Huayu: Starting from intercepting Duan Yu

Chapter 243 Buying Apple at rock-bottom prices, Xu Yi is furious!

Ten minutes later, Jessica Alba was able to speak again.

Time was already tight.

Besides, her main purpose today was not to satisfy Xu Yi.

Rather, it's to satisfy oneself.

They definitely wouldn't want to be unable to speak for a long time.

Then she simply lay down on the back.

Although she is more than six months pregnant, it is quite obvious.

But she still wore a gown to the Oscars today.

Therefore, it is very convenient.

Xu Yi didn't pay any attention.

Jessica Alba, now 27, still looks stunning.

Moreover, this is her first pregnancy, so the impact is not significant.

As for other bonuses, needless to say.

The next moment, he took another step forward.

Jessica Alba's eyes widened again.

He couldn't help but shout out the word that starts with "F"!

……

More than an hour later, Jessica Alba received a call from her fiancé and hurriedly left the room.

However, she has already achieved her goal for today.

This also confirms that Natalie did not lie to her.

Xu Yi's resources and combat prowess are indeed exceptionally strong...

Xu Yi then went home as well.

The following day, major media outlets in the United States and Europe all reported on the grand occasion of this year's Academy Awards ceremony.

He won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

And after being targeted, he announced that he would no longer participate in any future Oscar selections.

It was also featured prominently in reports by major media outlets.

Public opinion was in an uproar.

But Xu Yi paid no attention to any of these things.

He has other things to do.

Preparations for Iron Man 2 were completed long ago.

Now it's time to start filming.

It was late February.

The filming is expected to take two and a half months.

The special effects took two and a half months to produce.

This way, most of the special effects can be completed by the end of July.

He will take the remaining special effects and post-production work back to China to complete.

It will be just in time for the Olympics in August.

Meanwhile, the financial crisis had already begun last year.

Stock markets around the world have fallen significantly.

Including the US stock market.

Xu Yi had been keeping an eye on Apple stock, which had peaked at $25 per share at the end of last year.

It has fallen to $14 per share.

In just two months, the price has fallen by more than 40%!

However, Xu Yi knew that Apple would experience a small rebound in the next two months.

The rebound exceeded 65%.

If you factor in a 1x leverage, the profit would exceed 130%.

So he plans to make a small bottom-fishing move.

They exchanged over HK$40 billion for US$6 million.

Including the original $6 million, the total investment is $12 billion.

If nothing unexpected happens, there should be at least a profit of 10 billion US dollars.

It's like getting half of Marvel for free!
And with Apple's current market capitalization of over 1000 billion US dollars.

Earning 10 billion US dollars won't have a significant impact.

As for why he said that, he knew that a financial crisis was coming and stock markets around the world were plummeting.

However, they did not short sell directly.

Because short selling is not as easy as you might imagine.

It's not that profitable.

Short selling is essentially about finding someone to bet against.

In a normal market, some people are bullish and some are bearish, so it's easy to find someone to bet against.

But in the current market, everyone is saying not to panic, that it's just a technical adjustment.

In reality, there aren't that many people who are truly willing to invest real money to be bullish.

Otherwise, the stock market wouldn't have fallen so drastically.

Naturally, there aren't many opposing sides to be found.

In other words, you can't even short sell.

Because nobody wants to gamble against you.

Even if you make a profit, you won't be able to close your position.

It's like winning chips, but no one will give them to you in cash.

The protagonist in the movie "The Big Short" foresaw the financial crisis and knew that housing prices would plummet.

However, if you want to short sell, you still need to go to those financial institutions.

Have a financial institution design a special financial product for him.

In essence, it's a bet against financial institutions.

Otherwise, if short selling were so easy, why bother with all this effort?

In short, short selling offers limited profits but carries unlimited risks.

Of course, this is also because his amount of capital is too large.

Otherwise, ordinary people could still make a small profit by shorting stocks.

In addition, once the amount of funds reaches a certain level, it doesn't matter what method is used.

It's difficult to make huge profits through purely financial means anymore.

Even Warren Buffett, known as the "Oracle of Omaha," once his capital reached a certain level...

It can only maintain an annual return of around ten percent.

After all, these are purely financial instruments, such as stock trading, futures trading, and index trading.

Even the most exciting and highest leveraged activity is foreign exchange trading.

To put it bluntly, it's all a zero-sum game.

For every winner, there must be a loser.

You're making money off what others are losing.

When you have a small amount of capital, it's still possible to increase your investment by tens or hundreds of times in a single market trend.

But the amount of capital is too large, and they want to multiply it by tens or hundreds of times.

Don't say it's impossible.

Even if it does happen, you'd better pray that the other side is just messing around by unplugging the internet cable.

Instead of just shooting you in the back and killing yourself!

Those who genuinely want to make money through financial means.

Especially making big money.

There are only two methods.

One approach is like Buffett, relying on time to build up value. The other is like Xu Yi, investing in high-market-cap, high-growth companies.

