Chapter 393 Midnight Premiere

Chapter 393 Midnight Premiere

Chapter 393 Midnight Premiere

A few days passed in the blink of an eye, and I really didn't go back to school to cause trouble.

In order to calm the emotions of the alumni, Fan Wumian released the news through Yang Mi, saying that more crews would be arranged to go to the Beijing Film Academy for interviews and casting in the future.

This incident was posted by a student from Beijing Film Academy and written in the forum of Central Academy of Drama to show off. Before they knew it, it became a big deal and was once again on the Penguin Weibo hot search list. It is said that this made the students of Central Academy of Drama very depressed.

The news reached Fan Wumian's ears.

He thought it would be best not to be completely tied to the Beijing Film Academy, as there were many stars who came out of the Central Academy of Drama. So he specifically asked Pu Jiajing to find students from the Central Academy of Drama who had a good image and personality, in order to prove his neutral position of "treating everyone equally."

If we look at this matter from the perspective of hype.

Fan Wumian thought that maybe he could take advantage of the popularity of the topic and sign a student from the Central Academy of Drama to make that person quickly become famous and make him familiar to netizens, which would help save the cost of creating a star.

Also.

Apart from taking time out to go to the Yanjing branch of Bandit King Media to plan some new projects, there are a lot of things that he needs to worry about.

After drafting the contract, he and Valentino’s representatives held a public signing ceremony in Yanjing, taking the opportunity to promote the brand in advance.

Once the bank's unsecured credit loan funds are in place, the management rights of this old Italian luxury goods company will be completely transferred to Fan Wumian.

When it comes to creating high-end luxury goods, Italians and French are indeed the most experienced.

Considering that outsiders are more likely to chant, and the brand needs to continue to maintain its high-end image in Asia, it only plans to set up a new team in Europe to continue managing Valentino together with the company's internal executives, and the production process will not be moved to the mainland.

Italians have a relatively high income level, but they are also very casual and inefficient at work.

This prompted Fan Wumian to start considering that when new factories are expanded in the future, they can be located in Hungary, Serbia and other places in Europe.

After all, for many Asian consumers, it is almost impossible to tell the difference between clothes, bags, belts, shoes, etc. produced in Europe.

When you open a business, you can save as much as possible. Hungary, Serbia, Türkiye and other places are all low-income areas in Europe, and they can reduce labor costs by several percent.

As a former wage earner himself, Fan Wumian did not want to waste extra money supporting a group of Italian residents who actually had four weeks of statutory paid leave each year and a two-hour break for lunch.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of full acquisition.

McKinsey Consulting Company helped with the planning, and the registered address of the Valentino brand will be moved to the Cayman Islands, where the tax rate will be more favorable than moving it to Hong Kong.

Also being relocated to the Cayman Islands is Fiji, a sports shoe brand.

This company has also signed a contract with Fan Wumian. It has a branch in Hong Kong City, so it can be directly transferred. Everything will remain the same in the short term.

Two multinational headhunting companies in Hong Kong are busy recruiting people for him.

Since Fan Wumian doesn't like to waste his brain cells and get involved in the specific management process, he needs to hire some truly capable people to help so that he can continue to be a hands-off boss.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of acquisition, it is inevitable to make careful plans and make drastic changes.

Things like layoffs, restructuring, and formulating new development strategy plans should be led by McKinsey Consulting. Spending more money in the early stages will help save more expenses in the future.

Fan Wumian acquired two brands in succession, and the Hong Kong and mainland media publicized the event extensively as if it were New Year's Day.

Many people had never heard of them before. They only knew about the existence of Feili and Valentino through media publicity. They felt particularly unfamiliar and were easily mistaken for miscellaneous brands.

The reason why luxury goods are luxury goods is that the most important thing is to let the outside world know about them.

