Chapter 1097: Dazzling June
Cheng Xiaoyu returned to his home in Beverly Hills, and tomorrow he and Katherine Blanchett will return to the set in McAbee Beach to continue the filming of "Titanic". Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
When he got home, he didn't expect Catherine Blanchett to come to his house, and during the meal, Cheng Xiaoyu told the two of them about Donald Stilwell, and when she heard Cheng Xiaoyu say that the other party would make such a powerful bomb, Xia Shamo was very shocked and worried about Cheng Xiaoyu.
Catherine Blanchett is relatively calm, but she plans to hire bodyguards, after all, safety is not too important.
Duanmu Linsha helped Xu Qinning complete the acquisition of AMC Cinemas in New York, and the two sides have already determined the acquisition plan, and Xingmei United Cinemas will sign a merger and acquisition agreement with AMC Cinemas, the world's second largest cinema group, in Beijing on July 1 to purchase 100% of the company's equity and assume the company's debts.
The company will pay a total of $3.1 billion for the transaction, including a total transaction value of $2.6 billion and a post-acquisition working capital of $500 million.
Not only that, a series of equity cooperation agreements between "Xingmei United Cinemas" and "Huaxia Xichu Films" have been approved by relevant departments, and "Xingmei United Cinemas" will obtain 12% of the shares of "Huaxia Xichu" after the completion of the acquisition of AMC, and "Huaxia Xichu" will pay one billion US dollars plus 12% of the shares to obtain 23% of the "Xingmei United Cinemas".
The two sides will complete the cross-shareholding, and then the trading will be suspended and reorganized into the "Xichu Film Group", the reorganized "Xichu Film Group" Xu Qinning personally accounts for 32% of the shares, Xichu Pictures accounts for 23% of the shares, the former state-owned enterprise Shanghai Lianhe Cinema Line accounts for 20% of the shares, and the remaining 25% is tradable shares.
After the reorganization, "Xichu Film Group" will become the world's largest cinema chain, accounting for about 13% of the global industry market share.
However, "American Xichu" and "Huaxia Xichu" have little to do with "Huaxia Xichu" except that the boss is the same person.
This is the largest ever case of a Chinese buyer acquiring an American company, and Wall Street has already reported the news, but the American public is clearly less interested in it than in Donald Stilwell's bombing.
Almost all entertainment boards and social networks are talking about it.
On the contrary, Huaxia netizens paid more attention to Huaxia Enterprise's acquisition of the second largest cinema chain in the United States, and the comments reflected an interpretation of this merger and acquisition: the export of Chinese culture to the United States.
The New York Times reported the headline "[AMC] Deal Will Expand China's Influence in Hollywood"
Forbes magazine commentator Reagan Forderman wrote that in Manhattan, New York, the deal will give new meaning to movies and Chinese food, and the multiplex theater on the Upper West Side, named "AMC Lincoln Place", may be renamed "West Chu Lincoln Square".
Of course, many newspapers have criticized this acquisition, and from the perspective of commercial interests, the single whale swallowing transaction of "Xingmei United" has also puzzled many people.
The Chinese film market in which "Xingmei United" is located is developing rapidly, while the American and Canadian film markets entered by the acquisition of AMC have been sluggish for nearly a decade. According to AMC's latest annual report, it has 346 theaters and 5,034 cinema screens, 99% of which are in the US and Canadian markets.
And according to reports, after the completion of the merger, AMC will make great efforts to transform the theater chain, in addition to digitalization, it will mainly add "3D" and "IMAX......
This is obvious that AMC is paving the way for Cheng Xiaoyu's 600 million blockbuster, and countless business newspapers and media are very worried about AMC's hundreds of millions of dollars on Cheng Xiaoyu's "Titanic", calling it the biggest gamble in history.
"I'm more of a seller than a buyer, and there are so many more interesting places in the world to invest in than cinemas. Sequoia Capital Chairman Swift Nicky said in an interview with the media.
Glenn Brown, Co-CEO of Matrix Partners Private Equity. H. Weiss commented on the merger and acquisition of Xingmei and AMC merged, and said mercilessly: "This is a dangerous game of snakes swallowing elephants, and it is very unwise for AMC to bet on the 'triple D' and 'IMAX' moviegoers brought by "Titanic".
The analysis report of "The.Deal.Pipeline", a paid website in the United States that provides information on the content of the transaction, on the joint acquisition of AMC by Star and the United States, is also titled: "AMC holders have limited returns", and the report pointed out that excluding consulting fees, AMC owners private equity fund Apollo Global Management, CCMP Capital Advisors, Bain Capital, The Carlyle Group and Spectrum, a private equity investor, made a profit of about $500 million from the 20010 joint takeover bid, plus a one-time dividend of $532 million in 20010, compared to a total investment of $955 million.
In the end, I came to the conclusion that the money of the Chinese people is too easy to make.
And said scorchingly: Maybe after the release of "Titanic" next year, AMC, which bets on "3D" and "IMAX", will return to the arms of Americans.
However, most of the people who pay attention to this matter are Wall Street elites, and ordinary Americans are not interested in it, and they are more concerned about the fact that in addition to Donald Stilwell's case, the singer Mary Hughes, who has not been in the news for a long time, announced that she will be the mentor of the CW TV program "The Voice of America".
The CW TV station also announced the candidates for the other three mentors, multi-time Grammy gold medal producer - Will Kinson, rock star heartthrob - James Dylan, and country music deservedly king - Bray Shelton.
The lineup of judges with such a big name made the entire American entertainment industry tremble, compared to the judges of "American Idol", it is really a little shabby, especially the queen Mary Hughes, who is not moved, and the super big names who do not participate in variety shows are willing to be the judges of "The Voice of America", which makes everyone's jaws drop.
And the first episode of the first season of "The Voice" will be broadcast after the fifth episode of "Resident Evil: The Walking Dead", which will be broadcast at 10 p.m. on June 23.
At this moment, "Resident Evil: The Walking Dead" has become the inevitable weekly ratings champion, with a rating of 13.7 in the United States, becoming a phenomenal TV series.
After Cheng Xiaoyu arranged for Xia Shamo to participate in "The Voice of America", he returned to McAbee Beach, and this week Xia Shamo will participate in the recording of the first episode of "The Voice of America".
And next week, the first episode of "The Voice of America" will officially air......