Chapter 425: A Business That Doesn't Worth Losses

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So John's idea, for Li Mingbao, is completely a bad idea. If he really wants to get a vote in this market and leave, he doesn't need to start in the film industry, although this industry has a high rate www.biquge.info of return, but compared to other industries, what can this money be? worked hard to make more than a dozen movies, and the increase in funding was at most more than a billion dollars.

He really wants to make a profit, prove the whiteness in his brain, and start in the stock market, wouldn't it be easier and more secretive, why bother to be in such a limelight, he is completely uncomfortable with himself.

Hearing Li Mingbao's words, John continued to bewitch: "How can you get into trouble, it's just a year or two of the North American market, can you still occupy many years of time efficiently, that is the real trouble for yourself."

But if it's only a year or two, it's not a big problem for you. Even because you have made so many movies in a short period of time, your influence in the United States will increase a lot. After that, you can rely on your influence to negotiate directly with other giant companies, and then carve up some appropriate shares, so that other giant companies will recognize your status in Hollywood. Not only will you not get into trouble, but you will be able to take your company to great heights. As long as you're not as crazy as you are now, no one else will target you.

It's a big deal that we at Twentieth Century Fox put more pressure on you, and then you just have to make money in the back. You know, such an opportunity is rare in Hollywood, Twentieth Century Fox I want to sell, so I don't care about the storm in a short time, if this time period passes, Murdoch, that guy, where is it possible for you to take risks? ”

Although John wanted to let Li Mingbao be his gun, and then make his twentieth Century Fox stock price higher. But I have to say that John also showed his sincerity, at least the conditions of Twentieth Century Fox to shelter DreamWorks from the wind and rain are definitely a good thing for DreamWorks.

Not to mention that there is Twentieth Century Fox in front of the disaster, even if Li Mingbao makes a billion dollars, there is no big problem, as long as he has good movies, it is really easy to make money, for others, good movies are difficult to get, but for Li Mingbao, good movies are really not unusual, with 30 years of accumulation, he can come up with any country's movies.

And the price paid may not be high, although movies need investment to have a good box office, but even if Li Mingbao does not invest in those movies with hundreds of millions of dollars, investing in movies with small costs and big box office is enough for him to live. With more than a dozen movies like this, and starting work at the same time, Li Mingbao will not be embarrassed.

Li Mingbao will definitely be able to get this money. And even if there is no twentieth Century Fox to shelter from the wind and rain, DreamWorks, which has produced so many good movies, will have an essential improvement in its strength in Hollywood, and when the time comes, it will be sold, let alone a billion dollars, even if it is two billion dollars, there will be many people who want to buy it, and when the time comes, as long as John is the middleman, others want to use special means, it will not work, and it is not difficult for Li Mingbao to ask John at that time, after all, he has also done a lot of things for John, such a favor, There is no way John will not sell. The profits above are at least 3 billion US dollars, which can be said to be rich in profits and amazing returns, even excluding costs, Li Mingbao at least has a net income of more than 2 billion US dollars.

Such conditions can definitely be regarded as a good choice for Li Mingbao. But if the shell of DreamWorks is thrown away like this, Li Mingbao feels that it is a pity. After all, it is not difficult for him to make billions of dollars. But it is not so easy to enter Hollywood with such good conditions.

DreamWorks has developed in a legendary way to the present, it is not easy, as long as you make money honestly, sooner or later you will have your own fixed position in Hollywood, although it will take a long time to do that, and there will be countless troubles waiting for him in the middle, and even Li Mingbao came to the United States this time, but also to seek protection measures for DreamWorks, which shows that DreamWorks is not really stable.

But in any case, the foundation of DreamWorks is really good. Even if Li Mingbao is starting a new business now, it will be difficult to replicate the model of DreamWorks again. There is no shortage of movies, but the key is his lack of protection. If other Hollywood giants guard him like a jackal, it will not be so simple to enter Hollywood in the future.

To put it simply, what Li Mingbao really lacks now is not capital, but foundation, and DreamWorks happens to be such a suitable foundation. No one knows the development of Hollywood better than him, think about the output value of tens of billions of dollars a year, this is still a matter of the nineties, you can know how big the profit is. Of course, it is impossible for him to take the lion's share in it, but even some profits are enough for him. Compared with the industry in Hong Kong, the industry here is more successful, just as a place to brush funds, it is easy to give up, it is also a loss. Especially giving up recklessly like John's is simply picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons, which is a great harm to Li Mingbao's long-term interests.

