In early August, Tao Yumo, who had been in the United States for more than a month, returned to Xiangjiang.
Lin Chaoyang, who received the child, had just returned home from outside. The Starry Sky TV movie station on TV was shown "Tang Bohu's Autumn Fragrance" filmed by Stephen Chow last year. Tao Yumo was sitting on the sofa licking ice cream, watching while laughing.
"When did you come back?"
"Just come back in the morning."
"Don't you make up for your sleep?"
"Join difference, go to bed at night."
As the two were talking, two figures rushed towards Tao Yumo as if they had taken off their reins.
"Auntie!"
Dongdong and Yan Yan hugged Tao Yumo tightly, feeling as if they hadn't met for a few years, and they were so intimate.
"Be gentle! Be gentle! It's pressing my hair."
Tao Yumo's expression was half disgusting and half enjoyment.
"It seems that I'm not here for this time, and you two are not dealt with by your mother!"
Yan Yan pointed his hand and said, "Brother has been beaten several times!"
Dongdong glared at the complainant little traitor, "Aren't you scolded too?"
"Okay, okay, don't make a noise." Tao Yumo skillfully became a peacemaker, "Do you still want a gift?"
"I want to!" the brother and sister said in unison.
Tao Yumo nodded with satisfaction and said to Dongdong again: "Go and move the box over."
"Okay!"
With a gift, Dongdong has a very high execution ability. After moving the suitcase over, he took the initiative to open it.
The two children shared the gifts. Tao Yumo told Lin Chaoyang about her gains in the United States for more than a month. She went on a business trip to the United States mainly for the release of Pixar's first animated feature film "Toy Story".
The summer season is the hottest period in North America every year. Dituni's own 2D animation "The Lion King" was released.
"The Lion King" was released on June 15, with a box office of over US$75 million in the first week. The cumulative box office in North America reached US$265 million in the first month of its release, making it the hottest movie in North America this year, no doubt.
In order to make way for "The Lion King", the release date of "Toy Story" has to be set on July 22.
Fortunately, Toy Story is also a success, hitting a box office of US$29.14 million in the first weekend.
Compared with "The Lion King", it is definitely not as good as that, but considering that Pixar is just a small studio and "Toy Story" is the world's first 3D animated feature film, achieving this result is enough to make all Pixar employees proud.
"$62 million, $62 million in the first week, our first animated feature film is expected to exceed $200 million in the box office in North America!
If the global box office is included, it will be $300 million!"
Tao Yumo's tone was filled with joy and spirit.
Her box office estimate for Toy Story is not an exaggeration. It is indeed worthy of pride that the first animated feature film produced by the company has achieved such results.
Then she started to feel pain again, naturally because of Disney.
"Toy Story" has to take half of the box office share, and the distribution fee is also from Disney, which means that most of the profits have been taken away by Disney. How can she not feel sorry for it?
"Without Disney, Toy Story may not have achieved such a high box office. Just keep a calm mind." Lin Chaoyang advised.
Tao Yumo sighed, "Of course I know, but I feel uncomfortable when I think of tens of millions of dollars, I feel like I'm not going to feel like this!"
"You can kill me!"
Lin Chaoyang lost to her and said, "Don't just count the box office revenue, but also the subsequent copyright and peripheral revenue. Besides, you have to count the undetectable revenue. Pixar has become famous this time.
Good days are coming.”
Lin Chaoyang is right. Pixar has become the name of 3D animation. In the future, regardless of whether it is a sequel or financing or listing, it will be of great benefit.
On the third day after the release of "Toy Story", investors had already contacted her and offered Pixar Animation a valuation of $500 million.
Tao Yumo only spent $130 million to acquire Pixar against the public, and only released a movie, and its valuation rose to $500 million.
Some capital is willing to offer a valuation of $500 million at once, not just because of the success of Toy Story.
After all, movies are too mysterious. Even if Pixar's future works can achieve good results, the valuation of 500 million US dollars is a worthwhile figure.
These people are actually optimistic about the future of 3D animated films. The release of Toy Story has allowed many people to see that the technology mastered by Pixar is very likely a great project that is expected to change the entire world animation landscape.
