Chapter 455 The Desperate Director Chen Da
"Goodbye to the United States!" Looking at the plane outside the window, Boss Jia sighed.
There is no need to wait for tomorrow, and Boss Jia will return to China today.
When he came to the United States this time, Boss Jia brought 200 million US dollars. Later, Boss Jia sold 5 million Pokemon cassettes and made another 250 million US dollars, so Boss Jia brought a total of nearly 500 million US dollars to the United States.
But the money comes quickly and goes quickly.
It cost 10 million to buy Nvidia.
It cost 20 million to buy Blizzard
It cost 22.5 million to buy Marvel
It took a total of 200 million yuan to buy Qualcomm
Then he invested 20 million yuan to establish the American Daqian Educational Learning Company.
In the end, Boss Jia spent nearly 500,000 yuan to purchase bodyguard services.
In addition to the various other miscellaneous expenses, Boss Jia spent 300 million US dollars in the United States. If this news spread to China, it would be not enough to make the envious of a group of guys.
This is $300 million. It feels like a myth, but Boss Jia is spending it without blinking.
Of course, this is simply too valuable than money. In the future, Qualcomm alone will have a total market value of 77.3 billion US dollars.
As for the remaining 200 million US dollars, Boss Jia also left it to Harry Potter, allowing him to seize the opportunity in the stock market. As long as Apple's stock falls to less than $3 per share, he will immediately take it.
Eat as much as you have, but once it exceeds the level of three dollars, you will give up. Because Boss Jia knew that until 1996, Apple invited Mr. Qiao back to become the chairman, Apple's stocks have always been in a state of rain blowing duckweed, falling and rising, but in general, it still has more or less falling.
At this time, Apple's total market value was around 3 billion US dollars, and its stock price was about four dollars, but sometimes it would fall to 2.5 dollars. So Boss Jia gave Harry Po a specific standard of three dollars. As long as it is lower than this price, you can eat it. How much you can eat it until Mr. Qiao returns home.
You should know that Apple's market value once reached a level of US$1.4 trillion at its peak. Now it is priced at US$3 per share. In the future, each share can rise to more than US$1,200, and its profit is equivalent to a 400-fold increase. There is nothing wonderful in the world.
The same is true for amd. Boss Jia also specified a acquisition line for Harry Pope. If you want to eat it at a price below this, then you can hold the position all the time. This operation can be done for a three-year-old child.
After making the final arrangements, Boss Jia felt that he could return to China with peace of mind. After all, he had been abroad for a long time and had accumulated a lot of things in China.
But when Boss Jia was about to board the plane, a phone call suddenly disrupted Boss Jia's itinerary. Director Chen Da called this call.
Speaking of these days, Boss Jia is proud of his youth in the United States, and Director Chen is also very proud. The reason is very simple. "Farewell My Concubine" has achieved unimaginable results in the United States.
Chinese-language movies have been released in the United States before, and have achieved extremely brilliant results. Among them, the most dazzling ones have achieved a box office of US$100 million in North America and an amazing box office of US$230 million in the world.
However, all of these movies are Bruce Lee's movies. After Bruce Lee's death, no Chinese-language movie could achieve a box office of over 10 million in the United States. In fact, let alone over 10 million, even if it exceeds one million, it is extremely rare.
This time, Director Chen Da broke this record. One month after "Farewell My Concubine" was released in the United States, it achieved a box office record of US$12 million, which made Director Chen proud. Who can achieve such a beautiful result besides Bruce Lee?
Now that Bruce Lee is dead, he is the director with the highest box office in China's movies abroad.
More importantly, there is already a storm in the American film industry, that is, the Oscars' jury committee is very acknowledging "Farewell My Concubine". It is said that 100% of the Oscar nomination for the best foreign language film, which made Director Chen even more proud.
So he hasn't returned to China in the past few months, and has just jumped around in Hollywood and made friends with American filmmakers everywhere.
Boss Jia could only shake his head helplessly. In history, Farewell My Concubine only achieved a box office of 5.2 million US dollars in North America, and more than 4 million of the box offices were contributed by Chinese Americans, and American audiences were not interested at all.
But in this life, because Boss Jia invested hundreds of thousands of dollars to operate, and Harvey Wiens was really powerful, under his operation, Farewell My Concubine doubled the box office.
