Chapter 324: % of the shares and celebration banquet

Zeng Li took the document and opened it. The words "Equity Transfer Agreement of Jiahe Media Holdings Group" immediately caught her eye.

She didn't read the following content carefully, and raised her head with a puzzled look and asked:

"Zhou Zhou, why are you transferring Jiahe's shares to me?"

"This company is going public, and there are requirements on the number of shareholders, so I pulled you over to make up the number." Liu Zhou said with a smile.

Zeng Li believed Liu Zhou's words at first, but when she saw the transfer of shares marked as 10% on the document, she immediately said:

"You are lying. How can you give so many shares?"

"A little more will look better. You are the boss lady after all."

Seeing that Zeng Li was about to continue speaking, Liu Zhou quickly interrupted:
"Lizi, don't worry about the amount of shares you have. You are mine anyway."

"I just felt it was a little sudden."

Liu Zhou stepped forward and hugged Zeng Li in his arms, saying softly:

"Li Zi, these shares are nothing compared to our relationship, and you even gave birth to a baby for me. These shares are just a small token of my appreciation."

"Ah."

Zeng Li actually understood Liu Zhou's meaning, and it was also to make herself feel more secure.

Although Liu Zhou made it seem like it was not worth mentioning, she was very clear about the value of 10% of Jiahe's shares.

Although Golden Harvest has not yet gone public, the current valuation given by the outside world has reached tens of billions of yuan, and this 10% stake is worth one billion yuan.

Currently in the entertainment industry, not to mention female stars, even among all the artists, excluding those who come from wealthy families, there is no one who has a net worth of ten billion.

It is only 2008 now, and there are not many billionaires in China, let alone those who are on the next level.

When Zeng Li was with Liu Zhou, she never thought about money. After all, Liu Zhou was just a student from a middle-class family and didn't have much money.

No one expected that Liu Zhou would be so powerful and could become the second richest man in the country.

Now Liu Zhou suddenly handed over 1 billion yuan to me. As a woman, I was quite touched.

Liu Zhou felt Zeng Li's embrace on him tighten, and he couldn't help but smile.

Although it is sometimes vulgar to talk about money, in many cases, money is really very important.

The reason why Liu Zhou transferred 10% of Jiahe shares to Zeng Li was to give her peace of mind and provide her with a guarantee.

This doesn't mean that Liu Zhou wants to separate from her, but he wants to give her enough sense of security.

This 10% of Jiahe shares is just the beginning. Later, Liu Zhou will reorganize his assets and slowly hand over more wealth to Zeng Li.

In addition to Zeng Li, Liu Zhou also prepared 10% of Jiahe shares for his other woman, Zhang Tong.

However, it was not directly under her name. Instead, an investment company, Tong'an Capital, was set up in her name, which held the 10% of Jiahe shares in the name of Tong'an Capital.

There is actually nothing special about the name Tong'an Capital. Liu Zhou took one character from Zhang Tong and his son Liu An's names.

After taking the money, Liu Zhou found that Tongan Capital sounded pretty good.

Liu Zhou would not favor one over the other. Except for the lack of a formal status, Zhang Tong had the same things that Zeng Li had.

The next day, which was December 1st, Liu Zhou attended the grand celebration banquet for "The Martian" organized by Han Shanping.

No one in the industry who was invited would fail to give face to the celebration banquet for this movie that greatly raised the box office record of mainland movies.

Especially several big companies in the industry, they have heard from Han Shanping that Liu Zhou will share his experience in shooting science fiction movies.

This was truly a timely help for them, so not only did the boss come in person, but some of their artists who were famous enough also came.

There is no doubt that Liu Zhou is the well-deserved focus of this celebration banquet.

As a director, Liu Zhou was also very good in the past, but "The Martian" really raised his status a lot.

Among the four major directors in mainland China, Zhang Yimou and Liu Zhou have already opened up a gap with the other two.

Feng Kuzi was quite open-minded about the situation.

Before filming "Assembly" and "Aftershock", Feng Kuzi was not so arrogant and conceited. At this time, he still knew who was the big king and who was the small king.

Among these four directors, he is the only one who is not from an academic background, so he is also the most excluded by mainstream filmmakers.

But Feng Kuzi still managed to make a name for himself with his box office results, and finally with the support of the Beijing circle, he was able to gain a firm foothold and become one of the top four directors.

Feng Kuzi might still be a little dissatisfied with poet Chen, but as for Liu Zhou and Zhang Yimou, although he still spoke tough, he was truly convinced in his heart.

Because these two people completely crushed him at the box office of the movie he was most proud of.

Most of the top ten movies in the mainland box office are works by these two people, and they occupy four of the top five spots, with only "Painted Skin" directed by Xu Ke.

