Chapter 988: Diverting Attention
Huaxia Brothers Media and Baoli Company, two local film giants, each spent 800 million yuan to acquire 15% of Yang Ming's Maoyan Film and Time.com.
In the past two days, everyone's focus has been on the news of the bankruptcy crisis of Huaying Group, and no one thought that three film companies in the industry, each with huge appeal, would quietly do such a huge thing.
Maoyan Movies and Time.com have long been considered by the outside world to be an important part of the film industry in the near future.
But no one thought that the two film giants, Huaxia Brothers Media and Baoli Company, would buy shares from Yang Ming so quickly, and the price was so high.
800 million Chinese yuan, nearly 300 million rice yuan, only 15% of the shares of Maoyan Film and Time.com, this is simply the rhythm of hemorrhage.
Maoyan movies are a little better in the evaluation of the outside world, because of the stage of expanding and increasing the number of users, although every quarter is out of losses, but this year, as Maoyan movies have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, it has become the best choice for young people to buy tickets and watch movies, and gradually turned losses into profits, with a certain profitability.
I believe that with the passage of time, the profitability of Maoyan Films will become stronger and stronger.
But the operation of Time.com has always been at a loss.
Except for the advertising revenue of some blockbuster movies, Time.com has no other income.
Although Time.com has become an important criterion for fans to choose movies, the outside world's valuation of this film review website has not been very high.
No one thinks that a website that is destined to be hugely profitable in the future has much potential to grow.
But now, no one thought that Maoyan Movie and Time.com, the two companies were tied together, and 15% of the shares were sold at a sky-high price of 800 million.
As soon as this news was exposed by the media, it caused heated discussions in the entire entertainment industry, and for a while, even the news of the bankruptcy crisis of Huaying Group, which had attracted countless people, was temporarily overshadowed by the news of this acquisition.
A 15% stake in the two companies, worth 800 million Chinese dollars.
Yang Ming transferred 30%, and made a profit of 1.6 billion yuan at once, and he still held 70% of the shares of the two companies.
According to this estimated ratio, then 70% of the shares in Yang Ming's hands are worth at least 3.5 billion yuan.
When everyone calculated this result in their hearts, they couldn't help but gasp, this Yang Ming was really too demonic.
Two years ago, I opened two Internet companies, and after two years, it will have such value.
It's even faster than robbing a bank.
Moreover, someone soon discovered a problem, that is, in the acquisition news announced by the three companies, the 15% shares of the two companies acquired by Huaxia Brothers Media and Baoli Company did not include Maoyan Film and Time.com in China and Europe.
When everyone thought of this, they couldn't help but let out an exclamation.
No, could it be that Yang Ming split Maoyan Movies and Time.com into three companies?
In this way, the shares of these three companies, when Yang Ming wants to sell them, can be sold three times.
According to the estimate of the total value of Huaxia of 3.5 billion yuan, if it is really sold three times, it will be another wealth of 10 billion.
Everyone in the entertainment industry was stunned by Yang Ming's demonic wealth creation ability.
This is completely creating a movie giant out of thin air!
When the domestic media made this exclamation, it also affected the United States on the other side of the Atlantic.
The major giants in Hollywood can't be so idiotic, and there must be many people who have discovered the influence of Maoyan Movies and Time.com on the film industry in the future.
Time.com is a little better, there was already a similar movie review website on the network of the United States, but after the establishment of the time.com to the United States, although it was attracted a lot of traffic by the simple layout and strict system of the time.com, there are still many loyal netizens who are used to logging on to the previous website to browse movie reviews and score.
But Maoyan Movie, a novel mobile phone software, can not only book tickets instantly, but also select seats online, whether it is for the Internet industry in the United States or Hollywood, it is completely scorpion, the only one!
Whether it is in China or Omi, the mobile app Maoyan Movie has swept countless fans since its launch, and now it has become the only way for countless young people to buy movies.
Some Hollywood venture capital companies have already valued this software at 1 billion yuan, and it is only limited to Maoyan movies in the country.
Even many venture capital and fund companies wanted to get a foot in this, but Yang Ming had no choice but to have a lot of money, and for a while, there was no shortage of cash in his hands, so he refused to invest in these capital forces.
Now when it was reported in Huaxia that Yang Ming had begun to sell Maoyan Film shares, several Hollywood film companies were moved.
