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Chapter 522 Planning theaters (4000+ chapters, please subscribe~)

Johnson glared at Daniel Lewis, and then said to Wu Jianye with some helplessness: "I'm back to my place!"

Wu Jianye said dissatisfiedly: "Don't, I don't know anyone here, you finally came here, just sit here!"

Johnson glanced at Daniel Lewis next to him and asked, "Didn't he invite you over?"

Wu Jianye said: "He is not strong enough, and if he wants to change positions, he probably won't let him."

Daniel Lewis: "."

At this time, Daniel Lewis became more and more surprised, because he found that Johnson actually had some resistance to Wu Jianye, like the feeling that I don't like you and I can't kill you.

This made Daniel Lewis start to wonder if Wu Jianye had any hidden attributes, but after thinking about it for a long time, it seemed that Wu Jianye didn't have any hole cards in his known information?

As for Wu Jianye saying that he was not strong enough, he looked at the big man who was walking towards this side, and stopped talking. An old nobleman in England, even now he still has the title of nobleman on his head.

David Wallop walked over wearing a handmade suit and glasses with black frames. Johnson wanted to leave, but Wu Jianye grabbed the corner of his clothes.

"What do you want to do?" Johnson was about to cry, if he knew that Wu Jianye was here, he would never come here.

"Stay with me!" Wu Jianye said.

Johnson: "I have my place."

David Wallop had already walked over at this time, with an elegant smile on his face, he saw Wu Jianye and Johnson talking.

"Johnson, Director Wu, it's a pleasure to meet you two."

"Mr. Wallop, hello, I will return to my place immediately." Johnson said.

"No, if you two know each other, I can be an adult, just tell me your location." David Wallop smiled, without a trace of displeasure on his face.

"No, no, I'll leave right away!" Johnson was about to break away from Wu Jianye's hand after speaking and leave.

Wu Jianye smiled and said, "Okay then, Mr. Wallop, it happens that I have some questions about antiques that I would like to communicate with you."

David Wallop: "It's an honor!"

Johnson's face changed, showing a painful expression: "Mr. Wallop, I'm very sorry, Director Wu and I are very good friends, can you give me your position!"

David Wallop said indifferently: "Of course!"

After David Wallop left, Johnson looked at Wu Jianye fiercely: "Did you just plan to tell him what happened before!"

Wu Jianye smiled and said, "You don't care about me!"

Johnson said: "Let me tell you, that matter is your problem. If I went to the embassy to tell this matter, do you know the consequences for you?"

Wu Jianye said indifferently: "For two thousand dollars, let people all over the world know that Phil Johnson of the Johnson family bought a chamber pot in Huaxia. I don't think you are so stupid!"

Johnson looked at Wu Jianye angrily: "You still talk about this!"

"You said it first!" Wu Jianye said.

While the two were chatting, the auction had already started. Daniel Lewis and Isabel Adjani also sat back in their seats, but Daniel Lewis still looked in the direction of Wu Jianye and Johnson from time to time. He really didn't understand Wu Jianye's direction. What is the relationship between Ye and Johnson.

After the auction starts, the auctioneer begins to introduce the products to be auctioned. After the introduction is over, you can hear the collectors in the audience raising their placards and shouting for prices.

But at this time, Wu Jianye and Johnson were not paying attention to this.

"Tell me, why did you keep me here?" Johnson also guessed at this time that Wu Jianye couldn't have left himself for no reason.

Wu Jianye smiled, isn't Johnson stupid? When he saw Johnson, he thought that he would go to the United States to shoot his first movie in Hollywood in the second half of this year, and Johnson just happened to be in charge of an important theater chain in North America. .

"I know you are in charge of your family's Oceanwide theater chain, are you interested in expanding the business?" Wu Jianye asked.

Why Phantom Entertainment has never been able to become one of the real top seven in Hollywood, even though it is infinitely close, one is because their global distribution network is not perfect, and the other is that there is no real theater chain interest alliance in North America!

