"Goodbye, United States!" Boss Jia exclaimed as he looked at the planes outside the window.
There was no need to wait until tomorrow. Boss Jia would be back in China today.
Boss Jia brought 200 million USD with him to the United States. Later, Boss Jia sold 5 million Pokemon Cartridges and earned another 250 million USD. Therefore, Boss Jia brought a total of 500 million USD worth of assets to the United States.
However, the money came and went quickly.
He spent 10 million USD to buy Nvidia.
He spent 20 million USD to buy Blizzard.
He spent 22.5 million USD to buy Marvel.
He spent 200 million USD to buy Qualcomm.
Then, he invested 20 million USD to establish the United States Daqian Educational Devices Company.
Finally, Boss Jia spent nearly 500,000 USD to buy the services of bodyguards.
In addition to other miscellaneous expenses, Boss Jia spent 300 million USD in the United States. If this news spread to China, it would be enough to make a group of people drool with envy.
That was 300 million USD. Just thinking about it was like a myth. In the end, it was spent by Boss Jia without even blinking.
Of course, this money was worth more than anything. In the future, Qualcomm alone would have a total market value of 77.3 billion USD.
As for the remaining 200 million USD, Boss Jia left it to Harry Potter. He told Harry Potter to look for opportunities in the stock market. As long as Apple's stock fell below 3 USD per share, Harry Potter should immediately buy it.
Harry Potter could buy as much as he could, but once it exceeded the 3 USD level, he would give up. Because Boss Jia knew that in the future, until 1996, when Apple invited Old Man Qiao back to be the chairman, Apple's stock would always be in a state of decline. It would rise and fall, but generally speaking, it would fall more than it rose.
At this time, the total market value of Apple was about 3 billion USD, and the stock price was about 4 USD. But sometimes unlucky, the stock price would fall to 2.5 USD. So Boss Jia set a price of 3 USD for Harry Potter. As long as the price was lower than 3 USD, Harry Potter could eat as much as he could until Old Man Qiao came home.
When Apple was at its peak, its market value had reached 1.4 trillion USD. Now that Apple was buying shares at 3 USD per share, it could rise to more than 1,200 USD per share in the future. That was equivalent to a 400-fold increase in earnings. There was nothing better than that in the world.
It was the same for AMD. Boss Jia had also set an acquisition price for Harry Potter. If the price was lower than this, Harry Potter just had to keep his position. Even a three-year-old child could do such a thing.
After making the final arrangements, Boss Jia felt that he could return to Hua Xia with peace of mind. After all, he had been abroad for a long time, and a lot of things had accumulated in Hua Xia.
However, just as Boss Jia was about to board the plane, a phone call suddenly disrupted Boss Jia's schedule. It was a call from Director Chen.
Speaking of which, Boss Jia had been riding high in the United States these days. Director Chen was also very proud. The reason was simple. "Farewell My Concubine" had achieved unimaginable results in the United States.
It wasn't that Chinese movies hadn't been released in the United States before, and they had achieved great results. The most dazzling one of them had achieved a box office of 100 million USD in North America, and 230 million USD worldwide.
However, these movies were all Bruce Lee's movies. After Bruce Lee's death, no Chinese movie had been able to achieve a box office of more than 10 million USD in the United States. In fact, let alone 10 million USD, even 1 million USD was extremely rare.
This time, Director Chen had broken this record. "Farewell My Concubine" had achieved a box office record of 12 million USD after a month in the United States. Director Chen was very proud of this. Other than Bruce Lee, who else could achieve such a beautiful result?
Now that Bruce Lee was dead, he was Hua Xia's director with the highest box office overseas.
More importantly, there were rumors in the United States' film industry that the Oscar committee had approved of "Farewell My Concubine". It was said that it had a 100% chance of being nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. This made Director Chen even more proud.
Therefore, he hadn't returned to China for the past few months. Instead, he had been bouncing around Hollywood, making friends with filmmakers in the United States.
Boss Jia could only shake his head helplessly. In history, "Farewell My Concubine" had only achieved 5.2 million USD in the North American box office. Moreover, more than 4 million USD had been contributed by the Chinese in the United States. The audiences in the United States weren't interested at all.
However, in this life, Boss Jia had invested several hundred thousand USD in the operation. Harvey Vines was really good. Under his operation, "Farewell My Concubine" had actually doubled the box office.
But then again, as long as Boss Jia had nothing to do, whenever Director Chen invited Boss Jia to meet famous people in Hollywood, Boss Jia wouldn't refuse. After all, Boss Jia wouldn't let go of the treasure bowl that was Hollywood. Therefore, Boss Jia was now quite famous in Hollywood and knew quite a few people.
