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Published at 3rd of January 2022 12:34:38 PM


Chapter 417

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Mark is very happy. One is to take the gold mine of the expendables under his banner, and the other is to take the fierce generals Stallone and Jason stanson under his banner.

Stanson can be said to be a rare action movie star in Hollywood after Stallone. He made his debut with "two big smokers". He has been a very well-developed action star in class B films these years, but he has always been short of global selling works and is difficult to be popular. Mark has plenty of resources and doesn't mind pulling him. If he can join the MM camp, That's the best.

Mark is a vigorous and resolute person. He made a decision and started the project immediately. If it is another company, he first went through market research, risk assessment, accounting, production and publicity expenses, etc. in mm, mark made a decision, he will start the project, and then find a suitable person to shoot and produce. As for publicity and distribution, a special person is responsible.

Mark said to Stallone, "I'll break the money into your company's account in three phases. As for how and who to shoot, that's your business."

Stallone said, "this is a wise decision. I won't disappoint you."

In the past year, mm, led by mark, won 20 of the 52 weekly champions in the whole year, accounting for as many as weekly champions. Hollywood ranked first, reaching an amazing 40%. Don't think it's over. The last weekly champion of this year was also won by museum night, reaching as many as 22.

The night of the museum, which has a general beer but a big box office, completed the three week championship without strong enemies and no pursuers, and won the last two week champion in 2006 and the first week champion in 2007, which makes other giant companies despair.

Bitch Ben Stiller is getting older and more obscene, but her box office appeal is not bad at all.

By playing one frustrated man and bitch after another, Fark, who was made difficult by his father-in-law in meet my father-in-law, Mel, who looked for his biological parents in flirting with disaster, zuland, a model who took an exaggerated cat walk in supermodel, and Goodman, an arrogant dodge ball expert in crazy dodge ball, Ben Stiller gradually became the guarantee of the comedy box office in America.

Together with Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson brothers, Jack Black, Vince Vaughn and will Farrell, he carried the banner of Hollywood's Mesozoic comedy. Entertainment Weekly called them the "comedy Brotherhood". Different from Kim Carey's individual combat, although everyone in the "Brotherhood" is a big name in his own right, they often cooperate with each other or play guest roles. Stiller's blood is full of comic elements. He may be a clown, but he is a smart clown, a clown who can get 20 million dollars.

In fact, Stiller first talked to 20th Century Fox about "Museum Night", but Stiller's asking price was too high, which made fox hesitate. Fox was afraid that he would end up working for others. King of comedy Kim Carey also paid this price, but mm directly offered $25 million to attract him, and the project also belonged to mm.

And mm promises to make three sequels no matter whether they sell or not. When he has won a 15% dividend, other conditions will not change. This is tantamount to signing a golden rice bowl. Stiller naturally agrees. In this way, Stiller joined mm and won the championship for three weeks.

In the original version, it ranked second with a score of 295 million US dollars, second only to pirates of the Caribbean 2, which beat X-Men 3, superman returns, the Da Vinci Code and other blockbusters. But this year, iron man, a unicorn blockbuster, can only rank third, but such a score is enough to embarrass countless blockbusters, It also proves that Stiller's box office money printing machine deserves its reputation.

In this way, mm won 22 of the 52 weekly champions in 2006. Beimi's works breaking 200 million yuan alone include three iron man, the Da Vinci Code and the wonderful night of the museum. Among the seven and 18 Works breaking 100 million yuan, beimi won 1.75 billion US dollars, with an average box office of nearly 100 million. No one can match its powerful momentum and abundant profits

Among the six giants in Hollywood, it has won the first place, with a turnover of more than 10 billion, which is comparable to several major media companies. However, their victory lies in their huge scale. In terms of pure profit, the two sides are almost the same. Inspired by the good news, mm shares have soared across the board, with a total market value of more than 27 billion, ranking first among the six film giants, However, if the parent company is added, it is still pad... Mm is still not enough to compare with these giant multinational companies.

As one of the leaders of mm, mark has made unparalleled contributions to the group, but he has also made meritorious contributions. This is to advocate investing US $1 billion in Pingguo and owning 10% of the shares of the technology company. However, the share price of the company is flat, the increase is lower than the average level of the technology company, and the return rate is low. Compared with other businesses of mm, it can be called a failure.

