Even if it's poison, you have to swallow it.

Moreover, Lin Dong is in the entertainment industry and often pays attention to investment information.

Therefore, he is very clear about the fate of Huaxia Capital entering Hollywood, and he basically wants to be pitted.

In 2016, the Hollywood Reporter summarized the 14 films that lost the most money of the year, and 9 were invested by Chinese capital.

Ao Fei made money in the mainland with Xiao Li's "The Revenant", and lost it in "Assassin's Creed" in the blink of an eye.

Li Chen's "Billy Lynn", which played with new technology, ended up losing tens of millions of dollars, and Guangjin and Fosun failed to escape.

"Deep Sea Catastrophe", "God Wars: Eyes of Power", and "Divergent 3" made TV and radio media even more stabbed three times in a year.

After Ahri Pictures invested in Spielberg's Amperin in 2016, the big director's "Dream Giant" lost a lot of money as soon as it came up: the investment was as high as $140 million, and the global box office was $180 million, making it one of the worst Hollywood films of the year.

What is the reason?

Is Hollywood so risky?

Not really.

The reason is very simple, because the ironclad projects that make money often do not appear in the contract of the Chinese company.

The $500 million investment in Universal Pictures does not include big IPs such as "Jurassic World", "Fast and Furious" and the "Minions" series.

Disney's Marvel and Star Wars blockbusters swept away billions of dollars at the box office a year, but none of them had a share of Chinese investors.

Estimate the money you make, and people don't give you a chance.

Then you will naturally have to pay for the tuition of the risk film.

In any case, Huaxia Capital is an outsider, and its research on Hollywood has always been superficial.

However......

Boss Lin is not afraid.

Come and pit me, pit hard, spare no effort.

Whatever doesn't make money, bring it to me.

At the beginning, Ahri lost the worst part, and Boss Lin couldn't wait to stick a knife in his ribs for his good friend Jack Ma and replace him with his body.

Yes, if only Jack Ma could have given him the project then.

He and Jack Ma are good friends.

There are only two kinds of good friends of the wizard master, and one is the one that has slept together...... Ahem, they ate together and paid for it, and one was to help him lose money.

"If Legendary Pictures is not suitable, then why not buy other Hollywood studios." Master Lin thought for a while, and a sentence came out.

Legendary Pictures has $3.5 billion, and it has to bargain, which is really unpleasant.

Since the system says that the money spent is actually obtained from where it is spent.

Let's spend dollars to buy the others, then the system funds are snatched from the rice crackers, so why bother to buy the assets on our own side.

Although Legendary Pictures is still in Hollywood, it is actually a domestic asset.

"Hollywood studio......" Pei Qianlong has a headache.

In the past, Hollywood always said that the top ten or the top eight, in fact, there are different sayings in different eras.

During the golden age from 1930 to 1948, there were eight more powerful at that time, five of which were more powerful and three of which were less powerful, the difference was whether there was a theater chain or not.

After the Paramount Act in 1948, the five major film companies were forced to sell their theaters to third parties. Coupled with the popularity of televisions, MGM and United Arts merged, Columbia was sold to Sony, and Raiden Hua withdrew from the market.

Since then, the 8 major has become the 6 largest major.

The current top six in Hollywood refer to Disney, Warner Bros., Universal, Sony, 20th Century Fox, and Paramount.

Paramount's most dish, the Paramount Act of 1948, was named after him, and it was an old cowhide at the time.

Today, it also has popular IPs such as "The Godfather", "Mission Impossible", "Star Trek" and "Transformers".

If you want to acquire, it is undoubtedly more feasible to choose it.

After all, Paramount lost $445 million in 2016 — other homes that don't lose money won't necessarily sell.

The market is two-sided, it's not like you can buy it if you want to, who doesn't have a gold owner.

"Let's buy MGM." Lin Dong unfolded a tablet in front of him and browsed through them one by one.

After receiving the demand, the advertising and marketing department immediately sent the information over.

A word from the boss, the people below ran and broke their legs.

"MGM?!" Concubine Han was very surprised, she hesitated for a moment and asked: "Mr. Lin, have you read too much of Meowsha Entertainment, and many of the people who have entered Hollywood above want to buy MGM, but the backgrounds in those books are relatively early, and the current MGM is really not good." ”

And, don't you think that's too old-fashioned?

No, if it does, I won't buy it.

"MGM used to be the top eight in Hollywood, but it's not part of the current top six." Pei Qianlong reminded.

Boss, what about your arrogance, shouldn't you go straight to the top six?

MGM has indeed been brilliant, and the Oscars themselves were initiated by Meyer, one of the founders of MGM Films, and MGM's status and influence in global film history are no less than those of the current top six.

However, everything is history.

In May 1948, the Paramount Act was introduced, requiring production companies to control only films, and to abandon distribution and cinema operations.

MGM has been in a state of collapse ever since.

Since the 60s of the last century, MGM has been traded many times in the capital market.

In 2005, MGM was $2 billion in debt, and was one step away from bankruptcy.

A consortium led by Sony formed MGM Holdings, which acquired MGM Pictures in a $4.8 billion leveraged buyout.

However, Sony is not MGM's "savior", it only takes a fancy to the 4,100 films in MGM's film library, and combined with the number of films it already has, it has successfully won the battle for the HD DVD format.

MGM, on the other hand, went into further decline amid layoffs and studio closures, and by 2009 MGM's debt had reached nearly $4 billion, and it had to file for bankruptcy protection.

Eventually, a little-known Hollywood studio, Telescope Entertainment, merged its two subsidiaries with MGM to form the new MGM Pictures.

With the endorsement of ****, MGM obtained $500 million in financing from the bank, bidding farewell to bankruptcy and entering restructuring.

At this point, MGM is still breathing.

Did the cat factory save MGM?

Pei Qianlong didn't think so at all, no one could save MGM.

MGM's most valuable IP is "007", but this thing is too old, the plot can't keep up with the times, and there is not much market in China.

At the same time, there are too many films of the same genre, such as "Mission Impossible", "Spy Shadows" and so on.

"I didn't watch the entertainment you said, and I also know that MGM is not the top six," Lin Dong took the tablet and showed it to the two senior executives of the strategy department:

"I wanted to replace this lion's head with a cat's head, I thought about it a long time ago."