Chapter 287: Priority Issues

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That is, there is this amount of funds, so when Jiang Zhiqiang said that Li Mingbao was transferring funds, he was confident that he would be able to get through the period of weak funds with more than one million US dollars, and he was not afraid that the capital chain of DreamWorks would be broken. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Of course, even if the existing capital chain is broken, DreamWorks is not afraid, and with DreamWorks' current profits, if you want to make a loan in the United States, there will definitely be a large number of bankers who will line up to give DreamWorks a loan. In the United States, a film company like DreamWorks has no debt at all, and profits are still hoarded on a large scale, which is definitely a high-quality resource.

Not to mention bankers, even those speculators, Wall Street people, there are many people who are interested in DreamWorks, they offer a very high price for DreamWorks' shares, according to their statistics, now DreamWorks' fixed assets can have more than 300 million US dollars, even the movies shot by DreamWorks are niche movies.

Such a valuation is not low. You must know that many film companies in Hollywood may not be able to reach hundreds of millions of valuations. And the film company with hundreds of millions of dollars, on the Hollywood side, can also be regarded as a middle-level company.

Of course, there is also a strange kind of film company in Hollywood, they don't produce much movies themselves, but they rely on their own accurate vision, pick up movies elsewhere to show, and the income is quite good. The first classic representative of this kind of company is Lionsgate. Of course, Lionsgate doesn't know where to hang out in yet, but there are actually many such studios in Hollywood. They may be able to eat for several years with a movie, but if they are not careful, they can easily get out of this circle.

For this kind of thing similar to a leather bag company, it is difficult to estimate his actual value, maybe he can make 200 million dollars in the first year, but in the second year, no film comes out, then his value is only a few million dollars, and no one may take over, and in the end he can only go bankrupt and liquidate.

Compared with this kind of company, although DreamWorks opened not long ago, it immediately stood up because it seized some corner opportunities, and during this period, DreamWorks also continued to increase investment in the business, whether it was to establish channels, or to acquire other film companies, or to have their own video company, although these things were not very valuable at the time of acquisition, but because of DreamWorks, there was a steady stream of income, and their prices were also doubled. In this, there are financial things involved.

Although Li Mingbao has never thought about going public with DreamWorks now, and the current DreamWorks is not qualified to be listed, the group of financial speculators on Wall Street have never given up any opportunity to make money, so it is normal for DreamWorks to have a very clear output value.

And because the development of DreamWorks now relies on niche themes such as horror films to make money, as long as the directors below do not leave at will, any company that takes over DreamWorks follows the current plan, DreamWorks can continue to make money, until this type of film is exhausted and the director's talent is exhausted, which will make the value of DreamWorks fall sharply.

It's not that there are no people who have ideas about DreamWorks, but until now, they are all petty fights, real bigwigs, and they don't plan to dig into the corners of a few directors to make money for themselves, because the ratio of input and output is not easy to grasp.

After all, DreamWorks is relatively out of the box, and it doesn't make much sense to just dig up one or two people, or a few people, except for digging a small piece of meat in the niche film market, nothing else can be achieved. But the market for niche movies is not large, and if you dig meat from it, it is mosquito legs, for the big guys, the money earned is not as high as the investment. So those people are more inclined to dig up the whole Dream Factory, rather than just digging up the corners.

Regarding the matter of poaching people, Li Mingbao has gotten news in Hong Kong, but there are not many companies that really do it, and the directors who have been poached so far are only two or three kittens, and the real pillar Craven has not wavered at all. It's not that he's loyal to DreamWorks, it's just that the other people don't pay enough.

He is a pillar in DreamWorks, because now DreamWorks' main business direction is on the horror film side, but those poaching companies may not give him such treatment. In addition, DreamWorks has its own popularity in the horror film market, and if he goes elsewhere, such popularity will be gone, and it will be very difficult for him to create a new way, so it is better to be in DreamWorks, so that he can get more play.

Hearing Jiang Zhiqiang explain the current situation of DreamWorks to himself one by one, Li Mingbao sighed and said: "Alas, the current development scale of DreamWorks has exceeded my imagination. It would be a pity if DreamWorks was just a place for us to make money before, but now that we have such a good sign, we have discarded it.

Hollywood, on the other hand, doesn't always have such opportunities. Our DreamWorks was able to break into the Hollywood market, in fact, by going off the rails. But if we let go of DreamWorks, we may not be able to develop into such a company in the future. Hollywood's side is cheap, but it's not so easy to take advantage of.

