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Chapter 326: Galloping Horse Pictures

() Found the way home!

Another thing Chen Fang rushed back to Yanjing this time was that the Wild Fox's acquisition of Pranz Film finally came to an end.

Wild Fox Company spent 1.45 billion yuan to acquire all 58% of the shares of the Li Ming family. It also took the initiative to fulfill the bet agreement signed by Li Ming with Jianyin Culture during his lifetime, and proposed to acquire 15% of the shares of Benma Film in Jianyin Culture for 495 million yuan.

Knowing that Wild Fox was going to take over Broadma Pictures, Jianyin Culture once wanted to take back the bet agreement and was preparing to continue holding shares, but was rejected by Huo Mingda. With the support of billions of dollars in funds, Huo Mingda dared to say no to any capital. Moreover, Broadma Pictures is now a leaderless group and is just a struggle for power within. As long as Wild Fox Company intervenes drasticly, it can immediately turn losses into profits and get on track.

Seeing that it is not violated, Jianyin Culture did not force it and did not charge the 10% interest marked in the agreement. Instead, it symbolically collected 10 million, which was considered bridge interest. It also left a lot of room for future cooperation with the Wild Fox Company.

Wild Fox Company also gave a reward, promising that when several of its branches are IPO in the future, CCB Culture will be the first choice fundraising party. CCB is full of interest in the world, Yiren Culture and Rong Zhixin. With Huo Mingda's promise, the relationship between the two parties has been eased a lot.

On April 18, Wild Fox Company, which holds 73% of the shares of Benma Pictures, convened a shareholders' meeting with the company's senior management. The company's shareholders, senior executives and department directors, received notifications that Benma Pictures, which had been in panic for more than two months, will welcome its new owner.

"Good morning everyone, I'm Chen Fang." Chen Fang looked around the conference room. Except for Huo Mingda, Qian Bin and legal counsel Yi Yang who came with him, the rest of the staff were old employees of Benma Pictures. This made Chen Fang very glad that the most valuable things about Benma Pictures besides its film and television copyrights and script libraries are these old employees who have been struggling in the circle for many years. If they delay for a year or two, the company will have no acquisition value after it falls apart.

"I am old friends with you." Chen Fang smiled and said, "Mr. Zhong, Ergou, and Teacher Lu, we have had several meals together. Director Qian and Director Shao have also cooperated with our company many times. The drama "Soon of the Year" was invested by the two companies. Although Mr. Li Ming died young, the Benma Film Company he founded is still the common cause of everyone here."

When it comes to Li Ming, everyone here feels shocked. When these people joined Benma Pictures, they were basically attracted by Li Ming's personal charm. Unexpectedly, he, who was in his prime, would die due to illness. Li Ming did not designate a successor, and his widow Jin Yan could not support this stall, and his two sisters-in-law were contacting outsiders to cash out. In the past two or three months, these senior seniors in the company were anxious in their hearts.

Chen Fang continued: "I know that because of Mr. Li Ming's death and the conflict between Mr. Jin and the two Mr. Li, many people in the company have begun to have new plans and are in contact with others and are preparing to change jobs."

As soon as he finished speaking, the senior cadres present immediately began to discuss. Chen Fang reached out and pressed the pressure to signal An Jing, and then continued: "If anyone here wants to sell the equity, they can propose it now and I will take over according to the market value. After all, we can't let you lose money because of Chairman Li's unfortunate death." The former Benma Pictures was equivalent to a family-owned enterprise, with Li Ming as chairman, his wife Jin Yan as financial director, his sister and sister as senior executives respectively, and several other relatives hold shares and hold important positions in the company. These two shareholders who are preparing to withdraw shares are Li Ming's distant relatives, holding 3% and 5% of the shares respectively. They are worried that after Benma Pictures replaces its new owner, they will no longer be as free and comfortable as when he was when Dog Brother was there.

Chen Fang arranged for Qian Bin and Yi Yang to sign a "Share Transfer Agreement" with them, and they would transfer money to them after the meeting. Chen Fang shook hands with the two, gave the gifts from the conference room, and then looked at everyone and said, "If you don't want to sell your shares anymore, you are partners, partners and colleagues who want to move forward with Benma Pictures. Then I believe Benma Pictures will not be disappointed in the future."

Chen Fang said to everyone: "Next, I will announce the personnel acceptance of Benma Pictures. I personally will take office as the chairman of the board of directors of Benma Pictures. As a shareholder with a shareholding of more than 80%, I will appoint Mr. Huo Mingda as the executive director of Benma Pictures." This is the power of the major shareholder, and the small shareholders present have no objection.

Seeing that everyone had no objections, Chen Fang continued: "In order to carry out their work better, the board of directors decided to appoint Ms. Zhong Lifang as the general manager of Benma Pictures, who is fully responsible for all the film and television business of Benma Pictures, and appoint Mr. Kong Ergou to assist General Zhong in carrying out daily work as the deputy general manager of Benma Pictures." This acceptance of fate was somewhat unexpected to others. When Gou Ge was alive, although Zhong Lifang was the general manager, Li Ming discussed with Ergou more, and Zhong Lifang was more like a puppet with the title of general manager.

