Chapter 611 Targeting Hollywood giants

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Kang Jianfei stared at the stock prices of several Hollywood giants, naturally in order to take action at the right time.

Among the major giants, MGM-United States Film Company was first excluded by Kang Jianfei.

This unlucky Hollywood giant has been tossed by three buyers since the 1970s, and various departments and subsidiaries have been split and sold, and has now become an independent film company.

MGM is already a mess in the hands of former boss Turner Radio. After discovering that he couldn't afford the mud, Turner Radio took away the world's largest video library that was the last valuable thing.

Now that MGM is in the hands of an Italian consortium, the only valuable thing is the copyright of the 007 series of movies, which was what the Italian consortium insisted on leaving when it bought MGM.

Kang Jianfei didn't want to spend a lot of money to buy an independent film company with heavy debt.

The 20th Century Fox was then ruled out, which was bought by media tycoon Murdoch two years ago.

Murdoch is now ambitiously building a media empire. Fox is an important territory in his empire. Kang Jianfei can only buy it if he is maliciously acquiring it with Murdoch.

Then among the major Hollywood movie giants, there are Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Columbia-Samsung Films, Warner Bros. Films and Walt Disney Company.

Among them, Disney has been very prosperous in recent years. It has acquired a small film company and established its own TV network. Kang Jianfei can't easily take it.

Universal Pictures’ situation is similar to Disney. The film giant has been in the hands of American music companies for more than 20 years. Not only has the movie box office profitable, but it also has good business in TV movies, movie music and movie tourism.

What Kang Jianfei really liked and tried to buy was Paramount Pictures and Columbia-Samsung Films, and Turner Broadcasting Corporation, which bought MGM's film library (MGM's film library contains copyrights for all early films of Warner Bros., another big Hollywood giant).

Paramount is now in the hands of Gulf Western Industrial Company. Its boss is a businessman who does not understand movies at all, but under his unreserved delegation, Paramount has frequently made good movies in the past twenty years and has always had a good profit.

What is really managing Paramount is Barry Diller and his two aides, Michael Eisner and Jerever Cazenberg, who brought Paramount, who once fell into trouble, back to the top throne in Hollywood.

But Barry Diller is aiming to build a new TV network and was poached three years ago by Murdoch, who wanted to build a media empire.

Paramount has only two assistants left by Barry Diller, and these two assistants are not ordinary people. Michael Eisner is the head of future Disney, while Jerever Catzenberg is the head of future DreamWorks.

But now neither of these future great men can take power. Paramount is controlled by a conservative after Barry Diller left, and Paramount has been on a downward verge for the past three years.

This kind of company with poor performance, strong strength and unlimited potential, and has two future great companies, which are simply a piece of fat in Kang Jianfei's eyes.

As for Colombia-Samsung, the company's current owner is the famous Coca-Cola. Its operating conditions are not good or bad. Anyway, it's okay to be careless.

In another time and space, two years later, a Japanese tycoon who was not short of money bought Colombian Samsung for a sky-high price of $6 billion, and then changed its name to Sony Film Company.

If Kang Jianfei insists on buying it, it is now a major stock market crash in the United States. The stock prices of Colombia Samsung and its parent company Coca-Cola have plummeted. Kang Jianfei can buy more than 60% of Colombia Samsung's shares by spending up to US$2 billion, including several subsidiaries under Colombia Samsung.

Kang Jianfei has not finally decided which company to buy yet. He has transferred the funds to FFB and organized a professional team through the headhunter.

In the next period of time, Kang Jianfei's acquisition team will also negotiate with Gulf Western and Coca-Cola, and choose the right time to cooperate with the dark plate acquisition method to take down one of the movie giants.

The most troublesome thing is Turner Broadcasting Corporation. Kang Jianfei's intention to buy this company is not only focused on MGM's film library, but also on the company's TV network.

Under the care of the US antitrust law, American film companies cannot operate theaters vertically.

In addition to making good movies, the media network is also very important to become a Hollywood giant. The parent companies of several Hollywood giants are either making TV, newspapers, or record companies.

After Coca-Cola acquired Colombia-Samsung, it also acquired shares of other related media companies, so that it can make movies steadily.

After MGM was resold several times, it lost the resource advantage of publicity and distribution, so that it has now become an independent film company that no one wants.

Kang Jianfei acquired Hollywood film giants not to show off his grades. In addition to making money, he also had to release Hong Kong films through this company.

If you can own a newspaper or a TV network, then you will be able to achieve twice the result with half the effort in the future.

Turner Radio not only bought the world's largest video library from MGM and has a complete TV network, but Kang Jianfei's determination to buy it is even stronger than buying a film company.

Black Monday.

The US stock market plummeted, the European stock market plummeted, and Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore... all plummeted.

Kang Jianfei is not anxious about the acquisition plan. The US stock market will have to continue to fall for at least one or two months, and then it will only rise again after a period of downturn. Kang Jianfei has time to wait patiently.

While directing "My Savage Girlfriend", Kang Jianfei orally wrote the plot outline and created by screenwriters has completed the framework.

