Chapter 198 Arrogant special effects company (Chapter 2)
After walking the red carpet, Wang Shang and the three leading actors began to enter the awards ceremony.
It is estimated that hundreds of millions of movie fans and filmmakers around the world are watching the live broadcast here at this time. In China, the national television station purchases the broadcast rights of the Oscar Awards ceremony every year and broadcasts it live nationwide, and there are also a lot of people watching.
This is the advantage of this time and space. Chinese people can understand English, and European and American people can also understand Chinese. There are basically no communication barriers. This is of great benefit to the overseas distribution of movies.
At 19 o'clock, the red carpet show officially ended and the awards ceremony officially began.
Everyone was seated, quiet, and expecting. There should be about 300 people in the entire venue.
The host of the award ceremony is named Stewart, who is a very humorous host who can stir up the atmosphere.
"The Oscars are where you can see the most celebrities without having to donate money to the Democratic Party."
"Don't pirate! Look at these stars, you are stealing from them! Look at those actresses, they are so poor that they can barely cover their breasts!"
When he heard these words, Wang Shang couldn't help laughing, and the whole audience burst into laughter.
In the next twenty minutes, three awards were presented in succession, none of which Wang Shang paid attention to, but Wang Shang found it very interesting to see those funny guests.
19:30.
The host finally announced: "Now, let's start awarding the Best Soundtrack Award. We invite the presenter Jennifer Aniston!"
Finally it was the turn of the awards related to Wang Shang. Wang Shang and several others instantly became energetic!
The originally curved waist also straightened...
The guest who presented the award for the best soundtrack statuette seemed very unusual. Although the host kept teasing several celebrities, they could not arouse her emotions. She was seen with disheveled hair, simple clothes, and expressionlessly reading the list of nominations.
Read it again: "The films nominated for the 78th Academy Award for Best Score include "Munich", "The Gardener", "Brokeback Mountain", "The Fast and the Furious", "Memoirs of a Geisha"..."
Then she opened the card without pausing and read directly: "The winner of the 78th Best Score Award is "Brokeback Mountain"!"
Before anyone could react, she had already finished reading!!
Wang Shang and others were immediately disappointed: "It's not "The Fast and the Furious", it's really a running role!"
After four or five seconds, the dubbing artist for "Brokeback Mountain" woke up, jumped up, and rushed to the podium excitedly.
Aniston continued to maintain her cold style and directly thrust the statuette into the hands of the dubbing artist who received the award. Then she stepped off the stage.
The host on the other side could only tease and yell, while crying out in pain and helplessness.
Afterwards, Wang Shang was not in the mood to watch, even though the host and award presenters on the stage kept making tricks, which brought a very lively atmosphere to the scene.
But when it came time to award the Best Editing Award, Wang Shang was shocked to find that Zhang Ziyi had become the award guest. Wang Shang had to admire her current influence.
Soon it was time for the last award - Best Director.
Wang Shang finally became interested: "Can Ang Lee in this time and space also win the Best Director Award for his non-mainstream movie "Brokeback Mountain"?"
"The winner of the 78th Best Soundtrack Award is——"
There was a long pause as the award-giving guest came, which aroused everyone's appetite. Everyone craned their necks with strong expectations on their faces.
"It's - "Brokeback Mountain"!"
Everyone was disappointed, some were disappointed, and some were applauded!
Ang Lee took the stage to receive the award and delivered an acceptance speech: "First of all, I would like to thank many people present and absent. Thank you for your support. Thank you to my wife and son. I love you and I will always be with you. I would like to thank my family
My mother, as well as my compatriots in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mainland China. Finally, thank you for your concern!"
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Two days later.
Wang Shang stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass window and looked at the huge sign in the Hollywood Hills outside. "How is the investigation by the special effects company?"
Secretary Li Shuiyue stood in the hall and reported to Wang Shang: "The other party has given some data. Currently, there are four relatively high-quality special effects companies on the verge of bankruptcy. They are all due to poor management. The companies have considerable technical foundation and also have
A lot of special effects talent.”
Wang Shang didn't look back and asked: "Which ones are there?"
The secretary quickly read: "Dimension, blue light, magic shadow..."
"Tell me about their current situation and assets." Wang Shang still didn't look back. His calm voice made the secretary feel more stressed. Recently, she found that Wang Shang's momentum was getting stronger and stronger.
"Dimension Special Effects currently has a high level of professional prop modeling and repair, and biological prop production. It has 5 senior designers and 100 employees internally. The Blu-ray Special Effects focuses more on the processing of CG data, with 4 senior professionals.
120 employees; special effects special effects, specializing in armor and weapon production, miniature sculptures, large-scale scenes, scenery and costumes and other large or miniature props, 3 senior professionals, and 112 employees..." The secretary spelled out all the information clearly.
