August is the harvest season for Dream Chaser Entertainment and Shao Shuaijun, and it is also the season when "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" swept the world. With six years of directing career, Shao Shuaijun has integrated commercial elements into his personal style, and the connection between the two shots must be in line with the rhythm of the plot and infect people's hearts.

As a result, the box office is also rising, and at the end of August, the global box office received 630 million US dollars.

This year, both Toy Story 3 and Alice in Wonderland grossed more than $1 billion, occupying the top two spots in the global box office this year. "Shrek" is $740 million, and "Twilight: Breaking Dawn (Part 1)" is currently $700 million, ranking third and fourth, respectively.

The fifth place is "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", which is a big hit. Summit Entertainment immediately announced that a sequel to "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" will be filmed, and the script is already being created, as for whether the sequel will be directed by Shao Shuaijun, neither Summit Entertainment nor Shao Shuaijun has given an answer.

From September 3rd to 5th, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" ushered in its fifth weekend, and this weekend, another major production of Summit Entertainment will land in theaters in North America.

by Sylvester. Directed and starring by Stallone, the king of R-rated films Jason. Statham, the Chinese new kung fu king Li Lianjie, karate champion Michio. Runger, wrestling champion Randy. Koutur, movie star Mickey. Starring Locke, action superstar Bruce. Wiley and Arnold. Schwarzenegger's cameo appearance in the nostalgic classic action blockbuster "The Expendables" was released in 3,270 theaters in North America.

Films from production to promotion. There has almost never been a lack of attention, and in today's Hollywood, action blockbusters have deteriorated, no longer fist-to-flesh blood, no longer explosions and pyrotechnics. It's the flying handsomeness in "The Matrix", and the cool costume in "Pirates of the Caribbean".

Therefore, "The Expendables" is known as a return to the style of early action blockbusters, and it was immediately welcomed by fans who love action movies, and the advance tickets for the movie were a hot mess.

Along with "The Expendables", there are also three new films released on a large scale, "American", "Machete" and "Long Distance Love", all of which are small-budget films.

The weekend is over. The box office is out. "The Expendables" unsurprisingly topped the box office with $36 million, which is already a very good result in this cold autumn season at the box office. In addition to "The Expendables", the only ones that grossed tens of millions were "The Americans", last week's "Robbers" and "Machete". It's all about 10 million.

And "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" has passed four weeks. The momentum is still unabated. This week ranked fifth with $8 million. The one-month release period in Chinese mainland also ended, ending perfectly with 412 million yuan, although it is far from the 1.05 billion yuan of "Avatar". But it is also the second highest box office in China this year.

The overseas format is similar to last week, with a harvest of about $60 million, and the global box office of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" has reached $710 million, surpassing "Breaking Dawn (Part I)" and climbing to the fourth place of the year in the world.

From September 10 to 12, "Resident Evil: God of War Reborn" snatched the title for $27.7 million, followed by "The Expendables" with $18 million, and "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" unexpectedly climbed to third place with $7.1 million. The autumn season is the off-season for the box office, and the total box office this week is only $68 million, which can be said to be the worst period of the year.

And there are no literary films with a good reputation this year, and they will be scheduled in the autumn. However, the competition for the box office in the mainland is hot, and "The Wind Rises Again" carried the pressure of "Tangshan Earthquake" and grabbed the box office of 43 million in the first week, which performed well.

Basically, the box office trend in September was very stable, with no unexpected highlights and no disappointing gaps.

And at this time, Shao Shuaijun, who accompanied his wife, received Mitchell. Bruce called: "Shao, there may be a little problem with our acquisition of Lionsgate. ”

"What's going on?"

"Mark of Lionsgate. Rachesky, who has been friends with me for many years, told me that Lionsgate's majority shareholder, Carl Brown. Icahn has agreed to a proposed merger between Lionsgate and MGM Pictures and is actively working to do so. If Lionsgate and MGM merge, it could absorb funding from Warner Bros., which would be very detrimental to our rights recovery. ”

"Why is it related to MGM again, wasn't MGM acquired by Sony?" Shao Shuaijun asked suspiciously.

It didn't take long for Mitchell to give an explanation.

MGM was one of the eight Hollywood companies of the year, and was acquired by Sony in 2005 because it was facing bankruptcy. However, after Sony's acquisition, it was found that MGM was a mess and could not be saved at all, so in 2008, it no longer injected capital into MGM, nor did it exercise its management rights, leaving MGM to its own destruction, and Sony only played the role of a shareholder.

Now MGM is facing bankruptcy again, and the consortium behind MGM is actively planning a comeback in order not to make MGM go bankrupt. Among them, Lionsgate's largest shareholder, Carl Brown. Icahn has a lot of plans, and Carl is a world-class billionaire and one of MGM's shareholders.

And Mark. Lachesky, Lionsgate's second-largest shareholder, is opposed to the merger with MGM. Now Lionsgate's board of directors is arguing over whether to merge with MGM, putting negotiations between Summit Entertainment and Lionsgate over superhero rights on hold for a while.

