Tao Liangchen
Chapter 676 Holding on to the Big Thigh
Before the news even broke in the United States, it was already brewing in Europe. People everywhere love gossip, and the scandals between wealthy tycoons and Hollywood actresses easily attract attention.
Although Su Yehao's fame in Europe isn't even as great as it is in the United States.
When his name is linked to "Former Yahoo Shareholder," "Yanwenzi Group," and "Google Search Engine," many people still find him familiar.
These three Silicon Valley products have attracted many users in Europe.
In particular, iCQ and tvt, under the Yanwenzi Group, are used by most European netizens.
One step ahead leads to many steps ahead. Looking at the world, the Yanwenzi Group has already captured more than 60% of the market share of instant messaging social products, which is also the main reason why it can barely maintain a market value of over US$10 billion even after encountering a stock market crash.
Today.
The entertainment section of the British Times even called the Su family an Asian real estate developer comparable to the old Li, who had just received a knighthood from the Queen.
The knighthood that old Li received in early June was to reward him for his contributions to British enterprises, education, and medical fields.
Coupled with Su Yehao's title of a billionaire with tens of billions of dollars, his scandal with Jessica Alba quickly became the hottest entertainment headline of the day.
The word "su" jumped to the top of Google's hot search list in Europe.
Soon.
After dawn in New York, the news set off a bigger wave of discussion in the United States.
It not only promoted Jessica Alba and her upcoming movie *Spider-Man*, but also made Su Yehao's name widely known again.
It's just that people used to discuss him, often talking about how much money he made, how high his net worth was, and how superior his family was. Today, they are purely busy gossiping.
As for the racial issue... having become as rich as Su Yehao, it is obvious that Jessica Alba is climbing the social ladder.
A group of onlookers would only say that this girl successfully got a sugar daddy, making countless men envious and countless women sigh. You know, a magazine once commented on the world's top ten golden bachelors at the beginning of the year, and Su Yehao ranked second, second only to Prince William of England.
However, when it comes to popularity, Su Yehao is likely to be higher than William. After all, the royal family's rigidness and harshness are well known. In previous years, due to William's mother's affairs, the halo on them has dimmed a lot.
On the other hand, Su Yehao is really rich, real money, much richer than William.
The royal family's assets cannot be completely equated with personal assets.
Due to the time difference, after dawn on the West Coast, where Los Angeles is located, the news on the Internet has been overwhelming.
Before the senior executives of Columbia Pictures went to work, they heard the news that the publicity effect was unexpectedly good, causing a heat wave in Europe, Asia, and the United States.
After Jessica Alba finished her morning run, she received a call from her agent.
The agent kept persuading the girl to strike while the iron was hot. Even if she couldn't really win Su Yehao, she should use the topic to continue hyping, so as to strive for the opportunity to play a role and see if she could ask for more pay.
As this girl's agent, she doesn't usually hype or seize opportunities to attract attention. This kind of popularity is simply a once-in-a-millennium opportunity.
Jessica was relatively calm.
Yesterday evening, the two chatted in the car, and Su Yehao frankly said that he already had a girlfriend.
Talking about this topic in front of a girl is undoubtedly saying "I don't have any extra thoughts about you", so Jessica never thought about getting close to Su Yehao, and didn't even have his contact information.
Hearing this answer, Jessica's agent instantly collapsed, speechless asking her what topics they talked about yesterday, why didn't she try to be more proactive...
At the same time.
Other Hollywood film companies and well-known actors also learned through the news that Su Yehao had stretched his hand here.
Countless wealthy people once thought that with their strong funds, they could gain a firm foothold in Hollywood, but in the end, most of them were reduced to韭菜 (jiǔ cài,韭菜, literally "chives," metaphor for being exploited), and disappeared in a daze.
Hollywood has existed for more than half a century, and 韭菜 (jiǔ cài) have been harvested crop after crop. It can be said that it was originally rooted in the韭菜田 (jiǔ cài tián,韭菜田, "chives field") and developed, constantly absorbing nutrients from all over the world.
For example, Japan's Panasonic, which once acquired Universal Studios, couldn't hold on after only five years after taking over Universal at a high price, and sold it off at a loss.
In 1990, Panasonic spent US$6.6 billion to acquire Universal, and eventually only sold US$5.7 billion. Including transaction costs, holding costs, etc., it could not be more appropriate to describe it as "losing so badly that even their mothers wouldn't recognize them."
After inquiring from many parties, when people learned that Su Yehao had invested a sum of money in the *Spider-Man* project and developed the entertainment industry in Hong Kong, countless Hollywood small and medium-sized film companies, screenwriters, and directors moved upon hearing the news and ran to the hotel where he was staying, trying to obtain some funding.
Pity.
Su Yehao was catching up on sleep, and only fell asleep in the early hours of this morning.
Among this group of people who took the initiative to come, no one's weight was important enough for the assistant to think that he needed to wake up the boss.
So when he got up after 2:00 p.m. local time, he was surprised to find that he had received more than 30 movie scripts sent by others, and there were also more than a dozen business cards.
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"It's just hype, but it actually has such a high level of popularity. As long as the movie isn't too bad, it should make some money, right?"
It was Xiao Nizi who was talking, she was eating waffles, with a glass of oatmeal milk.
Although she was unhappy that Su Yehao was on the news with other girls, many newspapers reported on this matter with a large amount of space, which also showed how much her dear brother Hao was valued, which made her unhappy, but also a little happy.
Jiang Yu couldn't avoid it either. Seeing her man so glamorous, she couldn't help but feel a little proud in her heart.
The reported scandal was false, but she was really with Su Yehao. This feeling is probably similar to that of an ordinary man suddenly finding a childhood sweetheart top-tier female star to be his wife.
Su Yehao, as the person involved, was particularly calm. He took a sip of coffee and replied:
"I've read the script. As long as Columbia doesn't mess up, the probability of making money is more than 90%. Hollywood's special effects level is the best in the world, and audiences currently like to watch blockbusters the most. Next, I will look for other similar comics suitable for adaptation."
"Huh? Are you planning to continue investing here? The production cost of a *Spider-Man* movie is enough to invest in thirty or forty blockbusters in Hong Kong."
"Yeah, but if you look at it from another perspective, the money earned from one movie may exceed those thirty or forty movies, and it will be more influential."
Su Yehao reached out and flipped through the script while speaking.
When many movies enter the mainland, they are often given a nice name, which leads to the fact that the movies he is familiar with may have nothing to do with the English names.
For example, a script called *huLk*, if he hadn't seen the illustration of the Hulk, he wouldn't have thought of a superhero at all.
It is estimated that he heard that he invested in *Spider-Man*, so the screenwriter of *huLk* also came to join in the fun.
The script has been written for some time, but Universal has not officially approved the project.
Its screenwriter felt that if someone shared the risk, it might be as smooth as the officially established *Spider-Man*, so he drove here specially this morning.
Only pity.
Su Yehao was not interested in the green idiot, so he put the script aside and didn't plan to take a second look...