The week from June 9th to June 16th passed, and the third week of the release of "Matrix**" also came to an end.

"The Matrix**" continued to score another $38 million at the North American box office this week, down more than 56, but a film still achieved this result in the third week, which was only slightly worse than the $46 million in the third week of "Spider-Man" this year, and a cut above the 20.6 million of "Planet Prequel 2: Attack of the Clones", ranking second for the year.

In this way, the North American box office reached $274 million in 17 days of release. Overseas fell by more than 50, earning $90.6 million this week, accumulating $459.1 million at the overseas box office and bringing the global total to $733.1 million.

It's a pity that this week's weekend box office list was unfortunately said by Chen Tiandu, and he only ranked second.

According to Sunday distribution forecasts, Scooby-Doo became the first super-dark horse film in this exciting summer season. The film based on the cartoon television series replaced "The Matrix" at the top spot this weekend with $56.4 million at the box office. The company that produced this film is also Warner Bros.

is really a dark horse, in Warner's eyes, this movie can have a box office of 30 million, but I didn't expect it to be a big prize. This is the power of giants, even if some movies will not be ideal, there will still be other works to make up for the losses, and in the end it will still be profitable.

Starring Freddy Prinz Jr. and his fiancées Sarah Michelle Gayla and Matthew Lillard, Scooby-Doo cost $80 million to make, a quarter of the budget was spent on computers to make the Zuò come to life. It has become the second-best box office film in film history among the films released in June, second only to "Reloaded". But it also broke the three-year-old box office record of $54.9 million for "Ace Spy" to premiere in June, squeezing it into third place. This result is also the fourth premiere of 2002, behind only "The Matrix**" (115.1 million), "Spider-Man" (114.8 million) and "Star Wars Prequel II.: The Clone Attack" ($80 million).

Paramount Pictures' Ben Affleck-starring nuclear horror thriller "The Sum of Fear" dropped to No. 5 this weekend, grossing $13.5 million from Friday to Sunday.

The film grossed $84.5 million at the box office in its 17 days of release.

In the middle of the two films are two new releases, both of which were delayed for about a year. The spy thriller "The Identity of Bourne," released by Universal and starring Matt Dimon, came in at No. 3 at the box office with a good $27.5 million. and MGM's World War II drama "The Windtalker," directed by Wu Yusen and starring Nicolas Cage, which has been hailed as the biggest tragedy of the year, only fetched $14.5 million.

Somewhat disappointing, it's the latest misfortune of billionaire Kirk Kirkline's MGM Films. The production cost of "The Identity of Byrne" is reported to be $60 million, while "The Windtalker" is a whopping $120 million.

It's a pity that Wu Yusen didn't even get word of mouth, and was praised by the American media as a clumsy imitation and a World War II story with no new ideas. At the same time, the anti-war trend in the United States is very high, and the news of the death of soldiers in the Iraq War continues to be reported, which also makes this World War II film even more tragic under the influence of facts.

Wu Yusen made a careless move, and immediately fell into the deep valley, losing the reputation he had previously earned from "Mission Impossible".

Stricter and even more precarious to MGM's precarious finances adding to a scarlet deficit, rumors have been made that MGM may be auctioned off again, and Kirk is ready to concentrate on running MGM. The company's stock price plummeted, top management was forced to resign, and MGM was once again auctioned.

It is obviously not uncaused.

People in this circle are indeed obviously more likely to get this news.

Chen Tiandu had just finished his trip to Europe, and before he had time to sigh for his compatriot Wu Yusen, he was a little excited by the news.

Even if MGM is down, it is still MGM, and the infinite film library, huge set and rich props library make the matrix blush, and it can just make up for the shallow background and film library of the matrix.

Chen Tiandu is now preparing to go to Asia for the last stop of publicity, and after getting the news, he summoned a group of senior executives of the company by remote video conference, and also called back Donnie and Kong Yiji to negotiate and ask about MGM's upcoming auction.

"Is this possible, MGM really wants to auction, I guess we can't get our hands on it, it's a behemoth of at least four billion." Kong Yiji instinctively shook his head, "That's MGM, when did the matrix have such courage to be able to swallow an elephant?!" ”

"We can raise money, we can take out loans, and it's not unattainable in the United States," Peck said. But what matters is, does MGM help the matrix, and do we need to pick up the MGM mess now? And it's just media rumors, will that casino tycoon sell MGM for the fourth time? ”

Beethoven added: "MGM has a planned auction, and the failure of "The Windwhisperer" could be conservatively estimated to be a loss of nearly $200 million, and the shareholders are already unbearable for further fiscal deficits." ”

Chen Tiandu is not in the United States and does not know the specific situation, but he knows that it is definitely a fact that MGM will be sold again in the future. "Who told me about the current situation at MGM?" ”

Donnie was obviously instructed by Chen Tiandu to investigate in advance, and said after hearing this: "Let me tell you, I think your vision is too high. It has changed hands several times, and although some of the things that have interests are no longer there, it is still MGM ......"

