Superstars start as villains

Chapter 180 The wind.

08 was destined to be an extraordinary year. When the whole of China was focusing all its attention on the Olympic Games, a sudden disaster struck. More than 10 square kilometers were severely damaged and 69227 people lost their lives.

This is also the earthquake with the most serious casualties after the Tangshan earthquake, and countless people were displaced.

Fortunately, today's Huaxia has the ability to face any disaster, and the rescue, resettlement, and protection after the disaster have shown extremely high efficiency, especially the armed police officers, soldiers, and firefighters are all rushing to the front line of disaster relief.

Countless Chinese people generously donated money and goods, and even went to the front line regardless of personal comfort.

When Zhou Xing received the news, the crew was in the middle of filming, so Anli could only donate 1000 million in his own name and "Zhixing Film and Television".

By the time [Ip Man] was finalized, it was already August 8st, the disaster situation had been basically brought under control, and there were only 1 days left before the much-anticipated Olympic Games.

Under the momentum of the National Olympics, the entire entertainment industry has died down, because during this period of time all the heat will be absorbed by various news reports on the Olympics. Naturally, no entertainment company would be stupid enough to promote it at this time.

The only thing that attracted more attention in the entertainment circle was that Lao Mouzi actually became the director of the opening ceremony of this Olympic Games.

I have to admit that Lao Mouzi has his own way. The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on August 8 not only showed China's 8-year-old brilliant civilization, but also proved China's strength to the world. Many foreigners were amazed at this.

On August 8, Czech player Emmons won the women's 9-meter air rifle championship with a score of 503.5, and won the first gold medal in this Olympic Games.

On the same day, Chinese player Pang Wei won the men's 688.2-meter air rifle championship with a score of 10, and won the first gold medal of the Chinese delegation in this Olympic Games.

On August 8, Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia won China's first gold medal in diving with a score of 10 in the women's double 3-meter springboard final.

By the end of the Olympic Games on August 8, the Chinese delegation had won a total of 24 gold medals, becoming the country with the most gold medals in the 51 Olympic Games.

The 16-day Olympic event has since come to an end, leaving behind many classic moments.

American athlete Michael Phelps won 8 gold medals in this Olympic Games, becoming the player who won the most gold medals in a single Olympic Games.

Jamaica's Trelawney won three gold medals in the sprint event and was called lightning and trapeze.

08 was destined to be an extraordinary year. Not long after the Olympic Games ended, the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States was completely out of control, which caused a global economic tsunami and the world entered a period of economic recession.

Affected by the global financial crisis, Hong Kong stocks also experienced large-scale declines, from a maximum of more than 30400 points to 11921 points, a decline rate of more than 61%.

Of course, the crisis is also an opportunity. In September, Orange Sky Entertainment issued a comprehensive acquisition of Golden Harvest Film and Television, taking advantage of the distressed Hong Kong stock market.

In fact, as early as 07, the boss of Orange Sky Wu got the shares of Golden Harvest from Wenhuai's daughter and became the largest shareholder of Golden Harvest. .

Zhou Xing was amazed by Orange Sky's series of coquettish operations. Of course, he knew about it in advance, after all, he was also a member of Orange Sky's board of directors, although he had never attended the board of directors.

Of course, in order to be able to raise funds for the acquisition of Golden Harvest, Zhou Xing’s shares have also been diluted, with only 3.2% of the original shares, but this deal is definitely not a loss. After the acquisition of Golden Harvest, Orange Sky not only obtained Golden Harvest’s The copyright library, as well as its theaters are also included in the bag, which is definitely extremely good news for a company like Orange Sky that has only been established for two and a half years.

"Sister Hua, congratulations." Zhou Xing did not forget to call Wang Jinghua
Wang Jinghua also smiled happily on the other end of the phone: "Same joy, same joy."

In fact, in recent years, domestic entertainment companies have been busy going public. They wanted to become the first entertainment company to go public. Huayi also worked hard for this, but it was preempted by Orange Sky Entertainment. It is estimated that upon hearing this news, the Wang family Brother's face will not look good.

"Ah Xing, you didn't call me today just to say hello, did you?" Wang Jinghua said.

Zhou Xing cleared his throat: "Ahem, as expected of Sister Hua, in fact, it's like this, I have a project recently and I need a sum of money, isn't Orange Sky going public through a back door, I just want to sell the shares, no, I just thought of you."

This is also a project reported by Gao Qunshu recently, called [Fengsheng], with a total investment of 8000 million. In the past two years, most of Zhou Xing’s investment has been in Tencent’s stock. The financial crisis has also affected Tencent’s stock price. Now It was too bad to sell, so Zhou Xing thought about selling Orange Sky's stock.