They didn't go to Yang Ming immediately, after all, Yang Ming is now in China, thousands of miles away, and many film companies took the lead in finding Barber and asked if it was possible for Maoyan Films, a local film in the United States, to sell shares.
Oh, and the shares of Time.com are also included.
Although Time.com does not dominate the current situation of mobile phone sales like Maoyan Movie, anyone can see that with the passage of time, Time.com is becoming more and more important in the hearts of fans.
Barber, who has long been ruled by Yang Ming, is not in a hurry in the face of inquiries from Hollywood giants and other companies, and then tells everyone that the young boss of his company is not opposed to selling part of the shares of Maoyan Film and Time.com, but everything needs to be discussed after he comes to the United States in person.
In the face of this result, the film companies that Hollywood came to inquire about were also mentally prepared, and it was good to be able to talk.
After dealing with all the studios and some of the most popular companies interested in Maoyan Films, Barber was in a very happy mood, and he even felt like he was back in the days when he was in power at Pan American Entertainment and called for wind and rain in Hollywood.
It's a good feeling.
To be honest, he was hesitant about his decision to join Oriental DreamWorks.
Even if he is optimistic about the prospects and future of Oriental DreamWorks, it still takes a long way to become a Hollywood movie giant, and even he thinks that at least when he is at the helm of Hollywood Oriental DreamWorks, it is absolutely impossible to achieve such an ideal.
But I didn't expect that just two years later, Hollywood's Oriental DreamWorks has undergone earth-shaking changes.
Under the layout of the young genius boss from Huaxia and the step-by-step plan, Oriental DreamWorks is currently inferior to those movie giants in addition to history and heritage, and is not inferior to those first-line giants in other aspects.
Whether it is a cinema company or publicity planning support, Oriental DreamWorks has shown strong strength.
Now, through the emerging new media marketing, he is the first to stand at the forefront of the changes of the times and firmly grasp the initiative, which makes Bobble full of an unparalleled confidence, and he now believes that in his lifetime, he will definitely see the day when Oriental DreamWorks becomes a Hollywood giant.
After reaching an acquisition with Huaxia Brothers Media and Baoli Company, and announcing it to the public, Yang Ming not only did not stay idle, but became more busy.
After the Chinese New Year, the preparation of the crew of "Red Cliff of the Three Kingdoms" has been carried out in an orderly manner, and at present, the crew has also entered the selected location filming location and started the preliminary training.
Yang Ming's requirement for everyone is to learn to ride a horse, at least in the camera.
Originally, according to his schedule, at this time, he also had to enter the crew to start training horseback riding, and be familiar with some camera positions, but because of the acquisition of Maoyan Movies and Time.com, he never took a step away.
And the bankruptcy crisis on the side of Huaying Group has always been concerned about him.
But before that, he still has one more thing to do, and that is to divert everyone's attention.
He transferred 1 billion Chinese yuan of funds, and the 1 billion Chinese yuan of the loan to the Redwood Fund also hit Yang Ming's private account, and now the 1.6 billion Chinese yuan of Huaxia Brothers Media and Baoli Company's acquisition of Maoyan Film and Time.com also hit his account at the moment of signing.
A full 3.6 billion Chinese dollars in cash.
The news that Oriental DreamWorks has such an astronomical amount of cash in hand will definitely not be able to hide it from some well-intentioned people.
It is very likely to be reminiscent of the incident of Huaying Group falling into bankruptcy crisis, once Yang Ming's true intentions are discovered, it will inevitably add unnecessary waves and acquisition costs to his plan.
Therefore, after reaching an acquisition agreement with Huaxia Brothers Media and Baoli Company, the other party's funds arrived in the account.
Yang Ming immediately appeared in Guangdong and announced with Wu Yuanzhi that Phoenix TV would prepare to build its own news building.
As soon as this plan was announced, it immediately attracted the attention of many media.
If a news building is estimated at 10 floors, it will cost at least billions of dollars.
However, when all the media thought that the young rich man had just sold a part of the shares, he had recorded 1.6 billion Chinese yuan, plus other financial resources, it was simply trivial to build a building.
If it was just like this, Yang Ming felt that it was not enough, he went to Guangdong for a walk, returned to Yanjing, and couldn't wait to arrange for Liu Xinsheng to reveal that Oriental DreamWorks was going to build a business building in Yanjing, so that the group's companies scattered in various locations in Yanjing would all be concentrated in their own business buildings.
