Of course, even if Roland is willing to spend money to make new films and develop TV series, neither of these channels can allow Warcraft Film and Television to accumulate a rich film library in a short period of time, or in other words, unless you use the buying, buy

The third step in the layout of the future actually depends on MGM.

As long as he buys MGM, the rights to thousands of films since 1924 will belong to him, and not only that, but he can also control thousands of films of MGM's United Pictures.

Although these two companies together do not have any good projects, the film library has always sought more than less, not to mention, the "Cat and Mouse" and "007" series alone can make a media company competitive in the streaming era, and Chaplin's silent film series and a bunch of memories of the times such as "Gone with the Wind" and "Ben Hur" can promote consumers to spend impulsively.

There's no way, who lets sell what others don't have, which is the biggest selling point of a company?

However, this kind of thing cannot be rushed.

Before Warcraft Film and Television came up with a beautiful report, Roland would not make any offer to MGM.

Because of this kind of acquisition of up to 5 billion, he will definitely not pay a large amount of his own.

First make the achievements of Warcraft Film and Television beautiful, and then swallow MGM in the form of leveraged junk debt, securitize the cost, and transfer it to the head of the leek, that is what a capital should do.

Taking out 500 million real money is the limit of what he can accept, as for the remaining 4.5 billion?

It depends on which unlucky children think that rational investment can really get rich.

And after explaining the tasks of the film and television drama clearly, Roland, who has entered the working state, is too lazy to cut off the phone, since he has already explained the future plan thoroughly, then simply spend more time and listen to this year's briefing.

In this way, in the next year, he won't have to care about the here!

Although Evelyn Watson thinks that the boss's free-range behavior is really a bit strange, there is no way, how dare she disobey the boss as a worker? So he took out the sorted out reports one by one, and held a simple annual meeting with the boss over the phone.

In the past year, Warcraft Film and Television has released four films to the outside world.

The total cost of "Memory Fragments" is 20 million (including publicity), and the box office is 50 million, leaving aside the theater share and distribution commission, the whole movie loses 20 million, even if it enters the disc market, it is impossible to return to the cost in the short term.

The total cost of "X-Men" is 100 million (including publicity)? 4.1 at the global box office? is also to cut off all the shares, and the whole movie makes a profit of 64 million? But since Warcraft and Universal each contribute half? So in the end, I made 32 million.

What if you add the market income? That number is going up two or three million at most.

But? The thirty-five million here refers to just the profits of Warcraft Film and Television? Because Universal still has a 10% revenue from publicity, and after adding this one, their cumulative profit has reached 55.5 million.

is much more than Warcraft film and television.

Besides? "The Princess Diaries" relied on a total investment of 35 million in exchange for a total box office of 165 million? It also made Warcraft Film and Television make a lot of money, after Disney took away 10%, the whole movie still made a profit of 14.5 million through the box office, and if you add the license of the disc market, this number can still run to 16.

In the case of three films with two losses on one? The entire Warcraft film and television has actually delivered a good profit of 31 million, if you add the "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" and the upcoming "Lord of the Rings", which are expected to grab a billion box office? Then the profit of Warcraft Film and Television in zero year will steadily exceed 200 million.

"And remove the financial costs of raising funds through public funds? The profit of Warcraft Film and Television will be about 150 million. ”

When Evelyn Watson told Roland the numbers? The guy in the UK is still very satisfied with the development of Warcraft Films? Although the investment of 200 million yuan only brought 150 million profits? But the things that make money are not in movies at all!

Like the "X-Men" peripheral, which was independently licensed by Marvel.

Like the Harry Potter peripherals, which are accounted for separately through the book copyright.

The profits of the former will be accepted by Marvel, while the profits of the latter will be attributed to the company's other income by Warcraft Films.

Why?

It's not that I don't want to share the money with Universal and Warner!

If you go from the movie copyright, then you have to go!

These derivative incomes have to be half of them according to the share of film investment!

The net profit of "X-Men" derivatives has exceeded 50 million, and "Harry Potter" is only a lot more.

Even if his brain was kicked by a donkey, it was impossible!

It's fun enough to let these guys take 10% of the box office distribution commission, and the rest is impossible to give at all!

