Reborn Action Star: Starting in Hollywood

Chapter 608 This is our Indian movie!
After hearing Lin Yuan's reply, Charlize immediately took out a thin plan from behind her.

Lin Yuan: (1`1;)
What is this? Where did it come from?
Charlize guessed his thoughts and said with a smile: "Gakki gave it to me. This is the plan Betty prepared in advance, so you don't have to wait. You can see the specific plan she gave you now."

Lin Yuan: ...

Betty had completely grasped his idea and calculated that he would definitely agree, so she even made a specific implementation plan in advance.

Lin Yuan reached out to take it and found that it was really thin, with only two or three pages in total.

Such a thin plan is definitely not a specific implementation plan, but just a summary of some directions.

In fact, this was the case every time Betty submitted a plan to Lin Yuan.

If a plan of several hundred pages were really produced, Lin Yuan would not have enough time to read it, and with his knowledge, it would be impossible for him to fully understand it.

Betty always uses the most concise language to summarize several core key points.

Once Lin Yuan agrees to these core points, the rest will be left to her.

Lin Yuan flipped through the plan and finished reading it quickly.

Betty made two main points:

The first point is to carry out a plan to reform the nature of equity.

The second point is to whom the expanded shares or preferred shares will be issued.

Regarding the first point, it is actually the most troublesome and difficult to implement for Lin Yuan.

Because now that Linyuan Pictures has been listed, all stocks have the same rights.

The company's shares will now be reclassified into common stock and preferred stock.

Preferred stock may sound better than common stock, but unless you are a small retail investor with only a small stake and cannot influence the company's decisions anyway, it is better to prioritize dividends.

For large institutions, common stock is definitely much better than preferred stock, because common stock not only pays dividends, but more equity also allows you to occupy seats on the board of directors and influence company decisions.

In this case, any attempt to re-divide the company's common stock and preferred stock naturally involves a fierce game.

Normally, there are two modes of operation:
The first way to do this is to hold a shareholders' meeting and communicate with the major shareholders who hold the stock. Through bargaining and concessions, they will agree to convert the common stock in their hands into preferred stock.

(The details are more complicated, involving conditions, ratios, repurchases, commitments, etc., which I will not go into detail here, but simplify the description.)
However, this method is not easy to implement, because Lin Yuan's high popularity has led to the fact that the equity of Lin Yuan Pictures is very dispersed.

Lin Yuan himself holds 66.7% of the shares, and the remaining 33.3% of the shares, of which 21% are held by more than 100 major global institutions, and the rest are held by retail investors.

The communication cost of convening so many shareholders for consultation is too high, not to mention the large number of retail investors, which makes it even more difficult to handle.

So Betty proposed the second option, which is that the company first repurchases all the shares on the market, delists and privatizes, and then goes public again.

When the company goes public again, all issued shares should be preferred shares.

This solution is the simplest, but it also brings a huge problem, which is:

The market value of Linyuan Pictures is really too high. If the shares are repurchased at the current stock price, it will require about US$700 billion in funds to complete privatization.

If Lin Yuan were asked to ask for this money, it would be really stressful.

Although he has a lot of assets and has been raising funds continuously in recent years, most of the money he raised has been spent. Otherwise, would he be like Apple in later generations, with $1500 billion in cash on the books that could not be spent?

This will not only waste idle funds, but also attract a lot of covetous eyes.

Apple was severely slaughtered by Washington because it had too much cash.

Fortunately, Betty is very experienced in capital operation and is very familiar with it.

Her proposal was to have future preferred stock holders pay for the repurchase.

This plan is also easy to understand. Since you spend money to buy back the stocks and will sell them again in the future, why bother?
Wouldn't it be better to just let future stock subscribers pay the money directly?

Lin Yuan had to say, this was really too capitalist.

But he also knows that it is not easy to do this, because when you are unwilling to pay for the buyback yourself, the other party has room for bargaining.

It is not easy to put the pressure of paying money on others.

This is certainly based on the fact that Linyuan Pictures is a hot and popular company, but Betty also has to face fierce competition with major investment institutions.

But since Betty dared to submit this plan, Lin Yuan knew that she could definitely do it. He was completely confident in leaving the specific work to Betty.

Then what remains is to consider to whom the benefits given up in this equity restructuring will be distributed.

In Betty's plan, after the restructuring, common stock accounts for 30% and preferred stock accounts for 70%.

30% of the common shares are basically held in Lin Yuan's hands, ensuring his absolute control over the company.

The 70% of preferred shares are used to win over major interest groups.

This ratio is not particularly high, and is even quite conservative.

