Chapter 881 Dinner at Villa No. 18 1!

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Villa No. 18?Whose?

Tom Ge naturally has a villa in Beverly Hills, and there are more than one. There are usually several luxury houses of his level, so there are also some so-called stars in Beverly Hills who are actually rented villas, and the ownership is not theirs.

Bellucci and Sophie Marceau are actually of higher quality than renting, because the ones that can be rented are usually small and medium-sized villas after 1,000, and Tomco has two houses for renting.

After all, the property tax in the United States is not low. Some very awesome super-large villas can reach about 5% after various maintenance fees plus property tax every year. In other words, if you don’t live in a villa worth $100 million, you will have to spend more than 5 million US dollars a year just to consume and maintain it normally. This is not a expense that everyone can afford.

Tomge is now living in Villa No. 167, a luxury house covering an area of ​​more than 10,000 square feet. This is the property he bought in 2007 for $30.5 million. It is one of the few super-large villas in Mid-mountain Beverly with an open-air swimming pool, tennis court and tarmac.

Nicole Kidman has been in Hollywood for several years and has been married to Tombeg for several years. She is naturally very familiar with the villas in Beverly Hills. The couple are regular guests of some top parties. Most banquets and parties in Beverly are proud to be able to invite them.

So they often receive invitations to such banquets and parties. Not all parties will go to. They mainly depend on who the organizer is or what the house number is. They basically won’t go after 1000, and those within 1000 will be dependent on people, but if they are within 1000, they will almost never refuse. Those who can afford such a villa are the most wealthy people with a net worth of over 1 billion US dollars.

It was an invitation from Sophie Marceau to us. The banquet was held by her and Bellucci, which was regarded as a celebration of their housewarming. They basically lived in Villa No. 18.

Tomco is naturally not unfamiliar with Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci. Although he did not participate in the previous test film, only his wife Nicole Kidman participated, he knew about these two sexy beauties who are famous for a long time.

It can be said that there are many people in Hollywood who have the idea of ​​them. Unfortunately, they were signed by TVB Pictures and reached a strategic cooperation with a super giant like Fox. Now it seems that they were directly taken into the room by King Li, a media tycoon from the East.

Although Tomco had never visited Villa No. 18, he knew who the owner of this villa was before. Cokerian, a gambling tycoon known as the chief designer of Las Vegas, is the boss of MGM, the world's largest gambling company.

He acquired MGM as early as 1970. At that time, it was not the Sixth Group in Hollywood, but the Eight Group in Hollywood. MGM was soaring at the time. He claimed that he had more stars than the stars in the sky. He held many super IPs such as "Gone with the Wind", 007 series, "Cat and the Mouse", and was almost the top three super giants in Hollywood at that time.

Unfortunately, people's calculations are not as good as God's calculations. From 1970 to 1971, Corkerian was deeply involved in huge debts caused by the acquisition of MGM Films and Western Airlines. He had to sell his bookmaker International Leisure to Hilton Hotel Group at an extremely low price, and began to focus on entering the film industry, from a betting tycoon to a film tycoon.

However, when the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel established by Corkerian became the most successful casino hotel in Las Vegas, he was inspired to lead his film company into the gambling industry. He no longer had to be half-hearted and went around, but instead devoted all his energy to the great gambling career in the rest of his life, and eventually became a gambling tycoon with a net worth of $15 billion.

Because of his lack of concern for the film and television industry, MGM began to decline very early. After entering the 21st century, it fell directly from the altar and did not even hold on to the title of Hollywood's Eight. Since the mid-to-late 1990s, Kochrien has been determined to sell MGM to cash out.

In 2005, Corkrian sold MGM Films again, with Time Warner and Sony U.S. divisions becoming major bidders.

Time Warner is interested in MGM's film library, while Sony hopes to achieve two goals of strengthening its strength and Blu-ray support through the acquisition.

In the end, Sony won the bid at a higher price and took over MGM for nearly $5 billion, of which $2 billion was used to pay for MGM's debt.

Through this acquisition, Sony's film library has increased to 8,000, reorganized its business in the paid TV field, and also mastered 50% of the film resources in the US film market.

The biggest winner is Corkrien, who made the moves for the clouds and turned the moves for the rain. The repeated buying and selling of the tycoon made a fortune.

After the acquisition was completed, MGM made a series of adjustments: signed an agreement with independent film companies such as Weinstein to launch 14 films a year through joint production or agency distribution, and finally achieved the goal of launching 20 films a year by 2007; and transferred the distribution of family film and television works to Twentieth Century Fox for agency distribution.

As a result, the subprime mortgage crisis broke out quickly. By the end of 2009, the debt crisis of MGM Film Company officially broke out. Creditors demanded that MGM be sold to pay off the debt. For more than a year of bidding, no suitable acquirer was found, and all bidding plans were lower than the $2 billion target required by creditors.

Eventually, MGM Films and Telescope Pictures reached a merger agreement, and the two founders of Telescope Pictures will take over MGM, and MGM's debt will be paid as a stake in the new company.

Creditors will hold 95% of MGM's equity, and the remaining 5% of the equity will be controlled by Telescope Film Company.

The 86-year-old Hollywood film company finally filed for bankruptcy on March 25, 2010, and Hollywood officially entered a new era of Hollywood's six majors.

As a long-standing Hollywood superstar, Tom Tom is not unfamiliar with these events. He is not only a big star, but has long become a capital. It can only be said that the gap is very big compared to these Hollywood super giants and capital tycoons.

If Tombeaut remembers correctly, it should be considered under MGM. It was bought by Sony Pictures as early as 2005. Later, MGM went bankrupt, so it was taken out for auction. Unfortunately, at the time of the breaking market, how many people were willing to pay a high price?

What Tom Brother knows is that other old superstars and well-known filmmakers in Hollywood naturally know that Villa No. 18 does not start at 1 yuan, but is listed for sale at a price of 1.2 billion US dollars. If it was before the subprime mortgage crisis, some people were willing to buy it. In the case of the subprime mortgage crisis, it cannot be said that it is very expensive, but not much is willing to pay for the money, so this villa was actually bought by Li Changsheng.