Dreams of the Fragrant River

Hollywood, Melrose Avenue, Paramount Pictures headquarters.

In the dazzling flash of light, Kang Jianfei and Martin Davis signed their names at the same time, then stood up, smiled and held it, posing for reporters to take pictures.

"Crack!"

"Crack!"

"Crack!"

After a round of applause, the room was filled with the shutter sound of cameras, and the reporters attending the meeting did not hesitate to use their own film.

Among the major Hollywood movie giants today, Paramount has been ranked in the top three, and has even been at the top for a long time. This time, there was an Asian who came to buy Paramount and became Paramount's second largest shareholder with 37% of the shares. This is big news in California and even in North America.

After Kang Jianfei and Martin Davis signed the agreement, they walked down from the rostrum side by side, and countless reporters immediately gathered around to interview.

"Mr. Davis, why is Hercynian selling the 29% of Paramount's shares?" a reporter asked first.

Martin Davies in a formal suit smiled and said, "Mr. Kang is a unique film businessman. I have great confidence in Paramount's future in cooperation with him."

As soon as Martin Davies finished speaking, a Chinese reporter said: "Mr. Kang, I am a reporter from Taiwan's United Newspaper's American "World Daily", may I ask you to invest in Paramount, do you want to enter Hollywood in an all-round way? ?"

Kang Jianfei, like Martin Davis, is answering questions in a roundabout way: "North America is the world's largest film market. As a film investor, naturally, you cannot miss this opportunity."

"Will DreamWorks focus on North America?" the Chinese reporter continued to ask.

Kang Jianfei said: "DreamWorks' focus, now and in the future, will always be the Asian market. The Asian market is an emerging sunrise market. I believe there is one point. It will develop beyond the North American market."

The Chinese reporter had to ask another question, and another American reporter had already spoken first: "Mr. Kang, after you enter the Paramount shareholders meeting, what kind of changes will Paramount have? It will increase the number of Asian-themed films. ?"

Kang Jianfei said: "The first thing is to restructure the board of directors. I personally don't get involved in Paramount's day-to-day affairs too much. As for whether it will increase the number of Asian-themed films in the future. This is definitely not. But I hope that in the United States and Asia Build a bridge to increase opportunities for filmmakers in Asia and North America to communicate with each other.”

Lizhi follows Kang Jianfei at any time. Holding the contract she just signed in her hand, she saw Kang Jianfei chatting freely surrounded by many reporters, and she felt a sense of pride in her heart.

After answering more than a dozen reporters' questions, Kang Jianfei and Martin Davis left together.

in the next two days of the general meeting of shareholders. Paramount's board of directors was reorganized, and Lin Qingxia and two other executives from DreamWorks became members of the board as representatives of Kang Jianfei.

In fact, the shareholders of Hercynian Company don't care much about Paramount's affairs. They basically only focus on the accounts. The company's development route is left to Paramount's president to decide.

This kind of attitude of complete decentralization, if there is a capable president. Paramount's development will be very powerful. Paramount in the past ten years happened to meet two very good leaders.

And now the president of Paramount is the kind of mediocrity who is content with the status quo and follows the rules. At present, Paramount Pictures is supported by two assistants of the former president. in another time and space. In the next two or three years, after the two former presidents' assistants, Michael and Jeff, were poached by Disney, Paramount declined rapidly, and was finally sold by Hercynian as abandoned sons in 1993. And the assistants of the two former presidents who were poached, Michael became the president of Disney, and Jeff became the president of Animation DreamWorks. Both guys are great.

Now Kang Jianfei has entered Paramount's shareholders meeting. Those guys from Haixi Company who don't understand movies directly hand over the decision-making power of the company to Kang Jianfei.

The first thing Kang Jianfei did after he took control of Paramount was to remove the current president and replace it with Shirley Lansing, who was invited by Kang Jianfei himself.

Even if Kang Jianfei doesn't know much about Hollywood, he knows that there is a woman who has controlled Paramount for 13 years. She is Shirley Lansing, and later Hollywood's annual Women's Rights Awards were named after her - the Shirley Lansing Leadership Award.

In the 1990s, when Shirley Lansing took over Paramount, Paramount had fallen to the back of the eight major studios, and she was the one who brought Paramount back to the top. "Braveheart," "Forrest Gump," "Titanic," "Mission Impossible," "Face Change," "Truman's World" and "Saving Private Ryan" are filmed in Shirley? Filmed when Lansing was at the helm of Paramount.

At this time, Shirley Lansing was not a small person. Eight years ago, she served as the general manager of 20th Century Fox, and later she founded her own production company with her boyfriend Stanley Jiafei. Her boyfriend Jia Fei is not a simple person, but the general manager of Paramount Media in the future.

After receiving the invitation from Kang Jianfei this time, Shirley Lansing and Stanley Jiafei immediately put down their ** production company and ran to Paramount to take office.

