Rebirth of the Entertainment Master

Xiao Yunhai didn't pay too much attention to the wedding.Besides, with the help of Yan Piaoyun and Chen Xiuzhu, Xiao Yunhai couldn't intervene at all.

Most of the time he went to the Magic Special Effects Company.

Due to the financial crisis in the United States, those small and medium-sized special effects companies in Hollywood went bankrupt one after another, and thousands of special effects technicians all became unemployed.

Xiao Yunhai asked Daniel to select more than 200 outstanding technicians from this group of people to join Magic, and the signing was for five years.

As for the other personnel, Xiao Yunhai planned to recruit them after a while.

Since Magic has not had much work recently, Xiao Yunhai sent most of the staff to Yanjing to learn the application of new special effects technology.

After getting married and spending their honeymoon, Xiao Yunhai is going to start shooting a blockbuster movie that requires a lot of special effects.

After the "Zhu Xian" project that he originally wanted to shoot went bankrupt, Xiao Yunhai pulled out countless Hollywood movies from his mind. After careful consideration, he finally chose "Inception" filmed by former Hollywood director Christopher Nolan.

After the film was released at the time, it received numerous praises, and the ratings of fans were very high, second only to "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Godfather".

More importantly, "Inception" is very suitable to be changed into a Chinese film, there are many fighting scenes in it, Xiao Yunhai can definitely add Chinese Kung Fu into it.

When he was in Huaxia, Xiao Yunhai had already finished the script, and at the same time contacted the production team to confirm the schedule.

The male and female protagonists must be Xiao Yunhai and Zhao Wanqing. As for the other actors, he has not yet confirmed them, but he has an idea in mind.

If nothing else, the show will start in mid-November.

On this day, Kerry called Xiao Yunhai and invited him to eat steak at an Italian restaurant.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Xiao Yunhai came to the restaurant and found that besides Kerry, there was also a middle-aged man in his 50s.

Kerry introduced: "Xiao, this is my father, Phil---Mr. Smith."

Xiao Yunhai was startled, and quickly reached out his hand, shook Phil with a smile, and said, "Mr. Smith, I have admired your name for a long time."

Phil---Smith said with a smile: "To each other. The "Jing Wu Hero" filmed by Mr. Xiao is very good, I have watched it several times in a row."

After speaking, he made a gesture of please sit down.

Xiao Yunhai said: "I'm really flattered that this movie is liked by Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith, I don't know if you asked Kerry to invite me over for something?"

Phil smiled and said, "It seems that Mr. Xiao is also impatient. I heard from Kerry that Mr. Xiao is very interested in the American theater chain."

Xiao Yunhai nodded, and said, "That's right. Last time, Kerry and I discussed the theater chain, but what I didn't expect was that the United States would have a financial crisis the next day."

Phil said: "At the beginning of this year, Wall Street reported that there might be an economic crisis this year, but after waiting for a long time, it didn't happen. Everyone thought it was a false alarm. I didn't expect it to detonate suddenly and with such intensity It was so big that we didn't expect it. Therefore, our preparations were not done well, which caused some problems in the company. Mr. Xiao, I don't know if you are still interested in our MGM Cinema at this time Woolen cloth?"

Xiao Yunhai said: "Mr. Smith, do you want to sell me the shares of MGM Cinemas?"

Phil nodded and said, "That's right."

Xiao Yunhai asked puzzledly: "Why? It seems that the court hasn't decided yet?"

Phil said: "Although it hasn't been decided yet, we already know the final result. The eight major Hollywood film companies can retain up to 30.00% of the shares, and the rest will be sold. And I can't wait for that time now."

Kerry next to him said, "Xiao, to tell you the truth, MGM urgently needs a cash flow, so we want to sell you part of the theater shares as soon as possible."

Xiao Yunhai said: "Kerry, although we are good friends, but in terms of business, you should know that now is not the best time for me to buy theater shares."

The original market value of MGM Cinemas was more than 620 billion U.S. dollars, but under the strong impact of the economic crisis, it has dropped sharply to 430 billion U.S. dollars.Wait a few more days, and it may even drop to 300 billion or even 200 billion. If you buy it at that time, Xiao Yunhai will undoubtedly take advantage of it.

