China Entertainment's Standout

Chapter 632: Entering a wealthy family and causing a sensation

Bong Joon-ho, the top South Korean director, came to China and stayed for more than half a month.

Zhou Yutang is the investor and chief producer of "Breaking the Tomb". After the filming of this movie was completed, the post-production and special effects work were left to Vision Media.

Bong Joon-ho is still busy with the post-production of the movie, and it looks like he might even spend the Spring Festival here.

Chen Xi has just reported on the progress of "The Mermaid". Zhou Xingxing's shooting progress has been quite smooth recently. The current progress is about 70%, and there is hope that it will be completed before the New Year.

Even Lee Soo-man ran to China.

Lin Yoona, who came under the pretext of visiting the set of a drama, was soon exposed by Korean media for being involved in illegal foreign exchange transactions.

This is a hasty escape to China to avoid the limelight.

By the way, I also strolled around Jiangdong Entertainment.

The two girls at the front desk recognized the serious old man wearing black-framed glasses.

As a big shot in the South Korean entertainment industry, he has brought out top Asian groups such as TVXQ and Girls' Generation, and has also been featured in domestic news reports many times.

"As expected, he is the leader of the Chinese entertainment industry."

However, after seeing the wall of honors and trophies in Gangdong's Hall of Fame, Lee Soo-man was stunned for several minutes.

What kind of monster is this?
I originally thought I had thought highly enough of Zhou Yutang, but now I realize that I still underestimated his abilities.

At the beginning, Lee Soo-man thought that the two sides would cooperate and take a bite of the sweet and delicious Chinese market cake. He never thought that Zhou Yutang could develop to the current situation.

Thinking about this young man's recent earth-shattering moves, he may soon become the owner of the Premier League giants Liverpool.

Lee Soo Man was relieved.

Jiangdong Entertainment has become a terrifying behemoth that even he can only look up to.

“I heard that Alibaba is going to invest in S&M soon?”

After all, he was the old man who brought Yoona to debut, so Zhou Yutang was quite polite to Lee Soo Man and asked Ni Ni to make him a cup of premium Tieguanyin:

"Teacher Li is blessed."

Jack Ma is gearing up to build the entire Alibaba entertainment ecosystem.

Recently, they have been making a series of moves, targeting S&M companies.

Jack Ma’s strategy is actually very simple, which is to spend money to make you call him daddy.

There are rumors in the industry that after preliminary investigation, Alibaba is about to make a large-scale investment of 1000 billion won (about 5 million yuan) in South Korea's S&M Entertainment Company.

This news caused S&M's stock price to skyrocket.

"I will never give up control of S&M."

Lee Soo Man raised the teacup, seemed to be admiring the blue and white porcelain teacup, and smiled like an old fox.

It seems that this old fox was not fooled by Jack Ma's Alibaba's big entertainment strategy.

What Alibaba Entertainment is an important piece of the puzzle, sweeping across Asia and heading towards the world, sounds impressive, but in fact it is mostly empty talk.

Lee Soo-man is interested in expanding into the Chinese market, but he is not stupid.

If Alibaba were to take over the S&M company, it would be like inviting a wolf into the house.

By then, power will fall into the hands of others, and I'm afraid he will be sidelined and kicked out immediately.

How could it be more satisfying than transferring money from one hand to the other, setting up a personal company, and sucking blood from S&M companies by using sky-high consulting and outsourced album production fees?

"20 Again" was released for more than 4 days and finally passed the 4.23 million threshold at the end of January, with the total box office closing at million.

Although the single-day box office has dropped to around two million and will be closed in a few days, the expected goal has been achieved.

This movie was produced by Xiao Ma, and many press releases were issued during its release, which led to a slight rise in the company's stock price.

In addition to Taiwanese director Chen Zhengdao who proved his ability, Zhang Ruojun further accumulated box office results, and Lu Han, who just returned to China to enter the film industry, also had a successful big screen debut.

But in the final analysis, it was Reyiza who reaped the biggest benefits.

Her superb acting skills in this film have been unanimously recognized by the industry and the audience.

The movie hasn’t even been released yet, but the company has already received offers from many film and television companies.

