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Yan Ruxin is not interested in reading horror and gothic romance novels.

Even though this book is so popular, she has already passed the age of reading campus youth novels.

And she has very little rest time, which is the price of being an investment bank executive with an annual salary of one million.

Even if there are breaks, they are all spent on sleep, or exercising and running marathons, and most of them are watching dramas in front of the computer.

Fortunately, Angela girl has seen "Twilight".

From the perspective of the film market, she has a very high evaluation of this novel.

But Angela prefers to shoot films written by herself.

Therefore, she didn't pay much attention to the various twists and turns of the adaptation copyright of this novel.

Yan Ruxin didn't pay attention at first, but one day, when she was bored playing with her mobile phone, she saw the trailer of "Twilight" on iturns, and saw overwhelming information on blogs, r, k... various new media, There are also various exposures of the male and female protagonists on TV, as well as various press conferences and promotional videos.

It can be said that almost anywhere she is, there is no way to avoid the message of "Twilight".

As a result, she became curious about the viral marketing strategy used by Summit Entertainment.

This kind of overexposure to the point of being a bit annoying at the end of the marketing method caught Yan Ruxin's attention.

In addition, intuitively, she is very optimistic about "Twilight"-from Angela's girlish talent.

So, when she found out that Summit Entertainment was still losing money, and all of this year's films were poor at the box office, and they were still living frugally with the $10 billion invested by Merrill Lynch last year...

Yan Ruxin sensed a huge opportunity.

"Mr. Friedman, hello." Yan Ruxin greeted Robert Friedman with a smile.

Robert Friedman is about 50 years old, with gray hair, but a well-maintained figure, and looks somewhat elegant.

When he was young, he was very uninhibited. After only one and a half years of college, he traveled around Europe.

After being introduced by relatives, he joined Warner, and climbed from a small mail room employee to the position of president.

After that, he moved to Paramount, and finally, he ended up as the chief operating officer. With a plan to start a business and an investment of US$10 billion from Merrill Lynch, he joined Summit Entertainment.

Before she spoke, Robert Friedman was having a seemingly unpleasant conversation with a short, slightly balding man in his 30s.

"Excuse me, are you?" Robert looked at the tall Greek woman in front of him with some indifference.

In his eyes, this beautiful woman looks very young, with charming caramel-colored wavy hair, exquisite facial features, a slender and well-proportioned figure, with a smile at the corner of her mouth, and a very good temperament...

But he is not in the mood to deal with these models who want to be on top.

"I'm an investor of ya capital, Angela Mellon." She generously handed over her business card and introduced herself.

"Ya Capital? I haven't heard of it." Robert was taken aback for a moment, and then said very shamelessly.

Ok……

Although not the young model he thought.

But as the owner of a project planning plan, from Merrill Lynch to 10 billion US dollars, the attitude towards the humble small investment company is naturally not much better.

"It doesn't matter if you haven't heard of it, but I think that there should be no one in this world who would have trouble with the US dollar." Yan Ruxin raised her eyebrows and didn't care. City" is very interesting, I wonder if there is room for cooperation?"

"The cooperation of "Twilight"? Well, I don't know what kind of cooperation you want to talk about." Robert agreed casually, but his attitude was a little disapproving, and he said with some sarcasm, "You don't know that the movie has already The filming is over, and it is now in the promotion period, the response from the fans is very enthusiastic, you just want to step in and get a share, I think it is a bit too late."

For some reason, Robert, who looked polite, had a bad tone, which didn't quite match the image he had portrayed in the past.

"Do you think it's late? But I don't think so." Yan Ruxin smiled, as if she didn't notice Robert's irritability.

She said very gently, "I am very interested in the conversation you just had with Todd Sandy, the project manager of Merrill Lynch. If I guess correctly, he is probably eager to recover the $10 billion investment last year. The profits that come, after all, you know, Wall Street is... not at peace right now.

Alas, it is really pitiful to see him like that. If it were a normal day, the Merrill Lynch family would not care about the great fortune, but after the Lehman incident, the whole Wall Street was in panic. I am afraid that he will be called by the personnel department to go to work on Monday. I have coffee. "

Don't look at Yan Ruxin's gentle language, she seems to be smiling at Yan Yan, but in fact she is a typical smile with a hidden knife.

Because of the dismal business, Summit Entertainment is now putting all its hopes on "Twilight".

In order to be able to push up the box office, he did his best.

But the film is tentatively scheduled to be released on December 12, or it will face "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince".

No matter how good the peak expectation is, I still feel uneasy.

The entirety of Summit Entertainment will remain in debt for several more months before the film is drawn.

At the same time, the box office expectations of the media and most film critics for "Twilight" are actually not high. Affected by the previous tragedy of "Curse" with the theme of werewolves in Waterloo, there are still gothic thriller films on the market. Keep a wait-and-see attitude.

Therefore, Yan Ruxin's words almost directly stabbed the already irritable Robert in the chest.

