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Chapter 438: The Snake Swallows the Elephant! (The second update asks for a subscription! Ask for a monthly pass!)

"what is this?"

Tang An curiously took what looked like advertising brochures from Xu Manyun's hand.

"Didn't you let me pay attention to the house? The second phase of Ligong in the Xishan villa area has been launched for sale. This is the best villa area to open in Beijing in the past two years." Xu Manyun said with a smile.

"Li Palace?"

It's time to change the house. He is still living in an ordinary high-end residential area before, which is too inconvenient.

The boss of a big group doesn't match his identity.

Of course, it's not that Tang An wants to pretend to be forceful and has to buy a luxury car and live in a luxury house.

This is something that symbolizes status. That day, the boss who is worth billions or tens of billions was invited to his home as a guest, in an ordinary residential area in the capital, is it reasonable?

Also, the better the house, the higher the trust you give to others when you take out a loan, and what you want to invest in, financing and so on.

Unless you are at the same level as Ma Ge, even if you live in a mid-range community, you can drive a Jetta.

Even Marco, the original top-of-the-line BMW 300Li worth more than 760 million has been replaced with a Maybach 62S worth tens of millions.

"How long does it take Li Gong to arrive at the company?"

Tang An casually flipped through the pages and asked.

The traditional villas in the capital are said to have one mountain, two rivers, three lines, and four highs. This one mountain is Xishan, and Li Palace is located in the Xishan villa group, which is also the top villa group in Beijing.

Although there are some more awesome villas in the capital, Xishan is almost enough.

"5 minutes to the airport, 20 kilometers away from the company, directly from the airport expressway to Dongzhimen, more than 20 minutes away"

"The location is not bad, how much is it?"

"The building king is 1.5 million, the lowest is 4000 million."

Xu Manyun pointed to the particularly obvious Lou Wang on the album and said.

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Even after more than ten years of skyrocketing housing prices, the high price of 1.5 million still made Tang An gasp.

"They are all houses of 7000 square meters. The area is big enough. There are elevators, swimming pools, and a large garden in the villa. There is a river running through it. That's it. Show me a few sets worth about [-] million. Wait for me. We’ll decide when we come back from America.”

Tang An didn't look at it too much, there couldn't be any problems with this top-level villa, and it was worth the price.

Buy a mid-priced one and keep it low-key.

Don't be afraid to spend money, if you are short of money, just use it for a loan, and the bank's money is useless.

Flying to New York this evening, the time difference is 12 hours, and the travel time is 13 hours. It was still evening when we arrived, and Bernard went public early the next morning.

Xu Manyun thought for a while and asked, "Is there anything else you want to explain? Do you want me to go with you?"

"No, there's nothing wrong there. Yu Dong made a few calls, and the listing should go smoothly. After that, we'll have a reception with Columbia."

Tang An shook his head and continued, "You can help me find a few capable assistant directors and producers first, the next part of the "囧" series is about to start preparations."

"You really decided to hand it over to that newcomer, but he has no directing experience alone."

Xu Manyun was a little worried, if this messed up, the whole series would be affected.

When the time comes to find Xu Zheng to save the scene, he will definitely have to pay a big price.

"Don't worry, didn't Wang Wei practice with "Painted Skin 2" for a while? Wu Ershan said that he performed well. Some people are born directors, so don't look at it with the eyes of ordinary people."

Genius is genius, Zhang Yimou and Chen Kai's Virgo made them famous in one fell swoop, and even most of the later movies were not as good as the first one.

Although "White Night Chase" is an online drama, the plot is not procrastinated at all, and the rhythm is very well grasped. It should be no problem for Wang Wei to film "Detective Chinatown".

But the logistics and crew have to be done for him. As a newcomer, the shitty things about the crew will be enough to make him burn out, and even make a shitty movie.

"That's fine, please ask Mr. Chen to supervise the production himself. It's better to have him in charge of the crew."

Xu Manyun didn't say anything anymore, it was still the first time for Wu Ershan and Xu Zheng to make a movie.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, Tang An boarded the plane to New York with Liu Ye, Tang Yan, his secretary and bodyguards.

The plane that boarded at 27:7 pm on the 27th, Beijing time, arrived at 8:[-] pm on the [-]th, New York time.

