Chapter 986 faces antitrust
In the early morning, Cao Haiyan sits in her arms, and outside the floor-to-ceiling window is the winding Pearl River.
Cao Haiyan half-closed her eyes and kept humming in her nose, like a very comfortable kitten. Smelling the body fragrance, Jing Jian tightened his arms, which immediately attracted Cao Haiyan's protest: "Don't make any more trouble, I can't learn Xiaozi, it's enough to have two?"
Jing Jian laughed: "You are the most capable, and your efficiency is twice as high as that of Minister Qin." I said Haiyan, it's shameful to waste, don't you really think about it? haha. ”
Although she knew that Jing Jian was joking, Cao Haiyan still didn't follow it, twisting her body and coquettishly: "I know that you men are like this, you don't care about us women at all, so you want to keep giving you life." And rhetoric, let me ask you, what are you and Mai Ting hiding from us?"
"Uh, Mai Ting?"
"Didn't you say you didn't want the $20 million? Hum. ”
"Huh?" Jing Jian was taken aback, he really said this? Did he drink and drink last night? I remember that last night was really fierce, maybe...... It's possible. Suddenly found that Cao Haiyan's eyes were not good, Jing Jian hurriedly denied it, "There must be no such thing, Haiyan! I am an evil capitalist, and it is too late to exploit, where will I borrow money from others." And that's 20 million dollars, not 20 million Ethiopian dollars, so it's impossible!
Cao Haiyan's sly eyes flashed: "Is it? It seems that someone is a thief with a weak heart? No one has ever said that he borrowed money." ”
Jing Jianjian closed his mouth at the moment, this woman's IQ is too high and it is not good, and everything she says is getting darker and darker. He began to play dumb: "Hehe, it doesn't matter anyway. You know, all my money will go to the two monkeys and the other kids. Speaking of this, Jing Jian suddenly came to his senses, so that no matter whether he was honest or not last night, he would eventually forgive Mai Ting's debts, otherwise once Mai Ting repaid the money, it would be easy to expose her lies. And only if the money doesn't exist.
Then Jing Jian kept coaxing Cao Haiyan and slowly diverted her attention. Then, the two of them slammed into emotion again and continued to omit 10,000 words. Cao Haiyan lay in Jing Jian's arms contentedly, and Jing Jian smoked a cigarette afterwards. At the moment of the sage, it seemed that his thinking was much clearer, and Jing Jian suddenly made a surprising discovery - why is his money no longer money?
$20 million is thrown away, and it doesn't seem to have the slightest feeling. Indeed, the current self seems to be pinching the big and small monsters and Wang Bang, even if it is split into a single sheet to fight for the upstream, it can still easily win. And how can you make money, it's nothing more than earning more and earning less, and if you go on like this, you won't feel cool at all, so what new pursuits should you have?
Could it be that the days after that were drunk and dreaming of death, that was definitely not what Jing Jian wanted, especially if he wasted a place for rebirth. And this trouble continued until the afternoon of the same day, until Ding Sheng rushed to Yangcheng to report to Jing Jian on the strategic planning of Seed Entertainment.
"Jing Shao, Seed Entertainment has passed a period of rapid development, and it is very difficult to expand in the future, even if you want to acquire, the price you pay has become very large. And now it seems that we are being ostracized everywhere, especially the Big Six in Hollywood, which has a great rejection of us. Even Paramount, they don't want a new competitor to threaten their leading position. ”
"Oh?" Jing Jianjian paid attention to, "You elaborate. ”
Ding Sheng began to introduce the recent new situation. Originally, Jing Jian's seed pictures were a small and small film production company in Hollywood, and they would not attract the attention of others. Unexpectedly, the development was particularly rapid, and unconsciously, it has slowly become a behemoth.
In fact, this is very similar to the situation of Portsmouth FC. At that time, Portsmouth was not a second-tier league club, but a top-tier club, and the FA would not approve Jing Jian's acquisition. That is, if you have money, I won't sell it to you. But even so, if Jing Jian didn't pay for the new football stadium of the club, and the original club board members couldn't afford the club's expenses, they wouldn't have been successfully acquired by Jing Jian. I can't get this ticket at all.
Especially now, Seed Entertainment has covered the entire industry chain of production, distribution and cinema, and is rapidly expanding overseas. Ding Sheng also introduced that there has been news that some people are ready to sue Seed Entertainment for anti-monopoly. If it weren't for the fact that the scale of Seed Cinemas in North America is not large, accounting for only 7% of the share, it may have been targeted by the U.S. government a long time ago.
In the Hollywood film industry, production companies and distribution companies are not allowed to own theatrical chains, otherwise they will run into antitrust laws. Of course, this is not illegal, it is just a violation of certain laws and regulations, and after so many years, the major media giants in North America have already played tricks, they have long since secretly formed the whole industry chain and bypassed the anti-monopoly law by acquiring TV stations, holding video rental companies, and holding cinemas in disguise. However, Jing Jian's disadvantage is the identity of a foreigner, especially not the mainstream identity of Europe and the United States, although his methods are also legal, but once he is sued for anti-monopoly, it will be very troublesome and troublesome.
Therefore, the biggest concern now is not the issue of expansion and acquisition, but the issue of being forcibly split in violation of the anti-monopoly law.
"So?" Jing Jian touched his chin and began to think about countermeasures. He asked Ding Sheng casually, "Ah Sheng, what do you think?"
"I've been approached by Imperial Entertainment and they're willing to pay $48 million for our North American cinema chain. ”
"So low?" If there is only this 48 million, it is lower than the total cost of Jingjian's acquisition and reconstruction. And even if the current market value is calculated, it will be at least seventy percent higher, and it can even double the premium, possibly reaching hundreds of millions of dollars.
Ding Sheng shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Jing Shao, they are simply taking advantage of the fire to rob, I suspect that the news came from these people." Before I came, I had also been in contact with several other cinema companies, and the prices they gave were basically the same, and they were not willing to give us a fair price at all. ”
"Then what do you think?" Jing Jian asked.
"I don't think the seed theater can be sold, at least it's not suitable to sell it now, otherwise it will suffer too much. On the contrary, seed films and distribution companies can find buyers, and there should be many interested people. Now there are not many new films being produced anyway, at most leaving an empty shell, retaining the copyright, and cooperating with other production companies in the future. Even if you want to play tickets in the future, you can use a Hong Kong production company, or you can temporarily use the empty shell of Hollywood at that time. Our most advantageous point is the cinema chain, and I think we must not give up!"
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