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Published at 3rd of January 2022 12:41:33 PM


Chapter 53

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Mark pondered for a moment and said, "I can't open this mouth."

Bell said, "I'll go. Even if I screw up, you can push the black pot on me. When nothing happens, it won't affect your friendship."

Mark said, "what's so funny?"

Bell said, "I can't solve problems for you. What qualifications do you have to be your lawyer? What reasons do you believe me?"? I will maximize your interests reasonably and legally. Even if random house does not agree to advance, we still have a supplementary plan. They must sign a contract. The sequel of Twilight must be printed to more than 3 million copies before we give them the distribution right. With this contract, we can go to the bank for a loan. "

Mark had a refreshing feeling that he could make money like this. No wonder it was so easy for rich people or people with backstage to do business. He said, "0k! You are responsible for this matter. I won't treat you badly after it is done. "

Bell smiled and said, "financing is one thing, and it's another thing to acquire film companies. You'd better take back the information of the six film companies here and have a field observation. We can contact each other's middleman at any time."

Mark said, "shall I go to McComb? If you want to buy the best, if you have money, I want to buy time warner. "

In fact, Time Warner is now called American online Time Warner, which is the parent company of Warner Bros.

Time Warner has a series of valuable brands, including CNN, Netscape, HBO, Time magazine, Time Warner Cable Company and Warner Bros. at present, Time Warner is mainly composed of three parts: one is Turner TV Department (including hundreds of channels such as Turner TV network and its CNN).

Second, HBO pay channel (the most influential pay channel in the United States) broadcasts a large number of classic American dramas: brothers company, gangster family, true exploration, etc. it is famous for producing classic American dramas with heavy taste and is the big brother of pay channel.

Third, Warner Bros. entertainment company (its subsidiaries include Warner Bros. pictures, DC Comics, Warner Bros. games, CW television, etc. even the top new line in the second line is its subsidiary. The promotion of Harry Potter is so good, and the box office and surrounding sales are so good, which is inseparable from Warner's huge platform resources.

Bell smiled: "American online time warner can't be bought with money unless you are rich and willing to be a wrongdoer. In 2001, American online, the world's largest Internet service provider, merged with Time Warner and announced the formation of" the world's first fully integrated media and communication company facing the Internet century " This is the largest enterprise merger case in the world until then. The new company has a market capitalization of three hundred and fifty billion US dollars, ranking seventh in the world, equivalent to GDP in several countries. It just happened to be caught in a technology bubble. The Internet company plummeted. The world's seventh largest company, with its impressive market value of three hundred and fifty billion, has fallen to below twenty million. There is a lot of moisture. It has become the most classic failure case in textbooks. "

"It's surprising that AOL Time Warner has not collapsed after losing so much money," Mark said in surprise

Belda: "at the beginning of the time, the online trading company controlled the time warner with a 1 to 1.5 equity swap method, controlling the fifty-five percent stake in Time Warner, but just signed the takeover technology bubble, and was told by the competition to the Federal Trade Association monopoly operation. After more than a year's litigation, the merger was successfully merged, but the stock market fell sharply and the market value evaporated 100 billion. , Time Warner tried every means to refuse the merger. AOL, which wanted to make a comeback for Time Warner, was forced to agree to exchange its actual market value for 1:1.5. Who knows, AOL's market value fell again and again, and it has lost its control over AOL Time Warner. Now their joint board of directors is controlled by Time Warner, and Time Warner is composed of seven listed companies with their own directors Will be different from the CEO. Their financial operations are independent and the codes for listing and trading are different. Of course, the sharp drop in the share price of American online has an impact on them, but it is not fatal. "

"It sounds complicated," Mark said

Bell said: "there are more than 600 shareholders of Time Warner, which are controlled by the board of directors based in New York. Their top priority now is to get rid of American online, because American online has become their burden and burden, and can't do any good for them. Their joint marriage merger and acquisition is the best result. Now breaking up is the best result. If one day you have enough money, maybe I will become one Your gold medal lawyer will buy Time Warner Group for you and help you ascend the throne of the head of the world's largest media group. "

This is just a joke. They are still worried about buying more than three million US dollars from mcconagall pictures. He never thought that in 14 years, he would lead a huge lawyer group to preside over the acquisition of Time Warner.

Mark said, "maybe? Now I want to go to McConnell pictures. You press the line for me. At the same time, I authorize you to contact Random House to see what conditions they can offer?"

