The Tribeca District on Manhattan Island is one of the most charming neighborhoods in New York, with still cobbled streets, world-renowned restaurants, and historic warehouse buildings converted into hundreds of millions of dollars in loft houses.

For independent filmmakers, this place is also particularly eye-catching. Not only Miramax is here, but in 2002, producers Jane Rosentay and Robert De Niro founded the Tribeca Film Festival. In just a few years, the Tribeca Film Festival has become one of the most important film festivals in the United States.

Zhang Ran and Wu Ruide appeared here, and had nothing to do with independent films. They made an appointment with Aike Permatt to meet, and the meeting was at the Nobu Restaurant in Tribeca.

This restaurant is New York's premiere restaurant, opened by Robert De Niro and Japanese Nobuyuki Matsukura. It is sought after by many food lovers and Hollywood stars. It is one of the most famous restaurants in New York.

As soon as they walked to the door of the nobu restaurant, Zhang Ran and the others met an acquaintance, Zhang Ziyi and a foreigner.

When Zhang Ziyi saw Zhang Ran and Wu Ruide, she said something to the foreigner beside her, then took a few steps forward, her smile as bright as the peach blossoms in March: "Director, Mr. Wu, what a coincidence, are you here to have dinner too?"

Wu Ruide nodded with a smile: "Come and see a friend."

Zhang Ran said with a stern face: "Producer Zhang, aren't you going to film "Very Perfect"? Why are you coming to the United States? You are the producer. If the movie is smashed, I will ask you!"

Zhang Ziyi is a woman with very ambitious ambitions. In the past two years, she has been unwilling to be an actor only. She plans to catch the actors and producers like many Hollywood superstars. At this time, a woman named Jin Yimeng found her with the script "Sophie's Revenge", which is an urban fashion drama. It is a relatively novel theme in China, and the two hit it off.

After that, Zhang Ziyi took the script and found Century Peak. After reviewing the script, Century Peak found that the entire script was written in the standard format of Hollywood Chicken Movies. Century Peak believed that Chicken Movies were very attractive to urban female white-collar workers, and this movie would do a lot, so she invested 30 million.

Zhang Ziyi knew that Zhang Ran was joking with her, so she stuck out her tongue and said in a coquettish tone: "Director, I'm timid, don't scare me!"

Zhang Ran looked at the foreigner beside Zhang Ziyi. She was in her forties, wearing a black Dior suit, with long legs, a bunch of pleats on her leather shoes, and her hair seemed to have never been combed, which was messy. Since Zhang Ziyi broke up with her new relationship at the beginning of the year, many Chinese audiences have thought of this foreigner named Weiwei.

Zhang Ran was a little dissatisfied with this man's dress and thought to himself that this guy was still an angel investment, and his outfit was too unspectacular, even more sloppy than me, a director! He smiled at Zhang Ziyi and said, "Ziyi, won't you introduce it?"

"Director, Mr. Wu, this is my boyfriend Ai Wei Niwo, who mainly operates the media and catering industry. He is the largest individual shareholder of Time Warner Group and the chairman of NM Investment Company!" Zhang Ziyi then remembered that there was someone next to her and quickly introduced, "Viwei, this is Mr. Zhang Ran, a famous director, and the founder of Youtube and Fly. This is Mr. Wu Ruide, the peak of the century!"

Wu Ruide greeted Avi Niwo very politely. After all, the title of Time Warner Group's largest individual shareholder still sounds a bit scary; but Zhang Ran's attitude is relatively casual. He heard Wendi Deng mention this person, and he was quite disdainful in his words. He naturally would not care too much about those who were disdainful of Wendi Deng: "Mr. Niwo, I'm very happy to see you."

Avi Niwo was very enthusiastic about Zhang Ran: "Mr. Zhang Ran, I am very happy to see you! I don't know when you have time. If you have time, I want you to talk to you. I have a few good projects now and maybe I can cooperate with you."

Zhang Ran thought this was too anxious, and said lightly: "This time I came to the United States, the itinerary is very full, let's go next time!"

Although Zhang Ran refused, Avi Niwo was not dissatisfied at all. He enthusiastically proposed to exchange business cards with Zhang Ran, but Zhang Ran did not refuse.

After exchanging business cards, Zhang Ran said, and walked to the nobu restaurant with Wu Ruide.

After Zhang Ran and the others walked into the restaurant, Zhang Ziyi whispered to her boyfriend: "Let's go too?"

Avi Niwo said "hmm" and asked as he walked into the restaurant, "Ziyi, are you very familiar with Zhang Ran?"

Zhang Ziyi glanced at Avi Niwo and thought to herself, do you think I have an affair with him? If I have an affair with him, can I still fall in love with you?

Recently, Zhang Ziyi and Ive Niwo have some conflicts. She hoped Ive Niwo would give her half of the property rights of the Park Hyatt Mansion in Peking and the Marabu house in California. However, Ive Niwo disagreed and the relationship between the two became a little cold. She said lightly: "I'm very familiar, what's wrong?"

Ivey Niwo said happily when he heard this: "That's great. I'll go to China with you a few days later. Then you can make an appointment with him? See if there is any opportunity to cooperate with him!"

Zhang Ziyi frowned and said, "I just filmed a movie with him and didn't have any deep friendships. Now his status is not something I can reach. I asked him to meet him, but I'm afraid he may not give me this face."

When Ivey Niwo heard this, his eyes flashed, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "If you can successfully cooperate with Zhang Ran, you will be given to you the house in Park Hyatt Mansion and the house in Marabu, California!"

