Chapter 252 263 [I am ready to take over the magpie’s nest, I don’t want to be the richest man]

Holding shares in each other?

Li Yishu’s eyes flickered. He thought this method was good.

Regardless of whether the Art Film Company can develop into the Chinese Disney in the future, at least one thing is certain: the value of Golden Harvest Film Company is definitely greater than that of the Art Film Company.

Since 1985, Golden Harvest Film Company has produced an average of to films each year. It is currently the largest Chinese-language film studio in the world, with a distribution network and theater network throughout the world.

These years happen to be the most glorious era for Hong Kong films, and Hong Kong is known as the Hollywood of the East.

Chow, Yi Chow, Chan Fat Yong, the Kung Fu Emperor, the Four Heavenly Kings, and countless stunning actresses are household names in China, Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia. The value of Hong Kong stars is no less than that of Hollywood movie stars in the future.

Especially in South Korea, anyone who has watched some Korean dramas about the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s will basically know how influential Hong Kong stars were there at that time.

In addition to the fact that Golden Harvest is now a large and powerful company, there is another very important factor, that is, in a few years, Hong Kong films will go downhill, and by that time Golden Harvest films will begin to reduce production. Zou Wenhuai is old and has no intention of continuing to work hard.

His children never thought of inheriting the film and television industry, otherwise Zou Wenhuai would not have sold Golden Harvest to Orange Sky Entertainment in 2007.

Now that Li Yishu has invested, she may not need to wait until 2007 to buy out Zou Wenhuai’s shares in Golden Harvest, and directly become the largest shareholder of Golden Harvest Films and take on the position of chairman of the board.

After all, at the beginning of the millennium, when Hong Kong films had not yet released the market-saving film “Infernal Affairs”, Hong Kong films were almost dead. In the past, it was common for a movie to sell tens of millions, but at that time, a single movie that earned tens of millions at the box office was considered a big hit.

After figuring this out, Li Yishu pretended to hesitate and said, “Manager He, my art film company has only been established for a few years. If I exchange shares with you, I’m afraid I will have to pay a lot of shares, right?”

“If Director Li is unwilling to give more shares, he can use shares and funds to invest in our Golden Harvest.”

Ho Kuan Chang had obviously discussed this with Zou Wenhuai a long time ago and knew that the other party would definitely not be happy if Li Yishu took out a majority stake. Now the Art Film Company… no, to be more precise, the Art Entertainment Group, its current development momentum should not be underestimated.

Art and Entertainment Group has companies or offices in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, the United States, and Europe.

Although up to now, it has basically revolved around Li Yishu, Zou Wenhuai has already heard that the Art Entertainment Group has tried to produce TV series in the mainland, and tried to shoot low-cost movies in the United States, and is also seeking cooperation in Japan.

As long as Li Yishu is given two or three years to get this plan going, the Art Entertainment Group will become a multinational film and television group covering China, Japan and the United States.

Most people can’t handle this big market, but Li Yishu is different. He is the godfather of Asian films with three major European awards and a global box office of over 7 million US dollars.

As long as he can maintain his box office success in the next few years, he will be able to gain a foothold in Hollywood and Japan through cooperation. The mainland is Li Yishu’s base, so there is no need to worry. He has a good relationship with Xu Suo in Hong Kong, and has cooperated with Qiu Fusheng in Taiwan.

Zou Wenhuai has a very clear view on this aspect. Lee Yi-shu is only 24 years old now, which is the time when she is most energetic and imaginative. It should not be a problem for her to maintain her box office success. So as long as Lee Yi-shu wins awards or the box office is high, this approach can work.

Golden Harvest Film Company is a large and powerful company, but the risks are also great. Zou Wenhuai has always wanted to break into Hollywood, but he lacks a good director to work with. The American directors he invited in the past were not very reliable.

With the rise of Li Yishu and the art and entertainment group behind him, it is totally worth it for Zou Wenhuai to offer shares to win him over.

“I have no problem with shares + funds, but I don’t know much about how to exchange them.”

Li Yishu smiled and said, “Manager He, I will arrange for Amy to go to Jiahe to discuss this with Mr. Zou in detail later.”

