China Entertainment: I became a capital tycoon

Chapter 651 649. Oscar for Best Director, Making History

Tesla's factory in China has been completed and started production.

The first car produced was the Model S, which has already been launched in the United States. Musk upgraded and improved the charging system of this car, but the price dropped a lot.

Cao Yu plans to wait until the car's sales are good so that the company can go public, and then the money spent will be from American shareholders.

February 6th was the luncheon for Oscar nominees, and Cao Yu came to the venue with his female companion Disha.

Cao Yu had attended this kind of banquet once before, but his current identity was completely different from last time.

Today, Cao Yu, not only is he the winner of five golden statues, but he is also the richest man in Asia.

There are also rumors that Facebook will submit an IPO application to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and the valuation may reach more than 70 billion US dollars. By then, no one dares to guess how much Mr. Cao, as Facebook's second largest shareholder, will be worth.

But what is certain is that his assets will continue to increase at a speed comparable to that of a rocket.

In the entire golden and dazzling banquet hall, there are not only celebrities from the film and television industry, but also elites from the business community.

The banquet hall, glittering with golden lights, was filled with people from the political, financial, media and business circles, and even the lowest of the low was the elite among the elites.

"Mr. Cao"

"Boss Cao"

"Mr. Cao, nice to meet you."

Although all those present were big Hollywood stars and many film and television company bosses, when they saw Cao Yu come in, they all came over to greet him enthusiastically.

Cao Yu just nodded politely and was about to walk towards the boss of Universal Pictures.

Suddenly, he felt someone patted his shoulder, and he was stunned. Who would dare to pat his shoulder like this?
Turning around, I found that it was the big-nosed Cheng Long.

"Why are you here?"

Cao Yu was a little surprised. This was a cocktail party for this year's Oscar nominees, and Jackie Chan shouldn't have any award to win.

"I was invited to be the guest of honor."

Cheng Long and Cao Yu are quite familiar with each other. He looked at Disha who was holding Cao Yu's arm and said enviously, "Boss Cao, your female companion is so beautiful."

"Thank you, what have you been busy with lately?"

Cao Yu heard that the Oscar organizing committee invited Cheng Long to be the award presenter, and he had a good chance of winning the golden statue again this time.

"fuss…"

Cheng Long withdrew his gaze from Disha and said, "I just happened to have something to do with you recently, and I didn't expect to run into you."

"what's up?"

"It's like this, I'm going to shoot a police and gangster movie this year, and I'm in need of a pretty heroine. Does Boss Cao have any recommendations?

"What movie, and when?"

"New Police Story 2013 will be filmed in the second half of this year and will be released next year."

When Cheng Long got to this point, he suddenly slapped his forehead and said, "By the way, I watched the movie "Zhu Xian" that your company recently promoted. The girl named Jing Tian is pretty good. How about letting her play the role?"

"What a coincidence? I thought so too."

Cao Yu laughed and said, "No problem, just call my company when your crew is done."

"no problem."

Cheng Long casually took a glass of champagne from the waiter's tray and drank a glass with Cao Yu. Then he looked at Disha next to him, as if he remembered something, and said, "Is she the girl in Slumdog Millionaire?"

Disha has changed a lot since she filmed "Slumdog Millionaire". She is more mature and prettier, which is why Jackie Chan didn't recognize her at first.

"Yes."

Cao Yu nodded and smiled, "Her name is Disha Patani, and she is currently a student at USC."

"This girl has a hot body and charming looks. Boss Cao is so lucky."

Cheng Long secretly sighed in his heart, and then said: "Ms. Disha, is there a chance for us to act together in the future?"

"certainly."

Jackie Chan is very famous internationally, and Disha certainly knows him. She can certainly act with such a kung fu superstar.

Cao Yu smiled and said, "Why wait for an opportunity? I just have an idea in my mind. I will write it into a script someday. How about you help me take care of Disha then?"

"This feeling is good."

Cheng Long didn't expect to have an unexpected gain. He sighed in his heart again, a man like Boss Cao, who is young, handsome, rich and talented, no wonder he can win the favor of beautiful girls.

Although he is rich and has status, he does not have the talent of Boss Cao.

However, being able to partner with Boss Cao’s woman will make it easier to invest in movies in the future.

When Disha heard that Cao Yu was going to write a script for her, she gave her man a gentle smile and held his arms tighter.

After chatting with Cheng Long for a while, Cao Yu found Bob from Universal Pictures.

After a few pleasantries, Cao Yu asked, "What is the movie Jurassic World about?"

