Kang Jianfei stared at the stock prices of several Hollywood giants, naturally in order to make a move at the right time.

When several giants, MGM Luen Mei Film Company was the first to be excluded by Kang Jianfei. This hapless Hollywood giant, which has been tossed by three successive buyers since the 70s, and various departments and companies have been split and sold, has now become a ** film company.

MGM was already a mess in the hands of its former boss, Turner Broadcasting, who, after realizing that it couldn't afford to pay for MGM's mess, took the last of MGM's worthwhile stuff - the world's largest film library.

Now MGM is in the hands of an Italian consortium, and the only thing worth is the copyright of the 007 series of films, which the Italian consortium insisted on keeping when it bought MGM.

Kang Jianfei didn't want to spend a lot of money to buy a debt-ridden ** film company.

The next thing to be excluded was 20th Century Fox, which had been bought by media mogul Murdoch two years earlier. Murdoch is now ambitiously building a media empire, and Fox is an important part of his empire in the 20th century, and Kang Jianfei can only buy it unless he has more money than Murdoch.

Then among the major Hollywood movie giants, there are Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Columbia_Samsung Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures and Walt Disney.

Its Disney company has been very prosperous in recent years, and it is the acquisition of small film companies and the establishment of its own TV network, and Kang Jianfei can't take it at all.

The situation at Universal Pictures is similar to that of Disney, a movie giant that has been in the hands of American music companies for more than two decades. Not only is it profitable at the box office, but it is also doing well in TV movies, film music, and film tourism.

What Kang Jianfei really liked and tried to buy were Paramount Pictures and Columbia_Samsung Pictures. and Turner Broadcasting, which bought MGM's film library, which contains the rights to all of Hollywood's early films, Warner Bros.

Paramount is now in the hands of Gulf Western Industries, and its owner is a businessman who doesn't know anything about movies, but under his unreserved decentralization, Paramount has been producing good movies in the previous two decades, and its profitability has been very good. It's Barry who is really managing Paramount? Diller and his two aides, Michael? Eisner and Jerevifer? Katzenberg, the trio brought Paramount, who had once fallen into trouble, back to the top of Hollywood.

But Barry? Diller was determined to build a new television network. Three years ago, he was poached by Murdoch, who wanted to build a media empire. Paramount only has Barry left? Diller's two assistants, these two assistants of his are not ordinary people, Michael? Eisner is the head of the future Disney. And Jericho? Katzenberg is the head of the future DreamWorks.

But now neither of these two future bulls has been able to take power, Barry? After Diller's departure, Paramount was controlled by a conservative, and Paramount has been on a downward spiral for the past three years. This performance is not good, but it has strong strength and unlimited potential. And there are also two companies that are future talents. In Kang Jianfei's eyes, it is simply a piece of fat.

As for Columbia_Samsung, the current owner of this company is the famous Coca-Cola, and the business is not good or bad, anyway, it is okay to be so-so. In another time and space, two years later, a Japanese local tycoon who is not bad for money bought Columbia Samsung for a sky-high price of $6 billion, and then changed its name to Sony Pictures.

If Kang Jianfei insists on buying it, it is now a big stock market crash in the United States. Shares of Colombia's Samsung and its parent company, Coca-Cola, have both plummeted, with Kang spending up to $2 billion. It will buy more than 60 percent of Columbia's Samsung, including several Columbia-Samsung's companies.

Kang Jianfei has not yet made a final decision on which company to buy, but he has now remitted his funds to the US National Wealth Bank and organized a team of professionals through Guò headhunters. In the next period of time, Kang Jianfei's acquisition team will negotiate with Gulf Western Company and Coca-Cola at the same time, and choose the right time to take down one of his film giants by means of grey market acquisition after determining the target.

The biggest headache is Turner Broadcasting, Kang Jianfei wants to buy this company not only because of MGM's film library, but also because of the company's TV network.

Under U.S. antitrust laws, U.S. studios can't operate theaters vertically. To be able to become a Hollywood giant, in addition to making good films, there is also a very important media network, and the parent companies of several Hollywood giants are either making television, newspapers, or records. After Coca-Cola acquired Columbia-Samsung, it also acquired shares in other related media companies, which was able to make movies steadily.

After MGM was resold several times, it lost this resource advantage of publicity and distribution, so that it has now become a ** film company that no one wants.

Kang Jianfei's acquisition of the Hollywood film giant is not to pretend to be high-grade, in addition to making money, he also wants to distribute Hong Kong films through the company Guò. If you can have a newspaper or a television network, you will be able to do more with less in terms of distribution and propaganda in the future.

Turner Broadcasting has bought the world's largest film library from MGM and has a well-established television network, and Kang Jianfei's determination to buy it is even stronger than buying a film company.

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Black Monday.

U.S. stocks plummeted, European stocks plummeted, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore ...... All plummeted.

Kang Jianfei is not in a hurry about the acquisition plan, the US stock market will continue to fall for at least a month or two, and then after a period of downturn before rising again, Kang Jianfei has time to be patient.

At the same time as directing "My Sassy Girlfriend", Kang Jianfei dictated the plot outline, and then the screenwriters worked together to create "The Big Era", which has completed the framework. Several veteran securities traders and economists were hired by Dongshi as consultants, and with the help of these professionals, the writers began to slowly revise and improve the script of "The Great Time".