In a short period of time, Li Mingbao calculated the gains and losses clearly, so he said to John very firmly: "John, this approach of yours is actually not as beautiful as it seems on the surface. Murdoch will pay his own price for the premium, but this price is probably not completely unlimited. If this limit is exceeded, Murdoch will never pay more for the extra superficial benefits, he is a shrewd businessman, not an idiot.

If the cost is too great, he would definitely rather negotiate with another giant company than ask for Twentieth Century Fox, whose actual interests are not so large. Because that, for him, the gains outweigh the losses. At that time, the biggest possibility is that the chicken and the egg will be beaten, and you will not be able to sell the twentieth century Fox company, and I will be under more pressure.

Simply using the box office of a movie to determine the stock price is something that ordinary shareholders do, not what a capitalist would do. What is too floating is not so solid after all. Collaboration on film, in my opinion, is not so desirable. ”

Hearing Li Mingbao's words, John was still a little excited, but he calmed down suddenly. In fact, to be honest, John is not as happy about this acquisition as he seems on the surface, after all, as the boss of Twentieth Century Fox, he was rashly acquired by other groups, and he is somewhat aggrieved, but he is the boss of Twentieth Century Fox, but when he comes to News Corporation, he cannot be the one who calls the shots.

In terms of price, John couldn't refuse. But in other ways, John didn't mind giving Murdoch a little trouble. This is the real reason why John wanted to work with Li Mingbao after hearing Li Mingbao say that the quality of his films was stable.

Money is one aspect, no one will dislike having more money, but on the other hand, we must also see how Murdoch will deal with such a situation. To put it bluntly, John wasn't 100 percent willing to let News Corp. take a stake. But after hearing Li Mingbao's words, John also understood that such a plan would be difficult to pass, and doing so would be a completely double-edged sword for John.

There is a certain possibility of additional benefits, but it is more likely that Twentieth Century Fox and News Corp. will fall apart. And if such a situation is formed, when John digs the pit, he will bury himself. And News Corp. has other options besides Twentieth Century Fox, and if it becomes the owner of another company, it is not a good thing for Twentieth Century Fox. Murdoch, who suffered a loss on the side of Twentieth Century Fox, has no reason not to take revenge. If he were to face Twentieth Century Fox on the news, John would not have much ability to resist, and he would not be a professional in doing this, so the possibility of suffering a loss was too great.

"It seems that the matter of cooperation should be put aside. After all, Murdoch is not easy to mess with. John said helplessly, there is no way, the situation is stronger than people, since News Corp has the strength to acquire his Twentieth Century Fox Company, if he resists the interests, he will suffer in the end. It is not uncommon for capitalists to have tempers or something, but if tempers affect business, such capitalists are not qualified to become bigger. Obviously, John was not such a high-spirited person, so John himself snuffed out such an idea, in order not to make trouble for himself.

Hearing John's words, Li Mingbao's heart was actually sighing. To be honest, John's previous proposal really made him very tempted. But now, making money is no longer Li Mingbao's main idea, what he wants is more power, just like in Hong Kong. So simply taking a sum of money, for the current Li Mingbao, the attraction is not so great at all. If at the beginning, Li Mingbao would definitely choose to ask for this money, after all, when life is not rich, it is a bit nonsense to talk about power or something.

There is no possibility of cooperation in the movie, whether it is Li Mingbao or John, they all know what the consequences will be if they do this. But Li Mingbao came to the United States before to worry about the TV station, and he got out the program and everything. And now, when John and himself were disappointed, Li Mingbao suddenly set his sights on the TV industry.

And when he thought of the TV station, he thought of the endless programs in his mind, and when he thought of the program, and then thought about the current Twentieth Century Fox Company, Li Mingbao suddenly found that he seemed to have the possibility of cooperating with John, and this possibility was still very big.

"John, I want to ask you a question, what is Murdoch's most important business for Twentieth Century Fox? Is it the business of a TV station? Li Mingbao asked.

Li Mingbao's sudden question made John a little strange, but he still said very clearly: "Of course, it is the business of the TV station, after all, his old profession is to do news, and the TV station is a good carrier of news." ”

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