America's Road to Fame

Chapter 43 The Director's Choice

At the same time, William Chen gave Nelson several targets to start preparing for acquisitions now, including Tesla, Netflix, Facebook, Marvel, and Reddit.

Among them, Reddit collects data in advance, and will make acquisitions after the outbreak of the subprime mortgage crisis.The rest of companies such as Tesla, Nye, Facebook, and Marvel will try to acquire part of the shares first.

William Chen also knew that it would be cheaper to buy shares or invest in shares after the subprime mortgage crisis broke out.But for a company, unless the funds are very tight and unsustainable; or when there is an urgent need for funds for development.Otherwise, in the face of investors, the priority of acceptance still depends on the resources that the other party can provide.

If you just want to join by waving banknotes, then it depends on whether the other party is willing to accept.It's like before Garrett was able to spend a large sum of money to buy William Chen's shares in Building 666, but William Chen didn't sell it, and he couldn't help it.

And at this time, their shareholders will have an advantage over outsiders who break in.This is why many companies first invest in shares, occupy a certain amount of shares, and then gradually carry out a wholly-owned acquisition of the company.

There are many examples of this, like William Chen’s previous life, when Ali made many acquisitions, he first became a shareholder and then made a full acquisition at an appropriate time.

Garrett also had this idea before. He saw that William Chen refused to sell his shares in No. 666 Building, and he learned that William Chen's financial situation was very poor, and he also took risks to invest in mortgage real estate loans, so he bought it first. The remaining 40% of the shares are ready to take his shares when he is in deep financial crisis.It's just that his wishful thinking was wrong, which made him in a dilemma now.

Therefore, William Chen's goal was to enter these companies by buying stocks or investing in shares before the subprime mortgage crisis broke out.In this way, after becoming a shareholder of the company, you can learn more about the operating conditions of these companies.

After the outbreak of the crisis, if these companies are affected by the crisis, have financial problems and urgently need capital investment, William Chen can buy them at a very favorable price or obtain more shares.

Of course, William Chen has also considered one thing. In this world with many changes, can these companies really develop into giants like his previous life?

William Chen has conducted investigations before, and the companies he chooses now are all in the relevant industries and are currently in a leading position.His principle is to invest in the entire track when the funds are sufficient.

Therefore, he will not sit back and relax after investing in these companies, and will continue to observe. If there are other competitive companies in this industry, he will also conduct follow-up investigations at the first time and choose to invest; and he can also use himself The experiences of past life memories are used to help these companies develop, to ensure that they are moving forward on the right path, and avoid making mistakes.

After ordering these things, William Chen also received a call from Uncle Tom.After a period of time, William Chen asked him to find a director for the movie "Magic Mike", and finally made some progress.

Now the movie "Magic Mike" in William Chen's hands, both the script and the director's shot script, have been created, and it's time to start production.

Tom said on the phone: "According to your request, I contacted Stephen first. After reading the script, he is still more interested in this movie. But there is one thing you may be disappointed that is Steven , He didn’t even read your director’s script at all.”

"His meaning is very clear. If he shoots the movie, then he asks that everything is up to him, and he will not make movies according to other people's scripts. That is not his style."

When William Chen got the movie "Magic Mike", it marked the original director and starring role of the movie, and the director was Stephen Soderbergh.

Therefore, when William Chen arranged for Uncle Tom to find a director, he hoped that he would first try to invite Stephen Soderbergh to be the director of the film.

Now it seems that his idea is doomed to fail.It's normal to think about it, after all, Mr. Stephen is already a well-known director now.Open Google, enter the name of the director directly, and you can easily find his resume:

Steven Soderbergh, 46 years old this year.He became famous in one fell swoop by winning the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1989 for his debut film "*Lies and Videotapes".He was 26 at the time, the youngest recipient of the award.

And so far, the more famous films he has directed include "Strategist", starring: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez; "Never Compromise", starring: Julia Roberts; "Ocean's Eleven" , starring: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and other Hollywood actors; there are also two sequels of "Ocean's Eleven"...

