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Sun Wanran said casually: "It's okay."

"Well enough?"

"Well, Teacher Chen sent me a few photos. They are quite beautiful. I don't know much about the others. I haven't read my resume or done any research. It's the Chinese New Year and everyone is busy."

"Well..." Zhou Buqi hesitated, "Teacher Chen said he was a relative of her family."

"Really?" Sun Wanran's eyes flashed, as if she suddenly realized, "No wonder! I was wondering why that girl looked so familiar. Now that I think about it, it feels... it feels like Teacher Chen when we were in junior high school. It’s almost the same as when I was transferred to our school after graduation.”

Zhou Buqi felt at ease and very happy.

It seems that this is Teacher Chen's little sister in all likelihood.

Is this trying to copy the model of Ning Yaxian and Ning Yameng?

It’s really possible!

During this Spring Festival, the two most favored women in the Zhou family are the Ning sisters. It means that mother is more valuable than son, and a pair of children is the heart of the whole family.

Especially the elders of the Zhou family were full of praise for sisters Ning Yaxian and Ning Yameng. They wished they could give them all the best things in the family and took great care of them.

During the Spring Festival last year, Ning Yaxian was not so popular in the Zhou family. She is a "second-hand goods", divorced, and has a daughter who is a dragster.

This year's Spring Festival is different. Ning Yaxian's salary has been greatly improved.

The reason is that Ning Yaxian brought her sister to the Zhou family with extremely high skills, and gave birth to a son. From then on, she turned around and her family status was greatly improved.

As far as the Zhou family is concerned, Teacher Han and Teacher Chen are quite favored by Zhou Buqi, but they both understand that this is more about physical stimulation and enjoyment.

To put it bluntly, it’s just fun.

If you get tired of playing, or if time passes by in a few years, this relationship may be severed.

Teacher Han Yan is not afraid.

She was married and had a son. This was her foundation and she had nothing to fear. The trouble is Teacher Chen Yan. She is unmarried and has no children. What will she do if she falls out of favor when she reaches the age of thirty-five or thirty-seven? Even if you have money, so what? Money can't mean everything.

For a woman, the most important thing is to have a child. This is the most important thing to rely on.

Especially with the successful case of the Ning sisters.

Zhou Buqi remembered that he seemed to have joked with Teacher Han and Teacher Chen before, saying that if they had any young and beautiful girls at home, they could introduce them together, and he would take care of this teacher-student relationship.

The result, of course, was rejection.

The Ning sisters gave birth to children one after another last year, which probably aroused teacher Chen Yan and made her hesitant to make up her mind. Then she made an appointment with Teacher Han Yan to travel to Europe together. They traveled for several months and visited more than 20 countries. The reported travel expenses reached 420,000 euros.

It is estimated that what she saw, heard, thought, and spent a lot of money on this trip made Teacher Chen Yan finally make up her mind.

Zhou Buqi now manages so many companies, and his senior executives are all the best among the best. The power struggle in the workplace is complex and cruel, and he can handle these things well. Looking at Teacher Chen Yan's behavior, we can easily analyze her inner dynamics.

Well, I guess that’s it!

If the girl recommended by Teacher Chen meets all the employment standards, then you might as well be accommodating and do her a favor!

…

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month has not passed yet, but Zhou Buqi has no time to go back.

After securing financing for Tesla, he went straight to Los Angeles.

Lucasfilm's acquisition plan has officially reached an agreement. There was also an incident that happened. Disney actually contacted George Lucas on the first day of the new year!

However, after hearing that Lucasfilm’s price was as high as US$3.55 billion, and George Lucas’s preference for MSI Universal, Disney withdrew.

Zhou Buqi almost broke into a cold sweat when he heard the news.

so close!

If Disney gets involved, it will be in big trouble.

Fortunately, it was only the beginning of 2010, and Zhou Buqi acted quickly, decisively and efficiently. At this time, the impact of the economic crisis is still great, and Disney's board of directors is still cautious about such big moves.

The plan has been reached, and MSI will complete the acquisition of Lucasfilm by investing US$2.95 billion plus assuming US$600 million in debt!

Behind this plan, there are two additional conditions.

First, the closed Pluto Capital will provide a special treatment, allowing George Lucas to invest an additional $2 billion. George Lucas had invested in Pluto Capital when it was raising funds before, but he only invested US$10 million at that time. This time he invested heavily.

Second, George Lucas is going to produce a movie project called "The Biography of Ho Fung Shan".

Originally, Zhou Buqi wanted to ask him to be the director, but George Lucas firmly disagreed, saying that he was not good enough to make such a deep feature film. However, he was willing to be the executive producer and work throughout the process. Participate in the production of this film. It would be more appropriate to hire Ang Lee as the director of the movie. He is the master of dramas with profound themes.