Li Dagou held a celebration banquet and repeatedly invited Zhou Yutang. Zhou Yutang couldn't refuse his kindness, so he went and showed up.

"Congratulations, Big Dog."

"I haven't congratulated you yet, this is really generous."

Li Dagou knew the inside story of the acquisition, and it was because of this that he admired Zhou Yutang even more.

My buddy is so awesome, he also has a lot of face.

The celebration banquet was quite lively with toasts coming from all directions. Reyiza came over with a glass of red wine in her hand.

"We don't do this in Jiangdong." Zhou Yutang smiled.

"Boss, without you, I wouldn't be where I am today."

The girl from northern Xinjiang was sincere from the bottom of her heart: "I have to toast you a glass."

As he spoke, he tilted his head back and drank the red wine in the glass.

The two of them didn't have many opportunities to meet. Zhou Yutang chatted with Reyiza for a while, and suddenly remembered something: "Oh, by the way, I just happen to need your help with something."

"boss."

Reyiza agreed without thinking: "You tell me, I will try my best to do it."

“It’s a specialty of your hometown.”

“You said that, I’m ready.”

Reyza suddenly realized and looked at Zhou Yutang again. He seemed a little unnatural and wanted to say something but stopped. She had the urge to persuade him to take care of his body.

On second thought, I didn't seem to have the identity or position to say these words, so I had to give up.

"Don't get me wrong, it's my two friends who need it."

Seeing that she seemed to have misunderstood, Zhou Yutang explained.

"Yeah, I understand."

Reyiza is also a person who knows how to repay kindness.

A few days later, two large boxes of Northern Xinjiang Wolfberry King Wine were delivered to Zhou Yutang's private residence.
While Pony.com is doing very well, LeTV Pictures is in a terrible situation.

As the main producer of "The Crossing", it has suffered a heavy blow.

The crime comedy "Crazy Detective" that LeTV Pictures planned to release during this year's Lunar New Year holiday also completely failed.

Logically speaking, with the film being produced by Er Dongsheng, written by Fang Lingzheng, directed by Luo Zhuoyao, and with the addition of popular young actors and actresses such as Ruan Jingtian, Zhou Dongyu, Yang Zishan, and Yang Yang, it can be said to be a luxurious lineup.

But the release schedule of this film remains a mystery. It was previously scheduled to be released in mid-December, sharing the stage with Jiang Wen's "One Step Away".

Perhaps they were scared off by producer Marco's bold statement that he would test the depth of China's box office, so the film was postponed to January.

Unexpectedly, January was not going to be easy either.

Gu Changwei's "Micro Love" is extremely strong, and Zhang Ruojun, Lu Han and Reyiza support "Back to 20".

The imported blockbuster "Night at the Museum 3" broke 3 million yuan, and "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies" earned 3 million yuan in three days.

Surrounded by strong competitors, "The Detective" earned 386 million on its first day and 1443 million in its first three days of the weekend.

Not surprisingly, it became cannon fodder for the Lunar New Year movie season.

The funniest thing is that this movie was released simultaneously in Hong Kong, and the box office on the first day was only 65 Hong Kong dollars.

That is to say, only one audience member entered the cinema to watch it.
In terms of scale, the production and promotion costs of "The Crossing" are in no way comparable to "The Crossing".

The combined box office of these two films that LeTV has planned for the Lunar New Year holiday may not exceed 2.2 million yuan - Boss Jia can't sit still anymore.

At the year-end conference held by LeTV, Zhang Zhao, the president of LeTV's film division, announced the ambitious goal of producing/distributing 20 films next year with a box office of 50 billion yuan.

Zhou Yutang had only returned to China for a few days when Boss Jia called him more than a dozen times. His persistence made him feel helpless.

Speaking of Boss Jia, he has a really good brain and his ideas are very advanced.

In the past few years, we have begun to lay out the full industrial chain service of "platform + content + terminal + application", covering multiple industries such as mobile phones, home appliances, new energy, etc.

At this moment, everyone is preparing to build a peerless magical car.

However, due to the lagging behind of LeTV Pictures, the key project of the TV drama department headed by Xu Ming, "Grave Robbers' Chronicles", will not be broadcast until at least the middle of the year.