Some radical investors even believe that Pixar may become the next Dituni.
Of course, this kind of remark is currently only spread among Hollywood industry insiders.
While Tao Yushu was boasting, Tao Yushu came back. She immediately ran to show off her sister and said by the way: "I will call the reporter from Ming Pao tomorrow. I want to accept an interview to boost the stock price of our Bubble Universe."
Before, she spent hundreds of millions of dollars on repurchasing Bubble Universe stocks. This time, "Toy Story" was a big hit, so she was proud.
Two days later, a news report titled "Hong Kong animation shocks North American market, Bubble Universe becomes a Hollywood upstart" was published in Ming Pao.
Bubble Universe, the world's first 3D animation, has a big box office hit in North America. These words are linked together and immediately caused heated discussions in the Xiangjiang press.
As Tao Yumo expected and expected, the stock price of Bubble Universe rose again.
The reason why it is said "again" is because the "Bubble Universe" produced by Lin's Film and Shanghai Film Studio this summer vacation
The second part of the Chinese Heroes is also released as scheduled.
The box office of Hong Kong exceeded HK$30 million, as stable as ever. It is not easy to catch up with the box office of any type of movie sequel, and "Heroes of China" did it.
In addition, for example, in the mainland and Southeast Asia, they are also being released one after another, and the box office performance is pretty good, and there is no big problem with the profit exceeding the previous work.
Affected by this, the stock price of Bubble Universe rose by about 5% a few days ago.
This time, "Toy Story" is selling well, and the impact has been much greater than that of "Chinese Heroes".
Whether it is the world's first 3D animated movie or Pixar's bright prospects, it is worthy of the stock price of Bubble Universe to surge.
In just less than a week, the market value of Bubble Universe broke through the HK$8 billion mark.
Tao Yumo said: Conservative, Hong Kong stock investors are still too conservative.
HK$8 billion is just $1 billion. Now the valuation of a Pixar animation studio alone is $500 million. The remaining businesses of Bubble Universe are worth $500 million together?
This is a bit contemptuous!
She was unwilling to be lonely and spoke again through Ming Pao: The current stock price of Bubble Universe is seriously underestimated, and investors in the Hong Kong stock market are too conservative and do not see the huge potential of Bubble Universe at all.
The stock investors just supported the stocks of Bubble Universe with real money. When they turned around, they saw Tao Yumo's voice. They felt like they were so confused that they bought your stocks wrong?
Tao Yumo's remarks have attracted many dissatisfaction from investors, especially in the interview, she also emphasized that "according to the business development level of Bubble Universe, HK$15 billion is a relatively reasonable market value."
Stock investors saw this number and it was "15 billion Hong Kong dollars". Is it worth it for you, a company that is engaged in animation and games in Bubble Universe?
After Tao Yushu's remarks were made, commentators spoke out for the stock investors and questioned her views, which naturally triggered another war of verbalism.
Lin Chaoyang sat in the cafe in Taikoo City, frowning through the news in the newspaper.
Although I knew that my sister-in-law did this on purpose, Lin Chaoyang really felt like he was watching the commander of a certain country in the later generations as she quarreled with people in the newspaper every day.
However, one thing he has to admit is that Tao Yumo's strategy is indeed unique and has indeed attracted a lot of market attention to the Bubble Universe, which is equivalent to saving a lot of public relations and publicity costs.
The most important thing is that after Tao Yumo's remarks of "HK$15 billion market value" were published, the stock price of Bubble Universe really rose.
More or less, it makes Hong Kong stock investors understand the PUA!
"Chaoyang."
Lin Chaoyang looked up and greeted Liu Yi.
Some time ago, I went back to Yanjing to ask about the Zhuang Chongwen Literature Awards. Ma Feng asked Lin Chaoyang to do a favor and to bring Xiangjiang's literary works into the award system.
This sounds like a good thing, but it is not easy to implement in detail.
To evaluate awards, should the evaluation standards of works be unified? Should we review together with mainland literary works, or to evaluate awards separately? The judges are also a question. Should we focus on the mainland jury committees, or to form another team?
There are many problems, but there are many benefits.