Read it out.
"Their respective asset valuations are US$830 million, US$730 million, and US$670 million respectively."
"830 million, 730 million, 670 million..." After Wang Shang heard this, he couldn't help being surprised, "How can it be so high?"
"The data estimate given by the other party is only so much."
Wang Shang waved his hand: "How much money does our company have now?"
The secretary reported: "The current circulating funds are 1.3 billion yuan, equivalent to 140 million U.S. dollars..."
"1.3 billion yuan, 400 million yuan will be reserved for "Biochemical Apocalypse", and 300 million yuan will be reserved for other working capital, which means I can only use 600 million yuan. If it is a loan, the bank should be able to actively lend me 10-
1.5 billion, I should really only have about 2 billion yuan of funds to use, the difference is too big, and the special effects are a bottomless pit, and the profit is not high."
"I still don't have enough money!!!" Wang Shang originally thought that after making a lot of money, he could run around arrogantly. But it turned out that even a small company in Hollywood could directly crush him.
At this time, Wang Shang thought of a joke full of loopholes——
[A person opened an account in a Swiss bank, carefully looked around, and then said to the salesperson: "I want to deposit 100 million US dollars!"
As a result, the salesperson said to him: "Sir, there is no shame in speaking out loud, there is no shortage of poor people here."].
Wang Shang found that he was like that person who saved money and came to Hollywood thinking he had some money...
Oops!!!!
Wang Shang thought for a while and decided: "Go and contact these three companies, and if possible, inject capital into shares..."
As a result, the next day, Secretary Li Shuiyue reported to Wang Shang angrily: "After Dimension Special Effects heard that we were from China, they refused directly and said, 'How can Chinese people understand special effects!!'"
Wang Shang heard this and didn't care at all: "Ignore it, let it be proud to fend for itself. Where are the other two families?"
"Blue Light Special Effects and Phantom Special Effects want us to invest, but judging from their attitude, they don't want us to inject capital into the stock. However, they have agreed to meet tomorrow morning and afternoon..."
"OK."
The next day, Wang Shang took his secretary and went straight to Blu-ray Special Effects. Since there was no office in the United States, Wang Shang had to do these things himself.
The person who received Wang Shang was the head of an administrative department. He had a fat head, round ears, and an almost round body. Although he behaved in a friendly manner, his eyes flashed with arrogance from time to time.
"Where is your president?"
He said with a smile: "I'm sorry, Mr. Wang, our president has left for something, so he specifically asked me to receive you."
"Didn't we make an appointment?"
"I'm sorry, the president is really busy!"
Wang Shang suppressed his anger and asked, "If I want to inject capital into a stock, can you make the decision?"
He hesitated for a moment, as the president did not give a detailed explanation, and he could not make any claims. Finally, he replied: "I can communicate with the president on the phone, but we currently only accept investments and not capital injections."
At this time, a tall professional woman walked by the aisle with a folder in one hand and called on the phone: "Okay, okay, I will take the file to the president now! Don't worry, the president is here just now."
Wang Shang listened to every word in his heart, a surge of anger suddenly rose, his eyes gradually became cold, he looked at the fat man in front of him and said: "Since the president is not here, then forget it."
"Just wait until you go bankrupt. Xiaoyue, let's go!" Wang Shang left without looking back.
In the afternoon, Wang Shang and his secretary went to the office building of the last special effects company, Demon Shadow, and this time they finally met the other party's chairman and CEO Blunt.
"Mr. Wang wants to invest, right? I don't know how much capital Mr. Wang wants to invest? How many shares?" Blunt asked directly after sinking into the sofa.
"We want to invest US$200 million to get 35% of the shares. At the same time, we can strengthen the cooperation between my company and Phantom Special Effects, but we need a certain amount of control."
"35%? No! no!! Mr. Wang, your asking price is too high, 200 million US dollars. We can only give 10% of the shares. At the same time, the studio must maintain its independence and cannot accept the command of outsiders..."
Without control, Wang Shang naturally refused, and then argued with each other and the two sides continued to negotiate. As a result, Blount still refused to give in and refused to agree to life or death.
Half an hour later, Blount looked at his watch and said to Wang Shang: "Sorry, I need to go to a meeting. That's it for today. Please go back and consider our conditions carefully."
After saying that, he stood up and left directly.
Wang Shang pinched his temples and cursed in his mind: "Are these Americans so proud and ignorant? Why do you think I am begging them again?"
"Xiaoyue, let's go!"
Wang Shang was no longer in the mood to talk.
"I will come again next time you go bankrupt and see if you still have that proud face!"
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