However, neither of these two methods is something that ordinary people can do.

……

The Iron Man 2 crew.

Today is the third day of filming.

Due to the huge success of "Iron Man".

In addition to the investors this time, Xu Yi is not the only one.

It also includes Warner Bros., Sony Pictures, and China Film Group.

Therefore, the budget for Iron Man 2 has also increased significantly.

Including publicity costs and his director's fee, the total budget reached 2 million US dollars.

The company publicly announced that the investment was 2.5 million US dollars.

Actors' salaries, except for those of newcomers, have also increased.

However, the atmosphere on set was noticeably unusual at this moment.

Or to be more precise, the atmosphere has been very unusual for the past three days of filming.

"cut!"

Xu Yi sat behind the screen and shouted expressionlessly.

He has called "cut" at least a hundred times in the past three days, which has seriously affected his filming schedule.

But this is not critical.

It's perfectly normal for a bad performance to require a reshoot.

He has always been very patient.

But the key issue is that the vast majority of the reshoots over those three days were due to the same person.

Or was it intentional?

This person is none other than anyone else.

It's none other than Robert Downey Jr., the male lead of Iron Man 2!
"That's all for today's filming. We'll start filming on time tomorrow."

Xu Yi glanced at the time and said again with a blank expression.

He then looked at Harvey beside him.

"Call him to your room tonight, then let me know."

"no problem."

Harvey nodded immediately.

He certainly knew who Xu Yi was talking about.

I also know why that guy did that.

Previously, in order to return to Hollywood.

And the opportunity to star as the male lead in a film with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars.

That guy had to sign a contract that included 10 movie roles.

His salary for his first film was 50 US dollars.

His salary for the second film was up to 500 million US dollars.

The highest salary for the third film was 1000 million US dollars.

His salary for each subsequent film was a maximum of 2000 million US dollars.

But he became famous after his first movie was released.

And it’s not just any fire.

Therefore, he would naturally be dissatisfied with the salary and the contract for a total of 10 films.

Given his current popularity, his film salary could easily reach tens of millions of US dollars.

But when he asked for a higher salary, he didn't get the result he wanted.

And so, the events of these three days unfolded.

This is clearly a way of expressing dissatisfaction!

Xu Yi left the film crew.

They returned to the RV, worth 300 million US dollars, which was parked outside the film set.

Scarlett Johansson naturally followed suit.

Her relationship with director Xu Yi, the biggest investor, was no secret on the set.

And at this moment, she was still wearing the bodysuit that Black Widow wore in the movie.

She hadn't removed her makeup.

Seeing her like this, Xu Yi immediately waved to her.

After she walked over, another hand forcefully pressed her head down.

He is very angry now.

Someone needs to help him put out the fire!

Half an hour later.

Xu Yi and Scarlett took the hotel's private elevator to the top floor.

This is a five-star hotel not far from the filming location.

The Iron Man 2 crew booked several floors of a hotel as accommodation for the actors and crew during filming.

Xu Yi stayed alone in the presidential suite on the top floor of the hotel.

The room rate is 3 US dollars per day.

Based on this standard, his accommodation expenses alone during the filming period amounted to more than 200 million US dollars!

The production team naturally paid for all of this!

After entering the room, Scarlett immediately went to take a shower.

Her makeup was completely ruined before.

There was still quite a bit of it stuck to her hair.

It's impossible to clean it with paper.

Fortunately, it was completely dark when we got back to the hotel.

There were no reporters around.

Otherwise, she'd probably be in tomorrow's gossip newspapers and news!
Fifteen minutes later, Scarlett came out of the bathroom.

She dared not keep Xu Yi waiting too long.

At this moment, she even changed into a set of extremely sexy lingerie.

Combined with her looks and figure, she is indeed very attractive.

As a result, Xu Yi's anger, which had just been extinguished, immediately flared up again.

So he walked over and pressed her head down again!

At this moment, Robert Downey Jr. also returned to his room.

As the male protagonist, he also lives in a suite.

But it was just an ordinary suite.

This made him dissatisfied again.

I thought that with his current popularity and status, he could easily switch to another production team.

Instead of staying in the presidential suite like Xu Yi, I'll stay in the presidential suite.

At the very least, staying in a luxury suite shouldn't be a problem.

And then there are the 10 film contracts, and this time the 500 million yuan razor blade fee, not to mention...

Actually, his demands weren't high; he just wanted his salary for this film to be increased to 1000 million US dollars.

Then next time, I can directly receive 2000 million yuan in razor blades as a reward.

As a result, Xu Yi not only rejected his request for increased pay, but also refused it.

They even said that if he performs well, he will receive a bonus after the movie is released.

But he's not new to Hollywood; how could he possibly believe such a thing?

He knew from his very first day in Hollywood that Hollywood was all about what was written in black and white.

You can't trust any other promises!
(End of this chapter)