Zhong Lifang was also surprised. When Li Ming was alive, he introduced Ergou to the big guys in the Beijing circle many times, including Chen Fang who drank wine several times with them. Although Huo Mingda is the executive director of the company, everyone knows that this is just a symbolic meaning. After all, Huo Mingda has a big business in the Wild Fox Film and Television Group. Before the meeting, Zhong Lifang always thought that Chen Fang would hand over the company to the relatively familiar Kong Ergou for the leadership. As long as she could be responsible for the operation again, she would be satisfied. She did not expect that Chen Fang would trust her so much.

Zhong Lifang looked at Chen Fang in disbelief, then looked at Kong Ergou next to her. Ergou gave her an encouraging look.

When Shen Fang and Huo Mingda discussed personnel in Binma Film, they had been wandering between Zhong Lifang and Kong Ergou. As a veteran in the circle, Huo Mingda made a very accurate evaluation of the two. Li Ming himself is a general, he is motivated, dares to fight and fight, and never gives up until he achieves his goal. Therefore, he is so in love with Kong Ergou, who has the same personality, and often keeps him with him, and has him responsible for many projects. However, Zhong Lifang is a versatile person, who is good at grasping the overall situation and is good at checking for shortcomings and filling in gaps. Binma Film can develop healthily under the rampage of Li Ming and Kong Ergou, thanks to Zhong Lifang's aftermath.

Chen Fang agreed with Huo Mingda's analysis, but he was worried that Kong Ergou would be distracted by his position. After all, in Benma Film, many projects cannot be separated from him. Just when Shen Fang was about to use a delaying tactic to stabilize Kong Ergou and slowly lift Zhong Lifang upright, Kong Ergou took the initiative to call him to meet him. After knocking Chen Fang's bottle of wine, he told him bluntly: "I know myself, it's okay to play with film and television projects. If you ask me to manage a company, I will probably lock you up in less than a year, so you don't have to consider me. What you should consider is Teacher Lu Wei."

Lu Wei should be regarded as one of the most famous screenwriters of Benma Pictures. Many well-known film and television dramas in "Farewell My Concubine", "Living" and "White Deer Plain" were all made by him. In order to invite Lu Wei to the company, Li Ming not only handed over the entire company's screenwriter department to him for management, but also gave him 5% of the shares. Kong Ergou, who has always been treated as a younger brother, only had 4% of the shares. After Li Ming's death, the Huayi brothers were trying every means to get in touch with Lu Wei, preparing to dig him into Huayi brothers.

The day after receiving the notice from Kong Ergou, Chen Fang found Lu Wei in a stance. First, he assured him that the new company would develop according to the original plan, and that Wild Fox Company would provide more support. Secondly, he would guarantee that Benma Pictures would be listed within two years, otherwise the equity in Lu Wei would be repurchased with twice the market value, which would truly dispel his dislike.

The next morning, Wild Fox Pictures and Bengma Pictures jointly held a press conference, announcing that Wild Fox Company acquired 81% of the shares of Bengma Pictures with 2.1 billion yuan. In the future, Bengma Pictures will become an independent subsidiary under the Wild Fox Film Group system, with independent film and television production and distribution rights. The company will appoint Zhong Lifang as the general manager of Bengma Pictures and Kong Ergou as the deputy general manager, and will be directly responsible to Chairman Chen Fang.

Zhong Lifang then announced the next production plan of Benma Pictures. First, it will complete the post-production of "Ten Sends to the Red Army" as soon as possible; second, it will shoot the TV series "Young Marshal" and "Ordinary World" that have been approved; finally, it will launch projects for the TV series "White Deer Plain" and the movie "Scarlet Sun".

After the news of the merger of Birth Horse Film and the Wild Fox Company was released, media people no longer had much desire. Chen Fang brought back a large amount of funds from the United States to enter the Chinese film and television industry. Less than two years after the establishment of Birth Horse Film and Television, it has acquired three old film and television companies, Yiren Film and Television, Rong Zhixin and Birth Horse Film and Television, plus Chengxing Tianxia, ​​Bad Monkey Film, Huanxi Media and other studios of all sizes. Although Wild Fox Company has not been listed yet, the outside world's valuation of it has long exceeded that of Huayi Brothers and has become the industry leader. If it has been listed and has a market value of nearly 30 billion yuan, Chenfang's film and television empire has taken shape.

So it is not too surprising that Chen Fang's acquisition of the Benma Pictures media people, who have no leader. Even if the Wild Fox Company announced the acquisition of Huayi Brothers one day, everyone felt normal. So at the press conference, the media people's concern for Chen Fang was another issue.

"Mr. Chen, what do you think about Qin Mohan beat Qiu Ze in Hengdian yesterday?" Just as other media were looking for an inquiry opportunity, an entertainment reporter from Fox.com asked directly.

"Just call, just call, it's no big deal." Chen Fang received a call from Qu Xiaoxiao yesterday, leaving behind a reply that made the media people present dumbfounded and left with a smile.
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