Chapter 937 The Bankruptcy and Liquidation of the "Oracle Princess"!

In the evening, Chen Fei returned to the villa before the evening rush hour.

After parking the car, as soon as I opened the door, I saw that the yard was very lively!

Han Jia'v, Shu Chang, Zhao Liying, and Tang Yan were sitting around a table playing poker, while Shen Jiani beside them was coaxing the children and playing with the cat with the girl.

Zhu Yawenze and Luo Jin were busy lighting the stove. The table next to them was filled with meat skewers and vegetables, and there was even a steaming mandarin duck pot...

"Good guy? Why is it so lively?"

"Hey! Director Chen is back!" Shu Chang shouted loudly, not forgetting to throw out the playing cards in his hand: "Wang Zha, haha, I finally won!"

Zhao Liying put down the playing cards in her hand, stood up and explained: "Director Chen, we came here specially to celebrate you and Sister Yifei today. Congratulations on your successful nomination of "La La Land" for the Venice International Film Festival."

"Same joy, same joy..."

While Chen Fei responded, he handed a large bag of fruit to Han Jianu and motioned for her to wash it.

"Hey? I'm a guest! How can I ask a guest to help me with work?"

"Not willing to go?" Chen Fei gave her a suppressed look: "I was originally planning to go to the Supreme People's Procuratorate Film and Television Center to talk about the script tomorrow. Since you don't want to go, then I will sleep in at home tomorrow and save more money. A waste of breath."

As soon as these words came out, Han Jia Nu was easily manipulated!

"Ouch! Senior brother, aren't I joking with you? Look at you, how can you be serious?"

Before she finished speaking, she had already obediently taken the fruit and ran to the kitchen.

"Where's Yifei?" Chen Fei turned around and looked around, but he couldn't find today's heroine.

Tang Yan reminded her loudly: "Yifei is answering the phone inside."

"oh."

While everyone was chatting, they saw Liu Yifei walking from the living room to the yard, with a faint smile on her face.

"Sissi? Who called you? Why are you so happy?"

Following Shu Chang's question, everyone turned to look at Liu Yifei.

"It's my dad. He called to congratulate me on being nominated for the Venice International Film Festival for the movie I starred in. He also said that after I go to Venice, he will travel from Paris to see me."

As soon as these words came out, Zhu Yawen and Luo Jin immediately started to boo.

"Hey? My son-in-law is going to meet his father-in-law?"

"Isn't it time to entertain me with good wine and good food? After meeting my father-in-law, shouldn't it be time to put the wedding on the agenda?"

"So, can I have a wedding banquet next year?"

"Where are you going to get married? How about in the capital? There are many friends here and it's more lively. It's not fun abroad."

"Ah!? I just went to wash some fruit. Why are we talking about marriage now?"

Faced with the joking of a group of people, Liu Yifei blushed, but she couldn't suppress the smile on her face, because she was actually looking forward to it in her heart.

"Hey? My client is not in a hurry. Why are you in a hurry?"

Chen Fei complained helplessly, but did not deny it. Instead, he revealed some general information: "Get the gift money ready and wait for the invitation at any time."

As soon as these words came out, there was another burst of joking and applause.

Liu Yifei's pretty face turned even redder. Although she said "I haven't decided whether to marry him yet", her heart felt like she had eaten honey, not to mention how sweet and happy she was.

A group of people struggled until about 10 o'clock before finally dispersing.

After sending everyone away, before Liu Yifei could clean up the things in the yard, Chen Fei directly picked her up from the waist and went straight to the bedroom upstairs.

"Oh! Why are you so anxious? There are still a lot of things in the yard that haven't been cleaned up!"

"Let the nanny come over tomorrow to collect it."

Chen Fei had no intention of stopping. Sometimes he really wondered why his aunt, a relative, had to come and stay for a week every month.

…

As the night is getting darker at home, the sun is shining brightly at the moment abroad.

It’s just that, for others, the sun may be shining brightly, but for Megan Elie, it is dark clouds!

