The entertainment empire began with Liu Yifei's premarital pregnancy.

"Mr. Lin, welcome, welcome!"

Lin Bufan led Bai Bing into the Tencent building, where, guided by the secretary from the CEO's office, they met Tencent's CEO, Ma.

"Hello, Mr. Ma!"

Seeing Tencent's smiling and enthusiastic face, Lin Bufan stepped forward and shook hands with him.

"Mr. Lin is an Oscar-winning director, and also the number one Chinese director internationally..."

As the saying goes, "a beautiful sedan chair needs someone to carry it," Tencent's Ma looked at Lin Bufan in front of him and chatted casually with a beaming smile.

"Mr. Ma is joking. A mere Oscar-winning director is nothing to you..."

Lin Bufan responded to Tencent's Ma with a calm smile.

Through casual conversation, Lin Bufan gleaned from Tencent's Ma Yinyin's words that the main reason for the other party's enthusiasm was that Lin Bufan held 5% of the voting rights.

5% of the voting rights may seem like a small amount, but it depends on the size of the company.

Ma is one of the founders of Tencent, but he holds more shares than Lin Bufan's Zhewei Capital, though not by much.

Although Ma owns less than 15% of Tencent's shares, due to the dual-class share structure, he holds nearly 40% of the voting rights despite having a small number of shares.

As fellow founders of Tencent, the others naturally also possess a significant number of voting rights within the company.

For Ma Ying-jeou of Tencent, as long as his voting rights do not reach 50%, all other people with voting rights are worth winning over.

Clearly, Lin Bufan, who has 5% of the voting rights, is someone worth winning over.

"Throughout Tencent, I, Lin Bufan, only trust Mr. Ma!"

Lin Bufan looked at Tencent's Ma, making his stance clear.

Lin Bufan never intended to interfere in Tencent's internal affairs; he only wanted to increase his influence in the internet industry.

I currently hold 5% of Tencent's voting rights. I believe that as long as Tencent isn't foolish, they will definitely not ignore me on certain issues, and that's enough.

At this internal Tencent meeting, Ma Yun talked about many things, but he only remembered one thing: Tencent was preparing to hold a star-studded awards ceremony.

Lin Bufan was aware of Tencent's Star Awards.

From 06 to 09, it was held annually. Then, from 10 to 15, it was not held. It was not held annually until 16.

"President Lin, don't miss the Star Awards next month!" Tencent's Ma said with a smile to Lin Bufan at the meeting.

His words were a double entendre, conveying to the other shareholders at the meeting that Lin Bufan was on his side.

"Don't worry, Mr. Ma, not only me, but everyone from the Kyoto Group will be there!"

Lin Bufan looked at Tencent's Ma and nodded.

For celebrities, the most important thing is exposure, and Tencent's Star Awards is clearly one of them.

For celebrities, it's not just about exposure; more importantly, if they can connect with a wealthy patron, their future career will be smooth sailing.

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[Ding! Congratulations, host! Daily check-in successful. Rewards: One bottle of Liuwei Emperor Pills (10 pills) + One bottle of Beauty and Nourishing Pills (10 pills) + 100 million US dollars]

[Ding! Congratulations, host! You have successfully checked in for the festival and received a reward: a Winter Solstice Festival Gift Pack]

[Host, would you like to open the Winter Solstice Festival Gift Pack?]

Lin Bufan came to the Oriental Villa after leaving Tencent Group.

This villa was a reward Lin Bufan received for checking in during the Double Ninth Festival.

The villa, spanning over 1,000 square meters, boasts luxurious interior and exterior design, and today happens to be the start of winter.

"Open!"

[Ding! Congratulations, host! You have opened the Winter Solstice Festival Gift Pack and received the following rewards: a script for the movie "G-Force", a villa in the Azure Ark, and a Mercedes-Benz S-Class.]

As the system's voice faded, the reward appeared before Lin Bufan.

Lin Bufan only glanced at the Mercedes-Benz S-Class before immediately discarding it from the dimensional space.

Bihai Ark Villas, located in Chaoyang District of Beijing, is generally a good place. The current house price is not particularly high, but in later years, it would start at tens of millions or even hundreds of millions.

Finally, there's the movie "G-Force".

The movie "G-Force" is an animated film released by Disney in 09. It had a production cost of $1.5 million, but the final box office was only $2.9 million, failing to even recoup its costs.

According to Lin Bufan's understanding, the reason why this movie in later generations had such a high cost was mainly due to its special effects, especially the "real mouse + CG fur" technology, which was the most cutting-edge special effects technology at the time and had a very high cost.

In addition, there's the all-star voice acting, which cost at least tens of millions of dollars more than other animated films.

More importantly, the plot of this movie is far too childish, and even the jokes are extremely awkward. It did well at the beginning, but its box office was almost halved later on, precisely because of the plot.

Clearly, this is a movie that started strong but ended weakly.

"However, if we change the plot and remove the 'real mouse + CG fur' technique, we can save at least half the cost..."

Lin Bufan did a simple calculation in his mind, and including the cancellation of the all-star voice acting, the final production cost of the film would be around 5000-6000 million US dollars.

In this way, the movie only needs to gross more than $1.5 million to break even.

For an animated film, celebrity voice acting is actually just icing on the cake; its presence or absence is not important.

"This project is worth a try!"

Just as Lin Bufan was about to call Carter, the phone rang.

When I picked up the phone, it was Carter calling.

"BOSS!"

Carter's voice came through the phone.

"It's me!"

Lin Bufan nodded slightly, and Carter continued his report over the phone.

"Boss, the first 'Final Destination' movie has finished its run in theaters, and it grossed a total of $2.21 million worldwide..." Carter's voice on the phone was slightly excited.

The movie "Final Destination" originally only grossed $1.1 million at the box office.

Lin Bufan hadn't expected that simply optimizing the plot and adding some suspense about the East's horror would double the box office.

The first "Final Destination" movie had a production cost of only $2000 million, but it grossed $2.21 million at the box office, earning Lin Bufan at least $8000 million.

This doesn't even include peripheral revenue; it only calculates box office profits.