Throughout the end of February, the country was immersed in the news that Li Qing was awarded the Berlin Best Actor. Liu Weilin, Wang Jiachen, Cui Zhiye, Hua De'an and other famous directors and actors in the industry also expressed their gratitude to the crew of "The Truman Show"
Congratulations publicly.
In the news report of the next day, CCTV News gave a three-minute detailed introduction to the Berlin Prize and the moment when "The Truman Show" won the three major awards: Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Picture.
This year's Berlin Prize, "The Truman Show" became the biggest winner. Not only did it win the most awards, but also because of the award, "The Truman Show", which is currently being released, once again became famous and became the focus of everyone's attention.
Foreign box office sales rose again.
Domestically, because "The Truman Show" was nominated for the Berlin Prize, and because of its good box office performance, major theaters unanimously agreed and ultimately extended the release date.
When "The Truman Show" won two Silver Bear Awards and one Golden Bear Award on February 19, the next day, "The Truman Show" achieved a decisive comeback and was already on the verge of being released.
"The Truman Show" instantly became the box office champion of the day.
Ten days later, "The Truman Show", which had been in theaters for 60 days in China, was finally released. The total box office in Hong Kong, mainland China and Taiwan was more than 274 million yuan, which is approximately 32.2 million yuan.
US dollars.
Excluding theaters and other divisions, the final box office share of "The Truman Show" was more than 105 million, which is approximately equivalent to more than 12 million US dollars.
Although "The Truman Show" was released on DVD immediately after its release, the results were lower than expected due to piracy.
Although it is slightly different from the box office of "Westward Journey" in Hong Kong, Mainland China and Taiwan, overseas, "The Truman Show" is completely different.
In the United States alone, "The Truman Show" grossed 97 million U.S. dollars. This record shocked the major Hollywood film companies in the United States. It is absolutely unprecedented for an Asian film to achieve such results.
With such box office data, it also successfully entered the top five North American box office in 2001, ranking fourth.
Among them, in addition to the contribution of the popular superstar Li Qing, there is also the reason why it won the best film award at the Berlin Film Festival.
Of course, this "ranked fourth at the North American box office in 2001" seems a little watery. After all, this year has only passed two months. It can be expected that in the following months, with the continuous release of Hollywood blockbusters,
The box office performance of "The Truman Show" is already very good if it can finally remain in the top 20 box office of the year.
However, it can also be seen from this that the box office of 97 million US dollars is an eye-catching result even in the United States. In the entire Asian film circle, "The Truman Show" is completely the top Asian film!
Soon, in addition to the United States, the box office of more than ten countries including Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan was also calculated. The final figure showed that it was 320 million US dollars.
In other words, the total overseas box office of "The Truman Show" totaled US$417 million.
Coupled with the domestic box office of 32.2 million U.S. dollars, the global total box office will eventually equal approximately 450 million U.S. dollars.
However, although "The Truman Show" grossed US$400 million at the overseas box office, the box office share that ultimately went to Legendary Pictures was not much.
Different from the proportional sharing of domestic box office, in North America, the sharing ratio is basically dynamically adjusted. For example, in the first week, 70% for the producer and 30% for others; in the second week, 60% for the producer and 40% for others;
Three weeks, 40% for the producer and 60% for others.
It is worth mentioning that North America does not have the 5% domestic film development fund that needs to be paid.
This set of sharing ratio rules only applies to the North American domestic market. As a foreign film, "The Truman Show" must share the box office through a contract signed with the distributor.
In other words, if the box office share with theaters in the first week is 70%, then Legendary Pictures and the film distribution company will share 70% of the total.
Although Lee Sin is already an international superstar, after all, he is not an American and does not have a cooperative company in the United States. In order to allow the film to be released on a large scale, Legendary Pictures sacrificed and made a lot of concessions, but also because of Lee Sin's popularity.
In the end, it received a half box office share, that is, from the 70% box office share in the first week, it got 35%. This share ratio has exceeded many foreign movies.
The issuer takes the other 35%.
This is an essential share. After all, the distributor needs to be responsible for all aspects of contact with theaters, film promotion, etc.
Under this accounting model, the final overseas box office share of "The Truman Show" was probably less than 25%, or US$104 million. However, due to various unforeseen reasons, the final amount received was only
Ninety-three million U.S. dollars.
Although it was less than 11 million U.S. dollars, including the domestic box office, Legendary Pictures' final global box office net profit was a full 105 million U.S. dollars.
When Legendary Pictures revealed this data, the entire Chinese film industry was shocked!
One hundred million dollars!
A movie can actually earn nearly 900 million yuan after being released worldwide!
Sure enough, it’s Hollywood!
This is where filmmakers should go!