This stock market crash has only two impacts on Hong Kong films: one is the next period of time. The box office of movies may shrink for a certain period of time, because the socio-economic downturn will pull many moviegoers back to the television; Second, at least in the next six months, the overseas travel capital of the Hong Kong film industry will decrease. The output of Hong Kong films will decline slightly.

However, this situation will not last long, Hong Kong, Singapore and other countries in the South Seas may suffer heavy losses from this stock market crash, but Taiwan will definitely be able to recover quickly.

Due to the continuous appreciation of the new Taiwan dollar and the yen, coupled with the extremely prosperous industries of the two places, this stock market crash is a trivial matter for Taiwan and Japan, and not only will they recover in about half a year, but the stock markets of the two places will continue to rise like rockets.

Late 80s. Japanese and Taiwanese businessmen had so much money that they didn't know where to invest, so they frantically invested in Southeast Asia and China.

Taiwanese people call it "money drowning feet" in recent years, which means that Taiwan has so much money that it has submerged its ankles. At that time, Taiwan's attending doctors earned more than NT$300,000 a month, much higher than their Taiwanese counterparts 20 years later.

The original time-space Hong Kong films were extremely prosperous around the 90s, and a large part of the time and space was that Taiwanese tourists blindly invested in the filming of Hong Kong films

It was not until the outbreak of the Gulf War in 1990 that Taiwan ended its so-called "great prosperity." The weighted index plummeted from 12,495 to 2,485. Since then, Taiwan's economy has been in a slump.

The same is true for Japan, where both Japan and Taiwan are still reveling, and even the US stock market crash has not dampened the confidence of investors in both places.

What Kang Jianfei can do is to audition for the release of movies in Japan, anyway, the Japanese people have so much money that they have nowhere to spend it, and Japanese businessmen are still clamoring to buy the whole of the United States.

Kang Jianfei's "Fangfang" was released in Japan at the end of October, and due to the fame accumulated over the years, many Japanese fans rushed to the cinema with Kang Jianfei. As a result, he fell in love with Leung Ka Fai and Sophie? Marceau. "Fang Fang" finally swept away $10.76 million at the box office in Japan, which is not very high. It is equivalent to less than 2 billion yen, but it is very rare as an art romance film.

"Fang Fang" was also widely acclaimed when it was released in European countries, and Leung Jiahui and Sophie? Marceau's fame skyrocketed, but it was met with a lukewarm reception when it was screened in North America.

Perhaps the American people are really not interested in this kind of film, and after a lively promotion, the North American box office only got a pitiful $2.15 million.

On the contrary, after "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" landed in Europe, this husband-and-wife killer action film made European audiences quite fond of it, adding nearly $10 million to the global box office of the film.

Kang Jianfei finished "My Sassy Girlfriend" in November, and then he was in full swing to do the post-production work.

Time is passing by, and in the face of the upcoming Christmas, Hong Kong businesses have begun to prepare for holiday promotions, and major film companies are also busy promoting Christmas movies.

However, since the end of October, Hong Kong's film market has been a bit sluggish, and both DreamWorks and Golden Harvest have been prepared for unsatisfactory box office performance.

The acquisition team hired by Kang Jianfei, after several contacts and negotiations with Paramount and Columbia, finally set their sights on Paramount Pictures.

This decision was made after several evaluations, Coca-Cola had no intention of selling Columbia Samsung, and Kang Jianfei could only get a maximum of 20% of the shares of the film company even if he traded in the dark market, and a lot of unjust money would be paid if he was forcibly acquired.

As for Paramount Pictures, the film company's owner, Gulf Occidental Industries, has suffered a setback in the past few years due to the recession in the United States, and it has also been affected by the stock market crash. Coupled with the fact that Paramount Pictures has been in decline since three years ago, and there has been no improvement until now, Martin, the boss of Gulf West? Davis already has plans to make a move.

But after a series of contacts and consultations, Martin? Davis didn't want to sell all of his Paramount shares. This guy is a very interesting man, he doesn't know anything about movies, but he likes to invest in the industry, he is not only the owner of Paramount, but also the majority shareholder of the American publishing giant Simon Schuster Publishing.

If it was Japan's Sony that ran to buy Paramount, Martin, who was not bad for money? Davis is not going to dump Sony at all, and the reason why he has now agreed to sell a part of Paramount is only because the buyer is Kang Jianfei.

Martin? Davis didn't even know who Kang Jianfei was before, and only after contacting Kang Jianfei's acquisition team did he get Kang Jianfei's information. As a result, I was shocked at first glance, Kang Jianfei's achievements in the film field are really good, which makes Martin? Davis was full of interest in Kang Jianfei. His wishful thinking is to sell a part of Paramount's shares to Kang Jianfei, and then let Kang Jianfei, a film professional, reverse Paramount's decline in the past three years.

Paramount now nominally belongs to Gulf Western Industries, Martin? Davis personally owns only 42% of the shares in it, and he is only willing to sell 10% of his shares, and the rest needs to be bought by Kang Jianfei to the market and other shareholders of Gulf West. (To be continued......) RI