At the same time, due to market considerations, it is difficult for a movie in which a yellow person is the protagonist to be promoted around the world. If anyone could do it, there's only one choice - Harvey Weinstein.

George Lucas said: "The influence of a movie is mainly reflected in two ways, one is the global box office, and the other is the Oscar award. It would be better not to lose the Oscar award than to lose the box office. If you want to make "Ho Feng Shan" "Visa" has spread all over the world like "Schindler's List", and it must be inseparable from the promotion of the market. The output of cultural value requires the subjectivity of movie fans, and spending money to buy tickets is the greatest expression of subjectivity."

"right."

Zhou Buqi was very touched by this. He felt it when he went to Israel a few years ago.

Cultural export is a trend all over the world, and China, Japan and South Korea are all doing this.

The domestic approach is to open Confucius Institutes around the world. A single Confucius Institute in Israel spends more than 200 million every year to teach Jews to speak Chinese and read Chinese characters, so as to promote Chinese culture to the world.

A lot of money was spent, and it had no effect at all.

Most students go to study just like they go to work, and they all go to get paid.

Japan's approach is different. It produces cartoons and then exports them to Israel. Over the past five or six years, European and American cartoons have become marginal products in Israel. Japanese cartoons have dominated the entire Israel, so much so that they spend tens of millions of dollars every year to purchase the copyright of Japanese cartoons.

In the former, I give you money and you learn from me; in the latter, you give me money and you learn from me.

The effect is obvious.

It's like a training class.

Some training classes provide milk and eggs for participating, but no one goes. It’s all the old men and women who go to the class in order to get free milk and eggs.

To attend New Oriental's training courses, the cheapest tuition costs a few thousand yuan, while the more expensive ones cost tens of thousands of yuan. It's extremely expensive, but everyone is actively signing up for fear of not being able to get a spot.

The same goes for the impact of movies.

Users vote with their feet, and box office is the best reflection of influence.

Zhou Buqi wants to make a biography of Mr. Ho Fengshan not to make money, but he can't ignore the box office market just because he doesn't care about making money.

The better the box office, the greater the influence. The box office was very poor, and movie fans were unwilling to take the initiative to spend money to buy tickets. Even if it was given to them for free, the influence of the movie would not be established.

Influence under a market economy is ultimately the influence of money.

But the problem is...

Zhou Buqi was a little unsure, "Harvey Weinstein? Is he good?"

"He is the most suitable person." George Lucas explained, "In the past twenty years, he has run a number of excellent Asian films for distribution in the United States, and they have achieved very significant success. There is Japan Palace Hayao Saki's animations include the Hong Kong film Once Upon a Time and "Hero"...Hero is a great movie that has received a huge box office in the United States. But the success of this movie in the United States is due to Harvey Na After arriving at this movie, I re-edited it and re-edited it according to American tastes, and then it set a series of box office records for Asian movies."

Zhou Buqi had actually heard of this.

Harvey Weinstein is a super top god-level filmmaker. Not to mention how many great Oscar-level works he has created, his understanding of the market alone is far ahead of a large number of feature film producers.

In the past decade or so, many Asian films have entered the U.S. market, including some old Hong Kong films with very low production costs. After being re-edited and produced according to the tastes of American audiences under Harvey Weinstein’s giant scissors, they have achieved very good results. Box office results.

One of the most exaggerated scenes was when Harvey Weinstein received Hayao Miyazaki's cartoon and discovered that in addition to the film copy, Miyazaki had sent a razor blade.

In fact, it is a threat of blood, warning this fat Jewish man, if he dares to use scissors on my cartoon, I will risk my life for you!

Later, I had no choice but to take action.

The result is very obvious. Hayao Miyazaki, who is popular all over the world, has been cold in the North American market.

From an awards and marketing perspective, Harvey Weinstein is the best producer for this film. It just so happens that he is Jewish, which also fits the theme of the movie.

But this guy's reputation is so bad.

Now that he is in the spotlight and has not been caught, Hollywood gossips are flying all over the place, many of which are related to this fat man. He has been auditioning on the red sofa for twenty years, and he handles hundreds of female stars from various countries. .

Zhou Buqi raised this concern.

George Lucas didn't care. "The most important thing in Hollywood is gossipy news. This kind of thing... is actually not uncommon. The most important thing is to make the best movies and make money."

Zhou Buqi nodded.

George Lucas gave him a meaningful look and whispered: "Harvey is a very smart guy. He knows which people cannot be touched. At that time, you only need to tell him clearly which actress is your friend." ”