She had been sitting there for more than half an hour looking at the box office report for the movie "Ben-Hur" on the table, unable to calm down her inner emotions for a long time.

She had thought before that the movie might not be adaptable abroad, but she never expected that it would be so bad!

17.45 million yuan, converted into US dollars is only 2.9 million knives. What a cruel number!

In order to vent her inner anger, she almost drove Depp crazy. After all, in Hollywood, divorce lawsuits are not so easy to resolve.

In addition to having to pay a large amount of money in compensation, Depp also had to suffer a double blow to his reputation and public opinion!

But even so, it could not save the box office failure of "Ben-Hur".

With the film in full production, Annapurna Pictures has finally come to its final conclusion:

——Bankruptcy and liquidation!

"Dingle bell!"

The harsh phone ringing suddenly rang.

Megan Eli lowered her eyes and glanced at the caller ID, feeling deep helplessness and sadness in her heart.

At this moment, she suddenly understood what it means to "fall down the wall and push everyone".

The collection call from the bank came as soon as the movie she was controlling failed. This was undoubtedly a huge blow to her!

After pressing the connect button and promising to get the money back as soon as possible, she hung up the phone and found her father's contact information.

"Beep beep..."

After waiting for more than ten seconds, the call was finally connected.

The proud "Oracle Princess" showed her unconcealable sadness and pain at this moment, "Father, my company... is bankrupt!"

"Well, I know." Larry Eri, who is worth tens of billions of dollars, did not have much emotional fluctuations, but just responded lightly: "Come back, come home, just throw the bankrupt company to the bank, and I will arrange a legal team to help you with the rest of the trouble."

"Okay..."

With a strong sense of unwillingness, Megan Eri chose to accept reality.

In the next few days, she cooperated with the bank and the legal team arranged by her father to complete all the handover work.

When the news of Annapurna Pictures' bankruptcy spread, the media immediately published it on major websites and newspapers.

This independent production company, which was established less than three years ago, has not escaped the ending of "bankruptcy liquidation" like the film and television companies founded by the rich second generation from Wall Street in the past.

Due to the default of bank loans, the assets of Annapurna Pictures were chosen by the bank to apply for preservation, and the most valuable of them are the copyrights of the two films "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" and "Ben-Hur".

In addition, Megan Ely herself still has a bank debt of up to 200 million US dollars to repay, and all of them need to be repaid in a short time.

If it is an ordinary person, even some billionaires who have become rich overnight, it is very difficult to repay this money.

Megan Ely also does not have such ability.

But who makes her have a good father?

With Larry Ely's personal action, the debt of up to 200 million US dollars was easily resolved, and Megan Ely also avoided being sued in court.

Of course, Larry Ely is not without any conditions.

After helping his daughter repay the debt, he strongly demanded that Megan Ellison must leave Hollywood and return to Oracle, and promised that he would never participate in investment in the film and television industry in the future!

Although he is a billionaire, no matter how strong his ability to make money is, he can't stand his daughter's tossing!

Hundreds of millions of dollars lost in three years, this is simply too exaggerated and too scary.

If she is allowed to continue to toss, Oracle may lose money one day.

This also verifies a saying: "The rich are not afraid of their children eating, drinking, playing and enjoying life, but they are afraid that their children will start a business in a hurry! This is a bottomless pit!"

Although Megan Ely was very unwilling, she had no choice but to agree.

When Chen Fei saw the news that Annapurna Pictures declared bankruptcy, it was three days after the nomination list of the Venice International Film Festival was announced.

Looking at the news reprinted from Hollywood, he couldn't help but want to laugh.

Thinking back then, when the Oracle princess first entered Hollywood, she was so arrogant, as if she was going to use money to smash the market.

But now? She left in disgrace.

Calculating the time difference, he called Natasha to ask if there were any hot events in Hollywood recently.

In addition, there are two more important things, and he has to find out the specific details.

