It's reasonable for me, a stuntman, to live a crazy life, right?

Chapter 875: Who is better at boasting, Boss Jia or Boss Ma?
On the evening of the 28th, after finishing a day's filming, Chen Fei returned to the hotel and turned on his laptop to start remotely watching the 88th Academy Awards ceremony held tonight.

However, just as he was happily watching the Hollywood actresses who were making fools of themselves on the red carpet just to attract attention, the phone suddenly rang.

After taking a look at the name on the caller ID, Chen Fei pressed the answer button.

"Hello? Mr. Wang? What's the matter?..."

Before he could finish, Wang Changtian interrupted him, "Have you heard the news? Something happened! Something big happened! The film and television industry is going to be turned upside down!"

"Ah?" Chen Fei was confused: "What happened? Why is it going to be so chaotic?"

Ever since he returned to the hotel after finishing today's filming, he has been following the news on Weibo, but he hasn't seen any "earth-shaking hot searches" being exposed?
"You actually don't know?"

"Mr. Wang, please stop keeping us in suspense. Did the sky fall? Or did the ground collapse?"

"Huh!" Wang Changtian let out a long sigh on the other end of the phone and said in a deep voice, "According to people familiar with the matter, after Ye Ning left, more than 20 senior executives from Wanda's cinema chain resigned and left.

Moreover, paparazzi took photos of Wang Jianlin returning to China on a private plane at the Capital Airport, which directly verified the authenticity of the major changes in Wanda Cinema Line..."

Chen Fei was shocked and didn't even bother to look at Oscar. He was very surprised and said, "So, the real situation is that Ye Ning left Wanda with more than 20 confidants?"

"That's right!" Wang Changtian was still a little scared: "With this lineup, if I choose to start a business, I might be able to make a big name for myself. I'll be another favorable competitor!"

“Haha, starting a business?”

Chen Fei smiled and shook his head: "Starting a business is impossible. These people are all experienced cinema chain managers. It is impossible for them to buy land, build cinemas, and open cinema chains by themselves, right?"

"Not starting a business? Could it be that he was poached by other cinema companies?"

While analyzing, Wang Changtian's tone suddenly paused!
The next second, he asked in an incredulous tone: "Brother Chen? This... this is not a trick you played, right?"

"Me? How is that possible? Am I just idle and have nothing to do? Why would I go and dig up Ye Ning?"

Chen Fei didn't know whether to laugh or cry. How did the topic become about him?

However, at this moment, Wang Changtian made a very clear analysis: "As we all know, in addition to Wanda Cinema Line, the one that occupies the largest market share in China is your Pan Asia Cinema Line.

Huo Qigang, the general manager of Pan Asia Cinema Line, is also the chairman of Golden Harvest Films. He has multiple responsibilities and will definitely be unable to take care of everything, so you set your sights on Wanda..."

Hearing this, Chen Fei was inexplicably surprised!

Holy shit, this is quite an accurate analysis!
Indeed, there are only a few companies in the industry that have the greatest hope of taking over Ye Ning's large team, and Pan Asia Cinemas is undoubtedly the most likely one among them.

Huo Qigang couldn't be distracted, so he offered Ye Ning a huge profit to change jobs and let him be solely responsible for the entire Pan-Asia Cinema system...

It would be fine if we didn't analyze it, but once we analyze it, it seems like it has become an established fact!
However, Chen Fei said that he was too wronged!

"Mr. Wang, I admit that your analysis does make sense, but I want to say that I really didn't do that, and there's no need for me to do that.

I have nothing better to do than to offend Wanda, which is now at the peak of its popularity. Am I crazy?
Although I am not afraid of Wanda, there is no need for me to do this. It is meaningless. Our cinema chain is currently running quite stably, and we have stopped expanding and started internal upgrades to digest the previous gains. There is no need to add burden to myself..."

After Chen Fei's explanation, Wang Changtian stopped his half-believing and half-doubting guesses.

