Chapter 246 Annexation

Before it was sniped by the Davis Fund, Columbia Pictures had distribution channels all over the world, was functioning, and could compete with several other giants.

And MGM collapsed after the huge pounce of "The Wind Whisperer" and fell into bankruptcy liquidation, and in the end Cork threw off the burden, sold it, and made a lot of cash.

Columbia Pictures can be restarted as long as it is funded, and both Layton and Pascal are capable people, who have not only gained the trust and power of the new boss, but also have 700 million funds in their hands, and they are gearing up and ready to do a big job.

And MGM has a lot of problems, such an old giant company, even has its own distribution channels, since the sale of United Arts, its distribution business is packaged to Disney's Bowei operation, in recent years, except for "Legally Blonde", there are not a few blockbuster works, and it is not as good as MM in terms of box office revenue.

The only thing MGM is worth now is its brand, thousands of movies and tens of thousands of TV episodes in its library, as well as the copyright of the "007" series, which is a series of movies that are sure to make money.

After MM was merged, it immediately owned the sequel production rights of blockbuster series such as "Chainsaw" and "The Hangover", and also had distribution channels all over Beimi, so it didn't have to worry about being stuck in terms of distribution.

Marvel Studios, on the other hand, is still in its infancy, but their weapon is the superhero blockbuster "Iron Man" in operation, the first billionaire production in the MM system, directed by Hollywood box office elixir Mark, they are ambitiously formulating a Marvel Universe movie plan, once successful, they will not be much worse than the other three companies.

In terms of overall planning, Columbia Pictures will be responsible for MGM Pictures' overseas distribution and the global promotion and distribution of Marvel movies, which solves their channel problems.

In terms of DVD rental and sales, it can bring them a stable income of 250 million to 300 million yuan a year, and become a decisive force in the battle for DVD formats.

However, they can pilot first, and in later generations, streaming media companies will squeeze the Big Six to almost no foothold, which makes Disney's acquisition of large companies like Twentieth Century Fox unable to form a monopoly, which shows how much pressure streaming media puts on them.

After the reorganization, MM Group does not have its own TV station, which is a short board, but their advantage in the Internet is the strongest of the six, with the help of Brother Gu and TouTube, they also have their own film promotion channels, plus Columbia Pictures has more than 800 theaters in the country, they decided to rely on these more than 800 theaters, open a derivative counter, specializing in selling a variety of film peripheral products, so as to form an ecological chain in terms of content + channels + derivatives.

This makes MM more competitive, but all of this is a smooth transition, and then a few blockbuster movies can get the company on the right track.

After MGM was sold to Columbia Pictures, the media claimed that Hollywood had entered the Six Eras, but Sunny was sniped within a few days of being happy, and since then it has been in a slump, and some media even said that it will enter the Five Great Eras ahead of schedule.

The MM Group, which controls Columbia and MGM, will have two major seats in the MPAA, and its influence will be greatly increased, and the MPAA's film classification system is commonly used by giant companies to suppress small companies.

The MPAA, headquartered in Hollywood, California, was founded in 1922 as a trading organization for the film industry. Now it's not just in theaters, but also in TV home photography and other delivery systems that may emerge in the future, and it's easy to imagine that they want to do those small and medium-sized companies that control movie ratings, with MGM and Columbia Pictures each having a seat, and the chair is rotated by the presidents of the Big Seven.

It can be said that Mark spent 12 billion, which is very valuable, thinking that back then, in 93 years, Lei Shidong spent 10 billion US dollars to buy Paramount, and 10 billion at that time is equivalent to 20 billion now.

After Davis announced the sale of Columbia Pictures and MGM Pictures, it immediately touched the hearts of all parties, and its process was full of drama in the hands of MM, which surprised many people, many estimated that Davis's set of dark investment models and three vetoes could sell for at least $15 billion.

But Davis's approach can never be guessed, he actually only exercised his veto power once, and then sold the company to MM briskly and decisively, many people suspect that MM may have bribed Davis to have this effect, but Columbia and MGM fell into the hands of MM, it is an ironclad fact.

