Chapter 359 Listing Time and Stock Price

There are not many main characters in "Interstellar". In addition to the male and female protagonists, there are the male protagonist's grown-up daughter, the elderly daughter, the female protagonist's father, and Matt Damon's role.

Among them, the grown-up daughter of the male protagonist and the father of the female protagonist have slightly more scenes, and can be regarded as supporting female and male roles, while the role played by Matt Damon is a bit like a guest appearance.

After the male and female protagonists were decided to be played by Liu Ye and Fan Xiaopang respectively, Liu Zhou quickly found suitable candidates for the other roles.

For the role of the male protagonist's grown-up daughter, Liu Zhou chose Liu Yifei.

Although Liu Yifei is very popular, it is not an insult to her to play an important female supporting role in Liu Zhou's second science fiction production.

As for playing a supporting role to Fan Xiaopang, it is not impossible. After all, Fan Xiaopang at this time is not comparable to another Bingbing.

For the role of the heroine's father, Liu Zhou's preferred candidate was Chen Baoguo.

Liu Zhou and he had worked together several times and were familiar with each other, so the role of professor was not difficult for him.

Finally, Liu Zhou also invited Qin Hao to guest star in the role originally played by Matt Damon.

As for the male protagonist’s elderly daughter, she doesn’t have many scenes, so it should be no problem to invite a veteran actor to play with her.

After finalizing the cast, Liu Zhou did not inform them directly. The project has just started, so there is no need to be so anxious, and they are all filming now.

However, just as Han Shanping expected, in less than a day, the news that Liu Zhou was preparing for his second science fiction production had reached the ears of some well-informed people in the circle.

For the bosses of the film and television companies, they were not shocked. After all, this was something they had expected. After all, Liu Zhou's enthusiasm for domestic science fiction films was obvious to all.

They are just a little itchy. After all, there is "The Martian" before. As long as Liu Zhou doesn't mess around and make a terrible movie, his movie will definitely be a big hit.

But with Liu Zhou's past achievements, he has never made a bad movie. Even if it was Zhang Yimou, they would still have a little worry that it might turn out to be a bad movie, but that is absolutely impossible with Liu Zhou.

So now Liu Zhou's second science fiction blockbuster, a project destined to make a lot of money, is visible but intangible, which makes their hearts feel like they are being scratched by a cat.

But no matter how tempted one is, there is nothing one can do. Since Liu Zhou appears in China Film, it means he is looking for cooperation with China Film, and no one else has the chance to get involved.

In the past, some other companies had the opportunity to cooperate with Liu Zhou, but now, Golden Harvest has everything it needs, and the only one that can provide help to Liu Zhou is China Film.

However, the bosses of major film and television companies were itching to get involved, and some actors in the circle immediately became upset when they heard the news.

Although Liu Zhou doesn't hold public auditions as often as Zhang Yimou does.

In the past, every time Zhang Yimou casts a new film, it is an annual event in the film industry. The entire entertainment industry pays attention, and everyone hopes to play a role in it.

In other words, Liu Zhou always selected the actors quietly, and there were basically no public auditions. Or he would just choose some small roles and let the assistant director choose according to the requirements.

Moreover, Liu Zhou has a preference that is well known in the circle, that is, he prefers to use his own people.

But despite this, when some people learned that Liu Zhou was preparing for his second science fiction production, they still used their connections to see if they could get involved.

Liu Zhou's movies are different from others. Even if he plays a small supporting role, he is likely to gain huge attention.

"The Martian" is the most typical example. Zhang Yi, Zhu Yawen and Yang Mi, the three of them just played supporting roles in this movie.

But even if they just played supporting roles, they still made a strong appearance, and after the movie was released, the popularity of the three of them was quite high.

Especially Yang Mi, because of the popularity of "The Martian", she will not be at a disadvantage in the current selection of the four young actresses.

So even though they felt the hope was not very high, they still wanted to give it a try.

What if I get selected?

That's a huge gift package.

Therefore, for a while, some undercurrents began to surge in the circle.

Liu Zhou was certainly aware of this, but he didn't care much about it. What he cared about was whether the news had spread to the outside world.

Fortunately, there was almost no media coverage of this incident, so the news remained confidential.

After seeing this situation, Liu Zhou temporarily put the matter of "Interstellar" aside.

We are currently in the early stages of preparation and the location crew has just left for Mohe.

He only needed to pay a little attention to it, so Liu Zhou's main focus shifted to the listing of Jiahe Group.

After two or three months of preparation and with the participation of CITIC Group, Jiahe Group's listing process has made great progress.

On this day, when Liu Zhou was processing documents in the office, President Zhang Zhao and CEO Yu Zhengjun both knocked on the door and walked in with smiles on their faces.

When Liu Zhou saw the looks on their faces, he knew there must be good news.

