Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 690 March (33)

Shen Yan's habit of live streaming has inspired many young actors in the industry to start doing it too...

However, most top celebrities rarely do this!
On the one hand, I feel it's low-class, and on the other hand... I don't have time!
Top celebrities need to set aside time to build connections...

Dinner parties, drinking parties, resource gatherings, including numerous brand endorsements…

Traffic is always busy!
Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) only have a few years of market share...

There are few celebrities in the Chinese entertainment industry, so each of them has managed to hold on for ten years!
However, there's something Shen Yan has never understood: Take Wu Fan, for example. He's heavily promoted by the Beijing entertainment circle, with countless resources coming his way in fashion, business, film and television. Where does he find the time to get involved with his fans?
But now he understands!

Most of them come to us on their own initiative.

There's absolutely no need to spend time cultivating a relationship...

But the fact that she was raped and was still a minor... is really hard to understand!
Back to the live stream, the most distinctive feature of Shen Yan's live stream is his boldness; he'll answer any question you ask…

That's very honest!

For example, right now he's talking about Wang Sicong...

"Mr. Wang, I've never dealt with him before. Many people say he's a man of strong character... Well, let him be! Anyway, I'll definitely avoid people like that!"

"The upper class... this is an idiom... it comes from a director's story, a famous director from mainland China, not Zhang Yimou... the story goes like this, in the 90s, a certain director attended a banquet, the organizers of the banquet valued him very much and specially sent a stretched Lincoln to pick him up... then, the director felt that he was an upper class!"

"That's right, just because you rode in a stretch Lincoln once, you think you're a high-class person... I was quite surprised when I heard this story. Luckily it was just a stretch Lincoln. If he were to go to space... wouldn't he think he'd be a god?"

"But as I gradually came to understand that era, it's true that making movies was a privilege back then!"

……

Around 10:30, Shen Yan put down his guitar—he had just played and sang "Wukong".

Live stream ended.

I glanced at my phone, and sure enough, there were missed calls from Ji Xiang…

The call connected, and we talked for five minutes…

Ji Xiang has recently been helping him negotiate the acquisition of Maoyan!
Maoyan is definitely going to be acquired. Shen Yan currently holds 22% of the shares – he spent 300 million yuan two years ago.

Current situation: WeChat Movies, Taobao Movies, and Baidu Nuomi are all making a concerted effort…

Yes, the three of them did not obtain joint distribution rights, but they directly sold it for 9.9 yuan on their own platform.

The platform itself is throwing money at the problem!
You can't possibly refuse, can you?

Well, the three companies have joined forces to besiege Maoyan—because Maoyan is currently the market leader…

Its market share exceeds 40%.

Of course we have to do it...

Online ticketing platforms themselves don't involve much technology, their business models are all the same, and there's no such thing as user loyalty.

It's all about who has more money!
It's hard to say which of the three BAT companies has the most money, but they are definitely all richer than Maoyan!

What should I do?
Let's get financing!
Incidentally, he also wanted to get closer to Shen Yan...

After all, the exclusive merchandise sales platform for "Monkey King: Hero Is Back" helped Maoyan recover some of its losses!

Furthermore, for most of the films produced by Spark Studio, Maoyan is a co-producer, co-distributor, and even the primary distributor in some cases.

It's fair to say that Xinghuo Studio is essentially keeping Maoyan (a Chinese online entertainment platform) as a subsidiary!

It makes perfect sense that Shen Yan wants to acquire Maoyan...

The current discussion revolves around the acquisition price...

Shen Yan wants absolute control!

In other words, the shareholding cannot be less than 51%...

In fact, Shen Yan wanted... 70% of the shares...

That's what you call absolute control...

After two rounds of negotiations, the following terms have been agreed upon: Shen Yan will invest 11 billion yuan plus approximately 8% of Xinghuo Studio's equity in exchange for another 37% stake in Maoyan…

Adding the previous 22%, that's 59% of the shares!

