Exploiting Hollywood 1980

George Jr., the son of the deputy commander, is only a nominal director, and his relationship with Wall Street is not that close.

The Screen Fund behind him is a private equity fund sold by Wall Street to wealthy people. Ronald does not have the strength to let others set up a separate fund to make a film for him.

Ronald does not know any Wall Street connections, so he had to call his private lawyer, Lindsay Doll, and accountant Lawrence in New York. Ask them to find a suitable channel to meet Wall Street bankers.

The small law firm back then has now become a promising medium-sized law firm in New York. In addition to Lindsay Doll receiving business from many large companies, the law firm's named partner Bobby Donnell has a very close relationship with the prosecutor of the Southern District of New York.

For the financing of the scale of Ronald's daydream, the president of the bank is in charge of too much investment. And the financing that a general VP can decide is too small, and their law firm's connections can just play a role.

"The banker hired by Menahan Golan is Michael Milken, who helped Menahan raise $300 million with high-interest junk bonds.

The issuance of junk bonds requires a company to have a long history of data. Menahan has made so many bad movies, which just helped Milken use accounting standards creatively and helped him blow up the bubble.

And your daydream, except for a few v, commercials, and aerobics video shooting, has no film history. So your more realistic method is to find a personal bank to give you some loans.

If you are willing to accept Citibank's personal banking services, I can find customers to arrange some loan plans."

Lindsay Doll and Bobby Donnell discussed it. Ronald's most realistic way now is to get a distribution contract and then apply for a mortgage.

"I'm tired of those studios. They have to attach a lot of conditions and modify the script. I want to distribute this movie myself."

"Then you have to find other ways. The interest rate of credit loans is too high. It is very uneconomical for you to use it. Recently, Wall Street has been saying that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates again..."

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"Dangdang..." The door of the conference room was knocked a few times, and a middle-aged man broke in.

"Lawrence?" Ronald saw that it was his accountant Lawrence, "What news do you have? Is it good news? Have you found a capitalist willing to raise funds?"

Lawrence smiled and replied, "It is good news, but it is not the capitalist's business."

"Can you give me some private space?" Ronald smiled at the lawyers, and he only left his personal lawyer Lindsay.

"Good news, your two main investment stocks, Coca-Cola and McDonald's, are going to split their stocks.

McDonald's 1.5 to 1, Coca-Cola 3 to 1.

This is the registration document you need to sign. When the ex-rights date comes, you can own three times the Coca-Cola stock."

"But the price will drop, right?" Ronald didn't understand stocks, but think about it, it is impossible to keep the original price after the stock split.

"That's the theory, but stock splits generally mean that the company is optimistic about the future prospects and hopes to attract more individual investors to facilitate their purchase of stocks. In addition, the new formula of Coca-Cola launched last year has an 8% increase in sales in the first quarter of this year.

The market is generally optimistic about the prospects, and 3 to 1 is also a very unusual stock split ratio. It is expected that after today's announcement, the stock price will rise when the market opens next week. That means your stock will rise."

"How much more can it rise?" Ronald now has about 7 million worth of stocks on hand, and Douglas can still use 3 million. If he can get a total of 14 million, it will be enough to produce and distribute "Dirty Dancing".

"I don't know about that. I asked several stockbrokers, and they all said that it is possible to rise by more than 10%."

"Let's bend our fingers and pray." Lindsay Doll was also influenced by Ronald and bought some Coca-Cola stocks, not to mention Lawrence. For a while, the three of them made the sign of the cross on their chests.

When going home to see Aunt Karen on weekends, Ronald is often absent-minded, and he is distracted and doesn't hear when his aunt asks him questions.

"What's wrong with you, Ronnie?" Auntie grabbed Ronald's hand and asked the nephew who was behaving strangely today.

"I want to make a movie, but the Hollywood studio doesn't want to sign a distribution contract with me, so I may have to use my own money to make it..."

Ronald was still a little worried. When he saw Auntie Karen asking this, he somehow felt relieved and told her about all the difficulties he encountered.

"Why didn't they sign with you?" Auntie didn't understand.

"Because they are worried that this story will affect the choice of Jewish girls."

"Nonsense, girls won't date boys without watching movies? These people are really weird. Wait for me for a while."

Auntie Karen walked into the bedroom and took out a check and handed it to Ronald after a while.

"This is $300,000, the share I got when the leg warmer company was sold. If you don't have enough money, count it in with my share."

"How can this be possible?" Ronald refused. This is a little reserve fund for Auntie's future retirement life. How can it be used to invest in her own movie?

"Why not? If you hadn't come up with the leg warmers business, I wouldn't have made this money. In fact, I still have some savings from running the company for a few years. Plus, I still have this house, so Eric and I can continue to work in the restaurant, and it won't affect me.

Besides, your movies always make a lot of money. Why, don't you want your aunt to share in the profits?"

"Hahaha, as long as you have faith in me." Ronald accepted the check. Anyway, he can still stay in Hollywood for a long time, so he won't be unable to pay back his aunt's money.

"That's right. If you make a lot of money, I will use it as wedding money for Donna in the future." Aunt Karen said with a smile.