Of course, whether it's Universal, Warner, or Disney, they all know this.

Or rather, they do the same when they work with other companies on a day-to-day basis.

Therefore, no one thinks there is anything wrong with Warcraft Films and Television doing this.

If you have the ability, you can eat all the profits, but if you don't have the ability, then you can only be robbed by others.

It's that simple!

According to the current business situation of Warcraft Film and Television, its valuation is actually more than two billion.

Coupled with the wholly-owned subsidiary Marvel, the total value is at least five billion.

In less than a decade, can a Hollywood leather bag company achieve five billion?

Although Roland doesn't care about money anymore, this leap still makes him excited.

…………

After disposing of the work of Warcraft Film and Television, he was ready to make persistent efforts to listen to all the reports of the company under his name in one day, and when he dialed Blizzard's phone at the right time, and asked Mike Mohami, who had not seen him for a year, to report to the company, the guy who was presiding over the company meeting was suddenly stunned, and when he turned over the desk calendar on the table in confusion, and found that the time was only early December, he slapped his head and understood that the boss was nervous again.

"Roland."

Mike Mohami shouted helplessly at the boss on the other end of the phone: "We can't give you data now!" ”

"Huh?" Roland, who didn't know what was going on, replied quickly, "Why?" ”

As soon as Roland's words came out, Mike Mohami knew that this guy didn't care about anything, so he explained with a smile: "Xbox was only launched in North America half a month ago, and our game has just been released, how can I give you accurate statistics?"

And if you want to know the number of sales, just look at the number of Xbox console shipments, because they don't have a game library there, so our games are packaged and sold with their launcher, and this number is ......

It's not accurate at all! ”

Yes, at the same time that Roland was dealing with the dying matter of dismembering Sony, arranging the project planning of "Terminator 3", and reaching a long-term cooperation agreement with Steven Spielberg, Xbox, has also been released.

Although Microsoft is the master of money and not people, and if they are sure that they can eat Sony Electronic Entertainment, they are equivalent to monopolizing most of the world's home console market, but they still have not slackened in the promotion of Xbox.

On November 15, the day before the release of "Harry Potter", Microsoft chartered the center of the venue in Times Square in New York to introduce the Xbox product to players across the country, and Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, personally brought the goods and took a photo with the world's first gamer to get a machine.

And with this strong support, the game matrix bound to it has naturally become a means for them to attract players.

The four games launched by Blizzard will be bundled with game consoles, and one million game consoles will be released, which is equivalent to one million copies of "GT3" and "Medal of Honor: Battlefront" at the same time!

In this case, is there any reference point for game sales?

No!

Xbox sold one million units, and Blizzard's four exclusive games sold four million copies!

Xbox sold 10 million units, and the sales of Blizzard's four exclusive games were 40 million units!

If Xbox can sell 100 million units, then the sales of Blizzard's four exclusive games will be 400 million units!

What game sales record?

All the special codes are chiseled for you!

When the game and the console are deeply bound, the game can sell as much as the console can sell!

And this situation also stunned Roland!

"It's not...... William is he crazy? Isn't that sending us money? ”

Roland couldn't figure out why Bill Gates was doing this.

Because this kind of thing is more beneficial to Blizzard because it is tied to the machine and the game.

The cost of Xbox is $425, and in order to seize the market, the market price of Xbox is $299, which means that for every machine sold, Microsoft has to pay $126 upside down.

And Blizzard's games are all 24.9 dollars, and the four of them are added together, which is 99.6 dollars.

In this case, the bundle of Xbox and Blizzard games means that the price of Xbox is no longer 299, but 398.6, but this price is obviously not in line with Microsoft's pricing strategy.

Although there are four more games, ......

Many users don't actually need all the games.

However, just when Roland was puzzled, Mike Mohami on the other end of the phone helped him solve his puzzles.

"It's so easy! Because Microsoft doesn't have a game!

As a game console, isn't there no selling point without games?

So they have to be bound to us. ”

As if he felt that what he said was not clear, Mike Mohami added as Roland digested the passage: "Of course, it also has something to do with their desire to encroach on the Asian market.

After all, in this world, in addition to Xbox and PS2, there is also the GameCube.

