Chapter 473 Half a month later
Chapter 473 Half a month later
It's a rare opportunity to have a rest period with nothing to do.
People become addicted when they are idle. Fan Wumian considered temporarily putting aside the entertainment industry and turning his attention to business, looking for opportunities to make quick money and alleviate the current cash flow pressure.
The land near Shencheng Bay has been acquired, but despite the current low prices and labor costs, he lacks the funds to develop commercial real estate projects such as office buildings and hotels.
Companies like Tudou and Shanzeiwang Media are finding that their office space is insufficient as they expand rapidly. They can spend four to five years building an office building as an emergency measure, and at the same time shut the media up in the next few years to avoid being accused of "hoarding land and speculating in real estate."
As long as the construction site is still underway, people generally don't care too much about the progress of the construction.
Fan Wumian plans to build it in batches. By the time the commercial real estate project is completed, the residential project will definitely have appreciated significantly in value.
At that time, in order to obtain the land, he had signed an agreement with the Shenzhen government. If he had played rogue and dragged his feet, leaving the land shelved for a long time, it might have made many people dissatisfied, and he might even face the risk of the land being forcibly reclaimed.
Also.
After the success of the "Iron Man" project, Marvel will have the opportunity to be acquired by a Hollywood giant at a high price.
Fan Wumian had long wanted to plan ahead to get a piece of the pie from Marvel, and at the same time learn how to shoot special effects commercial blockbusters. But now he is limited by insufficient funds and can only watch helplessly.
Considering the background of the subprime mortgage crisis which was about to hit and trigger the global financial tsunami, he thought that if he kept some more cash reserves on hand, he might be able to make another big move in the next one or two years.
There are also Bandit King Media and Myth Film Studio, which need both capital injection and the re-planning of a batch of film and television projects.
The preliminary preparations for film and television dramas take too long. If we don’t start the preliminary preparations now, we will be in a dilemma of having no dramas to shoot when the previously prepared projects are finished.
It’s not that the script found outside is not good enough, but the risk is much higher than the script that Fan Wumian took out. Since it has been proven to be successful in the previous life, there is no need for him to take risks in pursuit of excitement.
Many of our current troubles can be summed up in just two words: “lack of money”.
Like countless businessmen who are said to be very wealthy but cannot afford to pay much cash, he has already invested his money in the project and cannot continue to buy up high-quality assets at a bargain price.
Continue to stay in Hong Kong.
Fan Wumian originally wanted to visit his sixth uncle in the hospital, but after asking around, he found out that he had been discharged and gone abroad for recuperation.
We didn't disturb him. We just arranged for the Holy Flame Meow Meow agency to go through the process and prepare to negotiate with TBV TV station to peacefully terminate the contract and sign Huang Zongze and Riz.
However, after his employees received the news and communicated with Liz's agent, Fan Wumian learned that she already had a secret boyfriend and they had been together for a long time.
Liz's agent also took the opportunity to tell him that because of Fan's repeated advances, Liz's boyfriend was so angry that he considered exposing the matter to the media.
Even though Fan Wumian had seen a lot of storms, he still wanted to kill the old scoundrel with a hoe after hearing this. Fortunately, they had communicated with each other beforehand, otherwise if the news got out that his own son was poaching girls for his father, he would be embarrassed.
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More than ten days passed in the blink of an eye.
Lives in Repulse Bay and occasionally has trysts with Zuo Ziyan, Feng Ying'er and others.
In his spare time, Fan Wumian continued to create new songs and new scripts, and hired a professional team from outside to check for deficiencies and fill in the gaps. He conducted a thorough inventory of all the companies he owned and soon found many small problems in the account books.
As a boss, it is to be expected that mistakes will inevitably occur when you delegate power to senior executives to run the company.
For example, Bandit King Media purchased some junk film and television resources at a high price, spending three to four million yuan, all of which were signed and approved by the same middle-level manager. Some of the TV series have never been broadcast on TV stations, which inevitably aroused suspicion among auditors.
Yaomei Culture is not clean either. While the output of albums has increased, the cost of purchasing large quantities of raw materials has risen. As soon as the police were called in to arrest people, a junior supervisor in the purchasing department confessed on the spot that he had embezzled more than 80 yuan, trying to reduce the punishment by confessing.
A casting director under Shanzeiwang Media was anonymously reported by his colleagues in a letter for damaging the company's reputation and image because he had lured actresses but did not assign roles to them.
