Rebirth: I Want to Surf

At the beginning of 2021, the transformed Wanda Commercial Management introduced 22 strategic investments from Singapore, including PAG, Country Garden, Tencent, and Ant, with a total of 38 billion and a shareholding of 21.17%.

Lao Wang signed a gambling agreement with them: if it cannot be listed on the market before 2023, Wanda will have to redeem 38 billion and pay 12% interest.

As a result, Wanda submitted several applications, but they were all rejected. With two months left in 2023... If we sell again this time, we won't survive with a broken arm, but a broken leg.

After the epidemic, the economy went down, and it was said that the real industry was increasingly declining.

Wanda Plaza has also been affected, but depending on the location, some Wanda Plazas in the same city may be extremely popular, while others may be empty.

There are more than 400 Wanda Plazas in later generations, covering 224 cities across the country, covering all economically developed and high-population density areas, and there are 181 reserve projects.

Not to mention Wanda Cinemas, which has grown to more than 800 theaters.

Just for these reasons, Yao Yuan is worth buying because he has too many resources and can always find a way to combine them offline.

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Lao Wang’s head is also turning rapidly. Wanda Commercial is leaving it to himself to make a comeback, but specific problems must be analyzed in detail.

Firstly, it can solve some of its liabilities; secondly, with the support of 99 real money, online and offline cooperation can make the outside world look at Wanda again, so that it can accumulate strength and seek listing again.

"We can talk!"

“As long as the price is right!”

Lao Wang was relieved.

"Of course we can talk. We all come (for dinner) with sincerity."

Yao Yuan smiled and said sincerely, and then he started bargaining. When Wanda Commercial was delisted, its market capitalization was 196.5 billion, and Lao Wang could give up to 14% of the shares.

Yao Yuan directly cut him in half.

Lao Wang had just been angry with Sun Hongbin from Sunac, and now he was very angry again.

After another slap on the table, we finally reached a preliminary agreement: the four companies jointly invested 27 billion, accounting for 14% in total. Yao Yuan spent an additional 5 billion to jointly purchase 16% of Wanda Film's shares with Yu Jiajia, as well as the Oriental Movie Capital in Qingdao. .

Because Yu Jiajia doesn't have enough money, this kind of scene is still a bit big for entertainment.

Oriental Movie Capital is the most advanced film and television production base in China, with titles such as "The Wandering Earth 1 and 2", "Assassination of Novelists", "Walking Alone on the Moon", "Homecoming", "Crazy Aliens", "Pacific Rim: Uprising" and "The Great Wall" Wait, it's all done here.

The same goes for "Apotheosis" and "Operation Moscow" released this year, including the upcoming "The Wandering Earth 3", which will definitely be filmed here.

Historically, Sunac has taken over a number of cultural tourism projects from Wanda, including the Oriental Movie Capital.

Sun Hongbin's son Sun Zheyi is in charge of this area. He attaches great importance to it and tinkers with a lot of things. He also met Guo Fan and invested in Guo Fan's film company.

Now that Oriental Movie Capital has been robbed by Yao Yuan, Sunac's offer will inevitably be lower, but Lao Wang has his own choice.

Yao Yuan really picks and chooses like buying groceries. Unfortunately, Wanda does not have any high-quality properties overseas. There is no need to consider the United States and the United Kingdom. There is a project in Paris that was later stopped by Macron. There is a building in Spain that is also a piece of shit. .

As for Atletico Madrid…

Well, Yao Yuan thought about it and refused. Wanda holds 20% of the shares and is the second largest shareholder. The largest shareholder is the Hill family.

For football clubs, it is best to be like Abramovich for Chelsea, where he becomes the sole owner and has absolute say. There is no point in being the second largest shareholder.

Moreover, many La Liga clubs are run by tycoon families. Unless they are particularly short of money, they will not sell control to outsiders.

In addition, he has also chosen four hotels in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Sanya.

Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen are for business entertainment, and Sanya is for parents, or company team building, etc., which is more convenient.

As a result, Yao Yuan's food basket includes: 14% stake in Wanda Commercial, 16% stake in Wanda Film, an Oriental Movie City, and four hotels.

Not counting Liu Qiangdong and the others, they would have to spend more than 10 billion.

What concept?

