Chapter 624: Hollywood Traditions
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Of course, extra money will always be extra money, and it can't become an industry. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The meaning of info is a sudden surprise, like a windfall. If you get it, you are lucky, and you can't blame anyone if you don't get it. Li Mingbao also did not regard the extra money as his main business, although he knew that the extra money could make a lot of money, but it still couldn't compare to his own industry, and he always wanted to make a lot of money with the extra money, so Li Mingbao's achievements were only like that. Any person, to the point where Li Mingbao is now, is no longer able to live a nourishing life by relying on extra money, he must have his own perfect industry, otherwise, no matter how much extra money he has, it is just a piece of fat, for those who are really powerful, people who live on extra money, they have countless ways to solve him, and teach them how to be a person in minutes.
Li Mingbao naturally doesn't want to be a weak person among the rich, so when he encounters a suitable opportunity, Li Mingbao will make a little money appropriately, if there is no such opportunity, Li Mingbao will not create opportunities for the sake of opportunities, which is not in line with Li Mingbao's character.
Although these extras are very tempting. But Li Mingbao still suppressed more thoughts in his heart, and continued to ask Mary: "It's a bit unexpected, I didn't expect that this patent can make so much money, but having so much money is not a bad thing." I thought that it would take the joint efforts of the three industries to get together the funds, but I didn't expect that the cost of the patent alone could basically meet John's requirements. It seems that my industry in the United States has a very high profit return. ”
"Boss, you know! On the Hollywood side, I don't know how many bosses envy the boss of your income, the total time you spend in the United States may not be able to reach half a year, but the income of the boss of your industry here is higher than the income of the vast majority of Americans in several lifetimes, even if it is some small consortium, their annual profit may not be as much as the boss, you don't know how much the bosses here want to copy your successful method, and now even the horror movie business, there are many people competing with our dream factory.
You must know that before the boss appeared in the United States, the genre of horror movies has always been relatively niche, and the income is not very high, otherwise the directors who shot horror movies would not have been so down-and-out. But now horror movies are still a niche film category in Hollywood, but they have also attracted the attention of many people, especially those small and medium-sized film companies, the number of horror movies they produce now is much higher than the output of our company, but unfortunately they still haven't learned the essence of the boss, plus the excellent film directors and actors of this type of movie are basically in our company, so to a certain extent, the boss you have monopolized most of the market and share of Hollywood horror moviesEven if others want to learn from the boss, it is still difficult to succeed.
Seriously, our DreamWorks is now in Hollywood, completely changing the fate of a film genre, such a company, even those giant companies, are very envious, if it weren't for the relationship between our company and Twentieth Century Fox, someone would have beaten our company's idea a long time ago. Mary said proudly on the other end of the phone.
"This is normal, DreamWorks has developed to the present, if it is not peered on by the outside world at all, it is simply impossible, which is why I was ready to sell DreamWorks at the beginning, with the strength of our company in the United States at that time, it was delusional to want to compete with those companies, but now it is different, since there is such a good stage, it is natural to do the best, others envy others, as long as we do our own things, I hope that in the future, our DreamWorks slogan will become that we are always innovating and never imitate.
This can be in line with the strength of our company in Hollywood. Now let's put the company's affairs aside, or talk specifically about our company's profitability, I remember that the profit of DreamWorks Films, it should be quite a lot, last year, the cash seemed to be close to 200 million US dollars, and now, this cash flow should be a little more, right? Li Mingbao said.
"DreamWorks' current cash flow is actually not that much, that is, a little more than $200 million, more than 11 million. This is the money on our company's accounts. Of course, the actual income is even higher, boss, you also know that the cash flow of the film industry is quite troublesome when calculating, and it takes several years for the funds of some films to be recovered.
Although our company is cooperating with Twentieth Century Fox, it is much faster than the general film company to recover funds, but after all, it still takes a process, from last year to this year, we have almost made ten movies, and the box office revenue of the theater line has been divided into six films so far, and the share of four films will be recovered at the end of the year at the earliest, and this is still because of the relationship between Twentieth Century Fox, if we only rely on our own strength, It's not impossible for this money to drag on for a year or two.
