Although when talking about the Hollywood film landscape, people still like to use the description of the Hollywood Big Seven, or the Big Seven movie studios. But in fact, since the beginning of the new century, MGM has not had many noteworthy works, and Daniel's "Legally Blonde" can be said to be one of the few money-making films worth mentioning by MGM in the past few years. "Hotel Rwanda" is certainly one of them, but these occasional successes are not enough to save MGM's massive debt. Under such a premise, MGM shareholders want to revitalize the company, of course, there are many ways, such as bringing in media giants like Disney or Warner to make full use of their huge film library, but obviously, maybe the shareholders lack the motivation to do this, or maybe media groups like Disney and Warner are not willing to intervene in MGM in this way, and this attempt fails.

As a result, being acquired has become the only option for MGM shareholders, and since earlier last year, major competitors have begun to offer MGM shareholders, and it is worth mentioning that the person who now controls MGM is called Cork. Cockrian, the man who first bought most of MGM's shares in 1969 and continues to this day, has bought and sold three times in 45 years, each time making a lot of money, MGM is more of an ATM than a business to maneuver within. Such a person wants to run MGM well, which is somewhat wishful thinking.

An international consortium led by Sony successfully acquired BMG, an established record factory, last year, and the rumors of the acquisition of MGM have long been confirmed. It's a well-known fact that Sony intends to further establish itself in the home entertainment space with its vast library of MGM movies and TV series.

Of course, Sony is not without its rivals.

Time Warner is one of their biggest rivals.

Warner is only interested in MGM's film library, as the world's largest media group, this film library falls into the hands of Warner, and will definitely show its strength in the fields of DVDs and paid TV screenings.

Previously, the news of Warner's $4.5 billion offer was also in the newspapers, but then it began to be silent, and the offer of an international consortium led by Sony was delayed. Although they wanted to buy MGM much earlier than Warner, as a consortium, it seems that it is not as good as Time Warner, but the media is rumored. They're going to give MGM $5 billion, which is obviously enough to get the adrenaline pumping — and that's an incredible amount that's $500 million higher than Warner's current offer, because it's too big for Warner to accept.

Now it seems. The delay in the competition between Warner and Sony is likely due to Daniel's involvement at that time, in other words, his intervention gave Cork a new chance, which delayed the entire acquisition process.

Whether it's Time Warner or Sony's plans, they've been disrupted.

Before DD Pictures disclosed its "snake swallowing elephant" plan this time, Time Warner revised its bidding bid and raised it by 100 million, while Sony shouted a price of 4.8 billion.

Competitors are showing their horses.

The media, shocked by the news that DD Pictures "intended" to buy MGM, are now turning their attention to what price they will quote.

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January 25th. The 77th Oscars announced the list of nominees.

Martin. Scorsese and DiCaprio's "The Aviator" repeats the nomination momentum of last year's "Return of the King", with 11 nominations that can be said to be invincible. Martin Foster's "Finding Neverland" and Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby" followed with seven nominations.

But the one that attracted the most attention was another movie.

The Social Network.

In the two months since the release of this movie, the box office has risen to 280 million, and now there are still 1 or 2 million box office on weekdays, and there is basically no suspense about grinding over 300 million.

When Daniel's team, everyone at DD Pictures, looked at him with that kind of adoration and awe, and awe-filled and fanatical eyes, Daniel still felt a little bit of a sense of emptiness - which was completely unexpected by him. In his memory, the film did not achieve such a grand box office success. It seems that 100 million in North America has not been broken.

Before the release. In Daniel's opinion, the fact that "The Social Network" can maintain a box office of about 100 million is quite satisfactory to him.

After all, "The Social Network", which was released in 2004, has no way to compare 2010 in any way. 60 million users and 500 million are also not comparable.

But what he didn't know was that the box office wasn't Facebook's financial report. It does not increase significantly with the number of users. On the contrary, now, people are full of curiosity and concern about the word social network, they have just come across the term, and they are eager to know more about the birth, development and future of this matter, which is the driving force behind the box office of movies.

Important: Since "The Social Network" was revealed, in four or five months, Daniel's big news can be said to be endless, each of which is enough to make the media carnival for a month, he has almost never made headlines, one by one depth charges have kept everyone's eyes on him, and naturally, "The Social Network" has also been hanging on public opinion**, which has led to the film receiving more attention and achievements than expected.

It was a wonderful accident, wasn't it?

Daniel comforted himself as he endured the admiring gazes of his friends.

And in the eyes of his colleagues and peers, Daniel is simply crazy, a medium-cost film with an investment of 40 million secretly filmed, harvested 300 million in North America, and there are currently 380 million in the world, which has been released in 17 countries and regions.

is another movie that makes a lot of money with a small amount of money.

"Ghost Omen", "Love Collapses", "Chainsaw", "Social Network", these four movies have pushed DD Pictures' global revenue to 1 billion, which is undoubtedly seven levels of revenue, coupled with high profit margins, it can be said that this year, DD Pictures' financial situation is good and enviable.

This is enough to make many people feel a little bit of identification with DD Pictures.

The nearly 300 million box office of "The Social Network" did not affect its bid for the Oscar.

Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, Soundtrack, Editing, Sound.

6 nominations, second only to the top three favourites.

This result obviously came as a surprise to many.

For example, the New York Times, a media giant.

