Chapter 801: Prepare 2.1 billion first; *Dying to Survive* is only one role short; Big gossip!

On Weibo's side, Cao Guozhia could give Lin Nan face as a big shareholder and old friend, and conduct transactions at the current market valuation; but 360 is not, and will definitely give Lin Nan some premium.

After all, ByteDance is not an enterprise that is not favored by the capital circle, and others are not short of investment; so the shares of 360 are naturally not short of buyers.

Adding the two together, let's count it as holding 3% of the shares, plus ByteDance's external valuation quote of 10 billion US dollars a few days ago.

With the data laid out like this, everything is clear at a glance; Lin Nan needs to prepare at least 300 million dollars; converted at the exchange rate of 6.91 this month, almost... he has to prepare at least 2.1 billion yuan!

"This is a huge sum of money, Lin Dao." Cao Guozhia personally sent Lin Nan out of the Weibo building and teased.

Lin Nan did not refute, but smiled and shook hands with him, oily: "So, I hope this is a steady profit without loss.

You have to know that although my liquid funds are abundant, they are far from enough, and I have to prioritize ensuring the operation of the company; most of the assets are invested outside, and this time I have to let the bank help me pay the money."

"Then I guess the bank side must be eagerly wanting you to open your lion's mouth, Lin Dao? Hahaha..."

"Banks are not good people, they are just relatively 'hypocritical' in front of us profitable companies. To say something unpleasant, what that person from Alibaba scolded is quite right."

After complaining with a smile, Lin Nan waved his hand and sat into the car, and a few seconds later the commercial vehicle drove away from the scene.

And Cao Guozhia also turned and walked towards the building, while smiling and shaking his head, while calling the Red-Clad Sect Leader. Since he promised to help Lin Nan contact, it is naturally better to be early than late.

All morning, the entire network was news reports about the premiere ceremony of *Sword Master*.

The gimmick of the 3D martial arts film occupied the headlines of the film and entertainment section, which looked like Tsui Hark's film style; although he was only the executive producer, he completely overshadowed the limelight of director Derek Yee.

Because these promotional drafts really made the audience think of *Flying Swords of Dragon Gate*, the first IMAX 3D martial arts blockbuster in the mainland!

Just hope that the situation of "the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment" will not appear, after all, today's martial arts films are hard to say, and the market has long been unable to withstand the tossing.

Liu Yifei also didn't idle in the morning; she took her assistant and just rushed to Happy Mahua.

All preparations before the opening of the film *Never Say Die* were in place. And Ma Li, who served as the female lead, had also returned from the *The Mystery of the Dragon Seal* crew.

"The filming of this play hasn't ended yet, and it will be completely wrapped up until the end of February. But the rest are the scenes of Big Brother Jackie Chan and the others, and it has nothing to do with me, a soy-sauce-playing female second lead."

Ma Li's self-teasing made Liu Yifei laugh, "I have to go to the cinema to see it later, I heard your scenes are quite funny."

"Don't, I heard her say there are 'revealing' scenes, and her fat, little belly, tsk tsk tsk..."

"Shen Teng, your grandfather, how do you want to die?" Ma Li immediately glared at Shen Teng on the side, pointing at his nose and laughing and scolding.

"That's right, beat him to death..."

"This mouth of his is really owed to be beaten!"

"Ma Li, don't hold back, beat him to death, I'll help you."

For a time, the conference room was "jumping like chickens and dogs," very lively. Liu Yifei looked at it, felt the atmosphere was quite good, and followed laughing non-stop.

Not long after, after laughing and making trouble, Liu Yifei began to talk about business:

"Because you are going to start filming in Guangdong, and Lin Nan and I can't walk away, so I'm very sorry. However, we will help you build momentum on Weibo."

"Producer Liu, you are too polite, remember to come and visit the set later, you are still our producer."

"Remember to bring Lin Dao together."

Bona's financing banquet in the evening is the focus of attention for the entire film and entertainment industry.

Because unlike Internet companies like Tudou, Bona belongs to the film and television

That is to say, apart from a small number of participating capital investors, all other guests at the financing banquet came from the film and television industry: film and television capital, filmmakers, and actors and stars.

In other words, this was an occasion that almost all industry insiders flocked to; financiers, resource providers, directors, producers, social circles... they were all at Bona's financing banquet!

"Whether you go or not is your business. Anyway, I have no intention of going, and I've already thrown it to Yue Jun to handle; he will go in my stead."

