Hong Kong: Starting with 10 billion

Chapter 80: How about joining forces?

On April 4, DreamWorks' new movie,
It was also the release of Jackie Chan's third DreamWorks film, "The Boy Who Had the Lotto".

Fang Hexuan no longer has to worry about the publicity and promotion of his film company.

Everything goes according to the process.

If DreamWorks really has an A-level production to be released, Fang Hexuan will definitely be concerned about it.

But under normal circumstances, Selina Chow and her team can definitely handle it.

"Lin Shirong", a collaboration with Fatty Hong, is already in the preparation stage and is expected to start filming as early as early May.

Tsui Hark's first film, "The Butterfly Changes", is currently still being filmed.

Since it was his first time as a director, Xu had a lot of ideas, and he often took turns shooting on the set.

This is a typical problem that all newbies may encounter.

What Fang Hexuan didn't know was,

The film was originally shown in theaters for only one week before it was removed from the shelves by the theater chain.
The box office was only HK$115 million.

The reasons are nothing more than two points:

First, the style is too novel and advanced, and the audience cannot accept it immediately.

Second, the logic of the story is still rather "chaotic".

Compared with Tsui Hark's later mature works such as "Once Upon a Time in China" series, "Green Snake", "Butterfly Lovers" and "Sword", it seems very immature.

Overall, the theme is rather "chaotic". He later made "No Door to Hell" and "The First Kind of Danger".
These three films are collectively known as the "Anarchy Trilogy".

To put it bluntly, new directors have just entered the industry and are trying new creative methods.

Everything needs to be explored and experience needs to be accumulated slowly.

There are directors who reach the peak as soon as they debut, but they are extremely rare.

For this movie, Fang Hexuan also allocated a budget of 200 million to Tsui Hark.

If he knew that the box office performance in history was such a flop, he might really be reluctant to throw 200 million into the water.

However, DreamWorks has one advantage: it is more formal than other companies.

A specially set up script committee will ensure that every DreamWorks movie script that is about to be put into production is

There will be no major flaws.

Therefore, even if Tsui Hark's "The Butterfly Changes" does not make money, it should not lose too much.

Otherwise, Fang Hexuan would really go crazy.

He finally managed to raise the share price of DreamWorks Entertainment.
If the upward trend is stopped because of a movie,

Fang Hexuan even wanted to castrate Old Monster Xu.

Another work by Zhang Guoming, Pointing at the Soldiers, is still in the script writing stage.
This guy is a typical literary director who likes to work in detail.

In May, the overseas distribution of "The Last Airbender" has basically been completed.

The box office share that DreamWorks received this time was only HK$2400 million.
That’s 800 million less than “Drunken Master”.

Neon still has the largest box office, with a total box office of 15 billion yen, equivalent to about 3000 million Hong Kong dollars.

Excluding publicity and promotion costs, DreamWorks received $1400 million from this.

The market size of Southeast Asia, Taiwan Island and South Korea is still not large, contributing only about 1000 million Hong Kong dollars.

No matter what, Jackie Chan's trump card is indeed useful.

My brother was also very happy. He went to Japan to promote the event with great fanfare.
He deeply felt the enthusiasm and hospitality of the Japanese people.

According to Lu Guozhan, my brother was partying every night in Japan.

When doing promotional work, I need to travel all over the island, so I always catch up on sleep on the way.

Alas! This is probably the main reason why Jackie Chan is full of praise for Neon!

On May 5, "The Young Man" was officially taken off the screen, with a total box office of HK$12 million in Hong Kong.

It is DreamWorks' worst-performing film to date.

The market’s reaction to this was clear.

DreamWorks' stock price did not rise as it did in the past, but instead fell slightly.

However, DreamWorks at least did not lose money on this movie.

If the latest financial report is released soon, I believe the stock price will still rise slightly.

Fang Hexuan couldn't keep an eye on the stock price all the time, so he didn't need to worry about normal fluctuations.

In June, Fang Hexuan acquired 6 shares of Hutchison Whampoa.
It has aroused strong attention and discussion in Hong Kong.

This made Li Ka-shing unable to sit still any longer. He immediately visited HSBC through Pao Yue-kong and requested to buy the remaining 4000 million shares.

After several days of negotiations with HSBC, the deal was finally reached.

Cheung Kong Holdings acquired the remaining 7 million shares held by HSBC at HK$4000 per share.

As for why it is 0.2 Hong Kong dollars higher than Fang Hexuan,

The reason is that HSBC offered Li Ka-shing two options.

6.8. If all the money is paid in one lump sum, the share price per share can be the same as Wanda, which is still HK$.

Second, for installment payments, the share price must be increased to HK$7.0.

Li Ka-shing chose the second option without hesitation.

Although Cheung Kong Holdings has already secured its position as the largest Chinese real estate company,
However, there are too many places to spend money.

Acquiring old buildings, buying new land, and building housing estates and industrial buildings all require spending money.

Although Cheung Kong Holdings was listed several years ago,
Raising capital through the stock market is not a problem.
But Li Ka-shing also attaches great importance to shares.
I am also worried that if I hold too few shares,

Will be targeted by people with ulterior motives.

Just like he targeted Wharf Holdings and Hutchison Whampoa.

In addition, in order to compete with Fang Hexuan in the future, funds will also be needed to acquire new shares.

Similarly, HSBC and Cheung Kong Holdings also need to announce the news of this transaction.

Well, although it has also attracted the attention of Hong Kong people and foreign media,
But it is less high-profile than Wanda’s acquisition.

Hutchison Whampoa's management is still so angry that they have no idea what to do.
They could only publish a statement in the newspaper to condemn HSBC for repeatedly stabbing Hutchison Whampoa.

But it's no use, HSBC doesn't bother to care about the barking of these rubbish managers.

Fang Hexuan couldn't help but curl his lips after seeing the news.

If Li Ka-shing had a God's perspective, we should really thank him.

At least treat me to a meal.

After all, historically, Cheung Kong Holdings acquired all 9000 million shares.

But it is calculated based on HK$7.1 per share.

From this perspective, Fang Hexuan's advance action

Helped Li Ka-shing save 400 million Hong Kong dollars!

"Forget it. After all, I have taken advantage of Cheng-ge before. Letting him take advantage of me a little bit can be considered as repaying him a favor."

Fang Hexuan muttered secretly in his heart.

After Li Ka-shing bought the stocks, he was planning a full-scale counterattack against Fang Hexuan.

I actually received an invitation from him, saying that he wanted to discuss cooperation at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

Mandarin Hotel luxury room.

"Mr. Li, I've heard a lot about you!"

"Haha, I should be the one saying this."

"What do you mean by this?"

"I've figured it all out. You got Hutchison shares through the charter king, right?"

".That's right. Everyone in Hong Kong knows that I'm also from Ningbo. Is it strange that I know Sir Bao?"

"This is not strange in itself, but it is a bit strange that you targeted Hutchison."

"Haha! All I can say is that great minds think alike!"

".So, what do you want to talk to me about this time?"

"I told you on the phone before that we would cooperate with Mr. Li!"

“Is there still room for us to cooperate?”

"Of course, you are Chinese, and I am Chinese too. This is our greatest commonality. With this, we can cooperate greatly!"

"so."

"How about we join forces to take down Hutchison Whampoa and drive out the British forces, and then we can talk about how to divide this company?"

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