For a time, the filmmakers burst into tears, and countless capable people rubbed shoulders and began to study the shooting routines of "The Truman Show" and various Hollywood movies. Many giants in the investment industry also took up the banner and entered the film industry.
Looking at it, it seems that the entire entertainment industry is preparing to enter Hollywood.
In this situation, the staff of Hanhai Group held their chests and heads high, wishing they could tell others "I belong to Hanhai!" when walking on the road!
Signed artists such as the Wandering Band and Mizuki Group have also become instantly popular. Invitations to countless shows are pouring in, and they all want to use Hanhai's artists to get to know the big boss, Li Qing, who is already standing on the altar.
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Under this momentum, the Hornet Culture, which had always been at odds with Hanhai, also died down, and its artists no longer had to fight against Hanhai artists like in the past.
Nowadays, everyone is trying to get out of the way, for fear that the local government will find an excuse to teach them a lesson in public, which would be too embarrassing.
Just as the filmmakers were working together, Han Jiayou, the president of the Hong Kong Korean Consortium, made a request for a meeting with Li Qing, who was far away in the United States and was preparing to start filming "Titanic" through Hanhai.
Although the specific reason was not given, his father-in-law made an appointment and took it seriously. How dare Li Qing disobey?
So he hurriedly put down the script of "Titanic", said goodbye to Scott and others, and flew to Hong Kong with Han Han.
When he arrived at Repulse Bay and settled in the Han family villa, Li Qing saw several unexpected people in the living room besides Han Jiayou.
Han Jiayou was obviously here to build a bridge. After exchanging a few words with Li Qing, he introduced: "Aqing, let me introduce to you. This is..."
"Director Li, long time no see. How are you?"
A middle-aged man in a suit and leather jacket, wearing an elite look, smiled and extended his hand to Li Qing: "Farewell to my class, Boyu. One year has passed, and Director Li is still as charming as ever. It's gratifying to congratulate him."
"What? Do you still know each other?" Han Jiayou was a little surprised. He glanced at Li Qing subconsciously, but saw Li Qing frowning. Although it was only for a moment, Han Jiayou's face felt a little hot.
The middle-aged man chuckled: "Of course we know each other. Speaking of which, Director Li and I are still classmates!"
Boyu class?
Li Qing felt that the other party looked familiar at first, and when he heard about Boyu Ban, he immediately remembered who the other party was.
Lang Runzhu, Vice President of Goldman Sachs Asia Pacific Region.
We once studied together in the Boyu Class of Hong Kong University.
So he quickly smiled and said: "Same joy, Mr. Lang is a busy man. Recently, several businesses your group has invested in have made a lot of money. I am very envious."
"Director Li is a noble man, how could he like the few small projects we invested in?"
Lang Runzhu said politely, and then replaced Han Jiayou and introduced a woman in a white suit to Li Qing: "Director Li, this is Michelle Williams, the president of our group's Asia Pacific region."
Michelle is about in her early 40s. As the president of Goldman Sachs Group's Asia-Pacific region, being able to achieve this position at this age is already a very remarkable thing.
At this time, she was looking curiously at the legendary figure in front of her who was widely spread in Hong Kong and even around the world. Leesin's many deeds had only been introduced to her ears in the past year. After careful investigation,
, she seemed to see the second Bill Gates before her eyes.
No, maybe even Bill Gates is not as good as him?
At least when Bill was 22 years old, his assets were less than $10,000.
"Hello."
Li Qing didn't have much surprise reaction. After shaking hands with Michelle, he took the initiative to introduce Han Han to them. Finally, after handing several boxes of gifts brought from the United States to Han Jiayou, he said: "Uncle Jiayou,
You called me and Han Han back, is there anything important?"
"There are some personal matters."
Han Jiayou nodded and said, "We'll talk about this at the family gathering at dinner. Now, Mr. Lang has something that you can listen to."
Let’s talk about it at the family gathering…
Upon hearing this, Li Qing glanced at Han Han subconsciously.
Han Han looked confused, but he seemed to have realized something. His cheeks suddenly turned shy, but in front of outsiders, he pretended to be serious and serious.
"OK."
Li Qing nodded, then looked at Lang Runzhu and Michelle, smiled and said: "You two have something to ask me about?"
Lang Runzhu was about to speak, but Michelle waved her hand, "Let me speak."
Michelle said in fluent Cantonese: "Mr. Li, I know that a game company under your name has plans to go public recently, but with all due respect, neither the mainland stock exchange nor Hong Kong may be able to do so."
Satisfy your appetite.”
Li Qing became interested: "so?"
Michelle asked everyone to sit down and talk, then took out a business card from her handbag, handed it to Li Qing with both hands, and said seriously: "We at Goldman Sachs are one of the largest underwriters in the world. If you need it, you can contact us at any time.
