After a period of publicity and building momentum, "Crazy Stone" is about to be released nationwide.
Different from the previous life, this version of "Crazy Stone" is no longer a small low-cost production of two to three million, but a standard commercial film with an investment of more than ten million.
Moreover, this movie also has top actors joining in. For example, Liu Tianwang, who plays the Hong Kong international thief in the movie, is still a top-notch king-level actor in the field of Chinese movies. With his joining, this movie attracts countless attention. .
Liu Tianwang has not played a villain for many years, and he has rarely even played a second male lead. However, in "Crazy Stone", the international thief he played can only be regarded as one of several male third leads. On the contrary, this The first and second male leads in the movie are all little-known actors. Many people say that it is incredible that this movie can invite Liu Tianwang to act as a supporting role for a bunch of unknown actors, but Ning Hao I know very well in my heart that the main reason why Liu Tianwang took over the filming of this movie was because of the two famous brands of Makino Image and Li Mu.
Since Li Mu deliberately delayed the release of the hilarious comedy movie "Crazy Stone" until after SARS, there were almost no competitors during this time period.
More importantly, because urban residents have just experienced the extremely depressing SARS epidemic, they are in great need of a kind of release emotionally and subconsciously. At this time, going into a movie theater that they did not dare to go to before and watching a hilarious movie has become a problem for many. The best choice in front of people.
Ning Hao has been busy on the crew of "Flying Tigers" before. After "Crazy Stone" was finalized, he temporarily bid farewell to the crew and returned to Beijing to prepare for the release. During this time, he has run multiple test screenings across the country. Unexpectedly What's remarkable is that the response at the test screening of "Crazy Stone" was excellent. The audience almost laughed from beginning to end, and some people were even forced to go to the hospital because they laughed too unrestrainedly.
A movie with such good reviews from the public can expect a bumper harvest at the box office, so Ning Hao was in a particularly good mood during this period.
It will be officially released soon. In the past few days, Ning Hao has focused all his energy on the premiere. In addition to the starring team including Liu Tianwang, he also invited all the contracted artists of Makino Image, as well as some people in the industry Friends, but Li Mu was not invited.
In Ning Hao's mind, Li Mu is his boss and his benefactor. When his first theater movie is released, he naturally hopes that Li Mu can appear at the premiere, but Ning Hao also understands in his heart that Li Mu is too He is busy, and all kinds of big actions are happening one after another, which also proves from the side that he has no time to participate in such unimportant things as movie premieres.
On his way back to the city from Miyun, Li Mu called Ning Hao. As soon as he got through, he asked Ning Hao: "How are you preparing for the release?"
Ning Hao said with a smile: "We are almost ready. Now we are just waiting to see the real story after it is released."
Li Mu asked him: "Do you have any psychological box office estimates?"
Ning Hao replied: "The passing line is over 100 million, and the excellence line is over 200 million. If it can exceed 300 million, it will be blessed by the Buddha."
Li Mu said: "Judging from the quality of this movie, as long as the promotion and scheduling can keep up, there should be no problem with 300 million."
After saying that, Li Mu added: "I heard that there is a premiere coming soon?"
"Yes, the premiere will be at 8 o'clock next Friday night, and it will be officially released nationwide at midnight next Saturday."
Li Mu said: "Why didn't you inform me about the premiere? Did you not want to invite me?"
Ning Hao hurriedly explained: "It's not that I don't want to invite you, Mr. Li, but I'm afraid that you will be too busy and cause you trouble. What you are doing now is often big deals worth hundreds of millions or billions of dollars. How can you have the extra energy to participate?" Premiere."
Speaking of this, Ning Hao hurriedly asked: "Mr. Li, are you free next Friday? It would be great if you could spare a few hours to come to the scene and show your face!"
Li Mu said: "I have promised Du Wei that I will pick her up from her school next Friday and go to the scene with her, so even if you don't invite me, I will come uninvited."
Ning Hao suddenly became excited: "Great! If Mr. Li also comes to the premiere, then I will be confident that the box office will exceed 300 million."
…
Before the motorcade returned to the city, Li Mu asked Li Ziwei to book a hotel for Larry Page. The motorcade first sent Larry Page to the hotel where he was staying, and then sent Li Mu to Makino Technology.
At this time, more than 12 hours had passed since Google fully accepted the decision to acquire Muye & Baidu. This matter was not completely kept secret, so it quickly spread in Silicon Valley.
The entire Silicon Valley is now discussing this appalling merger. Among them, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs can’t help but feel a sense of sadness because they can see what happened to Google, while ordinary practitioners are worried about this upcoming crisis. The acquisition was extremely shocking. They couldn't believe that Google's ability to resist risks was so weak, and they didn't expect that Makino Technology's influence on the industry had reached such an incredible level.
In the eyes of most people, Google's transaction was an extremely failure, and its willingness to take on such demanding M&A requirements was even more unbelievable. It gave one-third of its shares to a Chinese person for almost nothing. Many people were talking about this. During the incident, I asked a friend who was communicating with me: "Has Google's head been squeezed by the door? How could it agree to such a perverted merger agreement?"
Many people said that even if Google really wants to compromise with Makino Technology in the end, it should not compromise in this way, because this kind of compromise would be too ugly to lose.
However, what amazes Silicon Valley is that although everyone in the technology field cannot understand why Google made such a decision, the capital market's current prospects for Google have changed from gloomy to bright almost instantly.
The capital market does not care about Google's current equity structure at all, and there is no need to care about it. They only look at Google's future development prospects. In their view, Google's next step will not only eliminate a heavyweight competitor, but also continue to maintain its own search engine. The world's number one position in the engine field can also obtain a large amount of resource injection from giant companies like Makino Technology. Therefore, no matter what percentage of Google's shares Makino Technology holds in the future, Google's prospects are bright.
As a result, the capital market immediately adjusted its valuation of Google, and many financial institutions are also conducting new evaluations. In their view, the largest real estate in Silicon Valley is not technology patents or company property, but Li Mu.
If the acquisition is completed, Google's stock price, stimulated by this huge good news, will surge from the lowest level of 3 to 4 billion US dollars, and will exceed 6 billion US dollars in a very short period of time, and will exceed 6 billion US dollars in a month. Ten billion!
(End of chapter)