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Speaking of Warner Bros. Pictures, founded in 1918, in terms of seniority, ranked third among the Hollywood giants, only after Paramount and Universal, which were founded in 1912, and the company name comes from the founders, Harry Warner, Albert Warner, Sam Warner and Jack Warner.

Warner Bros. are second-generation immigrants whose parents were Polish Jews, in fact, there are 12 siblings in total, but only four of them went into the film industry. In 1903, Warner Sr., a shoemaker, held a family meeting to bet on a fledgling business, which resulted in the purchase of a movie projector to tour the small towns of Pennsylvania and Ohio.

That same year, Warner Bros. rented a grocery store and opened their first cinema, which has been renovated and restored to its former appearance as a Newcastle attraction. A year later, Warner Bros. ventured into the distribution business again. But it wasn't until 1912 that they were able to afford a single employee.

Warner Bros. entered the production industry during the First World War, and their first blockbuster film was "My Four Years in Germany" released in 1918, based on the best-selling autobiography of former American ambassador to Germany Keitel Wilhelm, which grossed a staggering $1.5 million, and Warner Bros. paid $25,000 to buy the land at 5842 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, and Warner Bros. Film Studios opened. The four brothers divided the work in this way, with Harry Warner and Albert Warner in charge of distributing and raising funds in New York, while Sam Warner, who was skilled in technology, and Jack Warner, who had a penchant for filmmaking, stayed in Hollywood to run the production business. By April 4, 1923, they had officially adopted the name Warner Bros. Pictures.

In 1924, Warner Bros. bought the Vitaglaf Company, got a national film distribution system, and they also took advantage of the situation to set up radio stations in several major cities, in addition, Warner Bros. began to build a lavish movie palace, so that they also became a real big company.

To say that Warner Bros. is really a period of rapid development, in fact, it is also accompanied by constant changes of ownership.

In 1967, Jack Warner sold the company to Seven Arts, and the name of the company changed to Warner Seven Arts. In November 1969, after Steve Ross bought Warner Seven Arts, the company changed its name to Warner Bros. Communications and began to get involved in television production.

In the seventies, Warner Bros. represented "Woodstock", "Dirty Harry", "The Killer on Flower Street", "A Clockwork Orange" and "The Exorcist" (The Exorcist), "Shining Saddle", and the results were quite impressive. After that, the company went into Robert?? The era of Dalí and Terry Samuel not only continued with Stanley Kubrick ("The Full Metal Coat") and Martin?? Famous directors like Scorsese ("Goodfellas") collaborated on blockbuster film franchises like "Batman" and "The Matrix".

Elsewhere, Warner Bros. began building movie theaters overseas and movie theme parks in Australia, in addition to producing popular TV series such as "Six Guys" and "Spring in the ER." In 1990, media giant Times acquired Warner Bros. After 2000, Warner Bros.'s new head Barry Meyer came to power, and the company maintained its usual identity, not only owning films such as "Harry Potter" and "Ocean's Eleven", but also resurrecting "Superman" and "Batman" film series.

In the eighties and nineties of the twentieth century, the last Hollywood 'seven' film company to change hands, Zhang Junyi also attached the most importance to the film company, no less important than the twentieth century Fox, because its new owner was also another big giant in the field of entertainment and media in later generations--- Sumner Lei Shidong.

In 1993, entertainment giant Viacom and former Paramount CEO Barry Diller competed fiercely for Paramount, and in the end, Viacom won the battle with a $10 billion bid. After winning a fierce battle for it, Viacom became the parent company of Paramount, which started as a theater chain and grew into an entertainment conglomerate, and before being acquired, Paramount was the only independent major company in the film industry, and the acquisition marked a new era for Hollywood, with large studios becoming part of entertainment and media groups.

From 1994 to 2004, Paramount entered another prosperous period under the management of Shirley Lansing, producing "Braveheart", "Forrest Gump", "Titanic" (co-financed with Twentieth Century Fox), "Mission Impossible", "Changing Face", "Truman's World" and "Saving Private Ryan", but Paramount is also a major Hollywood company that is not good at developing film series, only a few series of films "Star Voyage", "Mission Impossible" and "Tomb Raider".

At the end of 2005, Paramount acquired DreamWorks, however, this deal did not include DreamWorks' most profitable division, DreamWorks Animation, but for this Paramount, this is still significant, because around 2004, Paramount seems to have lost its way, and the films produced are rarely blockbuster-level, and Steven Spielberg, as a producer, can bring a number of lucrative projects to Paramount, the most notable of which is "Transformers".

After thoroughly recalling the most important changes in the eighties and nineties of the seven top Hollywood film companies in his previous life, and making sure that there was no missing information, Zhang Junyi wrote a few lines on the desk.

"Acquisitions: Disney, Columbia, Paramount!"

"Crackdown: Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros."

As for why Zhang Junyi set such a goal, there is also a reason for it, the acquisition target has actually been set before he came to the United States, even if Zhang Junyi forgot about the change of ownership of Twentieth Century Fox before, but it does not affect his previous acquisition plan.

As for why Zhang Junyi didn't buy Twentieth Century Fox, it is because even if the current Murdoch Zhang Junyi has no information to be 100% invincible, and the two tigers will inevitably be injured, there is no need for him to fight hard with a media giant because of a film company, and even if he wins by luck in the battle, Murdoch can buy another one, but he has formed an indissoluble enmity with a media giant, which is too cost-effective.