Ho Kuan Chang nodded: “Of course Director Li.”

After chatting for a few words, He Guanchang took the initiative to leave on the grounds of not disturbing others.

After he left, Li Yishu was also thinking about how to exchange shares with Golden Harvest?
He would not be happy if there were more, and he would not be happy if there were less Jiahe.

After some thought, Li Yishu decided to exchange a maximum of 5% of the shares + funds with Golden Harvest.

Although it seemed that Li Yishu made money, he actually felt that he had lost money because the Hong Kong film industry declined within two years and the value of Golden Harvest began to plummet.

On the contrary, with him in the mainland and the United States, the Art Entertainment Film Company will definitely develop faster and faster.

However, getting Golden Harvest involved is also of great benefit to Li Yishu. Not to mention that she will be able to take over the entire Golden Harvest and its huge film library, theaters, and distribution channels in the future, she can also use Golden Harvest’s 20 years of distribution channels to distribute movies to Southeast Asia and even some European and American countries.

“It seems that we need to speed up the development of the group as soon as possible.”

Li Yishu touched his chin. He didn’t know how long it would take for him to grow the company by himself. Since he wanted to make Jiahe a shareholder, he could also make other people shareholders.

It was a good opportunity for him to split the shares of the Art Entertainment Group, in which he holds 100% of the shares, in advance. Anyway, he had no intention of becoming the richest man, so he could just keep half of the shares for himself and find someone else to hold the rest, or attract new shareholders to expand the group as soon as possible and stagger the shares.

However, in order to get Golden Harvest to invest, Li Yishu had to sign an agreement with Zou Wenhuai in advance, stating that Li Yishu would have priority in buying and selling Golden Harvest shares in the future.

Golden Harvest is still very valuable. Not to mention the copyrights of thousands of films, just the distribution channels of Golden Harvest and theaters around the world are worth planning in advance.

Zou Wenhuai sold his shares in Golden Harvest in 2007. If he had tried to do it himself in advance, he should have been able to get it done around 2000. After all, the Hong Kong and Taiwan film markets were completely sluggish at that time, and a large number of filmmakers went north to engage in TV drama production.

“Director Li!”

At this moment, Li Jiaxin ran over, hugged Li Yishu’s arm and said coquettishly: “I ate a lot at dinner just now. Director Li, can you take me to exercise to lose weight?!”

“Okay.” Li Yishu smiled. He liked the sexy Hong Kong beauties.

The night passed quietly.

Li Jiaxin said she went to bed early, but in fact, she was tormented by Li Yishu until the early morning before she fell asleep.

Li Yishu didn’t react at first to what happened in the afternoon, but after talking with the company employee in charge of the preparations for this film, he found out that there were undercurrents in the crew over the past two days.

Considering the situation, how could Li Yishu not understand Li Jiaxin’s little thoughts?
If you use yourself as a backer, then you must be prepared to be suppressed by the backer. Anyway, Li Yishu didn’t want to have any long-term development with Li Jiaxin, so naturally he stood up and kicked her hard before the other party’s shelf life expired.

Moreover, when he came to the United States to shoot “Rumble in the Bronx” this time, he specially bought a latest Canon camera, intending to preserve Li Jiaxin’s youthful beauty. Otherwise, in a few years, the flower will wither and we will never see the most beautiful Hong Kong sister again.

Eight o’clock in the morning the next day.

The crew of “Rumble in the Bronx” officially started filming.

Cheng Long’s action scenes are still very OK, and this time he uses someone from his own Cheng family team as the martial arts director. There is no need for any running-in, and the effect that Li Yishu wants can be achieved right after the filming starts.

However, this also made Li Yishu give up the plan to continue working with Cheng Long on “Rush Hour”. She decided to go back and write the script and arrange for other directors to shoot it.

The reason is simple, because Cheng’s comedy style is too obvious and Cheng Long’s films are too personal.

No matter what the subject of the film is, as long as the male lead is Jackie Chan, everyone’s efforts will be focused on him.

And no matter how it is filmed, it is a typical Cheng-style comedy action film.