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"This is our office, the best office building in Manhattan. You can also see the Statue of Liberty across the street from here.

On National Day in a few days, the first couple will announce the reopening of the statue there. This time, the funds for the renovation of the statue were raised by fundraising from all walks of life.

Look, it's right there."

Lawrence invited Ronald to the office of the stock brokerage company. Today, they will see the situation and decide whether to sell Ronald's stocks.

"Why is there a Coca-Cola billboard there?" Ronald looked at the Statue of Liberty across the street with the telescope handed over by the stock broker. The scaffolding below was being dismantled, and on the largest steel frame next to it, there was a huge Coke advertisement. On it was a new version of the Coke can with the name Newke written on it.

"Coca-Cola and McDonald's are both raising funds for the restoration of the Statue of Liberty. McDonald's will donate one cent to the restoration fund for every hamburger sold. The same is true for Coca-Cola. New Coke also started an advertising marketing campaign of donating one cent six months ago."

"Bang... Bang..." The stockbroker opened two cans of New Coke and handed them to Ronald and Lawrence. The assistant bought McDonald's breakfast burgers and everyone started eating.

"Why is it so sweet? It's like Pepsi."

Ronald took a sip of New Coke and tasted the difference. New Coke is sweet, and he doesn't like it very much.

"Give me a bottle of that..." Ronald pointed to the table and said to the assistant.

"Bang..." He got a bottle of cherry-flavored Coke, which was a new flavor launched with New Coke.

"Well, although it tastes weird, it's not so sweet at least."

Ronald ate McDonald's breakfast with cherry-flavored Coke.

The stockbroker had entered the stock code on the computer in advance, and the real-time stock price of Coca-Cola began to be displayed on the large display screen on the wall like a ticker.

Before the stock split news was announced, Ronald's Coca-Cola was $105 per share. After that, the stock price kept rising, just as Lawrence expected, and it closed at $121.75 last weekend.

Today, the stock split was three to one, and Ronald and his team felt that as long as it could be maintained above $40, they could sell all of it.

The light bulbs in the large display screen on the wall began to display the effect of a ticker under the command of the program.

The words "ko121.75" were repeated three times, moving quickly from right to left.

It was still the closing price of last weekend.

"Dinglingling..."

"It's open!"

Ronald immediately raised his head and chest, concentrating on watching the real-time price updated by the ticker.

"ko, 42.75"

"Is it up?" Ronald looked at Lawrence.

"It's about 128 before the stock split." Lawrence picked up the calculator and pressed it hard, and quoted a price that Ronald could understand.

"Then let's sell it!" Ronald was overjoyed. This was 6% higher than he expected.

"Wait a while, it can still rise." The stock broker quickly called the New York Stock Exchange.

"Sell part of it at 44."

"KO, 43.15... KO, 43.40..."

Ronald stared at the ticker, and a new real-time transaction price would be brought out after a cycle.

"KO, 44.25..."

"Deal!"

"Keep selling!" The stock broker yelled into the phone.

"KO, 44.80... KO, 45.50"

The stock price continued to rise, and the broker's sell order was eaten up as soon as it was posted.

"Sell at 45.50, no, 46..."

The transaction price was updated quickly, and Coca-Cola's stock price was rising slowly and steadily.

"ko447.20"

"Keep clearing out, quick!"

The broker seemed to have discovered some clues and yelled into the phone.

Ronald didn't understand at all, but he was also excited by this enthusiasm.

He took a can of New Coke that he hadn't been used to drinking before, opened the pull ring, and drank it in one breath.

"It seems to taste good."

Twenty minutes after the opening, Ronald's Coca-Cola stocks had been cleared out.

"The average transaction price is 46.50, all cleared out. A total of 9.3 million. In addition to the McDonald's stocks you hold, if you sell them after the stock split, the total cash you can get from this sale is more than 10.5 million."

"Hmm..." Ronald sat down on the soft sofa after hearing this number.

"Dirty Dancing" has this cash, plus the money of Douglas Jr. and Aunt Karen's money, the total is almost the same.

"It's falling, it's falling"

The stockbroker's assistant is still staring at the big screen.

"ko45.50...ko44.50"

The stock price of Coca-Cola gradually went down and finally stabilized at 43.80.

"Do you want to cover your position, Mr. Li?" The stockbroker asked Ronald after seeing the price.

This time Ronald sold most of his stocks and took the cash, which was not particularly good for his business.

Although the legend of helping Hollywood directors make a lot of money can attract more customers in the industry, it would be best if Ronald could continue to buy and sell stocks here.

"Forget it, I can't make this money."

Although the air conditioner was set at a very low temperature, Ronald was still sweating profusely and his heart was pounding. This kind of wealth figure of hundreds of thousands of yuan in a minute made him feel too exciting.

"Although there is still a little money, don't take the risk. Even if the stock price rises tomorrow, it is not something I can earn with my heart."

Lawrence was also sweating nervously. He had sold all his stocks and made a small amount of money.

The two found a hotel with a small Turkish bath and took a bath to relax completely.

"Little Doug, I found enough money, now we can start the project", Ronald calmed down his excitement and called Little Douglas.