in addition to Huang Baihao, Gold Medal Gale also has a boss named Zheng Donghan. He has a son who is also an artist named Zheng Zhongji. After he married Ah Saa, a member of the HK group, Ah Saa's father had a child. The record company also works in the office area of ​​Gold Medal Gold, so now there are three teams of people there, but it was rumored that two people have divorced, so now the people from that small record company have begun to evacuate."

Because Li Ying is in Huaguo, she will send someone to understand the acquisition of Gold Medal Gale Company first. Now the people sent by EMI Music are on the plane to Huaguo. After they arrive in Yangcheng, they will talk to Huaxia. People from Future Capital will carry out the handover.

Hearing Li Ying's report, Chen Weilian was also a little speechless. It seems that the current situation of Gold Medal Gale is really chaotic, but this is also good, this time is also the easiest opportunity for them to buy.

After William Chen hung up the phone, Fan Bingbing, who was eating breakfast beside him, asked, "What, you said you want to buy Huaguo's record company?"

"Yes, after the integration, EMI Music needs to expand its business in Asia. The first step is to acquire several record companies."

Regarding William Chen's matters, Fan Bingbing never asked too much, but just heard him talking on the phone in Chinese, so she asked curiously.

She arrived in New York last night. This time, besides accompanying Chen William, it is also about her entering Hollywood. She will play a role in the new film of MGM in the [-]th Century.

The final global box office of "Iron Man" was fixed at a figure of 6.25 million U.S. dollars. This result greatly encouraged MGM's Marvel Studios in the 1.5th Century. The total cost of the film was about 1 million U.S. dollars. If you share the profits, you can earn less than [-] million U.S. dollars, and there will be income from video tapes, online copyrights, peripherals, etc., so it can be regarded as a great success.

And the response of "The Incredible Hulk" which was released not long ago is also good. Judging from the current situation, profitability is already a certainty.Therefore, Marvel Studios began to prepare for the next movie in the Marvel universe-"Iron Man 2". In this movie, the role of Black Widow will appear, and Scarlett has been determined to play it.

At the same time, as William Chen acquired Twentieth Century Fox, the copyright of the X-Men series of movies was also acquired by Marvel Studios.

Before 2006, Twentieth Century Fox successively launched three "X-Men" series of movies, all of which performed well. Last year, it launched "X-Men Origins: Wolverine", starring Hugh Jackman as Wolverine role and was successful.

Therefore, after "Iron Man" once again proved the box office ability of superhero movies, a prequel movie is also being prepared at the same time, which will tell about some mutants such as Magneto King Eric, Professor X Charles and Mystique Raven. time story.

Because Chen William knows how terrible the movie box office of Huaguo will be in the future, so at the beginning of this movie, he plans to add Asian characters for the Huaguo market. If the response is good, he will become a resident character in the X-Men series of movies .

And this role has been confirmed to be played by Fan Bingbing, which is earlier than her participation in the X-Men series of movies in her previous life, and her role will increase accordingly.

With the preparation of the movie, Marvel Entertainment will also launch related comics to introduce this newly added character. The character is named Lisa Ho. He is a mutant who came to the United States from Hong Kong in the 60s and has the ability to teleport. .

This time Fan Bingbing came to New York, in addition to making some preparations for the start of filming, such as strengthening spoken language and adapting to the character, Marvel Entertainment will use her image as a prototype to launch this new character through comics.

In fact, for capital, making money is the most important thing, so in order to cater to the market, we are willing to do anything.The most obvious example is Hollywood’s image of the Japanese. In the early days, the image of the Japanese in Hollywood movies was almost always negative. Later, with the rise of the Japanese economy, on the one hand, the market share of Japanese movies has increased. On the other hand, Japanese capital began to enter Hollywood, such as Sony's acquisition of Columbia Pictures, which later became Sony Pictures, so the image of the Japanese in Hollywood movies began to be more positive.

The same is true for the Chinese. When China's film market accounts for a higher proportion of the world, Hollywood will inevitably need to start pleasing local audiences, and will pay more attention to shaping the image of the Chinese.

To put it bluntly, the Western world is full of universal values, but in essence they still put interests first, as if they never care about the views of the Burmese, because it is meaningless to them.

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"Do you need so many promotional receptions?"

William Chen once again met Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs Group. After being persuaded by the other party many times, and the stock market has indeed shown signs of recovery recently, he agreed to start the investment fund he personally managed, but After seeing the promotion schedule Lloyd gave him, he frowned slightly and said:
"I will only set the size of the first phase of this fund at 200 billion U.S. dollars, and I still need to attend so many receptions?"

"William, I understand what you mean. If you don't limit your funds, then these promotions will be completely unnecessary. I can find enough funds for you to complete the quota immediately. But what you want is to reserve half of the quota for Europe and the United States. If you are rich, then you need to hold a promotion reception.”

Lloyd explained: "Because in essence, your consent is not just to raise funds for the fund, but to let more power be by your side, then these processes are necessary, even if you are in this subprime mortgage crisis. The results are outstanding, but you still need to show up in person, so that the other party can give more trust. But you can rest assured that these are not all you need to attend, we will arrange according to the list of attendees at that time, and most of the receptions, you Just show your face."

Hearing his words, William Chen also expressed his understanding. If he had to attend all the ten promotion receptions on this list, it would be too many, and he would almost travel to big cities in the United States.

"What else do you think about this fund, William."

"I remember you said, Lloyd, these big investors are more concerned about the stability of profits, so this fund, I am going to give them more protection, I will set a special clause, when the annualized return of the fund is lower than 10%, not only will we not collect any revenue share from the other party, but also the management fee is free.”

William Chen said with a smile.

And what he said made Lloyd look a bit surprised, which means that if William Chen's fund has an annualized return of less than 10%, then for him, there will be no return at all. , and also bear the cost of maintaining the fund's operations, which means that to a certain extent, he is confident enough to keep the annualized return of the fund above 10%.

Don't look at the fact that the 10% return is not high, but in the long run, there are not many funds that can achieve this return stably. Therefore, William Chen's terms are still very attractive to wealthy families who need to invest. big.

"However, there is one thing. My foundation is a long-term investment, so the closed period will be relatively long, at least 5 years closed period. If it is held for 8 years, the redemption fee can be waived. In terms of income sharing, the profit is less than 50% A 20% share of the profit is charged; a 50% share is charged for a profit between 100% and 25%; a 100% share is charged for a profit exceeding 30%.”

Lloyd nodded, there is no problem with these, and the larger the funds invested by the other party, the more willing to hold them for a long time. After all, that can reduce the capital gains tax on profits. Of course, the premise is that the performance of the fund can be satisfactory.And an annualized profit of more than 10% is enough to make them very happy.

The fund named "Dubhe", after confirming these main terms of William Chen, began to hand over to them to formulate the rules of the fund, and then Goldman Sachs was responsible for the promotion.

The reason why they are so active is, of course, that the trusteeship of the $200 billion Tianshu Fund will be entrusted to Goldman Sachs, and the annual custody fee alone will exceed $1 million. Note that it is an annual, and this is a continuous profit .

(End of this chapter)