Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 1067 Prince Bandar's Investment Plan
"That's all? Nothing else?"

"No more, you know I don't have many clothes..."

Helen Slater had just moved into a Fifth Avenue apartment, as the Central Park jogger suspect was locked into nearby public housing, and moved out right away.

In order for Helen to live safely, Ronald temporarily contacted a real estate agent and bought her a penthouse in the Upper East Side.Because of her father and her status as an actor, the industry committee immediately approved her move-in.

Helen was barely considered a successful actress, but her personality was still that of a child from a divorced family, without any Hollywood Vanity Fair style.All she has is two big boxes.

Compared with giving the house away, Helen was happier with Ronald helping her move. This is the ideal relationship in her dream.

"Are you Ronald Lee?" A gentleman with a Middle Eastern and black mixed-race appearance, short build, curly hair, and a vertically striped handmade suit stopped at the entrance of the lobby and asked Ronald.

Bodyguard Dan and the two bodyguards next to the Middle Eastern person exchanged glances, and immediately recognized each other's identities, nodded and stepped aside.

"It's me, may I ask who you are? Wait, let me guess, you are His Royal Highness the Prince of Saudi Arabia..." Ronald remembered what the real estate agent told him.

"Haha, I didn't expect to see you here. I heard Little George talk a lot about your abilities, and the commander-in-chief is full of praise for you..."

Prince Bandar also serves as the Saudi ambassador, but he often returns to New York.Here and Washington, D.C., are the two places where he spends the most energy.

"I don't know you yet... We all have a mutual friend, little George." Ronald shook hands with him.This Bandar received an elite education in the West, and often looks more like a New Yorker than a New Yorker.

Seeing how he said he was very familiar with the old George's family, Ronald seemed to have an extraordinary relationship.Bandar was a diplomat after all, and Ronald felt like a spring breeze chatting with him, and the two agreed to go wild duck hunting with Little George when they were free.

"Are you going to move now?" Bandar saw the two boxes next to Ronald, and then glanced at Helen.

"It's my friend, those five thugs live too close..." Ronald pointed to Helen as a single woman, it's better to stay away from danger.

"Mr. Developer also told me that you didn't move, and advised me not to move, it's safe here..." Bandar continued to ask, as if he really wanted to make friends with Ronald.

"I feel that the developer is telling the truth, but although the risk is very small, why should we take the risk?" Ronald thought to himself that all the residents living here, any risk is unnecessary.

"That's right, why don't we find a place to chat, I am also very interested in Hollywood movies, especially Top Gun directed by you, you know I was a fighter pilot in the Saudi Air Force when I was young."

Without waiting for Ronald to speak, Bandar enthusiastically asked his butler to help Ronald carry his luggage, and asked his secretary to hand over a gold-plated business card.

Ronald saw Helen's wide eyes and wanted to know the Saudi prince very much.Just agree to come down.

"You go and move my luggage out, we'll go to the Peninsula Hotel." Bandar turned his head and gave an order to the housekeeper.Continue to smile and chat with Ronald while walking out.

"Oh, you are really admirable." Helen couldn't help exclaiming after hearing Bandar's personal experience.

This Bandar prince is actually the illegitimate son of the real prince and an Ethiopian maid.But he was very motivated and went to military school to become a pilot.Also as an informal envoy, he persuaded the then commander-in-chief to agree to sell the most advanced F15 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia.

As a diplomatic talent in the Saudi royal family, he has also been to Huaguo, and it seems that he has made a big business there.But when asked about the details, he was reluctant to say.

Helen took this as listening to a legendary story, and Ronald understood Bandar's intention to befriend him.This guy must have been sapped by something in Washington, D.C., and now he wants to re-establish a personal relationship with the Grand Commander.

Ronald knew how to deal with this kind of thing, so he called Douglas Jr.After a few rounds of collusion, little Doug also went to call little George.It just so happened that the Grand Commander's family was also interested in picking up this personal relationship that was very smooth when the old George was the Deputy Commander.

Ronald just acted as a sounding board once and contacted them to meet in New York.

"If you have any projects in Hollywood, is it possible for me to invest in them? I am very fond of Hollywood movies. As long as I see good movies on the screen, I don't care about the return on investment. This is the common spiritual wealth of mankind. , as long as I see a good movie, I will be satisfied..."