So, in order for Xbox to break into the Japanese market as soon as possible, Microsoft is actually selling our games at half price.

In other words, the price of a ninety-nine-six-piece four-piece game is only $49.8 under the bundle, and users can buy one machine and four games as long as they pay $348.8, while Microsoft, for every machine sold, has to lose $175.8, they are taking money and changing the market. ”

"Oh!"

As soon as Mike Mohami said this, Roland understood.

In the case of a high probability of eating Sony Electronic Entertainment, Microsoft still has enemies in the home console market.

That's Nintendo.

Nintendo also launched their new home console, GameCube, this year, and in order to compete with Sony and Microsoft, they also acquired the rights to Star Wars from George Lucas to make Star Wars: Pirate Squadrons.

In addition, the "Legend of Zelda" and "Final Fantasy" series are also powerful weapons for them to encroach on the market, and in this case, Microsoft, which has deep pockets, would rather pay out of pocket to help users buy games, but also let Blizzard games and Xbox forcibly bundle behavior, which is very understandable, after all......

Just one GTA can knock those games to the ground.

"Okay, okay, as long as we have a lot of money."

Roland counted on his fingers, for every set of Xbox sold, they could make a steady profit of 99.6 US dollars, and as long as the Xbox could sell 1 million units, their operating income would be 99.6 million.

But the sales of Xbox are more than that!

In the case of a guaranteed minimum of 16 million sets, Blizzard's revenue can be 1.6 billion!

And how much does the game cost?

There is no 100 million if you are full!

Then after deducting various expenses and personnel bonuses, how to say that the net profit is 1.3 billion!

Four games made 1.3 billion?

It's easier than a robbery!

If Wall Street were to value Blizzard according to this number, it would be 15 billion no matter what!

Can a ten-year-old company have a market value of 15 billion from scratch?

This—that's outrageous!

And the most outrageous thing is that Blizzard has not yet enlarged it!

…………

After asking questions about the film and television entertainment and electronic entertainment industries in a row, and finding that his net worth seemed to have a few small problems, Roland immediately dialed David's phone again, wanting to know the overview of his other industries.

Like Mike Mohamie, when David received a call from Roland, he suddenly understood that this guy was just fooling around, "It's not over Christmas yet, what do you want for an annual report?" ”

"Oh, I just want to know the size of my assets!"

Although he was rushed by David, Roland was not angry.

And after hearing Roland's words, David immediately rolled his eyes.

Even if he really wanted to know what kind of nerves Roland was making, but after considering that as long as Roland was perfunctory, he would not have to communicate with this fool, that feeling of wanting to be relieved made him decisively give a message.

"Apple's iPod was on sale and sold well, so their stock price rose from two cents after the collapse of the Internet bubble to three cents, and compared with the one cents and a half you bought at the beginning, the increase was as high as 2.5 times, so the value of 17.2 percent of the shares in your hands has actually risen to 125 million.

Amazon is not so lucky, before the Internet bubble broke out, his stock price was more than 60, and now, there are only about 10 yuan, a shrinkage of 84 percent, and the 17.16 shares you hold are only less than 2 billion.

But Gilead's share price has risen a lot, from more than one to more than four, and the value of the 16.5 shares you hold is as high as 12.8 billion, and in addition, Disney's 1.9 shares are also more than 1 billion.

And Google, PayPal, DreamWorks, ATi, these companies that have not been listed or have been delisted are not worth it at all, and you have never managed R and K for the time being, but Berkshire Hathaway is your wisest investment, because it has not been affected by the Internet bubble at all, and the stock price has soared to 75,000, that is, the 80,000 shares you bought for 1.2 billion are now worth 6 billion.

In addition, there are more than 900 million yuan from Enron, as well as miscellaneous cash, a total of 1.5 billion. ”

Yo he!

When Roland crossed his fingers and did some simple additions, he suddenly found that when the Internet bubble swept the stock market, his net worth did not fall fundamentally at all?

Even if the value of Shouwang Venture Capital has shrunk, all other places have made up for it!

Like film and television entertainment and electronic entertainment, the growth here is simply insane!

Of course, even if a lot of numbers are nothing, just the calculation can make people excited!