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On either side of the conference table sat MGM executives in suits and leather shoes, and the powerful representatives of Sony and MGM, Foudy and Canon led their respective teams to sit side by side in a row.

Li Xiaole, who was dressed in a black suit, sat opposite the MGM director with Tom Cruise, and it seems that MGM's team was not too surprised that Tom Cruise and Li Xiaole suddenly proposed a joint acquisition, and it is normal for Hollywood to have countless acquisitions and acquired companies every year, and it is normal for competitors to work together.

It's just that what they don't understand is that the other buyers and competitors are all the ones who suppress the seller, and the two buyers, Weishenme, have taken advantage of MGM and raised the offer...... Therefore, there is no reason for MGM and Sony's position to change their minds temporarily.

Before signing the contract, the two parties asked Zuihou to review the assets of the other company's company once according to the process, Li Xiaole looked down at the financial statements of Luen Mei Company and those amount figures, and he was not surprised for a long time.

Luen Mei was founded in the 20s of the last century by the great mime master Chaplin, and during that prime time of Hollywood films, Luen Mei developed into one of the eight major Hollywood companies in just 10 years.

However, after Chaplin withdrew from the company, the company began to slump for a long time, only relying on the 007 series to survive, and finally was acquired by MGM's boss Cork in 1981, and after the acquisition of Kok, he directly emptied the copyright of the most valuable 007 series, and since then Lianmei has been wasted for 20 years.

Of course, this does not mean that United States is worthless, and it also owns the film rights of many film masters such as Chaplin and Griffith, such as "Gold Rush" (1925), "Modern Times" (1936), "The Great Dictator" (1940), "Stage Life" (1952) and so on...... There are hundreds of them.

It's just that these classic black-and-white movies can hardly create much value in the current era, whether it is the TV or video DVD market.

Li Xiaole looked down at the income and expenses of Luen Mei, just the company has to pay taxes and administrative expenses, which cost more than 2 million US dollars a year, as well as many charitable fund donations in the company's account, all of which are messes left over from the early days, although not much, but it also makes Luen Mei look even more bloated, it is hard to imagine that a company with only seven employees will lose so much money every year.

Such a long-established company was squeezed like this by the profiteer Cork, the more Li Xiaole looked at it, the more uncomfortable he became, but today's meeting is not a meeting to turn over old accounts, let alone him, even Sony will not investigate these bad debts, after all, Sony is a joint-stock company, if the scandal of MGM is exposed, it will affect the stock price of Sony Group at that time, which is more than worth the loss for Sony, which only needs MGM's film library.

That's why Foday and Canon have maintained a delicate balance to this day.

"As long as you nod your head and agree, you can get the film library of Luen Mei Company, which is full of Chaplin's classic movies, every year the whole Shijie film school will buy these DVDs, although the profit is not much, but it can last for hundreds of years, in the long run, Mr. Li, you definitely get a money-making machine." Foudy sat on the left, a flash of excitement on his face, looking at the smiling Li Xiaole and Tom Cruise.

Damn, it's obviously framing our money, and pretending to be at a loss, these businessmen are simply too good at pretending, Li Xiaole scolded in his heart, turned his head and looked at Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise also nodded.

In the current situation, although they knew that it was a loss-making business, they had to do it.

"Let's sign it." Li Xiaole nodded, glanced at everyone, and said, "But I want to explain one thing first." ”

"Say whatever you want." Canon on the other side said impatiently, he was the most disgusted person with this deal, and Tom Cruise's addition made him feel very unhappy, but he had no position to oppose it, so he could only be angry in his heart.

"After we signed the contract, Tom and I were both bosses of Luen Mei." Li Xiaole put his arm around Tom Cruise's shoulders and said, "I hope that the parent company of the group will support us in the media, and I don't want Tom to continue to be unfairly treated by those bastards of Paramount." ”

"As long as the two of them sign a contract, our group's Colombian company will be the most solid backing for the two in the media, and nothing like this will happen again." Foudie smiled confidently and played the package ticket.

In fact, the six major companies have a tacit understanding with each other, as long as it is the artists under the other party, they will never deliberately smear them, and will only let their respective media report as they should, because they have a strong media liliang behind each of them, if they launch a media war, then all these big stars in Hollywood will have their images plummeted, which is something that the six major companies are unwilling to see.

It's the same reason that there will be no war between countries that have nuclear weapons on Shijie.