After finalizing the meeting with George Jr., Bandar offered to invest in Ronald's film project without any return.Of course, Ronald will not let him suffer too much, and will still give him the usual returns enjoyed by foreign investors.

"Ambassador Bandar is really a friendly person who loves movies..." Helen was very happy to hear that his lover has such an international reputation, and the prince of the Middle East would fund Ronald's movie project without asking for anything in return.

"Maybe..." Of course, Ronald knew that this was his reward for making connections. Besides, Saudi Arabia did not allow cinemas to appear, so he loved movies.

Sending Helen back to the newly bought penthouse, Ronald searched for the nearest newspaper, and finally found the reason of the matter in the Washington Post.

In [-], Bandar once asked the American military to purchase ballistic missiles to check and balance Israel, which was becoming stronger and stronger in the Middle East.After being rejected, Bandar diverted to the other side of the Pacific Ocean, where he bought the coveted large missile.

After this incident was known by the American military and the CIA, they were very angry and immediately threatened to reconsider the special relationship with Saudi Arabia.

In order to calm the anger, Bandar acted as a transit point for underground transactions between the CIA and the military and Persia, and gave 3000 million US dollars in financial support to the guerrillas in Central America.This was also part of the Bosmen scandal that was later exposed.

Originally, this matter made the relationship between Bandar and the old George who was in charge of the transaction, who was the boss of the CIA, and the old Ronald the then commander-in-chief more stable, because they shared a secret.During the Congressional investigation, Bandar also acted as the mouthpiece for First Lady Nancy and cabinet members, exchanging some information that they were inconvenient to talk about (collusion...).

Seeing that the new commander-in-chief, Old George, will bring the personal relationship between Bandar and their family closer, who knows that the King of Saudi Arabia has a new idea.

Like a kid who has a baseball bat and always wants to swing it in his hand.The Saudis bought 36 big, fat sticks from across the Pacific, and it can't always be kept under wraps.

They found a free time and announced that they had a big stick.This annoyed America's State Department, which recalled its ambassador to Saudi Arabia in protest.Now that the relationship between the two countries has fallen to the bottom because of this incident, Bandar very much hopes to meet the commander-in-chief, and then, like last time, he will spend a lot of money to end the abnormal indifference between the two countries.

Ronald did not participate in the discussion between him and George Jr., but found the best Japanese restaurant he had eaten last time, served as the host of the meeting, and invited two friends who like to hunt wild ducks to discuss the itinerary of the next hunting.

Seeing how happy they were chatting, Ronald felt that he had a pretty good lead.

"Ronald, if you have spare money, you can consider investing in dock facilities on the east and west coasts. Recently, many docks and shipyards in America are good trading targets..."

"Oh? I thought these wharves and shipyards were the acquisition targets of Wall Street capital. I heard that if they are split up and sold separately, their market value will be higher than the original market value..." Ronald remembered the "3000" that he saw. The stories in the script must have been written with reference to a lot of reality.

"The shipyard always needs to build large warships, and the wharf needs to park aircraft carriers... Isn't it?" Little George seemed to be revealing something.

"Oh, this is really beyond my knowledge...my investments are limited to the entertainment industry and the products I use myself..."

"Hahaha, you are also a very interesting investor." Bandar laughed.This is a bit of inside information given for Ronald's help. Why doesn't this Hollywood director seem to understand.

Saudi Arabia has a lot of money, and America's shipping and shipbuilding industries, especially warships, are the basics of the Grand Commander.

Bandar came to plead guilty. In the end, the old George offered them to invest in the manufacturing and shipping industries that have been sluggish in the past ten years, open up the Middle East capital to acquire docks on the east and west coasts, and invest in the shipbuilding industry. The commander-in-chief will also lead the Congress Increase funding for the Navy.

Bandar readily agreed to the conditions offered by the George family, and of course he was rewarded. Immediately, Old George will shake hands and chat with him openly at the reception in Washington.

To reveal these things to Ronald is to give him a chance to make a fortune.As a result, Ronald didn't seem to understand at all. It seemed that he was just an artist.

Ronald pretended not to understand. This kind of opportunity might be tricked by someone in the capital market if he was not careful.There is no need to earn this money.

But, since Bandar is so rich, it is serious to ask him to invest more in his own projects in the future.

"Now that foreign capital is investing in our country's assets, I don't know what attitude you have, Little George?" Ronald turned to Little George and asked.