Last year, "Honor of Kings" alone generated 6.8 billion in revenue...

The key is that after talking about the matter, Lao Wang suddenly found that he had joined the gang and boarded Yao Yuan's boat.

When Sicong meets him in the future, he will be respectfully called Uncle Yao!

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In addition to the Wanda incident, a big event also happened in the film industry.

"Wolf Warrior 2" is released!

Other movies are priced by day, week, or month, but "Wolf Warrior 2" is priced by hour.

After 4 hours of release, the box office exceeded 100 million; in 25 hours, it exceeded 300 million; in 46 hours, it exceeded 500 million... It exceeded 1.2 billion in 5 days, and reached 1.7 billion in 7 days!

And it was for many consecutive days, with a single-day box office exceeding 200 million.

Yao Yuan couldn't remember the reason why he watched "Wolf Warrior 2" in his previous life. It seemed that there were no blockbusters at the same time, and he wanted to watch the movie, so he bought a ticket for it.

It's out of control at first sight.

I was stunned and reading the reviews of "Wolf Warrior 2" on the Internet. I stared at the box office every day and felt inexplicably proud, although I didn't know where this pride came from.

This movie opened a new theme era and the "military action movie" genre. It also opened up the ceiling of the mainland market and let people see how big it can be.

The answer is 6 billion miles!

Of course, there is a lot of controversy, with a lot of cynicism.

"Twenty years ago, when I saw such stories and scenes, I would be moved to tears; now, twenty years later, you still show me such story logic and scenes, and I can only laugh in embarrassment. ."

"In vain to take into account reality, it is full of obscenity!"

"Wolves are intelligent creatures with blood and discipline. Such a mindless film can only be a Husky."

"The plot is quite big. I wanted to make it into "Black Hawk Down", but at best it was just the main theme version of "Suicide Squad."

Of course, "Wolf Warrior 2" has many flaws, and "The Wandering Earth 1 and 2" also has many flaws, but the disgusting thing about this kind of people is that they can't see the positive meaning, and they only seize on the negative things and rant.

There is no requirement for praise, but at the very least it is impossible to be objective, and double standards are a thief.

For example, in "The Wandering Earth", they never talked about the milestone significance of this film to Chinese science fiction. They only talked about how unreasonable it was. They turned their heads and praised the hand-pulled gravity lines in "Interstellar".

"Wolf Warrior 2" conquered the market. Yao Yuan and Yu Jiajia bumped heads, and also produced a gift film for the 1970s Daqing celebration the year after.

This is naturally the representative of the main theme of the new era, "My Motherland and Me".

The original version was directed by Chen Kaige and co-directed by Zhang Yibai, Guan Hu, Xue Xiaolu, Xu Zheng, Ning Hao, and Wen Muye. Of course, it has to be changed now.

Ning Hao became the chief director, Han Yan replaced Zhang Yibai, and Guo Fan replaced Wen Muye. The story of the female pilot was not long and would not take up too much of his energy.

Jiang Wen replaced Guan Hu to film the story of the flag-raising ceremony at the founding ceremony. Jiang Wen was originally wanted to be the chief director, but others rejected it because it was too troublesome.

Xu Zheng is gone and replaced by Yan Fei and Peng Damo.

Xu Zheng's original story "Win the Championship" is about the Chinese women's volleyball team. He is from Shanghai and has a good grasp of the atmosphere in the old Shanghai alleys. Yan Fei and Peng Damo are both from the Northeast, but with Yao Yuan here, they can shoot anything.

Xue Xiaolu remained unchanged.

As for "Day Meteor", which Director Chen praised his son for, it was about poverty alleviation and the subject matter was indispensable. The content had to be changed and Huang Jianxin was cast.

Huang Jianxin did a great job filming "Stand Up Straight, Don't Lie Down" and "Back to Back Face to Face". Later, he stopped filming and became a producer.

His grasp of realistic themes is a hundred times better than that of Director Chen. Director Chen no longer knows what realistic themes are, and he can make unreliable literary films for poverty alleviation.

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This summer is destined to be hot.

Wanda has shocked the business world, "Wolf Warrior 2" has overturned the film market, and 99 Entertainment's "Produce 101" Jianghu order has been issued, preparing to spread girls all over the world!

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