Actor: My Entertainment Era

Of course, Zhang Yuanjun was woken up by the child.

Zhang Yuyi lay beside his old father's head and hit his head with his hands.

Zhang Yufei's teeth were itching and he was sucking Zhang Yuanjun's belly.

"Ah, I'm going to be beaten to death by you." Zhang Yuanjun begged for mercy.

Zhang Yuyi was still grabbing Zhang Yuanjun's face, as if to say, "A weak person is not worthy of being my father."

Liu Yifei, Liu Xiaoli and the nanny were all watching the fun.

"Sister, stop sucking. I'm not your mother. I don't have any milk for you."

Zhang Yuyi leaned over to look at Zhang Yuanjun, and Zhang Yuanjun was then able to sit up and push Zhang Yufei, who was sucking in her stomach, aside.

Zhang Yuyi crawled over, moaning, holding his bottle of water in his hand.

Zhang Yuanjun said, "You still want to hit me with the bottle?"

"Ah, ah." He still obediently put down the bottle.

"You must be tired from playing. If you are, drink some water." Zhang Yuanjun wanted to take his bottle, but he didn't let her.

"If you don't take it, who will take it from you?" Zhang Yuanjun squatted down, "Drink the water yourself, where is my sister's water bottle?"

Zhang Yuanjun looked around, found her daughter's bottle, and placed it at her feet: "Drink it yourself."

Seeing that Zhang Yuanjun was about to leave, the two children were still reluctant and kept crying.

"Daddy also wants to drink some water, you guys play by yourselves."

After escaping from the clutches of the cubs, Zhang Yuanjun blamed Liu Yifei: "You just watched me being bullied by two little ones, right?"

Liu Xiaoli smiled and said, "I see you're having a lot of fun."

"It hurts when a kid hits someone." Zhang Yuanjun said, lifting up his clothes, "Look, I'm sucking it."

Liu Yifei waved her hand and said with a smile: "Okay, don't you have an appointment this afternoon? Go quickly."

"Oh, I almost forgot." Zhang Yuanjun simply showered and went out.

After Lionsgate's failed acquisition of Z Studio, the progress of Z Studio's projects was not affected.

The script of "John Wick 3" has been finalized and the crew has begun preparations. The writing, directing and acting lineup of the previous film have all been retained.

In order to stabilize the outside world's concerns about the risk of Z Studio being acquired, Z Studio's CEO Eddie even announced in advance last week that "John Wick 3" will be released on May 2019, 5, and announced that Black Pearl Halle Berry will join the filming of the third part and join hands with John Wick to kill enemies.

This is certainly good news, dispelling outside concerns about the company.

After Lionsgate withdrew, Z Studio received acquisition offers from many companies, and Li Ying also negotiated with each one.

So far, Tencent, Ali and Hengda have the strongest desire to acquire the company. Wanda was originally the best candidate, but something happened recently and Mr. Wang withdrew from the competition.

According to Li Ying, as for the acquisition, since Zhang Yuanjun also wants to withdraw and doesn't want to manage the company anyway, why not just sell it to whoever offers the highest price.

Ali was the company that offered the highest bid among the three companies. Mr. Ma offered $15.28 billion, which was $2 million higher than what Li Ying originally offered to Lionsgate.

But there is a condition. Ali requires Zhang Yuanjun to continue to serve as the chairman of Z Studio for one year after the acquisition is completed, and cooperate with Ali in the transformation and promotion of the new company. After one year, if Zhang Yuanjun is willing to continue to preside over Z Studio, Ali will not object, and will even offer him a very generous salary. If Zhang Yuanjun wants to leave, Ali will not stop him.

"Cooperate with Ali in the transformation and promotion of the new company." To put it bluntly, it means that Zhang Yuanjun needs to cooperate with them in telling stories in the capital market and cooperate with them in reaping profits!
Li Ying works in finance, and she thinks such conditions are reasonable and she can definitely agree to them.