However, as soon as the call was hung up, calls came in from Ren Zhonglun, Han Sanping and others.

Without exception, both of them were wondering if there was any "little trick" by Chen Fei in this.

"Mr. Ren, please stop making assumptions. This is not something that Pan Asia Cinemas is responsible for. I am not interested in doing something that would undermine other companies. After all, Wanda has not offended me..."

"Boss Han, if you have time to come here to ask me, you might as well go ask Yu Dong. Maybe it's his Polybona that did this."

Listening to Chen Fei's words, Han Sanping on the other end directly denied it, "Yu Dong can't do such a 'beautiful' thing. Although Bona is rushing to A-shares and has the support of Alibaba, its prospects are not clear.

Professional managers like Ye Ning usually take action only after they are optimistic about the future of a company.

Take your Pan Asia Cinema Line for example. It has a bright future, huge development potential, but also the greatest suspicion! "

"..."

After being speechless for a while, Fade Chen said innocently, "But this was not done by me."

Han Sanping frowned and continued to speculate: "Could it be one of the two companies, Alibaba and Huayi?"

"It's possible! The former and Wanda have never gotten along, and the latter is trying to 'de-single-film', so they are particularly suspicious!"

"Oh, I can't understand it. I really can't understand it. At this critical moment, using such dirty tricks to offend Wanda, isn't this just courting death?"

"Haha, maybe the company that did this is very confident?"

"Confidence?" Han Sanping was very disdainful: "No matter how confident you are, no matter how much you have to rely on, if the means are so dirty, in the end both sides will suffer, or even go down a road of no return..."

Chen Fei did not respond to this. After all, he was just a spectator and would not get involved in this matter.

Who cares if the wind blows from any direction? It won’t blow on you anyway.

After answering a lot of calls, when Chen Fei turned his attention to his laptop again, he saw that the Oscar Awards Ceremony was already halfway through.

"The winner of the 88th Academy Awards for Best Director is Adam McKay for The Big Short. Congratulations..."

As the presenter finished his speech, the Dolby Theatre was suddenly filled with deafening applause and cheers!
Fade Chen also raised his hands and clapped them gently.

At this moment, he suddenly remembered what happened in 08 when he took advantage of the financial crisis in North America to make a fortune and founded the top consortium "Longxiang Capital".

This movie, "The Big Short", is very similar to his previous deeds. Both stories tell the story of several investment geniuses on Wall Street who saw through the illusion of the bubble before the US credit crisis in 2007, made huge profits by shorting subprime mortgage CDS, and became the few investment tycoons who made huge profits in the financial disaster.

However, in comparison, what he did was more "ruthless" and far beyond the reach of those so-called investment geniuses.

Previously, when he was filming "Ready Player One", he went to a Bitcoin mining base under the guise of a location scout.

After years of hard work, with the help of Bruce's great nephew Eric Kerger, the mining machines have now mined more than 500 million bitcoins!
In order not to affect the "market conditions", the mining machines have now been stopped, and Eric Kerger has gone to Kerguelen Island to research new projects.

More than 500 million bitcoins, filling up 6 hard drives, are now stored in a safe under the courtyard.

Chen Fei is not planning to touch this thing in the short term. He wants to wait until the value of these bitcoins reaches its highest point before starting to sell them off.

By then, tens of billions of US dollars will be earned, which can be invested in the research institute to study various new technologies.

Aerospace, aviation, satellites, chips, artificial intelligence AI, all-solid-state batteries, drones...

Longxiang Capital has invested in too many projects. Looking around, all of them require a lot of money to produce results.

"Jingle Bell!"

At this moment, the sudden ringing of the phone interrupted Chen Fei's thinking and planning for the future.

After taking a look at the name on the caller ID, he raised his eyebrows slightly, feeling quite surprised.

He pressed the answer button casually, and before the other party could speak, he spoke first: "Leon? You called me so late, is there something wrong?"