Moreover, with the relaxation of policy regulation in North America, several major studios have begun to re-enter theaters, horizontally integrating to build media groups. During this period, film companies have begun to re-enter theaters. Columbia, Universal, Paramount, and Warner have successively Purchased some theaters in the United States, accounting for about 22% of the 000 screens in the United States.

However, at this time, the theater chain did not follow the vertical integration model of the era of large productions, but started horizontal integration based on the emergence of new communication methods to build a media group.

The first thing started was the horizontal integration of film companies and TV companies. In 1980, several large film companies had been acquired by large communication companies and integrated into their diversified entertainment landscape.

This year, Sony will buy Columbia Pictures, and then Warner Communications and Time Inc. will merge to form Time Warner. In 1995, Disney will buy ABC Television Network and so on.After a series of internal integration within the industry, and the rise of new competitors.

In the later stage, the major Hollywood studios are mostly presented in the form of media groups, and the number of films produced each year accounts for about 60-70% of the total number of American films.

And this time is the best time to deploy North American theaters in advance. For example, the largest theater company in the United States, Royal Entertainment Group, was formally established this year.

Originally, Wu Jianye wanted to do this after arriving in North America, but now that he saw Johnson, if possible, he could plan ahead.

It's a pity that Johnson has long been on guard against Wu Jianye: "Stop coming, even if it's expansion, I won't look for you!"

Wu Jianye: "."

"Aren't we friends? Look, I will invest money in you, and you will give me shares. This will help you expand your theater business quickly and increase your status in the family. Isn't this the best of both worlds?"

Johnson shook his head and said firmly: "It looks beautiful, but I remember when you sold me the chamber pot, what you said was even better than now!"

Wu Jianye: "How about I pay you back the money from selling the chamber pot?"

Johnson: "."

While the two were chatting, it was finally the turn of the Ming Dynasty gilt-bronze seated Buddha statue. The auctioneer on the stage introduced the history of this Buddha statue, and then announced the starting price.

30 million dollars!
Isabel Adjani glanced at the positions of Wu Jianye and Johnson, and reminded: "Otherwise, we don't want to take pictures of this collection!"

In fact, Daniel Lewis was ready to give up, but now that Isabel Adjani said this, he felt that he was being looked down upon.

"It's okay. Although Johnson is the general manager of Oceanwide Cinemas, I don't need to fear him too much."

After speaking, Daniel Lewis directly raised a placard: "35!"

Originally, he wanted to fight against Daniel Lewis, but at this time, Wu Jianye had more important things to do, which was to persuade Johnson, so he had no intention of fighting against Daniel Lewis.

Raise the sign directly: "100 million!"

As soon as the words fell, everyone present was shocked. No one thought that a little-known Asian would directly raise the price by 65 US dollars to 100 million US dollars. Shouldn't the auction increase slowly?

Some people who don't know the identity of Wu Jianye immediately think that Wu Jianye is from RB. After all, the RB people have not burst the economic bubble at this time, and they are clamoring to buy the whole of America. So now it seems that this Asian should be RB people.

But those who knew Wu Jianye's identity had to sigh, is this Chinese man crazy?

Even Daniel Lewis showed a surprised expression. He didn't expect Wu Jianye to be able to shout 100 million directly!

But when he thought of Wu Jianye's world-sensational album, which at least brought Wu Jianye tens of millions of dollars in income, he was relieved.

"105 million!"

One or two million Daniel Lewis is still acceptable, after all, he was already in front of Isabel Adjani, and he made it clear that he would make Wu Jianye look bad.

Wu Jianye looked at Daniel Lewis with some annoyance, and asked no one to speak properly: "200 million!"

Johnson looked at Wu Jianye in shock: "You are crazy, the market price of this collection is only about 100 million, you are paying 200 million to buy it now?"

Wu Jianye smiled and said: "Isn't this showing you my strength? You see, I have spare money in my hand, and you have the theaters I want. I will invest in you. If you expand the theaters, I believe it will not take a few years." , we can become the largest cinema company in the United States!"