As long as the award is completed and the following is copied in the future, it can not only expand the influence of Zhuang Chongwen Literature Award in Xiangjiang, but also spread the influence of contemporary Chinese literature overseas.
After listening to Lin Chaoyang's statement on the ideas of Wenhui Association, Liu Yi frowned and pondered without saying a word.
"This matter is not that easy to deal with." After a while, he said this, "I am mainly worried that someone is making a fuss about it and is willing to slander it."
Lin Chaoyang nodded slightly, Liu Yi's concerns were not groundless.
China is not the later generations. There are so many other people around me. The Wandao politicians had just had a big show last month.
"The difficulties must be very big, and I know this. However, since the Cultural Association has this intention, it is indeed a good thing, and we should encourage and support it."
As he spoke, he placed a few pieces of packaging candy on the table, scattered.
"Old Liu, we might as well look at the problem in a larger context. In Xiangjiang, we often talk about Chinese literature. What is Chinese literature?
It covers not only our literary works from two or three places, but also our compatriots who use Chinese to write in Southeast Asian countries.
In terms of population, our population totals more than 1.2 billion, making it the largest single ethnic group in the world.
But what is the status and influence of Chinese literature internationally?”
Liu Yi didn't say anything, just stared at the candy cube on the table.
At this time, Lin Chaoyang used his fingers to skillfully tweak all the scattered candy pieces together.
"We don't talk about the illusory things like status and influence, but only talk about the awards themselves. Now our Chinese literature lacks an important literary award.
Looking at the 1970s of Wandao and the 1980s of the mainland, you can’t deny that literary awards are of great help to promote creators’ creative enthusiasm.
Due to the social structure of Southeast Asia, it is impossible to hold such a large award rating, and Xiangjiang is too small.
Looking at it, it is the best choice to do it from the mainland. In this way——
Lin Chaoyang's fingers were tapped on the sugar cube that was gathered together, "One can only be united in one rope to better promote the development of Chinese literature."
Hearing this, Liu Yi asked curiously: "What is the specific constitution?"
"First, you will do a pilot project in "Xiangjiang Literature". You will nominate it and be selected by the jury."
"Is that the review with mainland works?"
"Assessed together."
Liu Yi hesitated and said, "I can't answer you for the moment, I have to discuss and discuss."
Lin Chaoyang said, "This is natural. In this way, your magazine will communicate first. If you think you can try it, go to Yanjing and discuss the details with the Association for Literature and the jury."
Liu Yi asked: "Don't you participate?"
"I have long ignored the awards."
What Lin Chaoyang said was not an excuse, and he had indeed ignored the awards.
If it weren't for the literary association's face this time, he wouldn't have planned to participate in this matter. After all, turning the Zhuang Chongwen Literature Award into a Chinese Literature Award is not just a matter of literature, but he can only do his best to help.
Time flies towards November, and Chen Kaige comes from Yanjing that Chen Huaikai has passed away.
Anyway, they were old friends. Lin Chaoyang and Tao Yushu went back to Yanjing to hang out.
After attending the funeral, Tao Yushu went to the United States. This time she went to contact the American theater chain.
In the middle of this year, Lin's Pictures introduced Sony Pictures and received a $500 million investment. Tao Yushu was intended to be used for the acquisition of theaters.
Since the Reagan administration, the United States has been increasingly loosening in its control over the re-entry of large film companies in theater business, and there is no obstacle in policy.
As one of the terminals for profitability in the film industry, the importance of theaters is self-evident. Now, the time, place, and people are in harmony, so Tao Yushu naturally does not want to miss this opportunity.
Lin Chaoyang chose to stay in Yanjing. His new book is still being created, so this time he returned to Beijing to treat it as a field trip.
Shijingshan, military district courtyard.
Du Ruolin talked endlessly to Lin Chaoyang about his heroic deeds when he was young. When he was excited, he spitted everywhere, and his voice was like a bell, and he didn't look like a person who was almost eighty years old at all.
"You have to write me about this. My old classmate died miserably. If it weren't for him, I would have lost 3
Du Ruolin talked about his thrilling experience when he participated in the patriotic movement when he was young, and asked Lin Chaoyang to write his experience into the book.