It is only ten o'clock in the evening in North America. Natasha, who just returned home from the cocktail party, answered the call immediately after seeing Chen Fei calling.

"Fei, good evening."

"Haha, it's already morning here in China."

After a few pleasantries, Chen Fei first asked about the current situation of Megan Erie and Annapurna Pictures.

Natasha was well aware of the news. "According to media reports, Megan Ely left Los Angeles on last night's flight and returned to San Francisco. If nothing unexpected happens, she will never set foot in this sad place again in the rest of her life.

As for the assets of Annapurna Pictures, they are currently being auctioned by the bank. I also took the opportunity to buy a lot of professional equipment and office supplies.

The original employees of the company have been laid off. It is difficult for them to find a job now. Many companies think they are carrying bad luck and do not accept them at all, haha.

Many people have been crazy about Megan Ely on Twitter, saying that it was because of her unprofessionalism that led to the bankruptcy of the company..."

"What is the situation with Depp now?" Chen Fei asked another question that he was very interested in.

"He is still in the lawsuit with Amber, and the two sides are fighting fiercely. They have entered the stage of frantically exposing each other's dirt... Many people are watching the fun, and even experts have begun to analyze what the final outcome of this shitty celebrity couple will be..."

"Haha, if there is any new development, remember to email me."

"Okay, no problem."

After chatting about gossip, the two talked about serious things again.

"Regarding the film and television copyright of "Venom", I have reached an intention to jointly develop it with Sony Columbia. Just like the previous "Spider-Man", they are very happy to develop it with us.

The person in charge of Sony Columbia has also read the script "Venom: Lethal Guardian" that you sent me. We have signed an agreement and are ready to officially start the filming plan next year..."

At the end of the conversation, the two inevitably involved the topic of competition between Marvel and DC.

"The "Suicide Squad" produced by DC achieved pretty good results, so much so that they began to tout their own "Justice League" movie plan again, and said it would benchmark our "Avengers", haha , it’s really ridiculous.”

"Don't pay attention to them. Before the box office results come out, no matter how they promote it, it's just bragging."

"Oh, okay." Natasha responded first, and then the conversation suddenly changed: "Fei, when are you going to start the filming plan for "Avengers 3"?"

"Next year, after I finish all the work at hand, I will start filming "Avengers 3" in the first half of next year."

In fact, in Chen Fei's previous plan, he planned to take a few months off in the second half of this year, and then fly to Hollywood to prepare for "Avengers 3" after the year.

But now the movie "I'm Not the God of Medicine" suddenly came in, which directly broke his rest plan.

Fortunately, it didn't affect his overall plan, otherwise Han Jia Nu would be disappointed.

~

More than an hour later, seeing that it was getting late, Chen Fei took the initiative to end the call.

But he did not put away his phone immediately. Instead, he looked at the latest box office news posted on Weibo about several movies that were currently in theaters and that had been forced to be canceled by theaters.

"Legend of the Gods, a large-scale ancient costume myth production produced by Bona with an investment of up to 500 million, has been in theaters for 15 days and its box office potential has been completely exhausted;

As of 12 o'clock in the morning yesterday, the film's total box office revenue had totaled 107 million yuan, regrettably ending with a huge loss. "

"The action and adventure movie "Fugitive" starring Chen Long and Fan Bingbing has been in theaters for 23 days, with a total box office of 906 million yuan. Since there were only 5,763 yuan in new box office yesterday, it officially ended with a great success!"

"The comedy movie "Detective Chinatown 2" produced by Feiyue Films has been in theaters for 15 days and has grossed a total of 3.007 billion yuan at the box office, successfully breaking into the "3 billion box office club" of Chinese-language movies!

As the fourth film in the history of Chinese-language films to have a box office of over 3 billion, the film has shown incredible box office potential!

As of today, the film's daily new box office has not yet dropped by 70 million, and it still maintains a very high box office appeal, and may be able to set a new box office record, so stay tuned..."

