After playing for a day, the two of them were exhausted.
"Let's go eat, you are the landlord, you lead the way." It was getting late, Wang Shang was a little hungry, and his appetite started to rise.
Liu Xi dragged Wang Shang's hand and said with a charming look on her face: "Uncle, let's go, I'll take you to my house, and I'll make delicious food for you!"
"You can also make delicious food? I can't tell, young lady..." Wang Shang was a little surprised, thinking that this young lady was someone who never touched the spring water.
Hearing Wang Shang's words, Liu Xi suddenly became unhappy. She raised her neck and said arrogantly: "I'm a chef, how can I not cook? Let's go!!"
Dancing and flying all the way.
Wang Shang got into Liu Xi's car and drove all the way to a group of villas. Wang Shang had known Liu Xi for half a year, but he had never been to her house, let alone her parents.
"My parents have something to do today and came back very late, so I don't need to see them yet." Liu Xi said slyly.
The car wound around the community and walked a long way before arriving at a villa. The villa was surrounded by a short fence covered with green vines. Wang Shang saw that the iron of the fence had grown.
It was extremely rusty, so I guess the houses in this community are quite old.
After entering, you can see that there are many flowers and plants planted in the yard. Spring has just arrived, and the yard is full of spring.
Liu Xi hugged Wang Shang's left arm and introduced to Wang Shang as she entered: "Look over there, there is a small swing. This is where I played with my brother when I was a child."
"There used to be a small swimming pool here, but it was filled in. I used to play there when I was a kid," Liu Xi said, pointing to another open space.
After entering the villa, a large hall appeared in front of Wang Shang.
There was no one inside, so Liu Xi held Wang Shang's hand while introducing Wang Shang one by one. Many of them were things from her childhood.
Soon she took two huge photo albums and handed them to Wang Shang. Then she changed a set of clothes, took out some things from the refrigerator, and went to cook.
Wang Shang opened the photo album and saw photos of her when she was a child. There were moments full of laughter everywhere. She also saw the young appearance of her parents, as well as Liu Yang.
The photo that impressed Wang Shang the most was a little girl who was only about 80cm tall standing in front of a little boy who was only 70cm tall. She was holding the little boy's ears, while the little boy was covering his face with his hands and crying.
Then I looked at another photo and saw the little girl sitting on the little boy. The little boy was lying on the ground unable to move, and he was also crying.
Wang Shang: "..."
This girl was quite fierce when she was young, she was just the oldest girl.
"Ah!!" came a voice from the kitchen. Liu Xi rushed out, ran to Wang Shang, grabbed the album, and then pulled out a few photos from several places. Then she handed the album back to Wang Shang, a little uncomfortable.
If he dared to look at Wang Shang, his face would turn red like a ripe apple.
Wang Shang was puzzled, so he took the photo album back and looked at it. The two photos he just looked at were gone.
Wang Shang understood in his heart and was happy: "Your brother has always been bullied by you, right?"
"Ah!" Liu Xi was as frightened as a rabbit and fled back to the kitchen.
An hour later, Liu Xi, wearing a white dress, sat on a stool and leaned next to Wang Shang, revealing her graceful figure.
At this time, after she saw that Wang Shang didn't mind her temper, she returned to normal and spooned a piece of water egg into Wang Shang's bowl: "Try..."
Wang Shang inhaled the jelly-like water egg into his mouth. A fragrant aroma filled the air, and he praised: "Not bad, the taste is good, and the heat is just right. It seems you really know how to cook."
Liu Xi immediately became arrogant, like a proud little swan, and said proudly: "Of course. Don't look at who I am...try this again..."
She put other dishes into Wang Shang's bowl.
"Well, this twice-cooked pork is good, and the Yong Tau Fu is also good." Wang Shang found that her cooking skills were not worse than his mother's, which was really amazing.
Wang Shang pushed a strand of hair away from Liu Xi's face and fed a spoonful of Yong Tau Fu into her mouth: "When did you learn cooking skills? Isn't it pretty good?"
"I learned how to be a picky eater when I was a child. Anyway, I only have a lot of time to learn it." Liu Xi said proudly.
"Yes, you are amazing!" Wang Shang stroked her hair and said with half praise.
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After only staying in Haizhu for 2 days, Wang Shang returned to the Magic City.
As soon as he returned to the company, secretary Li Shuiyue handed him a piece of information: "Boss, we have already obtained the information from several special effects companies."
Wang Shang took the information and started reading it.
"Dimension, Blu-ray, Phantom?? These three companies are about to go bankrupt??" Wang Shang remembered the experience of communicating with these three special effects companies the last time he was in the United States. At that time, these three companies could be said to be awesome.
He was making noises, his nostrils were pointed towards the sky, and he never looked directly at anyone.
