Mark is very happy, one is to take the gold mine of "The Expendables" under his umbrella, and the other is to take over the fierce generals of Stallone and Jason Statham.

Statham can be said to be a rare action movie superstar in Hollywood after Stallone, debuted with "Two Big Smoking Guns", has been spinning in B-grade films over the years, and is a very well-developed action star, but it has always lacked global blockbusters, and it is difficult to become popular, Mark has resources in his hands, and he doesn't mind pulling him, if he can be pulled into the MM camp, this is the best.

Mark is a resolute person, Ji Tai made a decision, immediately start the project, if it is another company, it is the first market research, risk assessment, accounting, production and publicity costs, etc., and in MM, Mark made a decision, will set up the project, and then find the right person to shoot and produce, as for publicity and distribution, it is responsible for special people.

Mark said to Stallone: "I will put the money into your company's account in three installments, as for how to shoot and who to shoot, that's your business." ”

Stallone said: "This is a wise decision, and I will not disappoint you." ”

In the past year, MM led by Mark has won 20 of the 52 weekly championships for the year, which occupies as many weekly crowns as the first place in Hollywood, reaching an astonishing 40 percent, don't think that this is the end of it, and the last weekly champion this year was also won by "Night at the Museum", reaching as many as 22.

And "Night at the Museum", which was a big hit at the box office, completed the three-week championship without a strong opponent and no pursuers, winning the last two weeks of 2006 and the first week of 2007.

The slut Ben Stiller gets older and more obscene, and the more roe head is rat-like, but the box office appeal is not bad at all.

By playing one frustrated man and after another, Falker who was troubled by his father-in-law in "Meet My Father-in-law", Mel who was looking for his biological parents in "Flirting with Disaster", Zuland, a model who took exaggerated catwalks in "Supermodel", and Goodman, a bullish dodgeball master in "Crazy Dodgeball", etc., Ben Stiller gradually became the guarantee of the comedy box office in the United States.

Together with Owen Wilson, the Luke Wilson brothers, Jack Black, Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell and others, he carried the banner of Hollywood's Mesozoic comedy, and Entertainment Weekly called them the "Brotherhood of Comedy". Unlike Jim Carrey's one-man combat, although everyone in the "Brotherhood" is a big name in their own right, they often cooperate with each other or make cameos, Stiller is full of comedy elements in his blood, he may be a clown, but he is a smart clown, a clown who can get paid $20 million.

In fact, this "Night at the Museum" was first discussed by Stiller and Twentieth Century Fox, but Stiller's asking price was too high, which made Fox hesitate, 20 million plus 15% of the dividend, Fox was afraid that he would end up working for others, and the king of comedy, Jim Carrey, was also at this price, but MM directly offered 25 million to win him over, and this project also belonged to MM.

And MM is a promise, no matter whether it is a blockbuster or not, three sequels will be produced, and under the fact that he has won 15% of the dividends, other conditions will not change, which is equivalent to signing a golden job, Stiller is naturally full of promises, so this Stiller joined MM and won three weeks of championship in one fell swoop.

In the original version, it ranked second with a score of 295 million US dollars, second only to "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" and "X-Men 3", "Superman Returns", "The Da Vinci Code" and other blockbusters, but this year there is a unicorn blockbuster like "Iron Man", it can only be relegated to third, but this result is enough to embarrass countless blockbusters, and it also proves that Stiller's box office money printer is worthy of his name.

In this way, MM won 22 of the 52 weekly championships in 2006, and there are three "Iron Man", "The Da Vinci Code", "Wonderful Night at the Museum" and "The Wonderful Night of the Museum", seven and eighteen works that broke 100 million, and Beimi won 1.75 billion US dollars, with an average box office of nearly 100 million

Among the six giants of Hollywood, it won the first place, and the turnover actually exceeded 10 billion, that is, several major media companies can be compared with it, but they are better than the huge scale, if it is pure profit, the two sides are almost the same, encouraged by this good news, MM stocks rose sharply across the board, with a total market value of more than 27 billion, among the six major production giants, it ranks first, but if you add the parent company, it is still a cushion, MM is still not enough to be relative to these giant multinational companies.

As one of the heads of MM, Mark's contribution to the group is unparalleled, but he has merit and faults, which is a strong advocate of investing in Pingguo billion, owning 10% of the shares of this technology company, but the company's stock price is mediocre, the increase is lower than the average of technology companies, and the rate of return is so low that compared with other businesses of MM, it can be called a complete failure.

