Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, in the luxurious conference room of the Ritz-Carlton Grand Hotel.

Attorney Dinah Ampton placed a contract flat on the table and nodded slightly to Ronan. Ronan picked up the signing pen and signed his name at the signing office of the contract.

Opposite, Takuya Matsuhara, president of the island country's long-term credit bank, also signed the contract.

The two stood up and exchanged contracts, and then they held their hands tightly together.

Warm applause rang out in the conference room, and everyone congratulated the Island Country Long-term Credit for its renewed long-term cooperation with the Pacific Film Foundation.

Takuya Matsuhara said with a smile: "Mr. Anderson, your investment vision is admirable."

Ronan also had a smile on his face: "We are responsible for every cent investment of every client."

Both of them were very satisfied with their cooperation and shook hands with a smile again.

In business cooperation, all it is to pursue is profit. Both parties can achieve their own fullness and naturally be satisfied.

After the signing ceremony, Ronan invited a long-term credit banking team led by Takuya Matsuhara to visit the Pacific Foundation, Shahai Entertainment and Relativity Entertainment, and took them to several crews filmed in Los Angeles to watch it. They also held a banquet to entertain the group in the evening.

This time, on the basis of the original, the two parties reached an investment cooperation agreement of three years for each period, totaling three periods.

But compared with the last time, under the negotiations between Scott Swift, the amount of investment in each period has increased significantly.

The investment amount of the island country's long-term credit bank is at least US$300 million per period, and there is no upper limit on investment. For Ronan and the Pacific Film Foundation, the more investment, the better.

The financing interest is the same as the previous contract.

The funds of island countries' long-term credit banks also come from financing, and their business policy has always been to earn the difference between borrowing and lending.

Although the island country's long-term credit bank has other investment businesses in North America, it is not a success. The cooperation with the Pacific Foundation is one of the rare highlights.

In addition to this investment, the investment focus of long-term credit banks is actually on Wall Street. According to the news that Ronan learned, this business seems to be trapped in a Ponzi scam.

Of course, it is not someone who deliberately cheats long-term credit banks. Such investment institutions that frequently participate in international cooperation are completely different from companies in relatively closed countries, but they still insist on getting involved in it without hesitation.

There is nothing else to do with the high returns.

For example, there are some Wall Street companies whose annual return on investment is a fixed 10% rate, which is a very incredible rate of return.

Not to mention shopping mall veterans and established investment companies, a little rational person knows that financing companies with a fixed annual return on investment are very likely to have problems.

Not to mention 10%, you must be careful if the annual return on investment exceeds 5%.

How could these people or companies in the shopping malls not understand such a simple truth, but the high profits are always touching, and they always believe that as long as they control the timing of entering the market, someone will definitely take over later.

Then, they were greeted with a tragedy.

The island country's long-term investment in Wall Street by credit banks has been caught in the Ponts scam, further highlighting the importance of working with the Pacific Film Foundation.

On the third day after signing a contract with the island country's long-term credit bank, Ronan signed their respective investment cooperation agreements on behalf of the Pacific Film Foundation and several entertainment companies and investment institutions in South Korea.

Koreans are particularly good at it, and this time they brought several actresses, but Ronan politely declined.

On the one hand, these beauties who have obviously been processed look like they are carved from the same mold, which is much worse than the three people who went to Korea.

Moreover, Ronan is now fighting with Scarlett Johnson. Although Scarlett Johnson has also used knifes on his nose and other parts, it can still be considered natural overall. He is used to natural things and lacks interest in artificial nature.

On the other hand, Ronan also has a lot of work on hand.

As financing channels continue to expand and the amount of financing increases, the investment business of the Pacific Film Foundation must be upgraded, from a simple film investment foundation to a financial investment foundation with a wider business.

The review in this regard is much stricter than that of ordinary film investment foundations. With Ronan's current conditions, it is not difficult to pass the review, but some procedures require everyone from the foundation to be present in person.

The upgraded foundation can invest financing in more industries.

This is also to cope with the next expansion of Relativity Entertainment.

If the company wants to develop further, it undoubtedly needs more funds.

"You have made great contributions to these two negotiations." Ronan also gave Scott and the foundation employees corresponding rewards: "Scott, financing work cannot be relaxed, and the development of relativity entertainment requires more funds."