Thinking carefully, Chen Fei found that he seemed to have not spoken to Leon Walras on the phone for more than a year. The two sides usually communicated through emails.

The latter is still the head of Longxiang Capital's North American region and is responsible for managing all external investments of Longxiang Capital and Chen Fei.

This is a considerable sum of money!

Chen Fei is even a little nervous now. Could it be that something unexpected happened to his assets?

As he was thinking, he heard Leon Walras on the other end of the phone say, "Fei, I think I need to remind you that the next U.S. presidential election is about to begin."

"Oh?" Chen Fei frowned: "Did someone contact you?"

"Yes." Lyon responded: "Last night, when I attended the investment dinner hosted by Musk, I met the very popular 'businessman'. He hopes that Longxiang Capital can support him in the election."

Chen Fei was silent for a moment, and many scenes emerged in his mind. If he remembered correctly, this "businessman" was really successful in the end, and sat in that position for a full 4 years!
But as far as he knew, his attitude towards China was not very good, especially those Chinese capitals existing in the United States, which had been targeted by him.

Therefore, when he takes office, Longxiang Capital might also be affected...

Thinking of this, Fade Chen immediately instructed: "You can try to contact him and tell him that Longxiang Capital can support his election. Anyway, it doesn't matter who you spend money on.

But I need his guarantee. I want him to promise that he will not attack Longxiang Capital after he takes office. I want him to be the umbrella for Longxiang Capital, just like the Morgan Consortium. "

"Okay, Boss, I see what you mean."

Leon Walras responded, already having a series of plans in mind.

But in fact, he was still a little surprised, because he didn't expect that Chen Fei was actually quite optimistic about that "businessman".

I just wonder if it would be a good thing or a bad thing for Hollywood, which his boss is currently using to "cover up" his behind-the-scenes assets, if this businessman really becomes president in the end?

……

In a blink of an eye, it is already the last day of February!
In the morning, on the way to the crew, Chen Fei saw a lot of new hot searches on Weibo.

"The drama, romance, and fantasy film Love O2O, co-produced by Huace Film and Shanghai Juku Culture Communication Co., Ltd. and starring Yang Ying and Jing Boran, has officially wrapped up today!"

This report was accompanied by Huang Xiaoming’s “screen-sweeping” Weibo promotion.

In order to make his wife's new movie a big hit, he put in all his efforts and even wanted to go to the wrap-up conference in person to support her!

Following the news of the completion of "Love O2O" came the announcement of the release dates of several movies.

"The Sino-Indian co-production film "Xuan Zang", directed by China Film Group and starring Huang Xiaoming, with Xu Zheng, Luo Jin, Pu Bajia and others participating, has officially announced that it will be released on April 4."

"The crime and action film Chasing the Dragon, co-produced by Golden Harvest Films and Feiyue Films and starring Andy Lau, Tony Leung Ka Fai and Kent Cheng, has officially been announced to be released on April 4."

"Many Hollywood imported blockbusters such as "Gods of Egypt", "Eddie the Eagle", and "Batman v Superman" have officially announced that they will be released in March."

Not surprisingly, there has been a quarrel online.

Especially those producers who have movies to be released in March, most of them have already started cursing.

Including "Zootopia", there are no less than 3 Hollywood imported blockbusters that have been officially announced to be released in March!

Looking around, facing the siege of so many Hollywood imported blockbusters, which domestic film can withstand it?
Even The Mermaid makes you sweat! Not to mention those low-budget domestic films.

……

As soon as Chen Fei arrived at the set, Huang Xiaoming came up to him with a smile.

"Director Chen, we have to fight this time, please go easy on me!"

At first, Chen Fei was a little confused, but he soon realized that Huang Xiaoming was talking about the fact that "The Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons Strike Back" and "Chasing the Dragon" were competing for the May Day schedule.

“Don’t worry, the daily revenue of the film market has already expanded to 8 million yuan. Can’t it even accommodate two domestic films?