And the next day, all the TV and newspaper entertainment news was headlined, and it was covered with all its might, which was more popular in a country that was entertained to death than the Iraq War, and the ownership of Columbia Pictures and MGM Pictures would bring Hollywood into the real Big Six era.

The new one is MM, in terms of film assets and market share, he ranks fifth after Paramount, and the bottom is Universal.

And the second article of major TV stations and newspapers is the giant fight of the DreamWorks super blockbuster "Escape from Clone Island", which is another masterpiece after the famous copy of "Pearl Harbor".

The male protagonist is Scottish actor Ewan McGregor, who played Obi Wan in the "Star Wars" series, and he participated in art films, including "Moulin Rouge", "Big Fish" and other famous films, while the heroine is Scarlett Johansson, who became a Hollywood star with films such as "The Girl with a Pearl Earring", "Lost in Translation", "Saw Horror" and "The Hangover". In addition, several supporting actors are also from a lot of backgrounds: Germaine Hansu, Sean Bean, Steve Basmi and Michael Clark Duncan, etc., almost all of them are Academy Award guests.

Backed by DreamWorks' hundreds of millions of dollars, Michael Beleren's prop cars are all Cadillac 2002 concept cars worth seven million US dollars, and of course he will not neglect the action design and visual effects he is good at.

Its investment reached 120 million, invested and produced by DreamWorks, Warner was responsible for distribution, and the specific distribution investment should not be less than 30 million, but his first-week box office was only 12.4 million, and if it weren't for "Top Secret Flight", I was afraid that it would break the world record, and now it is second only to "Top Secret Flight".

The huge loss of "Top Secret Flight", Colombia was a dead pig at that time and was not afraid of boiling water, the money was all invested by Dongying and David, Martin only literally lost, and David, this guy has a super dad to support, and he can afford to lose.

DreamWorks originally had financial constraints and rumors of broken capital chains, all counting on this large amount of subsidized households, who knew that it ushered in an unprecedented huge loss, the stock price fell in response, and many executives left.

Who doesn't ask God to bless their own movies as big sellers and other people's big losses? Now the huge loss of this blockbuster has made the once-glorious Dream Factory enter the countdown to bankruptcy.

Mark is now busy with his feet on the ground, and he should go home to have dinner and celebrate together because of Giselle's pregnancy, but he is so busy preparing for the signing that he doesn't even return home and calls Giselle to ask for leave.

Giselle also understands that this time they have gnawed a big piece of fat, their peers are envious and jealous, and if they do not formally sign a contract for a day, there may be variables, and Mark's transition committee will take over the power in advance and reassure people's minds, which can minimize the loss, and she understands Mark.

And Mark and they prepared the contract overnight, and arranged to sign the contract early the next morning, and they also knew that this time they took advantage of it, which made their peers very jealous, so they kept a low profile, did not arrange a press conference or anything in a big way, signed a contract quickly and low-key, and immediately after signing the contract, they immediately hit the Davis Fund account, and before leaving work at 12 o'clock at noon, Columbia Pictures and MGM Pictures fell into the hands of MM.

A team of lawyers and accountants, led by David, moved in to take over the property, while Blackwater's armed guards, once hated by Columbia and MGM employees, retreated amid boos and cheers.

Accustomed to Martin's takeover by force and rough rule, MM's takeover team of lawyers and accountants now feels relatable.

At the same time as the inventory and liquidation of the property, the transitional committee officially issued the second notice, the next week is the inventory time, and convened a meeting of the heads of branches and theaters across the country, which can be regarded as getting acquainted, and the salary will be paid during the inventory period, and the normal work will be completed after the inventory is completed.

These things are simple to say, but in fact they are very frustrating, Mark They have made extremely adequate preparations, prepared a large number of people, this work is still very busy, you can imagine, when Martin suddenly took over, all this is very chaotic.

Now they have MM and have trained a lot of talent themselves, and Iger has also recruited a lot of old departments to enrich their management team, and because Martin has cut off a large number of personnel, these vacant positions have been quickly filled, which is very good for them to get back to normal work as soon as possible.

Many people have made good positions, Mark's father David is the company's chief legal officer, Mark's lawyer Baker is the deputy officer, and the other David is also hot, and he also asks Mark for a half-official position.

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