"Oscar always seems to be extraordinarily open-minded when it comes to Daniel. Commercial filmmakers have been calling for years but still can't change the Oscars' habit of favoring 'artistic masterpieces' that don't have much box office. But obviously, whether it's "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" or "Pirates of the Caribbean". Or this time, "The Social Network" can be classified as a commercial film, especially the last one, which has a particularly strong 'commercial nature' - Daniel used the film to successfully promote the concept of social networks and promote MB's successful IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. Rise to the top of a billionaire. The Oscars gave the green light to all three films, with "The Return of the King" becoming the most awarded film in history, "Pirates of the Caribbean" Captain Jack making Daniel the best actor for a second consecutive year, and "The Social Network" having won six nominations without a fight. ”

The New York Times report certainly vaguely wanted to portray Daniel as a black hand who could manipulate the Oscars, but this time it restrained itself and didn't say it explicitly.

Comparatively speaking, the more pure "Variety" is obviously more focused on itself in evaluating the nomination result.

This is the third consecutive year that Daniel has been nominated for an Oscar, the previous to be Russell. Crow - an old friend of Daniel. Now these two top Hollywood actors have one more topic in common, what is it like to be nominated for three consecutive years? Cool or tormented? But there are also differences, Crowe won the actor the following year, and he was disappointed before and after. Daniel took all the first two actor trophies in his own hands. thus greatly cutting the age of the actor who won the second consecutive award.

If I were the nominee for this year's Oscars, Leonardo, Johnny. Depp or Clint. Eastwood, I'm going to breathe a sigh of relief that the chances have gone from 20 percent to 25 percent – and everyone knows that if the Oscars are going to continue their '77 history, it's impossible to give the award to Daniel. Sandler. Triple crown? No, that's not a feat, it's not glory, it's suicide!

This time. Old Clint ......"

The announcement of the Oscar nominations more or less weakened Daniel's limelight, which made him feel a lot of relief. Of course, it won't be the average reader - for them, it's full of Daniel. But the gimmicks are different, there is no aesthetic fatigue at all, the unveil of the new super-rich, the change of power in Hollywood, the box office miracle, the Oscar record, etc., each material does not happen to the same person repeatedly.

How many secrets does he still have?

This is the common sentiment of many people.

But the CEOs of the Big Seven, the leaders of the media group, shouted in their hearts very early: stop. Daniel, pause for a moment, let's breathe a sigh of relief.

The Oscars did just give them a sigh of relief.

Of course, this does not include Time Warner CEO Richard Brown. Parsons, as the parent company of Warner Bros. and the media empire behind Warner and New Line, Richard is certainly very attentive to everything Daniel is doing.

Unlike the other Big Seven, Time Warner has Internet media genes, and now Time Warner is integrated with AOL, which is the largest Internet service provider in the United States, and arguably the parent company of all other Hollywood studios in the Internet field. After MB was created and achieved results, Time Warner has also contacted MB many times, and its CNN, and the attempt to acquire MB has been continuing, and it has only eased after Google went public. Because Daniel never had any intention of selling MB, he didn't pay much attention to that, and of course, it had to do with the fact that there was too much money interested in MB.

So, at the beginning, when the news of Daniel's intention to buy MGM broke, in Richard's view, it may be a precursor to MB and F2F's attempt to focus on the launch of paid movie features on the Internet, which is certainly a big threat to Time Warner. But soon, Daniel's private visit made his mental activity turn one hundred and eighty degrees.

Daniel was visiting Richard's premier apartment in New York.

Before this, the two of them were actually not familiar with each other, although Daniel basically started with "The Lord of the Rings Trilogy", and this series was invested by Time Warner's New Line Pictures. But Richard took over his current position in 2003, and he was not in charge of the film department before, so he didn't know much about the projects of the independent company.

Strangers always have a few words of greeting at first.

The topic is ready-made, and the last thing Daniel lacks recently may be the topic, and anyone who has a heart can give him a few paragraphs.

Richard is a very humorous and amiable person. The most important thing is that Daniel came to the door today, the purpose is a win-win situation and not confrontation, and it is all the more natural that the atmosphere is better.

"If I take MGM, I can sell its library to Warner."

When Daniel finished the previous topic, Richard teased him for his young age and always "being absent for a long time", then he looked at Richard with a nonchalant face and said this.

"I'm going to sell MGM's library!"

For sale, Filmgallery!

This made Richard instantly discolored, and the acquisition of MGM was certainly not the decision of the subsidiary Warner Bros., the parent company, Time Warner, really dominated it all, so Richard knew all about what Daniel said.

In fact, after the news broke that Time Warner wanted to buy MGM, there was a lot of speculation that Time Warner would close MGM's production department and all the studios, and they only wanted one thing, that is, MGM's vast and precious film library.

Now Daniel says he's willing to sell the library.

So what does he want?

"You just need MGM's production department and distribution channels? Or is there also the copyright to the "007" series? Richard quickly kept his mood under control.

"That's pretty much."

"It's not hard for DD Pictures to develop its own production and distribution capabilities, it just takes a little time. This is somewhat unbelievable. ”

Daniel suddenly smiled, "Richard, our position is not the same, Warner has a more complete distribution channel than MGM, and a more powerful production department, so you don't think that matters." But for DD Pictures, we have to develop these capabilities independently, of course, not impossible, but Hollywood...... Sometimes it's not so logical. So taking over their studios and channels by acquiring MGM is a deal that DD Pictures can do. (To be continued.) )