"If you add it, this novel will almost become your old autobiography." Lin Chaoyang complained.
Upon hearing this, Du Ruolin's eyes were staring like a bronze bell, "Nonsense! I've just mentioned a few things? Why did it become an autobiography?"
"What do you say-"
Lin Chaoyang counted with his fingers for a long time, and finally said, "If Du Feng would call you dad, I wrote "The Wreath Under the Mountain" back then, and he did the same."
"Fart!" When Lin Chaoyang mentioned Du Feng, Du Ruolin was furious and said in anger: "If you don't write, you're going to write about me. Ye Yonglie knows it? I came to visit me specially last year, but I didn't agree."
Ye Yonglie is a popular science writer, and his most famous work is "Little Lingtong Wandering the Future", but in the mid-1980s, his creative direction turned to documentary literature.
In recent years, he mainly writes well-known figures, senior figures, and historical biography, and is known as the "old news reporter".
"Look at you, why are you anxious?"
When a person is old, he becomes an old child. Lin Chaoyang has to comfort Du Ruolin for a few words.
As the two were talking, Lin Chaoyang saw the guard Xiao Song standing in the passage in the living room, looking confused.
Lin Chaoyang was about to ask him what was wrong, but Qi Hongying came over and sent Xiao Song away.
"Old Du!" Qi Hongying shouted.
"What are you doing?" Du Ruolin responded absent-mindedly. He was planning to continue to spread his heroic history to Lin Chaoyang.
"Du Feng is back to Yanjing, and I will get home later."
As soon as Qi Hongying finished speaking, Du Ruolin suddenly turned around and said angrily: "What are he doing when he is back?"
"The child has been born for two months, and we haven't seen him yet."
When talking about the child, Du Ruolin's anger seemed to calm down a little.
Lin Chaoyang was about to run away secretly, but Du Ruolin stopped him, "Where to go?"
"Your family enjoys family happiness, so I won't be upset here."
"It seems like you have never seen it before, stay." Lin Chaoyang still stayed.
Du Ruolin mentioned that the reason why Du Feng was so angry was that Du Feng took over the identity of Xiangjiang after getting married last year. Even the children were born in Xiangjiang, and he had never discussed it with Du Ruolin.
It made Lao Du feel that the dignity of his head of the family has been severely challenged.
Of course, this is Lin Chaoyang's guess later.
After more than half an hour, Du Feng appeared in the military compound with his wife and children.
"dad!"
When they met, Du Feng called out, and Du Ruolin responded with a cold snorkeling.
"dad!"
Chen Lan also called out, after giving birth, her weight lost a lot, and she had a rich and noble spirit than before.
When Du Ruolin saw Chen Lan, his cold face softened a little.
"Look at the child." Chen Lan said as she brought the child in her arms to Du Ruolin's side.
The baby in the nude was a small one. He just woke up after getting out of the car. His eyes were round and immediately melted Du Ruolin's heart.
He put his fingers to the baby's hand and was naturally grabbed. His small hand couldn't even cover his fingers.
"Oh~oh~" Du Ruolin smiled, "Good grandson!"
"This child is so beautiful, and he always chooses the strengths of his parents."
Lin Chaoyang's words made Du Ruolin's smile even more, but he said, "Just like a fuck, it's better to grow a better place."
Du Feng was not angry when he was discriminated against by his old father. He came back with a handful of people. He was hard.
"Dad, the child has not been named yet, please give one." Chen Lan said when Du Ruolin coaxed the child.
Upon hearing this, Du Ruolin was a little surprised, "Have you named it yet?"
Chen Lan smiled and said, "Du Feng said, I have to wait for you to get it back."
Lin Chaoyang dared to bet that this matter must have nothing to do with Du Feng, and it was all decided by Chen Lan.
"Forget it, you can get up as your parents." Du Ruolin said reservedly.
Seeing his fierce behavior, Du Feng couldn't help but want to say a few words, but was stopped by Chen Lan's eyes.
"You still have to get up. The fortune teller said that this child is the fate of a general star, and said that "the general star always wants auspicious stars to support the noble evil spirits to be added to it will be auspicious."
When Du Ruolin heard Chen Lan's words, he frowned, as if he was displeased, "Just engage in these feudal superstitions."