Quick, hard, accurate!

It's outrageously hot!

The area of ​​Robert's psychological shadow at this time must be quite large.

Ok……

At this moment, it is necessary to mention the title given to Yan Ruxin by her peers in the industry.

This title is not like Marcos, who is full of aggressiveness and looks very evil at first glance, "Wall Street Devil".

Nor are they animal series like "Wolf of Wall Street", "Wall Street Red Tarantula", "Wall Street Cheetah".

Yan Ruxin was called "a gentle knife".

This title seems to be quite approachable~

But... Only those who really face Yan Ruxin can understand the true meaning of this title.

While playing happily and chatting happily, everything is so harmonious, but suddenly there is a fast and accurate knife on the face, and there is no way out when looking around.

— Death.

This is called a gentle knife.

Of course, Yan Ruxin herself did not have this understanding.

She has always thought that she is a rare kind person in Wall Street, and she has never found a more "compassionate" investment banker than her.

To meet such a kind opponent like her, he must have saved the whole world in his previous life, okay?

But because these two titles sounded full of chic, she did not protest strongly.

Hehe ~

I have to say that this is really a big misunderstanding.

The current Robert is the one who was directly stabbed by Wen Rou's knife and vomited blood. He looked at Yan Ruxin with a very dark complexion.

"So you see, Mr. Friedman, we still have a lot of things to cooperate with." Yan Ruxin smiled kindly.

"...What do you want?" Robert asked a little stiffly.

"Well, I'm glad we reached a consensus." Yan Ruxin said with a smile, "I want to buy 2% of Summit Entertainment at a price of $25 per share. The total price is about $4500 million. It's that simple."

"It's impossible! Our market valuation exceeds 3 million, and 25% of the shares need at least 7500 million US dollars. Why should I sell it to you at such a low price?" Robert Dang even refused, and his attitude was very tough.

Although his attitude was tough, Yan Ruxin remained calm.

Summit's market valuation is indeed not low, but the company's debt is as high as US$10 billion. Such a heavy debt is enough to discourage many investors who want to acquire Summit.

The box office of Summit's several films this year has been dismal, and now that it has encountered the financial crisis, it is even more of a cold winter for investment.

"Ah, this is a very simple multiple-choice question. You see, Merrill Lynch is so eager, and you don't want the good cooperation between you to end here?" Yan Ruxin said in a persuasive manner, "How do you make the investors feel right? Are you confident? Now, you just need to convene shareholders and trade some shares at a reasonable price to solve the urgent need, why not do it?"

Although Merrill Lynch's cooperation was used as bait, Yan Ruxin actually had a premonition in her heart.

——It is estimated that several major investment banks on Wall Street will not be able to survive the subprime mortgage crisis.

By the end of this year, it is difficult to predict whether the most powerful investment banks in the United States and even the world, Merrill Lynch, Lehman, Bear Stearns... and even Morgan Sachs and Goldman Sachs will still exist.

Maybe they all went bankrupt together in the end.

Hehe ~

It's just that now she's lying.

The words still have to be said in place.

"Reasonable price? I don't think $2 is so reasonable." Robert dissatisfied, "Besides, "Twilight" will be released soon, and the market value of the peak will definitely increase significantly after that. The future market is expected to be so Well, you should buy at a premium, how could it be lower than the market price?"

"Soon? It seems that Mr. Friedman's definition of this adverb of time is a little different from mine." Yan Ruxin refused to budge, she said, "Today is May 5th. For me, December Can you call it 'coming soon' on the 25nd?

Although, personally speaking, I am very optimistic about this kind of thriller and romance movie, but...you must know that there are not many people who are optimistic about the box office of this movie~

Also... Maybe Mr. Friedman doesn't know much about the state of the investment world right now.Wall Street will no longer be like a few years ago, with countless investors holding large sums of cash throwing money everywhere. That era has passed, and now is the time when everyone wants to tighten their debts. "

Robert listened to her words with a gloomy expression.

Yan Ruxin stood quietly aside, drinking a sip of cocktail from time to time, waiting for his reply.

Although she looked calm on the surface, she was actually a little uneasy in her heart.

The reason is that all her judgments on "Twilight" come from the unspeakable talent of the talented Angela girl.

Although once, in the girl's memory, this talent has been tried and tested repeatedly.

But who knows if there will be any changes in her hands?

In case Angela girl's movie inspiration is not as effective as expected.

This deal of more than 4500 million US dollars may be the biggest failure of Yan Ruxin's career.

"Huh... I will discuss it with Patrick Worsberg." After a long while, Robert took a long breath and gritted his teeth. "We can make an appointment to meet in Santa Monica's office."

Although Robert didn't say it clearly, Yan Ruxin's years of experience told her - he had already compromised.

Just one step away!

"Mr. Friedman, please believe me, this must be the most correct choice you have made." Yan Ruxin smiled and said, "How about next Monday? How about it?"

"...Yes." Robert said.