The performance of the film department led by Zhang Zhao was not very satisfactory. A lot of money was spent before and after. The representative work was actually Guo Xiaosi's "Tiny Times" trilogy.
Boss Jia’s patience is limited, so he decides to take a different approach and hire a power player.

After his investments with Zhou Yutang and Zhang Yimou failed, he set his sights on Chen Kaige, and the two parties hit it off.

In the second half of last year, LeTV Pictures established a subsidiary in Los Angeles with a strategic fund of US$2 million. The strong strength it demonstrated shocked Legendary and Universal Pictures.

This also helped Chen Kaige win the "The Great Wall" project to some extent.

Having Brother Chen Kai alone is not enough. Just yesterday, Boss Jia came up with a new idea and proposed the genius idea of ​​buying out the shares of Jiangdong's film and television productions at a premium.

Simply put, he can buy back Jiangdong Entertainment's 10 million investment share by paying 50 million, or even more.

There is a gambling agreement in the film industry. Wanda is betting 10 billion on "One Step Away". Boss Jia is also betting, but he is just betting that Zhou Yutang can continue his undefeated record!
"Boss, Boss Jia offered a high price this time. Aren't you tempted?" Ni Ni asked curiously.

She had seen Boss Jia's PPT skills, which were so perfect, but even her eloquence was not enough to impress her boss.

“I don’t make money beyond my ability to comprehend.”

Zhou Yutang closed his laptop after finishing a video conference with a foreign business negotiation team.

It doesn’t matter whether LeTV’s projects make money or lose money. As long as he nods, Boss Jia will use the project to lay eggs.

I guess, he doesn't need to wait until tomorrow, he will dare to raise his own banner today to attract those stars and investors to join the game, and suffocate for his dream together.
There are only about twenty days left before the Spring Festival of the Year of the Sheep.

The streets and alleys of Beijing are decorated with lights and the atmosphere of the New Year is becoming more and more intense.

The star lineups for the Spring Festival Galas of major satellite TV stations have been revealed one after another, and the CCTV Spring Festival Gala is also under intensive preparation.

Zhou Yutang declined Ha Wen's direct invitation on the grounds that his schedule was too busy, but Chen Xiao from Jiangdong Entertainment took to the Spring Festival Gala stage for the first time this year.

Guli Nazha was also invited and was scheduled to perform Northern Xinjiang dance.

Jiangdong-based Happy Twist originally prepared two programs.

As a result, one of them was rejected. The skits by Shen Teng and Ma Li also encountered setbacks and were required to be rectified.

"Mr. Zhou, this is so difficult for me."

When Shen Teng came to Jiangdong Entertainment Building, he went to Zhou Yutang to complain.

"Anti-corruption themes are bound to be controversial. If you communicate more with Director Ha, there shouldn't be any problems."

Zhou Yutang read the script of "Catering to Someone's Taste", which was written by the golden duo of Yan Fei and Peng Damo.

Just by looking at the name, you can tell that the subject matter is a bit sensitive, and some of the lines are a little over the line, so it's normal for the Spring Festival Gala program crew to have concerns.

In such occasions, one must be extremely cautious. If anything goes wrong, no one can take responsibility.

In February, Zhou Yutang flew to England again.

The negotiations to advance the acquisition have finally come to an end.

After the club changed ownership, the focus was on future operations.

"Zhou, I'm curious, what are your plans?"

After signing the contract, John Henry, whose wealth had greatly increased, was beaming with joy. At the dinner, he raised this question in a happy mood.

Fenway Group owns shares in another Italian Serie A giant, Giallorossi, and is also planning to acquire an NBA team.

Those present included King Dalglish, sporting director Edwards, and many senior executives of the Liverpool club were also very curious.

"In the future, I will equip Liverpool with a complete big data team."

"Walter!?"

Old Henry and the Liverpool club executives present were all confused.

Dalglish, the team's veteran, said: "Sir, I don't quite understand what this means."

"Liverpool's transfers in recent years have always been mostly losses."

Zhou Yutang chuckled and said, "In order to change this bad situation, I have prepared a big data team for Liverpool. We will build a unique algorithm model to collect, process, and filter the data of players and teams, and conduct specific analysis..."

Raise an army for a thousand days, use it for a while.