But in fact, as far as Li Xiaole knows, after Tom Cruise acquired United States in the original development, Sony did not come forward to protect his interests, which made this handsome guy slump later, and it was not until many years later that he bowed his head with Paramount to shoot "Mission Impossible 4", he said this, just to let Tom Cruise know that he was on his side, that's all.

After making grateful eye contact with Tom Cruise, Li Xiaole and the two signed their names under the contract, and after several senior executives and directors, including MGM CEO Foudy and Canon, also signed their names, the contract officially took effect.

The purchase price of 2.2 billion yuan was immediately transferred from the Internet bank to the account of MGM, completing the acquisition, and the deposit in the account of Black Pearl Company has only a few million, and even owes the bank more than 1 million US dollars in loan interest every month, the situation seems to be far worse than before the acquisition.

After the meeting, the executives all laughed and left the conference room, Tom Cruise looked quite excited, and while walking to the elevator office, he assured Li Xiaole beside him:

"Don't worry~ Li, I know that you are in a difficult financial situation now, don't worry, I will lend you as much money as you need, and I will also find my good friends in the circle and ask him to introduce you to shoot some MVs and short dramas, so that you can adapt to American culture, and then slowly enter the mainstream market, I believe in your ability, you can make mainstream movies in three years at most."

Tom Cruise is very aware of the dilemma that Asian directors will face when they first enter Hollywood, the biggest problem is that the cultural expression is different, such as the American sense of humor, and the emotional expression is very different from the restraint of Asians, and the bigger problem is that the United States is a multi-ethnic immigrant country, full of Latinos, blacks, and European immigrants, and directors must understand these from all aspects to know how to shoot for American audiences.

"No, Tom, I'm going to start preparing for the movie right now." Li Xiaole smiled, of course he knew that Tom Cruise was well-intentioned, put his arm around his shoulders and emphasized: "A theatrical movie." ”

"You haven't finished laughing, have you~ Lee? Even Li An and Wu Yusen have to go through a period of time to get used to. Tom Cruise was surprised at the same time, but Wagner next to him frowned slightly, she seemed to guess that Li Xiaole Weishenme would be so confident, he must be ready to ask Tom Cruise to use his connections to contact Hollywood first-line actors to participate in his films.

"Okay, I'll help you think of a way, you give me the script first, and I'll find some friends to star~" Tom Cruise of course thought the same, although he felt helpless, but he still assured, no way, who told him to guarantee the ticket just now?

To the surprise of Tom Cruise and Wagner, Li Xiaole actually rejected this proposal:

"No, Tom, you misunderstood, I'll prepare this movie myself, I know you're going to be busy with the global promotion of Mission Impossible 3 soon, and you're still preparing for a new film, you still have your troubles, I'll handle it myself."

Li Xiaole knows very well in his heart that now he is just a small person in the big league, and there is no need to use Tom Cruise's connections, not to mention that the two have just established a relationship, it is not appropriate to show too utilitarian attitude, which is more conducive to the long-term development of the new company, what he needs is a partner who can really trust each other, not just colleagues who use each other.

"Li, you really don't need my help?" Tom Cruise looked at him suspiciously.

"That's not it, I still need you to take the time to tell me about your experience as a producer, I hope you don't refuse." Li Xiaole said with a smile.

"Of course that's no problem~" Tom Cruise smiled happily as he made a "what do you think" expression to Wagner.

In fact, as soon as she went back last night, Tom Cruise shared the process and results of the negotiation with Li Xiaole with Wagner, although Wagner felt surprised, but after analyzing the whole thing, she began to strongly suspect that the negotiation was a play made by Li Xiaole, she is an old bird in the business, and she is familiar with these negotiation tricks, so she told Tom Cruise, a Chinese, is far from being as simple as he imagined.

From the sudden price hike at the beginning, putting pressure on MGM, to the tension of not answering the phone and driving them to the Zuihou moment, it all felt like a well-designed trap.

After Tom Cruise calmed down, he thought about it and felt that things were a little strange, and he couldn't help but wonder if Li Xiaole really deceived him, but today, when he saw Li Xiaole's calm attitude, the vigilance in his heart finally disappeared, and he couldn't help but feel a little guilty in his heart, look at Li Xiaole...... The noble character is really too good to say, but he is much more utilitarian than himself.

Wagner did stare at Li Xiaole with blue eyes, and his intuition told him that Li Xiaole was far from being as simple as he looked, although he couldn't say anything...... But she always felt that Li Xiaole's ambition was no less than that of herself and Cruise......