Several senior securities traders and economists were invited by Dongshi Company as consultants. With the help of these professionals, the screenwriters began to slowly modify and improve the script of "The Great Era".

This stock market crash has only two impacts for Hong Kong movies: First, in the next period of time, the box office of the movie may shrink for a certain period of time, because the social and economic downturn will bring many movie audiences back to the front of the TV; second, at least in the next six months, overseas hot money in the Hong Kong film industry will decrease, and the output of Hong Kong films will drop slightly.

However, this situation will not last long. Hong Kong, Singapore and Southeast Asian countries may suffer heavy losses due to the stock market crash, but Taiwan will definitely recover quickly.

Due to the continued appreciation of the NTD and the Japanese yen, coupled with the extremely prosperous industries in the two places, this stock market crash is a trivial matter for Taiwan and Japan. Not only will it recover in about half a year, but the stock markets of the two places will continue to rise like a rocket.

In the late 1980s, businessmen in Japan and Taiwan were too much money to know where to invest, so they frantically invested and built factories in Southeast Asia and mainland China.

Taiwanese people call these years "money flooding", which means that Taiwan has so much money that it has flooded its ankles. At that time, Taiwan's attending doctor earned more than NT$300,000 per month, far higher than their Taiwanese counterparts 20 years later.

The original time and space port films flourished around 90 years, and to a large extent, it was the blind investment of Taiwanese hot money to shoot Hong Kong films.

It was not until the outbreak of the Gulf War in 1990 that Taiwan ended its so-called great prosperity, with the weighted index plummeting from 12,495 points to 2,485 points, and Taiwan's economy has never recovered.

The same is true for Japan, and Japan and Taiwan are still in a carnival at this moment, and even the US stock market crash did not dampen the confidence of investors in both places.

All Kang Jianfei could do was to release movies to Japan in an audition. Anyway, the Japanese people had too much money to spend, and Japanese businessmen were clamoring to buy the entire United States.

"Fang Fang" directed by Kang Jianfei was released in Japan at the end of October. Due to the popularity accumulated over the years, many Japanese movie fans rushed to Kang Jianfei and went to the cinema, and thus fell in love with Tony Leung and Sophie Marceau.

"Fangfang" finally swept away a box office of $10.76 million in Japan. This box office is not very high, equivalent to less than 2 billion in yen, but it is already very rare as a literary romance film.

"Fang Fang" was also widely praised when it was released in European countries. Tony Tony Leung and Sophie Marceau became famous soaringly, but he was treated coldly when he was screened in North America.

Perhaps the American people are really not interested in this kind of film. After a lively publicity, the North American box office received a pity of $2.15 million.

On the contrary, after "Mr. Smith" landed in Europe, the couple's killer action film was quite popular among European audiences, adding nearly $10 million to the global box office of the film.

Kang Jianfei completed the filming of "My Savage Girlfriend" in November, and then worked hard to do the post-production work.

Time passes by slowly and slowly. Faced with the coming Christmas, Hong Kong businesses began to prepare for holiday promotions, and major film companies were also busy promoting Christmas movies.

However, since the end of October, the film market in Hong Kong has been a bit sluggish. Both DreamWorks and Jiahe have been prepared for the unsatisfactory box office.

The acquisition team hired by Kang Jianfei finally set its sights on Paramount Pictures after several contact negotiations with Paramount and Columbia.

This decision is a conclusion drawn after data evaluation. Coca-Cola has no intention of selling Colombia Samsung. Even if Kang Jianfei goes through a secret transaction, he can only get up to 20% of the film company's shares. If a forced acquisition is made, he will have to spend a lot of money in vain.

As for Paramount Pictures, the film company's east Bay Western Industrial Company, has suffered a setback in its development due to the US economic recession in the past few years and has also suffered a significant impact in this stock market crash.

In addition, Paramount Pictures has declined from prosperity three years ago and has not improved at all so far. Martin Davis, the boss of Gulf West, has already planned to take action.

However, after a series of contacts and negotiations, Martin Davis did not want to sell all the Paramount shares he had.

This guy is a very interesting person. He doesn't know movies at all, but he likes to invest in the cultural industry. He is not only the boss of Paramount, but also the major shareholder of Simon & Schuster Publishing Company, a giant in the American publishing industry.

If Japan's Sony went to acquire Paramount, Martin Davis, who was not short of money, would not have dumped Sony at all. The reason why he now agreed to sell part of Paramount shares was because the buyer was Kang Jianfei.

Martin Davis didn't even know who Kang Jianfei was before, and only after contacting Kang Jianfei's acquisition team did he get information about Kang Jianfei.

As a result, he was shocked when he saw that Kang Jianfei's performance in the film field was so good, which made Martin Davis full of interest in Kang Jianfei.

His wishful thinking was to sell part of Paramount shares to Kang Jianfei, and then let Kang Jianfei, a film professional, reverse Paramount's decline in the past three years.

Paramount is now nominally owned by Gulf Western Industrial Company. Martin Davis personally owns only 42% of the shares. He is only willing to sell 10% of the shares. The rest needs Kang Jian to fly to the market and buy it from other shareholders of Gulf Western Company.