The cheerful Yu Dong came to pick up the plane in person, followed by Zhou You, Liu Yu and others, as well as artists under Bernard's banner, and other stars who came to help.

There are also a few Americans who don't know their origins.

Tang An greeted them one by one.

"Yu Dong, seeing how happy you are, there must be some good news."

"Tang Dong has a clever plan. He just signed the contract with Murdoch this morning." Yu Dong said with a big smile.

A group of dozens of people walked outside while talking. Through Yu Dong's explanation, Tang An also knew.

News Corporation repurchased about 12% of the shares held by Matrix Partners, Haina Fund, and Sequoia Capital through Yudong.

Even News Corp., one of the world's largest media groups, is optimistic about Berner. Now Berner is estimated to have become a favorite, and there is no doubt that he will be listed successfully.

Yu Dong still has 46% of the shares in his hands, and has retained nearly half of the shares. After the successful listing, his value will skyrocket.

Several extended business vehicles drove the group to Times Square. Tang An, Yu Dong, and Zhou You were in the same car, along with a middle-aged Caucasian woman.

As Zhou You has just introduced, this is Elizabeth Crotty, Senior Vice President of Global Distribution and Cinema Relations at Columbia.

Except for Asia, the box office in other markets adds up to nearly 8000 million, and North America is more than 5000 million, which is a big profit for the publisher Colombia.

And because of the videotape market and other copyrights, Tang An would definitely not be able to eat it himself. He had no such channel at all, and even the videotape manufacturer couldn't find a suitable one, so he could only buy it out to Columbia.

Regarding this, Tang An didn't want to share it either. There was no channel, and he just wanted to be manipulated by others.

But with the current box office, it should be able to fetch a good price.

"Hello, Ms. Elizabeth, I'm a little tired after flying for more than 10 hours. How about we talk about other copyrights in North America tomorrow?"

Tang An pretended to be uncomfortable and said.

Before negotiating, he had to listen to Zhou You's report, including some surveys on the Internet on-demand, TV-on-demand, and video tape markets, so he had an approximate price in mind, or he would talk stupidly, wouldn't it be money.

Elizabeth had no doubt that with him, the long-distance flight would inevitably be a little uncomfortable. She nodded and said with a smile, "Mr. Tang has worked hard, so take a good rest and come to me if you need anything in New York."

The convoy arrived at a four-star Hilton Hotel in Times Square, where the famous NASDAQ stock exchange is nearby.

As soon as he entered the hotel, he happened to meet a group of people coming out. They were the chairman of Youku, Gu Yongjiang, who was listed with Bernard tomorrow, and the chairman of Tudou, Wang Wei, who was going to be listed soon, as well as some white people and accompanying subordinates.

They are all in the entertainment industry, and they know each other and say hello.

"Yu Dong, Youku will also go public tomorrow." Tang An turned around and asked.

"That's right, but Youku is much more popular than us. The first domestic video website to go public has a valuation of 35 billion US dollars given by Wall Street."

"There is also Dangdang. It is estimated that the market value on the day of listing will reach more than 22 billion US dollars."

Yu Dong sighed, just picking out one at random is better than these domestic film and television companies, which is enough to show the weakness of the film and television industry.

Tang An shook his head secretly. Part of the reason for Youku's successful listing is because Youtube is developing rapidly in the United States, and many large venture capital companies are optimistic about it.

Youku, as the largest video website in China, coupled with the huge population base in the country, is naturally very optimistic.

However, when Youku Tudou was acquired by Ma Yun five years later, the market value was more than 5 billion US dollars.

Tang An suddenly remembered that Wang Wei, the chairman of Tudou, was not very happy. It is estimated that he is still caught up in the divorce case, and the listing originally scheduled for December had to be postponed.

Originally, it seemed that it would be listed in June next year, which was half a year late. Compared with the great success of Youku, it failed miserably in Waterloo.

This is a good time. Tang An has been staring at Tudou for a while. Instead of being acquired by Youku after two years of cheap Gu Yongjiang, it is better for Tang An to take a bite first.

Of course, a complete acquisition is impossible, and there is not so much money.

Even if Tudou goes public next year with a market value of only US$7 million, it will be much higher than that of Hantang.

But this can be regarded as a snake swallowing an elephant!

(End of this chapter)