Ace Hollywood

After The Endless Gardener was screened at the film festival, the reviews it received were positive, and all kinds of praise filled the newspapers, but Daniel doubted whether Chinese moviegoers really recognized the film—according to Li An's speech at the Silver Star Forum, on the one hand, Chinese filmmakers look forward to Hollywood's ostentation, but on the other hand, they don't necessarily think highly of Hollywood in their hearts. ∴↖↖Fate Literature{}.{}{CY}.{}⊕↙↗

Yes, this would have surprised more than 1,000 people present at the time.

Li An mentioned this when he was able to use Feng Xiaogang's words.

In his opinion, the fifth generation of directors in China has high artistic attainments. Whether it is Red Sorghum or Farewell My Concubine, or directors of Hong Kong literary films such as Wang Jiawei and Xu Anhua, all have won international awards. support. For Hollywood, a place well-known for its successful commercial film system, these directors may not think highly of it in their hearts. Chinese directors are envious.

Daniel agrees with this point of view - modern Chinese people have mixed emotions of arrogance and inferiority in many fields, and movies are no exception. Therefore, Daniel only regards the evaluation of The Immortal Gardener, which is only a participating film, as a politeness unique to Chinese people.

The relationship between the Shanghai International Film Festival reached the highest level. The new acquaintance of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television—Deputy Director Pan specially called Daniel, hoping that he could come to the closing ceremony—because he was probably still in Thailand at that time and had not returned to Los Angeles. . However, Daniel declined the invitation. While visiting a refugee camp in Thailand, he returned to China to attend the closing ceremony of a grand film festival. This is somewhat nondescript, and the possible criticisms can be foreseen.

In fact, the Shanghai Film Festival is also a headache. At the opening ceremony, Hollywood superstars such as Daniel Sandler, Rachel Weisz, Liam Neeson, and Li An all attended the grand ceremony, making the word international worthy of the name for the first time . But at the closing ceremony, all these people left. The false image created by the officials was instantly beaten back to its original shape - if Daniel can leave a supporting scene, of course he can still leave a shameless underpants for the Shanghai International Film Festival. It's a pity that Daniel has no intention of being the panties. What the Shanghai International Film Festival needs to do is to find its own position, give play to its increasingly powerful market appeal, and be more open and confident—not flattering.

Daniel also did not accept the invitation from the organizing committee of the film festival to serve as the chairman of the next jury - he did not accept any invitation from the three major European companies. It is too flattering to accept the invitation of the Shanghai International Film Festival without hesitation. Daniel has no plan to use his reputation to make a face for the Shanghai International Film Festival.

On the 2nd, Daniel flew from Shanghai Hongqiao Airport to Bangkok, Thailand. Thousands of people blocked the airport. Everyone knew Daniel’s itinerary this time. Fans from all over the country, including Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia, were not in Shanghai. During the International Film Festival, I have the opportunity to meet with idols, so most of them seize the most opportunity-send off at the airport.

This may be an experience of being baptized by ordinary people in Shanghai.

Most of them were young girls holding signs, wearing various surrounding T-shirts and guns, and holding balloons with names and avatars. They surrounded the entrance of the airport, and hundreds of police officers stood by. The future will be smooth.

Ordinary passengers trembled through the crowd, completely unaware of what was happening.

T News President Liu Chiping happened to return to Shenzhen from Shanghai, so he was lucky enough to witness this scene.

Is there a leader coming? Liu Chiping asked the entourage in surprise. As a very large company with a market value of tens of billions of dollars in Hong Kong, they are very accurate about the government information. This time, he didn't hear any news. There has been a turmoil in Shanghai recently, and the rumors of the top leaders have spread like crazy. But Liu Chiping knew that this time it might not be a rumor.

However, even the central leadership handles major cases. It will not be this posture.

The entourage looked at the window, Daniel—Sandler, Daniel Sandler.

Huh? Ah, he left China today. Liu Chiping immediately came to his senses. When Raymond talked with Ma Huateng, he was also there, and he knew a lot about this young superstar.

It should be, such a big battle. The entourage shook his head, I don't know why these little girls are crazy. This is the first time he has come to China.

Tsk tsk, it's not just the little girl who looks crazy when she sees him, but many people who are older than you also look crazy when they see him. Liu Chiping leaned back, Don't think he just attended A film festival, he brought a large crowd, met a lot of people in the past few days, we, Qiandu, Ali, Qihu, NEW Lang, S Fox—they are rich and powerful.”

F2F and MB are already profitable? Not to mention there are start-ups like LinkedIn and YuTube. They seem to be rich, but they probably don't have much cash.