ByteDance has been hiring senior software engineers from all over the world at high prices for several consecutive years, and now is the time when they come in handy.

Under Zhou Yutang's instruction, ByteDance has set up a professional department to connect the database of European gaming consulting companies and establish a global big data system scout team.

Listening to Zhou Yutang's story, old Henry fell into deep thought. Then he looked at his wife Linda beside him and felt extremely shocked.

Liverpool's top management was in an uproar and everyone was stunned.

Walter is fucking awesome!
What is the transfer system based on big data analysis and tactical analysis?
This rich oriental guy's wild ideas made them feel like they were living in primitive times.
"Of course, after the season, I will bring a new manager to Liverpool and the previously promised transfer fee of £1.5 million will not change."

Zhou Yutang even prepared the list of coaches and players selected based on the early big data.

"Klopp, Ancelotti."

"Southampton winger Sadio Mane."

"Chelsea winger Salah."

"Palermo attacking midfielder Dybala."

"Monaco's young talent Kylian Mbappe."

"Kante, a potential defensive midfielder for Caen in Ligue 1."

"..."

Dalglish gave it a mock glance.

Then he nodded slightly.

He found that many of the players on this list had been investigated by Liverpool.

It's a good thing that the boss knows about football, and it's even better if he's willing to spend money.

"I think the fans will be excited to have such a generous owner like you."

Kenny Dalglish also made a comment to Henry: "Football is like this. Without investment, there will be no results."

Henry is a businessman. His purpose of investing in Liverpool is for long-term benefits, not the team's revival and championship that a fan wants to see.

In recent years, the team has been self-sufficient, and he has invested about 80 million pounds in net terms.

With this investment, how can we win the championship?

So not only did the fans dislike him, but the club's top management also often scolded him for being stingy behind his back.

The old antiques have limited ability to accept new things, and Zhou Yutang did not give them drastic measures right away.

A big data system is enough for them to digest for a long time.

At the moment, it is better to appease.

The key figure is Dalglish.

"Boss, why did you leave me here alone? Do you have anything to say?" The old man looked at his new boss with a puzzled look.

"Kenny, you represent the heart and soul of the Reds."

Zhou Yutang shamelessly used moral kidnapping: "I grew up watching you play football. Now is a critical period for the Anfield family. I need to control the situation and I cannot do without your help."

The boss was so sincere. The old man had just drunk a few more glasses of red wine and was a little drunk. His hands were shaking. "Sir, whether as a player or a coach, I have spent more time at the club than with my wife and children. I promise you that as long as Anfield needs me, I can do anything."

Very good, I need you to be the scapegoat.

Zhou Yutang patted the old man on the shoulder and began to discuss the team plan with him in detail.

The winter transfer window is closed and the team has little room to maneuver. This season has been completely rotten.

Liverpool Football Club chairman Tom Warner is from Fenway Group and he went with Henry Sr.

Zhou Yutang had already made plans to let the team's meritorious king Dalglish take over as the club's chairman to stabilize the situation for him.

This is the first star in Liverpool's history and he is very influential in English football.

Playing football is also about social skills.

Connections are important.

Zhou Yutang's team has a special statistic that shows that with Kenny Dalglish around, even the referees pay extra attention to the club.

Zhou Yu fought Huang Gai and it didn't take much effort to deal with this old man who was willing to burn everything for the club.

By the way, let coach Rogers take the blame and let him pack up and leave in the summer transfer window.

Then carry out drastic reforms.

By the time.

The clarion call for the rise of the Red Army will be sounded.

“Reuters: Chinese investors buy Liverpool shares!”

"Daily Mail: Liverpool owner Henry sells club for £6.75m, having bought it for just £5m five years ago (2010)."

"The Independent: Oriental Entertainment Tycoon takes over with force, Fenway Group exits with profit!"

The change of leadership of the Red Army has finally been settled.

Liverpool immediately released an announcement on its official website: "Fenway Group has reached an acquisition agreement with the Bronze Sparrow Fund. The Bronze Sparrow Fund will complete the acquisition for 6.75 million pounds. This acquisition will eliminate Liverpool's previous debts, and the club's annual debt repayment will be only one-tenth of the previous debt."