Bob smiled and said, "The crew has already prepared it and will start filming after the New Year. Do you want to help with the casting?"

No matter which country, there are unspoken rules for sponsors to help with casting. Bob thought that Boss Cao was interested in this matter.

"I do not have time."

Women may be a luxury to ordinary people, but to Cao Yu, they are nothing at all, and he has important things to do.

But he still said: "But in this movie, please help me implant the Tesla car."

"no problem."

"It's free."

"of course?"

Afterwards, the two chatted for a while about the movie "The Wolf of Wall Street".

The film has been completed and will be released worldwide on May 1st.

Later, Cao Yu found Paramount and incorporated the Tesla car into "Transformers 4". After all, it was just a matter of adding a new Autobot. In the future, electric cars will of course be there.

Paramount naturally agreed to such a request, since Boss Cao had paid the money anyway.

After the cocktail party, Cao Yu returned to the villa and took advantage of his free time to start writing the script for "Kung Fu Yoga".

Disha taught him authentic yoga so that he could enjoy the blessing of being a human being. Just for this reason, we should be nicer to this national treasure girl of India.

In recent years, Disha has become more mature and charming, and her figure is impeccable. She has a firm chest, a slim waist and long legs, which is the figure that all men like most.

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Disha stood behind Cao Yu, watching the man typing away, and asked, "What am I like in this script?"

Cao Yu turned to the character identification and pointed it to Disha: "A beautiful and intelligent female doctor who is also a royal princess, how about that?"

"I'm still a princess?"

When Disha heard this, she lowered her head happily, held Cao Yu's face, and said lovingly, "Then you are my prince."

"Prince and Princess, isn't it time to do those things that everyone loves to do?"

Anyway, there was no rush for the script, so he turned around and held the girl's curvaceous figure in his arms: "Let's review the yoga you taught me before."

The next day, Cao Yu took Disha to Tesla headquarters.

Musk is not only researching cars, but also rockets. However, the rocket tests always fail.

He saw that there was another woman beside Cao Yu and sighed, "Cao, your life makes every man jealous."

"How about you also enter the entertainment industry?"

"Forget it, I'll just build a rocket."

Musk shook his head and said, "Cao, but my wife is an actress. If there is a chance, please help take care of her."

"sure."

Cao Yu didn’t know Musk’s wife, but since he chose her, she must be good.

But this man is quite romantic and has many lovers. It is estimated that his marriage will not last long. It is said that he has more than a dozen illegitimate children in the future, which is also amazing.

The two chatted for a while and talked about Tesla's new car. Cao Yu planned to set up many 4S stores in the United States and South Korea to open up the markets in these two countries first, and then wait until the time is right to launch this car in the Chinese, European and Southeast Asian markets.

When Musk heard Cao Yu say that he had implanted Tesla into the movies "Jurassic World" and "Transformers 4", he couldn't help but admire Boss Cao's vision.

As long as these two movies are popular, aren’t you worried that the cars won’t sell?

The two discussed the listing again and planned to submit an IPO in the second half of this year.

After staying at Tesla for a few days, Cao Yu went to Facebook to learn about the listing of this company in which he had invested for almost eight years.

Facebook is the most successful of his investments.

Back then, he only used one hundred US dollars to invest in a company that now has a market value of about 700 to 800 billion US dollars. After the company went public, the shares in Cao Yu's hands were worth at least 10 billion.

It is estimated that it will be difficult to find such profits again.

Although Cao Yu has not been involved in Facebook's affairs in recent years, with Tsai Chongxin keeping an eye on it, Zuckerberg has not messed around. Apart from the tens of millions of US dollars in dividends each year, there have been no problems with the shares.

Only after finishing these business matters did Cao Yu return to Marvel.

Last year, Marvel released four movies. Although the box office of "Captain America", "Iron Man 2" and "Thor" did not exceed billion, they all made a small profit.

The box office of "Avengers" was 1.63 billion US dollars, and with the DVD and other peripherals, the net profit was more than 500 million US dollars.

By the way, it also led to a 12% increase in Marvel's stock price, and its market value increased from more than billion US dollars when Cao Yu acquired it to more than billion.

Although this investment did not earn as much as Facebook, it allowed Fei'e Video to remain the number one video website and created opportunities for many domestic actors to go abroad.

This value cannot be measured by money.

This year, Cao Yu plans to make further efforts to shoot "Iron Man 3", "Guardians of the Galaxy", and prepare for "Avengers 2". On the same day, the company officially announced the progress of these three films and started casting.