So I don't think even if you want to withdraw funds, you can't do that much at once. Because DreamWorks itself, in fact, also needs to be vigorously developed, only when the scale is formed and the bottleneck is reached, it will not need to be fed with funds. But now that DreamWorks is in the growth period, if we extract the nutrients, the growth of DreamWorks will encounter great trouble, and maybe there will be rising stars who will push us down, so that the status of DreamWorks will be shaken, and even the value of this brand will shrink.

So I don't think DreamWorks can pull out all the funds even if they want to pull out the funds. Hong Kong can get by for the time being, but the problem of funds can actually be put aside, and the dream factory can be developed first, and limited blood transfusion can be implemented on the Hong Kong side, so that neither aspect can be affected. ”

"But Hong Kong is our root, Hollywood, if you are not careful, there may be problems, and the loss will be great. If, as you said, DreamWorks also needs to develop, then it is equivalent to the empty shell here has also become an entity. Although Jiang Zhiqiang is the general manager of DreamWorks, and DreamWorks is also what he built bit by bit, when it comes to feelings, Hong Kong is what he really loves.

The dream factory that worked so hard was just for a large-scale blood transfusion to Hong Kong. Although Jiang Zhiqiang is a little reluctant to give up this signboard by now, he still knows that the overall situation is important, so the positioning of DreamWorks has always been a blood transfusion company, and its own development is actually not too important. Otherwise, with the current funds of DreamWorks, the real scale would not be like the current one, and Wall Street's assessment would not be only 300 million US dollars.

There has never been a shortage of quick riches in this part of the United States, especially in the film industry. In addition, at the beginning of DreamWorks' establishment, it hugged the thighs of Twentieth Century Fox, and to a large extent, Twentieth Century Fox gave DreamWorks a lot of protection. So the fact that DreamWorks is under external threat right now is not that big.

There is no threat from the outside, and it is very profitable from the inside, and it would be an exaggeration for a company like this to swell. But I have been sticking to the big plan of blood transfusion before, so even if it is the development of DreamWorks, it is a last resort to make investment, just like the video market, if it is not for the fact that this market is very profitable, and even now it has almost become the company's largest source of income, Jiang Zhiqiang will not continue to expand the scale of the video company, but even so, the company's video tapes are still being outsourced.

"An entity is an entity. Things are different now. In the past, we just wanted to make money here, so the sign of DreamWorks was not important. But the problem is that now that we have misestimated the value of DreamWorks, it is natural to make the right choice now.

If DreamWorks can make more money in the United States, why should we limit his development? You know, for every dollar we put into DreamWorks, there will be at least $5 in actual returns, so with such a 500% rate of return, why bother whether the company is in the United States or Hong Kong?

I've been thinking about this for a long time, and now that we're putting our money into Hong Kong, we might get less than a dollar in return. But if you invest in the U.S., you can get a return of five dollars for one dollar. So why should we work hard to make money in Hong Kong, instead of really taking the Hollywood industry as an opportunity for our development? The issue of ROI has been overlooked before. And now that I look at it, I realize that the decision I made before was a bit stupid. Li Mingbao said very entangledly.

To say that at the beginning, he didn't think about really developing steadily in Hollywood, because in his consciousness, it was difficult for Hollywood to develop, so no matter how much he invested here, he finally made wedding dresses for others. Rather than this, it is better to stand out in the place where Hong Kong can master, so that although you may earn a little less, it is better to be stable, and you don't have to be afraid of too many storms.

But recently, Li Mingbao has been thinking about a problem. If you want to make money secretly, the current speed at which DreamWorks makes money is completely incompatible with making money secretly. At least Li Mingbao doesn't know that on the Hollywood side, there are a few genuine Hollywood film companies about the same scale as DreamWorks that are more profitable than DreamWorks.

It's not that other companies can't make as much profit as DreamWorks, but there is a huge gap between the return on investment and DreamWorks. Other film companies make more money than DreamWorks makes, not a small amount, that is, a large investment and a large return. But the problem is that Li Mingbao didn't invest too much money in DreamWorks at all, and even DreamWorks' own funds were constantly hoarding, rather than investing money in the film industry.

In this way, the development of DreamWorks is still quite rapid, and now there is not much gap with those old Hollywood middle-level companies, if Li Mingbao invests DreamWorks' own funds in the development of the company, it is not difficult for DreamWorks to become a large Hollywood film company a year later.