"Hey, your friend Doug said it well, land is an asset that cannot be moved away, and it is also God's blessing for us Americans..."

Ronald smiled knowingly, and said this to Bandar.If you invest money in our port, it is easy to get a reasonable return, but if you dare to have second thoughts, these assets will not grow legs and run away on their own. At that time, it will be a matter of court judgment.

Now it's Bandar's turn to have a bad expression. The wealth he took out is owned by the royal family, and he gave it to him through the clean investment of the International Credit Commercial Bank. His own private money, he originally wanted to invest in it for himself Wealth growth is increasing... If you look at it this way, it is better to invest in some safer assets.

"I don't know Ronald, you know some good investments in America. We Saudis like real, tangible assets..."

"It seems that he doesn't like investing in movie projects..." Ronald understood Bandar's meaning, he thought for a while, "Actually, investing in movie theaters is a good business..." Anyway, he only knows a lot about the entertainment industry Some, if you don’t invest in movies, you can invest in movie theaters where movies are shown...

Ronald immediately explained that America's large number of old-fashioned movie theaters are facing elimination.Newly built multiplex theaters in shopping malls or rebuilt in old movie theaters will be good investment directions in the next 20 years.

"Is this job really okay?" Now even little George was interested.

"Of course..." Bandar hastily wiped his mouth with a white handkerchief, "I heard Director Ronald's ingenious analysis, and I think this is a good business, but I don't know much about the American film industry. , urgently need someone familiar with the American film industry to help me..."

Speaking of this, Bandar stared at Ronald with piercing eyes, and raised the huge ring, adjusted the direction, and used the reflection to hint.

"I can only be your partner. The person you are looking for is a person who is familiar with the ideas of the people of America and has a broad vision. I think George is very suitable. Of course, if you are interested in helping a group of Bandar Your Highness..." Ronald waved his hand to signal that he understood, and stop using the reflection of the ring to shine on him.

"Hahaha, we are good friends, Bandar...you are like a cousin to our family, and you, Ronald...hahaha" Little George couldn't close his mouth with joy.

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Some people are happy, others are worried.Bandar moved things out of the Fifth Avenue apartment with great fanfare, and it caused a big reaction among the residents, and more people wanted to move.Moreover, as the Saudi ambassador, Bandar's move has also attracted the attention of the media. If the news is successful, the residents of this apartment building may have a big escape.In this way, the rent of the building will also drop in a chain.

Of course, the developer refused to sit still. On the one hand, in order to emphasize the safety of the building, on the other hand, he also wanted to buy off the four major media outlets in New York, asking them to suppress the report on Bandar's relocation. He paid a lot of money and made full pages in all four newspapers. advertisment.

"Bring the death penalty back to New York, bring the NYPD back to New York!"

The huge ad title catches people's attention, and the content is even more exciting.

"Mayor Koch said that hate and resentment should be wiped from our hearts. I don't think so. I want to hate these robbers and murderers. They should be forced to suffer... Yes, Mayor Koch, I want to hate these Murderer, and I always will be... How can our great society tolerate the continued brutality of its citizens by insane misfits? Criminals must be told that when our safety is attacked, their civil liberties end!"

This has already expressed dissatisfaction with the mayor of New York by name, which has caused a large number of black people to fight back.Donkey Party candidate Dinkins even said that this ad "proves that everything is possible in the United States" and that "even a fool can become a millionaire."

"It's actually a billionaire..." Ronald looked at the newspaper, and he corrected Dingkins' slip of the tongue. After the vicious case of "Working Girl" in Central Park happened, Ronald announced that part of the box office profits would be donated as the victim's rehabilitation fund, which was greatly welcomed by professional women in New York.

They went back and contributed a lot of movie tickets, making the weekend box office break through 250 million again.The total box office has exceeded 8000 million US dollars.

The videotape is also ready to be released, and Carly Simon's record company has also agreed to release the copyright of the film's interlude, which will be released with Ronald's soundtrack.

Ronald and Doug Jr. set up a new joint venture company, while absorbing funds from all over the world, while looking for new movie theater investment opportunities.Doug finally found an industry he liked very much. His family was originally engaged in land management. Investments like movie theaters happened to be his strong point.

Ronald brought back the investment intentions of Bandar and Bannon, and he flew back to Hollywood, where there are still several projects waiting for his check.

(End of this chapter)