As long as the quality of the film is good, everyone can make money, and there won’t be much competition.”

"That's true..."

Huang Xiaoming nodded in approval, and after chatting for a few more words, he turned around and went to do his makeup.

……

Chen Fei thought he was already an "expert" in eating melons, but he never expected that Wang Changtian was even more exaggerated than him!

In the evening, Lao Wang called again and excitedly told him the inside information he had heard.

"I'm telling you, don't be too surprised!"

"what?"

"According to insiders in Wanda, after Ye Ning left, 28 senior executives of Wanda Cinema Line left in a few days. All of them were managers of top cinemas under Wanda Cinema Line, and all of them were core elites trained by Wanda for more than five years!"

"What the hell?!"

Even though he was mentally prepared, Fade Chen was still frightened by the actions of the "mastermind".

This can no longer be described as uprooting, it's simply sucking the marrow out of the bones!
You know, for a large cinema chain company, these theater managers are all top talents.

It is no exaggeration to say that these people are capable of standing on their own, but now 28 of them have resigned at once...

"Half of Wanda Cinema Line's territory has collapsed!"

"That's right." Wang Changtian said with some fear in his tone: "If Guangguang is messed up like this, I'm afraid the stock price will plummet directly, and the company may even be unable to recover in a short period of time."

"That's for sure. It's only a large enterprise like Wanda. How can an ordinary company withstand it?"

As he was talking, Fade Chen suddenly recalled the period in the middle of last year when the two brothers of the Wang family secretly hired headhunters to poach the backbone middle-level personnel of Feiyue Film and Television Company.

Fortunately, Su Guohai, Jiang Xuerou, and Zhong Lifang resisted the temptation and firmly rejected the conditions offered by Huayi.

Otherwise, if even one of these people leaves, the company will be in turmoil for a while.

When he thought of this, Fade Chen felt a little angry!

These two brothers are simply pests in the entertainment industry. We must find an opportunity to take revenge on them once again.

However, just as he was thinking of a bad idea, Wang Changtian mentioned another "big melon":
"Oh, by the way, there is one more thing. I heard that LeTV Pictures seems to have canceled its IPO and is not planning to go public anymore."

"Hey? Are you kidding? If LeEco Pictures doesn't go public, what will happen to the celebrity shareholders of the company? They invested so much money in buying original shares, and it's all gone to waste. Will they agree?"

"Who knows? I also heard it from others. It seems that Jia Yueting personally came out and promised something to the shareholders. Only then did he calm everyone down."

"Boss Jia? Haha, his mouth is comparable to that of Boss Ma..."

"Hahaha, each one is more boastful than the other, right?"

The two were chatting about gossip, while at this time, there was a "lively" scene over at Huayi.

Inside the office, Wang Zhongjun, Ye Ning, and more than a dozen senior executives who had resigned from Wanda Cinema Line were chatting enthusiastically, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

From now on, we are all in the same boat, so naturally we will be close to each other.

At this moment, the office door was suddenly pushed open, and Wang Zhonglei strode in with a smile on his face.

The office suddenly became quiet, and everyone's eyes turned to him.

Facing the expectant, speculative, or curious eyes of the crowd, he put his hands in his pockets and slowly said, "Everything has been arranged. At 10 am tomorrow, the relevant personnel change notice will be officially released.

The media meeting has also been arranged. It will be held at 3pm in the auditorium of Huayi. Everyone remember to come on time. "

As soon as the words fell, laughter broke out in the office.

Wang Zhongjun turned to the crowd and said with a smile: "Everyone, starting from tomorrow we will fight side by side. I hope everyone can work together to create a better future!"

Instantly, a series of responses rang out:
"For Huayi, we should do our best."

"Haha, compared to Wanda, Huayi is more suitable for our development."

"That's right. In my opinion, Huayi's development prospects in the film and television sector are far from comparable to Wanda. Wang Jianlin is only good at real estate, and his film and television business is actually just so-so because he doesn't understand business management at all..."

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