It can also be seen from these resumes that Steven Soderbergh has already achieved fame at this time, so naturally he would not pay attention to William Chen, a well-known bad movie maker and black sheep in Hollywood, how could he agree to follow his director's plan? What about the shot script?So he didn't even read the director's shot script attached to the script.

Chen William's original idea was that the movie "Magic Mike" was originally the work of Steven Soderbergh, so if he made it himself, the picture and composition of the movie would be closer to the original version, and the box office of the movie would naturally be will be more assured.

But at this moment, it seems that his own thoughts are still a little naive, and the interlacing is like a mountain. This kind of well-known director doesn't care at all about the views of a young man who has not made much achievements in the film and television industry.

That being the case, William Chen had no choice but to use another plan.He also wouldn't feel relieved to really just hand over the script to Robert Soderbergh and let him shoot it himself.After all, Hollywood is still a producer-centered system, although for William Chen, Robert will ask for all the rights of the crew.

But the original movie was produced by Warner Bros., one of the six major Hollywood companies. At that time, he might not be able to obtain the most important editing rights. Therefore, it is not impossible for him to make movies based on Chen William's script in this world. Very big difference.This kind of director must have his own arrogance, how could he be willing to shoot it according to the script.

Therefore, to be on the safe side, it is better to find a director who can be controlled to make this movie. Thinking of this, William Chen asked: "What about other directors? Are there any suitable candidates?"

"That's exactly what I want to tell you. I found a director named Andy Haring. He has only made a small romance movie before, but the response is not bad. Besides, he also made He has worked as an MTV and commercial director, and has also filmed two TV series. The most important thing is that he fully accepts your request, that is, to shoot strictly according to the script and shot script, and to give up the final editing rights of the movie.”

Since it was recommended by Tom, William Chen believes that Andy Haring should still have some ability, and he is so cooperative, William Chen is still willing to give it a try: "Then let me meet with him some time, Uncle Tom, you can give him some money first, let him choose a short plot in the script, shoot a scene, and let me see if he is satisfied."

"Okay, William, I'll inform him now. In addition, the matter of changing the name of the film company you mentioned earlier has been completed. Your film company has been renamed Future Films."

William Chen had already told Tom about changing the name of the film company before, mainly because it really had to be changed, otherwise it would definitely become a black history of William Chen.

It turned out that his predecessor was a fan of Bruce Lee, so when he founded the film company, he hoped to use Bruce Lee's English name Bruce Lee as the company name.

But this kind of star's name is definitely not good for the company name, and it will definitely be sued.Therefore, William Chen's predecessor had an idea, and used Bruce Lee's initials as the company name, and named it BL Film and Television Company... Uh, this name is too shameful, why did you make such a hasty decision without even looking up the abbreviation? Does it have any meaning?

Therefore, after William Chen thought about this, he quickly asked Uncle Tom to help him change the name of the film company to a more normal one. Future Pictures, let’s do it. Anyway, in a hurry, he couldn’t think of a better name for a while.

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So far, William Chen's course progress is almost complete.After that night, not only did his relationship with Erica not progress, but there was an obvious retreat. When the two got along, the subtle feeling before was missing.

This made him a little depressed, and he still couldn't figure out what Erica was thinking in his heart. It seemed that she just wanted to maintain this normal teacher-student relationship with William Chen.

In terms of addressing the two, William Chen still habitually called her "Mr. Erica", but she no longer called William Chen "classmate William" as she used to before, but directly called him "William". .It gave William Chen the feeling that she was using this change in address to remind herself of the change in the relationship between the two of them.

"William, you have basically completed all the courses you should study. In the next two days, I will test the results of your study by taking the courses you have learned before. If you can score more than A in the test, Then there is no problem in passing the entrance examination for the master's degree in economics in our school, although in your case there is no such examination at all."

Erica said this to William Chen after finishing today's class.

"Okay, Teacher Erica." After William Chen responded, he saw her get up and was about to leave the study, stopped her, and said to her, "Do you have time now? I want to discuss something with you."

"If it's something that has nothing to do with study, I hope we can talk about it after the study is over." Erica got up, glanced at William Chen and said.

"It's okay, but there are still two days left. I hope to have a good talk with you then."

(End of this chapter)