Chapter 800 Mentougou
It can be said that the Oriental Movie Metropolis project has caused a great response throughout China as soon as it was announced.
After all, the total investment of this project will exceed 50 billion Chinese yuan, which will be the largest film and television investment project in China so far.
At the same time, the participation of Hollywood companies such as Marvel-MGM Studios and Blue Valley Capital has also attracted widespread attention to this project - at this time, Chinese audiences are also the most popular for Hollywood film and television works, not to mention that Marvel's "Marvel Universe" series of movies has now become popular all over the world.
The 007 series of movies owned by MGM Studios is also one of the most well-known Hollywood movies among Chinese people.
This time, Qindao was very sincere in order to win the landing of this project. In addition to the demolition and land leveling of 16 plots with an area of 4 million square meters in the entire project, Qindao also agreed to provide a part of the preferential tax subsidy policy for the studio inside the future Oriental Movie Metropolis.
Of course, before that, the Oriental Movie Metropolis project also needs to show a certain degree of sincerity - the purpose of Qindao's introduction of this project, in addition to obtaining investment and development, is to expand Qindao's international reputation through activities such as film festivals and cultural tourism projects around the film and television industry.
This increase in popularity can bring more overseas investment and tourism income.
If the Oriental Movie Metropolis project can really achieve such an effect, Qindao will naturally not be stingy with various supporting policies - they will give what they can, and they are willing to actively seek policy support for what the local government cannot give.
This can achieve a win-win effect.
But if this project ultimately fails to achieve the expected results, I am afraid their attitude will change accordingly.
This is not a difficult thing for the Oriental Movie Metropolis Group. Since they have decided to carry out such a project, they already have enough relevant resources as a guarantee.
After all, the shareholders of the Oriental Movie Metropolis Group also include Blue Valley Capital and Marvel-MGM Pictures, which still have a great influence in Hollywood.
For example, the Oriental Movie Metropolis groundbreaking ceremony is expected to be held next month. At that time, Hollywood's top stars who participated in the Yida Movie Metropolis groundbreaking ceremony in the original time and space, including Leo and Nicole Kidman, will still come.
In addition, actors who play members of the "Avengers" such as Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson, as well as other Hollywood stars who have close ties with Marvel-MGM Studios, will also gather in Qindao.
This kind of lineup has never been seen in China at this time.
Therefore, it can be said that the Oriental Movie Metropolis project has now earned enough attention from the Chinese media, and there are related reports in the media almost every day.
Of course, there are reports arranged by them, but there is also attention from some literary and artistic media that are very yearning for Hollywood - after all, it is well known that there are many literary and artistic circles in China who admire the West.
Just like now, a certain Asian American who is as well-known in China as Fan Bingbing and is called "celestial fairy" in China, her mother took the initiative to contact Tianhe Film and Television, hoping to get her a qualification to appear at the Oriental Film Metropolis groundbreaking ceremony, so that she can appear on the same stage with those Hollywood stars...
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"Hello, Mr. McCaleb, nice to meet you..."
"Are you the one who wants to buy my website?"
Jed McCaleb is a white man with brown curly hair. He looked at the young man sitting in front of him and asked.
Although he is called a young man, he actually looks a little immature. Jed thinks he is less than 20 years old, so he is a little uncertain.
"Yes, sir, my name is Rami Shakfa. I represent Matrix Capital and hope to acquire your Mt.Gox website. We think it is very interesting..."
"But with all due respect, Rami, our website is currently developing very well. Although BitC is just a new thing, we have occupied the vast majority of its trading share. Moreover, someone else is contacting me now, hoping to acquire Mt.Gox, and his bid is much higher than yours..."
Perhaps because the young man in front of him looked a little immature, and he was wearing casual clothes and did not look like a person with much business experience, so Jed's tone was not so polite.
If he did not want to use other acquirers to increase the price of selling his website, he would not have said too much to the other party today.
Sitting opposite Jed was Rami, who was previously funded by Barron and was in charge of the Predator Fund in DS Capital. However, now he has a new position and has become the head of the newly established investment company called Matrix Capital.
Juzhen Capital is an investment company founded by Barron to invest in the blockchain industry. The reason why Rami Shakfa was chosen as the head of this company is not only to train him, but also because Rami is very young and has a very high IQ, which makes it easier for him to communicate with this industry dominated by young people.
At the same time, Rami also has enough experience in financial investment. This experience is beneficial to the development of Juzhen Capital in the early stage of digital Coin development.
At this time, looking at Jed McCaleb in front of him, some information about the other party also emerged in Rami's mind.
Jed McCaleb was born in a single-parent family in Arkansas, USA, and was raised by his mother.
Jed was proficient in mathematics and science since childhood, and successfully entered UC Berkeley University, which has trained more than 90 Nobel Prize winners. However, he was involved in a wide range of subjects and lacked concentration, so he eventually dropped out of school and moved to New York.
In New York, he co-founded the p2p file transfer commercial software eDonkey (E-Mule).
This software was a huge success, and eventually the Recording Industry Association of America sued them for infringement - this is somewhat similar to the founding team of Skype, which also started a business with P2P file transfer software and was also sued by the Recording Industry Association...
In the end, the lawsuit was settled with Jed and his partners paying 30 million US dollars in compensation and closing eDonkey.
But no matter what, they still made millions of dollars from this business.
Although a little introverted, Jed is not ambiguous in making friends and has many romantic affairs...
In July 2010, Jed accidentally got one of his "girlfriends" pregnant, and the two decided to give birth to the child.
Jed used his savings to buy a house with a swimming pool in northern New York. During that time, he was addicted to a game called "The Far Wilds" all day long...
One day, Jed accidentally saw an article about BitC in his room and was immediately attracted - isn't this the vision of his founding eDonkey? Return power to individuals...
But when he wanted to buy BitC, he found that the existing website was very inconvenient to buy BitC.
So he built a trading website overnight, using a domain name he bought in 2007, mtgox.com...
Mt.Gox is the abbreviation of "Magic The Gathering Online eXchange", which was the website used to trade recharge cards for the role-playing game "Magic: The Gathering" at the time.
However, in China, most people translate it as "Mentougou" exchange based on its pronunciation...
On July 18, the first day of its official launch, Mt.Gox traded 20 BitCs at 5 cents each.
Within a week, the daily transaction volume exceeded $100.
Throughout July, due to Slashdot's report, more and more computers joined the BitC network, and the founder of BitC, Satoshi Nakamoto, decided to increase the difficulty of mining to ensure an average block time of 10 minutes.
For a time, the difficulty of BitC mining increased by 300%, and many people found that their old computers could no longer mine BitC, so they turned to buy BitC - which attracted more users to Mt.Gox.
By the end of July, Mt.Gox had become the world's largest BitC exchange, and its trading volume once accounted for more than 70% of the global BitC trading volume!
