Huayu: A Commercial Director

Chapter 215 I don't understand, but I can drink.

Wang Changtian stared at Chen Shouzhe for a long time before he was certain that Chen Shouzhe was not lying and that he really had no money.

“How about we start negotiating first, and you buy the shares once you have the money?” Wang Changtian suggested.

"We'll talk about it later. I can't come up with the money right now. I'm still waiting for the money. I've invested so much in movies and the stock market, which means I'm living with my master's wife now," Chen Shou said, spreading his hands.

Wang Changtian was utterly speechless. He didn't believe Chen Shouzhe's nonsense at all. How could the movie be so profitable and not have any money? It was obvious that he didn't want to invest in Enlight Media.

But he couldn't hold a knife to his throat and demand investment, so he had no choice but to leave and stay behind to protect the film industry.

After Wang Changtian left, Chen Shouzhe stopped working. He did some calculations and realized that he had unknowingly invested in a lot of companies that were preparing to make short videos.

Both companies have shown some improvement, but they are burning through cash and can only keep adding money, otherwise their shares will be diluted to nothing one day.

Even the founders, without continuous investment, may end up with very few shares.

Moreover, there is a possibility of being usurped. For example, a very popular film and television platform, after being invested in by Alibaba, has now completely become an Alibaba company.

The founder was completely ousted last year and has been keeping the money for who knows what.

Last year, Alibaba tried to pressure Chen Shouzhe because it had a larger downstream platform. It was like saying, "I have such a large streaming platform. In the future, your production company's works will flow into us. Do you want to deepen the cooperation? You can invest in my streaming platform, and I will invest in your production company."

As a result, Chen Shouzhe completely ignored Alibaba. Back in 2015, he had already partnered with Tencent, selling the movies he released to Tencent's platform and jointly developing several projects with them.

Of course, Tencent hasn't fully entered the market yet. In recent years, Tencent has also wanted to invest in the film and television industry, and it seems that it has already planned to acquire a certain company.

The internet itself has a high degree of media dissemination, which is exactly the resource that the film and television industry needs.

In the past, celebrities could only become famous through movies, TV series, or by using the Spring Festival Gala stage to make the whole world know them.

Nowadays, unless your performance is exceptionally good and makes you an overnight sensation, getting on the Spring Festival Gala is a real hassle. If you perform well, it's fine, but if you perform poorly, you'll be heavily criticized.

Why bother focusing on creating good work when there are so many other ways to become famous and quickly rise to the top?
The power of promotional platforms is a major weapon of the internet.

Hollywood cheated Wall Street back then because they didn't have the internet as a media platform, so Hollywood could easily take advantage of those suckers.

Moreover, Wall Street is powerless to do anything about it, because in terms of culture, money alone is not enough to guarantee success.

They invested a billion to bid on a pile of garbage, so what can they do?

If the internet had existed back then, Wall Street would have had an easy time controlling it, just like Hollywood is now, still controlled by those big players.

For traditional media, publicity channels are very important, and the biggest publicity channel now is definitely Weibo. Therefore, Weibo has a diverse shareholder composition, with Alibaba being a major investor.

Having missed out on Weibo, Chen Shouzhe will definitely set his sights on the next big trend.

As someone who has traveled through time, who hasn't watched short videos? That's exactly what he's investing in.

As for baijiu (Chinese liquor), he wouldn't even think of it if he didn't enjoy drinking it.

He didn't trade stocks before, nor did he have the money to get involved in that stuff, but he had heard of the once ubiquitous first listed liquor company in his previous life.

Since they're all the same, I might as well buy them.

Now it's less than 200 yuan. If he buys more and gets it from other shareholders at a premium, he'll become a small shareholder too.

Money in hand is becoming less and less valuable, but since he doesn't lack money now, he invests it all.

When the light disagreed, he immediately changed his target, deciding to wait until he had more money.

After finishing the meeting in the afternoon, I went back to the villa. I've been too busy these days. If I go back to spend time with my daughter, she'll cry and fuss when I go to work. It's better to stay at the villa and video chat with her every day. "Didn't you go to training today?" Chen Shou asked as he returned to the villa and noticed a pair of high heels. He didn't know who it was. When he entered the living room, he saw Reba sitting on the sofa watching a drama.

"I'm taking a day off today. I have some work to take care of." Reba was still a little flustered when she saw Chen Shouzhe return. Although the two had been together for several years, she still felt that Chen Shouzhe had a powerful aura. He was a big director and a big boss, while she was like a timid little wife.

“You’ll come with me to the Oscars. You don’t need to go so early; I need to get there beforehand to host the banquet and such. You can go later if you want,” Chen Shou said.

"It's okay, I can go with you. It's already arranged with the company," Dilraba said.

You can bring people into the Oscar nominees' dinner, so you can attend and meet those international superstars.

Yang Mi and the others had already made arrangements, and she was very envious of Reba.

Yang Mi met many people at the Golden Globe Gala and was remembered by many, who knew that she was the woman who was with Chen Shou.

Compared to the Golden Globes, the Oscars dinner is definitely bigger and has more attendees.

For female celebrities, this kind of occasion is simply a dream stage.

When Reba thinks about Yang Mi's envious expression today, she can't help but grin foolishly.

Even while watching TV dramas, her mind was already wandering overseas.

The aunt cooked for them, and after they finished eating, Chen Shouzhe continued working. Reba was very familiar with the place and would come to stay when she had time. She didn't dare to come when Chen Shouzhe was around.

It was almost ten o'clock when I came out of the movie. I saw Chen Shouzhe still working in the study, so I poured him a glass of water.

"Still not resting?" Dilraba was wearing pajamas. The heating in the room was on full blast. She looked quite charming in the slightly dim lighting, even without makeup. If the camera slowed down a bit, it would look like a scene from a Wong Kar-wai movie.

Chen Shou looked up at her and then realized that it was almost ten o'clock.

"come over."

Chen Shou patted his thigh.

Reba blushed, placed the cup on the table in front of her, and gently sat on Chen Shouzhe's lap.

Chen Shou placed his hand on her waist and pointed to the storyboard drawn in front of her.

"You've read the script, haven't you?"

"I've been watching it."

"You'll need to keep your makeup simple then, since you're so beautiful."

Reba's face was flushed, and you could feel the heat. He nodded.

"I understand, I should actually get a tan."

"No need, current makeup techniques are sufficient, and there's no time to spare."

"I will work hard."