But everyone knows that "Painted Skin" was written by Liu Zhou, produced with full effort by Golden Harvest, and also belongs to the Golden Harvest series.

The box office champion was even held by the two of them in turn. Zhang Yimou broke the record of "Titanic" with "Red Cliff", and Liu Zhou raised the box office record by nearly 1.3 million with "The Martian". Among the top ten movies on the list, Feng Kuazi did not have any. His best result was only million with "A World Without Thieves", and the minimum threshold for the top ten was million.

Sometimes Feng Kuzi couldn’t understand why, before “Hero”, he was the most successful in the domestic movie box office market, and his movies won the annual box office championship several times.

But later on, Liu Zhou emerged and confronted him head-on, but the gap between the two was not that big at that time.

But ever since "Hero", the domestic film market has become a little confusing to him, with box office revenues exceeding 100 million, 200 million, and 300 million seemingly everywhere.

The box office has now reached 700 million, which was unthinkable in the past. Let alone 700 million, even 70 million would be an amazing result.

I also followed the trend and carefully shot a costume blockbuster, thinking it would be a big hit, but it attracted widespread ridicule.

So sometimes, the current film market really makes him confused, and he even wonders if he is out of date.

Therefore, Feng Kuzi feels that it is better to stay in his comfort zone and shoot Feng-style comedies, which he is good at, to make himself more confident.

However, compared to Feng Kuzi's submission, the arrogant poet Chen has never been convinced.

He comes from a famous family in the industry and has won the only Palme d'Or in Cannes, China.

When he became famous, Zhang Yimou was still his photographer, and Liu Zhou was even still a little kid.

How could he be willing to be inferior to two people?

The same was true even after the huge failure of “The Promise”.

Especially recently, poet Chen has been even more annoyed.

His new film "Mei Lanfang" is scheduled to be released on December 4th. Golden Harvest had been quiet before, as if it was giving up the Lunar New Year box office.

But not long ago, he suddenly brought out a Hong Kong film to compete with himself, and it was released only four days after "Mei Lanfang".

For poet Chen, he felt that Golden Harvest was deliberately targeting him, or was looking down on him, by actually using a Hong Kong film to compete with him at the box office.

No matter which situation it was, poet Chen was very unhappy.

Now the celebration party for "The Martian" was held three days before the release of "Mei Lanfang", which directly took away the attention from "Mei Lanfang".

This greatly reduced the promotional effect of the film.

So even though Han Shanping tried his best to invite him, poet Chen still didn't give him face and refused to come.

However, what poet Chen didn't know was that Liu Zhou didn't care whether he came or not, or didn't even notice it.

Since "The Promise", he is nothing special in front of Liu Zhou, he is just a director.

Liu Zhou doesn't have time to care about an ordinary director.

He had to make an appointment to see me, and after making the appointment he had to see if Liu Zhou had time to see him.

After the excitement, the celebration banquet gradually came to an end and the guests left one after another.

Finally, only Liu Zhou and Han Shanping were left in the private room.

"Boss Han, I heard that the filming of "The Founding of a Republic" has already started?"

"Yes, it's all thanks to you. Now all the celebrities in the circle want to come and play a role, and even the extras are being snatched up." Han Shanping replied with a smile.

In order to expand the influence of "The Founding of a Republic", Liu Zhou arranged an all-star lineup for Han Shanping in advance to produce this tribute film for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

After the film project was approved, actors under Golden Harvest, including the most popular Huang Xiaoming, Fan Xiaopang and Qin Hao, all expressed their willingness to perform for free as a tribute to the country.

Later, superstars such as Jackie Chan, Stephen Chow and Liang Jiahui also followed suit spontaneously.

This trend began to spread slowly, and finally almost everyone in the industry was willing to perform for free.

Some people may have been forced to join at the beginning, but later on, seeing how popular the movie was, some people joined voluntarily or even strongly wanted to.
"I'm just talking, the most important thing is your face, Mr. Han."

"Haha, stop making fun of me. The experience sharing thing I told you about before will be held in half a month, on December 16th. How about it?"

Liu Zhou hesitated for a while. He had nothing to do on the 16th, so he nodded and agreed:

"No problem, then the 16th. This half month is just enough time to make some preparations."

"Okay, since number 16 is OK, I'll go and confirm the venue and contact person."

"no problem."

Liu Zhou then smiled and said:

"Boss Han, can you handle this? You have to film "The Founding of a Republic" and prepare for this matter, and before that you also prepared for this celebration banquet."

"I can't help it. I'm destined to be a busy person, but I can still make it if I squeeze in some time. I'll let Huang Jianxin shoot The Founding of a Republic first, and my main focus will still be on preparing for your experience sharing and exchange meeting."

"Okay, then Mr. Han, you go ahead and do your work. I'm going home to be with my wife and kids first, haha!"

(End of this chapter)