Fenway Group only retained a small stake and gave up its management seat.

Zhou Yutang arrived at Anfield and told the local Liverpool media: "I am honored to be the owner of such a historic club. My purpose of coming here is to win the championship. Please wait and see what I will bring to this great club."

Its daybreak!
Liverpool fans spread the news.

The photo of Liverpool Governor Anderson shaking hands with the Chinese Consul General and Zhou Yutang made headlines in major media at home and abroad.
"I am delighted to see Zhou become the owner of Liverpool. The expansion plan for Anfield Stadium has been approved, which will not only benefit Liverpool, but also bring great benefits to the local economy."

The official announcement has been released, and naturally some economists are racking their brains to defend Zhou Yutang.

The impact of this major event was not limited to the country; media around the world reported on it.

As a self-made entertainment tycoon, Zhou Yutang is not even 30 years old this year, which adds a bit of legendary color to him.

He even received a message from Zou Zhongyan, saying that a well-known Hollywood screenwriter was preparing to bring his legendary story of making a fortune to the big screen.

Even NBA basketball superstar James posted a photo of him and Zhou Yutang on Instagram, "Happy Chinese New Year.
Zhou is an incredible guy, I am a fan of his movies!

He will bring his talent to Liverpool and if miracles have a colour, it must be red! ”

The little emperor, who is the star player who calls the shots in the NBA, is also a small shareholder of Liverpool.

The acquisition was completed and the contract was signed on the day, he attended the club's high-level meeting, took a photo with Zhou Yutang afterwards, and invited him to watch NBA.

In the photo, he grinned with a mouthful of white teeth, like the Tai Sui God on earth, which made many netizens joke:

“It was a bit strange to see James at a football club, but he has a good business sense.”

"Next to LBJ, Zhou Yutang's handsomeness reaches another level."

"The key is that he is extremely rich. He spent 60 to 70 billion to buy a team. How much is the Grand Commander's net worth?"

"I've become a fan. I'm a 30-year veteran of the Red Army and I support the Grand Commander!"

"Boss Zhou, can you please get Rogers out as soon as possible? He doesn't have the ability to lead Liverpool, do you know that?"

"..."

Netizens are excited.

Since January, Zhou Yutang has been firmly dominating the hot search headlines.

Now that the acquisition has been finalized, domestic fans are all excited after seeing his strong financial resources.

The Rockets team at that time attracted countless fans just because of Yao Ming and became the main team of many Chinese people.

Now with Zhou Yutang as the manager of Liverpool, they are inevitably labeled as China's own people, which makes them more intimate.

The fans have already celebrated the New Year in advance.

Today they celebrate the departure of Fenway Group, tomorrow they will ask coach Rogers to go home and fix the screws, and the day after tomorrow they will even threaten to pack up Ronaldo and Messi.

That's really a bold idea.

They are the star players of Barcelona and Real Madrid, the two most powerful players in today's football world. How could they come to such a declining giant?
Zhou Yutang introduced big data to manage future transfers because of player transfers, which also have huge profits to gain.

Previously, when Zhou Yutang and Wanda acquired Infront Sports together, Wanda took the lion's share, acquiring 48.6% of the shares, while Zhou Yutang only took about 20% of the shares.

Infront is the world's second largest sports marketing company and one of the world's largest sports media production and broadcasting companies.

Its business covers media copyright sales, TV signal production, event operations, brand promotion, etc. It is a profitable company in itself and has good future prospects.

The acquisition of Liverpool now includes public relations expenses, installment debts, and subsequent sports data team, installment repayment of team debts, and subsequent investments.

The total expenditure of the Bronze Sparrow Fund controlled by Zhou Yutang will not be less than 80 billion.

Most of the money was spent on the bank's business, with a small portion coming from Tian Ming and other institutions.

It wouldn't empty the Jiangdong Cash King's well-filled piggy bank, but Zhou Yutang was not used to owing money and felt weird about it psychologically.

"It's still too poor."

Zhou Yutang glanced at the schedule that Ni Ni had compiled and muttered, "It looks like I'll have to go to North America after the New Year."

He received an invitation to this year's Oscars.

By the time.

There is another urgent matter to do.
(End of this chapter)