Headquartered in San Bruno, California, YouTube Inc. uses FlashVideo to broadcast a variety of video content made by uploaders, including movie clips, TV clips, music videos, etc., as well as other amateur videos made by uploaders, such as VLOGs, original videos, etc., most YouTube uploaders upload by themselves, but there are also some media companies such as MM Group's Columbia Pictures, MGM, BBC, VEVO and other groups have a partnership program with YouTube to upload videos recorded by their own companies.

Through strong technical support, YouTube provides support for a wide range of video content formats, and the regulations on the specifications of uploaded files are also relatively open, and videos with a capacity of no more than 2G and a length of no more than 15 minutes are allowed here.

By November, YouTube had 40 million videos and was viewed by 1.6 million people a day, and in just 11 months after its founding, YouTube has surpassed rivals like MSN Video and Google Video to become the most visited site of the century, thanks to the typhoon that swept through the Southeast and the global singing and dancing trend.

In fact, so far, YouTube has not made any profits, only millions of dollars per month.

The path in front of them is to advertise and IPO after making a profit, and the other is to seek mergers and acquisitions, and Mark is choosing the latter.

Gu Ge bought 88 percent of YouTube's shares for $1.5 billion, with Mark's Wang Siblings Family Fund retaining 10 percent of the shares and the other shareholders retaining 2 percent.

The family foundation made a profit of nearly 1.4 billion yuan in this acquisition, which made David and Sophia, who were in charge of the negotiations, and Dewey, the head of the foundation, smile from ear to ear, and in just one year, they obtained more than ten times the profit, and held 10% of the shares in their hands to ensure their subsequent interests, which greatly alleviated their debt crisis.

It also put aside the worries of those who were worried that Mark would not be able to pay off his debts.

With a profit of 1.4 billion yuan in just one year, Mark has become a well-deserved Hollywood No. 1 money printing machine, originally this nickname was reserved for Tom, who made a lot of money this year with the share of "World War", but now he doesn't dare to mention this nickname.

Mark's YouTube was merged into Gu Ge Video, which made Gu Ge Video the world's largest video website, and the transaction was successful.

Brother Gu bought YouTube for 1.5 billion yuan and operated it as a subsidiary, but Brother Gu has been very cautious about how to make money through YouTube, and the merger of Brother Gu's YouTube may not be a game-changer, but it is the growth of Brother Gu's non-search business that investors have been looking for, and Google Video (mainly YouTube) accounts for 80% of Internet video views in the United States.

How to make good use of this 80% of views, let the video play ads, and let the views of the ad-sponsored videos become the core indicators of Youtube's financial strength, these are the things that Gu Ge's management has to do.

And Mark's investment in YouTube made a quick profit, and he won the three flavors of short (cycle), small (project start) and fast (return), so that the nickname of the Hand of God once again did not go away.

In order not to pull hatred and not be the target of public criticism, Mark closed his eyes and checked more than 30 investment projects for Dewey to invest, hoping that these failed investment projects would allow him to remove the reputation of the hand of God.

When Paul, the second leader of Microsoft, invested in more than 200 projects and lost money, but the successful one, investing in Microsoft, was enough to make him one of the world's top ten richest people.

He formed a dream combination with Lao Si, Geffen, and Katzenberg to create DreamWorks, but it ended in failure, they were not strong enough, but they wanted to become disruptors in the industry, which naturally attracted the encirclement and suppression of their peers, and DreamWorks ended in failure.

In fact, in terms of investment, they are not a failure, DreamWorks Animation was spun off and listed, and its market value is more than 3 billion, which allows them to maintain a balance on the books, which can be regarded as a consolation prize.

MM leveraged buyout of Columbia and MGM Pictures, borrowing $15 billion from banks, among the company's major shareholders, the Ellison brothers and sisters are the least under repayment pressure, followed by Iger, who is also supported by someone behind him, and then the Wang brothers and sisters family fund represented by Mark, whose assets do not exceed 2 billion, but they bear a huge debt of nearly 7 billion, and the debt is nearly four times.

But with the sharp rise in the equity of Gu Ge in their hands, the sky-high price of YouTube, the situation of its three companies Columbia, MGM, and Marvel has improved, and the company's stock price has risen, making the equity in their hands appreciate.