This is not a battle of will, doing business is nothing more than profit, but Zhang Junyi is not saying that he will ignore Murdoch's acquisition of Twentieth Century Fox two years later.

For Murdoch, Zhang Junyi actually admires this media giant who became one of the world's top media giants in his previous life.

Rupert Murdoch was born on March 11, 1931 in Melbourne, Australia. His father, Sir Keith Murdoch, was a war correspondent, Australian Herald and Chairman of Newsweek.

After his father's death in 1952, Ruppert's Murdoch, who was studying at Oxford University in England, rushed home to deal with the aftermath and inherited the Adelaide tabloid News. Faced with his main rival, Ads, Murdoch decided to merge with it and worked hard to make the newspaper profitable.

In just three or four decades, from the first war in Sydney to the invasion of London and finally to the United States, it has developed into a media empire that spans Europe, the United States, Asia and Australia, and is involved in the fields of radio, film and television, and newspapers. Under his command were the prestigious British newspaper "The Times" and the big name in the American film industry, 20th Century Fox. After the advent of the Internet era, Murdoch announced that he would co-establish SoftBank, a financial enterprise specializing in expanding Internet investment, with small island states.

If you want to say why Zhang Junyi got the promise of Alain Ryder Jr. in the party some time ago, he didn't look for other 'seven' level distribution channels.

On the one hand, Zhang Junyi has confidence in his "Home Alone", and Zhang Junyi believes that in his previous life, this movie that could make a good volume in North America for more than 500 million US dollars will definitely be more favored by Alain Ryder's Twentieth Century Fox Jr., so that the Shelie movie released in 1990 in his previous life can be returned to its original owner.

More importantly, Zhang Junyi wants nothing more than to use this film series as the biggest bargaining chip to increase Murdoch's difficulty in acquiring Twentieth Century Fox two years later.

Zhang Junyi's approach is the most appropriate to describe in one sentence, that is, 'the toad crawls on the surface of the foot, does not bite, disgusting people!'

I don't have a head-on conflict with you Murdoch, but I increase the difficulty of your words from other sources, so that it will greatly increase the proportion of funds for acquisition, the more money you spend, the less money you invest in the development of the company, the less money you invest in the development of the company, the development funds will be reduced, and the pace of your future company development will be slowed down a lot.

As for Time Warner, it is also the same in general, Zhang Junyi will steal a large number of Time Warner box office blockbusters in his previous life to limit the development of the overlord who became the first giant of Hollywood in later generations.

As for the complete elimination of Zhang Junyi, I don't even dare to think about it, this is the United States, not Xiangjiang, everything must follow the rules of Hollywood here, that is to say, Zhang Junyi can compete with Time Warner within reasonable regulations, and normal business competition is no problem, but competition must also have a degree in it, which can be restricted, suppressed, but not eliminated.

As for why Zhang Junyi chose Disney, Columbia, and Paramount, the three 'seven' level companies, as acquisition targets, in fact, it is very simple to say, Zhang Junyi also watches people put down dishes, and persimmons pick up soft pinch.

Colombia is to be acquired, and Sony is opened by a small island country, so as long as Zhang Junyi enters the American nationality, so that when the acquisition competition, Zhang Junyi undoubtedly has a lot of advantages in terms of identity, and it is not good to compete with the big consortium in the United States Zhang Junyi, but Zhang Junyi is not a little afraid of competing with the consortium of the small island country, the United States has always signaled the father of the small island country and pretends to be self-proclaimed, as for the amount of funds, Zhang Junyi will not instigate any forces in this world.

Although his industrial wealth is not ranked among the top in the world, the liquidity in Zhang Junyi's hands can definitely rank among the top few.

This is also one of the reasons why Zhang Junyi was able to give face so much to Bush Sr. and Julian at the party some time ago.

It is even simpler to choose Paramount as one of the targets, although now Zhang Junyi does not dare to fight with some rich tycoons, that is because he is new to the city and lacks the latest network, but in the 90s, his connections at that time were not what they are now, and at that time, even if he competed with media giants like Lei Shidong, Zhang Junyi was completely confident.

As for the choice of Disney as the acquisition target, it is entirely because of Disney's organizational structure, in Zhang Junyi's impression, Disney is his most optimistic company, as for the reason is very simple, it is completely because of the good foundation of others, not to mention anything else, Disney's theme park alone is the biggest bug in nature,.

In Zhang Junyi's previous life, the world's theme parks were calculated on the basis of 100 million fans for Disney every year, which is why he chose Disney as the acquisition target even though he knew that Disney was the only one among the 'Big Seven' in Hollywood that was not claimed by Yi Junyi.

Of course, for the acquisition of Disney, in fact, Zhang Junyi is not sure of victory, many others, let's just say that in the previous life, this company was the only one among the 'seven' in Hollywood that was not acquired, and you can see the difficulty of acquiring it.

Of course, it is not enough to say that there is no chance at all, after all, the current head of Disney is not in the past life, and Michael Eisner, who is known as a tyrant in Disney in the future, is in power, and for Zhang Junyi, this is the biggest opportunity for him to complete the acquisition.

If two years later, under the impetus of the majority shareholder Bass family, Disney hired Michael Eisner, the president of Paramount Pictures, as the company's chief executive, by that time, Zhang Junyi had not completed the goal of acquiring Disney, which means that he has completely lost the opportunity to acquire the company.