During the Double Day holiday period, it was not easy for Tao Yushu to take a day to accompany her children. After that day, she was busy attending various end-of-year cocktail parties and year-end summary activities, and it was not easy until after New Year's Day.
At the end of the year, various financial newspapers and magazines in Xiangjiang became active again, one by one, and one by one, was eager to launch the so-called rich list. Among them, the 1994 Xiangjiang Chinese Super Rich List of "Capital" magazine was launched at the earliest.
In recent years, the real estate industry in Xiangjiang has been booming, with GDP data soaring, and the wealth accumulation speed of a number of wealthy people has also increased significantly.
The stock price of Sun Hung Kai Properties, co-founded by Guo Bingxiang and Li Ka-kye, exploded, directly expelled Li Ka-shing, the richest man for many years, and only ranked third. The wealth of the top three rich lists has exceeded HK$45 billion.
Lin Chaoyang and Tao Yushu, who ranked fourth in the Rich List last year, performed stably this year, and were still ranked fourth.
However, according to the data given by Capital magazine, the wealth the couple has reached a higher level than last year.
Affected by Sony Pictures’ strategic investment, Lin’s Pictures’ stock price has been rising all the way since the middle of the year, exceeding 200.
The market value of HK$100 million has doubled in less than half a year.
As of the close of December 30, Lin's Pictures' total market value reached an astonishing HK$41.56 billion. The couple's shareholding value of Lin's Pictures' shares was as high as HK$23 billion.
Sony Pictures' investment is only part of Lin's Pictures' stock price crazy, and the more critical factor is the concentrated explosion of its US business this year.
"Broken Arrow" was released in March, and John Woo once again shook Hollywood, with a box office of US$146 million in North America and a global box office of US$213 million.
"The Speed ​​of Life and Death" was released in June. After "The Black Man", Jet Li and Sandra Brock joined hands for the second time.
North America's box office was $121 million and global box office was $350 million.
"Scream" was released in November. As the first of the second horror movie series created by Lin's American, the box office in North America exceeded 100 million yuan and the global box office was 170 million US dollars, becoming another classic case in Hollywood that makes a big fortune with small profits.
In terms of commercial films, the American Lin continued its success last year and went further.
In terms of literary and artistic films, in September, "Dallas Buyer Club" participated in the 44th Venice International Film Festival.
With its excellent quality, the film broke the film festival's convention and won three awards: the Golden Lion Award, the Best Actor Award and the Fessibi Film Critics Weekly Award.
Before Christmas Eve in December, "Dallas Buyer Club" was launched in major theaters in the United States. With its super high popularity among young people, it hit a horrific result of $64.5 million in the first week of its release.
Not to mention art films, this achievement is hard to match even most commercial blockbusters.
Unfortunately, in 1994, a monster named Forrest Gump appeared in the American film industry. The box office of 330 million US dollars in North America and 678 million US dollars worldwide became a miracle that global art films could not reach.
But no matter what, "Dallas Buyer Club" has been a great success, and it can be said that it has both box office and reputation.
According to the current trend of "Dallas Buyer Club", the North American box office exceeds $200 million is not a big problem.
Four movies in a year have exploded in box office, and the American Lin family is in the limelight in Hollywood, attracting a lot of attention from American media.
Such a strong market performance even attracted the attention of Goldman Sachs. In the latest research report, Goldman Sachs has a discussion on the American film and television industry.
When talking about the strong performance of Hollywood movies in countries around the world in the past two years, Goldman Sachs believes that this is inseparable from the success of blockbusters such as "Jurassic Park", "The Lion King", and "The True Lies".
But at the same time, Goldman Sachs also emphasized that Hollywood is facing severe challenges.
"Lin's Pictures from Hong Kong is Hollywood's most powerful challenger so far. As one of the largest film companies in Asia, Lin's Pictures' business spans the upstream and downstream of the film industries such as investment, production, distribution, theaters, etc.
At the same time, the Star TV it controls is also Asia's largest commercial satellite TV station, covering nearly 800 million people in Asia, with a huge influence—"
The third day after the content of Goldman Sachs was published, it was cited by the British "Tess" and widely publicized the threat of Lin's Pictures to Hollywood.
"In recent years, Lin's Pictures has entered the US and European markets and has frequently achieved outstanding results.
According to industry insiders' estimates, Lin's Pictures has achieved a box office of over US$500 million in the North American market this year.
The cumulative box office worldwide is expected to exceed US$1.2 billion, no less than the first-class Hollywood film companies such as Time Warner, Disney, and Sony.
