Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 2412 General Meeting of Shareholders
At the request of Lin Daoqiu, Fox held a general meeting of shareholders, and Murdoch chose the meeting room of the "News Corporation" group as the venue.

Murdoch, Hodrickson, Lin Daoqiu, Fang Jinsheng, Marty Lynn, Alan Ryder Jr., and several Fox executives constituted the main personnel attending the meeting.

It is no exaggeration to say that in this meeting, Lin Daoqiu felt a little bit alone, because except for Fang Jinsheng, almost everyone was on the opposite side of him.

Murdoch really couldn't figure out what Lin Daoqiu was thinking, who did he think he was?Can he make a comeback under such a situation that everything is against him?This is simply impossible.

"At the request of Mr. Lin, we held Fox's shareholder meeting today. Does Mr. Lin have anything to say?"

Although Murdoch doesn't want Mr. Lin to be the protagonist of today's meeting, he has nothing to say. He just waits for Lin Daoqiu to make a move and then he will show up.

"Thank you very much for taking time out of your busy schedules to attend this meeting. As the newly appointed second largest shareholder of Fox, I feel a lot of pressure and hope to do my part for the company."

When Lin Daoqiu was speaking, everyone's attention was focused on him.

As the chairman of Fox, Alan Ryder Jr. was really curious about what Lin Daoqiu could do to make something happen at today's shareholder meeting.

You must know that Murdoch holds half of the shares, and Marty Lynn also has [-]% of the shares. The two sides add up to more than half, and can decide all the company's affairs.

On the other hand, Lin Daoqiu's shareholding is only [-]%. Even though he is the second largest shareholder of Fox, he can't do anything.

If Lin Daoqiu can really do something in this shareholder meeting today, then little Alan Ryder will really change his mind about Lin Daoqiu.

"Mr. Lin has just become a shareholder of Fox Corporation not long ago, and he still doesn't know the company's situation. If you want to do something for the company, I'm afraid it will take a long time."

"Mr. Murdoch is right. I also think that if Mr. Lin wants to do something for the company, it's better not to do those aggressive behaviors. I think the company is doing well now."

Mattie Lynn is naturally on Murdoch's side. In fact, she has always been worried that Lin Daoqiu will do something unexpected at this shareholders' meeting today.

So before that, she had reached an offensive and defensive alliance with Murdoch, and she would definitely support Murdoch no matter what happened.

"Don't be so nervous, everyone. In fact, the fate between me and Fox can be traced back to almost ten years ago. At that time, Chairman Alan Ryder Jr. and I had known each other and worked together..."

"And if I remember correctly, Mr. Murdoch seems to have acquired Fox Corporation four years ago. I'm afraid it's really hard to say who really understands this company."

Lin Daoqiu deliberately set up a trick here. What he said refers to Fox Film Company, not Fox Company as a whole.

But Lin Daoqiu deliberately omitted the film company and only mentioned Fox, which was tantamount to showing his qualifications in front of Murdoch and refuting what the other party said just now.

"Mr. Lin, are you joking? You were working with Fox Film Company back then, but now we are talking about Fox Film Company as a whole, and the film company is just one of them."

Murdoch immediately heard the ambiguity in Lin Daoqiu's words, and he quickly refuted the other party.

"Well, whether it's Fox or Fox Films, aren't they one? Could it be that Mr. Murdoch wants to separate the film company?"

"I don't think we need to worry about such an issue, because it's just a waste of time. I want to know what kind of effort Mr. Lin wants to do for the company?"

Murdoch was too lazy to argue with Lin Daoqiu, because he felt that talking to the other party like this was a waste of time, and he didn't have so much free time to chat with Lin Daoqiu here.

"Well, since Mr. Murdoch has said so, I will tell you the purpose of holding the shareholders' meeting today..."

"I believe everyone knows that I make movies, and the future movie market is destined to be dominated by special effects. You should not refute this point."

Although Murdoch doesn't understand movies, the global box office earned by Lin Daoqiu's "Godzilla" and "1992" can be said to be breathtaking.

Not to mention there are movies like "Star Wars" and "ET Alien", so Murdoch has no objection to Lin Daoqiu's opinion.

"Although it is a bit too conceited to say this, the best film company in the world is New Oriental Pictures, and in New Oriental Pictures there are two of the world's best special effects studios, Industrial Light and Magic and Magic Studios. .”

These two companies can be said to represent the pinnacle of global film special effects at this time. Not only will Murdoch not object, I believe that even those filmmakers will not say a word to Lin Daoqiu's remarks.

"After I acquired Fox's shares, I found that the film company's profits have been in a mess for the past few years. The improvement in the recent period is due to my relationship."

Little Alan Ryder blushed a little at Lin Daoqiu's words, but it was indeed true.

If it weren't for the cooperation with Lin Daoqiu, the Fox Film Company's situation would be even worse than it is now. This will only be worse if the effect of being squeezed out by Lin Daoqiu is not included.

"I think it will definitely not work if this continues, so I hope to increase Fox Films' investment by [-] million U.S. dollars for the production of special effects movies in the future."

"I object……"

As soon as Lin Daoqiu finished speaking, Marty Lynn was the first to jump out to object.

The purpose of Lin Daoqiu's capital increase is to dilute their shares, and doing so will not benefit her at all, but will require her to pay a certain amount of money to maintain her current [-]% of the shares.

If Lin Daoqiu is allowed to do this, at least 5000 million of the [-] million will be borne by himself. Marty Lynn doesn't want to spend such a large amount of money for no reason.

"Ms. Marty, you don't know much about movies, so you have objections. I don't blame you for that, but if you object to increasing the capital of the film company, you are the enemy of the film company."

Lin Daoqiu had already guessed that Mattie Lynn would jump out to object, and he was not surprised by it. After all, among the three people present, Mattie Lynn had the least assets and was the best one to deal with.

(End of this chapter)