"Shao, there are two paths we are facing now, one is not to interfere with Carl's plan to merge with MGM, I think Carl has our goodwill, and the superhero copyright will be returned to us directly. The other is to work with Mark and help Mark beat Carl on the board, so that our partnership with Lionsgate will continue and it won't be difficult to acquire Lionsgate. Of course, having helped Mark, Carl would definitely hold a grudge and offend a world's richest man, which did not seem wise. ”

Cal. Icahn is not only a world-class billionaire, in the latest Forbes ranking in 2010, he was worth $14.5 billion, ranked 47th, much higher than Shao Shuaijun, in terms of actual worth. Of course, he is not as tall as Shao Shuai. However, this old man, who is over 70 years old, has a nickname called "corporate predator", is a lone wolf in the Wall Street investment community, and he is very aggressive, most famously, he is a hostile takeover of Trans World Airlines, which caused an uproar around the world.

"Mitchell, Summit Entertainment is on the top six companies, how many companies have we sinned?" Shao Shuaijun listened to Carl's name and pursed his lips lightly. Rhetorical question.

"Uh. Probably quite a bit, Walter. Disney is definitely offended, and the other big six companies are also strained because we have seized too many markets......"

"That's it, we're going to expand. You have to offend people. We all dare to take a big Mac like Disney. Still afraid of him Carl? An old man in his seventies, maybe he will burp in a few days, what are you afraid of him! Lionsgate is the prey we coveted for years. I can't give up! Shao Shuaijun said arrogantly, to be honest, he doesn't know much about the company's trading, but he has confidence, Dream Chasing Entertainment is not an ordinary company, and now it represents the image of China, with the Chinese government as a backer, I'm afraid of a fart.

And Shao Shuaijun knows one thing, although the company is listed, but through various cross-shareholdings over the years, the equity of the company under Dream Chasing Entertainment is all complex and terrifying, and it is firmly controlled by Li Xiuxiu and Shao Shuaijun, and he is not afraid of hostile takeovers by others at all.

He didn't need to fear anyone.

Of course, he doesn't understand finance, that is, he talks about two pretending words, and how to really decide has to let the executives discuss: "Mitchell, on this issue, I support working with Mark in principle, and I hope to buy Lionsgate." But I don't interfere with the company's decision-making, you management can do it yourself. ”

Eventually, after a few days of executive meet-and-greets, Summit Entertainment began to meet with Marc. Lachesky teamed up two of Lionsgate's board chairmen, Rob Brown. Friedman and Patrick. Wortberg, both of whom are old friends of Mitchell, also had a happy collaboration with Shao Shuaijun. Compared to Carl, who likes to squeeze management, they prefer to work with Summit Entertainment.

It didn't take long for Lionsgate to make a decision at its regular board meeting to accept funding from Summit Entertainment as a way to dilute Carl. Icahn's shares.

In a very short period of time, Lionsgate and Summit reached an agreement whereby Lions Gate received $500 million in funding from Summit Entertainment for a 25% stake in its common stock, while Lionsgate offered a $500 million round of common stock. Lachesky issued 16.2 million new shares of common stock, bringing Mark's stake in Lionsgate to 31.5 percent, while Carl Brown. Icahn's stake was diluted to 29.7 percent, while Summit Entertainment was diluted to 22.4 percent.

As a result, Mark and Summit held more than half of the shares, directly activated the board of directors, and vetoed the merger plan for MGM.

The whole process went very smoothly, and Carl's spokesperson at Lionsgate tried to convince the board to veto the cooperation with Summit Entertainment, but there was little response.

Originally, Summit Entertainment had done a good job, and there was a long-term tug-of-war negotiation for the acquisition of Lionsgate, who would have thought that because of MGM's intervention, Summit Entertainment would take advantage of the situation and quickly and directly get the shares.

The snipe and the clam compete, and the fisherman profits.

Within a few days, Marvel Comics announced on its official website: "Good news, after friendly negotiations with Lionsgate, from September 15th, all the copyrights of the three superheroes, Punisher, Humanoid and King Haibian, will officially return to Marvel Comics!" We will start creating a film project for these three superheroes, and strive to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe trio as soon as possible. ”

The return of these three superheroes has made a good start on the road to copyright, and it has also made Marvel comic book fans look forward to the return of the next superhero.

On September 20th, another weekend passed, and Summit Entertainment struck while the iron was hot and began negotiations with Lionsgate on further acquisitions. On the company's official website, a new set of data was also announced. As of today, "The Hunger Games", "Twilight: Dawn (Part 1)", and "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" have all been officially drawn.

"The Hunger Games" grossed $650 million worldwide, including $410 million in North America, making it one of the highest-grossing films in North America this year. "Twilight: Breaking Dawn (Part I)" grossed $725 million worldwide, temporarily ranking fifth in the world this year.

"Rise of the Planet of the Apes" has a global box office of $780 million, surpassing "Shrek" and temporarily ranking third in the world this year.

"The time of Shao Shuaijun has come!" - Time Magazine. (To be continued......)