Moreover, Lin's Film has far more ambitions for the American film market.
Just six weeks ago, Lin's Pictures reached an agreement with Carmack Cinema, founded in Delaware, to acquire 54% of Carmack Cinema for US$165 million, becoming its largest shareholder.
This move has opened up Lin's film industry in the US theater industry and should also arouse the big Hollywood companies to be wary of.
Chinese capital is invading Hollywood ·—·
The Tax is a media under News Corp. It has a considerable influence in the UK and the Western world. Over the past year, Tao Yushu and Murdoch have fought each other from a distance, which not only made his plan to control Star TV failed, but also his plan to make the Japanese media industry was destroyed. It was not surprising that Murdoch was furious to wear small shoes for Tao Yushu and Lin's Pictures.
Faced with this public opinion offensive from News Group, Tao Yushu has no good idea at present, so he can only comfort himself. He has won the battle, so the old man can curse a few words if he is willing to scold him, and he will settle the score in the future if he has the chance.
The surge in Lin's Film's market value has caused Lin Chaoyang and Tao Yushu to increase their wealth, but this is not over yet.
In the past year, the market value of Mingpao Enterprise and Bubble Universe has also increased considerably, and Capital magazine has given this equity a valuation of HK$13.1 billion.
In addition, Lin Chaoyang's copyright and royalty income is estimated to be HK$1 billion.
From HK$600 million last year to HK$1 billion this year, the increase in copyright and royalty revenue is huge.
The main reason for this change is the great success of the adaptation of the Dallas Buyer Club movie.
In addition to the above, the couple's assets such as Shanghai Fuxing Investment and Villa No. 75 Shenshuiwan Road were priced at HK$2.8 billion.
By the way, last year, Tao Yumo mentioned Bubble Universe’s rival Jade Dynasty.
This comic company was founded by Huang Yulang, the former Yulang's agency boss. After six or seven years of development, it has become the second largest comic company in Xiangjiang after the Bubble Universe.
Of course, the gap between the second and first places is too huge and it is basically impossible to cross.
Because of a verbal battle, a reporter from Capital magazine went to investigate. The result was that he didn't know if he didn't investigate. After the investigation, he found that the company's major shareholder was Tao Yushu.
In addition to shock, Capital added 100 million Hong Kong dollars to Tao Yushu's net worth.
After all, Lin Chaoyang and Tao Yushu and his wife had an astonishing wealth of HK$40 billion.
Compared with HK$27 billion last year, the net worth has increased by half. This speed of wealth creation has surpassed many veteran wealthy people.
Fortunately, Lin Chaoyang and his wife are already regular customers on the Rich List. After the latest Rich List was released, people still paid attention and discussed it, but there was not much surprise.
However, a few days later, another list was released, attracting the attention of the Xiangjiang business community.
On January 16, the Express launched the list of the top ten chaebols in Xiangjiang in 1994.
Hutchison Whampoa and Cheung Kong Industrial controlled by the Li Ka-shing family are far ahead with a market value of HK$2,252. The cumulative market value of listed companies controlled by several families exceeds or approaches HK$100 billion.
At first glance, the listed companies controlled by these wealthy families are 100% concentrated in pillar and livelihood industries such as real estate, water, electricity, gas, shipping ports, etc.
The only exception is Lin Chaoyang and Tao Yushu. The market value of listed companies in the cultural and media industry controlled by the couple is as high as HK$64.5 billion.
Nowadays, the listed companies in Xiangjiang Cultural Media have excluded listed companies controlled by the couple, with a total market value of only HK$42 billion.
"Half of the country" is no longer enough to describe the couple's impact on the Xiangjiang cultural and media industry.
After the list was released, it immediately attracted many media reports.
Xinbao published an article saying that Tao Yushu is "the uncrowned king of Xiangjiang media industry", while the South China Morning Post called her "the Tsar of the Hong Kong media comparable to the Queen of England."
The report of the South China Morning Post is somewhat of a little personal grudge, and it has a strong sense of praise and killing.
Even the Japanese Sankei Shimbun joined in the fun, and reported that Tao Yushu "controlled the lifeblood of the media industry in Xiangjiang."
The news in the media was very lively, but Tao Yushu chose to deliberately keep a low profile.
At her level of wealth, no media needs to be exposed, but instead, the exposure opportunity should be minimized as much as possible.
However, what she is doing is the cultural media industry. Even if she is low-key, she will inevitably be paid attention, not to mention that there is still someone at home who is uneasy.