If it weren't for this to get closer to Joe's gang and convince Pixar Studios to join MM, this investment would be useless.

The other is the merger and acquisition of Netflix, MM was indignant, forcibly acquired Netflix, began to smash 500 million, and then added 500 million one after another, MM just has one more distribution channel for its film and television content, which is a lucrative investment, only investment, no return.

And its old rival Blockbuster is not sitting still, in the development and promotion of their online business, Blockbuster spent a lot of money, investing 500 million US dollars, at first, Blockbuster completely separated the two types of business, independent of each other, a strategy that seems somewhat strange, because the company did not take advantage of its biggest potential advantage - the huge scale of the physical chain.

However, in mid-2006, Blockbuster reversed its strategy and announced a new program called "All Access," which connects online services with physical stores, allowing Blockbuster's postal service customers to return their finished CDs to any Blockbuster storefront, exchange them for a free movie, and receive their next online subscription by post.

The fourth quarter of 2006 was the only time in Nefly's history that the number of registered users declined, and the reason was that people threw themselves into the arms of Blockbuster, and at one point, the most feared nightmare of the Hastings era, the rise of Blockbuster, seemed to be a reality.

Now Naifei, by Blockbuster Online, suppressed to death, people are online and offline, both oral and hand-to-hand, Naifei Wan is not an opponent, so at the end of the year, the whole group has handed over a high-quality report card, only Naifei, is barely to maintain the balance of payments, but if you want to engage in some year-end bonuses or benefits or something, you have to ask the parent company for help.

Now the morale of Nefi is low, and the whole company feels disgraced.

Wall Street's "Pengbo Information" reported that this Pingguo and Nefy are the two major fiascos of Mark's career, and the liquidity of two billion is mired in investment, even if Mark leads the company to a brilliant victory, it is only to maintain some kind of break-even, and MM's victory is not as brilliant as it seems.

Mark was speechless.

Mark's two most proud masterpieces in his life, the two masterpieces that reached the pinnacle, were actually considered fiascos?

At the regular meeting of the four giants of MM, Mark bluntly proposed that if anyone thinks that these two projects are failures, he can exchange the two parts for MM's equity and then privatize them.

David (Ellison) said: "It's impossible, MM can go from an underground garage to today's media empire, it's all up to Mark's vision, whoever doubts Mark is questioning me." ”

Mark said: "This is questioning has nothing to do with it, and it will not affect the friendship between us, if you are really not optimistic about this project, you can withdraw, I will exchange the MM equity in my hand, and swap it with the market value." ”

The current MM is much more valuable than Pingguo, which is basically 2.5 to 1.

Meghan objected again, saying: "Even Bloomberg of "Pengbo Information" is not qualified to accuse Mark of not doing it, he has not earned as much money in 30 years as Mark has earned in 3 years. ”

David even said: "This is the malicious slander of the media and the destruction of our unity." ”

"I see it the same way, and in response to malicious speculation in the media, we will subscribe for 20 million new shares of Pingguo Company, with a total value of 200 million, to ensure that our stake will not be diluted, and we will increase our holdings to 11 percent," Iger said. ”

Mark said, "Thank you for your support, Robert. ”

"Only then can we ensure that our ally Steve's position is as strong as a mountain, and the results of the NFC are not ideal, but I believe this difficulty is temporary. ”

Ma said: "Blockbuster full access has put a lot of pressure on us, so that our customers have lost and our business has shrunk, but you won't believe that the full access service has caused the same impact on Blockbuster itself, and the "full access" service has caused two big problems for Blockbuster, one is that many franchise chain owners are unwilling to participate in this project, and the other is "full access" The service contains too many free films, and every additional registered user means a lot of money, yes, they are operating at a loss, and I personally believe that Blockbuster's full access service will not last long. ”

Iger said, "Do you have evidence to back it all up?"

Mark said: "Someone is arranging to collect, this is Blockbuster internal rumors, their performance is not as good as expected, even losses, the finance department is not optimistic about the fourth quarter of revenue, I believe that when the fourth quarter of the financial report comes out, this full access service will no longer be beautiful, I will go to the NFY headquarters in the afternoon, meet with all their staff, boost morale, as long as we can persevere, we will win in the end." ”