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Near November, Yan Ruxin took Catherine on a flight to Beijing, China.In addition to Beijing, her itinerary with Catherine this month also included Seoul, South Korea and Tokyo, Japan.

She was looking forward to her trip to China, but she did not pin her hopes on finding top buyers in China.

For one thing, among the Chinese investors she has contacted so far, there are no filmmakers and investors that she thinks are mature enough to take on the role of running a Hollywood film company in the United States.

Even with Chinese buyers in good economic times, with undeniably enough money, and admirable enthusiasm and ambition, Yan Ruxin doesn't think they will be able to adapt to Hollywood movies anytime soon. Mode of operation.If it is only to participate in the form of capital, but now she is facing not only the capital, but also the problem of choosing the right management to take over the summit.

Although she sold Zenith to cash in for her next plan, she also wanted to responsibly choose a suitable successor for Zenith before she left.

Secondly, buyers from Japan and the United States are much more emotional. These well-informed investors who are well versed in the operation of the international film market understand the advantages of Summit.During the period when Yan Ruxin joined Summit, Summit's film library became the most coveted delicacy in Hollywood with high cost performance.In order to enhance the value of the summit, both the former corporate sniper Carl Icahn, Yan Ruxin and Marcos have made a lot of efforts.

At the very least, Yan Ruxin has handed over a small list of her favorite movies, which is enough to show her conscience, to the film selection department and planning department of the summit.The names on this list are certainly not the most fragrant and sweetest part of this cake, but they are enough to make the value of the peak continue to rise.Today in Hollywood, the title of "Movie Angela Mellon intends to invest in" is already a high evaluation and promotion of a movie.

At present, the stock price of Dingfeng in the market has reached 30 US dollars per share, which is a huge difference from the cost price of less than 3 US dollars per share when she bought it.

But when she came to China, she didn't intend to leave empty-handed.Her first goal is naturally inseparable from the next step of YA Capital's layout.

Before coming here, she watched many movies in the order of the box office rankings of local Chinese movies.

There are "The Wind", "October Besieged City", "Nanjing!Nanjing! ", "Crazy Racing", "Eavesdropping"...

But there are also some films that she didn't understand, and even from the perspective of a filmmaker, she really didn't know how such a film was produced, and somehow won a very high domestic box office in China.These movies whose names she couldn't remember refreshed Yan Ruxin's understanding of the movie market, and for the first time she had doubts about her accurate movie predictions.

Obviously it should be a bad film with no story or technical content. Other places dare not say it, but in the United States, it will definitely not even pass the first week, and it will definitely be removed by the theater experience. We'll all have headaches for two days, racking our brains to decide which one is worse...

Why can it achieve such a high box office in this magical place in China?

Yan Ruxin felt miraculous.

She is of Chinese descent at heart, and she is proficient in Chinese, and has read many Chinese books, which makes Yan Ruxin not ignorant of Chinese culture.But as the owner of an American film investment company and a rising investment star in the film investment market, she feels that the Chinese film market is very strange and strange.

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After getting off the plane, Yan Ruxin showed amazing authentic Mandarin and rented an MPV from the airport car rental company.

"Angela, you exist here to incite hatred. No wonder you told me not to arrange for someone to pick you up before you came." Facing her boss, who can even recognize strange square characters like Chinese, Catherine no longer knew what to say. What's the matter.

As a Greek American, Angela speaks English, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese... multi-national languages ​​is not surprising, many Europeans have language skills column Niubi.Because most European languages ​​are derived from Latin and Greek, the grammatical structure and the use of words are very similar. Even if many Europeans do not have the time to learn the pronunciation of other countries, it is not difficult to understand the general meaning by looking at the other country’s words. Difficult, not to mention proficient, but at least there are no obstacles to communication.

But Chinese, this is a matter of another system.Catherine carefully analyzed the life experience of her boss in just over 20 years, and was puzzled to find that she did not have any chance to get in touch with Chinese culture, let alone how a person who speaks English learned how to learn the ancient culture across the Pacific Ocean. complex language.

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Yan Ruxin and Catherine's first stop in China was Huayi Brothers Company in Beijing.

In the two months prior to this, YA had communicated with the management of Huayi Brothers through emails for a long time.