The reason why many European luxury companies like to spend money on advertising and burn countless publicity and promotion budgets every year is largely to tell ordinary people how expensive and high-end their products are, thereby attracting middle- and high-income consumer groups who pursue a sense of superiority to pay for them.

Traditional business strategies such as focusing on cost-effectiveness, quality and after-sales channels all fail when it comes to luxury goods.

In the past, even though they knew that the production cost was less than 10% of the selling price, foreign luxury goods companies could still earn hundreds of billions of RMB from the mainland every year.

Few consumers like to spend a large sum of money only to flirt with a blind man. Fan Wumian knows this very well, so he focuses his publicity strategy on "the acquisition cost more than 1 billion Hong Kong dollars."

A public relations team has been arranged to seize the free traffic and try to create a sense of luxury for Valentino throughout Greater China.

Mainlanders may not be impressed by mentioning the brand's history, designers and award-winning experience. Instead, directly mentioning the acquisition price of more than 1 billion Hong Kong dollars will have the most intuitive impact.

As for Feili.

He plans to set up a research and development team, integrate the best shoemaking technology in the mainland, and re-launch several series of products, mainly promoting dad shoes, coconut shoes, height-increasing shoes, etc.

Fan Wumian can't afford much money for the time being, so keeping the cash in hand has other uses.

Fortunately, there is no need to make a big move now. It is not too late to sort out the management structure, production and marketing systems of the two companies first, and then develop slowly.
Entering the field of fashion consumer goods is purely Fan Wumian's personal interest.

As a celebrity, instead of taking on endorsements to help others sell products, it is better to run a few brands of your own, which is the easiest way to monetize traffic.

The business project that Fan Wumian really values ​​is the acquisition of the 28.5% of Penguin shares. South Africa's Naspers Group is wavering and seems to be ready to wait and see for a while to see the stock price trend of Penguin Group.

Luck is still on Fan Wumian's side.

Over the past year or so, Penguin's stock price has risen by more than four times. Other Internet companies in the mainland are entering the social platform field, and there are rumors in the market that Facebook is paying attention to the mainland market. As a result, Penguin's stock has fallen more than it has risen in the past two months, and the stock price has fallen back to around HK$15.7.

The stock price has fallen, but Fan Wumian is still willing to give the previous offer, which is equivalent to a further premium acquisition.

This incident successfully shook some Naspers Group shareholders. The latest news came two days ago, saying that they would give Fan Wumian the final answer within a month.
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On Saturday morning, June 6, the low-budget science fiction film “Time Trap” premiered in Asia.

After the warm-up at the Cannes Film Festival and with the reputation of Fan Wumian, just after midnight, countless people stayed up late to watch "Time Trap" in cinemas in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, and more than 70% of them were young girls.

These places are located in the East 1th District, which is one hour faster than Yanjing, Gangcheng and other places.

The midnight premiere has not yet ended, and "Time Trap" invested by Fan Wumian has also been screened in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore and other places.

This new movie has no big special effects and no exaggerated exciting shots. Similar to "A Quiet Place", it mainly relies on imagination to win.

Hong Kong City Central.

Miss Ran Ruoyu, whose family runs a satellite TV business, called her night owl bestie to go to the cinema tonight to buy tickets.

Her family situation is special. Her brothers and sisters are fighting openly and secretly, and her parents are businessmen, which leads to Ran Ruoyu's precocious personality.

When she was in high school, she already understood that the family fortune she would get in the future would be limited. If she wanted to have no worries about food and clothing and become rich and powerful for the rest of her life, it would be best for her to marry into a wealthy family. So, relying on her beauty, she pursued the wealthy Mai Shuli.

When Fan Wumian participated in the Yau Tsim Mong Secondary School Singing Competition, he had come into contact with Ran Ruoyu.

At that time, the girl saw that he was handsome and wanted to "harm Zuo Ziyan". She also said a lot of good things about Fan Wumian in front of Zuo Ziyan.

Needless to say the result.