"Then I won't go either; I don't have any thoughts of investing in Bona. However, Fatty Yu is still 'thinking' of you at the premiere, very much looking forward to you buying a stake."

"In his dreams. His character is no better than Wang Zhongjun and Wang Zhonglei's, and is even worse. In my view, those two at Huayi are true villains who never hide or cover up. Fatty Yu? Heh."

"A gentleman's sword?"

"Something like that."

Before Lin Nan had even arrived home, Wang Changtian's call came through; the latter had left the premiere halfway through.

Checking the time, he decided to just stop at Enlight Media and grab a meal while he was at it; as for Liu Yifei, she had stayed at Happy Mahua to have dinner with Ma Li and the others as a producer.

"I think I saw Chen Hong downstairs just now?" Lin Nan asked curiously, putting down his chopsticks.

"'Secret Fruit' starts filming the day after tomorrow, and she's been watching it every single day these past few days; she really is a devoted mother to her youngest son. When she left half an hour ago, she even asked me if she could invite more people to the opening ceremony?

She really dares to think; she actually planned to have a group of industry heavyweights go and support her son's youth film, and support it in person at that!"

Hearing this, Lin Nan couldn't help but laugh; he could only say that they were truly a married couple—isn't this just Director Chen's style?

The two ate their lunch leisurely while chatting about the "Kung Fu Yoga" situation.

Wang Baoqiang was still tirelessly running roadshows, having only returned once on the day of the "Operation Meigonghe" premiere; the rest of the time he was always on the move.

He led his team, either in the middle of promotion or on the way to the next city.

Wang Changtian was even a little scared—what if this guy ran himself into the ground? But no matter how much he urged him, it was useless; Wang Baoqiang wouldn't listen at all, working his life away as if he were on drugs.

But that's fine too; even if this film has "flaws" in terms of word-of-mouth, in terms of attitude, it's estimated that the audience and movie fans won't be too picky and attack Wang Baoqiang.

After all, to have done things to this extent, there's really nothing to pick on!

……

Lin Nan didn't know how lively things were over at Bona last night. But he knew that the news of Bona's financing had suppressed the daily box office of "Operation Meigonghe" yesterday.

Stretching the quilt and covering Liu Yifei tightly, Lin Nan went downstairs amidst her groans.

There were quite a few interesting big news stories in the industry this morning; he had to take a good look.

"At 8:00 this morning, Bona Group officially released its Series A financing announcement: The group has now accepted investments from Alibaba, CITIC Securities, Tencent, and others, successfully raising 2.5 billion yuan;

Chairman Yu Dong plans to conduct Series B financing in March next year, and this round of financing is intended to be open to individual capital in the film and television industry..."

"Lin Dao Nan's film 'Operation Meigonghe' is on its fourth day of release, and its daily box office remains unstoppable, strongly capturing 203 million yuan.

The film has taken four days to reach a cumulative total box office of 991 million yuan. As of this moment, it has inevitably broken the 1 billion yuan box office mark!"

"After entering the halls of marriage and giving birth to a daughter, International Zhang returns to Hollywood! In the early hours of domestic time, Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures released the cast list for the sci-fi blockbuster 'Godzilla: King of the Monsters.'

Internationally renowned actress Zhang Ziyi is prominently listed, and she will play the role of the third female lead. The media called Zhang Ziyi's studio and received confirmation that the film is scheduled to officially start filming in June next year, which is also Zhang Ziyi's first film work after her comeback."

"Produced by Bona Film Group, supervised by Xu Ke, directed by Derek Yee, and starring Lin Gengxin, He Rundong, Jiang Yiyan, Jiang Mengjie, and others, the 3D martial arts blockbuster 'Sword Master' was officially released this morning, with a comprehensive screening rate as high as 16.7%..."

The role of the third female lead?

Apart from Zhang Ziyi, it's estimated that all the big actresses in the domestic film and television industry are laughing, and the young first-tier actresses are definitely watching the fun to some extent.

The media really knows how to phrase things! Returning to Hollywood again? A "strong comeback" to Hollywood in the capacity of the third female lead?

After nine o'clock, when Lin Nan arrived at the company alone, Yue Jun had already been auditioning for a while.

Today was all about small roles, not very important, so Lin Nan wasn't in a hurry to watch, but instead ran over to the "Dying to Survive" side.