Compared with YA Capital, which Yan Ruxin founded less than two years ago, Huayi Brothers Media, a Chinese company that has been established for more than ten years and just listed on China's startup market in September this year, looks a lot bleak. .After careful analysis of the Chinese market, Yan Ruxin's analysis team finally chose Huayi Brothers as her first partner to contact the Chinese film and entertainment circles.

The Wang brothers were very curious about Yan Ruxin, a young foreign lady who had a typical Western face but spoke fluent Chinese.

Although Huayi is already the leading entertainment company in China, there is still a big gap compared with the major entertainment companies in the United States.And the hottest gold medal winner in Hollywood, even if he wanted to find an entertainment company to cooperate with, how could he notice them?

"My team and I are very optimistic about the future of the Chinese market. The funds currently absorbed by YA Fund are enough to support my layout in China, so don't doubt my sincerity." Yan Ruxin pointed out the theme straight to the point.

Prior to this, Catherine had already emailed the investment plan to Huayi Brothers, and received good feedback, and many details had been negotiated in the exchanged emails.

This meeting is equivalent to an opportunity to get to know each other before the final signing. At the same time, Yan Ruxin also wants to see the management of Huayi Brothers and the operation of various departments under it.

The planned cooperation method continues the investment style of YA Capital - precise and meticulous division.

In terms of total investment, YA Capital will contribute US$1000 million to subscribe for 3% of Huayi Brothers shares at a price of RMB 15 per share. This part of the equity will be transferred to Huayi Brothers by several individual shareholders and institutional shareholders Ya.

In terms of film and TV production, YA Capital will invest in each project in the form of independent investment. While the project is in operation, Yan Ruxin will also send producers and supervisors to control the project.

At present, the movies that Yan Ruxin has decided to invest in include "Informant" and "If You Are the One 2", each accounting for no more than 20%. For Yan Ruxin, it is considered a very conservative investment.

The highlight of her layout is in the special effects studio.

In the middle of the year, YA has acquired the debt-ridden DigitalDomain from a private equity fund. The former owner of WyHoldings, one of the best special effects companies in Hollywood, was on the verge of collapse under the impact of the financial tsunami. Yan Ruxin made a move at this time with a very cost-effective took over the studio for $2000 million.

Digital Domain Studio is headquartered in Los Angeles, and it has a branch in China, but because of the broken capital flow, it has already existed in name only. Yan Ruxin closed the studios in other places around the world, and only kept two in Los Angeles and Beijing, China. The studio, with a reduction of less than 10% of its staff, basically retained the original team.

At the same time, Yan Ruxin also bought a rhythm special effects studio on the verge of bankruptcy. This studio was founded in 1987 and has won numerous Oscar special effects awards. It has branches in many countries and has more than 250 best special effects animations in the industry. division.Nina Yan closed the remaining branches outside the United States and started to establish her branch in China.

She did not merge the two special effects studios in her hands, but continued to subdivide the two studios in the original structure, classifying the two studios into modeling, special effects, lighting, post-production, editing, etc., and then divided them into many more Professional and flexible small department.

In her plan, in the end, every small department should be responsible for its own profits and losses and operate independently like an independent studio.

The reason why these special effects studios were opened in China was also because she found that the special effects of Chinese movies were no less than ten years behind Hollywood movies.This gap is enough for Digital Domain and Rhythm Special Effects to find a new position and continue to be full of vitality.

With a very low-key attitude, Yan Ruxin followed the Wang brothers to learn about the operation of various departments of Huayi in the past few days, and was led to have a few meals with various types of insiders. , shareholders, producers, directors, and stars from all walks of life.

She is not very used to this kind of dinner, all kinds of people she doesn't know have a dinner with her with a very familiar look, and the content of the conversation seems to be lively, but it is a little awkward and cannot make people happy.

I don't know if everyone has a fantastic imagination about Hollywood, or thinks that an investor like Yan Ruxin who holds such a large amount of money and has a great say in investing in movies must be a veteran in the romantic scene. Somebody even secretly introduced some handsome male stars and models to her by "following what he likes", and hinted that as long as she wanted, these people could "dedicate themselves" to her.

Yan Ruxin's head was full of black lines, and she politely refused.

Compared with the handsome guy in her family, these people are not so handsome by several grades, not to mention that Mr. Shen Jingbing in his family can go to the hall and go to the kitchen. It was fun.

Such an almighty, cool and domineering president stripped naked and lay on the bed, and she might not always do what he wanted. How could she be so hungry and thirsty?