You should know that Samsung Group's common stock ratio is only 11%, while preferred stock is as high as 89%.

"Charlize, please record this for me. This is the preliminary preferred stock distribution ratio. Please ask Betty to help me weigh the specific details." Lin Yuan said.

"Okay, go ahead!" Charlize took out a pen, cautious for fear of mishearing a word.

It's no wonder that she was on high alert. After all, each word was not worth a thousand gold coins, but possibly hundreds of millions of gold coins.

"25% will be allocated to investment institutions in North America, 10% to investment institutions in China, 15% to the European Union, 6% to Japan, 4% to South Korea, and the remaining 10% will be left to market pricing," said Lin Yuan.

"Ah? China gives so much?" Charlize asked curiously.

Lin Yuan nodded: "You heard me right. If I wasn't worried that Chinese institutions wouldn't be able to afford it due to limited funds, I would have given more."

Based on its strength and status, the United States, as the current undisputed world hegemon, has no choice but to give 25% of the share to investment institutions in North America, while it alone takes up more than one-third of the share.

After all, this is not 20 years from now, when the United States will dominate the world.

In 2005, China's economic strength was not even comparable to that of the United States, and it was far behind Japan.

At this time, China's GDP was US$2.23 trillion, while Japan's was US$4.83 trillion.

Who would have thought that 20 years later, China's GDP would reach 18 trillion US dollars, while Japan's would regress to 4.21 trillion US dollars.

That's why Charlize was surprised that Lin Yuan actually left 10% of the preferred shares to the Chinese investment institution?

This is equivalent to Lin Yuan allocating 10% of his company's profit distribution priority to Chinese investment institutions.

Charlize would not question the rationality of Lin Yuan's actions, but the question is, does China have so much capital to subscribe to these shares?
After all, the richest man in China now is still the businessman surnamed Huang from Gome Electrical Appliances, whose assets are less than 20 billion US dollars.

This shows the huge gap between the wealthy in China and the United States. Charlize is worried that even if Lin Yuan takes out so many cakes, China will not be able to take them all.

Lin Yuan was confident about her concerns.

Although the domestic economic boom had just begun at this time, it did not mean that the US$200 billion required to subscribe to this part of the equity could not be raised.

In fact, once the mysterious power enters the market, this amount of money is nothing.

Seeing that Lin Yuan insisted on doing so, Charlize said no more, but just silently took note of his words and prepared to convey them to Betty later.

She hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Lin Yuan, are you pushing yourself too hard?"

“Life is not easy for anyone who wants to pursue something in this world.

I'm already at the table and have no right to back out.

If you don’t want someone to take everything away from you one day, you can only keep moving forward.

After finishing "King of Spy 2," I'll be filming another movie this year," said Lin Yuan.

Charlize was also quite surprised when she heard Lin Yuan's words.

Previously, Lin Yuan basically maintained a frequency of producing two films every year, and in some years, there were even less than two.

But this year, he is like a chicken with its blood pumped up. After shooting two extremely difficult movies, "The Jungle Bully" and "The King's Avatar 2", he is planning to shoot the third one?

This is really exploiting yourself and treating yourself like a beast of burden.

Lin Yuan had no choice. In the confrontation with the Mellon Group some time ago, although he seemed to have easily repelled the opponent's attack, the danger was self-evident.

If he had not been "non-human" to some extent, the Javelin anti-tank missile might have blown him and director Nolan into the sky, and they would have been wiped out.

The subsequent Oscar scandal and the stock price sniping during his entry into the Kalonos Cave proved that the enemy's tactics were becoming more and more fierce.

Therefore, Lin Yuan knew very well that once he sat at this poker table, there was no way out.

If he was still just a big star making movies like he was at the beginning, or even owned Linyuan Pictures, which is at the level of one of the Big Eight film companies, then he could indeed be a rich man without having to make any progress.

But when he and Betty moved forward together, began to build a consortium, and directly confronted the Mellon Consortium, he had already stepped into the top-level power game.

He can only keep moving forward and eventually reach the top to ensure that everything he has now will not be taken away by others.

He is not so naive as to think that if he does not fight, he can hide in the corner and become a rich man.

The blond commanders of later generations were all hunted down by the judiciary after stepping down. If they could not succeed again, their family property would probably be seized.

Not to mention he is a Chinese who possesses so much wealth and is envied by others.

Lin Yuan would not throw his sword to the ground like Cao Shuang did, deceiving himself: "I am still a rich man!"

Seeing Lin Yuan pushing himself so hard, Charlize said with some heartache, "You work so hard, and the risks you face are so high. Others only see the glory of you becoming the world's richest man, but they don't see that every penny you earn is hard-earned money."