As for what the good news is, it goes without saying that the two have been busy communicating with the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the China Securities Regulatory Commission regarding the company's listing with people from CITIC Group.

"Looking at the expressions on your faces, has the time for Jiahe Group's listing been determined?" Zhang Zhao was a little surprised when he heard Liu Zhou's words, but then he smiled and said:

"Boss Liu, you are really good at predicting things. We just came back from Shanghai. Could it be that someone from the Shanghai Stock Exchange called you in advance?"

"No, I roughly guessed that the process should have reached this step. Does this mean that my guess was correct?"

"That's right. The listing date is set for August 26th. By then, including Jiahe, a total of 12 companies will be listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange."

"Okay! August 26th, the date is finally set."

Although he had expected this, Liu Zhou still couldn't help but feel excited when he heard the news.

Including Liu Zhou, so many people from Jiahe Group have been busy for half a year for the company's listing. Now there is finally a definite time.

This also means that the listing of Jiahe Group has officially entered the countdown.

It is now May 10th, and there are still more than three months until August 26th, which is neither long nor short.

However, this timing is still quite good for Golden Harvest, as it is right at the end of the summer season.

Not to mention that this summer there are two movies, "No Man's Land" and "The Message", which Golden Harvest has high hopes for, so the results will definitely not be bad.

Just take the fact that this summer's total box office revenue exceeded 1.6 billion yuan, which is enough for all kinds of capital and investors to see the huge potential of the film market.

As the No. 1 film and television stock, Golden Harvest Group is also the No. 1 private film and television company in the industry. These two good news will definitely greatly increase the attractiveness of Golden Harvest stock.

Afterwards, Liu Zhou calmed down a little and asked Zhang Zhao:
"Do we need road shows? How many? When?"

The so-called road show is actually a stock promotion meeting to attract some investment institutions or individual investors to buy the company's stocks when the company goes public.

Although the news of Jiahe Group's listing has made a lot of noise some time ago, and the stock may not be difficult to sell, we still have to be prepared for the worst, so a roadshow is definitely necessary.

"We still need to discuss this with CITIC Securities. They are the underwriter of our company's shares and they are more experienced."

"Okay, it seems I was too anxious."

At this time, Yu Zhengjun, who had remained silent, said:
"Mr. Liu, in addition to discussing the roadshow with CITIC Securities, we also need to determine the valuation of our Jiahe Group, the number of shares, the stock issue price, etc.

Before we go to negotiate with CITIC Securities, we also need to have a reserve price.”

"What do you think?"

"The valuation certainly cannot be just the 10.8 billion yuan valuation when CITIC Group raised funds, and the stock price cannot be set too high, otherwise it will be unfavorable for circulation." Zhang Zhao continued.

The increase in valuation is expected. During this period, Jiahe Group may be very popular in China, but it has not achieved any concrete results.

But it’s different in Hollywood. “Twilight” produced by Summit Entertainment has now officially exceeded 200 million US dollars in North American box office.

At the same time, under the operation and distribution of Lionsgate Entertainment and Golden Harvest International, "Twilight" has also begun to be released on a large scale overseas.

The film has been released overseas for nearly half a month and has almost earned nearly $100 million in box office.

Based on this result alone, the box office of "Twilight" is already very impressive. What's more, the movie has not even been released yet, and the box office will continue to grow.

Summit Entertainment is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Golden Harvest Group. The achievements of Summit Entertainment are, of course, also the achievements of Golden Harvest.

Apart from anything else, after the box office success of "Twilight", Summit Entertainment's valuation has increased dramatically in less than a year.

Liu Zhou spent $2 million to acquire Summit Entertainment. Not long ago, Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures expressed their acquisition intentions to Liu Zhou and also made their own offers.

Paramount Pictures offered $3.5 million, while Universal Pictures offered a slightly higher price of $3.8 million.

From this we can also see that the value of Summit Entertainment has almost doubled.

Although Liu Zhou refused both, if Liu Zhou really talked to these two companies, he might be able to get more. It should be no problem to get $400 million.

Therefore, there is absolutely no problem for Jiahe Group to increase its valuation by RMB 1.7 billion to RMB 1.8 billion.

"Mr. Zhang is right. If the company's valuation is to increase, the stock offering price should not be set too high. You should go talk to the people at CITIC Securities first."

"Mr. Liu, shouldn't we set a reserve price first? Although CITIC Holdings is a shareholder of Jiahe, CITIC Securities, as the stock underwriter, may not completely stand on our side." Yu Zhengjun said.

Liu Zhou pondered for a while and said:
"The valuation cannot be less than 13.5 billion, and the share price cannot be higher than 10 yuan."

"Ok."

"When you discuss things, feel free to tell me if you have anything to say. Anything else?"

Seeing that both of them shook their heads, Liu Zhou let them go on with their work.

(End of this chapter)