America 1995

Chapter 78 The Hot Milo

"...Ah, I know. I will be careful not to say anything nonsense, damn, I'm not a child!"

"Shakespeare in Love will be finished tomorrow? I have something else to do here, so I can't go back for a while. You keep an eye on it, but I think we should do post-production as soon as possible. It should be released soon while I'm so popular now."

"Stop the cooperation negotiations with Paramount and MGM. Now they are begging me. Don't reject Disney. They have tasted the sweetness. I think they will never give up The Da Vinci Code, which looks more delicious."

"That's all. Things here are also very important. Wendy, I'll leave Los Angeles to you."

In the trunk of a Cadillac sedan driving on the streets of Manhattan Island.

After hanging up the phone with Wendy, Milo raised the corners of his mouth in a smug smile.

With the final box office release of "Angels and Demons".

As the creator and leader of this film, Milo earned $5 million from one film.

It can be said that he is now completely famous.

Maybe the news had fermented for some time, and many people called him after breakfast.

There is his father and his good friend Hector.

There are more people in Hollywood or the media industry.

For example, Murdoch, Redstone and Michael Ashworth.

Both his father and Hector asked him if the news was true.

When I heard Milo confirm that the movie could indeed make hundreds of millions of dollars.

"It seems that you are suitable for this path." These are the words of Father Joseph.

"Fuck! I want to make a movie with you now. Milo, how about giving me some investment share in your next movie?" These are what Hector said.

As for Murdoch and his people, it is obvious that they are here to seek cooperation.

A very simple truth.

As a prequel, "Angels & Demons" grossed $4.7 million worldwide.

You can make money this way.

There is no reason why "The Da Vinci Code", which is more famous, has a larger audience and is based on a novel, would be worse than its predecessor.

Everyone thought that The Da Vinci Code would be a huge hit.

Since Milo can collaborate with Disney on "Angels and Demons",

Why can’t we collaborate with them on The Da Vinci Code?
How will you know if you don’t try?
After dealing with these people's calls, Wendy called at the right time.

Milo took the opportunity to discuss the next plan with Wendy.

By the time he hung up the phone, it was already ten o'clock in the morning.

Milo's convoy also arrived at 1011 Wall Street.

A while later, he and two bodyguards appeared at Paladin Investment Company.

After entering the trading room, the sharp-eyed Nelson quickly walked over to him and greeted the boss with a smile:
"Good morning, Boss. Congratulations! Congratulations on making as much profit as a US-listed company in a single movie."

As of last year, there were a total of 7339 listed companies in the U.S. stock market.

Among these companies, more than 2,000 reported losses last year.

Among the remaining listed companies, less than 4 have annual profits of more than US$ million.

In other words, the profits of "Angels & Demons" would rank among the top 1,500 companies listed on the US stock market...

Of course, the account cannot be calculated in this way.

The New York Times calculated the film's revenue at $5.05 million.

What Milo can get in half a year is only about 1.55 million US dollars.

The remaining $3.5 million, even if it is more than this number, is more than $3.5 million.

That is also in annual units, which means the annual income is about 30 to 50 million US dollars.

$3.5 million, this is the total revenue from peripheral products and videotapes estimated by The New York Times for him over the past decade.

Look carefully, this is the total income for ten years.

Any smart person can see this.

But newspapers and media like to attract attention.

It’s clearly the total income of about ten years.

But they guided it in such a way that it seemed as if they could get it immediately.

When reporting, they all used figures of $1.55 million plus $3.5 million or more. Some, like the New York Post, went so far as to use a 16-year peripheral revenue figure of $ billion.

They calculated that Milo earned $7.55 million from the film.

That’s $250 million more than The New York Times…

"Have you seen the report this morning, too?"

Milo smiled and responded to Nelson, "It's not that outrageous, it's just a little bit of a billion. But although Hollywood makes money, it's actually Wall Street that makes more money. How is the situation today?"

The two walked into the exchange's operations room while talking.

More than 20 traders inside were sitting in front of their computers, working intently.

Nelson said softly:

"We are still continuing to accumulate funds, and currently hold about $11.5 billion worth of stocks. As of this hour, the floating profit is $1500 million."

"An additional five million dollars in floating profit?" Milo was surprised.

"Yes. The floating profit is five million dollars more than yesterday!"

Nelson said softly, "My analysis is that someone must have started competing with us for shares, or someone couldn't help themselves."

Milo was silent after hearing this.

Some time ago, he mortgaged the stocks of film companies and those Internet companies.

He obtained a loan of $400 million from five Wall Street banks.

Over the past period of time, Milo and Nelson have leveraged the $400 million tenfold.

They began to build long positions in military industry stocks in the U.S. stock market.

Thanks to Nelson's caution and Milo's acquiescence.

They were very slow in accumulating funds.

Use $200 million as deposit and $200 million as collateral.

A total of US$20 billion was leveraged to go long on military stocks, and a little more than half of the funds have been used up so far.

"Can you tell who is competing with us for the chips?" Milo asked after a few seconds of silence.

Nelson shook his head and said, "It's difficult. These people are very cautious. But I can tell it's an organization. I can't find out who it is yet."

As soon as he finished speaking, Nelson saw that his boss was silent.

Then the boss suddenly closed his eyes.

It was exactly the same as the time ten days ago, it looked... like a charlatan.

A few seconds later, Nelson saw his boss open his eyes.

"Don't hesitate, Nelson. From now on, go all out to grab the chips. No need to slow down. Also, I will get more funds. Go all out. I want you to get as many chips as possible in the shortest possible time!"

"what……"

Nelson was stunned for a moment, then reacted, "Boss, do you think the other agencies are down?"

"No, you can't analyze it. I can't judge it either. I just heard the voice of God, and God told me that I should do this."

Milo replied with a smile.

Nelson: ...

Come again?

I said the same thing last time.

Then they took huge risks to get so much money and put it all into military industry stocks.

The problem is that it has been almost ten days now, and military stocks in the U.S. stock market are still lukewarm.

Although currently, the profit is 1500 million US dollars.

But if you deduct the interest for so many days, Paladin Investment actually didn’t make much money.

Nelson wanted to say something but stopped himself when he saw his boss's expression.

He also knew that Milo would not change his mind.

The boss is so good at making movies, so it's okay even if he loses some money in stock trading. And the Blackburn family is backing the boss.

Nelson could only comfort himself in this way, then nodded and began to direct the traders to increase their efforts to absorb funds in the secondary market.

(End of this chapter)