Ji Xiang just talked about the share swap ratio...

He wanted to take fewer shares of Xinghuo. Shen Yan... remained noncommittal.

Spark Studio's profits exceeded 14 billion last year, and even with an 8% dividend, that would still exceed 100 million...

—There are dividends every year!

With Shen Yan around, Spark Studio will never lack projects…

They're currently discussing equity stakes in Spark Studio...

Based on market prices, Spark Studio is worth at least 300 billion yuan, and even 8% of that is 24 billion yuan!
It's pretty complicated anyway...

Shen Yan is waiting for the final news.

At this moment, Yang Mi pushed open the door and walked in, seeing Shen Yan still standing on the balcony: "What are you doing?"

"...It's nothing, just getting some fresh air!"

Shen Yan turned his head: "You've finished filming?"

"Hmm... Wu Zhenyu is quite a gentleman!"

"Well, because you're famous, a top-tier star in mainland China. If you were a nobody, he definitely wouldn't be a gentleman!"

Shen Yan replied casually, then asked, "How many days are you going to film?"

"We'll shoot for three days first, then come back and shoot for another two days..."

As Yang Mi answered, she took off her coat: "I'm going to take a shower..."

"Um…"

……

Many people say that Wu Zhenyu has amazing acting skills, but he has never won a Hong Kong Film Award...

That's a real shame!

It's a pity that "Infernal Affairs 2" was not released.

Actually, the most important thing for an actor is their work!

Look at the Douban ratings of Wu Zhenyu's works in recent years; the last one to score over 8 points was "Exiled" in 06...

Why should you be awarded a prize if there are no high-quality works?

Wu Zhenyu truly became a skilled actor, and besides Du Qifeng's direction, he also owes a debt of gratitude to one person—Wilson Yip!

Wu and Ye collaborated on two critically acclaimed films, *Explosive Cop* and *Juliet in Love*, which accounted for two-thirds of Wu's only three Hong Kong Film Awards nominations. Sometimes, encountering a director who understands you can be twice as effective in personal growth, such as Tony Leung and Wong Kar-wai, or Lee Kang-sheng and Tsai Ming-liang.

Gunfire...

He had some friction with Johnnie To while filming this movie... so he didn't put much effort into his acting.

But "The Mission" is the only film for which he won the Best Actor award—the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor!

Shen Yan cast him as Xu Weiqiang because he can play a psychopath!
It's Handsome Kun!
However, acting alongside him... there's no sense of pressure, unlike with Tony Leung Ka-fai...

Leung Ka-fai's portrayal of Lin Luk-ho is truly outrageous!
"How many innocent people die in a natural disaster, an earthquake? Have you ever hated heaven? Have you ever hated earth? We're just killing one more person, so what?"

He spoke so honestly... as if he really thought that way!

It smells like that!

Oh, Liang Jiahui only filmed for ten days before his scenes were finished…

Kara Hui... filmed for half a month. Actually, according to the script, she should have shaved her head to cooperate with the treatment!
With modern makeup techniques, there's no need to actually shave your head...

In fact, the character Zhang Guiqing, played by Kara Hui, is the mastermind behind it all—she has cancer and wants to make amends and accumulate good karma, but she tricks others into turning themselves in to help her atone for her sins.

First, they tricked a healthy gangster into believing he had stage four lung cancer and then turned himself in.

When Chen Guilin proposed to kill the top two on the blacklist before surrendering himself, this "conscience-loving sister" did not insist on stopping Chen Guilin's suicidal act, but instead provided valid clues about the top two...

Sister Conscience believes that reducing the number of criminals in the world by three, even at the cost of significant public resources and the deaths of many others, is ultimately a good thing.

But she herself cannot die!
Even though she saved the top 3 most wanted people, she caused the deaths of a bunch of innocent people...

Anyway, I can't die!
By the way, Yang Mi was supposed to only film for three days... but she stayed for a whole week before leaving, seemingly wanting more...

(End of this chapter)