Chapter 1158 Wanda
In the past, every time he visited Hong Kong, Shen Xudong would come here just for fun, and then leave after spending all his money...
This time it was a bit embarrassing.
It’s a bit of a recharge!
It’s not that there is nothing to gain. Judging from the attitudes of Yang Shoucheng and Huang Baiming, most of Hong Kong’s mainstream filmmakers are closer to PPTV and Golden Harvest...
There is also a part that is very close to Sun Entertainment...
After all, people spend money too!
This part is dominated by Gu Tianjue - Sun Entertainment has appeared in Gu Tianjue's recent works. According to statistics, there are a total of 11 movies.
Therefore, he doesn’t care about publicity, nor does he care about whether it’s a hit or not, or even about word-of-mouth—from 2002 to 2017, he was undoubtedly the king of bad movies.
According to statistics, in the past 16 years, Louis Koo has made a total of about 60 movies, half of which have a score of less than 6 points, including "Legend of the Gods", an epic movie with a score of only 2.9.
But when it came to "Tomorrow's War", it couldn't be carried anymore because Sun Entertainment was gone...
In fact, from an actor's point of view, when Louis Koo was filming movies such as "Accident", "Eavesdropping", "The Disciple" and "Underworld", his character interpretation was very thorough. You can feel the seriousness of the character he plays, and he can also drive the audience...
Now, we are filming series such as "Anti-Corruption Storm", "Apostle Walker", etc. I won't talk about the plot, but the key role is just that, with a paralyzed face and an unsmiling smile, as if you pay me to appear, and I will Just put it there.
Especially in "Anti-Corruption Storm", the policeman played by Louis Koo is dressed upright, in a suit, and well-dressed. He wore it from the first part to the last part, but if you think about it carefully, you really can't recall anything impressive about it. Snippet…
In recent years, the only memorable character is probably the crazy villain in "Dangerous City"...
By the way, ViuTV popped up in Hong Kong last year and established Viu, preparing to enter streaming media...
Behind the scenes is Li Zekai's PCCW - in April last year, Asia Television's free TV channel was suspended, and "ATV Forever" was only a memory. On the other hand, ViuTV, which took over part of ATV's digital spectrum, officially launched five days later...
Of course, the impact is not big. On the one hand, ViuTV’s direct opponent is TVB;
As for streaming media, PPTV’s layout is mature and the price is not expensive. In addition, Golden Harvest has teamed up with TVB and PPTV to create Hong Kong’s first idol development talent show, "Star Making"...
Well, cultivating local idols in Hong Kong can at least compete with MIRROR.
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Lao Wang has been very miserable recently...
Last year, he was China's richest man.
At the end of the year, Boss Wang even became famous: "It's best to set a small goal that can be achieved. For example, I will earn 100 million first!"
As soon as this statement came out, the entire network exploded.
Some worship, some hate the rich, some despise, some laugh at themselves...
They are indeed qualified. They have 200 Wanda Plazas, more than a dozen Wanda City, 80 five-star hotels, 1,300 cinemas around the world, two American film companies, a British yacht company, thousands of famous paintings...
The aura cannot be said to be dazzling, and the momentum cannot be said to be majestic.
Then, hit Waterloo...
An article called "Lao Wang's Waterloo" was circulated crazily all over the Internet. The content is relatively sensitive. I think most people are aware of it, so I won't go into details.
In a nutshell: Wanwangda came out halfway with double the quotation to snatch the projects of central enterprises in Malaysia.
Then, the first domino fell. Then, Wanda’s capital chain was in jeopardy, and it started a model of frantically selling global assets, suffering a “double kill of stocks and bonds.”
The golden saying "Tsinghua University and Peking University is not as good as courage" still rings in my ears.
Wangda's real estate projects and overseas financing projects have been hit hard and are in urgent need of cash flow.
But the Bank of China refused to lend money to Lao Wang.
When the bonds matured, Lao Wang had to sell his assets...
Otherwise, he would have to declare bankruptcy!
At the same time, the Wanda Group began to experience a series of recessionary events such as shareholder withdrawals, executive resignations, and employee layoffs, and began to deteriorate...
Not only that, Wangda’s overseas mergers and acquisitions strategy has been criticized by Huang Qifan (National People’s Congress Financial and Economic Committee) and many other people: it is suspected of transferring assets.
The impact is very bad!
Lao Wang chooses a strong man to cut off his wrist...
Take out the hotels, cultural tourism projects and Wanda Movies you have on hand...
But... to be honest, not many people are interested in these projects!
In other words, there aren’t many that can be purchased at this price!
To be honest, it is understandable that Wanda found Shen Xudong. After all, both Tianmei Group and PPTV have a lot of cash flow...
Here's the problem - Shen Xudong has no interest in Wanda at all.
Including Wanda’s cultural tourism projects!
Sunac took over the cultural tourism project, and Sun Hongbin’s idea was to increase Sunac’s land bank.
The 13 Wanda Cultural Tourism City have a total land area of 50 million square meters. At that time, Sunac’s land reserve was approximately 100 million square meters, which shows the huge land scale of the 13 cultural tourism projects. In other words, Sun Hongbin’s purpose is not to engage in cultural tourism, but to use Wanda Cultural Tourism City to develop real estate.
After all the detours it all came back to real estate.
But Xudong doesn’t do real estate...
Although he has always planned to build a theme park, to be honest, theme parks are usually in the suburbs. When tourists come, they stay in the park all day and go home directly after leaving the park...
This thing has nothing to do with the surrounding real estate, which makes it difficult for the theme park to drive real estate sales.
He builds theme parks mainly because he has IP. "The Return of the Great Sage", "The Wandering Earth", and "Total War" are all suitable for IP development...
Chengdu, Chongqing or Hefei, these three cities are where he chose to settle down...
It just so happens that there is Wanda Cultural Tourism City!
Therefore, Shen Xudong asked Chen Xi: "Can I only accept one of them?"
"...He is planning to sell everything, either take over the whole deal or not sell it..."
"Ma Dan..."
Oh, Wanda is here...
Shen Xudong shook his head: "I don't want to sell my house, and if I'm doing real estate now... it won't be the golden period at the earliest!"
“House prices are still rising!”
"These house builders only know how to get land with their eyes closed, and have a serious lack of understanding of the market...Build so many houses, who will they sell them to?"
Gao Fenfen and the company's vice president suggested: "We mean to acquire it together with Sunac... Anyway, he mainly wants to hoard land, and he has no interest in theme parks..."
"So how much do you estimate it will cost us?"
"It's better to say less than 8 billion..."
"8 billion?" Shen Xudong pondered for a moment: "It's not much...but the film and television industry is about to enter a cold winter, and we have to reserve enough food and grass for the winter!"
After thinking deeply, Shen Xudong asked: "Is the game company rich?"
"Tianmei Games?"
"Yes!"
Chen Xi took out the financial report: "The game company made more than 6 billion last year..."
"Then let them buy it..."
“Buying a theme park?”
"Yes...we cooperate in the form of IP licensing..."
"I don't doubt that game companies can come up with the money... but why would they want to go into theme parks?"
"The game is also a super IP...and you can reserve a venue in each city's theme park to create a two-dimensional holy land..."
I've been looking at houses all day today...
Also, the book will be finished next week...