In just a few days, Paramount's executives were replaced by Kang Jianfei. Shirley Lansing was named president of Paramount, and her boyfriend Stanley Jaffe was named general manager. As for the two future talents, Michael and Jeff, after being personally contacted by Kang Jianfei, they felt that their film professional ability was great, but the management company's vision and ability were still a little immature, and Kang Jianfei was temporarily appointed by Kang Jianfei to be in charge of Paramount's production work.

Shirley Lansing, who became the head of Paramount, appeared in the Hollywood industry journal Variety together with Kang Jianfei. This issue of "Variety" with pictures on the front page shows Kang Jianfei smiling and looking straight ahead, and Shirley Lansing looking back and laughing.

One Asian, one woman, becoming the de facto decision maker for the old Hollywood giant, Paramount, has many American conservatives scoffing, just waiting to see the joke of Paramount's decline.

"Variety" is next to the picture on the front page. With a big headline: "Paramount's New Master".

The media in the United States has been arguing. Some American media even said this: Japanese people buy things in the United States with US dollars, buy land, buy buildings, and buy all visible and invisible goods, and now the Chinese are also coming. Who will be next to shop in the US?

no way. The Japanese buying 100 companies in the United States is not as sensational as Kang Jianfei's acquisition of a 37% stake in Paramount. Because as a Hollywood movie giant, Paramount is the place to be.

The US media is like this, and the Hong Kong newspapers are going crazy.

"Oriental Daily" directly made a big headline on the front page: "Kang Jianfei enters Paramount, Hong Kong filmmaker's victory"!

"Ming Pao", "New Pao", "Hong Kong Financial Report", "Sing Tao Daily", "Daily Express", "Wen Wei Po", "Ta Kung Pao"... Whether it is left or right, it is neutral. Or a newspaper that favors entertainment, politics, and finance. The headlines of this day are all photos of Kang Jianfei shaking hands with Martin Davis after signing the contract.

The attention of cultural and entertainment companies is far greater than that of ordinary companies, and Kang Jianfei's actions will cause such a powerful sensation.

The news spread to the streets and alleys of Hong Kong, and it became that Kang Jianfei bought the entire Paramount Pictures, instead of just becoming the second largest shareholder.

Except for the Hong Kong media. Newspapers in Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia also reported it, but it was not as sensational as Hong Kong.

The most unexpected thing for Kang Jianfei was that the Mainland's "News Network" and "People's Daily" both carried out brief reports on the news of Kang Jianfei's acquisition of Paramount. And popularized what kind of company Paramount Pictures is.

At the moment of the news, Kang Jianfei's name was firmly remembered by many high-level decision-makers in China. Before that, Kang Jianfei was just a relatively influential Hong Kong businessman in the cultural field.

The Taiwan side did not pay attention to this matter at all. It is not the reason for the news control, but President Jiang died just half a month ago. At this time, the people of Taiwan are still in "sorrow and sorrow", and the newspapers are busy. How can I have time to pay attention to what happened in the American entertainment industry when I post an article in memory of the former president?

Hong Kong, Golden Harvest Film Company.

Zou Wenhuai looked at Kang Jianfei who shook hands with Martin Davis in the newspaper and sighed. He suddenly felt that he was getting old, not physically but mentally.

Kang Jianfei has spent a lot of money in the development of the film and television city over the years. Although he has added a lot of value to buying land and buildings, he has never exchanged it for cash. Zou Wenhuai never thought that Kang Jianfei could easily spend more than one billion US dollars to buy Paramount shares, which is definitely a big deal that he played with great effort, and he would never be able to do it.

In fact, Zou Wenhuai guessed right. Kang Jianfei really had to waste a lot of energy to allocate so many funds, some of which were borrowed from banks.

Kang Jianfei mobilized a total of 2 billion US dollars of funds to acquire the 37% of Paramount shares, and spent a total of 1.7 billion US dollars before and after. The remaining nearly 300 million US dollars of funds, Kang Jianfei has other uses, that is, the acquisition of Japan's Sega game company.

When Kang Jianfei bought Paramount shares, the price was obviously high. This is the agreement he reached with the shareholders of Haixi Company~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and the reward is that Kang Jianfei bought Japanese Sega Games from Haixi at a low price. company.

For the shareholders of Haixi, they invested in Sega, a small game company, and made dozens of times of profits in more than ten years. This is a good opportunity to sell. In the original time and space, the president of Nakayama who bought Japan's Sega has not yet appeared, and most of it is the result of the butterfly effect.

However, Kang Jianfei knew that Sega, who was only a star in the Japanese video game industry today, would become an international gaming giant in a few years.

This transaction is Zhou Yu beating Huang Gai, one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer, both parties are very satisfied with the transaction, Kang Jianfei only spent 68 million US dollars to buy 80% of Sega's equity. If Kang Jianfei was ripped off when he bought Paramount's equity, then Haixi Company sold Sega to Kang Jianfei, which can definitely be called a tearful sale. It is worth nearly 40 million US dollars. The yen has appreciated in value in recent years. In addition, Sega's development has been very good. Under normal circumstances, Sega Game Company cannot win it without hundreds of millions of dollars.

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