After inspecting the Galaxy Film Company, Henry nodded to himself, he was already very satisfied.

In terms of animated films, there are: Pixar Animation Studios, DreamWorks, Ghibli Animation Studios!

In terms of movie special effects, there are: Galaxy Special Effects and Weta Workshops!

However, it would be even more cool to add another industrial light and magic to the special effects of the movie!

Industrial Light & Magic is a subsidiary of Lucasfilm. George Lucas founded Lucasfilm GmbH in 1971, and its subsidiaries include visual effects "Industrial Light & Magic", post-production sound editing "Skywalker Sound", and more!

Special effects blockbusters are meant to give people the ultimate audio-visual experience, so not only must they have amazing pictures, but also shocking sound effects! Skywalker Sound is the leader in the industry, which can just make up for the shortcomings of Galaxy Pictures in this regard!

In addition, Lucasfilm also has two super IPs, the first is naturally "Star Wars", and the second is "Raiders of the Lost Ark".

If Galaxy Films merges with Lucasfilm, its strength will skyrocket!

At this time, Henry looked at Bobby Robin and said, "Robin, you then contact George Lucas and say that Galaxy Pictures wants to buy Lucasfilm!"

Hearing this, Bobby Robin was immediately shocked, Lucasfilm has a market value of more than three billion US dollars, and this merger plan will be the largest merger and acquisition in the history of Galaxy Films!

Although there are only two super IPs of Galaxy Pictures - "Jurassic Park" and "Toy Story", it has many well-known movie copyrights. The IP value of these movies is also very expensive! Moreover, there are more film copyrights that have not been filmed or released. For example, "Harry Potter", "The Lord of the Rings", "Resident Evil", ......

Galaxy Pictures is one of the largest film distribution companies in the United States and the world, and it also has more than 3,000 Galaxy stores in the United States! But there are still four or five billion dollars in market capitalization!

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George Lucas was surprised to receive a takeover request from Galaxy Films. He steadied himself and paced around the office, pondering whether to accept the takeover. This time, Galaxy Pictures said that it was willing to buy Lucasfilm for $500 million and 5% of Galaxy Films, and if it accepted it, it would become the majority shareholder of Galaxy Films after Henry Williams!

To accept or to reject?

George Lucas didn't sleep well that night, he kept thinking about it!

Galaxy Film Company has not been established for many years. Moreover, Galaxy Pictures is the most profitable film company in Hollywood! As if they have a pair of discerning eyes that can recognize what movies will be popular, most of the films released are very profitable!

Lucasfilm is just a film production company and doesn't make many movies in a year. Although ILM is the top special effects company in the industry, it can't receive too many orders every year. Usually, the special effects production cycle of a movie is very long, and it is very good to be able to complete the special effects work of ten movies in a year!

At present, the investment in a film is generally in the tens of millions of dollars, how much can Industrial Light & Magic get? The huge cost of special effects, minus the salaries of the actors, directors and crew. Actually, there isn't much left. ILM netted $10 million from a movie, which is already a big profit, and usually, a list that can make so much money. Most of them are special effects blockbusters with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars, but how many such movies can there be? What's more, Galaxy Special Effects and other special effects companies are also grabbing "meat" to eat!

Don't look at the name of industrial light magic. But it's not actually very profitable!

When the entire Lucasfilm was sold to Disney, the price was just over $4 billion. And Disney's acquisition of Pixar cost more than $7 billion!

Next. George Lucas woke up with a pair of dark circles under his eyes. He thought about it all night last night, and finally decided to accept the acquisition of Galaxy Pictures.

He has studied the management model of Galaxy Films. The development of its subsidiaries is relatively independent, and the acquisition of Lucasfilm should also allow Lucasfilm to operate independently. Therefore, the right to make your own movies is still relatively free. At the same time, he has become the major shareholder of Galaxy Film Company, and naturally has a certain right to speak in Galaxy Film Company, and he makes much more money than before, who will have trouble with money?

Once George Lucas has decided, he doesn't procrastinate. After breakfast, he called Bobby Robin, the CEO of Galaxy Films, and told him that he had basically agreed to the Galaxy Pictures acquisition, but that the price needed to be further negotiated!

Bobby Robin then invited George Lucas to Galaxy Pictures on the phone for negotiations.

Within two days, George Lucas was on his way to Galaxy Pictures with his negotiating team. The negotiations were fast, and after only two weeks of negotiations, Galaxy Films finally agreed to add another $100 million to the original offer, that is, to complete the wholly owned acquisition of Lucasfilm for $600 million plus 5% of the company's shares!

After the signing was completed, the two parties jointly held a press conference to announce the merger of the two companies.

The negotiations between Galaxy Pictures and Lucasfilm were secret and had not been heard of before. This press conference was held to announce the event, and the reporters felt so sudden and shocked that everyone had a look of astonishment on their faces!

"Mr. Bobby Robin, can you elaborate on the specifics of Galaxy Film's acquisition of Lucasfilm?"

"Yes," Bobby Robin said slowly, smiling at reporters, "after two weeks of negotiations, Galaxy Pictures spent $600 million and a 5% stake in Galaxy Pictures to buy Lucasfilm. Now, George Lucas is the second largest shareholder of Galaxy Pictures and a director of Galaxy Films, with a whopping 2.8% stake. "George Lucas has a controlling stake in Lucasfilm, but there are other investors, so he only gets 2.8% of the shares!

"Mr. Lucas, when will the Star Wars movies be filmed? It's been 10 years, and Star Wars fans are desperate for something new!"

George Lucas has been up and down for ten years, it can also be said that he has sharpened his sword for ten years, and now, he has finally finished writing the first part of "Star Wars Prequel" "Phantom Crisis", "I have already written the script for Star Wars, and when Lucasfilm and Galaxy Pictures complete the integration of resources, I will start shooting new movies!"

Bang Bang Bang !!

The audience applauded, and the camera's flash did not stop for a moment!

The next day, the front page news of major newspapers was all about Galaxy Pictures' acquisition of Lucasfilm, and the "Star Wars" series was about to start filming!

Star Wars fans who saw the news were immediately ecstatic!

"Great, after a decade-long absence, Star Wars is finally back!"

"Support Star Wars, support George Lucas!"

"Star Wars Classic !!"

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The reaction of the major studios was even more shocking, and Galaxy Films has now acquired Lucasfilm, which is getting stronger and stronger, and is expected to become the strongest film company in Hollywood......

Disney and Galaxy Pictures are at odds, so hearing this news is the most unpleasant! And at this time, their elaborate masterpiece "The Lion King" was finally released!

As soon as "The Lion King" was released, it swept the box office list and topped the box office weekly list. Subsequently, the box office of the movie continued to sell well and became more and more popular!

Disney immediately raised his eyebrows, although Pixar animation is fully computer-produced, but Disney has proved with its strength that traditional hand-drawn animation can also be a box office hit!

At this time, a lion cub named "Simba" quickly became popular all over the United States, and then all over the world! It was playful, active, kind and brave, and was very popular with people.

The animation "The Lion King", Henry had seen it in his previous life, and it was indeed good-looking, and it was the pinnacle of Disney's traditional animation! However, under the impact of computer animation, traditional hand-drawn animation became more and more inadequate.

Disney has the largest number of hand-drawn artists in the world, and it may be very difficult for Disney to easily abandon its strengths! However, regardless of whether Disney makes changes or not, Galaxy Pictures, which owns Pixar, DreamWorks, and Ghibli!!

(To be continued.) )