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

If you want to develop your own engine technology, but you know which technology is better, you can only bypass these patented technologies due to patent restrictions and try to find another way.

However, bypassing one patent is easy, but bypassing three or five, or even thirty or fifty, or three or five hundred patents, is extremely difficult.

Other patents, such as chassis technology and transmission technology, are not that they cannot be developed domestically, but rather that even if they were developed, you cannot use them because foreign countries have already registered these patents.

The technology that Lin Bufan signed up for perfectly bypassed those foreign patented technologies, and it was 100% mature, no worse than the world's top engine technologies.

Similarly, the car chassis technology that Lin Bufan received as a gift during the Great Heat Festival on June 22nd also boasts is comparable to the world's most advanced technology.

Moreover, these technologies bypass patents, are new technologies, and can even reduce costs by about 10%.

Don't underestimate this 10% cost.

One or two cars might not seem like much, but if you look at the annual market share, if you can sell hundreds of billions or even trillions of yuan worth of cars in a year...

The cost savings would amount to tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars.

With this engine technology and car chassis technology, plus Zotye Auto, it's definitely not difficult to create a new world in the automotive industry.

"Mr. Lin, tomorrow is Time Coffee's first round of financing. Would you like to attend in person?" Xu Hongfei reported to Lin Bufan over the phone.

Xu Hongfei had already reported the matter of Time Coffee's financing to Lin Bufan.

Last time, when Gao Yuanyuan returned to Beijing during her pregnancy, Lin Bufan learned about the operation of the Time Coffee brand at the company.

At the time, it was estimated that it would take a year to get this model working.

However, to everyone's surprise, the entire sales and operation model was successfully implemented in less than three months.

Right now, the biggest problem for the entire brand is funding.

With enough funding, Time Cafe can be put on the fast track.

Extraordinary Film Company raised over $18 billion through its IPO, including $12 billion spent on a recent bargain purchase.

The remaining hundreds of millions of US dollars are still in Strong Wind's investment account.

Strong Wind Investment naturally sent representatives to help with this round of funding for Time Cafe.

To reiterate, a company cannot go public solely through one source of capital, just like the Extraordinary Film Company's IPO.

Time Coffee doesn't lack money; what it lacks is connections.

Therefore, for the first round of financing, Xu Hongfei only invited top domestic investment banks.

"I won't go to the fundraising event. Send me the specific details after the fundraising is completed."

Lin Bufan thought for a moment and then refused.

Right now, he needs to focus all his energy on filming.

He doesn't need to personally handle this kind of financing. If he has to do everything himself, what's the point of hiring so many people?

"Yes, Mr. Lin!"

Lin Bufan had just hung up the phone and hadn't even put it down on the table when it rang again.

"Feed?"

"Boss, Twilight 2 is releasing tomorrow..."

Carter Dennis's voice came through the phone.

"Does Bart know about this?"

Lin Bufan inquired over the phone.

Now, Extraordinary Film Company has movies being released. While box office revenue is important, the most important thing is not box office revenue, but the stock market.

Even if "Twilight" grosses high, it can only earn a profit of 1-2 million US dollars at most, which is already quite remarkable.

However, in the stock market, as long as the stock price rises by just a few dollars, all the profits will completely exceed the profits from the movie's box office.

Of course, this doesn't mean that box office revenue is unimportant.

On the contrary, box office revenue is very important because only high box office revenue can stimulate stock price increases. If a movie's box office performance is not ideal, it will be reflected in the stock market and may even cause stock prices to fall.

"Boss, I've already emailed Bart."

"Okay, I understand!"

After hanging up the phone, an idea flashed through Lin Bufan's mind.

Extraordinary Film Company split 1 million shares, which seemed like a lot at the time, but now it seems a bit small.

Extraordinary Film Company is not a high-tech company, so it cannot support a very high stock price.

For shareholders, the share price of Extraordinary Film Company is too high. If it reaches three digits, they will have some doubts.

Is it possible for Extraordinary Film Company's stock price to continue rising?

Ideally, the stock price should be kept in single digits or below 20 yuan.

The best way to achieve this result is to split the stock a sufficient number of times.

"Bart, it's me!"

Lin Bufan immediately made a phone call to Bart Elvis.

"BOSS!"

"But, if I want to issue more shares of Extraordinary Film Company, what are the options?" Lin Bufan asked directly.

"Boss, how to issue more shares..."

During the phone call, Bart Elvis explained some of the methods to Lin Bufan.

"Once the Twilight movie finishes its theatrical run and the stock price stabilizes, we will split the company's stock at a ratio of 1:4."

After thinking it over, Lin Bufan made a decision.

After the split, Extraordinary Film Company will increase from 1 million shares to 4 million shares, and its share price will decrease accordingly.

For example, if Extraordinary Film Company issues 1 million shares, with a market capitalization of $60 billion, and a share price of $60.

After the share issuance, Extraordinary Film Company will have 4 million shares issued, with the total market capitalization remaining unchanged, and the price per share will be US$15.

This stock price would be much more acceptable to people.