And the income of the movie box office, boss, you know, this is not the bulk of our company's income, horror movies of this genre, on the screen, can never become the mainstream, so the highest box office movie, the actual box office is less than 40 million US dollars, which also needs a lot of distribution costs, theater income and other things, to our share, only about 13 million US dollars.
More income is still in the video tape business, in this piece of income, now basically can account for more than 40% of our company's income, this is also thanks to the original boss you wise, understand where the sales of horror movies are, directly buy a video production company, and also paved the channel, although the construction of the channel cost us a lot of money, but these funds last year, has recovered the cost, now it is all interest. In addition to some other income, I took a look at the funds that cannot be recovered outside for the time being, which is about 230 million US dollars, and this money, by the end of this year, can recover 120 million US dollars, in the first half of next year, another 60 million US dollars, and then the remaining 50 million US dollars, will arrive in two years.
Unless the boss uses the money as collateral in the bank and borrows money from the bank, it will be difficult for us to use the funds. Mary said helplessly to Li Mingbao.
Hollywood's money is not as easy to make as the outside world sees, and some money, even if you really earn it into your own pocket, it still takes a lot of time and energy to really put this money into your own pocket.
This is not just Li Mingbao's dream factory, basically it can be said that this kind of thing runs through the whole of Hollywood, not to mention a large film company like Li Mingbao and them, even if it is a giant company, there is no solution to this problem, they are the makers of such things, and they are also the victims of such things.
Li Mingbao and their film companies with good profitability are quite good, if those film companies with not so good profitability are dragged to death by debts, it often happens. It is not unusual for a sum of millions of dollars to drag on for more than ten years, and it is not unusual to drag it until the payee dies of natural causes, and then the court collects the payment. Hollywood is a bird place, if people who don't know how to come in, it is more difficult to make money than in other film markets, although the box office income and other income here seem to be quite good, but the actual situation is not the same at all.
At the beginning, Li Mingbao was able to get rid of "Home Alone" so easily, to a large extent, it was luck, if the Twentieth Century Fox Company did not know the goods, then this movie was made in 82, even if it was released in 92, there is nothing strange. But Li Mingbao's luck lies not only in this aspect, but also in the appreciation of Twentieth Century Fox, which can only be said to be the first step in Li Mingbao's success.
If anything goes wrong in the future, then Li Mingbao will get the money from the United States at the beginning, and he will not get any return if he spends it directly, which will happen 100%. And then Li Mingbao sold all the follow-up copyrights of "Home Alone" very interestingly, coupled with the unexpected box office of "Home Alone", which is the real reason why he was able to take away hundreds of millions of dollars in Hollywood at once, if there were no coincidences and achievements in various aspects, Li Mingbao wanted to get capital so quickly, and he could still gain a firm foothold in Hollywood, it would be impossible at all.
Li Mingbao is lucky, how many foreigners come to Hollywood in the United States, and they didn't think of making money at the beginning, they just wanted to gain a firm foothold in Hollywood, and they couldn't get anything in return for such a simple request. So even those local film companies in Hollywood are envious, jealous and hateful of Li Mingbao, which is the norm.
Since he has entered the circle of Hollywood, Li Mingbao naturally needs to abide by some rules in this circle, such as the rules of defaulting on debts, he must abide by them, if he dares to break the rules, Li Mingbao will not want to continue to mix in this circle in the future.
As for why there is such a bad arrears of funds on the Hollywood side, in fact, it has a lot to do with the bankers on Wall Street, and any successful company in Hollywood understands a very superficial truth, that is, cash is a thing that can make money, the more money you make, the more money you make, and the more money you withhold, the more you earn, don't forget the interest on the bank and some private loans, if you encounter such a thing, as long as you keep the money in your own hands, You can earn a lot in a day, a month, a year, two years, or even a lifetime. The benefits that can be obtained in this way are countless times higher than the principal of that money.
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