Chapter 404: Acquisition of AMC

In the office of the chairman of the Bernard Group, Yu Dong was staring at the document in front of him and pondering.

"Crossfire", which was released in early August, was jointly released by Berner and Guangxian, and he naturally received a detailed film schedule from the theater chain.

Like Li Mu's reaction, Yu Dong thought that the document was wrong at first, but the director of the distribution department repeatedly confirmed that it was true.

Who could it be?

Wang Zhongjun?

Yu Dong shook his head, he didn't have the courage.

Wang Jinghua?

She doesn't have the skills!

Han Sanping?

It can't be either.

"Knock knock!"

"Come in!" Yu Dong retracted his thoughts.

The director of the issuance department pushed open the door and came in, "Chairman, I have inquired clearly, it was Wang Jianlin who personally gave Zhao Fang an order!"

Yu Dong nodded, it is impossible for a single Zhao Fang to be the master of such a big matter, without Wang Jianlin's nod, no one in the entire Wanda Group would dare to do this.

But why did Wang Jianlin target Li Mu, even if Wanda Pictures and Li Mu have a normal relationship, he is the chairman of Wanda, and he can't surrender his identity to target Li Mu.

This year, the total assets of Wanda have exceeded 300 billion yuan, making it the second largest super business empire among real estate companies in the world.

And Wang Jianlin, as the helmsman of this business empire, can undoubtedly say that he is the top entrepreneur in the country, even compared with those large state-owned enterprises.

"Have you heard what is going on?" asked Yu Dong.

"I inquired clearly, it was Wang Jinghua who said that he missed his mouth and was listened to by the employees below!" "The director of the distribution department said a big news excitedly, "It is said that Wang Jianlin plans to enter Hollywood and wants to acquire AMC Cinemas, but the process has not been smooth, and many shareholders have even proposed AMC ≠ Ameri Movie." Unists (米國Film Public Production),The project has been stranded for a long time,Later, the six major Hollywood companies came forward to promote this cooperation,The condition is that this year Wanda Cinemas is required not to arrange for Li Mu's films,Not only "Looking for the Dragon", all the films produced by Li Mu's company Wanda Cinemas will not arrange scheduling, it is said that the acquisition has just been completed, and it has not been announced for the time being, Wang Jianlin ordered Zhao Fang. ”

What the!

Yu Dong almost couldn't help jumping up from his chair, whether it was Wang Jianlin's reason for targeting Li Mu or Wanda's acquisition of AMC Cinemas, it was shocking news for him.

AMC Cinemas is not a small company, it is the second largest cinema group in North America in addition to Emperor Entertainment, in addition to the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Huaxia Xiangjiang, Spain, Brazil, Portugal, Germany and other regions have theaters, and even in many African countries There are cinemas, truly covering most of the world.

AMC Cinemas has nearly 400 cinemas around the world, and that's not counting the number of independent cinemas under its umbrella.

More than 5,000 screens, more than 100 IMAX screens, more than 2,000 3D screens, annual income of nearly 3 billion meters, and more than 20,000 employees.

At present, the total number of domestic cinemas is only more than 4,000, the number of screens is less than 30,000, and the IMAX screen is only more than 60.

In other words, the scale of AMC cinemas has 17% of the domestic scale, which is almost the scale of Wanda cinemas, if the acquisition is successful, Wanda will surpass Emperor Entertainment and become the world's largest cinema company in one fell swoop!

As for the decision of the seven major Hollywood companies to influence the shareholders of AMC Cinemas, Yu Dong is not surprised at all.

The relationship between Hollywood's major film companies and theaters is inextricably linked, and the six giants are all backed by media giants, Warner Bros. is a subsidiary of Time Warner, MGM belongs to Sony Holdings, Paramount's parent company is Coercombe, Columbia also belongs to Sony, Universal's parent company is Comcast, Twentieth Century Fox belongs to the media group, and Walt Disney ...... Disney never seemed to have been acquired.

However, Disney Studios is just a subsidiary of the Disney Group, but Disney acquired the ABC Group, which is also a huge media group.

And Paramount's parent company, Viacom, has one of the largest theater chains in the United States, National Amusements, and these two are one.

If it weren't for the introduction of the anti-monopoly law, I am afraid that most of Hollywood's theater chains would now be in the hands of several Hollywood giants.

In Hollywood, the rule is that the production and distribution of a movie can be one, but not the theater.

Before this anti-monopoly law, Hollywood, like China, could shoot and distribute by itself, and open its own cinemas and broadcast it by itself.

After the Anti-Monopoly Law, the cinema chains under the film giants were forcibly spun off. This brings us to a fun thing.

If you're in the United States, you want to buy the box office. Okay, you buy two million. The theater said no problem, you have to give me money anyway. Say two million, and you'll have to give two million. Then when the box office of the movie is shared, you get a portion of the money back according to the proportion. However, the cost is still very high, because the theater chain has to share the box office! The theater chain and the film company are not the same! In North America, everyone also brushes the box office, but not more. Because, the cost is high!!

However, the cost of swiping the box office in China is much lower, and if you have a theater chain, the cost is even lower......

At that time, the Big Eight of Hollywood were called the Big Five, and the three small giants, Paramount, MGM, Warner Bros., Twentieth Century Fox, and Raiden Hua each had a large theater chain, while Universal, Columbia, and United States were called the three small giants without movie theaters.

Wanda has just established a film company for a few years, and now it is going to the United States to acquire theaters, what kind of calculation is it making!

This is not a simple acquisition case, the acquisition involving billions of meters of yuan cannot be decided by him Wang Jianlin's head is hot, even if he says nothing in Wanda, such a big matter must be discussed by the board of directors.

In this way, Wanda is probably going all out to enter the entertainment industry.

"Jingle bell..."

At this time, the internal movie on the table suddenly rang, and it was a call from the front desk, saying that Li Mu had arrived and was walking here.

"You go out first, keep an eye on it, and tell me if there is any new movement!"

When the director of the distribution department heard this, he left Yu Dong's office, and not long after he went out, he happened to meet Li Mu.

"Mr. Li is good!"

"Hello Mr. Liu!"

Li Mu greeted him with a smile, and looked at the direction he came in Yu Dong's office, it seemed that Yu Dong had understood the whole story.

Li Mu wanted to stop Director Liu from asking about the situation, but he thought it would be better to ask Yu Dong.

Who the hell is it?

Li Mu walked to the door of Yu Dong's office and knocked on the door to enter.