But then again, as long as Boss Jia has nothing to do, Boss Jia will not refuse any director Chen invited Boss Jia to meet celebrities in Hollywood. After all, Boss Jia cannot let go of Hollywood's treasure pot, so Boss Jia is now quite famous in Hollywood and has met many people.
But what disappointed Boss Jia is that although Director Chen is very happy, he basically knows some second-tier characters from Hollywood, such as those really top directors, producers or companies, such as Spielberg, Cameron, and Lucas. Director Chen has rarely come into contact with top directors.
Or they simply ignore Director Chen Da.
But this time, Director Chen really gave Boss Jia a surprise. It turned out that Director Chen had some information about what, but he actually had contact with 20th Century Fox.
This time, 20th Century Fox specially invited Jia Yapeng, hoping to talk to him about the issue of film cooperation investment.
"What movie is it?" When Boss Jia first heard the news, he was a little distracted and asked casually.
Director Chen was very nervous at this time because he found out that he had cheated Boss Jia.
Director Chen has been doing well in Hollywood these days, and is so satisfied that he gradually becomes a little unfamiliar with all kinds of big talk. He just said casually, and the director just said that he would definitely win the Oscar.
At the same time, Director Chen hopes to be favored by the six major Hollywood giants and let them invest in making a movie for themselves.
Director Chen has always had a dream, that is, to become a real international director, not only filming in China, but also to make movies that can achieve excellent box office results internationally.
But domestic capital is generally unwilling to invest in movies, and even if it really invests, it will be difficult to enter the US market.
If you cannot enter the US market, you will not be able to open up the global market.
After all, at this time, the world film market has formed a pattern. That is, movies that can be sold well in other film markets may not be sold well in the US market.
And if the movies that can be sold well in the North American film market, they will definitely be sold well in the world.
But at this time, all the big-selling movies in the North American film market were basically won by six film companies. These six film companies are collectively known as the six major Hollywood film companies, namely Paramount, Sony, Warner Bros., Disney, 20th Century Fox, and Universal Pictures.
Director Chen Da dreamed that he would be favored by these six companies and let these six companies invest in making a movie on their own, so that he could become a top director in the world.
But this dream is beautiful, and the reality is cruel. When will the six major Hollywood film companies look at a Chinese director, and they are native Chinese directors, rather than Chinese Americans like Ang Lee? So no matter how happy director Chen dances, he is basically just dancing there alone.
However, dancing joy also has the benefits of dancing joy. The more times you get, there will always be opportunities. Director Chen Da really makes friends with a senior executive of 20th Century Fox, and the two often chat together.
In order to get the opportunity to make a film, Director Chen was very flattering to the senior executive. However, the senior executive was frowning recently, which made Director Chen ask, and then learned that it was 20th Century Fox intends to invest in a big-produced movie.
How big is this production?
The investment budget is as high as US$135 million!
This astronomical investment scared Director Chen on the spot.
But the senior executives of 20th Century Fox then said that the investment was too huge, and the company had recently invested in two or three movies and lost all its capital. If they wanted to spend the 135 million yuan, they would have to spend the money to sell it, which made the company very hesitant.
But the director's attitude was very firm and he had to have a budget of US$135 million. In the end, the company decided to find a partner to invest together. Unfortunately, other film companies were not optimistic about this project. The road to partnership was extremely difficult, and the senior executives of the entire company were driven crazy, so they were frowning.
"I know someone, he must have money to invest!" Director Chen said subconsciously in order to show his connections.
Director Chen was just talking casually, but unexpectedly, the senior executive was really interested and must ask Director Chen to invite the rich man over and invite him to invest in this movie.
This time, Director Chen Da was in a wax. This was an investment of US$135 million. How could Jia Yapeng have money to afford such a huge investment?
Director Chen Da actually doesn’t know Boss Jia’s family’s background, so in Director Chen Da’s eyes, Boss Jia is just an entrepreneur with a net worth of over 100 million yuan, so he absolutely cannot agree to this investment.
Besides, so many rich Americans refuse to invest, which shows that this movie must be a loss-making deal.
An investment of US$135 million, based on the US box office share, will require at least US$280 million to make a profit. How is this possible!
So Director Chen regretted it at that time, but the senior management kept urging Director Chen to call people over and have a chat, so Director Chen, who could not come to Taiwan, could only call Boss Jia.
Chapter completed!