This time, while filming "King of Spy", Charlize saw with her own eyes how Lin Yuan faced the boundless wildfires, as well as natural disasters such as avalanches and ice avalanches.

If it were anyone else, even if they had ten lives, they wouldn't have reached Lin Yuan's current position. Facing Charlize's distress, Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Don't make me sound so pathetic. With a life as decadent as mine, I've enjoyed every blessing. Even if I died tomorrow, I wouldn't have lost anything..."

The next moment, his mouth was blocked by Charlize's outstretched hand.

"Don't talk nonsense!" Charlize's expression was quite serious.

Lin Yuan held her hand and placed it against his face. Her soft fingers felt quite comfortable.

"Don't worry about me. My current life is the dream of many people. I have no right to complain about anything. This is the path I chose myself," said Lin Yuan.

"I just feel it's unfair for you. I'm upset that you have to give away 70% of the money you make from making movies," Charlize said.

It is indeed as she said. After the equity restructuring, Lin Yuan distributed 70% of the preferred shares, which means that 70% of Lin Yuan Pictures' profits will be distributed as dividends first.

Although Lin Yuan still has the final say in the company, most of the profits have to be distributed to various interest groups that support him.

It's inevitable that Charlize will feel unfair for him.

Lin Yuan smiled and hugged Charlize, saying, "My assets are not limited to Lin Yuan Pictures. From now on, if you help me make more money in Africa, I can be lazy."

After hearing Lin Yuan's words, Charlize said seriously, "I will definitely work hard in Africa. I hope I can be as helpful to you as Betty."

Lin Yuan said nothing, just smiled and touched her head. He believed that Charlize really wanted to help him and would do her best to do her best.

"Let's not talk about such a heavy topic. Did you know that the recent release of "Bushel" has caused another Internet public opinion war?" Charlize asked with a smile.

"Internet public opinion war?" Lin Yuan was puzzled. "Could it be that an animal protection organization comes out and accuses me of animal abuse?"

But if you think about it carefully, it's unlikely.

He paid great attention to this point. During the filming process, he established a good relationship with the three animals and filmed many loving interaction details, which were included in the movie's behind-the-scenes footage.

For example, the clip of him and director Eastwood sitting in the cage of the tiger Rajah, eating barbecue, drinking wine, and petting the big cat is one of the clips at the end of the film.

"Come, take a look at this and feel the shamelessness of the mysterious Eastern country." Charlize picked up a news summary and put it in Lin Yuan's hand.

"This is the best Indian film ever and we are incredibly proud!" - The Times of India.

"The beautiful land of India has created this great Indian film!" - Comment from The Economic Times of India.

Lin Yuan: "..."

Because a large part of the film was shot in Cherrapunji, does that make Jungle Bhoot an Indian film?
Are they so proud of shooting a film in India and shamelessly claiming it as their own movie?

Lin Yuan has never really understood the Indians' way of thinking. After all, the great man couldn't figure it out even after three days and three nights, so it is even more impossible for him to figure it out.

Seeing Lin Yuan's bewildered expression, Charlize said, "On IMDB, a large number of Indian netizens have been frantically commenting, saying that although this movie is a Hollywood production, it reflects Indian customs and culture, and showcases India's natural landscape. Naturally, it's promoting India, and is 'undoubtedly' Indian to some extent."

Lin Yuan: (1`1;)
This kind of train of thought is really hard to understand.

However, when it comes to national pride, it may be difficult to say which country is number one, but if we talk about unfounded blind self-confidence, then India is definitely the undisputed leader.

Now Lin Yuan finally knows the origin of the Internet public opinion war.

This kind of public opinion in India should be criticized by his fans all over the world!
He then read the news summary Charlize had given him.

Chinese netizens said:

"This is a standard Hollywood production, an American film released by Hollywood. Aren't you Indians too overconfident? Lin Yuan is Chinese, and we are embarrassed to say that 'Jungle Bully' is a Chinese film."

"If Uday, the protagonist of 'Jungle Bully,' spoke a single word of Hindi in the movie, we would grudgingly acknowledge that it was an Indian film. But did the protagonist say anything? It was all in English, okay?"

In response, Indian netizens hit back:
"Who says we in India only speak Hindi? English is our official language! We have used it as our official language for hundreds of years!"

"Have you forgotten? We are one of the countries in the Commonwealth!"

Regarding the comments of Indian netizens, Lin Yuan said that it was really eye-opening.

How can you come up with such a "sophisticated" idea?

But when I think about how the Indians later told the white Canadians to get out of Canada and confidently said that Canada was a land that had belonged to Indians since ancient times, it seems to be similar to the way we are arguing now?