But Lin Chaoyang clearly saw that when he heard the word "Jiangxing", the corners of his mouth slightly raised and looked at the scene in front of him. For some reason, Lin Chaoyang felt a familiar feeling.
"General's life, it's good that our Du family will have another general!" Qi Hongying said very appropriately.
Du Ruolin scolded, "What general is not a general? Is it so easy to be a general? They are all from the sea of ​​swords and fires. Can you be a general by just calculating your fortune?"
Lin Chaoyang saw Du Ruolin being caught by the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and shook his head secretly. Even the rude army could not deal with Ruoling Finger.
"Old Du, please give me a name as soon as possible." Qi Hongying urged.
"Um--
Du Ruolin pondered silently and had a serious attitude.
After a long time, he said, "Why call it Du Anjiang."
Du Feng couldn't help it, "This one is too rustic."
"Why is it so rustic? Defend the country and stabilize the border." Du Ruolin said with his eyes wide open.
"Then you might as well call Du Dingbian."
"It's 'tummy' again, it's 'indigo' again, aren't you afraid that your son will make people laugh?"
"You can't hear me?"
The father and son quarreled for a few times, and Lin Chaoyang became a peacemaker.
"This name is also quite good, simple and vigorous. There is a line in the "Song of the Frontier" by Dai Shulun, a poet of the Tang Dynasty: If you want to serve the country for a long time, why should you be born into Yumen Pass?
An Jiang "Isn't this poem just right? And they all open their accents and catchy."
As soon as Lin Chaoyang spoke, he immediately attracted everyone's attention. After hearing his explanation, even Du Feng felt that the name was not that rustic, let alone Du Ruolin.
"Look, Chaoyang is still knowledgeable, and I can see the meaning of my name at once."
Du Feng feels shameless about his shamelessness. You are really good at gigging on your face.
"Brother-in-law, why don't you name my son?" He suddenly said.
Lin Chaoyang immediately waved his hand, "No, no, I can't do this job."
He didn't say the second half of the sentence, I dared to agree, your father can fight me hard.
"It's okay. You can give one first, just take it as a backup, and choose one at that time."
"Not suitable, not suitable."
Du Ruolin was displeased and agreed to give him a name, so why did Lin Chaoyang ask him to name him again?
Feeling the threat of Du Ruolin's eyes, Lin Chaoyang firmly rejected Du Feng's proposal.
"Then call it Du Anjiang." Without competitors, Du Ruolin's name was elected with the highest vote.
He gently rubbed his fingers against his grandson's face, "Du Anjiang, Xiao Anjiang, is this name good?
9
What's good!
Du Feng regretted listening to Chen Lan and asked his father to name the child. He always felt that Lin Chaoyang's name must be better.
He pulled Lin Chaoyang aside and asked Lin Chaoyang: "Brother-in-law, if you ask you to give me a name, what name would you give me?"
"It's over to get up."
"It's okay, I'll just listen."
Lin Chaoyang pondered for a moment, "You can call Huaijin."
"Huai Jin? Are there any allusions?"
"There is "Huai Jin holds Yu Xi" from "Chu Ci·Nine Chapters·Huaisha". There is another half of this sentence, which is called "I don't know how to show it". The meaning is not good.
However, Wang Yi's notes on "Chu Ci" also say: "Jin Yu's brilliance is covered with dust but not its light." So it is a good thing in the final analysis.
"Jin" is next to the character "Wang", which echoes the seal of ancient generals and is a metaphor for martial arts, and adds the character "Huai", which combines both hardness and softness.
If you have the virtue of beautiful jade and hold weapons with weapons, you are both civil and military cultivation. This is called jade that can be carved into weapons, and people can be refined into generals."
After explaining these sentences, Du Feng was heart-wrenching.
It must be a cultural person who has a good name, not only good sounds, but also has a better meaning.
He made up his mind, "Just use this one."
Lin Chaoyang was shocked, "Don't harm me!"
"Don't worry. At home, you are still called An Jiang, and your name is Huaijin."
Du Feng had a very positive idea and planned to challenge the dignity of the head of the family again.
Chapter completed!