Here's how they describe it: "King Mark, known as the hand of God, like Mei Duo and Lei Shidong, is good at growing themselves through rapid construction, they all have a magical power, can quickly digest mergers and acquisitions of enterprises, turn losses into profits, MM two pillar enterprises, Columbia and MGM to the quagmire, far faster than the market expects, a "Song and Dance Youth" to MGM out of the predicament, it is conceivable that next year's "007", "The Hangover 2", "Song and Dance Youth 2" How much benefit will it bring to them, a media giant is rising. ”

Mark met with Layton and Pascal in his office today, and Mark was delegated and supportive of both of them.

Under their operation, Columbia released several films, among which the more popular one was Will Smith's "The Enemy of Love", which was released in 12 weeks, and Beimi won 160 million at the box office, followed by "A Fairy Wife in the Family"; his beer was not good, but he also won more than 70 million at the box office; "The Money Robber", which is being released, was a money-absorbing weapon, and the other two "Capote" and "Memoirs of a Geisha" , the box office is not good, but the beer is excellent, and it is quite popular during the awards season, and Layton and Pascal mean to invest more and try to get a piece of the Oscar pie.

"Capote" is a literary sketch produced by Soney Classics, "Capote" is based on Gerald Clark's biography of writer Truman Capote, written by Dan Futman, "Cinrena" is based on the book "Invisible Evil" written by former CIA agent Robert Bell of the United States, and the screenwriter is Steffen Ga, who won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay.

If Mark remembers correctly, "Capote" was nominated for five Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress.

"Memoirs of a Geisha" is a romantic drama film directed by Rob Marshall, the film recalls her tragic life from the perspective of the heroine Sayuri, produced by Steven Spielberg, starring Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh and Ken Watanabe, premiered in Japan on October 29 this year.

"Memoirs of a Geisha" is a difficult story to tell in words, and the process of making a film was arduous, and Steven Spielberg, who had been preparing to direct it, finally stepped back into the background to become executive producer after three years of script changes.

This is an award-winning literary film, which seems to have been nominated for six Oscars and won three awards.

These are all movies invested by Soni before, which were sniped by Martin before the release and postponed the release, and Martin, the unlucky guy, is superficial and happy, and when he tested the waters, he only had the two big blockbusters "Extreme Agent 2" and "Top Secret Flight", which accounted for two of the top ten bad movies of the year, which made him criticized and scolded him until he was annoyed and angry.

Mark didn't know the specific situation at the time, but he knew that Martin wanted to hold the two companies, and he had the intention of changing hands after a miserable loss.

There are rumors in the rivers and lakes, let you call for wind and rain on Wall Street, and the power is monstrous, but when you come to Hollywood, you are a dragon squatting, a snake coiled, otherwise you will be miserable, Martin seems to confirm this rumor.

For Mark, the investment in the films released in Columbia is the investment of the former Dongying people, and the profits belong to him, and every point earned is earned, so they have no objection to Leiden and Pascal's proposal, they are now asking for additional investment, there used to be an investment budget for publicity and promotion, but now it is not enough, they hope to get a few awards back in the awards season, and then further stimulate the box office, face, both hands must be grasped, both hands must be hard.

In fact, Mark is not optimistic about "Memoirs of a Geisha", a Dongying movie jointly created by the original work, the director of the United States, and all used Chinese actors, is destined not to be a pure work of art, full of cherry blossoms, clogs, paper umbrellas, Kimono, the actors opened their mouths to speak English, how awkward it is, the highest level of the film is photography, it has produced a beautiful painting of Dongying style in the middle of the last century for the audience, except for the background is Dongying, everything else is the United States, the dialogue of the rice style, the happy ending of the rice style, and its main market is the East Ying and China in Asia.

Despite the heavyweight actors and directors, "Memoirs of a Geisha" seems unpopular in both countries, and the people of Toei believe that the "Memoirs of a Geisha" based on the people of the United States does not respect the history of Toei, and an official of the Kyoto Traditional Music and Arts Fund (which aims to promote traditional music and dance of Toei) said: "This is a typical Hollywood film that focuses only on entertainment." What can we do? Hollywood likes to do things that ignore history. Venting our frustrations with it only increases its exposure, so we choose to ignore it. ”

And fans complained on their blog: "The film makes the style of geisha dance like a striptease on the streets of Los Angeles, and the lighting and special effects make the setting of the story more like modern Las Vegas than old Kyoto." ”

Fans in Huaxia are mainly very dissatisfied with Zhang Ziyi, who plays the geisha of Dongying in the film, and many people left messages on their blogs saying that Zhang Ziyi's behavior is treason. There are still many people who call on Chinese people to join forces to boycott this film, is it strange if they don't pounce?

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