It’s incredible. If I can just recognize any father, the whole world should be mine.

Lin Yuan continued to read on, and even Korean netizens said they couldn't stand it anymore:
"Wow! What a shameless country! They want to steal everything?"

"Because your own country's culture is not good enough, you want to steal the glory of others?"

Seeing this, Lin Yuan had only one expression: ()
The Japanese netizen below expressed his true feelings:
"Yoshi! They're so shameless that even Koreans are impressed."

"We Japanese will never steal the culture of other countries. We have always acknowledged that our culture came from China. We must be upright and honest!"

After seeing the responses from Japanese netizens, Korean and Chinese netizens could no longer sit still.

Chinese netizens commented: "Open and aboveboard? After learning so much about our culture, you turn around and stab us?"

Korean netizens commented: "What do you mean even we Koreans are inferior? Aren't you also stealing? Don't think that just by making a few minor changes, the tea ceremony becomes your original culture?"

As a result, the entire debate on the Internet became a mess.

Instead, India, the instigator, was neglected and thrown aside.

Regarding this phenomenon, Lin Yuan can only say that, indeed, Japan-ROK friendship relies on China, China-Japan friendship relies on South Korea, and China-ROK friendship relies on Japan...

"Isn't it interesting? Because this is a hot topic on the Internet every day, with international servers competing against each other, it's quite lively." Charlize said.

Lin Yuan said helplessly, "It seems I accidentally caused a big fight, but can't the internet focus on other more meaningful topics?"

"A more meaningful topic? Of course there is. There is a hotter topic on the Internet right now," Charlize said.

"What?" Looking at Charlize's eyes, Lin Yuan suddenly realized that it seemed to be related to him.

"You seem to be thinking about something very rude." Lin Yuan said.

"Congratulations, you're the lustful lover of women around the world," Charlize said.

"Bah, bah, bah! What kind of shameful and shabby title is this? Why is he the desired lover of women all over the world? Can't he be the dream lover of girls all over the world?" Lin Yuan protested.

"The protest is invalid. I have the data to prove it. You just learned that 'Jungle Outlaws' was a box office hit, but do you know how many pre-sale DVDs it sold?" Charlize asked.

"How much?" Lin Yuan seemed to guess what Charlize wanted to express.

"$2 million!" Charlize gave the answer.

"How many?"

"You heard right. It's $2 million!"

"..."

Crazy, that's just the pre-sale sales for the DVD.

Because "Jungle Bully" is still in the release schedule, the finished DVD will not be released directly now, and it can only be pre-sold.

DVDs will only be delivered after the movie is released in theaters.

With pre-sales reaching $2 million, isn’t it very likely that total sales will exceed $5 million?
This result is simply unbelievable.

Among Lin Yuan’s previous films, the one with the best DVD sales performance is "Hero", with final sales reaching 8000 million US dollars.

The film's DVD sales are high, and understandably so.

"Hero" has a very high level of visual aesthetic expression. For the beautiful scenes and the use of colors with strong visual impact, this movie is worth watching repeatedly, and it is completely worth buying a DVD.

There is also "The Heroes of Tang Dynasty", which has similar reasons to "Hero", with DVD sales reaching 1 million US dollars.

Among all of Lin Yuan’s previous films, the one with the highest DVD sales was not "The Legend of Tang Dynasty" or "The King of Spy Wars".

It’s “Lin Yuan and His Wife”, because in this movie, there is a very intense sex scene between Lin Yuan and Liu Yufei.

This is also one of the rare movies in which Lin Yuan shows off her perfect body on the big screen.

For the purpose of repeated viewing, the DVD of "Lin Yuan and His Wife" was sold out directly. It is said that the female movie star bought at least three copies.

Why three?
Because one copy is never opened and is collected as a family heirloom.

Although the other two copies are used directly, one is used for viewing and the other is for backup.

In the movie "Jungle Bully", Lin Yuan shows off his entire body except for the fur around his waist.

Those pectoral muscles, those strong arms, those powerful thighs...

Chiliu~
No, why can I hear the saliva of female fans?
It turned out to be from Charlize, and she felt deeply sympathetic.

Could you please be more promising?
Others can see it but can’t eat it. Haven’t you been eating less recently?
Why are you still so greedy?

It’s okay, I’ll give you an extra noodle as a reward tonight!

Charlize pulled out a business contract and asked, "This is an invitation from VOGUE magazine. They want you to shoot a photo album."

“No!”

"The offer is $100 million."

"..."

Oops, I'm a little moved!

(End of this chapter)