Chapter 315: Doing Business in the U.S. Is Not as Simple as You Think (4/5)
At the cocktail party, the helmsmen of the five major parties surrounded Zhang Junsheng and kept congratulating.
The price they got for the shares was given according to the market price of 28 billion, and on the first day of listing, the market value had risen to $42 billion...
All winners!
Robert Egger, who bought the madman, raised his glass: "Zhang, you were menacing at the time, we thought you wanted to buy MGM!"
Zhang Junsheng took a sip of red wine: "I did have an idea at the beginning, but now I really don't have this idea." There will be some acquisitions to follow, but most of these acquisitions are about technology and improving the film library. ”
"That's why you bought Lionsgate?"
"Yes!"
Lionsgate itself doesn't have a large library, but it owns Weston Films and Artisan Entertainment, both of which are long-established companies with over 5,000 films...
Especially Artisan Entertainment, in the early years, they reached an agreement with Marvel to make at least 15 comic book characters into movies or TV series, including Captain America, Black Panther, Black Widow, Deadpool, Iron Fist, Ant-Man, Punisher, Humanoid, Vampire Morbius, etc...
After being acquired by Lionsgate, Lionsgate inherited ownership...
Last year, Disney entered talks with Lionsgate to take back Black Widow, Iron Fist and the Punisher.
Summit Entertainment cooperated with Disney to acquire Lionsgate, Disney wants not only StarZ TV, but more importantly, they want to get back these copyrights...
Pinnacle agreed...
The condition is that you have the right to give priority to the production of Marvel-type TV series!
Otherwise, Zhang Junsheng would not have agreed to give them 22 percent of the shares.
Robert Iger changed the subject: "I heard you want to build a theme park?"
"Well, and it's the topped kind!"
Thirty percent of the shares were exchanged for almost $9 billion in cash, the acquisition of Lionsgate cost less than $300 million, and $500 million was set aside to continue the development of new genres, and Zhang Junsheng directly launched eight theme parks!
In the United States, Europe and the mainland...
“… So what's next for you?"
"Keep filming..."
"I thought you'd make a big move!"
Zhang Junsheng shook his head: "Frankly speaking, my estimate of the market value of the burn after reading is 100 billion US dollars, and after reaching this data, I can carry out the next step!"
"What's next?"
"It's all built around the whole industry chain, and the next step is definitely to invest in technology, and I'm very interested in glasses-free 3D..."
After chatting a few words with half-truths and half-truths, Zhang Junsheng said goodbye.
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At the beginning, Zhang Junsheng was still thinking about whether to let Dingfeng win the tickets for the MPAA club, but after thinking about it, he still forgot it...
The whole industry chain model of the peak has been opened, and now it is only left to build a signboard.
To be honest, Zhang Junsheng still wanted to buy a few theaters to play with, but after thinking about it carefully, forget it, now the North American and European film markets have long been in a state of stagnation, and the number of moviegoers is also declining year by year - the box office is rising because of 3D ticket prices...
The cinema chain is a sunset industry, and Wanda regards this thing as a treasure!
If you don't make money in itself, why spend it?
And even if the summit gets a seat in the MPAA, what can it do?
Here's the background.
When everyone mentions Hollywood, they will still say Hollywood's Big Six!
DreamWorks and Weinstein Pictures are just second-rate characters in Hollywood after all...
Here's the background!
And MPAA belongs to the principle of unanimity of the six major companies, all decisions must be unanimously supported by the six major companies, the peak wants to join the MPAA, and the first to stand up against it is estimated that Sony...
Last year, Sony developed a "Battle for Los Angeles", a sci-fi film about an alien invasion, and during the script development stage, Sony changed the alien landing location from Los Angeles to Songjiang, and even changed the name to "The Battle of China" in order to please the Chinese audience.
During the script development stage, they invested a lot of money, but in the end they still failed to pass the review and were rejected by the General Administration... Sony could only change back to Los Angeles, and it became "The Battle of Los Angeles" again...
Among them, Yuehua also contributed a lot!
Because of "The Battle of Los Angeles", Dongyang Media also participated in the investment.
Of course, the book itself is also very stupid, and it actually arranged for the US military to go to Songjiang to fight aliens, this stepping horse completely ignores the PLA, not to mention Yuehua's contribution, even if you don't speak, it is impossible for the General Administration to let this kind of stupid script pass the review!
Then, Sony put the pot on Yuehua's head that "The Battle of China" did not pass the review...
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Things in this world are so unfortunate, it seems that everything is one step behind, no matter how much you catch up, you will always end up not making enough money for yourself.
Of course, this has to be done on a not-so-special premise, which is that you are not a contented person.
For example, Zhang's father called Zhang Junsheng and told him that he wanted to make a taxi software and asked Zhang Junsheng to contribute half of the money...
For example, Tang Ningyu told him that Shudu wanted to build a film and television city, and he drew a site of more than one million square meters, as long as 40 billion...
For example, Zhang's mother told him that she wanted to buy Riot Company, but she didn't have enough funds...
Even the little sister called and said that her other best friend was going to have a birthday and needed a little money...
In short, after reading and burning, a bunch of people came to him to ask for money!
Not at all taking into account the restrictions on capital outflows from the North American side!
It has always been the US government's policy to support multinational corporations' foreign investment, but economic factors are not the only consideration in US foreign economic activities, and encouraging foreign investment and protecting the interests of foreign investors are not the only purpose of the United States in formulating relevant policies and regulations.
The United States takes different approaches to different countries and different types of technology exports or transfers.
Under the U.S. Export Control Act, all countries other than Canada are classified into groups Q, S, T, Y, W, Y, and Z.
Group Z is hostile to the country.
The existence of uncertainties, especially the existence of so-called hostile countries, is that the United States has no choice but to restrict or manage foreign investment.
It is mainly manifested in the restriction and guidance of technology transfer and the investment fields of the investing country.
Coincidentally, China belongs to Group Z, and it is difficult for Zhang Junsheng's money to flow into China through formal channels!
In particular, his money is obtained from the United States, and if he wants to bring it back to China, he can, pay taxes first!
After paying the taxes, let's talk about the rest!
There are a bunch of members in the old US Senate who covet the funds in Zhang Junsheng's hands, and a bunch of people propose what 'must be dike against Chinese Zhang's political propaganda', 'Hollywood does not welcome Chinese'...
There is also a bad pen that even proposed to confiscate the shares in Zhang Junsheng's hands...
In recent years, the United States has risen in isolationism, and it is not welcome to invest in foreign or inward, and it is not as good as that of the United Kingdom!
So, all of Li Ka-shing's money was invested in the UK...