, we are willing to help you successfully list on Nasdaq or New York Stock Exchange."
Li Qing was stunned.
Underwriters generally refer to merchants who have certain sales capabilities and assume sales responsibilities, as long as they bear corresponding buying and selling responsibilities for the sale of goods.
The responsibility for the purchase and sale of promised goods is different from that of manufacturers. Underwriters are generally not responsible for production, but only responsible for channel management and inventory distribution management of goods. They play a linking role in the entire sales process, and can also be regarded as being allocated a larger share by the production enterprise.
A large agency with administrative rights.
Companies that plan to be listed generally need to submit a prospectus to a securities company and sell shares, which involves stock underwriters.
A stock underwriter refers to a securities business institution that exclusively underwrites or leads an underwriting group in stock issuance.
Internationally, stock underwriters are generally served by reputable and powerful merchant banks (UK), investment banks (US) and large securities companies.
Goldman Sachs Investment Group is one of the world's top underwriters.
But in addition to Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Citigroup, etc. are also powerful underwriters.
The stock underwriter is the most important intermediary agency hired by the stock issuer. It is not only the underwriter of the stock issuance, but also the issuer's financial advisor, and is often the issuer's recommender for listing.
If the issuer issues shares globally, the underwriter at this time is also the global coordinator for the issuer's share issuance.
For new stock listings, generally the stronger the underwriter, the greater the chance and desire of buyers to acquire the shares. Therefore, finding one or several strong securities firms for listing is a process that every company planning to be listed must go through.
After the securities firm signs a securities underwriting agreement with the issuer and assists it in the public issuance of securities, it will also obtain corresponding underwriting fees, so this is not an obligation, but a paid one.
To put it simply, the Goldman Sachs Group is currently interested in the Phantom Technology in Li Qing's hands, and also knows that the Phantom Technology is seeking to be listed. As a top international investment bank and one of the famous securities firms, the Goldman Sachs Group has no reason to miss Phantom Technology, and it does not want to miss it.
Li Qing is a potential stock.
Under normal circumstances, companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange will distribute stocks and bonds to multiple securities companies. This involves the issue of profit distribution, so a lead underwriter must be assigned, and the lead underwriter will coordinate other members of the underwriting syndicate.
, and jointly complete the listing plan.
The president and vice president of the Asia-Pacific region of Goldman Sachs Group personally came to contact Li Qing, naturally in order to get the position of lead underwriter.
Li Qing was a little surprised that Goldman Sachs Group contacted him through Han Jiayou, but he didn't pay too much attention. Maybe the other party had more careful considerations?
In fact, in the past few months, basically all domestic securities firms have visited Hanhai, including those in Hong Kong, but without exception, they are not considered by Phantom Technology. This also makes domestic securities firms understand that,
Phantom Technology has no ambitions in China, so this craze comes and goes quickly.
But such news has not spread abroad, and some big investment banks are not very clear about the profitability of Phantom Technology. Among many top investment banks, although mainland China is developing rapidly, its profitability is not high, and the basic reason for high profitability is
They are all controlled by state-owned enterprises, so they often ignore this huge and rapidly developing market.
However, Goldman Sachs Group is rooted in Hong Kong and sees everything clearly from the perspective of Hong Kong's economy. It is also convinced that the rise of the mainland will be unstoppable in the future. Therefore, it has shifted part of its work focus to Asia a few years ago and has deployed additional staff.
Michel, president of Asia Pacific, takes charge of the division.
It can be said that Goldman Sachs Group was the first world-class investment bank to come to Li Qingxiang to discuss listing.
This made Li Qing a little happy.
He remembered that in his previous life, when Alibaba was listed, the world's top seven investment banks lined up to help Alibaba go public, but the other party was Alibaba, which had a market value of hundreds of billions of dollars. The tax payment alone was almost 100 million yuan a day.
Naturally, it cannot be compared with ordinary companies planning to be listed.
Although Phantom Technology shines very brightly in China, it is not comparable to Alibaba. Therefore, having a top investment bank come to discuss it in person with a very good attitude is already a top-notch treatment.
An underwriting group led by Goldman Sachs Group can not only increase the chance of listing, but also enhance the confidence of investors in the certification of new shares of Phantom Technology. Even if the underwriting fee is higher, it is a matter of killing two birds with one stone. Li Qing has no reason to reject the olive branch offered by Goldman Sachs Group.
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However, there are three fiscal year requirements for U.S. stock listings, and Phantom Technology is still one year away from meeting the requirements. Is it a little too hasty for Goldman Sachs to come to the company during this time period?
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ps: This chapter is two in one. Thanks to Miss Jeffreyjoshu for the 10,000 reward. This is the most familiar and mysterious ID. Or should it be the Miss, or the uncle?_(|3 ∠)_