Zhang Ziyi almost vomited blood. I have been sleeping with you for so long and asked you to give me two houses. You are pushing me back. Now I want to do business with Zhang Ran, ask me to help, and my mother wants to cooperate successfully before I give it to me. If I had known this, I would have been solemnly not to let Zhang Ran sleep. At least he wouldn't bother me about the two houses!

The restaurant is relatively empty, with only three or four tables of guests. It is still early and there is more than an hour before dinner time. Zhang Ran and Wu Ruide sat down near the kitchen, which is the worst location in the entire restaurant. Aike-Permatt is relatively low-key and likes to choose remote corners when dining, so as to avoid being noticed.

In fact, it is not just Aike Permatt who has this habit, but many celebrities also have this habit. For example, every time Ingrid Bergman goes to the Beverly Hills restaurant, he will book a location close to the kitchen, which will make her avoid the eyes of other guests.

After Zhang Ran and Wu Ruide sat down, the waiter stepped forward to ask. After knowing that the person Zhang Ran and the others had made an appointment had not arrived yet, he quietly stepped back.

When there were five minutes left before the agreed time, Wu Ruide suddenly lowered his voice and said, "Aike-Permatt, here you go!"

Zhang Ran looked up at the entrance of the restaurant and saw a man in his fifties, dark skin and thin-looking man walking towards this side. After the man came over, Zhang Ran noticed that he was wearing a very ordinary Ruffle Lauren suit.

With this outfit, if you hadn't known that he was Ake Permatt, Zhang Ran would never believe that he was a rich man with hundreds of millions of dollars in assets. He was quite emotional. It was said that Jobs was low-key, but compared with Ake Permatt, he was simply too high-profile.

Zhang Ran heard Wu Ruide say that the largest shareholder of Marvel is most proud of his career that he has never been interviewed by the media in his more than 40 years of career. He always tries to avoid being photographed. Unlike most other executives of production companies, Aike Permat despises the Hollywood lifestyle and tries to avoid showing off his wealth.

"He was on a regular plane, not a private plane. He drove the same car for 25 years and he didn't care about that. If there were some used paper or not paper around him, he would cut them into eight pieces so he had a new pad."

Zhang Ran was originally more suspicious of this, but when he saw Aike Permat's dress, he knew it was true. At the same time, he also knew that such people who like to do things steadily are the most difficult to deal with.

Aike-Permat walked over with a calm expression, shook hands with Wu Ruide first, then stretched out his hand to Zhang Ran, and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang, I have long admired your name and wanted to meet you!"

"I have also admired Mr. Permatt's name for a long time. Carl Icahn is known as the Wolf of Wall Street, but you can defeat Carl Icahn and regain ownership of Marvel. That is a classic battle that can be written into textbooks!" Zhang Ran shook Permatt's hand and said polite words. But this is not entirely polite words, Zhang Ran said it is a fact.

Aiko Permat was a Jewish man. When he first arrived in New York, he only had $250, but he quickly showed his Jewish talent in doing business. He made full use of his Hebrew identity outside the Jewish cemetery in Brooklyn to provide paid guidance services to the grieving tributers.

After accumulating some funds, Aiko Permat began selling toys and beauty products on the streets of New York, but he soon discovered that selling backlogs of goods and tailors could make high profits. Aiko Permat had never been to college, but taught himself how to read the balance sheet and became a master in finding opportunities in a poor company, which quickly made him a rich man.

In the early 1990s, Permatt and Avi Arad operated the toy company toybiz. The company's products originated from the roles created by Marvel and required the authorization of Marvel. In the 1990s, the company was acquired by Marvel and renamed Marvel Toys, and Permatt also joined the board of directors of Marvel Entertainment.

In the late 1980s, Marvel was acquired control of the company by corporate hunter Ron Perelman. Under Perelman's operation, Marvel went public in 1991. After listing, Marvel began to expand greatly. In addition to desperately launching comics, it also crazily acquired other companies, including toy companies, comic distribution companies, etc. The acquisition of toybiz was the case at this time.

However, Marvel's good days did not last long. In the mid-1990s, the comics industry bubble burst, a large number of comics stores closed, Marvel's sales were severely damaged, and Perelman's expansion strategy brought the company huge debts and the company fell into trouble.

Aiko Permat, who was worried about the company's future, tried to convince the company to enter the film, but did not follow his advice, although the strategy was right.

Not long after, Marvel was targeted by another corporate hunter Carl Icahn. Under Carl Icahn's operation, Perelman was eliminated, and Marvel failed to get out of the predicament and was liquidated by bankruptcy.

At the critical moment, Aike Permat and Avi Arad miraculously won the support of a federal judge and took control of the company. The new Marvel company was established, Aike Permat serves as CEO and chairman of the board, Avi Arad serves as chief operating officer, and Carl Icahn sold his stock and quit Marvel in full.

From then on, Marvel began a long recovery under the control of Aike Permatt!

Zhang Ziyi and Ivi Niwo sat not far from Zhang Ran and the others. Zhang Ziyi kept paying attention to Zhang Ran and the others' movements. Seeing Zhang Ran and Wu Ruide having a happy conversation with a salesman, she lowered her voice and asked, "Who is that person?"

Ivey Niwo felt that the black and thin man looked familiar, and seemed to have seen him somewhere. He pondered for several seconds and exclaimed: "God, it's Aike Permatt. Doesn't he like to meet guests?" 8)
Chapter completed!