But Zhang Yuanjun was unwilling to do so. He didn't need that little money. He looked down on the premium for "cooperating with Ali in the transformation and promotion of the new company" and felt that the premium was too expensive. Ali was a big company, but Mr. Ma had always lacked a story to tell in the capital market, especially in the international capital market.

If we count Ali's products, apart from the online shopping platform, it is difficult for Ali to come up with another product that can "face the future" and win the favor of capital.

It has not caught up with social platforms.

im not catching up with it either.

It also doesn't have artificial intelligence like AlphaGo.

Cloud computing has a promising future, but it is still burning money endlessly.

Ali is in dire need of star products, and big entertainment is Ali’s current strategic core, so Mr. Ma is very interested in Zhang Yuanjun’s Z Studio.

This is a company that has global hits like The Hunger Games and won an Oscar for Best Actor for Matthew McConaughey.

With these two points alone, Ali's executives can tell a brilliant story.

But Ali's paraquat has a very bad reputation in the investment community: If you want to run your own company well, you can accept Penguin's investment. If you just want to make a quick buck and leave, then accept Ali's investment.

If Zhang Yuanjun wants to sell it, he has to choose a good buyer.

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As the second half of the month begins, the National Day box office battle begins.

This year's National Day movie season is very lively, with six movies released: "Youth", "Sky Hunter", "Sewing Machine Band", "The Foreigner", "Chasing the Dragon" and "Shameful Iron Fist".

But on the 24th, "Youth" announced its emergency withdrawal, and Wang Zhonglei apologized to the audience, media, publicity and distribution, and theaters on Weibo.

Feng Xiaogang also bowed and apologized to the audience and the media at the press conference in Shanghai. He even said that he felt "a little tragic."

We really can't blame Feng Xiaogang for his marketing this time. If he had used the old routine of setting a release date, then withdrawing it, and then setting it again, while also criticizing the General Administration's review, there would have been no need to hold a press conference in the Magic City and let some media audiences watch the film first.

It was urgently withdrawn a week before its release, probably due to some force majeure factors. Some netizens speculated that it was because the film depicts the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, a sensitive period of history, and the General Administration asked the film company to revise it before releasing it.

This statement is more credible, but we have no way of knowing the real reason.

On that day, Zhang Yuanjun attended the premiere of Jackie Chan's new film "The Foreigner".

On the red carpet, Zhang Yuanjun accepted an interview with reporters: "I have watched every movie of Jackie Chan. This one is a collaboration with Pierce Brosnan. With two idols on the same stage, there is no reason not to watch it."

Talking about his plans, Zhang Yuanjun said with a smile: "No rush, I just finished filming a movie this year, I will take my time."

"The Foreigner" is definitely Jackie Chan's best movie since "Chinese Zodiac". In fact, in Zhang Yuanjun's opinion, "The Foreigner" is even better than "Chinese Zodiac"!

After watching the movie, Zhang Yuanjun expressed his feelings about the movie, saying, "I feel very emotional to see my childhood idols Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan in the same movie. I just heard an audience member say that Jackie Chan is over 60, can he still fight? After watching this movie, I think I have the answer, Jackie Chan can still fight, and he can fight for another ten or twenty years. It's really great, I wish the movie a big box office success. Thank you."

Jackie Chan thanked him on stage. Zhang Yuanjun was about to sit down, but was stopped by the host: "It's so hard to see Yuanjun and our big brother Jackie Chan together today. I would like to ask you two on behalf of our audience, do you two have a chance to work together? Can we see you on the big screen together?"

Zhang Yuanjun was sitting in his seat, picked up the microphone again, and said with a smile: "I really want to work with Jackie Chan, but I don't know if Jackie Chan thinks highly of me."

The media and audience present all laughed.

Jackie Chan said, "You book a movie, set a time, and if you're OK with it, I will definitely cooperate with you, no problem."

The host said, "It seems that both of you want to cooperate. Then the bosses of the film companies should take action and see if you can make the cooperation happen."

After that, the premiere Q&A session returned to normal. Zhang Yuanjun took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention to him and slipped away with his assistant. (End of this chapter)