Phil nodded and said, "So we are willing to sell it to you at 70.00% of the current market price."

Xiao Yunhai frowned and said, "Mr. Smith, how much are you going to sell me?"

Phil said: "I'll sell you 20.00% at most."

Hearing this number, Xiao Yunhai frowned slightly.

Phil holds 30.00%, and he owns 20.00%. That adds up to exactly 50.00%. In this way, Phil---Smith can still hold the controlling stake.As long as I support him all the time, the MGM theater chain is actually still within his control, and it is still legal.

But to buy a 20.00% stake in MGM Cinemas, Xiao Yunhai needs to pay 62 billion US dollars.

According to the current exchange rate of 1:2.34 between US dollar and Huaxia currency, 62 billion US dollars is 140 billion Huaxia currency, which already occupies half of Xiao Yunhai's property.

This is very detrimental to his next purchase of Huaxia Cinema.

Thinking of this, Xiao Yunhai shook his head and said, "I might not be able to buy so many."

Kerry seemed to know what Xiao Yunhai was worried about, and said with a smile: "Xiao, you don't need to worry about Huaxia Cinemas at all. At that time, our MGM should have come out of the predicament and can help you get a mortgage from the bank. You know, Our relationship with MGM and the bank is very good."

Xiao Yunhai said: "Kerry, I need to go back and discuss it with my wife. How about I give you an answer tomorrow?"

Kerry smiled and said, "Of course. Xiao, I heard that you are going to have a wedding soon, right?"

Xiao Yunhai nodded, took out two invitation cards from his bag, and said, "Kerry, I sincerely invite you and Jesse to attend my wedding with Wanqing."

Kerry took the big red invitation, looked at it curiously, and found that half of it was in Chinese and half in English. He couldn't help smiling, and said, "This invitation of yours is really interesting. Whether we can cooperate or not, I will Will definitely go."

Seeing that his son had such a good relationship with Xiao Yunhai, Phil was still very happy.

Before cooperating with Xiao Yunhai, Phil asked someone to conduct a detailed investigation on Xiao Yunhai, and he admired him for achieving such a high achievement in two years, and more importantly, he had no scandals yet. The product is also surprisingly good.

With such an outstanding young man, Phil naturally hoped that Kerry would have more contact with Xiao Yunhai.

After eating, Xiao Yunhai returned home and told Zhao Wanqing about the matter.

Zhao Wanqing thought for a while, and said: "70.00% is too high. This financial crisis is much more serious than before, and no one knows how long it will take. Now, the dollar is depreciating crazily. In two weeks, the exchange rate with Huaxia currency has dropped from 1:3.12 to 1:2.34, and it may drop more in the future. And the more it drops, the better for us. MGM 70.00% Discounts are not enough."

Xiao Yunhai said: "Honey, if we buy it now, how appropriate do you think it is?"

Zhao Wanqing said: "50.00%."

Xiao Yunhai was startled, and said: "You are too cruel."

Zhao Wanqing shook her head and smiled, "Honey, do you know what your biggest problem is?"

Xiao Yunhai asked: "What?"

Zhao Wanqing said: "It's just too much loyalty. To the enemy, you can be ruthless and merciless. But to your friends, you can't. Husband, haven't you heard the saying that shopping malls are like battlefields? Even if you No matter how good the relationship with Kerry is, public and private should not be confused."

Xiao Yunhai frowned and said, "I haven't."

Zhao Wanqing said with a playful smile, "How dare you say that you don't have the heart to help Kerry?"

Xiao Yunhai thought for a while, and had to admit that he did have the idea of ​​helping, so he couldn't help but smiled wryly: "After you say that, I realize that I'm really not suitable to be a boss."

Zhao Wanqing said: "This is your advantage, but it is also your shortcoming. You always say that you have a thick skin, but in fact you are the one who needs the most face. How about this, husband, I will be in charge of the negotiation with MGM tomorrow ,How about it?"

Xiao Yunhai smiled and said, "Of course."