"Brother Lin, we just decided on the role of the fake medicine seller; he's also an acquaintance of yours, take a guess."

Just as he entered the conference room, Han Jia threw a question at Lin Nan, her face showing a provocative expression.

"I have plenty of acquaintances; how would I know which one it is. Don't tell me you let Chairman Han play this role? That's not right either; this isn't a cameo role, but a major supporting role with a lot of screen time!"

Lin Nan looked at Han Sanping, who was sitting calmly, and teased. The latter immediately gave him a look of displeasure, "Central Academy of Drama, Class of '96, Chen Minghao."

"Isn't that the one who acted in your 'Space Cruise'?" Han Jia smiled and raised her eyebrows, looking smug.

"Brother Chen? Then there's nothing to say; since he's an acquaintance, his acting skills are also impeccable!"

Lin Nan was very satisfied with this choice; Chen Minghao's acting range is very broad, he can handle all kinds of roles, and most importantly, he comes with a natural sense of humor.

Every time he thinks of him, Lin Nan's first impression isn't the role in "Space Cruise," but Taishang Laojun in "The Lotus Lantern Prequel" and the Bull Demon King in "Magic Mobile Phone," and of course, Chen Minghao on the stage of a play—this is a true actor!

"Also, the role of the priest has been decided."

"Who did you decide on? It wouldn't be another familiar face, would it?" Lin Nan looked at Han Jia's smiling face, having a vague premonition.

"Hmm, another acquaintance, we gave it to King Shih-chieh!"

Well, regarding this casting choice, Lin Nan still had nothing to say and nothing to criticize; it was very good.

"So, the casting for 'Dying to Survive' should be coming to an end, right?"

"No, the last role of 'Yellow Hair' is still missing. All the other small supporting roles have been settled, and they are all veteran actors."

Han Jia said proudly; after all, they were going to start filming "Dying to Survive" first, so she naturally had to hurry up and be more attentive.

"Oh, by the way, Xu Zheng made a suggestion that his wife could come and cameo as the ex-wife in the movie, and I've already agreed."

"Ah? Heh, interesting, really interesting..."

Hearing Han Jia say this, Lin Nan didn't know what to say. He didn't mean to object, he just felt that this pairing was truly unique.

These two have all kinds of "scandalous rumors" about their marriage in their daily lives, and now she's making a cameo as an ex-wife in the movie... tsk tsk tsk, interesting!

In the morning, the variety of industry news from the outside world was dazzling.

The matter of Bona raising 2.5 billion yuan hadn't subsided yet, and the news that Huanxi would hold a new shareholder/partner signing ceremony, media conference, and welcome banquet tomorrow had climbed to the top of the trending list.

Ning Hao called again to urge Lin Nan that he must go over with Liu Yifei tomorrow night to "grab a meal"; in addition, Han Sanping, Han Jia, and others were also on the invitation list.

Near noon, the great Lin Dao didn't go home, but went straight to the Wanda Cinema.

After Liu Yifei woke up, she swiped and saw that a movie was being released today that was very suitable for men and women to watch together—"Your Name."

So the two of them could just have lunch outside after watching the movie, and then... stroll around for the afternoon!

Just like that, for an entire afternoon, the fun-loving great Lin Dao and Producer Liu contributed a huge amount of performance to the paparazzi and entertainment reporters.

……

In the evening, a "big piece of gossip" from Hong Kong appeared on the internet, suppressing all entertainment information for the day—no, suppressing all entertainment information for the past few days, leaving only this one.

The sensation caused by this piece of gossip was truly "well-deserved"; its explosive nature far exceeded the sum of all entertainment news these days!

"Soul Mate" won the Best Actress award at the Golden Horse Awards, and this film was also the director's solo directorial debut; they had already held a celebration banquet for winning the award once.

And today, at a cocktail party for an industry event in Hong Kong, the director's biological father, a certain old rogue, got drunk for the umpteenth time. When asked by the media about this film, at first it was fine...

But after the alcohol kicked in, whether it was speaking the truth after drinking or not having time to think before speaking, when a reporter asked him for his evaluation of a certain Best Actress, he blurted out a sentence that could "scare people to death."

And just like that, once the report came out, the whole internet was in an uproar!

At the awards ceremony, one person daring to imply something about another seemed to make sense? It made perfect sense!

Like countless times before, the entire film and television industry fell silent again, as if completely isolated from the world. But public opinion had already begun to ferment, like a hurricane passing through, and it was out of control.

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