Less than two days after the release of the "Express" list of the top ten chaebols, Xiangjiang Political and Economic Weekly also launched this year's rich list.
Unlike the list of "Capital" magazine that only ranked in the top 10, "Xiangjiang Political and Economic Weekly" is called the "Billionaire List", with as many as 200 people, which basically caught all the billionaires in Xiangjiang.
In this list, the last rich man had a wealth of HK$200 million, while Tao Yumo ranked 46th on the list with a net worth of HK$600 million.
The 200th place has a net worth of HK$200 million, the 46th place has a net worth of HK$600 million, and the 1st place has a net worth of HK$63 billion, which is very consistent with the wealth classification of this society and fully verifies that the speed of money making money is always the fastest.
Unlike Tao Yushu, who wanted to be low-key, Tao Yumo was actually very excited to see this list. This was the first time she was on the rich list. This feeling was so novel.
"Xiangjiang Political and Economic Weekly" calculates Tao Yumo's wealth mainly because she holds 5.2% of the bubble universe
The shares, plus the cash that Bubble Universe acquired the Sugar Game back then.
Although it's estimated, it's quite the same.
"They'll forget it. My money is much more than on this list. Houses, salary, dividends, bonuses - by the way, and Hongxiu's shares."
Tao Yumo is in charge of Bubble Universe, a listed company with a market value of nearly 10 billion Hong Kong dollars, with annual salary, bonuses and dividends of 10 or 20 million yuan, which is indeed not expensive, but it is not enough to be viewed on the rich list.
"Don't forget about these small money. The calculation units on the rich list are "HK$100 million". How can you calculate your jujube and two dates?"
Du Feng's embarrassment attracted Tao Yumo's attack, "My money is all from Rengu, so you can make Hongxiu listing and let me be a shareholder of the listed company."
Previously, Tao Yumo not only won a big Benz with Du Feng's marketing strategy and brand positioning, but also received a 5% stake in Hongxiu.
This is a bit expensive, but Du Feng thinks it is still worth it.
Especially last month, Tao Yumo quietly planned Maggie Cheung's magical picture, which directly increased the market value of the Bubble Universe by 10%, which made Du Feng admire him and was simply a "marketing master".
"It's so fast, I'll be looking into the listing next year!"
With the experience of listing in Asia and Europe, Du Feng tasted the sweetness. Although he, as a major shareholder, has fewer shares in his name, in fact, the company's control is still in his own hands.
I ran around the stock market and had hundreds of millions of dollars in a row. Where can I find such a good thing?
Hongxiu has been established for three years and is fully in line with the relevant regulations on Hong Kong stock listing. Du Feng is hesitating about an opportunity. In his opinion, Hongxiu's development situation is very good now, and there is no problem even if it is not listed.
But when I think about the financing of hundreds of millions of yuan on the listing, I feel it’s a bit a pity. This contradictory mentality makes him a little confused.
"It's better to think about going public and making money all day long, and it's better to think about how to do a good job in the company."
In order to ridicule Du Feng, Tao Yumo said the truth.
In November, Du Feng took his wife and children back to Yanjing. On the one hand, he wanted to see the children for the family, and on the other hand, he wanted to promote the establishment of the Asia-Europe shopping mall in the mainland.
The Watsons supermarket brand under Asia-Europe Hutchison Whampoa has reached a cooperation and established a joint venture, which will focus on the mainland supermarket business in the future.
Today is the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, and it is also the 100-day banquet for children Du Huaijin. Du Feng specially handed over all his relatives and friends at home and set up a few tables of wine.
It just so happened that Lin Chaoyang and his family had just returned to Yanjing, so they naturally had to come to the banquet.
"Okay, there are so many people and talk nonsense, you two should stop talking about these things." Tao Yushu stopped their conversation.
Tao Yumo smacked her lips in a little unhappy manner. She had not recovered from the excitement of being on the Rich List. Du Feng had no feelings about such things as the Rich List.
In the second half of this year, Forbes magazine and Xiangjiang's Capital magazine held a cooperation with the plan to create a ranking of wealthy people for mainland China.
After Du Feng learned about the news through Tao Yushu, he immediately contacted Capital magazine, hoping that his name would not appear on this list.
Tao Yushu didn't know how he communicated with Capital at that time, but when Forbes and Capital jointly announced the mainland rich list half a month ago, Du Feng was indeed not on the list.
This first rich list after the reform and opening up, a total of 19 rich people were on the list.
Among them, Liu Yonghao, the brothers of Sichuan Hope Group ranked first with a wealth of RMB 600 million, followed by Zhang Hongwei, Dongfang Group (500 million yuan), Hainan Longteng Real Estate Xiduxin (500 million yuan), and Nande Group Mouzhong (3
billion yuan).