Ran Ruoyu had regretted so many times that she wanted to bang her head against the wall.

I felt sorry for myself and wondered why I had such shortsightedness at that time. Perhaps I had accidentally missed the biggest opportunity in my life.

Later, everyone graduated from high school.

Ran Ruoyu’s high school grades were not ideal, but since her family had some money, she was able to successfully enter the University of Hong Kong.

She and Mai Shuli were unable to be together because her horizons had broadened and she felt that she had a chance to find a more suitable target, such as Fan Wumian.

For example, the broadcasting rights for "Wulin Wai Zhuan" and "The Lonely and Great God" in Hong Kong were successfully negotiated after Ran Ruoyu strongly recommended them to her parents.

The ratings of "Wulin Wai Zhuan" in Hong Kong were just so-so, all thanks to Fan Wumian's die-hard fans. However, "The Lonely and Great God" made a lot of money for her family's No. 1 Satellite TV in Hong Kong, so it was a rare occasion when her father praised her for her vision at home.

Ran Ruoyu paid special attention to Fan Wumian's latest movements, and was thinking of finding an excuse to call him and chat for a while. Tonight, she sat in the cinema, staring at the big screen intently.

now.

As soon as the movie started, many viewers found the opening animation of the new version of the panda wielding an axe interesting.

At the beginning of "Time Trap", a white paleontologist drove to the place where his parents disappeared in his early years, and accidentally found his father's vehicle from the entrance of a mysterious cave.

Not long after entering the cave, I found that my car was rusted and corroded, and covered with vines.

This made him feel that something was wrong, so he packed up his things and went deeper into the cave again.

outside world.

When the paleontologist professor was discovered missing, his students organized themselves and began looking for clues about the professor and also went into the cave.

Whether it was the rope that was suddenly weathered, or the glow sticks that seemed motionless in mid-air to outsiders, they all piqued the audience's curiosity.

As the story progresses.

Extinct ancient millipedes, dinosaurs, saber-toothed tigers and other animals appeared in front of the expedition team one by one and fought with them.

The plot of the previous life's "Time Trap" was too thin, and was changed by Fan Wumian, who spent a lot of money on special effects, but the film did not have many scenes.

Ran Ruoyu watched with great interest and looked around at the audience. She found that everyone was concentrating and only a very few people had fallen asleep.

It was nearly 1 o'clock in the morning.

Some viewers stayed up late just to watch this movie, not necessarily because they felt sleepy because they found the plot boring.

The secrets of the cave were revealed bit by bit, and everyone realized that the flow of time in the cave was different.

When humans on Earth disappeared and the planet became desolate, scenes of humans entering the interstellar age in the future appeared, and many viewers subconsciously exclaimed "Wow~".

Ran Ruoyu, who was in high spirits, was also amazed at Fan Wumian's wild imagination.

Fan Wumian, who was still in Yanjing, went to bed early last night.

It was not until 9 o'clock in the morning on the first day of its release that we learned that the box office of the midnight show was far higher than expected, earning 76 Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong.

There was only one midnight show, and the total population of Hong Kong is only a few million, but the box office revenue reached 76 Hong Kong dollars. The audience feedback was quite good, which was enough to prove that as long as there were no accidents, the box office of "Time Trap" would not be too bad.

Also sent to him was the information of some students currently enrolled in the Central Academy of Drama.

The Prince Jing in "Nirvana in Fire" and the very distinctive actress Zhang Jianing happen to be among them.

Fan Wumian took out their information and asked Pu Jiajing to send someone to talk to them. If the two agreed to sign a contract with him, they would join the newly established Shenghuo Miaomiao (Gangcheng) agency.

A sheep is driven, and a group of sheep is also driven.

Bandit King Media has a lot of ready-made resources. By signing newcomers at low prices, it can save a lot of filming costs and avoid spending a lot of money to find actors from outside the company.
(End of this chapter)