"Oh? Orange Sky has just been listed, so don't think about it anymore?" This time Orange Sky acquired Golden Harvest, Wang Jinghua also diluted a lot of shares. Now that Orange Sky is developing well, she is naturally grateful for the shares held by Zhou Xing interested.

"There's nothing to think about." If it wasn't for obtaining the resources of Orange Sky, he wouldn't have chosen to buy shares. Regardless of Orange Sky's listing, the value of the stock in his hand has doubled. In fact, it is not as good as he was in the second Buying Tencent's stock in the high-end market has a high return.

With Zhou Xing's current coffee position, he doesn't need to rely on Orange Sky's resources anymore. Naturally, these stocks are dispensable. It's better to sell them. Not only can they be cashed in, but they can also be sold to Wang Jinghua as a favor. Why not do it.

"How about this, the current stock price of Orange Sky is 1.93 Hong Kong dollars, I will offer 2.2 Hong Kong dollars, 8600 million to buy your shares, how about it?"

"make a deal!"

Zhou Xing is quite satisfied with Wang Jinghua's quotation. Hong Kong stocks are different from A-shares. The valuation of entertainment companies is actually not that high. Before that, Golden Harvest's stock price was very low, and the total market value was only more than 8000 million. Driving the stock price can only rely on performance.

It is said that Orange Sky invested in Wu Yusen's "Red Cliff" and it will be released in the second half of the year. If the box office hits the box office, it is estimated that the stock price will increase significantly. Of course, if the box office hits the street.
Wang Jinghua acted very quickly, as if she was afraid that Zhou Xing would change her mind, or that others would get ahead of her, so she quickly completed the equity transaction with Zhou Xing, and the money was paid in one go.

After getting the money, Zhou Xing was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.

Returning to "Zhixing Film and Television", Zhou Xing joked: "Old Gao, I have put all my wealth on you."

"Thank you!" Gao Qunshu nodded solemnly, inexplicably moved.

[Wind Voice] In fact, Gao Qunshu originally wanted to attract some investment in this project, but since the box office of "Tokyo Judgment" hit the street last time, those investors have avoided him before, even after reading the script, they all think that this kind of It is very difficult for spy war dramas to pay back, let alone make money. In the end, he didn't get a penny of investment.

Gao Qunshu even doubted himself, but Zhou Xing said: "If they don't vote, I will vote alone!"

Afterwards, Gao Qunshu found out that Zhou Xing had sold the shares of Orange Sky to get together the 8000 million. How could he not give up?
Of course, Zhou Xing’s actions were not entirely out of whim. "Zhixing Film and Television" has been established for more than a year, and most of them are just involved in investment. The only two "Love Call Transfer" are also low-cost movies and have not gained fame. .

Zhou Xing read the script of "The Wind", and if it was two years ago, he would not have considered investing in it, because such a film requires acting skills, and the prices of acting actors from Hong Kong and Taiwan are too high, and mainland actors have no box office appeal It is almost impossible to recover the cost.

However, things are different now. Mainland actors have proven their box office appeal, and mainland audiences are no longer superstitious about Hong Kong and Taiwan stars, and pay more attention to film quality.

The investment is in place, the script has already been reviewed and approved, and the [Fengsheng] project is officially approved.

"Director Gao, have you selected any actors for this play?" Zhou Xing asked. The key to the success of this play lies in the actors.

Gao Qunshu nodded: "I'm going to invite Zhou Xun to play the female lead, Gu Xiaomeng, and the male lead, Wu Zhiguo. I think it's more appropriate to play Zhang Hanyu in the assembly."

Zhou Xing smiled wryly as soon as he heard it: "You will really give me problems, you are all from Huayi."

Because of Wang Jinghua, Chengtian and Huayi are basically sworn enemies in the circle, and Zhou Xing was once a shareholder of Chengtian. This relationship is really embarrassing.

But Gao Qunshu shook his head and said, "Don't worry about that, I have a good relationship with Huayi, and you didn't directly conflict with Huayi, you are nothing more than a shareholder of Orange Sky, and now you have sold all the shares in Orange Sky. "

"What's more, our film is to help them promote actors, and it's too late to be happy."

Zhou Xing was right when he thought about it. [Wind Voice] No matter what you say, it is an A-level production with an investment of 8000 million yuan. I don’t know how many people are jealous of such a good resource. Appropriate actors.

"That's fine, you can contact Huayi first, if it doesn't work, let's try to recruit."