However, to Boss Jia's disappointment, although Director Chen was very happy, he basically only knew some second-tier people in Hollywood. As for the real top directors, producers, or companies, such as Spielberg, Cameron, and Lucas, Director Chen had very little contact with them.
In other words, they simply ignored Director Chen.
However, this time, Director Chen really gave Boss Jia a surprise. It turned out that Director Chen had actually contacted 20th Century Fox.
This time, 20th Century Fox specially sent an invitation to Jia Yapeng, hoping to talk to him about cooperation and investment in a movie.
When Boss Jia first heard the news, he was a little indifferent and casually asked, "Which movie is it?"
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Director Chen was very nervous at this time because he realized that he had tricked Boss Jia.
Director Chen had been doing well in Hollywood these days. He was very satisfied and gradually became a little arrogant. He made all kinds of boastful statements casually. This director almost directly said that he would definitely win an Oscar.
At the same time, Director Chen especially hoped to get the favor of the six giants in Hollywood and let them invest in a movie for him.
Director Chen had always had a dream, that was, to become a real international director. Not only did he make movies in China, but he also wanted to make movies that could achieve excellent box office results internationally.
However, domestic investors were generally unwilling to invest in movies, and even if they did, it was difficult to enter the American market.
If they couldn't enter the United States market, they couldn't enter the global market.
After all, at this time, the world's movie market had formed a pattern. That was, movies that could sell well in other movie markets might not sell well in the American market.
And if a movie could sell well in the North American movie market, it would definitely sell well in the world.
But at this time, all the blockbuster movies in the North American movie market were basically bought by six movie companies. These six movie companies were collectively known as the six major Hollywood movie companies. They were Paramount, Sony, Warner Brothers, Disney, 20th Century Fox, and Universal Pictures.
Director Chen dreamed of getting the favor of these six companies and having them invest in his movie. That way, he would be able to shoot to fame and become a top director in the world.
But this dream was beautiful, and the reality was cruel. When would the six major Hollywood movie companies look at a Hua Xia director seriously, and a Hua Xia director who was born and raised in China, instead of an American Chinese like Li An? Therefore, no matter how happy Director Chen was, he was basically jumping around blindly.
But there were also benefits to jumping around happily. The more times he jumped around, the more chances he would meet. Director Chen really made friends with a senior executive of 20th Century Fox, and the two often chatted together.
In order to get the opportunity to shoot a movie, Director Chen could be said to be very flattering to this senior executive. But recently, this senior executive was frowning, so Director Chen couldn't help but ask. Then, he learned that 20th Century Fox was planning to invest in a big movie.
How big was this production?
The investment budget was as high as 135 million US dollars!
This astronomical amount of investment scared Director Chen to the point of peeing his pants.
But the senior executive of 20th Century Fox then said that this investment was too big, and the company had recently invested in two or three movies, all of which had lost money. If they wanted to take out 135 million US dollars, they would have to sell the movie, which made the company very hesitant.
But the director's attitude was very firm, and the budget of 135 million US dollars was a must. In the end, the company decided to find a partner to invest together. Unfortunately, the other movie companies were not optimistic about this project, and the path of partnership was very difficult. The whole company's senior executive was driven crazy, and so on.
"I know a person, and he definitely has the money to invest!" Director Chen said subconsciously to show that he had connections and was very awesome.
Director Chen had just said it casually, but he didn't expect that this executive would really be interested. He insisted that Director Chen invite this rich man over to invest in this movie.
This time, Director Chen was in a difficult position. This was a 135 million US dollars investment. How could Jia Yapeng have the money to buy such a huge investment?
Director Chen actually didn't know about Boss Jia's family background, so in Director Chen's eyes, Boss Jia was just an entrepreneur with a net worth of over 100 million RMB. He definitely wouldn't agree to this investment.
Moreover, so many rich people in the United States refused to invest, which meant that this movie would definitely lose money.
A 135 million US dollars investment, according to the share of the box office in the United States, would need at least 280 million US dollars to make a profit. How was this possible?
Director Chen regretted it at that time, but the senior executive kept urging Director Chen to call Boss Jia over for a chat. So Director Chen, who was embarrassed, could only call Boss Jia.
"Mr. Jia, there is a movie called Titanic here, and I want to find someone to invest in it. If you don't have time, forget it!" Director Chen said carefully in Chinese over the phone.
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