Chapter 385 "The Butterfly Effect" Released
Zhu Ke sent a letter to Wells Fargo, sternly rejecting their acquisition and proactively put forward the idea of investing.
This is not that Zhuke is teasing them, but... he really wants to invest in them.
Wells Fargo, a giant with a future market value of US$200 billion, manages the savings funds of tens of millions of users, with savings funds of trillions of dollars.
Zhu Ke is very moved by such a hot commodity.
In fact, it is not just Zhuke who is moved by himself, but even the world-renowned investment tycoon Buffett is also drooling at Wells Fargo.
In 1990, Buffett invested heavily in Wells Fargo and purchased millions of shares of Wells Fargo.
At that time, Wells Fargo's single share price was a little more than $2.
What about now?
As of April 2000, Wells Fargo's single share price had reached US$26.
A single investment will be more than ten times more than ten years, and Buffett makes a lot of money!
Therefore, since 1998, Buffett has proposed several times to add Wells Fargo investment, hoping to acquire more shares, and then... his application was rejected by Wells Fargo's shareholders' meeting.
"I'm rejected?"
"It's okay! Send a few more letters, what if it's done?"
Zhuke is still very concerned about Wells Fargo!
"Boss, then should we, Standard Bank of California, also take action in the near future? Well, it is mainly borrowing and investing in real estate projects." said the bank's general manager.
Zhuke's eyes lit up, "Your advice is quite good. We cannot miss real estate projects. We strive to become one of the largest real estate loan banks on the West Coast of America in the next few years."
At the same time, Zhu Ke didn't want to let go of gold investment.
The ignition of the Internet bubble and the continued weakness of the US dollar have made many people start investing in gold projects, and they do not expect to make money, at least to maintain their value.
"Boss, the gold project is indeed a very good investment." The bank manager nodded like a smacking garlic.
In April 2000, the international gold price was US$279 per ounce;
In 2004, the international gold price rose to $410 per ounce;
In 2012, it even climbed to $1,700 per ounce, which scared me and I wondered how many people were;
In early August 2020, the gold price broke through the $2,000 mark, breaking the history of gold unit price!
In addition to the participation of Standard Bank in California, Zhuke personally also invests in this area.
Of course, it is obviously extremely difficult to acquire such a huge amount of physical gold, and it can only be paper gold in the futures market.
$1 billion!
After Zucker invested nearly $800 million in 1998, he finally waved his hand again in April 2000 and invested another $10 in the gold project.
"It can preserve wealth and make money, so why not do it?"
In the next few days, Zucker's personal account reduced by nearly $100 million.
Zhu Ke naturally did not use this fund for personal enjoyment, but instead invested in a group of pretty good Internet companies. Although these Internet companies have not become giant companies or unicorns in the future, they are also considered successful companies.
"Don't be too much. It's enough to bring me several times more rewards in a few years." Zhu Ke smiled.
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April 19.
The work "Butterfly Effect" co-directed by Todd Phillips and Christopher Nolan and co-written by Zucker and Jonathan Nolan is officially released throughout the United States.
The production cost of this film is more than 12 million US dollars, which belongs to the category of science fiction movies with a low cost, or in other words, it is a soft science fiction movie.
It tells the story of the male protagonist Ivan who experienced a series of bad things when he was a child, which damaged his originally perfect life and even left a very profound shadow of his childhood. However, one day, he was able to travel through time and space. So, he had the idea of changing his past.
But everything Ivan changed in the past, when he returned to the present, they brought unexpected results,
And the damage is even more serious!
Things got worse and worse, and time and space were messed up by him, and disasters came.
In order to make up for the mistake, Ivan returned to the past again and again, trying to eliminate traces, but things went against his wishes. What he did could only lead to the gradual collapse of the real world. So he ran around the increasingly chaotic past and reality until the irreversible ending.
The movie has multiple endings, one of which is very dark.
In order not to let the tragedy happen again, the male protagonist Ivan traveled through time and returned to his mother's womb and strangled himself to death with an umbilical cord.
The more time goes by, the worse it is!
"A butterfly in the tropical rainforest of the Amazon River Basin in South America, with occasional flapping its wings a few times, can cause a tornado in Texas, USA in two weeks."
This is how the movie "Butterfly Effect" comes from it.
Before the movie was released, it had as many as 72 previews in Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Salt Lake City and other places.
More than 3,000 movie fans analyzed that media reporters participated in the voting for the movie;
Finally, the overall evaluation of the film is b.
This comprehensive evaluation does not refer to the reputation of the movie, but to the box office potential. For a small-cost science fiction film with an investment cost of only more than $12 million, b is already a very rare high evaluation.
The theaters invited to watch the movie said: "The global box office of this movie can exceed 100 million!"
But don't think the box office is low!
You should know that Hollywood movies produce no more than 50 movies that can have a box office of over 100 million yuan each year, or even fewer.
This proportion only accounts for 3% of Hollywood's annual production.
Well, most Hollywood movies are losing money, and they can't even get on theaters, so they can only sell DVDs and video tapes.
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The next day.
The box office of "Butterfly Effect" on the first day has been released, achieving a first-day box office of US$9.2 million.
“9.2 million dollars?”
Zhuke raised his head slightly and smiled: "For small-cost movies, this box office is pretty good. After continuous releases, the box office in North America reached 50 million US dollars, which is absolutely easy."
Kevin Feige smiled and said, "Boss, in the April period, we had almost no opponents. The final box office result was over 70 million in North America and the global box office was as high as 130 million. Well, of course this is my personal judgment."
There is a saying that Zhu Ke highly recognizes.
In this April period, "Butterfly Effect" is indeed invincible!
Yesterday, there were only three movies released at the same time as "Butterfly Effect", among which only "Four-Eyed Trip" produced by Disney is pretty good, but that's just good!
The box office of "Butterfly Effect" on the first day was $9.2 million;
Disney's "Four-Eyed Travel Group" had a box office of only $4.1 million on the first day, and its reputation was very poor. It could eventually earn a total box office of $15 million, even thankfully.
What about "Butterfly Effect"?
On imdb and other rating websites, the score of "Butterfly Effect" is as high as 9.1 points. Even if the reputation score will decline over time, it will definitely not be lower than 8.5 points.
Other movies that were released in April, whether it was Paramount's Law of War or Warner's "Deadly Romeo", were all invincible.
During the off-season schedule in April 2000, the movie "Butterfly Effect" is invincible!
As the saying goes: Good things come one after another!
Look, the Jin Shuguang Music Company, owned by Zhuke, also brought good news to Zhuke.
Britney Spears' second solo album, sold 24 million copies worldwide in just one month.
Taking advantage of this reason, Director Domino immediately made a decision: "To create Britney Sweet and start a global tour."
Domino also sent Zucker a concert ticket to the Los Angeles station.
"hehe!"
Zhuke smiled and said, "I have to go and see her concerts in the future."
The second update of "" is given.
Chapter completed!