"These three companies are all seeking death~~" Wang Shang smiled at his secretary.
The secretary was also a little proud and said: "Look how awesome they are now!!"
In addition to these three special effects companies, several other special effects companies are also facing major financial difficulties.
In recent years, more and more special effects are used in movies, and special effects have become more and more popular. However, the strange thing is that the special effects companies that do special effects are losing money one after another. There are only a few special effects companies that can maintain a certain amount of financial support.
There are Industrial Light and Magic, Weta, and Digital, which has been in deep cooperation with Tianwang Film and Television Company.
The reason why those special effects companies went bankrupt was that their expenses far exceeded their income. In the second half of 2007, there were reports in the North American entertainment industry that many special effects companies complained that the film studios gave too little money, and special effects research was another issue.
The huge capital hole makes it increasingly difficult for them to operate.
High competition pressure in the industry and high production costs are the main reasons for its bankruptcy. In addition to hardware equipment, there is also investment in intellectual "equipment": when a movie is started, a research and development department composed of scientists needs to be established, of which 1
/3 are experts in physics and the Internet.
The computer chip or filming hardware is just the surface. Artists put in hundreds of hours of sculpting, hard-working on-set assistants coordinate back and forth with special effects producers, and engineers write the long strings of appropriate code and build the entire film's production.
Process, these are where a lot of money is spent.
Another reason is that the special effects companies that subsidize the production have not benefited from the popularity of the film. Hollywood's share system is that everyone from the director, producer to actors of the film gets a share, but the special effects companies never have a share.
From the end of 2007 to the present, more than six special effects production companies in Los Angeles, which is home to a large number of special effects production companies, have closed down one after another. Thousands of special effects engineers have lost their jobs. Many contracted special effects engineers who used to have no worries about food and clothing have been reduced to short-term contract workers.
Many special effects artists have entered and moved to other parts of the world, such as China, a country where the film industry is booming.
From that time on, Wang Shang began to ask people to go to the United States to "sit down" and find professional investigation companies to investigate and evaluate all special effects companies in North America that may go bankrupt, and be ready to enter the market for acquisitions at any time.
Now, after waiting until now, the opportunity finally came.
Most of the movies in the future will be special effects, so Wang Shang will naturally spend a lot of effort to acquire them. Talent is very important, but the patents owned by those special effects companies are also very important, so acquiring special effects companies is a must.
Wang Shang took the information and looked at it one by one.
"The asset valuations of Dimension, Blu-ray, and Phantom are respectively US$430 million, US$330 million, and US$270 million. Technicolor, FullScaleEffects, etc. all had a series of brilliance in the past, but now their assets have begun to shrink severely.
They are all around US$200-300 million.”
Wang Shang looked at the quotations and couldn't help but laugh: "It's so cheap, it's just delivered to your door. After acquiring it, we can just let them serve "Transformers"."
However, if you want to acquire several companies, it will cost more than one billion US dollars, or tens of billions of RMB.
Soon the head of the finance department, Jia Jinqian, rushed to Wang Shang's office carrying a lot of meat on his back.
"How much cash flow does our company have now?"
Jia Jinqian filtered it in his mind and quickly replied: "Currently there is not much cash flow, only about 500 million, mainly flowing to the special effects department, Yanjing Research Institute, "Fast and Furious 2", "Resident Evil 2"
” and more than a dozen other movies.”
"So little..." Wang Shang had to turn in another direction, "How much can I borrow if I borrow from a bank?"
Jia Jinqian did some calculations in his mind: "If you want a loan, you can also use "Fast and Furious 2" and "Resident Evil 2" as mortgage loans. You should be able to get 7 billion. You can also use related patented technologies to mortgage loans. This is specific.
I don’t know how much I can borrow, and I’m not a professional. Of course, the last one can use the company’s shares as collateral for a loan, and I think many banks will be very interested.”
One day later, Tianwang Film and Television Company sent a business negotiation team to the United States secretly.
The next day, more than a dozen banks in Shanghai hurriedly sent people to the Tianwang Film and Television Company. They were extremely excited, as if a hungry man who had been hungry for more than ten days saw delicious food and ran over to the evil dog.
Pounce on food, grab like crazy.
On the fourth day, news began to spread in the society that Tianwang Film and Television Company had used "Fast and Furious 2" and "Resident Evil 2" to mortgage a total of 8 billion yuan in two banks.
After the news came out, the media with keen sense of smell immediately caught it.
"Big move of Tianwang Film and Television Company! What is the purpose of the 8 billion loan?"
"Is it a new big movie? It requires such a large budget??"
"Tianwang Film and Television Company, which has always had fewer loans, finally broke the rules this time. What is the reason?"