Chapter 121 End of Year Review
When I put the thumbtacks in the corresponding positions one by one,

Fang Hexuan couldn't help but feel shaken.

From Central to West Kowloon, all commercial centers will be filled with Fong Hok Hin properties.
I'm afraid he will be the biggest landlord in Hong Kong in the future.

The Far East Financial Center has just started construction and it will take another one or two years before it is completed and ready for move-in.

Fang Hexuan's several companies are located on both sides of the Victoria Harbour. He needs to run back and forth frequently when inspecting, which even he finds a bit troublesome.

Although the buildings in Huanggua's hands were already in his grasp, the handover had not yet begun.
Fang Hexuan was too lazy to ask anyone for help. It would only take a little longer to wait for another month.

In fact, he wanted to learn from Cucumber and build the group headquarters on the site of today's Hilton Hotel, which later became the Cheung Kong Center.

On the left is the HSBC headquarters, and on the right is the Bank of China Center, adjacent to Queen's Road, the most famous street in Hong Kong.
There are no tall buildings blocking the view in front, and the view of Victoria Harbour is unobstructed. It can be said to be the best prime location in Central.

I think so, but it may take another ten years to build my group headquarters.

Therefore, Fang Hexuan was mentally prepared to move frequently in the future.

Anyway, the Hutchison Whampoa incident finally came to a successful conclusion.
Although there were some twists and turns in the middle, it didn't develop in a bad direction.

Some people may think that Fang Hexuan is too kind to cucumber.

But the reality is that it is impossible for Fang Hexuan to kill all the cucumbers.

The forces from all sides did not allow him to do so, so cutting some meat off the cucumber was the limit of what he could do.

Of course, Huanggua was also lucky as he met Fang Hexuan, an outlier who looked down on giant listed groups like Hutchison Whampoa.

If it were someone else, even if Huanggua was not driven out of the Hong Kong business community, he would not be able to get any leftovers from this acquisition.

Fang Hexuan was in the office again reading the work reports submitted by various companies.

These reports were submitted a few days after he returned to Hong Kong, but he was busy fighting with Cucumber and never took a look at them.

Jackie Chan's first Hollywood film, "The Trench," which was released by DreamWorks on September 9, has been taken off the screen.

Despite the vigorous publicity and promotion, the marginal utility is gradually decreasing.

What's more, Jackie Chan's movie is indeed not quite to the taste of Hong Kong citizens.

Therefore, the box office was only 632 million Hong Kong dollars, which was only 55 Hong Kong dollars more than the original time and space.

However, "The Trench" was released in the United States on August 8, and the box office data returned was 25 million US dollars.

Don’t think it’s a lot. Out of the box office of over 800 million, DreamWorks could only get about 300 million.

Because this movie was produced by DreamWorks, which begged theaters and distributors, the share of the profits given was higher than that of ordinary Hollywood movies.

What's more, part of the distributor's publicity and promotion expenses must be deducted here.

All I can say is that if DreamWorks wants to make a profit on the movie "The Trench," its hopes can only lie in Southeast Asia and Japan.

The cost was more than 600 million US dollars, and there was another 300 million Hong Kong dollars in local publicity and promotion expenses.

Even if the film is shown in its own Magnum Cinemas, it can get 60% of the profit.

Fang Hexuan is not very confident that this movie can make a profit.

Jackie Chan tasted the bitter fruit of his fame for the first time in this box office failure.
This is what Fang Hexuan hopes to see.

Otherwise, DreamWorks management would be annoyed to death by the Big Nose Dragon.

Taking this opportunity to temporarily extinguish his Hollywood dream and let him settle down in Hong Kong for a few more years would not be a bad thing. Fang Hexuan would not let him wait until the 90s to fully enter Hollywood like in the original time and space.

At most, we can wait for five or six years to finish filming the films such as the Police Stories series, Project A, and Trucks with Meals.

Then I can take him to Hollywood to try his luck.

In addition, DreamWorks' next three blockbusters, "Ghost in the Shell", "Fearless", and "God of War" will also be released in February and March at the end of this year and the beginning of next year.

The last two films were written and directed by Wang Rixiang respectively, and are also key DreamWorks projects that Fang Hexuan is paying attention to.

His previous instructions to Chow Liang Suk-yee and the others were that Fatty Wang's treatment should be equal to that of Jackie Chan, or even higher than that of Yuen Woo-ping and Fatty Hung, who had collaborated with DreamWorks several times.

It is necessary to win him over, as this fat guy will be the backbone of DreamWorks Hong Kong branch in the future, especially after Jackie Chan goes to Hollywood.

Fang Hexuan looked at the report submitted by Menglong Cinema again and looked at the financial data on it.
He nodded, feeling quite satisfied.

Since the establishment of the "Manglong Cinema Line" in March this year, it has spent 3 million yuan and took three months to renovate and transform all 3 theaters.
It has been four months since the official opening.

The turnover and profits of Maglong Cinemas are increasing steadily, and the prospects are promising.

What satisfied him most was that the newly established Cinema City did not completely rely on the original Golden Princess Cinema Chain, but instead maintained a balance and neutrality among the various cinema chains.

This is enough. Fang Hexuan’s main purpose in establishing the cinema chain is not to allow any film company to challenge DreamWorks’ position and market share.

If Cinema City remains neutral, it is doomed to not have much development.

As for Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, Fang Hexuan had long since disregarded them.

As long as DreamWorks is the only dominant player in Hong Kong, directors, screenwriters, photographers and actors will all wisely move closer to DreamWorks.

Fang Hexuan is looking forward to maintaining good friendships with the actresses in the future!

After reading the remaining job information of Pokemon, Felix Sports, BYD, BMW and other companies,
Fang Hexuan picked up a shoe box on the desk.

The shoe box packaging design is very sporty, with a bright red color that is not at all earthy, but rather looks quite high-end.

Only the big word "Felix" and the Warrior shoe logo are printed on the front.

He couldn't wait to open the shoe box, and inside was a pair of sports sneakers with a white upper, a green Huili logo and a green sole.

The lining of the shoe is also made of green mesh material, and the transition between the sole and the upper is made of light yellow rubber.

The white upper is made of high-grade lambskin, which has a good gloss, feels soft and elastic, and should be very breathable to wear.

Judging from the information submitted by the company, there will be no cracks or breaks if worn for a long time, and there will generally only be shallow natural wrinkles and shrinkage.

There is also a laser-printed metal sheet on the shoelaces, and the stamp on it shows the product production date and batch, which raises the grade of the entire pair of shoes to a higher level.

Fang Hexuan looked at the shoes carefully, bent the upper and sole with force, and then put them on and walked around.

After finishing all this, he wrote down several suggestions for improvement on paper.

Felix's AF1 shoes have dozens of color combinations. This time I only brought one of them to let the boss check the quality.

Fang Hexuan was not in a hurry either. This pair of shoes would have to go through many tests and try-ons before it could be finalized.

　Thanks to Hong Niu for the monthly ticket and recommendation ticket!

　　Thanks to Huan Xingchen for the recommendation!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)