If we didn't take this opportunity to narrow the distance with gang leader Joe and persuade Pixar studio to join mm, this investment would be useless.

The other is the merger and acquisition of Naifei. Mm was so angry that she forcibly acquired Naifei that she began to spend 500 million. Later, she added 500 million. Mm just added one more film and television content distribution channel. This is a unprofitable investment. She only sees the investment and no return.

Moreover, its old rival blockbuster is not waiting to die. In the development and promotion of their online business, blockbuster spent a lot of money and invested $500 million. At the beginning, blockbuster completely separated the two types of business and was independent of each other. This strategy seems somewhat strange, Because the company did not take advantage of its biggest potential advantage - large-scale physical chain stores.

However, in mid-2006, blockbuster changed its previous strategy and announced the launch of a new project called "full access", linking online services with physical stores. Blockbuster's mail service customers can now return the finished CDs to any blockbuster store and replace a free movie, At the same time, you can then receive the next online subscription movie by mail.

This service is very attractive. It is also the first new magnetic product launched by blockbuster in many years. In the fourth quarter of 2006, it was the only time in the history of Naifei that the number of registered users decreased. The reason is that people threw themselves into the arms of blockbuster. Once, the most feared nightmare in the Hastings era, that is, the rise of blockbuster, seemed to have really become a reality.

At present, Naifei is suppressed by blockbuster online. People are online and offline. They use both mouth and hand. Naifei is not an opponent. Therefore, at the end of the year, the whole group handed over high-quality transcripts. Only Naifei barely maintains the balance of revenue and expenditure. However, if you want to make some year-end bonuses or benefits, you have to ask the parent company for help.

Now the morale of Naifei is low, and the whole company feels pale.

Wall Street's Pengbo information reported that this Pingguo and Naifei were Mark's two major failures in his career. The 2 billion working capital was deeply trapped in the investment quagmire. Even if Mark led the company to a brilliant victory, it was only to maintain a certain balance of payments. MM's victory was not as brilliant as it seemed.

Mark was speechless.

Mark thinks that the two greatest masterpieces of his life and the two greatest masterpieces of his life are actually regarded as fiasco? He was almost impotent with anger.

At the four great regular meetings of mm, mark bluntly proposed that if someone thought the two projects were failed, he could exchange the two parts with MM's equity and then privatize them.

David (Ellison) said: "this is impossible. Mm can change from underground garage to today's media empire. It all depends on Mark's vision. Whoever questions mark is questioning me."

Mark said: "this has nothing to do with questioning and will not affect the friendship between us. If you really don't like this project, you can quit. I'll exchange my mm equity pair with the market value."

Now mm is much more valuable than Pingguo, basically 2.5 to 1.

Megan objected again and said, "even Bloomberg has no right to blame mark. He doesn't make as much money as mark in three years."

David even said: "this is the malice of the media and undermines our unity."

Egger said: "I think so too. In response to the malicious speculation of the media, we will subscribe for 20 million shares newly issued by Pingguo company, with a total value of 200 million, so as to ensure that our equity will not be diluted and increase our holdings to 11 percent."

Mark said, "Robert, thank you for your support."

Egger said: "only in this way can we ensure that our ally Steve's position is as stable as a mountain. His flying performance is not ideal, but I believe this difficulty is temporary."

Ma said: "blockbuster's full access has put a lot of pressure on us, causing the loss of our customers and shrinking business, but you won't believe that the full access service has the same impact on blockbuster itself," full access " Service has created two major problems for blockbuster. One is that many franchise chain owners are unwilling to participate in the project, and the other is "full access" The service includes too many free movies. Every additional registered user means that it is thanks to a share of money. Yes, they are operating at a loss. I personally believe that blockbuster's full access service will not last long. "

Egger said, "do you have evidence to support all this?"

Mark said: "We're arranging people to collect it. It's from blockbuster. Their performance is not as good as expected, or even a loss. The finance department is not optimistic about the revenue in the fourth quarter. I believe that after the financial report in the fourth quarter comes out, the full access service will no longer be popular. I'll go to Naifei headquarters in the afternoon to meet with all their employees to boost morale. As long as we If you can persist, you will win in the end. "




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