When this news was announced, both the media and the entertainment industry couldn't help but exclaim: the wealth is huge.
When some well-intentioned people heard the news of Oriental DreamWorks' two big moves in a row, they were slightly worried in their hearts, and they all disappeared inadvertently.
Previously, because Yang Ming borrowed 1 billion yuan, and guessed the motive of the other party's loan and the flow of funds, after seeing these two news, it also dawned on him, no wonder he wanted to borrow money, it turned out to be a building, and there were two buildings in one building.
That's a lot of money.
"Mr. Yang, no one else should be paying attention to us now, right?"
In Yang Ming's office at Oriental DreamWorks, Liu Xinsheng said with a hint of a smile.
"I don't know, but to be on the safe side, we planned our office building ahead of schedule and immediately invited an architectural firm to start designing it for us. Yang Ming frowned slightly and said in a deep voice.
Although his plan to build two buildings in succession will hide the attention of many people, so that the eyes of others will not pay attention to Oriental DreamWorks, it is difficult to guarantee that no one will keep an eye on Oriental DreamWorks.
In business, a small mistake can lead to an avalanche.
Yang Ming didn't want to be careless for a while, and finally let his plan be a bamboo basket in the end.
When Liu Xinsheng heard Yang Ming's words, he showed a solemn look, and said with a little embarrassment: "Is it true? In that case, we won't have extra money to buy, even if it is too late to take out a loan." ”
If you really want to build two business buildings according to Yang Ming's intentions, then the funds spent will definitely be an astronomical amount.
It is estimated to reach at least 3 billion.
After all, whether it is Yanjing or Guangdong's land price, it is not cheap.
Yang Ming smiled faintly when he heard this, waved his hand to signal Liu Xinsheng not to worry so much, and then explained: "Building design, purchase of suitable land, and bidding for builders, these are not completed in one day, we can delay it for two or three months, I believe that during this time, Huaying Group should also be over, as long as the acquisition is completed, even if there is pressure on the funds, it will be much more convenient for me to take out a loan at that time, and I don't have to be so careful." ”
To be honest, now with Yang Ming's assets, if you really go to Redwood Capital for a loan, I believe that 5 billion Chinese yuan should not be a problem.
Not to mention anything else, just by relying on Maoyan Film and Time.com, which previously announced that part of the shares were acquired, Yang Ming used the shares of the two companies as collateral, which was enough to borrow 5 billion Chinese yuan.
But Oriental DreamWorks is a film company, and Yang Ming is very famous in the entertainment industry, and now at the moment when Huaying Group is in bankruptcy crisis, he has spent so much trouble raising funds everywhere, and people with a discerning eye know at a glance that he is going to go for the property left by Huaying Group.
In the previous acquisitions of Maoyan Films and Time.com, the two old foxes, Shangguan Tian and Wen Jingtao, secretly tested whether Yang Ming had any intention of acquiring Huaying Group.
Yang Ming said at that time that he did not want to fall into the giant pit of Huaying Group, and he believed that his Oriental DreamWorks would definitely have the strength and status of Huaying Group at its peak.
He appropriately revealed the confidence and arrogance of the young man, and also calmed the hearts of Shangguan Tian and Wen Jingtao a little.
In addition, in the past week, Yang Ming has announced that he will build two buildings one after another, which has also reassured the two film giants.
Young people must have strong self-confidence and stubbornness in themselves.
For a while, there are really not many people in the entire entertainment industry who think that Yang Ming and his Oriental DreamWorks will play a role after the bankruptcy of Huaying Group.
After all, whether it is Oriental DreamWorks or Yang Ming, they are still too young.
At this time, Huaying Group announced that the company officially applied for bankruptcy protection procedures.
When this news was confirmed by everyone, countless people in the entire entertainment industry were shocked, and finally this day came.
It's just that no one noticed that that night, Yang Ming and Liu Xinsheng came to a villa in Yanjing.
The owner of this villa is naturally Yang Ming's brother-in-law Li Xingyi.
But in addition to Li Xingyi, two middle-aged people with haggard looks also sat in the living room absentmindedly drinking tea there.
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It's been a little busy in the past two days, and it's all sent directly with 4,000 words, and I wanted to say compensation, but now I really don't dare to promise casually.