The only big change may be “The Foreigner” many years later. This movie is considered to be the most successful movie of Jackie Chan’s transformation, but unfortunately it is the only successful transformation.

Jet Li is much better in this regard. When he starred in “Swordsman”, he was trained by Xu Ke to be the unruly Linghu Chong. In “Once Upon a Time in China”, he was able to play a master. In “Danny the Wolfdog”, he was able to play a vicious boxer…

The crew’s filming progress is going smoothly.

After playing a minor role, Zhao Wenzhuo left happily.

Because Li Yishu’s film company was ready to sign him and promised to bring him to Hollywood to act in a movie.

After working with Jackie Chan, Li Yishu was basically certain that she would most likely not work with him again in the future. It’s not that Jackie Chan is a bad person. When filming a movie, he was still very serious and obedient.

However, Cheng Long’s personal traces and labels are too recognizable. It’s not that Li Yishu can’t change it, but if she does, the box office performance will probably not be very good.

The public’s impression of Jackie Chan is already fixed, including movie fans in the United States, who all like his comedy moves.

It just so happens that Lee Yi-su is planning to make a commercial action movie in the United States in the second half of the year. She signed Zhao Wenzhuo to make him a familiar face in the movie so that they can create a series specifically for him in the future, just like Jackie Chan’s “Rush Hour”.

He has already thought of a movie that will make Zhao Wenzhuo famous, and that is the “John Wick” series.

This movie doesn’t focus too much on political factors, nor does it have any major special effects. The entire film is based on a nearly actual combat style, so the production cost can be kept a lot lower.

So there is no need to worry about low box office in Europe and the United States. As long as costs are controlled, profitability should not be a problem.

At the same time, we can make arrangements similar to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in advance, so that we can push others forward later.

As long as the first film is successful, there will be a fan base for subsequent films, and the box office will probably not be too bad. It may even get higher and higher, just like “Fast and Furious”.

Moreover, Zhao Wenzhuo’s debut movie was directed by Lee Yi-su. If she makes him famous in Hollywood in the future, it will further highlight the ability and identity of the great director Lee Yi-su.

It’s different for Jackie Chan, he has been famous for a long time. Jet Li has also been famous since the 80s. Only Zhao Wenzhuo is still in a semi-famous state. As long as he can make a name for himself in Hollywood, Li Yishu will be able to audition for better actresses in the future.

Japan.

Sony Corporation.

In the conference room.

A middle-aged man said in a deep voice: “Everyone, what is in front of me is a product developed by the Chinese, called Video Compact Disc, or VCD for short…”

VCD has been on the market for several months. China Central Television has been promoting this product since December last year. The staff of Sony’s Yanjing office also bought back VCDs early in the morning and sent them to the headquarters in Japan for disassembly.

The configuration is poor and the manufacturing process is also terrible, but its performance is still very good. The most important thing is that it adopts new data compression technology.

This thing does not have high technical content and was born as early as 1990. As an old company in the electrical industry, Sony is naturally familiar with this technology.

But knowing the technology does not mean that you can develop a VCD.

To put it bluntly, VCD is actually a kind of creativity, an alternative creativity, just like gunpowder was originally used only to set off firecrackers.

This is a digital audio and video product that integrates optical, electrical and mechanical technologies. It is the product of the combination of MPEG digital compression technology and CD technology. Although it is slightly inferior to traditional videotapes in terms of image clarity and sound quality, it is cheaper and most importantly, the CD is easy to store and not prone to jam.

At this time, the Sony executive in charge of hosting this meeting, Kenichiro Yoshida, interrupted and said, “Director Mikami, please don’t talk about these things that everyone knows. Simply state the purpose of calling everyone together this time.”

“Okay, Minister Yoshida.”

Manager Mikami nodded and said, “Everyone, I have checked and found that the major shareholder behind this Pioneer Electric Company is the Chinese director Li Yishu, the man who was named the Godfather of Asian Cinema by Time magazine.”

“Nani?!”

Upon hearing this, all the middle and senior management present were shocked.

This movie godfather is actually the major shareholder behind Pioneer Electric? !

(End of this chapter)