Not to mention, after Gao Qunshu sent the audition invitation to Huayi, the reply there was really fast. Zhang Hanyu said that he could take the role, but Huayi's reply actually wanted Li Bingbing to play Gu Xiaomeng.

Zhou Xing was a little puzzled, what kind of operation was this?
Gao Qunshu said with a smile, "Normally, who let Li Xue have the final say in Huayi's artist department?"

Well, Zhou Xing finally understands that Li Xue is not only Li Bingbing's manager, but also her own sister. Such a good resource must be directed towards his own family.

"Can Li Bingbing take this role?" Zhou Xing was a little skeptical.

Although Li Bingbing came from a major, his acting skills are much better than Fan Bingbing's, but the role of Gu Xiaomeng is not something ordinary people can handle. Zhou Xing, a mainland actress, really thinks that only Zhou Xun is suitable.

"Help them promote actors, and why the fuck do you add to me? I'm not used to this stinking problem. Reply to Huayi. It's not that we have no alternatives. We don't need her to recommend actors for us." Zhou Xing scolded.

It turned out that Zhou Xing received a call from Li Xue within half an hour of his reply.

"Mr. Li, although Huayi is a big company, you can't bully people like this, right?" Zhou Xing took the lead in attacking.

"Oh, Mr. Zhou, please calm down. You know the relationship between me and Bingbing. After all, we are sisters. I must hope that she will get better and better. Please forgive me this time, don't be a little girl with me General knowledge?" Li Xue lowered her posture.

Sure enough, this person is not a fuel-efficient lamp, no wonder he is able to sit in this position today.

"Then, Mr. Li, what do you mean, Zhou Xun can play Gu Xiaomeng?" Zhou Xing didn't bother to talk nonsense to her.

Li Xue nodded again and again: "No problem, as long as it is an actor from Huayi, you can choose whatever you want."

"Ahem, Mr. Zhou, that's it. I read Gu Xiaomeng's script, and there is a character named Li Ningyu mentioned in it. How about letting Bingbing try this character?"

As if she was afraid of offending Zhou Xing, Li Xue said again: "Don't worry, I just gave her a chance to audition. Whether she can do it or not depends on the results of the audition."

"Okay, I'll ask someone to send Li Ningyu's script later." Zhou Xing's face softened.

"Huayi agreed?" Gao Qunshu saw Zhou Xing hang up the phone.

Zhou Xing nodded, and Gao Qunshu let go of his heart. In fact, it is not uncommon for mainland actresses to be on the same level as Zhou Xun in terms of acting skills, but either their appearance conditions are not suitable, or they have little box office appeal. [Wind Voice] In this play, she is really the only one.

"The first male lead and the first female lead are settled, what about the other roles? Has anyone chosen?" Zhou Xing asked.

"Wu Tian, ​​why don't you come to play a guest role?" Gao Qunshu's eyes sparkled.

Zhou Xing scolded with a smile: "Okay, after a long time of trouble, you've got your idea on me."

Of course, Zhou Xing didn't refuse either. After all, it's his own play, so let's just make a cameo, as it can save a little money.

"Wang Tianxiang, I would like to invite Wang Zhiwen to play the role."

As soon as Gao Qunshu's words came out, Zhou Xing rolled his eyes. Wang Zhiwen was famous in the industry for picking dramas and scripts. The general crew would not invite him at all, even if they spent money.

"As for Jin Shenghuo, Yingda is good. I know this guy well, so I'll invite him."

"Bai Xiaonian"

Some of the remaining supporting roles directly announced the casting in the circle. Not to mention, once the news was released, it really caused a lot of influence in the circle.

In the impression of insiders, "Zhixing Film and Television" can only be regarded as a small company, and it has produced two low-cost comedies, and one has not been released. However, this small company suddenly threw out an A-level production.

In 08, there were not many movies with an investment of 8000 million yuan a year. This is like fighting landlords.

All of a sudden, the compulsion of "Zhixing Film and Television" has been improved several grades.

Of course, for the brokerage companies in the circle, how could such a good opportunity be missed? A-level production, even if it is a supporting role?
Even Wang Jinghua made a special call.

"You kid made such a fuss without making a sound? Why don't you leave some roles for me?"

Zhou Xing smiled wryly: "The female lead and the male lead are both confirmed. For the other roles, I will send the script to you. If you are interested, you are welcome to come and audition, but this drama is very important to me. If you pass the audition No, I can only say sorry to you."

"Hey, all the money from selling the shares has gone into it? All right, you have the final say!"

(End of this chapter)