Scott Swift said: "I understand. I just had contact with several investment companies in South Africa and would fly to Johannesburg next week to continue negotiations with them. In addition, my contact with the two Israeli companies has never been broken. Although they have some doubts about us, I am confident that I can pull investment from them."

Ronan nodded gently: "We don't have to worry about which country we invest from. Arab investment is money, and Jewish investment is also money. If possible, I will have no problem using India and Pakistan to invest together."

He solemnly reminded: "But one thing. Scott, the source of funds must be legal. We have entered a stable development period. Illegal funds will only cause us great trouble."

Scott Swift said seriously: "I understand that illegal funds cannot pass my level in the first place."

Ronan actually knows that there are uncommon investments in the film industry. Hollywood has been a little better in recent years. In many places where entertainment laws are not regulated, the film industry is simply a powerful tool for money laundering.

It will definitely be harmful but not beneficial to involve Pacific Foundation and Relativity Entertainment in the money laundering scandal.

Now his company doesn't have to take such a risky path.

Many commercial companies always play edges when they first started their business, but smart people often turn to operating within the rules of the game when the company is slightly stable.

Before Scott Swift said goodbye, Ronan said again: "I have $15 million transferred to my personal foundation account, and you continue to invest in companies such as Amazon and Apple."

"No problem." Scott responded.

Ronan never puts eggs in one basket. His personal investment is more about asset preservation and appreciation. Although he lives a luxury and supports up to hundreds of thousands of dollars a month, his expenses are not high compared to his income.

Shortly after Scott Swift left, Connie knocked on the door and walked in and said, "Director Ang Lee just sent an invitation letter. He is going to hold a party in Los Angeles next month and wants to invite you to attend."

Ronan took the invitation letter from Connie, looked at the specific time, and found that it was more than half a month, and said, "You call Ang Lee. I cannot confirm the schedule for the time being. I will give him a clear reply a week before the party starts."

Connie took the notes and turned around and left the office.

Luo Nan put away the invitation letter and roughly understood Ang Lee's thoughts. He sent the invitation so early, but simply wanted to notify him early so that he had enough time to adjust his schedule.

Ang Lee has had a hard time recently. Holding such a party has made him strong and he can find out the latest opinions of him as a director in the circle.

"The Hulk" really hurt Lee An.

This superhero movie is definitely a typical example of a high and low closing. After winning a weekend box office that was pretty good on the first weekend, it started to plummet like the Nasdaq stock market in 2000. It has been released for more than seven weeks now, and the cumulative box office in North America is only $112 million.

The overseas box office of the film is also very unsatisfactory, and the global total box office has not exceeded US$200 million.

For such a top-notch blockbuster with a production cost of nearly $140 million and a promotional distribution spending of more than $70 million, there is no doubt that failure is.

Moreover, the box office far from meeting expectations is not the most terrifying thing. The most terrifying thing is that the reputation of the film, from the audience to the media, and then to other aspects, collapses.

This will seriously affect Universal Pictures' offline operation of "Hulk".

For a commercial big production like this with a box office and a bad reputation, which TV station will pay a high price to buy the TV broadcast copyright? Who can expect DVD release to get eye-catching data?

Ang Lee is so stressful that you can imagine.

It can even be said that this video makes Ang Lee not human inside and outside.

Universal Pictures has an objection to Ang Lee. The crew, led by Eric Barner, accused Ang Lee. Fans believed that Ang Lee was irresponsibly and made a bad movie. Hulk comic fans were said to have sent a letter of protest to Ang Lee directly.

Ronan also received news from Avi Arad from Marvel Comics that if Shahai Entertainment activates Ang Lee as a director to shoot Marvel superhero movies, Marvel Comics will not hesitate to issue the strongest public protests.

Fortunately, Ronan never had the idea of ​​letting Ang Lee direct a purely commercial production.

Ronan can let Ang Lee shoot movies within 20 million US dollars. He has such value, but once the investment is high, it must be limited.

The knock on the door sounded again, and the person who came this time was Scarlett Johnson.

Somewhat unexpectedly, Scarlett Johnson was carrying a briefcase, as if he had something to talk about.

"Didn't you disturb your work?" Scarlett Johnson pulled away the chair and sat opposite Ronan, saying carelessly: "I have something to ask you for help."

Ronan nodded: "Tell me."
Chapter completed!