Cao Yu had already chosen Xu Jing to play the Chinese face in "Iron Man 3", but the matter had not been made public. When many domestic actresses heard that there would be a Chinese man and a Chinese woman in this film, they all wanted to get the role and break into Hollywood.

For a time, Feiyu Entertainment’s phone was almost blown up with calls, and many entertainment companies were even willing to bring in money just to get a chance to star in this drama.

But the answer I got was that the boss was still considering it.

After a busy period at Marvel, the 84th Academy Awards ceremony finally arrived as scheduled on February 27th.

There were almost no blockbusters at this year's Oscars except "Life of Pi", so the starlight on the red carpet was a little dim.

However, there are many Chinese faces this year.

Li Shuangbing also came to Los Angeles because of his role in "Resident Evil 5: Retribution".

Accompanying her was Fan Erbing.

In addition to them, the biggest highlight of this red carpet, and also the object of Oscar hype, is Boss Cao Yucao, who has won five golden awards.

On the night of the award ceremony, Cao Yu, accompanied by Li An and all the main creative staff of "Life of Pi", had just left the hotel and was about to take a car to the venue when they saw Fan Erbing, who was wearing a deep V low-cut green dress, walking over accompanied by Li Shuangbing, who was wearing a white dress.

"Mr. Cao, I didn't expect to see you here."

Fan Erbing had a big smile on her face, and the deep V skirt made her figure look very proud.

"Are you here too?"

Although Fan Erbing was now mature, beautiful and elegant, Cao Yu didn't even look at her and just asked a question indifferently.

"I'm here to accompany Shuang Bing."

Fan Erbing actually came to the Oscars this time, on the one hand to accompany Li Shuangbing, and on the other hand to meet Boss Cao to build a relationship.

She has been very popular in the past two years. The fame of this little maid in "Return of the Condor Heroes" has surpassed that of the two princesses Zhao Yanzi and Lin Xinru.

However, when facing Boss Cao, the capital tycoon, she could only try to please him.

When she saw that there was no other woman beside Cao Yu, Fan Erbing lost her reserve and said in a sweet voice, "Boss Cao, can I be your companion on the red carpet?"

As he spoke, he puffed out his chest to show off his assets.

Cao Yu only glanced at Fan Erbing's proud figure, but said unceremoniously: "No need."

After saying that, he was about to get in the car.

"Mr. Cao, wait a moment."

"how?"

"I heard that Iron Man 3 is casting and needs a Chinese beauty. What do you think of me?"

The ambitious Fan Erbing really wanted to get this opportunity to star in a Hollywood movie and take his career to the next level.

“You.”

Cao Yu looked at Fan Erbing and thought of the clip in "Apple". Although he felt that this woman did have a good figure, he didn't need it: "You are very beautiful, but you are not suitable."

Having said that, under Fan Erbing's disappointed gaze, he got into the car, leaving her disheveled in the wind outside the hotel entrance.

"Am I not good-looking? Or am I not in good shape? And it's such a good deal delivered to your doorstep, but Boss Cao is not tempted at all?"

As she was thinking, Li Shuangbing came over and said, "Erbing, Boss Cao is already a person we cannot reach, so don't think about hitting on him."

"Hey"

Fan Erbing sighed, but she didn't want to give up in her heart: "I just don't believe that with my beauty, there is no man I can't win!"

In the car, Li An even glanced back through the window, then smiled and said, "Boss Cao, Miss Fan has such a great figure, aren't you tempted at all?"

"There are so many women with good figures. I don't have any feelings for this one."

"Boss Cao is really different, amazing!"

Li An looked at the wealthy man with admiration, and felt that he was really different from the wealthy people he had come into contact with.

It's hard to control yourself when a beauty like Fan Erbing keeps flirting with you, even I can't do it.

After this little episode, Li An thought that he could cooperate more with people like Boss Cao in the future.

At least he won't take advantage of actresses.

The group arrived at the ceremony site, where there were already many international students from China, South Korea and Korea. When they saw the handsome Boss Cao getting out of the car, they all screamed wildly, even louder than those of ordinary stars.

Although Cao Yu waved to the people around him, he did not stay on the red carpet and walked straight into the venue.

There are a total of nine films nominated for Best Picture at this year's Oscars, including "Life of Pi".

In addition to Cao Yu, there are four other films nominated for Best Director.

But the most popular films this year are "The Artist" directed by Thomas Langman, and then "Life of Pi".

China.

Feiyu Entertainment Many people watched this year's Oscars ceremony on TV.