And all the people looked at him and listened to him.

MGM used to be an unbeatable Hollywood ace until the 50s. In 1967, Canadian investor Edgar Bronfman bought MGM, but he was not good at running an entertainment business, and two years later, in 1969, he sold MGM to Cork Kirkrian, a millionaire from Las Vegas gambling tycoon.

Its first stepfather was just not good at running movies, while the second stepfather wasn't interested in movies at all. Kirklian was only interested in the real estate owned by MGM, and he auctioned off all the props and costumes of MGM, and invested his money in real estate and hotels in Las Vegas, Reno and other casinos. In 1973, he even closed MGM's distribution department and handed over the distribution affairs to Lianyi.

In 1979, the casino tycoon announced that MGM had become a hotel company. But there is no need to be surprised by this. Because the largest hotel in Las Vegas is MGM Plaza. Perhaps a conscience discovery, in 1981, Cork Kirkrian bought the dying United Arts and merged them into MGM Resort, and the new company was renamed MGM United Arts.

Lianyi is also very remarkable, funded by Chaplin, Van Punk, Beck and Griffith, and has gradually developed into one of the eight major companies that control the production and distribution of American films.

Originally, the acquisition of Lianyi was a turning point for MGM, but the roof leak was even more rainy, and the ship was broken and encountered a head wind.

The large-scale film "Heaven's Gate", which almost poured all the funds of Lianyi, was made but it was a big bad movie, and the box office was also miserable, which directly dragged down Lianyi. This case is still the most famous case of a luxury blockbuster causing a film company to go bankrupt, and it is often brought up by the owner of the film company to the director.

Seeing that he was not making money, the casino tycoon sold MGM to CNN's Turner for $1.45 billion.

Later, CNN was strapped for cash, and he bought back most of the assets from Turner. But Turner's CNN retains rights to 300 films, including "Gone with the Wind." After CNN was acquired by Time Warner, these 300 films became Time Warner's assets, and Warnaton Guò made a lot of money distributing the DVDs (MGM Classics) of these films, which is why the films that were clearly MGM were distributed by Warner.

Hearing this, Chen Tiandu frowned. The film library is obviously what he wants the most.

In 1990, Cork Ryan again sold his shares in MGM for $1.3 billion to an Italian consortium led by Giancardo Paretti. Two years later, due to Paretti's alleged fraudulent acquisition of MGM's control, MGM was auctioned off by the Bank of France. In 1993, Frank Maccasso joined MGM, and his team subsequently released blockbuster films such as "Shorty Man" and "GoldenEye". In 1996, Kirkrian acquired MGM's control for the third time at a cost of $1.3 billion.

It can be said that MGM was completely spoiled by this casino tycoon.

Even if she is a yellow flower girl, she has to toss back and forth like this, and she has to become a black fungus.

After 11 consecutive years of losses, it was already in debt of $530 million in 1999.

Although it began to improve in the next two years, it only relied on movies such as "Hannibal", "Legally Blonde" and "Thrilling Cannibal" to barely make a profit. The total box office of several movies combined is not as good as a "Fast and Thrilling".

At the beginning of this year, MGM also confidently announced that they were going to make a big move this year and were ready to withdraw from three blockbusters, including the 20th episode of "007".

007 also includes the distribution rights to The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

This direction alone is enough to make many people's hearts flutter.

What's more, Chen Tiandu knows that with the development of the Internet and the popularity of DVD products in the next few years, its sales and leasing have become the largest source of income for major film companies in the world. And MGM, which has rich resources of old films, will be particularly "mouth-watering".

As far as he knows, MGM's vast film archive over the next few years will be enough to generate at least $200 million in annual profits, and the database itself is worth $4 billion to $5 billion.

During the video conference, everyone discussed repeatedly. are full of longing for the future but are timid, after all, it is MGM, there are too many classics, can the young matrix dye his hands?

Chen Tiandu fell into deep thought, if the future remained unchanged, maybe MGM would hold on for another two years, but it would still be difficult to escape the fate of being acquired. However, the matrix is in an excellent period of development at the moment, and the biggest task is to go public, and if the listing is good, it is not impossible to acquire MGM in part.

When I think about this, I can't help but pound my heartbeat.

didn't have much time to discuss with them, so he immediately decided: "That's the end of today's meeting, don't spread the news, our current priority is still movies and listings." Donnie and Kong Yiji are in charge of investigating carefully to see which potential opponents there are, knowing that they can win every battle. ”

Donnie didn't care, but Kong Yiji pouted and muttered habitually: "The boss said a word, the subordinate broke his leg, and some of them were busy." ”

But Chen Tiandu's last sentence filled everyone's hearts with enthusiasm, "That's MGM, we actually aimed at MGM." God, it's incredible! ”R1152