The number of employees has increased, and there are all kinds of people. The temporary decision to conduct an inventory is also to deter scoundrels.
Even if Fan Wumian stayed in the company 24 hours a day, these tricks would still happen. Compared with the happiness brought by laziness, it is actually quite cost-effective overall. Mid-September.
Just a few days after Zuo Ziyan’s parents bought the luxury house at No. 13 Big Wave Bay Road, Hong Kong media reported that Zhuang Muxi and her parents went to Kowloon Tong to look at houses.
The fact is that after Zhuang Muxi and her family visited the house in person, they felt that the dilapidated old house was not as beautiful as the houses built in some villages. The landlord actually asked for 4000 million Hong Kong dollars, so they have temporarily given up on buying a property in Kowloon Tong.
Zhuang Muxi turned to follow Fan Wumian's advice and planned to wait for his own villa to be developed and then buy one to provide for his parents in their future retirement.
At the beginning of the new semester, Zuo Ziyan returned to Cambridge University to continue her studies, and Feng Ying'er also went to Miami, USA, where the long-prepared "The Piano Tuner" was about to start filming. It was adapted from an Indian movie of the same name.
When Fan Wumian watched "The Piano Tuner" for the first time, he was shocked by the plot where the heroine wore a scary mask to test the hero. However, the story was quite exciting.
India's Bollywood produces so many movies every year, and the overall quality is hard to describe, but even a blind cat can catch a dead mouse, and occasionally a few good works will emerge.
Dealing with trivial matters every day creates the illusion of being very busy, which allows Fan Wumian to lie down peacefully. Occasionally, he goes out to rehearse dance and prepare for his first solo concert.
As for speculative projects that make quick money, there is no clue at all for the time being. However, the stocks that are heavily invested in, such as Sanyao Heavy Industry and Penguin, have seen an increase of more than 5% in the past two weeks.
The news that broke the deadlock of Penguin shares' decline came from Fan Wumian's plan to launch the "International Version of Penguin Weibo". Pony Ma only mentioned it a few times in a low-key manner at an Internet forum and did not want to make a big fuss for the time being to avoid attracting the attention of Silicon Valley bosses.
At this moment.
It was around 9:17 p.m. on September th.
Fan Wumian was lying on the deck of the yacht basking in the sun, so comfortable that he took a nap for more than two hours. When he woke up, he found a parasol above his head.
Seeing him pointing at the parasol, Zhuang Muxi, who was wearing a white dress, smiled and said:
"I asked someone to release it because I was afraid you'd get tanned during your concert in a few days. There will be tens of thousands of fans at the concert, and I can't let down the little fans who like you."
In the blink of an eye, it has been more than half a month since he returned, and this is the first time that Zhuang Muxi has the opportunity to visit his yacht.
Fan Wumian stood up from the rattan recliner, looked around and found that it was just a vast ocean, wondering:
"Where did the captain take the ship? It would be nice to get a tan. It would make you look more mature and stable. You have been spoiled for the past two years and are almost turning into a gigolo. You need to be more manly."
Zhuang Muxi replied:
"We're still near Lantau Island, and planes often fly low over us, but they didn't wake you up. Just now I was thinking, your Valentino press conference is going to be held, should I really go to join in the fun? I'm worried that my catwalk movements will be too stiff and I'll embarrass myself in Milan."
The 2006 Milan Spring/Autumn Fashion Week began, and Valentino's show was scheduled for September 9th. They spent a huge amount of money to rent a venue in the Royal Palace in Milan, and invited Brazilian Victoria's Secret supermodel Adriana Lima to help out on the stage.
The budget for the entire event reached 450 million US dollars, which made Fan Wumian feel very painful.
Thinking of taking advantage of his own company's popularity and expanding into the mainland market as soon as possible, he found Zhuang Muxi, Huang Shengyi and Yang Mi, who happened to be free, last week and arranged for them to show up at a fashion show together.
Liu Shishi is still filming "The Legend of the Concubine Zhen Huan", and she has too many scenes to spare for the time being. It won't be too late to attend the Fashion Week event next year.
Gao Yuanyuan was also filming on the set and couldn't wait to come and see him.
After taking a long nap, his head was a little slow, so Fan Wumian said to Zhuang Muxi:
"It's okay. Just take some photos after you walk on the stage. Take a few steps first and show me. Have you learned the essence of twisting your hips and flirting?"
".You need to wear high heels to feel like you're walking on a catwalk. You'll know when I get on stage."
(End of this chapter)