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After three months of negotiations, Lionsgate and Zhang Yuanjun's Z Studio broke down.

After investigating Z Studio, Li Ying's team offered Lionsgate an acquisition proposal of up to US$13.27 billion, but Lionsgate flatly refused!
After the breakdown, they continued to negotiate but failed to reach an agreement. After this repeated process, the Lionsgate team finally announced to the public: "Lionsgate's business is stable and sustainable, and we are not in a hurry to complete this acquisition." They announced that they would give up the acquisition of Z Studio.

Lionsgate withdraws, and domestic capital rushes in!

Ali, Penguin, Fosun, BJ Culture, Mr. Xu who is in real estate, and even capital tycoons such as Shen Nanpeng have expressed their willingness to acquire Zhang Yuanjun and Li Ying.

To show their sincerity, Penguin and Penguin Films even sent a delegation of senior executives to India to meet with Zhang Yuanjun. Three senior vice presidents of the group alone came, and nearly one-third of Penguin Films' senior executives above the vice president level went to India.

If you didn’t know, you would think there was a big earthquake inside the penguin.

Zhang Yuanjun received the sincerity, but he was busy filming and did not have much time to negotiate with the Penguin delegation. He just said that he had handed over the merger and acquisition matters to his sister-in-law, and they could talk to Li Ying.

Zhang Yuanjun said calmly: "I am only responsible for the final signature and collecting the money."

Penguin has one point that Zhang Yuanjun likes very much. They said that if Penguin can win this acquisition, they will still allow Zhang Yuanjun to continue to hold a portion of the studio's shares, and will also try their best to maintain the stability of Z Studio's existing organizational structure and advance the development of film and television projects.

In other words, Penguin promised that Zhang Yuanjun and Eddie could continue to manage and operate Z Studio, and Penguin would not make a major reshuffle of the company's management after the acquisition.

Of course, Zhang Yuanjun didn't know whether this was just a coaxing remark or whether Penguin really intended to do so.

However, Zhang Yuanjun knew that when he met with Ali's people, an Ali executive brought him a PPT and told him how Ali would reform and take the company to a higher level if it took over Z Studio. He also said that he was confident that the new Z Studio would be listed on NASDAQ within five years, which made him a little impatient.

You haven't even bought the company yet, but you've already made plans to list it on Nasdaq. Isn't that a bit too hasty?

Zhang Yuanjun met with representatives of these two companies in India, and then turned down all similar meeting invitations to concentrate on filming.

An interesting thing is that because they have lived abroad for a long time, in some aspects, the eldest brother Zhang Leping and the second brother Zhang Yuanying have a deeper understanding of foreigners than Zhang Yuanjun.

When Zhang Yuanjun looks at foreigners, he may think that the main differences among them are race and skin color.

No one is stupider than anyone else, and no one should look down on anyone else. Except for those who have been brainwashed by the Western propaganda machine and have a stereotyped impression of China, this is another topic.

Zhang Yuanjun believes that qualities such as compassion, trustworthiness, and honesty should be valued by people all over the world.

But Zhang Leping and Zhang Yuanying, who had worked with foreigners for a long time, told Zhang Yuanjun that this was not the case.

Zhang Leping looks down on Indians, and Zhang Yuanying looks down on Koreans.

Let’s talk about Koreans first. One of the important reasons why Zhang Yuanying looks down on Koreans is that Koreans are impolite, arrogant and stubborn.

When she was in France, she saw with her own eyes a group of Koreans making loud noises in public as if no one was around, which annoyed almost everyone.

When I said a few words to them, they actually said they were Chinese!
Then they were blocked at the scene by two Chinese students, and the two groups almost got into a fight.

From then on, Zhang Yuanying no longer had a good attitude towards Koreans.

One of the important reasons why Zhang Leping dislikes Indians is that Indians are dishonest.

Indians are a force in Silicon Valley that cannot be ignored. Zhang Leping's Twitter has had many Indian engineers and even middle and senior leaders.

But in the past two years, Zhang Leping has discovered a notable characteristic of Indians: they are extremely dishonest and particularly fond of sticking together.

If you hire an Indian executive, he will replace all his subordinates with Indians within half a year at most.

Moreover, in Indian culture, the quality of integrity seems to be non-existent.

Indians can lie without blushing or getting nervous, as if being able to deceive is their ability and being discovered by you is just bad luck. They don't feel embarrassed or ashamed at all.

Indians are also particularly good at upward management. They can fool you with a PPT report, but once it comes to the development stage, Indians will use all kinds of rhetoric to delay, divert or even deceive their leaders. In order to keep their jobs, they will even collectively fabricate a non-existent project to deceive the headquarters.

There was a time when Zhang Leping personally laid off a large number of Indians.

Now, Zhang Yuanjun has also come to India.

This is also his first time working with an Indian team.

What a great experience!
Seeing is believing. As the main investor and producer of "Dying to Survive", he had contact with the Indian co-production team.

It's just a matter of co-shooting, which has been discussed long ago. Both parties just need to cooperate honestly, complete the shoot, pay the money and leave.

he does not!

The Indian co-production team obviously knew Zhang Yuanjun, the international film emperor, and they were very polite and friendly to him and treated him very well.

But on the third day of filming, the Indian co-production company contacted Wen Muye and asked him to pay part of the post-production co-production fees in advance.

They said that this and that place needed coordination, that government department needed to be taken care of, and the prepaid cooperation fee was not enough.

But according to the contract, the co-production fees will be settled when the film is completed.

Wen Muye naturally disagreed. The Indian team threatened to go on strike, but Wen Muye and the production crew didn't buy it at all, as they were sure that they wouldn't dare to go on strike easily.

They really don't dare to go on strike directly. After all, this is their trump card. Once they go on strike, there will be no more room for negotiation.

But the filming progressed very slowly. While shooting, they asked for money. If they didn't get the money, they threatened to go on strike.

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Su Lun is here to support Liu Yifei!

"Super Time Cohabitation" was funded by Liu Yifei. Su Lun wanted to get Liu Yifei to play the leading female role for him, which would save money and also create a hit.

But Liu Yifei refused.

Liu Yifei refused to join the crew seamlessly before she gave birth, and it was even more impossible after she gave birth.

"The Birth of a Witch" will be filmed until September. She has already made plans for herself. She will take a break after filming "The Birth of a Witch" and will film "Now on My Way to See You" next year.

But she recommended to Su Lun a candidate for the female lead who she thought was suitable: "Why don't you try Tong Liya." She had some friendship with Tong Liya, and she indeed felt that Tong Liya would be more suitable for the role of Gu Xiaojiao.

In fact, Tong Liya had contacted the crew of "Super Time Cohabitation", but Su Lun had been trying to hook her up with Liu Yifei.

Now that Liu Yifei has confirmed that she will not act anymore, Su Lun has no choice but to seriously consider Tong Liya.

Tong Liya is a rather strange actor.

She was born in 83, debuted late and became famous late, but she is a "little flower".

So far, she is not considered a very successful actress. Her representative works and representative roles are not even ranked among the 85 flowers of the same age, but she has a lot of traffic!
Relying on the role of Ah Xiang in "Detective Chinatown", she unexpectedly became a national goddess. However, the role of Ah Xiang was, to put it nicely, a guest appearance, and to put it bluntly, a minor role!

Sometimes I have to sigh at the benefits of marketing.

Chen Sicheng is a scumbag, but he still praises his wife. (End of this chapter)