Chapter 308: Matrix World
In the stock market, the film company's shares will rise sharply tomorrow. The good news of breaking the record of 80 million Hong Kong dollars is far more important for the stock market than attracting movie fans to the cinema.
In fact, as the box office of Source Code 3 continued to rise, the stock of Tomorrow Film Company had already started to rise. When it broke the record, the rise was even more exaggerated. Within a few hours, the market value of Tomorrow Film Company officially exceeded 20 billion.
Since Tomorrow Films went public, there have been continuous good news. The cooperation with MGM, the profitable movies, and the cooperation with Jackie Chan on Rumble in the Bronx, etc., have continuously pushed up the stock price of Tomorrow Films.
By the time Source Code 3 was released, the market value of Tomorrow Films was more than 17 billion. Then Source Code 3 broke the single-day box office record, pushing up the share price of Tomorrow Films again. By the time Source Code 3 broke the record of million Hong Kong dollars, it was already out of control.
The movement in the stock market did not affect Liu Hongmin, and he never thought about making money from the company's stocks.
For him, the stock market is a place to raise funds for Tomorrow's Film Company. With the money in the stock market, Tomorrow's Film Company will develop so rapidly, and Tomorrow's Film Special Effects Company will mature faster.
In fact, his idea was correct. Since going public, Tomorrow Films has been developing better and better, and its position as the number one film company in Hong Kong has become more and more stable. Mai Zishan and others also used their money to develop technology, directly raising the special effects level of Source Code 3 to the middle level of Hollywood.
Other film companies in Hong Kong are jealous of this. Liu Hongmin looks down on the money in the stock market, but they do!
Therefore, they are all actively preparing and also want to make money by relying on the popularity of the "Source Code" series and going public.
However, their company’s accounts and procedures contain too many errors and omissions, and cannot pass the listing review for the time being.
After Source Code 3 was released, Liu Hongmin locked himself in his study again to overhaul Matrix World. It took Liu Hongmin more than half a month to finish the revision of Matrix World.
After leaving the customs, Liu Hongmin immediately contacted Richard.
The Hacker World series is more difficult to understand than Liu Hongmin's previous science fiction novels. Because there are too many technical terms in it, Liu Hongmin had to process them to make them easier to read.
Even so, "The Matrix World" still retains a large number of technical terms, which increases its reading threshold.
Liu Hongmin could imagine that the sales of The Matrix series would not be very good, and it would be good if it could sell 10 million copies. But in terms of reputation, it is definitely much better than the World of Warcraft series. Even the best-reced Frozen Throne in the World of Warcraft series cannot compare with The Matrix series.
When Richard heard that Liu Hongmin had finished writing the first part of The Matrix, he immediately flew to Hong Kong. He had not done the same for the World of Warcraft series. This shows how much Richard values The Matrix series.
He brought a translator with him and translated "The Matrix World" into English directly at the Clearwater Bay Villa. Looking at the English manuscript, Richard was very excited, "Mr. Liu, I can guarantee that this is the best science fiction novel I have ever read."
He also liked the science fiction novels written by Liu Hongmin before, but compared with "The Matrix", those science fiction novels before were no different from soft science fiction. Even "Edge of Tomorrow", which has the strongest sense of technology, is not as good as "The Matrix".
Richard has also read science fiction novels by other writers. However, they are far inferior in terms of ideas. Some science fiction novels are even inferior to The Night the Comet Came in terms of their ideological content.
Liu Hongmin never disappoints people in terms of ideological content. In addition, the story is well written, and Richard simply loves "The Matrix World". Liu Hongmin smiled, this kind of praise is the best compliment to him. However, he is more worried about the sales of "The Matrix World".
“This book probably won’t sell very well.”
Richard smiled and said, "Don't worry about that, Mr. Liu. Although the reading threshold of this book is very high, don't think about how many highly educated people there are in the world. The target audience of "Matrix World" is these highly educated people. Even if half of them buy it, we can sell 10 to 20 million copies."
A book that sold over a million copies could be considered a bestseller, but a book that sold 10 or 20 million copies was a number that many writers would never dare to imagine. Only Liu Hongmin, who has sold over 30 or 40 million copies of fantasy novels since he started writing them, would think that 10 or 20 million copies was a very small number.
But from Liu Hongmin's perspective, he can understand this very well. After all, the number of units has dropped from more than 30 million or 40 million to 10 or 20 million, which is a decrease of half!
Knowing what Liu Hongmin was thinking, Richard grinned speechlessly.
He found that Liu Hongmin was not satisfied. A set of books sold for hundreds of millions of dollars, making more money than many companies. If he was not satisfied with this, do you want to make all the money in the world?
After thinking about it, he changed the subject.
"Mr. Liu, when can the remaining two be finished?"
Liu Hongmin thought for a moment and said, "Maybe in the second half of this year!"
He is going to write a World of Warcraft series next year, which will cost hundreds of millions of dollars. How could Liu Hongmin give it up?
He also has to write the script for Source Code 4, and in order to make money, he has to polish the script carefully. If he can conquer Hollywood audiences with a science fiction film, that would be the greatest achievement in the film industry.
Liu Hongmin is not interested in the honor, he is only interested in making dollars.
After spending a lot of money investing in MGM and high-tech companies with Feng Kan, he felt that the money he had was a little stretched.
Besides, Liu Hongmin was going to return to Beijing to live for a while. He had been away from Beijing for two years and he was a little bit nostalgic for Hong Kong.
Gong Li had already convinced her family, so Liu Hongmin had to be responsible for Gong Li. He took out two of his own courtyard houses and put them in the names of Gong Li and her son, which was a guarantee for them. Even if Liu Hongmin suddenly had an accident, these two courtyard houses would allow the mother and son to have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of their lives.
Richard left with the manuscript and immediately reviewed it for publication after returning to the United States.
The copyright of the traditional Chinese version was still given to Yang Guiren, and then Liu Hongmin took the simplified Chinese version of the manuscript and set off with his family back to Beijing. This year, they will celebrate the New Year in Beijing.
After entering the customs, Liu Hongmin said that Pengcheng has developed better in the past two years. Many high-rise buildings have been built, and it is completely different from two years ago.
(End of this chapter)