With Du Feng's wealth, if he really makes the list, he will be the first place with his eyes closed.
But in fact, there are not a few businessmen who are deliberately low-key in the vast land of China.
The difference is that some people are low-key by nature, while others are because their wealth comes from incorrectly.
Tao Yushu stopped Du Feng and Tao Yumo from talking about something silly, glanced at Lin Chaoyang, and saw a group of old comrades around him.
"Chaoyang, I'll tell you the story of our four waters back then."
"Your matter is so bad. Listen to me, I will talk to you about the Battle of Shanghai. You will definitely be useful. I was still the battalion commander of the 26th Division of the GMT that year.
Damn! The Japanese are so firepowerful, we have suffered heavy casualties and injuries to cover the retreat.
"The Battle of Songhu was a fight with the Japanese, so how could the Americans fight with the fiercest? Listen to me to tell you about the resistance to the United States and aid Korea..."
Lin Chaoyang has never been so popular among the retired cadres, thanks to the new book he is creating.
Through Du Ruolin's mouth, many of the veteran cadres who I D and J knew about the novel Lin Chaoyang was writing.
If ordinary writers write, even if they come to ask for advice, they may not be willing to share the past remarks, the names of people and the shadow of trees. If Lin Chaoyang comes to write, everyone will be able to accept it.
Therefore, when I saw Lin Chaoyang at the 100th anniversary banquet today, a group of old comrades immediately surrounded Lin Chaoyang.
He talked about the history of the M family and placed his hopes on making a stand-in in Lin Chaoyang's new book.
Lin Chaoyang tried all his best but failed to get out of here, so he had to ask Du Ruolin for help.
"Uncle, uncle!"
He came to Du Ruolin and planned to ask Du Ruolin to help him share the firepower, but unfortunately Du Ruolin ignored him.
After being reserved for a while, Du Ruolin helped him drive away the energetic old guys.
Then Du Ruolin sat upright in the seat, his eyes were lit and his words were not spoken.
Seeing this, Lin Chaoyang stood up and poured him a cup of tea, "I am really not a human inside and outside!"
"Stop being sloppy with me, you two are birds of a feather. After he retired from the army, what's wrong with you?" Du Ruolin said with a humming voice.
"There is nothing. He can listen to me for other things. Can he listen to this?" Lin Chaoyang defended with a grievance.
By the way, Du Feng was sold cleanly.
Last time at the Du family, Du Ruolin named his grandson Du Anjiang. Later, Du Feng insisted that Lin Chaoyang also name his son, saying that "Anjiang" was used as a nickname, and "Huaijin" named by Lin Chaoyang was used as a big name.
As long as everyone doesn’t say it at home, the old man doesn’t know it, and everyone is in peace.
He thought it was pretty good, but unfortunately, his mother Qi Hongying let it go a long way after a few days. This made Du Ruolin very angry.
I said I can't afford it, you insisted on letting me get up, but you don't need to get up, and you fool me. It was simply against Tiangang, and Lin Chaoyang naturally suffered from the disaster.
But even though he was angry, Du Ruolin just scolded Lin Chaoyang. He also knew that this matter had nothing to do with Lin Chaoyang, and the culprit was Du Feng's bastard.
After thinking about it, Du Ruolin asked unwillingly: "Then think about it again, is there any other sayings about "Anjiang"?"
Lin Chaoyang immediately understood as soon as he heard this. He was unwilling to give up and insisted that the name "An Jiang" was better than "Huai Jin"!
"Yes, then there must be." Lin Chaoyang thought hard.
"The Zuo Zhuan records that in order to rescue the Song Dynasty, Han Xianzi of the Jin Dynasty proposed that if he wants to gain someone, he must first be diligent.
It has been the beginning of the Song Dynasty’.
It means helping others and you will benefit yourself. This is the way of a gentleman."
Du Ruolin nodded, thinking that the allusion was found well, and asked again: "Is there any?"
"Yes." Lin Chaoyang gritted his teeth and the CPU was running wildly.
A few minutes later, Du Ruolin patted his shoulder with satisfaction, "Chaoyang is good, he has a good knowledge and is truly a great writer."
He used the spiritual victory method to prove that the "Anjiang" he developed is more cultural and meaningful than "Huaijin". Du Ruolin felt much more comfortable and was more pleasing to Lin Chaoyang.
"I'll tell you about the Battle of Pingjin!"
Chapter completed!