Bell said, "I'll arrange it right away."

They drove to bambock, where McConnell pictures is located. Burbank is the cultural center of Los Angeles. What's more remarkable is that Burbank is known as the "media capital of the world" , including the headquarters or important departments of many multimedia and entertainment companies such as NBC, Walt Disney, ABC, Nick International Children's channel and Warner Brothers.

Burbank city is located in Los Angeles County, ten miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles. It borders Glendale, South Burbank, San Marino, Acadia, Madre and other cities. Highway 5 runs through the city and connects Santa cruando in Northern California and San Diego in Southern California. It has convenient transportation and superior location. It is also adjacent to Hollywood and Los Angeles, Manacon is in the bustling belino area between Burbank and San Fernando Valley.

Mark drove all the way and saw that there are many internationally famous media near here, including Disney Studios, which attracted many tourists. For example, the Disney characteristic animation building in Burbank is the headquarters of the characteristic animation studio of Walt Disney films, The characteristic animation building is located between Disney Studios in Burbank city and highway 134 in the south. It is a four storey building, which is located in the transition zone between the busy Expressway in the South and the pleasant pedestrian cinema in the north. With its unique architectural form, it evokes people's memories of the future buildings in Disney's early animation films, It also regulates the drastic differences caused by two different types of space collisions.

The economy here is relatively developed. In the San Fernando Valley, the second largest office area in Burbank City, most of the office areas set up entertainment industry, of which the rental rate in this area is the highest. More people work in Burbank and live in nearby cheaper areas.

The place where McConnell pictures is located is also relatively remote. He is located in a 25 storey building, which covers an area of more than 40000 feet. It is called Dewey building. McConnell pictures rented the ninth floor as the company's residence.

In the Dewey building alone, there are more than a dozen film and television production companies, as well as some post production and distribution companies and brokerage equipment companies, which are mixed with film and television related industries. It can be seen that the entertainment industry here is developed. With Hank and Ruby coming here, you can set up your crew, prepare equipment and complete post production without going out of the building, (except for difficult special effects).

They took the elevator to the ninth floor. McConaughey, with silver hair, led a group of senior managers to meet them at the front desk. They were surprised to see that mark was so young and Chinese.

When bell took the initiative to introduce, "this is Mr. mark Wang, the editor and director of this man from earth."

This made them stand in awe and shake hands enthusiastically. Hollywood is not only a place name, but also a proxy for film and television culture. Because the country is very late, only more than 200 years ago, the film almost goes with its history. It can also be said that film culture is their historical traditional culture. In this circle, the small is Hollywood and its surrounding radiation cities, and the large is the related film and television culture industry, mark With "this man from the earth" in the top 10 of the weekly ticket room, it is a little famous in the circle, at least as famous as McConaughey, who have been mixing for more than 20 years.

They showed mark around the McConaughey. It was more than 40000 feet long and divided into more than 20 rooms, side by side in the middle. At the end was the largest general manager's office. Nameplates were pasted outside each room to indicate his purpose. There were about 40 employees. Under the general manager were the managers of various departments, and the more important thing was the Distribution Department, which was capable The operating films are distributed in more than 200 cinemas. The main tentacles are concentrated around Greater Los Angeles. They can't play without leaving here. The second is the DVD production and Distribution Department. They mainly distribute low-cost horror films, comedies, pornographic films and sell DVDs, and even sell AV small films. Here, they are close to the world-famous AV production Holy Land San Fernando Valley. They have sufficient film sources.

Because the company's performance is good, the boss has repeatedly said that the premise of acquisition is not to damage the interests of employees, so the change of ownership of the company has not caused any panic. Here is Burbank. They are senior people in the industry with hands and feet. They are not afraid that they can't find a job. On the contrary, those senior executives are a little uneasy, and it's hard to find a job at the top of the company.

Mark is very satisfied with the McConnell film industry, which makes up for his shortcomings in some aspects. His DVD Distribution Department can be used when releasing DVDs of the chainsaw series. As for more than 40 small films in his film library, they can be used to enrich the film library, and those AV film copyrights can be sold. He will no longer take these as his main selling points.

When bell mentioned the offer and wanted to press the offer to close the deal at 3.4 million, McConaughey said with a smile, "are you kidding? Yesterday someone offered 3.6 million in cash."




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