MB has been profitable for a long time, but after it went public, it changed its strategy and refocused on attracting users as its main purpose, so its profitability has declined, but it is definitely not a loss. The profitability of F2F has always been very strong. Daniel created a better social network model based on MB’s experience. Most importantly, banks and investment funds all over the world are waiting for them to take money, and they are also planning to reduce part of their holdings MB's shares are gradually giving up their holdings. These are the ones we have learned. MGM, DD Films, as well as Google, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft's stock investments are all directly participated in the operation by Plutos. Outsiders I don’t know. It is rumored that they also have a hedge fund, which is involved in crude oil and bulk goods. How deep the water behind it is beyond the comprehension of outsiders. If this young man is revealed to be the new richest man in the world one day, many No one will be surprised.

The entourage could only shake their heads and sigh a few words. People are incomparable. When he was 26 years old, he had just entered T News and was still doing chores for some veterans, serving tea, delivering water and sweeping the floor. At that time, T-News was not as large as it is today.

Has President Ma agreed?

Liu Chiping smiled, but did not speak.

...

When Liu Chiping and his group were waiting in the terminal, the earth-shattering sounds from outside could be heard inside. Everyone put down what they were doing and listened carefully.

coming.

Mr. Liu, who is it? There's such a big commotion.

There are a few familiar people in the terminal hall, which is quite normal, and some people come early - it is also common for the plane to be delayed at this moment. They didn't know how many thousands of people gathered outside.

Haha, Mr. Wang, a strong American dragon has come to Shanghai, haven't you heard?

The person who asked the question was a real estate agent with a huge net worth. Of course, he knew the movements of Shanghai and the capital by heart. Hearing what Liu Chiping said, he quickly understood.

Daniel Sandler?

Apart from him, who else can make such a big commotion, not even the Four Heavenly Kings?

Mr. Liu, you are out of date. The four heavenly kings have long since died, and now the girls in Xiangnantai are the most popular. A senior executive following Mr. Wang said with a smile.

Shonan TV held a singing competition last year, which set off an unprecedented whirlwind of terror, even the United States was alarmed. If you want to say who is the most popular in China this year, I am afraid it is really those few girls. The top three have countless entries and exits. Fans around.

...

Soon, Daniel and his party entered the lobby to wait for the flight.

Liu Chiping was able to communicate directly with Daniel for the first time—Daniel was not directly involved in Plutos' actions in China this time. Therefore, apart from the two bosses and officials of China Film and China Film, no one has had a direct interview with Daniel. Liu Chiping got an unexpected opportunity.

However, it was not Liu Chiping from T News that caught Daniel's attention, but Mr. Wang who was sitting next to him—Chairman W Da. However, Wan is notoriously conservative. He started to privatize the company in 2002, and now he has basically controlled the majority of the group's equity—a piece of meat that investors want but can't get.

Raymond will transfer to South Africa. I communicated with them in Thailand. We are clear about Nasbe's wishes. If they insist, we hope that the T-com team can firmly support us-like them, we do not seek to benefit the company. We will not interfere with the team's decision-making. In addition, Plutos Investment Company's strong technical reserves, patent reserves and abundant cash flow in the Internet field will serve as a solid backing for T-com's further rapid development— —Introducing a relatively stronger shareholder is beneficial to the T-com team.”

Daniel roughly repeated the conversation between Raymond and President Ma.

South Africa's Nasbe Group and South Africa's ASBS Bank hold as much as half of T-Comm's shares and are the largest shareholders. Daniel is not enough to raise enough shares in the Hong Kong stock open market, so there are only two ways, one is to transfer Nasbe and ASBS, and the other is to expand the shares of the T-com team and dilute the shares of major shareholders-this they can do , the reason is that Nasbe clearly gave up voting rights when he became a shareholder, so the T-com team has absolute control over the company.

Plutos has strong strength in Internet profits, patented technology reserves, and international markets outside of China. established strategy. Although due to the good cooperation between the two parties, T-Communication has not yet implemented this plan, but Plutos intends to enter, of course, it has to be considered separately.

...

The chance encounter in the terminal hall is just an opportunity to express will and sincerity, and the specific work still needs to go through years of negotiation.

Before the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States, reducing investment in North America and Europe and accelerating capital transfers to China were also Plutos’ established strategy. This point will not change regardless of whether T-Comm accepts Plutos— —Even if he starts from scratch, Daniel is confident that he will be able to foster amazing market participants in China. (To be continued.)

PS: Why is it so cool to write and buy its stocks on Tencent’s website?