Everyone wants to know whether the boss can win the Best Director award this time and become the grand slam winner in Oscar history with six golden statues.

The movie "Life of Pi" has been released in Europe and the United States, and it is said that the box office has exceeded 600 million US dollars.

If this film can win the Best Director award, it will also do better at the box office when it is released in China.

"Mi Mi, why am I a little nervous?"

Liu Yifei and Yang Mi sat in front of the TV. Whenever the camera was focused on her men, she felt more nervous than watching the Chinese national football team.

"I believe in him. He is so capable, he will definitely be able to do it."

Although Yang Mi said this, she was actually also worried whether Oscar would let Cao Yu fulfill his wish.

"By the way, aren't you currently filming Tiny Times? Why did you suddenly come back?"

"I missed you. I came back to watch the Oscars with me. It doesn't make sense to watch it with others."

As Yang Mi was talking, she heard the award presenter on TV announce, "The best visual effects award goes to Life of Pi!"

Liu Yifei immediately said excitedly: "I've already won an award!"

"It's not him who won, why are you so excited? I'm just waiting for the Best Director award."

Yang Mi pretended to be calm, but actually she still felt a little dry in the mouth when she thought of Cao Yu.

He quickly took a sip of water and said, "But my brother doesn't seem to have a female companion on this red carpet. I'm so happy."

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In addition to Yang Mi and Liu Yifei, countless people across China are also paying attention to this award ceremony.

Artists under Feiyu Entertainment, including Ma Yun, Zhao Yanzi, Wang Zhongjun brothers, Feng Xiaogang, Chen Kaige and others were also watching.

Feng Xiaogang has cashed out most of his shares in Huayi and is currently setting up his own new film and television company in Hengdian, preparing to make a big move.

However, he heard these days that Cao Yu will be the behind-the-scenes director of "Private Customization", and he doesn't want Cao Yu to win the award even more.

Brother Chen Kai also had the same idea. After "The Orphan of Zhao" won the Golden Broom Award, he hated Cao Yu even more. If such a local boss from a low-income family could win the Best Director Award, he felt that the entertainment industry was doomed.

However, Wang Zhongjun and his brothers hope that Cao Yu can win the Grand Slam, so that it will be more prestigious for them to work together in the future.

Ma Yun was very conflicted at this time. She wanted to see Cao Yu succeed, but she didn't want him to succeed too much.

At the award ceremony, more than a dozen awards have been presented. "Life of Pi" also won two awards: Best Original Score and Best Photography.

One of them was awarded by Cheng Long.

Cao Yu was quite confident when he saw Cheng Long coming out, but now it seems that everything is still uncertain.

"Life of Pi" has won three awards, including the Best Visual Effects.

Its rival "The Artist" also won two awards: Best Costume and Best Actor.

At this time, the award presenter Angelina Jolie and a male actor walked onto the stage.

"We will announce the Best Director award to you. Please look at the big screen."

Clips from "Life of Pi," "The Artist," "Midnight in Paris," "The Tree of Life" and "Hugo" appeared on the screen at the scene.

After the clip was played, the male award presenter began to open the envelopes.

The guests at the event, hundreds of millions of Chinese viewers, and Cao Yu’s girlfriends all held their breath.

"Shuangbing, do you think Cao Yu can win the prize?"

In the back row of the venue, Fan Erbing was rubbing his hands. He really wanted Cao Yu to win the award, but deep down he was not quite happy about it. He had an indescribable feeling.

"Probably. It's hard to say. But Cheng Long has already presented the award, so it might be a little difficult."

Li Shuangbing is also a member of Huayi now. Although Huayi and Cao Yu have become good friends, she has not gained any benefits and actually does not want Cao Yu to win the award.

The guest opened the envelope, took a look at it, and then handed it to Julie: "You announce it."

Julie glanced at the name on the envelope, then looked up at the audience and announced loudly: "The film that won the Best Director award is "Life of Pi". Director Cao Yu is invited to the stage to receive the award!"

"Oh!"

The sound of the TV broadcast was heard on countless TVs in China, and many places were instantly in an uproar.

Grand Slam, Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Original Score, and now Best Director, the first person in the Chinese entertainment industry!
“My brother’s creativity history!”

Liu Yifei and Yang Mi hugged each other tightly and jumped up and down.

"Not only did he create history, he may be unprecedented and unrivaled. He is truly our man!"

Yang Mi also smiled excitedly and proudly as she watched the familiar man on TV walk towards the stage step by step.

(End of this chapter)