Johnson shook his head: "Are you crazy? Do you know how much money is needed to become the largest theater company in the United States? At least $15 billion!"

In fact, Johnson didn't know that he himself was no longer as resistant to Wu Jianye as before.

Wu Jianye said: "What I'm worried about is not money, but how many shares in theater companies you can sell me!"

Johnson stopped talking, now Wu Jianye gave him the feeling that he was crazy, and it wasn't about money, was he rich?

Even though the relationship between Johnson and Linda is very good, Linda never revealed to Johnson that the real big boss of Phantom Entertainment is Wu Jianye, which has nothing to do with friendship.

Wu Jianye did not urge Johnson either. In his opinion, as long as Johnson is left with such a seed today, the rest can be discussed slowly.

After all, Johnson has to report this matter to his family.

And Daniel Lewis doesn't know what to say at this time, he can also take out 200 million US dollars, his net worth is far more than 200 million US dollars, but for a collection that he knows is a loss, he thinks I'm not crazy yet.
So in the end, although this gilt bronze Buddha statue of the Ming Dynasty was only called for a few times, it has already set a record for the highest transaction price and the largest span of this auction.

Other collectors don't even get a chance to bid.
The moment the auctioneer dropped the hammer, Wu Jianye felt the gaze of Daniel Lewis. He looked over, raised his shoulders, curled his lips, and made a dismissive expression.

Daniel Lewis furious, but helpless
Then came the auction of several collections, but with Wu Jianye's asking price for the seated bronze gilt Buddha statue of the Ming Dynasty, the asking price of these collections made people feel a little boring.

Then the snake-shaped engagement ring inlaid with emeralds was put up for auction, and the starting price was 200 million!
To be honest, the value of the ring itself is definitely not that high, but her historical significance endows her with a different value.

As long as the antiques have the word "royal", whether they are Chinese or foreign, the value will definitely double and rise.

This discouraged many people, and David Wallop showed a strong interest in this ring.

"210 million!"

"220 million!"

"230 million!"

There were calls one after another, and soon the ring was called for a price of 350 million, but this did not stop the interest of these collectors.

"400 million!"

David Wallop suddenly called out a high price of 400 million.

At this time, many people have withdrawn from the bidding, after all, no one's money is blown by the wind.

Wu Jianye thought, he was going to Los Angeles in the second half of the year, Li Xiuming was still there at that time, he couldn't give Li Xiuming a name, so he should give more gifts, a proposal ring that used to be the queen of England is not bad.

So he raised his sign: "410 million!"

When people in the auction hall saw Wu Jianye raising the placard again, they all showed surprised expressions. Wu Jianye's performance just now was too amazing.

Even David Wallop, who has always been calm and relaxed, showed a wry smile. This wry smile does not mean that he knows Wu Jianye's real wealth, but because Wu Jianye's performance just now gave him a powerful psychological suggestion.

"420 million!"

"430 million!" Wu Jianye held up a sign and said.

"440 million!" David Wallop raised his sign and smiled at Wu Jianye.

Johnson said beside him: "It's almost done, this ring has special meaning to their family, there is no need to compete with him."

Wu Jianye said kindly, "Okay!"

Then he gave David Wallop a smile, shook his head slightly, and said that he would not raise his cards again!
David Wallop returned a smile to Wu Jianye.

Daniel Lewis became more and more dissatisfied when he saw all this: "Pretend!"

In his opinion, Wu Jianye's photographing of the seated bronze gilt Buddha statue in the Ming Dynasty was already the limit, and what he did now was nothing more than trying to get in touch with David Wallop.

Isabelle Adjani hugged Daniel Lewis' shoulders, comforting her lover.

In the end, the ring was photographed by David Wallop.

Until the end, the most precious lot of this auction, Vincent van Gogh's "Irises" appeared!
(End of this chapter)