Both were released on the 29th, and both were released half a month ago, but "Legend of the Gods" and "Detective Chinatown 2" presented two completely opposite endings!

The former ended with regret, but the latter's box office successfully exceeded 3 billion. The gap is simply a day or a day!

"I'm afraid Fatty Yu will have to lose a lot of money this time. After all, it is an investment of 500 million. Even if there are some false reports, the 300 million is definitely there..."

In the office, Wang Zhonglei analyzed the tragic ending of "Legend of the Gods" while sipping tea.

Ye Ning, who was sitting aside, couldn't help but sigh: "In comparison, Director Chen's vision and market control ability are really strong.

From the first "The Martian" to "Operation Mekong" and now "Detective Chinatown 2"... three consecutive movies have broken through the 3 billion box office threshold, which is considered extremely insurmountable by ordinary people. These are all real achievements! "

"Mr. Ye, please don't let others gain your prestige and destroy your own."

Wang Zhongjun smiled and nodded at Ye Ning, then turned to look at Feng Xiaogang, who was sitting silently aside, and asked aloud: "How are the preparations for "Youth" going?"

Feng Xiaogang replied: "It's almost done. When I come back from the San Sebastian International Film Festival with "I'm Not Phan Kim Lien" next month, I can start project preparations."

Wang Zhonglei was immediately overjoyed when he heard this. After putting down the teacup, he commented quite excitedly: "With the power of winning the grand prize for "I'm Not a Golden Lotus", and creating the momentum of "Fanghua", it's wonderful! How wonderful!"

"This script is really good." Ye Ning praised it loudly: "The artistic attributes are combined with the commercial attributes. If the quality is good enough, it will be a good choice whether it is to win awards or sell box office."

"My goal is 3 billion!"

What Feng Xiaogang suddenly said made everyone slightly stunned.

Just saying 3 billion is a bit too loud, right?

But naturally, no one will deliberately question him. Since he wants to make 3 billion, let him go. Anyway, the higher the box office, the better the company's performance will be.

Wang Zhonglei immediately cheered: "Then I am here to wish Director Feng a blockbuster, hahaha!"

"I would like to wish Director Feng in advance that he can win the grand prize at the San Sebastian International Film Festival with "I Am Not Phan Kim Lien"."

"Maybe Director Feng can achieve the 3 billion box office target ahead of schedule just by relying on "I'm Not Phan Kim Lien", haha!"

For a time, there was constant praise in the office.

Although Feng Xiaogang has a bright smile, due to the influence of skin disease on his face, when he smiles with his mouth wide open and his jagged teeth, he looks like an evil Shura ghost crawling out of the Western hell. !

At the same time, there was an even more evil "evil ghost" on Ali's side who revealed his true face!

"Mr. Zhang, thanks to you and Ali, the company has now established a bridge and established an online relationship with the bank."

"Okay!" Zhang Wei was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately asked: "Then when will Director Zhao start taking action?"

Zhao Yanzi had a confident smile on her face: "We have already started negotiations with Wanjia Culture, and we will definitely achieve our goal by the end of the year at the latest!"

"Okay, if you need my help, remember to contact me as soon as possible."

"I do have an unwelcome request now." While speaking, Zhao Yanzi suddenly had a grim smile on her face.

"Oh? What unwelcome request?" Zhang Qi looked at her curiously.

"Mr. Zhang may not know that I am actually a member of the jury of this Venice International Film Festival."

"Hmm?" Zhang Qi was stunned at first, and then suddenly remembered the hot searches on the Internet in recent days, and immediately became interested: "You mean..."

"I need the resources of Alibaba Pictures to assist, I want to make "La La Land" fail miserably! If he offends our people, he must not have a good end!"

"Haha, okay, I can unconditionally support you with all my strength on this."

Zhang Qi agreed without thinking, he really likes to do things that can trip up Chen Fei!

As for whether it can succeed...

Zhao Yanzi said it so confidently, and she is also a member of the jury, so I think she should be confident, right?

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